Chapter 802 Heartbreak (continued)

This night is the saddest night since Liu Yimin grew up.

Life is like this, some things are often lost to know precious. On weekdays, Jingjing doesn't see Liu Yimin rarely, and her eyes are full of tenderness. Although Liu Yimin understands in his heart, he has his beloved woman, and he doesn't pay too much attention to Jingjing and Zhao Xiaoman's affection for him, and he always thinks about finding a partner for the two of them, and sometimes he even feels that this affection is a burden to him. Jingjing's death, Liu Yimin only then knew that Yiren had passed away, and from then on, Jingjing, who was long, dignified and beautiful, and talented, became an eternal pain in his life.

There is nothing cruel in the world than to see a loved one or a loved one fall in front of you and not be able to save it.

At this time, Liu Yimin deeply realized the cruelty of war destroying all good things. Looking at Jingjing, who was as peaceful as a water lily on the stretcher, Liu Yimin scolded himself for being a bastard ten thousand times in his heart, sorry for such a good girl.

Liu Yimin opened the notebook with a photo of him and Jingjing, and saw that on the title page was Jingjing's unique and beautiful font: "Life is precious, and love is more expensive." If it is free, both can be thrown".

On the second page, it reads: "News and propaganda should serve the War of Resistance, serve the workers, peasants, merchants, students, and soldiers, and serve the broadest masses of the Chinese." Liu Yimin thought about it, didn't he say it at the symposium on the literary and artistic propaganda work of the teaching tutor and the Shandong Bureau? Jingjing actually wrote it down in her notebook, and it seems that she really listened to it. Thinking about it again, Jingjing is not only a beautiful girl who has a deep affection for herself, but also an outstanding soldier of the Eighth Route Army, a tutor, and the main leader of the news and propaganda work of the Shandong Bureau, and she must conscientiously implement the spirit of her speech. She was able to write these three sentences in her notebook, which shows that she has been understanding the meaning of these sentences, and it also shows that this notebook records the events after the symposium.

Sure enough, this notebook is Jingjing's recent diary, I remember it in detail, there are long and short, not a day, basically the weather, geography, customs and folklore during the march, some things are very precious information. For example, she recorded in her diary the process of organizing and promoting the promotion of the two-cropping farming method in one year, according to her records, North China has been one cropping a year since ancient times, and the common people say that it is resting, which means that the land is rotated and the soil is preserved. Jingjing raised a question in her diary, that is, the reason why the people grow once a year, in addition to the lack of awareness level, the influence of traditional farming methods and other factors, that is, the lack of fertilizer, the land fertility is not enough, and long-term cultivation can easily lead to the lack of fertility of the land, affecting the yield. If we want to make the two-cropping method persist for a long time, we must solve the problems of land fertility and excellent seeds.

For another example, when it comes to the construction of the newspaper reporter team, Jingjing wrote that the essence of the Eighth Route Army journalists and newspaper reporters is different, that is, newspaper reporters are purely journalists, and conscientious reporters use the pen as a gun, needle the current evils, and worry about the country and the people. Most journalists use reporting as a means of making a living, reporting to support their families, hyping up hot topics and creating gimmicks, lest the news have no commercial value. There is even a group of unscrupulous reporters who engage in false reports, blackmail and blackmail by journalistic means, and are despicable and obscene. These people often degenerate into traitorous reporters and look down on the Japanese criminals. The journalists of the Eighth Route Army were anti-Japanese fighters, and they were journalists who stood at the forefront of the War of Resistance Against Japan, holding a gun in one hand and a pen in the other.

