Chapter 211: When is it too peaceful?
A day later, a large army of Japanese drove past our village without even stopping, and went east in a puff of smoke.
Little Japan is very cunning, and every large-scale operation will have a vanguard to explore the way, because our squadron's weapons are not as sophisticated as theirs, for example, the main gun in the squadron at that time, "Hanyang-made", has an effective firing range of only about 250 meters, while the effective firing range of the Japanese's "38 big cover" is about 480 meters, this is the gap. The effective firing range of the "medium official" in the squadron is about 500 meters, which is a fight with the 38 big cover, but that kind of gun is a scarce commodity, and only elite troops can equip it. As long as the squadron is not forced to do so, it rarely confronts the Japanese army head-on, and it is generally an ambush or a surprise attack. Chen Hui shot at them at that time and led them to the east, and they were so desperate to chase after them, probably because they were afraid that the large army would be ambushed and wanted to "wade to the mines".
And here, I interject again? If a friend doesn't like me interjecting into the book, please leave a message, and I won't interject in the future.
Let's talk about the "squadron * team" in the War of Resistance Against Japan, not so much the "squadron * team", but the Kuomintang army, because the communist army, from beginning to end, has not fought any vigorous battles with little Japan, those famous battles, are all fought by the Kuomintang, because of "that" reason, now Chinese mainland books are all collectively referred to as "squadron * team", but I estimate that Taiwan may not be called so. Some clues can be seen from the anti-Japanese movies when I was a child, and the anti-Japanese movies at that time were only "Mine Warfare", "Tunnel Warfare", and "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", and "Railway Guerrilla" seems to be later. At the time, I thought it was anti-Japanese, but now that I think about it, it is nonsense, just with a few tunnels, a few mines, a few hairy children, and jumping off the beam and clowning like a family, you can block hundreds of thousands of well-equipped Japanese troops? Those "Battle of Songhu" and "Battle of Changsha", why don't you shoot them out for the people to see, because those battles have nothing to do with the Communist Army Mao. In the 10 major battles of resistance against Japan, the communist army fought a "great victory at Pingxingguan" and a "battle of 100 regiments", and the "great victory at Pingxingguan" is still quite controversial until now, and the Kuomintang, the Communist Party, and Japan have different rhetoric, and all three sides say that they have won victory in that battle.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, what was the Communist Army doing at that time? The army was divided into parts, integrated into the people, recuperated in the rear, won the hearts of the people, waited for the opportunity, and chased the Central Plains. Internationally, creating public opinion, saying that Lao Chiang did not resist the Japanese, forcing Lao Chiang to take out the elite and defeat the Japanese, the communist army snickered on the side to watch the fire from the other side, and sat on the fishermen, after the war between the two sides, they rushed up to fight the remnants of the Japanese army and the remnants of the army, the main purpose was to capture equipment and enrich their troops. Lao Jiang's sentence "If you go outside, you must first settle inside", is actually very reasonable.
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was actually a tripartite war between the Kuomintang, the Communist Party, and Japan.
In the past, there was an old man surnamed Zhang in our village, who graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, and came out as a Kuomintang company commander, and he fought with the Japanese in his last battle, but he was defeated and evacuated with the remnants of the army. Angry old man Zhang, Lao Tzu fought with the Japanese in front, and you stabbed us in the back.
Go home!
That's how Old Man Zhang came back. Who is this old man, the friends who mailed me the medicine a few days ago may be no stranger, the recipient is called "Zhang Yongqing", this is my friend, this old man Zhang, is my friend's grandfather. The old man is worthy of coming out of the Whampoa Military Academy, he is particularly cultivated, and he is upright in the world. When I was in elementary school, I participated in a long-distance running competition held by the district, and my result in that time was fourth in the district in the primary school category. This old man also went, he seemed to be eighty years old at the time, and he won the ninth place in the senior category, although only nine old men participated in the competition. At that time, I asked him, why are you so old? The old man said happily, it's important to participate.
At that time, on the radio, the name of the old man Zhang was repeatedly played, called Zhang Wen or something, saying that he was a cadet who graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy for many periods, had served as a Kuomintang company commander, and participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan, but it was not said how he came back. This old man lived for a long time, until my friend got married and had children, my friend called him grandfather, and my friend's child should have called him Gaozu, and it has been ten years since he died.
I'm sorry, it's a bit too much, and it's off topic, so let's get down to business.
