Chapter 14: Disaster Strikes (3)
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Geng Zitang was so annoyed in the reeds, listening to the sound of gunfire and cannons in the distance, pacing around in the reeds, scolding his mother, scolding the national army for being incompetent, scolding himself for being useless, scolding the devil for being a devil for a while, and scolding Shui Sheng and Li Baochang for getting him here, like a tiger trapped in a cage, all that was left was the strength to roar, even if he had strong teeth and claws, it was in vain, and he lost the opportunity to fight with his prey. Trapped here, even a tiger is not as good as a cat.
Lu Wei looked at Geng Zitang's figure and was also anxious, it was cold and wet here, listening to the sound of gunfire outside, she didn't know what the situation was with her father and brother? When I entered the reeds, I found that there were already many villagers and refugees, as well as the national army who had not had time to cross the river with the large army, and some soldiers still had guns in their hands.
They silently watched the arrival of the battalion commander and his party, without saying a word, asking nothing, just sitting quietly together, without a trace of energy, one by one as listless as wilted eggplants, sitting or standing, and from the eyes of these people, it was clear how much they hoped in their hearts that the night would pass quickly, and that the disaster would be far away from this beautiful home under the quiet sky.
Geng Zitang walked in front of a soldier with a gun, he stretched out his hand, the soldier shook his head, and refused to give it to him, Jia Mai went over and said that he was the battalion commander, and brought the gun to the battalion commander Geng. Pulling open the bolt, there were no bullets in it, and more than a dozen national soldiers around shook their heads when they saw Battalion Commander Geng looking at them. Battalion Commander Geng rummaged through his pockets by himself, and there were still three bullets. He took the gun away, and found a reed field with the soldiers who came with him, and just after cleaning up a reed field for Lu Wei and spreading another layer of grass mat, he heard a burst of gunfire on the river, followed by the explosion of a grenade. Battalion Commander Geng hurriedly ran to the river, and by the light of the motorboat on the river, he saw the damaged boat burning on the river.
He beckoned all those who had come with him to go back.
Lu Wei heard Battalion Commander Geng say that the ship had blown up, and he was so anxious that he was dying, and said, "Dad and brother can't get over, and Brother Xiaolin, what should they do over there?" Hearing her crying, Camp Commander Geng quickly covered her mouth and said, "Don't you cry, don't you hear it?" Don't worry, they'll all be fine, go, go to bed, and wait until dawn. Come here, a few of you. So, now is not the time for you to relax, go to the reeds in all directions, and see if there are any boats. Jamai was ordered to go with a few soldiers.
Lu Wei asked Camp Commander Geng with tears in her eyes, why did the devil come here to kill us?
"Why? They came to China to occupy our China, to open China's door by force, to make us their slaves, the devils are vicious and vicious, and they created the Nanjing tragedy, you know? ”
Lu Wei shook his head.
"300,000, that's miserable." Geng Zitang sighed and said: "Let's not talk about Nanjing, the devil is doing misdeeds in my hometown, I don't know how many Chinese have been killed, the three eastern provinces have fallen, let the devil wreak havoc in our hometown, rob our materials, rob our women, kill our brothers, eat the grain in our fields, you don't know, you are still young." ”
Lu Wei looked at Geng Zitang: "The Japanese devil is really a scoundrel." ”
"It's not just a scoundrel, it's a devil, it's a beast. That year, I fled to the south, thinking that there would be a place where I could avoid the war and the killing of the devils, but I was wrong, the devils were not only in the three eastern provinces, but he was ambitious to invade and occupy the great rivers and mountains of our motherland. That year, my father and mother died tragically at the hands of the devil, if it weren't for Mr. Yang, or your teacher Yang Binglian, who stopped me, I'm afraid that I would have become a ghost under the devil's knife. ”
Lu Wei asked, "Then why are you here?" ”
Geng Zitang told him that this matter was a long story. Lu Wei pestered him to say that when Battalion Commander Geng was about to speak, Jia Mai and the soldiers returned.
