Chapter 2 Chapter 2 The Bleeding Yellow River

In the early hours of the morning, prepare to retreat.The fellow carefully checked Lao Dan's equipment, stuffed him with two raw sweet potatoes seized yesterday, and hung two grenades around his waist, saying: "If you are surrounded by devils, pull a grenade and blow it up together. It's better than being caught by devils, remember!" "..." "The next time you fight a devil, you have to be quick with your knife. You can't stab him with a knife like last time. Do you think he is a pig who is about to be knifed? You have to pick out some goods with one knife, and you can't do it if you don't see the water. Seeing a devil who is not seriously injured will still kill you!"

Lao Dan turned his head when he heard the sound, and saw the iron tower-like soldier walking towards him, and the big knife in his hand had already been cut.Lao Dan suddenly remembered that this was the hemp seed introduced by the fellow smoking a cigarette. The scouts ran back and reported to the villagers that the Japanese troops had already begun to attack the periphery of Kaifeng, and there were no Japanese troops to turn around in the southeast direction, but the Japanese troops added two battalions of troops in front of the position, with tanks and armored vehicles. Assemble on the field.

The fellow took out a comb and combed his hair, then handed the comb to Lao Dan.According to the plan agreed upon by Midnight and the other two company leaders, the fellow began to lead everyone to retreat.The platoon of Youmazi and the 3rd platoon of the 5th company were responsible for covering, and all the heavy weapons were left to them.The fellow gave an order, and the troops began to run quietly to the south. Before dawn, the wilderness is so dark that you can't see your fingers.The sharp-eyed Japanese outpost still noticed the movement here, and shells and flash bombs flew over immediately, and the night suddenly became day.Hundreds of soldiers ran wildly in the day-like dawn, and shells fell from time to time, dragging the unlucky soldiers into the darkness, and the firepower of the covering unit was quickly suppressed by the Japanese army.It really seemed to be haunted behind, and there was a rumbling vibration from the earth.Lao Dan looked back in horror, and saw three iron-clad monsters tearing through the darkness, rumbling straight towards them, plowing the ground, breathing fire, baring their teeth and claws, followed by a large group of devils with their waists bent.Lao Dan remembered that this was the tank that fellow villagers mentioned, and immediately ran like a wild dog whose tail was set on fire, wishing he could run away.All the mortar crews in Youmazi had been killed, and when the Devil tanks passed the trench, there was no movement of the blocking machine guns.

Under the artillery fire, the soldiers ran for five miles in a panic, and finally arrived at Chen Village by the river, and immediately began to build a second line of defense at the head of the village.Chen Village is a small village without people. The villagers have long since disappeared. It is built next to a river called Xiaoma River. On the opposite bank are the defensive positions of two reinforced battalions of the 37th Army.The fellow sent two people across the river to get in touch with the brother troops to get artillery reinforcements, and then directed everyone to go to the house to dig holes and set up roadblocks, waiting for You Mazi to lead the people back.

Lao Dan and fellow villagers lay on a large cool house at the entrance of the village.The dawn was really fast, and as far as the eye could see, the enemy tanks had run over the deep trenches and were chasing more than 80 brothers who were running desperately.Immediately after the tank came a large group of ghost cavalry, but the men were small and the horses were big, with their legs hanging in the air, like bandits riding a big mule.You Mazi held a machine gun and fired at the devils while running.The brothers fell one by one, and those who were still breathing struggled to stand up and shot at the devils.The chains of the devil tank rolled up the loess all over the sky, and ran over the dead or living brothers without any scruples, and the flesh and blood were caught in the chain and flew with the wheels.Some brothers were trampled beyond recognition by the devil's cavalry. One brother blew up the grenade on his body and blew himself and the devil to the sky.

Yau Mazi was shirtless and covered in blood, and he was walking with two wounded soldiers—he was almost carrying them to the entrance of the village.The living soldiers retreated into the entrance of the village.Seeing that the devil had entered the range, the fellow immediately ordered everyone to open fire.The devil cavalry next to the tank faced each other, and were hit by the rain of bullets swept from the height of the roof like wheat, and some were crushed under the chain of the tank with their men and horses.The tank probably slowed down for fear of an ambush, and began shelling the village houses here, and when the devil infantry followed up with howling, these iron guys pressed towards the village again with their gun barrels straight.

Everyone changed places while fighting.The Devil Tank was at a loss for a while, it couldn't get into the village, and it couldn't outflank it from behind, so it could only shoot flat from the barrel, bombarding these houses.The Japanese infantry who got in seemed to be very used to fighting in the village, and they immediately occupied a house, setting up machine guns on a high place and sweeping here.The villagers had already ordered the troops to start crossing the river. Everyone threw away everything they should throw away, and swam desperately to the other side of the river, which was more than 50 meters wide.Lao Dan saw Yaomazi surrounded by five Japanese soldiers, like a wild boar surrounded by a pack of wolves.The devil's bayonet pierced through his thick body, but the oily hemp seed stood still.A devil soldier was a little careless, and the oily hemp seed grabbed his neck, and before he died, he crushed the Japanese soldier's buttocks with his other big hand.The devil's bayonet opened his stomach, and the oily hempseed plummeted into the water and fell to the ground with a "thump".

Yau Mazi's original name was Zhuang Dayi, from Xuzhou, he was 28 years old, and it is said that he did not have a woman yet.He usually makes a living in the village by slaughtering pigs and breeding pigs, and occasionally helping others castrate horses and donkeys. He would never have imagined that the last skill would castrate a Japanese pig.The wish that Zhuang Dayi has been talking about is to meet a bunch of Japanese women, and let the Oriental women experience his pig-like stuff.Yesterday, while smoking and chatting, You Mazi also told Lao Dan that he was very curious about the widow in his village. Her man died in the Nanjing Defense War. Zhuang Dayi signed up to join the army in order to please her.

