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Chapter 77 Cremation(31)

Collected Works of Lao She 老舍 3647Words 2018-03-20
Two gunshots startled the whole city.Wencheng, who has been oppressed and humiliated, has long wanted to take revenge. Coupled with the news that the Japanese were defeated by the river a few days ago, and Wang Juren's arrest today, people no longer think about whether they have a good life. Weapons and tight organization, but just want to take revenge if there is a chance.Except for a few traitors, everyone regarded the Japanese as their enemies; the Japanese not only killed the men of a certain family, or raped the girls of a certain family, but the people in Jiaowen City generally had nothing to eat.Every household in Wencheng starved to death!

In the past, when they heard gunshots, they would just hide themselves in a dark place, like a half-dead person, unable to meddle in other people's affairs; Breathe a little longer in the shadows.Now, they know that the enemy has a more powerful weapon than guns and knives - hunger!They must no longer be afraid of gunshots, no longer afraid of the enemy, in order to pull themselves back from death.Even if they failed to resist and died, such a death was better than starving into two layers of skin and dying secretly on the bed.They, now, hearing the gunfire, instead of hiding in the shadows, took whatever weapons they could find and went out the door.A passion for vengeance and shame opened the floodgates.

Captain Shi's men were already ready, and when they heard the gunshots, they ran out from the alleys, houses, and ruined temples, all armed with weapons, cautiously but excitedly.Captain Shi took Li Deming to cross the street.A large gas lamp hangs on a high pole at the crossroads, and its pale green light shines far away.Captain Shi looked at the lamp, and Li Deming looked at the "post" under the lamp.The two guns fired together, the lamp shattered, and there was a burst of red light, then dimmed, and the pale street turned into darkness.The post under the lamp, as the lamp went out into permanent darkness, blood spattered the pole.The two brothers who had just been rescued by Captain Shi ran back to the den.Opposite the smoke hall is Wang Juren's mansion; their task is to set fire to the Wang residence.Captain Shi and Li Deming, one on the left and the other on the right, brushed the walls and the door faces of the museum tenants, rushing towards the Small Town God's Temple.

The two brothers who set fire to Ergou's house came.They are not very successful.Ergou died in a daze, and someone immediately reported it to the Japanese.When the Japanese military police arrived, they ignored Ergou and searched around first—not the murderer, but a precious thing that was easy to carry.With the heart cultivated in the island country and the eyes used to be pirates, they see everything as good.They were willing to take everything, but they couldn't choose not to; they didn't sail the thief ship to Wencheng.They are excited, greedy, and hesitant; seeing something worth ten yuan is like seeing Mount Fuji.Shots rang out in the street, and they were reluctant to stop their search.The gun went off again, and they had no choice but to stuff things in their pockets and trouser pockets, and rushed out together.The gate becomes a battlefield.After fighting for about ten minutes, our two brothers threw grenades.Regardless of whether the enemy died inside the gate or not, the two of them walked around the courtyard, jumped into the wall, and set fire to it.This fire was ten minutes later than the one in Wang Zhai.

The fire broke out in the city, and the brothers who were ambushing outside the city threw grenades into the warehouse. In order to contain the enemy soldiers on the station, they dispersed and shot from all sides. The flames inside and outside the city were connected in the sky, and the enemy soldiers outside the city and inside the city immediately dispersed in all directions.They can't figure out where our main force is, or how many of us there are, and they can only give equal attention to all places.They carried guns and rushed everywhere along the base of the wall. They didn't expect that the people in the city would attack them.Beside the walls, behind trees, alleys, and street gates, kitchen knives, shovels, or wooden sticks were cut out at any time to prevent them from moving forward.They mounted bayonets and stabbed anyone they saw. There were more and more people around, and some came to snatch their guns with their bare hands.They shouted, and the people also shouted.The more the fire burned, the more people were beaten. What flickered was flames, and what splattered was flesh and blood.The enemy rushed, we surrounded, how many people were shouting, fighting, and fighting in every street.

