Chapter 207: Burning ship

(... Leave the army and go to the people, and you will find that our nation can persist in victory because of the passionate sacrifices of those heroes, but the sacrifices of those ubiquitous and unaware little people. Sometimes their sacrifices are so simple, just to cut off their livelihoods... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

They had been walking in the reed marshal for a long time. Cao Xiaomin and the others had not yet met a single person, a living person. The dead man saw two people who were killed. The two killed men. The stripped naked body clearly showed that the right shoulder had been marked with a long-term butt stocking. There were also calluses of guns on their hands, but there were no special calluses left by straw sandals on their feet. It was obvious that these two were soldiers, and their clothes were taken off, and their cold bodies were abandoned in the hidden reed marshal.

This makes everyone very troubled: if they wear *** clothing and encounter Japanese behind enemy lines, they will not have the chance to fool the other party first and then attack sneakily, and it will be difficult to escape; but if they wear Japanese costumes, if they are accidentally attacked by guerrillas who are targeted secretly, they will die unjustly. Guerrilla ambush Japanese usually aim at and shoot a shot and leave without any of them. In that case, even if they don’t hit anyone, the gunshot may cause trouble. They are not as familiar as local guerrillas as local guerrillas, and the terrain can slip away in the reed marsh; if they are hit, it will be even worse, and they will be even more difficult to leave.

When the plane was forcibly landing in the reed marsh, the huge impact was eaten and occupied by soft soil. Everyone in the plane hit him hard. Cao Xiaomin fainted at that time. When he woke up, he found that his injury was not healed and had some blood seepings, and his body was suffering from a vague pain.

In the cockpit at the front of the plane, a non-commissioned officer died of a cervical bone fracture. Xie Liushenko was more experienced and avoided it. However, after he had two fractures, he had two more fractures in his chest and right hand, and he had completely lost his ability to move. He could only look at Cao Xiaomin.

Others were better: Zhang Qiushantou broke, lost a tooth, his lips were rotten, but his nose was blue and swollen, and he had no major injuries elsewhere. Another non-commissioned officer was not so lucky, and he seemed to have a flash of his waist, and he could walk, but he couldn't run, and he limped. The nun was not in any way because he hit him, and now the nun is the healthiest among them.

They made a stretcher with military canvas and parachute ropes and wooden racks in the plane. Now the nun and Zhang Qiushan are carrying the stretcher. The non-commissioned officer limps. The only armed guards in the team are Cao Xiaomin, who is not injured yet. If they meet the Japanese, they can pretend to be dead and pull one or two people on the road. It is probably their best record.

After taking off from Nanjing, the plane could not fly high or far. In order not to waste too much air fuel, Xielushenko kept flying the plane northeast, not to the west or southwest as the Japanese were materials. But the plane was indeed too injured. After flying across the Yangtze River, it was almost dangerous. After flying over Lingyan Mountain, it was extremely difficult to fly against the wind. In the end, it could only glide in the lower half of the north wind, and soon had to land in a hurry. Such a strange route had escaped all the Japanese planes by a devil, and none of them could be intercepted successfully!

The Japanese later realized that the plane must have made a forced landing, but no one could tell where it was. Many places were searching these days, but they always missed the western suburbs of Yizheng, northeastern, just separated by a river in Nanjing!

This small army that caused a huge event in Nanjing has now reached the brink of hard support. If they encounter the Japanese search team, they may not be able to resist and they do not even have the power to fight back. But just like they can escape the Japanese by chance, their luck is always on their side.

Because the Japanese troops in northern Jiangsu were short of staff, in Yizheng, the Japanese not only did not send patrols to search, but all the troops were gathered, either guarding them on the edge of the road and main rivers, or they would go to the transportation team to escort them.

It is also difficult to transport supplies from the river during the dry season. The ships cannot walk except the deepest channel in the middle of the river. They are easily attacked: as long as a person with good water quality brings enough bad fishing nets to be decorated with stones, and a float on the top allows these bad fishing nets to be suspended on the main channel, the Japanese's motorboats and sailboats will be tripped. If a ship at the top is tripped, the other ships will not be able to pass. There is no way except to send people to the water to clear the barriers. As for land, it is not possible - the Japanese don't have so many means of transportation!