More than half of the brothers in charge of blocking had died, and the rest of the villagers were still fighting the devils.The devil's bayonets are still more powerful than the brothers' broadswords. They stab each other's horns well, and they don't panic even if they are surrounded.In contrast, the brothers in the national army are like a mob.The action of many people cutting people with a knife is like digging the ground with a hoe. The knife is pulled too far, and the force is too stupid. Often, the devil's bayonet penetrates their body before the knife is lowered.The brothers fell one by one, howling.The red-eyed Lao Dan also rushed into this group of scuffles, and as soon as he rushed in, he ran into a short and fat devil, his comrade who was still not dead on the ground.The comrade-in-arms howled and grabbed the bayonet stabbed in his stomach, but the devil tried his best to pull it out, but he couldn't pull it out.Lao Dan knocked him down with one shot, and then put the rest of the bullet into the chest of a devil charging towards him with a samurai sword, and then drew out his big sword and slashed at the devils who besieged the fellow villagers.

The fellow's thigh was bleeding profusely and had been pierced through.The corner of the mouth was also cut open to the cheeks by the bayonet, and the red flesh hung tremblingly on the face, and the tongue was exposed.To Lao Dan's surprise, the fellow's knife skills were still orderly and undisturbed, and several bloody devils had already fallen beside him.Seeing Lao Dan rushing over, the fellow repeated his stunt, grabbed the devil's bayonet and pulled it around, and threw the devil's ass in front of Lao Dan.Lao Dan raised the knife and fell, the back of the devil's head and hat were cut in half by him.The fellow from the other side opened another devil's jaw from bottom to top, and then cut off his head with a knife.

Seeing the blood on the knife, Lao Dan was a little excited when he saw the devil he had knocked down nervously flicking his legs, and wanted to chop other devils.The fellow grabbed him and motioned him to quickly retreat towards the river in the village.Lao Dan helped the seriously injured fellow, and ran stumblingly, half of his body was stained red with the fellow's blood.The fellow endured the severe pain of the wound, and shouted to the brothers inarticulately: "Cross the river quickly! Cross the river quickly!" The brothers immediately dropped their guns and knives, and ran away with all their might. On the other side of the river, there was a sudden rumble of artillery, and the brother troops began to bombard the Devils tanks and cavalry who had just squeezed into the village with heavy artillery.Not to be outdone, the heavy artillery of the Japanese army also followed to the edge of the village.Among the huge pillars of fire, the soldiers struggled and avoided, but many people were still blown to pieces.Lao Dan and fellow villagers finally reached the river, and they could hear the sound of shells colliding in the air on both sides.Lao Dan looked back in horror, only to see that the whole village was instantly razed to the ground by artillery fire right under his nose. The fellow pushed the dazed Lao Dan into the river.Lao Dan, who sank into the river, felt the tremor of the riverbed, and the river smelled like a dead person. The flames of the explosion that soared to the sky from the river bank illuminated the scattered dead brothers at the bottom of the river. They died in different ways. Most of them keep their eyes open.Lao Dan poked his head out of the river. Looking back, there were countless large bomb craters on the bank. The fellow and several other brothers had been bombed beyond recognition. It was vaguely visible that the fellow had been blown up without a head or a tail. The eye-catching blue satchel on his waist has been stained black by blood. The fellow died? The heroic, invincible fellow villager was torn apart in such an instant and disappeared without a trace.Lao Dan's sky collapsed!He couldn't even struggle in the water anymore, a few mouthfuls of river water filled with the smell of death poured into his stomach, suffocating him.He struggled to climb to the opposite bank, throwing up and shaking.Looking at the dead land in the distance, his tears and saliva flowed down to the ground along with the blood from the wound.Although death is no longer a stranger to him, does it still make him feel extremely frightened that the fellow he relied on so much has been wiped out like this?What will happen next?What should I do?This mixture of terrible uncertainty and helplessness was too much for him to bear.The idea of ​​escaping flashed into my mind like lightning, but this place was no longer Banzi Village, surrounded by densely packed troops, I might die faster if I walked this way.Lao Dan was finally dragged back to the trench by the river by his comrades.He hugged his numb body tightly, wanting to cry but couldn't.He didn't know how to cry, he didn't know whether to cry heart-piercingly for his fellow villagers, or howl loudly for something else?His throat was choked, and his whole body was trembling. His own blood and other people's blood were sticky on his skin, as if it was about to seep into his body again. He wiped it with his hands, but he couldn't wipe it off.Looking at his blood-red hands with hard scabs, Lao Dan felt a chill that penetrated his heart, as if he was naked in the strong wind of the ice field in the twelfth lunar month. Most of the brothers who came back alive sat listlessly in the trenches, as silent as Lao Dan, only a few soldiers were crying and calling their mothers.The brother troops brought some steamed buns and pickles, and then lit them with cigarettes, which was considered to comfort the bewildered group of tired soldiers. After half an hour of artillery fire from the two armies over the village, it finally subsided.The Japanese army did not seem to want to cross the river, and quickly withdrew their pursuit troops. Covered with a ragged blanket, Lao Dan quietly looked at the searchlight column that was slowly passing by in the sky.At the interface between the beam of light and the cloud, you can often see some familiar god-like faces, some like your own woman, some like the captain with a loud voice, some like a fat man with big ears, and some Like a honest and kind fellow.Lao Dan didn't dare to close his eyes, as soon as he closed his eyes, there would be killing sounds, blood and flesh flying everywhere, and he would experience the torment of blood and fire again.The battlefield in the middle of the night was quiet, there was no wind, no chirping of cicadas, no barking of dogs, only the groans of the wounded.Occasionally, there would be one or two clear and cold gunshots in the darkness, and Lao Dan would feel a cold war in his heart, God, I don't know which unlucky person has become a ghost in the underworld. In the middle of the night, Lao Dan suddenly remembered the comb from his hometown.He clearly remembered that the fellow always put it in the small blue satchel every time. The fellow used to comb his hair with it. At the beginning, Lao Dan was very uncomfortable, so the eldest daughter used this comb to comb her hair!But I got used to it later. When the dirty comb slid across my scalp, it felt like a woman scratching myself, or like the hand of my old lady who used to caress my head. It was this feeling that gave me the courage to step out of the trenches , picked up the steel gun.He couldn't sit still anymore, his body became hot, and seeing that everyone around him was asleep, he quietly left the trench.The river under the night looks particularly eerie, and there seem to be countless ghosts in it.He bravely