.Chapter 602: The Remnant (Part 1)

(...Every battle will cause some officers and soldiers to fall into an impossible situation due to tactical needs or mistakes in combat plans. The only thing they may survive is to persevere until victory; but a victory is so rare. Their result is often to stick to their positions and hope to meet and fight until death... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

"...I call peace, not a servile and charming peace, but a prerequisite for the Chinese nation to stand up for the world with a strong and strong body; if the land is cedes and compensation, and my people are the people below the neighbors, it is better to be harmonious than peace...... The difficulty of this peace talk is not something that Jingwei can inherit, but it is possible to work together with my thousands of compatriots; if the peace talks are not completed in one day, our government still needs to fight the war with all its might, and our people still need to be united; if the peace talks are not completed in one day, our soldiers must not slack off, and they must do their best to defend and consolidate the land and restore my hometown..."

Unexpectedly, when Cao Xiaomin faced the sudden condemnation of various destruction and peace from the rear, the first person to stand up and speak for him was Wang Jingwei, who was known as the creator of peace in Hong Kong!

When Wang Jingwei asked reporters whether the escalation of war between China and Japan in eastern Guangdong would affect the peace negotiations, he made it clear that when the results of the peace negotiations were not yet determined, the vast number of soldiers and civilians in the War of Resistance Against Japan should not relax and should continue to fight with all their strength. Just as this peace negotiations did not exist... The most important thing is that he praised Cao Xiaominzuo Town Guangdong for consecutively hit hard and praised the invaders at the Pearl River Estuary and eastern Guangdong, claiming that "General Liehou's move made his neighbors recognize the strength of our Chinese nation and the tenacity of his determination to fight against the war." He also said that only proactive resistance is the strongest support for peace negotiations...

Wang Jingwei's speech was a thunderclap, which left the peaceful people in the country speechless, especially the celebrities and scholars who highly praised Wang Jingwei for his efforts to condemn peace while condemning Cao Xiaomin for destroying peace.

When Cao Xiaomin learned that Wang Jingwei suddenly posted this editorial in Hong Kong, he couldn't help but feel dim: The political situation is really changing and unpredictable. Who would have thought that the chief representative of the Peace faction would suddenly speak for himself at this time and criticize the "beasts" of the Southwest Associated University who criticized him!?

Auspicious human and heavenly appearance. Since there is such a sudden change, let Wang Jingwei go to debate with the celebrities in the country, and he still needs to focus on the war!

The offensives of various war zones arranged by Cao Xiaomin were preparing closely, but the battlefield in eastern Guangdong was fighting hand in hand. He had already issued three orders to Jiang Guangnai: to slow the occupation of Shantou!

Soldiers are very fast, just like his previous series of classic battles, all of which are patiently successful in making a blow; those who are willing to use troops to win quickly and are deliberately delayed, but he repeatedly ordered the current action of capturing Shantou: slow down the attack!

It’s not that Cao Xiaomin didn’t want to be fast, but after nearly three years of experience in the War of Resistance Against Japan, he knew that it was difficult for the Chinese team to launch a tough battle against the city. How many heavy troops are there like the Seventy-Second Army in the entire army? Even if the main force of the Guangdong War Zone is now going up to attack Shantou, which is very close to the coast and can be covered by naval guns, there is no confidence at all, let alone an army like the Sixth Field Army, which has neither heavy weapons nor insufficient training!?

If the Japanese want to continue to confuse the Soviet Union and take the initiative to retreat in Shantou, then taking Shantou is going to follow the trend; if the Japanese want to stick to Shantou and not retreat, Cao Xiaomin still doesn't believe that Jiang Guangnai can take it. Therefore, the attack must be slowed down, giving the Japanese a chance to withdraw troops. If they want to withdraw, take it down. If the Japanese don't retreat, they will occupy the rural areas around Shantou to confront it.

However, the progress of the battlefield in eastern Guangdong is too fast: it is only the fifth day of the counterattack in eastern Guangdong, and street battles have begun in Shantou!

Anbu is still fighting fiercely, but the vanguard of ** has been in Shantou for three days. If Shantou is taken, it will be difficult for the Japanese troops who have broken through hardships from all fronts to Anbu to retreat. Jiang Guangnai, who is determined to fight a shocking victory in the first battle of the comeback, had a deep calculation when he made a plan. He originally wanted to take the 17th Division in one fell swoop! But now it has become a situation of difficulty: the troops entering Shantou have been scattered in the city to fight each other, blocking the Japanese army's way back and breaking his own life.

Of course, they can also go south to leave Shantou with enemy naval guns from the Rongjiang River to send the Japanese army back, but in this way, if the Japanese army does not retreat in a hurry but chases the troops while intercepting from the flanks, the troops that have entered Shantou may be wiped out! Which general dares to take such a risk to seek battlefield compromise! Moreover, this is a tactical transfer that the army in the city can only take collective information at the same time, but with a poor communication level, it is difficult to complete such a combat order!

