023 Chapter 23 Memories of War

It is said that on the way to Tonggu with the moon car, when passing by a forest, the driver said: "The village next to this is called Mubang Village, and in this forest, a Chinese general was sacrificed. ”

"Mubang Village?" Wang Xiaoyu felt that this name was a little familiar, so he asked, "Do you remember the name of this Huaxia general?" ”

"I know this, I have often listened to my grandfather since I was a child, and I am familiar with it, ouch, what is it called? Why did you forget it in a hurry, what kind of division commander is it? ”

"Is it the 200 division?" Wang Xiaoyu asked tentatively.

"Yes, yes, that's easy to remember!" The driver patted his head and said. "It's 200 divisions"

"Is it General Dianlan?" Even Wang Xiaoyu doesn't think it's so coincidental, right? Be careful with your inquiry.

"Yes, yes, it's him, General Dai Anlan," the driver said loudly, patting his thigh.

"Stop, stop!" Wang Xiaoyu shouted loudly, startling the driver, and braking suddenly, causing a curse from the passengers in the car.

"I want to get out of the car," Wang Xiaoyu said eagerly, carrying his backpack and shouting to the moon and squeezed to the door of the car.

The driver looked at Wang Xiaoyu's anxious appearance, so he had to say, "Okay, anyway, this place is not far from Lashio, you can take a motorcycle by yourself later", and opened the car door after speaking.

Wang Xiaoyu and Moon hurriedly got out of the car and walked towards the woods behind.

Moon asked as she walked, "Who is this General Dai Anlan?" What do you want to do when you get out of the car in a hurry? ”

Wang Xiaoyu said: "He is the commander of the 200 division of the expeditionary force, and he is also the old commander of my grandfather."

Moon said, "Well, even if he is a division commander, is it great?" Even a Chinese bus driver in a cotton country knows? ”

Wang Xiaoyu said: "He was the commander of China's first mechanized division, and his division was less than 10,000 people, and he resisted the attack of more than 25,000 Japanese divisions for half a month, annihilated more than 4,000 enemies, and suffered more than 2,000 casualties himself. The 200th Division broke through safely under the command of Dai Anlan, and not even a single wounded soldier was lost. Isn't it powerful, you say? ”

The moon said: "Impossible, it sounds like an anti-Japanese drama".

Wang Xiaoyu said: "But the 200 divisions really did it, and both China and Japan have recorded it, and it can't be faked."

Moon felt incredible when she heard it, and said: "The history teacher said that in the Battle of Taierzhuang, 300,000 national troops surrounded and beat 50,000 Japanese troops, and they suffered 50,000 casualties before they destroyed about 20,000 enemies. Six times the number of troops all suffered 2:1 casualties, and 10,000 people of the 200th Division fought 20,000 enemies, and they suffered 1:2 casualties. Who believes? The U.S. military at that time couldn't do it, right? ”

Wang Xiaoyu said: "You and I don't understand the things of war, but it is definitely not a simple comparison of troops and weapons and equipment between the two sides can be decided, the right time, place and people will have an impact on the outcome of the war, and the commander's command art can sometimes be worth 100,000 soldiers." ”

The moon said disdainfully, "Have you heard of a saying?" All conspiracies and tricks will come to naught in the face of absolute strength. ”

Wang Xiaoyu retorted: "This is the so-called power crushing theory on the Internet, which is untenable from both history and reality." In the Battle of Chibi, 50,000 Sun and Liu allied troops dealt with more than 20 thousand Cao troops, did you call Cao Cao to crush and see? Not like a burned dog? To resist US aggression and aid Korea, the volunteers of millet plus rifles, and the US army armed to the teeth by aircraft and artillery, did MacArthur crush Mr. Peng? Also, when the superpower Soviet Union went to fight weak Afghanistan, why did the Soviet Union itself disintegrate in the end? ”

Unconvinced, the moon said: "What you said is a special case, and there is no universality."

Wang Xiaoyu said: "You also know from watching TV, Li Yunlong, an infantry battalion, ran over and disarmed a cavalry battalion of the puppet army, and he didn't even hurt his horse, who crushed whom?" This is universal, if you and I go to command the cavalry battalion, nine times out of ten we will have to be disarmed by Li Yunlong's infantry battalion. ”

The moon said: "Okay, listen to you say this, this 200 division is indeed a bit powerful, then I don't understand, how can such a powerful unit even kill the division commander?" ”

"This is a long story", Wang Xiaoyu knew that the moon didn't like to read, and used to occasionally watch TV, but later became addicted to gambling and didn't even watch TV. He was trying to explain it in an easy-to-understand way.

As he spoke, he had already walked about 200 hundred meters, and there was a small intersection on the side of the road, which could not be opened to traffic, like a trail stepped out by hunters or woodcutters in the mountains.

Wang Xiaoyu picked up a dead branch, brushed away the weeds that blocked the way, and walked into the woods, not knowing how far to go, Wang Xiaoyu had to say to the moon again: "Do you know how Guan Yu died?" ”

The moon said: "This Chinese know that Guan Yu was ordered by Zhuge Liang to attack Cao Cao, and Sun Quan took the opportunity to seize Jingzhou, cutting off Guan Yu's back road, so that he was defeated and took Maicheng, huh?" Are you saying that the rear road of the 200th Division was taken away by others? So that Commander Dai died in battle? ”

Wang Xiaoyu said: "Yes, the 200th Division fought fiercely with the enemy in the front, but the elite 56th Division of the Japanese army occupied Lashio, Myitkyina and other places by detour, cutting off the expeditionary force's way back to China, so that the expeditionary force was forced to enter the Savage Mountains and suffered heavy casualties."

