Old Sean and Catherine lived in Jiangbei like this, but the battle scene they longed to see did not appear. Everything was as calm as before 1937. The farmers farmed, rested, and went to the city to go to the market day after day to live their pastoral life.

Because there is no battle, there is no wounded. Old Sean is a battlefield doctor. He has no place to treat local farmers. Catherine interviewed many guerrilla warriors and civilians and obtained a lot of first-hand information.

Catherine asked Chen Zikun why he maintained a tacit understanding with the Japanese army and did not invade each other

"It's not tacit understanding, neither side has the strength to change the status quo, which is the so-called strategic stalemate stage." Chen Zikun explained, "Although our army has the ability to recover the big cities, the Japanese army cannot defend it, and it is also capable of concentrating its forces to sweep us into the mountains, but they do not have enough troops to defend the current situation in the vast rural areas. The number of bloody sacrifices has brought about a kind of balance that both sides are helpless."

"But after all, it's the hostile side. If you need to do something in the area occupied by the Japanese army, how can you ensure the safety of personnel exchanges?" Katherine wrote on her notebook with a pencil.

"There is no obstacle. The number of Japanese troops is limited and cannot be blocked. Most of the defense is borne by the puppet army." Speaking of this, Chen Zikun laughed heartily. "You know what the puppet army is that a group of guys who change their minds when they see the wind. They dare not offend the Japanese, but they dare not offend me."

"Why" Catherine was puzzled

"Because they are all locals, their wives, children, and their children are still living here. Their seven aunts and aunts and their families have all been in Jiangbei and offended the Japanese. They are just one who died and offended me. That is life is worse than death. Do you understand that it is a threat that is even more terrifying than death."

"Can you say it more specifically?"

"Usually, we will not blame the puppet troops serving the Japanese too much. After all, everyone has to make a living by making a living. Many military and political personnel from the puppet government, from division commanders to village chiefs to maintaining the president or small team leaders in the stronghold, will secretly work for us. During the day, we will welcome the imperial army to greet the guerrillas at night. We will always get news in advance. As for those stubborn guys, we will execute them and sometimes suffer together, which means we will destroy the family."

Catherine gasped: "Did you mean the whole family want to kill the elderly and children?"

Chen Zikun said: "Not only that, even the ancestral tomb will be excavated and corpses will be excavated."

"It's too cruel." Catherine's voice trembled "How many families have you destroyed so far?"

"In fact, no one has ever been killed by the traitors who have been exterminated. No one can be offended by both sides."

Katherine sighed: "There is no dignity to survive in the cracks..."

Chen Zikun said: "Don't be sad for these traitors. If you must watch a battle, the Eighth Route Army will be knocking on the Japanese coal mine in Longyang. I can arrange for you to interview."

Catherine said excitedly: "The Eighth Route Army is the ** army. I have always wanted to uncover their mysterious veil."

Without further ado, Chen Zikun immediately arranged for two days. Shuangxi and a squad of soldiers escorted Catherine to the Eighth Route Army people near the county town to pick up people here.

A burly man stood under a big tree wearing a top hat with sunglasses stuck on his face, wearing a black silk shirt, with a white jacket with a brass buckle and a wide cowhide strap around his waist, two Mauser pistols, and star-shot. There was a Japanese chrysanthemum brand bicycle parked next to him. He looked very vivid and was a traitor detective team.

The man grinned and said, "My name is Zhao Ziming, Chen Zikun, is my uncle, and we are all our own people, let's go with me."

Katherine said: "You're the only one"

"I'm enough," Zhao Ziming replied with confidence

So Katherine climbed onto the back seat of Zhao Ziming's bicycle and started a journey to the Eighth Route Army base.

To go to Longyang, you need to cross a railway branch railway has always been a key defense area for the Japanese. Not only are there artillery towers and wire mesh, but also iron armored vehicles patrol and defense back and forth. The defense is airtight.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Zhao Ziming took Catherine to the railway intersection and shouted: "Old Zhao has something to do today, brothers, please do it."

The above answered: "Commander Zhao, please wait two hours later, the Japanese consultant will come to inspect, so we won't invite you to come for tea."

Zhao Ziming bowed: "I'm sure I'll say goodbye"

In this way, I passed the railway line without any danger and arrived at the base of the Eighth Route Army. A female reporter from the United States was warmly welcomed by Commander Wu Changqing and Political Commissar Ye Xuefeng. Katherine said Chinese. The Jiangbei Special Committee also sent a translator to come over. A middle-aged man with a clean face and gentle face looks like a teacher. He speaks English well. Zheng is said to have graduated from Jiaotong University.