"Boom!" Another shell fell, and half of the old house that had been blown down was shaken and bricks fell down. In the half of the house with tiles covering their heads, more than a dozen wounded men who could not move by themselves were immediately hit by the smashed bricks and stones. They could not do anything for themselves except venting their weak legs and feet in vain to vent their pain.

A soldier ran in from the outer yard, and he was holding a steel helmet full of well water. He carefully set the helmet between the two bricks before he freed up his hands to help the seriously injured move their bodies or remove the bricks and stones pressing on them... "Kill me... 'Little Bit', kill me..." A seriously injured person whose waist and abdomen were cut by shrapnel and exposed his internal organs begged the soldier to help him relieve himself in a trembling voice.

Maybe death is the best relief for him, but can he take action? "Little Buddian" can't take action... He was thirteen years old, and was originally just a little beggar, wandering in the fallen city of Shantou, avoiding the Japanese army who killed everyone, hiding in the ruins, looking for the food left by the owner of the vacant house to survive. But suddenly his army came back, which made him very excited, so he became a member of the army.

He can't shoot, nor can he. The veterans taught him, but he never shot. When the war became more and more intense, he became a medical soldier who took care of the wounded. There were no more minor wounded people in the house. They all went to the line of fire to confront the Japanese, and the rest were seriously injured who could not move. The task of "Little Bit" was to take care of them until victory...

It will definitely win! "Little Buddian" believes this as much as his brothers who are struggling to support this. Now they are attacking the Japanese. They have cut off the Japanese's way back and are about to kill all the beasts that kill people and set fire everywhere... However, the expected victory is so far away. The Japanese's naval guns are constantly adjusting their shooting coordinates and constantly smashing shells on their defense belts.

There were gunfires around, but they were not very dense. This was the battle, which was not terrible for "Little Budian" - the gunfires were much more dense when the Japanese killed people everywhere in the first three days after entering the city!

After spending a lot of effort, he finally moved more than a dozen wounded people - just moved a little more inside, and there was no room in the house. After filling each wounded with some well water, he found that all the wounded people had a fever, which made him feel very bad. He decided to go out and tell the platoon leader, their supreme commander.

"Boom!" Suddenly, the shock wave behind him was like a tangible object lifted him out of the yard. The person completely lost control like a kite. "Little Buddian" was thrown from the yard to the wall opposite the street outside the house. The heavy collision made him faint...

The enemy's cannons were getting more and more accurate! The platoon leader stared at the rising dust outside a street in a daze, his lips twitching. He knew that the house had fallen, and there were more than a dozen of his brothers there... All the houses in front of him were trembling, and the extremely subtle but dizzy momentary fluctuations almost made him fall to the ground... In a daze, the platoon leader stood firmly with the wall. He secretly looked out from the base of the wall and saw the hazy figures of the two Japanese men gradually became clear... "Bang!" As soon as his gun was handed over, he saw a bunch of muzzle flames lit up in the drowsy dust. The bullets shot at close range penetrated the first Japanese and then knocked down the second Japanese... OK! There were still his brothers holding on at this intersection! The platoon leader touched them...

"Platform leader..." He found his brother who was standing here through his voice after a broken wall. The meaning behind the broken wall was that the brother was actually exposed to the Japanese's nose before the bunker!

"Don't come over, platoon leader, the enemy is still watching..." The brother's voice came from behind the broken wall. The hoarse battlefield voice could no longer tell who it was, even though he was very familiar with every brother of his.

"I can't move, one leg was pressed by the broken wall..." An intermittent voice came: "I'm dead, haha, really, dead... But the Japanese didn't notice me, they were all staring at your current position... I still have six bullets, a grenade, and I can hold on for a while... The platoon leader can't hold on anymore. You take the brothers in the house first, I'll hold on..."

The platoon leader's nose suddenly became sore, and two lines of hot tears flowed down... He really wanted to see who was behind the wall, at least he had to know... But it really didn't work. The smoke that exploded just now had dissipated. He would reveal his brother's position... In extreme sadness, the platoon leader's mind was blocked. He actually knew who it was just by asking. Or he was still awake. He did not ask on purpose. He didn't want to fight until his brother who was still insisting on knowing that he didn't recognize him...

He didn't dare to tell the brother that the house had collapsed and that none of the brothers there might be alive. He just patrolled the positions and found only four living brothers, and he really couldn't hold them... But if you want to retreat, where to retreat!? The brothers are all good. If you want to die, die together. The platoon leader took out a bullet from his pocket and polished them one by one with his sleeves...


Chapter completed!