That night, the commander Cheng personally presided over the leadership, Tang Dao and Ye Chenghuan acted as witnesses, and Lei Xiong raised his right hand under the red flag and solemnly swore.

Commander Cheng looked at Tang Dao, his eyes full of joy.

At this point, the first three commanders of the Four Army Group were all under the command of the Eighty Group Army. Under their influence, the Four Army Group, which has tens of thousands of elite and huge resources, will become a force that the Eighty Group can rely on.

Even many years later, when Chief Cheng talked about this night, he still thought it was a memorable night in his military career. Even if he was personally commanding hundreds of thousands of troops to beat the American cowboys on the ice field in the future, it would be far less than the gains of this night.

However, for Lei Xiong, who solemnly swore under the Red Banner, it was extremely difficult to make this decision. Before that, he had not joined any party.

"My ideal is very simple. Make some money to support the family and do your best to give your wife and children a better life. If one day the Anti-Japanese War is victorious, my greatest wish is to return to the field and go back to accompany my wife and children." This is the answer given by Lei Xiong and Tang Dao a few days ago in the Tang Dao courtyard, facing Tang Dao's straightforward answer.

After more than three years of fighting side by side, the two trusted each other and relyed on each other. It was not brothers but better than brothers. Even Tang Dao told him in person that Lei Xiong was not surprised at all.

However, even if Tang Dao persuaded him, Lei Xiong still had reservations about the Eighty Army and maintained his own views.

This is also what Tang Dao admires most. Although Tang Dao has had such great influence in the Four-Enterprise Group, even Ye Chenghuan, who is both civil and military, can only obey orders when he comes to the group, Lei Xiong still maintains his personal opinion and often makes suggestions on Tang Dao's deployment and makes it more perfect.

Obeying orders and not blindly following, this is almost a unique existence in the Four Lines Regiment. Tang Dao made him the supreme commander of the garrison brigade, but it was not just trust, but also a recognition of his abilities.

Otherwise, Tang Dao would never feel at ease to give all the lives of 7,000 people to him.

"Brother Lei, you can't afford to accompany your wife and children after the war. I actually think so, but have you ever thought about a problem. If the Japanese fight away, will the war end? " Tang Dao said with a smile.

"This..." Lei Xiong's eyes narrowed slightly.

Having been in the 88th Division for several years, he certainly knew the attitude towards the 80th Army. "If you want to settle the outside world, you must first resist the internal affairs." But the national policy established by the man after the September 18th Incident. If the War of Resistance Against Japan is victorious, how could that man tolerate the existence of the 80th Army?

If anyone else was to sit still and wait for death, let alone the Eighty Army with more than 100,000 elite soldiers.

"The Eighty Army is only more than 100,000, and even if the An County armed forces are added, it is only 200,000. How can you be that opponent?" After thinking for a long time, Lei Xiong gave a pertinent opinion.

"Whether the victory of a war is not just about the strength of the troops, but about the will of the people. If the two sides are fighting, there are essential differences in the War of Preservation. Both sides are Chinese, and 90% of the troops forming the army come from the bottom like you and me.

Let me ask, if you are willing to help a regime that maintains a prosperous and beautiful life for the elites, or is you willing to help a regime that can help the poor people in the world live a peaceful and secure life with their wives and children?" Tang Dao turned his eyes to the distance.

"Maybe, Brother Lei, you will say that history has proved that after anyone seizes power, there will be power struggles within it and corruption, but that also requires a process. It is much better than a regime that is now rotten and only lying on the people to suck blood on the landlords and compradors' interests!

Just like a person's life, everyone will make mistakes in the course of his life. We must learn to accept mistakes and just correct them.

Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, once said: Water can carry a boat and can also overturn it! Whoever has the hearts of the people can dominate the world.

Why did the powerful Mongol Yuan collapse? Why did the powerful Ming Empire that overthrew them and established was broken through Kyoto by a group of peasants? The noble emperor could only hang himself on a tree?

The long river of history will make the most correct choice.”

Lei Xiong's eyes were deep and he fell into deep thought, but Tang Dao did not bother him and added hot tea to his teacup.

Seeing that Brother Lei was already struggling, Tang Dao added another fire.

"Brother Lei, I ask you, if the Japanese leave, those Westerners still want to maintain their past interests and continue to maintain the concession in China, occupy ports and mines, are you willing?"

"Of course not. If I can beat the Japanese devils away, I can beat the foreigners again. If they dare to come, then I have to ask whether the guns in my brothers and I agree or not." Lei Xiong answered without hesitation.

"Then do you think that person will be as you thought?" Tang Dao smiled.

"I already know that man, in the battle of Sixing Warehouse, he does not have the ability or courage!" Lei Xiong shook his head and gave his own definition.

"But the Eighty Army Association!" Tang Dao answered confidently.

"The reason for my choice to join them is very simple, just because one of their generals said at a military meeting: You and I were born in this era, sacrifice is the price we must pay. If you don't pay, your son will pay, and your grandson will pay. Our generation, we will pay."

