Suddenly, Xiao Jian found a national army officer standing in front of him, and he said loudly: "Lie down, you don't want to die." The officer remained motionless, he walked over and looked, and in the dim light he found a man with a sword in his hand, the light of which had been inserted into the earth, his abdomen wrapped in white gauze, and a military map hanging on the wall in front of him. A thin man, very handsome, in his thirties.

"Brigadier Zhu!" Xiao Jian blurted out. He recognized him at a glance. shouted loudly: "Brigade Commander Zhu! ”

There was no answer.

"He's dead." Xiao Jian said. Respectfully bowed to Zhu Chi at ninety degrees.

Xiao Jian also gave him a military salute. Although Xiao Jian and Zhu Chi had only met once, they left a deep impression on him. He was an anti-Japanese hero, and he led a military police brigade to fight bloody battles with two wings of the Japanese army, all of whom died heroically.

Zhu Chi, whose name is Xinmin, is a native of Xiushui County, Jiangxi Province. After graduating from the military academy, he participated in the Northern Expedition and fought bravely and made great achievements. Later, he participated in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and made many achievements. After repeatedly defeating strong enemies in the Songhu battlefield, he led two military police regiments to defend Yuhuatai in the defense of Nanjing. In a bloody battle, during the subsequent Japanese charge, Brigade Commander Zhu Chi was hit in the abdomen by a Japanese artillery shell, and his intestines flowed out on the spot. Zhu Chi stuffed his intestines back into his stomach and prepared to continue commanding the battle, but because he was too seriously injured, he soon fell and passed out. Didn't think he'd be here. At his feet, there was a pile of paper ashes, classified documents that he had burned.

His eyes were wide as if he had something to say. After Xiao Jian gave a military salute, he said to him: "Brigade Commander Zhu, my name is Xiao Jian, the head of the military police regiment, Chairman Jiang has withdrawn his troops, I have not left, I am on the order of Commander Xiao Shanling, stick to Nanjing, and fight the little devil to the end." As soon as Xiao Jian's words were finished, Zhu Chi's body fell to the ground. Xiao Jian stood next to his corpse and gently rubbed his face with his hand, his eyes finally closed.

At this time, he found a corpse lying not far away, he stepped forward to see, his whole body had been beaten by bullets, he knew him, his name was Hua Pinzhang. Colonel of the 262 Brigade Deputy Brigade Commander. He led the troops to make the final resistance, and in the face of the Japanese army's crazy onslaught again, the officers and men of the brigade still had the fierce fire of bullets, and those who did not have bullets raised their bayonets in hand-to-hand combat, and finally the whole army was annihilated.

Xiao Jian continued his search and found thousands of corpses in the tunnel. They were all moved back into the tunnel from their positions.

Xiao Jian immediately ordered: "Move all the corpses of the national troops outside the position into the tunnel, and don't let them burst into the wilderness." ”

"Yes!"

At this moment, the position has been quiet, there is no gunfire, no more fighting and strangulation. Only a pack of wild dogs were fighting for food on the carcasses that were not buried in time. They are all from the national army, and the bodies of the Japanese soldiers have long been dragged away.

Xiao Jianhe carried the corpses of his fallen comrades into the tunnel one by one. After 22 days of bloody fighting, he didn't know how many bodies of his comrades he carried. They all sacrificed their lives for the country, and many of them couldn't even know their names. In this bloody war, how many soldiers sacrificed their precious lives to defend against foreign aggression.

The sky gradually darkened, and Xiao Jian was busy for more than an hour before moving the remains of his comrades into the tunnel, where there were no tombstones, no crying, no wreaths, no send-offs from relatives, only gunfire and cannon sound one after another.

