Chapter 904 (Fourth update, please subscribe)
War always takes many lives!
The battlefield has never been romantic. The so-called "blood" itself has no romance at all. Even if there is romance, it only belongs to a minority of people.
Gold and wealth are the roots of all wars. Even though he had never been to Serbia, it did not prevent Lin Yili from being familiar with this Serbian proverb.
In fact, before the troops set off, his father wrote him a letter in Serbian. Until now, his father cannot write Chinese, and as a shoemaker, he can only speak some simple Chinese.
It’s not because he is against Chinese, but because he really can’t speak it. In fact, his father has always been grateful to Daming. After all, in the past, his father was just a craftsman in the manor of the manor owner. He not only had to work for the manor owner, but also had to farm. However, the manor owner had nothing except renting him a house.
At least after Daming came, my father could rent a house and do his own business, but Chinese was too difficult to learn...
"In war, politicians provide ammunition, the rich provide food, and the poor provide children! When the war is over, the politicians take back the remaining ammunition, the rich grow more food, and the poor can only look for the children's graves."
Silently recalling the words in his father's letter, Lin Yili looked at the corpses in front of him, his expression seeming a little depressed.
"Squad Leader Lin, that flag bearer is from your squad, right?"
"Yes, platoon leader."
"Well, the company commander has already recommended him for a commendation. He is a really good soldier! Very brave. He is a new recruit this year, right? He is from China?"
"Yes, I just came here, less than half a year!"
"Do you have his family's address? I plan to write a letter to his family."
…
This is a letter that can never be sent because his family has died long ago.
Soon, the bodies of the soldiers were put into coffins and loaded onto trucks. They would be sent to the rear and buried in their hometown cemeteries or the Martyrs' Shrine in Yingtian according to their wishes.
The vast majority of soldiers chose the Martyrs' Shrine. For the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, the Martyrs' Shrine is a place of honor.
“Have a safe trip!”
Watching the coffins containing the bodies of his comrades being loaded onto the trucks one by one, Lin Yili silently saluted, then turned and left. As he left, he looked back at the coffins, nodded, and seemed to say something...
…
The battle came to a temporary end with the fall of Montevideo's outer positions. The troops finally entered Montevideo, which was once the capital of Uruguay. Although there were two fortresses outside the city, they had long been turned into ruins under the bombardment of siege artillery and heavy bombs. When Lin Yili's troops marched to the fortress, all they saw was a ruin.
The soldiers sat with their legs stretched out on the bunkers and trenches near the ruins. The fierce battle made them so tired that they didn't even want to open their eyes. Hundreds of bodies of Brazilian soldiers lay around them, both white and black, but now, they were all just dead.
Some warriors would search for trophies on the corpses, but there wasn't much trophy, at most a revolver or a dagger.
During the break, the soldiers took out compressed biscuits from their backpacks, took a bite of the biscuit and sipped some cold water. The water had a strong smell of chlorine, which was the smell of disinfectant tablets. Although the smell was strong, it was safer than ordinary raw water. It was the water purification and disinfectant tablets that made diseases such as dysentery disappear in the Ming army.
And the Brazilian army...still had thousands dying of common dysentery, and unclean drinking water and poor camp hygiene had always been the army's greatest enemies.
When the soldiers were resting, on the ruins of the fortress behind them, there was an inscription "Occupied by the 71st Regiment on November 3". Perhaps a few hours ago, there were still soldiers standing on the ruins, cheering happily with the military flags and weapons. The photographers accompanying the army would record it all with cameras and video cameras. One day, when the movie "The Conquest of Montevideo" was playing in the cinema, this shot would appear.
All of this is always enviable, but for Lin Yili and his comrades, now they just want to take a break.
While they were resting, there were continuous gunshots coming from the direction of the city. In the buildings on the edge of the city, the Brazilians were still resisting, but more people were surrendering. They had long been frightened by the continuous bombing and shelling. Many Uruguayans either deserted or chose to surrender directly during the attack. As for the "free men", most of them surrendered directly, but what awaited them was naturally the reckoning for the atrocities they committed in Paraguay.
The Ming Dynasty holds grudges!
Of course, there were also some tenacious Brazilian soldiers who fought to the end. Even in a building in the city, hundreds of Brazilian soldiers not only fought to the end, but even when the building was conquered, they chose to die together.
After learning about the bravery of the Brazilian soldiers, Liang Wu, the commander of the Third Army, couldn't help but praise the courage of the Brazilian soldiers.
"What a brave group of warriors! A group of respectable warriors!"
After praising, he ordered the military observers from Britain, the United States, France and other countries present to be stunned.
"In order to show respect to them, I think there is no need to persuade them to surrender! Soldiers should be given enough respect!"
The so-called respect means - let them die!
What?
There is such an operation!
Faced with such operations, British observer Major Montgomery immediately protested.
"General, it is really inhumane not to persuade them to surrender."
"What humanity? That's just the morality of ordinary people!"
Liang Wu said directly.
"What is the moral duty of a soldier? To die for the country is the highest honor for a soldier. If they surrender voluntarily, we welcome them. If they want to hold on to the end, out of respect for them, we will certainly help them! You don't understand, in the East, dying in battle is the honor of a soldier!"
After saying this, Liang Wu couldn't help but give a lesson to Montgomery, Johnson and de Gaulle.
"You guys, you've been in Ming for so long, but you don't understand Ming soldiers at all. Do you know what a soldier's soul is?"
Looking at the confused faces of these foreign observers, Liang Wu explained.
"The spirit of a soldier is to face death with equanimity and sacrifice one's life for justice! Whenever the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty go to war, they are proud to "meet at the Martyrs' Shrine". The way to respect the enemy is to fulfill their loyalty and bravery on the battlefield! I think if General Cavalcanti knew my decision, he would definitely thank me!"
If General Cavalcanti knew... he would probably surrender even faster. The next morning, faced with the reality that the Ming army had already entered Montevideo, the commander of the Brazilian garrison, General Cavalcanti, directly ordered the white flag to be raised.
Facing the raised white flag, Liang Wu was also very melancholy!
"General, you seem very disappointed!"
Captain de Gaulle, the military attaché of the French Embassy and observer accompanying the army, looked at him and said.
"Hey, you don't understand!"
Liang Wu said with some emotion.
"If you have time, you should go to the Martyrs' Shrine. Maybe then you will understand..."
(End of this chapter)
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