I ignored the blood on Zhang Fangniu's body, hugged Zhang Fangniu, and shouted Zhang Company Commander in his mouth, at this time Zhang Fangniu was already out of breath and less in breath, he had several fatal wounds on his body, obviously he couldn't live, but we were unwilling, shouting loudly to the hygienist, this is the battlefield after the war, dead people everywhere, the hygienist may have died on the battlefield a long time ago, can't call the hygienist, we have to call Zhang Fangniu.

Zhang Fangniu's face was as white as a piece of paper, and his lips were as white as his face, at this time he slowly opened his eyes and opened his lips, and I said happily: "Company Commander Zhang is awake, hurry up, everyone will carry the company commander to the hospital of the division headquarters." ”

As soon as I said this, more than a dozen people suddenly gathered around and wanted to carry Zhang Fangniu to the hospital, Zhang Fangniu opened his mouth and said in a very low voice: "Don't, don't bother, I, I can't do it, you, you said to the teacher, I, I, I can't protect you, I ......"

Speaking of this, Zhang Fangniu's panting suddenly became rough, his eyes were wide open, blood foam appeared in his mouth, his body twitched a few times, and he died with a tilt of his head. Although the battlefield is full of dead people, but Zhang Fangniu's death, but let us extremely sad, more than a dozen old men, there to howl, crying tears, because we have no tears, now although it is dark, but the battlefield, everywhere is blood and fire, those flames are burning, black smoke everywhere, full of clouds and moon, human flesh burning scorching, now we are used to it, people at this time numb, more than a dozen people took off their hats, silently gave Zhang Fangniu a military salute, is goodbye to Zhang Fangniu, At this time, Lao Dao sat on the ground and recited the mantra to the dead.

I didn't have the heart to follow it, human death is a matter of the blink of an eye, a cannonball can tear people apart, tear people apart, although we are still alive, but the next time may be the same as a corpse on the ground. Tongze, who died excessively, might as well overdo himself. I felt very tired at this time, and simply sat on the ground, looking at the whole battlefield, the black smoke on the battlefield, mixed with each other, and then twisted and hovered there, unwilling to leave, I knew that those were the grievances of the dead, their souls were looking for and cherishing their remnants, and they were unwilling to leave.

At this time, an order came from the inner city, let us withdraw to the inner city, give up the outer city, everyone got up and walked to the inner city, the entire city wall, showing lifelessness, as if it had become a dead city, the blue sky and white sun flag on the city wall, has almost become fragments, floating there weakly. We went to the gate of the city, and saw the governors of the city, all standing at the gate to greet us, they solemnly saluted there, and at this time the living were heroes, and the dead were also heroes.

At this time, someone asked us to go to the Catholic church in the city to rest, and we went to the Catholic church in the east of the city, when Shandong was in the Qing Dynasty, Catholicism was prevalent, and the church at that time also provoked the Boxer Revolution, and the church power in Shandong was extremely rampant, and the anti-foreign religious struggle of the masses of the people was extremely fierce. After the First Sino-Japanese War, the masses in northwestern Shandong, where the imperialist military rule was relatively weak, rose up to resist the Christians after a long period of deliberation, and finally became the main birthplace of the anti-imperialist patriotic movement of the Boxer Rebellion. By 1899, the boxers in the Guanxian area led by Yan Shuqin and Zhao Sanduo, as well as the Yihequan in Chiping, Yucheng and the plains led by Zhu Honglan and Benming monks (also known as Xincheng monks), were quite active and very powerful. They stood in solidarity with each other in the struggle against foreign religion and dealt a powerful blow to the invading forces of the church, which shocked the imperialists and the Qing government.

