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Have you ever seen war with your own eyes?If not, then you are not qualified to read those war histories with a relaxed expression.

Except for survivors who survived on the battlefield.

Watching a cannonball explode at a distance of no more than 300 meters is no less than the sun exploding in front of you.In an instant, there was a sudden ray of light and a loud bang, and the shrapnel shattered into pieces, impacting your body tens of thousands, and the invisible dark waves rushed towards your body like a tsunami.

Death is really near.

Duan Yelin leaned his back against the trench wall, his ears were so shaken that he couldn't hear clearly, and the sticky hot blood flowed down his forehead into his eyes and mouth. He didn't have time to wipe it, because he was carrying the shells on his shoulders.

At his feet, there were corpses that had been dead for a long time, broken limbs, and even parts such as ears, noses, broken teeth, and scalps.

The reason why the battlefield is cruel is because he made hell the normal state under the blue sky and broad daylight.

Duan Zhanzhou crawled over and shouted in Duan Yelin's ear, "Brother! I can't hold on any longer! Pull back!"

At this time, the battlefield became quiet.Both sides were a little tired from the game and were suspended.

Duan Yelin understood that after this wave of bombardment, the Japanese army was about to advance. They had retreated three times in a row, and this time they retreated again, only ten miles away from Hezhou City.Ten miles means that the next step is to lose.The number of Japanese troops was much larger than he had imagined. I heard that even Japanese troops from other battlefields abandoned their positions and gathered outside Hezhou City.

The soldiers around them all looked solemn. After so many days, no reinforcements arrived, they understood what was going on.

The heroic Duan Yelin is a well-known figure in the Japanese concept. They concentrated their firepower against the god of war, so they restrained too many troops, allowing other places to breathe a sigh of relief.Reinforcements will not come, they are an abandoned battlefield, the only function is to delay the time as long as possible.

Looking at Duan Zhanzhou's gaze, Duan Yelin pushed the cannon barrel on his shoulder: "Withdraw—!"

On the way back, I saw a Japanese prisoner break free from the shackles, strangling a soldier's neck and baring his teeth and claws.The little soldier rolled his eyes and his face was ashen. Duan Yelin picked up the grenade and threw it on his head!

After smashing it once, the Japanese didn't let go, so he kept smashing, one and one, until something like tofu brain spewed out, and this tyrannical body became a corpse.

Duan Yelin is neither happy nor sad, life and death on the battlefield can not give people too much stimulation. l

He lowered his head and saw the weakness and helplessness in the eyes of the soldier who had escaped death. He seemed to see the end of many people at once.

"Qiao Song! Qiao Song!" He suddenly yelled, and after a while, a dirty blood man appeared from nowhere and came limping.

"commander?"

Duan Yelin shot dead a Japanese soldier who stood up tremblingly in the distance, and quickly said: "Ride my horse, go back to the city, and see if the people from Jinyantang have left."

"This... the whole city is gone, and there is a war going on, how could Young Master Xu still keep it?"

"You go and take a look, so I don't worry. If they don't leave, let them go quickly! The farther the better!" The gun in Duan Yelin's hand never rested.

Qiao Song was stunned, but soon he rubbed his eyes, nodded firmly, and limped away again.

Duan Yelin licked the blood from the corner of his mouth, and threw himself into the hot battle again.

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In the Jinyan Hall, Chanyi was packing up some sundries and commonly used things, and the little novice was copying Buddhist scriptures in the yard.

The years are peaceful, as if there is no tension at all.

Xu Hang came out, glanced at them, and then suddenly said: "This battle has been going on for almost a month, right?"

Chanyi's hand drying clothes stopped for a moment, and counted with his fingers: "It's been a month and a half, and the sound of firecrackers is getting closer and closer. It sounds like they are outside the door. There is no one in the city. Listen to it." It’s clearer now. The cannon shot in the middle of the night yesterday scared me to death!”

As she spoke, she shook her clothes, and the tiny fibers were shaken out in the sun, dancing in the air.

Chanyi originally thought that Xu Hang would order her to take the little novice to seek refuge, so she made a plan, if Xu Hang asked, she would never abandon Xu Hang even if she knelt to death in Jinyan Hall.But I didn't expect that Xu Hang didn't mention it at all from the beginning to the end.

Thinking about it later, maybe Xu Hang also understood that with Chanyi's loyalty, even if the knife rests on his neck, he won't go away, so forget about it.

When it was time to cook, the little novice went to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables, and Chanyi went to light the fire. Xu Hang heard a knock on the door, so he had to open it by himself.

As soon as the door opened, there was a soldier covered in yellow mud and dust. Xu Hang recognized it several times. If he hadn't spoken, Xu Hang would not have recognized that it was Qiao Song.

"Master Xu, I didn't expect you to be here?!"

"...Qiao Song?" Xu Hang saw that there was no one behind him, "Why are you back? Is the battle... over?"

"I don't have time to tell you in detail, let's go, the Japanese army is only ten miles away from the city, it is very dangerous!"

Qiao Song didn't even say a word of nonsense, just clapped and clapped to explain his intention.