In addition to recording her work, it also writes about her daughter's thoughts. For example, there is the feeling of the public trial of Gu Shoufu when she and Liu Yimin served as the on-site commentator, Jingjing wrote: "Tonight is the happiest time of my life, thank him for letting me serve as a live commentator with him, and broadcast the live broadcast of the public trial of the demon of invasion of China and the live broadcast of the Japanese chief Gu Shoufu to radio listeners across the country and the world." Before joining the Red Army, all I saw was the scene of invading Northeast China and encroaching on North China, and I was thinking about when China would become strong and drive out the invaders. But at that time I never thought that the squadron would be able to defeat the army, and the gap between China and China was too great. Since I met him at the press conference of the Red Seventh Army in Chengdu, I have learned that China still has such an army and such a person, which is simply a Chinese miracle! Later, when I suddenly heard that he had been assassinated, I thought that the Red Army would avenge him. Only when I became a member of the Red Army did I realize that the goal of this unit was to defeat the invaders, establish New China, and seek benefits for the suffering people in the world. I am glad that I am a glorious soldier of the Red Army, and with such an army as ours, the Chinese will surely defeat the invaders sooner or later. This evening, the emperor, the prime minister, the chief of the general staff, the land minister, the sea minister, and the foreign minister, who are going to be tried by the commander of the 12th Army of the Japanese Army, and who may be tried in the future, will all be sent to the gallows. I hope he still has me in his heart and can let me be the live commentator. ”

After knowing the news that Liu Yimin's plane was shot down by the Japanese army, Jingjing's Japanese plane read, "The sky has fallen, and it is gray in front of me." I don't know if I still have a soul, I just know that my body is as light as a ball of cotton, and it may disappear without a trace when the wind blows. That's fine, I can go to him. He doesn't want me to be alive, and maybe no one will fight with me when I'm dead. There shouldn't be so many angels in heaven who like him! ”

The diary is interspersed with a lot of her feelings for Liu Yimin. For example, it was written that Li Keran painted a portrait of her and named the painting "Daughter of the Huai River", but after giving it to Liu Yimin, Liu Yimin actually said that he would hand it over to the army for safekeeping and future exhibition, and Li Keran wanted to return the painting and send it to her. At the end, Jingjing wrote: "His heart is harder than iron, colder than the ice of the North Pole, that is, he has no conscience, where would he think of leaving my portrait?" Even if he stays with him for a few days, I like it. Whose good daughter deserves bad luck when she meets him! But I'm so useless, I just like him and love him. I like him knowing that he is safe, but I can't live if something happens to him. Who can't you tell about the daughter's family? If others knew, maybe I wouldn't sympathize with me, but I would say that I fell in love with someone I shouldn't like, he didn't belong to me, I like him who both violated discipline and was sorry for his comrades-in-arms who shared life and death, Tang Xingying and Ni Huake were all my comrades-in-arms on the Long March, how could I damage them for my own sake? Besides, he divorced Tang Xingying and married Ni Hua again, which shows that he never had me in his heart. I'm not even as good as Chen Yaoguang! I figured it out, this is all fate, I'll be an Eighth Route Army bent on fighting devils! If I have the opportunity to be alone with him in the future, even if it is just for one day, I will tell him that my greatest luck in this life is to meet him, and the greatest misfortune is that I met him late. If I had joined the Red Army and met him earlier, I am sure he would have liked me. What am I doing worse than others? Although we are not husband and wife, I care about him like a wife. I'm so ashamed! ”

When he read this, Liu Yimin couldn't read anymore, put down his notebook, took out a cigarette, lit it, and smoked one after another.

If he had stayed in the past, Liu Yimin would have let out a loud cry of grief at this time. It's just that Liu Yimin has no tears now, the sacrifices of Li Yimo, Huang Su, Chen Yaoguang, Li Chengyi and so many martyrs have already made him as strong as a rock, where will there be tears!

The next morning, Liu Yimin moved to Dashenbu at the foot of Yushan, established a headquarters here, and reported to the central authorities the course of the battle to break through the Longhai Road, the results of the battle, the casualties of the troops, and the determination to prepare to find an opportunity to annihilate the enemy, and reported to the central and general headquarters the process of Jingjing's sacrifice.

Because the battle to break through the Longhai Road was very short from the Japanese plane's raid on Liu Yimin's headquarters at 6 p.m. to the breakthrough of the whole army on the Longhai Road, and Jingjing's sacrifice made Liu Yimin sad, he did not report the battle situation to the central government in time. Separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, it was also a breakthrough battle and an encounter battle, and even if it was reported to the Central Committee and the General Headquarters at that time, it only made the leaders a little more worried and worried.