They all said that there was no shadow of the ship at all, and asked these people who had taken refuge on the reeds, and some people said that there were too many people on the ship during the day, and some of the boats were overloaded and capsized in the middle of the road, and many people were drowned, and the owners of the ships were unwilling to carry them, so it took a lot of words to persuade some people to stay here, saying that they would wait for them to send these people over, and then return to pick them up, and it was dark, and they had not seen the shadow of their ship, but they were afraid that they would not come back.
"They can't come back at all, and at dusk yesterday, the devil's motorboat force sealed this river, and we'll die of this heart." Battalion Commander Geng said.
"Are we really going to die here? Battalion commander. A soldier asked dejectedly.
"I hope there are no devils here, so I can only ask God for my blessing." Battalion Commander Geng really couldn't come up with a way, and he himself was almost out of breath. "Grandma, wait for death here, it's better to go ashore and fight the devil."
"Battalion commander, how can you get ashore, we can't swim in the water."
"Forget it, forget it, don't say it, it's in vain. Let's all rest, my head is going to explode, let me calm down, okay? Be vigilant. "Even though it was in a reed surrounded by water on all sides, even though there were no devils in front of him, and even though some soldiers did not have guns in their hands, Battalion Commander Geng still gave such an order with his head and melon seeds, and he handed the gun to the soldiers who were going to go to the guard.
Lu Wei still wanted to talk to him, and like everyone else, he gave up when he saw that Battalion Commander Geng was in a bad mood, and sat on the spread reed pole, unable to sleep, so he opened his eyes and looked at the sky in the night.
There are no stars and no moon. The sky was still drizzling. Battalion Commander Geng took a piece of oilcloth and put it on Lu Wei's body, which was given to him by Li Baochang when he got on the boat, saying that it could protect him from rain.
From time to time, the lights of the devil's patrol motorboat swept through the reeds and the people in the reeds. Battalion Commander Geng was not sure, the people who stayed in the wall after dawn did not know what kind of fate it would be, and he knew that the devil was crazy and perverted.
It was cold all night, and everyone hoped that it would be nice to have a fire, but they couldn't.
It was finally dawn. The people in the frightened reeds began to get up and move, some gnawed on their own dry food, some quietly walked to the reeds to see if there were any boats, and some were still sitting on the ground like puppets and dozing off, most of the people did not sleep well last night, and so was Battalion Commander Geng, what he was worried about was that the devil's reconnaissance plane would come again, and the devil's motorboat unit would clean up the reeds, shoot guns and fire artillery, it would be an unpredictable disaster, his worry was not told to anyone, only let the soldiers do some propaganda, Let all the people pay attention to concealment, don't burn the fire, if the devil's plane comes, lie down on the spot, in such an environment can only do so.
Worrying is not superfluous. The devil's reconnaissance plane came, and after circling over the reeds for two circles, it found that there seemed to be someone in the reeds, and it probed again at a low altitude, and he excitedly sent a message to the ground troops, and after the ground troops received a response, he pulled up the nose of the plane and flew upwards until it disappeared into the clouds.
The captain of the motorboat unit who received the order quickly mobilized the motorboat and marched at full speed towards the reed.
Battalion Commander Geng heard one roar after another, and thought badly, he hurriedly told the soldiers to quickly organize the people in the reeds to hide as close to the river as possible.
The devil's little steel cannon is being erected, and the shells are flying. When all the people dispersed, the bombs whistled, and in an instant, the reeds were full of artillery fire, muddy water splashed, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and some people in the middle of the ground who had not had time to run away were blown to the ground, and the wounded were not killed. Battalion Commander Geng was by Lu Wei's side to protect her, and they lay down on the damp mud floor, not daring to move, and when the shells around them exploded and fell into a big crater, Battalion Commander Geng took Lu Wei to the pit. As soon as they left, a bomb exploded in their original place.
After an explosion, there was another "sudden" sound of crooked machine guns, and the blades of grass flew in the reeds, and some of the refugees who were running died under the bullets of the devils.
"Battalion Commander Geng, I'm afraid." Lu Wei said with a trembling body.
"Follow me, don't be afraid." Battalion Commander Geng comforted her, he didn't know which bullet would reach them, at such a time, as a soldier, he could only tell her like this.
