This is how the common people are. After being oppressed by foreign enemies, they are willing to spare their enthusiasm and feelings towards any army that dares to fight against the enemy!

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Chapter 12 Song Zheyuan

I don’t know how I ran to Peking, and I should even say that I don’t know when I ran to Peking.

Along the way, I only knew to follow other people, without looking back or pause for a moment. But I knew that the little Japanese was getting closer and closer to us, which could be heard from the increasingly dense gunfire behind me. From time to time, a few soldiers beside me fell to the ground without saying a word and never got up again.

No one dared to help them, and no one dared to stop, because everyone knows what it would mean if it only takes a few seconds to stop!

Some people may say that we should not give up our comrades, we should live and die together with them...

However, this is a living battlefield, a bloody battlefield!

The soldiers were not timid. The battle in Nanyuan was enough to prove that their courage was not lost half the point than the cruel little Japanese. The soldiers were not cold-blooded. If they left behind, they could exchange their comrades' lives, I think they would do this without hesitation!

But can they? The answer is obvious, the more people left at this time, it will only cause more unnecessary casualties.

Of course, I have to admit that I was not running forward because of the above excuses. What I thought at that time was actually very simple, that was to save my life and not fall into the hands of the little Japanese... As for saving comrades and saving useful bodies to settle accounts with the little Japanese in the future, it is all fucking nonsense! Who would have to care about so many things at that time? Others might... Just like the soldiers under Tong Lingge refused to leave him until their death, but that would never be me!

To put it bluntly, at this time I just regretted that my parents didn’t give birth to a pair of legs... Sometimes I think again, it would be great if I brought a motorcycle from Hyundai. It would be fine if I didn’t have a motorcycle or an electric car!

But this is just a thought. For my own life, I still have to use my strength to run forward... Until someone cheered beside me, and then a few people came up to deliver water and melons. Some people ran with me, and while running, they handed me a big bowl to me, saying, "Little brother, drink a bowl of sour plum soup to rest..."

I couldn't help but "relief" in my heart. Who would have the time to drink plum soup? I thought my life was almost the same! But then I thought... it wasn't right! The little Japanese was chasing me, and who would have time to prepare sour plum soup for me?

When I turned my head and saw that there were ordinary people wearing coarse cloth clothes everywhere. I stopped and turned around. An old-fashioned city gate stood behind me. There were groups of ordinary people around my comrades serving tea and water, and I was very busy... It turned out that I was chased by the Japanese and ran wildly, and I didn't know when I ran into the Beiping City!

Finally arrived, I relaxed in one breath and my legs became weak and I collapsed on the ground...

"Little brother!"

"Comrade!"

...

Several female students rushed up, wiped my sweat and rubbed my legs as if they were treating their own master... So I was thinking, if I fainted at this time, I wonder if they would give me artificial respiration...

"Thank you for your hard work, comrade!" One of the female college students wearing a white towel and a hairpin handed me a bowl of water: "You're thirsty! Come on... drink a bowl of water first!"

After she said this, I realized that I was so thirsty that I was so thirsty. I grabbed the bowl without saying anything and drank it all in one go, and then grabbed another bowl with panting... When I grabbed the third bowl, the female student hurriedly stopped me and said, "Comrade, you'd better take a break and drink it again. Look at you... I'm so angry!"

"Here..." I asked panting: "Is this...Pei Ping?"

"It's Peiping!" The female student nodded: "You are safe!"

Safety? I couldn't help but smile bitterly in my heart. I knew history very well. Arriving in Peking does not mean safety, because Song Zheyuan would soon give up defense and withdraw the 29th Army.

However, the female student in front of her certainly didn't know this. She still looked at me excitedly and said, "Comrade! You have fought so well this battle, we have all seen it!"

"Yes!" The other female students also followed and said, "The Japanese were thrown away their armor with fire. At least there were Japanese who burned tens of thousands of them to death!"

"This battle can help us Chinese!"

"When the Japanese plane came to bomb, we were worried that you would not be able to return to the city! I didn't expect you to be so smart that you knew that you had to soak the quilt into the fire. This time the Japanese were in vain!"

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"Long live the Chinese people!"

"Long live the twenty-ninth army!"

"Down with Japanese imperialism!"

