Chapter 1212 New recruits go on a training tour (Part 2)(1/2)
In the venue, the unique metal sound of Tang Dao began to stir again!
"It has been more than a year since my 200,000 Sichuan Army brothers went out to Sichuan to fight against Japan in September last year. Tang Dao was fortunate to fight side by side with the two major armies of Sichuan Army soldiers in Songhu, Guangde and North China in Guangde, and survived by chance!" Tang Dao's voice gradually became low.
In the venue, the faces of 4,500 recruits and tens of thousands of people also looked solemn with Tang Dao!
Although 99% of them were not aware of the battles that they had only heard of in the city that they had only heard of this year, a commander who seemed to be the most powerful person in their opinion used the word "survived by luck". It was completely tempting to imagine the intensity of the battlefield.
"In the battles of Songhu, Jinling, Xuzhou, and other places, our Sichuan Army soldiers fought bravely to kill the enemy and killed more than 10,000 Japanese invaders! However, the current situation of our Sichuan Army leaving Sichuan was in a hurry, lacking food and clothing, and its weapons and equipment were simple, which made us have to fight against the enemy's guns and bullets with our flesh and blood, so we suffered heavy losses!
The 26th Division of the 43rd Army, 6,000 people below the division commander, only one or two people could walk off the battlefield by themselves; the 145th Division guarding the wings of Jinling, all the division was 7,000 people below the division commander Rao. When our regiment rushed to support, only one battalion had the strength to remain. At that time, the Commander Rao was ready to die for the country; the 122nd Division stationed in Teng County, established an encirclement circle for the war zone to delay the pace of the enemy, and only 4,000 troops remained, and the city was guarded for five days. There were only a hundred students in the teachers and soldiers, and Commander Wang even sacrificed his life for his country!
General Liu Xiang, who had previously ordered our entire Sichuan army to leave Sichuan to fight against Japan, also died at the front line command of the Anti-Japanese War due to emergency military situations and was unable to treat it due to long-term illness!”
The venue was dead silent!
Including several officials from the county government with a little bit of a slight expression, through the radio and newspapers, we knew that the Japanese army was pressing step by step on the two major fronts of the southeast and north China. The Chinese army was defeated and was occupied by the Japanese army within a year. We all knew that the balance of victory in this national war was gradually tilting towards the Japanese invaders!
But no one knew that he would fight so badly, with an infantry division that only a few hundred people left, and even a big man like the division commander died for his country. No wonder the regiment commander Tang Dao said that he was just "lucky to survive"!
Western Sichuan was originally a remote place, and it was basically half a month later that newspapers issued in big cities were delivered here. And it was only the elites in the county town that only knew that even if the people in the countryside heard that they were just a small scale, then someone would tell them the situation on the front line so clearly.
Many people's tears suddenly gushed out. There may not be many soldiers from Jinxi County who had left Sichuan to fight against Japan before, but there were still thousands of people. Did the previous worries become a fact?
But for parents, as long as they have not received bad news, it doesn’t count. This has become a reason for countless parents, wives and children to comfort themselves.
But they didn't know that due to the emergency of the war, countless death notices were not sent to their homes until many years later. Some troops even died because of the regiment headquarters and brigade headquarters, and the soldiers' files could not be found. Until decades after the war, the relatives who were waiting for their hard work did not wait for the answer to whether a relative was alive or dead.
I know, sad!
Waiting, it hurts!
"But this is a national war. Except for our Sichuan army, many other provinces including Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, etc., they also fought bloody battles, and there were even no one left in the entire division and brigade! In the Battle of Songhu alone, our Chinese sons and sons lost more than 300,000 yuan in battle, and 13 generals or above!"
Tang Dao seemed not to see the grief of his fellow villagers, and continued to tell the tragic losses suffered by the Chinese army in this national war over the past year.
This made the county magistrate panic in his eyes. His recruitment was a fool of himself by relying on his words of deception, but more so he concealed the heavy losses of the front-line troops in the war.
