When Huang Jingsheng saw Lei Zhen for the first time, he felt that this kid was right. In short, he insisted on detaining Lei Zhen in the 598th Regiment without permission, did not escort him to the division headquarters in accordance with the regulations, and even directly stuffed Lei Zhen into the special service platoon.

In this case, Huang Jingsheng, who has never formed a party for personal gain, but has also been tainted with some military mountaineering, feels that he needs to be responsible for Lei Zhen. On the first night of Lei Zhen's official joining the spy platoon, Huang Jingsheng quietly called Li Min, the squad leader with the straightest surname and the most tempered in the spy platoon, to the regiment headquarters.

"Your original platoon commander Zhang was transferred to the division, and the deputy platoon commander broke his thigh during training, the platoon commander was originally to be selected among your three squad leaders, but now I let Lei Zhen directly take over the position of the platoon leader, are the brothers convinced?"

Facing the inquiry of Deputy Head Huang Jingsheng, Li Min, the leader of the first squad, blurted out: "Serve!" ”

Huang Jingsheng was a little surprised, he clearly knew that with the surname of Li Min, the first squad leader, if he was satisfied, if he was not convinced, he would not be convinced, and it would not be easy to make Li Min blurt out a "suit" in half a day. Of course, even he, the lieutenant colonel and deputy commander, took three months to barely reach this standard.

But Huang Jingsheng was still a little worried, and a week later, he quietly called the third squad leader Hong Tai to the regiment headquarters. The third squad leader is a sharpshooter, even in the military competition of the whole division, he has won the ranking, and he has been personally commended by the division commander Dai Anlan, and it is definitely not easy to be the top boss of such a squad leader.

It's still the same question, the third squad leader blurted out: "Serve, of course." ”

One day a month later, Huang Jingsheng and Wang Ersheng, the second squad leader, met in a corner of the barracks, smoking the cigarettes that Wang Ersheng respectfully sent to his hand.

Wang Ersheng smiled bitterly and said: "Deputy of the regiment, I really admire you now, where did you find such a group of people, and eat all of our platoons to death." Not to mention that they are really hard enough to have a few hands, Lao Li and Xiao Hong are really dead set on the ground now, and they are entangled behind others every day and shout Master. Especially Xiaohong, I see that his head has been beaten stupidly, and he is cleaned up like a lump of mud by that Jiangdong Sun Shangxiang every day, and he will make a smirk or two from time to time when he hides in the quilt at night. ”

Huang Jingsheng smiled, he squinted at Wang Ersheng, and said, "Everyone is convinced, what about you?" ”

"Unconvinced...... How dare I! ”

"There is a person named Ghost Talent next to the platoon commander, that guy has been wronged with me in his previous life, and he has been competing with me since he entered the spy platoon. As you know, my nickname is 'Granary Rat', and I'm used to playing tricks, no matter how powerful the commander is, I have a way to deal with it, and I've never been scared of anyone. But this ghost is like having a pair of ghost eyes, no matter what thoughts are turning in my head, he can see through them. The two of us also competed a few times, and he played so hard that I almost forgot what it was like for my father. And such a guy who ate me to death turned out to be called Lei Zhen...... Master! ”

Facing Huang Jingsheng's smiling gaze, Wang Ersheng couldn't help but shrink his neck and said: "If I admire you so much that you are now throwing yourself to the ground, then I am now impressed by his Master Lei, my Lei platoon leader, then I really admire him so much!" ”

Huang Jingsheng is really relieved now, there are really few people in the 598th Regiment who can eat these three squad leaders to death and make them completely convinced.

In the intense preparation and training of the whole regiment, day by day. When the clock of history turned to December 7, 1941, when Lei Zhen once again led the whole platoon of officers and men to sweat on the training ground, suddenly a lieutenant rushed to the training ground, he tore out his loud voice, and shouted loudly: "I said that I attacked the US Pearl Harbor Fleet Base, and the United States said that war had broken out!" ”

The Pearl Harbor-like team base in the United States, the United States called war, these things seem to be far away from ordinary soldiers, even if everyone listens attentively, there is not much change, but Lei Zhen and Ghost Cai's eyes are lit up.

