"Have you thought about it? Are you going to follow Mr. Xie to the base area or go back to Laoyu Mountain? After dinner, Lu Yuan called Xiao Zhenghua to accompany him out for a ride on horseback, but in fact, he had something to say to Xiao Zhenghua alone. You have good marksmanship, and you have a determination to lay down your life for others when danger strikes, which is rare for people like you. Mr. Xie is a member of the Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army specializes in fighting the Japanese army, maybe it is a good choice for you to go to the Eighth Route Army, I think you also like to fight. ”

Xiao Zhenghua didn't answer immediately, just lowered his head on horseback and was silent, Lu Yuan mistakenly thought that Xiao Zhenghua didn't want to go to the Eighth Route Army, so he immediately smiled, "If you choose to return to Laolu Mountain, it's nothing, as long as you don't harm the people." I think the terrain of Laoyu Mountain is also not bad, if you take a little rest and arrangement, it is a good place to garrison soldiers, maybe you can also take your brothers to use Laoyu Mountain as a base to develop a base area. ”

Lu Yuan's words were naturally ridiculing, Xiao Zhenghua and they were just a group of bandits who occupied the mountains as kings, not to mention that they didn't have the courage to face the Japanese army head-on, even if Xiao Zhenghua took the lead in pulling up the banner of resistance against Japan, there would be no real talents among the bandits under him. Xiao Zhenghua suddenly raised his head after Lu Yuan stopped talking, looked at Lu Yuan and whispered, "I won't go back to Laolu Mountain, nor will I go to the Eighth Route Army, I want to follow you to kill devils." ”

Xiao Zhenghua's words made Lu Yuan look at the other party suddenly, at this moment, Xiao Zhenghua couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, being stared at by Lu Yuan felt like facing a hungry beast, especially Lu Yuan's deep eyes made Xiao Zhenghua's heart palpitate. Lu Yuan stared at Xiao Zhenghua for more than ten seconds without blinking, and while Xiao Zhenghua insisted on it, Lu Yuan looked at the other party's eyes firmly. "Hehe, follow me to kill the devil, the devil soldier is not so easy to kill, one will take his own life if he is not careful, aren't you afraid?"

Unable to see the suspicion in Xiao Zhenghua's eyes and expression, Lu Yuan immediately retracted and straightened his waist, but there was still a sense of temptation in his words. Lu Yuan's words made Xiao Zhenghua subconsciously shake his head, "My Xiao family's ancestors are also from a pure white family, if it weren't for this damn world, I wouldn't have become a bandit in Lao Yu Mountain." It's true that I'm a bandit, but I've never harmed the common people, even if it's a robbery, we just need money to not kill you. ”

"When I was a child, I only went to private school for two years, and although I couldn't say anything, there were some things I knew in my heart. Sir, you are a person with great skills, and I can see that escorting these students is not what you want, maybe Mr. Xie, when they enter Shanxi safely, you will leave. I don't like to be restrained, even if I go to the Eighth Route Army, it is difficult for me to gain a foothold in this temperament, and the gang may have broken up on the old Eagle Mountain, so it is better for me to follow Mr. to kill the devil, so my marksmanship is not bad. ”

Xiao Zhenghua's reasons obviously couldn't convince Lu Yuan, Lu Yuan immediately turned his head to look at Xiao Zhenghua with a smile, and was stared at by Lu Yuan for a while, Xiao Zhenghua, who seemed to be unable to hold on, gritted his teeth and said to Lu Yuan. "Well, I admit that my family was originally outside the Guan, and the Japanese soldiers slaughtered our village, and I escaped by hunting in the mountains at that time. I want to seek revenge on the Japanese soldiers, but I am the only one who can be the opponent of the Japanese soldiers. In desperation, I wandered all the way here, and when I met you, I had only been in Laolu Mountain for less than three months. ”

"Oh, it turns out that there is a blood feud with Japan, which makes sense." Lu Yuan couldn't judge the authenticity from these words or Xiao Zhenghua's expression, but he had a full-view map, and in the full-view map that Lu Yuan secretly opened, the yellow dots representing Xiao Zhenghua were always yellow, and they didn't change into red dots as Lu Yuan feared. Since it was certain that Xiao Zhenghua did not lie to deceive himself, Lu Yuan did not continue to ask, everyone has their own little secrets, and Lu Yuan did not want to reveal the scars in Xiao Zhenghua's heart.

It seems that he finally has the opportunity to tell people the little secret that he has always hidden in his heart, Xiao Zhenghua's heart that has been suppressed instantly relaxed, and the originally frowning brows are also relaxed, and this change in his expression is also seen by Lu Yuan. "I don't want to say no to you, but for some reason I can't say it to anyone, I have to act alone. Since you have the determination to resist the Japanese army, you should stay in the Eighth Route Army, at least for now, the Eighth Route Army can be regarded as the real armed force to resist the Japanese army. ”

Lu Yuan's words made Xiao Zhenghua very disappointed, and he told the other party all the secrets in his heart, but he still failed to gain the trust of the other party, Xiao Zhenghua didn't know what he did wrong. Sensing Xiao Zhenghua's remorse at the moment, Lu Yuan immediately smiled at the other party, "It's not your reason, it's that I'm used to being alone, and I will leave China in the future, so there is no way out for you to follow me." ”

Lu Yuan's refusal was so complete that Xiao Zhenghua was a little overwhelmed, but Lu Yuan saw that Xiao Zhenghua was trying his best to protect Xie Shen in the woods, and promised to teach Xiao Zhenghua some tactical tactics in his spare time. No one else knew about the conversation between Lu Yuan and Xiao Zhenghua, but when the two of them returned to the office, the thoughtful Xie Shen saw some suspicion in Xiao Zhenghua's expression.

