It finally rained, and Zhao Liang's teeth were chattering as he hid in the grass, but he did not dare to get out of the grass. The scene he had just experienced was still as if he was right in front of him, making Zhao Liang's legs weak and he could not stand at all.
Can't get up. Zhao Liang, who is only 19 years old this year, is a guard at the Military Hospital of the Fifth Army of the Expeditionary Force. After all his relatives died in the fall of Wuhan, he secretly joined the army at the age of 17. If he hadn't learned Japanese,
I am afraid that I will not be selected to join the Fifth Army of the Expeditionary Force advancing into Burma.
The place where Zhao Liang is now is the Bhamo Highway in Myanmar. Since the expeditionary force was defeated in Myanmar and began to retreat, he and some wounded nurses from the military hospital were separated from the large army. Along the way, he followed a group of veterans of the New 22nd Division.
They ran here. But just half an hour ago, a Japanese pursuit force intercepted them. The dozen New 22 veterans and some wounded nurses were all killed. Zhao Liang, who had always been confused, escaped.
For a moment, I hid in the grass.
Zhao Liang will never forget what he just experienced, the female soldiers who died at the gunpoint of the Japanese army, the wounded and the Sichuan Army veterans who have been taking care of him. The rain is getting heavier and heavier, and Zhao Liang, who is huddled in the grass, does not dare to speak out or
He hurriedly walked out of the grass. He had to endure the pain on his body patiently and wait for dawn. Only at dawn could he identify the direction and avoid going in the wrong direction. Zhao Liang, who was hiding in the grass, was not unarmed.
After the veterans of the New 22nd Division collapsed, Zhao Liang was stuffed with a Zhongzheng rifle and 10 bullets. When he was trying to escape just now, Zhao Liang actually kept the rifle and bullets with him.
Zhao Liang, who is only 19 years old, is not an ignorant boy with no power. He has been in the army for two years. Not only does he have good marksmanship, but he can also operate the 50mm grenade launcher and 60mm mortar equipped by the Japanese army.
Since Zhao Liang, who wanted to avenge his family, joined the army, he often pestered the veterans who came to the hospital to learn some battlefield experience. When the army was doing target practice, Zhao Liang would often shamelessly sneak into the queue of recruits to practice target. After two years,
Although Zhao Liang lacks some battlefield experience compared to those veterans of hundreds of battles, in terms of individual soldier quality, he is already much better than soldiers of the same age in the army.
"Revenge, go home, revenge, go home." Zhao Liang, who was soaked, hungry and cold, muttered these two words silently and lay down in the grass in the pouring rain. The surroundings were pitch black and he could not see anything.
, lacking battlefield experience, he did not dare to look around to see the situation around him. He just prayed silently in his heart that those damn Japanese soldiers would leave here quickly. From morning to now, Zhao Liang has only eaten a small handful of wild vegetables and half a piece of compressed food.
Biscuits, it had been a day now, and his stomach was twitching. Zhao Liang, who had been in the hospital for two years, knew that this was stomach cramps caused by hunger.
"No matter what, I have to go out even if I die. It is better to die under the guns of the Japanese army than to starve to death in the grass." Zhao Liang, who had made up his mind, slowly took the rifle in his arms and prepared to get up quietly.
He dived towards the forest in his memory. "Kah!" Before Zhao Liang could get up, he heard a sound that sounded like a gun being pulled from a few meters away to his right. Zhao Liang was frightened and his hands and feet were cold and he immediately ran away.
I didn't dare to move. If the sound just now was really the Japanese soldiers pulling the bolts of their guns, maybe they had discovered us or were aiming at us.
With his eyes closed, Zhao Liang raised his ears and listened carefully to the sounds other than the sound of rain. However, except for the sound of rain, he heard no other sounds at all. Could it be that he had misjudged him just now? Zhao Liang began to doubt himself a little.
He knew that hunger weakened his sense of taste and vision, but he had never heard of hunger affecting hearing. A tiny cracking sound entered Zhao Liang's ears. This time he no longer doubted his hearing.
That was the sound of breaking. It should be the sound of something breaking a small branch.
Zhao Liang felt a needle-like feeling on his back, which made all the hairs on his body stand up. He desperately covered his mouth with his muddy hands. Zhao Liang heard the sound of stepping on muddy water from both sides of him. Someone was stepping on muddy water.
, it was the Japanese army. In the dark night, Zhao Liang could not see anything clearly, but he could hear the footsteps stepping on the muddy water very clearly. The Japanese army must be searching here. This thought in his mind made Zhao Liang so horrified that he almost forgot to breathe.
What happened to the soldiers of the expeditionary force who fell into the hands of the Japanese army? Zhao Liang heard from veterans who had retired from the front line that it was especially unbearable for the female soldiers who fell into the hands of the Japanese army.
I can't die, I absolutely can't die. I still have a family feud that I haven't avenged. The desire to live is growing crazily in Zhao Liang's heart like weeds after the rain. With a strong desire to survive, his hands and feet are so frightened that they become weak.
