Sun Yumin lay in bed for a long time before waking up.

Since he was wounded on the Guanghuamen position and sent to the hospital with iron courage, he actually hasn't had a good rest, and he dragged his sick and disabled body to make the Japanese army suffer a big loss.

Looking at the two girls lying on the bedside, he was a little confused.

The bones of the whole body are sore from lying down for a long time, the lower abdomen is also dull pain and numbness from time to time, and the skin on the thirsty lips has turned up.

Even so, Sun Yumin didn't dare to make a sound, for fear of waking up the two troubles lying on the side of the bed. Yesterday, he saw it, but fortunately he was secretly helped into the small room by Liu Wenzhi, otherwise he didn't know if he would be killed by these two gods.

Sun Yumin endured it very much, but except for the three of himself, there were not even ants in this room. He couldn't help but sigh at the thought that he didn't know how long he would have to endure this torment.

Lu Man is a head nurse, she has taken care of many critically ill patients, and also took care of many high-ranking military officers, and the characteristics of her profession make her vigilant at all times.

When Sun Yumin let out a soft sigh, she opened her eyes and said happily: "Brigade Commander Sun, you are awake." ”

Sun Yumin had a lot of respect for the woman in front of him, so he smiled at her and said, "Have I slept for a long time?" ”

"It's okay, three days and two nights. It's past eight o'clock in the evening, and you've slept for sixty-four hours and seven minutes. Lu Man looked at the watch in her hand and said.

"Oh......" Sun Yumin nodded, and asked softly, "Are you okay with everyone?" ”

"I don't know about the others, but can't you see if there is something wrong with me and her?" Lu Man smiled and pointed at Chen Yun and himself.

Perhaps it was the sensitivity of a woman's nature, Chen Yun, who was originally asleep, opened her eyes when Lu Man pointed at her. She wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth in her sleep, looked innocent, and asked, "What's wrong with me?" ”

After drinking the gruel sent by Deng Xiufen, Sun Yumin felt a little stronger, and his spirit improved slightly.

The presence of the two women made the atmosphere very awkward, and Sun Yumin was very uncomfortable. He asked Chen Yun to call Liu Wenzhi and a few of them in, and then said to the two women who were scrambling to show their enthusiasm: "You go out first, I have something to ask them." ”

After the two women who were hiding their own secrets came out of the room, Sun Yumin let out a long breath.

Liu Wenzhi has been following Sun Yumin's old subordinates since the Northwest Army. He is very aware of Sun Yumin's behavior and habits, and he also understands the personality and habits of this boss.

He knew Sun Yumin's purpose in calling the four of them in, so he spoke first: "In the two days that you have been asleep, Huzi and I have gone out for a walk a few times. ”

Sun Yumin knew in his heart that he was saying that he was wandering, but in fact he was taking a lot of risk. This brother, who has been with him for eight years, will always know what he wants and what he cares about.

"The frontal defense line of the national army from Yuhuatai to Purple Mountain has been broken through on all fronts." Liu Wenzhi continued to speak. "The defense line of our second regiment should be the last to be breached."

"Oh?" Sun Yumin expressed doubts.

"We still have Japanese troops stationed on our positions, and they are heavily guarded day and night. According to observations and inquiries, in the past two days, high-ranking Japanese officers have come from time to time to pay tribute to the Japanese soldiers who died in battle and visit our positions. I think we beat them up in Guanghuamen. ”

Sun Yumin was lying on the pillow, as if he was thinking, and when he saw Liu Wenzhi stopping, he nodded and said: "I think so too, although three regiments were completely annihilated by devils on this position, they also paid a lot of price. You continue. ”

"We went to the camp headquarters and didn't find the chief secretary and the cooks. You were wounded at the time, and Iron Courage and I rushed you to the hospital, but when we came back, the position was broken, and no one went to inform the Secretary General that they would retreat. Liu Wenzhi was worried that he would be angry, and when he said this, he was slow and not at all as fast as he had just spoken. He saw that Sun Yumin's eyes were already showing signs of anger, and hurriedly said: "But we found that the secretary of the department didn't seem to be in a hurry at the station, although it was said that there were steamed buns and vegetables on the stove, but the rest of the grain was hidden." In the past, I had a good relationship with Qian Jin and knew where he was hiding things, but this time I went to see Huzi and thought they were hiding there, but it turned out that the things were still there, but the people were not there. ”

"Also, the secretary, they changed their clothes in the place where they were hidden. I saw seven or eight sets of changed uniforms there, and there were new oil stains on the uniforms. Zhang Xiaohu added.

"Anything else?" Sun Yumin looked at Liu Wenzhi with inquiring eyes.

He thought for a moment, hesitated, and shook his head again.

Sun Yumin didn't know what he was hesitating about, and asked again, "How many people are there here?" ”

"Thirteen schoolgirls. There were a total of five soldiers with Shi and the four soldiers who protected the female students, four people, you and I Tie Qian and Doctor Lu, the fourteen second-regiment tinder brought down by Deputy Zhou Tuan, and a second lieutenant telegraph officer entrusted by Chief of Staff Wan, a total of sixteen people, all of which added up to thirteen female students and twenty-five soldiers. Liu Wenzhi had already counted the heads, and he answered quickly.

