As the only student soldier allowed to follow the guard platoon and crawl towards Xiaozhuang Village, Fang Shiheng, who was lying on the ground and looking at the crowd in the small village, felt that there was a fire burning in his heart, as if his heart had already been burned.
Dry.
But this painful feeling that almost made his whole body twitch began a few minutes ago when he watched the Japanese through the black telescope of the guard platoon, waving his hands for the wolf dogs to bite him.
To be precise, it should be from two hours ago.
Fang Shiheng is a top student of Tantai Yunshu, and his landscape painting skills have been passed down by Tantai Yunshu. If he were in a peaceful and prosperous age, he should become a good young painter. After time and experience, he may even have the opportunity to surpass his teacher's achievements.
But the war came and the country was in danger. Fang Shiheng hoped to contribute to his country. Just as he passionately preached to Tang Dao and his classmates in the mountain col, he was willing to die in order to fight against the invaders.
From the moment he and his nine companions signed up to participate in the "Bayonet" project, they had put life and death at risk. The dangerous mountain roads at night and the sweat-soaked stumbling along the way could not extinguish the burning fire in the hearts of him and the outstanding young people from different departments.
.
Until he witnessed death with his own eyes...
It is the death of a fellow man.
The small village they arrived at after four hours of running was covered with white flags, and the open space was filled with temporary thin wooden coffins nailed with door panels. The villagers who had been keeping vigil all night looked at the appearance of their own people in military uniforms. They were not happy or unhappy.
Sad, numb face.
Lao Hei, the leader, made a brief inquiry and learned that the entire village had been looted by the Japanese army just during the day. Because they asked for news about wounded Chinese soldiers, the Japanese massacred five families and robbed all the wealth of the village.
On display in the rice fields were more than twenty bloody human lives. In order to prove their cruelty, the brutal Japanese soldiers did not even spare three-year-old children.
Death was so straightforwardly presented in front of Fang Shiheng's eyes, causing a fire to rise in Fang Shiheng's heart. It was so burning that almost every breath he exhaled was boiling hot.
In addition to the apparent numbness shown by the villagers towards the arrival of these soldiers, Fang Shiheng could actually feel that there was even fear and hatred hidden in their eyes in the darkness.
They are of the same race, but they hide fear and hatred. What a sad thing!
However, who can blame them? They originally just lived peacefully in this peaceful land, but when the war came, they faithfully fulfilled their commitments, accepted the reward, hid the wounded soldiers, and thus
They paid a heavy price with several families being slaughtered.
And all of this was caused by the failure of our own army on the front line. The soldiers who were supposed to defend the country not only failed to protect them, but instead caused the root cause of this tragedy.
The elite and students of the independent camp plunged back into the darkness with grief and shame.
Fortunately, in the early morning, they received a telegram from the cavalry platoon. A group of Japanese troops was advancing towards Xiaozhuang Village three kilometers away. The guard platoon and student soldiers quickly pursued it.
The fire in his chest that never went out became the source of motivation to support Fang Shiheng and the students. They had never received formal military training and were still able to keep up with the guard platoon during such a rapid march after running six or seven kilometers along the mountain road.
pace, although three people actually fainted from exhaustion just before arriving.
However, they still arrived late. The Japanese had already driven the villagers to the empty rice fields and surrounded them with rifles and machine guns.
Lao Hei, who quietly approached 300 meters outside Xiaozhuang Village, could only order the entire army not to move rashly. Otherwise, when the battle started, the first people to suffer would be the villagers pointed at by machine guns.
They came to attack and kill the Japanese troops who were operating on a small scale in this area, not to let the innocent villagers be used as burial objects for the Japanese.
Fang Shiheng could completely understand this reason, but when he saw with his own eyes the Japanese army began to bite the old man with his own eyes through the telescope, he could no longer bear it.
"Platoon Leader Wu, the Japanese are about to massacre the villagers. Why haven't you started taking action? This is a crime! It's murder!" Fang Shiheng almost growled and accused the man who had been staring into the distance with an expressionless face.
Lieutenant.
"I don't know if I have committed a crime, but what I am sure of is that if your voice alarms the Japanese wolf dog, those villagers will lose their lives forever because of you?" Lao Hei glanced sideways and his eyes were already slightly twitching.
