Under the dim oil lamp, the distant cannon still rumbled.

The thin and sad back of the watermelon made Liu Xueyuan stop walking, and she could only watch quietly and wait silently like all the commanders of the soldier.

Waiting for him to recover from his pain is also the duty of a soldier.

Soldiers must learn to bear the sacrifice and bear the pain of the departure of their comrades-in-arms, otherwise how can they support the country and the nation. In any age, they must be made of steel and iron, even if they are weak.

No one comforts anyone, because no one can comfort them.

The sorrow of nearly 2,000 robes that almost all died in battle is a sorrow that only those who are in it can understand; Suddenly being unfamiliar with the pain, and only your own heart can feel the pain.

Perhaps, only the lieutenant general of the army who is a little bit of Huafa laughs.

Of course he has to laugh, although his 17th Division is half disabled, and nearly half of his more than 10,000 Shaanxi Lengwa has been lost, there is still hope. This soldier is hope.

Besieged by nearly 1,000 Japanese troops and shelled by thousands of shells, he was still able to escape. Isn't this just like China? It seems that the Japanese are powerful and invincible, and it seems that the country is about to be ruined. However, the soldier's experience tells everyone that as long as you persevere, as long as you don't give up, there will be a light of day.

China, like this most ordinary soldier, will surely usher in the dawn after a long period of darkness.

As long as there is a dawn, what are the more than 17 people in the 17th Division? What is the 100,000 troops on the Jindong front? What are China's current million soldiers? For the continuation of the national bloodline, and for future generations to live in the light, these people can sacrifice as much as they can.

As long as the people who are in it do not choose to sleep because of the darkness.

This couldn't help but make the lieutenant general casually chant a golden sentence that Liu Tuanzuo said: Darkness gives us black eyes, but we use him to find light.

Seeing Liu Xueyuan's beautiful eyes swept over with great admiration, the lieutenant general couldn't help but blush slightly, and said with a light smile: "Reporter Liu, this is not written by my old Zhao, but your Liu Tuanzuo's high talent." ”

Faced with the ridicule of the lieutenant general who finally saw the hope that he was in a good mood, Liu Xueyuan was generous this time: "Division Commander Zhao, Commander Liu's poems are certainly wonderful, but your "lady is like frost outside the moon" is not weaker than him at all, and it can definitely be passed down through the ages. ”

"It is not my verses that have been passed down through the ages, but him and them." Zhao Shoushan's face welled up with a sense of gloom, and he pointed to the back of the watermelon that was still sobbing and stirring the watermelon, as well as the position outside the headquarters. "The names of all of them will be erected on the monument, in this Donkey Ridge, and in the hearts of the Chinese people in my future generations. My biggest wish in Zhao Shoushan is that one day, I can put my name together with them, with Zhang Shijun, with Zhang Dengdi, and with Liu Xitang. Chief of Staff, if one day I die in battle and bother you, please scatter my ashes on this Donkey Ridge and Snow Flower Mountain, and I will, together with them, stay in the Donkey Ridge forever. ”

Li Zhuting, chief of staff of the 17th Division, whose eyes were a little red, nodded and said, "Division, Zhuting will live up to your trust." If one day, the bamboo pavilion falls, please also ask the master to do so. ”

"Haha, okay, it's a word." Zhao Shoushan and his most trusted chief of staff looked at each other and smiled and high-fived each other, and then patted the watermelon that was still sobbing: "Melon cowardice, you are all the company commanders, why are you crying?" The 102nd regiment is gone, Lao Tzu will rebuild, the 2nd battalion is gone, Lao Tzu will also be rebuilt, and the 5th company is gone, it will be your time to rebuild. It's time for you to tell me how you fought that battle, and how you came back alive from there. ”

When the watermelon, who calmed down a little, talked about the encounter on the No. 1 position, there was silence in the headquarters again.

Although they knew that it must have been extremely tragic, they were still shocked.

The wounded, hiding in the pile of corpses, pulled grenades and explosives packs, and the remnants of the soldiers carried rifles and drove the flesh of their comrades to knock down the devils who rushed into the position. Once, twice, three times, until the last man left on the position.

They didn't even have time to count the number of kills. Perhaps, because there is no need for that, no one will think that they will go back alive. The so-called military exploits, in the face of death, have long been insignificant.

Until after the war, the lieutenant general did not know how many enemies his fifth company had destroyed at the cost of only one remaining casualty in the company. It wasn't until many years later, when a battle report of the 20th Division declassified by the Japanese War Department that provided this answer.

In the first battle of the No. 1 position of Xuehuashan, although the Chinese defenders were completely annihilated, the 80th Infantry Brigade of the 9th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army was killed and 73 wounded in the battle. The reason why there are fewer injuries than deaths is that the Chinese soldiers, whether they are hand-to-hand combat or disguised as corpses in ambush, use grenades and explosives packs as the last means of resistance.

