Xia Yuan didn't know how long they would stay in the cellar, at least until the Japanese had completely left Jinling.
As for the current situation in the outside world, he didn't know.
Did the group of female students tell the outside world about what happened in Jinling City, and did the outside world believe what they said?
None of this is known.
The Japanese army slaughtered the city, which was too unbelievable for outsiders.
We must know that after the end of the First World War, international law became more and more perfect, gentlemanism was pursued in Europe, and international law and humanitarianism were strictly observed.
Therefore, in the eyes of Europeans, the massacre will not happen.
Many foreigners simply do not believe the rumors in the Chinese media that the Japanese army massacred unarmed civilians in Jinling City.
They may have forgotten that they do not regard Africans as human beings at all.
In particular, the United States massacred Indians.
While massacring unarmed civilians in Jinling City, the Japanese army began to destroy evidence.
Now, Xia Yuan's only hope is to rely on the intervention of outside forces to expose what the Japanese army did in Jinling City in advance. However, whether what happened in Jinling City will receive outside intervention is uncertain.
Know.
Right now, the most important thing is to wait.
But every wait was accompanied by the death of a large number of people in Jinling, and all Xia Yuan's methods had been adopted.
This disaster cannot be avoided, and one person's power is too weak after all.
In mid-December, the daytime temperature is below zero. Even if the sun is shining, it is like a huge light bulb hanging in the sky. It only emits light but cannot bring warmth to the earth.
Xia Yuan stood on the second floor and looked into the distance. Japanese trucks were passing through the streets. Checkpoints were set up along the way to check passing vehicles.
The church is still intact, but the surrounding area is in ruins.
The Japanese army had penetrated deeply into Jinling City, massacring, looting, and setting fire to it. Large areas of buildings in Jinling City were enveloped in flames and turned into ruins.
Fortunately, the location of the church is relatively remote, and the surrounding houses were turned into ruins by Japanese air raids early on. Japanese troops rarely visited this area. Only Japanese troops along the way would choose to station themselves in the church at night.
However, there was nothing in the church, and the location was remote, making it unsuitable for use as a residence. Most people left early the next morning.
The church is indeed a rare safe zone.
At least in Xia Yuan's opinion, if there were no accidents, he could at least escape until the end of the Jinling Massacre.
There was enough food for two people in the cellar. Every time he went out, he brought back a large number of cans and Japanese marching kettles, and the stored water was enough for two people.
The cellar is warm enough, and there are many wooden canopies. The former priest built the cellar as an air-raid shelter. Xia Yuan brought back many quilts and military coats, so he did not feel cold at all.
It can be said that the cellar is safe and warm enough.
Zhou Xiaoli cleans the cellar, arranges the bedding, and sorts cans and water. She is Xia Yuan's solid backing.
There was nothing to do during the day, so Xia Yuan stood at the window on the second floor. After observing, he returned to the cellar.
There were a lot of bullets and grenades, which he had obtained during the night operations and night attacks on the Japanese in the past few nights. There was no need to worry about ammunition.
Xia Yuan lay on the bed with nothing to do and fell asleep quickly.
Zhou Xiaoli sat at the door with a book and read it.
The church was empty, with no sunlight, and the wind blew in, making it even colder.
In the evening, another person approached the church. Their footsteps were messy and they were breathing heavily.
"There are no Japs here. Call Koizumi and the others in quickly. I'll see if there's anything to eat in the kitchen."
"Why."
Hearing the noise outside, Zhou Xiaoli closed her book, widened her eyes, and looked outside through the gap in the cellar entrance.
No one can be seen, but voices can be heard. They are Chinese.
Zhou Xiaoli woke up Xia Yuan, and they squatted at the entrance.
Xia Yuan took advantage of his ability to identify the location by hearing sounds, listened to the sounds coming from the outside world, and lowered his voice and said: "There are four people outside, and one of them is breathing a little weakly."
Since the church is quiet enough and the kitchen space is relatively confined, his positioning by hearing can be used to its maximum effect.
"Be careful and put him down." The voice that spoke was probably that of a middle-aged man in his forties. He sighed and said, "The injury is too serious, ugh."
"It's all my fault. If I hadn't insisted on going, Han Yang wouldn't have been injured by the Japanese. It's all my fault." A girl said sobbing.
"Xiaojuan, don't blame yourself. This matter itself is not your fault. The Japanese are so strict in searching the surrounding areas. Many people hiding in the cellar have been found. If we don't go out, sooner or later we will be captured by the Japanese."
