Chapter 152: Death (Part 1)

(...The battle between short soldiers in small-scale ambush wars is often over in a blink of an eye. Many soldiers who have three or four combat experience will end before they can fire. After such a battle, experienced platoon leaders and squad leaders will check the soldiers' bullets. The more they fire the good soldiers who react the fastest, but they usually find that those who can shoot the bullets are those veterans who have lived for the rest of their lives... Excerpted from "Grandpa's Memories of the War of Resistance")

Brothers, hold on! Almost every soldier ambushed in the floating soil shouted in his heart!

The captured brothers had been in front of their eyes for a long time. The lanterns and torches in the distance always swayed in such a faraway place, and they didn't feel like they were getting closer.

Every time I see a brother fall down, and then a group of brothers fall down with pain and get up in pain, the brothers on the ambush position will feel like a knife! What if the Japanese suddenly change their minds and do not entrust them to the edge of the crater but slaughter them on the spot? What if the brothers really can't get there? As long as the Japanese don't enter the ambush circle, the lurking Chinese Democratic Party soldiers are unable to annihilate them at all. Waiting to see the brothers being massacred in front of them or taking action! Worry and anxiety are filled with the attack positions.

Some brothers died on the way. The Japanese always asked the living people to move the corpses strung with them to increase their pain. They always had to drag them for a long time to cut the wire and put the corpses on the cart. This scene happened along the way, from Nanjing to the straw sandals; when these happened within the reach of the lurker's vision, it was the greatest test and torment for the ambush.

The sky was already dark, and the soil under his feet was obviously soft. This large area of ​​ground that had been blown into floating soil by the Japanese artillery fire was very different from those hard ground. Every prisoner could feel it, even though half of them had their feet frozen.

This is where the brothers buried their bones? I was finally freed... The prisoners who were taken to the Grassy Sad Gorge no longer had fear of death. They felt more free. The inhuman life for a few days had made them lose the desire to survive. There was almost no need for the Japanese to push them, and the prisoners of war stood in front of a large crater so consciously. The people who were not on the wheel finally began to show a look that was no longer numb, but they were only because of the instinctive reaction to the impending loss of life. In theory, they had lost all the idea of ​​survival, and they also hoped that they could be arranged to the edge of the crater soon.

"Look at them, do they look like a flock of sheep? Didn't the sir tell you that the Chinese people are a flock of sheep? As long as we kill more, more people will become sheep..." A Japanese officer was dancing and talking exaggeratedly, while the other Japanese soldiers were making equal exaggerated laughter. Many Japanese soldiers began to imitate the whistling of the north wind and make strange "whimper". After seeing that the Chinese prisoners of war cooperated, they lazily began to arrange the shooting plane positions.

"Do you think we must use it? I think they will be cold to death as long as they stand here for an hour..." "Well, this is really interesting. If the commander didn't ask us to go back quickly, we could watch them to death and bet to see which one died the latest..." "It's really not worth wasting machine bullets for these Chinese pigs..." The Japanese spoke loudly, and they could still hear it clearly in the north wind. People like Cao Xiaomin and Xing Long, who are familiar with Japanese, can even hear every word clearly!

You can't be a prisoner even if you die! This is what the Chinese Democratic Party soldiers thought at this moment. Everyone aimed at their own goals and divided the area early on. At the moment of war, everyone relaxed. They even stopped keeping the slow movement of their limbs in the dark but completed their movements in a quick way. They no longer worried about what Chief Cao said. Those prisoners of war were sneezing almost every second! Every time someone sneezing among prisoners of war, they would pull a bunch of people in pain and stir up a while, and the Japanese would laugh... Come on, signal, hurry up! Everyone was anxious.

"Soon..." Two crooked hands suddenly rang out one after another, and the prisoners of war relaxed all over and fell down like conditioned reflexes... But why didn't there be the huge impact and dizziness that was hit by the bullet? The palm of the "machete" came from the palm of the "machete" because everyone fell down and was pulled by the wire. In the pain, he seemed to feel an excitement... The sound of the "Bow Hook" three-eight steps sounded beside him, and someone suddenly stood up and opened his body less than five meters away! Two Japanese soldiers holding firewood to light a bonfire in front of them fell down and one shot!

"Brothers all fall down!" A hoarse and loud voice shocked every desperate heart like thunder. Some of them had heard this sound in the refugee camp, some learned to beat this sound before going to the battlefield, and some even listened to the sound to assign tasks while gnawing dry and cold dough bumps...

