This is a year of disaster for the Chinese nation, and blood stains the earth red, flows into rivers, penetrates into the ground, blends into the sea, and enters the veins of every Chinese through various channels. The smoke of gunpowder rose and spread across the land of China, and the sound of manic artillery fire, fearless horns, and terrible screams converged into a tragic historical picture, and the blooming and withering of life appeared so heroic and short on the cruel battlefield.

War, the ugliest, darkest, and most despicable behavior of human beings, shows the demonic side of human nature to the fullest. On July 7, the 26th year of the Republic of China, the Lugou Bridge Incident opened China's painful and long eight-year history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

After a burst of artillery fire, the position of the 29th Army stationed on the front line of Lugou Bridge was full of tragedy, the air was filled with gunpowder smoke and the smell of blood, and there were many more wounded in the trenches.

A large part of them are field service groups organized by Pingjin students, and some of them are people near Lugou Bridge who spontaneously come to deliver water, food, and supplies to the frontline soldiers.

They moved the wounded to a makeshift medical shed in the rear and quickly carried out simple nursing work, while the seriously wounded soldiers were transported to Beiping for treatment as soon as possible.

"Zhou Ruikang, give me a roll of bandages." A young student said to a man who was bandaging a warrior.

Zhou Ruikang threw a roll of bandages beside him to him, and continued to bandage a seventeen or eighteen-year-old warrior beside him, his two fingers were blown up, blood was gushing out of the severed fingers, dripping on the bed and the ground, everywhere, he wailed in pain, his eyes were red and red, but the dead ninja did not let the tears drip down. Ruikang skillfully bandaged him, but his face was misty, and the color of pain was palpable.

The weather was hot, mosquitoes and flies were flying in the shed, the medical shed was full of the smell of blood, rot and sweat, and Ruikang himself was sweating profusely, constantly burying his head in his hands to treat these young people who were about the same age as him and had shed blood and sacrificed for the country.

Zhu Yafen has successfully given birth to a lovely baby boy at the beginning of the month, but the joy of everyone did not last for a few days, and they were shocked by the news of the 77 Incident, everyone knows what this means, Beiping City, the world-famous historical and cultural capital, their homeland, will be reduced to the territory of the Japanese, they will no longer have a home, no longer a country, and their relatives will become slaves of the Japanese. After discussion, the four decided that Ruikang and Jiawei would return to Beiping first, and Jiaqi would stay in Shanghai to take care of Zhu Yafen.

Ruikang and Jiawei rushed all the way home, and met the Pingjin Student Field Service Corps who rushed to the battlefield from the city on the way, Ruikang temporarily decided to let Jiawei go back to the city to inform the two families, and he followed them to the front line without hesitation.

He took off his straight tunic suit, rolled up his sleeves, and learned the basic bandaging and rescue skills from the field doctors, taking care of the wounded on the battlefield, transporting various materials on the battlefield, or resisting, or carrying or pushing, sweat soaked his shirt, his face was dyed with sweat and dust, and his beautiful black hair was already dirty, but he didn't care, his ears were rumbling guns, his eyes were black and yellow gunsmoke not far away, and his heart was hatred for the invaders and grief for the land of China.

After bandaging six wounded people in a row, Ruikang himself also had some prostration, mainly because the weather was too hot and the air in the shed was dirty, Ruikang walked out of the medical shed, stood aside, breathed a little, and was about to scoop a bowl of water for himself to drink, when suddenly a glass water bottle appeared in front of him, and there were a few chrysanthemums floating in the water bottle, Ruikang looked at the person holding the water bottle, and saw a beautiful face looking at him with a smile, Ruikang was stunned in surprise: "Jiaqi?!" What are you doing here? ”

"It's a long story, you drink water first. I'll tell you. Cheng Jiaqi said with a smile: "Chrysanthemum tea clears the heat and cools off, and I also put two pieces of mint." Ruikang was really thirsty, and drank a bottle of chrysanthemum tea dry, and the whole person immediately felt refreshed.

Cheng Jiaqi pouted and said, "Hey, hey, why are you drinking it all by yourself, and you don't know how to leave some for me." I came here not long after I got off the train. ”

Ruikang couldn't help but be embarrassed, scratched his head and smiled: "I'm sorry, I'm too thirsty." ”

Cheng Jiaqi snorted and laughed: "I'm joking with you, I specially brewed it for you." ”

Ruikang looked at her bright and slightly shy smile, and understood her heart for herself, but every time she saw Jiaqi, Ruikang would think of Ruojun, and his heart would ache faintly, and his heart still had no place for others.

Jiaqi saw that his brows were lightly locked, knowing that the unspeakable wound in his heart was hurting again, so he hurriedly turned to the topic and said: "Five days ago, Yafen and I were both asleep, and there was a commotion in the alley at night, and then a few people came up and brought a handwritten letter from Ziyan, it turned out that Ziyan had arrived in Yan'an, and they were specially here to escort Yafen and the child to Yan'an to meet. Later, they escorted Yafen and the child away overnight, and arranged a trip to the north for me, and finally avoided Xu Enhai's eyeliner and came back. ”

Ruikang looked at the sky and sighed, happy for Yafen's escape, but also sad for the separation from Ziyan, maybe life is composed of a lot of helplessness, Ruikang has too much helplessness in his heart.

