Chapter 67: A Ghost

(... On the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War, I have seen such a group of soldiers; their own country was invaded and destroyed, but they did not resist but joined the invaders to bully their compatriots and the people of other countries; they were most keen on killing and rape, and their cruelty was more cruel than the authentic Japanese; they were Koreans, and we called them Korean Japanese... Excerpted from "Grandpa's Memories of the War of Resistance")

The earth, which had been calm for a long time, shook again, and dazzling artillery fire instantly rose on the positions on the east and west sides of the iron bridge.

Cao Xiaomin patted Liu Junling, who was stunned and said, "Let's go, let's explode some far..."

No matter how many mysterious and cruel he has seen in the world, no matter how cruel Liu Junling is, the tall rookie who has never been to the battlefield only feels weak legs at this moment, and the muscles on his face are a little stiff: "Battlefield, battalion commander... Are there any living people on the other side?..."

"It's okay, many of our brothers survived under such artillery fire..." Cao Xiaomin took Liu Junling through the traffic trench as if nothing had happened: "This situation is far worse than the artillery fire in Luodian. I didn't see any explosion of shells above 260mm. Well, the sound is at most 120mm, like scratching..." The brothers in the guard platoon next to him laughed...

Liu Junling had dealt with many security groups and even regular soldiers because of smuggling. He always looked down on Qiu Ba, but from this day on, he never dared to do so again; not because he wanted to become a soldier himself, but because he met a real soldier!

"Boom! Boom!..." A violent explosion kept coming from outside. Although it was far from the artillery area, Liu Junling clearly felt that he could not sit steadily in the artillery prevention fortifications. He didn't understand how those soldiers could be as if nothing had happened! They were now in a fortification in the second trench, and the fortifications were not small. There were a whole platoon of people squeezing inside. There were still many empty seats.

"Our mission is like this. In the middle of the night, the brothers will deliberately reveal a flaw, let the Japanese attack into the position, and then ambush them..." In order to suppress the constant sound of artillery fire from outside, Cao Xiaomin almost roared and told the mission: "When the Japanese entering the position are killed and retreated, we disguised as Japanese and mixed up with them and retreated together, and then found an opportunity to cross the line of fire to Suzhou City to complete the mission... Please note that only the direct guards of the brigade responsible for setting up ambush know our actions, that is, when we cross the fire exchange belt, our machine gun positions in the distance will snipe us like Japanese. Everyone must be careful not to die unjustly in the hands of their brothers!... Now everyone changes their clothes, and the backpacks are gas masks and explosives, and everyone checks their weapons and equipment..."

This time, the operation team selected thirty people, all of whom were guards from the brigade commander Zhou Zhidao, regiment commander Zhang Lingfu, and veterans who fought bloody battles with Cao Xiaomin. Among the people who survived in Luodian were "Claw", "Crip" and "Drunk"; they could be said to be the most elite platoon of the defenders, and each of them had been through many battles and walked back and forth from the Gate of Hell!

"Boom!...Wow..." As the explosion broke out, the artillery fire outside suddenly moved to their heads. Dust was pouring out from the top of the anti-aircraft fortifications from time to time, and the dim lights of the lanterns swaying around immediately became more hazy. However, Cao Xiaomin was still not affected at all, and just pulled the soldiers who had been replaced with Japanese military uniforms and full sets of equipment to the lights to check carefully to see if there were any flaws.

"Report to the battalion commander, I think it's wrong... It seems wrong..." Liu Junling, who also changed into Japanese costumes, suddenly said: "The Japanese who came this time were not dressed so neatly... They... They are very messy... We don't look like this..."

Unlike? Cao Xiaomin was very strange. Didn’t the Japanese dress be like this? Cao Xiaomin took the telescope and rushed to the lookout to watch the Japanese carefully under the flares of the Japanese. Just so happened that the first wave of Japanese attacks began.

