West bank of the Liao River

"Boom, boom, boom......" artillery fire came one after another, and the smoke and dust that had been blown up by the explosion on the Qing army's position were all covered, and after the flickering explosion fire, mushroom clouds rose one after another......

Boom, a shell hit the edge of the trench, instantly collapsing the trench, and the collapsed earth buried several soldiers head-on.

"Quick, get the people out." The young company commander was the first to rush over, using both hands to pick up the dirt. You can't use a shovel at this time, but your brother is buried underneath. Fortunately, the soil was soft, and with the assistance of the soldiers around them, several soldiers were dug out. Except for the dirty spots on his face, he has not been injured yet. When digging soldiers, the young company commander did not forget to estimate the time.

"Ten minutes is about the same, everyone is ready to ......" the young company commander suddenly shouted, hunched over in the trench and running hand and foot on the ground, patting every soldier he saw. The emperor is right, Xiao Yueben gave up the crazy attack of logistics and supply, because they were too weak to fight for a long time, and the madness of the army in front of them was only their last counterattack. The most obvious thing is that seven days ago, the artillery preparation before each attack was still half an hour, and now it is a maximum of ten minutes.

The artillery fire was still roaring, but the sound of the shells flying by had changed from "hiss, hiss" to "whoa, whoa". The hiss, hissing sound was the cannonball falling on the head, and I could only crouch on the ground with my head in my hands, praying that the cannonball would not just fall in the trench. As long as the shells don't land in the trenches most of the time it's safe, it's actually more dangerous to run around at this time, because you might hit the shrapnel of the shells.

"Whew! Woohoo! ......" overhead, the sound of breaking through the air became more and more loud, and the enemy's artillery fire began to fire extended.

"Ready—" After shouting, the young company commander himself was already lying on the edge of the trench. The smoke and dust from the shells had not yet fallen, and there was a blur in the distance. But at a glance, he looked at an officer, holding a knife aloft. The roar of artillery fire still echoed in his ears, and Ben couldn't hear what was being shouted from the other side. But it did not prevent him from aiming with a gun.

After two gunshots, "pop, pop," the officer fell. This was due to the previous intensive training, although the sharpshooters were transferred to the reconnaissance company, leaving behind a small but large number of snipers, and one or two snipers in each platoon of the unit were responsible for clearing the enemy officers and machine gunners in the trenches. It was his own sniper, and the young company commander was angry that someone shot before him. Before he could say anything, a voice called him from behind.

"Two Dogs......"

"How many times have you said that!? Called the company commander, the company commander! Is it the fuck who doesn't understand the rules......" The second dog company commander who turned around moved his throat when he saw the person coming, and swallowed the "egg": "It's the battalion commander, why are you here?" ”

"Don't you fucking want reinforcements? Lao Tzu brought everything he could. The battalion commander pointed to the five weak scholars behind him, whose faces were pale and still holding their helmets, and said, "Our battalion has gone to the front line, this is the last reinforcement." The command from above is that we will hold on until midnight. ”

"Didn't you say it's only nightfall? Changed again? The boss of the second dog's eyes was wide, and he originally only said that the noon was extended to night. Now that he said that he would hold on until midnight, the two dogs were about to cry: "Battalion commander, no." This must be done to wipe out all the brothers. "In seven days, this is already the third company commander.

"Company commander, the little devil is here." Without waiting for the battalion commander to explain, one of the soldiers shouted. The heavy sound of heavy machine gun fire was mixed with the words of the battalion commander: "Even if there is one person left, it must be guarded by Lao Tzu." ”

Seven days have passed, and the siege of Tianzhuangtai by the Yue army has lasted for seven full days, and more than 20,000 troops from four brigades and regiments have launched an uninterrupted charge against the defenders of Tianzhuangtai. Even the Fifth Division on the east bank of the Liao River tried to forcibly erect a pontoon bridge under the cover of artillery fire, but the cold water could not prevent the Yue army from jumping into the river and launching a strong attack on the frontal position of the Qing army in turn. The fighting was fought extremely hard.

In the first few days, the intensive artillery fire of the Yue army almost plowed the positions of the Qing army over and over again, and the Yue army charged against the machine guns of the Qing army. With the passage of time, the artillery of the Yue army has long been less fierce than it was at the beginning, but the outer defense line of Tianzhuang Terrace has almost been lost. The Nogi Noshinori Brigade in the east had already attacked Erjiegou Town, the 3rd Division in the north had occupied Ping'an Town, and only the 1st Division in the south was still engaged in fierce street fighting with the 7th Regiment of the Qing Army in Lianfang Village. The only good news was that the Yue army never dropped a single cannonball in the town of Tianzhuangtai, considering that it would hurt the Qing emperor. This also kept all the logistics supplies of the Qing State, and you must know that there were thousands of various artillery shells piled up in the Grange at this time. It's just that most of the fortifications that were built at the beginning have been shattered by artillery fire, and only in the southwest is there still a large number of strong forts around the village of Mills.

