The road home is like this field, still full of bumps, and you never know what awaits you in front of you.

When everyone fled, everything was going well, but a chain snake that sprang out of the ditch swam into the barracks like a navigation, and woke up the platoon commander who was tied to a chair after being knocked unconscious, and then it was linked one by one, resulting in bloody killings.

Perhaps, providence!

After the stone pillar was hit by a bullet in the chest, he screamed in pain, but then, he faintly felt that the bullet did not penetrate into his body, so he touched his chest, and looked, the bullet was impartial, and it happened to be blocked by the jade pendant hanging around his neck. Shi Zhu was so happy that he picked up the jade pendant and kissed it.

At this time, Luo Erqi had already gone ashore, although he had not studied for a few days, his swimming skills were first-class, even in such bad water conditions, he was the first to climb ashore. When he heard the shouts of the stone pillar, he turned around and pulled it, and the two of them ran together. He had just run a short distance when there was another burst of strafing on the other side, and this time Shizhu was not so lucky, a bullet grazed the outside of his left thigh, and the wound was quite deep. As soon as he stepped into the air, he fell to the grass, and Luo Erfang also fell to the ground with him.

After the gunfire on the other side of the ditch finally stopped, the stone pillar staggered up, but Luo Erzhu did not move for a long time.

Shi Zhu limped to Luo Erfang, shook it slightly, his hand inadvertently touched Luo Erfang's back, and when he raised it, he saw that it was covered with blood. Shi Zhu immediately knew that Luo Erfang had also been shot, so he helped him up, shook it lightly, and said, "How are you?" Wake up! ”

After a while, Fang only heard Luo Erfang say in a weak voice: "Pillar, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold it!" You go quickly, you can't all die here! He dug into his clothes again, "This, bring it to my daughter-in-law!" After Shi Zhu took a few pieces of steel, he heard Luo Erfang say, "My child, please ask you to help take care of ......."

Before the stone pillar could speak, Luo Erfang's hand drooped. Finally, Shi Zhu's tears fell, and he wanted to carry Luo Erzhu on his back together, but his leg was injured and he couldn't drag it.

At this time, a voice came from the other side: "You guys, go to the small ditch to see the situation!" ”

Shi Zhu knew that if he didn't leave, he might not even be able to leave himself, so he had to reluctantly leave Luo Erqi and go straight to the east.

On the side of the camp, after some careful search and verification, his subordinates reported to Battalion Commander Li that 21 people had been killed, 6 people were seriously injured, and one person's whereabouts were unknown, and he was suspected of having escaped.

After listening to the situation, Camp Commander Li scolded: "Damn! Hurry up and chase me, don't run a single one! Ran one, take you is asking! ”

At this moment, before dawn, the platoon commander immediately took two submachine guns and three rifles, led the wolf dog Hei Feng in the battalion to the other side of the ditch, and carefully shone around with a flashlight, looking for some clues.

"Platoon commander, blood was found here!" After a while, someone reported to him.

The platoon commander looked over, touched the blood with his hand, and said, "It seems that the injury is not light, and it will take an hour, and it is estimated that he will not be able to run far." We chase, pay attention to observe along the way! Immediately, five men and a wolfhound chased them east.

After Shi Zhu escaped from the barracks, he was very unfamiliar with the outside place, but he knew that as long as he kept going east and crossed the Mu River, he would be safe. Therefore, he did not dare to stay, raised his head and followed the guidance of the stars, dragged his injured leg, endured severe pain, and limped all the way to the east.

I don't know how far I ran, Shizhu felt too tired, plus he lost a lot of blood, the whole person was top-heavy, his vision was a little blurry, and he urgently needed to rest. He looked ahead, and suddenly saw a straw hut made of straw on the dry ditch not far away, which was very old, as if someone had left it over from the melon fields that had been seen here.

The stone pillar couldn't care about this much, and went to the grass hut to rest for a while, but before he could think about it, he fell asleep as soon as his eyes were closed.

