Chapter 11 Chapter 11 Death Mission

The second son and other brothers each won a third-class warrior medal.Everyone was very excited playing with the medals, only the second son was angry on the wooden bed with his legs crossed. "You are a second-class meritorious hero again! We were blown away by a bomb, and you can't fly better than me. Why are you a second-class meritorious service? You are stupid because you have suffered a lot of injuries. It's all stray bullets, don't look at how scary it was back then, now we both have nothing to do, but why are you a second-class hero?" The second son was so angry that he couldn't sleep, and wanted to sit at the door of the barracks to smoke.Lao Dan knew that he was playing tricks and was too lazy to reason with him, so he said weakly: "Go to sleep, tomorrow you have to memorize seventeen bricks..."

In the middle of the night, the barracks snored like thunder, and the moonlight illuminated the steps at the door.Lao Dan quietly took out today's military medal and rubbed it in front of his eyes.The small iron sign glowed darkly, as if hiding a secret.Lao Dan put it under the pillow, closed his eyes and listened to the cicadas singing in the moonlight.Here is as quiet as a valley, without the noise and smell of the city, and no enemy planes pass over here.The one-month training may be tough, but you must relax, the battle is getting more and more fierce, and God knows how many more times you will die in the future.Home was getting farther and farther away, and he began to forget Tweety's smiling face and rooted smell, and the Banzi Village in his dream was frozen in that gloomy afternoon.It is impossible to distinguish whether the words of Banzi village that the head of Mazi said are true or false. Is it to keep himself from being distracted?

Lao Dan turned over and buried his face in the buckwheat husk pillow, his eyes darkened, but his heart brightened.Just take what he said to be true, and if you think it is true, it is true. Mr. Yuan Bai once said that people live by thinking, when the sky is dry, they hope for rain, and when it is cloudy, they hope for the sun.No matter how far home is, when it is there, it is possible to go back. No matter how hard the life is now, no matter how difficult the training is, let's live with it as a fairy. A week later, ten bricks were finally no longer a burden for the soldiers of the Paddy Assault Company. Xiaolu, who was so weak, could carry bricks on his back, let alone the second son, who was five big and three thick.So they started swimming, shooting and climbing ropes with ten bricks on their backs, and Quan Lian complained again.Lao Dan has never practiced shooting systematically in the past few months since he joined the war. up.Yang Tieyun carried ten bricks on his back, and fired ten shots at fixed points while running, three with ten rings, four with nine rings, and three with seven rings.Lao Dan stomped across the shooting range with ten bricks on his back. After shooting ten targets, he counted and missed a single shot.Quan Lian burst out laughing, Lao Dan was ashamed of himself, his face was ashamed like a persimmon.Yang Tieyun explained to everyone the technical essentials of weight-bearing shooting, and asked everyone to reach his level within half a month. Yang Tieyun did not forget to give Lao Dan a step: "No one can shoot for the first time, but no one can shoot after training. No way, after the whole company passes this assessment, ask the deputy company commander to buy wine for everyone!"

The soldiers exclaimed, Lao Dan complained in his heart, you really know how to sell favors, let me buy wine, there are more than a hundred people who are greedy for wine, who will pay for it? Shooting with heavy weight found a character, the grunting Orion Daxue was actually a super sharpshooter, running at high speed with a brick on his back, ten shots hit ten ten rings, and finally fired one more shot, no one saw where he shot , He shyly turned back and said: "I'm used to it. I saw a rabbit on the mountain and knocked..." The class-based blasting training confused Lao Dan.It's actually not that complicated, but when Lao Dan saw the explosives, he remembered that he was blown up by a firecracker when he was a child.With trembling hands, he couldn't insert the detonator. No matter how hard he tried, the detonator broke.It's easy to plug in, pull a rope and run far away to screw in the key.The clumsy old Dan always connected the wrong wires, but the second son was clever. He even consulted the electrician with the military police brother to operate one, two, three, and passed the test in one go.Seeing that Lao Dan was sweating profusely and couldn't handle the blasting, some recruits just laughed and giggled.Yang Tiejun immediately scolded: "What are you laughing at? Don't look at you doing well now. The devil's planes and cannons greeted you, and you were so scared that you even wet the explosives. Ask the deputy company commander for some practical experience. When you are serious, you will not Peed your pants!"

