Under One Person: One Person Goes

Chapter 385 Rescue
The Luodian battlefield was somewhat quiet at night.

With Lao Guo, the chief of staff of the 14th Division, leading the way and with the help of Wang Yi, they recaptured the Luodian battlefield and repelled the Japanese army. Even the Japanese troops that had landed from other areas and headed straight for the Luodian battlefield also retreated.

The most important strategic locations have been lost. If they continue to send troops to land, without the artillery suppression brought by the sea and sky advantage, they will be sending them into trouble. The Japanese are not stupid.

After realizing that there might be problems with the sea and sky advantage in the rear, they chose to retreat immediately.

The Luodian battlefield, which was lost once and never recaptured in the history of the original time and space, is now once again in the hands of the National Army, although only temporarily.

That night, Wang Yi, who had completed his breathing and recovered to full health, stood on a ruined high ground, looking in the direction of the Old Empire fleet.

In front of Wang Yi, there was a dish that was barely rich, as well as a dozen ceramic bowls, and in Wang Yi's arms was a jar of wine.

The night wind blew, blowing up Wang Yi's long gown, and behind Wang Yi, footsteps were heard.

"Chief of Staff Guo, you are still patrolling the position so late at night. Thank you for your hard work."

"If it weren't for the help of you, Boss Wang, a living god, I would have been ready to sacrifice my life for my country today. Now I am lucky enough to survive and occupy Luodian for a day and a night. I can fight the Japanese again on this important land. How can I not do my best?"

"I don't dare to call myself a god. No one in the world dares to say that he is a god. I am just like Chief of Staff Guo, a citizen who went to the country in times of crisis. But my influence is not great and I am not good at military affairs. I can only help in this regard. But Chief of Staff Guo, you have regained the position today. I think your career will be smoother in the future. Congratulations in advance."

"After this battle, let's survive and then talk about our careers."

"Chief of Staff Guo is so pessimistic about the Sino-Japanese war?"

"Boss Wang, do you know my current position?"

"Oh?"

"I am now the acting commander of the 42nd Brigade."

"Promotion before the war, promotion on the front line. It seems that Brigade Commander Guo's superiors also understand how serious this war is."

Lao Guo belonged to the Tumu faction of the Kuomintang's central army. The reason why it was called the Tumu faction was that the "eighteen" in the Eighteenth Army was derived from the faction of "Tu" which is split into "Eleven" and "Ba" which is split into "Mu".

It is considered to be the main force among the five main forces of the National Government's central army with relatively strict military discipline, unity, and smart generals.

Now that the strategic location of Luodian was regained by Lao Guo, Lao Guo's immediate superior also understood that the longer they held on to this important location, the slim chance of winning would increase by one point. Moreover, even if it was lost, the longer they held on, the greater the voice of the Civil Engineering Clique in the upper echelons of the National Government would be.

That's why Lao Guo was given such a promotion on the spot.

"Who said it wasn't? It's a blessing from heaven that we can retake the position. I don't even dare to think how long I can hold it. I have already written a suicide note. But Boss Wang, you are..."

Feeling grateful for his promotion, Lao Guo also noticed the delicious food and wine in front of Wang Yi.

"I took some time to go to the concession and brought these with me. Some people are going to die for us, delaying the war for a little longer and consuming more manpower from the Japanese. We have to see them off anyway."

As he spoke, Lao Guo also noticed that Wang Yi paused slightly.

That's because Wang Yi, through his previous spiritual connection with these Quan Xing members, realized that these Quan Xing members who followed him to join the bloody battle of the Battle of Shanghai were losing contact with him one by one.

Mental connection is another method developed by Wang Yi through magnetic field martial arts and brain waves. Entering dreams is one method. Sharing information within a certain range through mental connection and communicating through a microphone in a room is one aspect. On the other hand, one can roughly perceive the brain wave fluctuations of each person who is mentally connected with oneself, and achieve a rough mind-reading.

