Chapter 13: The Dry Well That Weeps
In the village, the soldiers of the two sides tacitly agreed to collect the bodies of ordinary people together.
Except for the occasional sobbing, no one at the scene made a sound.
Zheng Yingqi and Li Yunlong searched the village aimlessly, hoping that they were lucky enough to meet the villagers who escaped the catastrophe and did not die.
In front of a house, the two saw several dead militiamen and civilians lying on their stomachs.
Only then did they know that the reason for the killing of the village was that the village had provided shelter to the militia.
After the devils tracked down Xiaowang Village, they found that the common people here were very anti-Japanese, and they simply harmed the entire village without doing anything.
Li Yunlong's teeth clenched, and an uncontrollable anger appeared in his eyes, like an angry lion.
He didn't pay attention to the presence of the preserved fruit soldiers around him, and scolded angrily:
"It's a forty-five degree execution-style shooting! Not only did they kill the captives, but they also did it to the civilians! ”
"These brutes! If I don't take revenge, I swear not to be a man! ”
Compared with the angry Li Yunlong, Zheng Yingqi still maintained his last sanity.
Because he knew he might be the last hope for some of the survivors.
The hard work paid off, and his experience and patience did not fail him.
In the southwest corner of the village, there is a dry well, which was originally responsible for the domestic water of the nearby villagers.
But over time, the well reached its useful life and became a dry well.
After Xiaowang Village was persecuted by devils, although the villagers resisted bravely, cold weapons were almost useless in the face of hot weapons.
In order to save ammunition, these brutes were also troublesome, and threw many villagers headfirst into this dry well.
In order to prevent someone from climbing out, they frantically threw a large stone into the dry well and crushed all the villagers in the well.
Slowly, the people inside will die of suffocation and other reasons.
This is the dry well that weeps.
Even many veterans can't control their emotions when they see it.
After hearing a faint sound coming from the dry well, Zheng Yingqi immediately called the nearby soldiers to come and help.
Hearing that there might be survivors, everyone around came to help.
At this time, the two sides did not distinguish between the Central Army and the Eighth Route Army, they both had only one identity.
That is, the Chinese who want to take revenge and save their compatriots.
At Zheng Yingqi's insistence, he tied a rope to himself, and the other end of the rope was in Li Yunlong's hand.
With the help of the people, he immediately went down to the well.
At this time, the sun had already risen, and with the help of the sun, Zheng Yingqi saw a large and heavy stone lying across the middle of the dry well.
He shouted to the people on the ground to hand them a few more ropes down, and he carefully tied the rope to the stone.
In order to prevent the people under the stone from wasting their remaining physical strength because of their cries for help, he used his gentlest voice to comfort them the whole time.
But the villagers still can't help but let out small, desperate cries.
This made Zheng Yingqi's heart twist like a knife, he reached out and tugged on the rope tied to the stone hard, and shouted to the people above after making sure it was safe:
"Pull!"
The people who had already prepared immediately exerted their strength.
Because of the light weight, Zheng Yingqi was quickly pulled up.
Subsequently, with the efforts of everyone. The big rock was then dragged out and thrown aside.
Without the slightest rest, Zheng Yingqi pushed away a recruit looking down at the well, and entered the desperate dry well again.
Without obstacles, he could clearly see the villagers being thrown upside down in the well.
Those kind-hearted people were pressed into various distorted positions in the well.
Even for a veteran of a hundred battles, this scene still makes him creepy.
After carefully rescuing the top villagers, Zheng Yingqi suppressed his anger and sadness.
He kept the nearby recruits sane, and then followed the process he had just done to get the people out of the well.
In the process of their efforts to rescue, the accompanying medical soldiers of the 217th Regiment had already come to the scene and waited for a long time, and he took the trouble to check every rescued villager.
But they came too late, and it had already been a night since those beasts arrived in Xiaowang Village.
Most of the people in the well were no longer breathing, and they died in fear under the dry well.
Only a few people persevered, but even if they did not die, they suffered multiple fractures and contusions all over their bodies.
This earthly purgatory brought tears to the eyes of the medics who looked down on life and death, because he knew that even if these people could be cured, they would become insane and become outright insane.
The mountains and rivers are exotic, and they don't share the sky!
Seeing the recruits work in an orderly manner under the command of their commander, Zheng Yingqi silently came to the battalion commander.
The two are in another hellish scene.
Several wooden sticks were strung with the remains of the militiamen, and they were stuck diagonally in the red and black earth, and the nearby traces let the two know that the militiamen did not give up their resistance even in the end.
The cold wind blew, and Zheng Yingqi opened his mouth first.
"There are a few survivors rescued over there, we still have a mission, we can't take them away."
Before he could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by the people around him.
The battalion commander did not avoid Zheng Yingqi's gaze this time, he blushed and smashed his chest and promised:
"Don't worry, I'll heal them as much as I can. If anyone wants to stay in the Central Army, I will accept them, and if anyone wants to leave, I will give them the passage fee! ”
"Okay, I hope you can do what you say."
After the conversation, Zheng Yingqi, who had turned around to leave to gather with his teammates, suddenly stopped, and he said a word seemingly casually.
"In the largest room in the village, there are a few brutes who are still dying. You know, we have discipline in our team, and it's up to you. ”
The originally lifeless battalion commander of the preserved fruit seemed to have been injected with chicken blood, and he immediately took a few recruits to the place that Zheng Yingqi said.
After a while, there were shouts of killing and the wails of beasts over the village.
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Although the original resting place was destroyed, the soldiers had to rest here for a while.
A night's rush to the mountains and the activities just now made everyone in this special service company physically and mentally exhausted.
Now in this bad weather, it is reasonable to delay the trip due to some things on the road.
Even if the devils of this detachment did not return to the base in time to report, other small days would not be the first to go out to find someone.
After arranging the sentry officers, the soldiers of the special service company fell asleep lightly.
At noon, the battalion commander of the 217th Regiment came to invite Zheng Yingqi and them to dinner together.
Considering that he had a certain friendship with the other party, Zheng Yingqi still agreed to bring back the meal prepared by the other party.
Although it is not the same as what they usually eat, it is good to have a hot bite to eat in this kind of wilderness.
After confirming that there was no problem with the food, they quickly finished eating and hurried to continue to rest, and everyone's hearts were holding their breath.