In the early morning, the loud sound of artillery fired by the heavy artillery brigade directly under the expeditionary force headquarters woke up many officers and soldiers in the trenches. They were used to this kind of bombardment, but no matter how accustomed they were, this kind of bombardment was still shocking. In order to save ammunition,

For this purpose, the heavy artillery brigade fired twice a day, but each bombardment was still deafening and frightening.

In the past few days, relying on the advantage of long range, the heavy artillery brigade directly under the Expeditionary Force has been suppressing the German artillery cluster, while providing the most powerful fire support for the Expeditionary Force.

Just when he woke up, Lu Siyou heard the sound of a truck driving, so he raised his head and looked in the direction of the sound of the car.

There was an ambulance painted gray-green parked there. In the past few days, these ambulances had been evacuating a large number of wounded people to the rear and field hospitals.

For the officers and soldiers on the front line, these white ambulances are the elves on the battlefield, or the patron saints of the soldiers. No one knows whether they will die, but everyone believes that sooner or later, they will also be killed.

The car was taken to the field hospital in the rear.

"Hurry, hurry up..."

As Lu Siyou looked at the gray-green ambulance, several medical soldiers were carrying the wounded toward the truck. Each emergency truck could carry more than a dozen wounded people. In the past few days, in

This is not a resting place in the rear. He has seen too many wounded people.

Almost every day, a steady stream of wounded people would be transported here from the east of the Somme. Now the east bank has become a real battlefield. The commandos occupied a railway bridge and blew up two railway bridges. More than 60,000 German troops fell into the trap of the expeditionary force.

In a circle.

"The whole world is watching here!"

Two days ago, when the encirclement was formed on the German second position on the east coast, the whole of France, no, it should be said that the whole world was shocked. The elite German 2nd Army Reserve was divided and surrounded by the expeditionary force.

The eyes of the whole world are focused here. This is the first time since the Battle of the Marne that the Allied forces have gained an advantage on a certain battlefield.

The more important point is that this battle shattered "trench warfare" to a certain extent. In order to deal with the precarious battlefield situation, the Germans were forced to transfer the main force from Verdun to save the situation on the Somme River.

It would not lead to the collapse of the entire front. Although the Germans acted extremely quickly, three of the five divisions they transferred to the West Bank before the war, as well as some of the German 17th Army units that had not been evacuated in time, were completely trapped in the expedition.

surrounded by troops.

As for the formation of such an encirclement, the French and British have tried to stand up and pick peaches, but they were rejected by the headquarters. According to the headquarters, we have the ability, responsibility, and obligation to solve the encirclement for our allies.

When General Joffre asked how many days it would take to eliminate the German troops in the encirclement, the commander's answer was - 15 days!

Now, this encirclement and annihilation battle has been going on for three days, and there are still twelve days left!

Life. When a mobile war turns into a war of annihilation, life is like the most worthless rubble. Every day, hundreds of comrades and brothers die on the battlefield. On the West Bank, the expeditionary force of six divisions is like milking cows.

It seemed that they were constantly compressing the German defensive positions, while on the eastern front, the four divisions of the expeditionary force were desperately blocking the German rescue forces.

Two days after the encirclement and annihilation battle started, this battle was no longer a simple battle, but a battle related to the fate, future, and reputation of two countries. And what was the test of this battle for the expeditionary force?

"If the battle fails, the expeditionary force will cease to exist..."

Orders are issued from the headquarters down to the ears of every officer and soldier.

The expeditionary force will cease to exist. For this battle, the expeditionary force has invested every ounce of its strength without reservation. The troops on the east bank must not retreat a step, and the troops on the west bank must complete the offensive mission as planned. All troops will again

Once again, the "law of military uniforms" has been reiterated. There will be no hesitation in enforcing discipline...

"The fate of the country is at stake here!"

Let’s fight here!

Blood, bright red and dazzling blood dripped down the gaps in the car. In the distance, corpses were piled up in a mess, waiting for the arrival of the coffin. This once rural school has now become

It has become a field hospital. In this field hospital, thousands of wounded people come here every day, and the vast majority of them will die.

"Mother...mother..."

"It hurts..."

Listening to the heart-wrenching cries coming from the ambulance that had just stopped, Lu Qiyu's heart kept shaking. As soon as they arrived at the front line, they immediately attacked the field hospital. Although it only lasted for one day,

But she saw everything she had never seen before.

"Sister Qiyu, I'm coming!"

Regardless of Lu Qiyu's objections, Zixin took the bucket from the pale-faced Lu Qiyu, then struggled to carry the bucket of water and rushed it on the car board. The red blood flowed down the gap, leaving only a trace on the ground.

