Chapter 1974 A Night Walk for Two
"Are you in Gaha?" When there was a rustling sound in the dark night, someone on the mountain road asked quietly.
"I changed my shoes. The shoes I have are too tight." Another person answered quietly.
The questioner was Hou Kanshan.
The answerer was Jiao Fenghe.
When people in later generations watch movies made just after liberation, they will think, how could people be so simple at that time? It's not black or white, and love and hate are clear!
In fact, people in that era were really like this.
War can make the positions and emotions of most ordinary people simple.
If you are on the Chinese side, then fight against Japan together. If you are not on the Chinese side, then you are a traitor!
If you can't make your position clear at the critical moment and act like a fence-sitter or a rat, then it is very likely that your worthless life will be gone immediately!
Yes, it is a worthless life. Everyone will cherish their own life, but in the eyes of others, your life is not valuable because you have seen too many dead people!
Jiao Fenghe saved his life from the many puppet soldiers who were shot by the Japanese machine guns by his late realization. Then, he used the four grenades he had seized to repel the attack of the Japanese army below. After dark, he finally reached the top of the mountain.
Hou Kanshan finally found a fellow who dared to pretend to be a Japanese devil and get into the pile of dead bodies. Jiao Fenghe had no choice but to become his partner.
Now, Shang Zhen had been down from the top of the mountain for more than an hour, and the two of them also went down the mountain according to Shang Zhen's arrangement in advance.
The pair of shoes that Jiao Fenghe originally wore were taken off the feet of the Japanese soldiers. People are afraid of wearing small shoes. Now that he has another chance to go down the mountain, he naturally has to find a big pair for himself on the corpses.
But the shoes are not so easy to find.
The reason is that Hou Kanshan and Jiao Fenghe are still wearing Japanese military uniforms, so he has to continue to look for Japanese shoes!
Otherwise, he was wearing the yellow leather shoes of the Japanese devils but a pair of ordinary people's thousand-layer soles. Once he encountered a situation, wouldn't he be exposed as a Japanese devil?
"Hey, I told you to hurry up!" Hou Kanshan was thinking about meeting Shang Zhen, so he naturally urged him.
"I don't look as ugly as you!" Jiao Fenghe muttered, and Hou Kanshan didn't say anything.
Hou Kanshan was not tall, although he was not as short as the average Japanese soldier, but when he pretended to be a Japanese soldier, the big-headed shoes of the Japanese devils were always easier to find.
After Jiao Fenghe went up the mountain, he had obtained the consent of the district team members to change into the shoes of the soldiers of the district team who had died, but Hou Kanshan said, what are you changing? You still have to pretend to be a Japanese devil!
Jiao Fenghe said, the pair of Japanese devil shoes I am wearing now is too small and squeezes my feet!
Hou Kanshan said, when you go down the mountain with me, you can pick a bigger pair from the Japanese soldiers.
Jiao Fenghe's shoes were not changed.
Hou Kanshan had promised Jiao Fenghe to change his shoes, but now he was urged to hurry up. Jiao Fenghe was not happy. Whoever wore shoes on his feet would feel uncomfortable, especially when he was walking on a mountain road. His feet would be squeezed and hurt when he moved!
The rustling sound was heard again in the darkness, and this time Hou Kanshan helped Jiao Fenghe find shoes.
After more than ten minutes, Hou Kanshan finally found a pair of larger big-toed shoes for Jiao Fenghe to change into.
"How is it?" Hou Kanshan asked.
"It's okay, much better than the original pair." Jiao Fenghe replied.
After changing their shoes, the two of them carefully moved down the mountain again.
However, although they were careful, they did not climb down as cautiously as Shang Zhen did before. The reason was of course that Shang Zhen had cleared the "roadblocks" for them.
In Shang Zhen's entire breakout plan, clearing the few Japanese troops on both sides of the road must be done in advance, otherwise they have to force a breakthrough.
But everyone on the mountain knows that if they force a breakthrough, let alone the thirty or so people left on the mountain, even if there are hundreds of people, it will not be enough for the Japanese to shoot with guns, because they have moved all the cannons to deal with them!
So the correct way is for Shang Zhen to clear the Japanese sentries, and wait until after midnight, taking advantage of the paralysis and fatigue of the Japanese troops at the foot of the mountain, so that the remaining people can break out of the encirclement.
Hou Kanshan estimated that he and Jiao Fenghe had walked down for nearly a hundred meters, and then he took out a small stone from his pocket and threw it forward.
The stone hit the stone on the side of the road and made a "dang" sound.
This sound was actually not very loud, but it also depends on when it happened. In this quiet night, Jiao Fenghe felt that the sound was so harsh, not inferior to the sound of bullets hitting flesh when he was hiding in a pile of dead bodies.
Jiao Fenghe quickly took out the box gun hidden in his waist and loaded it, looking vigilantly at the dark night around him.
Jiao Fenghe didn't know much about Shang Zhen and the others. Not to mention that he didn't think Shang Zhen would be able to kill those Japanese soldiers, even if Shang Zhen was fine, what if there were some Japanese soldiers who slipped through the net?
Fortunately, after the stone hit the stone, there was no other movement around.
"Don't put your finger on the trigger." Hou Kanshan seemed to see Jiao Feng's actions and whispered in the night.
"No." Jiao Fenghe answered, but he moved his finger on the trigger to the guard ring outside the box gun trigger.
"You have to throw two more pieces." Hou Kanshan's words startled Jiao Fenghe again.
Then Hou Kanshan really threw two more stones, but in the dark night, the two stones did not bring any response.
"It's not here, let's keep going." Hou Kanshan said.
Jiao Fenghe silently turned off the safety of the box gun and followed Hou Kanshan to move forward.
When the two carefully stepped over a body that was not sure whether it was a Japanese soldier or a puppet soldier, Jiao Fengsheng asked in a low voice: "What if there are Japanese soldiers that your battalion commander missed?"
"You are a veteran, right?" Hou Kanshan asked instead of answering.
"Yes." Jiao Fenghe replied.
"Have you killed anyone? Before, I mean, have you killed anyone before this time?" Hou Kanshan asked again.
"Killed." Jiao Fenghe responded, and then added, "Not ordinary people."
"If you have killed someone, you should know that no one can be 100% sure? How can you fight if you are afraid of wolves in front and tigers behind? You have to accept your fate in everything!" Hou Kanshan made a formal response.
Jiao Fenghe was silent.
The two continued to descend, and after walking forward for more than 20 meters, Hou Kanshan began to throw stones in front again, but still received no response.
Jiao Fenghe was no longer as nervous as before, but became mixed with joy and sorrow.
The good news was that the stones made a loud noise, but no Japanese soldiers appeared. The Japanese soldiers hiding in the lower half of the mountain road during the day could not have withdrawn on their own initiative, which could only mean that they were killed by Shang Zhen.
But Shang Zhen did not respond, why?
Did Shang Zhen die together with the Japanese devils?
After all, Jiao Fenghe had just been with the people in Shang Zhen's camp. It can be considered that he needed to protect himself. When he really broke out, whether he would join Shang Zhen's camp was still an ambiguous matter, so naturally he could not talk about any friendship with Shang Zhen and his people.
Despite this, he quickly dispelled this idea, which was somewhat vicious.