Xiao Jian stood in front of the tunnel and bowed deeply, he wanted to cry, but there were no tears, only anger and hatred. For comrades-in-arms, for the backwardness of the country. A large country with a 5,000-year-old civilization was bullied by a small island country. It is said that the ancestors of Japan were in China. It was during the reign of Qin Shi Huang that he sent three hundred boys and boys to the sea to find the elixir of immortality, but he did not expect to be gone, and these three hundred boys and girls established a powerful country on an island overseas, this country is called Japan, they forgot their ancestors, returned to their homeland that was once their homeland, killed people and set fires, and did all kinds of evil. This is the sorrow of the Chinese nation. Thinking about all this, Xiao Jian couldn't help but shout loudly: "Comrades-in-arms, rest in peace!" Your blood will not flow spontaneously, as long as I Xiao Jian is here, I will seek justice for my brothers! Murder pays for life, blood debt and blood repay! After a while, Xiao Jiancai said in a slow and heavy tone: "Comrades, the little devils occupy my mountains and rivers, kill our people, and are mad. But our army fled for their lives, abandoning the 700,000 inhabitants of the city, and I did not wear this uniform. Let's take off our uniforms! From now on, we are no longer called the national army, we are anti-Japanese falcons, hunting the sun to kill gods, and killing devils. In the face of evil, never retreat! Vow to live and die with Nanjing. After Xiao Jian finished speaking, he was the first to take off the uniform of the national army. Then, the remaining 22 people took off their national army uniforms.

Xiao Jian took the remaining twenty-three people, silently left Yuhuatai, and strode into Nanjing City, at this moment Nanjing City has been controlled by the Japanese army, and there are no national troops resisting the Japanese army in the city, only the little devil with a bayonet is killing. The national troops who did not retreat in time in the city had been shot by the Japanese army, and those who were not shot were taken prisoner by the Japanese army. One by one, they were tied with ropes and driven out of the city. Like the sin lamb of sin, ready to be put to death at any time, life is no longer one's own. There is no law here, killing a Chinese is like stepping on an ant. The inhabitants of the city are like headless flies, chased and beaten by ghosts, and the wounded and sick are stabbed by devils as target knives, and blood is splattered. Every devil's bayonet is bloody.

Xiao Jian didn't expect the Japanese army to kill the defenseless residents, did they want to slaughter the city?

There were no more soldiers of resistance from the national army, and they were seen by panicked citizens and devils who were constantly sniping at citizens with bayonets. They kill the old man and the child without hesitation, and to the young women, like a group of vicious beasts, they frantically pounce on the frightened women without any scruples to vent their **. Even girls of a few years old were not spared. The Japanese army has gone mad.

At this time, Xiao Jian saw a group of Japanese soldiers chasing a young female student, from the school uniform she was wearing, the logo of the school uniform was a student of Nanjing University of Arts and Sciences. The school is run by an American. This church-like school is protected by the Americans. Therefore, Nanjing Women's College of Arts and Sciences is the only relatively safe place in Nanjing.

At this time, Xiao Jian saw that the female student was fighting with a group of devils, but the female student was not the opponent of the devils at all. The clothes on the girl's chest were cut by a saber, and she looked desperately at the swarming devils, and issued a final plea for help: "Help! Help me! Her voice was almost drowned out by the lewd laughter of the swarming devils.

When Xiao Jian saw the female students, he suddenly seemed to be crazy, rushed forward without hesitation, pulled out his pistol, and ordered in a low voice: "Kill them!" Don't use guns, use knives. Xiao Jian's words just fell. In less than two minutes, six devils were sent into the ghost gate.

Xiao Jian picked up the terrified female student from the ground and said, "I'll send you back to school." Schools are the safest. ”

The schoolgirl shook her head and said, "There is no safe place in Nanjing. Thank you for saving my life, who are you? Why save me? “

"I'm Chinese, I'll send you back to school!" Xiao Jian sent the female students to Nanjing University of Arts and Sciences.

"Tell me! Big brother, what's your name? You saved my life, and I must repay you! ”

"Repay!" Xiao Jian said calmly: "I'm a soldier!" It's my duty to save people from fire and water! ”

At this moment, a familiar voice came from behind: "Captain Xiao, I have found you." ”

"Who are you?"