Chapter 83: Acquaintances

(...In the northeast of Old Wuxi, which is now the north bank of Wuqiao in Tanghe, many farmers who survived the war never ate the fish in Tanghe for their lives. They said that they ate the flesh and blood of their fellow villagers and those soldiers... Excerpted from "Grandpa's Memories of the War of Resistance")

The confused Cao Xiaomin was quickly awakened and was awakened by the sound of cannons!

Wuxi fell and was captured by the Japanese from Jiangyin, but Jiangyin Fortress did not fall! Jiangyin Fortress and the defense lines around the periphery were still fighting against the Japanese day and night!

Moving towards the place where the cannon sounded, this was the instinct of a soldier, and Cao Xiaomin had a direction; but what should those women do? Cao Xiaomin had a headache.

The sky was slightly brighter, and the sound of cannons in the distance was getting louder and louder, and there were also a large number of bomb explosions. The veterans who retreated from the battlefield in Songhu were very clear about what kind of blow the brothers fighting there were. Everyone hurried together to rest without saying a word, and after walking for a night, they crossed a river, they were already very tired. Because of hunger and cold, their physical strength was at most 30%. There was no problem in shooting, but to fight with the Japanese in total, it was basically a death sentence. If it was exposed, it would be possible that the entire army would be destroyed. They had to find a very hidden place to dare to sleep.

"There is an abandoned village over there, with endless hills nearby, which are very hidden; there are also fields where sweet potatoes can be dug..." Li Bin, who went out to reconnaissance, brought back good news.

People who have become extremely cautious in the war escaped, are still very careful when they are heading for hidden grounds, and still maintain their usual formation: a large group of people are hiding behind them, Cao Xiaomin and "Jizi" and "Crooked" and ten others dressed up as the same squad of Japanese devils, escorting four women first...

Just when Cao Xiaomin and his friends saw the entrance of the village, they met the Japanese head-on!

Oops! If there are too many Japanese people, will they fight or not? If they fight, the entire army may be wiped out. If they don’t fight, the Japanese will see that there are “flower girls”... Can they watch those beasts commit violence in front of them? Cao Xiaomin was so nervous that his facial muscles were numb! He suddenly ran over to the Japanese and greeted them - very fortunately, the numb face at a critical moment did not affect his speech.

Luck! There are only six Japanese devils! If the person who comes has a small team, the consequences will be unimaginable!

"You are so lucky. We didn't even see a figure in the flower girl..." The leading sergeant among the six Japanese saw the floral clothes from afar, and their eyes were already shining with the light of a beast.

Cao Xiaomin didn't know the pain he had been buried deep in his heart, but the Suzhou massacre caused by him also caused other chain reactions: after the people from all over the country learned about it from various channels, they began to flee wildly. Wuxi, which was once slaughtered in the original history, fled an empty city in two days! However, this change between gains and losses will never be known by Cao Xiaomin, nor will it be compared by descendants of this time and space; in Cao Xiaomin's heart, there is only the crime of causing the massacre because of his actions. In Japan's military history, it will only be recorded that some officers and soldiers were overly emotional because of a Kuomintang battalion commander led a team to kill their wounded people, causing some officers and soldiers to vent their anger...

Because the people around Wuxi were all exposed except for some villages with extremely closed news and some old farmers who were too deeply in love with the land, the Kuomintang army was able to let go of their hands and feet during the defensive war, causing great casualties to the Japanese. At the same time, after the Japanese occupied Wuxi, they found that there was no supply or even labor force at all! The Japanese had to soften them. After killing the people for a long time, they received orders from their superiors to find people - not to arrest them and requisition them, but to convince them to return!

The five Japanese in front were already at the distance to meet "Jiezi" and the others. Cao Xiaomin hugged the shoulder of the Japanese soldiers at the end and kept telling yellow jokes... This Japanese soldiers were a short man, but very thick. Such Japanese soldiers were the most difficult to deal with when fighting in hand-to-hand combat... Cao Xiaomin was thinking all the way.

As soon as the climax of a joke appeared, Cao Xiaomin, who was laughing wildly, also put his left hand on the left shoulder of the Japanese military officer Cao. Suddenly, he stretched out his backhand to the dwarf's right temple. At the same time, the right hand that was originally placed on the Japanese's right shoulder suddenly wrapped around the dwarf's neck and tightened the dwarf's left cheek... As soon as he rotated, Cao Xiaomin used all his strength to twist and squat down at the same time!

