Chapter 409: Lonely Battalion

When Wang Qi and Bai Fengxiang had just rescued Yang Hucheng's family from Xuantian Cave, in a strictly guarded barracks in the British Concession in Shanghai, Xie Jinyuan, who was already the head of the colonel, and his deputy, Shangguan Zhibiao, the colonel and deputy head of the regiment, also had a solemn look on their faces.

There were several company commanders standing in front of them, and they blocked Xie Jinyuan in the house early in the morning, wanting Regiment Commander Xie to take them to explode and escape from prison.

Now it has been December of the 38th year, and it has been a whole year since they guarded the Sixing Warehouse during the Anti-Japanese War in Shanghai to now they have been placed under house arrest by the Ministry of Industry of the Concession in this barracks guarded by foreign soldiers and barbed wire fences everywhere.

Since Xie Jinyuan and his men were now the only formed troops in Shanghai, it was also known as the Lonely Military Camp, and a year ago, when they had just retreated from the Sixing Warehouse to the Public Concession, foreign soldiers in the Concession confiscated their weapons and imprisoned them in the barracks.

Nominally to protect them, in fact to put them under house arrest. They are not allowed to go out, let alone contact the outside world.

Fortunately, patriots from all walks of life in Shanghai often come to visit their lone army, so they can also learn about the outside news through the mouths of these patriots.

For within a year, China lost a large part of the country, and the hearts of more than 400 soldiers were tormented, and it was at the time of the Sino-Japanese life-and-death national war, so how could hundreds of soldiers who were dedicated to serving the country stay with peace of mind.

However, over the past year or so, they have repeatedly contacted the Nationalist Army through patriots in the concession. But the Nationalists seem to have forgotten about them.

For a year, no generals of the Nationalist Army came to pick them up and return to the team, and the government of the Republic of China has not made a sound except for Xie Jinyuan's troops when they retreated to the public concession and added Xie Jinyuan to the rank of knight.

Now I heard that Nanjing had fallen, Xuzhou was gone, and now even Wuhan and Guangzhou were occupied by the Japanese army.

However, their more than 400 brothers had no intention of going into battle to kill the enemy, and they had no chance of killing the enemy.

The Japanese surrounded the entire public concession, and there were countless ronins and Japanese spies guarding outside the military camp inside the concession every day.

The Japanese were afraid that the people of the Ministry of Industry would let them go, and now their morale is getting lower and lower, and in the past month, the soldiers have been fighting at two ends for three days.

Although the soldiers would stop fighting every time he came forward, he could see that everyone was a strong man who would rather die standing than live on his knees.

Everyone thought that if they couldn't do it, they would kill it, and anyway, they would be angry with the gringos here. In particular, the Russian soldiers, who were in charge of guarding them, did not treat them as human beings at all.

These Russians not only often humiliated the soldiers of Xie Jinyuan's regiment, but also repeatedly withheld money, food, and materials donated to these soldiers by patriots.

Early this morning, he and the deputy regiment commander Shangguan Zhibiao were carefully discussing how to escape Shengtian, and they were blocked in the house by several company commanders, but everyone thought of many ways together, and there seemed to be no foolproof way.

"It's better to fight hard, how can there be immortals in prison escape. As long as our more than 400 soldiers are willing to sacrifice, there is no problem at all in breaking out of this barracks guarded by only 100 Russian soldiers.

As long as we can grab some of the guns first, and leave some of the men behind, most of our fighters will be able to break out of prison. As long as we break out of the prison, the people in the concession will definitely help us get out of Shanghai. Shangguan Zhibiao suggested.

Seeing that Xie Jinyuan didn't react at all, Shangguan Zhibiao said again: "I don't understand, why didn't Commander Jiang send someone to pick us up, did he forget us."

But he forgot about us, and he shouldn't have forgotten you, a top student in the fourth phase of Whampoa. We just want to go out and kill the enemy now, even if we can die at the hands of the Japanese immediately, at least we can block the bullets for our comrades.

But I am not reconciled to being trapped here like this, letting us slowly rot like a piece of rotten meat.

Many soldiers outside want to go out to kill the enemy, some of their homes have been destroyed, some of their relatives have been killed, they all want revenge, we can no longer suppress the fighting spirit of the soldiers, otherwise something big will happen sooner or later. ”

Xie Jinyuan looked at Shangguan Zhibiao and said solemnly: "I also want to go into battle to kill the enemy, as early as half a year ago, I said to patriots from all walks of life in Shanghai, no matter who it is, as long as you can save your brothers out."

As long as he is dedicated to resisting Japan, even if Lao Tzu makes cattle and horses for them, Lao Tzu will admit it. A year has passed, and we have relayed our thoughts to everyone, and I am sure that someone will come to our rescue.

However, this day will not come immediately, because such a big rescue mission cannot be completed overnight.

