Chapter 352: The Japanese Army Eats People
March 16, 1940, Hailar. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Zhengyang Street is not long, and it will take more than ten minutes to get to the end. On both sides of the street are houses of traders, but the street is not a good street, but a dirt road, dusty when it is dry in summer, muddy when it rains, horse dung and cow dung everywhere, wooden wheeled carriages, ox carts, camel carts. Spring is short, snow and ice melt, sewage flows, especially muddy, only autumn and winter are fine. It's winter, and the whole street is covered in compacted snow.
In winter, people here go out to buy, and they all pull a wooden climbing plow, which people can sit on or use to pull goods. Those who came into the city from afar also drove the ploughs of the horses. This kind of climbing plow is very large and can pull several people and hundreds of catties of goods.
The climbing plough is a northeastern saying, in fact, it is a sled, and the big sleigh has two wooden tracks on the ground, pulled by horses or oxen. Because the snow does not melt in winter, the snow on the road is solid, and it is a breeze to walk on the sled. The small sleigh can only sit one or two people, and it is manually towed, which is very labor-saving to carry heavy objects.
Winters are cold, and even on sunny days, ice crystals float in the air until the temperature rises a bit. At that time, this street was full of people, and those who sold goods set up stalls on the roadside, and those who bought things bought things directly on the street, loaded with climbing plows, and it was not lively.
Now, the people here are gone, lifeless.
The house on Zhengyang Street is the best house in Hailar, with a storefront on the street and a house in the backyard.
The person in charge who stayed in Hailar was the detachment leader Song Laohu.
He was in a house on the side of Zhengyang Street. The house was bought by the task force in the hands of a merchant, not far from the Japanese headquarters. Tunnels were dug inside the house, and a large amount of grain was stored. It turned out that there were more than 20 people living there, but they were later ordered to evacuate, leaving only three Song Laohu.
Now, they are the ones who eat the best in Hailar, better than the devil officers. In order not to be discovered by the devils, they had to eat fried noodles as much as possible, and only occasionally made some hot meals in the second half of the night to eat.
They had come out many times to reconnoiter and pass back what they had seen. However, the three of them were well-fed and strong, almost one of the few well-fed people in the city, and they could not show their faces in public, and they were too incompatible with the hungry Japanese army.
In February, they spotted a mutiny in a unit that had died because of the uneven distribution of food, and the devils who had come to suppress it had killed a number of them.
It was now the middle of March, and Song Laohu decided to take someone out to reconnoitre, and in the afternoon, they came out of the tunnel, and looked out through the crack in the door, only to see that the street was empty, and there was no one.
Walking into other people's houses from the backyard, I saw that the house was turned into a mess, apparently by the Japanese army looking for food. After walking a long way in the alleys of the city, I finally saw a house that seemed to be manned, and I was about to take a look, when suddenly they opened, and an officer came out and looked left and right, and walked slowly. A Japanese woman in the back peeked in and quickly closed the door.
The Japanese officer was also not very steady walking, and it seemed that he had brought her the food he had saved.
Song Laohu and the others were about to leave, when they suddenly rushed out of the two devils next door, rushed to the woman's house, and pushed the door hard. Pushed it twice and drove it away. In less than a few minutes, the two of them had finished eating and walked out, and the woman in the back seemed to be numb and didn't even cry.
One of the devils ate something, apparently happy, and said something to the other man.
Song Laohu can understand a few words of Japanese, and what he said is roughly that if she is the person who is the captain of the wing, I will kill and eat this woman.
When they were scouting a few days ago, they had already seen several Japanese women being eaten by the Japanese, but they didn't expect that there were still Japanese women alive. The vitality of human beings is really tenacious.
When I arrived near the barracks, I saw that the barracks were also lifeless, and there was a corpse at the gate of the barracks, and no one cleaned it up at all. Next to the barracks was a large snowdrift, and a pile of corpses could be faintly seen.
Seeing the devil in such a situation, the vigilance of the two people relaxed a lot, and when they saw the third barracks, a devil saw them, pointed at them, called out, and let them pass.
Song Laohu didn't want to cause trouble, so he had to kill this devil, at this time, there were footsteps in the barracks, and the two hurriedly hid on the pile of corpses next to the barracks.
A few people came out of the barracks, and when they saw that the devil was dead, they were very angry, went back, took their rifles, and rushed towards the barracks opposite. After entering the barracks opposite, the sound of quarrels was heard.
After a while, the devils who had just entered retreated, because there were more devils on the other side. Song Laohu had an idea, and killed one of the devils on the opposite side with one shot, who was an officer.
When the dead man's devil saw the other party's military camp shooting, he suddenly became angry, and a devil stabbed a devil on the opposite side.
A scuffle between the two gangs of devils broke out. They are really beaten, beaten to the death. Obviously, these two groups of people had a dispute over food before, but this time because Song Laohu shot at him, it finally broke out.
At this time, several officers ran over in the distance, and they were obviously here to calm the incident. Of course, Song Laohu couldn't let him succeed, and it was a shot aimed at his chest.
This devil was shot in the chest and fell to the bloody ground, obviously he found Song Laohu, stared at Song Laohu, knew that it was wrong, and wanted to say it, but he had no strength and died.
Song Laohu and the others hurriedly retreated, got into the alley between the two military camps, went around a few times, and returned to the stronghold. As they left, gunfire rang out behind them.
Infighting began.
Until late in the day, gunshots could be heard.
The next night, when I went out to reconnoitre, the corpses killed by the devils were still there, there were twenty or thirty corpses, and the flesh on the legs of some of the corpses had been cut off.
