The strongholds of our army have already carried out a dragnet investigation of all the surrounding areas to strictly prevent any suspicious people from entering and leaving, and now that the general of the Eighth Route has entered the territory of Hanyang, then he is destined to be doomed......"

Zhaoming's face finally looked a little better.

In the territory of Hanyang, all the Japanese strongholds, the pro-Japanese landlords and old wealthy, after receiving the order issued by the Lingjiang Headquarters, all took action.

Huang Zhiming and the others, who had just come out of a valley, were discovered by dozens of landlords before they could catch their breath!

Huang Zhiming and others took the lead in firing, covering You Xiaoyan and You Xiaoying's two daughters to retreat on stretchers, while shouting at those landlords...... armed personnel: "We are the Eighth Route Army, we are fighting for national independence, and for every compatriot to no longer be enslaved, even if you don't support us, you shouldn't follow the devils and help the ."

"Eight roads, Lao Tzu fights eight ways!"

The leading landlord screamed strangely, commanding the armed members of the landlord under his command to rush up frantically and shouting: "Hurry up, kill one, reward twenty oceans, capture one alive, reward fifty, if you can capture the stretcher alive, reward one hundred ......oceans."

Hearing these numbers, the landlords screamed and rushed up like crazy.

"You damn scum!"

Huang Zhiming and others scolded, but they were all short guns, and they didn't have a long range at all, and they were outnumbered, so they had to cover the second daughter and fight and retreat......

"You can't run, surrender quickly!"

While leading his troops in pursuit, the landlord said to a confidant: "Quick, hurry up and inform the captain of the Miyahata team, just say that the people they want have been surrounded by us, please come over immediately......"

"Platoon commander, these traitors must have moved their troops!"

Liu Yinqiang saw the dog legs of the landlord who was running away with the cat's waist, and fired two shots in a row to force the two people who rushed to the front to retreat: "You guys take the chief away, I'll stay behind and cover your ......."

"Take care!"

Huang Zhiming had tears in his eyes, but he could only say this sentence, and then turned around to chase You Xiaoyan and You Xiaoying, the two daughters who were carrying the stretcher and struggling forward.

"If I can't die this time, I'll have to kill all of you bastards when I turn back......"

Li Jin also scolded, looked at Liu Yinqiang and wiped a handful of tears, and left with a sad cry.

"Be sure to take the chief out!"

Liu Yinqiang roared, turned around and shot off a landlord's dog leg, laughed and said: "Grandpa's name is Liu Yinqiang, if you want to catch Lao Tzu, if you are not afraid of death, come over and ......"

The news that the people named by the headquarters appeared in the area of Meadow Ditch spread almost instantaneously throughout the surrounding area.

The captain of the Miyahata squad took the lead in leading the team to come, and the devils in the watchtowers of the rest of the surrounding strongholds also split up to chase and intercept this side......

More than ten miles long, located in the deep mountains, the meadow ditch that has been unknown for thousands of years has become the focus of almost everyone's eyes for a while!

In the mountain nest on the side of the meadow ditch, there are twenty or thirty families, and the size adds up to more than 100 people.

Among them, the Gu family has many children, and the old lady's surname is Gu, and his name is Gu Xianming.

Although he is seventy or eighty years old, his body still looks very tough.

When he was young, Gu Xianming also left this meadow ditch to wander outside, and people returned to meadow ditch again when they were middle-aged.

With those scattered silver taels, Gu Xianming settled in the village and never went out again.

Gu Xianming never mentioned the experience of being outside for more than ten or twenty years, even with anyone in the family, even his old woman, and as for the wooden box, the villagers had only seen it twice when he had just returned home, and no one had ever seen it again, let alone know what it contained.

Therefore, Gu Xianming's experience of being away for more than ten or twenty years is an unknowable mystery in the eyes of everyone.

Only occasionally when I go down to the river to catch fish, or when I scrub bare-chested, I have a few foot-long scars on my back, lying on my body like an earthworm, and I look very scary.

Therefore, whether it is within the family or the people around who know about this, they all secretly talk about it behind their backs, saying that the old man must have done something big in the ten or twenty years since he left home......

But what is the specific big thing, Gu Xianming doesn't say, no one can guess on their own, but the people around him are quite serious about Gu Xianming, but whenever there is anything, they like to discuss with Gu Xianming, or ask him for ideas.

Gu Xianming is also worthy of being a person who has gone out and seen the world, although he has not read any books, but he can often express some opinions that are different from ordinary people on many things.

Over time, although Gu Xianming has never served as a security chief or village chief, almost all of the dozens of families in this mountain nest are looking at Gu Xianming, and the landlords from outside, etc., often have to be polite when they see Gu Xianming.

Because the small villages in the mountain nests are seven or eight miles away from the nearest villages, and the roads are difficult to navigate, the villagers are usually busy working in the one-third of an acre of land around the village, and rarely go out, and of course, people from outside rarely come in......