At this time, Luo Erfang, Wei Wusi, Sikong Ben, Xu Jiangfeng, Bian Guanxing, Fu Daniu, Xu Shihuan, as well as eight people in the village and twelve other people all came to the stone pillar, and the pictures of the past also reappeared one by one. However, the style of painting suddenly changed, and everyone became covered in blood, their eyes glazed over, and they surrounded him like zombies, stretching out bloody hands and constantly tugging at his hair and clothes, as if with all kinds of resentment.

"Why did you leave us alone after saying that you were leaving us in a pile?" Luo Erfang kept muttering in his ear. In a trance, Shizhu seemed to hear someone saying to him again: "Pillar, the sky is about to dawn, why haven't you gotten up yet?" ”

Hearing this, Shi Zhu desperately opened his eyes, it turned out that his grandmother was calling him, his daughter-in-law Ji Sien was holding the child in her arms, and Shi Shuo was also standing next to him and looking at him happily. The golden retriever shouted at him from the side, and the voice became louder and louder, as if to wake him up.

At this time, the surrounding light gradually appeared, and the stone pillar was full of excitement, opened his eyes suddenly, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and it turned out that everything just now was a dream. But one thing was true, he clearly heard a dog barking not far away, and the sound was getting closer and closer.

Shi Zhu followed the sound and looked out through the crack in the straw curtain door of the straw hut, and in the morning light, he saw that the platoon commander and a few people had chased here, and it was the black wind that was calling.

At this moment, the platoon commander and several of his subordinates were holding guns, slowly walking towards the grass shed step by step. Shi Zhu knew that if he went out through the straw curtain door, he would definitely be caught by the platoon leader, but the bottom of the straw shed was built with a few thick wooden sticks, and he couldn't open it, so he had to try to open a gap in the back of the straw hut and run out. But everything was in vain, and the seemingly old straw still did not move. Shi Zhu was helpless, but he would never sit still, and quietly hid behind the grass curtain, intending to fight.

When the platoon commander and a few people gathered in front of the grass hut, Hei Feng did not call, but walked to the side of the road with a dog chain, sniffed the ground, and then barked in the direction of the village not far ahead, as if to say that there was a situation ahead.

"Platoon commander, there's blood in front!" The soldier leading the black wind reported to the platoon commander.

The platoon commander looked closer, then raised his head and looked at the village in front, then put away his pistol and said, "It looks like I ran to the village in front, go, chase!" ”

Seeing the few people chasing after him walking away, the heart of the stone pillar hanging in his throat was put down. He thought to himself that there was no white pain and black wind on weekdays - as part of the plan, as soon as they arrived at the barracks, Shizhu and the others consciously made frequent contact with the military dogs, teasing them from time to time, and feeding them some food, so that when they fled one night, those military dogs could hear their voices and not bark as warnings.

Unexpectedly, Black Wind actually "helped" himself here!

The stone pillar got out of the grass hut and quickly limped towards the direction of the Shu River, and after a while, finally came to the Shu River.

The platoon commander followed the bloodstains on the ground and led the people to continue chasing in the direction of the village, and when he was about to reach the entrance of the village, he saw a person in front of him. They picked up their guns and chased after them, and when they got closer, they saw that it was an uncle, with a bow and arrows on his back, and something in his hand, not the person he wanted to chase, so the platoon commander asked, "Have you seen a wounded person passing by?" ”

The uncle saw that several military masters were aggressive, so he nodded and said, "Sir, I didn't see anyone passing by here along the way!" ”

"And what's going on with the bloodstains along the way?"

"Oh, sir, that's what you're talking about, aren't you?" The uncle lifted the things in his hand higher, "These are two pheasants that I hunted in the grove a few miles away before dawn, and the blood on the road dripped from these two things!" ”

The platoon commander took a closer look, and sure enough, it was true, and then he rolled his eyes and couldn't help shouting: "It's not good, go back and chase it!" When they came to the hut again to inspect it, they saw that there was really a pool of blood on the messy straw, and it looked like they had not been gone for long. The platoon commander looked at the trampled grass marks on the side of the road, concluded that the stone pillar was running in the direction of the Shu River, and quickly continued to chase to the east.

