Forty-six
If it weren't for the battlefield, if there weren't twenty or so soldiers from both sides gathered around him due to his injuries, guarding and protecting him with their lives, Yan Wei would have liked to tightly hug Fang Lan and turn into stone together!
The battlefield can evoke emotions, passion, and a release of unbearable feelings! But everything must be in the most concise form of frugality!
For a battlefield where bullets are raining and shrapnel is flying everywhere, this less-than-one-minute farewell is already being paid for with the lives of dozens of people!
Yan Wei is a man who, in this war of defense, uses the number of Japanese heads to defend his reputation as an excellent commander, that iron quality and dignity! This kind of person can have feelings and intentions, but absolutely cannot have long-term brain cell power outage!
Yan Wei pulled his lips away from those cherry lips that he was willing to kiss for a lifetime. The separation was so resolute and decisive! It seemed as if in this short time of less than one minute, he had already made an appointment with Fang Lan in another space for their next life!
There was no more time to take a look at Zhang Liao, who was already covered in blood and flesh about 4 or 5 meters away. This good subordinate, this good brother, used his own life to complete an officer's order to him in the final moment! With "emotion" and "righteousness", the two words most commonly used in human history to express emotion and loyalty, he completed a dying comrade, a good friend's entrustment.
Every one of our Chinese sons and daughters who sacrificed their lives in the war to defend their country in the last century will have their spirits live on forever, shining brightly for all eternity!
"Concentrate firepower and break through to the north at all costs!" Yan Wei gave the combat order to all the soldiers around him, then turned to a young lieutenant named Xian Yang who was within his line of sight: "You are in charge of blowing up the outer barbed wire fence of the airport!"
With the M24 hand grenade's TNT explosive destructive power, it is easy to blast open a path towards "life". However, if one truly wants to step onto the path of life, they must face the over two hundred Japanese soldiers who have been lying in wait with bared teeth outside the airport perimeter, ready to pounce at any moment!
For Yan Wei's and Wu Hanhuai's troops at this moment, the military establishment has long been severely damaged, ammunition and weapons are almost exhausted! The geographical location is extremely unfavorable! This breakout is simply no different from charging into the tiger's mouth!
The only thing that remains unchanged is the high-spirited passion of every soldier to defend his home and country! The courage of every soldier facing death has not diminished! The determination of every soldier to unite as one and fight to the death against Japan has not wavered!
The blood has not cooled yet!
But war is not a play! Courage belongs to courage, determination belongs to determination. The outcome of a battle depends on many things, not just these! Otherwise, a group of excited sheep could really defeat a group of depressed lions!
War is fair, and the one who speaks is strength! Without strength, we must make articles on tactics, environment, geography, and psychology! But unfortunately, it's obvious that at this moment, these things are simply penniless for Yan Wei and his men!
Watching his own soldiers being instantly engulfed by the Japanese army's firepower, which was ambushing outside the airport fence, Yan Wei's heart was like a knife twist! But at this moment, there is no good strategy left! Going forward means death, retreating means death, and staying in place also means it's hard to escape death!
Yan Wei understood that with their current ammunition and firepower, as well as the unfavorable terrain, tonight would be his final stand.
Where the yellow earth does not bury people, where the clear wind does not blow on one's face. This place is not bad either, with mountains and water, a warm and pleasant climate, it's much better than dying outside the pass! Fortunately, the heavy responsibility of the party and country has been fulfilled, and I have lived up to my identity as a Party and National Army officer, lived up to the Chairman, lived up to this country, and lived up to the nation!
What's more, there's Fang Lan. Can't this mission be a chance encounter with such an unforgettable person? It's okay, Fang Lan must be begging the ferryman to slow down so she can take one last look at herself! If it's really not possible, then so be it. If I were to pass on now, as long as my legs are fast enough, maybe I could even catch up with my loved one before reaching the Naihe Bridge!
Silent to the point of being in front of you and sharing a cup of water with you
Deep meaning flows out from the heart, intoxicating.
Whether it's fate or misfortune, don't mention butterfly dreams
Return you this life this world this life past life
A pair of mandarin ducks fly over the ages past and gone.
This old man named Huang Zansen was really talented! Although the person is no longer there, this poem can still be passed down for hundreds of years to explain to future generations what love is.
In life we cannot be like two birds flying together, but in death I wish to become entwined branches.
Yan Wei couldn't help but laugh secretly at this moment, thinking: "I think of the distant Tang Bai Gong Yi, when he wrote 'The Song of Everlasting Sorrow' back then, it was just a substitute for someone else's love to lament and sorrow, how could he have had my Yan Wei's current kind of desolation!"
