Chapter 1 The Wounded
In November 1944, at the Naval Hospital in Naples, Italy, the cold sea breeze blew Fang Lang's hospital gown.
But he didn't realize it, and he was admiring the warships moored in the military harbor with a look of amazement. It's not that these warships are advanced and mighty, it's just that the final glory of these giant ships' cannons really gave him enough shock.
"Fang, why did you run out, Mr. John Clark is looking for you all over the hospital!" The young nurse, who could see the freckles on her face, was full of eagerness.
"Miss Lilith, you're so beautiful today." Thanks to Fang Lang's 20 years as a seafarer, he was able to use unfamiliar Italian to communicate with this little nurse.
"Thank you for the compliment, but that doesn't convince me to agree with you to continue blowing the cold wind here. Come on in, it's cold outside, and your body hasn't recovered yet! Have you forgotten that you suddenly fainted yesterday when you were standing? For Fang Lang's praise, Lilith is obviously used to it.
Since the U.S. troops landed in Italy, the naval base and surrounding ancillary facilities have been requisitioned, apparently including the hospital. And the American GI is notoriously free and loose, and he must not have molested the little girl in front of him.
"Alright! If you can be gentle with me when you get the injection, I promise I won't run out again. Fang Lang said playfully as he walked towards the hospital.
"You mean I'm not gentle enough, do you? Believe me, you'll soon see what it means to be ungentle. The little girl said fiercely.
"No, believe me, the reason why I ran out to blow the cold wind is because I am afraid that I will fall into your gentle country and never be able to go out again, so I must let the cold wind of the Mediterranean sober me up." Fang Lang forgot about Lilith affectionately, and Lilith's face turned red when he saw it.
"Haha..... Fang, should I hide to the side and not affect your confession. On the other side of the hallway, a figure also wearing a hospital gown, a U.S. military jacket, and a cane leaning against the wall laughed.
"Hey..... John, since you know you shouldn't make a sound, you have to hide and don't affect my confession. ”
"Haha...... Brother, you don't have a chance, it's clear that Lilith likes me, haven't you noticed? John looked confident, and didn't forget to raise his eyebrows at Fang Lang as he spoke.
The ridicule of the two made Lilith a little shy, but she still learned the tone of the aunt in the hospital and said, "You two bastards, you don't have a chance, get me into the ward, I'm going to give you an injection." ”
Fang Lang laughed after hugging John gently and walked back to the ward.
In fact, the hospital has never figured out where Fang Lang's injuries are, he has been in a coma when he was brought to the hospital, and the front-line doctors thought that his brain was damaged by the shock wave of the explosion, and the person fell into a coma, and he did not wake up for a week, thinking that he was hopeless. After John's strong request, Fang Lang was sent from the field hospital on the front line to the naval hospital in Naples.
The reason why John wanted to bring Fang Lang out was very simple, Fang Lang was injured in order to save him, if it wasn't for Fang Lang desperately dragging John, who was injured in the leg, out of the trench at that time, John would have followed the cannonballs that flew and directly blasted into slag. And Fang Lang was kicked off by this shell for nearly ten meters before he was injured and unconscious.
What John didn't know was that Fang Lang was no longer the sergeant of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force who dragged him out of the trenches at that time.
Fang Lang only remembered that he was originally COSCO Voyage, the chief engineer of a 100,000-ton container ship, encountered a typhoon when crossing the Drake Strait, and he was checking the fastening of the equipment in the storm with a safety rope.
When he woke up again, he became Fang Lang, a soldier of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force in the Italian War of World War II, and for the first few days, Fang Lang felt that he was in chaos, and the memories of two different people were constantly intertwined and repeated.
Until now, Fang Lang's head will suddenly shut down, but after waking up, the whole person's spirit will be significantly improved, and gradually increase a lot of original memories, including some memories that Fang Lang has forgotten in the original, such as the chalk words left by the teacher on the blackboard in the elementary school classroom, which can be clearly remembered.
"Fang, my father has found me." John couldn't tell how he was feeling, and John never mentioned his father to anyone.
"What do you mean you're running away from home?" Fang Lang is actually not familiar with John, as a major liaison officer arranged by the US Army to the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, Fang Lang was originally just a sergeant squad leader of the First Regiment of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, and almost had no intersection with John.
But the two fought in the same trench, Fang Lang saved John's life, which made John, an American cowboy, grateful, and a comrade-in-arms who had never known him risked his life to save his life, and John felt that he had to repay him.
"Of course not, it's just that I don't have a good relationship with my father. Originally, he wanted me to go to the Navy, but I wanted to stay away from him, so I came to the Army. ”
"Hey! What's this, my old man and I don't often talk back, he always wants to control me, let my son inherit his father's business, manage the family's farm, oh my God! It's not a feudal society now, I have my freedom, don't I? So, I secretly signed up for the army! I don't know if he's angry at home. ”
John couldn't have imagined that the two men would have similar experiences. "Does your father know you're coming to Italy?"
"I wrote to him before I left, but I haven't heard a reply yet, so I don't know if he knows where I am! Thinking about it, I still feel a little unfilial. Fang Lang didn't understand why the original body had brain cramps and joined this Brazilian Expeditionary Force.
As far as Fang Lang knows, it seems that only Brazil in the entire South America joined World War II at the instigation of the United States, and it seems that only 20,000 or 30,000 people in the whole of Brazil participated in the war. If it was to fight Little Japan, Fang Lang would definitely not say a word and would be done, but helping the United States to go to Europe to fight, this must be a brain cramp.
John patted Fang Lang on the shoulder and said, "Brother, don't be sad, I can go and ask our logistics department if we have received your letter." ”
Because the Brazilian Expeditionary Force is actually a unit under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army, logistics, transportation, equipment and supplies, and even mail and allowances are all taken care of by the U.S. military, so John said to help him ask if there is any letter from him.
"Now that we're on the battlefield, it's useless to think about it. You say your father found you? What is the meaning? Fang Lang didn't want to continue to think about the facts that couldn't be changed.
"Today he called the hospital and said that his adjutant had been arranged to come to me. Wanted to transfer me to the Navy's logistics department. But I don't want to work under him at all, damn it. Apparently John was not happy that his father was going to transfer him to his command and protect him.
"Hey! Brother, you have a good father, and he wants to protect you, understand? When Fang Lang heard that John's father was going to transfer John to the logistics department under his command, he understood that his father was definitely not an ordinary person.
"I understand, but I don't need protection, I'm an adult, and he still treats me like a child." John's brain circuit really made Fang Lang very strange, he didn't know how to use such a good resource.
"Hey! Dude, listen to you, your father is a great big guy, right? Fang Lang was really curious, what kind of character John's father was. Originally, he felt that John's situation in the U.S. Army should be similar to his situation in the Brazilian Army.
Because, John is not a white man, from his yellow skin, black hair, and black eyes, it can be seen that he is definitely a minority. The proportion and status of ethnic minorities in the U.S. military should be similar to the status of Fang Lang, a Chinese American, in the Brazilian military.