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I don’t know who started it, but a slogan that passed by tightly for a while quickly rang out of the city gate. The students and the people in Peking shouted while holding up the flags with the blue sky and white sun in their hands. The cheers made the sound of guns and cannons outside the city look inferior.

This is how the common people are. After being oppressed by foreign enemies, they are willing to spare their enthusiasm and feelings towards any army that dares to fight against the enemy!

However, I felt guilty for the simple reason, because I knew that I, including my comrades and even the entire 29th Army, could not protect them. When they woke up overnight... they would find that the 29th Army had left Peking, and the one who owned this old city would be the Japanese army...

"Get together!" At this time, with a command, the soldiers and I hurriedly stood up from the ground and lined up. The people and students around us also became quiet.

Several officers rushed in from the crowd. One of the officers in charge was covered with bloodshot eyes, and his two beards looked very messy, but the few stars on the seal showed that his official rank seemed to be quite large.

The officer bearded came forward and hurriedly saluted us and asked, "Which part are you from?"

"Report to the commander!" Company Commander Xu hurried forward and replied: "We are from the military training regiment, and I am Xu Changqing, the company commander of the 1st Battalion, the 2nd Company!"

"Well! It turns out it's from the military training regiment!" A look of surprise flashed in the eyes of the officer Hu, and then nodded and asked, "Where is your regiment commander? Where is the deputy military commander?"

Warriors, you look at me and I look at you and you don’t know how to answer. They all ran to Beiping for life. Who would have noticed where the commander was?

"Maybe..." Company Commander Xu said hesitantly: "The deputy military officer may be still behind!"

"Report to the sir!" I walked up and replied, "He...he has already died!"

"What?" Everyone, including the fellow villagers outside the formation, gave me shocked eyes.

"You..." The bearded officer changed his face, grabbed my collar viciously, and then asked word by word: "Are you sure the deputy guard has died? What did you see with your own eyes?"

"Report to the sir!" I nodded and replied, "It was indeed what I saw with my own eyes that the deputy soldier was given to him by the Japanese on the way to retreat..."

The face of the officer with the beard changed again and again, and then sighed to the sky: "Brother Jie, I was the one who harmed you!"

"Military throne!" An officer behind him walked up to say, "It is inevitable that he will die and suffer on the battlefield. Please mourn and take care of yourself to cope with the current situation in Peking..."

Only then did I realize that the officer in front of me was Song Zheyuan, the commander of the 29th Army, so I couldn't help but look at him for a few more times. Seeing him, he was only 40 years old, but his face was full of fatigue and his thoughts made him look much older. I think this was also the result of his inner confusion!

I know what he was struggling with. Song Zheyuan was a contradictory person. The root of the contradiction was that he wanted to preserve his strength and occupy a place under his feet to be the mountain king. In fact, Chiang Kai-shek really wanted to use the Japanese to eliminate unobedient miscellaneous troops like Song Zheyuan. So in order not to "get into the trap" and to have capital to fight against the central government in the future, Song Zheyuan, a former anti-Japanese general, would make mistakes again and again, and end up being ruined...

"Broken my left arm!" Song Zheyuan was stunned for a while before shouting in regret: "Little Japanese, this hatred is irreconcilable, and we will revenge it in the future!"

As he said that, he stomped his feet hard and turned around and left.

Looking at Song Zheyuan's back, I shook my head helplessly: He would no longer have a chance to take revenge, because even at this time, he thought that Japan just wanted to seek some benefits like before and would not launch a comprehensive war of aggression against China, so he still had fantasies about a peaceful solution. It was this fantasy that made him make a series of incredible strategic decisions, which finally made him lose his morale and the people. When he really wanted to counterattack, the twenty-ninth army had no spirit of fighting and killing before...

"Stand at the sight! Rest at the sight! Stand at the sight, and start to the left... and walk..."

One of the officers stayed and issued a series of commands to us, and then took us to the city of Beiping. Along the way, the people kept cheering us, and even several female college students offered kisses. This scared the soldiers who had walked down from the battlefield. They looked at these enthusiastic female college students with a look of shyness and expectation in their eyes...

I don’t know where I am going or what I am going to do. These things seem to be something that I, a soldier, can only know. I only know that what is waiting for me in front will not be a bright future, and the road ahead will not be smooth all the way...
Chapter completed!