What a beautiful white lotus

Before evening, they dug trenches.The guns on the opposite side of the river were fired intermittently, it must be a hard battle.Ye Rongqiu was sitting in the trench, and the black dog was sitting next to him. Both of them were in a daze, and neither of them paid attention to the other, but neither of them took the initiative to leave each other.

Ye Rongqiu is very dazed now, he can't believe that he has really arrived on the battlefield, he keeps pinching his fingers, hoping to wake up from such an illusory dream.It's a pity that his fingers are numb from the pain, but he still stays in this ghost place.But he has no regrets, he doesn't want to think about what happened just now, because he has no chance to escape now, recalling the choices he has made will only make him more uncomfortable.He began to draw some literary sentences in his mind, but unfortunately there was no pen and paper for him to write them down—he was conceiving his suicide note.

The veterans have learned a way to relieve stress on their own. They talked and laughed in the trenches, not at all like being on the battlefield, but more like casual chatting.

The man from the Northeast who talked to Ye Rongqiu when digging the trench just now was called Tian Qiang, and there were two people beside him, a Cantonese man named Ma Lin and a Henan man named Pihu. The three of them were right next to Ye Rongqiu. After that, he didn't stop bragging for a moment.Ye Rongqiu heard their accents intertwined, thinking that this motley army is really hopeless.

Ma Lin said, "Guess how long the opposite side of Jiang can support?"

Tian Qiang hummed: "Let's fight a little longer, and consume more little Japanese shells for us."

Pihu frantically pinched his fingers to make the calculations, and said happily: "I can't fight tonight."

Ma Lin squinted at him: "Why are you so stupid?"

Pihu imitated his accent: "I'm a dick." He showed the fingers he had just counted: "I calculated the sky."

"Hey." Tian Qiang said, "You bastard, when did you know how to tell fortunes?"

Pihu said: "My father is a fortune teller, and I learned from him."

Ma Lin said, "Last time you said your father was a doctor."

Tian Qiang chuckled: "Do you trust him? He is from Zhumadian, and Zhumadian people are the best at bragging."

"Hey." Pihu said disdainfully: "You can't work part-time as a fortune-teller when you see a doctor? Don't you believe me, what I said is true. When I was born, my father told me that I would live to the end of my life." 77 years old. I think you are pleasing to the eye, so I will give you a breath, and follow me closely later, bullets and shells are not happy to fly towards me, I will cover you."

Ma Lin pouted: "Your father is a witch doctor."

Tian Qiang said: "From Zhumadian. Listen to his nonsense."

Pihu was not flattered by his companions, so he snorted dissatisfiedly, and turned around to strike up a conversation with Ye Rongqiu.He smiled and said, "Brother, can I count one for you?"

Ye Rongqiu raised his head and glanced at him, then lowered his head again.He was depressed and had no interest in bragging.

Pihu hit a snag, and in order to save his own face, he said warmly to himself: "Come on, let me do the math for you, show me your hand." He picked up Ye Rongqiu's hand and pretended to look at it, Ye Rongqiu did not resist.

"Ah, ah." Pihu exclaimed in surprise, "Your fate... hiss... oops..." He didn't speak after reading it, showing off in a mysterious way.

Ye Rongqiu raised his head and looked at him numbly, showing lack of interest, just looked at him without asking any questions.

Two of Pihu's friends helped to boo him.Ma Lin said: "If you believe him, there will be ghosts." Tian Qiang said: "Can you believe what the people in Zhumadian say?"

Pihu didn't get the compliments, he hummed and hummed twice, and continued to himself: "Look at you, there is a catastrophe in your life. Let me calculate... oh, this catastrophe is just these two days Nah. If you can get past this robbery, your life will be safe in the future. You have to be careful in this battle."

Tian Qiang sneered: "I'll let you finish all the talking." If Ye Rongqiu died in this battle, it was a catastrophe calculated by him; .

Ma Lin leaned over: "Take a look at me (show me)." He took Ye Rongqiu's palm: "Where is the catastrophe at the edge?"

Pihu pointed to a line in Ye Rongqiu's heart in a mannered manner.Ma Lin put Ye Rongqiu's hand close to his eyes and looked at it carefully for a while, carefully picked it with his fingernails, and picked off the robbery that Pihu said. "What! It's a mud mark, okay? It's a big catastrophe! It's your head!"

The guys around all giggled.

Pihu was not guilty at all, and clapped his hands suddenly: "Oh! Oh! Immortal!" He said to Ye Rongqiu: "Brother, he broke your tribulation like a god! You will be able to go smoothly in the future! of!"

Several people roared with laughter.

Ye Rongqiu didn't smile.But thanks to them, he stopped thinking about his suicide note, and he wasn't so depressed.

