Four uncovered trucks pulled out of the gates of the Central Military Academy, and on them sat heavily armed soldiers. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

These soldiers are completely different in temperament from those student soldiers who are full of vigor and are bent on killing the enemy.

There is casualness and laziness on their faces, and the image of the soldiers is far less than that of the student soldiers of the Central Military Academy.

Undoubtedly, the people sitting in this car are veterans, and their long-term battlefield career has changed their characteristics, when death becomes the norm of life, the survivors will hang this so-called expression, such soldiers are the most difficult to lead, only the commanders they identify will let them return to the appearance of soldiers, others can't, the instructors of the Central Military Academy can't, no matter how big the officer is.

These soldiers were veterans of the special training class of the Central Military Academy, and they had already received news from the school that the 74 th Army had withdrawn from the Songhu battlefield to Nanjing to participate in the defense, and they had taken a car to return to the team.

Huo Xiaoshan and Shen Chong also sat side by side among the veterans.

He still followed Zhou Liebao's advice and decided to go to the battlefield with the veterans. And Shen Chong naturally wanted to follow him, for Shen Chong, it didn't matter which army he was with, he could advance and retreat with Huo Xiaoshan.

At this time, Huo Xiaoshan's face was calm, but his mood was a little complicated.

It was already the beginning of December before departure, and after the end of the battle after the Songhu meeting, the situation of the front-line war was as tight as day by day, the Japanese planes in the sky and the underground tanks and automobiles mechanized troops chased after the hundreds of thousands of Nationalist Government troops, Jiaxing, Changshu, and Wuxi fell one after another, and the Japanese army's offensive was directed at Nanjing.

The atmosphere in the whole city of Nanjing has become very tense, with frequent troop movements and fortifications being repaired everywhere.

At the same time, refugees from nearby cities and towns continued to pour into the city, and they originally thought that Nanjing, as the capital of the Republic of China, might not be able to enter by Japan, but after entering, they were persuaded by the government to leave and evacuate.

It's just that there are too many people, and there will always be people stranded here, and the city is full of refugees' grandmothers calling women, and hundreds of miles away is already Yanshan Hu Qiming chirping.

The city is full of college students dressed as students, shouting anti-Japanese slogans or volunteering to pacify the evacuees.

Murong Pei is undoubtedly the most active one of them due to the reason of "clothization", and her friend Shen Xiaoman is naturally indispensable by her side, and Shen Xiaoman is naturally indispensable to Mu Yan, who acts as a messenger to protect flowers.

When the enthusiasm of the young man was combined with the passion of the poet Mou Yan, a miraculous force was produced, and his role in agitating the anti-Japanese people among the students was surprisingly good.

It's a pity that Huo Xiaoshan and Wei Jianxing, who are soldiers, can't help themselves at this moment and embark on the journey with the army.

Huo Xiaoshan chose to become a member of the 74th Army with the veterans, and Wei Jianxing, who was a cadet of the military academy, was naturally included in the teaching corps, ready to defend the capital with the enthusiasm of his young people.

Song Zijun resolutely rejected Huo Xiaoshan's suggestion to let her evacuate to the rear, but instead changed the style of famous and beautiful women in the past, walked out of the house in coarse cloth clothes, and made a soup kitchen shop on the downtown street with some Buddhist colleagues.

Whenever a refugee came in, she gave porridge and food, and then persuaded him to leave Nanjing, and the funds she used naturally had her savings on weekdays, but more of them were the pensions given by the government after Huo Yuan's martyrdom.

In fact, Song Zijun had already decided that Nanjing City would definitely fight, no, to be precise, it was not just a war, but a catastrophe.

It's not that she can pinch and calculate, but that she heard one by one Buddha friends say something strange to her at a Buddhist gathering.

The Buddhist friend said that she was summoned by the local Hades Hall every night to copy the local life and death book, and when she copied the life and death book once, she suddenly encountered a lot of four-character and five-character names that she had never seen, these names were obviously not our Chinese, she was very curious, she knew that Song Zijun was a cultured person, so she came to ask for advice.

As soon as Song Zijun heard her mention that there were names such as "Watanabe, Yamada, and Matsushita" in those names, he knew that those people must be Japanese.

Why so many Japanese died in Nanjing, in connection with the actual war, it is not difficult for Song Zijun to speculate that the Japanese army will definitely hit the city of Nanjing.

To make a long story short, Huo Xiaoshan ate the Zhuangxing meal made for him by his mother, kissed his lover goodbye, and embarked on the journey of fighting devils again.

Out of the downtown area of Nanjing, the wheels rolled, and the road headed southeast, and the dust raised by the truck in front fell on the head and face of the people in the rear car, causing several low curses from the veterans.

But soon, no one was silent, not because the dust was gone, but because their attention was diverted, and they saw the convoy, which had been winding all the way to the sky, coming towards them.

It's just that after the two cars staggered by, Huo Xiaoshan smelled the breath of the battlefield. The car was full of **** soldiers, and those soldiers had sleepy expressions, and many people let the car jolt, but they were all sleeping with their heads down.

Some of their arms were still hung around their necks with bandages, and their uniforms were generally dirty and tattered, with traces of smoke and fire.

One car also had a blue sky and white sun flag on it, which had been smoked to a gray-black color, and the tattered flag had many bullet holes the size of walnuts. Trucks staggered by.

