A little girl who looked like a jade carving stretched out her arms like lotus joints towards Tang Yao, pouting her little mouth and staggering as she walked, as if she had just learned to walk for a short time.
Tang Yao hurriedly stepped forward, rushed to his daughter, hugged him in his arms, and then lovingly put his cheek against her pink and delicate face, stroking it gently.
"Grrrr!"
The little girl seemed to be tickled by his beard stubble, giggling and hiding back, while reaching out her little hand to push Tang Yao's cheek outward.
Behind the father and daughter, a young woman on the steps had tears in her eyes, and her hand tightly grasped the palm of a boy of thirteen or fourteen beside her.
At this moment, everything seems to have stopped!
After a while, Tang Yao let go of his arm holding the little girl, turned his head and looked at the boy, "Bao'er, come here and let dad take a good look at you."
When the young man heard Tang Yao's call, he seemed to flinch a little and walked towards him cautiously, very slowly.
Tang Yao couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. He knew that this was because he cared too little about his son and his family, which made his son feel deeply alienated from him.
The young man slowly walked up to Tang Yao, raised his head, and looked at him with a slightly fearful look.
Reaching out his hand and gently stroking the young man's head, Tang Yao's face revealed a rare kindness. At this moment, he was no longer a feared military spy, but just a father reunited with his son, "Bao'er,
After I leave, you must listen to your mother's words, study hard, and be a useful person to the country in the future, remember?"
The young man kept nodding his head.
Tang Yao smiled happily, his eyes finally fell on the young woman, and he said a little apologetically, "Jiaying, I'm sorry, the responsibility of taking care of the children will fall on your shoulders from now on!
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"Ziye, I'm waiting for you, waiting for you to come back!" The young woman's tears fell, her voice a little choked, "You should pay more attention to safety on the road."
Tang Yao showed a wry smile, "I'm afraid I won't have a chance to come back this time."
"Woooooooooo!" The young woman covered her mouth and cried out, turned around and ran towards the house.
"Mom!" Both the boy and the little girl shouted.
Tang Yao handed the little girl to the boy, took the coat from the person beside him, put it on, turned around and walked towards the car that had been waiting for a long time.
When he reached the entrance of the alley, Tang Yao stopped and looked back at the familiar doorway again.
The young woman appeared at the gate again, holding the boy and the little girl in her arms, looking at her intently.
"Jiaying, remember, don't let your children go to the army." Tang Yao yelled at the three people behind him with all his strength, then pushed the car door and stepped on it, and then the car drove out of the alley.
In the alley, the young woman leaned against the door frame, her body trembling, and her tears flowed down like spring water.
"Mom, why are you crying!" The little girl asked childishly with her eyes wide open at a time when she was ignorant of everything, "When will daddy come back?"
The young woman's crying suddenly intensified!
In the car outside the alley, Tang Yao had not looked behind him since he got in the car. He was afraid that if he took one more look, he would burst into tears.
As one of the thirteen military commanders, it would be really embarrassing if he really cried in front of so many subordinates.
"Director, handkerchief!" A personal attendant leaned over from the side and handed over a handkerchief.
Tang Yao was stunned for a moment, then calmly took it, pressed the bridge of his nose, and closed his eyes.
For more than ten minutes, there was still silence in the car, and no one dared to speak.
Finally, Tang Yao slowly opened his eyes, took off the handkerchief from the bridge of his nose, and then asked calmly, "Have you received your order, sir?"
"We're here!" The people in the car were all his die-hard fans, and someone handed him a letter.
Opening the letter, Tang Yao read the contents at a glance, and then showed a sarcastic smile on his face, "Sir, you really take care of me. Tang is really not honored."
What he held in his hand was an order, issued by the director, ordering him to go to Fengtian as a military commissioner to visit the Yanhuang Army.
There is nothing surprising about this. Under the circumstances at that time, this was often done between major forces.
The problem lies in his route.
From the road map attached to this document, Tang Yao found that this route was a bit strange.
If you want to get from Nanjing to Fengtian, flying is the fastest, followed by train, both of which are relatively safe.
However, the order required him to go in a convoy, and also to pass through Japanese-controlled war zones, some war zones that were ignored.
Today, the Japanese army has deployed a total of more than 50 divisions to launch a comprehensive attack on the eastern region of China. Now the eastern and southeastern parts of South China, the eastern Jianghuai River, the eastern part of Central China, and the eastern part of North China have fallen into the hands of the Japanese army, and many of them have fallen into the hands of the Japanese army.
