Section I

The stone slowly opened his eyes, looking at the sky with a lazy expression, the blue sky floated with clouds, because of the red light of the rising sun and appeared gorgeous, between the colorful changes, the kind of majestic atmosphere, as if in a fairyland, people are fascinated.

A light breeze blew, mixed with the unique freshness of the morning, and even with a strong smell of earth and grass, which made people involuntarily open their mouths and take a few deep breaths, and suddenly every pore in their body was comfortable.

Breathing in the spring air and feeling the warmth of spring, the stone couldn't help but close his eyes again and let out a long sigh. However, as soon as his eyes closed, there was an involuntary roar in his ears, gunshots, explosions, screams, and cries...... All kinds of voices were entangled, constantly circling in Shi's mind, and in just an instant, they brought him into a bloody picture, bringing back the bloody battle half a year ago......

Scenes of tragic and crazy scenes flashed quickly in the mind of the stone, and the stone with his eyes closed seemed to have returned to Nanjing City and Jiqing Gate for a while. The devils are burning and looting everywhere, and the city of Nanjing, which used to be like flowing water and prosperous, is now as bloody and terrifying as purgatory, almost every inch of land is stained red with blood, and almost every street is filled with corpses.

As the team that stayed after the break, they hardly had a moment of peace, and the Japanese troops who continued to pour into the city continued to send troops to attack their place, and the situation became worse after the city was broken on the 13th, and as the counterattack in Nanjing became smaller and smaller, the place where the army was still stationed became the focus of the devil's attack.

Fortunately, there are enough weapons and ammunition left over by the 347th Regiment, and several machine gun positions are also arranged very reasonably, and the streets are blocked by several machine guns staggered in front and back. In a short period of time, the entire Jiqing Gate has become a Shura field, and the streets leading to the city gate are like a mountain of corpses, and the blood flows into a sea, and the monstrous bloody breath alone can suffocate people.

However, as the resistance in various parts of the city became weaker and weaker, the various units of the national army that remained in the city were gradually eaten and slaughtered by the Japanese troops who poured into the city, and the situation they faced became worse and worse. As the bullets of several light and heavy machine guns were exhausted, the third company also had to withdraw from Jiqingmen and defend the wooden bridge over the Chenghe River, and in the following two days, the dense shells that fell from time to time and the planes that circled overhead to bomb and strafe burned the place where they were directly scorched, so that everyone could barely lift their heads.

The battle lasted until the 16th, on the third day after the fall of Nanjing, the wooden bridge outside the Jiqing Gate was finally hit by a cannonball and wiped out, at this time a battalion was almost wiped out, more than 600 people from the battalion commander and below, at this moment there was less than one layer of breathing, almost all of them were three companies of these veterans of a hundred battles, and at that time, the stone because of the fierce battle in the past few days, the original wound burst and passed out directly.

When Shi opened his eyes again, it was already three days later, feeling the pain all over his body, he was surprised to find that he was not dead, but when he saw the person next to the bed, the whole person seemed to have been struck by lightning, and his eyes widened directly, and he made any sound for a long time.

The person in front of him turned out to be Wang Qianqian, who was wearing a coarse cloth military uniform, although the military hat covering her head covered her green hair, but the pointed chin, delicate facial features and cold expression really made the stone not know what to say at all.

In the following time, he gradually learned some of the things from the mouths of Xiaoshan and Liu Wenfeng, and he didn't know if it was their luck, or if there was such a thing as karma in this world, when they carried the stones and other wounded all the way to the river, they actually met an oncoming acquaintance on the road, it was Fang Aniu who was stranded in the village because his wife gave birth to a child, and the most surprising thing was that the stone had saved a baby in the chaos of the city that night, It was actually Fang Aniu's new son, because of the fierce battle at that time, after the stone asked the tall sledgehammer to send the baby to the back, he didn't have time to pay attention to this matter anymore.

After they met each other, they knew that when Fang Aniu was looking for his son that night, he already knew that the defenders here happened to be the army that had fought in Fangshan, and Fang Aniu was naturally extremely grateful to the soldier who stayed there to fight a small battle with the devil sentinel in order to escort them away, and this time he saved his life, which couldn't help but make him feel that he was too gracious.

No, after he sent his wife and children and his father-in-law's family across the river, he resolutely rushed back, his father-in-law's family is on the riverside, fishing for generations, a few days ago when the Heavenly Army requisitioned fishing boats along the river, they had hidden a small boat up, it was by this boat, their family could cross the river safely, and now they came back at the risk of death, naturally they also knew that they could not find a boat by the river at the moment, and they thought about what happened.

