Chapter 4: The Flag is Fluttering (5 times)

In the past two months, Zhang Songling has been in a semi-isolated state and knows very little about the outside world, so he has been completely unable to interject, and can only prick up his ears and listen with a smile. Seeing his blank face, the officer Lao Gou became more and more angry, pointed to his nose, and continued to count loudly: "What do you think the 29th Army is a good thing, the group of good men who fought with devils with big blades on the Great Wall back then have long been fucking dead!" Now all that's left is a bunch of wretchedness! Wanping, who was bombarded by the Japanese devils on the seventh, has arrived at the fourteenth, and Song is still eyebrow-to-eye with the chief of staff of Little Japan. For the sake of the melons that grew on the bitter vine of the Northwest Army, the old battalion commander took our 26th Route Army to the north to support, but he said that he was afraid that the Japanese army would find an excuse to expand the situation, so he blocked us in Baoding City! His grandmother's, the Japanese devil can't find an excuse not to expand the situation? When the '918 Incident' happened, Zhang Xiaoliuzi was still hiding in Beiping and hugging the woman's thighs, and his subordinates didn't even dare to fire a shot at that time, how could they let the Japanese end the nest of the Northeast Army? ! ”

At the time of the September 18 Incident, Zhang Songling was still young and was very confused about the cause and process of the incident. This time, when he heard the officer Lao Gou calculate the old accounts, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded. In his mind, even if the Northeast Army was no longer angry, it was only after the bloody battle that it retreated into the Great Wall. I would have thought that the Chinese soldiers at that time actually suffered the great humiliation of not even daring to fire a shot!

400,000 people were disarmed, and not a single man was a man. Zhang Xueliang was obsessed with which woman he was in the arms at that time, Zhang Songling didn't know. But he could feel that the honor of a soldier was trampled on, although the military uniform on his body had only been officially put on for less than half a day.

Glancing at him with a face full of humiliation, the officer Lao Gou continued to scold: "On the 20th of last month, the Japanese devil's army shelled Wanping again, and the brothers braved the devil's artillery fire to fight to the death for a day and night, hoping that Song Zheyuan, the commander, would show some courage and lead everyone to give the devil a blow to the head. Unexpectedly, at dawn the next day, what I was looking forward to was the news that Wanping had been abandoned and the position had been handed over to the local security team. The No. 27 devil attacked in a big way, and he, Song Zheyuan, did not make any adjustments to the combat deployment except for sending telegrams again and again. On the 28th, the little devil attacked Nanyuan, and the shell fell directly on the head of the student barracks, aiming at it accurately, as if it had been rehearsed many times in advance. Pity the 5,000 students in the Nanyuan School Barracks, who haven't even touched the real guns, they have all become ghosts under the Japanese cannons! Do you still want to go to the Twenty-ninth Army? You're going now, what else can you do besides being used as cannon fodder?! ”

The school barracks were wiped out by the Japanese devils! In an instant, as if he was frozen, the blood in Zhang Songling's whole body no longer flowed. The 29th Army School Barracks, the Anti-Japanese Student Army, that was the team he had dreamed of joining, and that was where Tian Qingyu, Han Qiu and Lu Ming were going to sing songs. Unexpectedly, what awaits there is despair and death.

He remembered Peng Xuewen's accusation against the 29th Army, which corroborated each other with the words of the officer Lao Gou, so that he could no longer refuse to believe it. And if he hadn't been detained by the old military master Wei Ding in the Iron and Blood Lianzhuang Association at that time, now, I'm afraid that he would have really become a corpse under the Japanese artillery shells as Lao Gou said. Until he dies, he doesn't know who he has betrayed! (Note 1)

"Our 26th Route Army, at the moment there are 30, 31, and 27 divisions, which are going against the offensive of the little devils in Liangxiang. And their 29th Army had just evacuated Beiping the day before yesterday, and the military headquarters was now located in Baoding Mansion, more than 80 miles behind us. Whether to follow our 26th Route Army to move forward, or follow their 29th Army to turn around and turn south, you choose, I won't stop you! Dropping a hard sentence, the officer ignored Zhang Songling, who was already stunned, and walked away.