When people face death, they often burst out with a final roar and make a last-ditch effort! But when facing despair, they often collapse on that last nerve line!
Yan Wei hasn't collapsed yet! Maybe someone like him was born for the battlefield! Maybe he was born not knowing what collapse means! It's just... it's just that he misses Fang Lan too much!
Just a few minutes ago, he was still full of life and vowed to be with his loved one till the end! But just a few minutes later, he really died! He's gone, forever departed to another world! Not going out to buy groceries.
Do you know what it means to be separated forever? Have you ever experienced it? Or have you ever loved someone so much that you would give up your life for them? Has there been a woman in your life who was willing to give up all hope of survival just to be with you? Have you ever been truly loved?
If you have experienced the joys and sorrows of life! If you have been baptized by great love! If you unfortunately lost all this! Not a collapse of the kind of profane love that breaks up! But, but forever lost a lifelong comforting love, a loved one! You will understand Yan Wei's current thoughts.
Yan Wei was also tired, thirteen days of walking had really taken its toll! Or you could say that for half his life, he had been walking and was now exhausted!
What is a man? First of all, he must be an individual! As a person, he cannot always be rushing forward with his head down on the road of life! He needs to stop and sit down to rest his feet, take a sip of water, and look at the scenery around him, feel this mysterious and colorful life. He needs to go home and talk to his wife and children, finish dinner and sleep with his wife.
All of this, all these basic elements that one person can't or shouldn't lack, were within Yan Wei's grasp! Just a little bit more, just a little bit more and all of this would have belonged to him! It was only a thousand miles away! Only a few hours away! Whether it was tonight, being able to keep the two people's lives and return to Chu Jiang Bang, or in a few days, successfully lying on the big bed at home in Chongqing! All of this originally belonged to Yan Wei, everything looked like it wasn't very far away! Damn heaven! It just didn't work out! Had to come to this! If not, this mission wouldn't have been epic enough, wouldn't have been majestic enough!
Anyway, Yan Wei really didn't want to live at this moment!
Yan Wei's subordinates were all elite soldiers of the National Army, not bandits. Wu Hanhuai's men were also top-notch military intelligence agents! There was no need for loud shouting from superiors; everyone knew that after being hit by a surprise attack, they should immediately find cover and counterattack, first trying to preserve their own lives!
But now the problem is that as things stand, war is ultimately not a myth! There are no troops that don't lose, and there are no generals who don't fail!
No troops, no geography, no ammunition, no heavy weapons, no support, and even the hope that doesn't cost money is gone!
This battle is unwinnable for Yan Wei! Wu Hanhuai is not a commander by nature! Even if Yang Ju himself came, it would only be a matter of time before he could hold on! Sun Wukong might still be able to manage! Tetsuwan Atom can escape now without any problem! But Yan Wei has no way out!
Yan Wei no longer wants to waste his time on such a dull and meaningless act of killing one to break even, killing two to make a profit! He has lost count of the lives he has taken under his command. If this is how life's value is measured, then Yan Wei should have died long ago!
Yan Wei didn't want to die in an instant, whether it was while shooting a gun or fleeing in disarray and being shot through the head by a bullet! He feared that if he died like that, the last memory in his mind wouldn't be Fang Lan. He couldn't understand that if he died like that, whether his soul would still remember everything in this world after leaving his body and wandering away.
What else in the world could make him so reluctant to part with? In fact, he was just afraid of forgetting Fang Lan. He wanted to keep reciting Fang Lan's name silently in his heart when he died, and have everything about Fang Lan deeply imprinted on his mind! After all, who knows if there is a Yellow Spring Road or a Naihe Bridge after going down? Who can be sure that there is an old lady named Meng Po under the bridge serving the soul-confusing soup?
At this moment, Yan Wei is not afraid of death, and even has some expectations! He just fears that after his death, he will not be able to reunite with Fang Lan in another world.
He loves her too much.
No ghostly summons were heard, nor was the eerie guiding fire seen! However, another dense burst of gunfire appeared on the eastern side of the airport's outer perimeter!
The battlefield was too chaotic! The chaos was so intense that it made one's auditory nerve go on strike! But Yan Wei, who had been through many battles, still managed to pick out the sound of a Czech-made ZB26 light machine gun from the chaotic gunfire.
This voice was not unfamiliar to Yan Wei. Their 32nd Legion had been equipped with this kind of machine gun as a regular weapon when they were still the 17th Army of the National Revolutionary Army before the merger and reorganization.
