Chapter 44: Death
The old and new prisoners of war who were escorted out squatted on the ground in two groups with their heads in their hands. Doctors and nurses went into the prison to check on the wounded, and Li Ahshan had one dead and four seriously injured, and almost all of the rest were slightly injured; Of the old prisoners of war, in addition to Liang Guocheng, a third were slightly injured. The doctor reported the results to the chief, who had a crooked nose. Prisoners of war in the prisoner of war camp fought in groups, killed people, and injured dozens of people, at least there was a problem in the management of the headquarters, and if the higher authorities investigated it, they would be punished. He wanted to arrest the leaders now, shoot a few for the crime of inciting a mass riot, and press the prisoners of war for such a crime; The above can be accepted, and it can also have the effect of killing a hundred people! After thinking about it, I felt that there was a fight today, and there was a death; After hurting so many people, they are all extremely emotionally unstable on the fire, and now if there is any chaos in the arrest of people, it will be even more difficult to end! His face was black, and his angry stomach was like a frog, turning around the yard. Suddenly, as if he remembered something, he turned back to his office, picked up his pen and wrote something on the desk. Reflexively came out and handed it to the translator, who borrowed the dim street lamp on the side of the road, and the paper was almost close to his face before he could see it clearly.
He stood up and said, "Quiet, everyone, be quiet!" Today, a very unpleasant incident has just occurred, and it is also an incident that is not allowed by the regulations of the management of the prisoner of war camp. Lieutenant Colonel Mark, the top commander of the prisoner of war camp, in order to calm the situation, the wounded were treated and the death was respected. Invite the following people to the office to discuss things, Zhang 70, Liu Sanwa, Li Xuan, and Li Gouer. Please come to the office immediately for a meeting. ”
Each crouching prisoner of war now stands in front of a guard with a gun or a belt, who is invited by name, but is actually escorted. Only then did they notice that the people who were taken away by name were old prisoners of war. Then they rushed into the prison like sheep, and the door was locked for the first time, and they stood at double posts with guns.
Liang Guocheng was seriously injured in the first place, and he was smashed into a hole in the head of a flying stone when he was fighting in a group just now. After being hit by a stone, he was bleeding nonstop, and fell into a deep coma and was dying! After all the prisoners were searched and escorted out of the cell, the doctors bandaged their wounds and injected them with guns and ammunition but did not wake up. It wasn't until they were driven back to the prison that they gradually became conscious and slowly remembered what had happened.
Now that everything was open, the prisoners gathered around him and talked about what had happened. At first, he was confused by what they said, but slowly he cleared his mind. It turned out that Li Ashan and his gang were fake prisoners of war, and the Kuomintang spies sent by Taiwan to lure the prisoners of war of the Volunteers into not returning to the mainland and going to Taiwan. There is a purpose for caring and helping everyone, and after gaining the trust of everyone, you can inadvertently ask about your family's birth, when you joined the army, your position in the army, or what you are responsible for through chat. After figuring out everyone's situation, he tricks you into going outside to chat alone, which adds a layer of mystery. In fact, the main thing is to be a prisoner of war, and if you return to China in the future, you may be shot for treason. The property of people with fields and mules and horses has been confiscated, and the dead and scattered families have no home to return to. If he chooses not to return to China, he can stay in South Korea or be sent to Taiwan through the relationship of a caretaker.
The soldiers of the Volunteer Army are all hot-blooded young people, and they responded to the call of the country to voluntarily join the army and join the war in Korea! They listened to Li Ashan's words, and although they did not know everything about the domestic situation when they went abroad, they also discounted his words the most. They first suspected that he was not a prisoner of war of the Chinese People's Volunteers, but was sent by the Nationalist Government of Taiwan, and pretended to be a prisoner of war to gain the sympathy of everyone and then persuaded everyone to defect to the enemy. The prisoners of war were suspicious of Li Ahshan at first; Not believing in a person has slowly become a barrier; With the estrangement, it is not smooth to develop slowly; Disapproval develops into hatred. Tonight's group fight can kill people, and Yu Dun also escalated step by step, and finally intensified to the point that the situation expanded to dozens of people in the entire prison because of a trivial matter.
The next morning, the prisoners of war got up, and there was the sound of footsteps in leather shoes outside. After yesterday's fight, the prisoners of war, whose mentality had calmed down, did not know how the guards would punish them, and their hearts were empty in their throats. They nervously peaned through the window of the door and looked out, and the number of sentry posts had obviously multiplied. This increased everyone's fear, and everyone was pounding like a rabbit in their hearts! There was an open space in the middle of the prisoner of war camp, which was given by the chief of the guard to the group and punished the prisoners of war; For example, the South Koreans shot the North Koreans on the other side. Today, there is also a three-step post, and a five-step sentry is full of guards with loaded guns and ammunition. This is not a simple punishment, this is a posture of killing people every time, is it possible that they want to kill people in revenge for what happened yesterday? Everyone turned their eyes to Liang Guocheng.
Liang Guocheng listened to everyone tell the reason last night, and fainted before listening. The prisoners of war were all bloody on the battlefield, and they could understand the pain of the seriously wounded and passed out, so they slowly dispersed and went to sleep. This morning, when everyone saw the abnormality outside the prison cell, they felt that a catastrophe was coming, and they had no idea, and turned their hopes to him. He had slept all night with a high fever and grogginess, and although he had woken up briefly a few times in the middle of the night, he had been asleep longer than when he had woken up. Probably because of a night of sleep, he opened his eyes when the group was showing helplessness at the change in the guards outside. Everyone immediately gathered around him, and Company Commander Zhang was invited to not come back for a night, and the good luck is unknown, and he is now the backbone of everyone. Liang Guocheng rubbed his eyes and felt that his brain was much clearer. He sorted out his thoughts, remembered the reason for the fight he had told everyone last night, and felt the seriousness of the problem. He looked around, wanting to find Company Commander Zhang to hold a branch meeting as soon as possible to discuss the test, and it was very likely that he would use the collective strength to protect everyone's lives!
