Chapter 11: Wild Supplement (71)

Walking on the way back to the barrage, Shi Zhong was seriously unhappy, and looking at the long marching procession, he was a little difficult. The assault company walked in front in three rows, three in the rear hall, and in the middle was a huge Chinese army, forty horses, hundreds of men, mostly Japanese troops. The reconnaissance company was reduced to a guard. Shi Zhong, who never wanted Japanese prisoners, got back so many prisoners in one battle, what is a burden, this is a burden! Zhang Shenghu, the commander of the reconnaissance company, knew that Boss Shi was unhappy, so he followed his side, handed out cigarettes and water, and flattered him happily.

Following Shi Chong was the chief of staff of the guard battalion, a twenty-one-year-old young man with an apologetic face and no more to say. Because of his words, there were so many more living devils in the marching ranks, which added a lot of difficulties to the troops fighting behind enemy lines. No wonder the battalion commander was upset, and no wonder the brethren looked at him with unfriendly eyes. His name is Huang Yingyi, the seventh brother of Huang Tianhua, the former chief of staff of the 1046 Regiment, who has just finished the 16th phase of the Central Military Academy's foot study, and has followed Hai Jingqiang to participate in the operation to recover Ningming in the internship. Among the cadets who graduated from the 16th infantry class, most of them have the rank of second lieutenant, and there are only three with the rank of lieutenant, one of which is Huang Yingyi. After graduation, Huang Yingyi asked to go to the Anhui front to participate in the war against Japan, and was assigned to the 21st Group Army. When the troops were about to set off from Yuexi, he hurriedly arrived, Mo Di asked him a few questions, and then saw that his company level was all full, and the best vacancy was the post of lieutenant chief of staff of the guard battalion, so this twenty-one-year-old young man became Shi Chong's little follower.

This operation was the first time he had fought behind enemy lines, and he was excited and excited. Shi Chong's dazzling arrangement made him completely dizzy, when the Japanese army entered the ambush circle, he was so nervous that the tip of his butt was sweating, Zhang Chongshan's crutches were fired, he actually felt relaxed for a while, and hurriedly found a pine tree, and peed happily at the root of the pine tree.

The gunfire that was ambushed at both ends and tails didn't stop for long, Huang Yingyi, who had finished urinating, looked back, the scene in front of him made him nauseous, the dead Japanese soldiers died ugly, they fell to the ground in a strange posture, blood was gurgling in the eyes of the guns, some wounded Japanese soldiers writhed in pain, making an ugly * sound, the Japanese soldiers who were not dead and not injured all squatted on the ground with their heads in their arms, and a devil officer with the rank of Shaozuo on his shoulders took out a white hand towel from his pocket, waved it high, and shouted indistinctly: "Tuqiang, Tuqiang!" ”

Shi Zhong asked the men of the reconnaissance company to replenish the guns of the dead and wounded Japanese soldiers one by one, and to take off the backpacks, leather shoes and armed belts as trophies. The living Japanese soldiers were gathered together and counted, together with the horses of the transport team, a total of one hundred and seventeen people. Zhang Shenghu asked Shi Chong for instructions on how to deal with these people, Shi Chong gently scratched his neck with his right hand and said, "Don't leave a single one." ”

Hearing Shi Chong's words, Huang Yingyi was anxious, rushed down regardless of it, and said loudly: "Don't kill prisoners!" ”

Undaunted by the hellish gaze of the stone, Huang Yingyi straightened his chest and insisted: "The Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of 27 July 1929 stipulates that prisoners of war who have laid down their arms cannot be killed. ”

Looking at Huang Yingyi's childish face, flushed red, and with a look of persistence, Shi Chong smiled and said: "I know this convention, and I have killed a lot of prisoners of war, and I haven't seen anyone come to me for trouble." It's not impossible to keep them, but Brother Xiaohuang, let me tell you, leaving them may cause us great trouble, and even change our combat mission, do you still insist? ”

