Lu Lihu picked up Zhong Hansheng and came all the way to the shade of the tree on the side of the mountain, only to see Xiaohua sitting by the tree as if she was crazy.

The three of them hugged their heads and cried.

After a while, Lu Lihu wiped his tears and said, "Han Sheng...... Now that such a big event has happened, it is not the time for us to be sad, there are still alive in the village, we should save them, and there are dead ones...... Bury it!"

Zhong Hansheng wiped his tears, Mu Ran followed behind the master, and began to rummage door to door to see if there were any villagers who had escaped the catastrophe.

The valuable things in the village were basically robbed, and there was no poultry and food left, so Lu Lihu took Zhong Hansheng to make a simple bandage for the injured villagers.

He took the people who were not seriously injured, picked up tools and dug a big pit, and dragged all the dead villagers in the village to the pit and buried them.

Looking at such a tragic scene, everyone cried, but Zhong Hansheng just cried silently, and did not cry out loud, watching his mother and master being carried into the pit, clenching his fists, Xiaohua seemed to be tired of crying on the side, and kept his head down and did not move.

This was a whole night, and when the sky was slightly bright, Lu Orion counted the number of people.

Of the more than 340 people in the village, less than 20 survived, and most of them were injured.

Some of these people hid in cellars, some in dry wells, and some ran to the mountains.

The young and middle-aged people who survived in the village, plus Lu Lihu and Zhong Hansheng, a total of eight people, and the rest were old people, women and children.

It was almost dawn, and someone suggested that we should not sit still, pack up the remaining supplies in the village, bring all the tools that can be used, and go to escape the famine together and ask for a way out.

Some people also suggested that there is a Liujiagou opposite Daqingshan, which is located in a mountain nest and is relatively safe, so it should not be swept away by devils, and everyone will go to Liujiagou to find a way to live.

One of them, an old man in his sixties, cast an inquiring glance at Lu Lihu, but Lu Lihu did not answer, and suddenly knelt down and cried: "More than 300 people! More than 300 people! It's just gone!" Grabbing the dirt on the ground with both hands, blood oozing from his fingernails.

Zhong Hansheng knelt behind his master and said expressionlessly: "I'm not going anywhere, I want to take revenge!" Revenge my mother, revenge my master, and avenge more than 300 lives in the village!"

Lu Orion got up violently, pulled out the single-barrel hunting behind him, and said loudly: "It's a master, go up the mountain with me, it's all two shoulders and one head, why can his little devil take us as a vegetable?"

"I'll go with you!" shouted a young man from the crowd.

And then people came forward one after another.

"I'll go too!"

"Revenge! The whole family is left with me, fighting with the little devil of the dog day!"

"That's right, go desperately to find the little devil!"

The only six remaining middle-aged men all stood up.

Lu Lihu said to Old Man Zhou: "You take these old and young people and go to Liujiagou, let's go to Daqingshan, go to Qingfeng Village to find the big boss, and when we settle down, we will send someone to Liujiagou to meet you!"

Old man Zhou thought for a while, nodded, and commanded everyone: "If you can move your hands and feet, pull all the carts, and on the injured lying carts, you can take everything you can use." ”

Xiaohua cried and shouted that she was reluctant to go, and Lu Orion was reluctant to let her daughter, but in this extraordinary period, it was unrealistic to take her daughter up the mountain, so she persuaded softly: "Child, you follow Uncle Zhou to Liujiagou, and we will look for you in a few days." ”

Zhong Hansheng bowed his head and said, "Flower, go." I'll be waiting for you on this mountain, and I'm not going anywhere. ”

"I ...... No, I'm going to ...... with you," Xiaohua said crying.

Lu Lihu turned his head and yelled at Old Man Zhou: "Old Zhou, take the flowers away!"

Old man Zhou came over and pulled Xiaohua, "Let's go." Hurry early, not late. ”

"Daddy!" Xiaohua cried.

"Take it away!" Lu Orion shouted again.

Old man Zhou pulled Xiaohua and called a woman, and the two dragged Xiaohua.

Zhong Hansheng looked at him stupidly, and Lu Lihu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Let's go! ”

Qingfeng Village was a bandit in Daqingshan earlier, the bandit leader Wang Lin reported the number "Zhenshan Forest", after being recruited by the commander of the Eighth Route Army, he became an independent brigade under the command of the third regiment, and now it is an extraordinary period, the commander of the Xu regiment ordered the independent brigade to return to the mountains and forests, and launched guerrilla warfare in the Japanese army, and the independent brigade became an anti-Japanese guerrilla brigade.

These were all things that Lu Orion only learned after he took seven strong men up the mountain and found Wang Lin.

Wang Lin was very happy and asked his superiors for instructions, and Lu Orion found a position as a squad leader in the team.

The sea of blood has not been avenged, and the anger in his heart cannot be vented, where can the people of Lu Orion manage so much, as long as they can fight devils.

Both of them were worried about Xiaohua, and the comrades in the team carried letters, but they didn't find anyone from Liujiagou, Lu Orion took Zhong Hansheng to ask for leave and went to Liujiagou, only to know that Liujiagou was also swept away, and the people in the village had already fled, and Old Man Zhou and his party did not know where to go.

The guerrillas often organized operations, relying on the advantageous terrain of Daqingshan, and often ambushed and harassed small units of Japanese troops passing nearby.

This style of play gave the Japanese army a headache, these eight roads wearing ordinary people's clothes, often hit a few shots to test it, and if they could beat it, they would fight, and the materials including the clothes on their bodies were robbed, and they ran away if they couldn't beat them, and they couldn't even touch the figures.

