The hut was crowded with people, there was a small oil lamp in a small earthen box on the wall, and Aunt Qi took a straw hat to cover the lamp so that the light would not shine outside. In the dim light, Zhongkou's sister-in-law, Zheng Xiaomei, and Qi Xueqin were sweating profusely, bandaging the wounds of a thin and tall wounded, who was Xu Xinli, the squad leader of the cavalry battalion.

In this black rumbling hut, through the faint light from the small oil lamp, I saw Xu Xinli clutching his chest and coughing rapidly. Sister-in-law Zhongkou hurriedly took out a clean towel from her pocket and asked Zheng Xiaomei to quickly cover Xu Xinli's mouth. Listening to someone walking around outside the house, the more afraid of sounds, the more itchy Xu Xinli's throat became, and he couldn't breathe, so he hurriedly lay on the ground, covered his mouth with a towel, and gasped softly.

Xinli only felt a spicy pain in his chest, and couldn't help coughing lightly twice, spitting out a large pool of hot and salty blood.

Sister-in-law Zhongkou just stood up to catch her breath after she was busy, and hurriedly bent down to help him and asked in a low voice, "Squad Leader Xu, are you vomiting blood?" Xu Xinli wiped his mouth and said, "Don't get in the way, don't get in the way!" ”

"You're amazing!" Sister-in-law Nakaguchi sighed and asked in a low voice, "How did you rush out?" ”

Xu Xinli whispered: "Last night, when the team moved to the west, the team was crossing the Xinzhu Ji River, and the enemy surrounded it. One of our squads covered the breakthrough of the cavalry battalion, and in the end there were more than seven people left. My horse was killed, and I was left behind. As soon as I ran into the small forest of Luwang Village, the enemy surrounded me, and I was chased by the enemy and had nowhere to run, so I got into the Xujia Dawei in Ergou Village, squatted in a puddle inside, and covered my head with rotten grass. ”

"It's so dangerous!" Sister-in-law Nakaguchi said.

"Who says it isn't! The devil shot me in the puddle, threatened me to come out, and shot me, and I didn't move. I hid in a puddle until dark, and I came out only when the enemy was gone. I wanted to go to Sangou Village, not wanting to run into the enemy again on the road, so I chased for a few miles and shot me again. If it weren't for your rescue, I would have been 'glorious' a long time ago.

"That's what we're supposed to do!" Sister-in-law Nakaguchi said.

"In addition, more than 40 villagers in Zhengyuan Village and nearby areas have been taken into Qingkou by little devils in the name of participating in the 'Big Knife Society', and have now been shot dead in the cemetery outside the east gate of Qingkou."

"Ahh Sister-in-law Nakaguchi hurriedly asked him, "Are you sure they were all killed?" ”

"It's the local people who said it, and it shouldn't be fake." Xu Xinli replied.

Sister-in-law Zhongkou hurriedly asked again: "Can someone send you home?" ”

Xu Xinli said: "Okay! I have a place to hide at home, and there is a doctor in that village. ”

Zhongkou's sister-in-law stood up and said to Sun Lianguo: "You immediately find someone to send squad leader Xu to Liuhang." Send him home anyway. ”

Sun Lianguo agreed to go out.

At this time, someone at the door shouted: "Sister-in-law! Listening to the sound, the sound was strange, and he hurriedly looked at the door of the house, and it was Xu Yun who came in.

I saw that Xu Yunduo was covered in mud, his clothes were torn and torn through a few holes, the skin of his thumbs and thumbs had been removed, and he was still bleeding when he had just formed a scar, and his face was full of pain. As soon as I saw Aunt Qi and sister-in-law Zhongkou, I shouted: "Auntie, sister-in-law ......"

I saw tears in his eyes, and he couldn't speak. The eldest lady hurriedly pulled him to sit on the earthen kang. Sister-in-law Nakaguchi hurriedly asked, "How did you get out of danger?" "Everyone else came over and asked questions. Sun Lianguo and the others brought people in and busily carried Xu Xinli away. Zhongkou's sister-in-law sent Xu Xinli away, and when she came back, she asked Peng Dacun how he had escaped.

Peng Dacun said: "After I covered the instructor to break through the siege, I was surrounded again, so I rushed to Sangou Village with all my might. Fortunately, I ran fast, caught up with the county brigade, and persevered in the village all day, breaking out with them in the night. They went somewhere else, and I came back.

