Chapter Forty-Four: Simon in Confusion
Seeing a man dressed in a civilian costume running into the cell with a machine gun, the prisoners immediately boiled.
"Let me out, let me out." "Let me out, I'll give you money." The whole cell shouted a garbled shout.
The cell in Liugu County was built in a corner of the compound of the police station, and although the walls were solid, the sound of explosions in the distance was still faintly visible.
Liu Tianshu didn't answer, but rushed to the iron gate in a few steps, raised the muzzle of the gun and smashed the iron lock with a shuttle of bullets. When the prisoners saw the iron gate being opened, they were immediately ecstatic, and many of them didn't even say a word of thanks, so they squeezed out the iron gate and ran out.
Liu Tianshu opened the iron door of the cell next to him, and after letting go of the more than 60 prisoners in custody, he finally walked to the innermost.
The two innermost cells in the Liugu County cell are not the same as the ones outside. The two chambers were not closed with a bars made of thick iron bars, but with a thick iron door with a single square opening for food to be delivered to the cell. When Liu Tianshu saw that this cell was so solid, he knew that this should be the place where felons were kept.
He didn't have time to think about it at all, he raised the gun directly, and there were a few bullets towards the keyhole, and he heard two clanging sounds, the iron door was opened, Liu Tianshu saw that there were six prisoners locked inside, and when these people heard the door, they all sat on the ground and watched Liu Tianshu come in.
"Everyone, let's go, the little devil has entered the city, let's go." Liu Tianshu hurriedly said a few words, and hurriedly turned around and ran to another cell next to him.
The six people who were suddenly freed couldn't help but look at each other suspiciously when they heard Liu Tianshu's words, then stood up and walked out of the cell, just in time to see Liu Tianshu open another cell and release four female prisoners from the cell.
One of the women, who was in her thirties, saw the slightly older man among the six, her eyes were full of surprise, and just as she wanted to speak, she saw that the man made an expression not to speak, and immediately stopped her mouth.
"Thank you, brother." The older man walked up to Liu Tianshu and said sincerely.
"Don't talk about it, the little devil has entered the city, it's not safe here, come with me." Liu Tianshu said as he ran out.
When the old man heard what he said, he couldn't help muttering, "Little devil, how can there be no devil?" Then he came back to his senses, said let's go, and took everyone and followed Liu Tianshu out of the police compound.
When Shi Qiang saw Liu Tianshu coming out of it, his heart was relieved, and he said anxiously: "Brother Tianshu, go quickly, the little devil will come over soon." ”
By this time, the gunfire had moved to this direction.
"Okay, let's go to the west gate." Liu Tianshu nodded, and together with Shi Qiang, ran to the west gate, and the six men and four women also followed them to the west gate under the signal of the older man.
As for the prisoner who ran out of the police station first, he has long since run away.
Liu Tianshu and the others ran two streets to the west, and they heard the voice of the devil behind him, he was anxious, and said to Shi Qiang: "Qiangzi, you take them away quickly, after I break off, find Xiaomei and them, don't wait for me, go out of the city immediately, I will come to chase you." ”
Gunshots are also ringing at the west gate now, but according to Liu Tianshu's estimate, there should not be many Japanese troops there, and if the security regiment concentrates its forces to go out of the city from there, the little devils should not be able to stop it.
Besides, Tan Liu and Liu Jianguang still have a lot of people, as long as everyone works together to break through the interception of the little devils, there is still no problem.
"Brother Tianshu, you take them away, and I'll cut them off." Shi Qiang was anxious when he heard this.
"Don't argue, you guys go quickly, I'll be there later." Liu Tianshu couldn't help but snatch two magazines from Shi Qiang's waist, then pushed him, turned his head and ran towards the street. In the distance of the street, there was already a surging figure of the little devil, and looking at the expression, the little devil had already discovered their group of people.
Liu Tianshu ran to the street, immediately flashed to the corner, saw the devil rushing over, raised the muzzle, suddenly pulled the trigger, and with the muzzle of the gun trembling slightly, the bullet happily flew towards the little devil who was running wildly this way.
The devils who ran in front, seeing the group of people running towards the west quickly, a kind of hunting excitement surged into their hearts, under the leadership of a military cao, was chasing forward, suddenly a person flashed in front, and the light machine gun in his hand then sounded a terrifying sound, and the four devils in front had no time to dodge, and were hit by bullets in the chest with bloody holes, screaming and falling to the ground.
When the devil soldier Cao saw that someone was blocking the attack, he was immediately furious, and while directing the soldiers to fight back, he sent people to make a detour from the side.
The little devil's reaction was still quite fast, and when the four devils were knocked down, the rest of the devil soldiers had already found cover and began to fire back, and at the same time, the devil grenadiers who came later had begun to set up the grenadiers, and one of the devil soldiers held the cannonballs in both hands and put them towards the mouth of the grenadiers.
I only heard the light sound of the cannonball sliding in the barrel, and then I heard a whirl, and the cannonball flew out of the mouth of the barrel and flew towards Liu Tianshu's location.
Liu Tianshu immediately began to retreat when the devil in the distance began to set up a grenadier, and as soon as he ran out of ten meters, he heard an explosion behind him, and at the same time, he saw that a devil began to detour from the side.
Liu Tianshu didn't dare to fight, so he ran backwards in a zigzag shape, ran out of a street corner, and saw a team of devils on the street on one side, and the devil saw a person running with a gun, and the bullets came like rain.