The next piece of blood.

"Zixin..."

Seeing Zi Xin working there for her, Lu Qiyu hurriedly ran over. After Zi Xin flushed two buckets of water, she had already grabbed it. She couldn't let her younger sister help her blindly.

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"Sister Qiyu, I can do it, I..."

Finally, Zixin stopped talking because she saw so much stubbornness in Lu Qiyu's eyes.

While squatting on the truck to clean the blood stains on the truck, Lu Qiyu's face turned pale due to the strong smell of blood, but as she wiped the cloth in her hand, tears kept falling from her face.

Battlefield, is this the battlefield?

Once upon a time, she might have had her own imagination about the battlefield, but she had never imagined that everything here was death, sacrifice,...

The blood seeped into the wooden boards, and no matter how she washed it, the smell of blood could not be washed away. Even when she washed the car clean, the car was still filled with a strong smell of blood.

"For the country..."

Finally, after cleaning the last ambulance, she looked at the bodies that had been carried into coffins in the expedition, and this sentence came to her mind.

"For the rise of our country, our generation must sacrifice everything we have!"

Sacrifice...is this a sacrifice?

"Who can speak Shanghainese, who can speak Shanghainese..."

Suddenly, an urgent shout came from the distance. Lu Qiyu had not reacted at first, but at this time the wounded soldier shouting loudly was shouting loudly on crutches, and his whole person seemed very urgent.

"That nurse can speak Shanghainese..."

"I can……"

Although she didn't know the reason, Lu Qiyu still reached out and responded. At this time, the head nurse also hurried over. The head nurse took a look at the girl, but her face without any emotion still had no expression.

"Nurse Lu, can you speak Shanghainese?"

If she remembered correctly, this girl always spoke fluent Beijing Mandarin.

"Yes, Head Nurse Lin!"

At this time, Lu Qiyu had already changed her mouth to speak Shanghainese. The Lu family are authentic Shanghainese. She grew up in Shanghai as a child, so she couldn't speak Shanghainese.

"It's like this, there is a soldier..."

Before the head nurse could finish her words, the soldier on crutches beside him threw away the crutch in his hand and knelt down with a plop.

"Miss, please give me a lift..."

"ah……"

This is... Lu Qiyu quickly wanted to help the soldier who had his left leg amputated and give him a lift?

"You, get up quickly, get up quickly, and tell me what you have to say..."

But the wounded soldier knelt there stubbornly, kowtowing his head and crying...

"Sir, we are dying. I just want to hear what my wife has to say. Her wife is from Shanghai..."

The wounded soldier's amputation site was already oozing blood, and his forehead was bleeding...

"Where is your commander..."

"Nurse Lu, you..."

The head nurse looked at the girl in front of her in surprise. Maybe others didn't know it, but she had heard of this girl's "story". She didn't need to agree to such a request, but finally she looked at it carefully.

She glanced at her.

"You don't need to say too much, you just need to say a few words occasionally and tell him that you will always be with him..."

Category III seriously injured patients!

On the surface, there seems to be no difference between this kind of seriously injured person and others. But for the medical staff in the field hospital, once the injured person is classified as the third category of seriously injured person, it means that what is waiting for him is death, and the only thing in the hospital is death.

What can be done is to give them morphine so that they can leave this world peacefully.

Compared with other wards, the seriously injured ward is very quiet, and you can't even hear any moans. The environment inside is also very good. The air conditioner originally equipped for the expeditionary force headquarters is used here. Although it is noon,

But here you can't feel the heat of the outside world. Most of the wounded here are taking morphine to reduce their pain.

But every once in a while, medical soldiers would lift out a stretcher from a certain room surrounded by white cloth. The stretcher was covered with white cloth, and it was a dead and seriously injured person.

When Lu Qiyu entered one of the curtains, she saw a wounded soldier lying on the hospital bed. His head was wrapped with a layer of gauze, and it was almost impossible to tell what he looked like. Not only that, he also lost his

With both arms and even one leg missing, he looked like the mummy she had seen in books.

The second lieutenant hiding on the hospital bed, she knew from the wounded soldier with a broken leg, that he was a second lieutenant. During the early morning attack, in order to open a way for the subsequent troops, he took the lead and jumped into the German army.

Among the buried mines.

"Sir has said that he will not force everyone to do things they cannot do!"

The wounded soldier's crying words once again rang in Lu Qiyu's ears. Looking at the wounded soldier on the bed, tears fell down her cheeks again. At this time, the wounded soldier's breathing on the bed seemed very steady.

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To be continued...