Chapter Twenty-Seven: Counterattack
Maybe Tang Cheng thought about the battlefield too simply, just as Tang Cheng was about to leave this street, a sharp whistling sound suddenly came from the sky, and Tang Cheng looked up like ordinary people who came to watch at the beginning of the war. There was a flash of whistling, followed by a series of explosions not far from here, and then a column of smoke blocked out the sun.
I don't know that this is a salvo of Japanese naval guns, Tang Cheng was immediately thrown down by the tremor under his feet, and he was horrified in his heart, he didn't care about the abrasions on his arm on the ground, picked up the shell gun that slipped on the ground, and kept running towards a small alley. It's too scary, compared with the mortar shells from the Japanese army on the opposite side of the position, the explosion just now can be described as a landslide, out of instinctive reaction, Tang Cheng hurriedly chose to look for the road signs, and then discern the direction and fled back to the church, in Tang Cheng's heart, the church is the same as the existence of the family, only at home is the safest.
The fire, a fire mixed with thick smoke appeared in front of Tang Cheng's eyes, and the other end of the alley was already full of smoke and fire, and the smoke emitted by the burning went straight into the sky. Covering his mouth and nose, Tang Cheng flashed out the alley full of smoke and went to the street, but the panicked scene in front of him made Tang Cheng stop, the fire burned the houses and shops on both sides of the street, more than a dozen people in civilian clothes were rescuing people from the fire, and among them were mixed with a few people with red cross armbands, and Tang Cheng even saw a blonde nun.
"Come and help, hurry." Tang Cheng, who was stunned, was pulled over vigorously, and Tang Cheng, who was staggering, almost collided with a charred corpse on the ground, but the scorching smell from the charred corpse still made Tang Cheng turn his head and vomit. "Why are you so useless a big man, come, take a hand." The owner of the voice is a girl with a round face and short hair, her fair face is full of unwiped charred black at the moment, and the red cross armband on the crook of her sleeve arm represents her identity, which is a member of the Shanghai Red Cross Association.
Tang Cheng, who was dazed, took the end of the stretcher in a daze, and walked with the girl to the truck parked on the side of the street. Lying on the stretcher was a little girl, looking at the little girl who was about 10 years old, who should have been lively and cute, but now she was lying motionless in the stretcher with her eyes closed, looking at the little girl, Tang Cheng couldn't help but think of the soldiers of the National Army who had died on the battlefield, they were also lying motionless on the broken position like this, with their eyes closed.
"What do you think? The little girl was only choked by the smoke and fainted, her house was burned down by the fire, and everyone in the family died, but she was the only one who lived. Seeing Tang Cheng looking at the little girl who had already moved onto the truck with a tangled face, the Red Cross girl who was carrying the stretcher with Tang Cheng explained a few words, which made Tang Cheng's tangled heart feel a little better. As the Red Cross girl lifted the third person rescued from the fire onto the truck, there was a sudden commotion on the other side of the street, shouting that the Japanese soldiers were coming.
The continuous fighting put the Nationalist troops under great pressure, and the Japanese side was also very tired, and only half of the Japanese infiltration troops of a reinforced squad were intercepted by the Nationalist troops in succession, and only half of them escaped from the pursuit of the Nationalist army, and several of the Japanese soldiers who had lost contact with the squad and were scattered appeared on the other side of the street. If there were Nationalist soldiers in this street, even if it was just a few Nationalist soldiers armed with rudimentary rifles, I believe that these Japanese soldiers who had become frightened birds would choose to turn around and run, but unfortunately there were only a dozen ordinary people who were busy rescuing people from the fire.
Like ice and snow exposed to the scorching sun, the firefighting people scattered on the streets retreated like a whirlwind, and five Japanese soldiers with rifles approached step by step, facing the black muzzles and shining bayonets, the unarmed people chose to retreat. "Yo Xi, the obedient live, and the disobedient will be killed." In order to prove that what they said was true, the leading Japanese soldiers directly stabbed the two injured civilians who had been rescued by everyone to death on the street with bayonets, and the bloody scene made everyone bow their heads, and the blonde nun even prayed for the people who died under the bayonets with tears in her eyes.
Without the same panic as the others, Tang Cheng who was mixed in the crowd just carefully observed the Japanese soldiers on the opposite side, 5 Japanese soldiers, four 38 rifles and a light machine gun, Tang Cheng didn't know if there were still Japanese soldiers on the other side of the street, but only these five appeared in front of him. After two days of brutal battlefield life, Tang Cheng found that he was no longer like the first time he killed people in a sushi restaurant, and now he had learned to calmly observe the situation and judge the enemy's situation, and he was quite satisfied with his current self, because only in this way could he live a long time.
"All go into the house, quickly." The Japanese soldier waved his rifle and motioned for everyone on the street to enter the store, but Tang Cheng noticed that two of the Japanese soldiers had quietly removed the grenades from their waists. The Japanese wanted to kill all the people on the street at once with grenades, Tang Cheng was horrified, the shell gun was pinned to the back waist, and the two grenades found from the position were in his trouser pockets, but Tang Cheng really couldn't think of how to save his life while solving these 5 Japanese soldiers.