"It's not a big deal, the guy surnamed Xiao wants to follow me, I didn't promise him." Lu Yuan, who was asked by Xie Shen, answered truthfully, but at the same time reminded Xie Shen. "The man surnamed Xiao is good, and his marksmanship and kung fu are not bad, if you are willing to put in some effort, maybe you can keep him in your team. Although this person is from a reckless background, he is not bad-hearted, as long as there is someone who can guide him correctly and remind him to guide him from time to time, he will be a good soldier, and even become a qualified officer. ”

If someone else said these words to Xie Shen, Xie Shen might think that person was receiving Xiao Zhenghua's benefits, but this was said by Lu Yuan, and Xie Shen had to think about it, because Xie Shen believed that Lu Yuan was not a person who was open-mouthed. Lu Yuan planned to stay in Wangjiazhai for one night, but who would have thought that the next day would be a rainy day, in desperation, Lu Yuan and they had to continue to stay in Wangjiazhai for a day, and it was not until the third day that they quietly left Wangjiazhai at dawn.

After re-entering the road, Xie Shen was very incomprehensible about the traces that Lu Yuan deliberately left in the office, and when asked the reason, Lu Yuan explained with a smile. "We stayed in Wangjiazhai for two nights, although the Fan and Wang families have always been very honest, but who knows if they are also honest behind their backs. It is said that if we kill the Japanese army in Wangjiazhai, the Japanese army in the nearby place will definitely not give up, if we don't leave some clues to lead them to other directions, how can we safely rush to Shanxi. ”

Lu Yuan didn't explain carefully, but Xie Shen had already drawn the answer from it, carefully recalling the clues and traces left by Lu Yuan, Xie Shen couldn't help laughing after the epiphany, and secretly praised Lu Yuan's clever methods in his heart. As Lu Yuan expected, after the light of day brightened, they learned that Lu Yuan and the others had left, and the Fan and Wang families immediately sent people to ask for help from the nearby Japanese puppet army. When Lu Yuan and the others suddenly turned south, the rescuers from the Fan and Wang families had already rushed to Wangjiazhai, carefully looked at the clues in the office, and then listened to the report of the Fan and Wang families, and the Japanese Shaozuo who led the team couldn't help frowning.

"Are you saying that it was a caravan that killed the Imperial Army, led by a young man?" The frowning Hei Chuan didn't believe the report of the Fan and Wang families, the imperial soldiers stationed in Wangjiazhai were an infantry squad, plus the grain collection team sent from the county seat, how could more than 30 imperial soldiers be wiped out by a caravan? Could it be that this caravan that suddenly appeared was pretended to be by the Zhi Na army? Kurokawa's mind was full of questions, but his questions were not answered for the time being.

When Lu Yuan left, he had already released all the captured Imperial Association soldiers and gave them the money to leave here, but what Lu Yuan didn't expect was that two of these Imperial Association prisoners did not leave Wangjiazhai immediately, but hid in the concubine's house with the travel fee given by Lu Yuan. With the help of local snakes like the Fan and Wang families, these two lucky soldiers of the Imperial Association Army were quickly found by the Japanese soldiers from the concubine's house and brought to Kurokawa.

"Taijun, spare your life, the people who killed Taijun have left, we didn't participate, Ono Taijun and their bodies are still collected and taken care of by us, we didn't tell those people about the imperial army." Seeing that the housekeepers of the Fan and Wang families were also present, the two soldiers of the Imperial Alliance Army immediately knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, until they were kicked by one of the Japanese soldiers under Kurokawa, and the two stopped crying and begging for mercy, and answered the question according to Kurokawa's question 1510.

"Taijun, we really don't know where those people came from, but I listen to their accents, it seems to be from Tianjin. The leader among them was a young man surnamed Lu, and the one who followed him was Xiao Sanye, the bandit leader of Lao Ou Mountain, and Ono Taijun was killed by these two people. Yes, I'm sure Ono Taijun was killed by these two people, Taijun, I vouch for my life, it's really these two people. ”

The confessions of the two Imperial Cooperative Army soldiers made Kurokawa even more puzzled, there were only two people on the other side, but they killed more than 30 Imperial soldiers one after another. Kurokawa felt a little incredulous for a moment, he didn't know if he had heard it wrong, or if the world was really crazy, when did there be such a strong soldier among the people of Shina, and it was actually possible to kill more than 30 imperial soldiers with just two people?

Kurokawa knew that his question could not be answered here, and after the scouts he sent found the traces left by the other party when they left, Kurokawa immediately ordered his troops to set out in pursuit. In the pursuit battles that Kurokawa had experienced in the past, a Japanese squad would often chase a battalion or even more national troops, so he didn't believe that the other party could kill his entire squad again.