It was Qiu Bo's group who rushed over for reinforcements when they heard the gunshots. He followed Shang Zhen's habit of concealing himself from the enemy and opening fire suddenly. By the time they opened fire, they were already very close to the Japanese army.
So by the time the Japanese troops reacted, they had already defeated half of them. After only a few minutes of fighting, only a few of those Japanese troops escaped, but the two teams of the guard company also suffered seven casualties and minor injuries. Five people were seriously injured and two were seriously injured.
Not to mention those who were killed in battle, the five lightly injured meant that they could still move with the army even if they had no fighting ability, but the outcome of the two seriously injured soldiers was already foreseeable.
"We two brothers are staying here, you can withdraw." A seriously injured man named Wang Cheng said, and then he said without waiting for others to persuade him, "First of all, you can't take us two away, it's too slow. . Secondly, even if we go back, we won’t be able to survive without medical treatment. It’s better to stay here to give you a break and die happily.”
The thigh of Wang Cheng's right leg was hit by the Japanese army, but the bullet did not pass through. It was probably stuck in the bone.
Although the leg has been restrained with a strip of cloth, the blood is still flowing out, and the entire right leg is covered in blood.
In China nowadays, let alone the Northeastern Army, in fact, it is absolutely rare for seriously injured soldiers like the Central Army to receive effective treatment.
Excessive blood loss and inflammation of the wound eventually cause other symptoms. Death is no longer an option. The only options are how to die and how long it will take to die.
Another seriously injured person was named Zhao Chengli. He was hit in the chest by a bullet. Of course, it was not the heart, so it could only be the lungs.
He can't speak now and coughs up blood whenever he speaks.
After listening to Wang Cheng's words, everyone looked at Qiu Bo.
Qiu Bo was also the backbone of Shang Zhen's original group, and after just one battle, the two groups recognized Qiu Bo's combat skills, so now it was natural that Qiu Bo needed to express his stance.
Qiu Bo was silent for a moment and then said, "Are there enough bullets?"
"That's enough. I guess I won't be able to fire a few rounds and that's it." Wang Cheng's words sounded a bit sad.
It doesn't matter if you can't fire a few rounds, everyone present will naturally understand.
After they fired a few shots at the Japanese troops who would come over soon, they would not survive.
"Whoever has any more grenades, leave two more for us brothers. If you die, die happily. Don't suffer the consequences of not dying anymore." Wang Cheng said again.
Of course, being punished means not dying. Who knows how the Japanese army will torture them once they become prisoners.
The wounded are an inevitable topic in war.
No matter how many enemies are eliminated in any battle, it is a drama to say that one's side has zero casualties, except for a few battle exceptions.
There cannot be no casualties, but just as history is written by the victors, when a protracted war against Japan is won, the victorious side can flatter its own side's bravery and good fighting, but intentionally or unintentionally ignore the tragedies of its ancestors at that time. .
A few minutes later, Qiu Bo, Yang Guanyin and the others met up with another group of people.
But at this moment, gunshots were heard from the direction they came from.
"Didn't you all come over? Why are you still shooting?" Hou Kanshan asked.
"Two brothers were injured and can no longer follow." Qiu Bo looked back in that direction and answered in a heavy tone.
"Oh" Hou Kanshan responded and then remained silent.
They are all veterans, and everything is kept in silence, but there is no tender friendship between men and women in this silence, but there is only sadness.
"Let's go and join the others. Now that the battle has begun, the Japanese army's revenge will come soon." Qiu Bo said.
Everyone was speechless and continued walking north.
But at this time, the gunfire in the direction they came from had stopped. As the soldier named Wang Cheng said, it was just a matter of shooting a few shots. Then they heard the explosion of a grenade.
Hou Kanshan looked at Qiu Bo with questioning eyes, and Tou Bo nodded to him.
Hou Kanshan also guessed why the grenade exploded.
"Actually -" In the silence, Hou Kanshan stopped talking.
"Actually what?" Qiu Bo asked.
"Actually, after my wife and children died and I was separated from everyone, I went to seek revenge on the little devil.
After the fight with the little devil is over, surviving is purely a matter of luck.
Later, I was rescued by an old lady. You should be able to imagine how I felt when I saw myself looking like this grandma.
The reason why I didn't die was because I still wanted revenge, and also because what had I become afraid of? As long as he is not dead, as long as he has arms and legs, he can still kill the little devil. "Hou Kanshan said slowly.
Hou Kanshan disappeared from Shang Zhen's group because his wife and children were killed, and when he returned to the group again, he had changed beyond recognition.
Of course the veterans knew at first that Hou Kanshan was stimulated by the murder of his wife and children by the Japanese army, so they naturally would not rub salt into his wounds and ask him about those things.
And after so many years, it seems that his wounds have become scarred, so of course some veterans with good intentions will ask, such as Qin Chuan.
But Hou Kanshan still kept silent, and when Qin Chuan asked again, Old Man Wang happened to hear him, and Old Man Wang scolded Qin Chuan, "Don't let your shit blow your throat."
As a result, why Hou Kanshan was disfigured has become one of the taboo topics among veterans, so much so that newcomers who joined later looked at Hou Kanshan’s “multi-layered” face and secretly asked why. , the standard answer among veterans is "Don't blow your throat."
Therefore, this was the first time that Hou Kanshan took the initiative to mention his matter.
Hou Kanshan's face was so ugly, so ugly that it was so unforgettable that even the soldiers in the former guard company were secretly curious. But now they finally heard the clues and sighed that it was so, that ugly face. There is indeed a sad story behind it.
"Actually -" Chen Hanwen, who was also in Hou Kanshan's group, suddenly said.
"What do you mean?" Qiu Bo asked angrily, while paying careful attention to the movements around him.
Chen Hanwen's scholarly pedantry lies not only in the fact that he reads from the book, but also in that he is never the protagonist with stories, whether legendary or sad, but he is always the one who comments on other people's stories.
There is never a shortage of such people in real life, but at the same time, such people are not so likable.
"Actually, I think from this perspective, our Northeast Army simply gave up on the three northeastern provinces." Chen Hanwen suddenly made shocking remarks.
"What? How to say it?" Qiu Bo was really shocked by Chen Hanwen's words.
The Northeastern Army, to be precise, part of the Northeastern Army was reviled by the Chinese people for abandoning the Northeast and losing the moral high ground in the War of Resistance. Therefore, the three Northeastern provinces abandoned their fathers and fellow villagers before the War of Resistance. I always listened with tears in my eyes. Those Northeastern exiled students who were also in tears sang "There are soybeans and high grain crops all over the mountains and plains" and the Northeast Army proposed "Be ashamed of life and be proud of death" in the all-out war of resistance.
But now Chen Hanwen says that abandoning the Northeast is the right thing to do. Isn't this outrageous?
"From this perspective, at least it avoids the separation of relatives or flesh and blood in person." Chen Hanwen said with a blushing face.
The reason why Chen Hanwen's face turns red is out of habit, because he is used to being snatched away by veterans.
However, even though he was used to veterans taking advantage of him, he was still used to expressing his opinions, and he developed a habit of blushing after speaking.
What needs to be said must be said. Although others call this "pedantic", he thinks it is called "scholar's backbone".
Chen Hanwen was right to turn red, because just after he said this, Qiu Bo was silent for a moment, thinking about the meaning of his words.
But then Qiu Bo cursed: "You just farted those tasteless farts, and you have a mouth that needs to be spat!"
(End of chapter)
