Go back to a few days ago.

On the day when the Nationalist army dug up the Yellow River embankment, the Japanese soldiers captured Zhongmu County.

The Japanese knew the principle of "soldiers are more valuable and speed is faster". They moved very quickly. Before they had a firm foothold in the county, they immediately sent a small number of troops to several large towns under Zhongmu's jurisdiction to control the entire county and intimidate the local areas. Prepare to receive the follow-up troops and then march into Zheng County.

Those stationed in Yaojia Town were two teams affiliated with the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Brigade of the 14th Division. Together they had more than 100 soldiers, led by Lieutenant Qingtian.

Usually in this case, the Japanese will use the local puppet troops to cooperate with the Japanese soldiers' actions.

The security group of Zhongmou, after the national army field troops moved in, saw the Japanese troops approaching the city, so they raised the white flag and surrendered.

However, due to the rush of time, the Japanese felt uneasy about the surrender, so all the troops they sent out were Japanese soldiers. They planned to wait until the screening and reorganization of the security group was completed, and then add them to various places to assist in defense.

At dawn, Lieutenant Qingtian led this team of little devils, accompanied by an interpreter named Yao, and more than 20 civilians who were recruited from the army, pushing grain, grass, ammunition and other baggage in wheelbarrows, and marched towards Yaojia Town in a showy manner.

Along the way, the common people saw this group of fierce-looking Japanese soldiers and hurriedly stayed away.

The Qingtian team was in a hurry and had no time to pay attention to them and marched towards their destination.

But the weather was not kind to us. Not long after we set off from the county seat, it started to rain heavily.

However, this team of Japanese soldiers did not stop to take shelter from the rain, but continued to move forward wearing ponchos.

As for the civilian laborers, they had no say at gunpoint anyway, so they had no choice but to push their carts forward in the rain.

Because the order Qingtian received was to occupy Yaojia Town as quickly as possible without any mistakes.

Qingtian carried out the orders of his superiors to the letter.

This enabled him to avoid disaster.

The rain gradually became heavier and the roads became muddy. Although the soldiers did not dare to openly disobey orders, they could not help but take the opportunity to curse the weather to express a few complaints.

The civilians pushing the wheelbarrows were struggling even more, but they were frightened by the intimidation of the Japanese soldiers and did not dare to stop for a moment.

Qingtian was unmoved by the bad weather and still urged his men to speed up their pace.

Hurrying slowly, Qingtian finally saw Yaojia Town in the distance, which is located on a low hilly area.

Amid the vast curtain of rain, Yaojia Town looked ancient and peaceful in the early morning.

Qingtian breathed a sigh of relief: It seems that during the Kaifeng battle, the Chinese army in this area had been frightened by the Imperial Japanese Army, and no troops were deployed in Zhongmou for positional blocking.

He stopped and stood on the side of the road, wiped his wet face with his palms, watched his subordinates walking past one by one, and loudly encouraged them: "Hurry up! Speed ​​up! Do you see the town ahead? 10 Within minutes we can be inside and have a hot breakfast there!”

The entire team passed in front of Qingtian.

The civilian husband's motorcade was in the middle.

At this time, the translator named Yao ran to Qingtian's side out of breath.

His physique was not as strong as that of soldiers and civilians. In order not to fall behind, he suffered a lot along the way. He even fell down and was covered in mud and water, making him miserable.

Interpreter Yao took a breath for a while before he could speak. He complimented the other party vigorously: "The marching speed of the imperial army is really breathtaking... uh, that... over there!!!"

Before he finished speaking, his voice suddenly rose a lot, and he became speechless in desperation.

Qingtian saw translator Yao's eyes widen, his face suddenly turned pale, and he looked in the direction he came from in horror.

He followed the other person's gaze and saw a strange white line appearing on the distant horizon through the heavy rain curtain.

Translator Yao naturally knew what it was, but due to excessive nervousness, his hands and feet were shaking and his teeth were chattering. He couldn't speak clearly and just kept repeating: "Water...water..."

