"Stop the civil war, unite with the outside world!"

"Down with Japanese imperialism!"

"Long live the Chinese nation!"

“……”

The streets are full of parades, and students who are on summer vacation have gathered together in various ways. Along the way, many citizens also spontaneously joined in, walking through the neighborhoods, with the ultimate goal of going to the city hall to petition.

"Dididi!"

The driver honked his horn and tried to force the procession to get out of the way.

Zhou Hexuan reminded: "Pull over, stop, and wait for the parade to pass first." ”

The driver and car were all borrowed from Xu Zhimo, and there was only one old janitor left in the Zhou Mansion in Shanghai.

When the procession left, the car continued on its way and stopped in front of a hotel.

More than 20 days have passed since the outbreak of the July Seven Incident.

At the beginning, Chang Kaishen and Song Zheyuan's attitude was the same, that is, they must stick to it and resist. But while holding on to resistance, they also looked forward to peace talks, and this luck was quickly extinguished by Japanese reinforcements.

On 17 July, Chang Kaishen finally chose to face the reality and delivered an important speech, in which a sentence was widely circulated: "As soon as the war begins, there is no distinction between north and south, and there is no distinction between old and young, and no matter who is there, everyone has the responsibility to defend the land and resist the war, and they should all have the determination to sacrifice everything." ”

At this moment, the tragic "Battle of Nanyuan" is going on in Beiping.

First of all, let's talk about the traitor Pan Yugui, who was the highest administrator of Beiping, Tianjin, Hebei and Chahar, and also served as Song Zheyuan's chief of political affairs and senior adviser to the Pingjin Garrison Headquarters. From the outbreak of the change to the fall of Beiping, all the battle plans of the 29th Army were betrayed to the Japanese army by Pan Yugui in detail.

As early as when Zhou Hexuan returned to Shanghai, he sent a telegram to Song Zheyuan, saying that the Japanese army was planning to capture Beiping, and reminded Song Zheyuan to beware - Pan Yugui had become a traitor.

Song Zheyuan listened to some of the opinions and asked Pan Yugui's whereabouts to be closely monitored. However, Pan Yugui has the support of the Japanese, and he is the highest administrator in Song Zheyuan's territory, and he also has an internal response in the twenty-nine, and he still obtained the battle plan very easily and passed it out.

When the Japanese army gradually contracted the encirclement of Beiping, Song Zheyuan realized the importance of Nanyuan and immediately sent Zhao Dengyu's elite troops to support. But Song Zheyuan was also dizzy, in view of the fact that the defense line of the 37th Division was too long, and at the same time transferred the 37th Division stationed in the Nanyuan camp to the direction of Beiping.

All this was known to the Japanese army because of the traitor's betrayal, so the Japanese army took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack.

When the Battle of Nanyuan broke out, Zhao Dengyu only brought one regiment with him in order to rush to help, and the other two regiments were still on the way, while the main force remained in Zhuozhou, and the 37th Division, which was originally stationed in Nanyuan, was withdrawing from the defense line.

Only one regiment of reinforcements came, but the garrison was retreating, and the Japanese launched another surprise attack, and the battlefield was instantly chaotic, and the Chinese defenders were taken by surprise.

The most odious thing is that due to the betrayal of the traitor Pan Yugui, the Japanese army not only knew the movements of the defenders, but also knew the weak point of the defenders - the student corps.

The student corps was recruited last year and had been participating in training until the outbreak of the July 7 Incident, when they officially took up guns and became soldiers. The Japanese army frantically attacked the positions of the student corps, and the command system at the front collapsed, and the student soldiers could not find their commanders at all, so they could only persist in fighting under the leadership of the junior officers.

For these student soldiers, it was the first battle they encountered, and the last battle for most of them. They have only been soldiers for more than half a month, but they have shown extremely high combat qualities, and no one retreats, no one surrenders, and most of them are sacrificed in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army.

On the occasion of the first anniversary of the Lugou Bridge Incident, Japan's "Asahi Shimbun" interviewed Kiyoshi Ichiki, the commander of the No. 1 Brigade of the North China Garrison Army, who said with emotion: "(Chinese student soldiers) will not retreat in a face-to-face battle to the death...... Even after being injured several times, he still rushed up to fight. ”

Because they learned in advance of the defenders' battle plan and weaknesses, the Japanese army thought that they could easily take Nanyuan, but they were met with extremely stubborn resistance, and were even driven out of the position by the officer education group led by Tong Linge for a time. Under the heavy losses, the Japanese fighters took off from Chengde and carried out frenzied bombing and strafing on Nanyuan, and the defenders' positions instantly turned into a sea of fire.