The red-faced student leader whispered coldly.
Fang Shiheng was stunned. He knew that the army lieutenant was not alarmist.
Fang Shiheng secretly glanced at the ‘Hammer’ lying low in the grass more than 20 meters away.
He originally didn't know how terrifying dogs' hearing was, but the big dog called "Hammer" gave him this scientific knowledge.
Human hearing is nothing compared to that of dogs.
The 300 student soldiers in the student company not only wore military uniforms, but also had weapons and equipment distributed according to the standard. Each of them had a Japanese-style 38 rifle and 9 light machine guns. However, the ammunition was not unpacked and would only be used in emergencies.
Only under certain circumstances will the student soldiers who are still familiar with firearms be allowed to use them, and auxiliary equipment such as binoculars will also be allocated.
Fang Shiheng took the newly issued telescope and looked around curiously. Then, he saw the big dog that emerged from the forest at least 200 meters away.
"What a big native dog!" Fang Shiheng subconsciously exclaimed in a low voice.
Then, in the field of vision of the telescope, the native dog that had just jumped out of the forest with a hare in its mouth glanced this way.
Yes, it’s a glance!
In the field of view of the telescope, he could clearly see the eyes of the large Chinese garden dog looking at him. After giving him a disdainful glance, he spread out his four legs and ran wildly before disappearing again.
His intuition told him that the dog must have heard his voice and thought he was strange.
But that is a distance of more than 200 meters!
If, as the Army Lieutenant said, the Japanese army shot and killed the villagers because of his carelessness, then he will never forgive himself in his life, and even death will not be able to eliminate it.
"I'm sorry!" The handsome young man apologized with his face flushed and his voice as low as a mosquito.
He dared to accuse a strong man like Tang Dao to his face, but because the most ordinary villager apologized to Tang Dao's subordinates, it seemed that his words and deeds were inconsistent, but it made someone like Lao Hei feel the sincerity in the heart of this extremely proud scholar.
Wei Wei sighed: "Boy, this is the battlefield. For the final victory, the first thing you have to learn is to wait for the most suitable fighter opportunity. It's not that we are doing nothing, but we are waiting for Gu Xishui's two
A special operations team is looking for good fighters, and we will wait until Niu Er and the others are sure to kill the two Japanese machine gunners before we can officially launch the operation. Otherwise, not one or two villagers will die, but all of them, do you understand?"
Fang Shiheng nodded fiercely.
He understood the truth, but with the brutal gunfire of the Japanese army, two more villagers fell down, right in front of his eyes.
Fang Shiheng's fingers dug hard into the withered grass where he was hiding, and he buried his head without daring to look ahead. At this moment, he more or less understood the pain and helplessness of the army colonel he had accused.
It's not that he didn't dare to die, but he didn't want to see his men fall to the guns of the Japanese army because they were outnumbered and lacked ammunition reserves!
Just like him now, he can only watch helplessly, and the hand that can draw magnificent mountains and rivers can only grasp the land helplessly.
Fortunately, the reflection on the mirror lit up in the distance, which should have been the signal from the fair-faced Army second lieutenant.
The guard platoon can approach the village and start operations.
"I ask for action together!" Fang Shiheng tried his best to lower his voice and asked for orders.
"If you don't obey orders and die in battle, I will be whipped!" Lao Hei stared at him for a long time before leaving these words.
Fang Shiheng became the only student soldier who could follow the soldiers of the guard platoon. The other nine students were required to stand by with a guard squad on the outside of the battlefield.
Their task is equally arduous, and they are responsible for killing the Japanese infantry who have slipped through the enemy's trap.
Lao Hei didn't need to say a military order not to stay. Leaving the village filled with more than 20 thin coffins had already become inevitable.
The battle started when the guard platoon approached to a distance of 150 meters.
The Japanese wolf green dog heard a strange noise coming from afar.
Okamoto Asahiro, who was about to wave his hand and order him to be shot, only had time to turn his head and look into the distance, his horrified eyes still dancing in the depths of his pupils.
"boom!"
The sudden gunshot sounded like thunder in everyone's ears!...
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