[When I first entered this world, the new editor I was in was preparing for the war, and the one who was scolded by everyone in private, saying that we would definitely be able to beat the little devil this time and didn't even know my parents...... But the result ...... Oh, rout, rout all the way. 】

The endless rout seemed to fill the world, and the summer of the deputy company commander Meng asked Deputy Meng Lian blankly:

"We ...... Where are we going? ”

A day ago, after the devils left their position to continue the attack, Deputy Meng Lian hastily bandaged the wounds, dragged the martyred and stunned summer and left the battlefield with one hundred and six comrades-in-arms in disarray.

And a day later, together with countless dazed defeated soldiers, they walked forward in a daze and numbness, not knowing the way back, not knowing the way to go.

Meng Lian said numbly: "Go where you should go." ”

"Where?"

"Go where you have to go."

"Where?" Summer continued to inquire and asked, Meng Lian roared: "Find a place to contain the rout, then go to war, and then continue to be a rout or like them, die in a place that deserves to die or doesn't deserve!" ”

"Oh." Summer replied lightly, looking at the many routs that could not be counted, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

One supported and the other accepted support, and the two continued to move forward with difficulty with the current, and finally came across a river that had become muddy due to the destruction of the army, and countless rout soldiers rushed over and joined the crowd of people who were ravaging the river.

The water became more and more muddy because of the ravages of countless routs, but the routs that came one after another did not care about the turbidity of the river, and poured the water into their mouths - the routs were like locusts, because they had no logistics, and everyone would use all kinds of methods to rob, plunder, and kill in order to eat a bite, and the more routs there were, the more the routs behind them, the more unable to find something to fill their stomachs.

What can they have to eat from this cripple and a new man who is full of fear of everything, the lowest of the routs?

Deputy Meng Lian pushed away Summer, tried to squeeze into the river, poured a belly of water into his stomach to suppress the desperate hunger, Summer looked at this group of people like cattle blankly, and finally gritted his teeth and squeezed to the river, after holding a handful of water in both hands, looking at the turbid water, he couldn't send the water to his mouth.

In the end, he did not bring water to his mouth, but soaked his hands in the river and washed his dirty hands over and over again.

Deputy Meng Lian, who was full of drinks, squeezed away the defeated soldiers around him, found his "crutch" and said, "We should go." ”

Summer shook her head and said, "Wait." ”

After waiting for a long time, after finally there were no sheep around him, he took off his dirty shoes, rolled up his trouser legs, and walked into the middle of the river, and after cleaning his helmet for a while, he carefully scooped up the river water of a helmet.

Deputy Meng Lian looked at Summer's actions, laughed and said, "It's useless, it's useless, those bastards are ruining in the upper class, it's the same everywhere you drink, it's all the same." ”

He remembered the beginning of his abandonment of the pen - when he followed the rout, but he hated not to drink the dirty water, the fool-like horse and donkey who smashed the tank with the butt of a gun laughed at him for being a fool, he stubbornly waited until the water was clear and drank a heart, and in the upper reaches of the river, he saw countless corpses stuffed in the river.

Look, it's the same—it's all the same, it's the same rout, it's the same river, it's the same desperate and hopeless defeat.

In the summer, he didn't know the mental activities of Meng Lian, he went ashore with a helmet full of water, and carefully handed the helmet to Meng Lian, who was already a lieutenant at the age of 24 and had experienced countless defeats, and then looked for firewood, took the matches that Meng Lian had never lit on the battlefield, and built a bonfire that made people want to cry.

"Even if it's dirty, boiled water is cleaner than cold water." After washing his hands, Xia explained his actions, Meng Lian looked at Xia and washed his hands, the hands that still looked dirty but were obviously washed were very dazzling, and he said:

"It's useless, it's useless to wash it, it'll be dirty in a while."

"Wash it when it's dirty, don't move," Xia Xia, who was squatting in front of Meng Lian's vice-chairman, said disapprovingly, while untying the bandage of Meng Lian's hastily exploding wound - if that was called a bandage.

"This thing is too dirty, it must be infected, take boiling water and boil it to sterilize."

Meng Lian was stunned, he seemed to have forgotten the knowledge in school, he looked at Xia blankly, desperately thinking about the past, but ......

Those memories seem to be separated from me for several lifetimes.

After a long time, Deputy Meng Lian said, "You are different from them. ”

Summer looked at the bandages soaked in the water, and after a long time, said, "It's the same." ”

The same lowliness.

