Chapter 3: Going to the battlefield ()

(...Many of our brothers died not far away in front of us, but the Japanese machine guns were everywhere, so everyone just couldn't collect their bodies. They watched the corpses of these brothers rot and maggots, and they would cry when they remembered... Excerpted from "Grandpa's Memories of the War of Resistance")

This place is called Luodian, and this place is Luodian! Cao Xiaomin is not a historical feature, but he still knows Luodian and the flesh mill. He didn't expect that he would appear in this place.

There was constant artillery fire in the distance, and you could see the distant horizon without a telescope, and smoke with orange-red flames rose up below. The sound of gunfire like a bean was heard, and fierce battles were fought day and night on the fire line, and wounded soldiers were carried down from time to time. Some wounded soldiers who were still surging blood seemed to be helpless, but everyone would not throw him away, and even the bodies would be carried down.

Because they were all broken up and there was no time to rectify, Cao Xiaomin and his group of dozens of people were helping to transport the wounded and corpses at a battlefield medical station three kilometers behind the line of fire. Every day, countless deaths and pains entered Cao Xiaomin's eyes and slipped past his hands. Those wounds burned by the war, those bones exposed in the rotten flesh, those struggles and despair from life instinct, those helpless abandonment and resolute abandonment...

Except for three small tents, the medical station is open-air, and the wounded can only wait under the shade of trees. When it gets dark, medical teams and transportation teams from behind will carry away those surviving and dead people.

If it weren't for the war, if it weren't for so much blood and death in front of him, this would be a good place... Cao Xiaomin was still so dazed. He stared at the river in front of him. The grass grew from the shore to the water surface, spreading there like a carpet, gently rippling in the waves with the breeze; the sun was very strong, shining on the water surface, reflecting dazzling white light, but as long as people sat under the shade of willows, they would not feel hot; the water light gradually blurred Cao Xiaomin's vision, making him dazed, this place looked like a park in Shinjuku...

"Why do you like me..." Cao Xiaomin was still worried after kissing Jiana with a little guilty conscience. He was afraid that this Japanese girl would just play with him: "I am... you know, I am not that kind of strong man, sometimes I am very timid..." Cao Xiaomin lowered his head and asked timidly.

"I just like you. You have many advantages..." Kana Iwasaki smiled slightly: "I remember sending all the money home for the first time you paid... You always go back to the dormitory quietly after get off work. Unlike the Japanese, you say that it is too stressful to go wild in the tavern, and you won't go anywhere... You are so nice, Gu family, careful and considerate..."

Kana Iwasaki was a college student who was intern in the company. During that period, I met Cao Xiaomin, who had just arrived at the company. The lively and cheerful girl quickly pursued him and then became his girlfriend and fiancée... Kana Iwasaki was the daughter of a fisherman, a student at the University of Tokyo. She was very simple. This is everything Cao Xiaomin knew about his girlfriend before their marriage was settled. She was his first woman, and to be precise, she "teached" him; she was the first Japanese girl he met who publicly stated that Chinese men were more suitable for husbands than Japanese men, and then she took the initiative to pursue him...

Jiana is not very beautiful, but she is very well-educated. She has a trendy and bookish temperament and is very good. She is the type that Shanghai people like especially. Cao Xiaomin knew that as long as she brought her home, her parents would definitely like this foreign daughter-in-law. She was still so filial that she began to study Chinese and Shanghai dialect for him...

"Do you know, now your compatriots are fighting. You just killed a group of brothers in my village..." Cao Xiaomin said to Shui Guang as if he was telling Jiana...

"They insult you like that, you quit, don't do it..." Iwasaki Kana was very angry after knowing what the director Kochi was doing in the company. Finally, she ran to the company to find Cao Xiaomin's general manager to complain, and asked the company to punish him severely. The girl who was very gentle in front of Cao Xiaomin was able to stand up for him when he was insulted!

Section Chief Xiaochi is said to be a veteran of Japanese invading China. He doesn't like Chinese, so when a Chinese appeared in the company, he would find a way to humiliate him. He would organize the company's subordinates, in the name of training team spirit, and pull everyone to a combat club where to play World War II. Then Cao Xiaomin plays the Kuomintang army, and of course the other colleagues are the Japanese invading China. They will "encircle" Cao Xiaomin and finally "eliminate" him...

The activity itself will not cause physical harm. At most, after being "captured", a few female colleagues in the company who were particularly open sometimes deliberately used "bayonets" made of soft glue to tease his crotch badly; he only knew that he was physically exercised during these forced activities, and while fiddling with the "Three Eight Big Covers" whose recoil was said to be exactly the same as the real gun, he practiced a very useful and good marksmanship after crossing (although it was just a laser sensing gun, because the recoil was the same, it can basically be regarded as a real gun). In order to be able to support the salary of one year in China in that month, and to be able to have a fourteen-month salary benefit that year, he endured it!

But a year later, after Kana Iwasaki learned about this, she ran to the company to stand up for him, claiming that if she did not fire Section Chief Kochi, she would sue her! In the end, although the company did not really fire Kochi, she still asked Kochi to apologize to him solemnly, and the company compensated him with a large amount of mental damage.

Jiana, what should I do... Cao Xiaomin has become accustomed to the fact that Jiana, who is stronger than his personality, has cried helplessly in his heart...

"The three armies in the camp were lying filial piety, and the white flags were waving and snowflakes were floating.

White men, white horses and white flags, silver bows, jade arrows and white feathers, civil officials wore three-foot filial piety on their heads, military generals wore white battle robes, because they were so fond of the king, because they were just for the favor of Taoyuan, and the king of the king hanged paper money, and the king of Jingzhou?

The king of Jingzhou listens to the root seedlings. Your eloquence in the world is not as arrogant as others. When the Dongwu comes, you have to have sex with the princess. If you don’t allow your relatives, you will know that you shouldn’t call the little boy Cao. If you take the head to be a living treasure, kill people as blood as a wine to disappear. If you flash your brother, you can’t draw the knife and return to the sheath. The horse will go to the schoolyard to break the waist.

Alas, I just cried, the second brother, the king of the second brother, the third brother, the king of Langzhong, the third brother!

The third brother's soul listened to the root seedlings, the tiger's whip fell from purple gold, Jiameng fought against Ma Chao naked, and made a living in Bazhou at night. He took Yan Yan's old hero, and refuted Yan Yan to lead the way, and eighteen generals and horses took... "

A sad Qin Opera came, and the Shaanxi "Crazy Man Cheng" yelled again...

"It's so miserable. Both brothers died in Luodian... They were separated by a trench and could see people, but they couldn't catch them. They watched maggots grow and rotten..." "Old Bengya, who was replaced with Cheng Crazy, sat next to Cao Xiaomin, shook his head, and tears were seeping in his eyes: "The three brothers fought together since the Central Plains War... and that night, Old Cheng went crazy..."

"...Many of our brothers died not far away, but the Japanese machine guns were everywhere, so everyone just couldn't collect their bodies. They watched the corpses of these brothers rot and maggots, and they would cry when they remembered..." Another paragraph jumped out of Grandpa's memoir...

Will I do this too? My body slowly grows maggots on the battlefield and then rots... Cao Xiaomin feels extremely sad.
Chapter completed!