After a period of shooting, the devil's gunfire stopped.
Battalion Commander Geng saw a devil on the motorboat looking into the reeds with a telescope through the gap in the reeds, and then, drawing out his saber and pointing forward, the surrounding motorboats began to sail towards the reeds. He quietly picked up the gun and aimed it at the knife-wielding devil and pulled the trigger. The bullet whistled through the reeds with a whistling of hatred, swirling through the air on the river to the devil's head, and he fell to the steamboat and died.
"Battalion Commander Geng, you are so powerful, you are really accurate." Lu Wei shouted, and Battalion Commander Geng said, "It's too close, it's easy to fight." ”
The commander of the motorboat unit was killed, and the other devils on the motorboat suddenly became a mess, and all of them lay down in the cabin, and another burst of machine-gun fire was fired indiscriminately into the reeds. In the panic, the signal corps in the cabin sent a telegram to Isamu Yokoyama, who was stunned for a moment, and then told them to withdraw to their places and wait for orders not to act rashly. In the course of this Jiangnan annihilation war, Yokoyama Yong estimated through the reports of Xidao and other combat units that there were few remnants of the Kuomintang 73rd Army, and the intended goal of the first phase of the operation had been basically completed, and the main purpose was to pave the way for the capture of Changde City, which would be the most important battlefield, and the capture of Changde would open the door to attack Xiangxi. He looked at the map, and then ordered the telegraph operator to send a telegram to the West Island, telling him that the water forces were under his command for the time being, and that the occupied areas must be completely cleared to-morrow, and that it was better to leave no young man behind, so as to eliminate the living forces. and sent a force to establish a safe stronghold in the same place to meet the arrival of a large force of the imperial army. Then he ordered Nishijima to return quickly.
When the signal corpsmen sent this telegram to Nishijima's resting place, Nishijima was not there, only Wang Yi was there. Nishijima went to the toilet conveniently, and the signal soldier handed over the message to Wang Translator and left, and Wang Translator was shocked when he saw it.
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Lu Gong and Xiao Lin were busy in the stove house, and it was time for the devil's dinner.
Lu Gong and Xiao Lin carried a basket of vegetables to the river, and when they passed by a group of women who were guarded by devils, they saw a devil pulling a woman, dragging her out and walking deeper into the woods, and the two children beside her cried and called for their mother. He recognized this woman, her name was Duan Xiaolan, and she was Gong Qiu's wife. Xiaolan struggled and kicked on the devil's kneecap, the devil grinned in pain, causing the devils around him to laugh, which made the devil angry, leaned slightly and chased after her, caught up with her, hugged her and put it in her face, Xiaolan was strong, and hit the devil's head with her head, the devil let go of his hand to cover his head, and she ran away again. Her child also ran away, and was chased by two devils and stabbed one, the two children suddenly fell to the ground and died, Xiaolan saw it and screamed, at this time, the devil who chased her was unwilling, and came up again, when she passed by the edge of a pool, the devil hugged her again, and the grief-stricken Xiaolan didn't know where the strength came from to turn around and hug him tightly and rolled into the pool. A wave stirred up, the two twisted together in the deep water, and the devil who rushed to rescue wanted to rescue, but he didn't dare to shoot, for fear of accidentally injuring him, so he could only stare dryly on the shore. Xiaolan in the pool was entangled and rolled with the devil, allowing the devil to break away from her and surface, but after all, Xiaolan quickly sank to the bottom of the water with Xiaolan tightly hugging him, and in the end, the devil drank a lot of water and choked to death in the water. Xiao Lan drowned due to the lack of physical strength due to being in the water for too long.
Lu Gong and Xiao Lin hated so much that their palms were sweating, if Xiao Lin hadn't stopped Lu Gong, Lu Gong was afraid that he would rush forward.
One of the devils dropped his gun and jumped into the pool, and when he dived into the water, he saw the two of them entangled and dead. When they were dragged up, the woman's hand was hard to pull off the devil's waist, and the cruel devil chopped off her hand with a knife.