The Japanese came this time, mainly to grab grain, they may also know that the people of our villages have hid in the mountains, but they did not go into the mountains, there are many villages under the mountains, they can't be angry with our villages, moreover, they may also have a task, how many catties of grain have to be grabbed within the time limit, go into the mountains to find people in our villages, not to mention the delay, and not to mention how much food can be grabbed, little Japan will not do this kind of thing of throwing watermelons and picking up sesame seeds.
After the Japanese army passed, the mountain protection group sent a few people, and they didn't dare to bring weapons, and went east along the road to find Chen Hui, of course, in the eyes of many people, Chen Hui is unlikely to survive, how can two legs run through the iron donkey, they mainly want to see if they can find Chen Hui's corpse back, and they can't let such a good child go into the wilderness.
At that time, Wang Xiaoshun, the eldest grandson of Wang Caoyu, was also sent to find Chen Hui's body, and the following were all told by Wang Xiaoshun to my grandmother and grandfather later.
How did they find it at that time, there were four of them, and after walking a distance to the east, one person said, "It's not okay to look for it this way, the east is so big, there are mountains and villages, who knows where Chen Hui wanted to run at that time." Others asked him, so how to find it? The man said, didn't Chen Hui run away while putting the gun, and those Japanese were also chasing him while putting the gun, let's look for the bullet case on the ground and follow the bullet case forward.
When the other three people heard that this was a good idea, they scattered to look for bullet casings on the ground, and when they found them, they judged the direction and walked a little further along the road to find them.
On the way to the east, they found a field of crops, and went out of the field to the north, and by this time they had probably walked out of the field for seven or eight miles, and finally came to the foot of a mountain, which was a dead end, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and those who went in had to fly out unless they had wings.
At the bottom of the mountain, a few people found dozens of bullet casings at once, and a short distance inside, a few people did not see the corpses, and at the bottom of the mountain, they found a stump, more than one person is tall, the thickness of the waist, the stump is full of bayonet eyes, and the whole thing is about to be stabbed into a hornet's nest by the bayonet, and then look closely, there are countless bullet holes on it.
A few people thought it was strange, and when they broke open the stump, they saw that the wood inside had been crisped by bullets, and there were probably fifty or sixty bullets.
A few people looked at the unlucky stump and looked at each other, what kind of tricks is this little Japanese playing, didn't he find Chen Hui, took a piece of wood and scattered it for half the weather?
Out of the pass, several people continued to search, but they could not find a single bullet casing, as if the Japanese soldiers had stopped chasing after the pass.
He didn't go far further, and he completely lost the clue. A few people met to discuss, what should I do, if I go back empty-handed, it will not be easy to explain. Eventually, a few people brought the stump back, and everyone looked around at the stump, dumbfounded......
What the hell is going on? No one can tell.
As for Chen Hui, his whereabouts are unknown so far. Some people say that Chen Hui grabbed the Japanese and cut off his head, and poured gasoline on the Japanese and burned his body; Some people also say that after Chen Hui was killed by the Japanese, he turned into a piece of wood, and some people even said that that person was not Chen Hui at all, but a piece of wood that became Chen Hui's appearance and saved dozens of people. Anyway, there are different opinions.
Until more than fifty years later, that year, I was already sixteen years old, and one day, a person came to the family, looking at a man in his sixties, dressed as a Taoist priest, and when he entered the door, he looked for Bai Xiangu, that is, to find my grandmother, who was already in her seventies and almost eighty. After the Taoist priest saw my grandmother, he said that he had something to ask for, and then took out a piece of "Four Water Order" from his body, reported himself to his family, and said that he was the sixth disciple of Xinyangzi and the third generation head of Huanghuaguan, named Chen Hui......
The Japanese had not been here since that sweep, and my grandfather had been in the mountains for five or six days, and only then did they come out of the mountains after they had eaten all the dry food they had brought with them.
When I returned home, I dug out the grain I had buried before and stored it, and I lived a peaceful life again.
Time flies, time flies. Soon, the time came in the autumn of 1945, and Japan was defeated and surrendered. This year, my grandmother was twenty-seven years old, my grandfather was seventy-eight years old, my grandmother was fifty-six years old, and my grandfather was thirty-eight years old.
Of course, the unconditional surrender of the Japanese did not give me anything really to be happy about for my grandmother in the ravine, because when the Japanese did not come, life was not very good, and now that they are gone, life is still the same. Moreover, the news of the defeat of the Japanese did not reach our isolated village until winter, but after driving out the foreign enemy, it was time for the rats to fight in the nest......
My grandfather was supported by my grandmother, stood on the top of the mountain, squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, and muttered in his mouth, when will it be peaceful this shit!