Chapter 1408: Going to the Battle (Part 1)
On the morning of December 1, 1941!
The Four Army Regiment led the Ministry of Military Affairs to transfer orders from the Second War Zone to the Fifth War Zone 2,000 miles away. The entire regiment went from the North China battlefield to the Central China battlefield, and swore a swearing battle at the Dakouzidong Town garrison.
The location of the oath-taking ceremony was chosen at the Sixing Regiment Martyrs Cemetery. Thousands of fully armed officers and soldiers stood quietly and solemnly, facing more than 4,000 tombstones like jungles on the hillsides on three sides.
A bright red military flag of the four-row regiment and the "death" flag that was regarded as treasured by the Tang regiment were inserted in front of the tombstones, gradually becoming wet in the continuous winter rain, just as they looked at their brothers lying quietly in the grave, gradually being wet with tears.
All of them were lying there, their comrades-in-arms who had made an appointment with them. Those who survived would take the time to pour them a glass of wine and light a cigarette.
But now, they are going to the distant central China, 2,000 miles apart. I am sorry that this promise cannot be fulfilled.
The silky drizzle drizzle was like this on their faces, in their eyes, and on the three highest officials of the Four Lines Group standing on the temporary platform built of logs.
Tang Dao stood in the middle, Lei Xiong and Ye Chenghuan stood on both sides respectively, and all the other school officials stood at the forefront of their troops. Whether they were going to go to war or stayed behind, they stood there.
Even Guaiguai and Hammer were sitting in the queue of the guard company of Taihang First Hospital.
Tang Dao attaches great importance to the safety of Taihang Hospital. In order to prevent the Japanese army from using small elite troops to sneak into the mountains to attack, not only did the entire guard company have more than one regular infantry battalion, but also 20 military dogs with hammer blood were sent.
And guys like Hammer and Guaiguai who have super high recognition ability to the Japanese and like to wander in the wild mountains and forests were even asked by Erya to enrich the power of the guard company.
Hammer is very smart and has long discovered something is wrong. He is unwilling to stay in the hospital guard company that has been established for more than two months and has been relying on the reconnaissance company during training. However, at such a moment, no matter how reluctant it is, it can only stay in its own queue.
It is a dog, but it is also a soldier. If it is a soldier, it must obey orders, even if it is the only dog in the Four Lines Regiment with the rank of an army sergeant.
There are crowds of people around.
After nearly three years of purge, Dakouzidong Town has basically been built like a railway. Perhaps there may be people from the Intelligence Investigation Bureau lurking, but those who have collusion with the Japanese have basically turned into corpses.
In this regard, Tang Tuanzu is more ruthless than most people. There is still a reason why you were forced to be a second Japanese in the enemy-occupied area for your family and to survive. However, in Dakouzidong Town, you have fields, jobs, and have to sell the country and nation for money. That is simply unforgivable.
Once clues are revealed and verified, there is no need to be tried. They are directly dealt with according to wartime military laws, and their family will be implicated and driven out of Dakouzidong Town.
The spies sent by the Japanese are even more overwhelmed. To this day, the mummies of Japanese spies are hanging from trees on the mountain road leading to Dakouzidong Town.
Aerial reconnaissance is even more nonsense. Under the carefully constructed air defense system of the four teams, the fighter planes did not dare to enter the medium and low altitude of 2,500 meters. The photos taken at the altitude of 2,500 meters were not clear enough, coupled with the protection of mountains and forests and a large amount of artificial disguise, the Japanese stared at them and could not see what secrets were in that mountain.
In the words of the Japanese intelligence agency: Dakouzidong Town is the desert of imperial intelligence, and they have no way of knowing what the Sixing Group is doing in that mountain.
Therefore, Tang Dao gave the officers and soldiers in Dakouzidong Town three days before the expedition, asked them to go home to visit their relatives and allowed them to tell their family members that they were about to go to the battlefield.
Military confidentiality is important, but Tang Dao believes that compared to this, parents should know where their son, whom they have worked hard to raise, will go. Even after the death notice is sent, parents can know the direction of their son's death.
Although the country is very hatred and family hatred, we must also consider the love of the small family!
There are at least 20,000 people who live in Dakouzidong Town, military families distributed dozens of miles around, villagers who come spontaneously, and workers from various factories.