Chief Cao! It is Chief Cao! Many prisoners of war suddenly doubted whether they had sacrificed their lives for the country. This was their illusion! But right in front of them, the Japanese who were slowly setting up the aircraft rolled over and rolled down like fallen leaves swept by the north wind in the sudden rain of bullets... Excited tears once again moistened the faces of these prisoners of war that had been dried up by the wind, and their Chief Cao did not leave them behind!

The ambushed soldiers are all veterans who have been fighting for the rest of their lives. They don’t need to aim at a distance of more than ten meters. They are skilled in shooting and shooting... and they compare who is faster in the bullet!

After so long of worry and so long of patience, it turned out that the fight was completed in an instant. Cao Xiaomin only opened one because of the serious injury to his left arm and left chest - and then the battle was over!

...The battle between short-soldiers in small-scale ambush wars often ends in a blink of an eye. Many soldiers who have had three or four combat experience will end before they can fire. After such a battle, experienced platoon leaders and squad leaders will check the soldiers' bullets. The more they fired, the fastest-responsive soldiers, but they will generally find that those who can shoot the bullets are those veterans who have lived for the rest of their lives... This is the end? Cao Xiaomin himself was stunned. Although he was injured,

Most of the brothers who participated in the ambush here were injured; if he was not the order issuer, would he not even have time to drive away like those rookies? The white flowers brought by the fire were still shaking in front of him. Cao Xiaomin was thinking about the memories of his grandfather, while he was still hesitating to see who had already been empty; but he suddenly understood: the battles that veterans of the hundred battles had to go through were too many types of battles, and even Chinese veterans of the King of Hell like him had not experienced!

A short blow, a sound in front of them drove back the spirits of the captured Kuomintang officers and soldiers. They suddenly became soldiers instead of lambs waiting to be slaughtered! Each of them suddenly recovered the vigilance of a soldier and a considerable part of their physical strength and habits; everyone was silently waiting for their brothers to cut the wire with iron pliers. Each wire was cut off, and more than a dozen soldiers who were freed would excitedly check their injuries while gathering on the other side to stand by...

Every rescued Chinese Democratic Party soldier was extremely excited at this time, forgetting the pain and hunger and cold on his body. Everyone quickly moved to a river bank in the north according to the guidance of the brothers who rescued them. After walking for a few minutes, they met several monks who were receiving there, who were already carrying baskets of pancakes waiting - just like in Wuxi, Cao Xiaomin arranged food to replenish energy for these rescued prisoners of war.

Just when everyone felt that this operation would go very smoothly and everyone would easily escape from the sky, a terrifying "swish-swish" sound of breaking through the air came from the sky, and a mortar attack came!

The air was torn apart in a shrill scream, and then a few shells exploded in the wilderness, and the soldiers lay down on the ground in a little panic; the lightning-like explosion fire exploded into Cao Xiaomin's heart like a bolt from the blue - the action was exposed!

What went wrong? Cao Xiaomin didn’t know, and no one knew!

Just when Cao Xiaomin and his friends cut the wires for those prisoners of war, they were actually exposed!

The Japanese stationed at the Coal Port strictly followed the requirements of the infantry training code and paid great attention to the military operations of other nearby troops, including the massacre on the straw sandals. Although it was a snowy night when he could not see his fingers, the Japanese could still easily distinguish the shooting direction of the flames in the telescope. When the two crooked handles opened fire, the Japanese observation post watching in the telescope felt strange: the shooting direction seemed unreasonable! He quickly reported to the team leader.

Cao Xiaomin and the others made other mistakes. After easily eliminating the unprepared Japanese, they forgot to kill two thousand people and kill twenty people and the ammunition that needs to be consumed! They forgot to see clearly when massacres at night, they didn't light a bonfire... When they stopped the fire and cut the wire for the prisoners of war, when they were happily picking up the spoils, the Japanese team leader stationed at the Coal Port had already judged that something big happened!

The Japanese squad leader judged that the Kuomintang army that dared to rescue two thousand prisoners of war must be a large army, so he did not act rashly. While notifying the defenders of Yijiangmen on the phone, he remained silent and did not even let his subordinates concentrate - he clearly analyzed that the Kuomintang army should not want to alarm them, as long as they did not move around, it was the best way to save themselves.

It was not until the Yijiangmen sent an order to test the Chinese Democratic Party army that he asked his subordinates to prepare for artillery testing. At this time, Liu Junling and others, who thought the Japanese were completely unaware of anything, had already boarded the small steamer and left the port. They had no idea about the Japanese's actions and had no restraint!
Chapter completed!