After figuring out the ins and outs of the matter, he looked at the so-called brothers beside him who were looking at him with concerned eyes in military uniforms of the same color as himself. Yang Zhen sighed, said nothing more, and just bit hard.
Take a bite of this steamed bun made of who knows what in your hand. [.Com text]
Although this steamed bun was so coarse that it was extremely difficult to swallow. When eating it, Yang Zhen thought that his throat would be torn at any time. But the feeling of weakness in his whole body made him know that no matter how unpalatable this steamed bun was, he had to eat it.
That person was right. In this situation, only by finding a way to survive can there be hope.
Yang Zhen was also really hungry. He swallowed the steamed bun, which was not much bigger than a baby's fist, in three mouthfuls. After swallowing the steamed bun in his hand, he still felt hungry. Although Yang Zhen didn't ask, he also noticed from the people around him.
After reaching the wotou in his hand, the wolf-like eyes also knew that this extremely unpalatable thing would not be available again at least today.
After eating, Yang Zhen turned around and looked carefully at this uninvited man who claimed to be his savior and then said: "Brother, are you from the Central Army? This 24th-style military uniform of the Republic of China is not like those other unknown brands.
It can be worn by stepmothers like us. From what I said just now, it can be seen that I am not an ordinary person. If I am not mistaken, I must have lived abroad for a few years."
When this guy speaks, his tone is always mixed with some foreign words. At least the shame of being a prisoner of war is not as strong as that of others. And the sentence "We have tried our best" is not
Nowadays, the Chinese people who always take pride in fighting to the death and feel the shame of being captured can tell this. From this guy's tone, Yang Zhen could easily guess that this guy should have studied abroad.
"Brother Yang has good eyesight and sees well. He did study abroad and studied at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy in France for several years. But there is one thing that Brother Yang really guessed wrong. He is not from the Central Army, but from the Sichuan Army."
"And the brothers on this car are from the Northwest Army, the Sichuan Army, and even a few brothers from the Gui Army, but not from the Central Army. As for the military uniforms worn by the brothers, they were transferred to the Fifth War Zone with the army.
The commander-in-chief, General De Lin, saw that the Sichuan Army's clothes were in tatters and their equipment was dilapidated, so he transferred it to the Sichuan Army. Otherwise, this new uniform, which even the Central Army has not yet completed, would definitely not be used by miscellaneous troops like us."
After that, the man stretched out his hand to Yang Zhen and said: "Guo Bingxun, the captain of the combat staff of the 41st Army of the Sichuan Army, was captured during the breakout of the Xuzhou Battle. Among the brothers in this car, except for a few brothers from the Northwest Army, most of them
They are all brothers of the Sichuan Army."
Yang Zhen looked at his stretched out hand, somewhat hesitant. His hesitation was not for anything else. Although he now knew what kind of situation he was currently in, as for his resume, in addition to knowing that his surname was Yang,
Except for one company commander, the rest of them didn't even know their names or which unit they belonged to in the 18th Army.
According to the history that Yang Zhen knew in later generations, in addition to the original three divisions, the Eighteenth Army at this time also had some newly expanded military region troops. At this time, he didn't know anything, except how he was captured.
He didn’t know anyone, so how could he introduce himself?
Maybe he saw the embarrassment in Yang Zhen's eyes, maybe he didn't want to lose his momentum in front of this white-dog officer in his mouth, but his aggressive correspondent was much smarter this time and came back first: "Yang
Zhen, the company commander of the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Military Region of the 129th Division of the 18th Group Army. During the anti-Japanese army’s nine-way siege against the Japanese army in April this year, he was stunned by a shell and was captured.”
After listening to Xiao Huzi's answer, Yang Zhen was silent on the surface, but in reality he almost cried: "I am not the first batch of soldiers captured since the Eighth Route Army went to fight against Japan, right? This is such a thief.
Some people are so fucking deceitful that they actually bring this rare honor to themselves."