Sun Yumin turned his head to Zhang Xiaohu and asked, "Why didn't Deputy Zhou Tuan retreat with you?" ”

Zhang Xiaohu had always been afraid that Tuanzao would ask this question, and he really didn't want to recall that scene that he would never forget again. Perhaps in Huzi's heart, this memory will become a pain in his life.

Sun Yumin saw that Huzi was trembling, so he asked him, "What's wrong with you?" You okay? ”

Hu Zi forcibly suppressed the pain in his heart, and told how he was ordered by Zhou Hainan to retreat from the position with seventeen or eighteen soldiers, go to the field hospital of the corps to find Sun Yumin, and then turn back to the position halfway. When it was said that Zhou Hainan was stabbed to death by the devil soldiers in order to cover himself and the soldiers, and when Chief of Staff Wan raised his gun to kill himself, Huzi couldn't cry anymore.

Sun Yumin's eyes also filled with tears.

"Deputy Regiment Commander Zhou was still shouting to go before he died, and the soldiers saw him snatch the grenade from the devil, and the final explosion must have caused the devil to lose a lot." Huzi said.

Sun Yumin imagined the scene of Zhou Hainan sacrificing himself to righteousness, and the images of Lao Liu Tou, Zhou Hong, Zhou Hainan and even Gao Dahai appeared in front of him one by one like a movie picture.

In the haze, the old Liu Tou handed a bowl of noodles with two poached eggs lying in front of him, and he was saying: "Yingza, see that you haven't eaten anything at night, this is what I cooked with my own hands, eat it while it's hot!" ”

In a haze, I heard Zhou Hainan saying to himself: "Yingzao, selling arms privately is a headless thing, and we must not do it." ”

The dim look of the deputy of the high regiment also appeared in front of him, and he was saying: "It's better for them to go to open a restaurant, Lao Liu is in charge, and Sun Yumin is in charge." Vice President Zhou and I are diners who come to the restaurant every day. ”

The last thing that appeared in front of Sun Yumin's eyes was that two Type 92 infantry shells hit Zhou Hong's temporary position, and the yellow sand flying in the sky and the smoke of gunpowder everywhere covered his eyes like a thick fog.

Inside the room spoke, and outside the room could be heard very clearly. The conversation of the four of them seduced the tears of the warriors and schoolgirls outside, and the entire basement was immersed in this sad atmosphere.

Sun Yumin held back the pain in his heart and asked again: "How is it outside now?" ”

Liu Wenzhi and Zhang Xiaohu glanced at each other and lowered their heads.

Li Tie didn't interject for a long time, this will seize the opportunity, he was sitting cross-legged on the ground, and suddenly jumped up from the ground, and his mouth kept talking nonsense: "I asked you two yesterday about cowardice, but I have always refused to say." I'm going to go out and have a look by myself, and let Dr. Lu stand in my way. ”

It's good that Sun Yumin didn't hear this, but when he heard these nonsense words said by this fool, he was immediately angry with him, frowned, stared at his eyes, pointed to the corner of the wall and said, "Then stay there." ”

Li Tie didn't know where to provoke this great god, and he didn't dare to resist, so he walked to the corner of the wall in a gloomy manner, squatted there, and grimaced at Liu Wenzhi and them.

Sun Yumin saw that his mud couldn't support the wall, and he was angry, and said loudly: "Stand up." ”

Li Tie stood up obediently.

"Turn around." Sun Yumin said again.

The stupid big man reluctantly turned around.

After Li Tiedan did so, Sun Yumin said to Liu Wenzhi: "I just asked you something." ”

Liu Wenzhi knows his character and knows that he can't hide it. Xin Yiheng said: "The devil killed inhumanely in the city of Nanjing. The troops and civilians who did not come to the Xiaguan wharf and retreated were killed so that the corpses were piled up into a hill, and the surface of the Yangtze River was full of human corpses, and the blood stained the river red. ”

"Livestock!" Sun Yumin was a little excited, and he scolded in his mouth.

"This is just Xiaguan, according to our observation, the same tragedy is being repeated in all parts of Nanjing City, the common people are too kind, thinking that if they are obedient to the people, they can make a living, but I didn't expect that the devil soldiers are not people." Liu Wenzhi gritted his teeth, and he continued: "Huzi and I saw with our own eyes that two devil soldiers were defiling a young pregnant woman in front of a family of nearly ten people, but none of the four or five men in that family dared to rush up to protect her. When Huzi and I ran over, the woman had been killed by the devil soldiers, her belly had been cut open by the bayonet, and the baby in her belly had become an adult for the two Japanese soldiers to take out and pick on the bayonet. Huzi and I couldn't stand this kind of miserable situation, and after killing the two devil soldiers, Huzi kicked the man who was crying on the pregnant woman's body a few times. Speaking of this, Liu Wenzhi paused for a moment, and then said: "It's all because we went too late, otherwise that young pregnant woman wouldn't have died so miserably." "He's still blaming himself.

