He Daqing, do you know how I've lived these past years?

After a while, Leyou told Jingxian and the other two girls to clean up the bodies in the stable and the pregnant woman's body, and to dress them.

The other teenagers, except for those in the rooms with poison gas, went to carry the villagers out of their beds.

Just then, Changshou came running over, panting, and pointed to the back of the house, saying:

"Brother, there's a huge pit outside the backyard. It's full of corpses, piled high with them."

With a livid face, Leyou led the boy to the edge of the pit, where, as expected, it was filled with countless corpses.

"puff"

With a loud thud, Leyou coughed up blood and collapsed to the ground.

"Big Brother"

"Big Brother"

The boy next to him rushed over to help Leyou up. He saw that Leyou's face was pale and his hands and feet were trembling.

A closer look reveals that each corpse has distorted facial features, blood flowing from its seven orifices, and some even have stitches in place at the hands and feet. There are also a large number of severed limbs nearby.

……

Two hours later, a series of loud booming sounds echoed outside the door.

There was a series of sounds, and a great deal of footsteps.

Upon hearing the noise, Jingxian and the others rushed out and shouted:

"Master, come quickly and see Leyou, Master!"

Hearing the three women's continuous shouts, the master quickly got out of the car and rushed into the courtyard, where he saw Leyou lying on the ground.

He quickly grabbed her wrist with his hand.

A moment later, the master clenched his left fist and punched hard into his right chest.

"puff"

After becoming silent, Leyou suddenly hunched over, coughed up blood, and woke up with a series of coughs.

The master then removed the water bottle from the boy's waist, took a sip and spat it onto Leyou's face, then poured the water from the bottle onto his head, and the water kept dripping from his head.

Leyou looked at her master and suddenly burst into tears:

"Master, they are in such a terrible state, worse than on the battlefield!"

The master then pointed at his two large noses and shouted sternly:

"Blood debts must be repaid with blood; crying is useless."

I'll say it one last time: when the nation is in peril, even if it means sacrificing this crippled body, we must not weep.

Even if your master dies without a proper burial place, you must not cry.

The sky is my blanket, the earth my bed, I scatter with the wind, and joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness are all contained within me.

"Therefore, a true man should stand tall and upright, remember this well."

Before Leyou could speak, whispers broke out among the boys beside him:

"Wow, Master is so fierce!"

"What master? He's my elder brother's master, and we're like elder and younger brothers, so from now on he's my godfather."

……

Leyou stopped crying, stood up, and was about to speak when she saw a large number of soldiers enter from outside, and Commander Lu also walked in with a dark expression.

He walked over, patted Leyou on the shoulder, and said:

"You can rest for a bit and then leave. I will take over and handle things properly. I've also reported this matter to the authorities."

Don't worry too much, just kill a few more enemies to avenge them later.

"There's a donkey cart outside with some grain on it. Take it with you; it'll help you feed a platoon of men along the way."

After saying that, he walked towards the backyard.

Leyou nodded to everyone, then walked out and drove the donkey cart back to where they had stopped before. He asked Jingxian and the others to start cooking porridge, while he held Nianmin and stared at him in a daze.

After dinner, Leyou forced himself to stay awake and continued walking with the other boys towards Hengyang.

……

"Brother, Hengyang is just ahead."

"Okay, everyone be careful. If you see an enemy, fire first."

"It's the eldest brother."

But as they ventured deeper, all they saw were ruins and potholes everywhere, and they didn't see a single villager.

The sun was getting increasingly scorching, so Leyou ordered a rest. Everyone ate their dry rations and drank some water under a house that was half destroyed by the bomb.

"Big brother, could you give me something to eat? My mother hasn't eaten for days."

Just as Leyou was eating the dry biscuit, a soft sound came from the side.

"Sure, but you need to tell me about the situation here."

Leyou looked at the little girl in front of her, who was only ten years old, with a face covered in black soot, clothes torn in many places, and barefoot, and spoke gently and considerately.

"My father and uncles went out with the army to fight the Japanese a long time ago. Later, this place was bombed by enemy planes every day. Many brothers, sisters, uncles and elders defended the city, and many people died."

But the officers and soldiers surrendered, and the enemy then broke in.

Many people fought back in the alley, but they all fell to the ground and remained motionless.

"Not long after, we ran out of water, and many places suffered from drought and had nothing to eat."

When my brothers, who had rushed back from outside, heard that the Kuomintang was assembling troops to fight the Japanese, they all went to join the army, leaving only my mother and me at home.”

"Hey,"

Leyou sighed, patted the little girl's head, and asked:

"Where are the remaining uncles and elders now?"

At this point, the little girl started crying and said:

"Growing drought-resistant vegetables"

At this moment, Pan Gui walked over from behind and whispered to Le You:

"Brother, when we came here last year, many people did die. We held out for a long time but no reinforcements came."

Commander Fang had just surrendered, but when we left, many villagers still volunteered to fight the Japanese together.

After listening, Leyou hesitated for a moment and said:

"Then can you take me there? I'll give you the food."

"Really? Thank you so much, Nannan!"

So, under Leyou's direction, everyone followed the little girl and kept walking forward.

All that could be seen were some elderly people, whose arms and legs were nowhere to be seen, constantly wielding hoes and digging at the somewhat cracked earth.

Nannan ran up quickly and shouted:

"Grandpa, an older brother has brought us food."

Meanwhile, the elderly people in the fields watched as Leyou and others in military uniforms hurriedly came up from the fields, and some of the elderly people who had no legs fell to the ground several times.

Leyou rushed over to help him up.

The old man grabbed Leyou's hand and said:

"Sir, don't send us anything. We can feed ourselves. You all eat more so you'll have the strength to fight the Japanese!"

Leyou helped the elderly man up with all his might, and looking at the surrounding villagers, he said:

"I came to Chengdu from Guangdong. My name is Le You. I don't know if you've heard of me before, but I want to say that as long as you're alive, there's hope. Otherwise, you'll die with regrets."

"What? You're saying you're Leyou?"

"Yes, yes, one-eared swordsman, saint of Qiancheng."

"Really? My child really admires you."

"Mine was the same, but he joined the army a few days ago."

……

Looking at the elderly people chatting around him, Leyou shouted loudly:

"Since you've heard of me, that makes things easier. Find me a house, and I'll distribute porridge to everyone."

While there are still wild vegetables, go and dig them up and store them.

We should also plant more drought-resistant crops, otherwise, like the famine that killed many people in our Ji'an Township and the surrounding areas before.

Watching the elderly people leave one by one, I gave them directions.

After Leyou finished speaking, he nodded awkwardly to his master and then told the boys to drive the donkey cart and follow behind the villagers.

"buzzing"

Leyou looked up and immediately shouted:

"Watch out, those are enemy planes! Take cover!"

Just as the boys were about to hide, the elders stopped them:

"The enemy is now converging towards Zhijiang Airport in the west, and the Civic Party has also assembled several armies. There are 26 divisions alone."

"Besides, this place has already been blown up by them. It won't explode again."

Hearing this, Leyou slapped his forehead anxiously and muttered:

"So, our group of over forty people swaggering around like this has probably been discovered by both sides, hasn't it?"

Sure enough, just as they unloaded the grain sent by Commander Lu from the donkey cart, a squad of soldiers came looking for Leyou with a transfer order.

Upon opening the transfer order, Leyou discovered it was issued by the renowned Commander Wang of the Fourth Army.

……