In order to silently transfer the troops to the Huaihe front line, the Japanese in northern Jiangsu transferred the cars almost all away early. Later, after the ground in eastern Anhui was destroyed, these cars became scrap iron, and they could not play a good role in the front line or return to the rear to strengthen transportation. In addition to most of the Japanese cattle camels, the Japanese camels were also transferred to the front line and were poisoned by the Chinese people, even those who were alive could not come back in a short time. The remaining mules and horses in the local area were not enough to go to the countryside to collect grain, let alone to support the front line for long distances. In the past two days, the attacks of poisoning and transporting animals in eastern Anhui began to suddenly prevail in northern Jiangsu, and the Japanese mules and horse transport teams were almost paralyzed. Transport on land now the Japanese rely mainly on civilians!

The Japanese killed bloodthirsty, but during this period, all departments received orders: unless they were armed resisters, they were not allowed to kill ordinary people. If the armed resisters were honest and tame, try to stay!

The reed marshes were cut off by a wide river. You can see a fleet of transport ships parked on the river surface in the distance. The front boat was surrounded by several small boats - a transport ship entangled with an engine.

The Chinese people, who were driven into the water naked by the Japanese, dived into the water again and again to cut off the tangled fishing nets, but their progress was very slow. I don’t know if it was too cold or they deliberately slacking off work. People who often dive would soon come up and ask to get on the boat to keep warm. Cao Xiaomin and his team had been monitoring the boat in the middle of the river for half an hour in the reeds, but they didn’t see the fleet moving at all. There was no way, and Cao Xiaomin and his team did not dare to do anything, so they could only wait for the fleet to leave before finding a chance to cross the river.

Suddenly, a row of rockets flew out on the other side of the fleet in the distance. The shaft was very large and was fired with crossbows. The arrows were wrapped in rotten cloth stained with tung oil. They would ignite as soon as they were stuck on the ship. Although the fire was generally stuck on the deck, it would be troublesome if the rocket was stuck on the sails or those small black-sailed boats!

Fireworks were rising on the river, and several small black-sailed boats were already burning. The Chinese ship workers shouted to put out the fire, but it was hard to say whether they were really putting out the fire or fanning the flames. The fire began to grow bigger and bigger!

Several Japanese who had already arrived ashore rushed into the wilderness, and gunfire kept echoing in the sky. No fire exchange was heard, all the Japanese were shooting.

A sail was ignited by the fire from the north wind, but the Chinese ship workers on the boat seemed to have not seen it. More of them had left the big ship to "rescue" the small boats! More than half of these ships actually belonged to the people themselves, and after the ships were burned out, they would cut off their livelihoods; however, it was these people who were facing the inability to live, but endured the pain in their hearts when they were facing the only property they had turned into ashes and deliberately made the fire burn harder!

Maybe they will have to beg for food tomorrow, or they can only squeeze into the dock as coolies, or even worse, they will be forced to be conscripted by the Japanese to be pack husbands... However, these humblest people chose to resist strangely at such a moment. They are also doing their part to fight the war, the only ability they can do!

The Japanese who were surveillance boats also put out the fire together, but as long as a ship was burned, they would find that the fire of these ships was rising very quickly. Some of them already knew that it was the ship workers who were making trouble, but they could only endure it - killing people again, but even the ship workers were gone!

The wind on the river helped the fire, and a row of rockets burned the entire fleet shortly after a long time! The smoke was rolling on the river, and the shouts of Japanese devils and the shouts of boatmen everywhere. Some people had secretly gone to the boat to open the bottom warehouse and unloaded the transported sacks into the water. In addition to damaging, the food pushed into the river may be the only food that people who lost their ships "reserve" for themselves in this winter!

"You boatmen are so bad. Such a small fire can spread so quickly, it is not difficult to control..." The nun muttered in a low voice: "When I came to China, the boat also caught fire, and it was a big fire; but the sailors still put out the fire soon..." The nun saw Cao Xiaomin's face turning around and tears faintly held back.

"They deliberately... maybe the person who shot those rockets was their brother..." Cao Xiaomin said to himself: "These people, maybe their family's livelihood is all on this boat; the boat is gone, and the livelihood is gone... and there are others who will do this, sacrificing all their private property for the War of Resistance; these sacrifices are not compensated, but they are voluntarily..."

The nun stopped talking, and one of her hands suddenly grabbed Cao Xiaomin's trembling hand: "Did each of you sacrifice this way? Do you do anything for this war?"

"This is a matter that concerns the survival of the country and nation. Any Chinese with blood will do this, and some people sacrifice even more..." Cao Xiaomin said thoughtfully: "For you, there is a kingdom of heaven, for them, for us, there is only this country..."

(Author: I am really sorry. I can't get free time during the day today. I'm too busy and tired. I can only get this short chapter of three thousand words at night... I can only say I'm sorry, I'm really sorry.)
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