Chapter Seventy-Four: The Monument of the Soul of the Army
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This war that swept the entire land of China lasted for half a year, from the end of summer and the beginning of autumn to the melting of ice and snow and the return of spring to the earth.
A protracted war is like a deep pool, a huge magnet, it is easy for people to come in, but it is difficult to get out.
The scorching flames of war have brought incomparable damage, and the trauma of war has stained the earth with blood, and the sky seems to be gloomy by countless unjust souls.
On the battlefield, the gunfire was not extinguished, from the north of the grassland to the south of the Yangtze River, countless families were broken, and countless people were affected by this war.
The losses of the army of the White Night were not large, they showed the powerful lethality of the technology industry on the battlefield, the army of nearly 500,000 of the Five Parties Alliance was wiped out in this land, and more than 300,000 prisoners were escorted to the White Night area to be shot in the labor camp.
The city of blood and rivers, every city on the border of the White Night is covered with swords, guns and arrows, traces of fire and shelling.
This is a crazy war, and the two sides have restrained themselves from the beginning, until they are crazy. From the superiority of the strength of the five-party alliance, to the fact that he did not hesitate to invest a large number of troops, he also wanted to break through a border city in the white night.
As the war progressed, the five-party alliance found that the script was wrong, and it was different from what they expected, and they wanted to get out, but found that it was a deep mud ditch, and no one could be left alone.
They have no way out, they dare not retreat, because as soon as they retreat, there will be a bottomless abyss behind them, and everything they have now will be wiped out.
They have no choice, they are very helpless, the high-level of the five forces are not stupid, and they all understand in their hearts that this war is no longer a joke and a random move, but is related to the direction of the world and the fate of countless people.
They are the ruling class, they know the goal of Bai Ye, what Bai Ye thinks, and if they want to stop it, they can only fight to the death.
In just two months, the Five Parties Alliance lost 200,000 troops, but as if they didn't see it, they frantically recruited soldiers, issued swords and guns, put on armor, and sent them to the battlefield.
Some of the soldiers were not yet fifteen or sixteen years old when they fell under the fire of the White Night Army, and they were still children who had not grown up.
Without worries, without considering the feelings of the people, conscription, conscription, conscription, groups of people embarked on the military journey, far away from their relatives and hometowns, and never returned, and even the bones did not know where they were buried.
The Southern Song Dynasty, once prosperous, was dragged down by this war, and this world-leading country in economy became withered. Hundreds of thousands of armies represent hundreds of thousands of households, connecting millions of people.
In Jiangnan, a mountain village with thousands of people, the men in the village were conscripted to serve as soldiers, but before January, a battle report came from the front line, and 50,000 troops attacked the city at night and were all annihilated.
As a result, the whole mountain village was full of vegetarianism, and every family was crying bitterly that they had lost their son and husband.
Yang Yuanhong and Li Xuxia have been erased from the map, and these two people are frantic and want to make a last stand, so they forcibly requisitioned 200,000 peasants to attack the White Night City.
In the end, the two cities were broken, and the two divisions of the White Night were wiped out here, but their army did not move forward, but was hit more fiercely, the artillery fire washed the ground, the bullets rained down, and in their desperate eyes, one by one the soldiers fell, and their hope of dominating the world was also shattered.
The Mongols exhausted their strength and drained the last of their new blood, Kublai Khan drew troops from the steppes and Europe, and 300,000 Mongol cavalry attacked.
However, it is a pity that in the past, the cavalry torrent was undefeated all over the world, and it will eventually become a thing of the past with the development of science and technology and the war.
When the fifth city of the White Night was forcibly breached, an effective weapon against cavalry appeared in this era, it was no farther than a cannonball, more powerful than a cannonball, but its lethality, the killing it made was not weaker than a cannonball.
It's a machine gun.
The machine gun of the White Night was developed by the scientific research base, made of materials unique to this world, and it was so rough that it was completed by those graduated high school students and researchers, and after a simple test, it went straight to the battlefield.
War is the misfortune of life, but it promotes the development of weapons and science.
In half a year, whether it is the Five-Party Alliance or the White Night Force, the weapons have been successfully updated. The Five Alliances now have the ability to craft muskets and artillery independently, and the White Night's armies are equipped with more new weapons.
