Chapter 22: The Slaughter of the Village
"Lao Zhang, you take a platoon of soldiers to quietly bypass the right side of the village, block the retreat of the little devils, and remember to use knives if you can use knives if you encounter a patrol of little devils. The soldiers of the artillery company, hiding in place, supporting at any time, followed me, touched into the village, used grenades, and ate this little devil, remembering that in case of a close encounter with the little devil, a group of three people. Liao Fan arranged the task.
"Ready, let's go."
Liao Fan quietly approached the door of a courtyard with a platoon of soldiers, and saw more than a dozen little devils roasting meat around the fire through the crack in the door, and the greedy Liao Fan almost didn't leave a saliva.
Liao Fan pulled out a grenade and motioned to the soldiers on both sides of the door to throw the grenade, and when the soldiers were ready for the grenade, Liao Fan kicked the door open, and the soldiers on both sides of the door threw the grenade into the courtyard.
"Boom Boom"
The grenade exploded in the yard, Liao Fan rushed into the yard with the soldiers, and several injured little devils struggled underground, Liao Fan and the soldiers shot directly and killed the wounded soldiers of the little devils.
When Liao Fan saw the barbecue that was blown up, he immediately cried with a sad face: "Who threw the grenade, threw it so accurately, I finally want to improve the food, you guys are good, just blow it up for me." "A few soldiers throwing grenades hid at the back of the line, not daring to speak.
After a while, several other platoon commanders rushed to the courtyard where Liao Fan was.
"How's the casualty?" Liao Fan looked at several platoon commanders.
"Report to the sir, we have killed a total of forty-two little devils, and there are no casualties." A platoon commander's report.
"Okay, hurry up and clean up the battlefield, and bring whatever you need to eat. There's also a little devil's barbecue for me. Liao Fan watched as several soldiers salivated over the meat on the side.
After talking about a few soldiers, they began to build barbecue, and after a few days of hard fighting, they were exhausted.
"Sir, when our platoon commander was searching a yard, he found something, let me take you there." A soldier ran into the courtyard.
"Go over immediately, Lao Zhang informs the artillery company to enter the village, and you arrange the vigilance in the village."
After Liao Fan finished telling the matter, he followed the soldiers to a courtyard and watched a platoon commander with two soldiers guarding the door.
Liao Fan asked the platoon commander, "What happened?" ”
"Sir, you'd better see for yourself." The platoon commander pushed open the door and let Liao Fan in.
Liao Fan glanced at the platoon commander inexplicably, didn't care, and walked into the yard, but the scene in front of him shocked Liao Fan, a corner of the courtyard was full of stripped female corpses, and some of the corpses had their intestines flowing out of the ground. Liao Fan saw the scene in front of him, his hand held the gun tightly, and he wanted to say something, but the corners of his mouth moved, and he didn't say it.
"Sir, sir." The platoon commander stood behind Liao Fan and looked at Liao Fan with a wrong expression.
Liao Fan wiped the tears from his eyes, turned around and whispered, "Find a few soldiers and bury them in the back of the village, there is no need to erect a monument." ”
In the afternoon of the same day, Liao Fan took the troops to replenish supplies and left the village, the little devil was planning a bigger attack, and he had no time to take care of the annihilation of a reconnaissance team, and Nanjing was even more chaotic, and Liao Fan was also put aside, and batches of troops were transferred to Nanjing. Liao Fan and his brother's troops rendezvoused at Hongze Lake, where they attacked a Japanese convoy and got supplies. The little devils also drove them into Hongze Lake, surrounded them for two days, and tried to destroy them, but after two days, they all withdrew.
"Brother, Camp Commander Zhao, are you okay?" Liao Fan asked.
"It's okay, did you have any trouble on the way?" Liao Jundong asked.
"The reconnaissance team that encountered a few devils on the road let us send them away." Liao Fan said.
