"Platoon leader, retreat!"
I heard Chen Dali shouting anxiously at me from below. However, I dared not move. There were two reasons: first, the water tower was too high off the ground, and it would take a long time for us to climb down one by one. More importantly... the gaps in the iron ladder of the water tower were very large. If we climbed down, we would almost expose ourselves completely to the Japanese firepower...
So I could only shout to the soldiers below, "You retreat first! I'll cover you!"
Heaven and earth bear witness! I don't want to be some kind of hero. I'm still young! I still have decades to live!
But now it seems there's no other way... The current situation is that climbing down the water tower will only hasten our deaths. It's better to hold off the Japanese a litt
