Chapter 75 Chapter 72 Sitting in a Well and Watching the Sky

In the afternoon of this day, Yu Chengwan sent people to Daolin Temple to pick up food, fodder and bullets, and at the same time organized a burial team to clean up the corpses in the city.The basement of the central bank is made of steel and concrete, and it was not damaged after all. He himself brought two guards to live there.But as soon as the door of the basement came out, it was a rubble field, but it could no longer accommodate other officers and soldiers.The people in the Deputy Counselor's Office only found a wall to block the northwest wind, and they slept in the open. Fortunately, everyone has experienced all kinds of pains this month, so they don't have to worry about it.Under most of the moonlight, Cheng and Li sat huddled in the bomb crater on the ground, talking about the past and chatting to relieve boredom.The longer the conversation, the longer the night felt.The conversation didn't stop until Staff Officer Li followed the division commander's order and went to Maowan at night to contact the friendly army.

It turned out that on the evening of December 3rd, Chai Yixin, the head of the regiment, was killed in battle at the Xingjiekou bunker. Gao Ziri, the deputy head of the regiment, saw that he was alone and could not rely on a single stronghold to fight the enemy, so he ordered everyone to evacuate Come on, break away from the position, ask for yourself, come out every night by appointment, stick crossed wooden sticks on the broken wall as marks, so as to get in touch.Even though Cheng Jianren was injured on his leg, he had to evacuate.He got a rifle from the enemy's corpse, and each had more than a dozen bullets. These two living treasures depended on each other.He accepted the instructions of Deputy Head Gao, and quietly left Xingjiekou with tears in his eyes.

Cheng Jianren didn't know where to hide, so he could only crawl around in circles in the rubble field.This is the first string of October in the lunar calendar, and the half-hooked comb-shaped moon hangs high in the sky.The embers of burning houses in the city would send up a puff of thick smoke from time to time, covering up the moonlight.He crawled for a while, looked back and looked around for a while.Apart from piles of bricks and rubble, there are broken walls and broken roof trusses in front of me. I can't tell the streets and alleys, and I can't tell the direction. I just don't know where to go.But he heard someone under half of the short wall whisper softly: "Consultant, Wang Biao is here." He was suddenly startled.But he immediately realized that it was indeed Wang Biao's voice.

Just looking there, Wang Biao climbed out of the corner.The two went to one place and talked a little about their own situation.Wang Biao recovered from his wounds in the well and climbed outside to find out the news. He was at the foot of the wall and found Cheng Jianren for half an hour.Suddenly, swish...a bullet passed in front of him.The two immediately fell on the ground without daring to move, thinking that their voices were loud and alarmed the enemy.For four or five minutes, I didn't dare to move, but after that, I didn't move. Wang Biao said: "At this point, we have to have a hiding place. Come with me." Then they stood up and walked forward again, Wang Biao crawled forward to lead the way.The direction the two of them took was to go to the dry well where Wang Biao and Huang Jiumei took refuge.

Walking to the mouth of the well, he whispered: "This well is safer than the air-raid shelter of the Central Bank." While speaking, he took two small stones and threw them into it twice. Cheng Jianren tugged at the hem of his shirt and said softly, "What are you doing? Didn't you mean to scare them?" Wang Biao said with a smile: "It's okay, I have an appointment with Miss Nine. When she comes, I will throw two small stones at her. It's not me if I have one more, and it's not me if I'm missing one. Staff, it's almost dawn. We will Slip down the gutter."

As he said that, he first got under the wooden frame of the collapsed house to remove the hidden stone slabs, opened two pieces and stretched his feet down, then dragged his rifle and slid down slowly.After he retracted a few feet, he kept calling, "Staff, come down." Although Cheng Jianren felt that hiding in this ditch was absolutely not an option, but at this time, except for slipping down with Wang Biao, a single person had to leave here, otherwise the enemy would find out and implicate them.Just as he was hesitating, Wang Biao kept yelling in the trench, "Staff, come down."He stopped thinking about it, and followed Wang Biao's method and slipped into the cave.

When he was about to leave the entrance of the cave, he held the two stone slabs on the mouth of the ditch with both hands and covered them.Then he slowly slipped to the bottom of the ditch, where a candle was stuck on the cave wall, and there were four people in total, Mrs. Zhang, Boss Ding, Huang Jiumei, and Miss Liu Jingai, all leaning against the cave wall. sitting.Including myself and Wang Biao here, everyone's shoulders are stacked on top of each other, and they still can't stretch their heads here. They can only curl up in a ball. Miss Liu seems to feel that this hole is not suitable for crowding, and she is the one closest to the inside. One, it has gone to the middle of the dry well.As soon as he arrived, everyone rushed to ask, how is the situation outside? But Ms. Liu only said that Cheng Cheng is here, but did not ask anything.

