Shang Zhen and all the others felt very aggrieved.
Everyone has had this experience to some extent: when encountering an urgent matter, they will temporarily forget about tiredness and their body will not feel very tired, but after finishing the work, they will only feel more tired.
And if you do this again and again, the last thing you can describe is - physical exhaustion.
Now Shang Zhen and his group are a little exhausted.
Compared with physical exhaustion, the bigger blow to them was psychological. They originally wanted to seek reinforcements, but ended up becoming reinforcements for others.
It would have been fine if they had just been reinforcements for others, but they chose to shoot, and by shooting they were exposed.
They could only clean up the battlefield roughly and started to move with the three new companions who had just been rescued.
Where to move? Of course, move in another direction, as far away from the place where the gunfire was heard as possible.
After another breathless march, Wang Laomao finally said, "I can't do it anymore. Let's find a place to rest!"
After people are over 40, their physical condition begins to decline. Wang Laomao is finally no longer young. He knows that his current physical strength can no longer compare with those young people around him.
Ten minutes later, they hid in the woods on a hill.
When everyone calmed down, Wang Laomao asked Jin Chengyu, "When did you run away from the county town?"
Jin Chengyu was one of the three soldiers they rescued.
"We ran out before dawn this morning. A platoon of us ran out, and the three of us got separated from the others." Jin Chengyu replied.
Wang Laomao nodded and said "Oh". He was about to ask what the situation was like in Ningyuan City, but there was no need for him to ask because Jin Chengyu had already told him.
"Our regiment surrendered. We ran away because we didn't want to surrender!" Jin Chengyu's words made Shang Zhen and other scattered soldiers who were lying, sitting or reclining straighten their backs involuntarily. Everyone looked at Jin Chengyu with eyes full of disbelief and shock!
In an instant, the scene became deathly silent.
"Why aren't you from our regiment? Or are you our reinforcements?" Jin Chengyu asked after a while.
But what Jin Chengyu got in response was a chorus of vulgar language that is unique to the people of Northeast China and even the whole of China nowadays, "Fuck!" Someone even slammed the butt of his rifle against a tree, which was a tiger pillar.
Then the discussions began. Although there were only a dozen or so people, it was like a flock of sparrows chirping in the sky, and the discussions were naturally full of angry words.
Anyone would be angry about this matter!
Even Shang Zhen, who is usually quiet, is now mumbling something.
Although they knew that many troops must have surrendered to the Japanese army after the fall of the three northeastern provinces, this was the first time Shang Zhen had encountered an entire regiment surrendering to the Japanese army right in front of them.
"Why do you want to surrender?" Shang Zhen suddenly burst out and asked loudly.
Shang Zhen was so excited that he said the wrong thing. In fact, to be precise, Shang Zhen should have said "Why should they surrender?" instead of "Why do you surrender?"
After all, Jin Chengyu and the other three escaped because they refused to surrender, but Shang Zhen had forgotten this detail because he was so excited.
Moreover, Shang Zhen's question did not require Jin Chengyu to answer at all, so he continued to question him.
"There were only about 10 of us, but we refused to surrender. We had no weapons, so we stole from the Japanese!
We faced Japanese who were 10 times more numerous than us, but we still tried to escape. We were defeated, and Qian Chuan'er and his men were also defeated!
My third brother is gone, and Mr. Huo is also gone in order to protect us!
You are from the same regiment, why do you want to surrender?
The Japanese killed so many of our civilians. If you surrender, will you also follow suit and kill civilians?
We were the cannon fodder, and we made it out, so why can't your people make it out?"
Shang Zhen was so angry, and his questions were so excited and a little incoherent that they left Jin Chengyu and the other three dumbfounded!
Shang Zhen's question undoubtedly represents the voice of Shang Zhen and his companions.
"Yes, yes, you must give us an explanation! Why did we fight desperately outside to save you, but you surrendered?" The outspoken Erhanzi also echoed.
Jin Chengyu felt aggrieved. He thought to himself, I don’t want to surrender. If I wanted to surrender, why would I run out?
