For a soldier, it is absolutely a tragedy to be unable to protect his people. It is like a man who cannot protect his wife and children, which will make us lose all confidence and dignity!

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Chapter 18 Unable to bear

In the first few days, the Japanese did not make much move. Perhaps it was because they had previously issued negotiation conditions and Song Zheyuan met all their requirements without reservation. Even if they did not have the sincerity of negotiation, they had to do a little bit. So the whole of Peking was very quiet in the first three days. Except for the Japanese defense zones that would secretly run to our defense zone from time to time, there was nothing else.

Although the people in Peking regard us as traitors, after all, we are still Chinese, and we will not always use bayonets and rifles to solve problems like the Japanese, right? The Japanese army turned a blind eye to these people who ran to our defense zone... Of course, this is not a little Japanese who are merciful. I think there are at least two reasons for this. The first is that it is time for negotiation and there is no suitable force conflict between each other. The other is more important, because they are very clear that these people are running around in the city of Peking and cannot escape their palms. In fact, this is indeed true. Sometimes even I want to persuade the people who keep pouring in towards our defense zone: It is useless for you to come here. We are difficult to protect ourselves now, let alone protect you...

For a soldier, it is absolutely a tragedy to be unable to protect his people. It is like a man who cannot protect his wife and children. It will make us lose all confidence and dignity! Perhaps it is precisely because of this that the morale of our army plummeted like a helicopter, and even our military training team is no exception. It is a pity that we were not defeated by the enemy on the battlefield, but were defeated by the politicians at this negotiating table!

At this time, Peking was calm as if the war had ended, and even some bold little vendors had taken to the streets to open. However, I knew that there was a storm under this calm surface!

Things changed on the fourth day. On that evening, the soldiers and I were squatting under the sandbags and smoking cigarettes... Although there was no war in Beijing these days, we were anxious all the time. The soldiers were not fools, and they all knew that this time was probably a little bit of danger. In addition, the reconnaissance troops sent to all directions reported one after another, which made us very clear that our army was already surrounded by the Japanese army.

Now there seems to be only two ways before us, one is to die in battle, and the other is to surrender to the Japanese army. As for the third possibility... the successful negotiations between Japan and Japan withdraws its troops from Peking, which is just a luxury for us. I am from the modern era and I know very well when the Japanese withdraw from Peking, eight years later, when the Japanese army announced unconditional surrender...

So this invisible pressure makes us left-behind troops almost breathless. Anxiety, uneasy, and fear are always eating our nerves and corroding our will. It is like a demon that bothers us, making us unable to eat during the day or at night, so that soldiers shoot suicides one after another in the military camp. Many people think they would rather die than be slaves to the country. In fact, we know in our hearts that they cannot bear this pressure!

Of course, this kind of pressure is also present in us. Our way to relieve stress is to smoke desperately.

I was not addicted to smoking in modern times because I thought smoking was boring, so I would rather spend the money I smoked to buy two bottles of drinks or visit Internet cafes! However, at this time I realized that cigarettes are really fucking good things, and it can at least allow me to relax in this tense and depressing atmosphere for a half minute!

"Platform leader!" Chen Dali muttered Yan and said with half-squinted eyes: "Are we just waiting to die like this? There is no way to go?"

"I said, are you annoying?" I replied angrily: "You have asked this many times. If I have a solution, I still have to wait until now?"

What I said is the truth. Although I know history, I am helpless in the current situation: the little Japanese are already in the city of Peking, and there are Japanese ambushes everywhere outside the city. Now I am afraid that the gods will be powerless to turn things around. However, in history, there is still a regiment that successfully broke out from Peking. My only hope now is that this lucky regiment is our military training regiment.

"The situation is indeed not optimistic!" Li Wenxi also sighed and frowned and said, "I heard that three more brothers committed suicide last night. I also heard some people secretly discussing surrendering to the Japanese army..."

"Worry to be quiet!" The old squad leader interrupted Li Wenxi's words and said, "This kind of thing is unreasonable, the more you say it, the worse it becomes!"

