The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Begins in Songhu

Chapter 7 Otherwise, let’s talk about it when we get to the Magic City

...The Japanese are so well-equipped that we are like a bunch of beggars in comparison.

Their planes can drop terrifying bombs from the sky, and can use large-caliber important cannons, and even naval guns to fire powerful shells.

It penetrates every pore in the sky and on the earth.

On the Battle of Shanghai, many soldiers who came from thousands of miles away often died on the way without even seeing the enemy...

When cleaning up the battlefield, it is often difficult for us to piece together a complete corpse.

There were also some people whose bodies were clearly intact, but when they were lifted up, terrifying black blood would flow from all seven orifices; Wang Peng said they were killed by shock... Excerpt from Hu Biao's diary collection "Nonsense"...

"Fuck! Those ten years of my life were just wasted."

After cursing like this, Hu Biao turned around and rushed towards the hellish road.

He had only run two steps when he stumbled and fell flat on his face. Even his palms and knees were scratched by the gravel on the ground, and he felt a sharp pain.

But after getting up, he stumbled forward again.

There was no way. Perhaps the Japanese planes had other combat missions, and the attack on the 3rd Replacement Company was just a one-shot deal.

After diving and strafing three times and dropping a 100-kilogram bomb, it left triumphantly; but even so, it still left behind a bloody scene.

Now the company commander had been blown away, and the few veterans had also suffered heavy casualties.

If Hu Biao and his men continued to escape, no one would care about them at all; when the time came, they would take off their military uniforms and be able to jump into the vast ocean at will, right?

But those who were struggling and screaming in a pool of blood were not just companions who had been together for a few days.

What's more crucial is that they are ancestors with the same blood; if Hu Biao runs away now, he will miss the best time to rescue these people and let them bleed to death.

Considering this possibility, how could this guy have the heart to escape?

Caught in a dilemma, after a short period of struggle, Hu Biao finally gave up his plan to escape and turned back to rescue his ancestors.

As for the ten years of life that were just deducted, were they just wasted like that?

Let it be wasted. Anyway, a guy like him who has already laid down has long been prepared to endure minor illnesses and wait for death from major illnesses. He has never expected to live to the age of seventy or eighty.

After seeing Hu Biao's actions, Zhou Kun, Wang Peng, Gao Yi, Zhang Wei and the other four looked at each other with bitter and depressed expressions on their faces.

Then he followed him, cursing, and together they rushed towards the road that looked like hell.

As they ran, without even noticing it themselves, their expressions suddenly became relaxed...

After rushing onto the dirt road, Hu Biao rushed to the company commander as soon as possible; because the company commander was not dead yet and was still lying on the ground struggling.

But the dead horse was pressing down on one of his legs, making it impossible for him to get up.

After Hu Biao rushed to the company commander's side, he immediately tried to move the dead horse, but found that the dead horse weighed at least four or five hundred kilograms; even if he used all his strength, the dead horse did not move at all.

Turning around, he saw Zhou Kun and the other four running towards him, cursing, and they immediately started yelling:
"Zhou Kun, Wang Peng, and Zhang Wei, the three of you come together to lift the horse. While we're lifting it, Gao Yi, quickly pull the company commander out."

The other four naturally had no objection to Hu Biao's arrangement and nodded to indicate that there was no problem.

Zhang Wei and Zhou Kun cleverly picked up a thick stick and a Hanyang rifle from the ground respectively, and put them under the warhorse, intending to use the principle of leverage to pry the warhorse up.

Otherwise, with the strength of modern people like them, they might not be able to lift the dead horse.

With the combined efforts of the four, they finally lifted the heavy dead horse. Gao Yi, who was holding the company commander's shoulders, exerted force and the company commander's body was dragged out.

To be more precise, it was the company commander's upper body that was dragged out.

Because in the previous strafing and bombing, the company commander's waist was almost completely broken, with only a little flesh connecting it.

At this moment, Gao Yi dragged the company commander's body into two pieces at the waist, and a large mass of colorful intestines flowed out.

Especially after seeing this, Gao Yi instinctively lifted up the company commander in fear and took a few steps back.

Good fellow! Poor company commander, his intestines were dragged out on the ground for a long time, and even some other organs could be vaguely seen.

In ancient times, there was a famous torture called beheading, which is similar to the current situation.