Lao Dan, who had pissed his pants, was very grateful for this compliment, and worked very hard when training for fighting.Yang Tieyun has a high level of theory and has received combat training, but his stabbing and saber skills cannot be compared with this farmer, and there is a gap in the practice of broadswords.Lao Dan kept in mind Ma Yanguo's nimble turning and footwork and the loud captain's horizontal dragging of the knife, and combined with his valuable practical experience in killing devils, he worked out a set of ugly but extremely practical knife techniques.Cutting is not like chopping, chopping is not like chopping, once the knife is chopped down, it will become a stab or a slant in a strange way, seeing him rushing towards you with the knife, it looks like he will split you in half. After accepting the move, he suddenly got low, slipped under your ribs, and turned around in a circle, and you were cut open by him.Yang Tiejun frowned as he watched Lao Dan wielding a knife. He had never seen such a knife technique, neither Chinese nor German military officers had taught it. He died laughing.But his saber technique was full of blood, two new recruits who were practicing against each other rushed forward, and Lao Dan chopped off his right leg with a wooden knife and stabbed his left rib in one move.The second son called it the "cutting knife method", and Lao Dan was so angry that he wanted to cut him, but the brothers thought it sounded good.Seeing Lao Dan chop off the challenged veterans and recruits one by one, everyone clapped their hands in amazement and respected Lao Dan who was juggling knives like monkeys.Yang Tieyun is not conservative, and it's not a martial arts competition to recruit relatives. It's a good sword if it can kill devils. As long as it's not seen by the Northwest Army's big sword instructor, let him go.He even encouraged the soldiers to learn this set of sword skills, but Lao Dan is not very good at saying that he knows how to deal with you when you cut him, but he can't form a theory, let alone say... Cut Dan knife skills.

The clever Yang Tiejun made a technical summary, summarizing this saber technique as: Feint attack with left slash—slide right and step down—short body and giant advance—slash dog legs—turn around and hold—diagonally slash belly—ghost open an account.This formula is vivid and vivid, easy to remember, the brothers memorized it all in an hour.Lao Dan gave Yang Tiejun a thumbs up, how could he be able to do it but not be able to say it?There was a flash of swords dancing on the coaching field for a while, and Lao Dan took off his arms when he was chopping. The scars all over his body surrounded him with admiration, and he inadvertently left the thin-skinned and tender company commander aside. Gao Hat transferred: "If I could have learned so many combat skills from the company commander earlier, my brothers would definitely have died a lot less! Everyone should ask the company commander for advice. What I do is carpenter's chores, not the right way."

Throwing grenades is the soldiers' favorite training. After eating and drinking, each one is gearing up, with the excitement of hitting a dog with a stone.But Yang Tieyun's way of playing scared everyone. He first threw one into the two white circles ten meters and twenty meters away, and then threw one into the three windows of a training building more than ten meters away. One, not to mention the distance, even the gods were killed by the explosion.The soldier with a wide door under him... is the one who buried Lao Dan who couldn't beat the devil with his fists, called Dapeng, he showed the live ammunition to everyone, every time he threw it, it exploded when thrown in, there was no hiding or throwing it back Opportunity.The second son applied to be the first to go into battle, two circles were thrown into one, but the three windows failed to enter, and one bounced back hard. If it was smoking, it would definitely not be able to hide.Yang Tiejun said that this is a mandatory requirement, and it must be able to be thrown into the machine gun holes of the devil's bunker.Lao Dan became suspicious, devils bunker?The devils have always attacked us to build bunkers, is it possible that the devils are going to counterattack and take the lead?

When the live ammunition was thrown, a recruit boy really panicked, stumbled on the sole of his foot, and the grenade fell in front of Lao Dan who took off his shoes and smoked a pot.The iron lump rolled around with green smoke, and the soldiers scrambled and scrambled like birds and beasts.Yang Tiejun looked back, and his face turned pale with fright.But Lao Dan was only stunned, picked it up calmly, threw it lightly into the nearby well, and continued to smoke with his legs crossed.The soldiers lying on the ground saw Lao Dan sitting by the well with a smile on his face, the water spray from the explosion wet the brim of his hat, and the ruler-long smoking pot was still in his mouth, full of smoke, and they all fell down in admiration.

The one-month intensive training has been quite effective. Both old and new soldiers have made great progress, and the coordinated attack and defense between platoons and platoons and squads has met Yang Tiejun's requirements.Everyone integrated through repeated drills and used standard gestures for signal transmission.A month later, Lao Dan suddenly felt... like a real soldier. When he walked, he began to straighten his body unconsciously, raised his chin, and he didn't squat like a bear like he used to smoke pot. His gaze, the way he spoke to him, and that strange... contentment in following his orders.Of course, all these things have nothing to do with the second son. As long as this bastard stands in front of him, Lao Dan will feel that he is the idiot in Banzi Village who can never beat him.