Deputy Meng Lian understood what "the same" meant in Summer's mouth, he laughed and said, "Yes, it's the same, sooner or later it will be the same." ”

Deputy Meng Lian only carefully looked at his "crutch" at this time - the new editor he was in could see a lot of things from the name, if he was not familiar with the reason why most of the soldiers were not familiar, he looked at the young face and asked, "How old is it?" ”

“20。”

"It's about the same as I was back then." Meng Lian sighed with emotion, and then said, "Why don't you call me like them?" ”

After appearing in that company in the summer, everyone shouted "Lianza" or "Chief" when they called the company commander, because the company commander's official authority was very heavy, but to Meng Lian's deputy, everyone would only shout "annoying".

Even if you shout "sir" at the beginning, when you get to the back, you shout "annoying".

Because Meng Lian was annoyed by Meng Lian, and he had no official authority.

"I shouted."

"You, I thought they were dead, and no one called me that anymore." Meng Lian laughed wildly, laughed and laughed but began to howl miserably, tears came out together, one hundred and six men, familiar, unfamiliar, where Quan Tema was lying, no one collected the corpses, no one erected a monument for them—because they were defeated, because the little devil would at most find the peasants to dig a pit, pile them in the pit, cover them with soil, and it would be over.

A group of lives, humbly struggling for decades, young, strong or old and weak, all piled together, regardless of each other, turned into fertilizer.

In the summer, he didn't have the same feelings as Meng Lian, but he felt very cold, piercing his heart and penetrating the cold of the bone marrow, when he was in a coma, he was dragged away by Meng Lian, and he didn't see the corpses all over the place, but he remembered the crowds of people when he went to the battlefield, and remembered the desire for victory on the battlefield.

And now, only two poor creatures are left to live aimlessly.

……

Soldiers like bandits - When soldiers with guns could not be fed, they had to become bandits to fill their stomachs, and for the sake of local security, the army had to set up a shelter to restrain the routs to contain the routs.

Along the way, in the summer of supporting Meng Lian, he saw one shelter after another in the town and county town along the way, but the answers he got were full, and then pointed out the direction for the aimless rout, and sent a little food to fill their stomachs like a flower child, and let them go to the next shelter - again and again to show the way, and numb forward again and again, finally, twenty days later, a shelter established in a small town called Chanda contained the two routs.

[Along the road for twenty days, I have seen a lot of routs, and even walked with many routs, but between us, there is no friendship of warming, only plunder and poor interdependence, but after arriving at Zenda, all this has changed. 】

Chanda is a small town, and the small town has been baptized by waves of routs and has become even more destitute.

In order to restrain these routs, the commanders had to turn an alley into a military zone, and concentrate all the routs in the military zone - but it was not very useful, because the sentries at both ends of the alley were still served by the routs, and how could the routs restrain each other?

In the summer, he helped Meng Lian and walked into the dirty, messy, poor, and smelly alleys, and then asked if he could have a partner in one room after another, and was finally led to a stinky yard by an old man with a sad face.

"Chief Lin, there are two people here, add us here." After the old man entered the door, he shouted to an officer with clear eyebrows, and the reason why he could see that the other party was an officer was because the other party was still wearing a school uniform-the frightening rank of major was hanging, but after the major opened his mouth, Deputy Meng Lian, who was supported in the summer, immediately returned to his usual nonchalant posture.

From a college life student to a defeated soldier and then to an old defeated soldier, he instantly understood the root cause of Meng Lian's state change.

This major, not worth mentioning.

The major's response made this courtyard have two more people, and the rout soldiers in the courtyard looked at the two newly added people numbly, without any reaction, Xia cautiously glanced at it, and after finding a place to stay, he wanted to help Meng Lian over.

"Eh, he's injured, he should go to the wounded barracks," the old man stopped the two at this time, and said, "Why don't you send him to my wounded barracks?" ”

"Wounded barracks?" Summer looked at the old man in surprise, the old man's bitter and hateful face looked radiant at that moment, and he asked cautiously: "Are you a military doctor?" ”

"Medic? Veterinarian bar! A joking voice came from the rout: "Veterinarian Hao's wounded barracks, there are eleven guys waiting to die now, don't go to this guy first, when his wound is inflamed and needs to die, just throw it and wait for death." ”

The playful voice speaks of horrific cruelty.

