Chapter 365 On the way

(...It was an ordinary experience. I took the train to Wuhan, but the most ordinary scenes in the war I saw along the way. They were presented in the window frames like movies, but I couldn't forget them for a moment; that was the war, the background of war, without the smoke of war... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

The route from Zhengzhou to Wuhan was formulated by Chen Zui and Wuhan headquarters. Some sections can take trains, but some sections have to be replaced by cars because the railway was bombed. The short-term road has become rugged.

Cao Xiaomin also had a large number of travelers. In addition to Liu Qing's strong demand for the old brother "Old Bed Bug" to stay in Zhengzhou Command, most of the original escorts followed, including a group of Hui Migrant soldiers who originally belonged to the Ma family army.

Cao Xiaomin always felt that the coal-burning steam locomotive was very slow in his eyes. He always had the illusion that he was riding a tourist train that was preserved for tourism in later generations, and his eyes kept looking out at the slowly moving scenery.

Chen Zui was laughing secretly. He always felt that Cao Xiaomin's eyes were looking out of the window to escape He Yan's gaze. Since he was in the hospital for a while, the feeling between the two was like a layer of transparent paper. Chen Zui had talked to Cao Xiaomin about this matter. Of course, he believed that Cao Xiaomin had the ability to instigate this spy, but when he said he could push him, Cao Xiaomin refused. He hoped that He Yan would confess everything automatically and take the initiative to escape from the opposite camp. He thought that this time was not suitable for a showdown. He felt that as long as he had been subtly moved and witnessed more situations with his own eyes, He Yan would be reversed.

"What are you looking at? The scenery outside is the same. Why don't you take a break? Your sleep is abnormal again during this period..." He Yan took the initiative to post it. Now she is Cao Xiaomin's personal caregiver, and she began to become generous. Because she has a good relationship with Shui Qingqing, she knew that Cao Xiaomin was actually pretending to be asleep that night. Since Cao Xiaomin could hear Shui Qingqing talk to her about the reason for his fainting, she must have heard her shy confession through the darkness. Since Cao Xiaomin already knows, what else can she avoid? Of course, she obviously felt that Cao Xiaomin had feelings for her but didn't understand why Cao Xiaomin pretended to be deaf and dumb. Since you pretend, let's pretend together. Girls can't go deeper after that step...

"I'm looking at those students and those soldiers..." Cao Xiaomin was really looking at what he said, and had been watching for a long time.

"You see, our troops are basically relying on railways and easy-to-go official roads along the railway; in this way, there is almost no secret to our troops. As long as the Japanese have spies on the main road, they can roughly guess our troops and defense focus after reading the number of troops..." Cao Xiaomin said worriedly: "If we take a more secret path, not only heavy weapons cannot follow the army, but also a bad road will exhaust the soldiers' physical strength. The troops who arrived on the battlefield will be completely weak divisions after a few days of rest. It's difficult!"

Everyone did not expect that Cao Xiaomin was staring out of the car window and saw so many things. Only then did everyone realize that Cao Xiaomin was not looking out of the car to avoid anything.

"And..." Cao Xiaomin's expression became very dim: "Look at the wheat fields in the distance, they are all earrings, and they will be harvested soon, and the cotton fields are all hung with cotton bolts... This flood has flooded the livelihood of the people in eastern Henan for a year... By the way, does Brother Chen know that the next disaster relief arrangements are ready?"

Intoxicated, he finally controlled the twitching on his face: a few days before he set out, he received a report from the Military Commission that the Central Committee entered the Central Committee. The Central Committee’s important personnel were prepared to make a fortune with local forces in Henan in the name of disaster relief and grain collection! In order to deal with the famine that could soon come, the National Government ordered the quota for grain collection in nearby Henan to double, which had a great impact on the people’s livelihood in areas that were not affected by floods! For the survival of his compatriots and for the War of Resistance, the people could still bear it even if they had to live a life. However, local forces in Henan colluded with senior officials of the Central Committee and changed the grain collection statistics unit by one word, and changed the word "有" to "有"!

One leash is one hundred kilograms, and one pack is two hundred kilograms! The difference of one word is equal to the amount of food and taxes of the people in Henan not doubled but tripled. Is this still a living thing? Even the military commander who is also a secret agency is extremely angry after receiving the news. This is directly forcing the people in the war zone to death, cutting off the people's hearts in the war zone, and giving the enemy the war zone to the enemy!