It can also be certain that Japanese military units would not have been equipped with this equipment.
Is it because the pain of losing Fang Lian is too great, to the point where one's soul has already escaped? At this time, at this moment, in this place, how can there be comrades coming to provide support?
But Yan Wei is not a sentimental and sorrowful scholar who sympathizes with heaven and earth! Although he has read books, his knowledge is not low. Yan Wei is a brave warrior and wise man on the battlefield! Such people will not be afraid, sad or regretful when facing death! But they will not give up any tiny opportunity at every turn! No matter how small it is. He will immediately restart all the brain cells that can be mobilized, revealing his sharp teeth, ready to bite the enemy to death again and continue his own glory!
Yan Wei's binoculars were not some high-tech infrared night vision device, but at this moment when the flames were illuminating the sky, a group of non-government armed personnel without military uniforms clearly appeared in the two lenses, attacking the Japanese army in the eastern region!
Just by pretending, there's no need to judge anything else, but this scene is also too much for Yan Wei to understand!
The Chu Jiang gang's underworld friends have arrived!
"The underworld", "gangs", "rivers and lakes" - these terms were never unfamiliar to Yan Wei! Before joining the army, after his family's decline, he was often bullied by such characters! As for his understanding of these underworld gangs, Yan Wei had always only stopped at their cunning and bullying nature, their tyrannical behavior, their exploitation of the common people, and their opportunistic ways.
Even with the great help of Chu Jiang Bang in Jingzhou this time, Yan Wei's understanding is only that the force is strong enough! But it's absolutely not selfless! These local rivers and lakes black roads are just can't afford to offend the national government, the central regular army, and the most powerful imperial secret service agency in today's China!
Anti-Japanese, after all, is the due responsibility of our country and army. The underworld, if you can see clearly, don't recognize the enemy as your father and help them do evil, if you can cooperate with the government under pressure, it's already a patriotic feat! After all, they are a group of thieves themselves!
But what about now? A group of thieves, armed with automatic weapons, are doing a business they're not even good at... No, it shouldn't be called a business! Because a losing business is something no one would do, so it can't be called a business! Let's call it a righteous act instead. After all, they're risking their lives to rescue people who bully them, extort them, and enslave them when there's nothing going on, but when the government does take action, its iron fist never shows any mercy! One punch is all it takes! If you're lucky enough to be left with half a breath, it's only so they can continue to extort, exploit, bribe, and take advantage of you in the future!
The nature of the underworld is not much different from a dog! When needed, it's even said that some people will cohabitate with this beast, eat together, sleep together! They'll hold it in their arms and love it to death! But when they don't like or need it, if they don't slaughter it for stew, then they're considered kind-hearted! Otherwise, how would the saying "a dog that brings ruin to its owner" come about?!
But now everything, all of it is enough to move every respectable gentleman who claims to be a good person! A group of vagrants, using all their strength, with their lives proving to the country and nation that they are also children of China, descendants of the Yellow Emperor!
Yan Wei was very clear about the outcome of continuing like this, which would only add a hundred more lives to the already heartbreaking place today!
A gang is not an army. A thousand fully armed gangsters can't withstand a regular army company's five-minute attack!
The foundation of the gang lies in wielding machetes and axes against unarmed ordinary people! Not on the battlefield facing the entire Japanese Empire Army, which was renowned for its excellent combat quality throughout World War II! Their stage is in the streets and alleys, not here!
Yan Wei did not want the hot blood of these underworld heroes to be shed in vain on this already tragic and miserable land! He wanted to use every opportunity to make an impossible effort!
"Go all out to cover the retreat, and converge on the responding troops in the east!" Yan Wei shouted with all his might, risking being collectively shot by the Japanese army's firepower. He hoped to take advantage of the chaos to join forces with the heroes of the Chu Jiang gang! If so, they might still be able to break through some brothers relying on the probability factor of their numbers!
But obviously this is already the most failed and unacceptable plan! Sacrificing over a hundred lives as a bottom line, and barely escaping with a dozen of their own soldiers! What's the point of all this back-and-forth?! Isn't this just a waste of time?! Can it really be said that someone's life is just a life, and it's worth money?! That someone should die again?! But since our heroes from the Chu Jiang gang have already sacrificed themselves for justice! From the moment they fired the first shot, they were doomed to a disastrous defeat anyway! Let's count those who escaped as lucky ones, after all, my great Chinese sons will never be extinct!
