In the Japanese prisoner of war camp.
Before the battle began, there was an undercurrent among the captives in the camp.
They saw hundreds of soldiers captured by the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army squeezed into a room of nearly 500 square meters like sardines. There was only one stove and six bunks in the huge room. The air was filled with a disgusting smell.
The treatment of the prisoners of war was extremely terrible. Each person was only given a canvas bag filled with grass as a mattress. The Japanese army also gave each prisoner a blanket, a Japanese pillow, which was a piece of cloth, and a pile of Buckwheat husks. The prisoners used them to fill the pillow.
Fortunately for these prisoners of war, the coldest days of the year had passed. Unfortunately for them, Jin Province was still cold at the end of February. Therefore, these captives could only huddle together and use each other's body temperature to keep warm. But even so, there were still people frozen to death and frostbite every day, and their only outcome was being dragged out of their rooms by Japanese soldiers and thrown into the nearby Longfeng River or buried directly.
If that was the case, it would be fine. The captives in the prisoner of war camp were often searched, robbed, insulted, humiliated, physically punished, beaten, frozen, deprived of food, confined, and many other torments. Some prisoners even ate rats and earthworms out of hunger, while others were beaten by the Japanese army with bamboo swords or sabers for fun. Under such a lifeless situation, the captives suffered from physical and mental cruelty. Other than the 500 captives who were sent in today, the other captives had suffered a lot of physical injuries. The more serious ones were so thin that they were practically skin and bones.
Under such circumstances, many people chose to surrender to the Japanese army and became puppet soldiers. Most of them were holding their breath and would rather die than surrender to the Japanese. There were also many people who were secretly planning to escape from the prisoner of war camp.
Wei Da Yong, also known as Monk Wei, was a national soldier who was being held in this camp tonight.
He came from Dengfeng, Henan Province. He had been a monk in Shaolin Temple for ten years and had practiced martial arts well. He was brave and fierce, and because he repeatedly fought outside the temple and violated the temple rules, he was kicked out of the mountain gate by the abbot monk. One of his brothers was a company commander in the army. He really had nowhere to go, so he joined his brother in 1938 to become a soldier. At least he had a future. Later, he joined the 27th Division of the Second Army and was captured by the Japanese army in the Battle of Zaoyi. He was then escorted to Taiyuan and sent to the Japanese prisoner of war camp in Jiexiu.
Although the Japanese prisoner-of-war camps were terrible, the Taiyuan 1st Army's prisoner-of-war camp was slightly better than the Jiexiu camp. When Monk Wei entered the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Jiexiu, he was immediately shocked by the terrible environment of the camp.
Late at night, he couldn't fall asleep because he had just arrived in a new environment. He opened his eyes and carefully observed the situation inside the prisoner of war camp. At this moment, a prisoner of war in a tattered military uniform sneaked over.
"Brother, where did you get this?"
"You are…"
"Can't sleep, can we chat?"
“... He was captured last year. He was locked up in Taiyuan before being sent here.”
"27th division? Wasn't this unit the Northwest Army?”
"I don't know. I only joined the army in 1938.”
"Oh ~~"
The prisoner of war from the Eighth Route Army chatted with Monk Wei for a while. After figuring out Monk Wei's character, he looked around sneakily. After making sure that there were no Japanese soldiers or spies around, he quietly said to Monk Wei,
"Brother, do you want to escape from here?”
"Yes... Hmm?"
"I have a comrade here who knows a little Japanese. He heard from the Japanese that the Japanese will pick a batch of captives from here tomorrow and send them to the Japanese as meat targets for assassination and shooting training.”
" Huh?!"
"We thought that if we stayed here, we would die anyway. Instead of dying like a coward, it was better to fight the Japanese!”
“……”
Monk Wei turned around and saw the prisoner's excited expression. His eyes seemed to be burning.
However, looking at the other party's current appearance, Monk Wei's intuition told him that this person should not be a fishing hook planted by the Japanese (or a spy planted to bait law enforcement).
Monk Wei knew that his brother was reliable, but he was still hesitant about the suggestion of this prisoner of war.
"Brother from the 8th Route Army, you are a man. I, Wei Da Yong, admire you very much. But... Before I came in, I observed that there was at least a squadron of Japanese in this camp. We don't have a good chance of winning if we fight the Japanese.”
"That's still better than dying here like a coward!”
The prisoner of war from the Eighth Route Army said firmly. Monk Wei immediately dispelled his hesitation. He gritted his teeth and said,
"Alright, I'll do it with you. Do you have any plans?"
"Come with me."
As he spoke, the prisoner of war crawled up from the ground and brought Monk Wei to a corner of the room. There were dozens of prisoners of war from the Eighth Route Army and the National Army pretending to be asleep. When they heard the commotion, they opened their eyes at the same time, giving Monk Wei a fright.
Then, he saw one of the 8th Route Army prisoners and one of the national army prisoners sit up and shout at the captives,"
"Brothers! Rather than sitting and dying, it was better to die standing! The Japanese might attack us tomorrow. We have to fight them no matter what! Everyone, just look for something in the room. Bricks, stones, wooden sticks, anything will do. We'll do it here!”
"Battalion Commander, and the commander of the Eighth Route Army, should we attack here?”
When a national prisoner of war heard this, he couldn't help but reveal a bewildered expression. The battalion commander gritted his teeth and said,"
"Let's do it here! Later, we will pretend to be fighting. The rest of you will blend into the crowd and quietly approach the Japanese who walk in. Then, you will launch a sneak attack on them and snatch the Japanese's guns and grenades.
Then, Captain Wang, take the 8th Route Army to attack the Japanese's dormitory and snatch some weapons. I'll take the brothers of the national army to attack the wall. There is a wall in the backyard. When I was working for the Japanese, I found a crack in the wall. I even deliberately destroyed a part of it. As long as we can rush to that wall, we can break it down with just one kick. Then, we can escape from the backyard and run along the Dragon-Phoenix River to Taiyue Mountain!”
"Battalion Commander Duan, isn't this too dangerous?”
Hearing the arrangement of the national battalion commander, the prisoner of war called Captain Wang was stunned for a moment and then said excitedly,
"There is a Japanese watchtower on the wall in the backyard. There are also two Japanese machine guns on the watchtower. If you charge over, the sacrifices will not be small. Why don't we let the Eighth Route Army..."
"No need to say anymore, Captain Wang!"
Facing Captain Wang's advice, the battalion commander shook his head and gritted his teeth,"
"Our mission is dangerous, and so is yours. We don't know what's going on in the Japanese's dormitory. You still have to attract the attention of the Japanese for us. The danger is no less than ours. The task of attacking the Japanese's machine guns should be left to our brothers in the national army.”
P.S. The plot of the TV series was actually quite ridiculous. If Monk Wei was really captured during the Battle of Xinkou in 1937, how could he still be locked up in the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in 1940? Did he really think that the survival rate of the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp was very high?
In addition, Zhao Gang said that Monk Wei was from the 72nd Division of the Central Army, which was also wrong because the 72nd Division was under the name of the Jinsui Army. After the Battle of Xinkou in 1937, it was reorganized into the 86th Division. On the contrary, the introduction of Monk Wei's appearance in the TV series was more reliable. Because the 27th Division was transferred from the Northwest Army to the Central Army during the Central Plains War and was stationed in Henan, the setting of Monk Wei was modified here.
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