When the stone pillar walked to the Shu River, the sun had already peeked out from the horizon, shining brightly all around, and from time to time birds flew over the river. On weekdays, I really want to stop and enjoy this beautiful scenery, but at this moment it is like an arrow on the string, and I have no time to care. The stone pillar looked at the wide river, and as far as the eye could see, the fishermen who did not get up early rowed fishing boats and sang fishing songs, and then looked back, the platoon commander had already led people to chase after him from afar, and the cry of the black wind could be heard clearly.

At this time, there was only one way for the stone pillar to go, and that was to jump off the Shu River and swim over it by itself.

The river was very cold and the wound was very painful, but in order to survive, Shizhu could only grit his teeth and swim desperately to the other side. By the time the platoon commander chased them to the Shu River, he had already swam to the middle of the river.

Against the sun, the platoon commander only saw a black dot rippling with the waves on the river in the distance, so he picked up the submachine gun and fired a burst of "da-da-da", startling the waterfowl from far and near to scatter in all directions. Seeing this, a fierce man pierced down, only to hear the bullet "chirping" in his ear, but this time it didn't hurt him at all.

The platoon commander saw that the stone pillar had swam far away, and no matter how many bullets he fired, it would be in vain, and he categorically would not swim over, so he said to his subordinates: "Brothers, you will know what to say when you go back, right?" ”

"Platoon commander, don't worry! We chased him to the Shu River and shot him to death, but the river was so fast that we didn't know where the body had gone! ”

In this way, the platoon commander returned with people in a huff. Stone Pillar finally saved his life, and when he got ashore, he collapsed to the ground from exhaustion. Looking at the clear blue sky and the floating clouds, Shi Zhu couldn't believe that more than two dozen people were gone like this, and he was still with them just now. He couldn't tell if he was lucky or unlucky that only one of the twenty-eight people escaped?

When the platoon commander returned to the barracks, he saw that Battalion Commander Li was tying up the six people who had been seriously injured but not dead on the playground for public display, and Wei Wusi was among them. After the news reached the ears of the brigade commander Wang Hongjiu, he was energetic and personally led people to the independent battalion.

When Wei Wusi saw Wang Hongjiu coming, he scolded: "Wang Hongjiu of the dog day, if it falls into your hands, if you want to kill it, you can kill it, and if you want to kill it, you can kill it!" Lao Tzu is dead, and he will not let you go if he becomes a ghost! ”

Wang Hongjiu was quite calm, and said angrily and unhurriedly: "I, Wang Hongjiu, am the lord of Hades, how many tens of millions of people died in the hands of Lao Tzu, you are a ball, Lao Tzu is still afraid that you little ghosts will come to me?!" Remembering that you were once Lao Tzu's subordinates, I will leave you a whole corpse. ”

After that, Wang Hongjiu waved his hand and ordered people to bury all six people alive. It's a pity, it's pitiful, it's hateful!

Shi Zhu naturally didn't know all this, and even if he did, what could he do at the moment? After he tore off a strip of cloth and bandaged his thighs, he reached for the compressed biscuits in his pocket, but unfortunately they were basically soaked and could only barely eat a few bites. But fortunately, he saw a few tall melons on the bank of the river not far away, and although they were not fully grown, they were enough for him to eat beautifully for a day.

The ghost gate was crossed, but the stone pillar still didn't dare to take it lightly. After he had eaten, he thought about his next steps.

He also thought that after escaping, he would join the People's Liberation Army with everyone and fight for the common people to live a good life. But now he is a little hesitant, and the thought of going home has been haunting his heart, especially knowing that his daughter-in-law has given birth to a son for himself, if he has another three long and two short, I don't know how they will survive.

After thinking about it, Shizhu finally decided to go home first.

Fortunately, it is close to the Mid-Autumn Festival, and there is no shortage of all kinds of food in the fields - pu husks, high melons, big scoops, trumpet eggs, duanduan, wild vegetables, wild fruits, and you can also go to the field to steal some tender sticks and shave some small potatoes. If it really doesn't work, I go to people's houses to beg for food.

The most important thing at the moment is how to heal the leg injury. Following his faint memory, Shi Zhu struggled to recall some of the herbs that his grandfather had told him when he was a child that could be applied externally to treat snakebites and wound ulcers. He first found some four-leaf clover and lara vine, crushed them and applied them to the wound, and then on the way, he found a little cucumber grass and dwarf grass.

