Xu Yu's face changed again, and he observed the reactions of others, and sure enough, some people already showed dissatisfied looks on their faces.

Seeing that the squad leader's face was wrong, Old Man Wang also knew that his goal had been achieved, so he laughed: "Squad leader, you dissipate your anger, I'm just a little unconvinced, whose life is not life, since we are going to the battlefield to work hard, then we have to think about ourselves, don't you?" ”

Xu Yu opened his mouth to say something, but Xia Yuan stretched out his hand to stop him and shook his head.

Xu Yu, who calmed down, noticed the gaze of the soldiers around him, and couldn't help but curse secretly, this old man Wang is really good, what he said, doesn't it represent the surrounding soldiers, if he refutes, the other soldiers' favor towards him will definitely decline.

He glanced at Xia Yuan with a little gratitude.

Xia Yuan's face was calm, he was looking left and right, and he didn't notice Xu Yu's gaze, a train parked at the edge of the platform came into view, the middle of the train was a section of iron carriages, stuffy jars, I sat once when I was in Changjin Lake, because it was a movie, the treatment was a lot better, there were beds and bedding, but now it was a reality, the environment in the stuffy jar was very dirty, the air was dirty, and the bucket in the corner exuded a foul smell and urine.

The environment makes people frown.

In addition to this stuffy tank, there are also open and tail-towed flatbed trucks.

Xia Yuan and the others were assigned to a flatbed truck that pulled heavy loads, with a layer of grass on the ground, and there was no shelter on all sides. Flatbed trucks are used to pull baggage, guns, machines, etc., and now they are used to pull people, which shows that the current situation has been quite serious.

Everyone said disgusting words, but they still sat up, a group of people crowded into a group, and when all the people got on the train, besides, the sound sounded, many people were taking the train for the first time, and they felt very fresh, looking left and right.

"Old man Wang, this iron lump runs faster than an ox cart, something pulls, runs so fast."

The monkey was a little excited, but he couldn't understand how the train runs, a few wheels, and it is so long, it is faster than the ox cart, it is incredible.

Old man Wang scratched his neck, and couldn't figure it out, this was beyond his ideological cognition, he had been in the countryside for half his life, and this thing was the first time he had seen it, and he said seriously: "It's really comfortable, the ox cart is not bumpy, or this thing is stable and fast." ”

He also called the scholar: "Aren't scholars literate?" He knew for sure. ”

The scholar hesitated for a moment and said, "The train produces energy by burning coal, which drives the wheels to turn. ”

"Energy, what is energy?" A soldier next to him asked.

"Energy." The scholar didn't know how to explain it, he didn't learn much knowledge, it was more miscellaneous, where could he explain what energy was, he turned his head and asked Xia Yuan: "Brother Yuan, do you know what energy is?" ”

"Rice is energy, and having enough food has the strength to work."

Xia Yuan lay on the grass, facing the sun overhead, squinting in response.

This sentence was easy to understand, and everyone could understand it, and the monkey stepped on the floor with his foot and said, "Feelings are coal-eating." ”

Besides, the train runs on the railway with only one road, and the scenery along the way continues to pass in front of everyone's eyes, this is the first time everyone goes far away, or follow the troops to fight together, no one can predict the next fate, maybe they will die on the way to support Shanghai,

The noon day was a little hot, and the hot guys were dazed, but fortunately they were not in the stuffy jar, the train was running, and the wind was blowing on them, although it was relatively sunny, it was also relatively cool, and the flatbed trucks pulling heavy baggage were not big, and it was enough for dozens of people to sit crowded, and it was rare for Xia Yuan to have a place to lie down.

However, he didn't lie down for too long, he sat up, and a layer of black clouds drifted in the sky in the distance, and Xia Yuan said, "It's going to rain." ”

Only then did everyone realize that in the direction of the east where the train was going, a layer of black clouds hung over the sky.

Old man Wang frowned and said, "I'm a girl, this is a sign of heavy rain, we are going to be drenched miserably." ”

I don't even have a shed, but I don't want to be drenched.

