Start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 38 Safflower in the Smoke of Gunpowder
The fire, the high temperature, and the krypton flash during the explosion seemed to be roasting him in a furnace. The time seemed to have passed a century, and it seemed that a second had passed.

Even when Xu Qing jumped into the water, the violent high-temperature flames swept across the entire ground and crashed into the covered car, the residual heat still passed over and the entire water surface was almost boiled.

"what!"

He yelled, his whole body hurt from the hot water, he pulled the soldier beside him, jumped into the water to avoid the impact of the explosion, and soon jumped up again.

The flames in the woods were still burning and intensified. He hurriedly added the dozens of experience points gained from killing the enemy in the early morning to his physique, covered in steaming white mist, and ran to the other side of the woods with great effort.

When he got out of the woods, the plane was no longer visible, and the soldier on his back had already fainted from the pain. He had already recognized it. This was Xuan Qiang, who had only spoken a few words when he entered the new year on the train, not a few years older than him.

The other soldiers of the Seventh Company saw the shells falling into the woods, and all of them opened their eyes wide in disbelief.

Yu Congrong shouted: "Wu Wanli!"

Lei Gong: "They, they..."

Mei Sheng was speechless.

Qianli's mouth trembled, and he couldn't say a word.

Until Ping He shouted:
"...Look quickly!"

Only then did everyone raise their heads, and found that on the other side of the woods, two figures crawled away in the dark and deepening smoke, and Xu Qing was running out with a figure on his back.

"They are not dead!"

Qilian ran up to meet him one after another, each of them gave a hand, and hugged the soldier Xuan Qiang on his back.

Qianli touched him with both hands: "You're fine, you're fine...that's great!"

But as soon as he looked up, he saw Xu Qing standing there with no expression on his face, not crying, but tears were falling straight down.

Qianli: "What's wrong?"

Yu Congrong suddenly realized: "Where is Miss Xiaohua, Miss Xiaohua? Miss Xiaohua! Xiaohua...she..."

Xu Qing didn't speak, just looked back at the sea of ​​flames.

Everyone stopped in place one after another, and only then did they wake up.

Suddenly, remorse, self-blame, all kinds of complicated expressions appeared on everyone's faces, and all the soldiers felt deeply guilty.

What did they do?
They actually let an innocent girl be implicated and burned to death alive, right in front of them, so quietly.

Lei Gong was speechless for a long time, stepped forward and gently pressed his shoulder.

Xu Qing wanted to wipe away her tears, but she couldn't finish it...

After simply bandaging Xuanqiang and applying medicine, it was already half an hour after the fire slowed down.

The flames caused by the napalm bombs were difficult to extinguish. The woods burned for more than half an hour, and other planes in the sky flew back and forth several times.

This dangerous place suddenly became the safest place.

At this time, Qilian was able to enter from the other end of the forest. Everyone wet some clothes with water to block the front, covered their mouths and noses, and slowly poked in.

Once inside the woods, it was all black as ink and scorched ruins, where were there any traces of living people?

Most of the cars that were originally covered were melted, and the machine gun barrels on them were melted into iron juice.Everyone counted them, and only about four of them were still in good condition, but the body was as hot as a soldering iron, so they couldn't get close for a while.

Xu Qing walked to the place where the little flower girl fell last.

But there was nothing here, only the scorched black ground. He lay down on the ground and groped carefully, and found black ash with his hands.

He ran to the stream again and jumped into the water.The surface of the water was still steaming and bubbling, and he reached out to fish it in.nor.

Nothing at all……

The huge aftermath and high temperature of the explosion destroyed her body to pieces, and the remaining blood and broken limbs were also burned to ashes by the high temperature at the moment of the petrol bomb explosion.Can't find it at all.

Yu Congrong watched him running back and forth in silence, and murmured:

"Is there nothing left?"

Xu Qing didn't answer him, and frantically fumbled around, but the ground, water, and shore were all black and scorched, and there was no body he wanted.

...even a little bit.

He sat down.For the first time, I understood what "no bones left" meant.

Her parents died, her home was bombed, and she was gone. There seemed to be no trace of Xiaohua girl's existence in this world.

Qilian is the last person in the world who still remembers her. When they forget her name... there will be no such person.

As if just now, as if yesterday, everything that happened in the cave and on the battlefield was a dream.

She sang the "Song of Arirang", her sad but extremely calm smiling face, her figure rushing to help despite the hail of bullets, her ecstatic expression after learning the gun clumsily...

And these all become memories.

Unspeakable sadness welled up in his heart, Xu Qing tried hard not to shed tears, he was afraid that he would not be able to control himself.

Looking at the scorched land, he went to the place where the little flower girl was sitting last, dug out a piece of charcoal ash on it, and carefully sealed it up.

Yu Congrong looked at the pot of soil and realized that everything was irreversible, so he couldn't help crying. He was afraid that others would see it, so he covered himself silently.But such a strong man is emotional, anyone can see it.

Lei Gong sighed, he had seen too many deaths.Still sigh.