There are many people in Jinxi County, but who would have been willing to send two and three sons to the army if they heard that their eldest son had died on the front line? Are there any heroic generals of the Yang family? Yes! But that is one of the few, and most villagers still have the idea of retaining incense.
Who knew that Commander Tang, who was still very experienced at the beginning, actually talked about the unfavorable situation of the War of Resistance against Japan at the beginning of the lecture. Isn’t this shaken the morale of the army?
Unfortunately, the microphone is in Tang Dao's hands, and in name, Tang Dao, as the receptionist, is the protagonist today. No matter what the county magistrate thinks, he cannot stop Tang Dao from continuing to "inflict"!
Moreover, the "white flag" raised by the lieutenant officer in the field was so cruel and terrifying that it was daunting.
Looking at the nearly 1,000 soldiers of the security regiment around him who were armed with guns and ammunition, they didn’t even have the courage to take a look at him, and they knew why the Tang Dao, five men and five horses were shocked as soon as they appeared.
"As a son of man, I don't know how heartbreaking my parents are, but as a comrade, I know the grief of losing my comrades!
From Sihang Warehouse to Songjiang, Guangde and then to North China, our regiment was upgraded from a construction system to a regiment, from less than a hundred people to thousands, Tang lost thousands of comrades. To this day, the tombstones of the martyrs' cemetery specially built by our Sihang Corps are like a bush on the mountain!
Whenever I think about this, as a ball of hair, Tang Dao can't sleep at night!
But my four-way team is getting braver and stronger as we fight!
It was so that the elders of my hometown learned that the Japanese invaders have died at the hands of our group, and there are one lieutenant general and three major generals. The remaining Japanese invaders are more than 20,000. The life of my brother Tang Dao is five times the head of the Japanese invaders is exchanged!" Tang Dao's voice suddenly increased, and it was shocking!
The venue was silent again!
"good!"
“The four-line group is a good example!”
"Our Sichuan Army is mighty!"
Especially after hearing Tang Dao's words, "My brother's life alone needs five times the head of the Japanese invaders to exchange for it, the suppressed emotions of the previous huge sacrifice erupted like a volcano!
"The State Government has issued many medals to our brothers who have survived for luck!" Tang Dao took out a medal from his purse and held it in his hand and stared at him.
The county magistrate and the fat police chief took a breath. They were not qualified to see such medals. They didn't know what Baoding is, what Zhengong is, and what Qingtian is, but they knew that if there was any medal in Tang Dao's hand, they would not dare to touch the Tang Dao clan.
That is the recognition of senior figures that they will never reach.
But then, what Tang Dao said made them never forget in their entire lives.
People are different after all.
"This medal represents recognition from those big names, and represents honor and money!
But in my opinion, this does not represent honor, but the lives of thousands of brothers who died in various battlefields. Holding them, my heart hurts.
The medal that truly belongs to the warrior has never been replaced by these gold and silver. It is always engraved on the body of the warrior." Tang Dao gently lowered the medal in his hand, and under the sudden stare of the recruits and the public, he unbuttoned the neat army colonel uniform and unbuttoned the white shirt!
The dazzlingly strong body of steel was exposed to everyone.
A burst of exclamation!
It was not that he exclaimed that Tang Tuanzu's upper body had perfect muscle lines, but that the layers of scars and several hideous scars on his body!
"Running to survive" is by no means just talking about it. The best proof is the piercing injury of bullets, lacerations of shell skins, and burning scars of flames!
Tang Dao was cautious when he returned home for ten days. Even though Xiao Hanlin used the excuse to tailor his son, he finally didn't see the scars hidden under his shirt!
Not to mention the scars that were densely covered with chest and back, just a ten-centimeter-long shell laceration would probably make Xiao Hanlian cry for many days. Tang Dao would not do such stupid things.
It is said that everyone only hurts the person closest to him. This is really true. Dan Tai Mingyue is such a tough woman. Whenever she sees the scars on her fiancé's body, she can't help but have a crystal clear eye. Tang Dao could not hide it from her, so she could only prevent more people who love him from seeing it. But today, Tang Dao was completely exposed in order to win over the 4,500 new recruits!