In the past few nights, as soon as Liu Wenzhi closed his eyes, the heart-rending cries and frightened, helpless and desperate eyes of the pregnant woman flashed in front of him.

"But countless similar things have happened in the entire city of Nanjing, how can Huzi and I be saved! When the two of us killed a few more devil soldiers and rescued three women, the Japanese finally discovered our whereabouts. It was not easy to escape. Liu Wenzhi has been telling that those thrilling things seem very flat in his mouth. But even the female students can imagine the danger.

After hearing these words, Sun Yumin's heart was full of anger, and he slammed his fist on the bed, which touched the wound, and he frowned again in pain.

Stone nervously stood up and ran outside, and pushed open the stone door, only to find a group of people outside the door, listening to them. Lu Man, who he was looking for, was also among them, and Xiao Nizi walked into the stone house with two tear stains on her face. She didn't look at Sun Yumin's wounds, stood still in front of Liu Wenzhi, and asked with a crying voice: "That young pregnant woman died so miserably, why didn't you go and save her earlier." After speaking, he kicked Liu Wenzhi in the leg.

Liu Wenzhi was not angry with her, but just turned his head and didn't look at Lu Man's red and swollen eyes that were already crying. In fact, his eyes were full of tears.

Huzi asked this woman with pear blossoms and rain to check Sun Yumin's wounds, but she ignored them and threw down a sentence: "He's fine, he can't die." And he walked out of the stone chamber.

Sun Yumin smiled bitterly and said in his heart: This woman is not a worry-free character.

Several people's eyes returned to Sun Yumin from Lu Man. He lay on the bed for a while and didn't speak, Li Tie thought he was going to fall asleep, and turned his head to look at it from time to time.

Seeing his cowardice, the stone didn't intend to laugh at him, but beckoned to him and motioned to come over and sit down.

Li Tiedan's name is Tie Dan, but he is so timid in front of Sun Yumin, he shook his head and refused to come, and then he simply didn't look back, his head was on the wall, and after a while, he heard his snoring coming over.

Sun Yumin thought about it a lot, he remembered that Shi told him that Chen Yun and the thirteen girls were going to the northwest, but now that everyone is trapped in Nanjing, there are Japanese troops on all sides, and how to get out is a problem.

What will happen to the group of brothers below me? Could it be that he would take them with Chen Yun and them to the northwest now? If you go there like this, you won't be treated like this, and your conscience will not be happy. The efforts and sacrifices of the entire second regiment and the first battalion of the first regiment, plus the two regiments of the gendarmerie unit, will all be erased from history.

So he's trying to figure out a way, to think of the best of both worlds.

"Are you thinking about how to send those schoolgirls away?" This is Liu Wenzhi's voice. "Actually, you don't have to worry about it, many things naturally have their solutions."

"How do you say it will be solved?" Sun Yumin asked.

"It's simple, let them decide."

yes, let them decide their own path. Sun Yumin said in his heart, why do you have to decide the direction of others? He is very grateful to this partner who has been with him for seven years, if there is someone who knows Sun Yumin better than Sun Yumin, then that person must be him Liu Wenzhi.

The result of the discussion with Chen Yun and the others was to find a way to go to the British Concession in Shanghai or to find the Eighth Route Army Office in Wuhan.

Sun Yumin and Liu Wenzhi discussed it and decided to send them to the Wuhan Eighth Route Army Office. Although the distance is a little farther, the advantage is that they can also go southwest to pursue a large army.

With the next step in mind, everyone began to prepare.

Sun Yumin counted all the weapons and ammunition of the 25 people in his hands: three Czech-style guns plus 15 magazines of 20 rounds, 83 grenades, 18 formal rifles, and in addition to the bullets in the magazines, there were less than 800 rounds of 7.92mm rifle ammunition, 7 shell guns, and less than 500 rounds of 7.63mm pistol ammunition.

Military uniforms can't be worn, but fortunately, the shopkeeper of the iron shop has prepared a lot of supplies in the basement, and there are a lot of clothes.

Late at night on December 18, the 26th year of the Republic of China, late at night on the sixth day of the destruction of Nanjing. Sun Yumin walked out of the tunnel with more than 30 people.

At night, the city of Nanjing stood lifeless on the ruins that had been ruthlessly destroyed by artillery fire, like a scarred lioness lying on the ground licking the wounds on her body.

Sun Yumin walked out of the camphor forest in the cemetery, looked in the direction of Guanghuamen, where nearly 10,000 soldiers of the national army were buried, and looked at the capital of the Republic of China, which was slaughtered. All kinds of emotions came to his heart, and Sun Yumin sighed with emotion.

He turned and walked towards the warriors who were waiting for him.

Facing the darkness in the distance, Sun Yumin's heart was shouting: Goodbye my brothers! Goodbye to Lao Liu Tou, Zhou Hong, Deputy Gao Tuan, and Head Xie! Goodbye my partner, Zhou Hainan! Goodbye, Nanjing!!