The Japanese outside were ravaging and the war was raging, and the people in the village had heard about it, and they also talked a few words in the courtyard dam from time to time, or when they drank and chatted together, but that's all.

After all, there is a stronghold of little devils twenty or thirty miles away, and the little devils are here, except for increasing some taxes, they haven't come to harass anything, so after everyone has been worried for a while, they will treat the little devils as if they don't exist......

Usually, everyone talks more, but it is the Jindong detachment that has become more and more divine recently.

If nothing else, just because the fertilizer produced by the Jindong detachment can greatly increase grain production, and at the same time, the tax collected is extremely low, and it does not oppress the people, and treats the people as relatives......

During the chat, the villagers also discussed how much better it would be if the Jindong detachment called and brought chemical fertilizer, which would not only increase the grain production in the fields, but also reduce taxes.

But just think about it, no one really expects this kind of good thing to happen to them.

But Gu Xianming, who has never said much, actually asked a few words for the first time when he heard this, and finally said: "These eight roads, it sounds good......

"Old lady, how about these eight roads, no matter how good they are? Can you still beat the devil? ”

At that time, the villagers joked.

Gu Xianming didn't speak again at that time, and went back to the house directly, but the next day, Mrs. Gu chatted with someone, saying that her old man took out a lock at night, and even she didn't look at the box that she touched for half a night, and sighed incessantly, saying that she was old......

"Are you in your seventies, can you still be old?"

Mrs. Gu said with a smile at the time, remembering that Gu Xianming had not let herself touch the box all these years, when she was young, she was not suspicious of the box, but half of her life had passed, and now no matter what the box contained, she was relieved......

The days in the mountains just went on like this.

In the past two days, Gu Xianming's expression was not very good, and he always had a feeling of panic for no reason, as if he felt that something big was about to happen......

Early in the morning, Gu Xianming got up early in the morning as usual, and then found that the villagers were all gathered in the direction of the entrance of the village and looked down......

"What are you looking at? What's the matter? Gu Xianming asked with a frown.

"Last night, it looked like a gun was going off from below!"

The one who replied was Gu Xianming's eldest son, Gu Jianfeng, an honest man in his thirties.

This name, compared to the names of those dog babies in the village, Wang Laoyi, etc., can be regarded as a good name for the first number in the sky, it was given by Gu Xianming himself, and the people in the village were envious, and some people once wanted to ask Gu Xianming to help their children come up with a nice name, but unfortunately the ink in Gu Xianming's stomach was really limited, and he couldn't hold back another good name, so the people in the village could only give up......

The guns are known to the villagers, and so does Gu Jianfeng.

But like all the villagers, Gu Jianfeng was far from being able to tell the difference between the sound of gunfire and the sound of artillery just from the sound, and the reason why he replied that his father seemed to be firing a gun was because in this ditch, except for a few strings of artillery battles in the homes of the villagers during the New Year's Festival, no one would set off artillery battles in this ditch.

What's more, last night in this ditch, there was a sound every once in a while, except for shooting, they don't think anyone would play with artillery like this......

Hearing that it was a gunshot, Gu Xianming's body stiffened significantly, and just as he was about to speak, another gunshot rang out from the ditch a few miles away!

At the same time, there were several sounds like the roar of a wounded beast......

"It's gunshots!"

"There's a ...... down there"

The villagers exclaimed, and involuntarily looked at Gu Xianming, hoping that the backbone of the village would give everyone ideas and what to do next.

"Go down and have a look!"

Gu Xianming suddenly spoke, and for the first time, a certain sharpness appeared on his face that was usually not smiling but was quite gentle.

"Old man, are you crazy?" Mrs. Old exclaimed.

The villagers obviously didn't expect that Gu Xianming, who had always been old and serious, didn't let everyone hide, but let them go down and take a look, and said in surprise: "Old man, if you shoot down, maybe ......you will die."

"A bunch of bad guys!"

Gu Xianming was furious, and he rushed down first!

"Dad, slow down......"

Gu Jianfeng hesitated, but after all, he quickly followed.

The villagers hesitated for a while, but they also followed, rushing towards the place where the sound was heard.

Soon, everything in the ravine appeared in everyone's eyes!

In the rocky ravine, two thin women, who had long been soaked with sweat, carried a stretcher and crawled towards them......

The two women looked so weak and tired, as if they would faint at any moment because they were too tired and too hard, but they still stubbornly persevered, carrying the stretcher that was obviously an extremely heavy burden for them, step by step......

It seems that they will only stop until they are completely dead.

This scene is already shocking enough.

But what was even more shocking was that it was obviously more than ten or twenty meters away behind the second woman carrying the stretcher.

There was a man, covered in blood, holding a bayonet and confronting several people, among those people were the terrified eyes of the landlord dog leg that the villagers had seen before, and those devil soldiers in yellow skins!

The man was obviously seriously injured, and from a distance of fifty or sixty meters, the villagers could see that there was blood dripping from the man's body......

But he didn't back down. 8)