Tang Cheng and the others jumped out of the trench and ran out not far away, and there were already Japanese shells falling behind them, but fortunately, the target of the first round of Japanese artillery bombardment did not lock on to them, otherwise Tang Cheng and a dozen of them would have been surrounded by Japanese artillery fire. More than a dozen people who were running for their lives still could not escape the sight of the Japanese army, and the second round of Japanese artillery fire smashed into the field behind them in Tangcheng, and the air and splashing dirt from behind forced Tangcheng They did not dare to stop, they believed that the next round of artillery bombardment after the Japanese army adjusted, but they would not be so lucky.

Pursued by the Japanese artillery, Tang Cheng and the others launched a race of life and death with the Japanese army, the losers would be directly torn apart by the enemy's artillery fire, and only by running into the woods in front of them with all their might would they have a chance to live. A hundred meters behind the trench was a large wood, and finally entered the woodland, Lynn found a tree and pressed his butt against the trunk, supported his thighs with both hands, and bent his waist and abdomen like shrimp, panting heavily, at this time, he really couldn't run a single step.

Even if the physical reserves on weekdays are good, they are half-starved and half-full for a long time, and they continue to run with a large amount of exercise, and the soldiers who enter the woodland are all embarrassed. Before the exhausted Tang Cheng could catch his breath, he heard someone shouting in panic for shelling, and the Japanese shells followed the whistle, like meteorites rampaging through the branches and leaves at the edge of the woodland and falling to the ground. The close-range explosion once again caused Tang Cheng's eardrums to suffer painfully, but fortunately, the trunk of the tree blocked most of the shrapnel and absorbed some of the impact, so that the shells did not cause as much damage on the flat ground.

The soldiers who followed Tang Cheng into the woodland began to run into the woods like crazy, and Tang Cheng had to drag his lead-filled legs to continue to retreat, and the cannonballs fell one after another, and the unlucky ones were constantly lifted off by the impact of the explosion, as if there were invisible big hands carrying them and throwing them out of the woods, and the screams of the dying and the injured were endless. "This way, run this way." Suddenly hearing Niu Laogui's voice, Tang Cheng suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of intimacy in his heart, and immediately ran towards Niu Laogui's side.

The steel helmet on Niu Laogui's head had disappeared, he rolled up his sleeves high, and was carrying a flower mechanism in his hand, followed by several soldiers of the second company who were also embarrassed. "Let's go, keep going inside, the little devil's cannonball can't hit the forest, it's safe inside." There was another explosion behind him, and Tang Cheng crossed Niu Laogui and them like rabbits, leaving only some vague shouts, and the same was true of Lao Dongbei who followed Tang Cheng, and they kept crossing Niu Laogui and them all the time, without the slightest intention of stopping.

Niu Laogui and the soldiers around him had no choice but to join them at the end of Tang City. The group did not run far, stopping under a large tree near the edge of the woods. Tang Cheng and the others immediately seemed to be scattered, sitting or leaning on each other, and the wounded who Liu Shishi escorted into the woodland were next to the big stone not far to their left. Leaning on Tang Cheng, who was sitting on a stone, looking left and right, there were only the people of the Second Company, Su Datong's people and those people who had retreated into the forest were completely gone, and this result made Tang Cheng very annoyed.

"Su Datong's people withdrew into the forest early in the morning, and those ordinary people also followed them." Niu Laogui also had an angry face, the second company desperately blocked the attack of the Japanese army at the entrance of the village, and those of them who escaped from danger in advance should at least help escort the wounded, but whether it was Su Datong's people or those people, no one reached out to help the second company, and knew that the road would be like this, and the second company should not care about anyone, and those brothers who died at the entrance of the village died in vain.

"Get up, continue to walk into the mountains, the Japanese army will rush in when they speak, they can't stay here" Recovering a little strength, Tang Cheng staggered to his feet, snatched his rifle from the hands of the two lightly wounded and carried it, and walked towards the depths of the woodland one by one. Niu Laogui and the others took a look, and they also grabbed the belongings of the wounded and followed Tang Cheng to the depths of the woodland, Lao Dongbei and their strong men were responsible for helping those wounded, and the two bandits who were still alive under Heizi fell behind the most and carefully guarded against possible Japanese pursuers.

Not far from the depths of the woodland, sporadic people appeared in Tang City's sight, and the more they went inside, the more people appeared. Most of these people were also exhausted, and as long as they could not see the shadow of the Japanese soldiers or hear the sound of shooting and explosions, they would stop and rest at any time, and the looming danger was like the unknown tomorrow for them, and they only focused on the present.

Seeing these people again, Tang Cheng did not have the mood when he led the team to desperately block the Japanese army at the entrance of the village, Tang Cheng's eyes swept over these numb people, and a wave of anger rose in his heart for no reason. Everyone's life belongs to them, and the people of the second company exchanged their lives for their safety at this time, but these people did not know that the danger was approaching them, but chose to stop and rest, once the Japanese army broke into the mountains and forests, none of these unarmed people could escape.

