Chapter 44: Details
The rifles scattered on the ground were stuffed into the front compartment like a firewood rod by Niu Wazi, but all the corpses were loaded into the truck where Xie Bo was, and the second lieutenant of the national army who was knocked unconscious by Liu Goat had already been dragged into Xie Bo's carriage like a dead pig. The corpses dragged into the car have been carefully examined by Liu Goat and others, although they are wearing the uniforms of the national army, and even the weapons are authentic Hanyang, but there is one thing they can't fool, that is, the underwear they wear inside.
The soldiers of the national army wear big boxer shorts, but Japanese men have been used to wearing crotch cloth since childhood, and they are still the same habit after joining the army, so the first flaw in distinguishing whether they are disguised and pretending to be the national army is their crotch cloth. "You remember, not all Japanese people who pretend to be us are wearing crotch cloths." After Xie Bo asked Niu Wazi to peel off the shoes and socks on the feet of one of the corpses, he called Tang Cheng over, pointed to the corpse's feet and said, "Japanese people have been wearing clogs since they were children, and the gap between their thumb and index finger will be hard due to the long-term friction with the strap of the clogs, and the gap between these two toes will be very large. ”
Tang Cheng, who didn't know what was going on, squatted down and looked carefully, not to mention, it was the same as what Xie Bo said. Although the corpse in front of me had no calluses between the thumbs and forefingers of its feet, it was very smooth because they had been wearing clogs for a long time. And just like Xie Bo said, the gap between this guy's two toes was so large that Tang Cheng looked like he could almost miss a rifle bullet. "Do you see clearly? These are small things of common sense, and you can find them by just observing them carefully. Seeing Tang Cheng's thoughtful expression, Xie Bo smiled.
Tang Cheng is young, Tang Cheng is smart and good at observing, but the battlefield experience is something that Xie Bo can't teach Tang Cheng personally, he can only dictate his battlefield experience to Tang Cheng, there are some things that Tang Cheng needs to understand by himself, Xie Bo is at most a leader. "Then how did you tell that they were Japanese pretending to be the national army?" After the truck started, Tang Cheng kept wanting to ask this question, the Chinese language of those guys just now was very standard, and the one who took the lead would actually come up with a sentence or two of Hunan slang from time to time, Tang Cheng couldn't figure out how Xie Bo could see the flaw even if he thought about it.
"It's very simple," Xie Bonu said with a smile as he took the cigarette handed over by Liu Shangoat, "Most of the refugees we met on the way out of Shanghai were refugees going to Suzhou, although we also encountered some sporadic troops, but they were all in a hurry. Tang Cheng recalled the soldiers of the national army he met along the way, as if this was indeed the case, those people at most turned their heads to look at the truck a few times, but none of them took the initiative to speak.
"Those troops are either rushing to Shanghai to help in the war, or they are the vanguard of the retreating troops like us. Xie Bo spit out a cloud of turbid smoke and looked a little depressed, the 88th Division is the descendant of the national army, but he, the company commander who is a captain officer, is now retreating with his soldiers. Although this is an order pressed down from above, Xie Bo's heart is still very uncomfortable, and the soldier deserves to die on the battlefield.
"Oh, I see." Tang Cheng suddenly patted his head, "You can see the flaws in their military uniforms, because their military uniforms are too clean, they said that the troops who came out to search and reconnoitre have been active in this area for two days, so their military uniforms should not be so clean." Tang Cheng's performance made Xie Bo very satisfied, although Tang Cheng didn't say the point, but for a guy like Tang Cheng who had just put on a military uniform for a few days, it was already very good.
"This is just one of them, Liu Shanyang deliberately said that their 18th Division was stationed in Baoshan to test them, but in fact, the 18th Division was stationed in Dachang. Although their answer was correct, their reaction was wrong, they were obviously walking in the direction of Suzhou, but they suddenly changed their words and said that they wanted to go back to Dachang, which illustrates the problem. ”
"That's why you asked me to test them by pretending to be a captured Japanese herald?" Tang Cheng's entire mind had been transferred to this matter, Xie Bo had only said a beginning, and Tang Cheng had already figured out the key to the problem. "But what if they don't fall for it?" Tang Cheng's question led to Liu Goat, who was already smiling and wanted to praise him a few words, immediately turned cold, and said in his heart, Why is this kid so unattractive, Lao Tzu hasn't opened his mouth yet.
Xie Bo also smiled, and smiled very comfortably, "It's not that there is no possibility you said, there have been things in the national army to rob merit, and they may also be angry that we captured a Japanese herald, and saw that we were too few to bully and snatch prisoners of war and go back to ask for credit." But don't forget that we are from the 88th Division, and as soon as we came up, we already showed the number of the troops, and if they were really from the 18th Division, they would not dare to play tricks with our 88th Division."
