Scarface, who broke in with Wang Xuexin, looked at the money and his eyes went straight.
He swallowed hard and said to Wang Xuexin: "Platoon leader, money... money, it's all money..."
"I saw it!" Wang Xuexin replied calmly: "Look at you, it's like you've never seen money before!"
But I was thinking, I’ve seen it before, but I’ve never seen so many!
These piles are worth one yuan, here are five yuan, there are ten yuan... at least there are tens of millions!
It's a pity that it's legal tender.
Due to the expulsion of legal currency from the base area and the enemy's use of legal currency to loot, prices have soared and legal currency has become worthless.
But even if the value of tens of millions is depreciated a hundred times, it is still worth hundreds of thousands, which is still a windfall for ordinary people.
"Leave it to the Logistics Department!" Wang Xuexin ordered: "It may not be useful if it is shipped back!"
"Yes!" the soldiers responded.
Wang Xuexin led his troops and continued to search forward.
The road was littered with corpses of puppet soldiers and prisoners kneeling on the ground with their hands raised in surrender. With panic and fear in their eyes, they looked pitifully at the Eighth Route Army soldiers passing in front of them.
At first, Wang Xuexin was still a little shy about them, thinking that many of them were forced by the situation to join the puppet army. But after he led his troops into a village surrounded by barbed wire, he changed his mind...
This village is called Dalu Village. It got its name because several major roads intersect here.
Because of the convenient transportation, more and more people are gathering here. Two nearby villages merged into one large village.
The Japanese turned this large village into a place where laborers were imprisoned. All nearby civilians who could be captured were imprisoned here. During the day, they were taken to the front line to build gun towers and dig fortifications, and at night they were taken back here for centralized supervision.
The Japs even had a name for places like this...Human Circle.
This circle does not read quān, but juàn.
That is, pig pens, sheep pens, and chicken pens.
Wang Xuexin and the soldiers used their rifle butts to break the lock and push open the door. What they saw made them stunned on the spot...
At the entrance were dozens of corpses tied to pillars, dripping with blood and miserable. Judging from the wounds, some were whipped to death, some were stabbed to death with bayonets, and some were starved to death.
Several of the corpses were highly decomposed, with flies, bugs and rats gnawing on the corpses. The white bones were very dazzling in the moonlight... The Japanese seemed to want to use these corpses to warn the workers, so they deliberately did not put them down.
Walking further in, the stench is overwhelming and there are densely packed shacks everywhere, built with firewood, surrounded by thatch or made of stone... just like savages living in the mountains.
Every small shack was crowded with people, and they would shrink in as soon as they saw someone coming.
Wang Xuexin shouted at them: "Folks, we are the Eighth Route Army, and we are here to save you. Come out! You are saved!"
But the villagers still dare not come out.
It turned out that the Japanese and puppet soldiers often deceived them in this way, and everyone who was deceived and deceived died under their bayonets.
It wasn't until Huzi lit the torch and illuminated himself with the firelight that the fellow villagers came out one by one in fear:
"It's really the Eighth Route Army!"
"It's our team, we are saved!"
"It's the Eighth Route Army, finally what we've been waiting for!"
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Men, women, old and young, gathered in piles from the shack.
Some were trembling, some were crying, and some were cheering for joy. All of them were naked and disheveled, and looked inhuman shape.
Later, after Wang Xuexin came into contact with these fellow villagers, he learned what "Gonghe Noodles" is and what "rehabilitation cloth" is...
The so-called "Gonghe Noodles" are made from wheat bran, bran, spoiled and moldy grains, crushed and mixed with Guanyin soil. The Japanese gave it a nice name "Gonghe Noodles", and the people called it "Gonghe Noodles".
It's called "mixed noodles".
"Recycled cloth" is a sack made from torn cotton wool, old clothes, and plant straw. It will become rotten and torn after being washed a few times, and it is not cold-proof.
These are things created by the Japanese in order to plunder food and resources from the people as much as possible. They use "Gonghe noodles" and "regeneration cloth" to exchange food and clothing from the people, and they claim to be doing it for the construction of the empire.
contribute.
What Wang Xuexin couldn't accept even more was that most of the people guarding the circle of people were puppet soldiers. These puppet soldiers were even more cruel to the people than the Japanese. Most of the corpses at the door were killed by the puppet soldiers.
After coming out of Dalu Village, when the soldiers saw the puppet prisoner kneeling outside, they couldn't help but step forward to give him a few kicks or put a few gun butts on him. Wang Xuexin pretended not to see it, because he also had the same impulse.
Wang Xuexin didn't know what to say about these puppet soldiers. Once people break through their own bottom line, they often have no bottom line. People who have no bottom line can do anything to survive, and they will not have any position. They will do everything they can to please the enemy and show loyalty to the Japanese.
, so you can be as cruel as you want to your own people!
That night, the independent group rushed forward for more than ten kilometers to reach the railway line.
The section of railway that the Independent Group is responsible for is a section of the Tongpu Railway.
The Tongpu Railway starts from Datong in the north, passes through Taiyuan to Yuncheng, and crosses the Yellow River into Longhai. It is a meter-gauge railway (gauge one meter) built by Yan Laoxi'er organized military industry. After the Japanese invasion in 1938, these railways were
The railway tracks were converted to Japanese standards and reused, becoming the main route for the Japanese to transport supplies and troops to the south.
There are also gun towers along the railway, but these "internal" gun towers are stationed by puppet troops. They deal with the guerrillas only half-heartedly, but they have never seen such a large-scale Eighth Route Army attack, and they were frightened to fight.
A few shots and he escaped without a trace.
Without saying a word, the soldiers picked up the tools they brought and dug out the rails. Then they loaded the dug rails piece by piece onto mule carts and transported them away.
But there were too many rails to transport, so we had to dig them up and throw them on the roadside.
Li Yunlong said "Ai ai" a few times, waved his hands and shouted to the soldiers: "It's not okay to do this. Doesn't it mean that there is no sleeper left? If you do this, the Japanese will just drag the rail back and nail it again, and it will still be possible."
Call it destruction?"
"Commander!" Zhang Dabiao said: "The carriages and mule carts we brought are not many, so we can't transport them. Do we still have to carry a rail back each person?"
"Who asked you to carry it?" Li Yunlong glared and ordered: "Tear down the sleepers and pile them up and burn them. Also pile up the sleepers that can't be carried away on the rails and burn them!"
This is a good idea.
Once the sleepers are burned, they cannot be reused, and once the rails are burned, the entire rail becomes deformed and bent, and has to be transported back to the factory for processing. It is not that easy for the Japanese to build railway lines.
The soldiers responded and started working happily. Those who dug the rails dug the rails and raised the sleepers. After a while, they piled them together and lit them on fire.
Li Yunlong took a look at some of the surrendered guns and looked unhappy.
It turned out that the guns seized from the puppet troops were all miscellaneous weapons, made in Hanyang, with old sleeves, and even Soviet-style rifles, with all kinds of bullets.
(The weapons given to the puppet troops by the Japanese were all captured equipment, including 26 types of rifles alone.)
Li Yunlong complained: "I thought there was meat to eat, but I didn't expect it looked fat, but it turned out to be sour after one bite!"
Wang Xuexin stepped forward and suggested: "Captain, why don't we have a big mouth?"
Li Yunlong's eyes immediately lit up: "Where is the big one? Why didn't I know?"