The enemy soldiers fired their machine guns.The enemy soldiers had a stronghold, and our people gradually dispersed, still hiding behind doors, behind trees, or crawling on the ground.There are many immobile people lying in the street, some are dead, some are screaming in pain; there are also enemy soldiers between our soldiers and the people, lying head to head, or hand to hand, and it is impossible to tell who is who. It is the winner and the loser; the ambition of aggression and the fanaticism of revenge make everyone's blood flow together and make the streets red. The active assistance of the people has increased the momentum of our army.Our army went to fight the fire, opened the prison, and chose to attack the enemy secretly.There are civilians intercepting and killing everywhere, but the enemy has never found our scattered, scattered, small strongholds.Our selected small strongholds have never moved. Captain Shi gave an order: "Everyone guards the strongholds, and is not allowed to move unless it is absolutely necessary!" In this way, the flags we have set up have a certain place in the chaos. , Properly dispersed, easy to assemble, and quickly connected.Huo has many people and guns are dense, but Captain Shi clearly knows how many people are there and who is what.He is very busy and very calm, like a powerful whip, twitching the top of the battle.

After the enemy soldiers had a stronghold, the people gradually retreated, and the enemy soldiers began to look for our stronghold.The flames were brighter, and the city was relatively quiet.Each of our small strongholds, only one or two guns, it is extremely accurate from the dark, calm, every shot must hit, shoot, the enemy soldiers found our strongholds, and they couldn't find our people, they began to use machine guns to attack the houses , Trees, shopkeepers, frenzied shooting.After a long burst of shooting, they thought that our people had died behind the cover, and suddenly a grenade flew over and exploded near the machine gun.They fired again, and we hid again.In this way, our small stronghold did not move or decrease during the one hour of the battle.

In this way, the enemy soldiers were dragged around, and Captain Shi personally commanded to help attack the gunpowder depot of the Small Town God's Temple. Captain Shi tore off the fake beard on his lips, and threw the big hairy sockets on his feet - the pair he wore when carrying water in the Wang's house - far away.On his feet were the cotton socks made for him by his mother, which were soft and silent when he ran; he ran and jumped like a leopard going to war.No, he didn't feel like a leopard himself.He had forgotten that he was anything alive made of flesh.He becomes a puff of hot gas, or a red-hot blast that explodes when it hits an obstacle, the Gundam.He forgot everything, not even saying "it's terrible."He just remembered that he had to move forward, no matter whether there was a mountain of knives or a frying pan ahead.As long as he's going, he feels, nothing can stop him, he's flying, he's whistling, he's breaking mountains in pieces, cannonballs.His seven-edged face seemed to have just been re-sculpted with a knife, and the edges and corners became more and more sharp.He is not ugly anymore, the edges and corners of his face, no matter in the shadows or in the firelight, have a unique beauty in war.This small note of beauty should be majestic and heroic.

He is not blindly reckless.His responsibility and experience told him that war is to destroy the enemy, not to be wiped out by the enemy.He needs to use his courage, strength, limbs; at the same time, he also needs to use his brain.He is like a tiger about to jump over a mountain stream, he jumps extremely fast, but his calculations are extremely accurate; if he jumps wildly with his eyes closed, he will surely smash himself into the deep stream.He flickers, he hides, to avoid danger, and to eliminate danger. When we arrived at the Small Town God's Temple, Li Deming was instructed to pin down the two guards outside the gate. Captain Shi went around to the back of the temple like a whirlwind to see if his brothers were in ambush.Everyone is ready.He ran back very quickly.With an eagle cry, he fired with Li Deming's gun.One of the guards fell, Li Deming missed, and the guard jumped into the temple in one step.There was no sound behind the temple, Captain Shi knew that everyone was climbing the wall.Li Deming rushed forward, Captain Shi yelled, "Look for cover!" He jumped up and grabbed the wall with his hands.Just as Li Deming was about to run to the side, a shot was fired inside the door. Li Deming held on to the door frame of the temple gate and fell down slowly.Captain Shi's grenade was thrown from the top of the wall to the temple gate, and there was an explosion inside the temple. His feet fell to the ground, his back leaned against the wall, and he took a breath.The wall seemed to shake twice.

