(...There have been many tragedies on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War. I think the biggest tragedy for this nation is that both sides who fight to the death in the rain of bullets are Chinese, but they are watching the Japanese army, and those Japanese army are actually Chinese. Such scenes are not uncommon in eight years... Excerpted from "My Memories of the Anti-Japanese War - Cao Xiaomin")

"In my army, including nurses at the medical station, no one has ever been to the fire to see the battle scene!" Cao Xiaomin looked at the military doctor who was still at the headquarters, hoping to persuade the commander not to enter the search again and said, "Doctor Li also went to the trenches to rescue the wounded in person, right?"

The military doctor was a little embarrassed but smiled with more pride and didn't say anything.

Cao Xiaomin turned to He Yan and said, "Let's go, Xiao He, go and have a look with me!"

He Yan was shocked: What's wrong? Why did Cao Xiaomin let himself go to the front line!...Is he doubting himself and testing himself? Where did he reveal his flaws that shouldn't have been revealed?!

"Xiao He, do you know? We don't have many cannons, and we must be very sure every time we take action. Our radio operators sometimes have to sneak into the enemy's positions with scouts to command the artillery." Lao Kong said: "This is why our army's radio operators are particularly small. My last student just mastered all the independent operation procedures, and he sneaked into the enemy's backbone during the Gaoyou Defense Battle and was unable to come back..."

That's it! He Yan suddenly felt a heat surge in her heart: the commander actually accompanied her to experience the line of fire! In this moment, a few seconds she actually forgot that what he took her to see was a massacre of her comrades by reactionary troops!

The battle in the water swamp always makes the people trapped in it particularly embarrassed: the mud and mist brought out from the explosion make people unable to tell the direction, and the vast water around them makes people feel like they are no longer able to live. The officers and soldiers of the four national soldiers were shouting, waving their hands in muddy...

Thank God! You can retreat... Through a squash, six brothers from the fifty-seventh Army finally saw the gestures on the opposite side. The four officers and soldiers who were making gestures had already begun to turn backwards.

"Which company are they from?" asked a soldier.

No one answered, no one could see the holes in the other side clearly at such a distance, and everyone was covered in mud.

"If we take down without orders, we will be beheaded..." the soldier muttered, but he was looking forward to retreating like everyone else - this water swamp is not a place for people to stay.

Since the Japanese started the attack again two days ago, the reorganized positions of the 57th Army have been gathered, but many troops have been dismantled into squads to continue the "human swamp" tactic used in the front. These officers and soldiers were told that a large number of officers and soldiers in the rear were infected with dysentery and would bleed in two days, so everyone cannot drink water from the swamp or eat randomly.

In the past two days, there was still some food stored, but the moldy fried rice that had already absorbed sweat had long been full of sweat smelled like no appetite and the water was almost exhausted. It was time to evacuate. The officers and soldiers of the 57th Army, who were experienced and well-disciplined, decided to send someone to see the situation.

"Brothers, we are from the guerrilla corps. We have taken over this area. You are too dispersed and cannot be notified. So we will take over the positions every time..." A thin soldier wearing a mud-like central military uniform replied. Then he shouted loudly to the distance: "Brothers, there is a position here, transfer a machine gun!"

Someone answered in the vast distance: "Come on!" A platoon approached the troops. Their mud was hard to see clearly between the gray sky and the gray water shadow. If they didn't speak, it would be hard to find that there were so many people...

The brothers of the 57th Army ran happily into the water swamp, and the white waves dragged behind them, all of them looking homeless... "Bow!Bow!..." Suddenly, the gunshots rang out, and then the machine guns also began to fire. After one round of shooting, all six officers and soldiers of the 57th Army were killed by drinking bullets...

"It seems that this move is really good! The Chinese are really trapped!" A Japanese soldier stabbed the body of the first national soldier who was not poured into the water with a bayonet. He said excitedly: "It should be possible to break through this time!"

These are Japanese soldiers! They were wearing exactly the same costumes as the national army, and there was no sign of any abnormality in the equipment. What was even more surprising was that they could walk naturally in straw sandals and even talked in Chinese! - They were Japanese officers and soldiers from the Hatan Detachment from Taiwan, composed of Chinese.

After summarizing the battle ahead, Major General Hatan Shigeichi made new arrangements. After constantly using artillery fire to clean up a number of blocking positions, he sent a large number of Taiwanese Chinese soldiers dressed as national soldiers and infiltrated them. After they contacted the national army, they did not attack but used various fake orders and used fake actions to confuse the officers and soldiers of the 57th Army and sent them up automatically. This move made the officers and soldiers on isolated decisive positions on the national army's defense line suddenly unable to defend and fell into a trap!