This kind of battle has a natural advantage for Lu Orion, the hunter itself by a strong alertness and good marksmanship, used to use soil, guns and single-barreled hunting, the accuracy is poor, and the fight is not far, this time to get the rifle, it is like a fish in water.

Zhong Hansheng is very talented in guns, and his brain is smart, coupled with the careful training of Lu Orion, he quickly adapted to all kinds of battles, and one of the daily training of the team is the knife technique, which is very open and closed, very good for Zhong Hansheng's temper, a few months later, Zhong Hansheng carried a machete with a red tassel on his shoulder, and held a three-eight cover taken from the devil's hand, playing with a knife, seven or eight people can not get close, and the marksmanship is also extremely accurate, and he is very famous in the guerrillas, and even the head of Xu knows that there is one in the guerrillas.

As soon as it was passed on to the people nearby, Zhong Hanliang became the swordsman who flew off the wall, specializing in killing little devils, and was nicknamed: "Quick Knife Bell".

In this way, the two lived and fought in the guerrillas in Daqingshan, and Lu Lihu and Zhong Hansheng searched for nearby villages and towns in between tasks, but they did not see Xiaohua's whereabouts, and Xiaohua became a pain in the hearts of Lu Orion and Zhong Hansheng.

Zhong Hansheng and Xiaohua met again three years later.

At the beginning of 1945, the situation in the vicinity of Daqingshan was greatly improved, and the Japanese invading army shrank its forces, indicating its defensive attitude.

Shanghe Village is surrounded by mountains on three sides, relying on the barrier of Daqing Mountain, and the enemy can only enter Shanghe Village from the ancient bridge on the Daqing River.

Shanghe Village gradually had people living there, and Head Xu set up the regiment headquarters here.

The guerrillas in Daqingshan had already been reorganized, and Lu Lihu had also become the deputy company commander at this time, and he had been transferred to other places.

Originally, Lu Orion wanted to take Zhong Hansheng with him, but after thinking about it for a long time, Zhong Hansheng did not agree, he must stay in Daqingshan, and Lu Orion had no choice but to give up.

Zhong Hansheng participated in the battle and showed great courage and tenacity, whether it was long-distance shooting or close-range hand-to-hand combat, he could defeat one enemy and ten, and made a lot of combat achievements, which was deeply loved by Regiment Commander Xu, and was appointed as the commander of the guard platoon, responsible for the safety and security of the regiment headquarters.

On this day, Zhong Hansheng was arranging light and dark sentinels around the station, when he received a report from the soldiers that a fellow villager had come to Shanghe Village to look for someone, so Zhong Hansheng took the soldiers over to inquire about the situation.

In the scene at the head of the Qinghe Ancient Bridge, time seems to stand still.

Zhong Hansheng was wearing a gray cloth military uniform, carrying a "box cannon" in his waist, followed by a soldier, Xiaohua on the opposite side was wearing a short flower jacket, holding the cloth package on his shoulder with his left hand, and holding a little boy in his right hand, the boy looked two or three years old, wearing open crotch pants, holding his head, his big eyes flickering, and he seemed to be very curious about his uncle in military uniform.

Silent.

After a long time, Xiaohua wanted to speak, but tears flowed first.

Zhong Hansheng relieved himself, the person who had been thinking about it day and night in his heart for the past three years was really in front of him, but he couldn't say a word of the thousand words hidden in his chest.

The soldier behind him didn't know why, took the package on Xiaohua's shoulder, and said cordially: "Fellow, come to our squad to have a break and drink saliva, our platoon commander is from here, he is familiar with this, and he can help you find someone." ”

Zhong Hansheng felt that his mouth was heavier, and he used all his strength to say two words: "Let's go!"

A few hours later, in the dormitory of the guard platoon, Zhong Hansheng and Xiaohua kept talking, and finally figured out the ins and outs of the matter.

It turned out that three years ago, Xiaohua and Old Man Zhou went to Majiagou behind Daqing Mountain to take refuge, only to find that Majiagou was not spared, and was also swept away by devils, and everyone in the nearby villages escaped.

Old man Zhou walked aimlessly with people, just hoping to find a place to stay, there were wounded and children and old people, and on the way he met a lot of people who were hiding from the disaster, and they were separated while walking.

A few days later, Xiaohua and a girl named Fangzi in the village, accompanied by each other, came to an unknown river beach.

Sleeping in the open all the way, the two girls were already hungry and had no strength at this time, the water on the river beach was not deep, and the current was not urgent, so the two tried to go to the other side.

Unexpectedly, there was an undercurrent in the river, and Xiaohua's feet slipped and was swept away by the water.

When Xiaohua woke up, she didn't know how many days had passed, and she was rescued by a kind uncle who was fishing in the river.

The well-wisher's surname is He, the family lives by the river, Uncle He also fled from elsewhere, and fled all the way here with his son, the water in this section of the river is relatively clear, the water flow is slow, and the fish can be caught, the father and son built a simple shack and made a living by catching fish.

Uncle He's son is called He Youliang, twenty years old, very honest and responsible, and even a little wooden. He only works every day to catch fish.

Along the way, Xiaohua saw the humanity in a desperate situation, and the people who fled on the road really didn't care about anything in order to get a bite to eat.

In the era of war and chaos, no one wants to open more mouths to eat, fortunately, Uncle He is kind-hearted, although there are not many fish caught every day, there are many small fish and shrimp on the shore that can be made into food, but not starved to death, his son He Youliang is the same as his father, he has a good heart, and he has a good food, which is the first to give Xiaohua.