Chapter Seventy-Two: Rescue
Are you dying here today? Although Zhao Weiliang's heart was very worried, he still looked very calm, now is the time of life and death, and he must not show his cowardice in front of others, otherwise it may be the collapse of the entire guerrilla army. "Shoot again when you aim, kill one is enough, kill two and earn one, even if you die, you have to pull a little devil on your back......" Zhao Weiliang didn't know whether to give orders to others or to cheer himself up, what he said was cruel, but if he had a mirror in his hand, he would definitely be scared out of his pale face.
Zhao Weiliang was surrounded by students who had traveled all the way south from Hefei to Huangshi, and Zhao Weiliang and his 34 guerrillas were ordered to escort the 12 students from Hefei to Huangshi. They should have handed over these progressive students to the local underground party in Huangshi, but who would have thought that the national army would immediately lose Huangshi, and Zhao Weiliang, who was forced to helpless, had no choice but to escort these progressive students to continue to venture south according to the entrustment of the Huangshi underground party.
The guide sent by the Huangshi underground party to lead the way for them said that this was the joint location, but they had been waiting for a long time, until Zhao Weiliang and the Japanese puppet army troops who suddenly appeared exchanged fire, but the joint person arranged by the underground party never appeared, and the sound of "pop ......" gunfire was still lingering in the ears, as if it would never stop, and the guerrillas under Zhao Weiliang had already suffered several casualties, and if they couldn't wait for the joint people, Zhao Weiliang had to order to withdraw into the mountains. Otherwise, they're going to be wiped out here.
With the guide sent by the Huangshi underground party leading the way, Zhao Weiliang and the others escorted those students out of Huangshi, and they have always been in danger. But at noon today, the devil suddenly seemed to go crazy, and used a position he had never seen before, set up checkpoints at various intersections and mountain passes, and then began to carry out a dragnet-style search. The guide sent by the Huangshi underground party had no choice but to take Zhao Weiliang and them all the way to dodge, and saw that they had found the place where they connected with the local guerrillas, not only did the guerrillas of the joint not appear, but they were also discovered by the searching Japanese army.
"No, I can't stop it, Lao Xie, you take half of the people to protect the student baby and retreat first, run to the mountains, and Qingzai and I will block the enemy." Seeing that the enemy's firepower was becoming more and more fierce, Zhao Weiliang had to order a retreat in batches. After getting along with a guerrilla team for a long time, Lao Xie, the deputy captain named by Zhao Weiliang, knew Zhao Weiliang's temperament, and did not shirk at the moment, and took more than a dozen team members to protect those students to retreat first, and only Zhao Weiliang and other team members were still fighting the defense line full of gunsmoke.
Lao Xie and a dozen of them took those students with them, so they could only desperately hide along the mountain road to the old forest. But now it's December weather, and many trees have lost their leaves at this time, and they can't stop the sight of the devils at all, so Lao Xie, who escaped into the mountains and forests, finally failed to avoid the pursuit of the Japanese army. Finding that someone had fled backwards into the mountains and forests, the Japanese puppet army that attacked Zhao Weiliang immediately divided their troops to bypass Zhao Weiliang's defense line and chased into the forest.
The Japanese soldiers who chased into the mountains and forests opened fire while chasing, and the bullets flew "whizzing" among the sparse trees, and the team members around Lao Xie walked and walked less, and when they finally crossed the mountain, there were only a few of the dozen guerrillas who followed Lao Xie to escort the students into the mountains and forests. Lao Xie and the others were out of breath and had just crossed the ridge of the mountain, but they found that the Japanese soldiers in khaki military uniforms had outflanked them from the sides of the mountains on both sides. Behind him was the sound of gunfire and shouting that seemed to not stop, and there were chasing soldiers on both sides, leaving Lao Xie with only one way, that is, to keep moving forward along the mountain.
It was another desperate escape, and it was the corpses all the way behind me, and it seemed that the ears would never be able to shake off the sound of those gunshots, the screams of those brothers who were shot. Lao Xie, who was already with tears in his eyes, couldn't bear to look back, because there was only the last one left behind him, and the other team members had all died under the pursuit of the Japanese soldiers. Lao Xie was depressed, and the guerrilla who followed him was also depressed, and a guerrilla force of dozens of people was wiped out in half an hour, and they lost only three people all the way from Hefei to Huangshi.
The bare earth hills and sparse forests were full of guerrillas who had fallen to the ground, and Zhao Weiliang, who had fled into the woods, had all been killed, and Lao Xie and Wang Qing behind him were the last two remaining guerrillas. Lao Xie, who had fought hard, finally protected those students and escaped along the mountain in a daze, but by instinct, the exhausted Lao Xie felt as if something was about to happen. "The devils don't shoot anymore, they seem to stop shooting us." Wang Qing, who was also exhausted, collapsed beside Lao Xie, and the barge gun with only two bullets left was still tightly held in his hand.
