Chapter Twenty-Seven: An Oath

After the round with the three detachments and the 687 regiment troops, Xiao Siming suddenly had confidence, and was no longer worried that the Japanese army might dig a trap for him to jump, so he immediately discussed with Wang Lushui, and asked the fourth platoon of Changshi Poshan to take the four platoons to mobilize the masses on the spot, bury the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, and escort the captured weapons and ammunition back to the county seat, and he and Wang Lushui led the first, second, and third platoons, heavy machine gun platoons, and artillery platoons with the three detachments and the 687 regiment to pursue the Japanese army and expel them from Yuxian in one fell swoop.

The 687th Regiment came from the 2nd Battalion, the 3rd Detachment came from the 8th and 9th Brigades, and they were accompanied by the anti-Japanese guerrilla brigade of Mengpingyang and Shouyu 5 counties.

Wang Lushui and Xiao Siming immediately consulted with the leaders of the 2nd Battalion and the 8th and 9th Brigades of the 3rd Detachment of the 687th Regiment, and decided to let the anti-Japanese guerrilla brigade of Shouyu in Mengpingyang send cadres and fighters to serve as guides for all units, light torches, and pursue the Japanese army! The contact between the units is subject to the military number!

The independent battalion was a newly formed unit, and there was no trumpeter, and a trumpeter was transferred from the second battalion of the 687th regiment.

In the dark night, several teams marching with torches suddenly appeared on the land, galloping in the basin of Yuxian County.

The captain of the devil brigade, who had escaped more than ten miles, saw the pursuit team like a fire dragon from a distance, and he was so frightened that he ran faster with the little devils!

Xiao Siming and the others chased all the way to the road from Yuxian County to Shouyang, and saw that the little devil was far away and couldn't catch up, so they blew the trumpet to collect the troops, stopped the pursuit, and camped and defended on the spot.

Early the next morning, Xiao Siming was awakened by the roar of the plane.

Xiao Siming felt a thrill in his heart, the little devil's plane came to take revenge!

didn't bother to wash, Xiao Siming got up from the kang of the villager's house, picked up his rifle and went out of the house, looked up at the sky, obediently, the little devil has invested a lot of money!

More than a dozen Japanese planes flew over the village where Xiao Siming and they were camping, and flew in the direction of Yuxian County!

It didn't take long for a faint explosion to come from the direction of the county seat!

Xiao Siming didn't dare to slack off, and immediately ran to wake up the trumpeter transferred from the 687th Regiment, ordered him to blow the trumpet immediately, and notified all units to organize the transfer of villagers and air defense.

A loud trumpet sounded!

It wasn't until he heard the response of the 687 Regiment and the three detachments and two brigades that Xiao Siming was relieved, and together with Wang Lushui, who rushed over, he organized the troops to go door to door to mobilize the villagers to go out of the village to hide.

Xiao Siming and the others were only about half an hour faster, and the second wave of Japanese planes flew in from the southwest, hovering, dropping bombs, and strafing over the villages in this area!

The hateful little devil actually used a white phosphorus incendiary bomb to blow up several surrounding villages to the sky!

It was a dry and cold winter, the northwest wind was blowing in the morning, and as soon as the Japanese incendiary bombs exploded, they were burned, and the wind borrowed the fire, and the fire borrowed the wind, and the fire quickly swallowed up these villages!

After the Japanese plane flew away, Xiao Siming led the troops to lead the villagers back to the village to extinguish the fire, only to find that there was no complete house in the village.

The walls are ruined, the eyes are devastated, and the little devil retaliates, which is really vicious!

That's it, because the little devil suffered too much loss in Yuxian County yesterday, and he was afraid that he would be defeated again if he rashly raised troops to retaliate, so he did not send ground troops to retaliate. Otherwise, when the devil's infantry arrives here, I'm afraid they will cause another shocking tragedy!

After finally extinguishing the fire, Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui led the soldiers to visit the villagers from house to house.

