Chapter 629: Hope in Despair (2)

"If the entire Golsington retreat was a huge battle, then every ship sailing through this short strait was the most tragic battle. Eighty years later, Thomas, who is already a centenarian, still said with palpitations.

In front of him sat a famous middle-aged historian, Arnold Tongbiin, and today it is this historian who is trying to reconstruct the tragic evacuation of that year, and is personally interviewing the retired general Thomas, who witnessed this scene in person.

How long has it been, and all kinds of paper materials, in the ensuing series of wars, have basically been damaged, leaving not a few words, and it is impossible for people to clearly know the real situation that has been submerged in the fog of history.

Therefore, interviewing these few survivors, who are still alive, became Arnold Tangbi's only choice, and he quickly recorded the old Thomas's narration while observing the old Thomas's demeanor.

Because this veteran general, who was lucky enough to retreat from Guo Xington, has experienced countless battles and bloody battles since then; logically speaking, he should have exercised an incomparably strong heart a long time ago and looked down on life and death.

However, Arnold Tang Biyin can still see the unconcealed fear and sentimentality on the face of old Thomas, and it is conceivable how tragic the retreat must have been, so that such a deep terrifying memory will be left on the body of this veteran of a hundred battles.

As Thomas Sr. recounted in detail, Arnold Tombiin saw a scene before his eyes, as if he was struggling to move forward in hell, and seemed to pull his whole person into the strait where countless people were buried......

There was no need to wait for the boats to come to the rescue, and before they were a few miles away from the beach, a dense crowd rushed towards the boats.

They trampled on the deeper, colder, bitter waters and ran towards the boats, a special race in which the winners would succeed in boarding the boats in exchange for less than 30 percent of the yield, and the poor losers would have a very good chance of staying on the beach forever.

Thomas is also rushing forward desperately with the crowd, the sea water in winter is cold, it can almost freeze into people's bones, and the further you go, the deeper the sea water will be, and the body soaked in the cold sea water will be a little more.

Just after running forward for more than a hundred meters, the cold sea water had already soaked up to Thomas's waist, and the indescribable coldness almost made Thomas's body below his waist unconscious.

At the same time, stepping on the slippery mud and sand under his feet, as well as the resistance of the seawater, Thomas has to pay several times more physical strength every time he takes a step forward, and the body that is excited by the stimulation is forcibly stimulated, and the physical strength that is forcibly stimulated is consumed rapidly.

This is only a little bit of a run, and the rest of the journey is still long, and it will be even more difficult......

"No, I can't die here, I have to come home alive, definitely. Thomas roared hard in his heart, cheering himself on, and at the same time, he bit his lip hard, directly dripping the blood of his lip, in this way, squeezing every bit of his body's potential......

Human potential is often not explained clearly by reason and science.

Thomas relied on his young and strong body in the crowd, surpassing or forcibly squeezing through many people, and entering the first wave of leading crowds rushing to the boat, but he was a little ashamed of himself compared to the petite and even a thin body not far in front of him.

The owner of the petite, thin body was a young woman with a weak temperament, like Thomas's neighbor's sister-in-law, who usually spoke softly and weakly, and was so beautiful and tactful that even a domestic hen would not dare to kill her.

Before, this young woman had been alone in the crowd dozens of meters away from Thomas with a chubby baby in her arms, and whenever the child cried, she would always carefully take out a small piece of cheese the size of half a palm from her arms, carefully deduct a little bit, and feed it into the child's mouth, so that the child burst into tears and laughed.

Thomas once heard a proverb from the East, he doesn't remember exactly what it said, but the general meaning is still very memorable: that sentence means: You have no sin in yourself, but when you have a precious treasure with your own weak strength, that is your greatest original sin.

And among the countless hungry people, there was a man!, and a weak young woman, with a small piece of delicious cheese, and that was the greatest sin.

A big black man with a ruffian face stretched out his huge palm and grabbed it at the young woman's chest; for him, when no one cared about it at all, when he was hungry, he relied on his strength to grab something, grab something to eat, and even more excesses.

Indeed, no one cared about this kind of idle business, and in the face of the young woman's pleading gaze, the crowd around them simply turned a blind eye, or retreated as if fleeing the plague, and even Thomas was numb to this scene of evil, which was all too common in this troubled world where human life was as cheap as a mustard.

But what everyone didn't expect was that this small piece of cheese was just a piece of food for others, but for the young woman, it was the life of the baby in her arms, and for the sake of the child's life, this weak woman completely turned into a crazy female beast.

The carelessness of the black man made him lose his life for this, because the young woman took this opportunity to bully him into his close quarters, and then stabbed him in by surprise with a sharp dagger.

One knife, two knives...... The young woman who was frantically stabbing the black man in the stomach had a strange calm expression on her face, even though the blood was splashed all over her head and face, and her elegant floral cotton coat.

Since then, no one has dared to provoke this young woman, who hides an incomparably crazy factor in her weak appearance, and finally succeeded in having that small piece of cheese all fed into the baby's belly in two days......

At this time, the young woman tied the child in her arms, and with a perseverance that amazed Thomas, she moved forward with determination, and because of her height, it was only the sea water that had drowned Thomas's waist, and now it had reached the young woman's chest.

This made the young woman have to pay more physical strength than Thomas for every step forward, and gradually Thomas caught up with her.

At the moment when Thomas was moving parallel to him, Thomas heard the young woman's mouth and unconsciously muttered: "Baby, Mom promised Dad, we must live for him and live well......"