War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 173 Sichuan people have never lost their country, and Chinese people have never forgotten Sichuan.

From time to time, the Chengdongguan position in the night was lit up by the flares fired into the night sky by the little devils outside the city.At the gate of the city where lights and lights were uncertain, Li Hexian counted the soldiers under his command.

After a whole day of fierce fighting, Wei Ran and Li Suian were not included in his squad, and only one middle-aged man with a cigarette pouch pinned to his waist remained in his squad. The rest were dead or wounded, and there was no way to continue fought.

As for the remaining soldiers who survived the gap in the city wall, their original squad basically filled the battlefield on the city wall, and they were guarding the corpses of their comrades in a daze at this moment.

Soon, new reinforcements arrived at the Dongguan position, and the survivors on the city wall were also reorganized and assigned to Li Hexian's command.

These survivors silently took off the armed belts and various box cannons from the corpses of their comrades in arms, and put them on silently after they were filled with bullets. Old sleeves, made in Hanyang, even broadswords, grenades, etc.

The newly added soldiers were busy repairing and strengthening the bunkers, preparing for the next day's battle.

A busy night passed in a blink of an eye, and early the next morning, before the sun had fully risen, planes hovered over Tengxian County again. As the aerial bombs fell to the ground, the little devils outside the city also started to attack. shelling.

In almost a series of explosions, the towers of Dongguan City collapsed, and the defenders on the city walls suffered heavy losses from the indiscriminate bombardment of aircraft and artillery.In the choking gunpowder that almost blocked the sight, there were faint screams and desperate cries, as well as the curses of many defenders gnashing their teeth.

In the bunker where mud and gravel fell from time to time, Wei Ran seemed unmoved, holding a bayonet with a [-]-piece cover in his hand, and sharpened the tip of the bayonet on a piece of broken bricks that fell from the city wall. and cutting edge.

He had experienced bombardment stronger than this in Stalingrad, on the Don River, and in Berlin. If it was just the fear caused by the explosion of the shells, the impact on him, if not negligible, was enough to treat him calmly.

But those compatriots who died tragically in the explosion, those broken corpses that were easily thrown into the air by the shock wave, and then thrown heavily on the ground full of scorched earth, made him unable to suppress the anger and suffering in his heart at all!

With a soft "click", Wei Ran, who was sharpening his bayonet, turned his head subconsciously, and then his breathing became heavier and heavier. It was half of an arm that was still dripping blood.The immature fingers are slightly thicker than a cigarette, and there is a thin red rope tied to the wrist, and five copper coins with metallic luster are also worn on it.

Putting the bayonet aside, Wei Ran pushed away the wet soil around him with red eyes, carefully picked up the arm and put it in, covered it with soil one by one, and built a small grave for the child.

Picking up the bayonet again, Wei Ran vigorously polished the broken bricks, the huge force left deep marks on the broken bricks.And in his mouth, he was also muttering something nervously.

Sitting next to him, Li Hexian and his cousin Li Suian glanced at each other. The former silently took out a pre-rolled cigarette, lit a piece of wood that was still glowing with sparks, and handed it to Li Suian, then turned to Wei Ran. Fang Xiang raised his chin.

After Li Suian took the cigarette roll, he gently pushed Wei Ran's shoulder. The latter turned his head fiercely like a beast with a wounded head. After seeing the cigarette roll handed over by the trembling Li Suian, his eyes gradually softened.

Taking the cigarette tremblingly, Wei Ran brought it to his mouth and took a deep puff. The inferior dry tobacco shreds were particularly choking, which made him burst into tears, and also made him cough continuously. In the end, the cough turned into a sob that was masked by the explosion.

Li Hexian sighed, took out two cigarettes from his pocket again and lit them, and after giving one to his cousin, he leaned against the damp bunker wall and closed his eyes.

During the long wait, the more than 20 planes overhead flew away after dumping all the ammunition, and the sound of gunfire outside the city gradually stopped.

But this rare quietness was like a signal, so that no one commanded at all. All the surviving soldiers shook off the dirt on their heads and shoulders, and crawled out of the bunker with the weapons in their hands tightly. position.

"Chariot!" Li Suian shouted in horror.

Outside the gap in the collapsed city wall, more than a dozen tanks were lined up, covering the little devils behind them and rushing towards the gap they were guarding.