At that time, Shandong Yihequan put forward such a slogan: "God helps boxing, Boxer, just because the devil is in trouble in the Central Plains." It doesn't rain, the ground is dry, and it's all churches that cover the sky. Women are unclean, men are not disgusted, and ghost children are not produced by people. If you don't believe it, look carefully, the devil's eyes are blue. The gods are also angry, and the immortals are also annoyed, so they will go down the mountain and pass the fist. Burn yellow watches, make cigarettes, and invite the gods and goddesses from all caves. No soldiers, only fists, it is not difficult to abolish devils. Pick up railroads, pull out electric poles, and go to overturn steamers in the sea. Great France, the heart is cold, and Ingiod cries again and again. Foreign devils, all killed, the Qing Dynasty unified the mountain. ”

But later, the Qing Dynasty court and foreigners killed the Boxers who were loyal to the Qing Dynasty, and sprinkled their blood into the loess, and then built a cathedral in a city like the county seat. We walked to the church in Tengxian County, this church is very magnificent, the original roof, with a cross erected on it, the kind of building is typical of European architecture, among the low houses, it is particularly eye-catching. The church is planted with foreign flags, it is because of these foreign flags that the church and the surrounding scene are very different, the houses along the way were indiscriminately bombed, and the ruins were broken, while the church and the surrounding houses were intact, just because there was going to be a war, and the people in Tengxian County had already fled.

When we came to the church, we saw some preachers standing at the door, and the lanterns at the door were shining dimly, and we went to see them, these preachers, dressed in long robes, with cloaks on their heads, and crosses around their necks, and they had big beards and yellow beards, and their eyes were sunken. There is a clear difference with us Han Chinese. There they said in stiff Chinese: "Poor children, Satan the Devil has sent blood and fire, come and pray in the church to atone for your sins and ask God to bless you." ”

We went into the church, and when we got to the church, we found that there were many people who had taken refuge in the church, and they were singing under the teaching of a few nuns, and we didn't want to listen to the songs, but we just found a corner and sat down, and someone brought us food, and we ate some and rested there. The next day, before dawn, the bombardment of the devils began, there were explosions everywhere, we were so frightened that we quickly got up and ran out of the church, only to see the planes in the sky like flies, throwing bombs, all kinds of shells fell on the county seat of Tengxian County, the houses in the county town were blown up, all kinds of things were piled up on the streets, blocking the road.

The explosions everywhere made us have no place to hide at all, so we could only find a place to hide in the courtyard of the church, but what made us strange was that the church and the surrounding houses had nothing to do, and those Japanese devils seemed to be a bit of a rat trap on the banner floating above the church, and they did not dare to bomb at will.

After the bombardment, we prepared to go out to meet the enemy, and found that the streets were piled up with collapsed buildings into small hills, the original stone streets were bombed into deep pits, the whole city was in flames, and there was scorched earth everywhere, and we could not find a way out at all, so we could only retreat to the church, climb on the roof of the church, and see the situation in Tengxian County. We saw on the roof that the entire Teng County was shrouded in black smoke, and the scene was very tragic.

About an hour later, the devils began to attack again, this time the devils still attacked from Dongguan, and the devils transferred the Iron King Eight to attack the city, followed by groups of devils. Later I learned that those Iron King Eight were called tanks. Iron King Eight spewed fire, very powerful, more than ten Iron King Eight rushed through the collapse of the East Wall, followed by rows of Japanese soldiers. Although our defenders bravely blocked the attack and destroyed two tanks with cluster grenades, due to the huge disparity in strength between the enemy and us, our defenders were killed and wounded and could not be replenished, and were rushed to the corner of the city by the Japanese army. Our garrison first threw grenades, then raised their broadswords, jumped into the enemy group and slashed, destroying all the Japanese soldiers who climbed the city wall.

We saw these clearly in the church, looking at those Sichuan soldiers and devils desperately, we wanted to go out to meet the enemy, then the above ordered us to defend the church, it was an extremely tragic defense battle, at two o'clock in the afternoon, the devils began to attack again, the Japanese army bombarded the south city wall with 12 heavy howitzers, and twenty or thirty enemy planes bombed the defenders of Nanguan. The defenders of Nanguan were forced to move to the vicinity of the Xiguanwai railway station. A gap was opened in the southern city wall by the enemy's heavy artillery, and five or six hundred Japanese soldiers attacked the southern city under the cover of more than ten tanks. Lu Kang, commander of the 370th Brigade of the 124th Division of our army, and Wang Chaolian, deputy brigade commander, personally commanded the city wall, but they were seriously wounded, and the defenders were killed and wounded. At half past three in the afternoon, the Japanese occupied the southern wall. Soon after, under the cover of artillery fire and tanks, he broke into Dongguan, and Wang Lin, commander of the 740th Regiment of the 124th Division of our garrison at Dongguan, was seriously wounded and died.