The three carriages were running on the road, but the people in the carriages became uneasy when they heard the gunshots and explosions behind them, especially the second fool, who was sitting in the last carriage and was looking at the direction they were coming from.
But what could he see? This was originally a hilly area, and the road there was a bend, so his sight had turned into a forest with no leaves left.
"Alas," Erhanzi sighed heavily.
But no one paid any attention to him, but everyone was also listening to the gunshots.
Originally, Qian Chuan'er could have comforted Erhanzi, but unfortunately Qian Chuan'er was driving the carriage.
Old Huo was still sitting in the front carriage, staring blankly.
Every normal person blinks, but Old Huo's blinking frequency is obviously much higher than others.
According to him, it was a disease he had developed when he was a beard. He did not say whether he had seen something he should not have seen, which made his eyes always look at that spot.
Shang Zhen sat in the carriage without looking back. He really had nothing to say.
Of course, he knew about the strategy that Old Huo was using to kill someone with a borrowed knife. Deep down, he also felt that what Old Hu was doing was a bit too cruel.
Old Huo just asked him a question in return, and Shang Zhen had nothing to say. The old man said, "If we hadn't seen through the Smiling Tiger's evil plan in time, do you think we could still survive?"
Shang Zhen is not someone who doesn't understand the truth.
If they had all been drugged by the Smiling Tiger in that farm before, then the Smiling Tiger would definitely have killed them to silence them.
From this perspective, once the conflict becomes a life-and-death struggle between enemies, cheap sympathy will only hurt yourself.
In fact, Old Huo still gave Smiling Tiger and other bandits a chance to survive. Of course, whether Smiling Tiger and his men could survive depended entirely on their own hard work and luck.
As the carriage moved forward, the gunshots from behind became farther and farther away and became more sporadic.
Only then did Shang Zhen look back and saw that Erhanzi in the last carriage was still stretching his head to look back.
"Alas," the young Shang Zhen couldn't help but sigh, wondering what had happened to those poor bearded men.
Shang Zhen was an eyewitness to the whole incident from beginning to end.
There were about a few hundred Japanese soldiers coming up the road, but Old Huo didn't give those bearded men much time to escape.
They fired at the Japanese army when they were more than 200 meters away from the hill, then retreated and cut the two strands of the rope that bound their beards.
It took a while for Smiling Tiger's men to break the rope. I don't know whether the Japanese army launched an attack immediately or fired a few grenade launchers before launching a charge.
If it was the latter, Smiling Tiger and his men would have more time to escape.
Shang Zhen certainly understood that as long as Smiling Tiger and his men broke the ropes, it would be impossible for them to fight the Japanese army to the death.
However, it was not so easy for Smiling Tiger and his men to get rid of the Japanese army. At that time, Shang Zhen also looked at the surrounding terrain. There were quite a few trees on the hill, but the surrounding area was open land.
If Smiling Tiger and his men rush out into the open area, they will become sitting ducks for the Japanese army. They can just accept their fate!
In fact, this is exactly the situation on the Smiling Tiger's side.
The Japanese army had already rushed to the top of the mountain, and seven or eight people had fallen down at the foot of the mountain and within a distance of more than 200 meters extending from the foot of the mountain to the open area. Those people were none other than the little cubs under the Smiling Tiger.
In this scheme of killing someone with a borrowed knife, Old Huo calculated all the details to the letter.
From the moment they discovered the Japanese troops coming up the road and started shooting, to the moment they cut the two strands of the rope that bound Smiling Tiger.
Old Huo couldn't let Smiling Tiger and the others break free from the rope, otherwise they would either become prisoners of the Japanese army or be beaten to death by them.
And he certainly didn't want Smiling Tiger and the others to break the rope too early. If Smiling Tiger and the others broke the rope as soon as they got down the mountain, Smiling Tiger would have a gun in his hand and would probably shoot at them as they just ran down the mountain!
Of course, Old Huo had reason to believe that Smiling Tiger hated him more than he hated the Japanese army.
And in fact, this is exactly what happened. When Smiling Tiger and his men just broke the rope and picked up their guns, the Japanese army rushed to the hill.
When Smiling Tiger and his men rushed to the foot of the mountain, the Japanese army had already reached the top of the mountain.
And then, Smiling Tiger and his men became living targets for the Japanese army who were shooting from a high position on the hilltop.
Of course, if one does not want such a situation to occur, there is another possibility, that is, Smiling Tiger himself or leaves behind a few people to block the Japanese army and buy time for the rest to escape.
But Old Huo inferred that there was basically no such possibility, and in fact it did not exist.
Beards are just beards. They definitely don't have the idea of sacrificing themselves to save others like the regular army. If they want to run, they run together.
This is how tragedy happens!
However, the Japanese army's pursuit was not over yet. The machine guns and rifles of the Japanese army on the mountain were pointing at a patch of wormwood more than 200 meters ahead. At the same time, dozens of Japanese soldiers spread out in a semi-encirclement and were moving towards the wormwood.
Although the Japanese soldiers were short, their eyesight was not bad. They certainly saw that several more people from the Northeast Army had entered the wormwood field.
