The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year. People in the north of our country have the tradition of eating dumplings on the winter solstice, and the old people often say: if you don't eat dumplings on the winter solstice, you will freeze off your ears.

The winter of 1937 seemed colder than usual. During the New Year's holidays, the military usually stops training and allows soldiers to take a holiday, but this year's winter solstice is an exception. Early in the morning of the winter solstice, Ren Laifeng pulled hundreds of officers and soldiers of the Flying Tiger Battalion to the playground for training, on the grounds that the war was approaching and the rest day was canceled!

When it is time to rest, they are not allowed to rest, and many soldiers have complaints in their hearts. However, it is the duty of the soldiers to obey orders, and since the commander has ordered the cancellation of rest days, no matter how unhappy the soldiers are, they can only follow the orders.

As usual, I wake up at half past six in the morning, start morning exercise for one hour at seven o'clock, and then practice after breakfast. After breakfast, the cooking team usually rests for two or three hours before starting to prepare lunch, but today is different. They did not rest after the troops finished eating, and a group of people were busy wearing aprons to pick up the stubble, and the sound of chopping meat could be heard in most of the playground.

The soldiers began to talk about what these people in the cooking class were doing? If you have that flexible mind, guess the reason: Today's winter solstice, the cook is making dumplings for us, right?

Want to eat dumplings? The soldiers were all excited. In these years, the so-called eating food and becoming a soldier is just trying to eat a full meal, and there is no need to count on the quality of food. Big pot stew and big steamed buns are the same every day. The Flying Tiger Battalion is Han Fuqu's guard unit, and there is meat in the cauldron, as for the ordinary troops, there is only vegan stew. Can you really eat dumplings on the winter solstice today?

The question was completely solved at lunchtime, and it was really dumplings at noon today! Pork and radish filling, mutton and radish filling, two kinds of meat stuffed dumplings in Hui and Han are picked by soldiers.

Good guys, hundreds of big men are like starving ghosts who haven't eaten for half a month, and they pounce on each person and grab a bowl of food. "Slow down, slow down. Today's dumplings are full and unlimited. Brethren, take it easy, don't choke. The secretary of the secretary urged from the sidelines. The soldier nodded his head and continued to stuff it into his mouth one by one.

Seeing this kind of eating appearance of being a soldier, let the wind be happy from the heart. Isn't it just a meat dumpling? As long as the fighters are happy, he can do it once a month from now on. Ren Laifeng was happy, but he didn't see the bitter gourd-like faces of the people in the cooking class. Hundreds of pot-bellied men eat dumplings together, how much do you have to wrap to eat?

The meal was busy until one o'clock in the afternoon. Just when the cooking soldiers were holding bowls and tasting the fruits of their labor, Ren Laifeng came over after eating dumplings and announced an order that made the entire cooking class almost collapse: eat dumplings for dinner on the winter solstice! Well, don't plan to be idle all day today!

I ate dumplings at noon, and the soldiers were particularly energetic when they were training in the afternoon, as if they were not eating dumplings at noon, but Shiquan Da Tonic Dan.

"Smoking guns, when do you think the devils will attack again?" At dinner, Ren Laifeng and Smoking Gun got together with dumplings and chatted about the current situation.

"I'm looking at it fast. It's been more than a month, and it's impossible for so many devils to stay north of the Yellow River all the time, right? I'm looking at it soon. Maybe it's just these days. "When Smoke Gun and Ren Laifeng were together, they always thought about where they were, and they didn't worry about the consequences of saying the wrong thing at all.

"Just these days? Then I'll have to get my guns and ammunition ready quickly, because I won't be able to keep myself busy by then. Ren Laifeng felt that the words of the smoking gun were a little close to what he thought, so he played down the topic, "Well, I think the troops will be able to conduct live-fire drills from tomorrow." ”

"Hey, Xiaofeng, where do you say Zhao Yongsheng can go now?"

"That guy, either as a deserter and ran back to his hometown, or surrendered to the devil and became a traitor, can he still have a third way? Hehe, no matter which of these two things it is, as long as you let the iron catch it, you must be dead or alive. Ren Laifeng squinted his eyes and smiled. Unexpectedly, squad leader Zhao, who always looked for him awkwardly, has now become a lost dog, which is probably self-killing if he commits many injustices, right?

"It's better to fall into your hands!" Smoking Gun took a sentence and smiled. If Zhao Yongsheng falls into the hands of Ren Laifeng, it will really be better to die early.

When the two of them finished eating a bowl of dumplings and were about to serve another bowl, the sky in the distance suddenly lit up, and then flashed away with light and darkness, as if it was a fluorescent lamp with poor contact. There was a faint sound of rolling thunder in the sky, and Ren Laifeng and Smoke Gun glanced at each other, and they both saw excitement and a hint of anxiety in each other's eyes. The excitement in Ren Laifeng's eyes seemed to be a little heavier.

"Report, just received a military intelligence briefing. The Japanese army is forcibly crossing the Yellow River with hundreds of ships! "The signal corps came over with a telegram to report the battalion commander's latest military briefing.

Hundreds of ships? Ren Laifeng couldn't help but gasp! Hundreds of ships, even if there are ten people on one ship, that's a thousand devils! He didn't know it before, but now that he has really been on the battlefield, he understands how terrifying the combat power of thousands of devils is. However, it is also Han Fuqu's elite soldiers who defend the river defense, presumably thousands of devils will not cross the Yellow River so easily, right?

Knowing that there was a fight over there, Ren Laifeng also came to his senses, and after eating, he ordered the officers and men of the three main companies of the Flying Tiger Battalion to take turns to sleep tonight, without undressing and taking off their horses. The military situation is urgent, and when he says that he wants to go up, he will have to fight, and when the time comes, he will put on clothes and change shoes, and then he will delay his work.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the latest news came: Gu Liangmin's 22nd Division had retreated on all fronts! Chairman Han ordered Sun Tongxuan's 12th Division to stay in Jinan, and Han Fuqu was ready to retreat!

This hasn't been fought yet? Ren Laifeng asked again, confirming that it was not a joke, and then his expression became serious. Another signal corpsman came over to report: Chairman Han ordered the Flying Tiger Battalion to assemble immediately, and the battalion commander Ren Laifeng reported to the headquarters within 10 minutes!

"Blow the emergency assembly whistle, everyone assemble at once!" As soon as Ren Laifeng gave an order, the guard on duty picked up the whistle and blew: "Dududu-du-!" Toot toot toot! ”

The barracks immediately became noisy, and the soldiers who woke up in the middle of the night quickly got dressed and lined up to assemble. The distant sound of artillery seemed to be closer.

Ren Laifeng glanced at the front of the team from left to right, raised his hand and saluted, "Brothers, the Japanese devils have already fought the Yellow River!" The opportunity to kill the enemy and repay the national merit award has come! I hope that all brothers will not be afraid of sacrifice and fight bravely. After earning military merits, it will be good to buy a house and land and marry a wife in the future! ”

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