On this day, Shizhu walked to a place called Shiliang River, where the large and small rivers are vertical and horizontal, the water and grass are fertile, and there are patches of firewood fields around, in which the birds are boiling, and you can see that there is a lot of game at a glance.

After walking for more than five days and eating "fasting" for five days, Shizhu saw this scene and immediately became addicted to meat.

He carefully observed a few bushes of low grass and, with years of experience, found a black snake in the shade of a tree full of fallen leaves. The snake's back was covered with gray-brown oval markings, and when it saw someone coming, the snake's head immediately turned into a nearly triangular shape and took an offensive stance. If it were someone else, it would have been scared away as a poisonous snake, but Shizhu knew that this snake was not poisonous, and the meat was fat and delicious.

The stone pillar easily caught the black brocade snake, and then found a thin-edged stone to break it open, first pulled out the snake's gall bladder, applied it to the thigh wound, and then peeled the snake's skin, washed it, and made a fire to roast and eat.

"Finally meat to eat!" Shizhu smiled as he smelled the scented snake meat.

The meat was eaten, but it also caused a lot of trouble for the stone pillars.

To the south, not far from the stone pillar, there is a dirt mountain, which is not high and stretches for several kilometers from east to west. The stone pillar encountered many such mountains along the way, thinking that the north and south of this earth mountain is also very wide, but as everyone knows, its north-south direction is only a few dozen meters wide, and the south side of the earth mountain is a wide road.

At this time, a group of national soldiers accompanied a group of strong men passing by on the main road, and the commander saw wisps of white smoke coming out of the north side of Tushan, and felt something abnormal, so he ordered the soldiers to go to check the situation. When the soldier came back to report, the commander said, "This barren mountain and wilderness, a person, wearing the clothes of the national army, must be a deserter!" Then he ordered the adjutant to take two people and quietly go over and arrest the stone pillar for interrogation.

It was already early afternoon, and the autumn sun was quite dazzling, so the stone pillar was facing away from the southwest when it roasted the snake. At this moment, he was enjoying the delicious food, and he also relaxed his vigilance, and did not notice that three people behind him had climbed the dirt mountain and were quietly approaching him.

At the critical moment, there will always be something strange happening.

Shi Zhu was gnawing on snake meat, and suddenly thought of the jade pendant that blocked a bullet for himself a few days ago, so he took it out and looked at it, and couldn't help but think of his daughter-in-law Ji who was hundreds of miles away. He really hoped that he could grow a pair of wings at this moment and fly home with a whoosh.

At home, at this moment, Ji and Shi Yu are sitting in the house with the soles of their shoes, and everything is very quiet. For some reason, Ji suddenly sneezed so loudly that it woke up his youngest son.

Seeing this, Shi Yushi jokingly said, "Sien, could it be that the pillar misses you?" ”

After hearing this, Ji Shi just smiled reluctantly, and then his face became solemn again, and there seemed to be indescribable pain in his heart.

There are many things in the world that are difficult to explain, whether they are coincidental or fateful. Just after Ji sneezed, Shilianghe actually shot a muffled thunder out of thin air, and there was a "boom", which resounded through the world. The thunder surprised everyone, and the stone pillar was no exception. He subconsciously looked up and looked around, and immediately saw three people in the south wearing national army uniforms walking towards him with guns, and immediately knew that he was in danger, and he didn't care about his leg injury, so he quickly jumped up in pain, and ran desperately to the firewood field next to him.

When the three men heard the thunder, they all unconsciously stopped and looked around, and when they came back to their senses and looked forward, the stone pillar had already run a long way, so they loaded the bullet and fired at the stone pillar while chasing it and shouting, "Stop, don't run......

In the midst of the gunfire and shouting, the stone pillar had already burrowed into the firewood field.

"It's dangerous!" The stone pillar covered the wound on his leg, took two deep breaths, and then calmed himself. He was very scared in his heart, but he had seen too many dead people, so he was not afraid at the moment.

