Chapter 10 ten

For three days in a row, all the Shanghai newspapers described the so-called bloody battle in Shanghai and North with exaggerated style.Although the close-ups of various newspapers are quite different, the basic point is the same: the enemy and the enemy compete for a certain position, and they enter and exit repeatedly.Another point is that all the newspapers are similar, which emphasizes the importance of this position, almost as if it can determine the changes in the battle situation in Shanghai. Within forty-eight hours, all the public and private broadcasting stations in the two concessions unanimously appealed: Citizens of Greater Shanghai, the front line lacks vehicles, and wounded soldiers cannot come down; vehicles, vehicles, citizens of Greater Shanghai, if you have money, please send cars stop!

People all over Shanghai became tense.All kinds of vehicles that automatically reported their duty were gathered from various places to a certain logistics organization, and then dispersed; unexpectedly, four to five out of ten drove onto the cinder road in the western suburbs, and then detoured to the front lines in northern Shanghai. However, at this time, reports with almost the same words appeared in various newspapers: Our army reinforcements arrived, and after completing the task with heavy damage to the enemy bandits, they have moved to a new position according to the plan of the high command, Boundless, and Concrete things are bounded in space.Measuring space one, the situation has eased so much.

In fact, the "transfer to a new position" was completed when the big and small newspapers exaggerated how this bloody battle of "repeated entry and exit" was related to the overall situation.Now, the platoon leader Sun is lying on the coal dust road in the western suburbs. He belongs to the "reinforcement force". He was injured forty hours ago. But they could not be sent to the wounded soldiers hospital in the Shanghai Concession. The Half Moon has climbed quite high.Platoon Leader Sun gradually regained consciousness.He was lying on the side of the road, not far from him, and there was a small mound with a few holly trees crooked around the mound—this was probably an unoccupied grave.In the grass under the tree, the autumn insects are singing melodiously and long, and the Luosi girl on the tree is calmly singing the song of labor.Platoon Leader Sun's hands and feet twitched.Moreover, corresponding to the humming and chirping insects, a slight moan came from his throat.A swarm of mosquitoes attacked his face in unison.Suddenly, several frogs lying in ambush behind the mound started making noises at the same time.The sharp and strong sound seemed to stimulate Platoon Commander Sun's nerves. He let out a scream, turned his body, and finally slid down the sloping roadside and rolled into the grass under the mound.

The frogs were still clamoring vigorously.To Plato Leader Sun's semi-conscious feeling, it sounded like the sound of machine gun fire.After a while, he became more sober, opened his eyes, and saw that the half moon was hiding in a big piece of dark clouds, but it was a neutral thing, and everything in the world was made of it.Physics, the outlines of fields, trees, and roads gradually blend together, and finally become an inseparable chaos.However, two or three feet in front of him, there is a white thing, which is getting brighter and brighter.He realized it was water.And at this time, he also gradually remembered that he was injured and had already come down from the line of fire, and now this place was far away from the front line.He mistook the roaring noise of mosquitoes for an enemy plane, but he also recognized that the rattling noises were just frogs.

A fiery stabbing pain spread from the left half of the body to the whole body, and Platoon Leader Sun gritted his teeth and moaned.But what is more uncomfortable than this trauma is thirst.He instinctively crawled forward, but the puddle of water two or three feet away was also receding.In the end, he caught up with him, but he couldn't move again. The moon emerged from the cloud again.A few bushes and dilapidated thatched houses suddenly jumped out of the vastness, and they seemed to be moving towards Platoon Commander Sun.Scattered here and there around several bomb holes on the coal dust road, some tattered pieces of cloth, leather shoes, squashed steel helmets, and even half of a bed frame all rushed to show their faces.All of this was beautiful in the cold moonlight, except for the bomb holes which were ugly, like big mouths with missing teeth.

Platoon Leader Sun sucked up the last drop of muddy water in the small pool of water.He propped up his upper body and sat with his back against the mound.Luo Siniang was still working on top of him, and the frogs were still making noise, but Platoon Leader Sun felt very quiet; this was a refreshingly sweet tranquility, and it was certainly not that he hadn't enjoyed direct or indirect relationships.General semantics tries to identify the signified of words, but that is a long time ago.At least five or six years, before he enlisted in the army, in his mountainous hometown.His parents were still there at that time. ...However, Platoon Leader Sun could not enjoy the long-lost tranquility. The heavy rumbling sound disturbed the tranquility. The sound was getting closer, and Platoon Leader Sun knew it was a truck.Hope burned in him again.However, in a blink of an eye, a large truck that came with the sound flashed past, only the flickering red light at the rear of the car could still be seen.After a while, even the red light disappeared.

