Chapter Six Three People in a Row
Who is Gao Quan? Observing facial expressions is one of his professional skills. Just by looking at Liu Ruming's expression, he knew that the other party suspected his identity, and immediately put away the admiration for the anti-Japanese war general, stood up straight, saluted with his hand, and replied loudly: "Report to the officer, my name is Gao Quan, I am 27 years old this year. My hometown is Hei Yanzi Gou in Fengtian. Tonight, I passed by Luwenyu Road and saw the brothers killing devils, couldn't help but lend a hand. Wang Dazhu asked me to stay and kill devils with him, anyway, I had nothing to do, so I followed along. Please accept me, officer!"
"Oh?" Liu Ruming was surprised at how fluent Gao Quan's response was. Wouldn't any spy, once suspected, be a bit flustered? "How many devils did you kill tonight?" A devil's spy would definitely not kill their own people, and Liu Ruming wanted to see how Gao Quan would respond.
"Report, sir, a total of nine were killed!" As he spoke, Gao Quan pulled out nine sets of enemy shoulder badges from his military uniform pocket. The lowest rank was a private, and the highest was a lieutenant, who was the enemy officer that Gao Quan had killed with his big knife when he ran over to pull it out. At the time, he had thought it would be fun, and also to prepare for this kind of situation, you know, if you say you've killed some enemies, you need some credible evidence, right? In fact, he had personally killed fifteen enemies, but at first, he hadn't had time to collect their badges.
"Report to the instructor, I saw with my own eyes that Gao Quan killed five devils!" Wang Dazhu also sensed the instructor's suspicion of Gao Quan and hastened to testify.
"Good job!" Liu Ruming's face was filled with smiles, his doubts all gone. With Wang Dazhu's testimony, he didn't need to suspect anything anymore. "This submachine gun is also one of your spoils, right?" This submachine gun was of quite good quality, much better than the ones equipped in Liu Ruming's unit.
"Report to the superior, the machine gun is fully captured!" Wang Dazhu was a straightforward person and didn't mean to take credit for himself. Although when they came back, Gaoquan told him that this machine gun should be considered as jointly captured by the two of them, facing their superior, he still spoke the truth, in his rough but honest heart, he felt that taking credit from Gaoquan was not what a good man would do.
"Wow! Just arrived, and already captured a machine gun, great!" Liu Ruming patted Gao Quan's shoulder. "Gao Quan, what were you doing sneaking around Luo Wenyu's place at midnight? Have you been a soldier before?" The last question, Liu Ruming had to ask clearly. Gao Quan was incredibly skilled, and on his first battlefield, he killed so many devils. His words and actions also showed a strong military demeanor. Now was not the time for casual talk, now they were in the midst of battle, any small problem could be very serious.
"Reporting to the superior, my family is in the suburbs of Fengtian, and all the people at home were killed by the enemy's plane. I thought of going to the interior to make a living, and tonight I plan to enter the pass overnight. In the past, I was a soldier under Generalissimo, and served as a company commander."
"Haven't you read books before?" Liu Ru Ming was apparently interested in this tall and majestic man, and started chatting with him casually.
"Report to the superior, when I was young, I studied in a private school, after joining the army, I attended Fengtian Military Academy." All of these were thought out by Gaoquan on his way here. Since he wanted to make it in this era, of course, he had to have a background. With hundreds of thousands of Northeastern Army troops withdrawing into the pass, how many people would recognize a small regimental commander?
He has been to the lecture hall of martial arts, it can be seen that he is a promising officer in the Northeast Army, and has also fought battles. He has national and family enmity with the little devils, and today he personally killed nine devils, which is exactly what Liu Ruming's troops lack - an officer candidate.
"Now I'm resigned to my fate, as the platoon leader of the 153rd regiment, 3rd battalion, 2nd brigade, 2nd division of the National Revolutionary Army." Although Gao Quan was previously a company commander, he still had to start from the lowest level of platoon leader. Liu Ruming used to be the commander-in-chief of the 5th Route Army, and now he's not even a division commander?
"Yes, sir!" Liu Ruming from Gaquan Township saluted and immediately got into character, starting to refer to himself as "your subordinate". In fact, he didn't really care about being a squad leader or company commander; in this passionate and turbulent era of war, what was most real was killing the enemy.
"Brothers, you're all exhausted from the whole night's work. Go down and take a rest first." Unexpectedly receiving a powerful general, Liu Zuming was very pleased and immediately gave these dozens of people half a day off to let everyone go down and rest for now, preparing for another battle.
"Line up, these are the remaining people." Wang Dazhu led a thin soldier to Gao Quan. It turned out that they were the people in Gao Quan's squad.
Looking at the two subordinates in front of him, Gao Quan was speechless for a moment. Is this what they call a company commander? Even a deputy squad leader has more men under his command! Fortunately, his main goal is not to hold office, so it doesn't matter how many people are under him. "Alright, you two go find a place to rest," Gao Quan said with a wave of his hand, then sat down against the Great Wall's parapet, he was indeed a bit tired and planned to take a short nap. The devils won't give up, Luo Wenyu's battle will last for several days, who knows when the little devils will launch an attack, so it's best to catch some sleep while there's still time.
There were only three people in the whole row, and Wang Dazhu sat down next to them with their new squad leader.
"Take one." Wang Dazhu rummaged through his pocket for half a day, pulled out a pack of cigarettes, took out a few and handed one to Gao Quan. Gao Quan looked at Wang Dazhu in surprise, looked down at the cigarette and laughed - it was a Japanese cigarette, probably something this kid had picked up from some Japanese soldier's body when they were cleaning up after the battle.
He lit a fire, took a fierce drag, and a wave of fragrant smoke swirled around his lungs before slowly drifting out through his nostrils, his eyes narrowing in satisfaction.
Just as they were dozing off, a loud explosion suddenly shook them awake. Wang Dazhu and Qian Sihao opened their eyes and tried to get up, but Gao Quan quickly reached out to stop them. The devils are attacking again, now the enemy situation is unclear, if we rashly stand up, we might become targets for the Japanese army.
The bricks on the city wall that were blown up by the cannonballs kept falling down with a rattling sound. Gao's heart ached as he gritted his teeth, "Damn those little devils!" Our country's Great Wall has been through thousands of years of war and has been ravaged by flames, now it's being ruined again by these little devils, who knows what kind of state it will be left in!
"Big pillar, go and take the weapons and ammunition." Now three people have only two pistols and three big knives, how can they fight against the devils? Gao Quan has just arrived and is not familiar with everything here. The officers in the division only know the division commander, so it's more suitable to let Wang Dazhu go for this kind of task.
"Yes!" Wang Dazhu responded with a loud and clear "yes", then turned his head and ran away. Gao Quan poked his head out of the bunker to take a look, outside was dark, shell after shell flew over, dragging red lines behind them, in the distance, amidst the darkness, there were twinkling lights, seemingly a town, but Gao Quan knew that it was the devils who would launch an attack tonight.
