Chapter 80: Rescuing the Prisoners of War (Part II)
Looking at his brother who had fallen on the straw, the young man made up his mind, took out a stone awl ground with a stone from his arms, and said to his brother: "Brother! You can rest assured! The second baby will never let the Japanese soldiers touch you again! โ
The elder brother, who fell to the ground, saw his younger brother take out the stone awl, and said anxiously, "You ...... What are you doing! Second baby! You...... You...... Don't die! โ
The second baby said with a resolute face: "Brother! If it goes on like this, even if I am honest, I won't live long! It's better to fight with the Japanese soldiers! Kill one, and the second baby is enough! Kill two, and our brothers won't pay for it! If we can kill more, we'll earn it! โ
At this time, my brother fell on the straw, closed his eyes, two tears flowed down from the corners of his eyes along his temples, and said with remorse: "I resent my brother!" If...... If I had been ...... Don't let your brother hand over the gun...... That's it! โ
At that time, the two brothers were fleeing in Pyongyang, and in a panic, dozens of Qing soldiers were surrounded by the pursuing Japanese troops on a hill. Yang Erwa, who was originally accurate in marksmanship, wanted to fight hard with the Japanese soldiers, but was stopped by her brother Yang Dawa, and laid down her arms with dozens of Qing soldiers and became a prisoner of the Japanese!
Brother Yang Dawa opened his eyes and grabbed his brother's hand hard: "Second baby! You ......"
"Brother! Don't talk about it! I've decided! Sooner or later it's a death here! It's better to take advantage of the fact that you still have a little strength and fight with the Japanese! Yang Erwa interrupted what her brother was about to say.
Yang Dawa smiled bitterly: "What if...... If only there was a next life! What did brother say...... Nothing can be said to be ...... Hand over the gun in your hand!
At this moment, the two brothers suddenly heard fierce gunfire outside, accompanied by bursts of artillery fire! And the gunfire is getting louder and louder, and the two brothers look at each other suspiciously, is there anyone still coming to save us?
Someone did come to their rescue, the commander of the Marine Corps, Ju Peng, with the entire brigade of Marines, came to the prisoner of war camp where the Qing army was held, Ju Peng observed the layout of the Japanese army, and found that it was impossible to enter the prisoner of war camp without alarming the Japanese army.
Ju Peng didn't hesitate and immediately ordered a strong attack! The Marines began to shoot at the Japanese soldiers standing guard on the top of the watchtower and at the gate of the prisoner of war camp!
12 75-mm mountain guns brought down from the ship also began shelling the wooden gates and walls of the prisoner of war camp!
The Japanese wing commander Sakata Sanyu, who was asleep, was suddenly awakened by the sound of gunfire and immediately put on his military uniform, when the door of the room was suddenly opened, and a young man shouted in a panic: "Wing Commander, there is an enemy attacking our prisoner of war camp, and the enemy still has artillery!" The gates and wooden walls have been blown up! Now the enemy is charging at us! The firepower is very strong! We can't resist anymore! โ
This Sakata Wing was part of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, and was the last wing of all the wings of the Japanese Standing Army that was established before the outbreak of the war. Although the combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the newly formed wing, it is much weaker than that of other standing wings!
And because of the prisoners of war of the Qing Army, there was no combat mission, and the entire wing was not equipped with even a single artillery!
Wing Commander Sakata Sanyu drew his saber and shouted to Shaozo, who had entered his room: "Send someone to ride a horse and ask for help from the division headquarters in Pyongyang!" โ
Then Sakata Sanyu began to organize the Japanese troops in the POW camp to resist the marines who had already stormed the POW camp!
In the shack where Yang Dawa and Yang Erwa were, nearly 100 prisoners of war heard the sound of guns outside, and all of them stood up excitedly from the straw, and the prisoners of war who were close to the wooden door looked out from the gap in the door panel, and then turned back in surprise and said: "Brothers, someone has come to save us!" โ
When Yang Erwa heard that someone had come to save her prisoners of war, she also squeezed in front of the wooden door, and looked out through the crack in the door, sure enough, someone was attacking the Japanese soldiers in the prisoner of war camp, Yang Erwa ran back to Yang Dawa's side lying on the straw and said excitedly: "Brother! Someone really came to save us! โ
Yang Dawa, who was lying on the straw, also had a hopeful look in her eyes!
The Japanese troops guarding the prisoner of war camp were originally raided, and the firepower of the Marines was much stronger than that of the Sakata Wing, and most of the Japanese soldiers of the Sakata Wing were single-shot rifles, and under the blows of the Marines repeating rifles and repeating revolvers, they quickly collapsed, and even the Wing Commander Sakata Sanyu personally commanded in front of him, there was no way to stop the attack of the Marines!
