There are messy pine trees everywhere in the forest. Under the trees, there are all kinds of low grasses and bushes taller than a person. Inside the grass and bushes are strange-shaped stones. Everyone walks in a straight line to the place where the smoke rises. Walking, not far away, there is a high slope in front of you blocking the way.

Yu Chuan pointed at the high slope and said with a smile: "It has already blocked the thick smoke. If it wasn't for the radio station, we wouldn't be able to find the place where the thick smoke is. Let's climb up this high slope."

The high slope in front of everyone was not steep, and there were various raised stones on it. Everyone could climb up by grabbing them. They climbed up to the top of the slope without much effort. Yu Chuan smiled to everyone when he reached the top of the slope. : "The difficulty of this slope is not as high as our rock climbing training."

Everyone laughed when they heard Yu Chuan's words. At this time, a soldier pointed to the sky in the distance and said, "The battalion commander is not good. Look, the smoke column is gone."

Yu Chuan glanced in the direction of the original smoke column, and saw only a thin layer of smoke in the clear sky, but the rising smoke column had long since disappeared. Yu Chuan smiled and said, "I've thought of this a long time ago." Said to his subordinates: "Help me pick up the position observation post."

The line was quickly connected, and Yu Chuan said: "Observation post, please report the location of the smoke column for us."

The observation post said: "It is [-] kilometers away from my position, and the bearing is [-] degrees east of north."

Yu Chuan put down the microphone and earphones, and said to everyone: "It's [-] kilometers away from our position, and the bearing is [-] degrees east of north." Then he pointed to the distance with his hand and said, "It's over there. Don't run into the Japanese army."

The crowd walked towards the direction Yu Chuan was pointing at, and a soldier on the road said, "Battalion Commander, I don't think the place where the smoke column rises is close to the Japanese army's position. Why did they come so far away to burn something?"

Yu Chuan asked back, "What do you think needs to be burned?"

The soldier said: "We have been fighting with the Japanese army for so long, and we all know that the Japanese army has the habit of burning corpses. They will take off the clothes of the dead Japanese soldiers, clean them, and then burn the corpses on the fire. Take the ashes back, do you think the Japanese army is burning the dead bodies?"

Yu Chuan laughed and said, "How could it be burning corpses? We haven't fought the Japanese army recently, how could they have dead corpses? Besides, the Japanese army has a special place to dispose of dead corpses, so how could they burn them in the wild? Let's not guess here Now, hurry up and find the place where the smoke is rising, and you will understand when you find it.”

After walking for a while, a soldier said to Yu Chuan: "Battle Commander, this place is about [-] kilometers away from our position."

Yu Chuan said, "Okay, let's spread out and look for burnt marks around here."

Everyone agreed to come down and search around in the woods. The woods in this area are relatively sparse, and there are many open places. Yu Chuan was looking at the ground, looking for the black ash left by the flames. With an exclamation, Yu Chuan recognized that it was the voice of his soldiers, and hurriedly said to the soldiers around him, "Let's go and have a look."

Everyone immediately ran to the place where the sound came from, only to see a soldier running back in a panic, Yu Chuan stopped the soldier and asked, "What happened?"

The soldier pointed behind himself with his hand and said, "Over there is the place where things are burned."

Yu Chuan asked, "Then why are you panicking?"

The soldier said: "The place where the things were burned is a canyon. I didn't notice it at the beginning, so I was shocked." Yu Chuan nodded, pointed behind the soldier, and said, "Come on, let's go and see .” After finishing speaking, he rushed to the back of the soldier first, followed by the others, and soon saw a canyon appearing in front of him.

The bottom of this canyon is full of shelves made of wood. Yu Chuan counted them, and there are more than 30. Every shelf is covered with black ash. They said: "Look around, there must be a way down."

The two soldiers nodded, turned around and left, and said in a hurry: "Battle Commander, there is a way down here." Yu Chuan walked closer and took a look, only to see a small road leading directly to the bottom of the canyon. On the side of the road, there is green grass, which is obviously stepped on by people.

Yu Chuan thought to himself: "It seems that the Japanese army has been burning things here for a long time, and the grass has been trampled out." Yu Chuan pointed down and said, "Leave half of the people on the top to guard, and the rest follow me down."

After Yu Chuan finished speaking, the crowd divided into two groups. Yu Chuan led one of the group down the path to the canyon. Yu Chuan came to a wooden shelf, only to find that the wooden shelf was half the height of a person, and the bottom was empty. Looking under the shelf, I saw that it was covered with black and white ashes, and a soldier asked: "Commander, what do you think is burning?"

Yu Chuan frowned and shook his head lightly. At this moment, a gust of wind blew towards Yu Chuan, and Yu Chuan felt a gust of dust blowing towards his face. He closed his eyes and turned his head hastily. At this moment, he heard the soldiers beside him say: " Battalion Commander, there seems to be something under the ashes?"

Yu Chuan hurriedly turned his head, and sure enough, he saw a small piece protruding from the pile of ashes, like a small stone. Yu Chuan took out a bayonet from his waist, and flicked it lightly in the pile of ashes, a gray thing came out. Yu Chuan put the small gray piece on the bayonet, held it up to his eyes and stared at it intently.

The soldier on the side asked: "Battle Commander, what is this thing?"

Yu Chuan didn't answer directly, but put the bayonet under his nose, sniffed the small gray piece lightly, then threw the small piece back into the ashes, and whispered, "It's a bone."

The soldier smiled and said, "It turns out that the little devil is eating barbecue here."

Yu Chuan smiled helplessly, and said, "That bone is a human bone."

The surrounding soldiers took a step back when they heard this, Yu Chuan said: "It seems that these racks are used to burn people, and the ashes under the racks should be ashes."

A soldier asked in surprise: "If it's the ashes, why didn't the Japanese army take it away? Didn't the Japanese army respect the corpses of their fallen comrades the most?"

Yu Chuan said: "I'm also puzzled. If you want to say that among the ashes, the black ones are charcoal ashes and the white ashes are the ashes. The Japanese army should take away the white ashes! But why didn't they take away? Something must have happened. Let the Japanese army not take away the ashes."

The soldiers looked at each other in blank dismay, and said one after another: "Is there anything that can prevent people from taking away the ashes?"

Yu Chuan shook his head and said, "Everyone, don't think about it so much. You should think about why the Japanese army killed so many people, and why they didn't dispose of the corpses in their own camps."

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