Chapter 26: The Shocking Truth About the Poisonous Wine - Yoshioka Yoshiko
Li Zhengxuan gave a silent smile, thumbs up to him, and crawled towards the next attack point. Liu Baoxin shook his head in distress, slowly pulled back his leg, and found that the pants on his leg were scratched by bullet marks, just a few millimeters away from being shot through. He made a gesture to the soldiers beside him and crawled towards another attack point.
The battle broke out five minutes later.
There was no cruelty as imagined, the devils were knocked down one by one after a charge. When Li Zhengxuan and Liu Baoxin led their men to inspect the battlefield, there were Japanese corpses everywhere, some of whom had been blown up with blood and flesh blurred, intestines scattered all over the ground. This was caused by the Japanese themselves detonating hand grenades, because Yang Jie's repeated warnings that this kind of suicidal attack would not cause much harm to the special forces. The soldiers also accumulated many valuable lessons in multiple battles and fully understood Yang Jie's order to leave no one alive. In addition to the defending Japanese, there were also some battlefield doctors, miscellaneous workers, etc., who were all killed. There were two Chinese civilians standing there, shaking and staring blankly at the soldiers moving around them, as if they were in a dream. They thought they would definitely die, but they never expected that their own people could be so fierce and defeat the devils so easily. The soldiers had already collected most of the spoils of war and were preparing to load them onto trucks. There were their own cars, as well as three captured from the devils. In addition to ammunition, there were also many medicines, medical equipment, horses, etc.
Li Zhengxuan's gaze was suddenly drawn to the crying sound from inside the tent, which was a young woman's cry. Seeing Li Zhengxuan's gloomy gaze, Yu Linzi's heart skipped a beat, he knew that his cousin hated Japanese devils the most and also knew that his orders were absolutely irresistible. But, but he really couldn't bring himself to do it.
The tent was dismantled, a pure and elegant Japanese woman knelt on the ground, trembling with sobs. Li Zhengxuan's face changed again and again, his hands slightly shaking, suddenly, the strong face twitched, and he turned around abruptly.
"Big brother," Yu Linzi knew Li Zhengxuan's next move was to turn around and shoot, he drew his gun quickly, ordinary people couldn't even react in time. "I know you hate the Japanese, I also know your sister..."
He hadn't even finished speaking when Li Zhengxuan slapped him to the ground with a loud slap, "Don't say another word! I'm just carrying out Captain's orders." Li Zhengxuan comforted himself lightly. Yang Jiong had indeed given an order not to leave any survivors, and it was an order he gave behind Chen Zhihao's back.
"But we are human, how can we be like beasts? Look at her, she's as small as Shuangshuang." Shuangshuang was Li Zhengxuan's younger sister, brutally killed by the Japanese Kwantung Army, a truly heartbreaking sight.
"Don't say that anymore!" Li Zhengxuan shouted loudly, kicking a stone at his feet into the air. His toes suddenly felt a sharp pain, but how could physical pain compare to the heartache of that drop of blood?
Liu Baoxin remained silent, as a leader he knew he shouldn't kill; as Li Zhengxuan's partner, he knew he couldn't stop him; more importantly, he knew Yang Jue's orders were being secretly executed in each unit. Although he knew the party's policy, every time he saw innocent civilians killed by the Japanese army, every time he heard about the elderly, women and children being ravaged by the Japanese army, his nerves, his heart, his blood would be stimulated by Yang Jue's orders: Kill! Kill! Kill! An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, blood for blood!
"Report!" A special warfare team member ran over, "The captain's order is to retreat and assemble in the Liu Miaozi area."
Li Zhengxuan gave the Japanese woman another cold glance, her face was extremely panicked, young and even childish, looking no more than sixteen years old. He wasn't the kind of person who pitied flowers and loved jade, but he also wasn't the kind of person who didn't distinguish between right and wrong, being brutal and unscrupulous. "Take her away, retreat!" Li Zhengxuan stopped speaking, took big strides to one side, looked up at the sky, as if someone above was talking to him. "Huizi, I...I really can't bring myself to do it, she's just like Shuangshuang, weak and innocent! Forgive me, forgive me for breaking my promise, I..." Big tears rolled down from this sturdy Northeastern man's face.
Suddenly, the entire battlefield seemed to fall into darkness in an instant. Everyone stopped what they were doing and quickly hid. The atmosphere became tense instantly. The bustling camp fell silent in an instant. Two civilians were dragged to the ground and pressed against a huge stone, gestured not to speak. A Japanese woman was held by two team members behind a car, with a handgun tightly pressed against her head.
Yoshiko Sakai was a clever and resourceful girl who entered the prestigious Sendai Medical Academy at the age of 16 to study nursing. Unfortunately, the war broke out, and she was swept away to mainland China without knowing what was happening. Along the way, her kind heart also vaguely sensed some wrongdoing, and from the mouths of wounded soldiers, she learned about the shameful deeds of Imperial Army men. But what could she do? When a soldier who was tired of the war confided in her, she felt terrified; when a soldier tried to assault her, she felt extremely frightened; when someone boasted about massacring Chinese civilians, she felt ashamed. She, a gentle and weak woman, a woman who took pride in rescuing and healing the wounded, had her own thoughts for the first time.
No matter how beautiful the lie is, it's still a lie. When she saw those Chinese people who were resisting to death being killed, her heart was shocked; when she saw the imperial soldiers being shot and killed, she was confused. This time coming to the front line, Yoshiko just wanted to escape from the hospital in the rear where there were perverted soldiers, almost every day there were nursing workers like her being raped, sometimes by more than a dozen people**. If it weren't for that military officer who looked very terrifying wanting her, she would have been done for long ago.
When she habitually looked around, fear occupied all of her in that instant. She was shocked to see many people holding guns jumping and running in the grass, on rocks, and behind trees! Obviously not imperial soldiers! Gunfire immediately rang out!
"Get down!" Those were the last words she heard from Professor Ono. Professor Ono was one of the people with the most imperial military demeanor that she had come into contact with, and also one of the people she respected the most. In a daze, she saw Professor Ono take out his gun and continuously fire at the people running outside. Then the tent was torn apart by a fierce barrage of bullets, Professor Ono's chest was riddled with bullets, and blood splattered all over the tent.
The gunfire stopped quickly. People with guns wearing colorful green clothes came in, and then there was a conversation that she couldn't understand.
When Li Zhengxuan appeared, she knew intuitively that she wouldn't die. But when the bustling battlefield suddenly fell silent, especially seeing people who were busy just a moment ago disappear into the grass in an instant, their speed and agility shocked Fangzi. With a gun pressed against her head, Fangzi wasn't afraid, which surprised herself too. A strong intuition told her that these people were good people, different from the Imperial soldiers.
Li Zhengxuan waved at Yu Linzi and quickly rushed towards the special warfare team that issued the warning.
Kawasaki looked at the mountain pass not far away, and earlier when chasing the enemy, he had not yet discovered the danger of this section of mountain road. Now, being in it, he found that this section of mountain road was actually a dead end. There was no retreat, no defense to speak of, but most dangerous was that there were no cover objects at all, flat like the dirt roads back home. The mountain pass was like the open mouth of a giant beast, empty and hollow, as if it would swallow everything at any moment. In front, scouting ahead, were his two old subordinates - Hiyoshi and Kotani. These two men were veterans who had been through life and death several times, with a unique understanding of survival on the battlefield, and a special sensitivity to danger. Looking at Hiyoshi and Kotani's appearance, Kawasaki waved his hand to the four people beside him, urging them to follow the two people in front.
