Chapter 149 Clearing the Site

(... The families of soldiers who were not confirmed to have died cannot get pensions, but they rarely argue; because they hope that one day they can really see the missing person appear in front of them, and some people will wait for their whole lives... Excerpted from "Grandpa's Memories of the War of Resistance")

It was as dark as a firefly, but it was almost five o'clock in the morning. There were long queues under the Yijiangmen Tower. There were people entering and leaving. Because the Shangyuanmen Gate in the north could not reach the area of ​​Coal Port, and the Grasssha Gorge could not be opened to traffic; the Yifengmen Gate was blown up by the Japanese and had not been repaired yet, so there was only one Yijiangmen left to the port.

The front line is fighting, and Yijiangmen is now passing through twenty-four hours a day. He goes out of the city to collect burial bodies, transports back to the port to transport the urgently needed coal and other daily necessities in the city, and collects grain from the city... The three gates are actually full of people for twenty-four hours! The Japanese who checked the pass order have been tired of it, and almost lets groups of people pass without even looking at the eyes - as long as they are led by Japanese soldiers.

Everyone has a real Japanese Army Command pass in their hands and they left the city smoothly...

It's so simple? Sun Yuanliang, who was secretly sweating, said in his heart that his luck was really good. He looked at Cao Xiaomin and Xing Long, who were dressed as the Japanese commander, and he secretly praised them. These two people, including their soldiers, even learned the small movements of Japanese soldiers exactly the same. Even those who had experience in internships in the Japanese army like him could not see any flaws!

After each of them received other tasks and left the team, there were very few people going to Hutchison, with only ten brothers left; the journey was indeed a worrying way with the tiger - the about one class of Japanese soldiers and those who maintained the meeting were all real enemies!

Seeing that the coal port was already in sight, Sun Yuanliang couldn't help but think a lot...

Originally, he was a defeated general, but he was a general who had no idea that he would even cut off his retreat. He had to help the left-behind spy agency. He knew that the newspapers in the rear said that they were all scolding him to death. Now, among the senior generals of the Kuomintang army, except Tang Shengzhi, he had the worst reputation. Originally, no matter what, he would have to be punished when he went back, and even if he had been punished for others, he would have to be punished.

Once a general led a soldier is neglected, who can guarantee that he will be able to use it for one day? Sun Yuanliang actually thought the most about the problem of landing after going back; but now, everything is fine, because of Cao Xiaomin, the operation to rescue prisoners!

From the moment he heard this plan, Sun Yuanliang knew that the opportunity had come: he personally issued a signed order, stamped the seal of the Nanjing Urban Defense Command, and asked Cao Xiaomin to perform this task! In this way, although Cao Xiaomin's actions were completely legal, and there was no need to worry about any punishment for acts without authorization, but at the same time, the nature also changed, and Sun Yuanliang was trapped behind enemy lines and planned and led the operation in a row. After losing Nanjing, he was called from northern Jiangsu to northern Anhui.

The refugee who is suffering, the National Government is now in a state of great trouble. If an unexpected victory comes...even if there is no need to win at all, the propaganda will be packaged as victory. As long as a military operation without a cost, then Sun Yuanliang will naturally become a hero and a hero! This is a costless battle. Are prisoners falling into the hands of the enemy or the contingent that is thrown over to die? They are not worth the money!

Sun Yuanliang immediately asked the spies to help him send a telegram to the rear, saying, "The defeat is decided but there is still something to do. Sun will fight to the last moment as the commander of the city defense to command the evacuated troops to rescue the invading comrades..."

There are many kinds of tactics at the last moment of the battle, such as planning and planning a plan that will come up with a plan that will be successful or not or arranged so-called support, but when the battle to rescue the prisoners really starts, Sun will be in Anqing! The person who acted was taking his orders to act, and he made the plan to cross the river after the prisoners' rescue was made by him. Isn't this his full skill? It's a wonderful skill to save it, even if it fails, it's nothing. Anyway, the top military leaders did not dare to launch such a prisoner rescue operation. In fact, even if there were only ten or eight people who finally drifted across the river and fled back to the rear, the prisoner rescue operation would be blown into the sky by the newspapers in the rear, becoming a major military victory, and Sun Yuanliang would have made his first contribution!