This incident was reported to Nishijima, who was furious, and he did not allow such non-combat attrition. He asked the signal corps to call the captains of the teams. He looked serious and lost his temper: "Are you still soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire?" Is that how your teachers taught you? The lives of soldiers should come first, have you all forgotten? What's the matter, all the non-combat deaths, what have you done? Yes. How do you manage your own soldiers? Do what you have to do when you have to, a war march is a war march, and it depends on the time to find a woman, don't mess with the rules, understand? The captains didn't dare to say anything. Nishijima exclaimed, "Understand? The officers stepped forward.
Nishijima stabilized his mood a little, and then said softly: "General Isamu Yokoyama called, there is only one day left to clear this place, and there are other places to be cleared the day after tomorrow." Our task is to search and attack that reed with all our might tomorrow. Yamada, the captain of the motorboat, was killed by a single shot by the enemy and became a hero of our Yamato nation. The task ahead of us is still daunting, the enemy is still there, and we must not relax. Have a good rest tonight, those flower girls are waiting for you, but there is one thing that must be strengthened, I finally tell you to please tell your subordinates, don't make any more extraneous branches, if there is another incident of the death of today's unknown soldiers, whose team is it, I will be polite to any of you, understand? ”
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When Lu Gong and the others came back from carrying a basket of washed vegetables and passed the pond, they saw Duan Xiaolan, who was dead and still lying on the edge of the pool. The severed hand was next to hers, bloody.
"Devils of dog days, you can't die well, and you owe Lao Tzu an account." Lu Gong scolded hatefully. Xiao Lin also muttered angrily: "Evil has evil rewards." "The devil who followed behind couldn't understand what they were saying? Urging them to hurry away.
Entering the house, Lu Gong told Li Baochang about the death of Duan Xiaolan he had just seen. Li Baochang said: "Worthy of Gong Qiu's mother-in-law." After that, he was busy cooking.
At this time, the king translator came, looked here and there in the kitchen, and came to Lu Gong. Lu Gong was bending down to add firewood to the stove, and when he saw a pair of feet appear under his nose, he looked up, and it was Wang Yi. Translator Wang stared at him for a while, and when he turned around, he ran into Xiao Lin, he thought it was a ghost, and said smoothly: "I'm sorry." "It's a sentence in Japanese, and Kobayashi didn't understand it. When he saw that it was Xiao Lin, he glanced at him and left without saying anything. Lu Gong, Xiao Lin and Li Baochang were so strange that they didn't know the meaning of Wang's translation.
When the devil returned from cleaning, he harvested a lot, and a bunch of food was stacked together, all of which were some cured meat and jar vegetables that the farmer himself had not eaten during the New Year and hung under the eaves or placed in the cellar.
Some of the jars and jars that the devil found in the house smelled bad, so the little devil would pee and feces into it, then close the lid, and go to other places to look for people and things, kill people and take things when they see them, and even some vases and crockpots used by the common people will be looted and looted as long as they have never seen them. There are a lot of things, so naturally some men are left to help them pick these items, and then they will send these things to the places occupied by the various teams of devils.
After dinner, when Lu Gong and the others were cleaning up the kitchen housekeeping, Wang Yi came again.
He said to the devil who was the head, "I need these three." ”
"What for?" The devil asked.
"Nishijima Shosa's order." Translator Wang replied without question.
"No, I'm going to clean up here, and I'm going to take away all the uneaten things." He pointed to some melons, fruits, and meats in the corner and said, "Tomorrow our imperial army will continue to eat, and after they finish cooking here, we will go to the women to enjoy it." Looking at the devil's face, Wang Yi restrained his nausea, and told him in a very tough tone: "Did you hear it, this is the order of Nishijima Shaoza!" When the devil heard this, he slowed down, and said in a consultative tone, "Then can you leave one to help us finish these things?" ”
"Nishijima said that he wanted them to come over, and if you have something to ask, you don't want to be verbose. Be careful that Shaozo blames it, you don't end well. When the devil heard this, he had to ask Wang Yi to take the three of Lu Gong away. Walking on the road, Lu Zhu didn't know what they had just said, and he didn't know where Wang Yi was going to take them? Walking silently like this, the more I walked, the more wrong it became, it was not a place for Nishijima to rest at all, but came to the riverside.