Everyone in Qilian took off their hats in silence.

In just one day and one night, this little North Korean girl with a calm appearance and a love for laughter has been deeply imprinted in the hearts of each of them, and they can't get rid of it.

After leaving the woods, everyone in Qilian was a little frustrated.

Mei Sheng: "We harmed her, she shouldn't get so close to us."

Xu Qing bowed her head.

Yu Congrong was silent.

A dull atmosphere enveloped everyone, and no one spoke.

Qianli was originally sitting, but suddenly burst out when he heard this:

"What's the matter with you? The Seventh Company, which has fought countless battles, is gone? Gone? Soulless? What about your beliefs? Are you worthy of the injured comrades? Are you worthy of the little flower girl!"

"If they don't kill them, they will kill us! Comrades, soldiers, my dear comrades-in-arms, this is not a joke, this is a real battlefield! War - has come! You are raising your hands and surrendering, continue Hang your head here, or fight with me?!"

Xu Qing thought more.

If... If he kills a few more enemies, gains more experience points, and adds more attributes to his body, can he change the ending of the little flower girl?
live, live...

At this moment, he suddenly remembered his mission [to live]. This life is not only for himself, but also for the people around him.

What's the point of all the hard work and all the sacrifices if you can't keep the people around you alive?
"beat!"

Xu Qing was the first to stand up, "We must fight!"

He was more firm than ever:
I will never let such a tragedy happen to my eyes again-never again! ! !

.........

Standing on the small ruins, in front of the ruins of the little flower girl's house.

Qilian stood silently.

They set up a small tomb, next to her parents' tomb, inside the tomb was the jar of "ashes", and a piece of wood that Xu Qing cut by herself was inserted into the grave.It is engraved in both Chinese and Korean: To our strongest and loveliest flower of the Korean nation—Ms. Jin Xuhua!

"This is war. Human beings are fragile and can't withstand the shells for a moment, but we are strong..."

Qianli looked at him: "What are we?
Xu Qing said: "The Chinese People's Liberation Army!"

"No! Not anymore...at least not now." He shook his head, "The later one."

Xu Qing stood at attention: "We are soldiers of the Chinese People's Volunteers!"

Qilian: "We are soldiers of the Chinese People's Volunteers!"

Qianli: "What is our goal?"

Qilian: "Support the Korean people and defend the peace of the motherland!"

Qianli asked again: "What can we do?"

Qilian roared: "Fight, fight, fight!"

Qianli's eyes were also red, and he shook his fist vigorously: "The seventh interspersed company, keep going!"

The Seventh Company will march again.

Behind, there is a fiery red "Jindalai flower" on the small grave bag.It didn't bloom this season, so Xu Qing folded it out of a piece of paper—Jindalai is her favorite flower.

The freshly picked "petals" still had blood on them, blown by the cold wind, moving silently in the ice and snow, as if singing, as if saying goodbye...

ps: Because of the comments from book friends, chapters 26 and up until now are written in real time, not on deposit, and there are often typos. Thank you for your suggestions, and the development of the content and plot is also rough.I will try my best to follow up with all objective comments.

Because what I said before is very clear, I don't want to fool around writing the first copy, I have to give the protagonist a process of growing up and bleeding.But everyone seemed to be unwilling to kill the plot, so they had to abandon the chapters that had been written and rushed to make it, so the image of this North Korean girl came into being.

The protagonist will get up soon, and it will be the most exciting moment of the battle of Changjin Lake.

The following is a list of possible follow-up plot trends, to see if everyone can accept it, and to give some suggestions:
1. Continue trekking with Qilian.Go to Dayu Cave, and then go to Changjin Lake. There is a battle in the middle, which may be relatively flat, or briefly written.The Battle of Changjin Lake changed fate.

2. Break up with Qilian for a short time.Sneak into the depths of the enemy's rear, intersperse alone, grow, kill the enemy, rapidly improve sniper skills, and become a Chinese death sniper (there are actually many similar real deeds in the Korean War, which are not considered magic changes).Then he played a key role in the Battle of Changjin Lake, greatly changing the fate of everyone.

3. Everyone raise a glass.

In addition, a few things for reference:
[U.S. bombing equipment vehicles, adapted from "Memories of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea" by General Hong Xuezhi.Hong Xuezhi, a general, was born in Jinzhai, Anhui today, and served as the deputy commander of the Chinese People's Volunteers. 】

【山谷游击战，改编自42军124师3营营长邢嘉盛，歼灭陆战1师7团炮兵营的真实战例】

[The U.S. military reconnaissance platoon is a historical patrol of the U.S. military on November 1950, 11. It crossed Huangcaoling to Gutuli to scout Chinese]

[It is true that the U.S. military hid the bottom of the car and knelt down, adapted from "The Coldest Winter: The Bloody Battle at Changjin Lake" by He Chuwu, an expert on Korean War History]

[The North Korean girl Jin Xuhua is indeed a real person, which comes from the memories of my grandfather who resisted US aggression and aided Korea.In that extremely cold winter]

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