After the Battle of Taierzhuang, the Nationalist Government's ambitious attempt to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army in the Xuzhou area ended with the Yellow River bursting its banks and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people in Anhui, Jiangsu and other places......

Chiang Kai-shek was executed by military law in May 1938 and the commander of the 88th Division, Long Muhan, who had evacuated Lanfeng without authorization, in an attempt to deter the army, enhance the determination of the Chinese army to resist the war, and strike a blow at the arrogance of the capitulation faction led by Wang Jingwei......

The weather in Hankou in June has begun to warm, at least the brothers can throw off their arms to train during the day, the news of He Jianye's return to the 16th Regiment spread throughout the 16th Regiment in less than an hour, most of the veterans of the 16th Regiment were brought back by He Jianye from the Songhu battlefield, and the rest of the recruits also followed the young regiment commander to fight for nearly a year, He Jianye's return naturally made this group of veterans raise the interest in training again, the veterans are sometimes very strange, when they meet a commander who can be relied on and trusted, they no longer have those ruffians, Instead, it became vibrant, always full of desire to fight......

The Japanese troops, which had attacked all the way from Shanghai, Nanjing, Shandong, Jiangsu, and other places, also stopped the pace of the attack of the large army and turned to busy stockpiling supplies, reorganizing troop supplies, consolidating the occupied areas, and beginning to rest and reorganize their troops in preparation for the next more aggressive attack.

Japanese militarism has always had the illusion of rapid annihilation of China, although it captured Nanjing, the capital of China, but the Nationalist Government still had no intention of surrendering after moving inward, the victory of the Xuzhou battlefield did not allow the Japanese army to pick up much advantage, and it was possible to attack Wuhan along the Longhai Railway, as a result, the Yellow River burst at the mouth of the garden, breaking the dream of the Japanese army, their mechanized troops and heavy artillery, tanks and other equipment that were extremely dependent on railway and road transportation could not pass through the Yellow Flood area at all, and the Japanese army had to restart the assembly of troops to prepare for the evacuation from Anhui, Henan and other places set out to attack Wuhan......

In less than a year, the Japanese army fought from Shanghai to the Wuhan area, defeated millions of Chinese troops, and occupied half of China, but the elite veterans of the Japanese army were also seriously damaged in the attacks again and again, and the long-term and long-term combat made the Japanese army have no way to arrange a large number of veterans to rest and recuperate, and the Japanese army in order to boost morale. We had no choice but to pretend to be blind to the serious humanitarian violations committed by Japanese officers and men on the battlefield and in the occupied areas, and to turn a deaf ear to the accusations of the international community......

After the Battle of Xuzhou, the elite veterans of the Japanese army suffered serious losses in the huge battle at the airport, and Japan had to transfer a large number of domestic reserves and soldiers in the countryside to reorganize the main divisions and regiments, restore the combat effectiveness of the divisions and regiments, and prepare for the next battle, and the Chinese Nationalist Government was also not idle after the end of the Battle of Xuzhou, and was also preparing intensively.

The soldiers of the Nationalist Army used the blood and tears of hundreds of thousands of casualties to make the high-level change their strategy, from fighting hard to defend one city and one place to exchanging space for time, hoping to take advantage of the characteristics of China's vast territory to stretch the supply lines of the Japanese army and carry out a protracted war.

The series of fierce attacks of the Japanese army made the capitulation faction within the Nationalist Government arrogant, but it also made the main station faction headed by Chiang Kai-shek give up the idea of peace talks and turn to actively prepare for war. Wuhan was like a gathering place of supplies, and began to hoard a large number of troops and materials.......

In the Battle of Xuzhou, the elite Central Army of the Nationalist Government successfully withdrew from the Xuzhou area under the cover of the Yellow River, but the Japanese army's aircraft artillery and excellent soldier quality are really not fooling, the heavy losses of the troops are full of wounded soldiers, tens of thousands of seriously wounded, hundreds of thousands of lightly wounded were transported to the rear, these wounded soldiers are the essence of each army, and after returning to the army, it will inevitably glow with strong combat effectiveness, as the saying goes, a veteran top ten recruits, is because the old after the baptism of the battlefield, On the contrary, the development of Western medicine in China is slow, and the ability of traditional Chinese medicine to treat wounds caused by guns and cannons is insufficient, and the result is that the shortage of medical personnel and medical drugs has led to a large number of wounded soldiers wound infection and death.

At this time, He Jianye instructed Fuye Pharmaceutical to deliver 500,000 pieces of penicillin donated by the Nationalist Government to Hankou, in order to ensure the smooth arrival of this batch of life-saving medicines, the Nationalist Government not only dispatched the only remaining aircraft to cruise in the sky, but also mobilized a large number of security regiments on the railway line on the ground to protect the railway......

Encouraged by patriotic enthusiasm, young students joined the army one after another, and a large number of female volunteer young students were sent to Wuhan, where the wounded were concentrated, for simple medical training and surprise study, so as to supplement the field hospitals with huge gaps in the war zones.

On June 6, 1938, He Jianye came to the training ground of the barracks early, stood on the stage, and waited for the wake-up horn to sound......

"Tut, toot, toot......" The moment the wake-up call sounded in the barracks of the 16th Regiment, the brothers of the 16th Regiment knew that the regiment commander was back today, and they seemed to be in a bad mood, and they did not dare to grind sheep like a few days ago, for fear of not lighting incense, and becoming the chicken that killed the chickens and set an example for the monkeys, one by one they ran towards the training ground while dressing and turning......

The trumpet was still ringing, but nearly 3,000 brothers of the 16th Regiment had already arrived at the training ground, and the brothers looked at each other when they saw the regiment commander standing on the earthen platform looking at the sky, and after confirming that they were not late, they stood straight on the training ground, waiting for the regiment commander's lecture......

"In the Xuzhou battlefield, the regiment commander led us to complete the task bravely and tenaciously, and the losses of the brothers were not large. Wait a minute, you must resist, the head of the regiment has suffered so much grievance, it doesn't matter if he scolds him, if he wants to beat me, he will bear it, and he will definitely not frown......" The brother standing at the bottom began to think in his heart,

Seeing that the brothers were not smoked by the praise of the division and couldn't find the north, but were more strict with themselves than usual, and even lined up two minutes earlier in the morning exercise, the unhappiness in He Jianye's heart disappeared in an instant......

"Hmm" He Jianye, who had stood for nearly 20 minutes, cleared his throat, and when the brothers below heard this, they immediately straightened their bodies that were originally standing a little more straight......

"Brethren, I'm back." He Jianye spoke,

"We swore from here at the end of April to participate in the Battle of Xuzhou, and we returned here in more than a month; But many of the brothers around us didn't have the opportunity to train with us anymore. Of our more than 5,600 brothers, I don't know if there were 4,500 of us standing here and being able to get back here from the hospital. Yesterday, I heard that you guys were in the mood and training started to slack. I'm disappointed that we can continue to fight the Japanese devils, and we can not lie on the cold battlefield and become a corpse, who gave such an opportunity? You tell me? He Jianye shouted,

The silent training ground was silent, everyone didn't dare to come out, and they could only hold back their farts, for fear of annoying the regiment commander, and it would be miserable to be the chicken, and it was still light to be beaten with a military stick, and who knew the taste of the closed room......