Seeing that the situation was not good, Sakata Sanyu could not hold on to Pyongyang's reinforcements at all, and immediately made a decision to withdraw from the prisoner of war camp with his troops, the officers and men of the Imperial Japanese Army should not have lost so much for the sake of worthless Qing prisoners of war! When the Japanese Sakata Wing withdrew from the prisoner of war camp, the Sakata Wing, which had more than 3,000 people, lost nearly a thousand people in less than an hour under artillery fire and Marine Corps soldiers!
Zhang Zuolin had been following Ju Peng's side, and when he saw the Japanese wolf bรจi fleeing from the other side of the prisoner of war camp, he immediately said to Ju Peng: "Brigade Commander Ju! The Japanese ran! Shall we chase? โ
Ju Peng shook his head and said, "The task given to us by the principal is to rescue the Qing prisoners of war!" These Japanese criminals will have a chance to clean them up in the future! โ
Zhang Zuolin nodded and said, "Well! The most important thing is to save prisoners of war! โ
Under Ju Peng's order, the soldiers of the Marine Corps immediately opened the rows of shacks where the Qing prisoners of war were held, and took the Qing prisoners of war to the port of Nanpu to prepare for boarding.
Yang Erwa also carried Yang Dawa on her back and followed the team of prisoners of war with surprise on her back and walked towards Nanpu Port!
At this time, Ju Peng, who was next to the prisoner of war team, saw Yang Erwa walking to his side with Yang Dawa on his back, so he asked, "What's wrong with this brother?" โ
Yang Erwa saw that Ju Peng should be the official of the team that saved herself, and immediately replied respectfully: "Thank you, Lord for saving your life!" My brother was beaten by Japanese soldiers! โ
Ju Peng immediately shouted to the back: "Come here on a stretcher!" Here's another medic! โ
Immediately, two marines carrying a stretcher and a medical soldier carrying a medical kit came to Yang Erwa and Yang Dawa, and the two marines helped Yang Erwa lift the injured Yang Dawa to the magazine, and the medical soldier checked Yang Dawa's injuries and said to Ju Peng: "Brigade commander, this person has 3 broken ribs and some internal bleeding, so he has to rest for at least 2 months!" โ
Ju Peng said: "Sue our medical personnel, treat this wounded brother and the wounded brothers of other prisoners of war all as the wounded soldiers of our Marine Corps, and treat them equally!" โ
When Yang Erwa next to her heard this, she immediately knelt on the ground: "Thank you, my lord!" Thank you, sir! โ
Ju Peng dragged Yang Erwa up, "Okay!" Little brother, take care of your brother! โ
It didn't take long for the Marines to evacuate to the port of Nampo with more than 10,000 prisoners of war and began to board the 10 transport ships parked in the port.
Under the leadership of the Marine Corps, a brigade of marines and more than 10,000 Qing prisoners of war were very fast, and it didn't take half an hour for all of them to board the transport ship.
The eight warships of the Second Fleet on the sea surface of Nanpu Port never stopped their ignition, and when they saw that the marines and Qing prisoners of war had boarded the transport ships, they began to turn their bows and lead the 10 transport ships in the direction of Weihaiwei.
On the way to the retreat of the Japanese Sakata Wing to Pyongyang City, they encountered the troops of the Sixth Division rushing over to support, and the commander of the Sixth Division, Sakai Fengren, looked at Sakata Sanyou with an iron face and said angrily: "Sakata-kun! You're so disgraced to the Imperial Japanese Army! A wing actually resisted for an hour and abandoned a prisoner of war camp where more than 10,000 prisoners of war were held! โ
Sakata's face was not very good, and he said bluntly: "Division commander, our wing has been attacked by several times the enemy's strength!" Not only are the enemies well-armed and well-trained, but they also have a lot of artillery! Looking at the enemy's costume, it should be the elite Dingbei Army of the Qing Dynasty! You asked me to have a wing armed only with single-shot rifles, how to resist, did you make a senseless sacrifice with the lives of precious Japanese soldiers? โ
Among the Qing Dynasty troops, only Lin Daxin's Dingbei Army wore new-style military uniforms! The entire Japanese Army, after the defeat in the attack on Jinzhou, already attached great importance to Lin Daxin's Dingbei Army, and even Sakata Sanyou, who was not the wing commander on the front line of the battlefield, also knew about the Dingbei Army.
Although the division commander Sakai Fengren's face was still pale, he didn't say anything to Sakata, he also knew that the Sakata Wing was a second-line unit, not only the artillery configured by the wing was transferred to the Japanese army's first-line troops in Liaodong, but also the entire wing was issued with backward single-shot rifles, if it was really the troops of the Dingbei Army of the Qing Dynasty, it would be difficult for the Sakata Wing to defend the prisoner of war camp!