War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 69 They Have Been Here (Thanks to Brother 'Xiaoshouang' for the reward)
In the jungle, human figures flickered. From the hilltop, Xu Chaoyang saw the Japanese soldiers in shit-yellow military uniforms running without looking back. When they slid down the sloping hillside, he finally stood up from his half-squatting position in the trench.

"Boss, we won!"

The second sister came over excitedly, pushed Xu Chaoyang with her hand and said, "What are you staring at?"

"We fought off dozens of devils."

Xu Chaoyang seemed not to hear it and still stood at the edge of the trench, looking down.

"Big brother."

Qu Yong also came back, bringing Hua'er, who finally smiled. The two of them seemed to have become many times more famous than when they went to Baoju, and the way they walked seemed ostentatious.

"Two trucks, a grenade launcher, two pheasant necks, three full ammunition boxes of spare ammunition and one ammunition box of grenade launcher shells. Why are you not happy?"

The moment Tong Meng, Yu Minghao and Liu Gener came to Xu Chaoyang's side, Xu Chaoyang stepped onto the bunker, squatted on it, turned his back to them, looked at the corpses on the ground, and finally slowly opened his mouth.

"We... did win." His voice was very low, but he didn't show any excitement at all.

"No!"

“We really won.”

"We actually beat a squad of the Japanese away."

Amid the crowd's echoes, Xu Chaoyang turned his head again: "Who knows?"

Suddenly, everyone around them shut their mouths, and the joy on their faces was gradually disappearing.

"The Japanese occupied Northeast China, and the whole world knew about it. The victory over the Russians made the whole country celebrate on that small island overseas. Sending troops to Korea and occupying Taiwan was daunting in Asia."

"What about us?"

"We used two machine guns to form a cross-fire zone on this piece of land. I fired from a prone position, and Qu Yong mounted the machine gun on the front of the car. With the machine gun bullets covering us, and Tong Meng's flying thunder cannon, we drove the devils away. But we still had to face more devils' counterattacks, and even this mountain stronghold had to be abandoned. Who knows?"

Although Qu Yong didn't quite understand what Xu Chaoyang was saying, he still lowered his head.

The victorious mood around me seemed to disappear.

Xu Chaoyang was not trying to discourage his men. It was not until this moment that he fully realized the complexity of the anti-Japanese war in Northeast China.

As the Japanese position in the Northeast became more and more stable and their roots grew deeper and deeper, especially when they established the puppet state of Manchukuo and began to establish the legitimacy of the fake regime over the heads of the ignorant people, the people seemed to see the general trend of the world and chose to bow their heads.

When that time comes, if you lose the fight you have to run, and if you win the fight you still have to run!
If you don't run, you will have to wait for the Japanese army to counterattack in large numbers!
Is this a win?
The result of winning should be applause, celebration, and cheers from supporters behind, but on this land, on this land that Xu Chaoyang loves so much, who are they fighting for?

For those ignorant people who have never awakened?

Or for those traitors who plan to go to the detective team to exchange for money if they get any information about you in the future?
Or are they the people who can’t wait to wrap their heads with quilts?

Tong Meng understood, and he also understood Xu Chaoyang's pain of having no one to talk to even after winning the battle!

"Captain, I can report this to your superiors."

Xu Chaoyang looked back at him, jumped down from the bunker, put his hand on Tong Meng's shoulder, and asked, "Where to report?"

"Panshi." He was referring to the Panshi Hongshilazi base, which was the base established in November 1932 by the Hailong Guerrillas and the South Manchuria Guerrillas. This year, General Ma will also be appointed as a division commander.

However, Tong Meng did not know what General Ma was facing in this environment where the situation seemed to be good, with municipal party committees in every city and bases outside the cities.

He was betrayed again and again by his own men during the Japanese encirclement and suppression, and was sold out again and again by traitors. In the end, when he died in the mountains, all that was left in his stomach was tree bark, tree bark!

"Then why are we fighting?"

Yu Minghao asked the question that was in all his brothers' minds without understanding.

As a person who traveled through time, Xu Chaoyang was actually speechless at this moment.

He knew that a great era would come in the future, and that a giant would stand on the shoulders of the Oriental dragon and command the world.
But precisely because he is a time traveler, the more correct choice is to wait until the great era arrives before picking up the gun.

However, Xu Chaoyang, who had never been good at speaking, did not want to say such words. He felt that he could finally say what he had been holding back since he traveled through time.

"Because if we don't fight, no one will ever know that the Japanese are not invincible!"

"Because we don't fight, the stigma attached to Northeasterners will never be washed away."

"We can choose not to fight. Of course we can choose not to fight. As of today, all of us, men can grow beards and hide in the village. No one cares about women at all. We can live like everyone else, like dogs with their tails between their legs."

"We can watch tragedy after tragedy like the one that happened to the Lin family shop. We can!"

“And history will never record our names because we don’t deserve it.”

Xu Chaoyang said this and looked at the others. When he glanced over, he saw Qu Yong lowering his head, Yu Minghao's confusion, and the anger on Liu Gener's face that he had no idea the reason for.

"But if we fight, there will be one more person willing to fight the devils in the Northeast, one more bullet will be fired at the devils, there will be one less Japanese on the battlefield, and one less civilian will be massacred outside the Northeast."

Xu Chaoyang understood why he said this. This was not brainwashing, it was the truth.

Everyone knows about the cruelty of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, but the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is definitely not just due to the American boy. When you are full after eating three steamed buns, is it all thanks to the third steamed bun?
The person Xu Chaoyang wants to persuade is himself.

It’s myself who has traveled through time!
I know history, but I still have cowardly thoughts in such a cruel environment! !
And those wise men who came before us step by step in such an environment, from having no support to having supporters everywhere, using victory after victory, they restored the spirit and vitality to the Chinese people who had lost their souls.

Among them, every battle is indispensable and every sacrifice is crucial.

Xu Chaoyang, how dare you slack off for even a moment?
Just like what Che Guevara said, when we are gone, they will build schools and hospitals for you. This is not because they have a change of heart or because they have become good people, but because we have been here.

Xu Chaoyang now wants to use the traces of his presence to protect every citizen who has not yet woken up, even if he can only protect one person, just one person.

"Go clean up the battlefield."

Xu Chaoyang smiled, and in the midst of the smoke, he smiled firmly again.

He finally understood why those ancient sages could smile so brilliantly in such a cruel environment.

Because they came
　Thanks to brother 'xiaoshouang' for the reward. Thank you very much. I am very grateful.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)