Chapter 8 Breakout
Silence is often frightening.
A solitary lamp was dimly lit at the corner of the street.
And in that dim light, the Northeast Army soldier who had just been bending over and walking forward was lying on the ground, motionless.
There was no struggle or convulsion before death, because he had just been shot dead. The seemingly invisible red line was the trajectory of the bullet flying in the night.
The feeling of fear began to spread among the soldiers of the Northeast Army. Even the battalion commander Zhang Lianjie heard the sound of soldiers' teeth clashing not far away from him.
No need to ask, that's because of fear!
Are there any soldiers under his command who are so afraid of death? At this moment, Zhang Lianjie no longer has the mind to think about this problem. He must turn around the morale!
So he reached out and gently touched Hu Biao beside him and began to whisper.
After a while, an order was passed from front to back.
When the order was delivered, another gunshot rang out in this quiet and somewhat frightening street.
At the sound of the gunshot, the dim street lamp that looked like a ghost fire went out, and the world became completely dark. Only a faint red light was seen in the northwest sky. It was the Japanese army attacking Beidaying who had set a house on fire for some unknown reason.
This shot was fired by Zhang Lianjie.
Zhang Lianjie himself did not dare to openly disobey orders, but he did not want his people to be blocked here and slaughtered by the Japanese army.
He just analyzed that there shouldn't be many Japanese soldiers on the opposite side, otherwise they would not have fired just one shot, but their machine guns would have been making a "da da da" sound.
There were muffled commands transmitted in the alleys, and footsteps were heard in the darkness, and soon the footsteps filled the middle of this low-lying residential area.
Since it is a residential area, there are naturally ordinary people living in the houses.
At this time, except for the three-year-old child, all the adults had been awakened by the gunshots.
Some people came out of their houses, covered with clothes, and went to the yard to see what was going on. However, when they heard the rustling footsteps outside the yard, they were so scared that they quickly ran back into the house and closed the door.
Tonight is destined to be an unusual night.
During the period when the Zhang father and son ruled the three northeastern provinces, it cannot be said that the common people lived very well, but they did live tolerably well.
They didn't know that from tonight on, for fourteen years, this place would become a paradise for "jackals".
"Charge!" Zhang Lianjie's shout suddenly rang out in the darkness.
At this moment, in that low-lying residential area, there was an indescribable sound of footsteps. Hundreds of Northeast Army officers and soldiers rushed towards the opposite side from different alleys with guns in hand under the cover of night!
This is exactly the way out that Zhang Lianjie came up with.
Even if Zhang Lianjie wanted to fight the Japanese army again, he also understood that there were nearly 8,000 people in their brigade in the entire Beidaying.
Under the strict order from above, eight thousand people did not dare to fight against one thousand Japanese troops. Why should he use hundreds of his own soldiers to fight against one thousand Japanese troops?
Since we are not allowed to shoot but are allowed to break out, then let's rush out under the cover of night!
Zhang Lianjie just didn't believe it. Would the Japanese army risk accidentally injuring their own people and fight with their own battalion with bayonets in the dark?
The night can bring both fear and courage.
For ordinary soldiers, whether out of courage or fear, at least for now, if they want to save their lives, they have no choice but to rush forward to the designated location and mix in.
So even though no one shouted out loud, the sound of running was so loud that even the people in the house could feel the ground shaking, which still gave people a huge shock.
Among this running crowd, Shang Zhen was like a small boat, being urged forward by the sound of footsteps behind him.
The reason for this situation was, first of all, because Shang Zhen was a new recruit, a new recruit who couldn't even shoot a gun, and secondly, because he was distracted when the order was given from above.
At that moment, Shang Zhen suddenly understood why he was dizzy. He was not dizzy from gunshots or blood. What made him dizzy was the sight of someone dying after being shot!
When he saw the vanguard soldier die not far in front of him, the scene of several people in ancient costumes dying in front of him appeared in his mind again.
He seemed to see the blood crawling down from the soldier's head like earthworms, and he seemed to see those people in ancient costumes also dying in front of him. He felt a tingling and fear in his heart.
So he started to tremble, and his upper teeth were chattering with nervousness, although he didn't know that the sound of his teeth clashing had been heard by his battalion commander Zhang Lianjie.
But no matter how nervous Shang Zhen was, it was useless because his fate was not in his own hands.
Their battalion commander Zhang Lianjie was with their company, and the platoon he was in was at the front of their company.
When Zhang Lianjie gave the order to rush out, the dense footsteps from all sides swept him forward mechanically.
This time I am also the vanguard, so will I die?
Shang Zhen was thinking nervously, then he felt his foot trip and fell to the ground.
Oh no, will I be trampled to death by the person behind me?
The moment he fell, Shang Zhen instinctively rolled to the side.
His desire to survive was so strong that he himself did not even realize how quickly and quickly he rolled to the side.
Just as Shang Zhen got up, the person behind him took his place and rushed forward.
Of course Shang Zhen also wanted to run along, but at this moment he felt a pain in his knee and stopped running.
Only then did he realize that his knee had hit something when he fell.
The collision was so severe that he felt his knees could no longer bend.
In order to avoid being hit by the people behind him, he could only limp to the side and front, while he did not forget to support himself with the rifle in his right hand.
So, this situation arose.
Others rushed forward in a straight line, but Shang Zhen ran diagonally.
There were low houses everywhere. When Shang Zhen rushed to the opposite side, he went straight into another small alley.
But the moment he ran into the dark cave entrance, he felt a force coming, and he felt the rifle in his right hand was shaken and directly knocked out!
At this moment, the only thought in Shang Zhen’s mind was: I was ambushed by the Japanese!