Despite this, the company commander was still alive. His face was twisted in agony, and the veins on the backs of his hands bulged, leaving bloody marks on the ground. At the same time, he screamed in a shrill voice, "Quick, quick, give me a quick death!"

Hu Biao and the others heard this request, but unfortunately they could not help him.

Some odd jobs, young people, low-level clerks, and newly graduated students who grew up in a peaceful environment in the modern dimension have never seen such a scene.
After seeing the organs scattered all over the floor, each of the five of them felt their chests and stomachs churning violently.

After bending over, they began to vomit violently, including the retired veteran Wang Peng.

It is understandable that the PLA soldiers have received rigorous training, but after all, most of them have not experienced actual combat for many years and have not seen such a scene during training.

By the time they recovered a little, the company commander had already passed away from the pain...

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That night, the remaining members of the 3rd Replacement Company temporarily camped in the peach forest where Hu Biao and others planned to escape.

After boiling some hot water and eating some dry food, everyone sat around the small fires, and no one was in the mood to talk.

Because at this moment, the Third Replacement Company, which had 132 people when it set out from Rugao area, now has only 71 people left, 21 of whom are seriously injured.

This meant that after a short air raid, the replacement company had not even seen what the Japanese looked like, and more than half of their soldiers had already suffered casualties.

Even the company commander died, and the veterans also suffered heavy casualties. Currently, the highest-ranking officer in the entire supplementary company is a platoon leader with the rank of second lieutenant, and there are only six veterans left.

In this situation, Hu Biao and his colleagues vomited a lot, and after they recovered a little, they used their not-so-rich health knowledge and medical methods.

The result of bandaging and stopping the bleeding of the wounded was that even more people would have died.

After all, if they hadn't called out, many wounded soldiers would have simply covered their wounds with dirt and bandaged them up when faced with wounds caused by bullets and shrapnel.

After completing the treatment of the wounded, the surviving personnel of the replenishment company, led by a platoon leader, began to clean up the battlefield for the entire afternoon.

Those who died in the air raid were hastily buried after digging a shallow grave in the nearby wasteland.

Under the current circumstances, the remaining personnel no longer have the energy and time to bring these fellow villagers back to Rugao area and let them return to their hometown.

The tools used to dig the pit were limited, and the entire burial process was very difficult.

The scene of broken limbs and even minced meat all over the ground made Hu Biao and the others vomit several times.

However, what made the survivors of the 3rd Replacement Company feel even more difficult was the mentality of lifting and burying the tattered corpses one by one.

Especially Hu Biao and other five people who grew up in the modern dimension and in a peaceful environment.

They had never realized so clearly how cheap and fragile life was; their hatred for the Japanese devils was deeper than ever before.

Such thoughts made them feel heavy-hearted throughout the night and no one wanted to talk.

This situation continued until the platoon leader shouted at everyone to go to bed quickly because they had to travel early the next morning. If they missed the deadline for arriving in the Magic City, they would be subject to military court.

Hu Biao and the other five finally reacted and looked at each other secretly, with only one meaning in their eyes:
After an air raid, there are only a few veterans left, and the sentries will probably be much more lax tonight; so the question is, do you want to run?

They could probably run away, but it would be a devastating blow to the morale of the remaining people in the reinforcement company.

Regarding this question, Zhou Kun hesitated for a moment, then expressed his opinion in a voice that only a few people around him could hear:
"Or, let's just run away after we get to the Magic City.

At that time, you can just escape to the foreign concession, where you will still have a safe period of several years.

With the knowledge of modern people like us, we can always make a lot of money during this period of time, and then take a ship to the North American continent or to Switzerland, and we can always perfectly avoid this damn war.

That's right! Once we're successful, we can definitely find a way to provide more supplies and equipment back home. Wouldn't that be more effective than going directly to the battlefield and fighting the Japanese?"

It must be said that Zhou Kun’s statement makes some sense, but it also has too many flaws.

Because it was so difficult to escape halfway, once you really arrived at the battlefield in the Magic City, there would be more comrades and Japanese devils around you, and it would only be more difficult to escape.

But after hearing this, the expressions on the other people's faces became more relaxed.

Perhaps they no longer wanted to escape so much, at least not when the 3rd Replacement Company was in such a dire situation; but they needed to give themselves a reason not to escape first.

Even if such a reason is not very reasonable and convincing...

(End of this chapter)