195 Warehouse Suspicions
6 p.m., Dover Beach Beachhead. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Li Ling stood alone at the bottom of the cliff, watching the soldiers rescue the wounded and find the remains of the soldiers from the rubble.
According to the latest casualty statistics, in the entire first wave of landing echelons, more than 700 soldiers were wounded and more than 300 were killed. But just one beach on the west side of the port of Dover accounts for more than 90 percent of the data.
Among these casualties, more than a dozen of them were from the First Tank Brigade of the First Division of Huaxia, which made Li Ling feel very uncomfortable.
If he hadn't asked so many soldiers to land before the troops had completely opened up the beachhead landing ground, maybe this kind of tragedy would not have happened!
If you had thought about how to deal with the minefield earlier, you might not have been killed or injured due to the delay!
If you can imagine that the British have hollowed out the cliff, maybe there will be no casualties at all!
But in this sky, where is there so much maybe!
Li Ling was a little sad, he blamed all the mistakes on himself, but maybe these mistakes should have happened, maybe they shouldn't have been his mistakes. It's just that Li Ling has unconsciously equated all this with everything to himself.
"General, put on some clothes, the evening wind on the beach can easily hurt people."
A naval sailor in charge of the rescue work walked up to Li Ling and handed over a relatively clean piece of clothing.
Li Ling looked at this sailor, his age seemed to be only sixteen or seventeen years old, obviously an immature flower season that should have bloomed on campus, but his face was full of sophistication that he was used to seeing life and death.
"Thank you."
"No, no, that's what I'm supposed to do."
The sailor smiled a little shyly, he had never expected a general to say thank you to him, so that he was a little overwhelmed in his panic.
Putting on the clothes sent by the sailors with a slight smell of blood on them, Li Ling looked up at the sky, and then at the sandy beach that had been stained red with blood.
The destroyed tanks under the cliff have long been towed away, and the wounded have basically been sent away, under the falling rocks and the gathered crowd, I am afraid that there are no living people at this time, and all that remains is to collect the corpses of the dead comrades.
"People always have to look forward, let's go, war will inevitably have casualties, maybe today, maybe tomorrow, as long as the war does not end one day, then there can be no absolute security. If you don't want to watch your own people die, then go and lead them to win this war, conquer the whole world, and thus keep the whole world away from the flames of war! ”
Li Ling made a hard decision to himself, and when he made up his mind, I am afraid that even he didn't notice it, a breeze suddenly blew across his cheeks, which made his mood stabilize, and the bloodthirsty impulse in his heart disappeared without a trace just slightly exposed.
Walking slowly on the way to the front-line temporary headquarters located in Dover City Hall, Li Ling lowered his head, many people noticed him, but they did not come forward to say hello, everyone knew that the troops that landed on the beach on the west side of Dover had their troops as the lieutenant general's chief of staff, and that unit had many deaths, and it was the unit with the greatest casualties except for the unfortunate 71st Infantry Division, and no one wanted to touch their brows at this time.
"Boss, boss."
Just as he was about to arrive at the headquarters, Wang Zhandong suddenly appeared in front of Li Ling and blocked Li Ling's way.
"What's wrong? What's the matter? ”
"Boss, we've found something here, you'd better go over and take a look for yourself!"
"Let's go!"
Seeing Wang Zhandong's panicked appearance, Li Ling knew that something tricky must have happened, otherwise he would not have lost his temper so much, so he quickly followed Wang Zhandong and left, and did not go to the headquarters again.
Wang Zhandong took Li Ling to a small alley, and when they walked there, the alley was already full of people.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way, get out of the way for the boss, get out of the way!"
Wang Zhandong shouted and pushed away the crowd, leading Li Ling towards the depths of the alley.
Finally, at the end of the alley, Li Ling saw a scene that he might never want to see again in his life!
At the end of the alley is a huge warehouse, and before you even enter the warehouse, you can already smell a rancid smell. Taking the towel handed over by a soldier beside him, Li Ling covered his nose and walked inside, and by the faint light, Li Ling saw a whole warehouse of corpses!
"What's going on?"
"We don't know, the people of our company first discovered this place, and then I reported it to the chief of staff, who is now on the side of the temporary hospital, and then asked me to come to you, saying that this matter is more important, it is better for you to deal with it personally."
There was no one present who was not shocked by this scene, this was a premeditated slaughter site at all, but why were so many people killed here, and it was obviously more than a day!
"Have you searched it? Has the contents been touched? ”
"No, our people have been staying here since they discovered this warehouse, and no one has ever gone in and touched the contents inside."
"Are there any electric lights?"
"No, the circuits here are all destroyed in advance."
"Prepare some flashlights, come a few people in with me, and the news of this place will be blocked first, don't spread to the outside world, and wait until there is a conclusion."
Li Ling's mind was full of questions, he didn't understand why there were mountains of corpses here, this was obviously not something that the Germans did, from the rancid smell of the corpses, it was clear that these corpses had been piled up here before the attack was launched.
Li Ling squatted down and took a closer look at the corpse in front of him, the clothes he was wearing were very torn and dirty, but he could still see through the style of these clothes, these people should be ordinary British civilians, but why are there so many civilian corpses here?
From the end of the French campaign to the present, the Luftwaffe air raids on Dover have never stopped, but sometimes they are sparse and sometimes they are more violent. It is precisely because of the continuous bombing by the Germans that there are no civilians in this port city for a long time, and the rest are basically some soldiers.
But it stands to reason that civilians who should have fled all of them should have piled up here as corpses?
"Everyone ......"
"Who! Who's there! ”
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Just as Li Ling was about to stand up and let people search the entire warehouse for suspicious points, suddenly Wang Zhandong yelled, and then pushed Li Ling, who had just stood up and had not yet stood firmly, back violently, and fired three shots diagonally upward! (To be continued.) )