Chapter 50: Remorse
Hirota Jiro gave an order, and his heavily armed soldiers began to arrest people from house to house in the village, not only arresting people, but also began to set fire to the houses, and suddenly the smoke of Xiajiawa was billowing and the flames were soaring, and the whole village became a sea of fire, and the sound of gunfire, people's cries, the screams of livestock, and the shouts and laughter of the Japanese soldiers were even more mixed.
The whole Xiajiawa was filled with smoke and fire, and the people who were forcibly driven out of their homes by the Japanese army looked helplessly at the fire coming out of the roof of their homes, and in the face of the rifles and bayonets in the hands of the Japanese soldiers, those young people who dared to stare at the Japanese soldiers were reprimanded and protected by their families in a whisper. Tang Cheng, who had escaped from the pursuers behind him, walked through the village with a shell gun, he didn't know that the Japanese soldiers were driving those villagers from house to house, Tang Cheng was now just anxious to find Liu Shishi and the people they had detoured from both wings.
"Zhina people, look here when you hear my voice, these are your people, if you don't want me to order them to be killed, quickly lay down your arms and come out and surrender, otherwise I will kill all the people here." Jiro Hirota and his soldiers slowly retreated to the entrance of the village with the people, and then shouted loudly in the village, although Jiro Hirota's Chinese emphasis was a little strange, but this did not prevent him from expressing his meaning clearly in Chinese.
"Damn" heard the shouts coming from the entrance of the village, Tang Cheng lost his joy after joining up with Lao Northeast, and because of his own mistakes, the damned Japanese soldiers actually captured the people in the village as bargaining chips. Liu Shishi and the dice also appeared around Tang Cheng in a panic, they had just exchanged fire with the Japanese soldiers who drove the people, and one of the people carried by the dice died, but they also killed a Japanese soldier. Tang Cheng counted how many Japanese soldiers they had killed from the beginning to the present, and after some calculations, Tang Cheng determined that there were only 7 Japanese soldiers left at the entrance of the village at the moment.
"10 of the 17 Japanese soldiers have been killed by us, and we have 7 people left, and now it is a one-on-one situation, but we are in the dark and they are in the light." Seeing that the dice and their bandits were already afraid, Tang Cheng wanted to cheer them up, but the more Tang Cheng said this, the worse their faces became. These people who were born as bandits are good at robbing roads, beating sticks and extorting money, but if they really want to fight the Japanese army with guns, it is like letting a group of rats besiege the old cat, and they don't have that guts in their bones at all.
The entrance of the village was still shouting for them to go out and surrender, but this time it was the guide who was shouting, and Lao Dongbei and Liu Shishi both turned their eyes to Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng is not so stupid, even if he takes his people out to surrender, those Japanese soldiers can continue to slaughter the village after killing their own people. Only by keeping the weapons in their hands and the people who use them, those Japanese soldiers outside the village will be afraid, if they really kill those villagers, they will have no bargaining chips to restrain them in Tang City.
Tang Cheng was still hesitating, "pop" and "pop" two gunshots came from the entrance of the village, followed by a burst of crying, Tang Cheng's face changed greatly when he heard the sound, and he hurriedly ran towards the entrance of the village. The barn at the entrance of the village was already in chaos, and Hirota Jiro didn't see Tang Cheng and them appear within the specified time, so he directly ordered to shoot three villagers, including the village chief who took Tang Cheng for the sake of three oceans.
Tang Cheng's eyes were red from the sight of the "damned Japanese" through the binoculars, where he had seen the Japanese officer slashing at the village chief's wife with his own command knife. The blood mist that splattered along the wound and the red in Tang Cheng's eyes made his vision red, and the angry Tang Cheng ignored Lao Dongbei's shouts, just carried his two shell guns and ran towards the entrance of the village.
The barge gun had been adjusted from a burst to a single shot, and Tang Cheng, who was running fast, had completely forgotten the pain in his body, and when he was about to run out of the village, he suddenly turned and rushed towards a fork in the road. Entering the fork in the road, the Japanese soldiers on the threshing field at the entrance of the village will not find the storage of Tang Cheng and hide behind the fence of a house, through which Tang Cheng observes the Japanese soldiers on the threshing field.
The Japanese army had already killed three people, and seeing that they still hadn't appeared in Tangcheng, Jiro Hirota paused slightly, and the Japanese soldiers under his command rushed into the crowd and pulled out three villagers casually. Can't wait any longer, Tang Cheng, who was hiding behind the fence, slowly took the barrel out of the middle of the horse, "snap" The gun in Tang Cheng's hand rang out, and a Japanese soldier who picked up his rifle and stabbed forward was shot and fell, and Tang Cheng's bullet pierced his neck. When Jiro Hirota and his soldiers turned their heads to look at Tang Cheng's side, Lao Dongbei and Zhao Baokun suddenly rushed out of the village.
"Master, I'm here, you idiots come to arrest me, come on." Liu Shishi stood at the gate of the courtyard where they had hidden in the old northeast with his rifle in his hand, shouting loudly, trying to attract the attention of the Japanese soldiers on the barn to him. "Pap" "Pap" Tang Cheng, who rushed out of the fence, fired two shots at Jiro Hirota, who was more than ten meters away, but this time he was not as lucky as just now, Tang Cheng fired two bullets that were all deflected, and the bullets that flew out of the chamber only hit the guide who was standing next to Jiro Hirota.
