Chapter 291: Martyrs' Memorial Service

After the situation in Nanjing gradually subsided, Zhang Cheng, who had recovered his emotions and stabilized, returned to his long-lost home, and watched the pot-bellied Yang Xi walking towards him, Zhang Cheng's heart suddenly became extremely quiet. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Brother Zhang, you're back." Looking at Zhang Cheng, who was in the dust, Yang Xi said gently.

"Look at you, what are you going to do when you come out because your body is inconvenient, in case you fall...... Ahh Zhang Cheng helped his wife to become Xianglin's sister-in-law, and she rarely nagged.

After returning home and sending the guard Xiao Li away, Zhang Cheng pressed his head against his wife's big belly, his demeanor was unprecedentedly peaceful, and he did not have the momentum of a decisive soldier on the battlefield at all.

"Tom! Tong! Zhang Cheng heard what seemed to be a kicking sound from his wife's stomach.

"Oops, our kid is so naughty, he actually wants to kick Lao Tzu!" Zhang Cheng laughed.

"The child is greeting you. By the way, will you still be as busy as you used to be in the New Year? The doctor said that our baby was born during the Lunar New Year. The wife's gentle voice echoed in the room.

"It depends on the situation, if it snows heavily in the first month of this year, the devils should not attack our base area, and there should be a few days to be free, but after the New Year, the devils should attack us, and then I have to lead troops to attack the Japanese invaders. I've really wronged you this year, I really have too little time with you. Zhang Cheng said apologetically.

"You are a big hero, a big hero, fighting against the Japanese invaders, saving the people, what do I have to be wronged. It is the greatest luck in my life that I can marry you, you don't know, the whole country doesn't know that tens of millions of women are jealous and envious of me. The wife said with relief.

"After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and the establishment of New China, I will definitely leave all my affairs to accompany you and accompany you through the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, thousands of mountains and rivers." Zhang Cheng said movingly.

"Really?" The wife said in surprise.

"Of course it's true, none of the pearls are so real." Zhang Cheng was also born in later generations, and his rhetoric came and went, which made his wife happy.

"By the way, have you figured out the name of our child?" The wife asked.

"Not yet, but there are a few candidate names, I don't know which one to choose." Zhang Cheng didn't think of naming his child at all, but he always told white lies.

"I thought about two for the child, isn't it the War of Resistance Against Japan now, if you give birth to a boy, you will be called Zhang Sheri, shoot the Japanese down, and be an anti-Japanese hero like you; If it's a girl, it's called Zhang Xue, and I hope she will grow up as innocent as ice and snow and have a pure heart. The wife said with a happy face.

"Zhang Shoot the Day ......" Zhang Cheng was stunned when he heard this name, he was born in the Internet era of later generations, he naturally knew that this "shooting" and "day" were not elegant words, and the combination of the two words made him almost spray rice.

"What? Is it bad to shoot the sun? The wife wondered.

"I didn't ...... No, it's just that when the child grows up, we will have already driven little Japan out of China, and then we should be building a new China. "Zhang Cheng was very incompetent in naming him, and he gave him the name of a bad street in later generations.

As a result, his wife had a look of admiration on her face, saying that the name "Zhang Jianguo" was a hundred times better than "Zhang Sheri". Zhang Cheng agrees with this point, no matter how bad the street is, "Zhang Jianguo" is better than "Zhang Sheri".

After staying in a warm and peaceful home for two days, in order to deal with the possible sweep and attack of the Japanese army on the base area after the New Year, Zhang Cheng was completely busy again.

At the same time, with the hard work of the engineering team, the martyrs' memorial cemetery located in the Baiyun Mountain area of Yulin was completed.

On December 20, the memorial service for the martyrs of the Anti-Japanese War was solemnly and solemnly held in a cold autumn rain.

As for the disposal of the remains of martyrs, because they have been in the war years of displacement, the instructors have always burned the remains of martyrs into ashes, and then brought them back to the base area for centralized burial. At this moment, the completion of the Baiyun Mountain Martyrs Cemetery also gave the souls of the martyrs a resting place.

After embarking on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, although the instructor was invincible all the way, but after several major battles, the number of soldiers who died and died in the instructor also reached 2,682 people, and at this moment, facing the 2,682 urns held by 2,682 soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, Zhang Cheng's heart felt extremely heavy.

Zhang Cheng, who was standing on the rostrum, lost his voice, and in the face of the grief-stricken bereaved families of the martyrs, Zhang Cheng found that no matter what he said, he could not soothe the pain of his family members.

However, Zhang Cheng felt the need to say something to these martyrs and their families, and in a solemn mood, Zhang Cheng made a speech: "Today we hold a memorial service with an extremely heavy heart to bid farewell to these 2,682 martyrs who died honorably on the battlefield of resistance against Japan for the independence of the country and the freedom of the people......

The eulogy was not long, but it took Zhang Cheng a long time to finish reading it, and then a salute was fired to pay tribute to the martyrs, and 21 salutes were fired into the sky to show his reverence for the martyrs.

Then the urn was placed, the martyr's shrine was placed on the altar, and the families of the martyrs looked at the names of their relatives engraved on the monument one by one, feeling both grief and supreme glory at the same time, and their feelings were extremely complicated.

The Baiyun Mountain Anti-Japanese Heroes Monument is made of granite with a density of 2.7×103 kg/m3, the stele is 9.7 meters high, 2.2 meters wide, and 1 meter thick.

On the front of the monument is Zhang Cheng who made a special trip to ask the commander to write "The anti-Japanese heroes are immortal!" Eight big characters, the back of the monument has been engraved in the memorial wall, the birth and death time of a large number of martyrs who died on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, and where they died in the war.

After the memorial service, the memorial service officially ended amid the mournful music of the military band and the bitter weeping of the relatives of the martyrs.

At the end of this memorial service, Zhang Cheng felt that he was more tired than after fighting a war, mainly because his mood was too heavy, facing 2,682 urns and countless family members who were crying bitterly, even the hard-hearted Zhang Cheng was so sad that he lost his voice and was almost speechless.

If it were possible, Zhang Cheng would never want to attend such a heavy occasion again, but although Zhang Cheng was in a heavy mood, the political commissar who was doing ideological work found that after the memorial service was held, the training atmosphere and the morale of the officers and men of the instructors were markedly improved, and the enthusiasm of the people to join the army was also much more positive.

The political commissar was extremely puzzled, and when asked, the officers and soldiers and the people gave similar answers, saying that joining the army to resist Japan could fight for the country and national independence, and even if it was sacrificed, it would be an honor.

Moreover, the government can erect monuments for the martyrs who died in battle, which shows that the set of good men who are not soldiers and who are good at iron is outdated, and the status of soldiers in the country has been greatly improved, and serving as soldiers also has a future.