It could be a year, it could be two years, we have to wait patiently, we can't stay here for the rest of our lives. Japan is just across the sea, and they can't run away.

But what are you doing when the day comes? You're complaining, you're angry. When you pick up the steel gun again, you find that your hands are shaking with anger. Your body is no longer able to make the right tactical moves because of complaining.

There is an old Chinese saying, if you don't talk about it for a day, you don't write for a day, don't forget that you are soldiers, you are the heroes who guard the Sixing Warehouse and inspire the Chinese military and civilians to continue the War of Resistance. As long as your will does not lose heart, there is hope for China. ”

Hearing Xie Jinyuan's mobilization, several company commanders cheered up again and began to take the initiative to lead their respective companies to run and drill in the lonely army camp, and everyone shouted loud slogans, as if they wanted to vent all the anger in their hearts.

At this time, outside the lonely barracks, listening to the loud slogans of the soldiers, two inconspicuous Shanghai citizens nodded with satisfaction, they looked at their watches, and there were still a few hours before it was dark, and their actions could begin.

"Tell the people of the Mouse Sparrow Hall to act on time tonight. We must do a good job of cleaning up, and the success or failure of this operation will depend on whether their hands and feet are neat. A young man commanded lightly.

That night, in the office of the director of the Shanghai Ministry of Industry Bureau, the Russian Belikov secretly left the female secretary in the office under the pretext of working overtime while his wife was returning to China.

In the evening, when most of the workers of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau got off work, he couldn't wait to pull the female secretary and start hand-to-hand combat in the living room of the office.

Belikov's female secretary was originally his concubine, so the two of them were already familiar with each other, and just when the two were in a hot situation, they suddenly popped twice, and two bright lights flashed in the office.

Then Belikov and her beautiful secretary suddenly found two Chinese with cameras on their chests standing at their desks at this time.

It was these two people who took a picture just now while Belikov was making out with the female secretary.

At this time, two Chinese were each holding a pistol at the two. And Belikov's female secretary screamed loudly when she saw two Chinese suddenly entering the office.

Then, only to hear the sound of a knock, the guards downstairs heard the screams and ran up, they knocked on the door and asked Director Belikov what was going on.

Belikov reacted quickly and immediately replied loudly that nothing happened, and the female secretary just thought that she had seen a mouse, but in fact it was just a piece of waste paper hidden in the curtain.

Hearing Belikov say this, the two Chinese also smiled and extended their thumbs to Belikov.

After a short recovery, Belikov's female secretary also came to her senses and immediately spoke out to explain to the guards outside the office. Here's the thing, please don't worry about the guards.

And the guards also knew what the relationship between Belikov and the female secretary was, so they snickered and gossiped about the real reason for the screaming of the female secretary in the office just now.

It seemed to them that Director Beshikov must have come up with some scary new move, and the beautiful female secretary was shocked.

Hearing that the guards had left, Belikov said in his broken Chinese: "What do you want to do?" There is something to discuss, is it asking for money? I can give it to you. With that, he walked over to a table next to him, where a pistol was hidden.

Who knew that he just wanted to move, but the two Chinese actually told him not to move in very authentic Russian. There was a gun in that drawer, they already knew.

As early as a year ago, they had already noticed every move of the Ministry of Industry, and as one of the eight directors of the Ministry of Industry, they knew exactly where Belikov had grown hair, so they should not be confused.

Seeing the two of them confessing like this, Belikov was also deflated, and asked the two of them what they wanted.

The two of them also said happily: "Come and borrow a warrant for yourself, a warrant to transfer Xie Jinyuan and his subordinates to another place." ”

Belikov even said that it was impossible, because any transfer of the Chinese troops in the lonely army camp must be signed by more than three directors of the Ministry of Industry to be effective, and now he alone cannot do it.

The people who came to say that it was their Russian officers who were now in charge of the lonely barracks, as long as he had a warrant for himself, and he didn't have to worry about the signatures of the other two bureau chiefs.

Whether it can be done or not is none of his business, as long as he signs the order, and they will do the rest, they promise not to harass Belikov in the future, not only give him the camera, but also give him a sum of money, and no matter who asks about today's events in the future, Belikov just needs to say that he doesn't know anything.

In the end, Belikov could only agree, and then after he finished writing the order to transfer Xie Jinyuan and his troops, he stamped the official seal of their Ministry of Industry, wrote his own name, and handed over the order to the comer.

The two looked very happy, and just when Belikov said that the deal was successful and he could hand over the camera to him, the two Chinese suddenly became troubled, and one slapped the neck of Belikov and his female secretary respectively, and the two immediately fell unconscious.

Then, two more Chinese took out two more syringes and injected two identical pills into the veins of Belikov and the female secretary.

With this pill, they can sleep peacefully until tomorrow morning.

Then, the two put everything away, immediately opened a window in the office, and quickly evacuated along a rope prepared in advance.