In Liu Yimin's eyes, the casualties in this battle were already the biggest casualties since the instructor went north to resist Japan. Therefore, in addition to being sad for Jingjing's sacrifice and thinking about how to fight next, Liu Yimin has been repeatedly thinking about why the army's covert actions were detected by the Japanese army and set traps in advance. Originally, he thought about whether there were traitors inside, but then he thought that it was impossible, because even if there were traitors, it was impossible to know the exact time and route of the army's return to the north. The only possibility is that the Japanese army has been staring at them, and it is clear that they will definitely return north to Shandong, and because of the armored forces and huge convoys, they will inevitably go to the hilly plains east of Maling Mountain, so as to return to southeast Shandong as soon as possible.

Thinking about this, Liu Yimin felt a chill, the little devils of the dog day are best at conspiracies, their intelligence analysis ability should be very strong in this era, eighty percent of the handling of the Tanggou incident in the newspapers, after the radio propaganda, let the Japanese army smell the wind, plus the sweep of northeast Anhui, northern Jiangsu caused the high-level vigilance of the devils, this group of old devils will definitely analyze from the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and the division of the squadron theater, and finally determine that they are a big move, and Chiang Kai-shek cannot let himself stay in northern Jiangsu for a long time, The return to the north is inevitable. This was the battle for the Japanese army to set up an ambush and break through the Longhai Road.

However, no matter how much the Japanese army analyzed, judged, and set up an ambush in advance, it was impossible to grasp the time so accurately. There is only one possibility, that is, the Japanese army sent many traitor agents along the march of the troops, and they were to monitor the movements of the troops. The reason is that although our army controls northeastern Anhui and northern Jiangsu, it is too late to consolidate the base areas due to the rapid return to the north, and it is inevitable that some traitors will slip through the net. These guys became the eyes of the Japanese army.

Liu Yimin also sent a report to **, Chen Yi, the New Third Brigade, the New Seventh Brigade, and the Northern Jiangsu Detachment, asking them to pay attention to the fact that in the process of consolidating the base areas, they must put the elimination of traitors in the most important position and consider deployment. In Liu Yimin's words, the problem of the Anti-Japanese War is how strong the Japanese army is, but there are too many traitors in China, and these guys are the real accomplices of the Japanese army, and to a certain extent, they are more harmful than the Japanese army.

When the chairman's telegram arrived, he did not criticize Liu Yimin this time, but praised Liu Yimin for his high consciousness and thwarted the Japanese army's conspiracy to flank our army, and commanded the troops to achieve brilliant results in destroying the main force of the 22nd Brigade and the 35th Wing of the Japanese army.

In the telegram, the chairman spoke highly of Jingjing's sacrifice, saying that Jingjing was a model for Chinese women, a model for intellectuals, a banner for journalists, a role model for female soldiers, and a loyal revolutionary. With a gun in one hand and a pen in the other, his literary and martial arts are shining. ”

At the end of the telegram, the chairman suggested that Liu Yimin carefully choose the battlefield, if there are no fighters on the Longhai Road in the short term, it is better to wave troops to the north, Qingdao is still the most important supply base of the Japanese army in Shandong, and the instructor originally had a plan to reoccupy Qingdao, and now the Fifth Division has been transferred to the northeast, and the Second Brigade of the First Guards Division and the Second Brigade of the First Guards Division remaining in Qingdao has gone south to Longhai Road to participate in the battle, and this fighter should be grasped well.

Mr. Zhu's telegram congratulated the heroic instructor on his achievements in breaking through the heavy encirclement of the Japanese army and destroying a brigade and a field wing of the Japanese army. Mr. Zhu wrote an inscription for Jingjing: "In ancient times, there was Mulan, and now there is An Jingjing." The blue blood stains the Huaihai, and the heart of Dan writes sweat and green. ”

Mr. Peng had a straight temper, and after praising the instructor's achievements in the telegram, he bluntly criticized Liu Yimin for his indecision in dealing with emotional problems, which led to Jingjing's tragedy. If Jingjing didn't have that kind of inexplicable affection for Liu Yimin, she wouldn't have taken it upon herself to stay in Lunan and wait for Liu Yimin, where would she be killed? If it weren't for the sacrifice, Jingjing might have become the most famous and accomplished journalist in the country. This account should be calculated on your head Liu Yimin, see how you can afford it for the rest of your life!