There was still no movement behind the temple—Captain Shi was stunned for a moment: "Is something wrong?" He couldn't leave the front door, because the front door was the most dangerous, and he had to hold it by himself.He had no choice but to believe that his men would be able to achieve the task.Machine guns rang out in the courtyard, and he knew that the brothers must not succeed.He crawled along the base of the wall, climbed to the temple gate, and touched Li Deming's big feet.His heart ached.Using Li Zhuangshi's body as a cover, he called out in a low voice: "Lao Li! Lao Li!" While looking into the courtyard, Lao Li could no longer answer!The fire was shot from above, and the machine gun was mounted on a pine tree branch in front of the temple—so that it could hit the outside of the temple through the wall.When the machine gun stopped, he heard shots fired from behind the temple, and he thought to himself, "It's broken! They can't get in!" Should he run to the back to have a look?No, he had to tease that machine gun!shoot!He fired into the pine tree, and the machine gun went wild again.He doesn't move anymore.How he wants to deal with Lao Li.no way.He couldn't leave his post to drag his friend's body.The distance between him and death is only as far as he is from Lao Li.Soldiers don't think about dying!All soldiers should die like Lao Li!What is a dead body?What the soldiers want to leave behind is the "soldier soul"!

The powder magazine must be taken down, or the sacrifices of all will not cost much.Moreover, it must be taken immediately; it will be difficult when enemy reinforcements arrive.Captain Shi decided to climb into the temple.Unless he entered the temple and found a suitable place, he couldn't accurately throw the grenade onto the tree.He can't wait any longer.He started to crawl.Every inch he moved felt an inch closer to death, but he had to move toward the machine gun.Not only must you advance, but you must also achieve your goal safely; sacrificing yourself with only one courage will implicate all brothers.His sweat soaked his thick cotton socks.He crawled tightly on the ground, but his mind seemed to be floating in the air.He must control every movement of the whole body, and he must not take a short breath.He was so tired that his iron fingers were already trembling.It took him an unknown amount of time before he crawled inside the temple gate and rolled under a clump of winter jasmine.He sat up slowly, breathing heavily; the branches of winter jasmine covered his head.He swings his arms and throws his grenade.He became a success.His eyes lit up, and he rolled to the base of the wall.Curled up, against the base of the wall, he ran back.In the back of the hall, he saw enemy soldiers, and he fired.With the sound of gunfire, I learned the sound of an eagle, squeak, squeak!Loud loud!Holding the corner of the main hall, he poked his head and fired once, and a human head was exposed on the wall behind him.The enemy soldiers showed panic, not knowing which way to turn their backs to avoid bullets.People fell from the wall.Captain Shi stopped firing.Black shadow and black shadow are fighting hand to hand.Enemy soldiers gradually decreased.The killing sounds on the street became weaker, but the flames became brighter.An enemy soldier had dropped his gun and ran outside.Captain Shi waited.The enemy soldier ran up to him, and he smashed the goblin's gill with one blow.There was another eagle cry, and several brothers rushed to the main hall, and they were still fighting behind.Captain Stone's order: "Meng Changfa, go in and pour oil, Qian Dacheng, throw a grenade!" The order was issued, and an eagle screamed.Captain Shi led the surviving brothers and ran out of the temple like a gust of wind. Half a mile away from the temple, the sky of Wencheng collapsed.The explosion of gunpowder suppressed all sounds.Dust, tiles, and bricks fell like rain, and Captain Shi's ears were deaf for a while. "Get out of the city quickly! Those who can climb the city climb the city! Those who can find the enemy's corpse, strip off their military uniforms, put them on, and sneak out of the city tomorrow morning. Those who can't escape, hide in the homes of reliable people, and wait for the opportunity to go out of the city If you are willing to continue doing it, fight!" Everyone shouted in unison, "Fight!" "Okay! Reinforce the strongholds separately!" After speaking, Captain Shi first rushed to the place where the gunshots were the most dense.
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