For people with a radius of hundreds of miles, the Four-Road Group not only ensures the peace and soil of this area, but more importantly, the Four-Road Group has recruited thousands of troops for more than two years.
Almost every household is joined by a son, and the Sixing Regiment is their soldiers.
I don’t know how many of the officers and soldiers standing together with backpacks, guns, leggings, and steel helmets, as well as the tombstones standing quietly were their relatives.
Such soldiers are going to go for thousands of miles, and they don’t know when they will return, and how many people will be able to return, so how can they not come to see them off?
There are old people with gray hair, women in blue clothes, children with confused eyes holding the corner of their mother's clothes, and even babies who are hungry to feed the world.
For there stood the soldiers who were about to go on a long journey, their sons, their husbands, and their fathers.
This time I saw off for the first time, or perhaps the last time.
Their eyes were almost greedy and wandering around their relatives' faces, once, again and again.
The scene with more than 20,000 people was actually quiet and solemn.
The eyes were stumbled on the faces of the officers and soldiers standing in the audience, and took a deep breath, Tang Dao's metallic voice resounded throughout the audience.
"Today, all of my four-way teams went to the expedition of 2,000 miles. The soldiers of our team are about to embark on a new journey. Here, I don't want to talk about any big principles. I just miss a list for everyone." Tang Dao didn't use a microphone, and walked to the edge of the ceremony platform built by logs, scanning the audience with his eyes.
"This is the list of generals who have died in battle since the war began: General Tong Linge and Lieutenant General Zhao Dengyu died in Nanyuan, Beiping; General Hao Mengling died in the battle of Xinkou, Nanhuaihua position; General Feng Anbang died in the battle of Dabie Mountains; General Chen Anbao died in Poyang Lake; General Zheng Zuomin died in southern Guizhou... Since the war started, our Chinese army has more than one million officers and soldiers and more than one hundred generals!
Although I, Tang Dao, will not let all the generals be beautiful in front of you, and will be prepared to be a good person, so as to live up to my hometown, Sichuan Province, and the expectations of all the elders in my second hometown, North China, and the instructions of my parents."
Tang Dao's decisive oath made the whole audience silent and even forgot to applaud. Especially when Tang Dao's parents asked, the officers and soldiers in the audience were silent.
Although they have the ambition to defend their country, their parents, wives and children are also the softest corners in their hearts. It is hard not to be sad when thinking about them.
"A few months ago, I returned home for business. My father had a long talk with me on the eve of my return to the team. I still remember what my father said. He said: At the beginning, you joined the army in Sichuan, and neither my mother nor you opposed it. I miss you, and you can do what you want, either you can do, either get promoted, fame and fortune, or you can enjoy your life with a gun and horse.
The Battle of Songhu began, and you fought bloody battles on the front line. My mother and I couldn't sleep at night. Even if you made great achievements and feathers became more abundant, my mother and I were suffering for several years.
Because I am most afraid of it, my only son, who has not yet enjoyed life and died in bullets!
But my father also understands that if the country is destroyed, the family will be destroyed. Who can do it alone when the mountains and rivers are broken? How can you enjoy life? In this way, my father does not want you to be on the rise, but I only hope that you can take care of your health. I do not ask you to be happy, but I hope that you can destroy the Japanese invaders with a useful body and to have all your wishes!"
After Tang Dao said his father's instructions to him before leaving, the officers, soldiers and people at the audience were even more silent.
This is an old father's request for his son who is about to embark on a more dangerous battlefield again. Even his son can live is a luxury. He only hopes that his son will work hard to live on the battlefield longer because of his life choices.
The regiment commander is already a very big official, but on the battlefield, he can only live or die by fate!
This is war!
Many women covered their mouths and tried hard not to let themselves speak sadly, and men also looked like water, trying hard not to let tears roll.
That parent doesn't love their children? But when the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed, he endured the pain of his heart like a knife to send his son to the battlefield. I don't know how many parents were afraid that tears would hurt their morale and ruin their luck in the army, and insisted on coming, and even couldn't see his son for the last time.