slipped to the river, jumped over the barbed wire and obstacles on the river bank, checked that no one was around, and swam naked.The surface of the river was as dark as the night, and the river was still a little cold at night in May, which made Lao Dan's teeth grin and his dick shrink into a ball.He didn't dare to plunge his head into the river, for fear of seeing the swollen corpses below, or being caught by ghosts.Finally swam to the other side, and after a while, Lao Dan touched half of his fellow villager.He was still lying there quietly, already stiff and stiff, like the cabbage that he forgot to put in the house for three or nine days.Lao Dan carefully took off the satchel, opened it, took out the comb, felt it was intact, and it was still shining brightly in such a dark night.The devil's searchlight swayed over, and Lao Dan hurriedly fastened the bag on his waist, and swam back after regaining his energy. The sentinel by the river had long seen this naked man going back and forth between the two banks of the river. At first he thought he was a spy, but when he saw through the binoculars that he brought something back, he came over and pulled him ashore, and asked excitedly, "Steal something?" What good stuff did you get back?" Lao Dan was too cold to speak, showed them the comb, and put on his clothes tremblingly. "Brother's?" asked the sentinel. "It's from my hometown." "I guess it was given by his wife?" "My hometown doesn't have a wife yet." The fellow has never married a wife.People in their thirties who fought wars in their early teens, and every team's promise to demobilize and go home has been rubbish.According to Wang Ba, the fellow spent a few nights with a village girl during the Battle of Songhu, and didn't know her name or surname.Lao Dan recalled what his fellow villagers said, "If you are a little familiar, you can keep it, thinking about when to bring it home", but Lao Dan doesn't even know where his home is. Before going out to serve in the National Army, except for going to Cui'er's family in Shangbangzi Village, I never went out of Banzi Village within a radius of ten or twenty miles. After retreating from Chencun, Laodan's 5th company, 3rd company, 4th company, and 1st company left a total of more than 100 people. They were organized into a company and assigned to the 406th regiment of the 37th Army.This regiment was put together by several battered troops. It was neither full of members nor knew what the next mission was, and most of them were recruits with messy accents. At first glance, they were full of frightened eyes and thin bodies.The tall and tall Lao Dan became one of the veterans because of his legendary killing experience and combat experience. In addition, he had a life-and-death battle with a fellow respected by everyone. It was settled, and he reluctantly agreed to promote Lao Dan to be the deputy company commander of the new company, and his rank was vacant.Since they had honorably completed the task of defending Chencun, the officers of the regiment headquarters wanted to lift their spirits and set an example for this flagging army, so they notified the company to prepare for an award ceremony. Lao Dan accepted the award from the head of the regiment under the eyes of everyone trusting or doubting or envious or numb.He was a little at a loss, and he didn't quite understand why he was pinned on this small iron plate?The officer on the opposite side is tall and tall, with a pockmarked face, a pair of triangular eyes that are as sharp as knives, and the corners of his mouth are closed like iron gates. If he hadn't just spoken, it would make people think that those two lips were originally grow together. Head Mazi held up the medal to the soldiers, and everyone's eyes immediately looked at this shiny object, just like looking at the steamed buns in the hands of the government disaster relief team when they went to the countryside, or as if that thing was Made of gold, you can exchange hands for oceans.This unprecedented honor made Lao Dan terrified, neither daring to refuse nor accepting it.He only woke up when the medal was hung on his chest and the cold pin had pierced his flesh.When Lao Dan was in a daze, he forgot to call out the pain, and the team leader didn't know how deep it was, and even pinned a layer of flesh on his chest.Lao Dan was about to grab it with his hands, but seeing that the leader of Mazi was already saluting him to express his congratulations, he hurriedly endured the pain and raised his hand in return in a fluster, his movement and expression were like a monkey who got half of the master's rations. , which made the comrades laugh out loud, and a smile flashed across the head's face.Suddenly, the head of the regiment punched Lao Dan, and Lao Dan was caught off guard and fell down in response. "stand up!" The head of the regiment drooped his face and shouted loudly, that pockmarked face was stretched like winter window paper.Lao Dan hurriedly stood upright, his face flushed, and he smiled apologetically.The leader didn't smile, but took a few steps back and straightened his hat.His stern gaze swept over the heads of the crowd, and the audience fell silent immediately. "The soldiers of the party and the country, facing the dangers of the country, should not be afraid of hardships and dangers, not afraid of sacrifice, and go forward! I know that everyone has joined the army not long ago. I saw that many brothers were sacrificed overnight, and some of them didn't even see the devil. We all feel very sad when we die under the devil's plane! We don't want to fight, and we all hope to live in peace. But now, the devil has hit our doorstep, and now the fate of the country is our own destiny From now on, I ask everyone to be prepared to fight the enemy bravely and to sacrifice at any time! This is for us to drive out the Japanese devils, prevent the Japanese from massacring our wives and children, and prevent the Japanese from massacring our parents Brothers and sisters—the price that must be paid! The Japanese and I fought from outside the pass to the pass, from Shanghai to Nanjing, from Nanjing to Xuzhou, and from Xuzhou to here again. More than ten million of my brothers died? The battle of Nanjing, The 80,000 soldiers of the national army died heroically, and the more than 1,000 people in our regiment were almost wiped out, but I can still stand here, ready to die with the devils at any time! From the day we took up our guns and walked to the front line, we are soldiers of the party-state .Lao Dan is brave and fearless in killing the enemy. It is good and worth learning. But even so, Lao Dan is still not a qualified party-state soldier! Just now, don’t say that I just punched you, even if I gave you a knife, you are not allowed Fall down! Brothers, our enemy is the vicious Japanese devils, unless the devils step over our corpses, we will never fall before the devils, we will never yield to the devils!" Before he finished speaking, Captain Mazi took two steps forward, and slapped the still dazed Lao Dan twice across the face.It was as if a grenade had exploded in Lao Dan's head, his ears were buzzing, his eyes were full of gold stars, and he almost fell down again.Head Mazi took a brand new Japanese saber from the adjutant, held it in both hands and handed it to Lao Dan, saying: "I captured this from a devil officer and gave it to you. I hope you will fight the enemy bravely!" Lao Dan took the knife respectfully, calmed down, put it in his waist carefully, and solemnly saluted Head Mazi.The soldiers were greatly moved and saluted the regiment leader together.Head Mazi didn't speak any more, and strode away. Soon, the troops received an order to quickly withdraw from the defense line of