War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 3: You can’t light the lights even if your own children come back

Covered in heavy snow and wind, a small mountain village outside Nangang, the Ice City, was experiencing the bitter winter of 1931. It was as if God knew something in advance and poured out a freezing cold on the people.

In the snow, a figure was the first to break through the harsh natural environment. At that moment, he walked out of the foggy snow and finally saw the smoke from the village in the distance...

Then, the second, third, and fourth figures appeared behind him...Among those figures, there was a woman wearing two Japanese army cotton-padded jackets, holding her child in her arms.

"Brother-in-law, we are finally back!"

When a young man saw the smoke from cooking at the foot of the mountain, he shouted loudly, his excitement was self-evident.

Their journey was extremely hard. Not only did they have to walk across the ice and snow in the cold winter, but they also had to lie in the snow beside the railway in the middle of the night to ambush Japanese patrols. Otherwise, they would have found no food in the ice and snow all over the mountains.

But after ambushing a Japanese patrol team only once, Xu Chaoyang did not allow his men to continue taking action. The Japanese were not fools. If they found that the two teams had disappeared on the railway, they would follow their tracks and come over.

Fortunately, God had a good vision and let them encounter a stupid roe deer before it ate up all the Japanese army rations. Otherwise, this group of people would have died of hunger and cold in the mountains even if they had left Qi City!

"You can't go back now."

Xu Chaoyang stopped his men at the door, but the young man asked in confusion, "Why?"

Xu Chaoyang looked at his brother-in-law's eyes, which were eager to go home and lie down on the warm kang immediately. He smiled and said, "With the skin on our bodies, we will bring disaster to others if we enter any house. If some shameless person sees us and tells the Japanese, will you let the elderly in your family live?"

"Let's wait until dark, the latter part of the night."

A few people found a leeward hillside on the mountain and huddled in the snow. At this time, a man with a scar on his face came over and said, "Captain, you said before that we should open our mouths slightly when shooting. Why did you say that?"

"Balance the air pressure inside and outside."

"What is air pressure?"

During these days, although Xu Chaoyang was starving in the snow and ice, he had enough time to teach his subordinates the basic knowledge. At the same time, he also matched these people with the memories in his mind one by one.

The one with the scar on his face is called Ermaitai, whose full name is Liu Gener. He is the cousin of Xu Chaoyang's brother-in-law. Although they are about the same age, the other is older. He joined the army with Xu Chaoyang's relationship and received salary. The two can't discuss seniority, so they just call each other by their official titles.

Xu Chaoyang's brother-in-law was from a wealthy family in the village. He had an extremely pretty sister. The girl was plump and plump. After the Xu family took a liking to her, they asked a matchmaker to propose marriage. But the matchmaker replied, "Your family is not worthy!"

At that time, the Xu family had a bad reputation in the village and was poor, so it was normal for people to look down on them.

Later, Xu Chaoyang caught the eye of Lv Damazi, who was transferred to his side. When he heard about this, Lv Damazi was unhappy at the time and cursed: "Damn it, my brother is not worthy? Fuck, if my brother gets angry, he can jump up on the kangqin!"

"Their family is the right one! Take my regiment commander's ID and this Browning to propose marriage, and tell them to let them choose for themselves!" Just like that, with threats, coercion and inducement, Damazi Lv arranged the marriage for Xu Chaoyang. As a result, the family heard that Xu Chaoyang was now a company commander, and asked someone to ask, "Sir, can you bring your brother-in-law with you so that he can also eat the emperor's food?" What kind of thing is this...

So, my brother-in-law Yu Minghao joined the army and joined Xu Chaoyang's company, and was followed by him wherever he went like a little tail.

And there is Qu Yong, Xu Chaoyang's cousin and the child of his third uncle. Otherwise, why did they keep these brothers when Lu Damazi asked him to keep a few trustworthy people around him?

But it's not Xu Chaoyang's fault. That was the atmosphere in the Fengtian Army at that time. Which officer didn't have relatives around him? When a real fight breaks out, it's called fighting brothers and fighting fathers and sons. Otherwise, how could they be so obedient? You asked them to fight the Japanese with low light, and they risked their lives without even asking?

After night fell, Xu Chaoyang led these people to the mountains to drink the wind for another half a night, and then slowly walked down the hillside. The child in the woman's arms was surprisingly well-behaved tonight, and fell asleep without making any noise. Only then did these people dare to take her into the village. The last time they ambushed the Japanese patrol team, they had to throw this woman far away and leave someone to protect her. It was so troublesome.

In the village, Xu Chaoyang just turned over and entered a courtyard where the lights had been turned off. He heard the geese calling, "Hey, hey," so loud that he was sweating. Then the dog woke up and barked "Woof! Woof!" in this direction twice, then rushed over with its tail wagging.

It was okay. The dog recognized him. It whined and raised its two front paws and pounced on him, its tail wagging and making a snapping sound.

"Who!"

At this time, the oil lamp in the house was lit, and the dim light was so cool that it penetrated the window paper. An old man who had not slept too deeply, wearing a cotton coat and cotton pants with a "water crotch and diapers", walked out of the house holding the oil lamp. Halfway through the walk, he shook his shoulders to shake the cotton coat tighter.

Xu Chaoyang was standing alone in the yard, wearing a gray-blue military uniform, a nine-dragon belt, and holding a machine gun. He was too embarrassed to speak at first, but the memory in his mind forced his lips open and he shouted, "Dad."

The old man was stunned for a moment. He put the oil lamp in front of his eyes and examined it carefully. After a long time, the expression on his face melted away. He walked forward in surprise and said, "Isn't this the living beast of our family coming back?"

Xu Chaoyang smiled.

This is the nickname that Northeastern parents give to their own children. From the "baby" in childhood, it gradually becomes the annoying "bad seed" at the age of seven or eight, and then to the "suckers and gluttons" who eat their parents to death at the age of fifteen or sixteen. These unpleasant names are full of love.

"Dad, let me open the door first."

Xu Chaoyang was afraid of being seen, so he quickly opened the gate and let the others in. The old man saw that among the children in front of him, there was no unfamiliar woman except the woman, and there was only an unfamiliar woman holding a child. What else could he say?

He turned around and pointed to his house, saying, "Come in!"

The group of people walked into the house under the gaze of the old man, who squinted his eyes and stood in the wind with the corners of his clothes blowing. When the old man turned around, Xu Chaoyang reached out to take the oil lamp and blew it out directly, saying, "Talk in the dark."

Then Xu Chaoyang held the old man's arm and returned to the house. After the old man entered the house, he couldn't even see the faces of the children around him. He sat down on the edge of the kang in anger and said, "Alas, what kind of world is this? I can't even light the lamp when my own children come back."

(End of this chapter)