Because this means that China has another powerful ally in the war of resistance, in order to fight against the revenge of the Americans, the army must use all their naval forces, and the American fleet in the Pacific Ocean, and the islands in the Pacific Ocean will also become the battlefield of the two armies to fight each other!

The most important thing is that when Ben finally launched an attack on the giant United States for the sake of oil, mineral deposits and other war resources, the prelude to the world war has been fiercely opened. There are no longer any scruples, and the army, which has already made all preparations, will launch the most violent attack on the countries of Southeast Asia with an unscrupulous attitude. In order to draw more land forces out of the Chinese battlefield and fight a decisive battle with the US [***] team on various islands in the Pacific, they must concentrate on attacking Burma and cut off the Yunnan-Burma Highway, the life-and-death artery that constantly supplies blood to China.

In short, as long as the national political axe does not want to face a strong enemy and surrender, and does not want to become a slave of a foreigner, he must take the initiative to attack and fight to the death!

At this point, the expedition to Myanmar is already ready to fly, and it has to be sent!

Sure enough, only nine days later, Chiang Kai-shek, the supreme commander of the Nationalist Axe, issued an order to mobilize the entire Fifth Army, with 200 divisions as the vanguard, and enter Burma to assist the British [***] team in the battle!

In the face of this order, the whole division of the 200 divisions was boiling. On the same day, Division Commander Dai Anlan gathered the whole division together for an expeditionary mobilization.

Lei Zhen stood in the queue and looked at General Dai Anlan from afar, this was a hero who even his master Xie Jinyuan had to praise.

Dai Anlan is Chinese New Year's Eve seven years old today, he is in the prime of life, and it is rumored in the army that General Dai Anlan is a rare tiger general, his high top nose bridge representing the resolute surname, under the thick eyebrows, the bright eyes, and his not burly, but like a javelin-like straight body, all give him a kind of momentum that is not angry and self-assured, which greatly dilutes the soft lines of his face, and the Sven atmosphere raised.

Division Commander Dai Anlan's eyes swept around, and all the people present only felt a compelling heat wave coming, and even the whispers on the field suddenly disappeared cleanly. In this case, with the help of a megaphone, General Dianlan's impassioned voice rang in everyone's ears.

"Do you know where I'm standing now?" Dai Anlan took a deep breath and shouted wildly: "This is thousands of years ago, it was the military camp, and the position I am standing now is the point of Zhuge Liang's expedition to the Southern Barbarians and the seven captures of Meng Shu!" I believe that the ancients can live here for centuries, and so can everyone who stands here today! ”

Looking at the fertile soil under their feet and the stone platform where General Dai Anlan was standing high, everyone's eyes lit up.

"Our troops are about to move out, I don't say, as you know, we're going to Burma and help friendly forces fight against the Japanese invaders. I don't know how many brothers want to bury their bones in a foreign land, and I don't know how many brothers have impassioned words in their mouths and are afraid in their hearts. ”

"Actually, I'm scared too. I have a high hall, a wife and children, and the whole family is counting on me to feed them, if they can, who wants to eat military rations and run to the battlefield to play with their lives! Among us, a considerable number of people are veterans, but what can the veterans do, I don't believe that seeing the heavy machine gun bullets sweeping towards us, beating the brothers around me into a sieve, and smashing the cannon over, I can only lie on the ground and call the Bodhisattva to bless in my heart, watching the broken corpses being blown up in the sky, even if they fall on their own bodies, they don't dare to reach out and shake them off, someone will not have nightmares! ”

The veterans present are all nodding secretly, don't look at them as if they are all nothing, and often use things on the battlefield to scare those recruits, but just like Commander Dai Anlan said, who hasn't had the experience of waking up in the middle of the night with a cold sweat?

"But, if you are afraid, will you be able to stop invading our homeland, not slaughtering my brothers, and not raping our sisters? If you are afraid, you can avoid the war, and you can survive in secret? ”

The audience was awe-inspiring.

