In some ways, the Japanese invasion gradually awakened the huge Chinese army from its almost numb state, allowing them to gradually realize the responsibility and honor of being a soldier, and unite them again into an invincible force!

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Chapter 33 The Injured (Part 2)

There were eleven wounded people in total, and we had thirty-five people including me, so that almost two people were responsible for one wounded person.

At the beginning, we inexperienced recruits didn't know what to do. We can't carry the wounded soldiers with one head and one foot! In this way, even if we can stand the wounded soldiers, we can't stand it, right? Besides, some of the wounded soldiers were not allowed to carry them! In the end, the old squad leader thought of a solution. He taught us to use local materials to tie branches and strips into stretchers, and easily carried the wounded soldiers on the stretcher.

At first I didn’t think it was anything to lift it, but I felt a little unbearable before I even walked a long way, especially the mountain roads. In some places, even one person had to use his hands and feet to get up, let alone those of us carrying stretchers. Fortunately, the people helped us carry them together, which made us barely follow the troops.

"Yoho! Isn't this platoon leader Fang?" Just as I was struggling to carry a wounded person up the steep slope, a disdainful laugh came from behind.

When I looked back, it was the brigade commander Wang Xiding with a beard. Their 39th Brigade insisted on walking behind the military training regiment because he thought he was a regular army that had been through a long battle formation. Now they followed as soon as I fell behind.

Wang Xiding glanced at the wounded we were carrying and said, "I said to Platoon Commander Fang, why are you carrying these wounded people? Even if they are cured, they can't fight, right? Besides, according to your way of walking, when will you reach Baoding?"

The officers of the National Army have a very bad attitude towards the soldiers under their command. I have heard of this, but I didn’t expect that Wang Xiding would be so ignorant of the wounded soldiers and persuade me to throw the wounded away in front of them...

Looking at the wounded on the stretcher, they all gritted their teeth and turned pale with anger, and they almost cursed.

"No need for Brigade Commander Wang to worry!" I pushed the stretcher up the steep wall and replied: "If we leave the wounded now, what if we are injured next time? Brigade Commander Wang will naturally have someone to wait. We soldiers... will not have that blessing!"

"You!" Brigade Commander Wang was stunned by my words, and his two beards were so angry that he was tilted. He wanted to say something but couldn't find any rebuttal, so he couldn't help but snorted: "If you fall behind and let the Japanese catch up, don't blame me for not reminding you!"

As he said that, he led a few adjutants to speed up and walked forward.

"Oh!" Looking at Wang Xiding's back, a wounded soldier on the stretcher couldn't help but sigh.

"What's wrong?" Xiaoting asked when she thought he was feeling uncomfortable.

The wounded soldier shook his head and stopped talking. After a while, he said to me: "Brother, I am a soldier from the 39th Brigade. Our brigade commander doesn't care about me anymore. You should put me down!"

"I'm from the 39th Brigade too!" Another wounded soldier continued, saying, "Brother, you'd better let us go, we can't bear it!"

"So what about the 39th Brigade?" I said: "Whether it is from the 39th Brigade or the military training group, aren't they all Chinese? Are they all from the 29th Army? Are they all injured to fight against the little Japanese?"

As soon as I said this, the wounded were speechless.

"Brothers!" After a moment of silence, another wounded soldier spoke: "We will never forget your kindness in this life, but the Japanese are chasing you. If we are implicated and you are caught up, how can we feel good about it!"

"Yes, brothers! Let us go! We appreciate your feelings!"

When the wounded soldier said this, I noticed that several soldiers were looking back at me, including the old squad leader and Li Wenxi...

"Why do you say so much?" Before I could speak, Chen Dali said carelessly: "Didn't the platoon leader say it clearly just now? No matter what the officials are, there are people who care about them. The only ones who serve in the army are the only ones who are on the army are? Let's help you today, and if we are injured tomorrow, there will be others to help us!"

"That's it!" Another soldier said: "If everyone leaves the wounded soldiers behind, who dares to fight in the future? Everyone is afraid of death and everyone is afraid of injury. It's okay if they die, but if they close their eyes, nothing will be gone. If they are injured, they will be left alone... Then everyone will run away from their lives when they fight!"

"Yes! I will take you with me no matter what!"