"Veterinarian Hao is not a doctor - he is a veterinarian, a bullshit wounded barracks, if you want medicine or not, if you want to eat, we are waiting for death here, and if you go to the wounded barracks, you will die."

The cruel words made Veterinarian Hao shout: "A few donkeys, can you speak human words?" ”

"What howl? Still don't let people sleep? A voice full of Northeast flavor sounded from a recliner not far away, and a man covered in flesh shouted: "Is there a lot of?" Hey, there's a newcomer? The man was pleasantly surprised and said:

"Hey, I have food, canned food, clothes, what do you want, do you want it?"

In normal times, Summer's first reaction was to be, but in the twenty days of the rout, he learned a lot of truths that he might not be able to understand in his life, and sure enough, the other party's next sentence proved his foresight:

"Lao Tzu is not deceived when he does business, but there is only one rule, and he does not owe credit! If you want to come hard, Lao Tzu welcomes it, and Lao Tzu wants to send bones. ”

"We don't want it." Meng Vice-Lian seemed to have seen too much of this kind of bully-like existence, and said with a hint of flattery, completely ignoring his official authority, although he has never had any official authority to speak of.

In this way, two new routs were added to this courtyard, who were just as pitiful as the previous residents.

The familiarity between the routs is often because of hunger, after the two settled, there was a steady stream of routs who came up to ask if there was anything to eat, but the reality made them disperse quickly, only one of the routs who spoke with the taste of Shanxi asked tirelessly:

"Do you have anything to eat?"

"Is there a fire?"

"Do you have a needle and thread?"

"Do you have any smoke?"

"Do you have any tobacco?"

Xia didn't answer at first, and when the other party asked for it in the third sentence, he didn't bother to say more, but this person kept asking, asking for something that would never be available to Xia and Deputy Meng Lian - it wasn't until later that Xia didn't know that this thing was called Kang Ya, or an officer, a ridiculous warrant officer platoon commander, but now he was just an idiot with only one button, no soldiers, no guns, and no bullets.

Or maybe it's a look of self-preservation.

The courtyard was calm again, but there was one place that attracted the attention of many people—the place where the eyes of the routs were gathered, the chaise longue and the room behind the chaise longe.

"Any idea what's in that room? Clothes, food, canned food, cigarettes, and medicine, you see your companion, he is injured and must be in need of medicine. "Someone tempts Summer in the ears of Summer, it is a sloppy person with a blue nose and swollen face, and a blue nose and swollen face are the common image of many defeated soldiers in this courtyard, and sloppy is the same as the common image.

Summer's heart moved for a moment, but he was grabbed by Meng Lian's wrist by his side, and Meng Lian's deputy said to the rout who tempted Summer:

"The two of us have been going all the way for twenty days."

The defeated soldiers looked at Deputy Meng Lian in confusion.

"In other words, the two of us dare to join forces to beat you, do you think you have someone to help?" Meng Lian shook his fist, and the other party was stunned, muttering:

"It's amazing to beat people, huh? If you have the ability to beat the lost dragon, I will tell you that as long as you defeat the lost dragon, you will be able to eat and drink spicy food. ”

"Get out!" Meng Lian's face changed, the other party was no longer entangled, slowly moved away, and after this person left, Meng Lian's deputy whispered to Xia: "Learn to be smart here, don't think about snatching food from bullies, and don't try to trust other people - they will only throw you out as a scapegoat at a critical time." ”

Summer nodded, indicating that he would not be reckless - it didn't take long for him to see the savagery and toughness of the dragon, a rout to please and the dragon tried to negotiate, and the essence of the negotiation is the white wolf with empty gloves, the dragon quickly turned his face, and waved down with an old fist, and the negotiating rout ran into the crowd to try to attract reinforcements, but everywhere he went, all the rout retreated, and they didn't even have the courage to face the dragon.

The defeated soldiers couldn't run, and became a pitiful worm trembling under the dragon's fist, and the dragon was beaten very fiercely, so fierce that he was beating to death.

"Don't fight, if you fight again, you'll kill someone." A very light persuasion sounded, and Summer looked at it in surprise, only to find that it was the major who spoke - the major's voice was very soft, as if he was whispering, and the sound of persuasion was so far away that it startled a lot of routs, and the routs looked over, but the major who spoke out was restless, like a shy girl.

Summer wanted to laugh, but then he was dumb, he thought at that moment: Himself, what face do you have to laugh at others?