At that time, the lieutenant general of the army, who was already a high-ranking official in a certain province of the Republic and rarely drank alcohol, drank a pound of Xifeng wine that night and was so drunk that he was unconscious. According to his wife and children, the general was drunk and muttered a sentence that was mostly repeated: My fifth company, a good son of Shaanxi.

Indeed, in such a predicament, it can still play a casualty ratio of 1 to 1.5, and it is the side with fewer Chinese soldiers, creating the most fires in China during the 77 incident, and the general is extremely proud of his subordinates. They died as they deserved.

The fifth company fought extremely bravely, and the last person on the position to be covered by the artillery battalion directly under the division headquarters ------ the last person to escape from the artillery battalion directly under the division headquarters is even more legendary.

Fifty shells, enough to cover the entire position twice, almost without dead ends. The fact that a small squad of Japanese troops attacked the position, 26 people were killed and 10 wounded.

But the watermelon, who had closed his eyes and was waiting to die, survived. A shell exploded five meters away from him, and the violent explosion directly stunned him, and the collapsing trench covered him from head to toe until he woke up from a coma late a day later.

Although he was in great pain, he was still alive.

The trench was built on a stone mountain, and the collapsed trench wall was naturally also stone, although his face was smashed to bruises, but it provided him with enough passage to breathe, if it had been replaced by a pure earth trench, he would have suffocated to death due to the lack of oxygen.

Escaping the threat of shells is still one of them, and the Japanese army who attacked the position in the follow-up and had red eyes and was eager for revenge was the biggest threat to the seriously injured and dying watermelon.

However, there were almost no corpses of the Chinese defenders on the positions for them to vent. The bodies of most of the officers and soldiers were hidden by Zhang Dengdi in the anti-artillery holes, and then buried with grenades. The rest either died with grenades and explosives bags in the form of crushing the Japanese troops, or were killed in battle and were blown up by mountain artillery bombardment.

The Japanese army just wanted to get angry but couldn't find the target to get angry. In addition, with the fall of position No. 1, the rest of the 102nd regiment quickly retreated, and position No. 1 became useless, and the Japanese army left after simply searching the position to confirm that there was no longer a single Chinese alive on the position.

The two armies spent two days, one attacking and the other defending, and the positions of more than 300 people killed on both sides turned into useless places after 20 minutes.

In fact, not only the No. 1 position, but also the entire Xuehua Mountain, after the 17th Division withdrew to the second blocking position, ---- the Donkey Ridge, it also became a useless place.

The 80th Infantry Wing quickly abandoned Snow Blossom Mountain and attacked Donkey Ridge instead. In the entire Snow Blossom Mountain area, there was not a single Japanese soldier.

Otherwise, even in the dark of night, the "living dead" watermelon, who crawled out of the pile of stones, had the opportunity to hold a torch and search for the empty position like a lonely ghost for most of the night?

The rumbling sound of artillery in the distance reminded the senior soldiers that the 17th Division was still resisting the Japanese attack at the Donkey Ridge, so he spent a day and a night following the sound of guns and cannons through the mountains and mountains to the Donkey Ridge.

"Hanwa, you know what? Your responsibilities as a soldier have been exhausted, you can actually go back to Shaanxi, go back, marry your fiancée, and give birth to a bunch of dolls. Zhao Shoushan sat in front of the watermelon, his eyes were shining, and he said softly.

"Master, I have thought about it, I have really thought about it." Watermelon nodded, then shook her head again. "However, Erni's brother is also E's brother-in-law, and he can't find him, and he can't find him after looking for it for most of the night, so he found a few little fingers, and I don't know whose it is, it's the company commander? Or is it Lao Yu's? Why do you say you go back? I'm afraid that as soon as I close my eyes, I will think of the company commander and them, and I won't be able to sleep well in this life. The amount is decided, and the amount is not gone. Either go back to find Erni after beating the devil, or you will die and count the ball, so as not to be called a coward by the company commander and brother-in-law every night. ”

"Good boy! I apologize for saying that you coerced you earlier. I promised your company commander that as long as the 17th Division is there, the formation of the 5th Company will be there, and I will fulfill my promise. From now on, I will give you a day, 24 hours, to rebuild the fifth company of the 2nd battalion of the 102nd regiment, however, there are no recruits, the wounded soldiers of the divisional field hospital, you can choose fifty people. Zhao Shoushan patted the watermelon's shoulder and solemnly ordered.

"Yes!" The watermelon stood up and saluted, turned and left.

"Master, you love this kid very much! 24 hours, no, 16 hours later, we can retreat! Chief of Staff Li Zhuting looked at the pocket watch and smiled slightly.

"Hehe, if you don't do this, what if this stunned boy wants to shout to go to the front line? The fifth company is just this seed, he must give Lao Tzu a life, as long as he is there, the combat effectiveness of the newly built fifth company is still the previous fifth company. Zhao Shoushan looked at the back of the watermelon disappearing into the darkness and said slowly.

What he keeps is seed and hope.

A commander who does not give up will bring out a group of soldiers who do not give up.

The 17th Division needs this kind of hope, and so does China.