Chapter 5: The Mustiest Crossing in History (5)
After knowing the true intention of the Japanese army to transport these prisoners of war from Guannai, although the strong sense of foreboding in his heart was verified, Yang Zhen calmed down at this moment. He knew that if he really entered that heavily guarded demon cave, even if he was strong, he was afraid that there would be no hope of coming out again. If you want to live, you can only find a way here.
When he was in later life, he served in the special forces for many years before he was discharged from the army, and received various high-intensity training, and even received some special agent training. As long as you can calm down, there may be hope to get out.
Yang Zhen, who had just calmed down, carefully looked at his current surroundings again, but cruelly found that even if he was here, there was no possibility of escape. Not to mention the six firepower around the platform covering the entire platform area, the machine guns that barely shoot dead angles, and the few high-power searchlights that illuminate the entire platform make it almost useless. It was the dozen or so Type 38 rifles with bayonets in front of them, and as long as they made the slightest rash move, their master would probably not hesitate to stab the Type 30 bayonets on the rifles into his body.
If the current self had the same physique that he had trained hard for many years in the later life, he might have the opportunity to rush out and take that Japanese soldier Nakasa as a hostage, but now? Yang Zhen shook his head, which was a little dizzy from excessive hunger and thirst for a long time, and quickly gave up this idea. Now that he is bare-handed, he doesn't have the physical strength to break through the Japanese cordon in front of him. Even if he really escaped, I am afraid that he would not be able to run far before he was exhausted, let alone avoid the tracking of the dozen or so wolf dogs.
The most important thing is that Yang Zhen dares to make a decision, as long as there is any change in his prisoners of war, in order to keep the secrets of this demon army, which is a top secret even within the Japanese army, not to leak out, these Japanese soldiers will not mind cleaning up all the prisoners of war. Even if you can get away with it, what about these friends around you? Looking at the fellow refugees around him, Yang Zhen hesitated, but still gave up the idea of fighting now.
The Japanese army's inventory was very fast, although Yang Zhen and other prisoners of war who were forced to sit on the ground felt that time had passed extremely long, but in fact, it only took ten minutes for the Japanese army to complete the count.
However, after the inventory was completed, the Japanese army encountered a problem, according to the order of the Kwantung Army Headquarters, all those specially sent to the Kwantung Army Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department must be strictly guarded, and if there is any abnormal movement, they will be killed. All prisoners must be shackled during transport and incarceration. Anyone who violates the rules will be subject to the most severe penalties for those responsible.
However, the Japanese army did not remember the shackles that they had only carried according to the standard of 300 people when they received it this time, and they thought that they had brought too much. Because according to the Japanese army's consistent habit of treating prisoners of war, especially Chinese prisoners of war, although there are 300 people, it is quite good to be able to survive five or six out of ten when they reach the end of the journey.
However, this time they never expected that the North China Front Army would attach so much importance to the special transportation of the Kwantung Army for the first time since the establishment of the North China Front, and not only sent a full-time staff officer to escort the army, but also doubled the number of people required by the Kwantung Army on the basis of 300 people, which was enough to send 600 people, and the mortality rate on the way to escort was almost groundbreaking among the Japanese army. When we arrived at our destination, there were more than 500 people left. This caught these Japanese soldiers, who had always been accustomed to brutality to the Chinese and had never treated the Chinese as human beings, somewhat unprepared.
When the Japanese captain who was in charge of counting the number of prisoners of war needed to be accepted asked Ota Chunkasa for instructions on what to do, although the waiting time was not long, Ota Chunakasa, who was already a little impatient, waved his hand and reprimanded him with great dissatisfaction: "Do you still need to ask for instructions on this matter?" Two people are admitted to a set of shackles. Don't ask for instructions for this kind of idiocy next time, if there is a next time, you are looking for a place to move your position. The Kwantung Army, especially the Ministry of Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply, doesn't need a fool like you. ”
The captain who was scolded and humiliated in front of Ogasawara Shaosa, an outsider, and was extremely embarrassed, although he was angry in his heart, he couldn't do anything about the arrogant and domineering Nakasa in front of him.
This Ota Sumi Nakasa, a close confidant of Captain Ishii, has been following him since he was in the epidemic prevention class of the Army Medical School, and the Captain Ishii is almost obedient to him in some matters.
If the Captain of the Ishii Army attaches great importance to it, the two brothers of the Captain Ishii of the special class are far inferior. How could his status be shaken by a small captain?
The arrogant Ota Sumitsunaka naturally didn't think about whether he, a little captain, would be angry at those words in his heart. For Ota Sumanakasa, except for Captain Ishii, the entire epidemic prevention and water supply department is not worth mentioning in front of him, and he is not qualified to be respected. Not to mention that he is a small captain, even several officers of the Dazuo level are not in his eyes.
All he could do now was to get these prisoners of war back. It had now been twenty minutes since the prisoners of war had disembarked, and as far as he knew, a passenger train was going to pass through the area in another twenty minutes. If you can't finish it before the next train arrives, once the news leaks out, the Kwantung Army Command will not forgive you, and even Captain Ishii will hardly escape the blame.
Looking at the red-faced captain in front of him who was reprimanded by himself, Ota Sumanakasa, who was already a little impatient in his heart, said coldly: "Captain Ichiro Hirata, you still have fifteen minutes to deal with these prisoners of war. If you can't get into a truck and leave here before the next train passes by, you can apologize to the emperor yourself. ”
Hearing this Nakasa say this, he also knew that time was a little short, and even if Captain Hirata had more dissatisfaction, he could only suppress it in his heart, and he didn't dare to say anything, so he hurriedly turned around and arranged it according to Ota Cheng's instructions.
