The rear of the battlefield was busy. It was crowded with officers and soldiers who had withdrawn from the front. They were soldiers of the 216th Regiment of the 108th Brigade of the 36th Division.
The busy ones were the logistics personnel, while the officers and soldiers were sitting on the ground, staring blankly ahead.
Obviously, most of them have not yet recovered from that fierce battle.
Fighting always involves blood and pain.
Now, the bloody moment has passed, leaving only the pain.
In this battle alone, the 216th Regiment lost no less than 500 people. Of course, these were only the casualties of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, not counting the 3rd Battalion!
Among the 500 people who died, the first battalion was mainly the main one. The second battalion was the last battlefield of the reserve team, so the casualties were not that big.
Fatigue and pain are constantly tormenting this group of veterans who have just come off the battlefield. Most of them have some minor injuries on their bodies, but what is more painful than the physical injuries is The comrades who lived together day and night died at the expense of others.
Some of them looked up to the sky, with confusion in their eyes, as if they were asking God, when will these days end? When will there be peace?
Everything seems to have stopped. If someone takes a camera to capture this scene, this photo will definitely become a classic and be collected in the post-war memorial hall.
However, that is all a matter for the future.
"Shasha... Shasha..."
There was a sound of footsteps, which attracted the attention of the officers and soldiers - they were footsteps coming from the direction of the battlefield, and they were very slow.
Walking in front was a tall, handsome officer. The officers and soldiers of the 216th Regiment present recognized him as Lieutenant Zhang Tianhai, commander of the second company of the first battalion.
The commander of the second company came back alive with the officers and soldiers of the second company! We also captured a dozen prisoners!
The whole place was excited!
All the officers and soldiers present stood up silently and gave a military salute to the brothers who had returned alive.
"Uh-huh!"
The officers and soldiers raised their right hands in unison.
"Welcome back brothers from the Second Company!!!" A loud shout came from the crowd. Zhang Tianhai looked in the direction where the voice came from and saw that it was Sun Hong, the Third Company Commander, his old classmate and comrade.
"Huh~~"
There was a burst of cheers from the crowd, mixed with lots of applause.
Obviously, they thought that all the brothers in the second company had been sacrificed in the overwhelming artillery fire. But at this time, the brothers in the second company came back alive. Can they be unhappy?
The most important thing is that they came back with a group of prisoners!
Looking at this welcoming formation, Zhang Tianhai showed a rare smile of relief on his face.
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Just as you are watching the scenery on the bridge, the people watching the scenery are watching you upstairs.
Zhang Tianhai was looking at the comrades around him who were welcoming them back, but there was a person in the distance who was looking at him silently, his eyes moistening quietly.
That person is Shen Wei.
Shen Wei naturally knew about the bombardment that shook the world - when the bombardment started, Commander Song Xilian and Song were furious, and he hastily issued an order for the 216th Regiment to withdraw from the battlefield.
When Commander Song gave the order to retreat, she was not far away and happened to hear the order.
But when Shen Wei looked for the tall and handsome figure in the retreating crowd, she couldn't find it; the eyes that impressed her so deeply were missing.
As for the shelling formation, she was a bystander, so she naturally knew about it. The fierce shelling lasted for about three or four minutes. If no one was seen in the retreating crowd, they would probably not be able to come back or die.
When she thought he had died, he appeared with dozens of officers and soldiers under his command, and more than a dozen Japanese prisoners behind him, in full view of the crowd.
The moment he appeared, Shen Wei's heart filled with worries about gains and losses. Full of joy and joy.
"It turns out that he is still alive." Shen Wei murmured softly.
Just as Shen Wei was looking at Zhang Tianhai blankly, a voice full of envy came from beside her: "That officer over there is so handsome, and he is so good at fighting. Look at those little devils we captured. , withered head and brain. If only I could marry such a man..."
Shen Wei was so startled by the voice that goosebumps arose all over her body. She looked back with hostility, wasn't it the "nymphomaniac" Huang Jihua among them?
After seeing that it was Huang Jihua, the hostility deep in Shen Wei's eyes subsided. It turned out that she was so fascinated that she didn't even recognize Huang Jihua's voice for a while.
"Well, he is indeed an excellent man." Shen Wei said softly, agreeing with Huang Jihua's words.
"Shen Wei." Huang Jihua gently climbed onto Shen Wei's shoulder and shouted.
"Yes." Shen Wei responded, her eyes never leaving that figure.
Huang Jihua pursed her lips slightly and said, "He should be the officer who chatted with you this morning, right?"
Hearing this, Shen Wei nodded slightly and said, "Well, that's him."
"Hey..." Huang Jihua sighed softly, with a trace of unbearable expression on her fair and gentle face: "Shen Wei, I can see that you like him very much, because when you look at him, there is a smile on his face. She has a look that our sisters have never seen before, full of hope and full of joy."
"Really? But what if he likes it? We will leave Shanghai soon, and they will continue to fight the Japanese on this battlefield. Maybe one day, he will die on this battlefield, not sure. "Shen Wei shook her head slightly, feeling sad when she mentioned this. Fate is a wonderful thing. It not only brought them together, but it also told them: There is no result between you.
China is so big, the carriages and horses are far away, and this life is a chaotic time, but he happens to be engaged in the most dangerous profession of this era - a soldier.
At this moment, she wished that Zhang Tianhai was an ordinary person. That would be great. Even if he was a teacher, even if he was a student, that would be great...
In the past, she always imagined that the person she liked and fell in love with was a hero and would appear in front of everyone's attention.
But when that person appeared, and he appeared just like she expected. He was tall, handsome, and a fighting hero. He appeared in her world under the spotlight...
But when her "dream" was about to come true, she suddenly felt that it didn't matter whether that person was a hero or not. What was important was that he should be safe...
"Then you have to say it. It's not easy for us girls to meet someone we like. This life is in troubled times. If we miss it, it will be a lifetime." Huang Jihua said softly, her words full of melancholy.
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