In Xinmin City, more than ten military trucks drove into the east gate of Xinmin, and after entering the city, there were already soldiers of the Xinmin garrison waiting.

The trucks stopped, the doors opened, and dozens of heavily armed soldiers of the Seventh Brigade of the Northeast Army jumped out of the cars.

The alert came out, and in the passenger seat of a truck in the middle, Zhao Zhenfan pushed the door and got out of the car, and a major officer had already rushed to salute: "Take a seat." ”

"Hmm." Zhao Zhenfan also saluted: "I am ordered by the brigade seat to protect a group of patriotic students who are preparing to join the army in Shenyang, you go and arrange it, prepare some food for them, and immediately notify the Shenyang side to send someone to Xinmin to pick up people." ”

"Yes." The major officer hurriedly stepped forward to answer, and then turned around and walked away quickly.

At this time, on several trucks behind Zhao Zhenfan, about 100 young men and women had already gotten out of the car with the help of the soldiers, looking at the unfamiliar environment around them with great curiosity.

Zhao Zhenfan walked over and said to the students led by Su Hanyun and Zhang Xinghua: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is Xinmin City, someone will arrange for you to eat and rest later, I have notified Shenyang Zhang Xinghan to send someone to pick you up, please wait patiently." ”

"Oh, thank you, sir." When Zhang Xinghua heard the name of his eldest brother, he was a little excited and did not forget to thank him.

"Okay, Zhao is in military affairs and has left." Zhao Zhenfan saluted everyone and saluted.

Zhang Xinghua and other students were stunned, and subconsciously raised their hands to salute a non-standard military salute.

Zhao Zhenfan glanced meaningfully at the more than 100 hot-blooded young people, and then turned around and got into the car and left.

The war is ruthless, whether these young people can survive the war in the future, no one knows, maybe they will all die on the battlefield and sacrifice their lives for the country, maybe some of them can be lucky to survive and become a qualified Chinese [***] person.

Thinking that he might never see each other in the future, Zhao Zhenfan sighed in his heart.

"Drive." Zhao Zhenfan commanded ruthlessly, his eyes no longer looking at those young distressing faces.

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Shenyang, garrison brigade headquarters.

Xiao Lizi, the commander of the communications company, walked into the war room of the brigade headquarters with the telegram he had just received, but Zhang Xinghan was nowhere to be seen.

Looking left and right, Xiao Lizi turned around and retreated, and asked a guard outside the door, "Where is the brigade?" ”

"I went out with Guo Yingzuo." The guard replied.

"That's it." Xiao Lizi pondered for a while, and said, "You immediately notify your company commander and ask him to take someone to find the brigade, and say that Xinmin City is calling, and there are a batch of students who need us to answer." ”

"Yes." Xiao Lizi used to be the platoon commander of the second platoon of the guard company, and the guards naturally didn't dare to disobey his words, and immediately ran outside.

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In the north of Shenyang, the former Shenyang Military Hospital has now been renamed the Shenyang Garrison Brigade Field Hospital.

Outside the hospital, there was a squad of officers and soldiers of the garrison brigade standing guard, and when Zhang Xinghan stepped out of the car, the soldiers standing guard hurriedly stood up and saluted.

Zhang Xinghan nodded, and walked straight into the hospital with Guo Zhong.

At this time, there were still four or five hundred lightly and seriously wounded of the city defense army in the field hospital, and due to the limited beds in the rooms, many of the lightly wounded were forced to make simple bunks under the corridor of the hospital.

In the northeast, the weather is already very cold in October, especially at night, the temperature in Shenyang will drop sharply than during the day, and there are only a few broken straw mats and old cotton wool on the ground when sleeping, for the wounded soldiers, the pain can be imagined.

When Zhang Xinghan walked into the hospital corridor with Guo Zhong, a distressing scene came into view, and the long corridors on both sides were crowded with wounded soldiers of the garrison brigade with ragged clothes and haggard faces.

The gauze on many of them was still oozing blood, dyeing the gauze a striking red.

And when the wounded soldiers inadvertently saw Zhang Xinghan coming, it was almost like a reflex, and hundreds of wounded soldiers struggled to support each other to stand up, regardless of the pain on their bodies.

Immediately, they raised their hands, which were trembling from the wounds, and saluted their commanders.

Among them was a wounded soldier whose ankle had been blown off, and he gritted his teeth and struggled to climb up the wall.

Zhang Xinghan's nose was sore, and he hurriedly walked over, and at this time, the wounded soldier with broken feet had already struggled to stand up against the wall.

The already pale face became even more pale because of the severe pain, and there was no trace of blood, but when he saw Zhang Xinghan coming to him, a trace of excitement flashed in his eyes.

"Traveler!" The wounded soldier with a broken foot stood up in vain and saluted.

"Good brother." Zhang Xinghan hurriedly supported him.

The wounded soldier's eyes suddenly became sour when he heard this, and the tears that the pain of the broken foot could not make him flow out like a spring at this moment.