the Xiaoma River, head south, and set off overnight on the bank of the Yellow River. In June, the land of the Central Plains was surrounded by dust and mist, lifeless.Thousands of refugees, old and young, used various means of transportation to march on the road to the south.Troops were also messed up with the refugees.People are ragged, panting, hoarse voices from dry throats, and filthy bodies stink in the hot June.From time to time, there were dead and dying people being carried out among the crowd. People stripped off their clothes and threw them naked by the side of the road.The rumble of guns behind him showed that the devils were attacking again.The army was unable to speed up the march due to the crowd of refugees, and the horns of the military vehicles that opened the way were honked to no avail. Suddenly, a terrifying sound of motors came from the sky. Lao Dan looked up and saw four enemy planes flying over at low altitude.The crowd immediately fell into a huge panic, leaving the main road one after another, and squeezed into the ditch on both sides. The ditch seemed to be flooded, and it was immediately full of layers of people.Lao Dan lay down under a tree, his limbs curled up into a ball, afraid that the devils on the plane would see him.Enemy planes began to straf along the road, and where machine gun bullets as thick as corn stalks swept, people, livestock, and carriages were all turned into fragments.A farmer who was driving a mule struggled to hide aside while leading his animal. A machine gun bullet cut him and the animal in half.Bullet marks have passed, blood is everywhere, and dead bodies are everywhere.A road ditch was caught by the devils, and several enemy planes strafed down the ditch. Limbs flew across the ditch in an instant, the cry was loud, the dead and the surviving hugged each other, and slowly slid to the bottom of the ditch.On the military vehicle, the quadruple machine guns fired in the air and the gunners were all smashed into parts, and a raging fire ignited.In the flames, the people on fire rolled all over the ground, howling hoarsely.The enemy plane skimmed twice at low altitude like a demonstration, and finally looked up and headed south.Lao Dan patted his buttocks to catch his breath and continued to walk, the crowd suddenly burst into tears and rushed south, because the enemy plane flew straight to the Wukou Bridge of the Yellow River ahead!Devils want to blow up the Wukou Bridge?This made Lao Dan terrified. If the bridge was destroyed, he would have to swim across it. The Yellow River is not a Xiaoma River. How could he swim across it? It was only when we got to the river that we realized that the Japanese planes hadn't bombed the bridge at all, but were bombing and strafing the engineering troops of the National Army on both sides of the river. They wanted to protect the bridge!The refugees and the retreating troops understood this and swarmed frantically towards the only bridge within dozens of miles.The devils came with more bombers, and the two sides of the river were blown up into flames. The jets of water in the river flew into the air with yellow sand in it, making it even more difficult for the people fleeing in panic to breathe.There were cries and the roar of the Yellow River one after another, and the animals and people who got in the way on the bridge were squeezed off or thrown off the bridge deck.Holding their guns high, Lao Dan and his brothers were almost squeezed into meatloaf by the crazy refugees, and they were squeezed across the bridge as if their feet did not touch the ground.Looking back, the ants-like crowds on the other side of the river are still flocking to the bridge from all directions.On the farther horizon, the sun flag raised high by the devil cavalry is already clearly visible. Suddenly, time seemed to stop abruptly at this very moment! Amidst the explosion sound like the earth shaking and the mountains shaking, Lao Dan felt the steel bridge under his feet soaring into the air. With the sound of cracking his eardrums, he and his brothers were thrown high to the shore and fell to pieces. white.Lao Dan, whose face was covered with blood, saw: In the yellow sand all over the sky, a huge flame mixed with red-hot steel, fragmented people, broken cars, mules and horses, slowly rolling and flying to the sky, Then he fell into the muddy river water, splashing up pieces of muddy waves, and then disappeared.A bridge disappeared into the surging Yellow River in an instant, and the thousands of refugees and hundreds of brothers on the bridge were all wiped out.Lao Dan shook his numb head and thought for a long time before he realized that the national army was afraid that the Japanese cavalry would cross the river and blew up the bridge first! The surviving refugees and fighters on this side of the river looked helplessly at the thousands of fleeing people on the other side of the river.Under the impact of Japanese cavalry and machine guns, they struggled desperately and ran for their lives. Countless people were killed by bullets or trampled to death. It doesn't matter who comes first.The crowd jumped down like a collapsed dam, and those who had just fallen into the water were trampled down by the people behind before they could come up.Lao Dan saw a woman holding two children, who disappeared when she got into the water.Just when everyone could only jump into the Yellow River stepping on the dead bodies, the Japanese army opened fire with various weapons into the river.Under this cruel killing, the blood immediately dyed the Yellow River red, just like a bucket of red material from a dyeing workshop poured into a dyeing vat!People's corpses are next to each other, as if blocking the rushing Yellow River, slowly drifting downstream, and piled up at every turn to form floating cemeteries. Lao Dan could even hear the wild laughter of the Japanese army on the other side. The neatly dressed devils gathered in a line, without aiming at all, and shot unscrupulously at the terrified crowd in the river.Lao Dan was so frightened that his hair stood on end, the devils were so cruel, and the national army was so ruthless, what should they do with so many refugees who failed to cross the river?This man who was no longer afraid of bloodshed felt an unprecedented shock!His strong body and the shiny gun in his hand were so helpless in the face of all this. Finally, he uttered a mournful cry, picked up his rifle and shot towards the Japanese army on the other side.The brothers also opened fire one after another, but to no avail, the distance exceeded the range of the shot.At this time, the whistle of shells came from the sky, and a large flame exploded among the Japanese soldiers and civilians on the opposite bank.The devils didn't expect the sudden artillery fire to cause countless deaths and injuries. Many people were blown into the Yellow River and mixed with the corpses.The crowd on the other side cheered bursts of cheers, forgetting the compatriots who also died in the artillery fire. Soon, the order came: don't stop, keep going. After the 406th Regiment of the 37th Army of the National Revolutionary Army crossed the Yellow River, it was ordered to rest for a few days in the south of the city. The troops do need a break.Days of fighting and long-distance transfers caused the troops to be out of stock, and the brothers were seriously undernourished.Lao Dan had sores on his mouth and tongue, his face was ashen, and night blindness began to appear at night.During the few days when the enemy planes stopped bombing, a condolence team finally came from the county town, and they brought food and a lot of vegetables.The soldiers were so hungry that they could chew a piece of cabbage raw, and the