I also think it makes sense when listening to the old squad leader's words. What I fear most in the army is the transmission of ears and then reaching a negative consensus. This is just like what the fairy tale novel "The Emperor's New Clothing". When the emperor walked onto the street in "new clothing" in "new clothing", all the people began to praise how beautiful the "new clothing" was, until a child accidentally said: "The emperor didn't wear anything"...

Now we seem to be in a state of about to collapse, and we are afraid that someone will first break the paper!

From this point of view, the old squad leader is obviously much more mature than the new recruits who have just been on the battlefield, and has a stronger ability to withstand than us.

The gunshots of "Bang!" shocked the soldiers and I, and quickly dropped our cigarette butts and grabbed our rifles and looked at the opposite side.

Two Japanese soldiers were swearing from the opposite camp, and they walked towards us, but I soon discovered that their target was not us, but several people between the two camps...

Those people looked like a family, husband, wife and two children. They should have wanted to take advantage of the darkness of the sky and cross the defense line to us when the Japanese army was having dinner. Unfortunately, they were discovered by the Japanese army. So the husband was shot deadly. The little Japanese gunman was still very accurate. When the light was so dark, he could still hit the target's head, so that his wife and children were frightened and cried but never dared to move half a step again!

"Platform leader!" Chen Dali looked at me nervously.

I know what Chen Dali meant. The two Japanese soldiers were approaching the women and children with guns. Once they were caught by the little Japanese, there would naturally be no good ending. My instinctive reaction was to pull the trigger at the two Japanese soldiers, but the old squad leader pressed my rifle...

"Platform leader! You can't fight!" said the old squad leader: "This is the Japanese defense zone, we can't control it!"

"Bad!" Chen Dali cursed: "This is our Chinese business, this is our Chinese land!"

I calmed down and thought, and felt that the old squad leader was right. We should just give Japan an excuse to overturn the negotiations immediately. The consequences may be unimaginable... So I gritted my teeth and ordered: "There are all, and there is no order, no shooting is allowed!"

"Plane leader..."

"Abide by the order!" Chen Dali wanted to argue with me, but was pushed back by me with one sentence.

"Hey!" Chen Dali punched the sandbag in front of him with a fierce punch.

I don’t want to do this, but I have to do this! At this moment, I just felt like there were a few knives in my heart that were constantly squeezing, which was even more uncomfortable than death. If I could, I would like to die on behalf of the woman and her two older children. However, I couldn’t...

I couldn't bear to see the mother and son falling into the hands of the Japanese army, so I retracted my head from the trenches and put away my rifle. But the invisibility did not make me feel upset, because just ten meters away from me were the crying of women and children deformed due to extreme fear and the arrogant laughter of little Japanese.

As a soldier and a Chinese soldier, I can’t do anything at this time!

"Ah!" At this time, a woman's scream came from the opposite side, followed by the sound of her clothes being torn and the extremely obscene laughter of little Japan. I quickly understood what that meant, so I could not think of it and stretched out my head and stretched out my rifle to look at the figure of a Japanese soldier and pulled the trigger...

"Bang!" A gunshot shocked everyone. The whole world seemed to have stopped at that moment. Only the Japanese army under my gun shook his body and collapsed on the ground like a deflated ball.

"Brothers! Let's fight with the Japanese!" I roared and quickly pulled the bolt to shoot the other Japanese. It was not because I had good shooting skills, but because these two Japanese were too arrogant and thought we dared not shoot, so they could see clearly from me that even the beard on his face. At such a close distance, even a recruit who had never fired a few shots could hit every shot.

"Fight with the Japanese!" The soldiers also roared wildly and raised the weapons in their hands and pulled the trigger to the Japanese army.

The Japanese soldiers on the opposite side were all sitting in the trenches watching the fun. They would not have expected that our army would suddenly attack. So we knocked down a dozen bullets without any defense. The rest hurriedly lay down and crawled back.

"Hurry up!" I pulled the trigger to the opposite side and shouted to the side: "Save me back immediately!"

"Yes!" Several soldiers jumped out of the trench and rushed towards the mother and son.

However, at this time, the Japanese army had already reacted and set up rifles in the trenches. Their muzzles were first aimed at the targets between the two armies, including the mother and son... Seeing this, I couldn't help but sigh: I still can't save them!
Chapter completed!