After the departure of the three teams, there was only one engineer platoon left in Wudou Township and some recruits who had not yet been incorporated into the company, a total of 110 people.

Although according to the reconnaissance and Liang Youku's explanation, there was no enemy in the south, Tian Liuwa still did not relax her vigilance, and sent three reconnaissance squads to advance alternately to a hundred miles away.

After the team left, Tian Liuwa asked Liang Youku's body to be buried and found a place to bury it.

Before Tian Liuwa returned to the courtyard where he lived, a soldier ran up to him in a panic and said breathlessly:

"Report to the instructor, then, that old lady hanged herself!"

Tian Liuwa's face sank, and she immediately followed the soldier over.

This matter was indeed negligent on his part, and Xu Zhi returned immediately after sending the old lady back because he wanted to participate in the battle.

By the time the soldiers sent by Tian Liuwa arrived again, the old lady was already hanging from the beams of the house.

The old lady's body was lying on the kang, her body temperature had begun to turn cold, and she could not be saved.

The corpse clutched a rag torn from his clothes, on which two lines were written in blood:

"I didn't educate my son well, so I can only die with him, bury my mother and sister next to each other, and I will educate him below."

According to the old lady's last wish, Tian Liuwa asked the old lady's body to be buried next to Liang Youku, and returned to her residence with a gloomy face.

He is not blaming Gao Yuan, but hating Liang Youku, this kind of person, it is difficult to understand the hatred in his heart if he kills him eight times.

Tian Liuwa couldn't figure it out, why even these old people could understand the truth, but those young people didn't understand?

From the old people who blocked the bullets for them when they counterattacked the rock, to the old ladies lying in front of them, they may not have any culture, but they have a strong national consciousness and can fight with the Japanese for their lives, but those who have studied and are young and strong do not have such backbone?

Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, the country has been weak and bullied by foreign powers; Cession of land and compensation, enduring humiliation and seeking peace, the common people are miserable.

However, in the face of the life and death of the country, those people do not want to save the country, but are willing to be eagle and dog minions for the invaders.

As soon as Tian Liuwa went out, she saw more than 100 people gathered outside, none of them spoke, they just looked at Tian Liuwa quietly, their eyes were full of worry.

Tian Liuwa thought at first that they were here for the death of Mrs. Liang, and she was about to explain to them, but she was preempted by an old man who looked like a pedant.

The old man was about seventy years old, with a white beard and a cane in his hand, and a boy of sixteen or seventeen years old stood beside him.

When the old man saw Tian Liuwa come out, he took two steps forward tremblingly, standing in front of Tian Liuwa, probably because there were not many teeth in his mouth, and his voice was a little slurred:

"You're an official, aren't you?"

Tian Liuwa hurriedly nodded:

"I am, old man, what are you looking for me?"

The old man pushed the young man next to him in front of Tian Liuwa, his voice was full of helplessness and reluctance:

"This kid is sixteen years old this year, you take him in and let him follow you to fight the Japanese."

Tian Liuwa was stunned for a moment.

The independent battalion has been in Wudou Township for so long, and no school-age youth from a single family has joined, although some teenagers originally wanted to be soldiers, but their families did not agree to it.

It's no wonder that now that the independent battalion is in Wudou Township, these people can barely be fed and clothed, who wants their children to be soldiers?

Being a soldier and fighting a war is not a family fight, it is a death.

At that time when the concept of patriarchy was still relatively strong, there was a son in the family who kept the family heirloom and established a family like a baby, especially if he had only one son, if he died on the battlefield, the family's incense would be broken.

Liu Cheng has also called for it before, but people are unwilling, and he can't force it.

When such a person finally appeared today, Tian Liuwa was inevitably a little excited.

Seeing that Tian Liuwa didn't speak, the old man spoke again:

"This is my great-grandson, his father, his mother, grandparents, all died in the year the Japanese came, leaving such a single seedling, I was hiding it before, I was afraid that you would let him be a soldier.

But now, I have sent him to you, and I only hope that you can hold this Wudou Township and not let the Japanese occupy this place again......"

Tian Liuwa suddenly realized, it seems that these people saw those troops leaving and thought that they were leaving, so they wanted to use this way to keep them.

He shook his head helplessly, and said to the old man in a deep voice:

"Don't worry, we won't leave, those people are just going to fight, not leaving; Our battalion commander said before, no matter what, we will not leave you alone, so don't worry, if you don't want the children at home to be soldiers, we won't force it, you can take the children back. ”

Before the old man could speak, the young man, who had been silent, suddenly raised his head, looked at Tian Liuwa with burning eyes, and said firmly:

"Nope! I want to be a soldier! ”

Tian Liuwa swept around the young man, and said in an old-fashioned manner:

"Good boy, just have this heart, go back with your grandfather."

When he spoke, his expression was exactly like an elder talking to a junior, completely forgetting that he was only a year older than the child.

The young man stalked his neck, looked directly into Tian Liuwa's eyes, and said word by word:

"I'm not going back! I must be a soldier! The book says that the rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband! ”

The old man patted the young man on the top of his head dotingly, and coughed twice sharply:

"Ahem...... Ahem, what the dog baby said is right, the husband is responsible, my dog baby has grown up, grown up, ......"

As he spoke, two cloudy tears slipped from the corners of the old man's eyes and fell to the ground silently.

Tian Liuwa glanced at the young man with very thin bones again, and asked in a calm voice:

"What's your name?"

"The big name Chen Dong, the little name Dog Baby, sixteen this year, eighteen the year after next, Wen can study, Wu can get on the horse!"

This set of language stunned Tian Liuwa, the young man was silent before, Tian Liuwa thought he was not good at words, but he didn't expect to speak in a set.

The old man looked at the young man, although tears slipped from the corners of his eyes from time to time, but his face was full of pride:

"Okay, my dog baby said it well!"

As he spoke, the old man looked at Tian Liuwa again and said in a trembling voice:

"It's a shame to say that the old man was in charge of the official belt when the Qing Dynasty was still there, and now at a time when the country is in danger, he can't bear to let future generations join the army, alas...... Since my great-grandson has this ambition, the old man should not stop him, so you can accept him! ”

Tian Liuwa was just about to speak, when several dull explosions suddenly came from the west, which shocked him and muttered:

"It's a fight......"