The whole village is full of crying!

A strong man in his thirties climbed on top of a charred donkey and cried: "Da Hei, Da Hei, you follow me to the mine to pull coal, go into the city to deliver goods, and when we meet passers-by who can't walk, we will stop and pick up our feet." Our brothers have never done anything unreasonable! Damn little devil, who am I messing with! ”

This strong man is driving a donkey cart, and he belongs to the more moist life, so it is easier to do. The most pitiful thing is those poor clanging people's families, in this winter, the house has been burned, and the little food there is has turned into black powder, how can they live?

Destroying so many devils and seizing so many weapons and ammunition in one battle was originally a happy and good event, but letting the little devil's revenge make Xiao Siming feel very uncomfortable!

Before the soul crossing, Xiao Siming knew from books and TV that the little devil was cruel, but that was only at the level of knowledge. Now that he is directly in the period of the Anti-Japanese War, he really understands the cruelty of the Anti-Japanese War.

That's it, Xiao Siming was still highly alert, and when he heard the roar of the Japanese plane, he immediately ordered the troops to take the villagers out of the village and move. Otherwise, the dozen or so villages around this area would not only be a matter of houses being burned and bombed, but I don't know how many people would have died from the bombing by Japanese planes!

These villages are like this, and the county seat and Aozipo Village, where there was a fierce battle yesterday, may be even worse than here!

Xiao Siming immediately ordered all the soldiers of the independent battalion to take out the five silver dollars bonus issued by the county seat of Yuxian County the night before yesterday and donate it to the villagers in these villages to support the villagers to help themselves and rebuild their homes!

This is the team of the common people, the real soldiers of the common people!

The villagers who wanted to cry without tears, holding the silver dollars given by the Eighth Route Army, had a little settle in their hearts.

I don't know which young man took the lead, but more than 100 young people in these villages signed up to join the army, become eight roads, and fight devils!

40 recruits were recruited independently!

After extinguishing the fires in these villages, the two brigades of the 2nd Battalion and the 3rd Detachment of the 687th Regiment stayed in the local area to help the villagers build houses and settle down, waiting for the next combat order. Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui led the independent battalion, the anti-Japanese guerrilla brigade of Mengpingyang Shouyu five counties, and 40 new soldiers from the newly joined independent battalion to return to Yuxian County at the speed of a rapid march.

Sure enough, the Japanese plane also blew up the county seat, and Chen Yisheng, who stayed in the county seat, was fighting the fire with the soldiers of the fourth platoon and the spy platoon with the villagers who came from around the county!

As soon as he saw Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui leading the team back, Chen Yisheng shouted hoarsely: "Quick! Let the troops put out the fire! ”

Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui waved their hands and led the soldiers to rush forward!

If the little devil's plane comes back at this time and bombs indiscriminately, the loss will be even greater!

Yuxian County, that is, the inner city, because the Japanese army occupied the previous institutions and schools were withdrawn, Xiao Siming and they occupied the county seat and tightly sealed the news, there were no casualties here, and the materials captured by the troops were also well kept. The losses were concentrated in the outer city of Dongguan, and the casualties reached more than 500 people, and the whole city was full of crying.

The reason why the casualties are so large is mainly because the devil used a white phosphorus incendiary bomb, that thing is very evil, as long as the spark sticks to the body, it can't be extinguished, and life is better than death if injured!

Mei Ying followed the fourth platoon back to the county seat last night, and when the plane came to bomb early in the morning, she followed Chen Yisheng to extinguish the fire and save people. She is not a doctor, and when she encounters someone who was injured by a Japanese bomb or a bullet, Mei Ying can bandage it on the spot, and there is nothing else to do. Fortunately, there are several private clinics in the Dongguan area of the county, and doctors are involved in caring for the wounded. Because the Eighth Route Army seized the medicine of the Japanese army, Mei Ying invisibly became the person in charge of the rescue of the wounded, directing the doctors in the private clinic to work.

