Chapter 135: Death

(...The officers and soldiers fighting on the front line are often promoted for military achievements or demoted for mistakes, but many people have no idea about the situation; they either get separated or die in battle, and often all the appointments and removals on the top of the peak come to the front line but no one can be found; the most outrageous time one of my chiefs received a total of thirteen appointments and removals after breaking through, adding and decreasing, and finally promoted to the military rank... Excerpted from "Grandpa's Memories of the War of Resistance")

"To date, the total number of casualties of soldiers on the front line in our front line has reached more than 300,000, and the losses of people's lives and property cannot be counted... As for China itself, what we fear is not about whales, but about erosion. It is obvious that the disaster of erosion is slow and difficult to detect... Moreover, China's long-term resistance against the war of resistance is not only not in Nanjing, but also in major cities, but in the countryside and the hearts of the strong people. Our compatriots across the country can truly understand that the enemy's whales are beyond their whales, and their father surrenders his son, and brother encourages his brother, and everyone is united in the enemy, and every step is to set up defense, so that it is 40 million square meters.

The country can create strong tangible and invisible barriers everywhere, to defeat the enemy's death..." If everyone could be like the impulsive young officer, the idea that "the tangible and invisible barriers everywhere, to defeat the enemy's death" is naturally fine; but in such a national crisis, there is still someone to harm Cao Xiaomin at such a critical moment! Shen Zui was a little difficult to control himself. He had been waiting for a long time, and Chairman Jiang's "Letter to the National People's Retreat in Nanjing" published in the newspaper was already memorized, but the "boss" still didn't see him...

"Shuyi, tell me, if you have something to wait for a long time to see me?" The person sitting behind the table, hiding his face in the shadow, his eyes were like wolf eyes in the night, staring at him so hard that he was furious.

Calm down! Calm down! Finally, I finally waited until the "boss" saw his Shen Zui trying hard to calm his emotions and thought about how to speak...

"You are for that Cao Xiaomin's business?" The boss said slowly and calmly: "You are asking you to verify the situation, so you have no evidence... Humph, but several female students have all posted the matter to the newspaper!"

A newspaper was handed to Shen Zui, a newspaper from the opposite camp, a "red" newspaper. The newspaper reported a large number of tragic situations of refugees who escaped from the war in Nanjing, highly praised Cao Xiaomin and other officers and soldiers who sacrificed their lives to fight in the defense battle, but they cursed a group of generals, such as Tang Shengzhi, Sun Yuanliang and others. A large part of them was interviewing a group of female students who were led by Cao Xiaomin to cross the river. They scolded Tang Shengzhi angrily, and also mentioned Cao Xiaomin's words of wanting to destroy Tang Shengzhi...

Alas! These students, aren’t you going to push your benefactor to death? Didn’t you tell you that you must not disclose that matter?! Shen Zui was so angry that he rolled the newspaper into a ball, and then he remembered that it was in front of the “boss”…

"I read your investigation report, and then saw the Communist Party's newspaper. Think about the meeting held by the Ministry of Military Affairs today. I know why you are here!" The boss said silent for a long time before saying: "Actually, I don't need to plead for love. Do you know what the Commissioner said?... The old scholars all advocated peace talks for military failures, and senior generals also feared and depressed and hoped to peace talks. Alas! If there was no revolutionary spirit, if this was the case, I don't know why the War of Resistance was advocated in the past (from Chiang Kai-shek's diary)... The Commissioner also said that if there were a few Cao Xiaomins on the northern battlefield to let the Japanese know the spirit of our country's resistance, maybe the peace talks would be... "

"That means..." Chen Zui was overjoyed: "Will you punish Cao Xiaomin?"

"Do you think Cao Xiaomin deserves to die?" The boss actually looked at him with a smile.

"Of course not. It's really our generation who stood up to turn the tide in the crisis. Before he finished speaking, he saw the boss shaking his head slightly, and he couldn't help but lower his words and finally stopped.

"A little captain turned the tide; oh, by the way, when he was established in the second time, he was promoted to two levels of military ranks. He was a lieutenant colonel. A little lieutenant colonel turned the tide. Where did you let the generals of the Party and the country be? Where did you let the 'the last defenders of Nanjing' be? "The boss" said: "It turned out that there was news that he had become the target of the Communist Party, but now he was praised by the Communist Party... Hum! Do you know? The Japanese army has landed in Jiangbei and Jiangbei can't stay for a long time. He is known to the world. Even his wife was moved by the tragic situation of the refugees and wanted to go to Jiangbei to personally express condolences; do you let the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of War withdraw the troops in the third war zone?! They are all like him? Many people think that the Nanjing defense war has ended long ago!"

"I moved my wife, and the commissioner said... Isn't it going to be shot even?" The drunkard said in a stuttering manner. He could feel something in the boss's words, but he didn't dare to ask directly.