Once found, none of us will be able to escape."
Someone comforted her. The voice was far away from the kitchen, probably near the door. They were probably being followed.
There was also a weak male voice: "Xiaojuan, don't be sad, I can still hold on."
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" The girl named Xiaojuan sobbed.
Zhou Xiaoli grabbed the corner of Lu Jin's clothes and asked him: "Brother Yuan, what's going on outside? Is anyone injured?"
Xia Yuan nodded, unbolted the door, and said, "It's safe enough in the cellar. Let's get them in first."
"Okay, Brother Yuan, I listen to you." Zhou Xiaoli tightened her palms.
The floor at the entrance to the cellar was suddenly lifted. Han Yang, who was lying on the ground, caught a glimpse of it, widened his eyes, and shouted: "There is someone!"
The middle-aged man quickly protected Xiaojuan and Han Yang behind him and shouted: "Who!"
The person watching at the door also ran over, holding a kitchen knife in his hand, and stared at Xia Yuan who ran out of the cellar.
Seeing that Xia Yuan had come out from under the table, their expressions relaxed. The Japanese would not come out from under the ground.
The middle-aged man asked: "Chinese?"
Xia Yuan glanced at a few people and nodded: "Did you escape?"
The middle-aged man nodded: "Escaped from the Japanese Japs, little brother, do you have any medicine here?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Yes, you can carry him in first." When Xia Yuan attacked the Japanese camp at night, he not only seized a large amount of weapons, ammunition and food, but also
Things like medicines, tobacco and alcohol.
"Quick, Ali, carry Han Yang in with me."
The middle-aged man was overjoyed and thanked him: "Thank you, little brother."
"It's safe here. The Japanese have come several times without being discovered. You can stay in the cellar, but you can't make a sound." While Xia Yuan warned them, his eyes fell on the part of Han Yang's hand.
In the lower abdomen, he, who had some medical experience, could tell at a glance that the gunshot wound did not hurt the vital parts, and the reason why he was weak was due to excessive blood loss.
"Be careful, the entrance to the cellar is narrow."
Zhou Xiaoli is helping below.
Everyone entered the cellar.
The middle-aged men, Xiaojuan, Ali and Han Yang were all a little surprised when they saw the situation in the cellar.
Several roast chickens hung on the edge of the upper bunk of the wooden canopy bed. There were a large number of empty cans stacked on the table. Leaning next to the table were seven rifles with bayonets.
There were blood-stained Japanese mattresses and military coats on the bed, and hanging Japanese soldiers' bullet magazines and grenades.
There are too many things. It is obvious that the people in this cellar are not simple.
"The wound treatment was relatively rudimentary."
Xia Yuan closed the entrance to the cellar, bolted the door, walked to Han Yang, tore off Han Yang's clothes, and saw a piece of black cloth soaked in blood: "With such a cloth wrapped around the wound, you are not afraid of wound infection.
, once the wound is infected, it will be useless for anyone to come."
The middle-aged man's face showed embarrassment: "With limited conditions, we can't find anything better to bandage him."
Xia Yuan didn't say anything and stared at the wound. Zhou Xiaoli took out the medicine box and said that it was a medicine box, which was an ammunition box for bullets, but instead contained medicine.
"You should be lucky that you met us. Others might not have such a complete range of medicines." Xia Yuan opened the medicine box and took out various medicines. He first gave him painkillers, and then took a dirty piece of medicine.
The towel stuck into Han Yang's mouth: "Bite it, it hurts a little."
Xia Yuan did not seize any anesthetics from the Japanese army. Most of the anesthetics were available in field hospitals behind the Japanese army. Even if they were available, they were very scarce.
He will not appear in the Japanese fighting team.
It's pretty good to have some painkillers and anti-inflammatories, as well as clean bandages.
Han Yang opened his mouth and didn't dislike it at all, so he bit the towel in his mouth. Xiaojuan comforted him: "It's okay, just bear with it and it will be fine."
"The bullet did not penetrate your body, but it stayed in your body. To remove the bullet, you try to chat with him to distract him, and each of you holds his hand."
Without anesthetics, we can only use this method. Pain medication will only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. However, if the bullet head is not removed and continues to stay in his body, it will eventually cause the wound to worsen. Once the wound worsens, the consequences will be disastrous.
Xia Yuan used alcohol to disinfect his hands, and asked Zhou Xiaoli to light the candle and put the bayonet on the fire to smoke it.
