Chapter 55: The Sea of Fire
Wang Yuan's gang of beards were defeated in the winter of 1932. At that time, the Japanese had already occupied the three eastern provinces, and the directly responsible forces were the Kwantung Army.
The Kwantung Army is Japan's ace army and the pride of Japan. An important characteristic of Japan's aggression against China is that it is not only territorial aggression, but also aggression and plundering of everything, including the economy, products, culture, resources, and even people.
The Japanese have also carefully studied the matter of aggression, and they understand that in order to achieve their aims, there must be a relatively stable environment in the areas they have occupied.
Come to think of it, this Japanese is also overly sophisticated. In their eyes, except for them Japanese, everyone else is half-refined and not stupid, and they have to come up with some kind of name to fool these half-refined and non-stupid people, so they put forward what Sino-Japanese friendship, what kind of national harmony, and what --。
Stop fighting the Japanese! If we invade you, it will be for your own good! Prosperity together! Don't just make Japan prosperous!
Come to think of it, if there are always people who make trouble with them, stir them up, and make them live in peace, then how can the goal of grabbing and robbing be achieved?
Although the existence of the beard is not as direct as those anti-Japanese forces to resist their aggression, it is also not conducive to the stability of the areas they have occupied.
At first, the Japanese didn't know that Wang Yuan was a bearded head, but they knew that Wang Yuan was an influential figure in Heshan Castle, so they wanted to appease him, but they couldn't.
Around the summer, the Japanese received a report that Wang Yuan's guest and freight inn was a beard nest.
The Japanese were used to being domineering and arrogant, and immediately regarded Wang Yuan's gang as a security hazard and could not be used by us, so they resolutely eliminated them.
Originally, the appeasement was not achieved, and the nest was on fire, and I was worried that I didn't send troops to destroy Wang Yuan's son, this time! So he suddenly sent troops to encircle and suppress Wang Yuan's guest and freight inn.
Wang Yuan's gang didn't know how they got the news, and when the Japanese arrived at the inn, there was no one there, and the Japanese burned the inn to the ground.
It turned out that Wang Yuan was also a cunning rabbit, and he kept a way back. There is also a place to stop in the depths of the reeds, and this place is known only to the people of their inn, not to the outsiders, and not to the beards scattered everywhere.
Wang Yuan's gang knew that the Japanese were not a good thing, and they had long been in their hearts, there were many brothers on the road, and there were eyeliners everywhere, so they were always on guard, and there were only a few people in the inn, and a few fast horses were kept.
The news that the Japanese were going to attack the inn had already been revealed to them, and before the Japanese could dispatch, they had already taken refuge in the depths of the reeds.
It was actually a mistake on their part, and they should have broken up as soon as they got the news that the Japanese were going to attack them.
But they have been together for many years, and they are a little unwilling to disperse like this, moreover, they underestimate the viciousness of the Japanese, they think that the Japanese can't catch them, so they pull them down, what can the Japanese devils do with us, if you dare to enter this reed, Lao Tzu will kill you!
If you really kill them all, Lao Tzu will really do it with you! The Japanese knew that they had not gone far, but they had hid in the reeds, but the reeds that these beards had entered were a mystery, because in the summer, the reeds were shallow, swamps, and it was impossible to enter.
The Japanese didn't recruit a child, so they sent troops to surround the reeds, and there was no movement for ten or twenty days, so they kept consuming until winter, and winter was different.
In winter, the shallow swamps in the reeds are frozen, and the Japanese can enter the people, and the Japanese can go in to encircle and suppress them, but the reeds with a radius of hundreds of kilometers have entered there, can you turn the beard of Wang Yuan's gang?
The Japanese know that in their hearts. While the Japanese were thinking about countermeasures, they surrounded them for another half a month.
At this time, someone gave the Japanese an idea, and it is said that it was quite tactful. Alas, this desolate land and this big north wind, you have to be careful if you smoke and make the scene, don't light this reed!
The reason why the Japanese think that everyone else is half-refined and not stupid is because they are not stupid in the first place, and when they heard that the spear was plugged open, why didn't they expect it!
Didn't they just let us burn it down with fire! After some planning, they ordered their troops to set fire to the perimeter of the reeds at the same time.
At this time, the reeds were all dry, like hay, and the fire was on fire, and the wind helped the fire, and the reeds crackled.
The boundary of a hundred and ten miles immediately became a sea of fire. The reeds are different from other places, once they catch fire, how can they be saved!
When Wang Yuan and his gang found out that the Japanese had set the fire, they planned to organize people to cut down the reeds around the station to form a firebreak, but once the fire hit the firebreak, the gang was exposed.