It wasn't until he walked more than a hundred steps away that Zhang Songling suddenly regained his senses, ignoring the wounds on his body, and chased after him, shouting loudly while chasing: "Wait for me, Chief Gou." Wait for me, sir. I'm not going to the 29th Army, I'm going to follow your 26th Army! ”

"It's not the 26th Army, it's the 26th Route Army!" Officer Lao Gou didn't really want to leave Zhang Songling behind, but when he heard the shout from behind, he turned his head with a straight face, "Originally, our 26th Route Army was reduced to not many people, and if you are lowered by one level, you won't have to fight!" ”

"Yes, sir. I'm confused, I'm confused! Zhang Songling accompanied the smiling face, a picture of admitting punishment and admitting punishment.

"You're a fool! It's a shame that Lao Ji still treats you as a sweetheart! The officer raised his foot and kicked it, and counted it in a huff.

"Didn't I get my head wounded by a cannonball?" As long as he is willing to let himself be a soldier, Zhang Songling doesn't care about being counted down, and laughs at himself according to the other party's tone.

The officer Lao Gou was so angry that he stretched out an arm to hug him, poked the badge on his military uniform with the finger of his other hand and said, "See clearly, don't pretend to be stupid with Lao Tzu." This is D, the English letter D, you should know better than me. Behind D is twenty-seven, that is, you are from the twenty-seventh division. Our 26th Route Army now nominally has five divisions, but in fact, only three can be taken to the battlefield by our old battalion commander. They were: the 27th, 30th and 31st Divisions. The other two are still receiving the adaptation of the central government in the Nanjing area, and I don't know when the adaptation will be completed! Do you remember clearly, when others ask in the future, you have to tell him loudly that you are from the 26th Route Army, don't be confused and embarrassed Lao Tzu! ”

"Yes, sir!" Zhang Songling knew that Lao Gou said this, which meant that he had accepted himself again, straightened his chest, and replied loudly.

"The 29th Army, which you had in mind before, and our 26th Route Army, are all the subordinates of Elder Feng. The commander of our team, that is, the old battalion commander in our mouth, surnamed Sun, and Zhao Dengyu, the deputy commander of the 29th Army in Beiping, who died in the battle two days ago, are among the 13 Taibao under the account of Old Commander Feng. Later, Commander Feng had a falling out with Chairman Chiang, and after losing the battle, he announced that he would go into the wilderness, and our Northwest Army was divided into several large pieces....... "lest Zhang Songling make another joke that he could not distinguish the difference between the 26th and 29th Armies, the officer Lao Gou grabbed his shoulders and seized the time to popularize common sense in the army to him."

He speaks very poorly, and where he should be detailed, he often brings it over in one sentence. The places that should be briefly introduced are often endless. Despite this, Zhang Songling also roughly understood some of the basic conditions of the unit he was in, and his original indignant and irritable mood gradually calmed down.

According to Lao Gou, the full name of this unit is: the 26th Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army. The predecessor was the Eighth Route Army of the Northwest Army under General Feng Yuxiang, the commander of which was Sun Lianzhong, one of the thirteen Taibao under General Feng Yuxiang, and was known for his courage and good fighting. After the success of the Northern Expedition, General Feng Yuxiang and the central government split and merged, causing a lot of awkwardness. The Northwest Army is also in a complex and changeable situation, divided and evolved into several large parts. Part of it was the 29th Army, headed by Song Zheyuan, and it was the strongest. Part of it is the Third Route Army, and the commander-in-chief is Han Fuqu, who has the thickest family background. There is also a part of the 26th Route Army, grandma does not hurt, uncle does not love, is called the peer nicknamed Huazi Army, and the commander-in-chief is Sun Lianzhong.

On July 7 last month, the Japanese army attacked Beiping, and the 29th Army fought back. The 26th Route Army thought that the two sides were born from the same root, and came to support with righteousness. However, Song Zheyuan was afraid that after the arrival of the 26th Route Army, he would weaken his power, so he found an excuse to refuse General Sun Lianzhong's kindness. There was no way, Sun Lianzhong had no choice but to collect the team halfway and temporarily stationed in Baoding together with the two divisions of the Central 52nd Army led by Guan Linzheng.