The Eighth Route Army plans to attack Shuanghe Coal Mine in Longyang County to pull out this nail. The troops reserved three months of weapons and ammunition for this mission. It was a big hit. Catherine insisted on going to the front line to take photos. For this reason, the Party Committee of the detachment held an emergency meeting.

Ye Xuefeng said this was a great opportunity to show the Eighth Route Army's heroic resistance to Japan to the whole world, and we must not give up Wu Changqing, but said that if a female reporter had a three-way and two-way shortcoming, it would be better to lose. Catherine was watching them argue at the end of the argument, and the translator Zheng said lightly: "We can send soldiers to protect the safety of American friends. If a squad is not enough, a squad will be sent to a platoon at all costs, and at all costs, we must show the bloody side of our Eighth Route Army and ensure absolute safety."

The Eighth Route Army sent ten soldiers to take charge of Catherine's security soldiers surrounded Catherine like moving walls. When she needed to climb up and take photos, the soldiers would set up ladders and the troops would move quickly. The soldiers would march on her back.

When the battle started, Catherine was only 200 meters away from the front line and saw the soldiers fall one after another under the guns of the Japanese. In order to conquer a machine gun bunker, the Eighth Route Army paid at least a dozen lives. Finally, a young soldier risked his life to rush over and fire the grenade and die with the enemy to resolve the roadblock.

The battle lasted for six hours. The Shuanghe Coal Mine finally planted the red flag. The remaining enemies were wiped out. Catherine was allowed to come to the battlefield to visit. There were smoke and bullet holes everywhere. The blood flowed all over the ground. The shutter of the camera sounded. Catherine's heart was getting heavier and heavier.

A shocking scene appeared on the ground, with hundreds of bodies arranged neatly. Yesterday, they were still alive and lively young men, but today they turned into cold corpses. The parents, wives and children in the family were still looking forward to their return. Catherine picked up the camera but silently put down her tears and burst out from her eyes.

Several soldiers were busy surrounding a body trying to remove a light machine gun from his hands. The flesh of his hands was burnt. The bullets on his stomach took out a big hole. Still glaring and dying.

Translator Zheng told the story of the martyr in a casual manner. It turned out that at the last moment of the battle, the Japanese could not support themselves and tried to escape. A small team leader broke through with a light machine gun. The soldier stepped forward to stop the enemy. But at the critical moment, the bullets were fired. He rushed forward and grabbed the scorching machine gun barrel and exchanged his life for victory.

"Why did he do this?" Catherine asked

"For light machine guns, the Eighth Route Army lacks weapons. A company has only one machine gun. It is easy to be suppressed by the enemy in battle. In order to compete for a machine gun, it often costs a lot of money." Zheng Translator said lightly.

Katherine said: "I have some money here, please hand it over to his family."

Zheng translated: "He has no family. His parents were burned to death by the Japanese during the sweep. His pregnant wife was also killed by one corpse and two lives. There are many soldiers with fate like him."

That night, Katherine wrote a lot in her laptop

The Eighth Route Army captured Shuanghe Coal Mine and seized a large amount of military supplies. It also suffered a lot of casualties. Wu Changqing asked Chen Zikun for help. So Old Sean Stanley rushed to the field hospital of the Eighth Route Army with his surgical instruments to perform surgery on the injured soldiers. His strengths were shown.

A surgery is under the tent of the field hospital, with blood-stained gauze and removed limbs and scraps. Old Sean is amputating a young soldier wearing a mask and holding a hacksaw for a broken calf.

Soldier is only sixteen years old. A faint fuzz on his lips. His eyes are extremely clear. His legs have become suppurated and he will not be amputated. If he is life-threatening.

But chloroform is gone, and old Sean can only perform amputation without anesthesia. The old military doctor who has experienced the first battle has been taken. He picked up the saw and pulled it quickly. It took less than a minute to saw off a leg. The young soldier bit a wooden stick and sweated heavily. But no sound happened from beginning to end.

"Forty seconds have broken my record during the Battle of the Marne River." Old Sean rubbed blood on his apron and lit a cigarette. Sitting on the ground, his hands trembled.

"Uncle, do you still insist on living?" Catherine asked with concern.

"My hands are OK, but my heart is not OK. I'm old and my heart is soft. I can't do this job unless there is enough anesthetic." Old Sean shook his head and felt a little depressed.

"I'll go find their commander to solve it." Catherine quickly walked to Wu Changqing's command office and heard a burst of intense music. What was heard from the radio was the Japanese naval march.

Wu Changqing Ye Xuefeng, Zheng Translator and others are listening to the radio and their expressions are very serious.

This is the radio station of the pseudo-central government broadcasting a soft female voice: "The Japanese Navy sank four aircraft carriers and two battleships on Midway to win a decisive victory since then the Japanese Empire has become the strongest country in the Pacific."

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