The center of the town has been converted into a shelter for wounded soldiers. Because Tianzhuangtai has been blockaded by the Japanese army, the seriously wounded who were supposed to be sent to Jinzhou can only lie in the town and resign themselves to fate, and the medicine that is already in short supply can only be given priority to the soldiers who have the ability to return to the front line after treatment. The houses in the town could no longer accommodate more than a thousand wounded, so tents had to be set up on the side of the road, and without exception, there were no minor wounded here. All the lightly wounded just sprinkled Yunnan Baiyao and continued to fight in the trenches. Nowadays, even Yunnan Baiyao is running out, and more lightly injured people can only use dirty strips of cloth to do things.

Every day, a large number of wounded were carried down from the front line, wounded by burns, bayonet stabs, and bullets...... It stinks from standing or lying to everyone!

Every day, people carry dead wounded soldiers to the outside of the town, seriously injured, frozen to death, and suicide...... Here, both the doctors and the wounded are frustrated!

The snow was still falling. Standing in the collection center outside the wounded soldiers in the center of Tianzhuang Taizhen, Guangxu watched and walked silently, his expression was solemn, and his heart was bitter.

He said that he was really crazy, and it was completely an onslaught regardless of casualties. At this moment, although the army did not enter the Tianzhuang platform, the units of the second division had already suffered heavy casualties. The sound of rifle fire could already be clearly heard here, and the last defensive position of Tianzhuangtai was still in fierce repeated battles, and the Qing army, which had held out for seven days, was already exhausted. The eyes of the wounded soldiers were full of despair, and for 7 days, the Qing troops on the periphery had not made any progress from beginning to end. Looking at the wounded soldiers all over the ground, Guangxu also felt bitter in his heart. How long will it last?

"Wait......" Guangxu stopped the two medics who were carrying the corpses, and reached out to gently close the eyes of the dead Qing soldiers, who were still wide open. Then he waved them lightly and let them go. When I die in battle, will I be able to close my eyes? Guangxu, who shuttled on the road full of wounded soldiers, Guangxu really couldn't think of the political commissars of later generations, who could still make speeches in a subdued and frustrated manner in front of the wounded soldiers, and let these wounded soldiers rush to the front line to fight, and those strong political commissars still have what kind of mentality they have in the rear. He no longer had the strength to ask if he was afraid of death or why he wanted to join the army, so he just kept squatting, gently folding the quilt for the wounded soldier in a coma, and then left gently. Then he smiled at the wounded soldiers who were looking at him.

But the emperor's figure and this gentle gesture had an incomparably encouraging power for these wounded soldiers. The originally gray eyes had a glimmer of light again, and the wounded soldiers who could still move tried their best to straighten up, and those who could move their right hands raised their hands to salute various standard and non-standard military salutes, and those who couldn't move also tried their best to show a smile on their faces. Wounded soldiers, what are the wounded soldiers who have lost the ability to fight the most? It's abandoned. Although these wounded soldiers understood that they could only stay here and resign themselves to their fate, it was only because they were besieged by the enemy. Their emperor is still there, and he still hasn't abandoned them, and that's enough. All Guangxu could do was to nod his head to everyone.

The screams of "Ah-" were heard in the distance, and two soldiers with guns on their backs ran from afar with a pair of stretchers. Guangxu walked over quickly, and the two soldiers with guns on their backs just found a vacant space to put down, and then patted the wounded soldier's shoulder, and when he stood up and saw that the emperor was beside him, he just saluted and turned away. It is a pity that the excitement of seeing the emperor is long gone, and at this time they are thinking of the brothers who are still fighting bloodily on the battlefield. They are going back to the battlefield with their brothers.

Guangxu looked at the soldier who was wailing in front of him, who was suffering from illness, and in addition to being covered in blood, his feet were blown off. The soldier's screams attracted a medical officer, who shook his head and stood up, and the nurse who accompanied him just gave him a black ointment and was leaving.

Opium, is opium. Just give him a pill of opium for pain relief and leave him alone? Guangxu then asked the medical officer, "That's it, he's still bleeding." He's still alive. ”

"Your Majesty." The medical officer turned around and pointed to Guangxu: "His abdomen has been pierced, and he can't be saved." ”

At this time, Guangxu realized that the soldier in front of him was covered in his own blood, and the crooked outside was not a debris but his own intestines. Uh-Guangxu, who couldn't hold back any longer, spit out on the spot. The emperor vomited, which made the wounded soldiers' originally bright eyes dim again.

The wounded soldier wailed that opium had lost its usefulness to him, and he returned it to the medical officer to keep it for others who needed it, and then said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, give me a shot." All he could think of was to end himself and end this boundless pain.

Guangxu just touched his mouth, squatted on the ground and gently held the soldier's face with both hands: "Live, there is hope to live." ”

"No way, I know my injuries. There is no help. Your Majesty, let people give it a good time, I really can't stand it......" This is a cry of despair.

"Have you really figured it out?" Guangxu's right hand slowly slid onto the soldier's neck, tears sliding out of his eyes. Yes, it's better to die than to live, it's better to die happily.