In other words, even if Wang Yi was standing here, he could still feel and see and hear everything that every Quanxing member who was spiritually connected with him did when they entered the Japanese military base.

The Quanxing members who followed Wang Yi here should be those with better quality in Quanxing.

Even if they are stuck in a dead end and know that it is wrong, they will not turn back.

So none of them surrendered, and before they died, they all tried their best to drag as many high-ranking Japanese officials as possible to be buried with them.

Once the middle and lower-level officials in the command system die, it will take some time for the other side to reorganize its forces for an attack.

It is easy to get thousands of soldiers but difficult to get a good general. This principle applies everywhere. The general does not necessarily refer to a great general.

Having personally felt the emotional fluctuations of every Quan Xing member before their death, Wang Yi also threw out the jar of wine in his arms.

The wine drew an arc in the air and landed on every wine bowl placed in front of them. Wang Yi also picked up the wine bowl and raised it towards the direction where they were going to die.

Lao Guo seemed to have guessed something and picked up an empty bowl from the ground and gestured to Wang Yi.

A spoonful of wine also fell into Lao Guo's wine bowl. He also raised the wine bowl in the direction of all the members' death like Wang Yi, and then fell to the ground with them.

The two were silent for a long time before Lao Guo spoke.

"Boss Wang, who are those people?"

"Scum, what they did is not enough to be shot ten times, and no one can force them to mend their ways. It all depends on whether they feel good or not. I gave them a very good promise, and for this promise, they are happy to die, even if no one knows their names or what they did in this war."

"Really? That's about the same as the soldiers under my command."

"I didn't expect that Brigade Commander Guo was very clear about the moral character of his soldiers."

"Boss Wang, please don't make fun of me. I can't guarantee the other friendly forces, but the ones I have are already pretty good. At least I don't suck the blood of my soldiers, so I brought them here to risk their lives, and they followed me. But that's it. They won't listen to me if I tell them to take advantage of someone's misfortune, and I can't do anything about it."

"Commander Guo, you have already been able to manage the army well."

"That's not a nice thing to say, but I just went to the wounded area and happened to run into a dying brother. I asked him if he regretted following me here to die. Boss Wang, guess what his answer was?"

"what?"

"He said that if the commander took us to suppress bandits and fight with military leaders, firing a few shots into the air would be worthy of the salary the commander gave us, but fighting the Japanese was not allowed."

"Commander Guo, let's take these back and give them to our brothers. We have already paid tribute to the dead, and now we should consider the living."

"I thank Boss Wang on behalf of my brothers and sisters."

Lao Guo, a hidden insider who had no status difference, picked up the dishes on the ground with Wang Yi and walked towards the wounded who had been treated.

Needless to say, those with minor injuries were allowed to stay in their positions as long as they could still fire. However, those with serious injuries and those on the verge of death became the focus of care.

Wang Yi had no way to deal with those whose lives were hanging by a thread. Although he had developed the third level of the Three Levels of Reverse Life to have a healing effect similar to that of the Double Hands, it had to be exchanged for his own lifespan. Those whose lives were hanging by a thread could not be saved at all.

The seriously injured are also divided into different levels. For those who are seriously injured and paralyzed, even if they can be cured, the Qi in their bodies cannot keep up, and they will die suddenly before they are fully cured.

Watching the more than 8,000 men and women led by Lao Guo fighting in the battle to recapture Luodian, more than half of them were killed or wounded even with Wang Yi's help. Next, they had to delay, defend against the reorganized attack of the Japanese army and wait for support.

Looking at so many wounded soldiers in the camp and the bloody battlefield of Luodian, Wang Yi made a decision after much deliberation.

"Commander Guo, I have an unwelcome request." "Boss Wang, please feel free to ask."

"Please ask Commander Guo to send someone to count the number of wounded. Those who need to be sent to the rear for treatment should wait a while, and those with broken arms and legs should stay behind."

"What is Boss Wang going to do?"