"Hold on! No matter how big the trouble is, no matter how big the problem, you can't kill the prisoner. Huang Yingyi insisted: "The purpose of war is for peace, not to kill people, they have laid down their weapons and taken the initiative to become prisoners, they should have the consciousness of becoming prisoners, they must take the initiative to cooperate with our work, if there is a problem in the work, it is not too late to kill." ”

The captain of the Japanese transport team, a China expert, told the Japanese army that the * officers were arguing, one insisted on killing all prisoners of war, the other insisted on enforcing the Geneva Treaty, and translated the two into Japanese. Hearing the words of the transport squad leader, the squadron leader of the Japanese artillery squadron continued to wave the white handkerchief with his right hand, pulled the transport squad leader up with his left hand, and said loudly to Shi Zhong: "We will definitely cooperate with your army's work and will not cause any trouble to your army." With that, he stood aside in a straight and upright position. The transport team leader hurriedly translated the squadron leader's words into Chinese, and after speaking, he also stood to the side.

Looking at the two Japanese, and then at Huang Yingyi, who was panting in a hurry, Shi Zhong smiled and said, "Brother Xiaohuang, if you win, I'll bet on this one to see if this group of Japanese soldiers brings us good luck or bad luck." ”

With the active cooperation of the Japanese army, the body search was quickly completed, and the armed belts of each Japanese soldier were removed, and the cloth belts that tied the trousers were also untied and removed. Each of the Japanese soldiers carried a box of 30 kilograms of infantry artillery shells, carried the marching backpack in front of them, and stretched out a hand to carry their pants around the backpack. This is an important job, as soon as you let go of the pants, they will fall to the knees, and although there is a crotch cloth inside, once the pants fall off, the ease of movement is greatly reduced. The Japanese squadron leader was a little dissatisfied with this request of the Chinese soldiers, believing that it was an insult to the prisoners of war. Huang Yingyi didn't explain, and returned the cloth belt that tied his trousers to him and asked him to tie it. When he tied his pants up with satisfaction and looked at Huang Yingyi with a victor's expression, he found that the other party was taking out a hemp rope to tie his hands behind his back. The Japanese squadron leader immediately untied the freshly tied trouser belt and pulled it out, carried the quilt in one hand, and handed the trouser belt to Huang Yingyi with the other, he knew that although one hand was not free, it was better than not being free in both hands.

The addition of the Japanese army did not slow down the marching speed of the troops, on the contrary, these well-trained soldiers also showed the Chinese soldiers the so-called bushido spirit and military quality, not only was the speed not slow, but the pace was neat, just because there was a hand pulling the trousers, although they tried harder to maintain the marching posture of the soldiers, but it always made people feel a little funny.

The shell boxes were all carried by the Japanese prisoners of war, and the pack horses that had been carrying the 20 shells were given out, and all the Japanese armed belts were packed into bags, and the other booty was put on the horses, and the 20 pack horses were piled up to the brim, and the brothers of a platoon sent by the reconnaissance company became horse guards, and the others took the 38 large covers captured from the dead Japanese infantry squad and artillery squad garrison personnel in their hands and became guards.

At the barrage, Shi Chong did not let the troops stop advancing, but kept going north, and when they arrived at Gongling, it was already two o'clock at noon, and Zhang Chongshan, who was at the head station, had already prepared food in Gongling, and as soon as the large army arrived, he immediately started to eat. Seeing so many Japanese, the men, women and children of Gongling came out to see the strangeness, and when they saw the Japanese carrying their trousers, they all felt very ridiculous, and some children were still giggling, shouting, and throwing Japanese with small stones. Under the restraint of the squadron commander of the Japanese army, more than 100 Japanese soldiers could be said to be walking like a loose line, sitting like a clock, advancing and retreating, and did not look at the crowd watching the excitement and throwing stones on the side. After hearing the order to rest, he sat down on the spot, put the heavy ammunition box aside, untied the backpack on his chest and put it on the other side, and saw the leader of the army carrying the rice bucket over, the Japanese soldier carefully took out the lunch box from the backpack, held it in front of him, and waited for the meal to be shared. The meal was divided, and the squadron leader gave an order, and everyone opened their mouths to eat. The meal was ordinary, but the Japanese army ate it with relish and cleanly, and there was not a single grain of rice left. After eating, some Japanese soldiers poured some water from the kettle, washed the lunch box, and drank the water from the lunch box. A small towel to dry the lunch box, put it in order, and put it in the backpack. After doing all this, he still sat motionless, lowered his eyebrows, and did not make a sound, until the order to set off was down, and then he set off again with his pants.