At night, Song Laohu decided to go to the Japanese headquarters to reconnoitre.
The headquarters of the Japanese army was a large bungalow, surrounded by chest-high wooden fences, with watchtowers on both sides of the gate and watchtowers at all corners of the courtyard. In front of the large courtyard is the main street, and the surroundings are very open.
Now that it was dark, Song Laohu and the three of them were lying in the snow in white clothes and hats, and after observing for a long time, the sentries in the watchtower did not move.
The three of them quietly approached the watchtower, listened for a while, and saw that the sentry had no strength and was leaning against the wall.
A warrior sprang up and, without waiting for the sentry to move, pressed his mouth and nose at once. After a while, the devil sentry died.
They used to come out to scout, often killing sentries and never arousing suspicion, because it was all too common for sentries to freeze to death.
The three of them entered the headquarters compound, arrived at a row of offices, and were about to enter, when they heard a fierce quarrel in the room, followed by the sound of falling things. It turned out that two people had a quarrel.
The argument was loud, and some people ran over from other places and persuaded the two men to leave.
The officers of the Japanese army are now in an extremely bad mood.
Because there were many people, there was no opportunity to reconnoiter more situations, and the three of them found an opportunity to retreat.
On the afternoon of March 16, 1940, Hailar.
It's March, the days are starting to get longer, and now, the sun hasn't set yet. Because it's warm and windless, it doesn't feel so cold.
Now Song Laohu is on duty, and he is observing the situation on the street in the storefront.
On the surface, their shops were closed, the doors were nailed with wooden planks, and the shops on the left and right were the same, and there was no one. When I went to investigate, I jumped out of the wall from behind. In order to investigate, they made a small opening in the window of the shop and observed the movement outside.
The streets are quiet, and there are no pedestrians. Song Laohu was a little sleepy and wrapped himself in his coat and took a nap. I was napping when I suddenly heard a gurgling sound in my stomach, and it turned out that my stomach was empty. He took out a packet of dry food from his bosom and began to eat. The dry food is a pancake with carrots, turnips, cabbage, minced meat, which are very caloric and fragrant.
I was eating when I suddenly heard a crunching sound. This is the sound of shoes stepping on the snow, Song Laohu put his eyes close to the observation hole, and sure enough, a Japanese officer came from the direction of the Japanese barracks, wearing a cotton coat and a dogskin hat, all the way in his direction.
Song Laohu hurriedly swallowed the remaining dry food in one gulp and continued to observe.
The Japanese officer seemed to be on some official duty in the south, carrying a folder on his back and a gun on his shoulder. After passing Song Laohu's shop, there was nothing unusual, and he continued to walk, and after walking a few steps, the Japanese officer suddenly stopped.
Song Laohu suddenly got up and prepared to fight, thinking to himself, could it be that he found himself?
The Japanese officer began to look around, took a few steps forward and stopped, walked a few steps across the street, turned back and walked towards Song Laohu's shop, passed by the shop, came back again, and stopped at the door of the shop.
Song Laohu understood, this kid smelled the smell, the fragrance of his own dry food. In an instant, dozens of thoughts turned in his mind: killing him would easily expose the shop. In that way, the foothold is exposed, and there will be great trouble in the future. If you don't kill him, you will be exposed. What to do?
He pulls the rope, pulls it three times, and calls the police to his companions in the tunnel.
At this time, the devil officer outside had confirmed the source of the fragrance and began to study the shop, pull the window, pull the door, and knock on the door.
The two companions poked their heads out of the hole in the ground, and they understood at once.
At this time, the devil officer pulled the window a few times, but without opening it, he began to leave the window and pull the door.
The window next to the gate, though sealed from the outside, can be opened, but it is hardly used.
Song Laohu suddenly broke out, pushed open the window with one hand, leaned out of the window with the other, grabbed the collar of the guy, dragged him into the window at once, and threw him on the ground. When he closed the window, a warrior who came out of the tunnel jumped up and kicked the devil in the head, kicking him away. The other came up and grabbed him by the neck with both hands, but after a while, the devil died.
Song Laohu said: "Quick, you study his documents and wait for me in the cattle market in front." I pretended to be him and kept walking. You transported the carcasses to the cattle market to create the illusion that they were plotted by the Japanese themselves. Be careful not to miss documents. ”
Both of them understood what he meant, that is, not to expose this stronghold. One went to study the file, and the other said, "Can you do it?" ”
Song Laohu said: "There is no other way. "Put on your coat and hat, see that there is no one on the street, and jump out.
Song Laohu, who was disguised as a Japanese officer, walked on the street and was relieved to see that there was no one left and right. He took the risk because he knew that all of Hailar was empty, except for a few shops occupied by the Japanese. There is only one Japanese shop on the north side of my shop, which was looted by the Japanese a few days ago, and there should be no one.
Song Laohu felt uncomfortable, this officer's head was smaller than his own, and his hat was very tight. No matter what, keep walking, not going fast, in order to buy time for your comrades.
When I got to the livestock market, I saw that there was no one nearby, so I flashed into the alley. The two comrades-in-arms have already transported the corpse of the devil here. The three men put on their clothes and hats and withdrew from behind.
This devil sent an order to a military camp in the south, asking them to go out to fish, hunt, and dig up rats to ensure the combat effectiveness of the fortress.
The next day, the military police found the body of the Japanese officer and searched the vicinity of the city.
Song Laohu sent a telegram to Wang Santai, explaining that the devils had died heavily, but many of the devils who were alive could still fight. The Japanese soldiers who survived on the corpses of devils and the food transported by air. The Japanese army no longer had the strength to attack, and they didn't even have the strength to dispose of the corpses.