The soldiers admired the one-sided and talented company commander Yang Tiejun, and respected the honest and frightening deputy company commander Lao Dan.The arduous and diverse training gave the soldiers confidence. They all felt that this unit would have different combat missions. They guessed that Company Commander Yang must know about it. People often inquired about the military situation, but Yang Tiejun kept his mouth shut like an iron gate.Everyone can only guess wildly, will we let us catch prisoners?What does it mean to practice putting explosives?Don't you want us to blow up warships like the head of the regiment?The second son has a talent for storytelling, and he actually said that he wanted to parachute into the devil's den to capture the emperor alive.Lao Dan often wonders about this question, but he is not as anxious as everyone else. What are you doing with the ball? Isn't it just playing devils?

The saddest part of the Paddy Assault Company was neither running with bricks on its back, nor fighting and fighting, but the Japanese that no one took seriously.Although it's just some everyday things like "hello", "good morning", "yes", "we're going on a mission", "we're from the 5th division and just got off the front line", etc., it's not that difficult.But Yang Tiejun's biggest headache is that it is not difficult for everyone to learn these sentences, but it is difficult to change their accents.Take the old Dan in Banzi Village as an example. No matter how hard he practices, he speaks Japanese with a Henan dialect. He wants to pronounce "Haiyi" as "Hayi" desperately, and chooses the latter tune.The leader of the first row belongs to Tangshan. After talking about "Sayou Nala" for a week, he is still a "foolish uncle took it".It’s not that the soldiers are careless. They usually start to bow and speak Japanese when eating and bathing. In the middle of the night, they dream of “Auntie! Auntie!”.This is worrying to the detriment of Yang Tiejun and Adjutant Hu Jin, who are proficient in Japanese. They quickly realized that this was an impossible task to complete within a month, so they assigned the task to soldiers who were slightly better learned and could not hear any accent. Whenever a devil strikes up a conversation, Lao Dan should not talk nonsense, or simply pretend to be dumb. Staff Officer Hu finally arrived in a car and smoked one after another as soon as he got out of the car.The personnel of the combat department of the several military departments he brought were also smokers, and all of them seemed to be asleep.They read the summary of the training results of the soldiers and the briefing of the assault company written by Yang Tiejun.Staff Officer Hu, who never smiled, was very satisfied, but he only hummed a few times before letting everyone sit down for a meeting, and first conveyed the military command's combat order. Task: Approved by the General Staff Headquarters of the National Army and the Commander-in-Chief of the Wuhan Defense Zone, the Intelligence Department of the Second Army signed and issued an uncoded combat order.The Rice Assault Company must arrive at the starting point the day after tomorrow, march through our side and the enemy's positions for a long distance, march 150 miles in a hurry, and attack the Japanese Doufangshan military airport at night, destroying it and making it unusable for half a month, destroying the enemy's aircraft Navigation equipment and ammunition depots.All the troops tore off the epaulettes and numbers, wore Japanese military uniforms, and were equipped with Japanese army combat weapons and radio stations.The assault company will set off at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. Radio silence will be implemented before arriving. After arriving at the combat position, it will report and attack immediately. Counterattack from the fortress along the river.After the task was completed, the assault company withdrew to the southeast and entered the lake area to wait for the guerrilla troops of the 28th Army of the 3rd theater to be rescued. The staff of the Operations Department brought by Staff Officer Hu unfolded several maps, explaining the route and possible enemy strongholds one by one.They also gave Yang Tiejun two combat command manuals for Yang Tiejun and Lao Dan to digest.Lao Dan can't read big characters, and he can only look at the map roughly, so he can only rely on Yang Tieyun for all this.When Staff Officer Hu left, he turned around to salute Yang Tiejun and Lao Dan in a rare way, saying that the battle plan was drawn up by them, and it would depend on the rice assault company to see if it would be successful. The Chief of Staff of the Second Army came to toast everyone. He had a black face like a bear, waving his chubby arms, and his thick waist seemed to take a week to turn around.The chief of staff announced on the spot that the officers and soldiers of the Paddy Assault Company each had a rank of one rank, and they would be given 50 yuan first, and the soldiers who returned safely would still have 100 yuan.Lao Dan and the second son looked at each other, and the second son said that it is not a human being to be a deserter after this battle; but Lao Dan said that it