It turned out that this was a devil who came in from the south gate, and after chasing the three battalions of the defeated security regiment all the way into the city, the soldiers of the security regiment were immediately dispersed, and Li Shunfa, the commander of the second battalion and the first company, had lost contact with the main force of the battalion at this time, but he knew that Ximen was very likely to be in the hands of the security regiment, and that it would be the only way to survive, so he took the remaining dozens of brothers and ran desperately in the direction of Ximen.
This group of devils is chasing them. Li Shunfa and his subordinates were bitten very tightly by the devil, who knew that at the critical moment, a person was killed next to him, and he shot wildly at the devil with a light machine gun, attracting the attention of the devil, he secretly said that he was lucky, and immediately led his men to the west.
Liu Tianshu didn't expect to meet these little devils, he was in a hurry, raised his gun and swept wildly, after suppressing the little devils, he immediately turned around and rushed into the courtyard next to him, went straight to the backyard after passing through the gate, and then took advantage of the momentum of running, in the surprised eyes of the owner, he climbed over the wall and entered another street.
As soon as he landed, he immediately unloaded the empty magazine and threw it away, and then took out the last magazine from his waist and put it on.
Although it was the first time to come to Liugu County, Liu Tianshu still paid attention to the observation in the past few days, and at this time, he ran through two small streets in a row and arrived not far from the West Gate.
However, at this time, at the west gate, there was a fierce sound of gunfire.
It seems that the little devil knew that the security group wanted to escape from the West Gate, and immediately stepped up his efforts to block it.
It's just that I don't know if Zhao Xiaomei and the others have left the city, and I don't know if Shi Qiang will meet them at this time?
Just now, he dragged the devil and bought Shi Qiang and those rescued for about ten minutes, and it stands to reason that they should have rushed to the West Gate.
Thinking of this, Liu Tianshu was anxious.
With a machine gun in his right hand, he ran wildly down the street, and after ten minutes or so, Simon was in sight.
However, when Simon met his eyes, he was dumbfounded.
It turned out that Simon was in chaos at this time.
Although there are dozens of soldiers of the security regiment on the city wall, they seem to be shooting desperately outside, but at the city hole, there is chaos, countless people carrying burdens in the city cave desperately squeezing forward, during which there are also soldiers of the security regiment fiercely raising the butts of their guns to open the way for the commander, and outside the city gate, the gunshots are ringing out.
The whole city gate was filled with shouts, screams, and cries.
Liu Tianshu saw that there were only a crowd of people at the city gate, and he couldn't see the figure of Zhao Xiaomei and others at all, so he was anxious, and hurriedly ran to the carriage and horse shop on the side, and when he saw the empty gate, he raised his foot and kicked it open, and rushed into the compound to take a look, and saw Zhao Xiaomei, Jiang Meijuan, Jiang Jinlong, Jiang Jinhu, Liu Hai, Liu Juan and Shi Qiang and others all standing there, and there were six men and four women who followed Shi Qiang here, even Liu Guangzhi's family was still staying in the carriage and horse shop.
Seeing that these people hadn't left the city yet, Liu Tianshu hurriedly stepped forward, looked at Shi Qiang and shouted, "Qiangzi, why haven't you left the city yet?" ”
"Brother Tianshu, Sister Xiaomei said that if you didn't come, they wouldn't leave." Shi Qiang said aggrievedly.
And Zhao Xiaomei saw Liu Tianshu coming back safe and sound, surprise flashed in her eyes, and she ran over to look up and down and said, "Brother Tianshu, are you okay?" ”
"What can I do? Why don't you leave the city yet? Liu Tianshu asked dissatisfiedly.
At this time, Liu Guangzhi walked over, looked at Liu Tianshu and said: "Tianshu, don't blame them, you have also seen that Xicheng is in chaos, and the soldiers of the security regiment and the police are desperately squeezing out, and we can't get through at all." ”
"And what's going on outside the city?" Liu Tianshu frowned and asked.
The gunfire outside the city has been fierce, and it should be a fierce battle that is taking place, could it be that the people of the security regiment are blocking the enemy to cover the escape of the people from the county?
"I asked Jianguang to inquire, and it was said that the second battalion of the security regiment was blocking the Japanese army from approaching the west gate, and it had been guaranteed that County Magistrate Liu and they would withdraw from the county seat." Liu Guangzhi sighed and said.
It turned out that after Liu Yuancai knew that the county seat could no longer be held, he finally gave up the idea of coexisting with the county seat, and ordered Qi Fuyou and Xu Yifeng to protect the people of the county government and escape from the county seat.
Qi Fuyou knew that he had not been able to defect to the Japanese at the first time, and if he was caught by the Japanese, he could only grit his teeth and let Qi Jiaqiang take the second battalion to block the Japanese blockade of the West Gate at all costs, so as to ensure the safe evacuation of County Magistrate Liu and others.
Of course, at this time, he had already withdrawn outside the city.
The Japanese army had only one squad at the West Gate, and they could not block the West Gate at all, although Kojima had ordered the reserves to rush to the West Gate, and at the same time ordered the troops entering the city to press towards the West Gate with all their might.
At present, in Ximen, in addition to the important officials of the county government, there are only a few large households in the county seat, who can catch the county government's hitchhike and escape from the county seat at the first time, as for the ordinary people, under the push of the police, few can squeeze out of the city.