"By treating their injuries, at least we can ensure that those who are sent to the rear for treatment can survive and not die on the way. Those with broken arms and legs can also stay. Even if they can't carry explosive packs, at least they can shoot."

"Boss Wang also knows the art of medicine? The methods of a miracle doctor?"

"I can't call him a miracle doctor. I'm just trying to save my life. I'd like to ask Commander Guo to ask for their opinions and isolate the inside and outside. My method can only be used as an emergency measure, not for a long time."

"Good! Good! Good!"

Upon hearing this, Lao Guo's eyes lit up. He said "OK" three times in a row and started to take people to make arrangements.

It is now early September, and the Battle of Shanghai, which lasted for more than three months, has only entered the early and middle stages, with more than half of the progress bar still left.

Baldy, or rather the high-ranking officials of the National Government headed by Baldy, misjudged the situation when planning this battle. They thought that after the Japanese captured Peiping and Tianjin, taking into account the Kwantung Army that had already used the three northeastern provinces outside the Great Wall as its base, and Taiwan that had been lost after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, even if the Japanese army fought the Battle of Shanghai, they would not be able to mobilize too many divisions, six or seven at most.

As long as he could send the main force of the central government forward, other local warlords would have to follow suit, no matter for the sake of justice or for the sake of the loss of one's teeth and lips.

It is not necessary for these local troops with worse equipment than the Central Army to be deployed to the Battle of Shanghai, block the main traffic routes around the Battle of Shanghai, prevent the Japanese army from providing support, and then have the main force with numerical advantage on their side exchange with the Japanese army. Even if it is one for two or one for three, there will still be profits.

To put it simply, Baldy understood the Battle of Shanghai as follows: no matter what, the force in the battle is 70 against 20, and I am still fighting at home, so the advantage is on my side!

They did not consider the gap in national strength between the two sides at all, and the possibility that the Japanese army would not mobilize divisions for reinforcement.

So the situation has evolved into what it is now, with the bald guy making changes to his generals at the last minute, hammering here and sticking there, trying to strike a balance while controlling the overall situation, and ordering a bunch of micro-manipulations with layers of escalation.

The central army and local armies surrounding the banner of the National Government's Battle of Shanghai said they were fighting together, but in fact they were fighting each other, leaving heroes to watch the confusing operations of other heroes.

On the other hand, the Japanese army had clear and communicative battle orders, and had sound tactics and strategies. Relying on its military strength and sea and air advantages, it surrounded and attacked the weaknesses of the local and central armies exposed under the micro-manipulation of the National Government, relying on its military strength and sea and air advantages.

As a result, even though Lao Guo led his men to counterattack and capture the strategic location of Luodian and conveyed the news, no reinforcements arrived for a while, and he was promoted on the front line and before the war.

Even though more than half of his men were killed or wounded, they still had to stay here until reinforcements arrived.

It was already considered good manners that Lao Guo didn't curse on the phone. Now that Wang Yi said that he had a way to make his brothers and sisters who had lost their fighting power regain the ability to shoot, he didn't care about much else and quickly got busy.

After everything was ready, Lao Guo and his personal soldiers stayed inside, wanting to see Wang Yi's methods.

Wang Yi's method was also simple and crude. He directly activated the resonance of the magnetic fields of heaven and earth and absorbed all the Qi of heaven and earth around the Luodian battlefield into his body.

Use your own body to purify the mottled and mixed Qi of heaven and earth, and then reverse the triple state of the three levels.

The purified Qi of heaven and earth is connected to the original Qi in the bodies of the wounded, stimulating their broken and contracted meridians and the regrowth of flesh and blood.

This is a delicate job, and in this camp, excluding those who died in battle and those who died from injuries during the preparation process, there are still nearly two thousand wounded.

A large number of them either lost limbs or became blind.

It is impossible for Wang Yi to recover all the injuries of nearly two thousand wounded soldiers. He can be given time, but what they lack most now is time.