There were no raincoats given to them, and such a heavy layer of dark clouds drifted over, mixed with rain, for fear that they would be drenched in the cold. The train was moving at high speed, and the flatbed wagons had nothing but straw under their butts and bedding rolled up behind them.

The train continued to move forward, and the dark clouds in the distant sky were getting closer and closer to everyone, and the train was originally driving forward with gusts of wind, but now it became stronger, and the temperature of the wind suddenly dropped a lot, and it was a little colder.

A few minutes later, the hazy raindrops fell, and as the train continued to move forward, the rain gradually became heavier, and the bean-sized raindrops crackled down, and the grass-green old military uniforms worn on the body showed a deep gray, and after a while, everyone's hair was drenched, and there were water droplets on their faces.

"Grandma's, the wind and rain are really strong, but it's cool."

"We won't get sick when we get to the destination, we don't care about it."

"Sick? You're underestimating yourself too much, look a little bit away, we won't get sick. ”

Some people are still optimistic, they firmly believe that their current situation is not bad, and the wind and rain are quite cool, dissipating the summer heat, and huddle together so that it will not be so stuffy, and some people simply take off their clothes and take a comfortable bath in the pouring rain.

"This God, if you say that the sky will change, it will change the sky, this is a bad omen, which means that the road ahead is the same as the weather, unpredictable, and we don't know what the situation is."

Old man Wang suddenly chattered again, his tone carrying uncertainty about his future fate.

"The fate of the state is linked to the fate of the individual, and if the country is gone, the fate of the individual will be gone." The scholar wiped the rain off his face with his hand and said solemnly.

"Scholar, your learning is not in vain, what you say is the truth, it's really good." One of the fighters said with a smile.

The scholar smiled awkwardly, and the warrior in front of him took care of him, and no one paid attention to him anymore.

"What the scholar said is right, the country is gone, do you still exist? Will the Japanese devils let you go? ”

Xia Yuan held the gun, his eyes were a little cold, there were water droplets on his face, and his face was a little resolute.

Everyone didn't speak, and Old Man Wang smiled and said, "Big man, you think about things too seriously, our country is so big, how can you be beaten by the little Japanese devils." ”

Xia Yuan glanced at Old Man Wang and said, "Everyone thinks the same as you, if you don't go out to fight, there is a high probability that the country will be gone." But what you said is also right, there is a saying that 'people do not think for themselves, heaven and earth will perish', what does it mean, that is, if people do not think about themselves, they will be rejected by heaven and earth, but you will only consider yourself, and some people will choose to be for the country, you can't feel that they are wrong because they are not for themselves. ”

"You are for you, you are still you, and they will be national heroes and go down in history."

"The rise or fall of a country is a matter for each and every one of us."

Moral kidnapping, Xia Yuan is the best, he has done a lot of moral kidnapping before, but in the future in peace, moral kidnapping will scold you, but now, this is undoubtedly an inspiring word.

Many people think that what Xia Yuan said is reasonable, the rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband, although they are peasants, although they have experienced the exploitation and oppression of the landlords, but the rise and fall of the country, they are still very willing to stand up. As Xia Yuan said, his name will go down in history.

It is also ridiculous to say that those landlords and bullies who sucked the blood of China and the blood of the peasants, when the country was in danger, they chose to compromise with the enemy, but it was the peasants at the bottom who came forward, they went forward one after another, threw their heads, spilled their blood, and saved China from peril.

Xia Yuan's words also reversed everyone's opinion of Old Man Wang, and the monkey hesitated and said: "Old Man Wang, what the big man said is right, the rise and fall of the country is related to each of us. ”

Old man Wang hated iron and said with hatred: "Have you forgotten how your mother died, she was bullied to death by Huang Laocai and bullies, or have you forgotten how we came on the way to the barracks, and you still have to protect them now!" ”

The monkey's expression was a little frozen, and he hesitated even more, and the words of the old man Wang were like a thorn, pierced into the body of everyone, most of these new recruits were captured by the landlord Lao Cai as a strong man and sent to the barracks, the national army gave a lot of money, even if it went through layers of deductions, this money is still a lot.

And they went through many hardships all the way to the barracks, and many of them almost died on the road.

The originally excited hearts fell silent all of a sudden, they are famous in history, but those landlords, old money, and bullies are still at ease.