"Don't waste bullets!" Li Hexian stopped Li Suian who was about to fire, "Hit people! Our guns are useless against tanks."

"What about the tank?" Li Suian asked while pulling the trigger.

"Bring it closer, use a grenade to blow it up!" Li Hexian said the cruel solution as a matter of course.But his cousin Li Suian obviously didn't know what this meant.

On the other hand, Wei Ran, after looking down at the few grenades pinned to his belt, continued to pull the trigger, trying to kill as many enemies as possible before the tank rushed up.

But as the tanks got closer, the suppressive firepower of these little devils became more and more intensive, so that several soldiers were knocked down by machine guns just before they had time to aim!
Finally, the roar of the engine and the squeaking of the tracks on the ground were getting closer and closer. The first tank drove up the slope of the collapsed city wall, followed by the second and the third!And behind them, more and more little devils gathered!
"Grenade!"

With a roar, Li Hexian threw two grenades on the heads of the little devils behind the tank.

Almost at the same time as the grenade exploded, the leading tank also started to fire. Although this shot did not hit everyone because of the angle, it caused the dilapidated city wall above their heads to shatter. Back off for now.

At this time, a soldier who had just added last night took off his armed belt, then pulled a jade pendant from his neck and threw it to Li Hexian, "Dazhou Wanyuan Zhang Zhong! Tell my mother, I didn't give it to her." Shame!"

Before the words fell, the soldier had already taken off his padded jacket, wrapped the four grenades around his body, held them in his arms, and rushed out!

"Little devil! I call you immortal!" Amidst the curse of abandoning life and death, a violent explosion sounded from outside the collapsed hole!
However, before everyone came back to their senses, the bombed tank was pushed into the gap by another tank behind it!
Without any hesitation at all, another soldier who had already taken off his cotton padded jacket rushed up wrapped in a grenade, but before he ran to the side of the first tank that was still burning, the little devil who rushed up after the tank had already been shot. his chest!

"Hit me!" Li Hexian roared, raised his gun and shot the little devil to death!

However, almost at the same time that everyone fought back, the wreckage of the first tank had been pushed down the ramp, and after the second tank rushed in, it fired a shell at everyone!
With a loud rumbling sound, the shell exploded around several soldiers, and everyone affected by the explosion that was close at hand only felt their ears buzzing.

It was also at this time that the soldier who was shot in the chest and didn't even leave his name climbed to the side of the second tank with difficulty, grabbed the still-rotating track with his arms, and then he will Yan's cotton coat shivered and stuffed into the gap between the tracks.

In a trance, Wei Ran seemed to see the soldier showing a satisfied smile through the smoke and dust.But then, in an explosion, that smile disappeared, and the tank also lost its movement
"Hand grenade! Blow it up for me!"

Li Hexian stood up unsteadily, walked towards the direction of the wreckage of the first tank with the belly box in one hand, pulled out the grenade at his waist with the other hand, unscrewed the cover, grabbed the fire wire with his teeth and yanked it hard, and swung it round. The arm was thrown out.

Behind him, Wei Ran and others, including Li Suian, who was already dumbfounded, all imitated the former, holding a gun in one hand, and pulling out a grenade in the other and throwing it out.

However, even if they blocked the devils and tanks behind them from the gap, they couldn't attack the enemies further away because the tanks behind them kept firing.

And the grenades thrown from outside from time to time also caused them heavy losses, and finally had to retreat to the gate of the inner city again, watching helplessly as the opponent stepped on the tank and climbed up the collapsed city wall!

Fortunately, the defenders on the city wall were still there. After a round of grenade explosions, there were dense pistol shots and shouts of killing on the city wall.At the same time, groups of little devils rushed out from behind the wreckage of the two tanks.

For a while, the grenades from both sides were coming and going, and the comrades around Wei Ran and the bullets in the belly box in his hand were getting less and less.

Finally, when the bullets and grenades were all exhausted, when the second wave of little devils rushed out, Wei Ran found that only the Li family brothers and a dozen or so soldiers who hadn't gotten to know him were left beside him.

"Bayonet!" Li Hexian roared, bent down and picked up the three-eighth cap that he had just dropped.

The brutal stabbing started again. With yesterday's experience, Li Suian stood behind his cousin and Wei Ran at the very beginning, and even this kid deliberately left a magazine full of bullets!