Feeling indignant and feeling that God was unfair, Yang Zhen directly removed the word "ye" from "God" and added the word "thief" in front of it. Since God was playing tricks on him like this, he naturally no longer had to respect him.
It's just that he cursed in his heart, but he concealed it well on his face. He didn't want others to know that although he looked the same on the outside, he had already changed inside. As for his amnesia, someone had already done it before.
I explained it to him, which saved him a lot of talking.
Yang Zhen's concealment was very successful. Not only did he successfully hide it from Xiao Huzi, the correspondent who had been following him for many years, but Guo Bingxun, who had been observing him carefully, didn't see anything unusual on his face.
As for others answering for him, Guo Bingxun was not surprised. As a man with some medical skills and a soldier, he knew how cruel the Japanese army's rifle butts were. He once thought that this guy would never wake up again.
Compared with the loss of life, the small loss of memory in front of me is nothing.
After Guo Bingxun glanced at the fellow prisoners in the carriage, he lowered his voice intentionally and said: "Brother Yang, I feel that something is wrong with the transfer of the little Japs this time. After we were captured in Xuzhou, we were escorted from Xuzhou to the Xiyuan Prisoner of War Camp in Peking.
, although the trains we took along the way were also this kind of stuffy tank cars, but during the three days on the road, the Japanese did not even give them food, not to mention food. The brothers who were captured in the same batch, except for the wounded, were all killed on the spot.
The Japanese slaughtered them all, and half of them died of thirst during the escort."
"But this time the little Japs escorted us, except for the fact that all the escorts were Japs and not a single puppet soldier, they gave us some food every day. Although it was not much, there were only two Wotou in your hand every day, and water was also given regularly.
Although some could not eat enough, they did not die of thirst or starvation like before. As a result, except for some weak ones, most of the brothers survived. This is somewhat unusual. Although we are prisoners of war
, they are unarmed now, but they are all soldiers after all. Aren’t they afraid that we will resist when we are full?”
"One more thing, when you suddenly jumped out of the car and I pulled you, I hurriedly took a look at the environment around the small station. Judging from the environment around the small station, I found that they had escorted us outside the customs, that is,
What they call Manchukuo."
"The most important thing is that except for stopping at some small stations for supplies on the way, this train has been traveling northward. Based on my understanding of the Northeast and based on the speed of this train, we are at this time
We should have already passed Changchun. They just kept escorting us north, what is their real purpose?"
"They want to get rid of us. Judging from the Japanese methods of treating prisoners of war, they don't have to go to such trouble. In Nanjing, they could kill hundreds of thousands of our captured comrades and civilians in broad daylight.
, there is nothing we dare not do. It is even less likely that they will transport us to the vast and sparsely populated Northeast to massacre us because of taboos from certain international perspectives."
Having said this, Guo Bingxun looked at Yang Zhen who was looking at him with a strange look after listening to his words, and said with some clarity: "My father had the idea of saving the country through transportation, and studied in France to major in railways. After graduation, he returned to China.
Later, I never thought that domestic warlords were fighting, and the railway became their pocketbook. Compared with other areas of China that were in chaos at that time, although Northeast China was also under the rule of warlords, it was relatively stable. Moreover, Northeast China had domestic
The longest railway line, although not many are under the jurisdiction of the Chinese themselves."
"My father came to the Northeast for many years at the invitation of a friend, and I have lived with my father in the Northeast for many years. If it hadn't been for the September 18th Incident, and my father was unwilling to be a subjugated slave and returned to the country, I'm afraid I would still be living with my father in the Northeast."
"After the September 18th Incident, I determined to join the army. It was my father who asked an old friend who studied in France to send me to the Saint-Cyr Military Academy in France to study military affairs. It was only after I returned to China that my father returned to his hometown in Sichuan to live, so I asked my father's close friend from the same hometown.
He was invited by General De Cao to join the Sichuan Army, but he did not join the Central Army like other foreign students."
"I lost my mother when I was a child and was raised by my father. Because my father had a deep affection for my mother and could not bear my being bullied by my stepmother, we never had a relationship. My father has been away from home for many years and his body has gradually weakened. In order to take care of my father, I
Enter the Sichuan Army."