It's just that due to the limitations of the times and the development of scientific and technological knowledge, Bai Ye's progress is faster than that of the Five-Party Alliance, and his weapons are more powerful.
The Five-Party Alliance has entered the era of hot weapons from cold weapons, but the White Night Army has gone further in the era of hot weapons. There is a generational difference in the weapons of the two sides, but now the five-party alliance can finally give White Night the ability to cause damage.
With the 200,000 troops brought in by Tibet all wiped out, Li Xuxia and Yang Yuanhong were wiped out, and at this time the war was going on, only the Mongol Empire remained, and the Southern Song Dynasty and Bai Ye were still wrestling.
The Mongol Empire was in decline, the Southern Song Dynasty was also weak, and the White Night Army sounded the clarion call for a strategic counteroffensive.
This war was really tragic, before the war, Bai Yeben had seven reorganized armies, but now two are almost empty, one is disabled, and he has killed nearly 100,000 soldiers in total.
The name of every soldier is engraved on the monument of the military soul, a new name will be engraved every day, and parents, wives and children will come to mourn every hour.
From the point of view of the strategic situation, this war is won by the white night, but from the point of view of the victims, no one is the winner.
It is rainy and rainy, the spring is cold, the grass on the road is stained with rain, and the apricot blossoms are slightly blooming in the rain.
The sky is slightly overcast, with jet-black clouds dotted on the horizon, and the apricot blossoms are cloudy and rainy, which makes people feel melancholy and miss those who died.
Bai Ye and many people, holding an umbrella to the military soul monument to offer flowers, there are many people on the road, the elderly, children, men and women, many of them are crying, pouring towards the military soul monument.
An old woman couldn't help but feel sad in her heart, crying and falling in the rain, and immediately medical personnel came to rescue her. A woman holds a child and offers flowers, fumbles for the name on a tablet, and tells her child that this is his or her father.
There are too many such scenes.
In the entire military soul square, dozens of obelisks that are not high are erected.
100,000 people, more than 100,000 names, even if a tablet can be engraved, but it is too high, the name is too small, it is inconvenient for people to commemorate, and it is inconvenient for people to find their relatives.
Therefore, Bai Ye set up this square as the military soul square, dozens of stone tablets stand here, engrave their names on them, and remember the heroes forever.
History is not created by individuals, if you want to complete the transformation of the heavens and the earth, if you want to gather the wisdom of all beings, how can one person do it?
White Night needs someone to follow in his footsteps, more people need to be involved, no one is a natural protagonist hero, and even if it is, he alone cannot move the world.
Even if a person is talented, can he be as wonderful as all beings? Even though the wisdom of one person is as vast as the abyss, can he really know the things of the heavens, the heart of all things, the past and the present and the future, and the mysteries of the universe?
The purpose of the White Night is not to benefit all beings, but to gather the fruits of wisdom. He doesn't mind sharing with others, he doesn't mind someone standing on the same height as him, and all living beings have wise people, all of whom are his Taoist companions.
Is it true that people can only be independent and stand out from the crowd? Isn't it nice to have someone standing with you on the top of one mountain and looking up to climb another?
There is no strongest in the world, only stronger.
Bai Ye didn't understand the reason why the Fa should not be preached lightly and the Tao should not be taught lightly? Do you have to think that you are noble, selfish, those who follow me prosper, those who oppose me perish, and the extreme self-only is the right way?
Bai Ye placed another bouquet of flowers in front of an obelisk, and every time he passed one, he would quietly put down a bouquet of flowers, stand silently for a while, and perform a military salute.
He is not pretending, but he feels that the death of these people has a lot to do with him, although he has changed their living environment and given them many things that they could never dream of before, it does not mean that their lives belong to him.
Everyone engraved on these tablets is a heroic man, they are not born noble, they are not the protagonists, but they are willing to die on the battlefield for the sake of their families.
The literacy rate of the army in the White Night was very high, almost 100 percent, and he made the rules compulsorily that no one dared to disobey.
Since these warriors are literate and sensible, they know better what they were and what they are now, what will happen to them and their families if the Five-Party Alliance breaks through the White Night Territory?
Therefore, 99 percent of them have no regrets and will not retreat from the battle.
Flowers were placed in front of the last obelisk, a military salute was performed in the white night, and a quiet gaze was momentary before holding an umbrella and departing.
The cries and shouts of the square were incessant, and in the continuous rain, they spread far and wide.