[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 242: Triumphant Return

When I came to Wuhan again, I felt very different. In order to avoid a tragedy such as the Nanjing Massacre, Lao Chiang evacuated the organs and enterprises of the three towns of Wuhan to Xichuan and Chongqing, which belonged to the rear, long before the arrival of the Japanese army. Most of the people in Wuhan were also evacuated, so Wuhan lost a lot of popularity that day, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it was a gloom.

Today is different, with the good news of the Wuhan front one after another, the dynasty of the former twilight Xishan seems to have suddenly radiated new vitality and vitality, and the soldiers and civilians of the three towns of Wuhan are naturally rejoicing. The people who were ready to evacuate also unloaded their bags and stopped, and those who had already withdrawn to the rear were ready to rush back, after all, no one wanted to leave their homeland as refugees.

Yesterday, the Nationalist Government issued a proclamation saying that the Seventh Division of the Eighth Route Army, which had made great contributions in the battle, would withdraw from the front line to Wuhan to accept the chairman's commendation.

At this time, China needs heroes the most, and it worships heroes the most. Knowing that the famous anti-Japanese general Ma Zheng and the heroic troops led by him were going back to Wuhan, the citizens came to the city gate early in the morning, and they wanted to greet this national hero in the warmest way and express their gratitude to the hero and the heroic troops.

However, when hundreds of thousands of citizens flocked to the city, they were surprised to find that the mighty army they were waiting for had not arrived, but a remnant army composed of stretchers and human walls. That's right, it's the remnants, and there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the people carrying the stretcher, but the soldiers on the stretcher know at a glance that they are wounded soldiers, and many of them are still oozing blood with bandages and gauze on their bodies.

If it weren't for the huge banner at the front of the line with a huge number embroidered on it, no one would have associated these remnants with the victorious 7th Independent Division of the National Revolutionary Army in the battle report.

Despite the fact that the troops did not act. All the soldiers stood silently at the gates, but the eyes of the people of the city were moist. Needless to say, they knew what the soldiers were injured for.

Everyone knows that fighting a war will kill people and pay the price of blood, but those who have never been on the battlefield will never understand the cruelty of war, let alone how great the sacrifice of the soldiers on the front line will be.

At this moment, people felt the tragedy of the war from the Duqi Division. Thinking that the front-line soldiers fought bloodily to achieve today's victory, all the people couldn't help crying.

At eight o'clock in the morning, with the sound of a trumpet, the troops began to enter the city. Walking in front was a stretcher team, two people carrying a pair, lined up in two columns and began to enter the city.

The tragic atmosphere came to the face, whether it was the wounded on the stretcher or the soldier carrying the stretcher, they were all in tattered clothes, and it was difficult for people to judge any other information from the clothes except the style, and they could not see the number. I can't recognize the name, only the wisps of cuts and cracks record the exploits of the warriors' bloody battles.

The stretcher team was two kilometers long, and some people specifically counted it, a total of 1,477 stretchers, which means that there were at least 1,477 wounded in the ranks of the Duqi Division.

Just when people thought that the wounded team was over, they suddenly found that the cars following behind did not seem to be intact soldiers, and the bloody bandages on the heads of the soldiers seemed to tell something.

True, there were also wounded in the car. There are at least 30 people in each car, and there are more than 100 cars in total. When so many wounded people walked in front of them. Even the hardest iron man can't help but shed tears, as long as he is Chinese.

At this moment, the whole Wuhan was crying, and the previous elation was long gone. The Duqi Division used its own unique way to make people remember the tragedy of the war and how the warriors at the front defended Fangreland.

The common people look at the liveliness, and the real experts are the doorways. Among the welcoming crowd today are also hidden intelligence personnel from many countries, including those of the Military Command Bureau of the Nationalist Government. There are also special high courses for the Japanese army, as well as the KGB of the Soviet Union and the CIA of the United States.