A smile appeared on the wounded soldier's face. Guangxu's right hand slammed hard, and then turned to the side. With the crisp sound of broken bones, a human life was lost. And the soldier's face was full of smiles, why did he still have a smile knowing that he was dead, Guangxu's eyes were dull. The medical officer called softly, then gently removed his hand, and he didn't feel it. Guangxu just looked at the smile on the wounded soldier's face in a daze. When the nurse wanted to carry the dead wounded soldier away, when the wounded soldier's smile disappeared, Guangxu suddenly came back to his senses.

"Nope." Guangxu's voice trembled: "He died, I killed him." Guangxu sat on the ground and said in a lost voice: "I killed my own people, I killed my own people." I'm a beast......" The left hand was jerked in his face, and the medical officer hurriedly stopped Guangxu and wanted to hit his left hand again, but Guangxu pushed him away. Guangxu lay on the ground and groped around, and finally found a stone. He put his right hand forward, grabbed the stone with his left hand and threw it down.

Smack, blood splattered.

"Your Majesty......" The medical officer hugged Guangxu's left hand and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty, take a look." He walked away with a smile. The Emperor ......"

"Your Majesty......" The wounded soldiers who saw it shouted in unison.

……

The stone finally fell. Originally, I thought that the first person I killed with my own hands would definitely be myself, but I didn't expect that the first person to kill here was my own wounded soldier. Wow, Guangxu hugged his head and cried.

Most of the second division has never killed people on the battlefield, and no matter how good the training is, it is still the recruits who have not killed anyone. The recruits who killed the first person, crying, making trouble, and being in a daze, he had seen too much, and he had seen those who couldn't come back to their senses and went crazy. As long as you can cry, you'll be fine when you're done crying, and you'll be a man who stands up to the sky after crying, and after crying, a variety of trained skills can immediately make the recruit Danzi become a fearless warrior. Therefore, when the medical officer heard Guangxu's cry, he relaxed: "It's good to cry, it's good to cry." ”

After a long time, Guangxu stood up. Stopped the medical officer who wanted to take the medicine: "Look at them, what else can I count as a little injury." ”

Guangxu smiled slightly: "No matter what the result of this war is, many years later, it will always be recorded in the history books: In November of the 1**4 year of AD, in October of the twentieth year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, the Guangxu Emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty, Aixin Jueluo Zaiyan, led the Second Division of the Qing Imperial Army to conquer Tianzhuangtai in person, and fought a bloody battle with the Yue army for seven days. Maybe the names of high-ranking generals such as Wang Shizhen, Shoushan, and Yongshan will be written. And you, what people remember are only the number of the Second Division. As for what is your name......" Guangxu pointed to each soldier: "What is your name?" Who will remember. The names that can remain in the history books are the generals who gave advice and talked about breaking the enemy in the back. But history should really remember this group of people, whose names have never been remembered. It is you who are firmly carrying out every order of the generals. It is you who hold every position with blood and life in the face of the enemy's guns. It is precisely because of your presence that this country has the confidence to resist foreign aggression. It is because of you that this country will never fall. You are the true backbone of this country, and everyone should be remembered. ”

Guangxu raised his right hand, which was still bleeding: "I swear." If we can win this war, if we can go back alive. I will definitely erect a monument to the heroes. Engrave the name of every hero who fought for the country on it. Let every descendant remember every story of their predecessors who fought bloodily for this country. Let each of you be remembered by future generations. ”

After speaking, Guangxu turned around, but he was as surprised as he found a new continent: "Lin Lianhui, Liu Mei?" Why are you here? Aren't you supposed to be in Jinzhou? I remember that I specially arranged for you to stay in Jinzhou? ””

"Wechen is a medical officer, of course he should treat the wounded. There are a lot of wounded here. "The slave and maid are the emperor's maids, and where the emperor is, of course the slave and maid should also be there."

Guangxu nodded: "Look at them, if there is enough medicine, when they come out of the hospital, they will still be an iron-clad soldier, but now they can only resign themselves to their fate here." Break out, you have to break through. Be sure to send them out. The two of you will arrange it at once. Organize the wounded who are still able to move, and prepare enough stretchers. ”

"The emperor has decided to leave?" Lin Lianhui was overjoyed, as long as the emperor could leave, this battle would not be lost.

"Go, you have to go. Send every one of them out. ”

"Your Majesty, I won't leave." A wounded soldier lifted the quilt to reveal a suppurated broken leg: "Instead of dragging the brothers like this, it is better to leave a gun." Someone has to cut off the troops. "Anyway, that's already the case, let the fast brethren go.

The other wounded soldier laughed, and his face twisted instantly. The emperor's performance today is in his eyes, what else can such an emperor say: "Fart." If you give a gun to a devil like us, just give it a dynamite package. Let these little Oriental devils see that our Qing Dynasty is not all to the group of old soldiers in the Beiyang. Absolutely blow them up. ”

"That's it, just give a dynamite bag and make ......" knew that it was death but did not hesitate, and said it like a joke.

Guangxu bowed deeply: "Fulfill your last wish." It's better to hit it when you pick it up, and the breakout is set for tonight. All ready, I went to the headquarters to coordinate the troops. Be quick. (To be continued.) )