Chapter 183 The Sir

(... After the war, some *** veterans came to China to apologize. I will never forgive them because I experienced that war personally; but I believe that their apology was heartfelt and sincere, because they also experienced that war personally... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance-Cao Xiaomin")

The weather is getting better. At noon, there will be sunshine, which is a warm color like flame, not a pale sunshine in smog weather. After experiencing the baptism of wind and snow and war, the mountains and forests in front of Qingliu Pass look extremely fresh and upright, especially those green pine trees. The snow gathered between the needles looks like cotton, giving people a warmth.

But this is the feeling of people who have just arrived here. Anyone who has experienced or just witnessed the tragic bloody battle in the old forest feels that the ghostly aura is everywhere in the mountains and forests.

Because many people escaped, it is impossible to find enough civilians nearby. Many Japanese soldiers have to enter the old forest to search for their fellow soldiers who died in battle. This is a very morale-depressing job. Not only is they tired, but they will also make the officers and soldiers feel frustrated when facing so many fellow soldiers who died in battle. Many soldiers are unwilling to enter the forest to do these things. The heavy labor is mainly done by a small number of Chinese workers, but there are exceptions, such as the new one who specializes in searching and rescue of wounded soldiers.

Major Asazawa, who collected the bodies of the dead officers and soldiers, was very responsible. He personally went to the old forest almost every day to supervise the work. Therefore, many dead people left in the difficult-to-discover ravine were able to return to the island, and even injured and unable to get out. When they were discovered, their limbs were frozen and necrotic but were still alive, were carried out. Many soldiers, especially those who had personally entered the forest for bloody battles, were very grateful to Asazawa and respected him very much.

Asazawa was still a second lieutenant when he came, but he got the rank of the lieutenant in three days because it is said that the military headquarters wanted to promote his heroic deeds - he once lost all his subordinates after being ambushed but tracked all the enemies who attacked them alone and killed them. He once did not return the baggage unit and ran to the line of fire to fight with the Chinese people for bayonets. He once sacrificed his life to rescue his subordinates in the rain of bullets... Now everyone has seen that Asazawa is the most serious and responsible officer, the officer who cares most about soldiers, and he deserves this rank.

"Asawa Jun is here!" The wounded men watching from the top of the slope in the distance shouted loudly. Groups of minor wounded men rushed up in the battlefield hospital and began to greet the major from afar.

Every day at dusk, Asazawa would come back with his search and rescue team, and every time he would find more corpses and living people in the forest. The war had been stopped for three days, but the seriously injured who survived the forest were still rescued, which brought hope to many wounded people. They always hope that Asazawa would bring back his closest companions who were missing in the forest when he came out next time; every day at dusk, a large number of light wounded people began to gather in front of the battlefield hospital to wait for Asazawa's return.

Okura is the least injured of the five injured people rescued this time - he can still speak and have a clear mind when he is rescued.

Okura was only nineteen years old. He was deeply moved by that speech in front of the school and gave up the opportunity to enter the university and resolutely joined the army. He wanted to conquer more Chinese territory as a samurai. As a supplementary soldier, he was transported to China on the third day after the Nanjing Defense War. He had received a year of reserve military training before. He had been using the military skills he learned in training to become a hero on the land of China. He was his ideal.

But the war was completely different from what he thought. Before being sent to the forest to fight, he felt his legs trembling. The desperate Chinese were completely different from the propaganda he heard in China. They were not bad at equipment and supplies, but they dared to give their lives to bring the warriors of the Empire to die together! Okura, who was sent to reinforcements in the dark night, tripped and fell into the ravine. When he woke up, he found that his left foot could not move, which was so painful. But at that time, there were gunfire everywhere in the forest, and he didn't dare to call for help at all. So he lay silently in a small ravine for a day and a night.

At dawn, he checked his left foot, and his knee was deformed when hitting the rock. Common sense made him feel desperate, which might make him disabled for life... Then in despair, he fainted and woke up a few times. Finally, he was numb and mentally. He gave up asking for help. Although there was no gunshot in the forest, the search and rescue team found him directly. When he was carried onto a stretcher, he saw that his left leg had turned purple and blue, and some places were black, and the calves that had lost consciousness actually had ice!

He was carried away while crying. At that moment, he no longer knew what the image of Yamato samurai was. He just couldn't stop crying, and only the faces of his family and classmates kept appearing in his mind... "You will get better. In addition to fighting, life actually has many other meanings; I saw you still carry a pen, maybe one day you will become a well-known writer..." This is what Major Asazawa said to him on the stretcher. Although he was still confused and could not accept the reality, he felt that Major Asazawa's sincere pity for him, which would somewhat reduce some of his pain...