After scolding Liu Yimin, Mr. Peng highly praised Jingjing's spirit of sacrificing himself to save others and sacrificing his life for the country, and did not hesitate to praise words, saying that Jingjing most fully embodies the virtues of Chinese women, the character of Marxist journalists, the flesh-and-blood relationship between the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, and the sentiment of people who are dedicated to the country!

After reading these three telegrams, Liu Yimin's heart became more and more uncomfortable. He knew that the reason why the leaders gave Jingjing such a high evaluation was that, in addition to her outstanding contribution to our army's news and propaganda cause, the most important thing was her own factor. But I am the most sorry person in the world, how good it would be if there was a regret medicine in this world!

Liu Yimin had already considered the emptiness of Qingdao as reminded by the chairman, and originally planned to reoccupy Qingdao after returning to Shandong, so that the little devil would go hungry. But now the situation is different, a battle must be fought here to avenge Jingjing and the martyrs who sacrificed! Otherwise, it will affect morale.

As soon as he finished reading the telegram, **Feng reported that the Japanese army began to spread rumors on the radio, saying that they had achieved a great victory between Baitabu and Hongzhuang in the East China Sea of Longhai Road, and defeated the main force of the Eighth Route Army. There were countless corpses of the Eighth Route Army, and the dead war horses alone were enough for a division of the Japanese army to be fed for a week. The Japanese army also counted the number of cars, carts, and ox carts that were blown up by our army, and said that these vehicles were carrying grain, which fully shows that the instructors of the Eighth Route Army did not forget to loot people's property wherever they went and at any time, and they were purely a team of bandits.

As soon as Liu Yimin heard this, he informed Jingjing and asked her to immediately organize a press release to inform the whole country of the battle situation of our army's annihilation of the Japanese army, which was independently mixed into the main force of the 22nd Brigade and the main force of the 35th Wing of the Ninth Division, and asked all units to report the detailed results of the battle, including the number of Japanese planes shot down and the number of enemies destroyed.

After speaking, seeing that the ** wind was motionless, and tears were rolling in his eye sockets, Liu Yimin remembered that he was used to it, Jingjing's body was by his side, and this beautiful girl could no longer get up to write interviews and conversations for herself.

Liu Yimin sighed, and then said viciously to ** Feng: "Forget it, let the Japanese army make noise." There are times when they cry! ”

In fact, the Japanese army suffered a big loss last night, and the losses were much greater than Liu Yimin estimated. Come to think of it, after the Eighth Route Army effortlessly eliminated the 22nd Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, it launched a blocking operation, and this kind of battle is a big loss on the attacking side anyway, unless the defender is not an opponent at all. The 1st Brigade, the 1st Cavalry Brigade, and the 1st Brigade of the New Brigade are all elites of the Eighth Route Army, well-equipped, strong, and more advanced than the Japanese army. Moreover, it was dark not long after the battle began, and the Japanese army's air superiority could not be fully brought into play, and in addition, the Eighth Route Army Aviation Brigade suddenly entered the battle, and the Japanese army suffered losses from the air to the ground. It's just that they have a huge number of troops, and the troops returning north of the Eighth Route Army have brought a huge convoy of grain and baggage, and they have no intention of fighting. Otherwise, with the strength of the 1st Brigade, the Cavalry Brigade, and the New 1st Brigade, holding on for an extra hour in the night battle may make thousands or even more little devils return to them.

It was the idea of Yamashita Fengfumi and Muto Akira to let the radio publicize their achievements, and what these two old devils thought was very simple, that is, they could not let the Eighth Route Army report the results of the battle in front of them, in that case, the truth about Major General Miyama Milu, the main force of the 22nd Brigade and the 35th Wing, would be revealed, and the Continental Army would lose face again. Therefore, Yamashita Fengfumi and Muto Akira, who were sitting in Xuzhou, ordered the reporters accompanying the army to report according to their accounts.

Shanshan Yuan and Nishio Shouzo didn't know about this, even if they knew, they would support it. Mobilized such a huge number of troops to fight this battle, but the result was a loss of troops, how to explain to the base camp! Anyway, none of those old men in the base camp will come to the battlefield to carefully inspect them, and their tongues are in their mouths, and they can say whatever they want. Again, exaggerating the results is conducive to striving for supplements.