There are more than 20 kilometers in the next step, we must arrive today, cross the ridge from the Qinglou, copy the path from the ridge to Longtan, and only when we get to Longtan and meet Zhong Liang and Peng Wu can we complete the task. Shi Zhong looked at the sky, and couldn't help but secretly worry, he was not afraid to walk at night, he was afraid that the devil captives would take advantage of the night to make trouble.

"Chief of Staff Xiao Huang, today, you are reckless." Walking on the path of the Qinglou, Zhao Shengan found a suitable opportunity and said to Huang Yingyi: "The task of our two companies during this period is to harass the Japanese army with Gongling as the center, because of your kindness, we can only give up Gongling and complete the task of escorting the prisoners first." You know, it's easy for us to go to Longtan, but it's not easy to go back to Gongling. I estimate that because of the disappearance of the Japanese artillery squadron, in the past two days, the Japanese troops in Shijing Huangdun will definitely search everywhere, and even the Japanese troops in Anqing may come over. There are not many of them, this area is not small, and to search all the areas, the Japanese army can only be divided into parts and divided into a detachment or a small group. At this time, it is the best time for us to eliminate them, and we can form more than five interception teams with platoons as units to hunt and kill these search units of the Japanese puppet army. Our battalion commander is from Yishan, and this kind of hunting is what he is best at, basically at the end of the day, it is not a problem to kill dozens of Japanese soldiers. It's a shame that we lost this opportunity because of the captives. ”

"That can't kill more than a hundred lives at the same time!" Huang Yingyi said: "It's too cruel! ”

"That's because you haven't seen how the Japanese killed our people, the city of Nanjing was broken, and more than 300,000 of us were killed, more than 100 of them, what is it!" Zhao Shengan said.

Huang Yingyi lowered his head, after a while, raised his head again, and said a little stubbornly: "The Japanese are animals, we are different, we are human, we have humanity, a war should not arouse the bestiality of our Chinese, but should arouse our blood." Company Commander Zhao, you are also a graduate of the Central Military Academy, and you should have received this kind of education. ”

Zhao Shengan shook his head and said: "Theory and practice are often different. For example, in this battle in the West Six Counties, in front of us was a Japanese wing and a puppet regiment, totaling about 4,000 people, and we, the three regiments in this area combined, were less than 4,000. There is a huge disparity in the strength of the enemy and the enemy. Therefore, every time we kill one of them, their strength decreases a little, and relatively speaking, our strength increases a little, so we divide them by tearing and dividing them by various means, just to form a local superiority in strength, eliminate the Japanese army little by little, eliminate each other's strengths, and finally achieve victory. ”

Huang Yingyi nodded, shook his head again, and said to Zhao Shengan: "Company Commander Zhao, I personally believe that this group of Japanese prisoners will play a decisive role in our victory in this operation. Company Commander Zhao, there is something that has been dangling in my head, like a shining point, faintly, I can't grasp it, and I can't see it clearly. ”

Zhao Shengan smiled and said: "When you arrive at Longtan tonight, you tell Boss Mo your idea with a telegram, and he will tell you what this bright spot is." ”

Huang Yingyi sighed, only to find that his pace slowed down unconsciously, and hurriedly rushed a few steps to keep up with the large army, the sun was already in the west, and there was still a short distance to the top of the ridge. There was good news that Zhong Liang's battalion was already waiting for them at the head of the ridge, and when they got there, the assault company and the reconnaissance company were on standby. Zhong Lianghui, the commander of the third battalion, sent another company to be responsible for sending the prisoners to Longtan and then back to Shuiyao. The four infantry guns and shells were placed at the head of the ridge, and the police company had already sent people to rush over from the water roar, and they learned to shoot artillery with Li Baicheng's artillery regiment in Mabu.