On the riverside, a group of devils sat around a bonfire, eating, singing, dancing, and dancing and dancing, and from time to time the screams of women and the lewd laughter of devils could be heard from the newly erected camping tent. "The beasts and devils are ruining those women again. A dog's day is not a good death. Lu Gong's words to Xiao Lin were still heard by Wang Yiyi. Translator Wang said softly, "Don't speak. Hearing that the king translator spoke, Lu Gong asked no matter how much, "Where are you going to take us?" "Don't ask, just come with me." Xiao Lin also went up to talk to him, but was stopped by Li Baochang. After a while, they came to the pile of things that the devils had stolen during the day, and Wang Yiyi pointed to the jars and jars and asked the three of them to put them in the baskets. They wondered in their hearts and didn't want to ask too much.
"Brother Pole, did they let us kill us after picking something?" Kobayashi asked Lu Gong softly.
"It's possible. Uncle Li, what do you say? Lu Gong asked Baochang Li, who had been silent beside him. Li Baochang's answer made Xiao Lin a little scared, and Li Baochang said: "I guess so." "He has no bottom in his heart, the devil has the same devilish heart as the devil is not sure at all, and the Wang translation in front of him is a little mysterious, the same Chinese, why help the devil do things, work hard for the devil, Li Baochang does not know his details. He changed the burden on his shoulders and took a few steps to catch up with Wang Yiyi who was in front.
Li Baochang asked him with a smile: "Sir, where are you going to take us to send these things?" ”
"Just follow me, and don't say anything when you get there, do you hear me?" The king admonished him. Li Baochang nodded hurriedly.
They came to the riverside pier. There were still a lot of corpses there. Some devils are inhuman at all, and some are urinating on them.
On the dock, a motorboat is docked on the shore, two devils are on the boat, and one devil is in the wheelhouse with his eyes closed.
Translator Wang came to the dock and said to the devils on the boat: "Taijun, it's hard work. "When the devil saw that it was the king's translator, he asked him what was the matter? Wang Translator said: "Shao Zuo said that he would send these things to Huarong and take them with him when he returned to Wuhan. ”
"What's that?"
"Look at it."
The devil bent down from the boat and looked at the contents of Lu Gong's basket, and said with a smile: "What is this, isn't it just some broken jars?" ”
"This is the best porcelain in China, you don't understand, Nishijima Shaozo understands." Translator Wang still said with a smile.
"No one is allowed to leave here without an order from Nishijima Shaozo."
Translator Wang hurriedly took out a note and showed it to the devil, saying that this was a note written by Nishijima Shaozo. The devil took a closer look at it by the light of the boat. Where was this note written by Nishijima, it was written by Wang Translator himself in imitation of Nishijima's tone, after looking at the content on the paper and Nishijima's name, the devil believed it, he had never seen the words written by Nishijima at all, since Wang Translator was a person around Nishijima, he had to let them get on the boat and put things on it.
After getting on the boat, Wang Yi said: "I have to let these people follow, and when they get to the shore, I have to let them carry them to the county seat." Or, Taijun, is this okay? How about you two go there in style? He pointed to the group of devils on the shore who were making a lot of noise.
"No, if Nishijima Shaozo knows, you are all Chinese, if you run away, Nishijima Shaozo will kill us, we have to go with you." Translator Wang didn't know what to say, thinking that as long as he left here early, he couldn't care so much for the time being, and then he would think about a plan. The devil woke up the devil in the wheelhouse, he opened his eyes and looked at the four Chinese in the cabin, he was not willing to go, he communicated with his companions, and said: "They are the China, they have four, we are three, what if they join forces against us?" When the devil heard this, he felt that it made sense, and hurriedly called a devil who was standing guard on the dock, and said something, and the devil happily stepped onto the boat. The driver reluctantly started the motorboat and slowly left the dock and headed into the dark river.
After listening to what they said, Translator Wang scolded these devils in his heart.
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