Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 724
As the only student soldier who was allowed to crawl close to Xiaozhuang Village with the guard platoon, Fang Shiheng, who was prostrate on the ground and looked at the crowd in the small village, felt a fire burning in his heart, as if his heart had dried up. .

But this painful feeling that almost twitched his whole body didn't start when he watched the Japanese wave his hand to let the wolf dog bite him through the telescope of the guard platoon leader Lao Hei a few minutes ago.

To be precise, it should be from two hours ago.

Fang Shiheng is a talented student of Tantai Yunshu, and he has already obtained Tantai Yunshu's authentic landscape painting. If he was in the peaceful and prosperous age, he should become a good young painter. After time and experience, he may even have a chance to surpass his teacher's achievements.

But the war came, and the country was in danger. Fang Shiheng hoped to contribute to his country, just like what he preached to Tang Dao and his classmates in the mountain depression, he was willing to die in order to fight the invaders.

From the moment he and his nine companions signed up for the "Bayonet" project, they put life and death aside. The mountain road was difficult at night, and the sweaty stumbling all the way failed to extinguish the raging fire in his heart and the outstanding young people from different departments. .

Until he witnessed death with his own eyes.

It is the death of a fellow man.

The small village they arrived at after running for four hours was full of white flags, and the open space was filled with thin wooden coffins nailed with door panels temporarily. The villagers who kept vigil all night saw their own people in military uniforms appear, not happy, not happy. Sad, numb all over the face.

Lao Hei, the leader, made a brief inquiry and learned that the entire village had been ransacked by the Japanese army during the day. Because of the news of the wounded Chinese soldiers, the Japanese slaughtered five families and robbed the entire village of its wealth.

There were more than [-] bloody lives on the rice field. To prove their cruelty, the brutal Japanese soldiers even spared three-year-old children.

Death was so straightforwardly presented in front of Fang Shiheng's eyes, causing Fang Shiheng's heart to burst into flames, so that his breath was almost scalding hot.

In addition to the superficial numbness of the villagers towards the arrival of these soldiers, Fang Shiheng can actually feel that there is even fear and hatred hidden in the eyes in the dark.

How sad it is that they are of the same race, yet harbor fear and hatred!
But who can blame them for anything?They originally lived peacefully in this peaceful land, but when the war came, they faithfully fulfilled their promises, received their rewards, hid the wounded soldiers, and paid the pain of several families being slaughtered. cost.

And all of this was caused by the failure of his own army on the front line. The soldiers who were supposed to defend the country not only failed to protect them, but caused the root cause of this tragedy.

The elite and students of the Independence Battalion submerged back into the darkness with grief and shame.

Fortunately, in the early morning, they received a telegram from the cavalry platoon that a group of Japanese troops was advancing towards Xiaozhuang Village three kilometers away, and the guard platoon and student soldiers quickly chased after them.

The never-extinguishing fire in the chest became the source of power to support Fang Shiheng and the students. They, who had never received formal military training, were able to keep up with the guard platoon in such a rapid march after running six or seven kilometers on the mountain road. The pace, even though three people passed out from exhaustion just before they were about to arrive.

However, they were still too late. The Japanese had already driven the villagers to the small empty rice fields and surrounded them with rifles and machine guns.

Lao Hei, who quietly approached 300 meters outside Xiaozhuang Village, could only order the whole army not to move rashly, otherwise, when the battle started, the villagers who were pointed at by machine guns would be the first to suffer.

They came to attack and kill the Japanese troops who were active in this small area, not to let innocent villagers be the funeral objects of the Japanese.

Fang Shiheng can fully understand this reason, but when he saw the Japanese army start to bite the old man with his own eyes in the field of vision of the telescope, he couldn't bear it anymore.

"Platoon Leader Wu, the Japanese are already going to massacre the villagers, why don't you start taking action, you are committing a crime! You are murdering!" Fang Shiheng almost used a growling voice to criticize the expressionless man who had been staring into the distance. Lieutenant.

"I don't know if I committed a crime or not, but I can be sure that if your voice alarms the wolfhound of the Japanese army, those villagers will lose their lives forever because of you?" Old Hei glanced sideways, his eyes slightly The red student leader said in a cold voice.