Fang Aniu's appearance really helped the people of Sanlian a lot, there was no boat on the riverside, they had naturally heard some rumors before, Tang Shengzhi, the commander of the Nanjing garrison, previously said that he wanted to live and die with Nanjing City, in order to show his determination, he even blocked the river boats and destroyed the boats, and I heard that the 305th regiment went to the Sanchai River a few days ago to erect a pontoon bridge and was driven back by friendly troops, from these things, it can also be guessed that the hope of crossing the river is really slim, so they did not put the hope of breaking through the river at the beginning, Instead, he planned to go west along the riverside and try his luck to see if he could retreat to Ma'anshan and other places in Anhui first.

Now that they heard that a boat could cross the river, they were naturally overjoyed, and they did not hesitate at all, but followed Fang A all the way to the river.

The latter situation is much simpler, there are still troops in Jiangbei, and it is easy to find out where the troops are going, but because they have been entangled with the devil for so long, the situation in all aspects is really bad, but they are not in a hurry to chase them, but they stayed in Jiangbei for a day to rest.

It is precisely because of this that they found their sister-in-law who had been waiting for them to cross the river in Jiangbei, and later heard from her sister-in-law that after she crossed the river with the 347 regiment, she did not evacuate with Commander Zhong and them, but waited by the river, as for what she was waiting for, even she couldn't say clearly, maybe she was reluctant to leave Camp Commander Zheng like this!

But after seeing them, the sister-in-law naturally accompanied them, although everyone felt that it was really inconvenient to bring a woman in the army, but when they thought of Camp Commander Zheng, no one dared to have any opinions, besides, at this time, you can't leave your sister-in-law by the river, at least you have to wait until you stay away from the devil, so under the acquiescence of everyone, the sister-in-law stayed in the team.

Wang Qianqian, who works in the hospital, naturally took care of the wounded in the third company along the way, but don't underestimate her thin figure, things such as treating wounds and disinfection and sterilization seem extremely light in her hands, but it greatly alleviates the pain of the wounded and speeds up the recovery, so that everyone is naturally more and more respectful to this beautiful sister-in-law.

This is also the reason why Shi saw her as soon as he opened his eyes, although Shi has been unconscious, but he has a lot of wounds on his body, and she has been responsible for changing dressings and disinfecting every day in the past few days.

"Battalion commander, the regimental seat has a message, saying that it is for you to come over." Just when the unbearable face paintings flashed in Shi's mind, immersed in the huge nightmare of Nanjing City, a familiar voice pulled him back to reality, opened his eyes, Shi straightened up slightly, and saw Li Wenguang running from not far away.

He took a long breath, soothing the feeling of fear that had accumulated in his heart, looking at Li Wenguang's familiar figure, his mood instantly relaxed a lot, and he grinned lightly, and Shi Qiang scolded with a smile: "You are all the company commander, why are you still in such a panic, this little thing is out of breath, don't let your company brothers laugh." ”

Hearing the stone's words, Li Wenguang smiled indifferently, and then slowed down his steps and walked over, sat down beside the stone, tore off the military hat on his head and waved it twice, as if he was fanning himself, looking unscrupulous, and then he said slowly: "Battalion commander, you are underestimating me." Laughing at me? Who of them would dare? A group of old hats who have never fought in a battle, aiming at the target for a few months, will they dare to rebel? Master, how can I say that I am also a person who has been killed all the way from Songhu, and I have killed more devils than they have ever seen, and if you want to laugh at me, you have to come up with some energy first, right? ”

Listening to his words, the stone suddenly shook his head helplessly, and there was nothing he could do about his usual narcissistic style, he sat up straight, he greedily took a breath of fresh air, and did not leave in a hurry, but turned his head and asked, "Is there any news of the devil?" What can the head of the regiment do with me at this time? ”

Li Wenguang's grinning expression disappeared suddenly, he looked left and right, and after confirming that there was no one else around, he whispered: "Battalion commander, it seems that the devil has made a big move again, I heard that the troops of the 5th Theater have been mobilized very strongly in the past two days, and it is very likely that there will be a big battle like the Battle of Taierzhuang." As he spoke, he shook his head and sighed lightly: "It's a pity that such a big victory doesn't have our share, alas! I really want to chase after the devil's ass and kill it! ”

Shi couldn't help but shake his head, how could he, who was the battalion commander, not know these things that Li Wenguang said, stretched out his hand and patted Li Wenguang's shoulder, he said as he got up: "Don't worry, as long as there is a life, there will be more battles with devils, maybe the regiment commander will let me go over now, and he will send us a task." ”

Li Wenguang was immediately overjoyed and said: "It would be nice if this was the case, in the past half a year, people have been suffocated to death!" ”