The firewood field was gloomy, there was no firewood growing on the dry beach, and occasionally people would come in, so they stepped on many twists and turns. Shi Zhu was not familiar with the situation inside, but compared to the three people who caught up later, he was also in the shadows. With what he learned in the special operations platoon many years ago, he quietly disguised himself simply.

The three men were dumbfounded when they reached the woodfields, and could not find out which path led to which, so the adjutant ordered one of the soldiers to search to the left, and he and the other to search to the right.

All this is clearly seen by the stone pillars.

Following the direction of the lone soldier's search, the stone pillar quietly followed from another path. At a bend, he suddenly appeared behind the man from a near bypass intersection. Before the soldier could react, the stone pillar had already knocked him unconscious with one palm, and then twisted his hands hard, and with a "click", the soldier was killed.

Shi Zhu was unrelenting this time, and the three of them didn't hesitate in the slightest when they shot at him just now.

After solving one, Shi Zhu picked up the gun on the ground and walked gently to the other side, seeing the other two from a distance. This time, Shi Zhu deliberately left the commander first, so he picked up his gun and aimed at the soldier next to him. With a "bang", the soldier immediately fell, blood sprayed the adjutant's face, all kinds of birds in the woodfield flew up at this moment, and the little rodents also hid in their holes.

The adjutant wiped the blood from his face, fell to the ground in fright, fired a few shots in the direction of the gunshot, and when he heard no movement, he got up and ran, but by this time the stone pillar was already waiting in front of him.

When Shi Zhu put a gun against the adjutant's head, he was so frightened that his eyes straightened, raised his hands, slowly knelt down, and begged for mercy in his mouth: "A good man spares his life, a good man spares his life......"

Shi Zhu fired his gun and asked, "Who are you?" What are you doing here? ”

The adjutant said tremblingly: "We are from the county security regiment, and we are responsible for escorting Zhuang Ding to Tancheng. I saw smoke coming from here just now, and I found you, and the chief told us to come and arrest you! ”

Hearing that it was a strong man, Shi Zhu immediately asked, "How many of you are there?" ”

"There are fourteen people, including me, and thirty-one strong men have been bet!"

"Where are the people now?"

"It's just across the hill. Hero, everything I say is the truth, spare your life! The lieutenant began to beg for mercy again.

Shizhu was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, and even more lazy to tie him to a tree to waste time. For this kind of person, Shi Zhu already hated it, and directly pulled the trigger, and with a "bang", the adjutant saw the king of Hades. Then, Shizhu learned the lesson of escaping from the barracks, collected the bullets from the three people, took a gun, and quietly climbed the dirt mountain. Sure enough, he found a wave of people resting not far from the foot of the mountain. The stone pillars were roughly counted, and the situation was similar to what the chief said, except that the strong men were tied behind their backs.

At this time, in the face of more than ten enemies, Shi Zhu could have calmly retreated and continued to rush his own way, which had nothing to do with him. But as a strong man who was once arrested, Shizhu knows the sadness in it, thirty-one people, there are thirty-one families behind him, and I don't know how many relatives. More importantly, the national army is not worth their lives.

"Since this has happened, you can't ignore it!" Shi Zhu's temper when he saw the injustice and drew his sword to help him came up again.

The stone pillar counted again, and he only had eight bullets, which meant that even if he killed one with one shot, there would still be three enemies standing in front of him. But Shi Zhu was convinced that there would be thirty-one people to help him.

The so-called "capture the thief and capture the king first", the stone pillar aimed at the commander in the crowd - this is very recognizable, a pistol pinned to his waist, and the people under his hand lit a cigarette for him and fanned him, this posture is only available to the commander in the national army. As soon as the trigger was pulled, the commander was shot in the chest and fell to the ground, and before he could finish his cigarette, he fell to the ground, and the grass under the cigarette butt was burned to the point of white smoke.

"There are snipers, hide quickly!" When the soldiers saw that the commander was dead, they were all frightened, and immediately found cover to hide, but if they couldn't find it, they just lay on the ground.

Seeing this situation, the originally depressed strong men suddenly came to their strength, and they stood up one after another and waited for it. These soldiers are leaderless, all looking for the position of the sniper or seeking self-protection, and there is no time to ask this group of strong men again.

