Chapter 4 Chapter Four

In fact, Su Yuan left Laiyang City within half a month.Instead of fleeing, he followed Kitano's troops to sweep towards Kunyu Mountain.Kitano will join forces with Yamamoto at a place called Xianshi in the north of Haiyang City, and then commit crimes in the east.This is another major military operation by the Japanese army after Qingxiang in autumn.At the same time, it was also a military operation at the end of its strength. The season has entered early winter, and most of the territory north of the Yellow River in China has begun to snow.The cold current gradually invaded the south, and the entire Central Plains was windy and the withered grass was rustling.However, the war did not become colder because of the cold season, but became more intense because it was coming to an end.The so-called "Continental Decisive Battle" between the Chinese army and the Japanese army in Hunan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, and Hubei was fiercely going on.The Japanese army made a desperate "final attack" to reverse the inevitable defeat, taking the initiative as a retreat.In late October, several enemy forces encircled Guilin and Liuzhou, and the two cities were successively captured in early November.After that, the Japanese army continued to venture westward, occupying Longsheng, Rongxian, and Nanning on the outskirts of Guilin, and captured Jinchengjiang, Hechi, Nandan, and Liuzhai, and went straight to the gate of Guizhou.At that time, the enemy's lightly armed troops continued to pursue northward, and then occupied Sanhe City, Chuanzhai, and Dushan.At this point, the Chinese army began to counterattack. Tang Enbo's corps entered Guizhou on foot from Henan and reached the front line in southern Guizhou.The battle situation changed suddenly overnight, the enemy quickly retreated to the south, and the Chinese army pursued from behind, successively conquering Sanhe, Dushan, Libo, Liuzhai, and Nandan.By the end of the month, the situation on the Guizhou-Guizhou line was stable.The turning trend of the war between Guizhou and Guangxi can be regarded as the epitome of the entire Sino-Japanese war situation at that time.

After leaving the city, Su Yuan couldn't help but glance back.At that moment, he had a premonition: he would never return to this small town again in this life.His looking back is not out of nostalgia for the small town, there is nothing worthy of his nostalgia there.On the contrary, everything in the past was unbearable, it was his prison, where everything he had was ruined.That last glance was just his wordless curse. The sky was overcast.A cold wind sweeps across the open and barren fields.The leaves of the trees have already fallen, standing there like some naked men, shivering in the cold wind.Most of the rivers passing by are dry, and what catches the eye is the bright white river sand shaped like a ribbon.Su Yuan suddenly remembered the "strange place" that the old horse said he went to with white sand flowing in the river, and his heart sank. He felt that at this moment.I am following in the footsteps of the old horse and stepping into that "strange field", but the old horse has turned back the same way, but I am afraid that I will go straight forward.If you can't get out, you may go all the way to "death".

Ten days ago, he had put the information about the enemy's operation in that secret tree hole. He believed that the anti-Japanese team would receive it and take corresponding measures.Kitano asked him to act with the troops, but his purpose was different from the previous one. This time, he was to be regarded as an opponent in chess, so that he could play a game at any time during the interval of the battle.Since playing against Su Yuan, Kitano has lost interest in his original opponent, Kameda.But because Kitano did not have the upper hand over Su Yuan, he was worried about it. Because of the old horse, Gao Tian stayed in the city for an excuse.Before leaving, Takata informed him that he could take advantage of this opportunity to escape from the Japanese army, and it would be okay if he failed to escape, and he would think about it after returning to the city.Although Takata didn't say it clearly, he saw that Takata was reluctant to leave by himself, and hoped to cooperate again for the "Life Channel" project.Su Yuan was also conflicted.