cabbage felt sweet and delicious.An old lady touched Lao Dan's bloody hands, choked up and couldn't speak, saying "Bodhisattva bless... Bodhisattva bless" over and over again.At night, he always heard soldiers crying or wailing, but he has been able to sleep these days, but when he closes his eyes, he dreams of the scene on the Yellow River, and he always wakes up sweating profusely.Lao Dan also recalled the words of the regiment commander whose face was covered with pockmarks, and silently stroked the Japanese saber he gave him. Sometimes he felt a sense of heroism in his heart, thinking that he would use this knife to chop a few things when he had the opportunity. a devil. A few days later, the troops received an order, and the entire 37th Army marched towards the Hubei theater and settled in the defensive positions outside Wuhan.The troops set out in doubt.Could it be that the Yellow River is out of control? Most of the 406th regiment are brothers from Henan. If Huang He doesn't defend this battle, what's the point?The devil will definitely kill him.Based on what Lao Dan knew, it would not be a problem for the devil's mechanized troops to build a bridge. Although there were many rivers and mountains to cross, the vital points were all in the plains. How could they defend it?What if you can't keep the people at home?What will happen if it falls into the hands of the devil?He didn't dare to think about it. The troops marched slowly in an atmosphere of being away from home.Everyone was silent and depressed.Lao Dan looked back from time to time, but he could only see the exhausted and remnant soldiers who could not see the side, and the loess scattered all over the sky by them. Suddenly, a fast horse galloped over, and the soldier on the horse was blushing, wearing a helmet and shouting hoarsely: "The Yellow River has opened its mouth! The Yellow River has opened its mouth!" Everyone was stunned!The crowd suddenly surrounded the orderly in layers, and his horse couldn't move an inch.The crazy soldiers shouted, and the team became a mess. "Huayuankou! The New Eighth Division bombed Huayuankou, and the Yellow River has been diverted!" The messenger yelled out the news hoarsely, like a thunderbolt from the blue sky. For a while, everyone was silent and dumbfounded. Then, there was a sudden burst of crying and howling.Who doesn't know that once the Huayuankou explodes, the Yellow River will turn the entire eastern Henan and northern Shandong into a vast ocean of yellow soup.The soldiers whose homes were in the east knelt on the ground crying for their parents and mothers. They were in so much pain that they wanted to call everyone to run to the north immediately. go back. "Bang!" There was a clear gunshot, and the rioting crowd fell silent. At the sound of the gunshot, Captain Mazi was riding on a horse holding a rifle. "Brothers, listen to me!" Everyone was stunned by his majestic voice, and looked at him eagerly, with tears in their eyes.The head of the group said slowly and solemnly: "Blow up the embankment of the Yellow River. I guess it was an order from above, because it won't work if we don't blow it up! Everyone knows that we suffered a lot from fighting the devils on the plain. Even if we stick to the Yellow River, we can't last many days, devils." We can't resist the onslaught of planes and heavy artillery. We must have time to build a new line of defense. If the devils occupy Zhengzhou and go south along the railway line, our entire three armies will be surrounded. If the devils occupy Wuhan again, The 15 corps in the entire East China theater will also be destroyed, so that China will not be far from complete subjugation! Many of our homes may be destroyed if Huayuankou is bombed, but the Japanese armored forces and vanguard troops will also be destroyed. The Japanese army would not be able to give full play to their superiority, thus failing to achieve the goal of moving south quickly to divide our army. Our large troops can retreat to the mountains in western Henan and the hills in southern Henan. Brothers, for the survival of the country and the nation, this It is a sacrifice of last resort! Our family members will die if they die in the hands of the Japanese, and if they die in the Yellow River, they will die anyway. We must charge this account to the Japanese devils! We must remove this blood debt from the battlefield. Win back! The most important thing in war is to have soldiers, as long as we are here, we will fight back sooner or later! After kowtowing, follow me!" Lao Dan saw clearly that a stream of tears rolled down the head's face.The head of the regiment jumped off his horse, knelt on the ground with a sound of "跍通", faced the direction of the Yellow River and shouted: "My father and my mother! My son is not filial, so I can't come to rescue you, and I can't collect your corpses for you! When the Japanese devils are beaten away in the future, I will come to build graves for parents and burn paper for parents!" Cry loudly, covering the whole field. More than 2,000 soldiers all knelt down, some hugged each other and cried, and some kowtowed to the north.After a while, some soldiers started firing guns, and soon the gunshots rang out.Lao Dan couldn't stop crying, thinking that although his home would not be flooded by the Yellow River, he wondered if he could go home?If Ming Da can go home, but I don't know if the home will still be there-the devil's offensive must continue, and go straight to the northwest, and the hometown will not be guaranteed to suffer!Right now, it's neither advancing nor retreating, what should I do? After the Huayuankou levee was blasted, the Japanese attacking troops were indeed blocked from the endless yellow flood area, and a large amount of armor and luggage were soaked in the mud.The Japanese army had to abandon the attack plan from north to south. The national army did not have to worry about the Japanese army driving straight down for the time being. Head Mazi led the troops to retreat to Wuhan. The troops entered the city defense of Wuhan late at night.Lao Dan was surprised to find that the whole of Wuhan had become a large barracks, with troops stationed everywhere, wearing different clothes and speaking with different accents.It was the first time he was pleasantly surprised to see his own aircraft formation flying along the Yangtze River, and the first time he saw the Chinese fleet cruising on the river.The whole of Wuhan is brightly lit all night, and millions of people are building fortifications around Wuhan.Everything shows that Wuhan is well prepared.Lao Dan learned from Commander Mazi that the national army has seven corps, eighteen group armies, and ninety-seven armies concentrated in natural barriers such as Poyang Lake, Dabie Mountain, Mufu Mountain, mountains and lakes on both sides of the Yangtze River, and Hong Kong branches. , is actively building fortifications.Everyone understands that they have entered an unprecedented battlefield, and the defense of Wuhan will be a large-scale and decisive battle since the Battle of Xuzhou. Lao Dan's company was assigned to a high ground south of the Yangtze River, and the other five companies stayed here to block the Japanese troops who might land on the south bank from the upstream of the Yangtze River.Behind them is the reinforced concrete circular fortification built by the 37th Army.To Lao Dan's great satisfaction, the heavy artillery regiment located in the deep position can directly cover the landing point under the high ground. The firepower configuration of these six companies is unprecedentedly dense, enough to cover every inch of land by the river.There were three or four freighters blown up in the Yangtze River, which were enough