Bao Wenlai reported that he was going to build a martyrs' cemetery in Yushan to bury the martyrs of Jingjing and the Battle of Longhai Road.

Liu Yimin wanted to transport Jingjing's body back to the Wanshou Palace in Mengshan Zhiyang and bury it with Chen Yaoguang. The environment there is very good, there are mountains, rivers, pines and bamboos. But after thinking about it, it's not appropriate, Jingjing is different from Chen Yaoguang, and should be buried with the martyrs of the battle that broke through Longhai Road.

Liu Yimin did not agree to bury the martyrs in Yushan, the reason is that although Yushan is a famous cultural mountain in history, it is the place where Emperor Shun ordered Zhurong to kill the father of Dayu and failed to control the water. Our soldiers were killed in victorious battles, how can they be in the same mountain as Kun, who failed to control the water? Jingjing loves cleanliness so much, how can she smell the fishy smell of the spring water on a rainy day?

Bowen smashed his mouth and couldn't speak for a long time.

Cheng Cuilin reminded that the weather is hot, and the martyrs must be allowed to enter the soil as soon as possible, otherwise they will choose a good piece of land in the plain south of Yushan as a cemetery.

Liu Yimin said irritably: "This place is not good, it is too close to the railway line, and the cemetery is easy to be damaged by the Japanese army." Besides, even if we are lucky enough to keep the cemetery from being destroyed now, in the future, one or two hundred years later, the country has developed and the economy has grown, and it is inevitable that there will be some unscrupulous descendants who have forgotten their ancestors who look at the land in the cemetery, destroy the mausoleum and sell the land, and will say that the dead cannot compete with the living for land, and make a mess. By the way, I remembered an incident and asked the political commissar to send someone to Jinan to reconnoitre, take a look at the mausoleum of Huang Su, and prevent the Japanese army from destroying it. ”

Seeing what Liu Yimin said, Cheng Cuilin listened inexplicably, saying that it was possible for the Japanese army to destroy, and that it would be nonsense to say that future generations would destroy it in one or two hundred years! Cheng Cuilin opened his mouth and said: "How do you know what will happen in one or two hundred years?" ”

Liu Yimin replied that he was afraid to analyze things in the world, and that the East China Sea has railways and highways running through it, and the transportation is developed, and it is not far from Lianyungang and Xuzhou, and the economy will be very developed in the future. When the economy is developed, people's thinking will change, and some people can't do anything in order to make money?

Cheng Cuilin didn't say more, but just asked Liu Yimin to personally determine the place, so as not to make the location that Bowen was looking for inappropriate.

Thinking of the martyrs' cemetery in Ganyu County, which is not far from here in history, Liu Yimin instructed Bao Wen to find a cemetery on the southern slope of Ma'anshan in Wanghong Village, Jiashan District, Ganyu County. Even if the martyrs die, they have to be ghosts! Whether on earth or in heaven, the guru will always be an invincible hero!

Bowen asked Liu Yimin to personally select the burial site for Jingjing and put forward specific requirements so that the engineering troops could carry out the construction as soon as possible.

The reason why he said this is because Bao Wen already knew from Li Lingfeng that when Chen Yaoguang was buried, the division commander chose the tomb site himself, and even the shape of the tomb, the standard of the tomb chamber, and the surrounding flowers and trees were all determined by the division commander himself. Bowen knows that although Jingjing and Liu Yimin do not have the same relationship as Chen Yaoguang, the relationship between them is probably much deeper than Chen Yaoguang, and how to choose this cemetery, how to build the tombstone, how to write on the tombstone in the future, and what name to use will all have to be determined by the teacher. Otherwise, I'm afraid he won't want to.

Considering that the enemy situation had not changed much and that the reinforcements from the south would not be able to arrive for a while and a half, Liu Yimin designated Hong Chaoyuan to be in charge of teaching the Fifth Brigade, the New Fifth Brigade, and the southeastern Lu detachment to defend against the south, and asked him to scatter all the scouts and find out the enemy's situation. Then, Liu Yimin took Jingjing's body and got on the war horse, and Bao Wen and the engineer regiment rushed to Ma'anshan with the remains of the martyrs.