If you burn it like this, if you don't get burned to death, you have to let the Japanese catch it, and you will still die!
Wang Yuan and a few people discussed, they couldn't hide, so rush out! The reed has a characteristic, that is, it is not resistant to burning, the reed that is on fire will soon turn into ashes, the fire is fast, the fire is extinguished quickly, the front of the fire is burning, the back is quickly extinguished, and it moves very quickly with the wind, so the fire belt is not too wide, but it can also be a mile or two away, if the hands and feet are sharp, the method is appropriate, it is still possible to rush through the fire belt to escape.
Wang Yuan and others organized everyone to soak their own bedding in water, and prepared a little dry food for everyone to bring with them.
When he was ready, Wang Yuan said to everyone that today is a catastrophe for our brothers, and whether or not they can escape this catastrophe depends on the creation of heaven.
If you can't rush out, let's still be brothers in the next life, and if you rush out, then we will reunite on Qinzhuang Street next year.
On the night of the second day of the Japanese arson, the five Wang Yuan brothers broke through to the north with all the resident brothers.
Winter in the Tohoku is mostly from the northwest, and the fires take advantage of the wind to move to the southeast. The Japanese thought that this overwhelming fire, Wang Yuan's gang of beards must have fled south, because although the south was also set on fire, but the fire moved forward very slowly under the encouragement of the north wind, and in some places it was extinguished when it caught fire, and it had to be rekindled, and the fire was too big to rise, so they deployed heavy troops in the south, and they did not expect Wang Yuan's gang to rush north.
Wang Yuan's gang of men was stationed thirty or forty miles from the northern edge of Weidianzi, and when they rushed outward, the fire had burned to a distance of only ten or so miles from the station.
They rushed north to the fire belt, covered their heads with soaked bedding, and plunged headlong into the flames.
It's not easy to break out of that sea of fire! At this time, the reeds have not yet been completely frozen, and these people have to identify the road under their feet while rushing, and they must not fall into the mud and trap!
If you don't go down, your life will be gone! Fortunately, this gang of people has been dealing with the reed dianzi since they were children, and they are very familiar with this reed dianzi, and they know where to hold people up and where they can't step on it.
After only a mile of washing, the water-soaked bedding on the head had dried out, and smoke began to rise from the surface, and some of the ground was lit with flames, how could it still rush out!
If the physical strength is slightly exhausted, and the one who can't stand the baking, he will fall to the ground and can only be buried in the fire! What everyone thinks is that even death can't be caught by the Japanese, and if they are caught, it will be death!
That night, no one knows how many people rushed out, and once they entered the sea of fire, did they still have to live?
Although the little doctor is good at kung fu, he is not as familiar with the topography and geographical characteristics of this reed as the local aboriginal beard.
Wang Yuan was worried that the little doctor was not familiar enough with the reed dianzi and would suffer if he didn't get it right, so he specially told the little doctor to follow him and rush out before leaving.
But as soon as he rushed into the sea of fire, he had a watery bedding on his head, and his eyes could only stare at his feet.
When I arrived in front of the fire belt, I heard Wang Yuan shouting, rush! The little doctor carried the water-soaked bedding, performed his Shaolin kung fu, and plunged into the sea of fire, and he had long since disappeared!
After rushing forward for a while, he suddenly slipped and stepped into a bubble about a foot deeper than his waist.
Originally, the upper half of his body was already soaked with the futon, and now he was soaking wet.
To say that the little doctor's father is really fateful! The bubble that fell into it was a solid bubble, he fell into it but did not sink into it, at this time how could he care about the icy water, he threw off the futon on his head, pulled it up, jumped out of the bubble, turned around and fished the bedding out of the bubble, and put the bedding that had been soaked in water on his head again, and when he stomped his feet, the person had already rushed out.
I don't know how far I ran in one breath, I felt that the surroundings were dark, the air was a little fresh, and I didn't feel that the fire was burning, I picked up the futon and looked at it, it was dark in front of me, but my heart was so bright all of a sudden!
He's out of the fire! At this time, the little doctor didn't care about the Japanese or not, and sat on the ground.
Fortunately, the Japanese thought that no one could escape from such a big fire, and did not follow the commander's order to defend the fire, let alone follow up on the edge of the fire belt, and the little doctor escaped again.
Out of the sea of fire, while breathing, he looked into the distance, but did not see any Japanese, he turned back to look at the sea of fire, the tongue of fire in the north wind, cheerfully rushed to the sky, ashes with the upward fly, where can you see the shadow of anyone!
He stood up and headed straight northeast, he had to get out of danger before he could make a plan.