Kitano's troops rushed eastward.Passing through a small village at noon, the villagers had already fled, and the village was empty.Kitano ordered to bury the pot and make rice here.After dinner, continue eastward.The road slopes gradually up into the hilly terrain where the two counties meet.In order to guard against the ambush of the anti-Japanese troops, the speed of the team slowed down.When passing through a village again, it was getting late, the troops did not dare to advance rashly, and decided to camp in the village.It's night, no war.If there was one, it would be the Fangge battle between Kitano and Su Yuan.At dawn the next day the troops continued their march.At this time, we have stepped into the boundary of Haiyang, and the terrain is gradually becoming steeper.At noon, the troops passed through a valley shaped like a clamshell, surrounded by hills.Kitano, who was riding on the horse, looked panic-stricken, with an ominous premonition.Sure enough, when his army completely entered the valley, gunshots suddenly sounded from the surrounding hills.

This kicked off the valley ambush that was later recorded in the county annals. Almost at the same time, another anti-Japanese team ambushed Yamamoto's troops in Yangzhuang, ten miles away. After the battle broke out, the panicked Japanese soldiers and puppet troops each looked for shelters to lie down.Su Yuan was surprisingly calm.He still stood on the spot, like an outsider, looking at the continuously shining mountain in front of him, until an elderly puppet soldier yelled at him, "Lie down!" He subconsciously squatted down.At this time, he felt a strong and scorching air whizzing past his head, and a string of earth flowers flew up from the mud not far behind him.

He still didn't panic, just leaned towards the elderly puppet soldier calling him, and lay down beside him.The cover ahead was just a raised rock, and now and then the thud of bullets could be heard. This is a very narrow valley, no longer than two miles long and no more than one mile wide, just like a "pocket".The anti-Japanese team chose an excellent ambush site, and the condescending shooting caused heavy casualties to the enemy troops who did not disperse in time.Kitano's mount was shot to death by bullets. He was covered by Lieutenant Kameda and several other sergeants into a depression in the middle of the valley, lying on the ground and observing the surrounding high ground with binoculars.For a senior officer who has fought for a long time, he knows that he is in a doomed situation.

The Japanese and puppet troops began to fight back. This was blind shooting like a conditioned reflex, which could not cause any lethality.But inadvertently, another effect was produced. The smoke and dust from the shooting filled the air. The valley was low-lying and there was no wind. The smoke and dust could not dissipate, forming a natural barrier.The anti-Japanese team could not see the specific target clearly from the mountain, and its lethality was greatly weakened.Under the cover of smoke and dust, the Japanese and puppet troops in the valley quickly resumed their organizational system. The squadron leaders commanded their respective troops to go into battle, and heavy machine guns and grenades fired fiercely at the mountain.

This is not a place to fight, and we must break out as soon as possible.The battle has been stalemate for a while, and Kitano has selected a breakout point. In the southeast of the valley, there is a gap more than 100 meters wide between the two hills. It is possible to break out from here under the cover of strong firepower.Kitano made arrangements to break through, but before the order was issued, the anti-Japanese team launched an encirclement attack on the valley. Countless anti-Japanese fighters charged down from the surrounding hills, gunshots and shouts joined together. The Japanese and puppet troops in the valley resisted desperately, and all kinds of firepower fired at the anti-Japanese fighters rushing forward.The anti-Japanese fighters exposed to the open ground continued to fall to the ground.The grenadiers of the Japanese soldiers also showed their power, and the shells exploded on the heads of the anti-Japanese fighters, causing heavy casualties.The anti-Japanese team was about 200 meters away from the edge of the valley, and the encirclement was basically completed. In order to avoid heavy casualties, they temporarily stopped charging and took advantage of the favorable terrain around the valley to form a restraint on the valley.

Su Yuan was still lying beside the elderly puppet soldier.The whole battle process is in his eyes.Although he does not have a military vision, he also sees that Kitano's troops have fallen into a "death situation".He thought this was the last moment for him to escape from the enemy camp.When the enemy was wiped out, he would find Lao Hu among the anti-Japanese ranks.Lao Hu will bring himself to his superiors and report to them that he is the doctor Su Yuan who sent the information.The superior will hold his hand and thank him repeatedly.Then he would let out a long sigh of relief.He knew that as long as he found Lao Hu, everything after that would come naturally.