to block the enemy's warships, and the devils had to use small boats to go ashore.The fortifications on the bank of the river were extremely magnificent. The one-meter-thick reinforced concrete looked extremely solid, and rows of huge muzzles protruded from the bunkers.The outer positions of Wuhan are defended according to danger, and continuous permanent fortifications have been completed, ammunition is piled up like a mountain, and the reserve force is sufficient. On the entire front, the army and the people are working day and night.Various condolence groups from Wuhan also come here from time to time to perform some plays and dances for everyone.Don't care what it is, Lao Dan can't understand it at all, but thinks that the women on the stage are all handsome, with big buttocks, which makes the things below jump around.What made them feel most confident was the citizens and students who lined up every day carrying poles and banners to condolences.The soldiers saw trust and hope in their eyes.This unprecedented warm and united anti-Japanese atmosphere made Lao Dan gradually forget the pain caused by the disaster of the Yellow River.He really wished he could see the devils go ashore tomorrow, have a good time, and beat the devils to the ground.The above held meetings every three days and issued very clear combat instructions.Lao Dan also gradually gained some experience in being an officer, and began to care about his subordinates' eating, dressing, birth, and birthplaces, and inspected and understood the emotions of the soldiers on the Erli square every day.To his delight, everyone began to honor him as the "Old Company Commander", leaving out the word "Dan". In mid-July, news continued to spread from the front that the brother troops and devils on the outskirts of Wuhan had already started fighting, and dozens of planes of our own people could be seen flying over the battlefield every day.Fighting seemed to happen at any time, but it never came, and a large number of injuries were brought back from downstream, but there was no conclusive evidence.The soldiers are a bit like inflated balls, with nowhere to vent their bulging fighting spirit, and it is inevitable to be upset and irritable.The high-pitched speakers used to boost morale sang majestic military songs all day long, and the ears felt uncomfortable after listening too much.The condolence group suddenly became much smaller, and no one came to sing, and finally there were not enough cigarettes and butt wipes.Just when people were getting a little frustrated with anxiety, the battle came. At dawn, there are always a few shining stars in the sky. Mr. Yuan Bai calls them disaster stars. Their appearance shows that God is accepting people again. "Isn't God accepting too many people these years? Damn you!" Lao Dan cursed in his heart. In the morning light, the position of the communist army was clearly visible.Their cavalry were running around, not knowing what they were doing.Lao Dan stretched his frozen limbs, took a sip of the warm white wine in his arms, took out the comb and combed his hair, put it in his pocket carefully, and began his routine patrol in the trenches.The soldiers all had sallow faces and were numbly busy with their own work. Some were smoking cigarettes, some were reading picture leaflets of the communist army, some were lying on the ground checking their bullets, and some were holding a can The box is looking for a place to shit.A fat bird in front of the position was taking a nap. It was startled by the sound of people pulling the bolt of the gun, and flew away with a splash. The flapping wings made the dead position a little bit alive. Suddenly, a dazzling light flickered on the horizon. This light was very strange in the morning light of dawn, covering up the light of the Calamity Star.Suddenly, there was a thick vibration from the earth, and a rumbling reverberation in the sky. In an instant, the morning glow in the sky seemed to be torn apart by strings of flames. The national army's position is coming. Why is the artillery fire of the communist army so evil? Lao Dan and his brothers got into the small hole dug in the trench, feeling like a rabbit being driven away by drums and drums.The shells falling from the sky have everything!Based on Lao Dan's many years of experience, he knows that the cannons fired by the Communist Army include Japanese ones, national army ones, and American-made cannons with big butts and no wheels. There is also a kind of cannon that he has never heard of, like when someone in the village gets married. Put the soil turtle cannon.A young soldier from Bozhou, Anhui, who was shaking like chaff was lying on Lao Dan's arms, and Lao Dan's trousers were wetted by a surge of heat—this kid urinated again.Lao Dan hastily took out a comb and combed the hairless little soldier, finally calming him down.The artillery fire outside interweaved into a huge reverberation, which made Lao Dan's eardrums almost burst.On this cold winter morning, on the battlefield closest to home, Lao Dan once again felt the breath of death blowing towards his face. Before this battle, Lao Dan had never faced the communist army face to face.When he finished fighting in Japan, Lao Dan felt that the hard times should be over, and the whole country was full of joy. He was already looking for the route home and asking about the situation in Banzi Village.But within a few days, the troops were ordered to march east again, saying that they were going to accept the surrender of the Japanese army.Lao Dan wondered, why are they in such a hurry to surrender?Is it worth marching there in the middle of the night?On the way, I heard from the head of the regiment that the Communist Party also has troops, which have been hiding in the devil-occupied area, and now they are fighting for territory with the national army, so they must first occupy the nest before they can go home.Lao Dan doesn't quite understand, isn't the Communist Army a Tuba Route guerrilla? Why are they robbing cities?Didn't the Japanese devils surrender to the national government? What are they doing?Isn't the country still the original country? How could anyone rob it? Some Hebei brothers from the 37th Army came back from the Northeast, and said that the hundreds of thousands of people in the National Army hadn’t overtaken the Communist Army.In their eyes, the communist army is more deadly than a fucking little devil in a war.It is unbelievable for the Northeast National Army that the devils have just left, and the red-haired Soviet Union has not left completely. Where did the Communist Army come from so many troops?Ragged clothes and disheveled clothes, with a few broken guns and mountain cannons, they dared to open their posture and rush all over the mountains and plains to the northeast cities occupied by the national army.Several armies of the national army were wrapped in dumplings. If they hadn't run quickly from Yingkou, hundreds of thousands of people might have been wrapped up by the Communist army.Lao Dan was startled when he heard it.With such a formidable opponent, the devil has just left and picked up another one. How can there be a head in this hard life?He felt strange again when he heard that the communist army didn't kill prisoners like the little devils, but gave them good food and drink. If you don't want to fight, they will ask you to go home.What kind of soldier is this? They are more fierce than devils in war, so why do they behave like devils?Many brothers from the 37th Army have long since lost their homes, and many have defected to the Communist Army.I also heard that every time the communist army occupies a piece of land, it will mobilize the common people to make a land reform and divide the land.Lao Dan didn't understand after hearing this, so he asked if it was the same as what the officer said, all the fields and property were confiscated, and the wife slept with her?Brother Hebei said that you are a jerk, the Communist Army allows you to fall in love freely, and if you want one more, you will be shot. Your family has a ball property?The Communist Army even planted the land of the rich man’s family for you! Lao Dan was thinking about these things in his heart, and the devil's surrender was so sudden, it was like a dream.I've never seen this situation before, and for a while I wondered what the Communist Army was doing with the land reform, and the Communist Army's shells flew over!A few of the communist soldiers who rushed up yesterday were knocked down. Some people called mother in my native dialect. Could there be people from the same village among them?Officials say that the banditry of the Communist Army will not change, and they will not show up during the Anti-Japanese War. When the devils are defeated by Chairman Jiang’s great strategy of exchanging space for time, they will emerge at this moment, taking the opportunity to seize the territory of the National Army. The fruits of victory.The devils were ordered to surrender to the Nationalist government, and the Eighth Route Army came up to fight, provoking devils in many places not to surrender at all.It is rumored that the communist army robbed food, grass and weapons and divided everything equally, and wives slept together if they were not enough. This seems to be different from what the brothers in Hebei said?The frightened baby in his arms said that his brother was over there, and his job was artillery, and he joined the army directly from home.The kid also said he was puzzled, he clearly agreed that his brother with handicapped legs would stay at home and take care of his parents, so why did he also join the army?Don't worry, a cannonball fired by his brother just hit him on the head... The northern Anhui Plain in winter is extremely dry and cold, and the weapons in your hands have become your own enemies in such weather-if you don't pay attention, your hands will become inseparable from it.The lard used for antifreeze had already been eaten by the hungry soldiers, but the soldiers still took off their gloves one after another and pulled the cold triggers.The thick cloth shoes of the communist army made a very numb sound when they stepped on the frozen soil, which made Lao Dan get goosebumps all over his body.Thousands of their cotton hats flapped up and down like a flock of crows, making the atmosphere of the war seem ridiculous for a moment.What kind of soldier is this?Compared with the energy of the main force of our national army, they are like beggars. However, Lao Dan is very envious of the bloated padded coats of the communist army. These beggars must be warm!I and my brothers are still only wearing autumn clothes. It is said that several trucks of cotton clothes shipped to the front line were stolen by the Communist army in the middle of the night the day before yesterday. Last week, the communist army launched a fierce attack, causing countless casualties but never turning back. No matter how fierce the artillery fire from the national army was, they still insisted on jumping into the trenches.A small soldier of the Communist Army who has not yet grown his teeth is very bluffing. I don't know how he got through the barrage that the knife can't penetrate and the water can't splash.He jumped into the trench as soon as he got out of the way, almost riding on his own head, holding two grenades in his hand, and yelled at everyone to surrender their guns and not kill.Lao Dan and his brothers were a little stunned for a while, they have never seen such a desperate young child!Da Ma Bangzi, who was born as a bandit in central Hunan, shot the kid without hesitation, then quickly threw two grenades that were about to explode out of the trench, and cursed in his standard Hunan Xiangtan dialect.The soldier didn't die, the bullet only pierced his lung, Da Ma sticks the pistol between his eyebrows, presses it dead and pulls the trigger.The child's forehead and chest were sprayed with blood from the two egg-sized holes, and tears were still streaming from the corners of his eyes. After a while, he became a cold corpse, frozen on the edge of the trench. There shouldn't be such a small baby jumping in today, right? To Lao Dan, the communist army’s charge trumpet sounded more like the joy that the turtle monster blows when the villagers get married. The difference is that everyone smiles when they hear the turtle monster blowing, but Lao Dan only feels the approach of death at this time.The thunderous shouts of the communist army swept across the mountains and plains like mountains and seas. Lao Dan was not surprised to see some brothers jump out of the trenches—not rushing towards the enemy—but running backwards at the fastest speed.He couldn't bear to fire his guns to stop these fleeing people, so what's the use?Those who ran to the back would also be shot and killed by the officers in the second trench, and some even stepped on landmines in their panic.He saw some veterans lying nervously on the edge of the trench, ready to shoot, and he felt more at ease.He himself took a deep breath, come on, come on, sooner or later there should be a leader! The communist army's charge was as fierce as ever, and the corpses accumulated in front of the position did not slow them down at all.Lao Dan had already thrown out several smoking grenades, and the piled up corpses in front of the position had already blocked the firing surface of the trench, and the communist army even crawled behind and opened fire.The number of comrades around became less and less, and the two sides entered a tug-of-war of fighting in the trenches.The trench on the left was lost, and a lot of communist troops poured in, starting to push over here.Seeing that the situation was not good, Lao Dan led the retreating brothers back to the depths, and at the same time ordered to ignite the explosives buried in the trench.When entering the second deep defensive trench, Lao Dan heard the sound of explosives exploding, and he estimated that at least a dozen members of the Communist Army must be finished.The sapper wanted to bury all the remaining explosives there.This is also a signal to call artillery to bombard the position. The forward positions immediately rained bullets, and the trenches were quickly razed to the ground.Even so, the shouts of the communist army remained undiminished, and it didn't take long for them to gather up their spirits again. In the jungle surrounded by rows of gunfire, Communist soldiers dressed in khaki cotton-padded clothes rushed straight forward, rushing forward without lying down or hiding, each one as fierce as hungry wolves.The echelon firepower of the national army fell one by one, and the reinforcements were also suppressed by the communist army. Many brothers were shot to death in the ditch, and some began to flee backwards.Lao Dan led a platoon to defend a wide trench, relying on a few machine guns and sufficient grenades to survive, but he did not expect that the communist army was as fast as a rabbit, and was surrounded by them on three sides in the blink of an eye, and the back road was even more surrounded by them. Cut off with one knife.From a distance, he saw a large group of national soldiers kneeling on the ground with their hands raised, shivering in the cold wind, and the soldiers around him fell down one by one.The situation is not good!Lao Dan stood on his head with his hair upside down and was about to fight to the death when he suddenly saw a dark pit in this wide