Rags to tear open wounds.
The rag has been glued to the wound. If you tear the rag, it will cause the wound. The severe pain made Han Yang widen his eyes. He clenched the towel in his mouth with his teeth and grabbed the middle-aged man's palm and Ali's hand with his big hand.
The knuckles of the palms of my hands were already turning blue and white due to exertion.
When the rag was torn open, blood kept coming out of the wound. The process of removing the bullet was very bloody and accompanied by severe pain.
"Long-term pain is worse than short-term pain, just bear with it."
Xia Yuan comforted him and started to move his hands. He used alcohol to clean the impurities near the wound, and then started to take out the bullet.
He stretched his hand directly into Han Yang's flesh and made a weird sound, which made other people frown and gasp.
The blood flowed more and more, but Xia Yuan's hands kept moving. He took out the bullet head very quickly, stopped the bleeding, wrapped the gun smoke, and wrapped the bandage, all in one movement.
Han Yang had already passed out due to excessive blood loss at this time. Xia Yuan took the towel handed over by Zhou Xiaoli and wiped the blood on his hands. "He lost too much blood. Let him rest. Xiaoli, take down the roasted chicken."
, wait until he wakes up and let him eat it."
"good."
"Little brother, thank you, what's your name?" The middle-aged man held Xia Yuan's hand and asked him.
"Xia Yuan."
"Thank you. My name is Chen Wenhua. Just call me Uncle Chen. I'm taking advantage. This is Ali, my worker. This is my daughter, Chen Juan. The one you saved is my daughter's classmate, Han Yang."
Chen Wenhua said to Chen Juan: "Xiaojuan, thank our savior quickly."
"Thank you." Chen Juan wiped away her tears and bowed in thanks.
There were Japanese soldiers outside, and the other party was willing to take the risk of being discovered and take them to the cellar, which undoubtedly saved their lives.
"We are all Chinese, don't say those foreign words." Xia Yuan waved his hands and asked curiously: "How did you come here? This place has been occupied by the Japanese for a long time. I have hardly met any other Chinese here.
people."
"We were originally hiding in the cellar, but in the past few days, the Japanese have been like crazy, searching for people everywhere. Even if the house has been turned into ruins, they will not let go. Many cellars dug by people have been found by the Japanese.
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Chen Wenhua sighed: "My daughter was worried that the Japanese would discover the cellar where we were hiding, so she wanted to move there when it was dark at night, but she didn't expect that the streets outside were full of Japanese. We were discovered by the Japanese, and Han Yang was discovered by the Japanese.
People were injured with guns, but luckily we got rid of them. Then we ran all the way here and saw this church."
After a pause, he said: "If it weren't for you, I guess we would have been discovered by the Japanese. There are Japanese everywhere outside."
"You are safe for the time being. Zhou Xiaoli and I have been hiding here for a few days. This place has been searched many times by the Japanese, but they have not been discovered by the Japanese."
Xia Yuan said to him.
Then he introduced Zhou Xiaoli to them: "Zhou Xiaoli should be about the same age as your daughter. She is also a student. Her father was killed by the Japanese."
"After the Japanese entered the city, they killed people everywhere. They are just a bunch of beasts!"
Chen Wenhua said angrily.
"Are you hungry? Come and have something to eat." Xia Yuan agreed with Chen Wenhua's words. Considering that they had been running away for a day and a night and probably didn't eat much, Xia Yuan took out canned food to entertain them.
"Thank you so much." Chen Wenhua said gratefully.
"Eat quickly."
Xia Yuan distributed the cans to several people: "There are enough beds here. You can choose one. There are also some beddings here. I seized them from the Japanese. The blood on them is Japanese blood."
"We don't mind." Chen Wenhua said.
"As long as you don't mind, there are a lot here." Xia Yuan pointed to the upper bunk.
Chen Juan was a little timid and ate her canned food without saying anything. When she noticed Zhou Xiaoli looking at her, she gave him a friendly smile.
"Are you a soldier?" Chen Wenhua looked at the guns beside the table while eating a can.
"Yeah." Xia Yuan didn't hide anything.
"The Japanese are searching for soldiers all over the city. You have to be careful not to be discovered by the Japanese. Once discovered by the Japanese, they will not let you go." Chen Wenhua said.
Xia Yuan said with a smile: "It's useless to be a soldier or not now. The Japanese devils don't even spare civilians. They have reached the point of being crazy."