As the firepower fired by the anti-Japanese troops into the valley continued to intensify, the situation in the valley became more and more chaotic and severe. The puppet troops did not actively participate in the battle, but just coped with it.Seeing this, the Japanese cursed and even pointed their guns at each other.They also knew that they could not rely on the puppet army at critical moments and had to fight on their own.While shooting, they built makeshift shelters.The military doctors and health soldiers of the military medical team set up a temporary rescue station in the center of the valley, and carried the injured Japanese soldiers there to bandage and apply medicine.The seriously wounded were crying in pain, and the military doctor stuffed gauze into their mouths.The executive officer in World War I walked around sullenly, shooting and killing the dying wounded soldiers.Suddenly, a shot white horse galloped wildly in the valley, neighing endlessly, trampling, kicking and biting when it saw anyone, and rushed to Kitano several times.Lieutenant Kameda fired his submachine gun at the horse's head until the horse fell to the ground and died.

In order to break out of the siege as soon as possible, Kitano redeployed the troops guarding the valley and changed tactics.He ordered Senri Squadron Leader to lead an assault force to seize Shanjiang in the north of the valley.The hill is only over a hundred meters high, and the trees are lush, which will bring convenience to the attack.If it can be seized successfully, the Japanese army trapped in the valley can use this as a basis to break out to the north. Squadron leader Senri led his stormtroopers out of the valley, crossing the open area between the valley and the hills while shooting while shooting.This is a death zone, but it was not resisted by the anti-Japanese troops. It seemed that the anti-Japanese fighters suddenly disappeared from the position.Sen Ri was a little surprised, his footsteps stopped subconsciously, and suddenly a bullet flew head-on and hit him in the chest.The moment Senri fell, a row of grenades landed in the middle of the stormtroopers and exploded. More than half of the stormtroopers were killed and injured immediately, and the preemption plan fell through.The remaining Japanese soldiers hurriedly dragged their companions' bodies back into the valley. When Kitano was about to organize a charge again, a burst of intense gunshots came from the southeast of the valley. The Japanese soldiers in the valley suddenly panicked and looked in the direction of the gunfire. The gap is rushing towards the valley.The gunshots were the intensive shooting of the anti-Japanese troops on the hills on both sides of the gap.Seeing that it was "our own people", the Japanese soldiers in the valley rushed to respond, and dropped their firepower to the southeast, finally making the escaped Japanese soldiers enter the valley. A corpse that looked like a wheat was left on the open space at the gap. This is a remnant of Yamamoto's army that was dispersed by the anti-Japanese team in Yangzhuang, with less than 30 people.They didn't expect to break out of the encirclement with great effort and then get into a new encirclement. It can be said that they are doomed.They were all downcast, with gloomy looks on their faces. Su Yuan was still lying where he was, and glanced back casually when he heard the movement over there.He didn't see anything clearly, but he smelled a stench coming from there, which was the bad smell from the local frangipani flowers.He shivered, and when he turned his face again, he saw Yagi's white and fat face, and several other military doctors under Yagi.Killer in white.Su Yuan only felt a rush of blood rushing to the top of his head, and his ears were buzzing. After that, the stench engulfed him more and more intensely.He developed symptoms of nausea and vomiting, and his sanity became blurred.At this time, his thinking was very simple, and the only thing he thought about was to fulfill a vow: not to let these killers in white go out alive.He knew that this vow was not in front of his eyes, it had already been born in his heart when he and Gao Tian buried the young farmer.Good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil. It's not that it's too late for not to repay, but now it's time for them to suffer retribution.He was thinking so persistently and confusedly, but he was vague about what he should do now, and only vaguely felt that there should be a gun in his hand. The two sides fired at each other without a moment's pause, and the smoke and dust slowly spread