"But you..." The wounded soldier still had some concerns: "Isn't everyone dead together?"

"Brother! Let's help you lift it!" Before the wounded soldiers finished speaking, a few soldiers from the 39th Brigade came up and snatched the stretcher from us.

Then several soldiers came up to me, and soon more and more soldiers were replaced by me and my soldiers in a short while.

"Don't worry!" The soldiers of the 39th Brigade said to us while carrying a stretcher: "None of you will leave behind the wounded men of our 39th Brigade, let alone the wounded men of our 39th Brigade. Just leave them to us!"

Seeing this, my heart couldn't help but feel that my shoulders suddenly became much lighter.

This may be what I hope to see! I don’t know much about the troops of this era, but I know that the soldiers in the warlords actually didn’t have much sense of honor or pride.

First of all, they fought against their own people in the warlord melee, and there was no way to defend their country and glorify their ancestors; secondly, most of them joined the army because of life, and some were even forced to join the army by arrested men. The reason why they entered the battlefield was very simple, that was for military pay and for rewards.

This is why this situation often appears in TV and movies: the National Army officer waved his pistol and shouted, "Brothers, come on me! Get someone's head to enjoy fifty!", and his subordinates rushed up with rifles...

This phenomenon is real in this era. Perhaps officers from military academy will have some ambitions and ideals, but for most soldiers, it is just for life and just to make a living. Such soldiers will not have the sense of honor and pride to defend their country when fighting, and naturally they will not have much combat effectiveness!

The long-term warlord melee made these soldiers in a state of almost numbness, so when the Japanese attacked in, they were surprised to find that although China had millions of troops, they could enter a no-man...

Of course, some soldiers showed extraordinary combat effectiveness in front of the Japanese army, such as the military training group I was in and the soldiers of the 29th Army, but it was obvious that this was because they generally held hatred for the Japanese army.

So in some ways, the Japanese invasion gradually awakened the huge Chinese army from its almost numb state, allowing them to gradually realize the responsibility and honor of being a soldier, and unite them again into an invincible force!

"Sir!" Xiaoting suddenly shouted beside us: "What are you thinking?"

"Well, nothing!" I casually said.

"Sir, I really want to thank you this time!" Xiaoting looked at the wounded and said, "If it weren't for you, they would probably have..."

I shook my head and replied, "It should be me who said thank you! They are my comrades-in-arms, and you have nothing to do with them..."

"Why is it okay?" Xiaoting interrupted me: "You fight the Japanese for us! It's also the right thing for us to do this!"

I didn't plan to fight with this girl anymore, so I changed the topic: "By the way, what are your plans in the future?"

"What else can I plan!" Xiaoting said secretly: "I can't go back to my family now and I have no other relatives, so I can only follow the troops! Didn't you say we can stay in the troops to take care of the wounded?"

"Yeah!" I responded without saying a word. I did think so at that time, but now when I think about it, I feel that it would be too dangerous to let her follow the troops.

"You won't want us anymore!" Xiaoting looked at me nervously: "You...you promised my father...will take care of me!"

"How could this happen?" I couldn't help but laugh. I don't know whether this little girl is real or fake. Now is the time when we fight with the little Japanese. This army is still afraid that they will not be able to find people to join the army. Especially they are still medical students, and they are even more talented in the army.

"That's good!" Xiaoting breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "I just promised to guarantee my classmate, saying that I know you, and I promise you will keep us!"

I can only be speechless. These students are really simple. At this time, they still think that they need to go through relationships to stay in the army. What’s even more ridiculous is that their so-called relationship is me... a small platoon leader!

"By the way, sir!" Then Xiaoting lowered her voice and said, "I...I don't know your name yet! When the classmate asks me later...I don't know your name yet..."

"My name is direction! Direction, direction!" I have always introduced my name to others like this, and now I blurted out.

Xiaoting laughed out loud with a "puff!": "It's all like tongue twisters, and it's even more confused when I say it! Then I'll tell my classmates this good news..."

As I said that, I couldn't wait to run towards the female students who were still taking care of the wounded. Soon the female students all showed joy and cheered, and it was neither laughing nor laughing when I cried.

Do they really know what is waiting for them in front?

I don’t know the answer, I only know that there is no end to the collapse of the nest. War has forced them to become part of us.
Chapter completed!