The speeding truck evokes memories of Platoon Leader Sun.This was a nightmare that he and his three other companions had experienced about half an hour ago, and now it was reappearing before his dim eyes bit by bit. He and three other brethren had begged the lieutenant of the chariot not to leave them by the wayside.At that time, they were still squatting shoulder to shoulder on the truck that came down from the front line and drove to Shanghai.Among the three brothers, one had injured his jaw in the blast, and the bandage came off, revealing half of his face that was bloody and bloody, which made people tremble.But their entreaties were completely ignored by the adjutant who escorted the carriage.He just yelled at the two soldiers under him, and loaded all the contents of his own half-ton truck with broken parts into the car of Platoon Leader Sun and the others.These things are: a dozen boxes of bullets, two camp beds, countless foreign wines, canned food, fruits, two rolls of bedding, and a phonograph.When all this had passed the vehicle, the adjutant made a gesture and ordered his two subordinates to drive Platoon Leader Sun and the others out of the vehicle.The two looked at each other and refused to do anything. The adjutant said to Platoon Leader Sun: "You come down from the front line, and we are going to the front line. There is no point in leaving you in the car. It is only five or six miles away from Shanghai. Duo, you wait here for a while, and a car will come and take you away!" After finishing speaking, he turned his face and yelled at the two soldiers: "If you don't do anything, what are you waiting for! If you miss the deadline, the commander will shoot you!" , Platoon Leader Sun and the others were thrown by the roadside like four bundles of luggage.Platoon Leader Sun was the last to come down, and the two soldiers who helped him seemed to ease the pain of his conscience, and comforted Platoon Leader Sun, saying: "It's really better to wait here. It might be better to bring him back to the front line. Wouldn’t it be terrible if another car came down from time to time?” But at this moment, the man who injured his jaw suddenly jumped up like crazy, and in a blink of an eye, he had already clung to the door of the driver’s cab. nailed there like a locust.The adjutant immediately drew out his pistol and rushed towards him viciously, but another wounded soldier was hanging on the wooden plank behind the car.At that time, Platoon Leader Sun was furious, and he didn't know why, so he also struggled to the rear of the truck and wanted to climb up; It fell out of the foot.He felt as if his body had been broken into two prongs, but his ears could still hear; he heard a gunshot and another scream, and then he lost consciousness.

"Damn it, I didn't die in the hands of the Japanese devils, but in his hands!" Platoon Leader Sun thought angrily, and turned to look around. The moonlight poured down on the cinder road, making it pale.Far away, near the side of the road, under a small tree, there is a rectangular object, which is probably the adjutant's car with broken parts.And on the left, about ten feet away, there was something curled up in the dark, which must be the wounded soldier who died under the adjutant's gun, but the other two were invisible. Platoon Commander Sun felt like a fire was burning in his chest, and his teeth were gritting.His eyes became dizzy again, but the face of the escort adjutant seemed to appear in front of his eyes, and the cruel face became wider and wider until Platoon Leader Sun felt suffocated and groaned.

While moaning, he hummed a word: "Dog!" The mournful sound of insects suddenly stopped at this moment.Only one frog is still calling: Ge Ge, Ge Ge.Platoon Leader Sun picked up a thick and short broken branch, struggled to stand up, and dragged it away step by step.He felt that although the adjutant escorting the car was worse than a dog, his sentence "this place is only five or six miles away from Shanghai" was probably true, and Platoon Leader Sun believed that he was going in the right direction, because the adjutant's A broken car is a marker. He took a few steps and took a rest, and it took an unknown amount of time, but unexpectedly, there was a three-way intersection in front of him.At this time, he had exhausted his last drop of strength, and the wound was in unbearable pain, so he lay on the side of the road, waiting for the so-called free ride who was not sure.

Platoon Leader Sun was injured in his left leg and back.It was a grenade shrapnel injury. It wasn't serious at first, but it was delayed. Platoon Leader Sun felt extremely wronged when he thought about it.Besides, it's wrong for him to hang the lottery this time.His company and Liang Lian had been "on standby" in that small town for five or six days, when suddenly they received an order to set off immediately.At that time, at nine o'clock in the evening, the brothers from the two companies were attending the "comfort meeting".The next day, fearing enemy planes would bomb us, we waited until sunset before boarding the train.It was already midnight when we arrived in Shanghai, so we drove into the position immediately.At this time, the company where platoon leader Sun was located broke up with Liang Company again; the task given to them by their superiors was: to cooperate with the left-wing friendly forces and stick to the Hebang position.