from the valley to the outside.When the smoke and dust flooded the position of the anti-Japanese team, the anti-Japanese team began another round of charge.The Japanese and puppet troops crawling on the edge of the valley could only shoot blindly into the smoke and dust. It was not until the anti-Japanese fighters rushed to the valley and revealed their figures that the Japanese and puppet troops' shooting resumed their lethality.The battle became extremely fierce, and both offense and defense were equally desperate.It's just that the closer to the valley, the flatter the ground, and the more exposed the anti-Japanese team is.Every step forward comes at a high price. Su Yuan picked up a gun behind him, it was discarded by a puppet soldier who was killed. The puppet soldier was very young, lying on his back on the ground, his head was hit, and his baby face was stained red with blood.Su Yuan only glanced at it and quickly picked up the gun.This was the first time for him to touch a gun, and he felt that the weight of the gun was very heavy. He returned to the side of the old puppet soldier and lay down again, observing how the puppet soldier shot.After looking at it for a while, he thought it was very simple, but he didn't expect that it would be so simple to do such a terrible thing that can kill people. The old puppet soldier stopped shooting and turned his head to look at him with a surprised look on his face. "Little brother, what are you doing with your family at the end of autumn?" said the old puppet soldier. Su Yuan remained silent. "Fool, throw away the gun!" said the senior puppet soldier. Su Yuan remained silent. The old puppet army sighed, and then started shooting again. It was only then that Su Yuan realized that when he shot, he raised the muzzle of the gun very high. It was gradually getting dark, and the sparks of the shooting pierced the dim sky, looking weird and hideous. This is the moment Kitano has been waiting for. The situation in the valley has become more and more serious, and the anti-Japanese fighters have been able to throw grenades into the valley.The Japanese and puppet troops suffered heavy casualties and had to shrink to the middle.The grenadier has lost its effectiveness, and several heavy machine guns are placed in a cross shape in the newly dug bunker, constantly spitting flames in all directions. Kitano began to arrange a new breakthrough.This is a new breakout plan, using the cover of night to break out from the gap in the northeast direction.Kitano formed a cover team with all the puppet troops and some Japanese troops, and he and other officers were guarded by the rest of the Japanese troops to form a breakout team. Kitano didn't forget Su Yuan, he found someone to find him and called him to him.In the twilight, Beiye in Su Yuan's eyes was like an old wolf. Seeing that Su Yuan was holding a gun in his hand, Beiye was startled for a moment, but didn't say anything.He glanced at the interpreter Huang who was standing beside Bu Naitang as a substitute, and then began to speak to Su Yuan.Huang once served as the translator for Captain Shangu. Su Yuan had a little contact with him and knew that his Japanese level was average. Kitano said: "Su Yuan-jun, now is not the time to talk, you know that, but I have to tell you, it's time for you to make a choice again." These words were translated redundantly by the translator Huang. In the past, Bei Ye's words would have made Su Yuan tremble with fear, but this time he was very calm.He just stared at Kitano. "Go ahead," he said. "Break out with me? Or will you stay? It's up to you to decide." Kitano said. A woman-like face of Yagi appeared in front of Su Yuan's eyes. "Will the members of the military medical team break out together?" Su Yuan asked. "Leave a few health soldiers, and the rest will go together," Kitano said. "Captain Yagi of Yamamoto's army?" Su Yuan asked again, seemingly worried. "He is the assistant officer, of course he will go." "Then I'll go too." "This is a good idea. It would be unlucky to leave it in the hands of the anti-Japanese troops." Kitano said. Su Yuan scolded Bei Ye in his heart. "If I can get out alive, I will give up a game with you. If we die, we will run in the underworld calmly and compete for the winner..." When things are going so far, Kitano still wants to have a little humor . It's just that Su Yuan didn't respond. The sky has completely darkened, and the last sunset glow in the western sky has faded away, and the lead-colored sky is illuminated by the flames of war from time to time.The night wind has risen, blowing from the