"So the second lieutenant and Uncle Liu just now almost wanted to attack us" Tang Cheng, who had figured out everything, was a little frightened and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, the place where those guys were standing was only a few meters away from the truck, if it wasn't for his own guys to do it first, maybe he would have become a nameless corpse lying in the field.
"That's right, but that's not the main thing, the most important thing is the Japanese words you shout." Xie Bo turned his head to look at the "Second Lieutenant of the National Army" who was still unconscious, and said slowly, "This kid has obviously understood the Japanese you shouted, but he still has to pretend to be nothing, if I hadn't been staring at him through the gap in the tarpaulin, maybe I would have been deceived by him."
"Company commander, they didn't find anything on them, just some fiat currency, cigarettes or something." The cow boy who had examined the corpses crouched over, carrying some loose banknotes and cigarettes in his steel helmet. Liu Goat originally wanted to ask Tang Cheng to go and check the corpse, but Xie Bo made his eyes show that he was in a hurry, so Niu Wazi became the best candidate.
Seeing that Tang Cheng was a little puzzled, Xie Bo said with a smile, "Cleaning the battlefield is also a way to understand the opponent, we can identify the opponent's unit number from the personal belongings of the opponent's dead soldiers, and if we can find the diary of the opponent's soldiers, we can also find more information." Seeing that Liu Goat was distributing the cigarettes that Niu Wazi had flipped out to the other soldiers in the carriage, Xie Bo smiled self-deprecatingly, "The military salary of our national army is very low, and cleaning the battlefield is also a means for the brothers to support their families. ”
It was the first time Tang Cheng had heard of such a thing, and he had an experience of cleaning the battlefield, that is, he found a Red9 Mauser pistol from the Japanese officer, and by the way, a diary with a photo and a half-pack of cigarettes. The diary had already been thrown away by Tang Cheng, and the cigarettes were also smoked separately from the wounded soldiers in the hospital, Tang Cheng looked down at the few cigarettes that Niu Wazi stuffed into himself and smiled, he was also a person who had cleaned the battlefield.
Xie Bo, who was sitting on the wall of the carriage smoking a cigarette, had been paying attention to Tang Cheng's expression, and he knew that Robert, who had raised Tang Cheng, was an American, and that Westerners had a different understanding of some things than Orientals. Looting things from dead people is not the same as digging graves, both are to make money from the dead, Westerners are more taboo about these things, Xie Bo is afraid that Tang Cheng, who grew up with Robert, is also used to looking at problems with Western thinking. But now that Tang Cheng's reaction is not bad, Xie Bo's hanging heart has finally been relaxed, he is afraid that Tang Cheng will be estranged from the brothers of the second company because of some minor problems.
"What about these corpses? You can't always take them with you, can you? "There were more than a dozen corpses of Japanese soldiers who had been stripped of their crotch cloths in the carriage, and although the bullet holes on their bodies had been covered with blood, the smell of blood emanating from the corpses was extremely heavy. After the truck started, Xie Bo had been busy explaining and teaching things to Tang Cheng, Niu Wazi was busy counting the things he had found, Liu Goat was smoking and meditating on his own, and several other wounded soldiers were also doing their own things.
"It should be Qiandeng Town not far ahead, slow down first, wait for fewer refugees on the road, find a place to bury it." Qiandeng Town is not far from Suzhou, and there are many barren slopes and valleys in the wild, so it should not be difficult to find a place to bury these corpses. Xie Bo in the carriage endured the pungent smell of blood and walked for a while, and then found a fork in the road and drove the truck into the field, the refugees mostly took the main road, few people would walk this kind of field, and found a place where no one could be seen, Xie Bo ordered the truck to stop.
"If you can move, go and help dig a pit, get it done quickly, and we can get to Qiandeng Town quickly, there is a noodle restaurant in Qiandeng Town that tastes good, I invite you to eat noodles." The banknotes that Niu Wazi found from the corpse were all placed in the steel helmet in front of Xie Bo, enough for the people of their second company to have a full meal. Tang Cheng also jumped out of the truck, and more than a dozen people relied on the bayonets in their hands to dig a large soil pit in the dry field, enough to bury all the corpses in the carriage.
"Okay, bury these little devils, let's go." Looking at the corpses of Japanese soldiers strewn across the pit, Liu Goat, who had a cold face, spit out the cigarette butt in his mouth. Liu Goat originally wanted to let these Japanese soldiers be brutal and wilderness, but Xie Bo said that they were also soldiers, and if they were soldiers, they should be given a decent look, even if they were all dead people.
"What's your name? What is the number of the troops? What is your military position? According to Xie Bo's request, Tang Cheng, with a little excitement, forced the second lieutenant of the national army who had woken up. The truck had already turned back to the main road, and the second lieutenant of the national army, who had been knocked unconscious by Liu Goat and tied with a rope, had also woken up, and Liu Goat, who could not be idle, arranged for Tang Cheng to interrogate him in Japanese, interrogating his name, unit number, and military position.