Finally Dai Li personally reviewed the document and reported it, hoping that the central government would thoroughly investigate the matter. Unexpectedly, the Ministry of Finance sent personnel to defend the grain collection work: the task of collecting grain is heavy, and if local forces are not allowed to take the opportunity to make a fuss, the grain collection plan will not be completed... Obviously, not only the Central Commission for Administration has intervened, but also the Ministry of Finance has a copy, which makes it impossible for the Military Commission, which is a military intelligence, to intervene. Among the senior officials of the State Government who are concerned about the War of Resistance, all those insiders gritted their teeth at this trip but were powerless. After learning about this, Li Zongren thought about intervening, but in the end he could only endure: the retired Gui army also hoped to get a large amount of Soviet-style equipment to change, which was all in the hands of Kong Xiangxi...

"The central government will make proper arrangements..." Chen Zui felt bitter in his heart, but a smile was squeezed out on his face, and there was no trace of helplessness.

"Look at those students..." Cao Xiaomin pointed outside.

Suddenly, a long line along the railway line was full of students, and they were walking on foot with a canopy. Cao Xiaomin first saw this kind of backpack when he watched a classic Hong Kong film "A Chinese Ghost Story" in later generations. He saw the male lead with his back on his back at the beginning. Later, when he arrived at this time and space, he would occasionally see such equipment among the refugees. But this time, seeing so many people carrying them was unprecedented.

The students all looked very small, and their childish faces were covered with loess and sweat, but they seemed to show a power of seed germination. Although they looked weak, they were endless. Their teams were neaterated than ordinary people who fled or moved to the government. The most conspicuous thing was that most of their back boxes were covered with anti-Japanese war slogans: "The War of Resistance Against Japan will win!" "China will not perish!" "Study and save the nation!"... Some back boxes were also covered with the school's names, including schools from Shanghai to Beijing. The weak bodies of these young students even carried the back boxes full of books, but their shoulders would still carry the burden of the national rejuvenation in the future!

"...It's great to see such a school and such an environment!...I still remember when I was young, I walked half of China with two legs in three years and changed to eight schools. Sometimes Japanese bombs fell next to the classroom..." The old man who could not remember his name suddenly appeared in Cao Xiaomin's mind. It was when he was a receptionist in the space-time alumni meeting. A NTU professor who was invited back suddenly felt out of control when he was speech on the podium.

"This old man is really good at acting. Is it Brigitte Lin's father?..." The classmates around him were secretly joking...

In the original time and space, the students only knew how to skip school and rent a house outside the school to soak horses; in the school, they evaluated the school beauties, and compared with each other whose girlfriends had more... But in this time and space, these young Cao Xiaomin's academic "predecessors" who were given historical missions have already carried the future of the nation with their shoulders!

They are persevering, they have suffered all the hardships, but they have truly accumulated knowledge and tempered their personality, especially their personality, and are about to be lost in future generations!

The students' team was quickly overtaken by the train, and then the soldiers who were replaced and moved in for a long period of time. Most of them carried the wounds. Because Zhengzhou could no longer tolerate so many wounded people, many of them were simply treated and transferred to other places. In addition to this train, Cao Xiaomin and his trains also mainly carried the wounds, but those who could be transported on the train were those who could return to the battlefield after treatment. Those who were more injured and whose injuries were unknown were arranged to be transported by hiking troops, and were carried back under the scorching sun!

Just next to the official road along the railway, you can see new tombs from time to time, and there are no grass. I don’t know whether it is the dead people on the road or the dead wounded. If the passengers on the bus are just dazed or numb, they will not be infected by the seemingly too much of this and seemingly normal. But for people like Cao Xiaomin who are cowardly and have experienced countless separations of life and death, they can feel how many stories and longings have been buried along the way.

After the army, there were another group of people. Those refugees who were evacuated to other places were like a group of grazed animals, basically wearing uncovered clothes and skinny bodies. Whenever they saw the train passing by, they would watch the train go away. It was obvious that they had almost overdrawn their physical strength on the way to migrate, but they could only continue to move along the road. No one knew where the end was, and no one knew whether they could reach the end...

Cao Xiaomin was used to seeing soldiers who made judgments in an instant on the front line, but watching the people in the war carefully like watching a movie still made him extremely sad. The people in the war actually lived in such dire straits!

Before he knew it, the general felt something slipping from his nose. He wiped it and smelled a fragrance. I don’t know when a simple little silk handkerchief belonging to the girl came to his hand. He closed his eyes and felt the fragrance: In the era of war and the era of struggle between survival and death, a love affair, whether it is vigorous or plain, turned out to be so luxurious!

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