"Brigade... Brigade... I didn't embarrass our old 3rd Battalion, I didn't disgrace our [***] people...... "The wounded soldier with a broken foot was originally a veteran of the 3rd Battalion, so he was so excited when he saw Zhang Xinghan coming, and he had to stand up and salute his commander despite the pain of breaking his foot.

As he spoke, the wounded soldier with a broken foot couldn't help but cry bitterly, perhaps because he was moved, or maybe because he could no longer follow his commander to be born and die and fight on the battlefield.

As a soldier and an iron-blooded veteran, he is not afraid of death, bloodshed, or injury, and what he fears is that he will never be away from the stage that belongs to him - the battlefield.

He was deeply afraid that after leaving the army, he would be forgotten and at a loss.

As a professional soldier, Zhang Xinghan may have guessed what the veteran was thinking, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Brother, don't be sad, take care of your injuries, after you recover, I will transfer you to the cavalry company, ride a war horse, pick up a war knife, you can go into battle to kill the enemy, you can be loyal to the country, you will always be my soldier." ”

The veteran looked up at Zhang Xinghan with tears on his face, and said in disbelief: "Really? ”

"Hmm."

"Thank you, Traveler!" The veteran burst into tears like a child, laughing and shedding tears of excitement.

Infected by veterans, many young recruits couldn't help but choke up softly at the moment and wept silently.

Unlike veterans, they have palpitations for the rest of their lives, and they also have grievances that they cannot vent when facing the fear of death.

And at this moment, when they see Zhang Xinghan, it is like a lost child seeing his relatives, they have too many grievances and too many fears.

In the final analysis, they are still a group of young distressing children, ten years old and twenty years old, at such an age, they are still studying comfortably under the care of their parents and families, and live a carefree life.

However, they have to shoulder the heavy responsibility of defending their homes and the country with their guns and bayonets, and they may not have even killed a chicken in ordinary times, but they have to witness their compatriots fighting to the death with their own eyes on the extremely tragic battlefield.

When I saw the blood staining the earth red, the corpses all over the field, and when I saw the compatriots and comrades-in-arms who were still alive before the expedition, they had turned into cold corpses.

How much shock and fear will they have in their hearts?

Especially now that they are injured again, they need to endure the continuous pain and torture alone, spend the cold and silent night alone, without the care and love of their relatives, the loneliness in their hearts can be imagined.

At this moment, Zhang Xinghan came, and the commander who was usually in awe of them, the brigade came to see them in person, and affectionately called them brothers.

The grievances and fears that they had accumulated for many years were vented at this moment.

"Brothers, don't cry, don't shed tears, I know how you feel in your heart at the moment, but, born in troubled times, we are helpless in many things, think about it, as a soldier, as a man with eggs, when the motherland is invaded and the nation is wiped out, we don't go up, who goes? Do you want our wives and children, parents and brothers to fight hard with us? ”

Zhang Xinghan paused when he said this, and said meaningfully: "Brothers, I came today just to tell you what I thought, to be honest, if it weren't for this devil to start this damn war, then my life would definitely be safe and happy, because I have a beloved fiancée, kind and kind parents, and my family is also a famous merchant in Shenyang, and my family is quite wealthy."

However, I resolutely signed up to join the army, why, because I can't bear to sit back and watch the country perish, after all, only a country can have a home, and the country is broken, so why talk about a family?

In fact, every time I go home to see my parents and relatives, I also have a feeling that I want to cry for the rest of my life, but I know that I can't cry, because I know that I am the backbone of my father and mother and relatives, and the pillar of our family.

Therefore, brothers, you must all remember that we can bleed, we can be wounded, and we can even die, but we must not shed tears, because our people, our relatives, they are all looking at us, because we are Chinese people, and our 40,000,000 compatriots need our protection, because we are the pillars of this country and this nation, and we must use our actions to tell the people that the sky is falling, and we are soldiers. ”

The wounded soldiers present gradually quieted down when they heard this, everyone stopped crying, wiped away their tears, and looked at their brigade seat with firm and awe-struck eyes, and at this moment their hearts rekindled hope and fighting spirit.

"Adjutant Guo!" Zhang Xinghan turned his head and shouted.

"Yes!" Guo Zhong stepped forward and said.

"You immediately send someone to the Zhang's house in the east of the city, and ask your father to start buying beds and bedding immediately, and just say what I said, I can't let my subordinates sleep on the ground to recuperate." Zhang Xinghan commanded in a deep voice.

"Yes!" Guo Zhong replied abruptly, and immediately turned around and was ordered to walk outside.

"Brothers, take care of your wounds, my comrades-in-arms and I are waiting for you to return to the team, waiting for you to fight side by side and join forces to kill the enemy!" Zhang Xinghan saluted and said, "Okay, I still have military affairs with me, and I will come to see you again when I have time." ”

"Slow down!" All the wounded soldiers snapped forward and saluted, and said respectfully from the bottom of their hearts.