It was also this magazine that allowed the crowd, who had no advantage in numbers at all, to temporarily gain the upper hand.

However, as Li Suian's pistol also ran out of the last bullet and had to pick up an old slide, casualties finally enveloped them again.

Seeing another soldier fall, Wei Ran slammed the [-] cover in his hand to smash the bayonet that was stabbing from the opposite side, and at the same time let go, took out the pistol from the cowhide notebook and pulled the trigger.

Before the opponent was shot and fell down, Wei Ran grabbed the opponent's neck with his right hand as a shield, and at the same time pulled the trigger on several little devils around him!

"Wei Ran! Behind the chariot!"

Li Hexian let out a loud roar, and Wei Ran also turned his gun in a very quick reaction, hitting the face of the little devil who had put his machine gun on the wreckage of the tank.

"How many bullets are there?" Li Hexian asked after stabbing the little devil who was fighting with him to death.

"Three" Wei Ran put away the pistol, pushed the body forward, and picked up the rifle he had just dropped.

"Stay here"

Li Hexian hadn't finished speaking, and immediately met a burly little devil, but he didn't want to be pierced through the thigh by the opponent in a few strokes!
Seeing this, Wei Ran didn't have time to think about it, took out his gun again, and pulled the trigger continuously, eliminating his and Li Hexian's respective enemies.

"Get out of the way!" Li Suian yelled, pointed his gun at the gap in the city wall, and pulled the trigger on a kid who had already touched the machine gun.

However, the flustered shot missed the opponent at all, and the latter had already pulled the trigger of the machine gun!
Amidst the piercing gunshots, Wei Ran, who was about to pull Li Hexian up, felt a sharp pain, and then watched helplessly as his right hand snapped in two from below the elbow!
"Fuck!"

Wei Ran ducked back subconsciously, and then there were dense gunshots on the city wall above his head.

For a moment, the little devils who almost surrounded them were shot one after another, and the machine gunner at the gap in the city wall also fell to the ground, and then, one after another, grenades were thrown near the gap and exploded!

"Withdraw! Withdraw first!" A middle-aged soldier shouted at the top of the city wall.

Everyone under the city wall was stunned for a moment, and immediately helped the wounded and ran behind the bunker of the inner city gate.

"Suian, find... Find a rope and help me tie it up."

Wei Ran, who was trembling in pain, finished speaking with a pale face, and tremblingly took out a shot of morphine from his pocket and stuck it near the wound.

But although the morphine can relieve the pain, it can't stop the bleeding at all.Li Suian looked around in a panic, and then hurriedly untied the shoulder strap of the armed belt, and with the help of another soldier, he tied Wei Ran's right elbow to death.

It wasn't until the wound gradually stopped bleeding, and at the same time that the morphine started to take effect, that Wei Ran noticed that Li Hexian was holding his stomach at this time, and his face was worse than his own, and the padded jacket on his body had also been covered with blood. Dyed dark red!

Struggling to move to Li Hexian's side, Wei Ran tore open the other's padded jacket with difficulty, and then saw the wound on the abdomen stabbed by the bayonet!

Without hesitation at all, Wei Ran took out the last morphine from his pocket and stuck it on Li Hexian's body.But at the same time, he also knew that the only effect of this morphine was to make him feel better, but it could not save his life at all!
"Sui'an"

Li Hexian beckoned, and after the flustered Li Suian came up, he pulled out the belly box from his waist and handed it over, "Go to the Chengbeiguan position, find Han. Han platoon leader, and ask him to come to support him. He knows me. gun."

"Third brother!" Li Suian took the pistol with tears in his voice, but didn't move it at all.

"Go!" Li Hexian said weakly, "The sooner the reinforcements arrive, the more people will survive."

"You wait for me to come back!" Li Suian put the pistol in his arms, and ran desperately towards Beiguan along the broken street.

Li Hexian looked at the rest of the soldiers around him, took a breath and continued, "There should still be some grenades in the bunker, leave two for me, you guys go to the city wall to help! Go!"

The few remaining soldiers glanced at each other, silently took out a box of grenades from the bunker and placed them beside Li Hexian, then saluted Li Hexian who was leaning against Wei Ran, and picked up the remaining Grenade, running rushed up the tower.