Brother Lei was shocked.

The words that Tang Dao said were like a bullet, hitting his heart hard.

He has been in the army for nearly ten years. Facing the enemy's heavy artillery and the infantry rushing like a tide, he has never been afraid of it. Even in the desperate situation in Sihang Warehouse that day, he was trapped alone in the Sihang Warehouse, and he had no way out and did not even frown.

But when I dreamed at midnight, I remembered my wife and young son in my hometown, and thought of the Japanese devils carrying bayonets breaking through the defense line and rushing into my hometown. The bloody bayonets were facing them. Lei Xiong woke up from his dream countless times, which was really the most fearful thing in his heart.

Therefore, he worked hard on the front line only for the peace of the people he loved in his hometown.

If their generation does not sacrifice, they will have to let his son die when he grows up. The words of the general of the 80th Army that Tang Dao reposted were indeed crashing into the softest corner of his heart.

"Good man!" Lei Xiong praised loudly.

The crying of Tangshanhe came from the house.

"Since you two are so strong, let's coax Shanhe to sleep." Dan Tai Mingyue went out with Tang Shanhe who was scared by Lei Xiong and looked at the two rough men with anger.

"Oh! I'm sorry, brother and sister, right?" Lei Xiong grabbed Tang Dao and fled from the courtyard in embarrassment.

"Hehe, group leader, don't you think you've been talking for a long time, but do you know what the real reason for me to join the 80th Army?" Lei Xiong asked Tang Dao with a relaxed look on his face.

"What? You can't just scare your nephew to cry just now. You are afraid that Mingyue will scold you for being reluctant to do so! Then I'll tell you that if you don't have the ideal of making decisions for the people, you can observe it for a few more years before making a decision." Tang Dao replied seriously.

"You and I are all from the village. Who doesn't know how hard the people are? The ideal of the Eighty Army is quite in line with my wishes. I am willing to follow them." Lei Xiong said. "But, compared to this, I am more afraid that our brothers will become opponents in the future!"

"The main reason is that I can't beat it!" Lei Xiong then added.

Looking at the man with a bright smile in front of him, Tang Dao didn't say anything more.

Tang Dao understands Lei Xiong so much. With Lei Xiong's personality, can't he lose even if he can't beat him? It's just a life. What he is afraid of is not that he can't beat him, but that his brothers are fighting against each other!

I'm afraid no one knows that the army colonel who made one of the most important decisions in his life was sitting on a grassland, and Tang Tuanzhao also sat on the grassland.

The reason is not that I am afraid that I can find a secluded place specially for the partition wall, but that a little baby named Tangshanhe was awakened by being scared.

Tang Shanhe didn't know that because of his feat, his father thought that he was weak in personality, so he threw him to Master Mingxin since he was five years old to start his national martial arts training.

Tang Shanhe, who was exhausted by training, would always cry and ask Aunt Erya who wiped his scars. Is that his biological father? Otherwise, find a devilish master for Mao? When he becomes awesome in the future, he must be good-looking in the master and stepfather.

Erya looked at the child who looked more and more similar to a certain group, so she could only tell him helplessly that his father was a kiss and could not beat him, but the master could do it, but the premise was that he could beat him.

Mingxin, who is not too far...

At that time, Mingxin had already achieved great success in national skills. Even Tang Dao said that he was not his opponent. Even the headquarters of the 80th Army wanted to invite him to be the chief combat instructor of the field army's extreme special forces. However, Mingxin resigned from his military position and took Tangshanhe to the Taoist temple to carefully teach his first disciple.

Unexpectedly, the little guy hadn't practiced anything yet, so he thought that he would beat the master first after he finished learning.

Just now, I asked if it was my own father. Just this rebellious spirit is already very Tang Group!

The second time that the Tangshanhe, who was in trouble, has ushered in more stringent training, which also laid the foundation for the Tangshanhe, who was only 22 years old in the battle on the plateau, to shine.

His military achievements that day were no less than his father's battle at Sihang Warehouse when he was the same age as him!

It is a coincidence, perhaps also a destiny.

That night, the four men who became comrades sat around the table and talked happily about the battle situation between North China and China.

Commander Cheng had great confidence in the battlefield in North China, but was quite anxious about the national war situation. In his view, the current Japanese China Expeditionary Force Command is still focusing on central China and South China, hoping to fully occupy the three most important plains in China, then fully occupy South China, and then march into the southwest and northwest.

With the complete loss of the defense line in North China, China's only channel to obtain materials from abroad is South China. If it is lost here again, then China will have to fight alone.

After losing these important grain-producing areas and populations in the three major plains, China's war potential in the southwest and northwest will be much worse than before. Although there are mountains and Gobi deserts as defense lines, the population and materials are scarce, and the other is full of disadvantages as the rise and fall of the other. Therefore, central China can be lost, but southern China must not be lost.

"When you go to central China, you will sooner or later turn to the southern battlefield due to changes in the battle situation. There are high mountains and dense forests and the terrain is dangerous, so be careful!" Captain Cheng made a statement.

As expected, he is worthy of being the three masters of Huangpu. Even if he is in a corner of the north, he can still know the battlefield across the country, and even predict that the Four-Road Group will go to the south to fight.

If it weren't for sure that this was the real Lu Captain Cheng, Tang Dao would almost think that he was also a time traveler, and this senior's strategic vision was really awesome.

As a little butterfly from the future, Tang Dao certainly knew that in order to open up the Yunnan-Burma Highway and ensure this precious transportation route, China formed an expeditionary force twice to fight in Myanmar, and suffered huge casualties.

The casualties were huge, but they were worth it. It not only opened up the international transportation line in southwest China, drove the Japanese army out of the southwest China gate, supported the battle on the front battlefield in the country, inspired the fighting spirit of the people across the country, but also severely hit the Japanese invaders of Myanmar. It was also "the first large-scale war to assist allies in entering foreign countries and win victory since the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895."

Those who are qualified to sit in the position of a victorious country and share the fruits of victory in the war are all obtained by sacrifice.

"I know the dangers of the battlefield in South China, but as the Japanese's appetite grows bigger, China alone can no longer satisfy them, and will inevitably attack Southeast Asia. At that time, old Western countries such as the United States and the Japanese will inevitably turn against them and support our country. South China will receive Western aid and the Japanese will also be in great pain.

But because the battlefield in North China is too far away, it has to fight alone, and its risk is definitely not weaker than that in South China!" Tang Dao also has his own understanding.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind it! "You must not underestimate this sinister guy, Koji Okamura. The more silent he is, the more he is holding back his ultimate move. You must be careful to deal with it.

In addition, cooperation with friendly forces may not be as smooth as before, so you must be mentally prepared."

In Tang Dao's memory, Okamura Koji, who was in office, not only adopted the "iron wall encirclement" and the cruel three-light policy. In order to capture Shaanxi Province, he seconded many elite divisions from Japan and the Kanto Army to North China. Before the Pacific War, the Japanese North China Front Army did not include hundreds of thousands of puppet troops cultivated, but only the major divisions, independent brigades and garrison troops were as high as more than 300,000.

Even after the outbreak of the Pacific War, in order to resist the attack from the United States, Japan continuously mobilized elite troops to the Pacific islands, and the Japanese North China Front Army also had nearly 220,000 troops and more than one million puppet troops.

In May of the 1941st year in time and space, under the command of Okamura Koji, Nakajoyama was defeated in the war of shame, six generals were killed, and more than 40,000 officers and soldiers were killed.

The main reason is that Okamura Koji's insidiousness is on the one hand, but on the other hand, the person in Yama Castle is extremely afraid of the Eighty Army and is so obsessed with the inevitable ending of material blockade.

The fortresses were all broken from the inside, and this sentence was most appropriate for the North China battlefield at that time. If the two armies cooperated unevenly like in the early stages of the war, even if Koji Okamura had great skills, he would not be able to turn the tables.

And this is what Tang Dao wants to remind him the most.

"I know this. Since the Battle of Zishan, the man has become increasingly afraid of the development of my 80th Army. He has stopped the funding of my army for half a year." Captain Cheng nodded solemnly.

"But it doesn't matter. But Butcher Zhang died, we won't eat pigs. Our army now has a mass base in various bases in North China. It's just that life is a little harder. No matter how hard it is, can we still suffer when our army climbs snow-capped mountains and crosses the grassland?

No matter what those people think, our army will fight against the war and defend our China to the end!" Captain Cheng's eyes were firm.

Looking at the angry Captain Cheng, Lei Xiong breathed a sigh of relief and expressed his attitude in one sentence: "Whenever, the Hebei-South Guard Brigade will advance and retreat with friendly forces!"

Then he turned his attention to Tang Dao and Ye Chenghuan: "I will return successfully in North China, Director Ye and my brothers from the Four-Search Group. I believe that you will definitely return to Taihang again!"

"Haha, I love hearing this from Brother Lei!" Tang Dao laughed and stretched out his hand, spread his hand in the center of the four people, and said aloud: "Defend my China, even if you die, you will have no regrets!"

"The war fire in the north is unknown, and this head must be hung towards the national gate!" Commander Cheng smiled slightly and placed his hand on Tang Dao's hand.

"The general died in hundreds of battles, and the hero returned for ten years!" Ye Chenghuan also attached his hand to it.

"The country is still like this, why should I cherish this?" Lei Xiong thought for a while, put on a poem, and attached his hand.

Currently, the four best soldiers in China hold hands together in this dark night.

The real hero, knowing that the arrival of dawn is endless, still rushes into the night firmly!

Just like them in time and space, in the long darkness where they could not see the slightest chance of victory, they were still passionately advancing towards the Japanese invaders' guns and bullets.

It is precisely Tang Dao who has such a comrade-in-arms who looks at the night and knows that these people who are still moving forward in the night will eventually make their dawn for their descendants!
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