is not a human being who would come back from this battle.During the dinner, the chief of staff drank a few cups and became talkative. He burst into tears as he talked, and then he raised his glass and sang the Whampoa military song.Yang Tieyun came from there, so he can sing fluently.Lao Dan only knows a few lines of Henan opera, of course he can't keep up with the tune, and he just hums along.The officers and soldiers of the assault company had never seen such a big official, nor had they received such a big promotion.The recruits and veterans all understand that this task is difficult to achieve, but it is better than the planes in the sky blowing up the defense of the devils running on the ground, and there are so many oceans to withstand, this life is worth playing. This night, the second son was so excited that he couldn't sleep, and he and Brother Yang Qingshan got together on the bed, blowing the brand-new ocean one by one, and his eyes became oceans with smiles.Lao Dan took out the knife given by Captain Mazi and sharpened it lightly, just enough for this mission.Looking at the sharp blade, his scalp felt numb, and every scar twitched with a bad premonition.Yang Tieyun looked at the barracks one by one, and saw that Lao Dan was still asleep, so he dragged him out again.The two of them were sitting outside the dark barracks, with only a small oil lamp on the table, the moon was left with a melon edge, and there would be nothing left tomorrow.Seeing that Yang Tieyun took out another pack of cigarettes, Lao Dan tore open and pulled out two packs.Lao Dan said that he wanted to smoke a pot, so he couldn't bring it tomorrow. "That's fine, you just enjoy it, and I only smoke this one." "If you think it's easy to smoke, you can smoke it. What do you guys do if you smoke a cigarette? You see, Staff Officer Hu and those officers are all smokers." Lao Dan lit the cigarette pot and took a deep puff. "If the Anti-Japanese War is won, I will start smoking, no matter where I go." Yang Tiejun laughed.Lao Dan seldom saw him laughing so easily, he really looked like a village child when he laughed. "If the Anti-Japanese War really wins, I'll go back home and farm." Lao Dan felt homesick all of a sudden. "Well, we will win..." Yang Tiejun looked at the darkness beyond the shadow of the lamp, as if answering, but also as if talking to himself. "Commander Yang, are you afraid?" Lao Dan leaned forward and asked. "Huh?" Yang Tiejun was taken aback for a moment, as if being interrupted by Lao Dan, and then laughed, "Oh, you said you were afraid...Actually... how could you not be afraid? It's just that as a soldier, no matter how afraid you are, you have to move forward Come on... So many good classmates from the military academy have sacrificed one by one. There are more than 4,000 members of our gendarmerie, and only a few hundred when we come back from Nanjing. What right do I have to be afraid?" Yang Tiejun took a deep breath and threw the The smoke brightened. "Are you here to defend Nanjing?" Lao Dan asked curiously. "Well, we are the chairman's guard, and he wouldn't allow us to be transferred. But at that time, the situation was critical, and General Zhang Zhizhong was besieged by devils in Yuhuatai. Our gendarmerie was like a spectator. Everyone called for a fight, and I followed Find the commander. General Tang Shengzhi transferred us up. Six hundred people from our two battalions repelled the attack of 20,000 devils, and almost captured the commander Meicun alive. Chairman Jiang and him were classmates in the military academy. Bet I lost the saber to him, but we got it back this time." "Hey, you guys are really good, isn't that good? Why didn't you follow the chairman?" "Because we fought so well, the spies of the Japanese army followed us to the camp, sent planes in the middle of the night, and blew up the barracks. Hundreds of thousands of people survived. I happened to send the battle report to the 2nd Army that time. , or it's too bad and good... It's a pity, it hurts, it's sad, my good comrades-in-arms, all of them are selected from thousands of choices, and my ability is not ranked in it. If they are still there, What a big deal it can be." Yang Tiejun shook his head and said, "I specially applied to the military department to carry out this mission, otherwise I will feel uneasy. Compared with death, I am more afraid of doing nothing. I can serve the country and the nation. Sacrifice is the glory I dreamed of when I entered the military academy." After Yang Tieyun finished speaking, the cigarette was extinguished, and that clear face was hidden in the night, Lao Dan could only see his slightly bright silhouette hanging in the air.He was led into further darkness by this silhouette, confused by memories and fears, which made him feel that the future might be related to this figure or this kind of darkness, no matter where he was, day or night.Lao Dan lowered his head by this strange thought, and saw his own shadow with a pipe in his mouth darting into the night, like a giant in the wilderness in the legend. The rehearsal and task assignment on the map took a whole day. This was the lesson that the soldiers listened to most seriously. They forgot to be hungry, sleepy, or