It wasn't until he got off Dongshan Ridge that Li Senran's pounding heart calmed down a little. He lay down on a large piece of moist weeds and looked at the dark and thick figure of Dongshan Ridge. He breathed heavily, and a trace of regret suddenly rose in his heart. I mean, if he was given a chance to choose, he would never choose to escape. Now thinking about it, it seems that washing the socks and trousers of all travelers is not such a great punishment. After all, if his behavior at that time succeeded, then as long as If the female soldier reported it, he would definitely be shot.
After belonging to the Xuebing Army for so long, he heard some things from hearsay. He knew what the Xuebing Army was taboo about and what he could tolerate. The strict military discipline of the Xuebing Army was actually relative. As long as it was not a major crime related to treason and treason, it was basically The death penalty will not be executed. Of course, the crime of rape cannot be dealt with in any other way in any country. It is said that you only know regret after losing it. This is how Li Senran feels now. He even feels that although Ouyang Yun was serious in saying that he wanted to use the Taiwanese people as cannon fodder, but as long as they still carry the name of the Xuebing Army on their heads, this kind of cannon fodder will be treated much better than similar troops in Japan.
Being in the Imperial Army is undoubtedly majestic, but it doesn't stop there. Compared with the Imperial Army, although the Xuebing Army is just a warlord army at best, the treatment of its ordinary soldiers is really unspeakably good. They marched from Guangzhou Hainan, this is a journey of hundreds of kilometers, but it only took them a few days, and their food was actually the same as when they were at the Panyu military camp. This alone is much better than the so-called imperial army. There are also military pay for the two armies. When they were in the imperial army, they received military coupons, but in the student army, they received real silver dollars. Ordinary soldiers had an income of five silver dollars every month, and if they could become For a special soldier like Lang Ya, it is only fifteen yuan a month. This kind of treatment is comparable to that of a major-level officer in the imperial army.
"Damn it, I'm afraid I made the wrong move." With this thought in mind, Li Senran set out on the road to escape again. He felt as if his legs were filled with lead, and they no longer had the flexibility and strength he had just after running out of the warehouse.
Hainan is a completely unfamiliar place for Li Senran, but with the knowledge he just learned about identifying directions, he identified the direction by looking for the position of Sirius, and then thought about it from his perspective, simulating the possible options of the troops chasing him. direction, he finally chose the northeast as his escape direction.
"Guo will definitely think that I will join the Japanese, but I did the opposite. Hey, if I don't get caught for a day, Ouyang Yun's suspicion of him will probably grow day by day. Well, he doesn't trust him to begin with. If we do this, I'm afraid we will suspect that everyone else, and maybe grandma, actually asked me to wash their smelly socks and trousers, do you think I am easy to bully?" He thought as he ran towards the northeast. ,
After Bian Jingdao led his men to chase down Dongshan Ridge, he was not in a hurry to pursue it in depth. Because of Ouyang Yun's care, after discovering the traces of missing deserters, he decided that it would be better to follow the Taiwanese, so the eleven people were divided into three groups. , people were ambushed at every possible fork in the road,
Guo Dai and the others chased down later, and just as Li Senran expected, after going around the bottom of the mountain, Guo Dai chose the southeast direction to chase down.
Not long after Guo Dai and the others left, Bian Jingdao and the others reunited. Bian Jingdao did not expect that Guo Dai would personally lead the team. He said to a platoon leader named Cheng Jian: "Guo Dai personally led the arrests. It seems that he attaches great importance to it." In this case, they are chasing them in the southeast direction. It seems that they think the deserters may have gone to join the Japs. Well, we will follow them."
At about four o'clock in the morning, Wu Wenwen, the duty officer at the Dahuajiao Radar Station, couldn't control his sleepiness. His eyelids kept drooping, and then he tilted his head and leaned on the back of the chair. Suddenly, he woke up again Realizing that his condition was not good, he immediately stood up and did a few push-ups to force away his sleepiness. When he felt completely awake and looked at the screen, he saw many small squares in the United Fleet square group heading towards Moving out in the southwest direction, his eyes widened, and then he immediately shouted to a room next to him: "Stationmaster, stationmaster, there's a situation."
Du Xin had been working for three days in a row, and today he finally couldn't stand it any longer. His high sense of responsibility kept him on high alert even in his sleep. Therefore, as soon as Wu Wenwen shouted twice, he jumped up from the bed, shirtless. Wearing shorts, he ran to the screen. As he ran, he asked, "What's going on?"
Wu Wenwen was very excited. He pointed to the moving group of squares on the screen and said: "The little devils have finally been diverted, and at least half of the ships have been dispatched."
Because Du Xin was particularly concerned about closely monitoring the movements of the combined fleet in the past few days, Du Xin also became excited. He said, "Okay, the little devil has finally made a move. I will call the military right now."