So Wang Yi could only rush things first and then slow down.

For those whose limbs are broken and whose lives are hanging by a thread, the only way is to feed them a breath of life-saving Qi and let the lifeguards carry them away.

Those with either a broken leg or a broken arm can only choose one of the two, and the wound must be healed quickly so that at least one of their hands can shoot, or use a gun instead of a crutch.

For those who were blind, only one eye could be restored, and for minor injuries like a lost ear, Wang Yi could only choose to ignore it.

Everything that happened in front of Lao Guo at this time had a huge impact on the beliefs of Lao Guo, a hidden member of the group.

As for the personal soldiers around Lao Guo, they were already kneeling on the ground.

It is said that there is a god above your head, but this sentence is often just a slogan that cannot scare away those vicious people. After all, if there really is a god above your head, how could they do evil?
Old Guo originally believed it without a doubt, but Wang Yi's operation of bringing back the dead to life and turning flesh into bones made him wonder how was the other party's operation different from that of a god?
But if he could see Wang Yi's expression when he was in the triple protective color state, he probably wouldn't have such an idea.

They had to repair the injuries of nearly two thousand seriously injured soldiers at once. Even if they were not fully recovered, the human body's meridians were so fragile and delicate that even if Zhang Zhiwei was brought in, the two of them would be exhausted to death and would need to rest for more than half a month.

As a result, I am alone now and the treatment process cannot be interrupted. Otherwise, if I do it again, I will be exhausted to death and these wounded will also die suddenly during the treatment.

Because this is equivalent to breaking a dislocated bone and then reconnecting it, which is not something that everyone can do.

The only good thing was that because the Quan Xing members disguised themselves as Japanese aliens staying in the mainland hotel in the concession, they successfully entered the Japanese army's base camp. Relying on this surprise attack, they exchanged lives for lives and replaced many middle and lower-level commanders.

This created a vacuum in the Japanese army's command system, which prevented the Japanese army from organizing another attack after daybreak and instead continued to harass the enemy.

Obviously, the top leaders of the Japanese army were also considering the impact of the appearance of Wang Yi's heroic unit on the battlefield.

Even though they understood that relying on Wang Yi alone as a hero unit would not be able to influence the outcome of the battle, if Wang Yi occasionally replicated Xiang Yu's solo charge and destroyed a destroyer or something, the victory would be greatly reduced.

After all, the lives of these generals are much more valuable than those of the soldiers filling in the line. How can they die before they sit in a row and share the fruits?

While both sides were caught in an inexplicable ceasefire period, it took Wang Yi three days to complete his treatment.

"Commander Guo, in three days, 1,532 brothers are still able to fight. There should have been more, but some brothers were too seriously injured and did not make it. I'm sorry."

"It's a blessing from God that so many brothers have survived. Those who can't make it can only say it's their fate. Boss Wang, I thank you on behalf of my brothers and sisters. Please accept my greetings!"

Old Guo had no intention of blaming Wang Yi at all. As he spoke, he knelt down in front of so many people.

Wang Yi wanted to stop him, but it was difficult for him to mobilize his true energy, let alone use any strength.

Do not eat or drink for three days, and use yourself as a filter for the Qi of heaven and earth, guided by your own true Qi.

Wang Yi, who had just come out of the reverse life state, now had a pale face and looked haggard. He had lost almost twice as much weight as when he met Lao Guo three days ago. He was just skin and bones, and he looked as if he would fall down at the slightest breeze.

Even on the eve of the fall of the capital, Wang Yi's condition had never been so bad.

It was not until he saw Wang Yi's appearance after he finished practicing that Lao Guo realized that the Boss Wang in front of him, who was about the same age as himself, was not some living god.

He is just a Chinese like himself who wants to do his part in this national crisis.

The three days that Wang Yi and all the members of the Quan Xing team exchanged their lives for were a rare period of peace for the defending side. However, there were undercurrents among the attacking Japanese army and in the rear.

(End of this chapter)