Lao Xie, who was slumped on the official road on his back, used his last strength to raise his head and look at the mountains and forests he had just run down, the Japanese army's earthy yellow military uniform was still looming towards him, but as Wang Qing said just now, these Japanese soldiers did not shoot again. Lao Xie gasped and turned himself over on the ground, and then struggled to find a grenade from his lower back, "Boys, lean on me, we are Chinese, even if we die, we can't let the little devil be caught." Lao Xie slowly unscrewed the back cover of the grenade, and then beckoned the students with tears on their faces to gather around him.
"Hey, I said you don't have long brains, a few of us have been squatting here for a long time, and your eyes are full of breath, so you can't see how many of us?" An arrogant voice appeared beside Lao Xie and them, and unconsciously turned their heads to look over, and a few Japanese soldiers with bared teeth and laughing squatted under the official road not far from Lao Xie and them. didn't bother to think about it so much, Lao Xie immediately reached out to pull the ring of the grenade, just like he just said, even if he died, he couldn't be a prisoner of the Japanese soldiers.
"Hey, I said you don't understand the fuck? Lao Tzu is not sorry to see that you pulled the grenade, you want to die if you want to die, why do you want to pull these irrelevant people? It was still the arrogant voice just now, but it stopped Lao Xie's fingers, which had already hooked the grenade tab. Only then did he remember that these Japanese soldiers who appeared under the official road had been speaking Chinese, and Lao Xie, who was already disheartened, looked up in disbelief that a Japanese soldier under the roadbed was already standing in front of him, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, he snatched the grenade from Lao Xie's hand.
"Lao Tzu looks down on you guys who can't fight the most, and one by one you will fight to the death with the little devils." The man who snatched the grenade looked carefully at Lao Xie and the students around him who were also with their mouths wide open, and then said with a smile, "Next time, when you want to kill yourself, don't die too early, remember to wait for the devil soldiers to surround you before pulling the string." This can also pull a few devil soldiers down to cushion their backs, don't fucking die lightly, it's not worth it. ”
Sticking his finger in his mouth and making a whistle, a truck drove over the turn of the official road, and the plaster flag on the front of the truck already indicated that the truck belonged to the Japanese army. "Don't care how many devil soldiers come here for a while, don't talk the fuck, what our company commander tells you to do, you just do it, if you get into trouble, don't complain that I really lost you to the devil soldiers." The truck stopped steadily beside Lao Xie and them, and a Japanese officer wearing a cloth soft military hat jumped out of the cab, and the man who was talking to Lao Xie just now stepped forward and whispered for a while, and Lao Xie, who was confused, saw the Japanese officer walking towards the pursuers who came down the mountain.
"Get up, let's tie you up for the time being, don't ask why, just do as I say and don't talk nonsense." A few Japanese soldiers who came up from under the roadbed shouted a few times, and Lao Xie and they stood up with each other according to the instructions of the leading man, and their hands were honestly tied by ropes. "What the fuck are you doing with a stalk on your neck? Keep your head down. Wang Qing, who had been holding his neck, was slapped by the man who took the lead, and then shouted again.
I don't know what the Japanese officers who walked past said to the pursuers, Lao Xie and the others were taken into the carriage by the people who came up from under the roadbed. After entering the carriage, Lao Xie realized that there were more than 20 people wearing Japanese military uniforms in this carriage, and the carriage was not big, but there were more than a dozen Lao Xie and them, and the people in the carriage could only stand now. "Don't worry, everyone, we are all national troops, from now on, no matter what we do, you don't make a sound." Lao Dongbei, who finally entered the carriage, whispered, and then took the light machine gun handed by Liu Shishi and put the bullet on fire.
Lao Xie and the students were ordered to stand in the innermost position near the wheelhouse, and through the gap in the tarpaulin at the front of the carriage, Lao Xie could see the Japanese officer who was turning back. "Don't look at it, that's our company commander, and all of us Chinese are in this car." A voice sounded in Lao Xie's ears, and he was about to turn his head to find the person who was talking, but the officer who had negotiated with the pursuers in the past had already sat in the cab and started the truck.
There was a window between the cab and the carriage that was only separated by a curtain, and Lao Xie could clearly see the expression of the national army company commander, as surprised as several other students standing at the front, and Lao Xie was also surprised by the age of the national army company commander. "Glasses, tell the brothers in the back, don't panic for a while, bypass the turn in front, we will encounter no less than a small team of Japanese soldiers, let's still mix as usual." Lao Xie didn't pay attention to what the company commander of the national army said to the people around him, he just confirmed his guess from the voice of the other party, this company commander of the national army is really young.