With a soft "Ku" sound, Cao Xiaomin used the skills he learned to break a Japanese man's neck in hand-to-hand combat for the first time! It's done! Cao Xiaomin screamed in his heart and immediately took off the bayonet from his shoulder to launch an attack from the other Japanese...

The five Japanese who walked to the team only knew how to greet "Miss Flower", but ignored those "people"... Suddenly, several bayonets stabbed in lightning, and even pulled back with a "cry" sound of friction with bones before the Japanese were feeling the pain!

The Japanese who walked at the end reacted the fastest. When they saw something was wrong, they jumped back and avoided it as a sting. But at this time, a bayonet came out from his waist from behind! Before Cao Xiaomin's bayonet was pulled out, two other bayonets stabbed in from the front chest...

Although Cao Xiaomin and the others were tortured by hunger, coldness and fatigue, they were all veterans rolling out of the dead. They launched an unexpected sudden attack, and they were still so fast and incompetent. All the six Japanese died under the bayonet in a blink of an eye!

When killing the Japanese, the first thing to do is to search and find food! The officers and soldiers who were used to dealing with corpses suddenly rushed to the side of the corpses and took off the Japanese and searched through every pocket!

"Is it Captain Cao?..." Suddenly, a shout came from the graves on the side of the road!...

"The villagers here have basically escaped, and only the elderly who are watching the land are left. No one dares to go back to the village to sleep at night, for fear that the Japanese will touch them. Everyone spends the night in the graves every night, and the ancestors will bless everyone..." Unexpectedly, Cao Xiaomin and his friends met the familiar troops of the 14th Division - the company commander named "Daozi" in the Northwest Army he met during the Shao Family War.

"Daozi" led two soldiers. They arrived nearby at the Japanese, and they rose up observation balloons in the northeast corner of Wuxi and were ordered to reconnaissance in front. Unexpectedly, when they returned, the retreat was cut off. The Chinese and Japanese armies confronted each other along the Beitang River, and they could not go back!

"Our 14th Division dispersed several units and was ordered to retreat to Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Anhui to repair the situation. Later, you fought to the death in Wangting, and the superiors asked the Wuxi defenders to take you back, so our regiment was temporarily organized under the jurisdiction of the 74th Army..." From the mouth of "Kaozi", Cao Xiaomin and others finally knew something they urgently needed to know.

It turned out that when they were fighting to the death, the rear had already confirmed their amazing record: they killed a Japanese general!

Now the Chairman could not let the iron-blooded army die out like this. He immediately ordered the troops that defended Wuxi and the troops that just retreated to Wuxi to withstand the attack of the Japanese on the spot, and must leave a way for the 15th Brigade to retreat!

"The Japanese hate you so much, and they will definitely wipe out you all. Brother and your Commander Qiu guessed it. As a result, we took the risk and set up an ambush not far from the northeast of Wangting, killing and injured more than half of the Japanese interspersed brigade..." Daozi said: "But these are the things at the beginning. Later, the Japanese planes bombed Wuxi day and night, and the Japanese coming from Jiangyin also drove closer. We had to take them back. Except for the troops who were commander Qiu to pick you up on the periphery, the other troops were dragged to the northeast to fight the Japanese... Yesterday at noon, the troops could not stand it and retreated. We couldn't get through and were taken in by the people here. A man who looked at the grave volunteered to go to the city to explore the news, but he hasn't come back yet..."

"Dear bosses, it's time to eat..." An old man walked up to him and shouted softly at everyone, and the smell of fragrance spreading through the internal organs came... Ah! Rice! Cao Xiaomin and the others hadn't eaten hot food for many days!

Rice, salted radish and dried fish, it’s so happy to have a hot meal! Faced with the meal, some soldiers actually shed tears!

"I originally thought of getting a few live fish in the river..." The old man's face suddenly became gloomy: "The fish in the river cannot be eaten now..."

Cao Xiaomin's heart suddenly sank: he understood why the fish in the river could not be eaten - the river was filled with dead people, the Kuomintang army brothers and innocent civilians who died in battle!... In the northeast of Old Wuxi, which is now the north bank of Wuqiao in Tanghe, many farmers who survived the war never ate the fish in Tanghe for their lives. They said that it was eating the flesh and blood of their own villagers and the soldiers... A memory from Grandpa told him that there had been such a fierce battle in the suburbs of Wuxi, and how many Kuomintang army soldiers died under the iron hoof bayonet!

"Old Zhang is back!"

The person who went to inquire about the news came back. Everyone was looking forward to knowing something in his mouth, but they were also afraid of knowing something.
Chapter completed!