Chapter 23 Chapter 4 The devil is coming (6)

6 The country fell, the enemy fought fiercely, and Heze was drowned in a pool of blood. Hundreds of captured officers and soldiers were driven by the enemy to gather in an open space. A Japanese commander with a saber came over with an interpreter and yelled with gestures and gestures. Unfortunately, the prisoners could not understand the hard-spoken Japanese. .The translator was a monkey-faced Taiwanese who spoke crappy Mandarin. He translated what the Colonel said, to the effect that the imperial army would set off at dawn to attack the Chinese army stationed in Shandong.Da Taijun said, all of you prisoners will be transferred outside the city.

The captives exploded as soon as they heard it. The transfer that the Japanese devils said was to drive them out of the city to be slaughtered. There are countless such atrocities committed by the enemy.The captives protested loudly: We will not go!If you die, you must die in the city! The translator babbled for a while, and the chief became angry, and the translator hurriedly translated and said: The Great Taijun said, you bastards!What right do you have to die in the city?If you are like real soldiers, why don't you die in battle? The prisoners were immediately discouraged. They understood that the Japanese officer's words contained at least two meanings. The first was that those who died in the city must be soldiers, not prisoners.The second is that captives are not worthy of respect, they will be slaughtered at will like cattle.The Japanese soldiers rushed up, stabbing the prisoners with bright bayonets, and forced the prisoners to go out of the dark city.

It's Lixia, and the wheat that has grown all winter is entering the period of grain filling, and the air is filled with the sweet smell of wheat like milk.Soon the prisoners discovered that there were not too many Japanese under escort, and the guards were not very strict. In addition, the sky was dark without moonlight, which made people rekindle their hope of survival.Rather than waiting to die, it is better to run away desperately.As long as they break free from the shackles of the rope and swim into the sea of ​​night like fish, no matter how fierce the Japanese are, it will be in vain.Some prisoners took the lead in action. They quietly broke free from their bonds, and disappeared into the crop fields by the roadside in the blink of an eye.More prisoners were encouraged, scrambling to untie the rope, and then quickly disappeared into the boundless night.By the time the Japanese discovered that the captive team was melting like ice on a stove, those lucky escapees had disappeared.The brutal Japanese shot and killed the captives who had no time to escape. When the stern gunshots and the curses and screams of the victims gradually subsided, a strange and satisfied smile appeared on the face of the Dazuo officer, and he ordered the troops to retreat back to the city.

Some prisoners finally fled back to their own positions. Their survival was a miracle. More importantly, the prisoners brought back an important piece of information for the Chinese army, that is, the enemy was about to launch a large-scale attack on the 20th Army in Shandong.This information was highly valued by the frontline commanders and immediately reported to their superiors and theater headquarters. A few hours later, the Wuhan headquarters learned of this important movement of the Japanese army. In addition to ordering the 20th Army to be on high alert, the General Staff also ordered the Zhengzhou First Theater to mobilize troops to Shandong and be ready to support the 20th Army in operations at any time.

7 The army war history published by Japan after the war confirmed this, saying that the 14th Division deliberately released the prisoners to report false information to the Chinese army about the Japanese attack on Shandong.It turned out that this was a trick played by the scheming Doihara. He sent a small force to make a big feint gesture into Shandong, while the main force of the division quietly rushed towards the hinterland of the Central Plains hundreds of miles away. In mid-May 1938, a rapid Japanese army suddenly appeared on the ground in Minquan, Henan, and immediately fought with the defenders.The Japanese army successively occupied Yejigang, Shilou, Chuzhuangzhai and Neihuangji in the northwest of Minquan County, and their vanguard advanced to Lijiaji, which was less than a kilometer away from Minquan Railway Station.In the telescope of the Japanese commander, a dark railway was faintly visible, and the whistle of the train was like a tide rushing across the land of eastern Henan in late spring, stimulating the greedy appetite and ambition of the Japanese.

Longhai Railway, the main traffic artery, is within easy reach.