After Xu Hang heard it, the hand holding the door frame froze there. Although his face remained unchanged, the knuckles on his fingers were slightly turning white.He first took a deep breath, then let it out slowly, and asked in a low voice: "...will the Japanese invade Hezhou?"

Qiao Song took off his hat and wiped the sweat on his chin: "The reinforcements won't come! Too many enemy troops have been restrained in the Hezhou theater, and other theaters are also very nervous. We...have been abandoned."

To put it simply, this is actually terrible news.

Xu Hang raised his chin slightly, and looked towards the sky in the distance: "No wonder he fought for so long..."

Seeing his peaceful appearance, Qiao Song really felt that the emperor was not in a hurry and the eunuchs were in a hurry: "Don't clean up, take away the valuables and take them with you, hurry up! I can't stay longer, the battlefield is very urgent!"

"Why am I leaving?"

"Master Xu, let's go! I beg you! How can the commander fight with peace of mind when you are here?!"

Hearing this, Xu Hang's eyes suddenly sharpened, he looked straight at Qiao Song, and said word by word: "I won't leave, my hometown has been destroyed, there is no reason for me to leave Hezhou again. You go back and tell Duan Yelin, I will never leave Hezhou for half a step from birth to death, I decide my own life, let him take care of himself."

"Master Xu!" Qiao Song put his hand on the door, preventing Xu Hang from closing the door, "I came here under the command of the commander. If you don't leave, I will carry you away even if I knock you unconscious!"

Unexpectedly, as soon as this threat came out, Xu Hang stepped forward in two steps, pulled off the pistol from Qiao Song's waist, pressed the safety catch, stuffed it into Qiao Song's hand, and pressed it against his forehead: "Then you will kill me, and take the gun with you." Let my dead body go."

"This...you calm down...calm down..." Qiao Song was startled, and pulled out his hand again and again.

Xu Hang simply let go, pushed Qiao Song out of the door, quickly closed the door and locked it, leaving Qiao Song no chance to react.He walked straight into the depths of the garden, ignoring Qiao Song's shouts from outside.

"Master Xu! Master Xu! Listen to me! This is really not a joke...Master Xu!"

Qiao Song slammed on the door and yelled for half a cup of tea, but in the end there was nothing he could do, and there was no more sound.

As night fell, the sound of firecrackers became louder than before, endlessly, and it really made people wonder if bombers didn't need money to be so profligate.

Although the sky is dark, the sky in the distance seems to be coated with a layer of red, and the flames are soaring into the sky, which makes the heartbeat tremble.

This night, everyone ate poorly, and couldn't sleep in the second half of the night. The little novice moved a bench and sat in the yard watching the stars. Xu Hang took a piece of clothing for him and sat beside him.

"Brother Xu, I'm so scared... the sound is like thunder." The little novice shrank her head into Xu Hang's arms, her shoulders trembling slightly.

Xu Hang touched the back of his flat head, this child is still so young, it is already very sensible to resist crying.Xu Hang didn't take care of children much, so after thinking about it, he asked him, "Do you like fireworks?"

"like."

"Then take it as a lot of people setting off fireworks in the distance, so it won't be scary."

The little novice also thought about it, and found that it was indeed much better.He pulled out his head and asked with big eyes: "Brother Xu, everyone in the city has left, why don't you leave? I want to stay, because the master's tomb is here, and the temple is also here. I don't want to go anywhere, what about you? Is it because you have parents?"

Xu Hang's eyes were lonely: "No."

"What about the brothers and sisters?"

"No."

"What about my friend?"

"nor."

"Then...then..." The little novice really didn't know who else to say, so he slapped his head for the last time, "Then who else do you like? It's like... just like I like you, and I also like Chanyi elder sister."

Xu Hang didn't answer this question right away, so the little novice looked at him curiously.

Xu Hang looked at the twinkling stars in the sky, like thousands of eyes, watching him densely, not allowing himself to lie under their scrutiny.

Xu Hang stretched out his hand, hugged the little novice in his arms, and patted him on the back: "Do you know? Why are there so many strong and strong men who want to fight with guns in front, and refuse to turn back even if they are shrouded in horse leather? For some For people, it is to defend their home and country, but that is only the idea of ​​​​very few people with great ambitions. For thousands of soldiers, their purpose is too small, just to protect their cherished people."

The little novice was very comfortable being photographed by Xu Hang, and gradually he felt less noisy, feeling drowsy, and Xu Hang's words lingered in his ears, and he was confused.

"When they were fighting bloody battles, when they looked back, they could see the direction of home. The lives of their loved ones were tied to their flesh and blood walls. That's why they gritted their teeth and resisted to the death. However, if What they are defending is only an empty city, and they have no worries at all, and they will die, and the jade will be broken... After they die, they will become a pile of loess on the battlefield."

In the night wind, someone sighed.

"Man, you must have worries and thoughts before you can come back alive with all your might."

Speaking of this, the little monk started snoring, and the stars in the sky were silent, but shone more intoxicatingly.

Xu Hang smiled lightly, holding the sleeping child in his arms, and sat patiently in the yard.He is guarding this desolate long night, guarding this barren garden, and guarding this abandoned ancient city.

Defending a war with no outcome.