Chapter 20: The Great Victory
Rows of soldiers entered the blood-soaked position in the morning light, and before the fortifications of the position could be repaired, the sound of Japanese artillery fire resounded through the Great Wall.
Liu Lang slept on a simple wooden stretcher bed in the dense forest 500 meters from the 109th Brigade command post.
Yes, He Datou, who was given a death order by Wang Changhai, dared to despise this fat man, feeling that there were only a few doctors and nurses in the ambulance team of his 217th regiment, and there were many officers and soldiers injured in this night attack.
If it weren't for the fact that the reporters from Mingda who had been following him were worried about Liu Fatzi's internal injuries and were eager for the doctor to diagnose him, He Datou would even dare to carry him to the division headquarters.
After all, this staff officer who belonged to the division headquarters before coming to the front line of the 217th Regiment can be regarded as "returning to the original owner", right?
There were many wounded soldiers sent down from the front line, so many that after the doctor judged that Liu Lang was just unconscious and only needed bed rest, he turned into a nurse and devoted himself to the work of rescuing the wounded.
In the thick smell of gunpowder smoke mixed with the stronger smell of blood, Ming Yu was busy all day until she was exhausted, and Brigade Commander Zhao Dengyu, who heard about it, forced her to rest.
In the evening, the sunset is like blood.
Mingyu sat under the big tree that was still sleeping Liu Lang for more than 20 meters, and picked up his pen and paper.
The radio, which had been granted to one of the five infantry brigades of the 29th Army by the Northern Chinese Military Commission, sent a dense radio wave south of the Great Wall.
A very rare long message was placed in front of the desk of the top commander of the Northern Chinese Military Commission.
The admiral picked up the piece of paper, sat upright at the beginning, gradually stood up, looked solemn, pondered for a long time, and said to the adjutant standing in front of him:
"This telegram was forwarded to the People's Daily and to several major newspapers in the southeast, and asked them to print it, without changing a single word. At the same time, to the people of northern China, report the victory! โ
Early the next morning, the newsboys of the city's largest livelihood newspaper, the People's Daily, were all over the street corners of this ancient city in northern China.
"Great victory! The 29th Army won a great victory at Xifengkou on the Great Wall defense line and beheaded more than 700 Japanese troops! โ
"Joy Fengkou victory!"
"The Japanese have suffered heavy losses!"
Almost no sooner had the newsboys shouted than the newspapers were snapped up.
In fact, since the Japanese Kwantung Army stepped out of the three eastern provinces to attack in the direction of Rehe and Pingjin, almost all the people in northern China heard were failures, Rehe fell, and more than 100,000 Chinese troops retreated, all the way to the defense line of the Great Wall built by the Chinese nation 2,000 years ago to resist the nomads.
What if, after relying on the Great Wall for 2,000 years, it is lost again? Could it be, like the nomads hundreds of years ago, that Pingjin fell, North China fell, the Central Plains fell, and the Southeast fellใใใใใใ
As long as you have read a little history books, you know that those were the darkest eras in the history of the Chinese nation.
They certainly did not know that the era they were about to go through could likewise be called one of the darkest times for the entire nation.
But fortunately, there are heroes in this era, and they didn't let the darkness last long. Breaking and standing, the extreme darkness is like before the dawn, and spending this time will usher in the greatest era in the history of the Chinese nation.
Of course, in this era, no one will know what kind of glory the new China will have, only the fat butterfly that crossed over will know.
He knows with certainty that the prosperous era of the Han and Tang dynasties more than a thousand years ago will reappear, in the east of the world. It is not because of how developed the economy of China was during the time period when he came, and how conscientious the people were.
Rather, his country and nation have never forgotten the past.
The majestic Monument to the People's Heroes has been standing in the heart of China, every year, every month, every day, I don't know how many Chinese children, not far away, just to stand in front of it, even for a moment.
He is proud of his country and his people, whether it is a bright future or a present that is about to fall into darkness.
The apprehensive people of the north held the newspaper in their hands, and the first thing they saw was the news about the great victory.
The field report, which was sent from the front line and approved by the Northern Military Commission, recorded in detail the battle report of the 109th Brigade of the 37th Division of the 29th Army at Xifengkou:
On the night of 11 March, more than 2,000 officers and men of our 109th Brigade, under Major General Zhao Dengyu, made a detour of Panjiakou, went out of the Great Wall, and west of Xifengkou to carry out sabotage battles on the four heights of the Japanese invaders.
This is probably the first time that the Northern Military Council has released a battle that is not a large-scale battle to the people of the North with extremely detailed data.
After all, a battle in which the Chinese side invested no more than 2,000 troops is really not up to the level of the Chinese military, which has more than 200,000 troops, and the Japanese military, which has more than 40,000 Kwantung troops and 30,000 Japanese puppet troops.
However, this victory of annihilating the enemy 700 was too important for the military and civilians of northern China at this time.
It turned out that the Japanese army was not invincible.
Two years ago, they occupied the three northeastern provinces, and hundreds of thousands of northeastern troops lost China's most fertile land and largest industrial base.
Now, they have occupied Rehe and fought all the way to the Great Wall, which was once the most reliable of the nation, China, can it still be retreated? Will it be possible to win this war caused by the constant greed of the Japanese invaders?
No one can give an answer!
But now, the 2,000 officers and soldiers of the infantry brigade under the 29th Army have given the answer with facts.
As long as you dare to fight hard, the Japanese will also die, and they will be afraid!
In the city of Beiping, everyone rushed to tell each other, whether it was a scholar wearing a traditional robe, a merchant wearing a thick jacket, or a laborer wearing a jacket on this cold day, whether they knew how to read or not, whether they had money or status.
After getting the news, they all cheered, as if the battle had been won, the Japanese would not have fought the Great Wall, Pingjin could be guarded, North China could be guarded, and the whole of China could be guarded.
Even if it's a dream, at least the beginning of the dream is beautiful.
Under the roots of Beiping City, a group of people in ragged clothes with vegetables on their faces gathered together.
They are the ones who wait here for their employer to come and call them and give them a job to carry goods or other work that uses their strength, so that they can earn a day's food. Behind each of them, there are several mouths waiting to be fed, waiting for them to bring back rice and noodles.
Usually surrounded like this, there must be a good employer, who can try to show that they have enough strength under the thin jacket.
But today, it's not.
It was an old gentleman with glasses.
Read them today's newspaper.
The cheers for the victory had long since ended, and they were now extremely quiet, listening quietly to the old gentleman reading another text on the front page of the newspaper entitled "War Diary."
The old gentleman read it carefully, as if he was afraid of missing a word. One of the things he does the most is to lift the corners of his clothes and wipe the lenses from time to time.
Because, from time to time, it will be dyed with water.