Chapter 002 Brother Jiulian
Dong Limao has seen the time travel in the novel about the Myanmar Expeditionary Force given to him by Bai Rushuang, but it happened to him alive. However, the online time travel novels he has read are about the protagonist who either becomes a 3,000-year-old emperor or a general who has changed history. However, he has time traveled and turned into the great-grandfather who only his family thinks is an anti-Japanese hero.
Thinking of this, Dong Limao asked Dao Lanxiang with a confused look on his face: "Am I really the company commander of the newly-edited Ninth Company? Did I really go through time and become my great-grandfather? So, have you traveled through time and time too?"
"Doctor Li, listen, he is still talking nonsense." Dao Lanxiang said to Dr. Li with a wry smile.
"Haha...Company Commander Dong, you are really good at joking. You are the company commander of the newly compiled Ninth Company." Doctor Li thought Dong Limao was telling a joke.
"Then...it's 1944 now? Is it the year when my great-grandfather died in battle?" Dong Limao seemed to be talking to himself.
"Company Commander Dong, have you really forgotten? It is the 31st year of the Republic of China, that is, 1942 AD. Today is April 1st, to celebrate the Great Victory of Donggua." Dao Lanxiang said, walked to the window, opened the window, and suddenly, the crackling sound of firecrackers drifted into the window: "Listen, the Great Victory of Donggua is being celebrated outside."
"So, it's not the day when my great-grandfather died in battle?" Dong Limao muttered in a low voice again. He thought to himself: There are more than two years before my great-grandfather died in battle. What has my great-grandfather done in the past two years?
Thinking of this, Dong Limao asked Doctor Li: "Can I meet the brothers of the Ninth Company?"
"Well... it should be possible. They are outside the ward, but..." Li Jun pushed his glasses with his hand, as if he was worried about something: "Company Commander Dong, there are not a few brothers left in the Ninth Company..."
"You let them all come in." Dong Limao rushed to say.
Doctor Li and Dao Lanxiang looked at each other, and saw Dao Lanxiang nodding. Then he turned around and walked to the door of the ward, hesitated for a moment, and opened the door.
There were eleven people who came in, all of whom were injured to varying degrees. Three of them were supported by others. One of them was wearing a military uniform of a lieutenant and his left arm was hanging on his neck with a bandage. He walked to Dong Limao's bed, stood at attention, and saluted Dong Limao who was lying on the bed: "All brothers in the Ninth Company, report to the company commander!" His eyes were filled with tears and his voice was choked.
"You are..." Dong Limao looked at the saluting officer, not knowing his name.
The officer looked at Daolanxiang in confusion, wanting to know from her why the company commander didn't know him.
"After Commander Dong woke up, he couldn't remember some things." Dao Lanxiang explained to the officer.
"Report to the company commander, I am Zhu Yongsheng, the second platoon commander!" The officer stood at attention and reported loudly to Dong Limao.
"Oh, Platoon Commander Zhu, their brothers are..." Dong Limao stepped towards the other ten people wearing soldiers' uniforms.
One of them, who was big and thick, took a step forward, stood on the right side of the platoon commander Zhu and saluted Dong Limao, loudly in Northeastern dialect: "Report to the company commander, I am Zhang Dali, the first-class corps in the first platoon, nicknamed heavy machine gun!"
Then, a tall and thin man stood to Zhang Dali's right hand and reported to Dong Limao in Sichuan dialect: "Report to the company commander, I am Wang Jiagui, the first-class soldier in the row, nicknamed Ertiao!"
The rest, one by one, Dong Limao saw from their expressions that they admired themselves, no, they should have admired their great-grandfather very much. Among them, the youngest one, named Hu San, was crying.
Dong Limao looked at Hu San who was crying and asked, "How old are you?"
"Fifteen...wuwu..." Hu San wiped his nose with the back of his hand: "They want to disband the Ninth Company and divide us into other companies, Wuwuwu... I don't want to leave the Ninth Company...I want to avenge the dead brothers...wuwuwu... The goddam... stabbed the old man to death with a bayonet... Lao Shaotou blocked the bayonet for me...wuwuwu..." Hu San's crying caused the other ten people to cry.
Zhu Yongsheng choked and said, "There are only a few of us left in the Ninth Company. Others are celebrating the Donggua Victory, but we have no joy in winning the battle. If the company commander, you led us to break through the Japanese defense line, if more than one hundred brothers used their lives to rush, there would be no Donggua Victory. Now, they will break up the Ninth Company..."
"Who said he wanted to break up the Ninth Company?" Dong Limao was crying and completely entered the company commander's role by the eleven remaining Ninth Company officers and soldiers, and asked angrily.
"It was the regiment commander who said it personally at the celebration banquet!" Zhu Yongsheng replied: "I represented the entire company last night to attend the celebration banquet of the regiment headquarters. The dwarf winter melon pulled me aside and asked me to do a good job in the ideological work of my brothers. He also said... He also said that I would promote me to the company commander..."
"Who is the dwarf winter melon?" Dong Limao thought of his classmate Tu Hongbo, whose nickname is also called Donggua.
Zhu Yongsheng was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "It's the team leader. Because he is short and fat, we all call him short winter melon behind his back."
Dong Limao looked at Dao Lanxiang standing by the window and thought to himself: I have traveled through time, and Rushuang has traveled through time, has that boy Donggua also traveled through time?
At this time, Dao Lanxiang also happened to look at him with her eyes. Seeing Dong Limao looking at him, she quickly turned her eyes to Zhu Yongsheng and the others: "Okay, Company Commander Dong just woke up and his body was still very weak. You can go out first and let Company Commander Dong take a good rest."
"Platform Commander Zhu, I will ask... to my superiors to keep the Ninth Company." Dong Limao said before Zhu Yongsheng and his friends turned around and walked out of the ward.
After Zhu Yongsheng and the others walked out of the ward, Dong Limao asked Dao Lanxiang: "Rushuang, where is my clothes?" He never saw his clothes in the entire ward.
Daolanxiang raised her face and said, "Why are you still calling me Rushuang? Didn't you tell you, my name is Daolanxiang." Then she answered Dong Limao: "When you were transferred here, your body was covered in blood. I guess your military uniform was taken off by other nurses in the hospital. The new military uniform, because you have been unconscious, and you haven't been to the military department to refill it. Besides, you can't wear clothes yet, so it's easier to change the medicine and scrub it."
"So, are you taking care of me these days when I was in a coma?" Dong Limao felt warm.
"It was after Commander Du came three days ago that the dean arranged for me to take care of you." Dao Lanxiang replied.
"How long have you been in the Fifth Army Field Hospital?" Dong Limao asked again.
"After the Expeditionary Force came, the Fifth Army regarded the hospital here as a wartime hospital. I used to be a nurse in this hospital. All the doctors and nurses here should be recruited temporarily." Dao Lanxiang replied.
Dong Limao was a little disappointed. It turned out that Dao Lanxiang was not what he imagined, but Bai Rushuang who had traveled through time. He stopped asking anything, his stomach was rumbling, so he asked: "I'm hungry, do you have anything to eat?"
Chapter completed!