Camp Commander Zhao looked at the two brothers chatting enthusiastically, and said with a smile: "You two brothers don't have to be in a hurry for a while, let's go in and sit down and talk slowly, okay?" ”
The three of them looked at each other and smiled "hahaha", Liao Jundong and their breakthrough was quite smooth, with more than 2,000 people, day and night, they didn't encounter the little devil's obstruction at all, and then the troops had nothing to eat, they ran into the little devil's transport team, and robbed the little devil's military rations, which exposed their whereabouts, and was chased and intercepted by the little devil, and rushed into Hongze Lake, fortunately, Liao Jundong let Zhao Dahai take the first step, find a good boat by Hongze Lake, and arrange the wounded, otherwise they might really be eliminated by the little devil. Then they were surrounded by the little devils for two days and two nights, but fortunately they robbed the little devils of the batch of military rations, otherwise they would still be starving. Later, for some reason, the little devil suddenly retreated. Of course, Liao Fan knew the reason, the little devil was going to concentrate his forces to attack Nanjing.
"Camp Commander Zhao, there is something we have to discuss with you." After Liao Fan listened to the story of the two of them, he thought that it was time for a showdown with Zhao Dahai.
"Sir, it's good if you give orders directly about anything, and what else is not discussed." After Zhao Dahai followed Liao Fan to fight this battle, he especially admired Liao Fan's command ability.
"There is one thing that should not be hidden from you at the beginning, it is true to take you to resist Japan and fight devils, but I have another selfish intention, that is, to develop my own army, and this army will not be under the jurisdiction of the national government." Liao Fan confessed his opinion.
Zhao Dahai couldn't believe it, thinking that Liao Fan was joking with him, he looked at Liao Jundong, and Liao Jundong also nodded seriously.
"Sir, are you going to rebel?" Zhao Dahai had already put his right hand on his waist and began to prepare to pull out the gun on his waist, when he was training at the military academy, the instructor once said that any junior officer could shoot his own commander who defected to the enemy.
Liao Fan had already noticed Zhao Dahai's movements: "Battalion Commander Zhao, I know that you are a real soldier, an iron-clad man, you have proven yourself for two days and one night on the battlefield." I also know that you won't go with us, and you won't force it, so we'll sit in front of you today and talk to you. ”
"Sir, may I ask where you're going?" Zhao Dahai slowly put his hand down.
"We can't tell you where to go, but there is one thing that we will fight devils wherever we go, and we will never turn to devils as traitors." Liao Fan had already figured out the details of Zhao Dahai.
"Are you members of the Communist Party?" Zhao Dahai wanted to ask Liao Fan.
"Battalion Commander Zhao, don't guess, the Communist Party doesn't want people like us, and we won't take troops to Yan'an." Liao Jundong said on the side.
"By the way, what about the troops?" Zhao Dahai was not sure about the ownership of the troops.
Liao Fan knew that Zhao Dahai would ask about the troops: "I will explain the truth to the brothers later, and I am willing to go with us, I hope you don't stop me, if you are willing to go back with you, you take them back." ”
Zhao Dahai nodded: "In this case, I, Zhao Dahai, am not ambiguous, as long as you will not surrender to the devil as a traitor, I, Zhao Dahai, still treat you as brothers in life and death." ”
"Okay, Brother Zhao is happy, in this case, we will replace wine with water, and we will do this bowl, so that we can fight devils well in the future." Liao Jundong poured water on Liao Fan and Zhao Dahai.
The three people raised the bowl and drank it all.
Liao Fan gathered the troops, explained the specific situation to the soldiers, and finally said: "Those who are willing to go back with Battalion Commander Zhao stand on the left, those who are willing to follow me stand on the right, and those who are willing to go home hand over your equipment to my brother Liao Jundong and stand in the middle." ”
Many people stood in place, not knowing what to do, and the team of more than 2,000 people, bustling, talking to each other, could not pay attention. At this time, a team moved, it was Liao Fan who led the brothers of the German armor division behind the palace and the people of the mortar company They stood on the right, and they fought all the way, and they knew Liao Fan better.