Perhaps, not just for these 4,500 people, but also for the people who sent their children to the front line. Tang Dao wanted to let them know that as their commander, he would never just hide behind their sons and step on their corpses to obtain countless contributions.
Needless to say, the recruits and the people will know that the heroic leader in front of him will fight side by side with his comrades!
Slowly put on his military uniform, Tang Dao pointed at the flag with "black letters on white background" on Youlu Sanjiang: "Did you see that flag with "dead letters"?"
The eyes of the people and the recruits involuntarily turned to the terrifying flag with the huge word "dea" written on it!
"Lu Sanjiang, I miss it!" Tang Dao suddenly roared.
"I don't want you to be filial to me,
I just hope you will be loyal to the nation.
The country is in danger and the Japanese invaders are ferocious.
Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of a country.
I want to serve but my age is over.
Fortunately, I have a son, so I voluntarily volunteered.
Give a flag and always keep it with you.
Wipe the blood when you are injured and wrap the body after you die.
Move forward bravely and don’t forget your duty.
Father's handwriting!"
Lu Sanjiang thrust his energy into his heart and finished reading the small words written on the flag with an almost heart-wrenching roar.
When the audience heard this, at least half of them were crying, and even the old official institution standing in the audience was moved at this time.
Thinking back to the late autumn of last year, my father gave me the flag of "death". His son bid farewell to his father in the autumn wind, and resolutely turned around and walked across the mountains to the battlefield. That scene was so magnificent!
Even though he was a fritters in the officialdom who had been stained with many years, he couldn't help but suddenly open his pores, remembering his youth more than 20 years ago!
When he came into contact with articles about saving the country and saving the nation in the school, wasn’t he a passionate boy?
But later, who made him lose his favor with officialdom, and only looked at the face of the man sitting in a higher position, and forgot to see the sorrow of those ragged people?
He lowered his head and pondered for a moment. The old official institution waved to the police chief who was also a little stunned, and whispered in his ear.
The fat police chief stayed for a long time before he squeezed out of the crowd with a few people and rushed to the county town not far away.
"This dead flag was given to him by an old school teacher in Bei'an County, Sichuan Province in October last year, and then it was crushed into my four-way group!
Whenever I watch it, I can't help but feel passionate about my fighting spirit! I will never treat people easily when it is urgent!
I once ordered the entire regiment to say that once the flag of "death" is raised, it would be destroyed, and it would be considered a desperate battle and a death battle!
You may be a little surprised, why on this occasion, I would sacrifice this flag!" Tang Dao's words spread throughout the audience.
Everyone held their breath and kept their voices waiting for Tang Dao's explanation.
"Sent to his son "death" to the father of the Wang family is a role model for my parents in Sichuan and a representative of my Chinese parents.
If we don’t protect such parents, who will protect us? If we don’t protect such a home, who will protect us?
I would like to ask the army standing in the audience, would you like to protect my home and protect my parents with me? Even if you are wrapped in white cloth, you will never see the green mountains of your hometown!" Tang Dao's voice gradually became louder, like a thunder blew up over the whole venue.
"Would you like to die with me, Mr. Tang?"
The whole audience was silent as if dead!
The old fox in the officialdom also showed a look of worry on his face. He was afraid that these new recruits who had never seen the battlefield would be frightened by a fierce general like Tang Dao, and even more afraid that if no one responded, Tang Dao's efforts would be in vain.
At this moment, if he still doesn't understand that Tang Dao is using his iron blood to infuse the spirit of this group of soldiers who are about to go to the front line, then his officialdom in the past twenty years will be in vain.
But, is it a bit too hard for the medicine?
But he still doesn't understand the people under his rule!
‘Everyone is a dog-slaughterer, but all the unfaithful people are scholars!’, any magnificent change of times is exchanged for the corpses of a group of small people, but history always records only the names of those big people.
Tang Dao never thought about leaving a name in history. He just wanted to be with these little people and do what he should do. He had never been as worried as a politician. He believed that they would, they dared!
To be continued...