The Chinese defenders had no choice but to break out, and their retreat route, betrayed to the Japanese by traitors, was accurately and fatally ambushed.

On the way to break through, Zhao Dengyu, commander of the 132nd Division, died and was the first division commander to die in the Anti-Japanese War, at the age of 39. Tong Linge, deputy commander of the 29th Army, died and was the first military-level general to die in the Anti-Japanese War, at the age of 45.

The news of the sacrifice of Zhao Dengyu and Tong Linge has been transmitted to Shanghai by the "Ta Kung Pao" reporter, and the people of the whole country will know about it tomorrow.

The entrance of the hotel.

As soon as Zhou Hexuan got out of the car, he heard Xu Zhimo shouting: "Mingcheng!" ”

"You're here too?" Zhou Hexuan was a little surprised.

Today's trip to Zhou Hexuan is to attend the "Inaugural Meeting of the Shanghai Literary and Art Circles Salvation Association", and the attendees are mainly left-wing literati, but I didn't expect Xu Zhimo to come to join in the fun.

Xu Zhimo said: "Since it is the Shanghai Literary and Art Salvation Conference, I am Chinese and a member of the Shanghai literary and artistic circles, so I naturally want to participate. By the way, haven't you written your poem yet? In two days, the inaugural issue of the "Spring Hope" poetry magazine will be issued. ”

"It's written, I wanted to go back and give it to you." Zhou Hexuan took out two poems and manuscripts.

Xu Zhimo opened it and said in surprise: "It's not a vernacular poem...... No, Tong Linge and Zhao Dengyu are dead? ”

Zhou Hexuan nodded: "Sacrificed." ”

"Qinyuan Spring: Yong Zhao Dengyu": "Rolling wolf smoke, weeping mountains and rivers, hatred gathers anger." Listening to the Huanggu Tunli, the thunderbolt of horror, on the mouth of the peak, the sound of killing is high. Mountains and rivers in the wilderness, inside and outside the Great Wall, rise up and sing big knives! After Wanping, call the heroes and the heroes. Nanyuan fought fiercely in the morning, the bullets rained down, and the soil of the Yellow Pavilion was scorched! The pain is the blood of the suburbs, and the old garden is full of tears; Thousands of years of liver and gallbladder, a hundred battles of the soul of the soul of the dead. Flicking the spring and autumn season, looking at the whole world, several fanatics shouted again. Under the monument, teach your children and grandchildren to remember, a generation of heroes! ”

"Qinyuan Spring, Yongtong Lin Pavilion": "Xiaoyue Lugou, how can you forget the past, the war was in the sky!" provoke the hero to rise, the flag is in the direction of the wind, the sad song roars, and the air runs through Changhong. By the Yongding River, in Nanyuan Lane, how many men are bathed in blood. With hatred, all the knives and guns are condensed, and the anger is towards the stubborn murderer! Tiangong was jealous of Haoying, and where he bounced, the scorched stone was splashed with blood. It is a pity that the mountains and rivers have not recovered; The people collapsed, and the country lost the city! The wind is long. Arouse the public and defend our China in the same vein. On the west mountain, there are pine waves roaring at night, and the frost leaves are red. ”

Zhou Hexuan took out two poems of "Qinyuan Spring", which were rumored to be the desperate patriotic poems of Tong Linge and Zhao Dengyu in later generations, but in fact, this is not the case, this is created by later generations to commemorate them.

For example, "Fingers of spring and autumn, looking at the world, a few fanatics shouted again." Under the monument, teach the children and grandchildren to remember, a generation of heroes", which is obviously written many years after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the children and grandchildren swept the graves of the martyrs under the monument. Of course, if Zhou Hexuan "created" at this time, it can be understood as a vision of victory in the war, and the owner has a special motivational significance.

Xu Zhimo repeatedly whispered two songs of "Qinyuan Spring", sighed and said: "The two generals sacrificed their lives for the country, and they deserve such strong words." ”