Chapter 9 Chapter 9 Retreat

Am I dead?How many times have I died? In a coma, a voice kept repeating these two sentences in my mind.At the same time, he felt that countless hands were tearing at his dry internal organs, his throat seemed to be submerged in water, and he couldn't breathe. "Fire! There's fire! Devils are coming! Company commander hurry up and get on the plane!" Lao Dan woke up from his dream by shouting, and sat up suddenly. The severe pain of the wound almost made him breathless. He clenched his teeth tightly, and beads of sweat rolled down his head. It took him a while to recover Come.He found himself in a clean house that he had never seen before, everything was so clean, even the floor was spotless, the quilt covering his body was dazzling white, and gave off a strong smell of starch washing.There are a few tubes stuck in his hand, and one stuffed in his nose, so it's all about holding his breath?

"Are you awake?" A nurse came towards him. She sounded like a woman, but looked like a man.Although taller, but because there is no waist, the top and bottom are equally thick, without the slightest bump of a woman, and it makes a lot of noise when walking.Her face was covered with a big white mask, only revealing a pair of small eyes under the forehead, staring at herself.How could this silly bitch become a nurse once she was grabbed from Banzi Village? . The nurse pushed on him, and Lao Dan immediately lay down, causing him to twitch in pain. "You silly bitch, can you take it easy? Do you think you're pushing a donkey mill?" Lao Dan was out of breath, panting heavily.

"Don't move around, I didn't use any strength. I didn't let you move until I lost this bottle of liquid. Are you that hero? You don't look like much!" The nurse was very disapproving, and quickly changed a bottle of medicine for him, then reached into Lao Dan's bed, and took out a thermometer from his creaking bed, and the unsuspecting Lao Dan was creaked by her cold hands Screaming and panicking all of a sudden, why is this bitch so fierce? "The temperature is normal, come on! Stretch out and pee here!" The nurse's tone was cold, and she handed an equally clean urinal into Lao Dan's bed.The pot was crystal clear, and it was actually cleaner than the pot of kneading noodles at home.

"Sister, why are you so embarrassed? I'm here by myself, why don't you hide first?" "It's quite cramped, take it, don't urinate too much, we use it for laboratory tests. I see it every day...why are you still hiding? Rare..." Lao Dan has been completely defeated.This girl is brave, fearless and shameless, she is really not easy to mess with.Lao Dan had no choice but to take the urinal, watched the nurse turn around, and then hurriedly hid in the bed, sweating profusely, then reluctantly put some "test items", and handed it to the woman falteringly.The nurse packed up and left.He came back soon, holding a long iron box in his hand.

"Stretch out this arm and measure your blood pressure." Her tone was a little gentler. "Sister, where am I? Where are my brothers?" "This is the special nurse of the military hospital. Your comrades are all in the next room, and some of them even came to see you. They all look better than you." "Oh, of course! According to my mother, the bad things done by my ancestors for eight generations have all been piled on my face, how can I look good?" The nurse was finally amused and giggled. It's amazing that this rough bitch can make such a small sound.

This late autumn in Wuhan is not as cool as in previous years, and it is still hot enough to make people sweat.The whole city seemed to be covered by an invisible pot. There had been no wind for several months, and the rising smoke and dust mixed together, making the sky and the earth turbulent and filthy.The steaming heat wave is raging over the city like the flames of war, pervasive and invincible, slowly tormenting people's will, making people under the flames of war almost suffocate. Lao Dan received meticulous care in the intensive care unit, but he didn't feel comfortable in his heart.Compared with the days when he was mourning and laughing together with hundreds of wounded soldiers, the white eyes in this ward made him feel lonely and restless.Nurse Mazi didn't pay much attention to herself. As soon as she left, there was a dead silence in the ward, and every sneeze echoed.He thought of Tweety and the child for a while, and thought of Ah Feng for a while. When he opened his eyes, it was a medicine bottle, and when he closed his eyes, he was a nightmare. It was very uncomfortable to hold back.The few remaining cigarettes in the jacket pocket were confiscated by the sharp-eyed nurse.Although the devil plane has not yet laid eggs here, it flies back and forth recklessly every day.

On this day, Nurse Mazi was changing the old Dan's bandages, torturing the old Dan so hard that his teeth grinned.A sound of neat leather footsteps came from the corridor, and the guards outside were yelling and saluting.The door curtain was lifted suddenly, and several officers came in, with a familiar man sandwiched in between, his face gleaming with pockmarks. "Captain!" Lao Dan was overjoyed, it was a surprise to see Captain Mazi who was like an iron tower here.Head Gao was wearing a yellow woolen uniform, and his pair of triangular eyes were still as sharp as before, but there was a deep knife mark on his face, which added a bit of ferocity.Lao Dan wanted to jump off the bed in a hurry, but was grabbed by the nurse's strong hand.

"What are you jumping around? If you drop the bottle, you will pay for it. Do you know how expensive the medicine is now?" Nurse Mazi almost pushed Lao Dan back to the bed, and carefully checked the infusion needle in his hand. "Xiaoyun, why are you talking to your elder brother? You are not allowed to bully like others!" Head Mazi frowned and scolded the nurse, who turned her face away to the side. "How is Lao Dan? Don't be as knowledgeable as her. She is my sister and her name is Gao Yun. I specially asked someone to arrange you here. How is your wound?" Captain Mazi gently supported Lao Dan's shoulder, and behind him Several officers just looked at him with a smile.Lao Dan was a little dazed for a moment.

"The chiefs are here to visit you. Let me introduce you. This is Deputy Commander Liu and Chief of Staff Chen of Jiang'an 1st Division. This is Chief Mao of the Operations Section of the Military Department. They asked me to lead the way and come to see you. hero." Lao Dan had never seen so many senior officials piled up together, so he hurriedly got out of bed again, straightened his body and saluted the military.The officers saluted him at the same time.Deputy Master Liu has a broad body and a fat body, with a shiny forehead and a loud voice, speaking in Hokkien dialect: "Damn you, I really didn't expect you to come back alive. We are going to arrange a memorial service for you! You have done a great job this time. In the past ten days, the devil's little mother plane has not been seen in the sky above Wuhan. Our troops want to go there You can hit wherever you want. You don’t know, the people in Wuhan have compiled storytelling books for you!”