As for whether the spy agencies will bear the huge reconnaissance pressure from the Japanese afterwards, how many people and the originally set up stakes will be exposed, which is even less than his concern. He is absolutely confident that he can't catch this great merit. Judging from Cao Xiaomin's performance in the Nanjing War, both public and private government officials will try their best to deprive Cao Xiaomin of the merits and honors and add icing on the cake to him, the commander of the Lieutenant General! The only thing he has to do now is to leave and go to Anqing to receive the commendation!

There was a fatal loophole in the crossing plan! Sun Yuanliang thought with a little uneasy: What a pity, this Cao Xiaomin who dares to fight, he will probably be a life of eternal honor! Of course, if he escapes from death again, he must also protect him: Although it is obvious that the national government does not want this anti-Japanese hero to be more prestigious, as the direct commander of this hero, he completed an important task together, one that will definitely be widely publicized rather than confidential, and his reputation is at its peak! Thinking that a veteran Huangpu general like him would actually borrow the reputation of an intermediate officer who was attacked from a soldier, Sun Yuanliang himself found it funny, and he could also better understand the feelings of the officials sitting behind the desk in the back for Cao Xiaomin.

"Xiaomin, please make a list for me... Write a few more people and ask me to go back and ask them for me... Also, do you know who died in battle but cannot be confirmed in the rear, give me the name..." Closed his eyes, as if he wanted to suppress his emotions, he pursed his lips and sighed: "Everyone died in battle, we can't be sorry for their family..."

...The families of soldiers who were not confirmed to have died cannot get the pension, but they rarely argue; because they hope that one day they can really see the missing person appear in front of them, and some people will wait for a lifetime... I felt sad in my heart, and a memory of Grandpa and Cao Xiaomin's inner touch came out at the same time: He had seen so many generals, and who had been sympathetic to them like General Sun Yuanliang in front of me who had been huddled in the trenches all day long!? At this moment, he was deeply moved like the soldiers he met while patrolling the front line in Nanjing.

Cao Xiaomin closed his eyes for a while before he held back the tears that were about to fall. He threw a grateful look at Sun Yuanliang and immediately sorted out his list. At this moment, most of the soldiers riding in the car were moved to tears and diving silently...

The Japanese soldiers broke in again, and the refugee camp began to become chaotic. The panicked people knew that the two thousand of them were all buried in the straw sandals, and now they are going to be taken away?! Desperate howling filled the entire Hutchison foreign company refugee camp, but this time I didn't see the British who came out to protest, nor did the Indians who came out to support the British Empire with the last bit of face. This time even the British abandoned them!?

As if to prove this abandonment, a young man with the rice flag left with the highest status here, just as he was looking forward to him to stop the Japanese.

Crying, extremely reluctant, full of fear of death... But no one dared to rise up in front of the bayonet. The tamed people shed tears like lambs to be slaughtered, and were escorted by the people who maintained the meeting and a squad of Japanese soldiers to leave this open space filled with north wind.

Cao Xiaomin and the others did not care much about the refugees. They were still watching the small steamer in the north wind. Their hearts were still grateful to Chief Sun! Chief Sun, who was most sympathetic to his brothers, left. Qiu Qingquan and Liao Yaoxiang were walking with him, and the leaders all left...

"Remember what I said...or, tell your grandpa and father what I said..." Cao Xiaomin finally said goodbye to Wang Hansheng. He didn't know if this innocent spy could live to the day when he saw victory, but he hoped they could see it. He hoped they could live well, not only in this war era, but also in those longer days in the future.

"By the way, sister-in-law is very beautiful... I know your family has a very special status, but be careful, the Japanese are all beasts, try not to let her be with the Japanese alone..." Cao Xiaomin's mind actually saw the group of women who broke up from Suzhou to Wuxi. If it were her, could she survive the misfortune of the woman named "Vivi"? She is so pure and noble, can she bear any insults?

There are many people and things to worry about, but at this moment, Cao Xiaomin cannot let himself continue to sink into those weaknesses. He is about to fight and will soon be fighting.

It was obvious that Cao Xiaomin was really concerned. Wang Hansheng, who was also reluctant to leave, suddenly took off his watch: "You can use this, with you..." In addition to being enthusiastic and kind, he was also a sentimental person. When he turned around, Cao Xiaomin found that he actually cried; such a person also became a fighter against Japan when the national crisis was in the face of national crisis!

The British left, the superiors left, the comrades left, and the people left, as if everything was avoiding the battle that followed; there were only a group of veterans left on the empty land, Cao Xiaomin and his brothers.
Chapter completed!