Zhou Wu and the New Fourth Army and other leading comrades after a pleasant greeting, both with their troops back to the station, Zhou Wu and they returned to Gaoyou Lake, at this time the sky has been bright, the wounded and sick who stayed in Gaoyou Lake heard that the brothers of the Independent Brigade had won a battle on the Jiangdu side, and they all went to the cottage wharf in Hushan under the leadership of Shen Lina and Shi Gazi to welcome Zhou Wu and their return.
Shen Lina saw her husband Ding Ning dragging his tired body, with a bloody bandage wrapped around his head, she was so anxious that she hurriedly stepped forward to take Ding Ning's hand and asked him: "Ding Ning, I'll take a look at your head injury, is it bad?"
Ding Ning heard his wife's warm question, and felt a warm current surging in his heart, straight to the bottom of his throat, he choked for a while, and said softly to Shen Lina: "Xiao Shen, it's okay, my head was just scratched by a bullet, not my bones, just rest for a few days." ” Looking at the intimacy of Ding Ning and his wife, the fat man hurriedly looked for his wife in the crowd, and after looking for a long time, he didn't see Xiao Liu's figure, so anxious that the fat man grabbed Shi Gazi, the commander of the health company, and asked: "Company Commander Shi, why didn't my wife come here?"
"Oh, Captain Liu, Xiao Liu is nursing the wounded in the back, she didn't come over, she just entrusted me to bring you a message, so that you don't worry, and she will come as soon as she finishes the things there."
Shi Gazi hurriedly said to the fat man who was in a hurry, looking at the fat man's ragged and bloodstained appearance, Shi Gazi secretly admired this fat man's head in his heart, it was really good.
Just when the welcoming crowd was about to disperse, the anxious fat man saw his wife Xiao Liu hurriedly come over, and when he saw the fat man's virtue, he was distressed, and asked him in a soft voice: "Fat man, you are injured, let me bandage it, don't get infected."
After speaking, he stretched out his green jade finger to lift the gauze wrapped around the fat man's head, don't be fat, grabbed Qianqian's little hand, the Adam's apple on his neck rolled a few times, and said to Xiao Liu in a rare soft voice: "Xiao Liu, it's okay, this little injury is nothing, as long as I see that you and our children are safe, I will put a hundred hearts." ” Xiao Liu Weiyi stroked his increasingly protruding belly on the fat man's not so tall, but quite broad shoulders, and whispered to the fat man: "Fat man, listen, our child is kicking me hard, and it seems that he is also here to welcome his father back from the battlefield."
The fat man felt that he was the happiest person in the world at this time, and when he was desperate with the little devil just now, he was in great trouble and did not die, and his whole body retreated, and now he has a wife hugging each other, listening to the little life in his wife's belly stirring, what a blessing and joy at this time Of course, Zhou Wu saw the situation of these two couples, and if he didn't look at it, he immediately aroused his sorrow again, if Xiuying and Xiao Wuzi were still there, they should have jumped up and down to meet him as a father, but now except for him standing alone in the dawn of dawn, there was an empty reed in the distance, and occasionally a burst of wild ducks flew up.
His beloved wife, beloved parents, and beloved son no longer exist, all of this is thanks to those little devils, Zhou Wu thought about it, and a wave of resentment came up in his heart, his teeth chattered with hatred, and he clenched his fists.
The careful Ding Ning noticed Zhou Wu's emotional changes, of course he understood why the brigade seat walked over gently, and patted him on the shoulder: "Brigade, it's been two days of hard work, hurry up and rest, the orderly will go and clean up immediately, get some hot water, and burn your feet."
After Zhou Wu went back, he burned his feet, lay on the bed and slept beautifully, and when he woke up, it was already the time to hold the lamp at night, Ding Ning was already sitting quietly next to him, and when he saw Zhou Wu wake up, he smiled and said to him: "The brigade has woken up, I have already instructed the secretary to prepare the meal, you hurry up and eat a little, I still have something to tell you later." ” As soon as Zhou Wu heard that Ding Ning had something to do, he didn't even eat, and wanted to listen to Ding Ning's words, Ding Ning said: "Travel, then let's talk while eating."
During the meal, Ding Ning said to Zhou Wu: "Brigade seat, this time to save Mr.
Wang, the loss of our independent brigade is not small, I asked the fat man to count, a total of 4,000 people went out of Gaoyou Lake, and now less than 2,000 can return to Gaoyou Lake alive, and most of the dead are those old brothers who have been fighting from Shanghai, it can be described as a heavy loss, not so much a victory, in fact, it is a tragic victory."
Tomorrow we must convene a meeting of the officers to discuss and analyze the lessons of this battle, which will help us in dealing with the little devils in the future. ” Zhou Wu nodded again and again after hearing this: "Ding Ning, you are right, this loss has more than half of my mistakes, it is precisely because I believe the information of the little devil that this tragedy has been caused, although Mr.
Wang has been rescued, but the loss of our brothers is too great, the little vitality that has just recovered in Gaoyou Lake will be immediately offset by this battle, and we have to have a meeting to discuss the gains and losses."
Hey, how is Mr.
Wang?"
"Mr.