"Probably because of the things you brought back, the devils suddenly shrunk...the attack these days...is also a bit out of tune, and the coordination of various arms is much worse than before. I guess...is busy replacing them What's the communication code?" Chief of Staff Chen was more like a scholar, speaking in a soft voice, as if he had a cold, and kept sniffling after speaking a few words. "When you recover, summarize your combat experience, and we will promote your experience in this surprise attack to the army. In a few days, we will send a few secretaries to help you sort it out." Chief Mao lived up to his name , with a big beard and black hair on the back of his hands.The two blade-like eyes are sharp and radiant, and it is not a simple character at first glance.

"Thank you, commanders! I'm not much of a hero. The success of this operation is all thanks to Company Commander Yang. I just happened to get my life back... Captain, how many soldiers came back?" "Ten came back, two died on the plane, and one died when it landed, leaving only seven, all here." "The prisoner?" "He broke his neck and couldn't save him!" Lao Dan bowed his head and was speechless.The prisoner is dead, so the significance of this operation is not greatly discounted?The Japanese army quickly changed the communication code, so many brothers died, is it worth it?Captain Mazi seemed to understand his thoughts, and said softly to him: "Captain Yang and you are doing a good job, and the military department will reward you soon! The brothers who died, the family members will also receive pensions. Don't be too sad! The current situation in Wuhan is changing every day, and it is very fierce. Devils and Our people have already gone crazy, and it is the time when heroes are needed. Lao Dan, you have to cheer up, and don't take credit and pain too seriously!" "Captain, I know! My injury is healing quickly, and I can follow you to fight devils soon... That's... Chiefs, don't forget brothers..." "Fuck you! Who do you think we officials are? How could you forget you? After the devils are defeated, you will be engraved on the stele. Those who are alive will be promoted to get rich and live in peace. There will be care. As long as I am not dead, I will give you whatever you want!" Being able to come back alive this time, Lao Dan felt a little guilty.Back then, more than a hundred brothers ran long distances and worked together to blow up the devil's airport.When the brothers set off, all of them were full of vigor and vigor. They must have longed for the magnificence and glory of returning home triumphantly, right?But in the blink of an eye, all of them were wiped out!The seven who survived were also broken bodies covered in blood holes and plastic pipes. It is really heart-wrenching to think about it!There is really no good fortune to speak of carrying guns and fighting, and the more you fight, the more uncertain you will be.Yang Tieyun, who tried his best to save him, was so unsuspectingly heroic in his own eyes for such a big man with a full job?Will he and Hei Niu be captured alive by devils?It would be miserable if caught alive... An unprecedented fear of war floated in Lao Dan's heart.This kind of fear does not lie in the death threat of war, but in that he cannot always see the end of the war!He didn't dare to hope that he could be so lucky in the next battle, so he disdained the promotion and fortune mentioned by the officers, thinking that if he couldn't save his life, how about those chickens?What's the use of Pakistani stuff?What is the significance of the military medal to Yang Tiejun and the dead brothers?From now on, their women will sleep with this cold military medal in their arms. How many nights will they cry heartbrokenly in front of their men's photos? "Chief, I... I want to go home when I feel better, okay?" Lao Dan suddenly had this idea, and said it without thinking.Several officers looked at each other in blank dismay, their eyes rolling back and forth, and Commander Mazi also fell silent.Chief of Staff Chen spoke. "Where is your home?" Chief Mao asked. "Banzi Village, Hexi, Henan, is on the north side of the Yellow River, not far from Shanxi." "Oh, how about this, let's investigate the situation over there. It's a long way from Wuhan to your home, and there are devil troops everywhere. No matter how you dress like a commoner, you will be recognized by devils with the scars on your body. I'm afraid you won't be able to get home! If you really miss them, let our rear troops protect them and move them to the rear when you have time, do you think it's okay?" Lao Dan was regretting that he had said something thoughtless. Hearing what the chief of staff said, he could only nod gratefully.Head Mazi looked cold and handsome, and took off the remaining saber hanging by the bed, which seemed a little strange. "Commander, your knife saved my life! It was interrupted by a machine gun on the way to retreat. Without it, that bullet would have killed me!" Head Mazi hung the knife back, turned to his sister and said, "Xiaoyun, take good care of my brother, use more snacks, and get him up as soon as possible! He is our hero, don't neglect him!" "What a hero! Those who come back alive are heroes? Those who die don't count!" Xiaoyun was actually angry, she tore off the mask, threw it aside, revealing a pockmarked face and a narrow mouth and nose, and left without looking back.Lao Dan watched her leave in a daze, bewildered. "His man, that is, my brother-in-law, died on the front line. Their company was surrounded by devils and died on the way. Because he retreated without order, I didn't give him credit for it! She was unhappy and depressed. It’s just fire, Lao Dan, please forgive me!” The air defense alarm suddenly sounded again, the officers stopped talking, nodded at him and went out.When Head Mazi walked to the door, he turned around and said: "Guangzhou in the south has fallen, and Wuhan has been surrounded by devils on three sides. I guess... we are about to withdraw. You should heal your wounds quickly, and I will make arrangements..." Head Mazi went under Lao Dan's astonished gaze. Just one day after Head Mazi left, Generalissimo Jiang issued an order to evacuate Wuhan. Disappointed, Lao Dan fell into deep thought. If, as Captain Mazi said before, if Wuhan fell, wouldn’t China be destroyed?There are millions of people in Wuhan's army and ordinary people, why can't they stand up to Little Japan?Where is Guangzhou?Why is no one watching?Why are devils everywhere?When and where will they fight before they stop?How can we go home if we continue fighting for five or ten years without end?What if you can't beat it in the end?If all the land in China falls into the hands of the devils, where else can the national army retreat? Long before the order was issued, Lao Dan had seen the chaos of these days.Outside the hospital wall, there was a lot of people's voices and car horns blaring non-stop for several days.The doctors in the yard were all running to work, and the ambulances that came in and out every day were gone.According to Nurse Mazi, those who could work had already driven back.In the sky above the city center, various planes of the devil hovered every day. Besides throwing bombs, they also dropped a lot of leaflets. On the outskirts of the city, the sound of shell explosions was even more intense than before, almost non-stop day and night. The seven returned brothers are all kept in this hospital.Another seriously injured person died yesterday from a blood infection.Chen Yuming couldn't bear it any longer, and while the nurse girl was away, he held up the infusion bottle early in the morning and looked for Lao Dan and his brothers everywhere. He found no acquaintances on the first floor, and when he was walking downstairs on a crutch, he ran into him Lao Dan was also holding the bottle high and looking around.The two were taken aback for a moment, then burst out laughing and hugged each other.A group of nurses saw the two wounded soldiers holding a bottle in one hand and a golden rooster in the other, but they were still hugging and chatting with each other. Lao Dan recovered quickly from his injuries, and his body became stronger day by day.In the ward next door lay a seriously injured commander of the major. I heard from the nurse that he had been blasted to the core by a shell half a month ago. What are the internal organs around the stomach.The doctor removed seven tattered ribs, a shattered leg, half a stomach, a kidney, several meters of intestines, and a piece of charred lung.Then he sewed up for him, and gave him injections and infusions for half a month. He didn't die, and he opened his eyes yesterday.Lao Dan was full of respect for this god-man. In the morning, while nurse Mazi was not there, he leaned on crutches and went to the head's ward. He leaned on the window sill and looked in. He found that this god-man had more tubes than his own. He opened the door and went in to say hello, but Ma Zimei who came back from taking the medicine grabbed her ears and dragged her back to the hospital bed. "If you dare to run around again, I'll tie you up on the bed. Believe it or not, I can do it. I'll make you shit and piss on the bed. Let's see if you're still obedient!" "Sister, so you can speak the local dialect. I thought you couldn't speak it when you were young." Lao Dan said with a smile while rubbing his ears. "How can I not say that? I have been here for five or six years. My brother asked me to go to medical school, saying that this is a big city, and only by seeing the world will I be successful. People in the city say serious things. Where we are The words are so nasty. On the road, I spoke my hometown dialect, and some drivers didn’t speak it. I slowly changed it, and I cried a lot because of it. It’s my brother, let me suffer this eight poles in this big city It's a foreign crime that doesn't make sense, and I'm not allowed to stay at home with my parents." Lao Dan suddenly remembered the scene where Captain Mazi led everyone to cry and kneel by the river on the bank of the Yellow River, and he felt a twinge in his heart.It seems that this girl doesn't know that the land of her hometown has been washed away by the flood, and her father and mother may have been washed into the sea long ago.He hurriedly sat up, and secretly told himself that he could not say a single word that was out of tune, and stop being so stupid and ignorant of the importance as before. "How long have you been with my brother?" "Oh, it's been half a year. At that time, your brother slapped me in the mouth, and I just remembered him... Hehe." "Why did he hit you?" "He gave me a military medal to see that I didn't seem to be able to fight, gave me a few mouths to grow courage, and gave me a devil's saber, that's it. Don't look at it. It's broken, but This knife has saved my life several times." Only then did Nurse Mazi know the origin of the broken knife hanging by the bed. No wonder Lao Dan jumped up from the bed when he saw that he was about to throw it away. "Does your brother visit you often? How often?" "I don't care if he comes to see me! He's going to kill him! He thinks he has the guts to blow up the devil's tank every day, even if he comes back with a sack of military medals, I don't care! I don't care if I don't eat or drink. Change the medicine and change the ocean.” "Sister, how can you say that about your brother? He is an officer, and my brothers and I all obey him. You may not know about things on the battlefield. A man like your brother is our backbone. There is no such person as your brother." , we are just a bunch of sloppy guys, how can we stand up to little devils!" "What's the matter? Then he will let people stay in the trench and can't move. Seeing that the devils are about to occupy the position, they are not allowed to run back. They are beaten to death on the road. It's fine if they don't give the military medal. Why should they count again?" get him?" Nurse Mazi suddenly lost her temper. She tore off a piece of adhesive tape on Lao Dan's body while talking, causing Lao Dan to scream in pain.It was only then that Lao Dan realized that the brother-in-law that Commander Mazi mentioned was actually his soldier. "Sister, don't worry! Don't cry...hey! Your brother is in charge of so many soldiers, this...is not easy! We were guarding the trenches, and only a few of us survived in a ditch, and your brother didn't let us retreat. It’s not that he wants us to die, it’s a war, he’s an officer, we ran away, he’s the one who lost him, maybe he’ll be killed by the higher-ups! Besides, he loves you so much, but sticks close to you My heart... If you are happy, take my military medal, I have several here, and it will be a hindrance if you hang it around your waist!" As Lao Dan spoke, he took out a pack of colorful chapters from his bag.Some of them are my own, and some are found from the comrades who died.In his eyes, these are just exquisite and good-looking new gadgets that can be used to coax his wife and children in the future, even if they are all given to Nurse Mazi, he will not feel bad. "Who cares about your broken badges! If you save too much, you can use a urinal!" Nurse Mazi picked up a bunch of medicine bottles, walked out of the ward in a few strides angrily, and left a smiling old woman in the room. "This girl is really hot, what kind of morals! Who owes her a few taels of white goods, owes her a day!" Lao Dan swears to himself, and complains for the head of Mazi.My heart said that your brother was born and died in the front, but you just caught the little things?It is the most normal thing to beat the devils and prevent the troops from retreating. Your man has violated military discipline by letting go of his position and fleeing, and you still want to get credit?Even if he ran back, he would still be shot. Captain Mazi would never protect his shortcomings just because he was his brother-in-law, and he might even kill him himself! Only a week later, Captain Mazi came again. He brought a medium-sized truck and asked the guard Liu Haiqun to take Laodan and the others to leave Wuhan via Changsha to Huangjiachong in central Hunan to join his old superior Huang Baiyuan.Head Mazi also specially ordered Lao Dan to bring his sister with him! Nurse Mazi refused to leave, and let everyone coerce and lure her with sweet words. She hid in the room and refused to come out, crying and screaming loudly, claiming that she would not leave until her brother came back.Lao Dan scratched her ears and cheeks anxiously, wishing she could be tied up. In desperation, Chen Yuming and Liu Haiqun had no choice but to ask Chen Yuming and Liu Haiqun to take advantage of Nizi to go to the bathroom, go directly from the men's room to the women's room, and put the girl who hadn't had time to take off her pants. Nizi picked her up and carried her downstairs.After pushing her into the car, the other two female nurses hurriedly persuaded her with hugs and hugs.Seeing that the sisters were walking together, packing their bags for her, and hearing that the leaders in the hospital were running out of ideas, Nurse Mazi was discouraged.She squeezed the pockmarks on her face, took advantage of the slope to plunge into Nurse Xiao Zhen's arms and cried loudly. There were eleven people in the car, namely Lao Dan, Chen Yuming, Liu Haiqun, Daxue, Zhao Haitao, Yang Qingshan, Liang Wenqiang, and hospital guards Zhu Tongtou, Ma Zimei, nurse Xiaozhen and nurse Xiaolan.Although there were not many people, the car seemed crowded because they brought a lot of medicine and equipment.As soon as I opened the gate and drove out, a large group of people from outside poured into the hospital, looting the remaining medicine and other things inside.There were soldiers, police, bandits, and civilians in the crowd, and their energy was stronger than charging into the devil's position. This force poured in continuously, and the thick front door of the hospital was squeezed down. Lao Dan sat in the co-pilot's seat, nervously watching the mighty fleeing army on the road.During the fleeing period, the unrestrained atmosphere of the big city has disappeared, the once lively shops are closed, and the streets are full of stinking garbage.People were full of grief, and they dragged their families to support the old and the young, preparing to flee.Men no longer meet to take off their hats, and women no longer hold umbrellas.Countless soldiers with missing arms and legs and ordinary people in various clothes crowded together like chickens and ducks scrambling for food. All kinds of vehicles, cars, horse-drawn carriages, bicycles, trolleys, and carts are moving in the rolling crowd.Most of the cars were accompanied by a family, and some had dogs behind them.When groups of soldiers with guns saw idle vehicles or mules and horses, they snatched them with a single point of gun.Because Lao Dan's car had an army plate on it, no one dared to mess around, but there were too many people on the road, Ren Liu Haiqun honked his horn loudly, and he didn't go far after two hours.There were a few soldiers on a truck loaded with munitions in front, pointing their submachine guns at the crowd around them, and pulling the bolt when they saw someone wanting to get close, Lao Dan hurriedly asked Liu Haiqun to follow closely behind. After walking for a distance, Lao Dan suddenly saw a man in a suit and leather shoes on the right front of the car, carrying two large and thick poles and two huge wooden boxes on his shoulders, sweating profusely on his head.The woman in the back was still in the cheongsam, but she was no longer reserved. She raised the hem that was in the way with her hands, and followed the man's steps with her bare thighs.Seeing this scene, Lao Dan couldn't help laughing quietly. Behind the car, Xiaozhen and Xiaolan were still crying, but their voices finally subsided.Mazimei fell silent, and continued to complain about the slow speed of the car.Liang Wenqiang, a skinny soldier, was squeezed so hard by Mazimei that he was always robbed of his whites. "Shrink what? I can squeeze you flat? You are so big, how come you grow like a hemp stick, and you can't cut two taels of meat from your buttocks, and you keep farting. There is still a lot of stuff in your stomach?" Shanxi veteran Liang Wenqiang, like Lao Dan, had a stupid mouth. He was robbed by Ma Zimei for a while, but he didn't reply, his face turned into a cockscomb.Ma Zimei said that Liang Wenqiang farted so hard that he didn't wrong him. His stomach was pierced by bullets on the seaplane, and it probably left a root during the recovery period. If he was a little anxious or caught cold, he would squeeze out a string. Come on, Yang Qingshan gave him a nickname: Fart Dragon.Chen Yuming had heard about this super invincible hob meat nurse from Lao Dan, and knew that he was the sister of the head of Mazi, so she hurriedly intercepted her with a smiling face. "Xiaoyun, don't make fun of our brother Pilong, he has never touched a woman when he grows up, so save your energy and bully my brother, we can't stand you!" For some reason, Ma Zimei was a bit annoying towards Chen Yuming. This person was silent, happy and angry, and acted with a face, and never looked at her directly. When he opened his mouth, he rolled his eyes. Just shut up.Zhao Haitao and Zhu Tongtou looked at each other and smiled.Daxue, who was sitting at the back of the car, turned a deaf ear to the chaos outside and just smoked one cigarette after another.During the surprise attack on Doufangshan Airport, Daxue was shot through his throat by a bullet, and he could no longer speak since then. He didn’t think anything was wrong with him who was originally taciturn. No matter what, continue to swallow the clouds. When Yang Qingshan wiped out the devils from the mountains, a grenade shrapnel jumped into his eye. After healed, his eyesight deteriorated severely. He did not know where to get a pair of glasses as thick as the bottom of a bottle to wear. The thing and the helmet always clinked. bump.Even so, if he is a little careless, he will regard the big tree as an old man, and the mop as a rifle. That Zhutongtou is a monster, with fat head and big ears, round eyes, and soldiers are not like soldiers or bandits.Originally, he was just a ruffian who sneaked into the hospital looking for a good job, stole a military uniform from the laundry room, and pretended to be a soldier for a year, but no one cared about him.He often treats the hospital as a hypermarket, and this kid resells a lot of medicines, bedding, and even toilet paper made in the United States.A few days ago, he also took aim at the pharmacy next to Lao Dan, so he often came over to inquire about the situation, and got acquainted with Lao Dan who was bored.Daxue had a stubborn temper and refused to let the rascal get in the car. Zhu Tongtou was so anxious that he hurried to buy a box of cigarettes and alcohol for the brothers before he was allowed to get in.Less than an hour after getting in the car, she was flirting with Nurse Xiao Zhen who was sitting across from her. Nurse Xiaozhen is considered a beauty, with a melon-seeded face and willow eyebrows, but her ways are not right.Born with a demon fox face, born with half a waste oil lamp.I heard that she was only a nurse in the general ward, but because she often dangled her buttocks in the intensive care ward, she was soon assigned to Mazimei's side.So she flirted with the wounded officers even more brazenly. It was said that all the officers on half a floor had an affair with this goblin, and everyone could take advantage of her.If it weren't for these masters who were stretched like cocoons all over their bodies, or lacked arms and legs, some people would have wished to sleep on the floor and let her sleep on the bed. If they were more frivolous, if they made some more pleasant promises, she might be happy. Click "Special Care".The ugly Mazimei soon became her natural enemy, and Mazimei couldn't wait to strip her clothes and wring her flesh.But this goblin's officers are too good friends, it's really not easy to offend.So Ma Zimei stayed away from Xiaozhen as soon as she got in the car, and only squeezed the poor Pilong brother with the waist of the bucket.Xiaolan is a well-behaved girl, and she is an orphan who has no one to rely on. Chen Yuming took her with her. She only hugged Mazimei and cried along the way, her eyes were swollen like peaches. Lao Dan sat quietly, wondering why the hell did he start fleeing again?The difference is that this time there is a car.I don't know when Captain Mazi will retreat?It took five months for the devils to fight back the national army. Could it be possible that they would burn, kill, rape and commit all kinds of crimes like they did in Nanjing?No wonder all the women in the city are fleeing. Finally, they drove out of the city and merged into an even more spectacular fleeing army.This team could not see the front and the rear, with tens of thousands of heads, crowded on this long road, moving slowly.The devil's plane flew from the sky from time to time, although it did not strafing and bombing, it still scared the people on the ground so that they turned their backs and trampled each other. The military vehicle in front saw the devil's plane in a hurry. Many passers-by with slow legs.Lao Dan was very shocked, but also realized that this was an opportunity, sighed in his heart, but could only frown and let Liu Haiqun quickly follow along this road. Several women in the car were scared and screamed by the Devil's plane.The familiar men hurriedly suppressed them, only Da Xue looked at the devil's plane in the sky with a smile, turned around and grunted a few times, and gestured to Chen Yuming a few times, Chen Yuming nodded.Zhu Tongtou asked puzzledly: "What does Brother Xue mean?" "He said that it was this kind of plane that we bombed on Doufangshan last time." "Why don't they drop bombs?" "Of course, do you dare to throw it when you see us here? I'm in a hurry to piss it off!" Zhao Haitao exhaled a smoke ring, squinting at Zhu Tongtou and said. "What good stuff do you have in this box, take it out and share it with your brothers and sisters as soon as possible, otherwise you will be killed if you are found by the military police in the rear, and you will have nowhere to buy cigarettes to honor your brother." "Oh, brother! You think this is Du Shiniang's box—everything is a treasure? It's really nothing, just a little tobacco and alcohol. Do you know how difficult it is to buy these things in Wuhan? It's all from the past. Bought from the supplies, authentic American products, I almost put my pants on it before they would give it to me!" "Chen Yuming, come down quickly!" Lao Dan suddenly yelled, and Chen Yuming jumped out of the car in a hurry, ran to the front of the car and saw a woman lying on the ground with a face as white as a ghost, looking at them faintly.She looked very ill, as if she was dying.She blocked the wheels of the car with her body, and a little girl around ten years old knelt on the ground beside her, crying and kowtowing. "What's going on? What are you doing?" Lao Dan asked. "My mother is dying, uncle, please save her! I beg you!" The little girl cried out of breath, with her small hands on the front bumper of the car, her tender red flesh exposed in her tattered clothes , a pair of thick pants hanging on the waist, already dirty and battered. "Where's your father?" Chen Yuming felt a little strange. Seeing that the woman on the ground was almost breathless, she knew it wasn't extortion.Her two legs exposed outside the trouser legs festered into two dirty ribs covered with dust; the veins on her arms protruded one by one, and the wrinkled flesh dangled under the armpits; Open mouth, blood clots form thick scabs. "Father went to war. There has been no news for two years. He... never came home again. The day before yesterday, my mother and I went to the army to look for him, but I heard that the army had already fled. My mother has been ill for half a year. Qian went to the hospital... Mom said my dad wouldn't come back... woo... woo..." "But we can't help you, we have to hurry, and there is no room in the car." Chen Yuming seemed unmoved. "I beg you, just take my mother away. I can walk, and if you can save her, I kowtow to you... I beg you, uncles!" "Big brothers...you take this girl away...I can't do it...you can do me a favor...take this girl away, let her be your cow and horse, I won't go!" The woman on the ground spoke suddenly, and the voice seemed to come from the underworld, which shocked Lao Dan who was standing beside her.The girl turned her head and threw herself on her mother and burst into tears, then knelt and crawled over to hug Chen Yuming's leg, her trousers covered with snot and tears. Both Lao Dan and Chen Yuming were in a mess.The three floors inside and outside were surrounded by refugees. People hung their mouths and stretched their necks to watch the excitement. Most of them shook their heads after watching it, sighed a long time, and went back to continue walking.The tragic situation of this mother and daughter can be seen anytime and anywhere, and people have become so used to it that they are insensitive.Many spectators looked at Lao Dan and Chen Yuming directly, wondering what decision they would make.Some people looked into the car with their heads poking around, showing expressions of envy and hatred, which made everyone in the car tremble, and Da Xue and Zhao Haitao couldn't help picking up their guns nervously. Suddenly, Lao Dan saw the woman on the ground touching the ground, and took out a pair of rusty scissors.Lao Dan felt that something was wrong, and just about to speak, the woman shouted: "Big brothers! Take her away! Please!" The woman lifted herself up and used all her strength to stab her heart with the scissors. "Stop!" Lao Dan rushed over to snatch the scissors, but there was no time!The rusty scissors had pierced deeply into her heart, and the woman's hand was still holding the scissors tightly!After a while, her eyelids were tightly closed and she was breathless, and the sticky crimson blood slowly oozes from the wound... The woman's suicide made everyone deeply shocked. It was never imagined that such a weak woman who was terminally ill would do nothing for her. The daughter is willing to die for her!Looking at the little girl lying on the corpse and crying bitterly, the two elders were helpless in panic, and fell into deep guilt and self-blame. The crowd groaned and stared blankly at the woman's blood dripping all over the ground.A few well-meaning people sighed and threw some money next to the little girl.People had complex expressions, and no one spoke for a while, and after a long time, they set off again. "Chen Yuming, ask Haitao and Tongtou to come down, drag the woman to the side and bury her. Tell Xiaoyun to come down and take the girl away." When this happened, the pungent Mazimei instantly turned into a gentle and loving mother. She separated the crying child from her mother with all her strength, hugged her to one side, and gently patted her to persuade her.Tongtou and Haitao were worried that something would happen after a long time, so they lifted the woman and squeezed to the side of the road.The two soon found a pile of dead people in a large pit. It is estimated that most of the dead people were starved to death.As soon as the two made up their minds, they threw the woman in a relatively open place and covered her with a blanket as a burial. The girl refused to get in the car, so Yang Qingshan carried her up to Xiaozhen, and Xiaolan also came to coax her, the child sobbed twice, and even passed out with his neck thrown back.Xiao Lan gave her her pulse, quickly took out a bottle of glucose and poured it into it, saying it would be fine. The car drove slowly again, still a sea of ​​people, still fleeing sadly.The number of refugees pouring out of Wuhan is getting bigger and bigger, and the government police who maintain order have long been submerged in the vast crowd, and they can't even hear their whistles.Among the tens of thousands of refugees, there are tragic stories every minute.Lao Dan didn't know in the hospital that the supply of supplies in Wuhan had fallen to the point where countless people starved to death, and medicines were even more scarce. No wonder there were always people thinking about the things in the car with malicious intentions. "The plane is coming!" A scream sounded in the crowd. The devil's plane finally came to bomb and straf the troops on the road.For five months, the common people have been able to hear whether the flying is a plane that lays eggs.As the piercing siren sounded, people scattered and fled aimlessly amidst screams, and people trampled on horses and horses, causing many casualties.Immediately the army traffic began to disperse, and soldiers jumped out of their vehicles to take cover.Several vehicle-mounted machine guns began to fire into the air.However, seeing the arrogant posture of the Devil planes lined up, a dozen machine gunners simply jumped out of the car and ran for their lives. Five Devil planes flew over at low altitude, lined up and began to slaughter the soldiers and civilians on the escape road without any haste.Smoke, dust and blood mist from the dense bullets splashed all the way, hitting the ground with long furrows that looked like plowed.Several pillars of smoke filled the road, and there were countless corpses and struggling wounded along the bullet holes.People were stunned!Many people watched helplessly as their relatives turned into bloody corpses in the blink of an eye, and were even blown to pieces!People's frightened nerves finally collapsed. Many people went crazy in an instant. None of the conspicuous military vehicles were spared from devastating strafing and bombing, and exploded and caught fire one after another.The Devil's plane strafed back and forth several times, probably laying all the eggs that should have been laid, and flew over people's heads at very low altitude in a menacing manner. Lao Dan's car was lucky to escape because it was far away from the military vehicle in front and leaned against the side of the road.It's just that the few women lying in the ditch were so frightened that they wet their pants.Everyone stood by the side of the road, watching in astonishment as the Devils planes came and went, killing their own compatriots with impunity.Lao Dan has experienced this situation before, but there are far fewer refugees, and the devils are far less powerful and rampant. He used to only feel fear and shock, but now it is more helpless and desolate.For the first time, he let out such a long sigh from the bottom of his heart: "Why do Chinese people suffer like this?" The dead were finally carried into a cart and taken away, leaving only large black and red bloodstains on the ground.The sun, which was still strong just now, suddenly disappeared, and a large black cloud covered the sky and rolled over from the north, followed by a series of rolling thunder, shaking the earth.A flash of lightning struck down suddenly, drawing a bright branch between the sky and the earth. In an instant, countless bolts of lightning struck down together, and the pouring rain came down with hailstones the size of peas.The gust of wind howled, sweeping the icy rain and hail across people's bodies and faces.The women's little umbrellas are useless in such a storm, when a gust of wind blows into the sky.Those with some tarpaulins hurriedly set it up, and several people hugged the wooden pole desperately to prevent it from being blown away.For a time, people had nowhere to hide between the heaven and the earth, and they were all drowned. Lao Dan and his party were very fortunate to have this car. The sound of hailstones hitting the canvas was deafening, and they really didn't know how those people outside could bear it.The road has become muddy, and people covered in mud are still walking forward helplessly. No one knows when this road of suffering will end. The only way is to go on. At night, the rain finally stopped. In the middle of the night, the car broke down, and Liu Haiqun lay in the mud for an hour, and it seemed that it couldn't be repaired.Everyone decided to carry what they could carry on their backs, and walk southwest together. Anyway, after two or three days of walking, we will be able to reach the assembly point in Changsha.The little girl was taken care of by so many people, and she got to know the soldiers, and after half the night, she got to know everyone well, and her mood gradually improved.Lao Dan looked at the girl and thought of his son.But at this time the women couldn't stand it anymore, and their ankles were all swollen.Zhu Tongtou wanted to help them, but was afraid of being scolded by Lao Dan and Chen Yuming.Besides, the delicate beauty Zhen and the ugly pockmarked girl both need help.He helped Mazimei, but he was afraid of Mazimei's knife mouth, and he couldn't help Mazimei, but he really didn't want to part with Zhenmei, so Zhu Tongtou was in trouble for a while. It was dark in the middle of the night.The place where the refugees gathered was pitch black, and there were crowds of people huddling together for warmth, like crows huddled together in winter.The people were ordered not to ignite the fire, fearing that another ghost plane would be attracted, so they could only suffer silently, hoping that this cold night could pass safely.There is always evil in the dark. Despair, fear, hunger, and hatred make some people evil and crazy. People are constantly being robbed wantonly and even shot to death for no reason.On this long, dark road, the refugees were terrified. Everyone was in danger, but they wanted to protect themselves.Seeing the old and weak women and children around them being shamelessly bullied, plundered and killed, no one dared to stop them.People's conscience has been wiped out by fear and suffering, and the only thing left seems to be despair. Different people pray to different gods to bless them, and pray that the same bad luck will not happen to them. Everyone was clamoring for hunger.Lao Dan led everyone to the hillside not far from the main road, and everyone sat around.Liang Wenqiang and Ma Zimei began to distribute food.This half-day experience made Ma Zimei a different person, her expression was no longer arrogant, and she spoke softly to everyone, in short, she looked like a woman.Pilong's loud farts still kept going, and she went to find some medicine for him to eat, which flattered Liang Wenqiang.Several men were also shivering from the cold, holding a bottle of Zhu Tongtou's burning knife in turn, and pouring down the steamed buns. Daxue drank half of the bottle as soon as he raised his neck, and Zhu Tongtou was so distressed that he kept sucking his teeth.Yang Qingshan kept a few boxes of medicine and food at every step, and raised his gun when he saw anyone approaching, startling Chen Yuming who came to patrol, thinking that sooner or later he must get a pair of good glasses for this guy, or sooner or later someone will die Injustice.The little girl said that her parents called him Qiaoqiao, but she didn't know his real name.Zhao Haitao was afraid that she would freeze, so he hugged her in his arms to keep warm, Qiaoqiao was very naughty, he kept stuffing his cold little hands into his belly, which made Haitao beat her buttocks hard, the two talked and laughed Yes, Qiaoqiao temporarily forgot the pain of losing a loved one. "Help! Come on, it's a robbery!" Suddenly there was a woman's cry, everyone heard the sound and looked, a few men were snatching a woman's baggage not far away, one kicked her stomach violently with his feet, the woman was dragged far away while clutching the bag .Her man thought he was sick, lying motionless on a broken mat.Lao Dan and others who were close at hand were so angry that Daxue walked over, picked up his gun, and pointed a butt at the head of one of the guys, and the head of that guy was red and white. Seeing that he couldn't survive, the others All of a sudden, the birds and beasts scattered.The woman cried and kowtowed to Daxue, but Daxue didn't accept it, and walked back expressionlessly.Lao Dan nodded at Ma Zimei, Ma Zimei gave them two steamed buns, looked at the man again, shook his head at everyone, and sighed. Lao Dan decided to let everyone rest for a while, but more refugees still chose to move on, unwilling to stay in this terrifying night.Many people who were dizzy from hunger fell to the ground as they walked, unable to get up again.Several members of some families fell on the road one after another, and the trampling in the dark made them die faster, turning them into cold and dirty corpses.Lao Dan also saw a naked woman running madly through the crowd, with her arms spread out, shouting and ramming aimlessly around.Her body was bleeding, blue and purple, and her plump breasts were covered with scars. People avoided her as if they had seen a ghost, not daring to take a step forward.Zhu Tongtou just wanted to put a dress on her, but where could he get it?In the blink of an eye, the woman disappeared into the crowd, leaving only her shrill, stinging voice echoing faintly in the dark night... Lao Dan sat quietly on a rock, his face illuminated by the flickering cigarette pipe and pot.This night is destined to be unforgettable in this life!He suddenly realized that the cruelty of war is not only on the front line, what happened in the rear is even more chilling!Even if you are afraid of fighting the devils with real knives and guns, at least there are countless brothers who will fight together and live and die together.What the war brings to the ordinary people who have no ability to resist and can only drift with the tide is an indescribable fear.They may die anytime, anywhere. It may be the devil's guns, self-mutilation of compatriots, or hunger, cold, or injury... It seems that the country is really about to perish. Concerned about the survival of the country?Those who are in despair often treat their compatriots with more cruel methods than devils, perhaps just for a steamed bun or a vegetable leaf.Lao Dan realizes that his hope of returning home is becoming more and more remote, and every step forward will only lead him further away from it. That little hope has now turned into a kind of pain that pierces the bottom of his heart. "Brother!" Chen Yuming, who had been silent all night, suddenly spoke. "What's the matter?" "I...I feel scared!" Chen Yuming said this out of nowhere. This was not like what Chen Yuming said. Lao Dan was startled, and then he paused before slowly replying: "I also have a little bit, maybe it's just for a while, I don't know what to do, it doesn't look like I'm on the front line." Lao Dan passed the cigarette stick to Chen Yuming, and Chen Yuming took two puffs. The pinch of light illuminated his face. His face was greasy, his brows were tightly knit, and his eyes were red, full of fear and anxiety.Strange to say, Lao Dan had never observed Chen Yuming carefully after living and dying with Chen Yuming for so long.The usual Chen Yuming was strong, brave, calm and steady, but he would be so decadent? "Who else is there in your family? Why haven't I heard from you?" "Everyone in my family is dead, and I'm the only one left." "Huh? One is gone?" "No, my parents died early, and my brothers didn't grow up. After I got married, I lived in the countryside of Heze, and my child died of illness half a year after birth!" "What about your woman?" "I killed her!" Lao Dan was shocked. It turned out that Chen Yuming had such a background, and he was carrying a life on his back! "I used to sell noodles in the county town and earn some hard-earned money to support my family. It was better than farming. But she fooled around with other people in the village. I don't know how long I have been fooling around. My child was also delayed by her! Later, my surname Relatives and family members filed a complaint against me, and in a fit of anger, I wiped her with a knife. I also burned the house, and after fleeing for half a year, the devils came, and then I joined the national army." Lao Dan was so shocked that a chill came over his body, and Chen Yuming continued to say: "Now I regret it, I shouldn't have done that, I can't do it! She and I didn't enjoy a day's blessing, marrying her At that time, I didn’t even have a quilt, and it took a few years to build a new mud room, alas..." Lao Dan didn't know what to say. Compared with himself, this young man was even more unfortunate, but he kept his grief hidden all the time.What a painful experience it was!No wonder he was so cold to the women in his company. "Brother, I'm alone. It's been three years and I haven't told anyone about this. Since I followed you, I really regard you as a big brother. As long as I don't die, I want to follow you forever!" Lao Dan could vaguely see in the darkness that strings of teardrops were dripping from the corners of Chen Yuming's eyes... The route of this great retreat was directed by the Nationalist Government.The transportation pressure to withdraw from the waterway was too great, and civilian ships had long been requisitioned to transport various industrial and government facilities, as well as hundreds of thousands of troops from Sichuan to Hubei to resist the Japanese army.The national government actively guided the people to retreat in an orderly manner by land, and the route was Wuhan-Xianning-Yueyang-Changsha.After passing through the so-called "eight hundred miles of Dongting", Lao Dan and his party finally arrived in Changsha, with numerous casualties along the way.Same as Lao Dan's impression when he first arrived in Wuhan, Changsha has become a big fortress, and its military deployment is more intensive than Wuhan. Everyone finally breathed a long sigh of relief after fleeing from the war-torn Wuhan. Everyone stayed in the city for only two days, and Lao Dan led everyone to continue to the southwest according to the address provided by the head of Mazi, passing through the old granary and heading towards the pseudo-mountain, to find Huang Baiyuan, the old superior of the head of the pockmarked group.His land was only more than a hundred miles away from Changsha City, but he made everyone wander around for three days, so they had learned about the complicated mountainous terrain in Hunan.Fortunately, Huang Baiyuan is a well-known figure in the local area, and all the way to inquire about it went very smoothly. After going through untold hardships, everyone finally found this legendary figure. The old man Huang Baiyuan is a full-fledged mountain man. Since the Central Plains War, he has lived in seclusion in his hometown in Hunan. The villagers affectionately call him "Huang Laozi".This person has a hot temper, tiger eyes and eagle nose, short and strong, like a half-burned tree stump in the forest, he can eat a catty of chili peppers for a meal, and drink a large pot of shochu.The old man Huang drank and scolded his mother when he opened his mouth, and smoked a hookah pipe when he closed his mouth.When the Central Army beat Feng Yuxiang back then, he served as the immediate superior of Commander Mazi.According to Captain Mazi's words, if Old Man Huang is happy one day and wants to drink with his heart, I will give it to him without hesitation, because Old Man Huang has saved countless lives. At least seven or eight scars on his body are related to Captain Mazi.After Lao Jiang ruled the world, the old man Huang could have been promoted to an official position, but he suddenly decided to give up. He brought a dozen people with seven or eight guns, and left Mr. Fat Zhu with comfort and a curse: "You motherfucker! You are a pig, I will not give you a name!" It turned out that when the warlords were fighting, Huang Baiyuan's troops drove Feng Yuxiang's troops away in the Central Plains. After occupying a county, the red-eyed Hubei troops plundered more than a hundred local women, and took turns to ravage them in the barracks. was dying.The women were thrown in an alley, and they were discovered by Mr. Huang's soldiers early in the morning.These poor women were naked with disheveled hair, bruised and terrified. Hundreds of them kowtowed to the head of the regiment, Huang Baiyuan, for help.Huang Baiyuan was about to rebel, so he brought a dozen or so soldiers in full armor and rushed into the division commander's room. The fat pig-like division commander actually played tricks and picked two of the most beautiful women. Double hit.Huang Baiyuan kicked him off the woman's body, almost breaking Mr. Fat Pig's tough guy who was busy... Huang Baiyuan vowed not to work for any army again, and returned to his hometown in Hunan with his brothers.The battle was over, but he was not honest.The country is in chaos, and a thousand wastes are waiting for prosperity.The rural areas of Hunan are full of unruly people, with knives and swords in every village, and the peasants who bend over to carry hoes at home are bandits with guns when they leave the village and go down the mountain.The old man Huang was very annoyed to see his hometown so dilapidated. The next day, he led his brothers over the mountain with knives and guns, decapitated a bandit leader, subdued a group of mob bandits, and packed up a team to go east. Conquering the West, after a few years, the small bandit gangs with a radius of hundreds of miles will rush to pay tribute to his Huang family every year.The old man Huang is rich and powerful, but he regards money as dung. He never hides it from the villagers and his subordinates. The old man Huang is already in his fifties, but has no heirs.In the civil war that year, a bullet knocked out almost all the parts between his legs, so he is still alone.He himself doesn't care about this, according to what he said, he no longer has to worry about his crotch getting rotten on rainy days, and he doesn't need to use his hands to pee.In the past, there were also a few caring women who were interested in him, saying that they didn't care about his faults, but he resolutely rejected them, saying that they didn't want to accept the live chicken?Ba sin!Later, he simply swore that he would never marry for life, and the proposer would come to this door!Now, his prestige in this area is as high as the sun, but he only lives in three humble adobe brick huts. In the room, there is a big bed, a big wooden table, a grand master's chair, two machetes, a row of Apart from the pistol, all you see inside and outside the house are wine vats. Old Hanton must drink every now and then, and get drunk every time he drinks.Now hearing that these dozen or so defectors were recommended by Captain Mazi, his hospitality was exceptionally warm, and all the ex-soldiers in the village were picked out by him to accompany the wine, and Lao Dan and others were tortured with shochu and chili Chen Yuming, who suffered from vomiting and diarrhea, and even two or three catties of old wine, was poured unconscious by the veterans in the village.The old man Huang also fell in love with that little girl Qiaoqiao. The girl's life experience made him feel distressed, and her spiritual energy made him happy again. At the banquet that day, she recognized her as her goddaughter.Lao Dan and others were very relieved, and they also began to like this domineering old man. One time when he was drunk, the old man Huang reclined in the chair of the master, patted his dark chest, pointed at the Lao Dans who had been swayed by him, and began to count: "Damn it, even if old man Jiang gave way to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu would not leave Huangjiachong! You still give him a pig's head to fight? Ma San'er has been with Lao Tzu for many years, but his mother is so stubborn. Turning around, I always think about being a high-ranking official, and I am obsessed with officials. I don’t even care about my parents! China has been ruined by outsiders for thousands of years? Tartar, isn’t it all in the Qing Dynasty? The emperor changed his face, and the common people have done it before! What about the little devils? Without the little devils, don’t our own people ruin each other? From the abdication of Xuantong to the entry of the devils, the mother is forced to fight back and forth, how can one day stop? Live? Take care of your own duck eggs to be serious, let me find you a decent Xiang girl, give birth to a bunch of puppies, and stay here honestly! In my Huangjiachong, I am Huang Laoguan If you ask any girl to sleep with you at night, she won't dare to fasten her pants and bring them!" "Grandpa, why didn't the government come over to take care of you? We fart carelessly in that place, and people in military uniforms come in at every turn. It's too late for us to hide, but we can't provoke you!" Lao Dan said with a smile. "Government? The grandsons of the turtles have been here many times, calling for three dings to get two, and two dings to get one. How can you make my Huang Jiachong's kid work for them? Honestly speaking, don't worry about it." The village chief and security chief were all tied up by Lao Tzu to go to the mountains. These grandsons couldn’t even find a ghost. No one led the way. How dare the grandchildren enter the mountain? When they left the city, I heard the wind. It's been two years, and they can't even catch a dog. I'm so anxious, I can gather tens of thousands of brothers in a radius of tens of miles with a stamp of my foot. Chiang’s Changsha city! The government’s central army? Hey, let the sons of the turtles go to the little devils! When the little devils come, I, the old man Huang, take them to the mountains and feed them all poisonous snakes to me. Stop talking nonsense, come drink with me!" When they first arrived at Huangjiachong, everyone was almost drunk.It is even more common for Lao Dan to drink all night with Old Man Huang.Lao Dan was amazed at how these bandits could hold so much alcohol. Although they drank rice wine, which was not like Central Plains spirits, it was better than Lao Jiao in the first place.In fact, it didn't slow down at all. I drank rice wine every day without stopping, fell asleep when I was drunk, and drank when I woke up. It was a hot day, and the brothers and a group of veterans in the village drank too much and took off their clothes one after another.The old man Huang drank so much oil that he saw the majestic scars on Lao Dan's upper body. He couldn't help but be a little surprised. He said that you have a lot of material on your body when you are young, so you have to let Lao Dan take off your clothes and try it out.Lao Dan, who was so drunk and dazed, was stripped naked by several veterans before he could figure out what was going on, scaring the onlookers Ma Zimei, Xiao Zhen and other girls to run away in fright. They l