When the Duqi Division first entered the city, almost everyone had the same idea - crippled! What does more than six thousand wounded mean for an average infantry division?

This point is clear to everyone, most of China's infantry divisions are less than 10,000 people, and many miscellaneous divisions are small with only three regiments and no more than 6,000 soldiers. So many wounded. It's almost the total strength of a ragtag division.

As we all know, when the Seventh Division went south, it was a first-class division, and according to the establishment, it should be 12,000 people from the three brigades and six regiments, but Ma Zheng brought only 7,600 people, and only more than 10,000 people were replenished several times, and now the number of wounded has reached 6,000, counting the dead, it can almost be said that the casualties of this army are at least 80% or more.

In the eyes of Westerners, a unit with more than 60% casualties is almost equivalent to losing its combat effectiveness, and it is precisely for this reason that there is a provision in the armies of Western countries that once the casualties of the troops reach more than 60%, the commander of the unit can surrender to the enemy. And the casualty rate of this army in front of them is as high as more than 80%, and they can still come back from the front line, I have to say that they have created a miracle.

But this is the end of it, so many wounded soldiers can not recover their combat strength in a short time, so this unit is equivalent to losing its effectiveness in a short time.

The Japanese spy was naturally happy, although this hateful Chinese army had repeatedly inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese Imperial Army, but he himself was only at the end of the crossbow, and the next time the Imperial Army encountered it, it would be easy to annihilate it. The intelligence personnel of the United States and the Soviet Union and other countries were sorry, and they had already learned about the emergency withdrawal of the Japanese army through various channels, but they did not expect that although the war was over, this unit had basically lost its combat effectiveness, which was really a pity.

I am afraid that only the intelligence officers of the Military Command Bureau at the scene have the most complicated feelings, and they know best what they think, they want to weaken the strength of the Eighth Route Army and want the Eighth Route Army to fight devils, and now they have finally achieved their goal, but seeing such a heroic unit end withdrawing from the battlefield in such a tragic and majestic way, why can't they be happy at all.

However, just as the people were grieving, they heard a low, loud whistle and a rumbling sound crossed the ground and appeared in front of everyone.

Is it a tank? Is it a tank of the Japanese army?

There was a sudden exclamation from the crowd, followed by a commotion, but when people saw the blue sky and white sun flag fluttering on the Type 94 light chariot at the front, the crowd erupted in deafening cheers.

"It's our own tank!"

"It's a Chinese tank!"

The tanks were moving in a straight line, the hood had been opened, and the machine gunner on top was half exposed, and the dark green military uniform looked unusually powerful.

Needless to say, these tanks are the batch of tanks captured by the 106th Division of the Japanese Army, and a total of 48 of them can still be used after repair. Immediately, Ma Zheng called the special combat team to personally teach these members how to drive tanks, but fortunately, these special combat personnel had a good foundation and finally learned how to move forward before the troops were deployed.

Of course, it was a problem for them to let them fight in tanks, except for the machine gun, which the crew could use, everything else was just the same.

But these ordinary people don't know, they only know that the tank is your invincible magic weapon, in the past, it was the Japanese devils who drove this Iron King Eight to attack the city, and the Chinese who fought retreated step by step, and even lost the capital, and now our Chinese troops also have their own tanks, one word - cool!

After the tank unit, the crowd saw an infantry with neat steps, although these soldiers were in tattered and even messy clothes, some wearing yellow uniforms, some wearing dark green clothing, and some wearing homespun gray, which looked like a ragtag army from a distance.

But when the troops approached, everyone was stunned, only to see that the morale of this army was high, the pace was neat, and every soldier had a murderous aura in his eyes, and at a glance, he knew that he was the king of soldiers who had been killed in the sea of blood in the mountain of corpses. When the army marched, there was no sound except for the sound of footsteps, it was very quiet, but every footstep was like a hammer hitting the hearts of the people of Wuhan, making people tremble. (To be continued.) )