Wang Biao leaned his gun against the cave wall, sat on the ground, hugged his knees with his hands, and replied: "Don't ask about the situation outside, anyway, the whole city is burned up. We can't stand, and neither can the devils." Yes. The division commander went to meet the friendly troops in person, and we will be buried alive here for two days! The division commander will definitely bring the friendly troops into the city." Huang Jiumei was sitting next to him, so she pulled his clothes and said, "Who is going to ask you? We are asking Staff Officer Cheng."

Cheng Jianren sat at the place where the ditch meets the hole, because he said: "It is true. Tonight, the enemy made a lot of noise in the city, so everyone had to be quiet. I thought about it all day tomorrow, and at night we will Went out for activities." Boss Ding said: "Can't we go out? We have to hide for ten days or eight days?" Cheng Jianren said: "I am different from you, Boss! You are a fleeing civilian, and I am an officer fighting. We have our mission to stay in the city. As soon as the friendly army arrives, we have to cooperate in the city. Hide here , how can you hear the gunshots outside?"

Mrs. Zhang said: "Really, our army is here, so how do we know?" Miss Liu said: "That's easy, sister-in-law, come here and stand in the middle of this well. You can stretch your waist, and you can breathe through the air." Mrs. Zhang really squeezed her way through the crowd, and there was a gap at the bottom of the cave. Cheng Jianren stretched his legs, sighed and said, "Never mind him, sleep him first, he is going to be buried alive anyway. Ms. Liu, stretch your head and look, is it dawn yet?" When Liu Jingyuan heard about it, she suddenly burst out laughing.Everyone was a little stunned. How could she be able to laugh? She said: "Mr. Cheng, I think of an idiom when you say this. Is this called sitting in a well and watching the sky?"

This reminded Cheng Jianren that he didn't feel like laughing anymore, because he said: "What's more, what people say is a frog in a well, and now all of us have become frogs in a well." Liu Jingai said: "Stop joking, it's already dawn, Mr. Cheng, please rest for a while, I think you haven't slept for several days, right?" Before Cheng Jianren could answer, Huang Jiumei said, "Isn't it? You see, Old Wang is already asleep." When everyone looked at it, they saw Wang Biao sitting among the people, with his head resting on his two bent legs, and he was soundly asleep.Sitting at the entrance of the cave like that, Cheng Jianren was already leaning on the bottom of the dark ditch, with his eyes closed, he was already a little groggy.At this moment, I heard Wang Biao's snorting, which seduced my sleepiness. I just stopped thinking like this, so I didn't feel like a frog at the bottom of the well. When I got consciousness, I slowly opened my eyes to see, But he saw a bright light in front of him, and the four men and women who had taken refuge in the cave were sitting crowded together.The bright light could see clearly, but Wang Biao fell asleep straight.So he sat up slowly and asked the four people: "I fell asleep as soon as I became confused. Have I been asleep for a long time?" Liu Jingyuan said softly: "Mr. Cheng, please be quiet, there was noise outside the well just now, it seems that there are enemies talking!" Cheng Jianren just sat and rubbed his eyes without making a sound. Ms. Liu squeezed her way through the crowd, and when she got to Jian Jian's side, she whispered, "This cave is very dirty, go to the mouth of the well to get some air." Cheng Jianren said, "Thank you, Ms. Liu, for caring about me." Without thinking, he suddenly thanked her.It wasn't until I said it that I realized that there was something wrong with the language.Miss Liu didn't say anything. Fortunately, Huang Jiumei interjected: "At this moment of life and death, let's all make do and live on. There is nothing to be polite about." Cheng Jianren said repeatedly: "Yes, Miss Huang is happy." So he stood in the well. The pocket watch on his body was still there at this time, he took it out, and looked at it by the light, it was two o'clock in the afternoon, listening outside, there were no more gunshots.Looking up to the well, it is really a bright hole like a crab's eye, and the sky above it is not much bigger than a washbasin.In this case, we can't see what's going on in Changde City.Not only was I anxious, but I hadn't eaten anything since noon yesterday.At this time, I was really hungry and panicked, as if my stomach was on fire.Not only was he hungry, but he hadn't drunk water for 20 hours, and he was also extremely thirsty.But what can be done about it? The only way is to stand against the wall of the well. About two hours later, Wang Biao also woke up.Huang Jiumei sat next to him, first gently warned him to keep quiet, and slowly boiled.Wang Biao said: "Staff, this is not the solution, let's climb out and have a look." Cheng Jianren said, "I've thought about it a long time ago. But it's dark inside the cave, but it's still bright outside. Let's go out together when I see stars from the borehole." Wang Biao said: "Then I'll sleep again, I'll have enough sleep, and I'll make trouble for the devils all night." As he spoke, he really lay down on the bottom of the ditch.