Facing the rolling tears of the soldiers and the people, the eyes were slightly wet. The powerful voice of Tang Dao did not stop. He gently held the flag of death in front of him: "My father and mother understand my choices deeply, and sent me on an expedition with tears in my eyes. This flag of the "death" given to his son by the old man from the Wang family that my group has always treasured is also the representative of my Chinese parents.
If we don’t defend such parents, who will protect us? If we don’t protect such a home, who will protect us? Here are five thousand heroes who have sacrificed for the country over the years, and more than ten thousand people in Taihang. Tang Dao led the 5,600 officers and soldiers of the entire regiment to go on an expedition. Here, the Japanese pirates will not return home if they are not destroyed!"
"The Japanese pirates will not return home until they are destroyed."
"The Japanese pirates will not return home until they are destroyed."
Not only the Four Corps and all the officers and soldiers of the Security Brigade who came to see him off, the people around him were also infected by Tang Dao's passionate officers and soldiers on the field, and most of them were crying and waving their arms and shouting slogans.
The sound of thundering and thundering in the mountains caused a burst of rumbling echoes among the mountains. Even if the Tang sword pressed downwards and could stop, the rumbling echoes still rippling among the mountains.
It seems that the majestic Taihang Mountains are also shouting from the mountains for this army that are vowing.
With Tang Dao roaring, "Set out!".
The officers and soldiers of the Four Army Regiment, who were fully armed, turned around collectively and took a rush to go out of the battle as the people's attention and the military salutes of their left-behind comrades.
Most of the troops of the southern Hebei brigade have rushed to the southern Hebei front line, and less than a thousand people are still at the base, but they are all on the side of the road at this moment. With Lei Xiong's roar of "salute", all the soldiers carried their guns behind them and raised their right hands to salute at their comrades who were about to go on a long journey.
This is the only way for them to express their thrilling hearts.
"Salute!" The officers and soldiers of the security guard camp of the three counties, a little further away, raised their right hands together with their battalion commander Wei Donglai.
"Salute!" The officers and soldiers of the hospital guard company raised their right hand at the order of Lieutenant Tu Yunsheng, who had only one leg but did not use crutches, and stubbornly left one leg for nearly half an hour.
The first to set out was the regiment's direct reconnaissance company. Not only did they want to be the pioneers and vanguards of the main force of the entire regiment, but they also had the reputation of being the first elite of the Four Lines Regiment in the past few years of combat. They had the honor of being the vanguard of the entire regiment.
I was always very obedient and watched the two or three hundred people in the reconnaissance company leave, and suddenly started to hum.
Guaiguai is different from Hammer. Hammer is not happy, but he has the consciousness of being a military dog. He just stares at the officers and soldiers of the reconnaissance company who deals the most, but he doesn't care about so many. When he saw that the officers and soldiers of the reconnaissance company who deals the most on weekdays were leaving but did not bring it, it was the boss's reluctance.
While humming, he rushed out of the queue for farewell. He opened his long pig's mouth and grabbed Shen Laoliu's big backpack.
Guaiguai is a wild boar with a very smart head. Although Shen Laoliu is cold-blooded and ruthless on the battlefield, he shot dozens of Japanese soldiers in the battle of Shimo Valley. He is a little unruly on weekdays, but he is very kind-hearted. He is usually very good at Guaiguai, and often makes delicious food for him.
Although Shen Laoliu wanted to touch this silent comrade who did not make a living by being cute but started to be cute at this moment, the regiment commander had issued an order. How dare he stop? He had to try hard to break free from the obedient entanglement and continue moving forward.
However, Guaiguai is no longer the half-big pig boy he used to be, but an adult wild boar weighing more than 300 kilograms. With the large lattice and two sharp fangs that have exceeded 15 cm, in terms of mediocrity, the four-line team can beat it alone, only a few people.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Especially with the biting force of the wild boar exceeding 300 kilograms, not to mention biting the canvas rucksack without swaying, even a big bone rod can be bitten into two pieces in minutes.
Shen Laoliu regards shooting skills as his strength, but his strength is far behind.
Besides, Guaiguai also used his weight, holding the backpack tightly in his mouth, while other parts of his body were lying on the ground, and he was still "humming" and screaming anxiously, like a child who was abandoned and chased his father about to travel far away.
