But then, something even more shocking happened to Wang Laomao and the others.
There was no further gunfire from the Japanese army. Instead, four puppet soldiers rushed out from the middle of the house in Hejiatun.
At this time, the Japanese army had occupied the three northeastern provinces for a short time, and the puppet army did not have any formal military uniforms. They all wore gray uniforms and looked no different from ordinary soldiers of the Northeast Army.
The four puppet soldiers rushed toward the mountain road with their rifles in hand. They were running with big strides, but they did not fire any shots.
"Oh my!" Wang Laomao exclaimed in surprise. What the hell is going on?
Aren’t these four puppet soldiers afraid of death?
But when Wang Laomao thought about it carefully, how could this be possible? If they were not afraid of death, why would they be puppet soldiers?
The puppet army was not stupid. How could they not imagine how many Northeast Army soldiers were watching them on this hillside!
Wang Laomao and his men saw that the four puppet soldiers quickly caught up with the civilians on the mountain road.
At this time, one of the three women shouted out, "You are not Japanese! You are also Han Chinese!"
To be honest, the people in Northeast China nowadays do not have a strong sense of national identity.
When the country is strong, its people are wise; when the country is weak, its people are foolish.
Only educated people know that we have a common home called China. Those three women are just ordinary housewives who probably can't even read or write.
But even though they could not read or write, they knew that we, the Gada people, were not in the same group as the Japanese dwarfs wearing big-toed shoes and holding rifles.
Chinese history is so long that even without written records, some things would be passed down from generation to generation, such as some spoken language and idioms, which contain some basic knowledge about how to be a good person and do things.
That’s why the woman shouted in desperation, “You are also Han Chinese!”
"Stop talking nonsense and come back with me!" Some puppet soldiers were already yelling.
At this moment, Wang Laomao suddenly had an idea and understood why these four puppet soldiers came out.
Then he stopped paying attention to the four puppet soldiers and looked towards the village. He saw the shadows of Japanese soldiers in the corner of the wall, the pigpen, and next to the unburned firewood pile.
"These four guys are the medicine!" Wang Laomao blurted out.
What is a medicine lead? A medicine lead is a bait.
Why didn’t the Japanese army chase them out but instead sent four puppet soldiers?
That was of course because the Japanese army knew that these deserters of the Northeast Army were hiding among the rocks on the hillside. If they rushed forward rashly, they would definitely be shot by the Northeast Army.
On the contrary, they only sent four puppet soldiers and let these four puppet soldiers capture those civilians.
So should the Northeast Army soldiers like him, hiding on the hillside, open fire? As long as they reveal their targets, the Japanese firepower will arrive immediately!
Wang Laomao shouted and continued to observe. At this time, he noticed that there were two Japanese soldiers squatting behind a wall. Each of the two Japanese soldiers was holding a short stick-like object in his hand and sticking it diagonally on the ground. There were two other Japanese soldiers squatting next to these two Japanese soldiers.
What was that? A small cannon? At that moment, Wang Laomao suddenly remembered the scene when Liu Guodong was killed.
At that time, there were several explosions in succession, directly exploding around Liu Guodong.
Now I think those explosions were not caused by mortar shells.
As a veteran, Wang Laomao certainly knows what it sounds like when a mortar shell explodes. The explosion of a mortar shell is definitely not as powerful as a cannon, so the sound when it explodes is actually not very loud.
However, the power of the bomb that killed Liu Guodong seemed to be less than that of the mortar shell.
Wang Laomao also knew that mortars had to be stuck diagonally on the ground when firing, and now the Japanese had also stuck two sticks diagonally on the ground. Considering Liu Guodong's death, he immediately confirmed that what the two Japanese were holding were not sticks at all, but two tubes, which were the Japanese army's small cannons!
"Damn it, I'm going to kill you today!" Wang Laomao cursed with gritted teeth, and then he called out, "Qian Chuan'er, you two fools, did you see those two Japanese soldiers with cannons at the village entrance? You must shoot them to death!"
The 14-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression began with the battle between the Northeast Army and the Japanese Army. It is really not Wang Laomao's fault. They gradually got to know the Japanese Army through many battles with the Japanese Army. At this time, Wang Laomao did not know that the small cannon used by the Japanese Army was the famous grenade launcher!
While Wang Laomao was speaking, the situation on the mountain road changed again.
The four puppet soldiers were forcing the three women to turn around and go down the mountain with guns, while the old man on the mountain road was scanning the hillside with his eyes.
Who is that old man looking at? Whom do you think you are looking at?
Even if Northeast Army soldiers like Wang Laomao hid behind the cracks in the rocks, they could see the old man, but couldn't the old man see them?
Whoever the old man looks at will blush!
Wang Laomao felt that the old man should curse loudly.
What was he cursing? "You little bastards, you're eating and drinking from Hejiatun, and now you're just watching the fun?"
At least put himself in the old man's shoes. Wang Laomao thinks that if he were that old man now, he would definitely curse like that!
But to Wang Laomao's surprise, the old man did not curse. It seemed that he just snorted, expressing some kind of disdain. Then he turned around abruptly and blocked the old lady from his family who was running up the mountain hand in hand with him!
Although the people on the mountain could not see the old man's expression, it did not prevent them from imagining his expression.
The skinny old man with a scruffy chin and wrinkled face puffed out his frail chest as if to say, "I'm a man. If you want to catch my old woman, you'll have to get past me first!"
There is naturally no word like "love" in the countryside nowadays, but when a man hides his beloved woman behind him, what else can this be but love?
No one knew how many defeated soldiers of the Northeast Army were watching this scene on the hillside.
They were truly defeated soldiers, and everyone wanted to escape, but because the Japanese army was chasing them too fast, they all hid on the hillside.
At this moment, the old man's behavior of protecting his wife once again aroused the blood in their bodies.
And what happened next was proof of this bloodiness.
With a "bang", a gunshot rang out! A puppet soldier who was bullying the old man was shot and fell down.
And at the moment the gunshot was heard, a new battle began.
Because there were so many scenes happening in the next moment, even though there was some time between the previous and next actions, the time was so short that it seemed as if many scenes appeared at the same time.
In scene one, the three puppet soldiers simply fell to the ground.
They were there to serve as bait, how could they not know that? Were they happy to come out and arrest civilians? No, they were forced out by the Japanese army at gunpoint.
Scene 2: People at the foot of the mountain started shooting up the mountain, and all the Japanese soldiers were shooting at one point. The place where the Japanese concentrated their fire was exactly where the gunshot was heard just now. It was a soldier from the Northeast who suddenly flashed out and shot the puppet army.
Scene three: The two Japanese soldiers at the exit of the village are holding a grenade launcher, and the two loaders next to them are stuffing the grenades in their hands into the launcher.
Scene four, with two gunshots, the two loaders fell down after being shot, and one of them happened to fall on the grenade below, directly crushing the grenade launcher!
Scene five: at least seven or eight Northeast Army firepower points were exposed on the hillside.
Some of the Northeast Army soldiers used rifles, such as some soldiers in Liu Guodong's company; some used box guns, such as Qian Chuan'er; and some used machine guns, such as Wang Laomao and Shang Zhen.
Scene six: in the rain of bullets and arrows, the old man was shot by the Japanese soldiers and fell down. The old lady knelt and crawled to the old man. She just called out "old man" and then she was shot and fell on her lover!