The lost dragon was still beating this rout who didn't know whether to live or die, surrounded by indifferent eyes, and finally, Summer roared like an idiot and a fool: "Beaten! If you fight again, you'll be killed! ”

The furious dragon looked at the shouting summer like a hungry wolf, and just when Summer thought that he would be angry and majestic like a ruffian, the dragon stopped waving his fist and cursed loudly:

"Kill you bastard! Aren't you very capable? Aren't you very powerful? Aren't you very dignified? Look at what you look like now, you're a dead dog! Do you understand? You're a dead dog now! Why are you negotiating with Lao Tzu? Li Wula, what kind of face do you have to negotiate with Lao Tzu? ”

Summer can see that the dragon is really angry and questioning, not the kind of killer monkey who is powerful, obviously there is a story that has to be told between the two, and in the rout, this kind of story that has to be told is often very cruel.

The lost dragon let go of the half-dead defeated soldier and returned to his recliner, while the veterinarian Hao, who had not yet left, stepped forward slowly, checked the guy who seemed to have been killed, and finally muttered, ignoring it, it seems that this person did not meet the requirements for entering his wounded barracks.

The end of a brief one-sided beating brought calm and despair back to the place, and the cries of the routs rang out: "Hungry, hungry......"

"Hunger can torment us, what do we do when we are hungry? Who to torture? ”

"Toss the official master."

"The official can't find the shadow, but God can find it at a glance, God will give you a face, and throw some pies to eat."

The soldiers were numb and said that some people had to leave the yard because of hunger and went outside to find food, and after a long time, they came back one after another, most of them came back with blue noses and swollen faces, and only a few people could show a hint of happiness with food in their stomachs.

The Major also returned, without a blue nose and swollen face, and without a sense of happiness that filled his stomach, only shame, embarrassment, and sneer, but soon he returned to his previous appearance, and this time he said to the others with a thought that had been firm for a long time: "We ...... We can't go on like this...... We want to be united, we want to ......"

"Is there food to eat for unity?"

"Can unity be eaten?"

The major who had spoken a few words was gone, and his firm thoughts vanished.

The stomach croaked skillfully again, and the filled stomach that I found on the road protested again, and Xia touched my stomach and whispered to Meng Lian, "I'm hungry." ”

He and Meng Lian surviving each other for twenty days, the biggest credit is that Meng Lian was able to find food in various ways - in order to mix a bite, Meng Lian even took the credit for destroying a tank with Molotov cocktails in the summer, and pressed this credit on himself, and used miserable or tricky ways to get food again and again.

Xia also seemed to have forgotten that he had this credit, because he understood that this credit could not be exchanged for a small piece of dry steamed bread for himself, but in the hands of Meng Lian Vice, it could be exchanged for food.

"Let's go, let's go get some food." Meng Lian deputy motioned for his crutches to help himself, and the two left the courtyard, and began to dangle in the huge Chanda - Chanda is really a small place, waves of rout soldiers have taken away the local people's right to respect heroes and sympathize with the rout, Meng Lian deputy begged without shame or impatience, and did not ask for a bite to eat.

When people are hungry, everything can be discarded.

So Deputy Meng Lian once again discarded his self-esteem, and after begging to no avail, he snatched the food behind the woman, and then ran away with Xia Xian's skillful door, and in the chicken, fly and dog jump, the two split their troops and ran away.

[I ran fast, like a four-legged dog, for fear of being caught up by the people behind, I was not afraid of being beaten, terrible those people crying in despair, everyone has the right to fight or fight for their own food, we have, they also have - it's just that we should be their protectors, but the truth is that for a bite to eat, we are snatching food from their mouths. 】

There were no pursuers behind him, but Summer was still running, running all the time, until he couldn't run anymore, then he fell asleep on the ground, looking at the blue sky in despair.

Tears rolled down her eyes.

Why?

Summer wants to ask, why is she like this?

[I was thinking, I shouldn't have lived so humbly, even if I died, I shouldn't have been like this, or I should go to the Japanese and use the most passionate attitude to get a hero's end - that's better than being as pitiful as a stray dog like this!] 】

Just when Summer was imagining a heroic death for himself, a timid voice full of Sichuan flavor sounded in his ears:

"Hey, what's the matter with you?"

When he turned back in the summer and saw that it was a delicate girl, his first reaction was to pretend to wipe away his tears inadvertently, and subconsciously replaced it with the humility and pity of eating with Meng Vice Lian before, but then he hid it again and became expressionless.

"It's okay, you...... Is there something wrong with you? ”