Chapter 35: The Tragedy of the Destruction of the Village

Leaving Midian Village, none of the soldiers spoke along the way, and everyone was holding their breath in their stomachs, wanting to go to the battlefield to kill more devils, so as to be worthy of the love of the villagers. However, their task this time was not to kill devils, but to deal with the aftermath for the villagers of Tianye Temple Village. The mission itself cannot have a happy ending.

When they were halfway there, the information reported by the scouts was not about the Japanese troops near Tianye Temple, but related to the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army. It turned out that when he was ordered to lead the scouts to Tianye Temple to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, he met the Yudong guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army.

After the guerrilla leader Zhong Baohua knew that this was a scout of the Flying Tiger Battalion, he immediately told them what they knew about the situation of the Japanese troops near the Tianye Temple. Stunned, he sent people back to report to the battalion commander Ren, and he took people to Tianye Temple to continue reconnaissance.

The devil really laid an ambush near the Tianye Temple village, intending to ambush the Flying Tiger Battalion that had thrown himself into the net. When the Yudong guerrillas found out, they immediately launched a small-scale sneak attack on the Japanese ambush troops, and immediately retreated after the first blow.

Although this sneak attack did not cause any major damage to the Japanese army, it made the devils think that their ambush had leaked! In fact, it was a leak, and the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army knew why he was not a leak? Seeing that the ambush was hopeless, the devil commander had no choice but to lead his troops to retreat. Therefore, now that there are no Japanese troops within a few miles of the Tianye Temple, the Flying Tiger Battalion can do whatever it wants.

In the past, when Ren Laifeng led his troops to fight, he always relied on his excellent command, quick mind, and a little good luck to win many times. It can be said that the rhythm of war is always in his own hands. But this time, it was the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army who helped him a lot. This feeling made him a little uncomfortable.

The Tianye Temple is in front, and the main structure of the temple can already be faintly seen from here. Stunned, he led two scouts to meet him. Although Tianye Temple Village is nearby, Ren Laifeng has never been there, and he is stunned that he has come to lead the way.

Go right from the path in front of the temple gate, turn two corners, walk through a fork in the road, and the village in front of you is the Tianye Temple Village in the local population.

Before he reached the entrance of the village, Ren Laifeng smelled a smell of blood. Every soldier who has ever been on the battlefield is familiar with and sensitive to this smell, and this smell is so different from any other smell that once you smell it, you will never forget it.

The further you go, the stronger the smell of blood. The expressions on the faces of the fighters grew more and more solemn. Finally, I saw the buildings of the village, and corpses appeared underground. At the entrance of the village lay a corpse that was not yet an adult, and it was never more than fifteen years old. I don't know whose child is probably playing at the entrance of the village, but he meets a devil who comes to kill people!

Ren Laifeng asked the soldiers to carry the child's body into the village! Although I don't know whose family this child is, since it is a person from a village, let him be buried with his fellow villagers.

On the threshing floor, in the streets, in the yards, and by the wells, there were corpses almost everywhere, and the thick smell of blood made people breathless.

Not only people, but also animal carcasses. Next to the corpse of an old man lay a large flower dog. Ren Laifeng was a little puzzled, the person died, could it be that this dog was also killed by the devil? Since they killed the dog, why don't they boil and eat the dead dog? What a waste to just throw it here?

This dog doesn't look small, it's estimated to weigh twenty or thirty pounds, right? Ren Laifeng walked up to him and kicked the dead dog with his foot. As a result, this kick scared him, and the dog didn't die!

"Yo yo." The dog whined twice and looked at Ren Laifeng with tears in his eyes.

"Hey, puppy, is your master at this time? Your master is dead, will you come with me? Come, come, I'll give you something to eat. As he spoke, Ren Laifeng took out a piece of bread from his arms, broke off a piece, and sent it to the mouth of the flower dog.

The flower dog sniffed, and just when Ren Laifeng thought it was going to open its mouth to eat, the flower dog turned his face to the side, and the dog was going to go on a hunger strike and martyrdom!

Of course, Ren Laifeng would not think that dogs were picky eaters and disliked that the dough cakes were unappetizing. Dogs in these years, especially those raised by farmers, are unlikely to develop any picky eating habits, and the only explanation for the dog's failure to eat bread is that it is on a hunger strike!

Well, since you're going to be martyred, then I won't disturb your faithfulness. Ren Laifeng ignored the dog and his owner for the time being, and led the soldiers to collect the corpses in the village. Regardless of the elderly, women or children, they were all carried to the open space in front of the village.

There were few young and strong men in the corpses, and the men in the village either joined the national army or joined the guerrillas, or they were captured by the devils and became puppet soldiers. It's these old and weak women and children, and the devil can actually hold up a butcher's knife. They're just a bunch of animals with no humanity!

The soldiers carried the corpses all over the village, and Ren Laifeng patrolled the village, and when he found a corpse that had not been found, he called the soldiers to come and carry it.

The two soldiers carried out another corpse from a small farm yard, and Ren Laifeng saw that the eyes of the two people were red, and he couldn't help but glance into the courtyard. At this sight, he stopped standing and couldn't walk.

A naked female corpse fell against the wall of the courtyard. The woman's plump carcass is exposed, and it is not the naked female corpse that attracts Ren Laifeng to stop, but the child next to the woman! The child never looked more than three years old, and he still looked like an unweaned toddler. The child lay quietly on the mother's naked body, touching the mother's milk, and both mother and son died.

In contrast, after the devil insulted and killed his mother, the child cried and looked for his mother, but was killed by the devil next to his mother's body. This is truly a human tragedy!

Ren Laifeng's eyes moistened again, and he didn't know how many times he had shed tears since he entered this village.

The pit was dug and a large pit could hold hundreds of people. The corpses of the villagers were carried into the pit one by one, and they were stacked layer after layer. Filled with soil, a tall mound of earth was piled on top of it, which looked like a natural hill bag from a distance. If you cut some small branches around and stick them in it, it may become a forest in a few years, right?

Incense is the incense in the temple of God, and the yellow paper is also the yellow paper in the temple. He lit incense, burned yellow paper, and prayed loudly: "Folks, rest in peace, I swear here: the blood debt will be paid with blood!" The Flying Tiger Battalion swears to avenge you! ”

"Report to the battalion commander, Captain Zhong of the Eastern Henan Guerrilla Army led the troops to the entrance of the village, and he wants to come to worship the villagers of Tianye Temple Village."