However, they could not get in touch with this so-called friendly army.The water in the fortification is half a foot deep.They ate their last meal in that small town.The company commander's order said that the enemy was on the other side of Bang, but there was no movement on Bang's side.The company commander's order also stated that if the enemy does not attack, they are not allowed to shoot.The enemy used to attack at dawn, and with the cooperation of the air force.Sure enough, when the stars in the sky disappeared one by one and the darkness suddenly became thicker, the signal flare appeared in the sky!It was not on the front facing the river, but on the left front. Then, machine guns and mortars fired together.Platoon Leader Sun and his platoon waited for the order in the fortification. Before the order came, a shell had already exploded in front of the fortification.I asked the company commander for instructions, but I didn't know that the company commander was also asking for instructions from his superiors and was "unreachable".At this time, shells flew one after another.The positions also shot indiscriminately.Platoon Leader Sun still remembered that the left wing was a friendly army, and he didn't know it was the enemy until three tanks rushed in front of him.However, at this time the command system was completely in disarray, and this company was about to collapse!Under the heavy artillery fire from the enemy, the platoons ran wildly. The platoon leader Sun and the other platoon fought bravely. They stopped the enemy's attack from the side and retreated. At that moment, Sun The platoon leader was wounded. Later, after sloppy bandaging and walking for five or six miles, Platoon Leader Sun and a group of other wounded soldiers arrived at a big straw hut; There were about twenty of them in this group, so they had to settle down in the bamboo grove and wait for the vehicles. How could they know that waiting would mean two days and one night.During this period, Platoon Leader Sun was not bad luck. He actually got medicine once, and grabbed two bowls of porridge and a catty of moldy flatbread.Finally three trucks arrived.At that time, a half moon had just passed through behind the bamboo forest, and the sound of artillery shells came from the northwest corner, and the gray clouds in the sky were reflected in the flash of artillery fire.Platoon Leader Sun squeezed into the last car. There were more than forty brothers in the same car, all with minor or serious injuries, but there were no brothers in the same company as Platoon Leader Sun.After bumping on the uneven road for about an hour, the truck broke down suddenly. After 20 or 30 minutes of repairs, the driver finally declared: there was no hope. This place is surrounded by paddy fields, and the lush green crops have long been trampled into disrepair.The road is full of large and small bomb holes, and there are also cars with a set of skeletons left after being bombed by the roadside. Obviously this is an area where enemy planes often come to bomb.Of the more than forty people in the car, except for the seriously injured who were willing to risk death, the more than thirty lightly injured, including Platoon Leader Sun, all got down and walked.But after walking for three or five miles, the enemy plane really came.Under the threat of flares, more than thirty people scattered in a hurry. Platoon Leader Sun fell down in a panic and passed out. When he woke up, he saw that there were only three companions left, and these three could not leave.They stood by the side of the road for half an hour, watching seven or eight opportunities fly by in front of them—these cars coming and going were either full or half empty, their headlights were all wrapped in blue cloth, and they were all on. With enough speed, they deliberately ignored the shouts of Platoon Leader Sun and the others. Finally, by luck again, they stopped a car that was returning to an empty car.And this is thanks to the enemy plane, which appeared in the sky and forced the car to stop. Unfortunately, at a place that is said to be only five or six miles away from Shanghai, the ton and a half truck that was delivering things to some division commander broke down, so they were thrown on the side of the road again; and now there is only Platoon Commander Sun alone, Like a wandering soul guarding the three-way intersection. A dark cloud bordered with white slowly moved closer to the moon.The autumn insects in Shino screamed more urgently and desolately.Platoon Leader Sun felt dizzy for a while, his mouth felt like it was on fire, and his tongue was like a piece of wood.He was not thinking of death, and there was no continuous thought in his drowsy mind, and his only desire was to drink a drink of water. The sound of an airplane humming from a distance, and in an instant it reached overhead and circled there.Platoon Leader Sun didn't hear it, but even if he did, he wouldn't have any fear at this time. Suddenly his left arm was rubbed hard by something.The left arm was fine and uninjured, but the rub touched the wound on his back; a sharp pain woke up his drowsy nerves.He opened his eyes wide, and saw an extremely large beetle two or three feet away from him.But at the same time, he said to himself in a blur: Hey, isn't this a car?The idea of ​​survival suddenly inspired him!A burst of strength came from nowhere, he stood up suddenly, and threw himself on the car door with half of the glass removed. The car stopped because there were enemy planes circling in the sky.The two people in the car suddenly saw the platoon leader Sun, who looked three parts human and seven parts ghost, rushing into the car, and they screamed loudly in fright.At this time, a flare suddenly appeared in the eastern sky. Platoon Leader Sun could see clearly that there were two people in the car, one was older with a cat face, and the other had a pretty face and was much younger.The three pairs of eyes stared at each other without making a sound.The expressions of the three pairs of eyes are different: the cat-faced one is contemptuous and cruel; the white-faced one is bewildered and timid;However, a sneer passed over the cat's face again, and Platoon Leader Sun trembled when he saw it. The flares dimmed, and the sound of high-flying planes faded away.The cat-faced man suddenly shouted: "Driver, drive!" At this time, Platoon Leader Sun was more conscious than ever. He pulled the car door with all his strength, and screamed loudly, but he couldn't make out what he said.The cat-faced man pushed the little boy next to him and said, "Give him a punch, let's see if he dares to be presumptuous!" The little boy is still hesitating.The driver turned his head, let go of his feet, and turned off the engine, and the motor that had been beeping just now became silent again. The cat-faced man glared at the little white face, and shouted sharply: "Did you hear that?" Little White Face mechanically stretched out his hand to hit Platoon Leader Sun on the head.The driver sighed.At the same time, the cat-faced man shouted "Drive!" The motor roared again, and the car moved.Platoon Leader Sun put his hands down and sat on the ground. His thick eyebrows raised suddenly, his round eyes burst into flames, and a sneer was forced out of his wide mouth. He struggled with his strong tongue and cursed bitterly: "Dog! I know you!"