Yes, it’s the Northeast Army!
The Japanese army naturally thought that this small group of people who dared to shoot at them on the road were from the Northeast Army, because they were all wearing Northeast Army uniforms!
At this moment, in the weeds, a bearded man was panting and saying to the smiling tiger, "Boss, let's surrender!"
"Surrender for nothing! That old bastard has already shot and killed some Japanese. Do you think the Japanese will let us go?" Smiling Tiger said angrily.
Of course, Smiling Tiger also thought about surrendering.
He is just a bearded man. Don't talk to him about patriotism. These words don't even exist in his dictionary. What's more, Smiling Tiger doesn't know many words, otherwise how could he have caught that student Liu Wentai to be his accountant?
It has to be said that since the late Qing Dynasty, China has been weak and its people have been living in dire straits. Except for a very small number of ethnic elites, a considerable number of people have determined their behavior based on the gains and losses of their lives and property.
I sacrificed my life for the country, so why did the country care about me? This was also the realistic basis for the emergence of a large number of traitors after the Japanese invasion of Northeast China.
And why did the bearded bandit mountain team also join the anti-Japanese torrent? It was naturally because of the brutality of the Japanese army. The bearded bandits also had relatives and their own interests.
But this has nothing to do with the current Smiling Tiger.
Smiling Tiger was quite possibly the most "aggrieved" bearded man in the entire Northeast Anti-Japanese War, simply because he was tied to a chariot by the cunning old Huotou. He had already made a grudge against the Japanese! He wanted to surrender, but surrendering meant death, while escaping might offer a chance of survival. So why did he surrender?
"Erniu, I'll cover you two, you and Xiao Boji go and run for your lives! By the way, Xiao Boji, give me those two iron guys!" Smiling Tiger said as he reached out to take the grenade from Xiao Boji's hand.
"Boss, if we want to run, let's run together!" Erniu and Xiaoboji said at the same time.
"Can I still run at my age? Get out of here! If you two survive, you don't have to avenge me. We shouldn't have confronted the government troops!" Smiling Tiger said angrily.
He also wanted to live, but he knew that he was destined to die today.
Surrender was out of the question. He wanted to run, but there was still a hundred meters of open ground behind him! How could he, with his old arms and legs, possibly outrun the Japanese bullets?
"When I say run, you two run!" said Smiling Tiger, holding a grenade in one hand.
Then he suddenly stood up and then jumped to the right.
As soon as he moved, a gunshot was heard, and the already withered wormwood was blown into pieces!
But the smiling tiger did not stop, but continued to crawl forward. He directly knocked over the wormwood that was as tall as a person, causing it to shake.
The Japanese army's reaction was really quick, and the bullets immediately followed.
"Run!" Smiling Tiger roared, and then he began to look at the grenade in his hand.
When Erniu stood up with the small dustpan, bent down and ran away, Smiling Tiger was pulling out the pin of the Japanese grenade!
It was his first time fighting against the Japanese army and also his first time using Japanese grenades!
This is all thanks to Erhanzi who told Xiaoboji how to use the grenade when he left it for him, otherwise he wouldn't know how the grenade made a sound!
Smiling Tiger pulled out the pin of the grenade, clenched his hand, took a steady breath, and began to listen. Then he heard the footsteps of the Japanese army approaching.
"If you throw the little copper cap, it will make a sound. This thing definitely won't work if you throw it on the ground," Smiling Tiger muttered self-deprecatingly. The first sentence was the original words left by Erhanzi, and the second sentence was his own analysis.
At this time, he heard the footsteps of the Japanese army approaching.
He looked back at Erniu and Xiao Boji who were running wildly towards the distant woods under the cover of wormwood, then turned back. Then, he slammed the small copper caps on the grenades in his hands together.
Then, he gritted his teeth and cursed again, "You old bastard, I'll fuck your grandma!" Then he stood up suddenly and threw the grenades out one by one in each hand.
As soon as he stood up and threw the grenade, the Japanese army started shooting.
Several bullets hit Smiling Tiger at the same time. He fell down exhausted, and a moment later the two grenades exploded.
It’s a pity that although the Japanese soldiers were close, they were also very scattered, and the two grenades only knocked down three Japanese soldiers.
A moment later, the Japanese army surrounded them and gunfire rang out again.
But this time the bullet was not aimed at the Smiling Tiger who was already lying on the ground, but at Erniu and Xiao Boji who were running away.
"Run!" Erniu was shot and fell to the ground. He fell to the ground and shouted with difficulty. At this time, Xiaobaiji, without looking back, finally jumped into the woods.
At the same time, Old Huo, who was also fleeing in the carriage, suddenly sneezed.
"I guess that old guy is dead and is nagging me. I don't know what he is nagging me about." When saying this, Old Huotou surprisingly did not have a Kaba eye.
In fact, before it was put on the shelves, there was no requirement of 2,000 words for each chapter. This chapter of the old man has about 3,000 words, and I was too lazy to add more content to make it two chapters. I wonder if I can be considered a conscientious writer by doing this?