Chapter 1: Heroes Behind the Scenes
The Battle of Wanjialing ended victoriously. The Battle of Wuhan finally ended with the defeat of our army and the loss of Great Wuhan. Although we lost this battle of unprecedented scale, the Japanese invaders were not easy either.
After the war, the Japanese army's official casualty figure was 35,000, and the Nationalist army counted 257,000 Japanese casualties. The Military Commission counted 400,000 casualties of the national army! Regardless of the huge difference between the two sides in the statistics of the casualties of the Japanese invaders, in the Battle of Wuhan, while our military and civilians paid huge sacrifices, they also achieved a certain strategic goal, that is, to delay the frantic attack of the Japanese invaders.
Japan is notoriously a resource-poor country. The Battle of the Han Dynasty caused the Japanese to suffer a large number of losses of soldiers, consume huge supplies and gold reserves, and they no longer had the ability to launch a super-large battle like Songhu, Xuzhou, and Wuhan for the purpose of conquering cities. Since then, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has entered a stage of strategic stalemate.
China invested millions of soldiers and countless money, food and materials to fight the Japanese in this decisive battle of unprecedented scale, but the result ended in the loss of Wuhan. The outcome of such a war will inevitably frustrate the Chinese people.
Ordinary people can be depressed, but the national government can't be depressed, the military commission can't be depressed, and the chairman can't be depressed! They must find a way to get the military and people of the whole country to get up from this frustration, regain their spirits, take up arms and fight the Japanese invaders again!
Of course, the best way to boost the morale of the army is to have a hearty victory, but it is clear that the time is not yet ripe. In addition, it is necessary to find out some bright spots in the middle of the just-concluded Wuhan Battle and vigorously commend a group of officers and soldiers and generals who fought bravely, killed the enemy meritoriously, and even achieved partial victories.
Wanjialing's victory is obviously the brightest star in the Battle of Wuhan. Almost completely annihilating a Japanese army is an unprecedented victory anywhere. The first hero of this battle is naturally General Xue Yue, the commander-in-chief of the Wanjialing Campaign!
In terms of meritorious deeds, Xue Yue was promoted to acting commander of the Ninth Theater, and was subsequently appointed chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government; Yu Jishi, commander of the 74th Army, was first promoted to commander of the Changsha Zhuzhou garrison, and the following year he was again promoted to deputy commander-in-chief of the 20th Group Army; Wang Yaowu, commander of the 51st Division, was promoted to deputy commander of the 74th Army.
As for Zhang Lingfu, who made miraculous contributions in the Battle of Zhanggushan, after receiving the fourth-class Yunlu Medal, he was compiled into the drama "De'an Great Victory" by Tian Han, the lyricist of "March of the Volunteers", and became famous all over the world in one fell swoop!
Another protagonist in the Battle of Zhanggushan, Hu Fei, the commander of the Third Regiment, became the hero behind the scenes. Others have received awards for meritorious service, promoted and made a fortune, and even filmed dramas, but Hu Fei seems to have been forgotten by everyone. If you insist on looking for it, in the drama "De'an Victory", there is an officer A's age and position that are somewhat similar to Hu Fei.
After the operation, Hu Fei has been recuperating, and the world knows about De'an's victory as if it has nothing to do with him. The officers of the Third Regiment were naturally dissatisfied, but they didn't know who to find to fight for their treatment, and they didn't want to bother Hu Fei because of these things.
Doctor Zhang Zhonglin once sternly warned the generals that Hu Fei needs to maintain absolute peace of mind during the recuperation period, and it is strictly forbidden to be stimulated by anything!
Hu Fei lies in a separate room every day, except for doctors and nurses to do routine treatment and examination, only Xu Yajun and Feng Yi are taking turns to take care of him.
Xu Yajun is a woman who has had an intimate relationship with him, and Feng Yi, a woman who is also guarding him, is a bit incomprehensible.
Time passed day by day. In the past two months, except for a few core generals such as Liu Dong who came to visit the patient, Hu Fei could only see two women, Feng Yi and Xu Yajun. Hu Fei also once asked the people who visited him about the situation of the troops, and the answer he received was always good. If you inquire more carefully, people will find excuses to divert the topic.
Hu Fei was naturally suspicious of this, but his body really couldn't move, and he couldn't ask, so he had to keep it like this. Of course, the good news is not without it. That day, when Ji Jinbiao jumped up to see him, Hu Fei was really happy.
The comrades-in-arms were together, and less than two minutes after they spoke loudly, Zhang Zhonglin came in with a straight face. Dr. Zhang didn't speak, just glared and scanned around, and the iron-blooded soldiers in the room were all wilted and lost their spirits. Hu Fei wondered, when did this Zhang Zhonglin have such a lot of lethality? Even Xiong Wei, who can't move a needle, will be afraid of him?
In fact, how did he know that in the first half month after he was injured, except for Ji Jinbiao, everyone who came to these generals had been subjected to countless cold words and ridicule and sarcasm by Dr. Zhang.
Originally, these people didn't buy Zhang Zhonglin's account, but isn't Fei Ge in the hands of others? I had to bow my head when I had no choice but to do it, and whoever thought about it too many times became a habit. These people are now under psychological pressure when they see Zhang Zhonglin!
Hu Fei's body is surprisingly good. At the beginning, Zhang Zhonglin judged that if his injury was to heal, it would take at least half a year or more; A month later, Dr. Zhang revised Hu Fei's recovery time, believing that it would take at most five months for Hu Fei to be able to walk on the ground as usual; A month and a half later, Zhang Zhonglin told Liu Dong and others, who came to visit him, that Fei Ge would be able to recover in two and a half months at most!
Two months and five days, Hu Fei began to try to get off the ground, and by ten days, he was already able to walk slowly in the ward. By the time he was two and a half months old, Hu Fei had walked out of the ward to breathe fresh air outside! It looked like it wouldn't take him four months to fully recover.
Zhang Zhonglin was happy and did not forget to warn Hu Fei that you have not completely recovered from your injury, so do not do strenuous exercise, so as not to have an accident during the recovery period and affect the recovery time. Dr. Zhang is well-intentioned, and of course Hu Fei has to follow the doctor's instructions. Therefore, he also walked around the ward, gossiping with the two women, and the life was leisurely.
On this day, Xu Yajun and Feng Yi were not there, and when Hu Fei was strolling around the yard alone, he suddenly saw Tuosang circling under a tree. Hu Fei raised his hand and called the person over, "Tosang, you are spinning around there like a donkey with a grinding head, what's the matter?" ”
"It's okay, it's okay. I'm just idle and have nothing to do. Tosang shook his head repeatedly, but looking at his expression, it didn't look like he was exercising. Besides, is there a way to exercise in circles around a tree?
"Are you kid up? When I ask you, you dare not tell the truth, do you? Hu Fei's eyebrows were about to change his face as soon as he raised them. In the past, his eyes were really scary, but now that he has recovered from a serious illness, he is wearing a hospital gown, a pair of cotton slippers on his feet, and his pale face, no matter how you look at it, he can't be linked to the iron-blooded general.
Tosang was smiling and was about to explain, when a man hurried over from the side path.