"How do you know I'm here?" He asked.

"I went home once after getting off the train, and Jiawei said that you went to the front line with the student corps, and I came." She said without thinking, and only after saying it did she realize how straightforward her words and deeds were to reveal her long-hidden heart, she bit her lip, and her face was slightly red.

The corners of Ruikang's mouth moved slightly, he still had Xu Manlin's wedding ring on his ring finger, the shadow of Mei Ruoli's suicide was still floating in his mind, and Mei Ruojun's slender figure was still stationed in his heart, this is his emotional world, a world full of chaos, remorse, love and hate, struggle, death, he doesn't want Cheng Jiaqi to join this world again, he would rather be alone.

After a speechless embarrassment, Ruikang Zhiwu said: "...... Thanks, I ...... I went to take care of the wounded. As he spoke, he turned around and was about to walk into the shed, when Jiaqi called out to him behind him: "Ruikang, you wait, I want to say a few words to you." ”

Ruikang had no choice but to stand still, and Cheng Jiaqi mustered up the courage to step forward and said, "Let me stay by your side again, don't say goodbye without saying goodbye." ”

He looked back at her, his eyes were full of scars, he shook his head, his lips moved, but he couldn't say anything to refuse, Jiaqi saw that he wanted to say something and stopped, and she already knew it in her heart, but she made up her mind, she wanted to fight with him for the survival of the nation, and no longer waited for his answer, She made her card, spread her hair, and then quickly combed her ten fingers, coiled up her long curly hair high, rolled up her sleeves, and turned around and walked into the medical shed.

Ruikang shook his head and reluctantly returned to the shed, focusing all his attention on helping the wounded.

Jiaqi didn't say anything to him again, she studied all kinds of medical skills seriously, and took care of those young soldiers without fear of getting dirty or tired.

"Boom ----" was another fierce bombardment, * fell to the ground, blasting the earth out of a big hole, sand and gravel bounced into the air, scattered, crackling on the medical shed, the simple shed was smashed with a loud noise, dust fell from the sky, covering everyone in the shed, all of them turned gray.

In the face of the national disaster, the children's private feelings are too weak, and no one has the heart to talk about love, and all the love and hatred are temporarily buried in the depths of their hearts in the face of the national disaster.

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The tragic battle at the Lugou Bridge spread in Beiping City with the oral accounts of those who fled, and the city was also in a panic, and people privately discussed the future war and the fate of the country.

The Zhou family was also shrouded in a haze, and Mrs. Zhou paced back and forth in the hall worriedly, saying, "Master, my cousin and cousin's family have left Beiping, do you think we are also ready to prepare and go out to hide?" ”

Master Zhou smoked his cigarette pouch and frowned: "Don't be afraid, we still have the 29th Army, and the Japanese can't get in." ”

Mrs. Zhou shook her head and said: "My eyelids have been jumping for the past two days, and I always feel that something is going to happen, I heard that three sides outside the city of Beiping are occupied by the Japanese, and they also occupy Fengtai." I don't think things are quite right, sir, let's get ready to go. ”

Master Zhou was silent, the Zhou family compound is the root of the Zhou family, the glory of the Zhou family, and the glory of the Zhou family, their ancestors have lived here for generations, he has always had the determination to share the glory and disgrace with the Zhou family compound, and live and die together, even if the Japanese come, he would rather die in the Zhou family compound than leave the Zhou family.

Mrs. Zhou naturally knew Master Zhou's thoughts, and couldn't help but persuade: "Master, I don't complain about anything when something happens to me at a young age, but if you are pregnant, your belly is the root of our Zhou family." In case of a slight mistake, it is really difficult for us to explain to our ancestors and ancestors. I don't think it would be better to arrange for her and Ryan to go south. ”

Master Zhou shook his head and said: "The doctor said that her fetal image is unstable, and she needs to stay in bed to recuperate on weekdays, how can she withstand long-distance bumps, besides, Ruian's situation, can you rest assured?" If Ruikang is here, it would be better to have him take care of him all the way, cough, but this kid is not sensible at all......"

"Yes, this kid, if you don't come back to Beiping, you will go directly to the front line. I'm really worried about ....... death" Mrs. Zhou frowned, sighed for a long time, and kept picking up the Buddha beads in her hand.

The only one who has not been affected by the war, I'm afraid there are only Ryan and Ruojun in the chrysanthemum garden, Ryan since he knew that Ruojun was pregnant, almost every inch of companionship, he was full of anticipation to pay attention to this little life, Ruojun is a joy and harm at all to pay attention to other things, only lying in bed to raise the baby.

Ryan looked at Ruojun so hard, his heart was sad, his eyes were red, and he sat on the edge of the bed and looked at his wife nervously and distressedly. Ryan's careful care of herself made her feel very warm, and the relationship between the husband and wife became more and more harmonious.