Instead, he calmed down, his mind was no longer as confused as before, and his vision seemed to be much clearer. In fact, he didn't know that this was a normal reaction after he had adapted to the dark night.
Quietly adjusting his body from lying down to a half-crouch, Zhao Liang slowly poked his head out of the grass to observe the surrounding situation. He also held the muddy Zhongzheng rifle in his hand, and his finger was already on the trigger.
, this rifle that has already been loaded can be fired at any time. The veterans who came to the hospital taught Zhao Liang not to panic when encountering the enemy, but to be calm and calm. If you shoot first and hit the target with the first shot, you can give your opponent a huge blow.
Pressure allows you to find opportunities from unfavorable situations to save your life and survive.
Zhao Liang, who was half-crouching, endured the discomfort and turned his head to look to both sides of himself. He could not see anything but darkness. A flash of lightning appeared in mid-air, and Zhao Liang's little head kept looking around.
He shrank back into the grass. When the lightning appeared just now, Zhao Liang had already seen four Japanese soldiers wearing raincoats standing just a dozen meters away from his left. There were also three similarly dressed a few meters away on the right.
of Japanese troops.
Zhao Liang, who was lying in the grass again, desperately grabbed the mud on the ground and smeared it on his body. Even the Zhongzheng rifle was smeared with a thick layer of mud. The rotten grass branches and rotten soil in the grass.
The smell was very unpleasant, but in order to survive, Zhao Liang had to do this. As long as he could save his life, Zhao Liang would not hesitate even if he smeared feces on his body.
The sound of mud and water being trampled sounded again. The three Japanese soldiers who had just appeared on Tang Shuang's right and the Japanese soldiers on his left merged together. Several guys gathered together and did not know what they were doing. They covered their bodies with mud.
Zhao Liang lay prone in the grass, pricking up his ears and listening to the movements around him. The rain was still falling, and it seemed to be getting heavier and heavier. Zhao Liang, who was concentrating on guarding against the Japanese army, could not feel hunger or cold. All his energy
All concentrated on the ears and head.
The Japanese soldiers left. Zhao Liang, who didn’t know how long he had been lying in the grass, peeked around for a while. Several lightning flashes appeared, but he didn’t see the Japanese soldiers wearing raincoats again. It seemed that they were really
He left. Zhao Liang, who felt a little calmer, took out the rifle from the muddy water and used the rain to clean the mud on the gun. He finally escaped. The exhausted Zhao Liang took out the layers of oil paper packages from his pocket.
He stuffed half of the compressed biscuit into his mouth, which he had saved this morning. In order to save energy and escape into the woods, he had to eat tomorrow's food in advance.
After eating half a piece of compressed biscuit, Zhao Liang felt a little more comfortable. His body was not as cold as before, and his hands and feet seemed to have some strength. Carefully rubbing his legs, Zhao Liang in the grass was making preparations to escape.
, it’s not that Zhao Liang has not thought about those companions who were scattered, but now it’s dark, he can’t even take care of himself. Where is there still the thought and spare energy to take care of other people? It’s better for everyone to settle down and rely on their own luck.
Well. That's what war is like. Whoever has a better life will survive. This is what the veterans who came to the hospital told Zhao Liang. He didn't believe it at first, but now he believes it.
He raised his head and drank a few mouthfuls of rainwater. Zhao Liang, who was covered in mud, slowly squatted up. He also held the cleaned rifle in his hand and was ready to start. The forest that Zhao Liang had always missed was about 50 meters directly in front of him.
meters away, that is to say, Zhao Liang had to run a distance of 50 meters without being sure whether there were still Japanese troops before he could enter the woods, and the prerequisite was that he did not fall down or slip in the middle or run in the wrong direction.
Perhaps because of the old saying that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, Zhao Liang was not worried at all that he could not run on the 50-meter grassland. Even with the rifle in his hand, he could still run very fast. He once again made sure that there were no Japanese troops around him.
Taking a deep breath, Zhao Liang half-crouched in the grass with his eyes closed and recited the Heart Sutra silently several times. He suddenly rushed out of the grass and ran towards the woods where he remembered. Although Zhao Liang used all his strength,
However, after only eating a piece of compressed biscuit and a handful of wild vegetables all day, he still staggered a bit while running. If the thought of survival had not supported him, he would have fallen down many times.
The grass was slippery after the rain. As the sound of stepping on muddy water rang out, Zhao Liang felt as he was running that the strength in his body was disappearing little by little. His legs were so sore and numb that he could no longer move. "
"Hmm." There was a trace of fishy heat in Zhao Liang's mouth. It was because he bit his tongue out of desperation. Sure enough, the stinging pain on the tip of his tongue lifted Zhao Liang's spirits up and made his feet move much faster. The pain stimulated this.
This is also a life-saving trick given to Zhao Liang by veterans. When a person's physical strength is exhausted, the pain stimulation from the body will stimulate the human body's potential. Although it cannot last long, it can indeed stimulate physical energy in a short period of time.