trench, which was once used to store ammunition. Looking around, he found that he had become a turtle in a urn. With a sigh, he ducked in, then turned sideways, blocking several ammunition boxes at the entrance of the hole. Lao Dan had seen such things as drilling dog holes when he was in Wuhan, and his brother troops had also taught this kind of informal fighting method. When he was temporarily besieged by the enemy, this method might allow him to escape death.The hole was camouflaged with an empty bullet box, and there was only one person in the hole, and he could only be embedded in it obliquely. Then he covered his head and face with a soil sack, leaving only a small hole to vent his breath.Lao Dan heard the communist soldiers jumping into the trenches "thumping" and running around in a hurry, and then felt two people stop in front of the entrance of the cave, the sound of wiping matches and the sound of smoking cigarettes came, and someone began to speak up. "Genzi, how many did you kill just now?" a Sichuan accent asked. "I seem to have killed two and captured one." The person who spoke should be the root. "Stupid boy, I brought up a small cannon by myself just now, and the four grandchildren inside were all scared to pee their pants!" The Sichuanese were very disdainful. "All captured?" Genzi asked. "I really wanted to let it go, but I was afraid of punishment, so I slapped each of them and handed it over to the back." "Then you are not as good as me, I will kill two of you!" "The Kuomintang is so fucking hard to beat. If it weren't for the organization's regulations, I would have slaughtered at least a dozen." "I can't do anything, that prisoner speaks my native dialect." "Then what should I say? You idiot, does his bullet have an accent? Idiot, someday you will be pushed down by the other party to see if you still recognize the accent!" Being close at hand, Lao Dan did not dare to show his breath, and listened nervously to the conversation between the old and the young.The damp and cold moisture in the ground froze the frail old Dan so that his teeth chattered and his belly swelled like a drum.The cold is tolerable, but the qi in his stomach is unbearable as he walks slowly. He tensed his body and raised his hips in this small space, and he had to relax his butt so as not to make a sound. Sin has really taught Lao Dan, who has been through life and death for many years, a lesson.It sounded like the two people who were talking were only a few steps away from me. One of them should be sitting by the entrance of the cave. If I accidentally rang it, even if I couldn’t hear it, I could still smell it. The Sichuan soldiers didn’t suffocate themselves to death in the cave. inside?He estimated that the team will not be able to fight back for the time being. Everyone must think that they are heroic. They should wait for the communist army to charge again, use the gap when the follow-up troops of the communist army take over the position and escape, or wait for an opportunity to kill a single soldier and replace them. The clothes of the Communist Army slipped away. Lao Dan slowly made up his mind.Extreme fatigue hit his numb head, and he could only pinch his middle finger joints to prevent falling asleep.It seems that the communist army will not find themselves. Who would pay attention to such an ordinary corner in such an ordinary trench?What's more, the ammunition box covered in the hole is full of frozen shit?Trembling, Lao Dan took out the small wine pot, gently unscrewed the lid, drank a couple of sips, and felt a little warmer, but this moment of comfort immediately awakened the tired sleepy, and the eyelids drooped, unable to open... … "Dan? Was it cold yesterday?" "It's so cold! That white-haired boy is flying sideways!" "Then let's not go today, it's snowing heavily outside!" "No way, Tweety, the snow is too heavy, you have to pick it up, or else the sun will shine, and then there will be a strong wind in the middle of the night, and it will be troublesome if it freezes." "What's the matter? I don't believe that the little wheat can be frozen to death. My father said that when it snows, it's grain! It's so cold, don't freeze you." "I have rough skin and thick flesh, so where can I freeze? I'll go to the field and toss and toss, next year the wheat will be full of energy!" "Then you go after drinking this wine! I'll warm it up for you!" The woman took out a wine gourd from her bosom and waved it mischievously in front of his eyes. Lao Dan picked up the gourd with one hand and drilled into the woman's chest with the other. The woman was tickled by him and let out a series of giggles... "Stand at attention! Hello, chief!" A hoarse shout woke Lao Dan up. "Are you injured?" It was clearly the voice of the officer. "Not at all!" Genzi replied. "What's the kid's name?" "Five roots!" "Hehe, the name is easy to remember, how old is this year?" "Report to the chief, I am seventeen this year!" "Where are you from?" "I'm from Xinyang, Henan!" "People from Xinyang, you produce good tea there!" "Yes, my family used to grow tea." "Well, who asked you to join the People's Liberation Army?" "I am willing!" "Why?" "Liberate all of China!" "Well, he's a good boy, who is your monitor?" "Reporting to the chief, Li Xiaojian, the monitor of Class 5, is me!" "Hehe, Sichuan Army." "Report to the chief, yes, my home is in Mianyang." "A mission for you." "Sir, please give instructions!" "Protect this five roots, don't allow him to sacrifice, let him live a good life in New China!" "Yes! Resolutely complete the task!" "Thank you, chief, what is your name, chief?" Genzi asked in a timid voice. "Haha, you don't even know me? Go ask your company commander, I'll go first, haha." There was a burst of laughter, and Lao Dan knew that there were at least a dozen people here. "You son of a bitch, how come you don't even know Commander Su? Li Xiaojian, Wugenzi, both of you should write me a review!" A strange voice scolded. Lao Dan was taken aback. Could it be that the person who spoke just now was the commander of the Communist Army?How dare you go to the front line for inspection?Could it be that the national army has retreated a long distance?What surprised him even more was why the communist army has such a harmonious relationship between its superiors and subordinates?The chief of the national army is arrogant and wears white gloves and sunglasses all day long, while the brothers lie in the cold trenches all day but only wear single clothes.I heard from fellow villagers that officials and soldiers in the Communist Army eat and drink the same way, saying that this is discipline, a rule adopted by the Red Army when they climbed snow-capped mountains half-dead.It's no wonder why the leaders of the communist army all stay in the rural areas of Shaanxi. They eat, wear, sleep, and sleep just like soldiers, unlike the chairman of the general committee who lives in the presidential palace.I really don't know what the official of the Communist Army is doing?Sleeping on the kang too?How unassuming is that?I don’t know if the soldiers of the Communist Army have Dayangna?Just now I heard what Wugenzi said, no one forced him to join the army, so he insisted on fighting, what was he trying to do? Unknowingly, Lao Dan felt his body getting numb, like thousands of caterpillars biting his bones.Both feet hurt like needles from the cold, and the cold air in the stomach and the fart that couldn't get out were swimming in the stomach, making it extremely uncomfortable.This pitch-black hole is like a coffin, and only a gleam of light can penetrate through the gaps in the ammunition box.He curled up into a ball and persisted with all his willpower, hoping that the night would come sooner...