Moon said: "When the battle was fought, the 200th Division was at the forefront, and when they retreated, they were at the rear, and the troops after the break suffered the heaviest casualties, but I didn't expect it to be so tragic that even the division commander was killed, the war was terrible."

Walking for more than 100 meters, just when Wang Xiaoyu was worried that he could not find it, there was suddenly an open field in the forest, the size of a basketball court, and a big tree in the middle, the tree pole should be hugged by three people, more than 20 meters high, the branches were luxuriant, and the trunk was simple and strong.

Under the tree, someone used bricks and gravel to build a small square platform, and there was a stone tablet covered with moss on the square platform, and a column of thick ink was vaguely distinguished: "General Dai Anlan's martyrdom". The place next to it is covered with moss, I don't know who carved it when?

In front of the stone platform, there is a one-foot-square pottery incense stick, and the ashes of the incense show that people have been here in recent days. In front of the Xiangding, there are three round green green tuans, close to the point, smell it, there is a strong smell of mugwort. "The taste of love!" The two shouted out in unison, in their hometown, the pronunciation of "Ai" is the same as "love", and the Youth League made of mugwort naturally means "the taste of love!" It is usually used to worship ancestors before and after Qingming. Because the taste is very special, there is a fragrance of mugwort, and the Hakka people nowadays also like to give each other as exquisite pastries.

The two of them looked at each other in amazement, this was too similar to Ai Tuan in their hometown. The moon couldn't help but ask, "Pull it away and take a look?" ”

"Hmm", Wang Xiaoyu nodded.

The moon stretched out his left hand, gently pressed a mugwort cake ball with his index finger, took a branch in his right hand, and slowly cut open the green leaf skin of the mugwort cake ball, revealing the filling inside, and gently dispersed the stuffing ball with a branch, revealing mung beans, sesame seeds, and rice powder. The moon said in surprise: "It's really the same as our hometown!" ”

Ai Tuan before the Qingming Festival is a niche food, except for the Hakka people, it is not common in other places. In particular, Misan, which is a Hakka specialty food, is very different from the popcorn in the north in terms of material and production process. This is enough to show that these youth leagues are made by the Hakka people.

Moon also found out about this situation and asked, "Isn't this Ai Tuan from my hometown?" How did it end up here? Are there many people in your village who are part of the expeditionary force? ”

Wang Xiaoyu shook his head and said: "No, when the Z government organized an expeditionary force, the requirements were all above the initial Chinese, my grandmother said that there are few qualified people in the whole village, how can other families be willing to let their baby son go to the battlefield?" Only my grandfather insisted on joining the army, and the family couldn't stop him. So I guess that this person who sent the Youth League must have something to do with my grandfather. ”

"There is a vast sea of people, even if there is a relationship, where can you find it?" Moon said.

The person who sent the mugwort youth group must have some kind of relationship with his grandfather, as long as he finds him, he has a good chance to get key clues. But where is there news of this man? Thinking about it, most likely, it is in the Museum of the Expeditionary Force, where the information of the Expeditionary Force is relatively complete.

Wang Xiaoyu and Moon threw down their backpacks, inserted three cigarettes, and respectfully came to Xiangding and bowed three times.

According to some documents, there were originally some thatched huts in the area, which were inhabited by locals, perhaps destroyed by the war, and are now an overgrown vacant lot. I went around again, and the weeds here grew very tall, so I could see that people didn't come often.

Seeing the moon sitting in the middle of the grass smoking, Wang Xiaoyu also walked over, he was indeed tired after walking for a long time, sat next to him, took out mineral water, and drank it.

The moon said: "It's so desolate here, I didn't expect a generation of famous generals to die here, by the way, when did he die?"

Wang Xiaoyu said: "On May 18, 1942, the 200th Division crossed the Ximo Highway. The avant-garde troops were suddenly ambushed by a large force of Japanese troops, and in the fierce battle, a machine gun bullet hit Dai Anlan in the chest and abdomen, and a week later, he arrived at the Kachin cottage in Maobang. This is where we are now, where Diane died of his injuries at the age of 38."

After hearing this, the moon couldn't help but sigh, and said indignantly: "The most hateful thing is those traitors, if they don't lead the way for the Japanese army, how can they cut off the back road of the expeditionary force?" ”

Wang Xiaoyu said: "This time you are wrong, it is not a traitor who leads the way, it is a cotton countryman, you can call it a cotton traitor, well, it is the father of the cotton country, a subordinate of General Ang X."

When the moon heard this, she frowned and said, "General Ang X, this name is so familiar, isn't their current prime minister called Ang, how did he come here?" ”

Wang Xiaoyu said: "Shh, don't talk about politics, if only you knew that she was the daughter of General Aung San."

Moon laughed, stood up, patted the grass on his buttocks, and said, "I won't tell you, I want to leave now."

Wang Xiaoyu saw that it was not early, took a few photos with his mobile phone, uploaded them to the WeChat space, and specially took a close-up of the mugwort youth group. He recorded a small video of his surroundings, plucked the weeds around the incense burner in front of the rocks, bowed again, and slowly left with the moon.