"My father originally wanted me to inherit his father's business and become a railway engineer. He often said that if China wants to be prosperous and powerful, it must develop a large-scale transportation system. Only when transportation is developed and materials flow, can the people be rich and healthy. Only when the people are rich
, only then can the country be truly strong.”
"It's a pity that his wishes are good, but the years of war in the country can only make his hopes come true day by day. It's just that this time he was born in a poor family and became a prisoner of Chu. I don't know if he still has a face. If I have a chance to go back and see him again,
Father." Thinking of his old father who he feared would never see him again, Guo Bingxun couldn't help but burst into tears in his eyes.
Yang Zhen didn't listen at all to what Guo Bingxun said about his family background. His thoughts had long been distracted by what Guo Bingxun said. The Japanese actually dragged prisoners of war like him to the Northeast. What were they going to do? Yang Zhen was already thinking
I probably have a number.
They have always enjoyed killing prisoners of war, especially the Japanese army, which had never regarded Chinese prisoners of war as human beings. This time they were so generous. They not only spared the lives of these prisoners of war, but also gave them food and drink every day to keep them alive. It was definitely not their fault.
What kind of kindness? There is definitely an ulterior motive. Thinking of the rich mineral resources in the Northeast, Yang Zhen couldn't help but guess that the Japanese army escorted these prisoners of war to build fortifications or work in the mines as coolies?
After serving as a soldier in the Northeast for many years, and receiving political education, Yang Zhen visited numerous mass graves all over the Northeast. When Yang Zhen thought of this, he could not help but form a phrase in his mind that later generations had only seen in books.
"Special Workers".
Thinking of this, Yang Zhen turned his head and said to Guo Bingxun beside him: "In my opinion, the Japanese took us all the way from North China to the Northeast probably because they planned to use us as coolies to plunder the resources of the Northeast. We,
Prisoners of war are all high-quality and strong laborers, and the Japanese have a low degree of mechanization. In order to meet their domestic demand for resources, they will definitely use a large amount of manpower to replace machinery."
After saying this, Yang Zhen pondered again and said: "In addition to them sending us to the mines, there is another possibility, which is to escort us to build fortifications for them. The Japanese have always regarded Northeast China as their so-called lifeline
In order to occupy the Northeast for a long time, they spent a lot of money to manage the Northeast after the September 18th Incident. In order to maintain this so-called lifeline, they must have built a large number of military fortifications on some transportation arteries and strategic locations in the Northeast. These
Most military fortifications need to be kept secret, let alone the Chinese, even the lowest-level members of the Japanese army may not know about it. And the use of conscripted laborers is very likely to leak the secrets."
"In order to maintain the stability of their so-called Manchukuo, and more importantly to ensure the production of materials they need domestically, the Japanese will not mobilize a large number of local workers for the time being. At least not until they are at the end of their rope. So we prisoners of war are
The best labor can be killed after use, which not only saves a lot of trouble, but also ensures strict confidentiality."
"The Japanese are very sophisticated and proficient in calculations. Although we people have disarmed and become prisoners of war, we were all once soldiers after all. Although our level is not high, we have all received certain military training."
"Leaving us inside the unstable pass will bring them a lot of unnecessary trouble. Although they seemed to have the upper hand in conquering cities and territories in the pass, due to the limitation of their military strength, they only occupied large and medium-sized cities and railways in the pass.
Along the route, control over the vast rural areas is still extremely weak. In fact, many areas are still blank."
"We who stay inside the customs are a hidden danger to them. If we prisoners of war commit suicide or cooperate with the local guerrillas, it will cause them great trouble. And we, the prisoners of war, are sent to work outside the customs as coolies.
, that is, we can get a large amount of free labor and avoid a lot of trouble. And judging from their control over the so-called Manchukuo, even if we can escape after arriving in the Northeast, we probably won’t be able to run very far.
Will be caught and brought back."
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