even afraid.Every time node should be kept in mind, which row does what?How to coordinate?How to deal with unexpected situations?How to deal with any variables in task completion?How to implement the evacuation plan after the mission is completed?What if I can't go?What should I do if I break up?Yang Tiejun was as meticulous as he was, and gave everyone a detailed analysis of every possibility related to the task on the blackboard, and assigned tasks to each row and even each class in a timely manner.Finally he erased the blackboard and asked everyone if they had any questions.Everyone was silent, Yang Tieyun could ask anything. "Company commander, if I don't come back, will the money go to my family?" The second son raised his hand and said, he could see that he was holding back for a long time.The brothers all wriggled, this is what everyone said in their hearts. "As long as everyone's home is still there, as long as we defeat the devils, I think it must be possible. Every brother present here will be recorded in the military department's action record. All of them have been backed up. I believe that this operation will have a glorious stroke in this war, enough to make everyone honorable for a lifetime. If we can come back, we drink every year. If we can’t come back, we pay homage every year. But if If the mission cannot be completed, many of our counterattacks across the board may be bombed by the enemy, and I don’t know how many brothers will die in vain..." "We must complete the mission, or we won't come back!" A gendarme brother stood up abruptly, shaking his fists and shouted.The brothers were encouraged and stood up and shouted.Lao Dan looked at them, his heart was warm, his eyes were wet, but his back was cold.Tomorrow is another departure with an unknown fate. They will walk through the hail of bullets with their heads in their hands. Everyone who falls can only watch the backs of others go away. There is no rescue, no reinforcements, and almost no hope of survival.The first time Lao Dan thought about this problem, he began to have real brothers, so he started to really lose them. In the barracks that night, there was no snoring at all. Lao Dan watched the mosquitoes flying under the lamp with their weak wings fluttering, knocking down one after another on the hot lamp and falling into the dark night like ink.The brothers must not be able to sleep, and even the second son, who had been sleeping all over the place, lay like a corpse.Occasionally, someone coughed a few times, and lowered their throats, as if they were afraid of waking up these sleepless people. The military police at the door walked back and forth, and their leather shoes stepped on the soft sand, making the sound like spring silkworms eating leaves.The past flashed by like catkins in front of Lao Dan's eyes, and the battle of these few months, as if after many years, has precipitated an old taste. Such a day is like a second, a sigh and passed.It rained all afternoon, and night has fallen quietly.The assault company entered the starting point.Put on the prepared Japanese uniforms, weapons, backpacks and helmets.The carefully selected military uniforms are very suitable for Lao Dan, and when wearing a small hat, he is no different from a devil.This made Lao Dan very angry, how dare the Japanese devils be as big as him?Seeing these more than a hundred brothers turning into devils in unison, I couldn't help laughing out loud.Yang Tieyun was in the military uniform of a major, with shiny leather boots and a devil's saber on his waist, showing off in a show of force. Everyone was used to his proficient devil's words, so they stood in line according to his orders. The company commander yelled like a devil. Didn't even the devils fool him?Yang Tiejun and Lao Dan checked each fighter's equipment one by one, removing anything that might arouse suspicion, including the Bodhisattvas hanging around the necks of the two fighters and the poker hidden in their pockets.Since yesterday, everyone has been washing their faces and feet with Japanese soap. Devils have dog noses, so more than a hundred people can be smelled out from a long distance.Lao Dan was hesitant with the long cigarette pot and was about to throw it to the military police guarding the barracks when Yang Tiejun saw it. "Take it with you. It's credible if you say it's a trophy. I'll teach you how to say trophy in Japanese on the way..." The rice assault company got into the airtight military vehicle and stopped after a bump.The soldiers came down quietly and quietly went to the place where they started to sit down.Yang Tiejun and Lao Dan stood on a high slope, quietly looking at the dark north.Behind is the huge Wuhan, as dark as the old cemetery outside Banzi Village, which was deliberately blacked out. "Lao Dan..." Yang Tieyun turned his head and said to Lao Dan. "Huh?" Lao Dan didn't expect him to speak, and was taken aback. "We will definitely come back." Yang Tieyun said to the darkness. Lao Dan wanted to say "I think so too".He retracted his words when he was on the verge of speaking, and looked back. The soldiers wearing mesh helmets were silent, squirming slightly in the dark. "I listen to you..." Lao Dan said softly.