Senior Commander Dai Anlan took a deep breath and suddenly shouted: "If I had to choose, instead of being trampled on the top of my head by others for decades, it would be better to stand up my waist like a man and fight him on the battlefield to see if my life is hard enough, whether I can fight for a hundred generations, fight for the sky, and fight for my rivers and mountains!" Even if we lose, we will sacrifice our lives for the country and the people, and if we win, we will be able to live for a hundred years, enjoy the respect of others, and live as a hero......"

Before General Dai Anlan's words were finished, the tide of applause suddenly sounded, I don't know who started it, and some people began to shout loudly about the two sentences in Chinese history, a Genghis Khan, who once extended his territory to the blue Danube, went on an expedition to a foreign land with iron hooves, and laid down a large territory, faced with the challenge of showing off his might, the most powerful enemy in his life, once said two sentences, "If you want to come, you will fight!" ”

"If you come, fight! If you want to come, you will fight! If you come, you will fight......"

More and more people joined the group of wild drinkers, they shouted hard, howled loudly, and in the almost hysterical roars again and again, their faces were swollen and red, and a frank and unconcealed murderous aura continued to gather from this cluster.

Dai Anlan smiled, because in front of him was an iron-blooded chariot that had been prepared for a long time and was now re-injected with a large amount of fuel!

And Dai Anlan's gaze, at this time, had already skipped the face full of fanaticism and excitement in front of him, and fell to a certain position in the 598 team column, just as he was greeted by a pair of eyes that were mixed in the crowd, but they were so outstanding and so deep and moving.

There is no need to ask, no need to think too much, Dai Anlan also knows, "If you want to come, you will fight", so simple, but so natural with a kind of pride, can inspire every soldier's unyielding slogan, it is from the mouth of the owner of these eyes.

Dai Anlan must admit that the other party understands the psychology of grassroots soldiers better than him...... For a group of soldiers who can't read a few big words, instead of quoting scriptures and saying a bunch of long speeches, it is better to concentrate the goal and the meaning into the most concise slogan, but it can be deeply engraved into the depths of everyone's soul.

When the battle reached the most fierce moment, when the soldiers watched their brothers fall one by one, they were numb, wooden, crazy, and forgot the fear of death, these slogans repeated again and again, simple but with great truth, would become the reason for them to fight desperately, and even die with the enemy!

"598th Regiment Special Agent Platoon ......"

Dai Anlan let out a soft admiration in his heart, "Zheng Tingjian and Huang Jingsheng did a good job, I transferred the platoon commander and a group of elite backbones from their spy platoon, but so quickly, they found a suitable replacement." ”

If it was in peacetime, Dai Anlan would definitely walk over in person and take a closer look at the newly appointed platoon commander of the 598th Regiment Special Service Platoon, but today, he was doing pre-war mobilization and facing the officers and men of the whole division, as the supreme commander of the whole division, standing on this high point and platform, he could not do this.

But I don't know why, at this time, Dai Anlan suddenly remembered a person, remembered a letter he still had in his pocket.

It was a year ago, the last letter written to him by Commander Xie Jinyuan, who had been friends for a long time, in the lonely army camp. Maybe at that time, Xie Jinyuan had already found that his situation was not good, although he didn't say it explicitly, but between the lines, Dai Anlan still read a kind of sadness like a hero has no way.

"My brother has been trapped here for four years, although he has been striving for self-improvement, but his manpower is sometimes poor. My brother often dreams of returning to the company camp, galloping on the field, and whenever he wakes up from his dream, he sighs helplessly. The only person who is proud of himself is to get a good apprentice Lei Zhen, this son is pure and modest and studious, with the air of wild beasts hidden between his gestures, and he has the hatred of breaking his family and destroying people, and he teaches carefully, and his brother often rejoices with amazing growth, and secretly sighs that if he says that he will be able to become the pillar of the party and the state, if this is the case, the younger brother will die without complaints! ”

Until now, Dai Anlan can clearly recite this passage in the letter, because it was not until the news of Xie Jinyuan's assassination in the lonely military camp came that he knew that this letter was already a suicide note written by Xie Jinyuan to him. He made a special trip to mention Lei Zhen in the letter, and he faintly looked for a way out for his apprentice.