mountain pass to the valley, it is gloomy. The battle was still at a stalemate. At this moment, Su Yuan suddenly understood: The reason why the Japanese army can survive mainly depends on the firepower of those heavy machine guns.He was a little worried that if it dragged on, Kitano and Yagi would probably run away. The breakout team has gathered and gathered around Kitano.Although he couldn't see the faces of these people clearly, Su Yuan knew that Yamu and his military doctors were there by the stench.Due to the close proximity, the smell was even stronger, and Su Yuan felt as if he was about to be suffocated.He has been puzzled all the time, is the smell on Yagi's body real or just his own feeling?Anyway, it must be one of the two.But at this moment, it is difficult for his thinking to conduct a deeper analysis. He feels a pain in the head and a feeling of drowsiness. The only thing he knows is that no matter how dark it is, his sense of smell will be like a hound Follow Yagi's... The breakout team moved silently to the position facing the gap in the southeast of the valley. Kitano's breakout plan was simple and cunning: he would lead his troops to "slide" across the open ground like a snake. This is a moment of intrigue. The breakout team started to move, and dozens of people crawled out of the valley. The scene was indeed like a snake sliding forward cautiously.And soon left the valley.There are lush wheat seedlings growing in the open space, spreading forward like a soft blanket, on which the team crawls effortlessly and silently.It was a dark night, with no stars or moon in the sky, and the sky and the earth were in chaos. From time to time, there were fire lights flickering on the halfway up the two hills in front. It was the firepower shooting towards the valley. It shows that it also threatens the forward-moving breakout team. As long as there is a slight accident, the consequences will be unimaginable, and it can be described as a close call.Su Yuan also crawled among the team, he sniffed the bad smell vigilantly, in order to find out where Yagi and the others were in the team.He secretly "bites" tightly.But the smell caused great damage to his mind, and he could only think in one direction, that is, to follow Yagi closely and not let him escape.As for what he will do, it is still vague.At this time, the breakout team had left the valley far away, and gradually approached the two hills occupied by the anti-Japanese team.Su Yuan looked forward with his eyes, he wanted to see how far he was to the hill.He suddenly felt that the space in front of him suddenly changed its appearance, which was very strange. As a surgeon, it was not difficult for him to recognize that it was a wide and huge chest cavity. He seemed to feel that he had been here before, but he couldn't remember clearly.He was amazed and bewildered.At this moment, he seemed to remember Gao Tian, ​​Lao Ma, and his wife Shan Qing again, but everything was so far away, as if it had passed away.It's like those people know only one side of themselves.The chest gradually brightened, and there was thunder and lightning like last time. Dazzling arcs illuminated the scene in front of him. The heart and lungs, which were as huge as mountains, stood up clearly. He could see the giant heart beating rhythmically. It can be seen that the giant lungs are constantly shrinking and expanding.This is a scene of vigorous and magnificent life.He couldn't restrain the excitement in his heart, and slowly lowered his eyes, and another scene appeared before his eyes. He saw a wide and flat road passing through these giant hearts and lungs, leading to the confused distance.He suddenly realized: this is the passage of life that he and Military Doctor Takata found, as long as people walk out from here, they will be resurrected.This is a magical road, a road paved with light.He had a sudden idea: If a checkpoint is set up on this road, the pedestrians will be checked here, the good people will be allowed to pass, and the bad people will be blocked, so that the good, the evil, and the evil will all get their places.At this time, his eyes were a little obsessed, he seemed to see a person standing under the heart mountain, looking at him, that person was tall and thin, with a long neck, ah, it was Lao Hu!He was very puzzled, how could Lao Hu be here?Could it be that Lao Hu has already set a checkpoint here? In response to his call, there was a burst of strong gunfire like fried beans... At dawn the next day, the anti-Japanese troops cleaned up the battlefield.The rising sun dispelled the mist that permeated