Tang Cheng's misfire successfully diverted Hirota Jiro's attention, and when Hirota Jiro commanded his soldiers to shoot in the direction of Tang Cheng, Lao Dongbei and Zhao Baokun, who had already blended into the crowd, successfully approached the position closest to these Japanese soldiers. "Pap" "Pap" "Pap" Lao Dongho, who suddenly burst out from the crowd, fired continuously, and the Japanese soldiers who were caught off guard were shot one after another and fell.
The successful sneak attack of the old northeast left only one soldier under Jiro Hirota, and by the time he came to his senses, Zhao Baokun had already knocked the last Japanese soldier down on the barn. Zhao Baokun didn't care about other things, he just turned a heavy fist and rained down on the face of the Japanese soldier, and after receiving a few heavy blows from Zhao Baokun, the Japanese soldier's consciousness gradually blurred. "You stupid thing, why do you still use your fists, how good it is to directly pick him with a bayonet." just squinted at Jiro Hirota, who was holding up the command knife, and Lao Dongbei scolded Zhao Baokun, who was still swinging his fist.
Only he was left, and Jiro Hirota's heart began to panic, he didn't know how many attackers there were, but he knew that if he couldn't kill the person in front of him with a short gun, he might die here. Seeing that Lao Tohoku's attention seemed to be focused on the other Shina person, Hirota Jiro, who had seized the opportunity, suddenly rushed towards Lao Tohoku, and the command knife in his hand also made a chopping gesture.
A "pop" of gunshots rang out, and Jiro Hirota, who was snorting, fell to the ground, and the bullet hole in his left shoulder indicated that he had been hit by a bullet. "Pop" was another gunshot, and the right hand of Jiro Hirota who stretched out to take out the gun was pierced by the bullet again, Jiro Hirota howled loudly, looking at his bloody right hand in disbelief and horror. His left shoulder was pierced by a bullet and his right hand was wounded, and now Jiro Hirota is a real waste.
A dark shadow enveloped Jiro Hirota, who was still screaming, and subconsciously raised his eyes to see a young man with a short gun standing in front of him. Jiro Hirota just wanted to open his mouth to scold, but then a huge colic pain came from his abdomen, but Jiro Hirota opened his mouth wide and could only pant in vain, and when he looked down, a bayonet was being quickly pulled out of his stomach. Jiro Hirota howled and used his wounded hand to block the exposed intestines, but he didn't want the bayonet that had just left his stomach to stab again, one, two, three... Tang Cheng, who was expressionless, stabbed Jiro Hirota in the stomach more than a dozen times in one go.
Tang Cheng slowly straightened up, and the golden sunlight shot from behind, setting off his not tall body like a majestic god of war exuding dazzling golden radiance. The villagers who were forced by the Japanese army to gather in the barn at the entrance of the village had already run away and disappeared, even if they had killed all the Japanese soldiers in Tangcheng, the villagers who had fled in all directions did not dare to come back lightly. threw away the bayonet that stabbed Jiro Hirota more than a dozen times, and Tang Cheng, who was sore and weak, leaned weakly on the edge of the grinding disc on the threshing floor.
Originally, he just wanted to rest in this small village that was almost named, but he didn't expect to bring so much trouble to these villagers, and Tang Cheng now regrets his decision to ambush this group of Japanese soldiers. If he hadn't despised these Japanese soldiers, maybe these tragic scenes in front of him wouldn't have happened again, Tang Cheng, who was deeply remorseful, lowered his head, and he had no way to forgive Xia Jiawa for these troubles caused by his mistakes.
Lao Dongbei just glanced at Tang Cheng from a distance, but he didn't try to persuade him, when Tang Cheng stabbed the Japanese officer to death with a bayonet just now, he already felt that something was wrong. In this situation, Tang Cheng can only rely on himself to get through this hurdle, and the persuasion of others will not work at all. However, Liu Shishi looked at Tang Cheng with some unbearable eyes, and hesitated for a long time before Liu Shishi stepped forward and muttered, "It was the Japanese soldiers who killed and burned the house, although there were also dead people in the village, but we also killed all these Japanese soldiers, if we weren't here, maybe the entire village would be killed by the Japanese soldiers, just like Li Jiapu." ”
Taking the half pack of cigarettes handed by Liu Shishi, Tang Cheng took out one and lit it and smoked it, he knew the meaning of Liu Shishi's words, it was nothing more than saying that if they hadn't killed these Japanese soldiers, maybe the people in the village would have died more. After smoking a cigarette, Tang Cheng's spirit was much better, and Lao Dongbei also took people to clean up the battlefield, without Tang Cheng's orders, Zhao Baokun had already driven Macheng out of the village with the dice.
"Let's go, I don't think the people here will welcome us." Seeing that Tang Cheng, who was a little lonely, walked towards the dirt road outside the village, Lao Dongbei and they also followed him silently, and no one was interested in talking.