But given the situation, no one would let him open his mouth to speak. Qian Chuan'er, however, remained calm. He pulled Shang Zhen aside and whispered, "You're wrong, you're wrong. They're not surrendering!"
Qian Chuan'er's words undoubtedly reminded Shang Zhen, and he realized that he had mistaken his target due to his emotional excitement.
Shang Zhen wanted to say something else, but he opened his mouth and stammered, finally swallowing back what he wanted to say next.
Then, Shang Zhen turned around abruptly and walked to the edge of the woods. He was going to stand guard, as he knew he had lost his composure.
The temperament of people from the Northeast is that those who speak their mind can be as sharp as swords, but those who are taciturn can also speak with venomous intent when they explode. Shang Zhen is also from the Northeast.
Shang Zhen went aside, and the people in the woods were silent for a while. Then Wang Laomao asked Jin Chengyu and the other three people and learned about the situation in Ningyuan City.
The Japanese army bombarded Ningyuan City with infantry artillery. The regiment commander Lin Cheng... saw that the Japanese army had used artillery and was worried that they would be destroyed along with the city, so he led his regiment to break out in the early morning, but they were ambushed by the Japanese army.
Their regiment lost most of its men and finally rushed back to Ningyuan City. The Japanese army urged the puppet army to continue attacking the city. Finally, their regiment ran out of ammunition and food. Under the persuasion of the puppet army, the regiment commander Liu Cheng chose to surrender.
But people are like this, some are willing to surrender, and some are unwilling to surrender. The company commander of Jin Chengyu's company did not want to surrender, so he led his company out of the city, but in the end only Jin Chengyu's platoon escaped.
During the Japanese army's pursuit, Jin Chengyu and the other three were separated from their platoon and were captured by the Japanese army.
As a result, the three of them happened to run into Shang Zhen and his group of stragglers and managed to escape from the clutches of the enemy.
Jin Chengyu and the other three originally thought that Shang Zhen and his men were reinforcements coming from Suizhou, but after asking, they found out that Shang Zhen and his men were the remnants of the defeated soldiers who arrived at their Ningyuan City a few days ago.
From this perspective, Jin Chengyu and the other three are now exactly the same as Shang Zhen and his men, all of them are remnants of the defeated army.
Shang Zhen and his troops were wiped out in battle, and Jin Chengyu and his troops were also wiped out, but those who were not killed in the battle surrendered.
When both parties finally figured out each other's identities, there was silence again, and then Qin Chuan suddenly spoke.
Just when everyone thought Qin Chuan would start his speech with the exclamation "This is fucking" often used by people in Northeast China, unexpectedly, Qin Chuan also said: "Everyone, stop making those silly faces. Aren't we still alive? Come on, let me tell you a joke."
No one agreed with Qin Chuan's words. No one was in the mood to do so. Qin Chuan obviously knew this, but he continued talking to himself.
"A long time ago, there was a man who lived a very poor life. One time, he needed money urgently and went to find his porter." Qin Chuan said, "But when he arrived at the porter's house, he found that the porter's family was even poorer than his!
He went to a porter to borrow money, but in the end, not only did he not borrow a penny, but the porter also took away the last few coins in his pocket!
The settlement was over, and he kept silent.
Hu Zhuzi thought about it, and he finally felt that he understood the meaning of Qin Chuan's joke, so he grinned and laughed out loud twice.
He looked around and no one was laughing, not even Erhanzi.
"What the hell are you talking about? It's not funny at all!" In the end, only Wang Laomao was angry.
Ma Tianfang, who always had a good relationship with Qin Chuan, said, "Are you the only one who's smart?"
Yes, in everyone's opinion, the joke Qin Chuan told was not funny at all.
He was just using this joke to mock these scattered and defeated soldiers.
They were counting on reinforcements just like the man who went to borrow money. As a result, they didn't find any reinforcements, but instead helped Jin Chengyu and the other three. This was like borrowing money but ended up taking money out of their own pockets.
His so-called joke was so fitting and vivid, like adding salt to an already wounded body. How could anyone be in a good mood?