Old man Wang had a sneer on his rain-covered face, "We agree with you protecting the country, but we also want to know if we are protecting the country, or those landlords and old fortunes who have bullied us, as well as bullies, otherwise we will not be willing to die." ”

Everyone continued to be silent, the more silent they were, the happier Old Man Wang became, and it would be uncomfortable for one person to be a deserter, but it would be different for a group of people to be a deserter. Old man Wang was not satisfied with escaping from the barracks for a long time, the risk of escaping in the barracks was too great, but when he arrived on the battlefield, he was busy fighting, who would care about himself.

That's when the best time to run away is to escape.

Old man Wang is a little jealous and hateful, looking down on those officials who are oppressed against them, he is still very optimistic about the big one, steady, introverted, and measured, but unfortunately he is a little dull, and he sells his life to these guys who eat people and don't spit out bones, and he doesn't know what life he sells.

"Everyone has a destiny, and you are right."

Xia Yuan is no longer involved, the national army team and our army's team are two completely different teams. The management of guns was an erroneous management system, and the Nationalist Army had already made a mistake from the very beginning, so why did the people support the Red Army, because the Red Army could help them drive out the landlords and bring them a good life.

Most of the ranks of the national army are peasants and strong men, and the good things are given priority to the central army of their sons, and the eliminated things are given to the local army, to put it bluntly, the vast majority of the local army is cannon fodder. It is a pity that the tactics during the battle were backward, and they did not proceed from the reality of the weapons and equipment of the national army at all, and the result was that the Central Army was basically defeated in this battle.

Speaking of the new barracks, everyone came out of the countryside, was bullied by the landlords and old money, and was oppressed by the people of the receiving unit, at this time to mobilize them with the slogan of protecting the country and protecting the people, and the way of mobilization was wrong.

Xia Yuan tried it and gave up.

During the period of the White Terror, the bald head went the wrong way, as the so-called, one wrong step, one wrong step, and now it is too late to correct it. How to change it, it hurts the muscles and bones.

How everyone chooses, he doesn't care anymore, it's a big deal to be a lone wolf on the battlefield, and he has to fight the Songhu battlefield.

The rain crackled and smashed on everyone's body, like a small wooden awl knocked on everyone's heart, Old Man Wang's words have taken root in their hearts, destined to be indelible, the landlord Lao Cai has bullied them for too long and too long, but now they want to turn around to protect the landlord Lao Cai, few people are willing.

Of course, these people definitely couldn't imagine the three-light policy launched after the Japanese army invaded the Central Plains in the future, and now, everyone is holding their breath in their hearts, saying that it is useless to say anything.

The showers crackled and fell on their bodies, drenching them through, the military uniforms on their bodies had turned dark gray, the bedding behind them was wet, as heavy as carrying a stone, the wind was blowing with the rain, everyone chose to turn their backs to the direction of the train, the speed was too fast, the raindrops hit the face, and it was very painful.

When they set off, the Japanese army had already landed in Xiaochuansha and gained a firm foothold along the coast, and General Chen Cheng's 18th Army would carry out a counteroffensive against the landed Japanese army, and at the same time hold the areas around Baoshan, Luodian, and Liuhe.

No matter which one it was, the battle was very fierce, the street fighting in Shanghai, the Japanese army occupied the high point of the house for defense, fortified, waiting for reinforcements, the attacking 36th Division of the National Army was responsible for attacking the Huishan Wharf, General Zhang in order to support the 36th Division to attack the Huishan Wharf, equipped them with a secret weapon, which was the new combat vehicle of the armored corps just formed by China.

The Panzer Corps has three battalions, the first battalion is a British six-and-a-half-ton tank, the Wicks six-ton E-type light tank, equipped with a 47-mm gun and a machine gun, the second battalion is an amphibious tank, and the third battalion is a German-made Mark I tank.

The 36th Division, equipped with tanks, should be able to advance faster, but the Japanese have set up strong strongholds at various intersections, with bunkers piled with sandbags at each intersection, and machine-gun fire on the tops of buildings at the four corners of the intersections, sealing off the streets and roads.

(End of chapter)