Soon, the villagers in the outer city of Dongguan all knew Mei Ying, who was wearing a Japanese military uniform and carrying a Japanese army battlefield first-aid kit, and also knew that she was the medical chief of the independent battalion of the Eighth Route Army in the liberated county. ”

Xiao Siming met Mei Ying in a burned courtyard in the outer city of Dongguan.

The beautiful Mei Ying has long lost her graceful appearance, her face is black and white, her voice is hoarse, and she shouts for the soldiers to carry the wounded to the temporary ambulance.

Seeing Xiao Siming, Mei Ying cried with a "wow", tears fell down like money, and said while crying: "You're back!" The little devil blew up Yuxian County and made the villagers miserable! ”

When Mei Ying cried, the soldiers and villagers who followed her to carry the wounded and carried the wounded were all in tears, and the women and children who had died were even more crying!

Xiao Siming's eyes were spewing fire, and he yelled: "What are you crying about?" Is there a fart for crying? If we cry bitterly, can we get the mercy of the little devil? Can you exchange the little devil's plane for revenge and bombing? The Japanese were able to bomb Yuxian because we didn't fight hard enough, not good enough, and there were still too few devils to destroy! If we wipe out all the devils, will the little devils still come to burn, kill, loot, and take revenge? If it's a man, pick up a gun and fight with the devil! Either you die or I live! Hold up your chest for me, hurry up to put out the fire and save people! I, Xiao Siming, swore to the fathers and villagers of Yuxian County: Today's hatred, I will definitely get it back from the devil tenfold and hundredfold! ”

Let Xiao Siming roar, Mei Ying stopped crying, the soldiers and villagers present stopped crying, everyone was thinking about Xiao Siming's words, but they didn't stop in their hands, what should they do!

Xiao Siming called Mei Ying and explained that she was not only busy rescuing the wounded, but also going to bring the camera for a while, take pictures of the tragic situation caused by the Japanese bombing, and send it back to the Political Department of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region to publish it in the newspaper, exposing the atrocities of the Japanese army and encouraging the people to unite to resist the war!

What Mei Ying didn't expect was that a series of photos she took of the land occupied became one of the ironclad evidences of the Judgment Day Chieftain in the future!

Xiao Siming, Wang Lushui, and Chen Yisheng commanded the troops and villagers to be busy until dark, so that the fire in the county town could be completely extinguished.

The families of the deceased relatives didn't care about tidying up the house, they were busy cleaning up the remains of their relatives and dealing with the aftermath, and the city was full of crying!

When Xiao Siming returned to the county government compound, Chen Yisheng had already arranged for people to deliver a letter, informing the Yuxian anti-Japanese democratic government to move back to the county seat and take on the task of organizing the villagers to rebuild their homes.

Historically, not two days after the retreat of the Japanese army from Shouyang, the pacified Japanese army would invade Yuxian again, and the county seat would have to be abandoned. It's just that the Japanese army withdrew after only one night of stop in Yuxian County. In January, the Japanese army sent garrisons to station in Yuxian County and controlled most of the strategic points in Yuxian County until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

Xiao Siming felt that his crossing had affected history, the little devil suffered a big loss in Yu County this time, and it was difficult to say when he would invade Yu County again, at least, they didn't dare to enter Yu County as a brigade again.

If the independent battalion stayed in Yuxian County and persisted in the War of Resistance, with the vision and courage of Xiao Siming's soul traverser, he would not give up the county seat. However, it is impossible for Xiao Siming and the independent battalion to stay in Yuxian County for a long time, and after he completes the conscription and training here, he will definitely move to other battlefields! Because this is the defense area of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the independent battalion belongs to the 115th Division, and it must be going to reopen the base area!

That's it, Xiao Siming has already made a decision in his heart, as long as the independent battalion is still in Yuxian, the little devil won't come, and if he comes again, none of them will let him run back alive!