Du Xin's call was received at the underground headquarters in Haitang Town, but it was Brother Kuang Lai who answered the phone. At this time, Shan Renxiong was not in the headquarters. Where had Shan Renxiong gone? It turned out that Shan Renxiong was answering the phone. After receiving the telegram from Pan Meiren, Shan Renxiong was worried that the deserter was simply a Japanese spy. The real reason why he fled Dongshanling was to pass on intelligence. If this was true, the defense situation in Wanning was very likely to be exposed, so He attached great importance to this matter. After receiving the telegram, he led a group of troops along Haitang Town to Dazhou and Hele to inspect and arrange the area, hoping to catch him before he contacted the Japanese.
After Huang Ye, Guo Yucheng, Chang Geng and others were assigned to various places, the work in the headquarters was presided over by Shan Renxiong and Kuang Laige. Kuang Laige learned that the combined fleet had begun to divert and realized that the diverted fleet should be heading to a new location. After landing in the sea area, Du Xin was ordered to continue to monitor and report any new discoveries immediately. He sent a telegram to Chang Geng, asking him to prepare for war. At the end of the telegram, he mentioned: In order to avoid excessive civilian casualties, We hope to start organizing the evacuation immediately.
There is a discrepancy between Kuang Lai's telegram and Shan Renxiong's previous instructions to Chang Geng. Because Japanese intelligence personnel were discovered in Qiongnan, Shan Renxiong was worried that organizing people to evacuate in advance would arouse the Japanese army's vigilance, so he asked Chang Geng to postpone the execution. This work, less than a day apart, actually received two contradictory orders, which put Chang Geng into a dilemma. What he and Brother Kuang Lai didn't expect was that precisely because of these two contradictory orders, Chang Geng couldn't help but fall into a dilemma. The order actually caused a huge commotion after the war.
Let’s turn our attention back to Li Senran,
Li Senran didn't know whether his whereabouts had been captured by the pursuing troops, so after leaving Dongshan Ridge, although he soon felt physically and mentally exhausted, he still escaped along the northeast direction at an extremely fast speed, and then in After running a distance of nearly twenty kilometers, I hid in a coconut forest when the white color of fish belly began to appear in the east.
Coincidentally, Li Senran hid in the coconut forest, but within a quarter of an hour, a small team of "Akagi Fighting Team" led by Haneda also escaped.
During the time when Ouyang Yun was responsible for training Taiwanese guys, Li Senran was unable to participate in many events because he had endless stinky socks and trousers, but he still learned a lot of escape skills. After entering the coconut forest, he chose a tree I climbed up the coconut tree with great effort, and then hid in the canopy of the tree. I thought of escaping again at night.
Li Senran was also wearing a full cadet army uniform (the hat was a soft uniform cap). The camouflage color on the uniform provided him with excellent cover. When Haneda led a dozen of his men to attack him carefully under the tree where he was hiding, As they passed by, they didn't realize that there was a defector student hiding above their heads.
As a former member of the imperial army, Li Senran could speak Japanese. Therefore, although Haneda and others had changed into local clothes, he could still determine the identity of the group from their conversation.
"The most dangerous time has passed. Let's rest here for two hours before continuing on our way." This was what Haneda said. As he spoke, he looked for a place to hide.
After he finished speaking, a subordinate who was following him said: "I wonder what happened to the two groups, Captain Mitsumasa and Captain Tomita. It seems that several people in Captain Tomita's group died."
Haneda: "The Chinese people's defense along the coast is still very strict. They actually ambushed troops in such a remote place. However, they probably didn't expect that we came up with three groups of people at once. Ignore them. The most important thing for us now is to rest." Okay, then capture two Chinese soldiers to get the necessary information."
"Your Excellency, this is it. You rest first and I will arrange the sentry."
The Japanese sat down in the shade of trees and grass one after another about thirty meters away from Li Senran. Then, three Japanese were assigned to guard the task. One of them actually took a fancy to the coconut tree where Li Senran was hiding. Behind the coconut tree, after setting up the gun, he began to be on alert with full concentration.
When this Japanese guy first came over, Li Senran was worried that he would choose to climb a tree to be on guard. He couldn't help but feel that his hands and feet were cold. When he found out that he didn't mean this, his frantic heartbeat calmed down, "Damn it, why are you carrying me like this?" , Hainan is so big, you can actually meet Japs." He thought while wiping the cold sweat on his forehead. After he calmed down, he became curious and thought that these Japs appeared here dressed like this. They What did he want to do? Just as he was thinking about it, he faintly heard a few Japs talking. He quickly pricked up his ears and listened carefully. As he listened, his expression became weird.
He never expected that the purpose of this gang of devils was to assassinate Ouyang Yun.