Takagi is a veteran. He has killed many people. He has a natural and acceptable response to killing people or being killed. He and his two young companions found a gun fire, which was the kind of mauser rifle, so they were ready to attack each other. However, a young soldier threw a grenade while attacking the enemy. The grenade fell to the spot. After a loud bang, he could no longer hear anything. The left half of his body lost his feelings after a day of severe pain. He was very

I wanted to hand over my left hand to see what it was like, but he couldn't raise his hand and couldn't move his neck... In the few days he fainted, he kept spending amid high fever and chills. The corresponding dream was the massacre he had experienced personally, and the massacre that pushed the Chinese into the fire or soaked in the ice river, but the position changed. He became a dead person, and those faces that had long forgotten were clearly visible - those Chinese who were killed by him, roasted him on the fire or threw him in the ice water to soak him!

Now Takagi woke up, he lived in a dead world, but there was a sound in his ears, the sound of wooden fish. It was after he landed in Shanghai and was committing evil in a nunnery. When they rushed in, the old nun was knocking on wooden fish and ignored them. After they completed all the beastly activities, the old nun trembled and started knocking on wooden fish again, until he cut off her head with a knife... "Tuk tuk..." Muyu's voice kept ringing in his ears for a long time, and the old nun who had been chopped off his head was always knocking on him, and he didn't even look at him. Now, this became the only lingering sound he heard... Takagi fainted again. He was different from other wounded people who woke up by the hospital's wounded. He was abandoned by the world...

Uesugi was surrounded by one of his own squads during the battle, but with their powerful combat power, they not only beat the soldiers who attacked them to death, but also seized many of them. Then they set up a thunder defense with grenades, and used the seized submachine gun to prepare for the breakout of the firepower... It must be the trouble of the submachine gun, it was the misunderstanding it caused! After a slight fire exchange, the thunder position behind them suddenly exploded, but when they went over to check, they were stunned: the two of their own combat teams were all killed there, and those who touched the back to try to attack them were all their squadrons... They neglected when this was extremely frustrating, and at this time they were attacked by the ***...

The lost Uesugi was not aware of fighting reactions under the new round of attacks. He fled in chaos until he fell into a ravine... He was disabled. Like Kokura, his legs were frozen into popsicles when he was discovered. No one was able to hear him, but he didn't want to react to the outside world; he was coldly watching the search and rescue personnel lifted him onto a stretcher, and he was just thinking in his heart: Why do you still want to save me?...

The Japanese never dreamed that in that nightmare guerrilla chase in the mountains and forests, more people died under various accidental injuries and weather conditions than they died at the hands of ***! This is the consequence of fighting under harsh conditions. Often, various accidental injuries are greater than the damage caused by the combat targets.

"Every day, the rescued people will be worse, but unfortunately we only have so many people..." Asazawa also seemed very frustrated: "The people rescued today are all disabled, tomorrow..." He shook his head and stopped talking, and walked towards the wounded ward. It was obvious that he was very tired, but he was still caring for the wounded.

Many of the wounded were injured by mortar shells. After they survived the initial mad pain, many people still insisted on fighting. However, those injuries that reduced the pain in the cold will not reduce lethality. Iron sand that can reach more than one inch of pomegranate seeds released their kinetic energy and heat and it will cause serious foreign body infection. Many of the wounded officers and soldiers who showed military character during the battle gritted their teeth and continued to fight, but after the battle they fell down, and a large number of people were infected with wounds.

If it is in the *** troops, such injuries will be enough to kill half of the wounded; the Japanese are better, and they have enough anti-inflammatory drugs to use soldiers. However, there are insufficient surgeons to remove the shotgun seeds from the body. Many wounded people can only rely on anti-inflammatory drugs to maintain their condition and wait for surgery. During this period, all kinds of painful ***s are flooded with battlefield hospitals. Every day, there are people who have become seriously injured and even die because they are not able to receive timely surgical treatment. This is no different from the front-line hospital where Cao Xiaomin lived in Shanghai.

Because most of the shotgun seeds carry gunpowder that is not completely burned, after the injury is healed, it often leaves a large black scar that will accompany you for life, and itchy. As for other injuries, it will mostly leave many pains that are not enough to determine the cause of disability but will accompany you for a lifetime. This time, Cao Xiaomin learned one thing in the Japanese battlefield hospital: even when the treatment conditions are much better, the destruction of war on people is still unacceptable.

From the bottom of his heart, Cao Xiaomin felt that he should not sympathize with these invaders, they deserved it; but when he faced these wounded people who were tortured by the wounded and unable to sleep day and night, he had no choice but to find ways to comfort them and try his best to relieve their pain, even if it was just mental. This was not because he was pretending to be as a Major Asazawa, but because he really saw a painful life and felt pain.

Why? Cao Xiaomin often asks himself in his heart at this time, but he will also be happy for himself because of this complex mentality. He feels that he is still alone. Even after the massacre of the Japanese wounded by Suzhou Hospital, he still has not destroyed his humanity. The most basic humanity is not distinguishing between nationality and ethnicity. This makes him still have some expectations for his life after the war. In fact, deep down in his heart, he has always had a kind of fear, fearing that he can no longer return to his normal life after the war ends.