"Do you know where the Seventy-Fourth Army is?" When a veteran beside Huo Xiaoshan staggered the two cars, he shouted to those soldiers, but what answered him was the dust raised by the wheels, and a few soldiers raised their heads to look at them, as if they hadn't heard it, and lowered their heads again.

The veteran did not give up, and when he met the next car, he still pulled his neck and shouted, but still did not answer.

It wasn't until the fourth that one of the soldiers turned his finger in the direction their convoy was coming from.

"rà horse horse sòng!" The veteran who asked for directions bowed his head and cursed, and Huo Xiaoshan still didn't figure out how to write the word in the back, but he knew that this scolding sentence was a dialect of Jiangsu Bing, and he didn't know what it meant.

The further these trucks went against the traffic, the more solemn the atmosphere on the cars became, and the veterans had put away their careless and cynical attitudes.

Oncoming trucks were scarce, and some cars even had bullet holes on their front covers. The number of carriages increased, and most of them were wounded soldiers, and it was obvious that these carts were temporarily recruited.

Although the road conditions have deteriorated, the owner of the car keeps waving the whip in his hand and his expression is extremely anxious, and the wounded soldiers on the car will curse when they bump and kick, and their eyes from the opposite side also reveal a complex emotion, there is hope but more helplessness and pessimism.

The road conditions are getting worse and the trucks are slowing down.

"I seem to smell the battlefield." A veteran beside Huo Xiaoshan said, and the other veterans who heard him say this also nodded in agreement.

"Yes, not only does it smell like a battlefield, but this battlefield is clearly not far away." Shen Chong glanced at Huo Xiaoshan, who was also contemplative, with a kind of inquiry in his eyes.

Huo Xiaoshan understood, there was a kind of shock and a worry: It seems that the devil is coming much faster than expected, isn't it true that those national defense fortifications have not played a role, and they have not even stopped the invaders' aircraft, artillery and tanks?

Ma Liancai muttered: "I don't think that if we keep driving these cars, we will hit the little devil tank car with our head."

All the people in the car heard his words clearly, and they were also secretly frightened.

"Look at your." A veteran said a word about Ma Liancai.

However, Ma Liancai is not a master to be messed with among veterans, so his tone of voice is quite polite. However, there was one person who was not happy to listen.

"I usually say how powerful I am fighting, how loud I blow, why, I am afraid if I don't meet with Little Japan?" It was Shen Chong who spoke, he had long been unaccustomed to the veterans' boasting, but he was not afraid of this in his head, and directly choked Ma Liancai.

"The turtle son is afraid!" Ma Liancai felt that the dignity of his veteran was being treated with contempt.

"Then don't babble, if you have the ability to kill a few little devils on the battlefield, let me see." Shen Chong didn't let him go.

"Hey, what's the matter of killing little devils, then Lao Tzu will put down a few little devils for your kid to see." Ma Liancai's face was flushed by Shen Chong.

He was sitting in the carriage and stood up as soon as he was excited, but the truck was passing through a big pit, and the carriage shook, and he sat on the carriage board, if it wasn't for Huo Xiaoshan, who was in a hurry next to him, he was afraid that he would fall directly under the car.

Immediately, everyone in the carriage laughed, and the solemnity before the battle was diluted a little

However, fortunately, after more than forty minutes, Ma Liancai's crow-like prophecy did not come true, and the veterans finally found their 74th Army in Niushou Mountain.

Niushou Mountain, located in the south of Nanjing, less than 20 kilometers away from Zhonghua Gate, if the Japanese army attacked Nanjing from Jurong, then this is the only way.

The elevation of this mountain is less than 300 meters, there are twin peaks at the top, such as Niujiaoran, so it is called Niushou Mountain.

Although Niushou Mountain is not high, it is also the commanding height of this Nanjing gateway, so it is inevitable that the 74th Army will deploy defenses here.

The 74th Army originally wanted to return to southern Anhui to rest and recuperate after participating in the Battle of Songhu, but on the way, they received an order from Tang Shengzhi, commander of the Nanjing garrison, and stationed in the existing positions on the front line of Niushou Mountain in Chunhua Town to defend against the Japanese army on the spot.

Army Commander Yu Jishi was naturally very happy about the return of these 100 veterans, so these veterans were immediately dismantled and assigned to various regiments, and a considerable part of them were immediately promoted to junior officers at the squad and platoon company level.

There is naturally a reason why Yu Jishi is so happy.

The 74th Army is a young unit that has not been formed for a long time, but it is precisely with the spirit of a newborn calf that is not afraid of tigers that it became famous in the Songhu battlefield.

The most famous bloody battle of Hengdian in the battle was fought by them.

They fought continuously for 85 days and nights, killing and wounding more than 4,000 Japanese soldiers. And he was also seriously injured, with more than 200 casualties among officers and more than 4,000 casualties among soldiers.

Their own casualty figures are more than those of the Japanese army, but don't underestimate this casualty number, this casualty ratio is not only rare in the current Sino-Japanese War, but also during the entire Anti-Japanese War.

According to the conservative statistics of later generations, the casualty ratio between China and Japan on the frontal battlefield during the Anti-Japanese War was between 1:4 and 1:2, even in the just-concluded Battle of Songhu, the casualty ratio of the enemy and us also reached 1:5, and some battles in the future even reached 1:10!

There are naturally various reasons for such a high casualty ratio, but in the final analysis, it is an indisputable fact that the country is weak and the army is weak, otherwise how can an island country with an area of less than one province of China be bullied by a sleeping lion. (To be continued.) )