"Who is Tang Shengzhi? When the person who was fighting with the Commissioner, would the Commissioner destroy the Great Wall for him? Keep him still scare Lao Tang... But he shouldn't offend the entire Military and Political Department, the generals of the Third War Zone; it would be fine if he made meritorious service in war, he shouldn't be a national hero! It's not Tang Shengzhi who wants him to die, but many people!..." The boss's eyes suddenly became stern: "Think about what I said to you, think about it carefully. By the way, there is one thing you can rest assured that your brother will not be shot, he will die very heroically, and worship the descendants of the national hero... The Ministry of Military and Political Department discussed and asked him to summon a group of capable personnel under his command to rescue General Sun Yuanliang who was trapped there in Nanjing... All those involved in the operation will be given a first-level military rank. If you die in the country, you will be posthumously awarded the general..."

After Chen Zui came out of the boss's secret place, he almost collapsed! He deserved to die, because he did a great job in saving the country and the people! Cao Xiaomin, brother, you deserved to die! Who told you that you were so brave and fearless! Chen Zui had a secret order in his arms, and he was the one who was ordered to hand over this death talisman to Cao Xiaomin!

"Puff puff puff..." A series of bullets hit a Tianji, chasing a steel helmet that reflected the light of the flare and burst into a long string of smoke and dust. Next to Tianji, a Kuomintang soldier hugged and crawled backwards. A Japanese soldier suddenly appeared at the far end of Tianji in his bunker and raised his rifle... "Bow!" The gun rang, and Cao Xiaomin raised the rifle with one hand a hundred meters away, and shot the Japanese with one hand and completely based on his feeling.

Damn, let everyone move, why is this guy staying behind alone? Cao Xiaomin was not happy or surprised by his own deeds. He was just angry with the soldier who was behind. Because of the fire, the gun fire immediately attracted locust-like bullets, and the sound of bullets shooting into the soil was full of puffs. It seemed that he could feel the power of the bullets squeezing the soil. Before the enemy's grenade launcher could cover the place, Cao Xiaomin had already rushed towards "Lao Chai Pi" like crazy A field base a few meters away; the moment they rushed in and landed, Cao Xiaomin was so painful that he could not get up at all by the touch. The consequence of his body was that his left half of his face wiped hard on the mud and the pain was burning. It was probably because he was bleeding from his face and had a mouthful of mud and sand in his mouth. But they still had to move. When the "Lao Chai Pi" saw that it was wrong, he hugged him and ran, completely ignoring that Cao Xiaomin had fainted from the pain of his bear hug!

"Damn it, why are you so slow? If Chief Cao hadn't covered you, you would have died!" Cao Xiaomin suddenly woke up in the sudden burst of pain, and the voice of "Lao Chai Pi" scolding him the only remaining Sichuan fellow villager.

"When I left Sichuan, my father told me that even if I died in battle, I would have to let the body go home with the medal. Now, the last time I exploded the tank, I thought I would just lie down and pull it off. I went back and searched for it, and found it..." The excited little Sichuan didn't care about the chief's anger at all, and was still glad that he actually found his shining medal!

"Don't scold him, everyone here deserves a medal. It should be, even if it is not hung on his chest..." Cao Xiaomin struggled to comfort the soldier. At this time, in their sight, he saw two black shadows in the distance shooting at each other, both falling in the pale flares like corners of shadow puppets! Because his shooting skills are not as good as people, many soldiers use the method of waiting for the other party to approach and then fire to kill the enemy. Death with the enemy is the most common way for soldiers in this wilderness to die! Yes, on this night, everyone on this and on the ground deserves a medal!

...The officers and soldiers fighting on the front line are often promoted for military achievements or demoted for mistakes, but many people don’t know the situation at all. They either separate or die in battle. Often, the various appointments and removals on the top of the peak are not found at the front line. The most outrageous time one of my chiefs received a total of thirteen appointments and removals after breaking through, adding and decreasing, and finally promoted to the military rank... I saw the content of this memoir, Cao Xiaomin smiled in the original time and space, but now he can’t laugh! Medals and honors are so small for people sitting in the office. They can be decided to issue or not, and can change their orders every day; but for grandpa and soldiers like Xiao Sichuan, it is a witness of their bloody and death!

Cao Xiaomin didn't know that the medals he kept in the Ministry of Military Affairs could be hung on his chest. His military rank was already a lieutenant colonel and he was about to become a colonel; of course he didn't know that so many people hoped that he would die heroically!

Although the wilderness is full of fire from the Japanese artillery shells, and the sound of Japanese tanks can be heard, with the night and complex terrain, the team of remnants tripped the Japanese into the rotten land of the Strawshoe Gorge for half a step forward. Maybe it will be dawn in just two hours. What about dawn? The flat riverside area will be exposed to the Japanese observation posts at a glance. How can they hold on!

No one of the Chinese Democratic Party soldiers lurking in the wilderness thinks about dawn, but tomorrow; they only know how to fight to the death, they deserve to die, they have no tomorrow; they just because they make many people go in a dilemma, just because they are heroes!
Chapter completed!