Chapter 1605 Youth and Country: Traveling with the whole class (17)
Later, all the roads they took failed, and they realized how powerless they were in this era.
So many people with lofty ideals cannot change the era and can only fill it with their lives. What use are they? They can't change history at all. They can only look at Lu Chen, China, the familiar motherland in their eyes, devastated, and countless people dying...
The feeling of being powerless is really too despairing. They have experienced more despair. In the end, their demands are getting lower and lower. They don’t want to be a great hero who will be remembered in history. They just want to have enough to eat. They just want to be able to eat.
Live...
So all they thought about these years was how to survive, and then they realized that they had traveled through time for many years.
Others who traveled through time were either granted lordships or generals, or were surrounded by beauties. However, they traveled through time and spent more than ten years as beggars, which was really frustrating.
Now that they saw familiar teachers and classmates, their frightened hearts finally calmed down.
The teacher was right, they didn't have the ability, and they had a huge opportunity in front of them, but he didn't ride the wind and skyrocket.
The classmates who reunited this night finally had a good sleep. In their dreams, they seemed to have returned to modern times. They had eaten the breakfast carefully prepared by their parents in the morning, and then went to school with their schoolbags on their backs. On the campus! The sound of reading was loud, and there was no smoke or gunfire.
They sat in the bright classroom and listened to the teacher's "Book with My Wife"...
Finally, they were awakened by a huge explosion. The sound was deafening, and the students' eardrums were shocked and painful.
This sound is very familiar...
When they opened their eyes, they found that they were in the battlefield at the moment, and their clothes were completely different from the ones they wore before falling asleep last night.
At this moment, they are wearing the attire of students in the 1930s and 1940s, and not far in front of them is the river bank, where two armies are fighting to the death...
This scene is so familiar. Isn't this a scene from those anti-war dramas that the older generation often watched?
It's just that the current situation is completely different from the one in the drama. It's not the people from the East Island who are being pressed and rubbed, but their own people.
It was indeed a dream. They didn't go back at all, but went directly from 12 to 38 again.
And right after crossing it, we encountered a war.
It is obvious that the Chinese cannot win here and are being beaten all the time. The 31st Army's standing number is crumbling in the smoke.
If we continue fighting like this, our entire army will really be wiped out.
The commander had no choice but to give up the idea of defending the river bank and ordered the entire army to retreat to the fortified fortifications to have a good fight with the Dongdao people.
When retreating, they saw Gu Mo and a group of students, and shouted angrily, "What are you students doing here when the war is raging? Hurry and leave!"
But after seeing the situation, he asked the students to leave on their own, as they might encounter the Dongdao Army and end up dead without any body parts, so he ordered the students to withdraw together.
The Dongdao Army suffered heavy losses and chased for a short distance before returning.
The 31st Army retreated all the way towards their destination. Unknowingly, it was already twelve o'clock in the evening, and they had to pass through a dense jungle.
At this time, there were no stars or moon in the sky, and the jungle was completely dark. The troops could only rely on the compass to determine their direction and groped forward in the darkness.
It was difficult for the army to walk, and it was difficult for the students to follow them step by step. However, they had already endured hardships and would no longer complain about their grievances.
At this time, Jiang Chen didn't pay attention and stepped on something. His foot stumbled and he almost fell.
Someone immediately reached out to help him, and Jiang Chen politely said thank you.
After saying this, the whole person froze in confusion, because the other party also said something in Dongdao dialect at the same time, and then the other party heard Jiang Chen's words of thanks, and his body also froze.
The air became still for a moment, and the two looked at each other briefly in the darkness for three seconds, then moved away as if nothing had happened and continued walking forward.
However, Jiang Chen's legs were shaking. Why were there people from Dongdao in the woods? I was really panicking when I stepped on the horse!
Unexpectedly, the Dongdao man next to him was even more panicked than him. He staggered several times while walking, but he didn't cry out.
Jiang Chen was so anxious now that he wanted to tell Gu Mo the news, but he didn't know where Gu Mo was, let alone who were his people around him.
He didn't dare to say anything at all, for fear that if he opened his mouth and alerted the people of Dongdao, he would be attacked.
The people of the 31st Army were not stupid, and they obviously knew that a group of Dongdao Army had followed the same path as them.
But these blind people have no idea how many people there are on the other side, so how can they dare to attack? They are afraid that when they fire, the enemy will not hit, but only their own people will be hit. When the team is in chaos, they don't have to retreat.
All played.
So they just pretended that they didn't know about this group of Dongdao troops, and the team continued to move forward as if nothing had happened.
The Dongdao Army was in the same situation. They didn't know the reality and didn't dare to take action. So they kept their heads down and continued on their way without making a sound. They didn't even know whether the people passing by them were comrades or enemies.
After walking side by side for a long time in the woods, the two armies finally parted with a tacit understanding, bowing their heads and going their separate ways.
When the shadow of the Dongdao Army was no longer visible, 31 people breathed a sigh of relief.
They were extremely nervous along the way, especially when they later found out that the Dongdao Army that night was not a small force, but a large force that had withdrawn from the city, they became even more frightened.
Under the circumstances, if they had opened fire, they would have been wiped out directly.
Fortunately, they were successfully evacuated. The next step was to quickly repair the fortress position before the Dongdao Army came over.
The commander of the 31st Army was named Gu. He ordered the construction of fortification positions with the railway as the baseline, and personally supervised it, vowing to block the Dongdao Army north of the railway line.
Finally, when everything was ready, he personally stood on the battlefield and said, "Withdrawing from the river bank must be done as a last resort. If we retreat again this time, we will have no choice but to retreat to the hinterland of the Central Plains. By then, we will have few battles and have not won.
How can you be worthy of your parents and fellow villagers at home! How can you have the face to survive in this world?"
"From this moment on, each of you must remember to do your duty and stick to your position. I will die for the survival of the country, and I will survive for the country. Anyone who loses his position will be punished with treason!"
The soldiers looked resolute and answered sonorously: "If I die, the country will survive; if I survive, the country will die!"
Commander Gu was very satisfied, "Before this, I have written a will. Today I will stand firm with my brothers and never retreat first. If I retreat first, everyone here can shoot me!"
How dare the soldiers who lowered their heads even though their officers were dead, dare to be cowardly? Everyone yelled: "I am here when the position is in place, and if the position is destroyed, I will perish!"