Fang Shiheng was stunned. He knew that the lieutenant was not trying to scare people.

Fang Shiheng took a peek at 'Hammer' who was lying low in the grass more than [-] meters away.

He didn't know how terrible a dog's hearing is, but the big dog called 'Hammer' gave him this scientific common sense.

Human hearing is nothing compared to dogs.

The 300 student soldiers of the student company not only put on military uniforms, but also allocated weapons and equipment according to the standard. Each of them had a Japanese-style 9 rifle and [-] light machine guns, but the ammunition was not opened. Students who are still familiar with firearms will only be allowed to use them when necessary, and auxiliary equipment such as binoculars will also be allocated.

Fang Shiheng looked around curiously with the binoculars that had just been delivered, and then he saw the big dog emerging from the forest at least 200 meters away from him.

'What a big dog! Fang Shiheng subconsciously exclaimed in a low voice.

Then, in the field of vision of the telescope, the earth dog that had just jumped out of the mountain forest and held a hare in its mouth unexpectedly glanced here.

Yes, just glance!

In the field of vision of the telescope, he could clearly see the eyes of the large Chinese pastoral dog looking at him. After giving him a disdainful glance, he ran on four legs and disappeared again.

His intuition told him that the dog must have heard his voice and thought he was so rare.

But that is more than 200 meters away!
If, as the lieutenant of the army said, the Japanese army shot and killed the villagers because of his carelessness, then he will never forgive himself in his life, even if he dies, he will not be able to undo it.

"I'm sorry!" The handsome young man blushed and apologized in a low voice like a mosquito.

Dare to accuse a strong man like Tang Dao face to face, but because the most ordinary villagers apologized to Tang Dao's subordinates, it seems that words and deeds are inconsistent, but it can make Lao Hei's rough lines feel the sincerity of this extremely proud scholar.

Wei Wei sighed softly: "Boy, this is the battlefield. For the final victory, the first thing you have to learn is to wait, to wait for the most suitable opportunity. We are not doing nothing, but waiting, waiting for Gu Xishui's two A special operations team is looking for a good fighter, and we can only start the operation when Niu Er and the others are sure to kill the two Japanese machine gunners, otherwise, the dead will not be one or two villagers, but all of them, understand?"

Fang Shiheng nodded fiercely.

He understood the truth, but with the brutal gunshots from the Japanese army, two more villagers fell down right in front of his eyes.

Fang Shiheng's fingers were firmly embedded in the withered grass where he was hiding, and he buried his head and dared not look ahead. At this moment, he somewhat understood the pain and helplessness of the army colonel whom he had accused.

It's not that he didn't dare to die, but he didn't want to watch his subordinates fall under the guns of the Japanese army because they were outnumbered and because of insufficient ammunition reserves!
Just like him now, he can only watch helplessly, and the hands that can draw magnificent mountains and rivers can only grasp the land helplessly.

Fortunately, the reflection of the mirror lighted up in the distance, which should be the signal from the fair-faced second lieutenant.

The guard platoon can approach the village to start operations.

"I ask to act together!" Fang Shiheng tried his best to lower his voice and plead for orders.

"If you don't obey the order to fight to the death, I will be whipped!" Old Hei stared at him for a while, then dropped this sentence.

Fang Shiheng became the only student soldier who could follow the soldiers of the guard platoon. The remaining 9 students were required to stand by with a guard squad on the periphery of the battlefield.

Their task is equally arduous, and they are responsible for killing the Japanese infantry who slipped through the net.

There is no need for Lao Hei to say that there is a military order not to be left behind. It has become inevitable when he leaves the village full of more than two dozen thin coffins.

The battle started when the guard platoon was as close as 150 meters away.

The wolf green dog of the Japanese army heard a strange noise coming from a distance.

Okamoto Asahiro, who was about to wave his hand and order to shoot, had only time to turn his head and look into the distance, his horrified eyes were still jumping deep in his pupils.

"boom!"

The sudden gunshots rang in everyone's ears like thunder!

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