"Asawa-kun is right. If we hadn't done so many massacres, the Chinese wouldn't have fought so hard, and we wouldn't have found anyone to search and rescue the wounded..." A wounded soldier who lost one palm suddenly muttered and said something, and then all the wounded soldiers were silent...

"Asawa-kun, are you back? Mr. Saito wants to see you." The military doctor came in, a short, fat surgeon with a pair of fat hands like a carrot.

The people of the pioneer group came very quickly. It was just confirmed that *** had abandoned the Zhulong in front of them. The pioneer group had already reached Qingliu Pass. (Author: *** The pioneer group had actually found footprints in many provinces in addition to the three eastern provinces. The pioneer group in other provinces is also different from the Northeast. The Northeast Development Group is mostly composed of armed farmers, while those who go to other provinces are mostly representatives of consortiums, adventurers, desolate people, etc....) Saito is the only non-military important figure introduced to Cao Xiaomin before leaving Chu County. The bearded man told him to help Saito more and assist him in his work.

Cao Xiaomin nodded and agreed to see Saito. He originally wanted to find an opportunity to return to the *** army by transforming into Hideichi Asawa, now he suddenly retreated and disappeared, so he had to continue to be his *** officer. What made him laugh and cry was that he was promoted as a hero of the Anti-Japanese War during the *** period. He had just arrived at the Japanese but was packaged as a hero of the *** and was also mentioned at once. Is he a star-like appearance in his birth?

The core members of the pioneer regiment who came this time were representatives of Sumitomo Chemical. They were very interested in the Glauber's salt minerals in Chuxian area, so their inspection brought a group of merchants and outlaws who hoped to gain benefits in this development. They were very awe of the army and tried hard to please the soldiers, so they had a good relationship with the various troops along the way. Most of the gangsters who went bankrupt or were untenable in the local area took the initiative to collect grain and materials when they knew that the army was short of baggage troops. They did not hand over much food to the *** military, but they did no less evil in various places than those Counterattacks: After these Counterattacks who were also wearing military-free uniforms issued by the military discovered that they could bully the Chinese at will, their means and behavior were worse than ordinary troops. Although they did not kill like ordinary troops, various Counterattacks and plundering civilian wealth were far more serious than those in the army.

Although Cao Xiaomin came for a short time, he soon knew what the beasts were doing, because most of the beasts were pleased with him, the master. The vanguard troops advanced to Zhulong, and the large troops behind did not come up. Cao Xiaomin is now the highest commander of the entire Qingliuguan Center! For this reason, they have also sent many people to Laolin to help search and rescue the wounded and carry out the bodies. Of course, their purpose was to obtain guns and ammunition in the search and rescue work.

Cao Xiaomin has always hated this group of people. Whether from the perspective of Chinese or from the perspective of top people, he thinks that this group of people is scum, and he usually ignores them. But there is one person he is willing to agree with, that is Saito, Saito Nakaji of Sumitomo Chemical, a doctor of chemical engineering in Germany. He supported Cao Xiaomin's decision the day before and buried the bodies of the Kareem soldiers who died in battle with the treatment of a samurai. What made Cao Xiaomin have a good impression of Saito was also obviously felt that Saito also hated these hooligans who came over with the same pioneering group card.

Saito brought his daughter with him. Miss Saito was also an intellectual woman who had studied in Germany. They prepared a gift for Cao Xiaomin in wooden boxes. This time he came to ask Cao Xiaomin for a person; the brigade commander Tokuma Numada went to Zhulong through Qingliuguan, and Saito, on behalf of Sumitomo Chemical, wanted to host all the officers of the brigade headquarters. He wanted to know what Tokuma Numada liked.

Of course, the fake Asazawa Master did not know what Tokuge Numada liked. He just kept emphasizing that the brigade commander was a powerful soldier, etc., would be appropriate to any Japanese officer.

The meeting ended quickly, and Miss Saito said goodbye politely at the end: "It's really touching to see Asazawa Jun's work in the hospital. Asazawa Jun is a real hero, not a reckless man who knows how to kill... Thank you very much for Asazawa Jun..."

Because this intellectual woman has a similar temperament to Kana Iwasaki in the original time and space, Cao Xiaomin always deliberately alienated her and would not take the initiative to talk to her every time she met. This time was no exception. He was facing Miss Saito's praise with a poker face.

After sending the father and daughter away, he immediately walked into the ward to find a wounded soldier, a messenger from the brigade headquarters, who had to stay because of the stray bullet. As an officer, he knew nothing about his superiors. Although he had to find a way to leave as soon as he was here for a day, he had to be careful and cautious. He was going to make up for the lessons and learn about his "his own" brigade commander.

...Cao Xiaomin, who returned to his lounge, was very uneasy. He never dreamed that what he learned from the messenger was that the commander of the Numada Tokushige Brigade liked the most was ***, and then the killing!
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