"Go, don't stop." Tang Cheng didn't have the heart to deal with these helpless people now, he was the company commander of the second company, so he naturally had to be responsible for the soldiers of the second company behind him. Although their footsteps staggered, the wounded were still in the old northeast, and they kept following Tang Cheng, and the second company that retreated into the mountains and forests crossed the people scattered in the woodland, and moved deeper without looking back.

Tang Cheng didn't calculate how far he had gone, he was just walking in the direction of Macheng, but the mountains here were high and densely forested, and after walking not far, Tang Cheng had already lost his way. Tang Cheng, who was already in a panic, still had time to pay attention to this, so he just buried his head in the road, and after crossing a hill, the exhausted Second Company finally touched the edge of the woodland, and when they walked out of this woodland, they could see the avenue.

Tang Cheng stopped again, outside the forest was the avenue, although Tang Cheng didn't know where Lu Dao had come, but he knew that before Lu Dao walked out of the mountain forest, he had to have a general understanding of the surrounding terrain. Seeing the faintly visible avenue, the wounded tried their best to control their cries of pain, so as not to expose the second company to possible Japanese troops because of their cries. Lying down on a tree stump, Tang Cheng took out a telescope to observe the avenue down the slope, except for the sound of the wind, Tang Cheng's ears were only left with the sound of the second company's soldiers trying to suppress the breathing.

A soldier near the edge of the woods suddenly screamed, and the sound of metal grinding was faintly heard, and the people in the woodland instinctively tensed. Tang Cheng also turned his telescope and looked into the distance along the avenue, at this time they were already on the westernmost side of the large woods, and soon out of the woods to the west or north, there was a small undulating hilly terrain outside. The empty avenue formed a bend in front of it, and the sound of metal grinding came from the other side of the bend.

As the sound of metal grinding became clearer, a Japanese armored unit appeared on the other side of the avenue. The tanks marked with the plaster flag did not move very fast, so the sound of the tracks slightly drowned out the roar of the engines. Tang Cheng's brows couldn't help frowning, he had seen the power of Japanese tanks outside Nanjing, but they were only a few tanks, but now there were at least 15 Japanese tanks in his sight, and each of them carried a number of infantry, and there were some armored vehicles and trucks towing artillery in the back of the queue.

After all, the two legs couldn't run the enemy's wheels, and looking at this powerful Japanese armored force, Niu Laogui and they fell into despair again. With the current combat effectiveness of the Second Company, it will not be able to defeat the opponent no matter what. Rushing out of the forest rashly is tantamount to serving the Japanese tanks as a live target, but if you continue to stay here, it will not be long before you will fall into the heavy encirclement of the Japanese follow-up troops, and then you will either fight to the death or surrender, and there seems to be no other way out.

Thinking of this, Niu Laogui leaned helplessly against the big tree, silently staring at Tang Cheng, who was observing the enemy situation with a telescope. Tang Chengmao, who had stayed at the edge of the woods to monitor the movement of the Japanese armored force, ran back quickly, looking at his expression and tone of voice when he was talking to Lao Dongbei, the situation did not seem to be too bad, Niu Lao Gui couldn't help but be curious.

"Wait for them to pass, and tell everyone to bear with me for a while." After muttering to Lao Dongbei for a while, Tang Cheng transferred all the machine guns to the front, and arranging the machine guns at the front was just a means of defense, in case this armored unit of the Japanese army discovered them, with the cover of the machine guns, the second company, which had been cornered, would not be wiped out here.

The roar of machinery from the side of the road gradually diminished until nothing could be heard at the end of the road, and it seemed that the Japanese armored force was rushing forward to outflank it, and had no interest in searching the remnants of the Nationalist army along the way. According to the time of sunrise, Lynn estimated that it was only 9 o'clock in the morning, and although the Japanese armored unit just now was just passing by, it did not mean that the Japanese infantry units behind would not enter the woods to search.

The roar of the machinery was far away, but Tang Cheng was still lying in the grass nest and watching around with a telescope, and Tang Cheng would not order the second company to rush out of the woodland until he was completely sure that the Japanese army had left. After ten minutes, Tang Cheng put down the binoculars in his hand, turned around and waved to Niu Laogui and the others who were hiding behind, signaling everyone to hurry up and go downhill into the forest on the other side of the avenue.

Niu Laogui and they rushed up, and with the wounded of the second company on their backs, they went down to the avenue along the forest, and before they waited for the old northeast with many weapons behind them, they rushed out of the forest, and Tang Cheng, who was standing on the avenue, suddenly looked up with a great change of expression. There were white clouds in the clear sky, but Tang Cheng, who looked up, had no time to admire those clouds of all shapes, he looked at those small black dots that suddenly appeared in the sky.