The deserters could only see what seemed to be countless helmets and the flash of bayonets in the darkness behind the dazzling car lights.

Someone whispered in horror:

"It's the military police!"

Two large trucks came over again, but this time they approached in reverse. After the trucks stopped, the rear curtains were lifted.

Some of the deserters blocked the vehicle lights with their hands and discovered that there were machine guns mounted in the backs of two trucks.

The crowd became frightened, and some people kept trying to escape, but were forced back by the military police with guns.

A voice cried loudly:

"Sir, you can't do this to us!"

Following the cry, a large group of people knelt down and cried bitterly.

The loudspeaker on the truck suddenly rang, and a cold, calm voice said in the darkness:

"I am Hou Hekun, commander of the 26th Division of the Ming Dynasty Army, Capital Garrison."

The crying gradually became quiet, and some people stood up hesitantly. The voice continued to say coldly:

"I am very disappointed in you. In three hundred years, the Qing captives did not set foot on the land of the Ming Dynasty, but today, this precedent has set a precedent for our generation. The people on the Yangtze River Defense Line are useless, but you are even more useless.

They let the Qing prisoners come over, but they themselves died in the fortifications. But you ran away, out-and-out deserters... It is usually said that our capital garrison is many times more elite than those on the defense line.

, but now it seems that is not the case at all. There are still many wimps, such as the group of people standing in front of me.

"There will be no mercy for anyone who escapes from the battlefield. This is the same in any country or army. Behind us is Nanjing, and we have no way to retreat. But you escaped from the battlefield. Yes, you are afraid, you are tired, you

I have never fought a battle. But who has fought in the entire division, the entire army, and the entire defense line? Who is not tired and not afraid? But if people are afraid, they will still hold on and rush forward. Why? Because of the surrounding environment

Brothers are insisting and rushing forward. If you don’t push forward, you won’t have to be a human being! You won’t even have any dignity as a man left!

"But you people, don't talk about dignity now, don't even want the slightest sense of shame. Three hundred years ago, it was because there were too many people like you that the Ming Dynasty was robbed of half of the country and tens of millions by the Qing Dynasty.

Only ordinary people will be massacred by the Qing captives. Today we are still under the city of Nanjing, and you can run away. If it were farther away, I think you would not fire a shot and let the enemy drive, right? Or simply surrender to the Qing captives,

Come back and hit us?"

The deserters' faces turned purple after these sentences. One soldier couldn't hold it in any longer and shouted:

"Mr. Hou, if you want to kill me, you can kill me. Why do you say it's so unpleasant? Brothers are all men after all, and no one will be a coward when death comes! I was inexperienced just now, so I was fooled. If we are asked to do it again, brothers will not

If anything else, at least he can fight better than the new recruits from your 26th Division!"

Mr. Hou sneered:

"Haha, as long as you say this, I will let you cowards choose again. Are you willing to kneel here and be killed by the bullets of the military police, or are you willing to rush up and be stabbed to death by the bayonets of the Qing prisoners?"

A large group of deserters jumped up and howled. On the one hand, they were excited to be reborn, but more importantly, the words Master Hou had said for a long time were too unpleasant. Now that they finally got a chance to humiliate Yixue, they all yelled.

Author:

"We are going to charge! We are going to charge!!!"

"Humph," Commander Hou sneered, "the glory of the first charge belongs to our 26th Division, and it's not your turn yet, cowards like you. Just wait for the next batch."

The deserters cursed, and the passion they had just burst out was suppressed again, and they were all suffocated like a volcano about to erupt.

Scattered mortars and mountain cannon explosions began to intensify, and the sound of shooting could be heard from a distance. This showed that the Qing army had basically eliminated the Ming army on the riverside and began to advance here.

A red signal flare flew up from behind, and a semicircular red light suddenly flashed behind him. Following the dense thunderous sound of artillery, countless bright lines crossed the sky, the air roared, and the area near the landing site of the Qing army in the south rang out.

There was an explosion.

The Ming army's firepower preparations before charging began.

The soldiers of the 26th Division were crouching tightly behind the trenches, holding their guns with sweaty hands, and their eyes under the helmets were staring at the bombing area in the south, trembling.

But the words of the division commander humiliating the deserters just now still echoed in their ears. Even if they were afraid, no one wanted to show it, and they all pretended to be nonchalant.

After an unknown amount of time, the artillery fire stopped.

Behind the trenches, the commanders shouted one after another:

"Get ready!... Get ready!... Check the weapons again!... Check the bayonets!..."

A green flare shot up from behind.

A sharp whistle blew, and rows of soldiers jumped out of the trenches and trotted forward with guns in hand.

Mortar shells kept falling among them, and the front-line commander kept shouting:

"Spread up the formation!... Spread up the formation!... Don't crowd together!..."

The Qing army's mortars became denser and denser, and gradually the sound of rifles came over, and the bullets whizzed past their ears in the wind.

When the offensive forward was probably still a few hundred meters away from the Qing army, a loud charge bugle sounded, and the front-line commanders drew their pistols, waved them, and shouted:

"Brothers, for the sake of Ming Dynasty, rush forward——"

"Rush————"

"Kill————"

"ah----"
Chapter completed!