There were disobedient people in the group, but after being stabbed in the arm by a bayonet in the hands of the Japanese soldiers, the stubborn people chose to compromise and give in. "You can't do this, I'm Tan Sinan from the Shanghai Red Cross, this is Sister Emma, there are still people waiting for us to save them in the fire, you can't lock us up." The girl who pulled Tang Cheng to carry the stretcher struggled to break away from the Japanese soldier who was holding her arm, and accused the Japanese soldier in front of her in an extremely angry tone.
"Yo Xi, I know that you are a member of the Red Cross, but it's a pity that our army of the Japanese Empire is now at war with the Chinese army, for the sake of your safety, you should go into the house and stay, it is a pity that a beautiful girl like you died under a stray bullet." The leading Japanese soldier could not be distinguished, and in a mouthful of Chinese, he pushed Tan Sinan and the blonde nun into the store with a tough attitude.
Tang Cheng, who was silently moving with the crowd, had already quietly grabbed the shell gun on his back waist in his hand, but there were all people around him, and once the shooting caused chaos, he was likely to fall into the siege of those Japanese soldiers. The store opened by the gate is in front of him, and there are three people in front of Tang Cheng who will be his turn, and he can't wait any longer, once everyone enters the store, the Japanese soldiers will definitely throw grenades in, and then the dozen or so people in the store will not survive, Tang Cheng gritted his teeth and planned to fight.
"Lie down" One of Tang Cheng's feet had already stepped into the door of the store, but he suddenly turned around and raised the shell gun in his hand, and while shouting, he had already pulled the trigger of the shell gun on the two Japanese soldiers holding grenades. With such a close-range shot, even if Tang Cheng's marksmanship was terrible, he could hit it, not to mention that the five Japanese soldiers who thought they had mastered the overall situation did not expect that this thin young man would dare to fight them.
"Bang", "Bang", "Bang", "Bang", ...... "Bang", the muzzle of the jumping gun kept spitting out gun flames, this was definitely Tang Cheng's extraordinary shot, in just a few seconds, Tang Cheng shot all the 10 bullets in the shell gun. Without caring to see the effect of the shot, Tang Cheng once again threw the shell gun in his hand as a dart, and the shell gun that was spinning in the air floated a little high, and it was smashing on the steel helmet of one of the Japanese soldiers, but even so, it smashed the Japanese soldier backwards and fell to the ground.
Tang Cheng's shot was too hasty, although he fired all 10 bullets in just a few seconds, he only shot three of the five Japanese soldiers, and the remaining two Japanese soldiers were shot in the right shoulder and fell to the ground screaming, while the other was only grazed by the bullet in the neck and left rib and then smashed to the ground by the shell gun thrown by Tang Cheng. "Come and help kill them" Tang Cheng, who was not the first time to kill someone, rushed over and picked up a rifle with a bayonet from the ground, probably because the action was too big and caused a leg injury, so that Tang Cheng suddenly stumbled when he stabbed the first knife.
The bayonet that "Ding" deviated from the target did not stab the screaming Japanese soldier on the ground, but stuck to his neck on the concrete floor, and when Tang Cheng stabbed down again, a bayonet from behind pierced him in the right rib. "Ah" screamed, Tang Cheng, who was injured in the ribs, let go and threw the rifle in his hand and fell to the other side, it was the Japanese soldier who was smashed to the ground by the shell gun that attacked Tang Cheng, and he was far more sober than Tang Cheng expected when he was hit by the steel helmet.
"Poof" another stream of bloody arrows rushed out of Tang Cheng's body, this time the bayonet was pierced into Tang Cheng's other leg, the pain in the ribs had already made the defenseless Tang Cheng curl like a shrimp, the Japanese soldier who controlled the situation did not intend to kill Tang Cheng directly, he wanted to slowly torture this Chinese man who dared to challenge the imperial soldiers. The people in the shop huddled together and shivered like chickens, including Tan Sinan and the blonde nun who had just accused the Japanese soldiers, Tang Cheng obviously overestimated everyone's determination to the death, and the group attack he expected did not appear.
The smiling Japanese soldier stabbed the bayonet at Tang Cheng on the ground again, enduring the spasm pain caused by the right rib, Tang Cheng struggled to dodge to the left side, waited for the opponent's bayonet to pierce the air, and then twisted his body and rolled to the right. The right hand that was sticking to the opponent's bayonet grabbed the opponent's rifle, Tang Cheng endured the severe pain and hooked the opponent with his foot and suddenly exerted force, "snapping" and entangled together, and the two rolled together. "Die" grabbed the grenade taken out of his trouser pocket in his left hand and smashed it violently into the cheek of the Japanese soldier, and the mad tiger-like Tang Cheng didn't pay any attention to the blood splashed on his face, but just smashed the unconscious Japanese soldier under him.