Wang is very good, except for a little skin trauma, there is nothing serious about the other bodies, after a bandage in the health department, he has settled in the room in the cottage, he pestered me during the day today, I have to come to see you, I consider that you are sleeping, so I politely refused him."
Ding Ning said.
"Okay, very good, Mr.
Wang has a great favor to our independent brigade, when he was in Shitang Town, Jiangyin, if it weren't for the help of their father and son, these brothers of our independent brigade would have been able to support Nanjing, let alone cross the river in the heavily surrounded city of Nanjing to come to Jiangbei.
If you receive the grace of a drop of water, you should repay it with a spring.
The losses of our independent brigade this time are a little bigger, but I think it is still worth it to be able to save Lao Wang.
Zhou Wu said.
Ding Ning nodded, was silent for a while, and suddenly raised his head and asked Zhou Wudao: "Brigade seat, what you said about the principle of "receiving the favor of dripping water, you should repay with a spring" applies to the New Fourth Army, in case one day our superiors ask us to shoot at the New Fourth Army, what will you do" It seems that Ding Ning still wants to explore Zhou Wu's reality again, although the current cooperation with the New Fourth Army is quite good, but Ding Ning still vaguely feels that the day when the National Army and the New Fourth Army will oppose each other.
The chairman of the NPC National Committee was forced to establish an anti-Japanese united front with the Communists, and he still regarded the New Fourth Army and other Communist forces as the greatest threat in his heart; once the offensive of the little devils slowed down or the main forces of the Nationalist army that fled to the interior were given a chance to breathe, the remnants of the Nationalist army remaining behind the devil's enemy lines and the local communist forces would inevitably cause friction.
Zhou Wu looked at Ding Ning in surprise, and felt that he had no malicious intentions, so he said to him honestly: "Ding Ning, since the little devil entered China, I think we are China People don't want their own people to fight their own people anymore, why do these little devils invade us, isn't it because we Chinese are not united in their own nests?
Little Japan, whose land area is not as large as one of our provinces, and whose population is only one of our four units, dare to invade us on a large scale, China, and say that they will destroy us within three months, is it not that they see that since the Republic of China, large and small warlords have been fighting war year after year, various localities have acted independently and disobeyed the orders of the central government, the people have been displaced, and the people have no livelihood, They just took advantage of this excellent opportunity to rob while the fire was on fire, just imagine, if we in China were like the Han Tang Dynasty, this little Japan would come to such an unscrupulous invasion or in response to the old saying of our ancestors: Brothers are outside the wall to resist their insults, and our current anti-Japanese united front is like this, the New Fourth Army is the brother of our independent brigade, no matter how our superiors order in the future, I will not shoot at my brother, besides, people have repeatedly saved our independent brigade from fire and water.
If we follow the orders from above and fire at the ranks of the New Fourth Army, then won't we become ungrateful white-eyed wolves facing Qin Duchu" Zhou Wu explained to the old man, he would not fire at the brothers of the New Fourth Army.
"If you disobey the orders of your superiors, won't you become disloyal and unrighteous soldiers, it is your duty to obey orders, you have always taught us, if you openly disobey military orders, how to convince your brothers in the future" Ding Ning then asked Zhou Wudao, whose attitude was already clear.
Zhou Wu was anxious when he heard this, and his voice became a lot louder: "Ding Ning, what is disloyalty and injustice, what is obedience to orders, as soldiers, we should be blood on the battlefield and expel foreign enemies, what is disloyalty and not shooting at friendly brothers in the same trench, it is an unrighteous joke, we don't understand the political skills of those politicians above, and we don't want to get involved, but we have to have a ruler in our hearts, blindly obey all orders from Shangfeng, this is not called loyalty, it is foolish loyalty."
What happened to the Communist New Fourth Army They are not traitors and two dogs who have defected to the little devils, they are our brothers who fight side by side, how can we do such a stupid thing of relatives and enemies Ding Ning, here I repeat, no matter how the upper peak orders our independent brigade in the future, I will not shoot at the New Fourth Army under any circumstances, we Chinese have been fighting ourselves for so many years, and it is time to stop and stop, if this continues, we China will really die at the hands of the Japanese devils.
Although Zhou Wu's words were a little louder, the words were quite sonorous and powerful, and the righteousness was awe-inspiring.
Ding Ning, who had not been expressionless before, not only applauded, but also applauded loudly: "Okay, well, the brigade said it too well, this is also where our brothers are puzzled, after listening to your words today, we all have the bottom in our hearts, that is, no matter what happens in the future, we will not fire at any team that fights devils."
Ding Ning also stood up excitedly and said to Zhou Wu.
In this way, Zhou Wu and Ding Ning chatted while eating, and talked for most of the night, until ten o'clock in the evening, and when they left, Zhou Wu squeezed his eyes at Ding Ning mysteriously and said: "Ding Ning, you still have an important task that has not been completed, you have to work hard, you have to learn from the fat man." ” Ding Ning couldn't understand the meaning of what Zhou Wu said for a while, and after understanding what was going on, Zhou Wu had already laughed and went back to sleep inside, it seems that the little devil will not come to disturb for a while in the past two days, and he has to make up for the sleep he didn't sleep before. t1706231537: