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Chapter 27 "Bomb Disposal Expert" Part Two

I couldn't see them because I was hiding in the tunnel.

But their voices can be heard.

Two of them were still panting.

"Can Lao Chen still be saved?"

"I fainted and the bleeding finally stopped."

"He's half dead. Let's put him down here. We don't have a doctor, so we have no chance to take him away."

"No, how can we sacrifice our comrades for the revolution?"

"Comrade Xiao Wang, you are wrong. It is precisely because of the revolution that appropriate sacrifices are worth it."

"Comrade Lao Jin, you can't say that. Wasn't Comrade Lao Chen bombed like this just to let us avoid the landmines?"

"Okay, you two don't say a word. Let's count the votes. Not counting the fainted old Chen, there are exactly five of us here. We must vote, that's all.

. . .

I was motionless in the tunnel.

Five people?

I thought about what they said.

No, it should be six.

There is also an injured Lao Chen.

If they speak Chinese, they must be Chinese.

But now that the war is in chaos and I don’t know the opponent’s purpose, I don’t dare to act rashly.

Now in the tunnel, I have two guns and some bullets.

The number of bullets is enough to kill them, but it is impossible for me to kill five people at the same time.

Thinking if they were bandits on the run.

When they discovered it, he fought with them.

. . .

"Raise your hands if you agree to take Comrade Chen away."

"Two votes."

"Raise your hands if you agree to put Comrade Chen here."

"Three votes."

"Then leave Lao Chen here, he is already unconscious. We will leave early tomorrow morning to clear the way for the troops."

"Well, there was a bit of light when I first came in. I saw meat drying on the door shelf, and there was no one here. Let's take it down and eat it. We haven't eaten for more than a day."

"Comrade Xiao Wang, you made another stupid mistake. No one here said that everyone was killed by the Japs. There was meat hanging at the door, but the Japs didn't destroy it. That means the meat was put there intentionally by the Japs. It must be poisonous."

"Comrade Lao Jin is right, I almost believed the devil's plot."

"Okay, okay. Have a night's rest and take turns to keep vigil. Tomorrow morning we will continue to explore the road and find an area without mines to go back to. This will allow our supplies to be used on the battlefield to the west and hit Beiping City."

. . .

Fighting Peiping?Supply lines?
What do these people want to do?

And landmines?

Could it be that he was referring to the area where the Japanese buried things?
So are these people rebels?
Looking for an area free of minefields?

I thought about waiting, wondering what they were going to do with the injured person.

. . .

"Well, I'm so hungry."

"Can't eat, we can't have any more casualties."

"Why don't you let Lao Chen eat it first? If he is not poisoned to death, we will eat it?"

"Go and see if Old Chen is still alive?"

"I... still have a voice. I heard your vote. For the sake of the revolution, I... have already realized that I will die. Just let me test the poison for you, and at least I will die... I am a full-blooded ghost."

"Is Comrade Chen very enlightened? Xiao Wang, go ahead. There is a pot here, bring water and dried meat and find a place far away to make a fire to make soup. There can be no open fire here, it will expose our position." Lao Jin said .

. . .

I'm already confused.

If you let your own people go out and light a fire, doesn't that mean your position is exposed?

If it gets hotter, people on high-rise buildings will know about it immediately.

The Japanese came down to arrest people, but they didn’t know how they were going to die.

I immediately crawled out of the tunnel and shouted, "Wait a minute."

Suddenly six people were startled by me.

I also saw their appearance clearly.

One of them reacted and raised his gun and aimed it at me.

I immediately put down the gun on my cell phone and raised my hand.

"Japanese clothes." Xiao Wang said.

"Don't shoot, I'm Chinese. Look at what I say, will the Japanese say it?" I shouted.

"Then why are you wearing Japanese clothes?" Lao Jin said.

"Here, if you want to survive here, can you do it without wearing this?" I said.

The crowd did not speak.

I watched one of them lower his gun slightly.

I immediately said: "I know you are hungry, but you can't go out and light a fire."

"We are hungry, what can you do if we don't light a fire?"

"I didn't say no, it's just that you can't do it outdoors. You Japanese can clearly see it from the high platform, and someone will come over immediately. No matter how far you go, if you catch one, there will definitely be a large area search," I said. .

"But we are hungry."

"This is my home, and the meat in your hands is also the meat I hunted. I can make you full, and you need to trust me." I said calmly.

The five people were stunned.

Instead, Old Chen, who was dying on the ground, said: "Let's vote."

Xiao Wang was the first to react. He raised his hand holding the meat and said, "I agree."

"After all, he is an outsider and I don't trust him."

"He was wearing Japs clothes and holding a Japs gun. He must have killed Japs and snatched them from Japs. I believe him, what about you?"

"Who can you trust if you don't trust him now? Raise your hands."

"Those who believe in it raise their hands." After five votes, even the dying old Chen on the ground raised his hand.

Xiao Wang slowly stepped forward and served the bacon.

I said, "The flint on the table."

Lao Jin immediately handed it over.

"What are you going to do?" Xiao Wang said.

"Yes, the fire in the house is uncontrollable." Lao Jin said.

I smiled bitterly and said, "I want to have some kangtou."

I had long ago forced the chimney closed with bricks.

This is one of my secrets to cooking without being discovered.

Then he picked up the flint and struck it.

Once, twice.

The kang under the bed was lit.

The wooden blocks were previously filled.

Then I laid down a layer of pebbles.

Because the chimney was blocked, smoke filled the house.

The person who was already doubtful said, "What? Are you trying to kill someone? The smoke is so choking."

I said helplessly: "If we don't block the chimney, this little smoke will definitely be discovered."

Helpless, everyone could only choose to remain silent.

Even Lao Chen, who was dying on the ground, just covered his nose and did not dare to say a word.

I said slowly: "Why are you here?"

No one answered me, so I smiled bitterly and shook my head.

Time passed by minute by minute, and the kang head was burning brightly.

Then he got up and got the pot, and used tongs to pick out the red-hot pebbles one by one.

The kang was buried with soil, and the pebbles were stir-fried in the iron pot, and the aroma was fragrant.

Everyone looked straight at the pot.

I placed the pot in the middle and said, "Eat slowly, be careful of the stones getting hot."

Before I could say anything, everyone immediately reached into the pot to grab the piece of meat.

Xiao Wang was so burned that he almost screamed, but for safety reasons he covered his mouth with his hands and held back.

I said again: "What is your purpose here?"

The dying old Chen took the meat handed to him by the person next to him, took a bite and said, "In order to find a channel to supply supplies to the Red Army on the front line."

"What do you mean by the Red Army? What supplies?" I asked.

"The Red Army is fighting the Japanese, but there are landmines here. If it weren't for the landmines, we wouldn't be like this." Lao Chen said with difficulty.

"You haven't made it clear yet. Are you going to fight the Japanese? Why do you plan to become the Red Army?" I asked again.

"It is the anti-Japanese army. We call ourselves the Red Army. We call each other comrades. You are helping us like this. You are also our good comrades, right." Xiao Wang said.

"I don't understand these things, but I know you want to fight the Japanese." I said.

Everyone nodded firmly.

I smiled bitterly and said, "Are the landmines you are talking about something that will explode when buried on the ground?"

Xiao Wang nodded his head again and said: "Yes, you damn devil. Mines have been laid in important places so that we can't pass easily. Isn't that true? Although the front line is not far from here, there are mines outside Beiping City. ah."

I bent down and searched in the tunnel, took out the metal block in my hand and said, "Is this the mine you are talking about?"

"It will explode, what are you doing with it?" Xiao Wang shouted in fear.

Xiao Wang then realized his mistake and covered his mouth.

I immediately said: "This has been dismantled and will not explode."

The young man next to Xiao Wang immediately said: "Can you defuse landmines?"

I thought for a moment and nodded, even though I had only seen the Japanese dismantle it once.

But I have been studying the mine in my hand for a long time.

"Great." Xiao Wang smiled happily.

. . . . .

In the early morning of the next day, the two stayed to take care of the seriously injured Lao Chen.

Xiao Wang and Lao Jin took me outside the city.

I threw one of the mines in front of them and cut it in a cross-section with my bayonet.

and placed decommissioned mines in front of them.

Xiao Wang and Lao Jin were so happy.

After spending half a day, I was taken to a camp full of Chinese people.

They call themselves the Red Army.

I met the regimental commander.

After Xiao Wang had a conversation with him.

The regiment commander walked over quickly, looked at me and said, "My surname is Jiang. I heard you know how to defuse bombs?"

bomb?It's a landmine.I nodded and handed over the dismantled mine.

Then Commander Chiang Kai-shek smiled and made me a bomb disposal expert.

A month later, I broke out a supply line for the troops.

Lao Chen and two other comrades were also rescued.

Two months later, I followed the army commander from Peiping to Nanjing.

Commander Chiang Kai-shek was very kind to me and even gave me an official position.

He also asked me to study and asked newspapers to write a lot of reports for me.

However, Commander Chiang Kai-shek stayed in Nanjing, while I went to Shanghai.

That fight lasted for three months and was called the Battle of Songhu by later generations.

And from the first landmine in Peiping, I demolished it in one go until the day I died.

A total of 460 three pieces.

You asked for my name?

My name is Yang Jie.

(End of this chapter)