Chapter Ninety-Seven: You're Really Only Sixteen
In addition to the bayonet that comes with it, the scorpion also has a military spur that never leaves his hand...... Found from Dr. Ida's room, the Chinese official bayonet left by the Chinese. Yamano had seen how lethal a scorpion's hands were, but he never understood why, as a soldier, he relied on knives more than guns.
"Why did the captain change his mind?" The cigarette in the scorpion's hand quickly burned out, and he put on the cigarette holder and took a hard puff and threw it out with a snap of his fingers.
"What's the idea?" Yamano didn't want to talk to him, but when he heard that it was about the captain, he reluctantly replied.
"That Chinese, didn't he always want to be captured alive, why did he change his words again this time and say no? Is it Captain Kimura who has found out that kid has no value at all now, or is the headquarters no longer paying attention to us clowns, so that our captain doesn't have to think about face anymore? The scorpion asked slowly.
"What nonsense are you talking about! When did the Kimura team ever care about a false name or something, he is the most respectable man I have ever met! Yamano was a little angry that the obvious ridicule in the scorpion's tone made him unbearable, "If it wasn't for the sake of catching alive at the beginning, that Chinese could escape for a few days, can he still live until now, just kill like this, the captain must not be reconciled, because I am the same, no matter from which point of view, a living captive may be more valuable than a dead person, right?" ”
"Don't get excited, I'm just curious about what he's thinking." The scorpion let out a strange chuckle.
"He just wants to end this matter as soon as possible, you can see Matsuyama's form, and those conversations between the captain and Miyazaki, I think you should have heard it too. If this place were to fall to the Chinese army, the situation in the whole of Northern Burma would be rewritten. No matter how important the Chinese are, they can't compare to this, and I think the team will now let us help the garrison as much as possible. ”
"Don't be kidding, just the four of us, how much of a difference can it make?"
"Four more people is better than four less, if everyone thinks like you, then the imperial soldiers may only rely on capture, then how can the imperial army conquer all of Asia? The main purpose of why we can now be under the direct jurisdiction of the headquarters is to annihilate the Chinese elite and boost the morale of our Imperial Japanese Army. If Songshan really can't hold it now, will the Japanese troops in Burma still have any morale to say? ”
"I feel a little ashamed of what you said." The scorpion asked, not without sarcasm, "Are you really only sixteen?" ”
"......." Yamano is not sure if he has said so much in vain.
"When I was sixteen, I didn't even know a word, let alone understand so many big truths." Scorpion continued his inexplicable remarks, spitting in disgust, "It doesn't make any difference to me if I die in Matsuyama or anywhere else, even if the soul can't go back to my hometown in Japan. I'm just not used to what people say, I just do what I do, the rules in the world are all set by people, why am I the one who must abide by the rules? ”
"Don't worry, I can't do anything else except complain, you can sleep for a while, and change me in two hours." When the scorpion left, he dropped a sentence lightly.
The mountains and fields were distracted for a long time, and closed their eyes in the darkness. Unconsciously, he remembered Captain Kimura on the mountain again.
When he first met Kimura, Yamano was only twelve years old, and for him, this man had already taken his father's place.
In the early morning, the rain became much lighter, and the forest belt was covered with fog. The days of artillery fire had long since driven away the birds and animals in the mountains, and it was quiet everywhere, and when the slightest movement in the depths of the dense forest came, the mountains and fields opened their eyes as alertly as cats, and tore off their holsters.
Some figures slowly emerged from the mist, their outlines becoming clearer. It was a group of Chinese soldiers, with khaki uniforms, medium rifles, and sturdy leggings, about twenty of them. Behind them, there were several paramedics carrying stretchers, and as they approached, Ono caught a glimpse of a particularly thin figure in the sniper scope.
There was a soft sound from under the tree, and Ono followed the voice, only to see the scorpion looking up at him, his knife-like lips slightly pulled up, revealing a murderous grin. After a few seconds, the scorpion disappeared into the rain and fog, and Yamano refocused his eyes on the sniper scope. In fact, the magnification of 2.5x was not very good, and he only vaguely recognized the thin figure as a war nurse. "Are the Chinese all finished, and there is no one even in the rear?" He had a strange thought in his mind as he pulled the bolt.
The previous tacit understanding with the scorpion had already been cultivated in the killing, and the team of Chinese walked another hundred meters, and it was an open area, which would be their place of death. There was no shelter to cover up with. Yamano's fingers slowly pulled the trigger, and the crosshair of the sniper scope was already aimed at the head of the person in front.
This is the periphery of the Chinese position in Yinshan Mountain, and the only way to descend from the Songshanzi Heights. Yamano knew that the stretcher was most likely being carried by a Chinese officer commanding the attack on the sub-highlands. Because ordinary wounded people are everywhere in Matsuyama, it is impossible to have such a kind of treatment. Shan Ye has seen a lot of wounded Chinese soldiers who are struggling in muddy puddles, unable to survive and unable to die, and he will never waste bullets on them.
Suddenly, the stretcher bearers stopped, shouting something in a panic. Yamano was stunned, thinking that the scorpion had been spotted by the walking Chinese soldiers in the process of approaching, but then saw that the stretcher was placed on the ground and the medical staff gathered around the wounded. The skinny nurse pulled a syringe out of her pocket and injected the wounded with neatness. There should be morphine in the syringe, and it is estimated that the wounded person suddenly went into shock...... Yamano quickly realized that this was an extremely rare opportunity, but these Chinese had not yet reached that open area in the forest, and they would easily find cover when they started for a while.
A gunshot rang out at this time, and the scorpion over there obviously couldn't wait, and Yamano cursed a foul sentence, there was no way, so he had to cooperate with the fire.
A Chinese soldier who was on guard on the periphery fell clutching his neck, and even from such a distance, Yamano could clearly see the bloody arrows flowing from his fingers, and the other Chinese exploded at once, and as he expected, most of them hid behind trees and began to shoot back blindly and aimlessly.