There is a trend, and traveling in a convoy at this time is simply to die.
Moreover, Tang Yao also discovered that he had to pass through several uninhabited areas along the way. There was no human habitation there, and there was often not a single person to be seen for hundreds of miles. It was a good place for killing people and stealing goods.
Of course, there was a battalion following and protecting Tang Yao's convoy. Most bandits would not dare to make any move, but Tang Yao knew that this opportunity was prepared by someone.
With armed transport helicopters as their means of transport, Li Yang and Yan Shuangying were able to arrive at those places in advance and then arrange their arrangements calmly, waiting for them to fall into the trap themselves.
By then, I am afraid that if I do not have an advantage in quantity or quality, I will just die.
"The director's strategy of killing people with a borrowed knife is really clever." Tang Yao sighed in his heart, "It seems that I am doomed."
A personal attendant broke the deadlock, and he boldly suggested, "Director, how about we think of another way?"
"What can I do?" Tang Yao glanced at him sideways, and then snorted angrily.
The follower swallowed, then approached Tang Yao and whispered, "Director, the Japanese now occupy half of the country. Looking at this situation, I am afraid that the west will not be safe sooner or later. How about we be smarter and find a way for ourselves?"
The way back.”
The meaning of this boy couldn't be more clear. He was suggesting that Tang Yao seek refuge with the Japanese and find a way out for himself.
"Can you make it more clear?" Tang Yao seemed to be attracted. He moved closer to the follower, and then whispered with a half-smile.
Seeing that Tang Yao seemed to be interested, the boy was happy. He leaned forward and said in an excited voice, "Director, what I mean is that since the military commander no longer wants us, we can cooperate with the Japanese."
Before he finished speaking, Tang Yao suddenly took action, swung his big mouth and slapped the unprepared boy in the face.
This slap was so powerful that it made the boy's head turn 90 degrees, and he could hear his neck cracking due to the excessive twisting.
Ah——, that boy was stunned. He stretched out his hand to cover his cheek, which was missing two molars, and looked at Tang Yao in fear.
Tang Yao looked livid and sneered, "Go away, although I, Tang Yao, have done many bad things, I will not be a traitor."
The car door was pushed open, and then the kid was kicked out from inside. He fell on the road, kept rolling, and finally hit a stone pillar nearby. He passed out at that time.
In the car, a military special agent wiped his leather shoes, and then sneered, "Although we know that we are not good birds, we still won't do the bad thing of becoming traitors and annihilating our descendants."
Tang Yao burst out laughing. At this moment, he seemed to have let go of something, and then waved his hand, "Map."
A personal attendant quickly brought the map over and unfolded it in front of him.
Tang Yao looked at the map, his eyes flickering back and forth among several possible routes, as if he was choosing which one was safer.
After a long while, Tang Yao let out a sigh of relief, then closed his eyes and began to think.
A kind of close followers are looking at him, waiting for his decision. These people are his best friends and are absolutely loyal to him. They will unconditionally abide by whatever decision Tang Yao makes.
Finally, Tang Yao coughed and said, "I have decided on the route."
People looked down at the map in his hand and saw him using a red and blue pencil to draw a route of action on the map.
People stared at the pencil that continued to stretch on the paper and the action route shown below. Shock gradually appeared on their faces, and they all looked at Tang Yao in disbelief.
Tang Yao finished drawing the route, then raised his head, looked at his subordinates calmly, and then said, "This route is the route of action I decided."
One of his subordinates tentatively asked, "Director, are you really prepared to take this route?"
Tang Yao nodded and said firmly, "Of course, I have already decided."
"But, this is a death route!" The military secret agents were all anxious. They said in unison, "Director, you cannot go on this road, otherwise you will definitely die."
Tang Yao did not rush to speak, but waited for these people to finish talking, then smiled and waved his hand, "I have already decided, but I don't want to force everyone to follow me to death, so you can decide now.
Didn't you come with me?"
"I'll go!" After a moment of silence, a military commander spoke up.
"I'll go too!" Another military commander also said.
"Count me in!" The third military commander also expressed his attitude.
For a time, all the cronies in the car expressed their attitude and decided to follow Tang Yao on this road to death.
Seeing that everyone had decided, Tang Yao ordered his people to put away the map, and at the same time reported his route of action to the military command headquarters, and also determined the departure time.
After everything was arranged, Tang Yao raised his head, looked out the car window, and said to himself, "It is better to fight with the Japanese than to die in the hands of compatriots."