Li Fusheng, who was around him, saw his thoughts: "Company Commander Zhang, they were taken away last night and didn't come back overnight, so they may have been killed." Maybe it's our turn next. He sighed. Sighing has an effect, originally everyone was panicking and holding their breath, and when they heard others sighing, they all sighed, a desolate sigh!
Liang Guocheng gasped in his speech: "Today, everyone must unite as one, and we must not let the prisoners of war be killed!" As long as Zhang Seventy can be saved, he is the company commander, and the other soldiers will be fine. ”
Liang Guocheng's words have been recognized by everyone. The Chinese saying that 'a gun shoots a bird in the head' is deeply ingrained in everyone's heads. Company Commander Zhang is not only a bird, but also a responsibility for everyone. If something happens to Company Commander Zhang, Liang Guocheng is seriously injured and dying, and no one will take the risk to stand up for everyone. Often, however, events did not turn out as predicted, and when the prisoners of war were kicked out of their cells and into the enclosures lined with sentry posts, there was no sign of murder. Instead, Zhuozi was placed in the middle, and a microphone was placed on it, as if he was going to hold a conference.
Some of the interpreters were impatient and tapped the microphone and said: "What happened yesterday, according to the regulations on the management of prisoners of war, some people should have been punished, and it is a great unforgivable punishment!" The merciful governor of the free world, in a benevolent heart, will not punish those who wish to return to the free world. Yesterday, Zhang 70, Li Lianlian, Li Gou'er, Liu Sanwa, and others who were invited by the commander have voluntarily stayed in the free world. In order to show their determination to break with communism, they voluntarily tattooed the words "*, suppress the Communist Party" on their arm. ”
The commander waved his hand, and Company Commander Zhang and the others were each supported by two soldiers and stood in front of the crowd for a while. The person in front could see that the tattoo had just been tattooed, and the arm was obviously swollen. Most of the Chinese in the fifties had never seen it, and they only felt that the black thing on their arms like ant was disgusting!
"I didn't volunteer!" Suddenly, Zhang Lian Commander shouted.
The prisoners of war were subjected to heavy physical labor for a long time, and the meals they ate were not nutritious, and they had no strength to resist the guards. Two soldiers took a prisoner of war and took them away.
The expression on the translator's face looks like a smile and more like crying: "Now I voluntarily go to a free society, and the tattoo on my arm comes up." ”
Li Ashan and more than a dozen other people walked to the table as if they had arranged it. Receive tattoos from doctors and nurses. By this time, Western countries had developed into machine tattoos. The doctor wiped the oozing blood with a cotton ball while wiping the black liquid leaking from the machine. Li Ahshan and other tattooed people, one by one, grinned with painful porcelain teeth! It was noon after the tattoos were completed, and the prisoners of war were asked to return to their cells. Prisoners of war who have been tattooed will not have to return to their prison cells and will be sent to Liberty by plane by the military. Because Liang Guocheng had a new injury on his head, the doctor took him to the infirmary to thoroughly clean and disinfect the wound and inject drugs to prevent infection or tetanus. It sounds reasonable, and it is also the experience of doctors who went to the prison a few days ago to see patients, and there is no way for the prisoners of war to be treated by the doctors of the prisoner of war camps; It's more helplessness.
Liang Guocheng entered the infirmary, and several people had already been arranged inside, and they held him down and gave him a tattoo. He instinctively resisted, because of the large number of people on the other side, he was seriously injured and weak, and his body was hit on the head yesterday, and he was quickly subdued, and several people were tattooed on their arms. The doctor gave him a tattoo that touched his skin and felt like he was having a fever. After the tattoo, out of the doctor's conscience, he examined the wound. I found that because he didn't let the tattoo struggle just now, the wound that had just formed a bloody scab was ripped open again. If the normal wound was open and bleeding bright red blood, and his wound was bleeding thick blood, the doctor knew in his heart that this was the result of the deep wound feeling rotting from the inside out. If this is not operated on in time, it will ulcerate in a large area, and you will die of sepsis soon. But during the war years, and now in the enemy's prisoner of war camps, the death of a prisoner of war is as simple as the death of a wild dog, and who would take a little responsibility and a little obligation for a prisoner of war?
After Liang Guocheng was tattooed, the prisoner of war administrator felt that in this prison house, all those who liked to make trouble or could lead the troubles were tattooed; This is also precisely a few branch members.
The other tattooed men never returned to the cell. Liang Guocheng was sent back to the prison because his injuries were too serious and he was in danger of dying at any time. Completely unconscious, he was carried back to the cell by three guards, one with his head raised and two with his legs raised. He was now in a constant coma, with a high fever and a mouth foaming at the mouth, babbling nonsense that no one could understand. He hadn't been conscious for two days, and he didn't know how to chew the food in his mouth. The prisoners of war jointly found a doctor, and the doctor also shook his head and injected him with medicine. Another day passed and he seemed to be getting worse, his breathing was very weak, and it seemed that there was only breath coming in and no breath coming in. Despite the call of his comrades-in-arms in the prison, he never opened his eyes. When the doctor came, he opened his eyes and looked at him, shaking his head and announcing that Liang Guocheng was dead. In the midst of the grief of the crowd, the two soldiers put him on a dilapidated stretcher. Everyone understands, and no one wants to say anything, that he will be thrown into the ravine like a wild dog, to be eaten by hungry beasts.