"How did you change your tricks?" Li Hexian tremblingly took out two blood-stained cigarettes, distributed one to Wei Ran, and asked the biggest doubt in the past two days.

Wei Ran sighed when he heard the words, leaned forward and lit a cigarette in his mouth on the flame not far away. After hesitating for a moment, a black matte pistol appeared in his left hand.

"I've never seen this gun before," Li Hexian said intermittently.

"A pistol more than eighty years later," Wei Ran replied truthfully.

"Eighty years later?" Li Hexian was not convinced at first, but after a moment of silence, he asked abruptly, "Did we win?"

"Won"

Wei Ran put away his pistol, leaned his back against the bunker, looked up at the sky shrouded in gunpowder smoke, "It's a complete victory."

"Did it go out completely? The three provinces in the east took it back?"

"It's completely rushed back to their small island, and the three provinces in the Northeast have also taken it back." Wei Ran said in a tone as flat as possible, "No one can bully us anymore."

"Can the common people eat enough and wear warm clothes?"

"can!"

Wei Ran replied affirmatively, "Clothes casually, white noodles, steamed buns, rice, and meat three times a day are fine. There are also several god-like figures in our country. They let everyone not be hungry, don't worry sick, and"

Listening to Wei Ran's faster and faster description, Li Hexian looked down at his blood-stained, shriveled stomach and ribs protruding through the skin, and muttered contentedly, "That's great."

"Squad Leader Li, do you have any wish?"

Wei Ran's question woke up Li Hexian, who had almost closed his eyes. He flicked away the cigarette in his hand, blocked the wooden box containing the grenade with his body, and pointed at a group of little devils walking by with his chin. "See that team of little devils?"

"I see," Wei Ran gritted his teeth and replied.

Li Hexian smiled, "The one who takes the lead is a captain. You can do a trick for him."

"Any more?"

"and also."

Li Hexian, who was getting more and more unresponsive, thought about it, and said in a crying voice, "I want to eat glutinous rice balls. I want to eat glutinous rice balls cooked by Miss Zhou's family. There are sweet-scented osmanthus flowers sprinkled on top. They are really delicious."

Wei Ran was stunned for a moment, then struggled to stand up and said, "Squad Leader Li, take care, I'll do a trick for the short bastard opposite!"

"I'm watching, I'm watching." While speaking, Li Hexian tried his best to take out a grenade from the ammunition box hidden behind him and stuff it into his cuff.

Wei Ran bent down to pick up a large knife, and walked towards the group of little devils who rushed in step by step.With his remaining left hand, he raised the large knife in his hand, and raised his chin towards the devil with a command knife on his waist, "Sun thief! Come here and make gestures!"

Maybe it was this blatant provocation, or maybe it was the remaining half of Wei Ran's right arm. The devil raised his hand to stop the soldiers around him, drew out the command knife from his waist, and after bending slightly, Ziwa rushed forward screaming. To Wei Ran with a free and easy smile on his face.

Seeing that the distance between the two sides was only four or five meters, Wei Ran suddenly let go of the big knife in his hand, and at the same time a black pistol appeared in his hand!

"boom!"

After a clear gunshot, a scorched bullet hole appeared between the eyebrows of the captain holding the command knife, and the command knife in his hand also slammed into the densely packed corpses at the same time Wei Ran retracted the pistol into the cowhide notebook. on the cobblestone road.

"Pfft!"

A warm corpse fell straight in front of Wei Ran, and behind him, Li Hexian didn't miss it any more, and while those little devils shot at Wei Ran, he simply pulled the hand that was hidden in his cuff. The trigger for that grenade.

Wei Ran, who fell on his back, listened to the deafening explosion in his ears, felt the shock wave of the explosion engulfing him from the ground, and closed his eyes contentedly.

　About Chuanjun

　　I know that my writing is clumsy and I have little knowledge. When I wrote this story, I was afraid that the mistakes, inappropriate language and words would cause any disrespect or blasphemy to the Sichuan army.If there is anything wrong with the characters in the story, please forgive me and correct me. I am extremely ashamed and grateful.

　　I want to tell the story of the Sichuan Army to more people, and I want to comfort them and more ancestors at that time on National Day, telling them that all their efforts were not in vain, and I hope this prosperous world will be as they wished.

　　
　
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