The listless Tetsuya Takahashi followed his teammates to the village of Luoyan in the west of the city of Nanjing, and Takahashi, a young elementary school teacher in Japan, signed up for the army under the fanatical propaganda of the country.

After several years of hard training, they all survived, mainly relying on the hero's dream of being a teenager, thinking that men have to go to the battlefield and become heroes.

Unexpectedly, after passing through the waist-deep mud trenches in the Songhu battlefield, the continuous tragic deaths of his comrades-in-arms, and the misery of the people of the defeated country in Nanjing, he began to get tired of this not beautiful and romantic war.

It was said that if we overcome the difficulties and defeat Nanjing, the capital of China, the country will collapse and surrender, and at that time, everyone can return to China in triumph like a hero and accept the cheers and worship of the people.

But now that Nanjing has been laid for almost a month, the country of China has not imagined that it will surrender, and the news of everyone's retreat back to China has still not been settled.

I thought I could go back and reunite with my family for the New Year, and I could meet Tomoko; But now, patrolling this cold, uninhabited place.

"Takahashi-kun, you need to hurry, try to keep up." Second Lieutenant Aoki, the former leader of the team, was politely urging Takahashi, who was struggling to keep up with the patrol.

The patrol said that it was to maintain law and order, but the law and order was surprisingly good, because there were almost no people, and there were occasionally one or two wild dogs on the road, and they were also hungry and their eyes were green.

The law and order is so good that there is no need for patrols, so the main duty of the patrol team is to find something to eat, and Japan has not been prepared to fight a big battle in Shanghai and Nanjing since the Shanghai incident began.

As a result, the fighting in Songhu became more and more fought, and the troops continued to increase, and finally both China and Japan could not control the direction and intensity of the war, and the Japanese base camp thought that it would be good to defeat the Chinese army in Shanghai and force the Chinese government to surrender and sign a contract.

Unexpectedly, the War Department in the base camp felt that the opportunity was rare, and finally with the support of the emperor, almost all the reserves in the country were dispatched to land in Hangzhou Bay, China.

This move determined the direction of the Sino-Japanese War, and even the historical trend a few years later.

After several months of continuous and fierce fighting, the Chinese army in Shanghai was already at the end of its power, and after being flanked from both sides, it began to retreat in an avalanche.

The Japanese troops who landed in Shanghai drove straight in, chasing the Chinese army until they reached the city of Nanjing, where the two sides began a tragic attack and defense, and finally the Japanese army captured Nanjing.

However, the Japanese base camp did not provide the logistical support for these armies to fight a protracted war, and Japan was originally short of resources, so it conquered Korea and Northeast China and used local resources to feed the war with war.

Now that the line of Shanghai and Nanjing has been laid, the policy of feeding the war with war is also being implemented, and most of the food supplies are solved by the troops themselves.

The army is not a production team, so it will go to farming, and even if it is planting, there must be a harvest time; Therefore, the troops became bandits and robbers in disguise, robbing civilians everywhere.

Therefore, Takahashi followed Aoki again this time and went out to rob, the civilians in this area couldn't stand the frequent robberies of the devils, and most of them fled, at most a few old people who were too old to walk and didn't want to die in other places.

So, this food is getting scarcer and less, even the cabbage and radishes in the vegetable field have been picked up, today, the patrol needs to find a squad of rations for the day, it seems that this task is really difficult to complete, Takahashi thought about it as he walked.

"Someone!"

Yuta Uchida, who was walking in the front, shouted, and when Takahashi and the others heard someone, they immediately got up and ran forward with Uchida. Someone, it is estimated that they will be able to find food, and today's task may be completed.

There was a person in front of him flashing at the mouth of the alley, Uchida was immediately ecstatic, only shouting and chasing forward, feeling that now he is not chasing people, but chasing the rations that will run, this time he must catch up, where is the hope of the whole team's rations.

But the person in front of him was running fast and very slow, anyway, when he was about to catch up, he ran away, and when he was about to find it, this person appeared again, simply teasing the imperial army.

In normal times, he would have been shot to death, but now he can't, he has to catch the live mouth, it is possible to find the food, and the cunning people of China have hidden the food.

The angry devils would never have thought that this might be a trap, or that they would never have thought that the people of China had even fallen to the capital, so they would order the local people to dare to engage a dozen or so heavily armed Japanese soldiers.

That's right, it's indeed a trap, and the person who escaped is Dakui.

Last night, everyone had a full meal, plus washing and scrubbing, washed off the underwear, put it on the stove to dry, and did not change the underwear for nearly a month, which was not only unhygienic, but also very affected running.

It's been busy for most of the day, it's late at night, and the three dogs are not letting everyone hurry, so let's rest first; I chatted with Da Kui for most of the night just now, and I haven't seen a single ghost here recently, so it's very safe, so I decided to go tomorrow during the day.

"Where are you going?" Da Kui asked.

"Of course, it is to go up the river, jump out of the blockade line of the devils, and then cross the river or find the reception point of the troops, and go back to the original troops."

However, Da Kui said that he was also about to return to the hiding place of their villagers, so he could take everyone on a walk.

"Where are you hiding?"

"On the edge of the Yangtze River, there are a lot of reeds there, and now even in winter, it is still more than one person high, and there are many waterways in it, and our small boats are very flexible in it, so we live on the boats, or on the temporary shore and on the small islands in the reeds."

"Then why did you come back from running so far this time?"

"I'm coming back to see if the devil has not retreated, if he retreats, everyone can go home, and also, to see if the cellar at home has been discovered by the devil, if not, bring some meat, and then call some people to carry food, there is not enough food over there."

I see, the three dogs suddenly.

"You just said you have a boat? How many boats are there? Are there many of you? ”

"We are all small boats, the kind of small fishing boats that sit a few people, not many, about 30 people, not many people, dozens of people, 100 people have not yet arrived, most of the people in the village have fled along the west of the river, we just have relatives fishing there for a living by the river, so we don't want to go too far and stay there."

"Oh, then why don't you row to Jiangbei? It's safer over there. ”

"But paddling on the river, it's very unsafe, the river is watched by the devil's big warship, and at night there are always big searchlights shining back and forth on the river, besides, we eat all here, and we moved a lot of them to the riverside, and when we get to Jiangbei, what do so many people eat?"

That's right, Sangou nodded, but he didn't say that the devil was cruel in Nanjing City, maybe there are not many devils here, and it's relatively loose.