Later, the pillar aimed at one of the soldiers at the front, and knocked him down with another shot, crisp and neat.

"Look, there!" At this point, one of the soldiers spotted the pillar, and everyone fired at it.

Seeing that the location was exposed, Shi Zhu lowered his head and quietly moved closer to the group, and when their gunfire stopped, he slowly poked his head out to check the situation. Although the group of soldiers found the stone pillar, they did not rush forward, and the stone pillar knew that they were all afraid in their hearts. So he struck while the iron was hot, pulled the trigger, and another soldier fell.

This time, the soldiers looked at each other, completely panicked, a few of them threw their guns directly, ran away, and those who fell behind, before they could run, were tripped to the ground by the strong men, and then everyone rushed up and pressed the soldiers to the ground with their bodies.

I thought that this group of soldiers would bravely fight the stone pillar, but I didn't expect that the battle was solved with only three shots.

Shi Zhu limped down the small dirt mountain with a gun in his hand, and hurriedly helped everyone untie up. Then the men came together to thank the pillar. One of them, a burly man with slightly dark skin, stepped forward and said to Shizhu: "My name is Geng Yangcheng, we are all barefoot gangs, Daling and Shahe people, thank you brothers for risking death to save each other this time!" Dare to ask what the benefactor is called? ”

"My surname is Shi, a native of Haizhou! Everyone doesn't have to be polite, 'the road is uneven and draws a knife to help', since you have encountered it, you have to take care of it. Shi Zhu pointed his gun at several national soldiers who were squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands, "Besides, I hate these people who catch strong men the most, they are just like bandits!" ”

Geng Yangcheng stared at the stone pillar again and looked at it carefully, and asked thoughtfully: "Brother Shi is from Haizhou, so I take the liberty to ask, do you know Liu Fulong?" ”

Suddenly asked like this, Shi Zhu was indeed stunned for a moment, but he saw that these people were honest croppers, and they didn't look like Liu Fulong's original subordinates or relatives and friends, so he said honestly: "Brother Geng is talking about the evil bandit Liu Fulong? Not to mention, I cut off his head with a pickpocket! ”

Those people were so happy now, Geng Yangcheng said with a smile: "That's right, no wonder I feel familiar when I see you, it turns out that you cut off Liu Fulong's dog head!" I also went to Linhong that day, and I heard that you informed the villagers that Liu Fulong lived there! Today, I saw Brother Shi repelling more than a dozen national armies with his own strength, I really admire! ”

"Brother Geng, you are exalting me too much, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to deal with it alone." Then Shi Zhu asked, "I wonder what your plans are in the future?" ”

Geng Yangcheng said: "Brother Shi, most of us are on the list, if we go home, I am afraid that we will be arrested by the national army in a few days, and we have to go out to hide, and I don't know ......where to go now."

In fact, Shi Zhu faced the same situation, after escaping from the national army barracks, he was also worried that he would be arrested again when he returned home, but he really wanted to go back to see his son, so he decided to take this risk. This time, in the face of these thirty-one people, he thought for a moment and said: "In my opinion, instead of hiding and hiding, you should take these guns and go to the People's Liberation Army in a pile, and you can also join the local guerrillas." When you are liberated, you can go home openly! ”

"Well, well, what Brother Shi said is worthy of a good path, there are several people in my village who have joined the People's Liberation Army, we will seriously consider it!" Geng Yangcheng then pointed to the soldiers on the ground and asked, "What about these five dogs?" ”

"I'll leave these people to you. If you go to join the People's Liberation Army, I think you can just use them as a greeting gift! After that, everyone laughed.

At this time, the stone pillar looked up at the sun, and after such a long delay, it was not early, so he had to continue his journey. Everyone kept it again and again, hoping to wait for him to heal his leg injury before leaving, but Shizhu didn't want to bother others and wanted to get home early, so he politely refused. Before leaving, Shi Zhu remembered something, turned back to the crowd and said, "By the way, there are still two guns in the firewood field in the north, you can go and find them." Go to those who are bolder, for there are three dead men......"

Hearing what Shi Zhu said, the thirty or so people were even more surprised - how many stories did the limping man in front of him have?