The Japanese artillery fire stopped, and a mortar shell hit a house and set it on fire.
The county town was in chaos, but at this moment, the sound of platoon guns rang out, and a row of kneeling people were shot and fell down.
Those people were the spies captured by the peripheral troops of this regiment.
It is not entirely accurate to say that these people are spies. Those people are just puppet soldiers who serve as the vanguard of the Japanese army.
The Japanese army was also cunning and successfully used the puppet troops to attract the attention of the Northeastern Army in the city. Then they made a surprise attack and captured the security force outside the regiment's county town.
The raid outside the city and the shelling of the county town were carried out at the same time. The Japanese army's combat effectiveness was so fast and powerful that the company outside the city was not organized into an effective resistance at all, so it was "made dumplings".
The enemy was at hand, and Captain Liu didn't expect the Japanese army to take action as soon as he said so. Just now, he had just finished the trial of Xiao Dustpan's accusation of Old Huo Tou as a spy, and the Japanese attack was coming.
In this case, how could he have the energy to examine who was a spy and who was not.
Because of this, he issued an order to kill all these spies!
And at the execution site, more than a dozen soldiers were gaping at the spies who were beaten to death. Four of the spectators were all gray-faced, and their faces were all black. These four people were exactly Shang Zhen, Hou Kanshan, Qian Chuaner and Chen Hanwen.
The fight between Hou Kanshan and Qian Chuan'er was really untimely, but they never expected that the kang would collapse!
And why did the kang collapse? That's because the Kang was built using the Man Tang Hong technique.
There are generally two ways to build a traditional fire kang in the Northeast. One is called the Huadong kang, which involves building a flue for the smoke to escape, and then lighting the fire from the mouth of the stove pit, and the smoke enters the chimney from the flue.
The other kind is the so-called full house.
That is, each vertical brick is put on four flat bricks to make a kang surface.
The advantage of the Huadong Kang is that it has a long heat preservation time, but it heats slowly. The advantage of a full house is that it gets hot when the fire is ignited, but because there are all gaps between the vertical bricks below, the heat inside is quickly sucked away by the wind outside, and the heat is quickly cooled.
There is only a thin layer of bricks and a layer of yellow mud on top of the red kang in the room.
After all, the kang is a place for people to lie down, and it cannot easily collapse. Even the newly married couple did not hear that the kang collapsed, but after all, the kang was not a place where the two of them fought and fell.
Hou Kanshan ran to collect money on the kang. He jumped up and did a push-up. It would be strange if the kang didn't collapse!
Everything came together in a hurry. When the kang collapsed, it was also the time when Japanese mortar shells were fired into the scene. At this time, Shang Huozhen and others who had the thought to wipe their faces naturally ran into the yard.
Do you think the Japanese mortar bombs couldn't kill them if they hid in the yard?
That's not what happened, Auntie!
Taking cover in the courtyard, they resigned themselves to their fate if a mortar shell exploded in their midst.
But if the mortar bomb hits the house, they may be trapped by the collapsed frame.
After weighing the two, of course they had to hide outside, but then the group leader sent someone to call them all.
And when they arrived, they saw Captain Liu shooting the spy.
"I won't let Old Huo Tou and Er Han Zi—" Hou Kanshan stretched his neck and looked at the people lying on the ground.
Although he didn't finish what he said, anyone could guess what he meant. Everything came together, and by this time he was no longer in the mood to fight.
"No, are you blind? Didn't you see they were all there?" Chen Hanwen answered.
Chen Hanwen was also annoyed by Hou Kanshan, and he couldn't say anything nice anymore. His shoulder was hit by Hou Kanshan's Bu Geer and it still hurts!
Sure enough, following Chen Hanwen's words, Shang Zhen and the others saw that Xiao Dustpan, Er Hanzi, Lao Huo Tou, and Lao Mao Wang were all standing beside them.
But at this moment, there was another voice, and it was the little dustpan who spoke again: "You idiot is a good person, and this old bastard is a spy. If you kill me, I will kill me and this old bastard together!"
The old bastard that Little Dustpan refers to naturally refers to Old Huo Tou.
Who do those people hate the most about the Smiling Tiger who died in agony? Of course it was Lao Huotou.
The old Huo Tou, who always had his eyes wide open, was once a bearded man and also an old cunning man. He successfully plotted against Smiling Tiger and killed Smiling Tiger and others with the sword of the Japanese army.
How could Xiao Dustpan, the subordinate of the Smiling Tiger, not know this? So he bit the tiger's head to death to be a spy.
Perhaps it is because Xiao Dustpan knows that it is difficult to avenge the Smiling Tiger with his own ability. Since Lao Huotou can borrow the Japanese knife to kill the Smiling Tiger, he can only borrow the Northeast Army's knife to kill Lao Huotou.
Hearing what Little Dustpan said, Old Huotou naturally became anxious again.
How long has it been since anyone scolded him? When he was a beard, he was a person who could speak well. After he became the Northeast Army, he had seniority. But today, he was pointed at the nose twice by Little Dustpan and called him an old bastard. You How could he not be annoyed?
Seeing that there was going to be another quarrel, Captain Liu was already anxious.
"I don't have time to care about your rotten things!" Captain Liu said angrily, "Zhang Xiancai, take your company and these people to the south of the city.
"Guard our way back to me, and let all of them -" He pointed at Shang Zhen and the others again, "please rush to the front. Our regiment needs support, and I'm going to command the battle!" "
"Yes!" An officer from the Northeast Army walked over from the side. It was the company commander named Zhang Xiancai that Commander Liu had mentioned.
After Commander Liu gave the order, he waved his hand and ran out. He was going to the front, and he wanted to organize a resistance. He really had no intention of taking care of this mess anymore.
"Give them all their weapons and follow me!" the company commander named Zhang Xiancai ordered directly.
Everything happened so fast, it was really as dazzling as a horse rushing into flowers.
But Shang Zhen and the others are very lucky. One thing is certain, that is, whether it is the little dustpan or the old Huotou Erjizi, everyone is fine. At least their lives are saved for now.
The few box cannons that were seized by Shang Zhen and others were returned. They ran back to the original house, took their own rifles and traps, and ran with Zhang Xancai's company.
In the process, Shang Zhen also briefly asked Lao Huotou and the fool Wang Lao Mao, and he finally figured out the general context of the matter.
That's not just because Little Dustpan said that Old Huo Tou was a spy. If Old Huo Tou had a mouth, he would naturally defend himself.
In the very short period of time before the Japanese army bombarded the county town, Old Huotou explained to Captain Liu how he had borrowed a knife to kill the Smiling Tiger and the Bearded Group, thus proving that Xiao Dustpan's accusation was a false accusation and a slander.
Old Huo Tou was just defending himself. Is what he said true or false? How could Captain Liu have time to verify this?
Erhanzi said that there was a misunderstanding between Little Dustpan and Old Huotou, and they were both good people!
It happened that the Japanese army started to attack at this time. Just as Captain Liu said, how could he bother to care about such a stupid thing anymore, so he just assigned them a task and asked you people to go back and do it yourself!