Looking at the figure of this captain turning around, Ota Sumanakasa, who had always thought that he was immovable, suddenly felt a burst of boredom in his heart for no reason. The overall project of relocating the headquarters from Wuchang due to these damn road events and repeated attacks by anti-Manchu anti-Japanese elements has just ended, but the special railway line and some ancillary facilities have not yet been completed, so these large roads prepared for the upcoming large-scale various real yàn can only be temporarily transferred to Guò Pingfang Station.
Although this station has been allocated to the Ministry of Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply, after all, on the main trunk line, there are a lot of passenger and freight transport vehicles, not to mention that it is not safe, and it is easy to leak secrets. This time, in order to cooperate with this large-scale special transportation, the Kwantung Army Command ordered all passenger and freight trains passing through here to temporarily suspend operation for 50 minutes. Then I'm afraid I won't have this special treatment next time. It was impossible for the Kwantung Army to always suspend passenger and freight trains.
As various realities unfold one after another, it is not known how many times this kind of large-scale special transportation will be carried out in the future. The Ministry of Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply cannot always trouble the Kwantung Army Command. Thinking of this, Ota Sumichusa decided to report to Captain Ishii when he went back, and for the time being, he would push through some other unnecessary projects and make every effort to complete the construction of the dedicated railway line first.
Because of Ota Chengzhongzuo's decision, Guo Bingxun, who was sitting next to Yang Zhen, was lucky to share a pair of shackled treatment with Yang Zhen. And Captain Ichiro Hirata, who had already been reprimanded for the lack of shackles, naturally would not touch Nakasa's moldy head again because of the lack of transport trucks. Captain Ichiro Hirata, who did not want to be delayed because of this matter, did not hesitate to stuff all the prisoners of war into seventy canvas-covered 94 trucks that had been specially transferred for transfer.
As for whether the prisoners of war who could not be nourished because of long-distance transportation and did not have a full stomach for a long time would be squeezed to death, Captain Hirata Ichiro didn't care at all. Anyway, the ones sent over this time were much more than what Captain Ishii requested, not to mention a few deaths, even if there were more than a hundred or ten deaths, as long as the remaining number of people in the end was enough for three hundred, they would be able to confess.
In order to load these prisoners of war in one go, Captain Hirata even used the trucks used to escort the Japanese troops, in addition to Ota's special car, and even the trucks of the gendarmerie that came to cooperate. Somehow, before the final hour, all the prisoners of war were put onto the transfer truck. Anyway, the headquarters is less than a kilometer from the bungalow station, and the soldiers who are escorting can run back with the truck. The big deal is to let the truck drive slower, and seeing that all the prisoners of war are finally loaded and ready to go, Ota Sumichusa, who has been watching Ichiro Hirata's movements with cold eyes, can't wait to wave his hand and order to leave. In his opinion, as long as all these prisoners of war used for practical purposes can be loaded into trucks and leave the station, there will be no more leaks.
And whether these prisoners of war will escape during the transfer process, he is not worried at all. This time, not only a squadron of the guard unit was mobilized, but the Kwantung Army Command also specially transferred a squadron of the gendarmerie from the Harbin gendarmerie and the two squads of the North China Front to cooperate. These soldiers were enough to set up a tight cordon on both sides of the convoy.
In addition, the Pingfang Station is less than one kilometer away from the headquarters, and you only need to walk 500 meters to the warning range of the headquarters. If some of these prisoners of war can escape, then they should really apologize to the emperor. Moreover, except for a few of these people, most of them are like sheep, and they are very timid. Just give them a chance, and a few of them dare to run.
The complacent Ota Sumihiro naturally wouldn't have thought that in his eyes, among these sheep-like prisoners of war, there were really people who had been planning in their minds to find an opportunity to escape on the transfer road.
When he received history education with the army in later generations, Yang Zhen, who didn't know how many times he visited the ruins of Unit 731, which had become a ruin at that time, knew that as long as he entered the heavily guarded area, as far as he knew, no one could escape from the demon cave, and it would be difficult to escape from the blue sky. If you want to run, you can only think about it on the road.
As for the handcuffs and shackles that tightly bound him to Guo Bingxun, Yang Zhen has not seen it yet. When he was escorted out of the barbed wire, he took advantage of a small negligence on the part of the escorted Japanese soldiers and quietly broke a small section of barbed wire on the barbed wire. With this time of wire in his shoes, for him who had received similar training in later lives, there was basically no difference between the ordinary handcuffs and the locks on the shackles.
It's easy to just open the shackles, but it's not easy to do it. When they were escorted to the truck, Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun were in the first row of the entire prisoner of war group, so the two also enjoyed a special preferential treatment. The truck escorting the two was the first vehicle in the entire convoy, and the two were squeezed into the innermost part because the vehicle was overloaded.
There were too many people stuffed into the carriage, and Yang Zhen didn't want to move, even if he wanted to lift his arms, it was difficult. And because there are too many people locked up in the carriage, the carriage is covered with a thick canvas, although it is a truck, but the air circulation is not as good as in the train carriage, making the people who are squeezed in the innermost obviously seem a little hypoxic.
After several attempts to hook the wire from under the shoes failed because he couldn't move, he felt dizzy because of lack of oxygen, and if he hadn't been squeezed by the crowd, Yang Zhen, who might have fainted at any time, had to reluctantly give up the idea of jumping out of the car halfway.