What kind of Japanese devil is this? Cao Xiaomin looked carefully for a while and was shocked: These Japanese devils not only wore messy clothes, but also charged with bags on their backpacks - not the military backpacks of Japanese soldiers, but the clothes of Chinese people and the big bags made of singles! It seems that they are indeed very different from the Japanese devils who attacked in the morning - they are not soldiers, but rather like a group of bandits in military uniforms...

"It's those beasts... They basically did the massacres and looting and arson in the past few days..." Liu Junling said: "The Japanese troops entering Suzhou City are better. They are said to be the main combat troops of the 9th Division. Many people had friendship with Zhang Xiaolin when they were in Shanghai. This time, Zhang Xiaolin's "New Asia Peace Promotion Association" also went to Suzhou together. The Japanese mainly massacred Chinese Democratic Party soldiers and did not disturb the people much; but it was different as soon as they left the city. I went to see them myself in those days..."

"Actually, brothers can come here because I am also a member of the New Asia Peace Promotion Association... If that's the case, I can't bring the information here..." Liu Junling felt a little embarrassed. He secretly looked at everyone without any strange eyes and continued: "After the Japanese invaded Suzhou, the streets and alleys I saw were covered with blood and fire in the streets and alleys... Hulong Street was full of death; in front of the Big Hero Hall of Beisi Tower, I watched with my own eyes the Japanese stabbed fifty or sixty Chinese soldiers with bayonets to kill them at one time; forget it, even if soldiers killed prisoners... What really made me angry was the things that their grain-collecting troops did near the city gate and outside the city!... They massacred more than 100 villagers and passing refugees at the home of a villager in Yangjingjiao Village outside Pingmen. The bodies in the house were more than three meters high, and there was blood on the ground.

A few inches deep, you can use a ladle to scoop. In the Yunjin Office near the Yangjing Dang Bridge, the Japanese army used machine guns to kill more than 100 people who fled to escape. In the Anle Park outside the village, the Japanese army captured the people and asked them to dig a hole and buried them alive. In the Yangjia Garden near Gaochang Bridge, the Japanese army captured the people and picked them up with bayonets, bites them, and cut water. The Japanese soldiers outside the village fry the people with oil pans... The Wanning Bridge of the Wanmen, Loumen Zhangxiang Bridge, Xumen Wannian Bridge, Kinmen Nanxin Bridge, Changmen Shangtang Street... The corpses of the beasts and civilians were everywhere, and the heads of the victims were hung on the city tower... We are responsible for collecting the bodies... This is nothing. When I came here, I found that there was almost no village with people along the way; I found the corpses of the villagers in the village in two villages, the men's limbs were broken, and the women..."

"You mean, they were all done by the Japanese attacking now?" The Kuomintang soldiers in the artillery fortifications were bleeding from their eyes, just like those soldiers in the Shao family who could tear people apart...

"I heard that the Japanese have no supplies, and the troops have to solve the problem on the spot... By the way, I heard that these troops do not pay their wages, and what they get after completing the grain collection task is military wages..." Liu Junling suddenly added: "Also, they are basically Korean soldiers..."

Korean soldiers!? Cao Xiaomin felt very annoying when he heard about the Koreans: When he was working in Japan in the original time and space, the Koreans in the company saw that Chief Xiaochi bullied him and liked to be an accomplice the most...

...In the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War, I have seen such a group of soldiers; their own country was invaded and destroyed, but they did not resist but joined the invaders to bully their compatriots and the people of other countries; they were most keen on killing and rape, and their cruelty was more cruel than the authentic Japanese devils; they were Koreans, and we called them Korean devils... Grandpa said! In his memoirs, in the middle and late stages of the Anti-Japanese War, many of the main Japanese units of the Japanese were mainly composed of Koreans. They only said that they were Koreans and not Japanese when they went to the prisoner-of-war camp. They were even far more cruel to the Chinese people than the authentic Japanese! Their country was destroyed, and their women were arrested as comfort women... But they actually made accomplices for the tiger and used killing and violence against another invaded nation to fill their own inner loss. What a despicable nation!
Chapter completed!