the valley, revealing the desolation of this tiny place after the war.Dead bodies were everywhere, the vegetation was scorched, and several burning bushes were still smoking, and there was a suffocating strange smell in the air. Anti-Japanese fighters are methodically checking and burying the corpses of Japanese and puppet soldiers.An anti-Japanese fighter found Su Yuan still alive on the open ground between two hills.He had gunshot wounds on his chest and back, his body was bleeding almost completely, and his face was as pale as paper.At the time of his death, he was still conscious.He asked the anti-Japanese fighter who found him to help him find someone.When the anti-Japanese fighter asked who he was looking for, he said I was an old Hu.The anti-Japanese fighter asked who Lao Hu was, and he said that Lao Hu was an enemy worker of the anti-Japanese team.The anti-Japanese fighter thought for a long time, and finally told him that no one in this team was surnamed Hu, so naturally there would be no enemy worker surnamed Hu.Su Yuan didn't believe it, and said that Lao Hu was his contact person, how could he not?He said he wanted to see the commander of the army.Although the anti-Japanese fighter was very reluctant, he still found their company commander.After listening to Su Yuan's request, the company commander confirmed to him again: There is indeed no enemy worker surnamed Hu in this team.He said that if that person was really an enemy worker, then he would not use his real name and surname externally, but a pseudonym.There are no rules about aliases. If you are named Li today, you can be named Wang tomorrow.Su Yuan opened his mouth and was speechless.But the company commander was still a very kind person, and he didn't want to let him go.He asked Su Yuan what the enemy engineer who claimed to be surnamed Hu looked like, and Su Yuan gave him a detailed description.At this time, an anti-Japanese soldier standing next to the company commander interjected: The situation he said is very similar to Section Chief Huang of the intelligence department.The company commander also expressed his approval after hearing this, so he asked the soldier to go to the company headquarters immediately to call Section Chief Huang of the intelligence department.The anti-Japanese fighter flew away.The company commander called the company's health workers to bandage Su Yuan.Soon, the anti-Japanese fighter who went to make a call ran back and said that the section chief surnamed Huang answered the phone.The company commander asked Section Chief Huang if he had anything to say?The anti-Japanese fighters said that the phone seized from the Japanese was very noisy, and it seemed that there was a strong wind blowing through the earphones.But Section Chief Huang still heard the last sentence clearly.He said that none of the people he contacted was a doctor surnamed Su... At this moment, Su Yuan was exhausted and kept silent, only staring at the company for a long time. When the sun rose from between the two hills, Su Yuan died. life channel epilogue Time flies, and forty years have passed in a flash.In the spring of 1984 AD, Mr. Takada, who was the captain of the military doctor in the army under the jurisdiction of Kitano, came to Shandong, China with a Japanese medical investigation team.During the period, he asked his master to send a car to take him to the county where he had been stationed during the Sino-Japanese War. He asked the county leaders about the whereabouts of Dr. Su Yuan.The leaders in the county are all very young people, and no one can tell the truth all of a sudden.Later, a deputy county magistrate in charge of culture suggested that he look through the county annals, saying that the major events that happened on this land in the past would be recorded in the county annals.And very responsibly found a county chronicle and gave it to Mr. Takada.Mr. Takata took this thin booklet back to the hotel, and carefully read it page by page. In the memorabilia of 1944, he finally saw the record of the famous ambush in the valley. The description is very concise, Like a telegram: On October 21, the Jiaodong Anti-Japanese Forces severely attacked the enemy forces that "swept" our Haiyang and Mouping base areas, and wiped out more than 400 Japanese and puppet troops in the ambush in Xianshigu. Among them, Major General Kitano, the commander of the Japanese army, was killed. Captain Yagi Zhongzuo was killed, thirteen lieutenants of the Japanese army were killed, Feng Yongfu, the squadron leader of the puppet army, and the traitor military doctor Su Yuan were killed.