How to describe this picture? It's like a big man with a beard, pulling his father who is about to go on a distance, and shouting, "Dad is bad, don't want me anymore!"
The funny scenes with great contrast amused the people who were seeing off the army with tears in their eyes.
The constant laughter eliminated the previous tragic moment invisibly.
Well, now it's a good idea. The army had just taken a few steps to go to the war and was stopped by this foodie.
Faced with such a embarrassment, Shen Laoliu, who usually has a lot of tricks, is also helpless.
If it were someone else, who would dare to stop the army from going out? Now the whole army is full of guns and ammunition according to the standards of wartime. Anyone who blocks can be fully engaged in military law. No one dares to touch the military law of the Tang Tuanzhao, who is a good-tempered person, dares to touch the military law during wartime. After all, he is a cruel character who is even whipped by himself.
But who is Guaiguai? It is not just the mascot of the Four Lines Regiment, but also a real comrade. In the past two years, it has often served as a scout on the periphery of the entire regiment's position and has discovered many Japanese troops who touched the position.
He was even more shot because of this. There are still three areas on the pig's butt that are not hairy, which are all permanent marks left by the 6.5mm Arisaka bullet.
Captain Lu Sanjiang, the leader, was also a little numb, and could only smile bitterly and wave his hand to order the queue to continue moving forward. He ordered Zishan to transfer to the reconnaissance company to the second lieutenant Cao Yingzhuo to help Shen Laoliu, who was on the side, get rid of this cute and tricky wild boar first and then catch up with the team.
Cao Yingchong, who received the military order, took out the beef jerky that he wouldn't bear to eat on weekdays, grabbed several pieces and put them on his mouth, which was already shining in his eyes.
If it were normal, Guaiguai would probably have slid aside to eat snacks happily, but at this moment, Guaiguai was so greedy that he drooled down and he still refused to let go.
That means, I really want to eat, but I want to go with you even more.
The laughter of the people on the side was even stronger, and even the soldiers with solemn expressions raised their mouths and smiled knowingly.
Damn it! Especially when the regiment commander over there was strode, Cao Yingchong and Shen Laoliu, the two Army lieutenants who fought with the Japanese without frowning, were really as big as a fight at that moment.
Then, Cao Yingchong saw Zhuang Damei, who was already the head nurse of the gunshot wound department in Taihang Hospital, and looked at her with a smile.
Cao Ying lowered his head and explained to Shen Laoliu a few words, then rushed up the hillside and picked a bunch of wild chrysanthemums. They were flowers everywhere in Taihang Mountains. The flowering period was from September to December. It was not brilliant but was a good medicine.
Many people have dried wild chrysanthemums soaked in their kettles.
The soldiers passing by slowly passing by him and the smiling melon-eating audience were all as unaware of this. Although the wild boar is an omnivorous animal, there is meat and rice in the four-line group. Guaiguai has long given up eating these things, okay?
But obviously, Guaiguai is a pig with principle. He never eats it for nothing. He just does anything he gives to eat.
Then, Cao Yingchong took out a few more beef jerky pieces and signaled to the distance to the eldest girl from the village.
Guaigu's eyes were clear, and he threw away Shen Laoliu's backpack, picked up the bouquet of wild chrysanthemums in one bite, and ran towards Zhuang Damei, who had been promoted to the sergeant.
Zhuang Damei picked up the dozens of meters of wild chrysanthemums from outside that were sent by a wild boar, and looked at Cao Ying with crystal eyes on her pretty face.
After Cao Yingchong was snatched out by Long Yan that day, he was sent to the medical team under the charge of Zhuang Damei for rescue. As the saying goes, physical injuries are easy to heal, but heart injuries are hard to heal. Cao Yingchong's injuries are not serious, but he is too painful in his heart. He didn't say a word to anyone in the medical team for a week.
Zhuang Damei learned about Cao Yingchong's experience and felt very pity. She came to gently enlighten him from time to time, and even told him about the experience of Xiaozhuang Village that day. It was under Zhuang Damei's careful care that Cao Yingchong recovered from the shadow of all his comrades' death in battle.
However, the two sides are not in the same combat unit, and there will be no holiday during the combat period. Even if the two are not far apart, they have not seen each other for more than three months.
Chapter completed!