This is also the reason why Xiao Er, the head of the Iron and Blood Society, went to Baoding last month and was dazzled by the vigorous and heroic posture of the local garrison. The two divisions of the 52nd Army, the 2nd and 25th Divisions, were all reorganized according to the instructions of the German advisers, and were equipped with all imported weapons from Germany. Although the 26th Route Army did not receive the same attention from the central authorities as the 52nd Army, under the soft grinding and hard foaming of General Sun Lianzhong, the most elite 27th Division also replaced most of its guns with German weapons. It's just that field artillery and automobiles are in place because of the central government's financial constraints, and it is not known when they will be in place.

Just as Zhang Songling had heard from the wounded soldiers in advance, the 27th Division was a large establishment of the 3rd Brigade and 6th Regiment. Regardless of the weapons and equipment, in terms of numbers and scale, it is larger than the 25th Division of the Central Army. Two of the infantry brigades are ordinary combat units under the command of the divisional headquarters. Another cavalry regiment and a special service regiment formed a guards brigade, which was the elite of the elite. Nominally, it was under the 27th Division, but in fact it was directly under the military headquarters, and no one except Sun Lianzhong himself had the right to transfer.

In this way, after the Iron and Blood Society Xiao Er took the line of Head Ji, the reason why he could immediately exchange grain for a large number of old Hanyang was about to come out. The 27th Division had just taken over a large number of new German guns, and the Hanyang Zao that had been replaced was worried that there was no place to throw it, so it was exchanged for the Iron and Blood Society, since it could get the much-needed food and meat, and it could also fall into a good reputation for supporting the local anti-Japanese team, why not do it?

It's just that the chief who made the decision to sell Hanyang to the Iron Blood Society at that time probably didn't dream that the Iron Blood Society, which was known to be nearly a thousand in scale, was holding a large number of guns and ammunition, but in front of a Japanese devil pathfinding team of more than a dozen people, he was scattered. If it weren't for the arrival of Commander Ji and the others, I am afraid that the guns, ammunition, food and cloth stored in the warehouse would all be cheap for the Japanese devils!

"Your Iron Blood Society is actually quite good!" Seeing that as soon as he mentioned the word "Iron and Blood Society", Zhang Songling's face continued to twitch, and the officer Lao Gou patted him on the shoulder, and comforted him with a smile: "You guys still fought with that group of little Japanese devils who were exploring the way, and they killed half of their team." The nearby Baylor Village Self-Rescue Association, the Damiaozhuang Red Gun Society, and the Sigezhuang Death Squad, scraped the ground three feet in advance, and asked the villagers to take out food for them to eat and drink, saying that they were going to be a full ghost to fight with Little Japan. As a result, as soon as Little Japan appeared, they immediately put up the incense case and knelt down to greet Wang Shi, and they didn't even dare to release a bullet! ”

It's okay if he doesn't comfort him, but when he is comforted, Zhang Songling really doesn't know whether he should cry a few times or laugh a few times. This is his countrymen, this is the people he has shed his blood and are on the verge of peril. In the long and prosperous history of this nation, there are many people who sacrifice their lives and are willing to shed their last drop of blood for the country. At the same time, there is no shortage of people who are ready to betray her all the time, step on her fallen body, and fight for several years of glory and wealth for the family and herself! Together, they have made up these thousands of years of civilization. Their figures overlapped, making it impossible for younger generations to tell whether this nation is hateful or cute.

"And what are these, in the future you will see things that are ten times more embarrassing and ten times more resentful." Looking at the face that was as immature as when he was young, and the same painful and desperate face after discovering the facts, the officer Lao Gou shook his head and grinned. "You're still young and don't see much. Slowly, I saw more and got used to it. Once you get used to it, you won't feel angry. What others do, we basically can't control. But we can still manage ourselves! ”

Note 1: The 29th Army Academy Barracks is composed of a part of the college students of Beiping University and a part of the middle school students who received military training in the 29th Army. Song Zheyuan's original intention was to train reserve officers for the 29th Army through the training barracks, but this move touched the interests of some people. After the 77 Incident, Song's henchman Pan Yugui provided the location of the military camp and a detailed map of the interior to the Japanese army. On 28 July, the Japanese invaders first shelled and then stormed, slaughtering more than 5,000 patriotic students inside.