Qingtian's hometown is on the seaside of Hokkaido, so he is used to seeing water lines like this, but Nakamu is located inland, so he didn't think about it for a while.

At this time, after being reminded by translator Yao, he suddenly thought——

This is a flood!

How could it be a flood?

Qingtian was full of doubts, but now was obviously not the time to dwell on this issue.

Qingtian reacted very quickly, turned around and ran towards Yaojia Town.

After running two steps, Qingtian turned around and saw translator Yao still frozen in place.

At this juncture, he couldn't let this guy die here.

Firstly, translator Yao is from Yaojia Town and knows the situation there very well. Secondly, no one in the team understands Chinese. Without the translator, no one will be able to deal with the Chinese. At that time, he will do anything except kill people.

All will result in half the result with half the effort.

Qingtian turned around and grabbed translator Yao, yelling: "Yao Sang! Are you desperate for your life? Why don't you run away?"

Only then did translator Yao come to his senses, and half being dragged by Qingtian, half using his own strength, he began to run forward desperately.

The two quickly caught up with the team that was still maintaining its marching formation.

Qingtian shouted to his subordinates: "The flood is coming, run!"

The soldiers looked back and were all shocked. If they were caught up by the flood, they would be swallowed up in an instant, and then there would be no more.

The marching formation was immediately disrupted, and the Japanese soldiers no longer cared about the image of the imperial army. They followed their captain and rushed forward in a swarm.

However, Qingtian and Translator Yao had no luggage on them. Their luggage was placed on the civilian husband's wheelbarrow, so there was wind under their feet when they ran.

The Japanese soldiers each carried dozens of kilograms of weight, and it was already very difficult to maintain the marching speed. It was impossible to run wildly across the road at the moment.

Qingtian discovered this immediately after running for a short distance.

He made a prompt decision and ordered: "Throw away all your luggage, keep only the light weapons you carry with you, and run forward lightly!"

After receiving the order, the Japanese soldiers all threw away their luggage and ran wildly.

The team's only two mortars, dozens of rounds of artillery shells, and six grenade launchers were all on wheelbarrows, and they couldn't be taken care of now.

The peasants who were pushing the carts were pushing the wheelbarrows with their buttocks stuck out and hurried forward. Suddenly they found that the Japanese commander became very excited and kept yelling at his subordinates.

Then, a shocking and inexplicable scene happened!

All the Japanese soldiers threw away their military bags one by one and ran forward like rabbits being chased by hounds.

Even the few Japanese soldiers who were responsible for supervising them left them and ran away.

The peasants looked at each other, standing in the rain, looking at each other with inquiring eyes at their companions.

These civilian husbands were all temporarily captured to work.

Facing the extremely vicious Japanese soldiers, they did not dare to say "no".

Along the way just now, the baggage on the wheelbarrow was covered with rainproof linoleum, but they did not have ponchos on them, so they could only let the rain soak their clothes, and the water dripped down from all over their bodies, as if they had been fished out of the water.

I woke up just fine and felt terribly uncomfortable.

Walking here from the county seat, they were already out of breath due to the rainy weather and muddy roads. However, no one dared to stop and rest for fear of being beaten and scolded by the Japanese soldiers.

Unexpectedly, when Yaojia Town was already in sight, all the Japanese soldiers ran towards the town, leaving behind not only the military bags they had brought all the way here, but also the luggage on more than a dozen wheelbarrows.

what on earth is it?

Seeing that the Japanese soldiers had run some distance away, the civilians felt that they should be safe, so they threw down their wheelbarrows, turned around, and ran away in the direction they came from.

At this time, they suddenly saw the rolling water of the Yellow River sweeping towards them, just a stone's throw away from them.

In the eyes of all the people, there is only helpless despair!

In an instant, their figures were swallowed up by the torrent.

The Qingtian team was chased by the flood. They didn't dare to look back and just ran towards the town as hard as they could.

The flood almost pushed them back, rushing in with an unstoppable force.

In the end, the Qingtian team rushed to the high ground of Yaojia Town at the cost of more than 20 people, and luckily saved a life.
Chapter completed!