The black dog had been listening to their conversation, and couldn't help but smile at this moment.He turned his head and glanced at Ye Rongqiu's profile.Ye Rongqiu sat there very quietly, with gloomy eyes, he was no longer the arrogant young master, nor was he the deadly little white cat he depended on.I don't know if it was an illusion, but he suddenly felt that Ye Rongqiu had matured a lot in just a few hours.He didn't know what he was doing was right or wrong.

There were a few mud marks on Ye Rongqiu's face, and the black dog reached out his hand to help him wipe it off, but Ye Rongqiu slapped his hand away before it touched Ye Rongqiu.He shrugged indifferently, staring at the sky in a daze.

Meng Yuan came over and said with a smile: "Brother Heigou, tell me another story."

The black dog said: "Save up first, after the war, I will tell you two when I go back."

Until dark, the Japanese did not hit Jianglai.Gu Xiuge kept using his binoculars to watch the situation across the river.He jumped into the trenches and kicked the soldiers' butts along the way: "Cheer up and prepare for the battle!" When he walked past Ye Rongqiu, he didn't kick him, looked at him with a smile on his face, and left passed.

Tian Qiang saluted him: "Tuan Zuo." He admired the head of the fellow from Northeast China very much.Gu Xiuge pressed down his saluting hand, and continued to inspect the front.

All night, the Japanese army did not cross the river.Ye Rongqiu fell asleep in a daze and then woke up in a daze.He woke up once in the middle of the night. It was so dark that he couldn't see his fingers. He didn't know where he was, and suddenly felt very flustered. He groped to the side with his hands on the ground and touched the black dog's hand.Then, his heart settled down, he held it for a while, reluctantly let go, closed his eyes and fell asleep again.

In the early morning of the next day, before dawn, Ye Rongqiu and other dozing soldiers were awakened by Gu Xiuge's loud and clear shout: "The Japanese devils have come over!"

People panicked and poked their heads out of the trenches to check. They saw several Japanese warships moored on the river mouth. The large and small black hole muzzles of the front guns, tail guns, and black guns on the warships made people tremble.

"boom!"

The first Japanese artillery shell hit across the river and exploded behind Pihu's trench.Ye Rongqiu was covered by the flying dust caused by the explosion. While coughing, he frantically reached out and touched the hand of the black dog. The black dog held him instead.He was at ease again.

After a while, the dust and smoke dispersed.Ye Rongqiu said nothing, and withdrew his hand from the black dog's hand without looking at him.

"Bah! Bah!" Tian Qiang spat out the ashes in his mouth, and kicked Pihu's ass: "Didn't you say that the shells avoid you? The first fucking bullet will hit you!" ! A good start!"

"It's on the street!" Ma Lin cursed, wiping the ashes off his face.

Pihu touched the blood marks on his face, a piece of skin was scraped off his face by the flying shrapnel.He said embarrassingly, "Isn't that dead?"

Immediately afterwards, large and small shells flew over from the opposite bank of the river one after another, blasting out bursts of smoke.Ye Rongqiu hid in the trench with a pale face, holding his gun tightly, not daring to shoot it to see the scene outside the trench.Now he doesn't dislike this cold weapon anymore. At this time, the gun can indeed bring him a sense of security.

Under the cover of firepower, the Japanese infantry crossed the river on small rafts. Five tanks and the infantry marched head-to-head, rushing into the river.Gu Xiuge's team was so bombarded by the powerful artillery fire that it was almost impossible to look out of the trench.However, Head Gu was not in a hurry, and yelled with a smile: "Little Japan will land in a moment! They must use light and heavy machine guns to open the way! Anything they shoot with three bursts, slapping, is asking if you are afraid! Are you afraid?" What to do? Shoot them twice and tell them not to be afraid!"

Ye Rongqiu trembled slightly in the trench.He thought it would be safer to be separated by a river, and the two sides only needed to attack each other with long-range artillery fire, but he didn't expect the Japanese to fight across the river.

The black dog poked his head out cautiously for a look, and when a cannon flew over, he immediately hid in the trench again.

"Boom!" The shell exploded in front of the trench.

After a while, several small rafts reached the riverside.

As soon as the Japanese landed, they immediately set up their machine guns, and several machine guns fired at Gu Xiuge's motley crew in three bursts.Gu Xiuge yelled: "Machine Gunner!"

The machine gunners of the national army immediately responded with two-point bursts, and several Japanese soldiers fell down under the machine gun fire.