Zheng Xiaomei hurriedly asked: "How many people have rushed out of our team?" How about the county brigade? ”

"There are soldiers from the Second Brigade and the Second Brigade of the 'Mountain Column', as well as cadres from the military region, who probably rushed out. The county brigade sacrificed a lot. The comrades behaved very bravely, and the deputy captain led a squadron to rush into the second ditch and did not come out. The captain of the brigade led the people in the end, while covering the troops of the military region, he opened fire on the enemy, and the bullets pierced three or four eyes all over his clothes, and he was wounded and tired on his shoulders and vomited blood. After a pause, he said, "Comrade Xiangxiaozhan is also here, outside the house." ”

Sister-in-law hurriedly said, "Hurry up and call him in!" ”

Peng Dacun went out for a while, and Xiang Xiaozhan followed behind. As soon as he entered the house, he called out, "Sister-in-law! The thick lips were closed, and he crouched in the corner and scratched his fingers on the ground.

Sister-in-law asked kindly: "Comrade Xiaozhan, how did you get out of danger?" ”

Peng Dacun said: "He, last night captain sent him to the south of the old Zhu Ji Henan to contact the old Sixth Regiment, and on the way back, he was caught by the enemy. When he passed through Yigou Village, he took a hole and ran away. The enemy's machine-gun fire did not hit him. He came back, but he lost his gun......"

Zhongkou's sister-in-law comforted Xiang Xiaozhan affectionately: "Stay in the green mountains, don't worry about no firewood, and you can make a new one if the gun is lost!" I saw Xiang Xiaozhan squatting and lowering his head into the crotch of his pants.

At this time, Sun Lianguo and several of his village cadres came back and stood at the door. Sister-in-law Nakaguchi asked, "Did you find someone to bury the bodies of your comrades?" ”

Sun Lianguo said: "I found it, and I have buried a lot." The corpses of many members of your squad are here, but there is no Captain Song. ”

Sun Lianguo squeezed in as he spoke, handed a shell gun to his sister-in-law and said, "This was found in the soil under the corpse of a sacrificial comrade, and it must have been buried on the verge of death." ”

Nakaguchi took it and saw that it was a new gun full of burning blue, and the bullets had run out. Everyone bowed their heads and mourned the martyrs who did not forget to save their weapons for the revolution until their deaths.

After a while, the people came out of the hut with Nakaguchi's sister-in-law, and walked along the embankment, and saw two men about to carry the body of a comrade, who was lying on the ground, with a white scrap of torn paper in front of his head, fluttering in the breeze, and a handful of broken hands in one hand plowing the earth. When this comrade was dying, he still wanted not to destroy the documents.

They buried the comrade's body in deep sorrow and walked forward again. The bodies in this area are almost buried. Several new graves appeared on the slope of the riverbank, and the sisters and sisters stood silently in front of them, and everyone bowed their heads, and grief and hatred burned like a fire in the hearts of these people.

In the silent crowd, Nakaguchi stood in front of the people, looking at the shell guns left by the martyrs, raising her head and looking forward, behind the new graves, there was an endless burning earth.

In my ears came the angry scolding of men and women in the distant village who were being tortured by the enemy, mixed with the shrill laughter of the enemy. The night wind whined, and the moonlight was sad. She couldn't help but be sad and angry, and her hatred burned her heart. Gritting his teeth and raising his eyebrows, he couldn't help but pull out the pistol and slowly insert it into the holster.

People clenched their fists in grief.

Two people came from the other side of the river embankment, and ran to Nakaguchi's sister-in-law to report: "The instructor has been sacrificed, but Captain Song has not found all of them, only this gun." Sun Lianguo handed the gun to his sister-in-law.

Sister-in-law Nakaguchi took the gun and saw that it was a barge gun, and the front sight of the gun was filed, and she couldn't help but move in her heart. When I was busy looking at it again in the moonlight, it was really one of the two handfuls in Song Jiliu's arms every day. I couldn't help but scream, thinking to myself: "Maybe he is dead...... A burst of sour pain was unbearable, and tears asked, "Where did you find it?" ”

"In the wheat field over there." Sister-in-law Nakaguchi heard this and ran forward like a strong wind. Everyone ran after her, and searched all the wheat fields, and there was no trace of them. They went down to the woods again to look for it.

( Biography of Chinese and Foreign Heroes )