"Today, we can tear the defense line of the 57th Army! I hope to pay tribute to Mr. Tansu with the heads of Miao Chengliu and even Cao Xiaomin!" Hatan Shige's face was cold and frosty, but the heart in his chest almost jumped out: he was very happy while receiving reports from the frontline teams. Now he had to give orders to troops that were advancing to places suspected to be important commands of the 57th Army to suspend them, and not to alert the snake. He wanted to take the 57th Army into a pot!

What's going on!? What are the Chinese people doing?? A team of Japanese troops interspersed and rushed forward, rushing towards the place where the fire exchange was most intense, but a scene that surprised them appeared in front of them!

The artillery fire was rumbling, and the flames of the machine gun fire seemed to be unbroken. The two national troops were fighting to the death! This could not be the troops of the Hatan Detachment were seen through by the National Army, because there could not be so many people in their interspersed troops. Could it be that when facing a strong enemy, the Chinese were still in a civil war? The Chinese Japanese soldiers of the Hatan Detachment looked at each other one by one. They quickly calmly glad that they were now Japanese and admired the civil war between the Chinese people with ridiculous eyes...

"Tengteng! Tengteng!..." The fire nets interwoven by heavy machine guns swept everything they encountered. The thin ridges of the field were beaten to black mud, and the machine gun bullets with extremely strong penetration made the people squeezed together so hard that they could fly. Sometimes a bullet could penetrate four people! As long as the national army surrounded by corpses were reinforced to the ridges of the field somewhere to form a fire support point that the machine gun could not penetrate, the machine gun would follow up with several consecutive shells to smash the fire point into pieces!

The encirclement is shrinking, and the surrounded national army broke through many times and was strangled by the troops in the same uniforms. Although the surrounding troops were well equipped, they were compressed together and unable to perform at all. Mortar shells were constantly falling above their heads, all of which were measured, and the shooting parameters were blown up ten meters above their heads. The surrounded national army was completely massacred, with their bodies stacked with corpses and falling inside as machine guns on the periphery attacks...

Those comrades were strangled like this!? He Yan was completely lost in her soul when she saw a large-scale battle in front of her eyes for the first time! So many flesh and blood were torn apart by bullets and flew away in the air, and so many lives passed away in an instant... Those were comrades who had gathered together to study and sang like her!

"This is what it should be done to deal with the New Fourth Army. These bitches are raised..." A platoon leader in the guard unit responsible for protecting Cao Xiaomin was scolding hatefully.

"They... aren't they Chinese too?!" He Yan couldn't bear it anymore, and with a blue face, he still said something she thought she shouldn't say.

"You don't know what they did in northern Jiangsu!" The platoon leader said: "They are making trouble behind us and inciting the people to isolate us. I don't know how many brothers died unjustly in their hands because they were injured!"

"Which eye did you see it?" He Yan asked coldly. She had also read the reports of the New Fourth Army attacking Gui's army in Anhui, which was specifically attacking the Japanese in battle behind the scenes, but she didn't believe that it was true. Those must have been forged information by the Kuomintang reactionaries in order to deceive the patriotic officers and soldiers who did not understand the truth!

"What eye? I have experienced it myself. I have done this so sorry for my brothers..." The platoon leader said: "I was originally theirs, but I was arrested because I later took my brothers to fight a battle with the Japanese. I almost beheaded. Fortunately, Chief Cao saved us..."

Traitor! He Yan suddenly felt disgusted. She didn't expect to meet a traitor here!

"It's true. They are no different from the Japanese. All those who fight with the Japanese with blood were killed..." Another lieutenant officer leaned over and said, "Or, we wouldn't be so cruel to them, otherwise we wouldn't have voted for Chief Cao together... Now we understand that in the past, the anti-Japanese and national salvation of the above were all lie, just to recruit soldiers and horses. Only our national army really fought with the Japanese... Now I have nothing to do with the Communist Party!"

Boom! It's like the top of the five thunders! He Yan didn't expect that this was another traitor, and these traitors seemed to hate the New Fourth Army more than anyone who was originally the Kuomintang reactionaries!... But, but, is what they said true?

Another scene before his eyes that He Yan felt incredible appeared: the remnants of the New Fourth Army that were surrounded and annihilated actually raised the white flag!... How is this possible!? Isn't this a revolutionary team that will never surrender!?

The gunshots gradually stopped, and suddenly, the charge whistle sounded, "Kill!..." From all directions, the officers and soldiers of the Chinese army shouted and surrounded them like a tide. The bayonets shone in the smoke of gunpowder, which was breathtaking; a small group of people surrounded in the middle collapsed...
Chapter completed!