The Japanese seemed to understand the determination of the national army to fight, and the firepower instantly increased, and they rained bullets like crazy.The national army also quickly counterattacked with a hail of bullets.Because Gu Xiuge got a new Maxim heavy machine gun, he has a total of two heavy machine guns in his team. He arranged the heavy machine gunners on both sides of the flank design to form crossfire, and the light machine gunners and riflemen hid in the trenches. The entire firepower network was impenetrable, and the Japanese soldiers who landed fell down one after another.

The machine gun can be said to be the greatest and cruelest invention in the past 200 years. Its powerful firepower made the cavalry who had been on the battlefield for thousands of years quickly withdraw from the stage of history.However, a weapon with such a powerful offensive power is naturally the most hated. After 1 minute, a mortar shell accurately fell into the trench where the heavy machine gunner was, and the poor soldier rolled down from the front of the machine gun.The soldiers around him immediately took over, not letting the powerful firepower network stagnate for a moment.

Ye Rongqiu remained huddled in the trench, not daring to move.He now regrets that he did not believe in Christianity, or that he believed in Buddhism, at least now he can read a sentence from the Bible or Buddhist scriptures to make himself less painful.

And the black dog, like other veterans, raised his rifle and weaved a firepower net that made the Japanese army breathless.

Soon, Japanese tanks also landed.

Five tanks rushed towards Gu Xiuge's position side by side, and the infantry followed behind the tanks.Pihu raised his head and shot, and the bullets fired back by the Japanese flew past his scalp, scaring him into the trench suddenly.Tian Qiang pushed his head down: "Damn Henan guy, protect your head." Then he bit a grenade and threw it out.

The infantry behind the tanks fell one after another, but the tanks still advanced steadily.Tanks are armored monsters born of machine guns. The iron armor is impenetrable, and the bullets of machine guns cannot penetrate it at all.Gu Xiuge shouted in the trench: "Grenade! Give me the grenade!"

Dozens of grenades passed by, and Gu Xiuge blew up a few bags of grenades with a sack, then crawled out of the trench with a bag of grenades in his arms, shouting: "Cover me!" to a tank.

The black dog was extremely surprised when he saw Gu Xiuge rushing out.Now he believes what Gu Xiuge said, "I will fight ahead of you in a war", this guy is like a lunatic, but it makes him feel excited.He held up the [-] cover, and at this moment a Japanese soldier rushed out from behind the tank and pointed his gun at Gu Xiuge. The black dog quickly aimed at him and pulled the trigger.He hit it, and the Japanese soldier fell.

Gu Xiuge rolled on the spot and touched the blind spot where the tank was shooting. He ignited a sack of grenades and threw them to the side of the tank's tracks.With a loud bang, the grenade exploded, raising a cloud of dust.After the smoke cleared, the tank could no longer move - its tracks had been blown off.

Gu Xiuge jumped back into the trench and asked the black dog, "Did you shoot it?"

Black Dog nodded.

Gu Xiuge gave him a thumbs up: "That's right." He looked at Ye Rongqiu who was huddled in prayer, turned around and left without saying anything.

A soldier jumped out of the trench with a barrel of rosin oil that he had prepared long ago, and rushed towards a tank.Before he could get to the tank, however, a bullet knocked him down.The Japanese army tried to smash his oil barrel with bullets, but the soldier hugged the oil barrel tightly before dying, blocking the bullets fired by the Japanese army with his body.Soon another person jumped out of the trench, picked up the oil drum and continued to rush forward, and was shot down after running a few steps forward.

The black dog's pupils kept shrinking.It's not that he has never been in close contact with death. His mother who hanged himself, E Niang and Ouyang Xiu who were killed by the Japanese army, those fresh lives disappeared before his eyes, and he thought he was numb.However, this scene still shocked him.Death is so fast on the battlefield, a life is only worth a few iron balls, and without the cover of the trenches, they are naked and exposed to the Japanese army's attack, but the two of them rushed out without any hesitation. The sacrifice shocked the black dog's heart.Chinese soldiers are not afraid of death, as long as they understand what they are fighting for-now, they must hold this line of defense that looks at the west bank of the river, and they cannot allow Japanese artillery to bomb more Chinese territory.

Those who actually went to the battlefield had no idea of ​​their own life and death, and only one thought remained in their minds: stick to it, and no matter what, the Japanese should not be allowed to fight over.The barrel of oil that fell on the ground seemed to be a kind of responsibility. It attracted people's eyes so hard that people couldn't help but want to rush over to pick it up, and sprinkle every drop on the tank that was shooting Chinese soldiers.

At this time, a hand suddenly stretched out and grabbed the black dog's arm forcefully.It's Ye Rongqiu.

The black dog looked down at Ye Rongqiu, but Ye Rongqiu's face was still very pale.He didn't look at the black dog. After a few seconds, he slowly let go of his hand and hugged his head dejectedly.