From the moment he got the news of Xie Jinyuan's assassination, Dai Anlan was waiting for a young man named Lei Zhen to appear in front of him with Xie Jinyuan's unfulfilled wish to be a soldier. On the one hand, this is out of respect and sympathy for Xie Jinyuan, on the other hand, Dai Anlan really wants to see what kind of character an apprentice who can make Xie Jinyuan secretly happy and even praised in the letter.

Reaching out and gently pressing the pocket where the letter was placed, Dai Anlan let out a soft sigh in his heart, "Lei Zhen, I've been waiting for you for eight months, but you haven't come yet." It seems that you can't catch up with this expedition to Burma! ”

Yes, in Dai Anlan's heart, Lei Zhen really can't catch up with this war that is destined to go down in Chinese history.

The next day, the sky was still bright, and all the officers and men of the 200th Division were quietly concentrated on the field and ready to go. In order to adapt to the climate of Myanmar, each of these soldiers wore yellow military uniforms and straw sandals, and in order to adapt to the climate of Myanmar, each of them also carried a hat made of bamboo chips, wore gum glasses that were extremely rare at that time, and carried a self-style weapon on their shoulders.

Outside the barracks, Ford and Mercedes-Benz military trucks lined up in a long line, and on the front of each car were the blue sky and white national flag with the national political axe, and the body was plastered with slogans such as "The Chinese [***] team is here to defend the Burmese people," "Strengthen Sino-British military cooperation," and "Burma is China's best neighbor."

He took a deep look at all the subordinates standing on the field again, and with Dai Anlan's order, the low roar of the car engine tore through the darkness before dawn in this sky, and opened the first step of the 200 division's expedition to Burma, marching westward.

When the car drove out of the barracks, the officers and men of the 200th Division were stunned.

The reason why they chose to leave the barracks and leave the beautiful city of Kunming in the early hours of the morning was that they hoped that it would not affect the normal life of the residents in the city, but the streets they had to pass through to leave the city were already quietly full of passers-by, and even the shops on the street had all opened their doors and entered the state of business.

As far as the eye can see, there are compatriots everywhere holding a small national flag in their left hand and fruits and biscuits in their right hands. They spontaneously stood on both sides of the road, leaving enough space for the expeditionary force convoy to drive. And those shops that have been open since the early hours of the morning, or even have not closed all night, the boss has placed cigarettes outside the store in advance, although he did not deliberately take care of them, people on the road can reach out and quietly take them, but no one touches them.

Seeing the convoy of the expeditionary force, these send-offers, who did not know how long they had been waiting quietly, suddenly burst into a burst of cheers. It was to the frenzied cheers of thousands of empty alleys that the convoy slowly drove up the main street, and suddenly a rain of fruits, biscuits and cigarettes fell in the sky.

Everyone was throwing the condolences they had prepared in their hands into the car, and the shopkeepers even ran out, standing on the side of the road with cigarettes, regardless of 3721, and shoved them into the hands of every soldier standing in the car. The officers and men of the 200th Division, who had food in their hands and food in their pockets, and almost stepped on it under their feet, only felt that they were about to be overwhelmed by this spontaneous and most fanatical wave of the people. And some of the more shy soldiers kept refusing, "No, no, we can't take your things......"

But how can their refusal stop these enthusiastic people, and how can they stop the people who have ardent expectations for them, and how can they stop the kind of heartfelt blessings?

Lei Zhen sat quietly in the passenger seat of one of the trucks, his rank as a captain platoon leader, as well as his overly tough face line and faintly folded lack of anger and self-authority, all made him the focus of the girl's attention.

In the south, the folk customs are more open, that is, with the worship of heroes, I don't know how many young girls in Huaichun, running and jumping their handkerchiefs, through the car window to Lei Zhen's side, when the most daring and pungent girl, jumped on the foot pedal next to the truck door, directly leaned into the cab, in public left a bold admirable kiss on Lei Zhen's face, good-natured laughter and loud whistles, mixed with bursts of cheers, In an instant, the girl's face was flushed like a fiery cloud.

"If you want to come back alive, come to the old Zhuangzi Restaurant in Lane 12 of South Street to find me, I like handsome and domineering men, as long as you don't let my father and mother know, I can have a private meeting with you."

When Lei Zhen's ear whispered these words, even if it was two or three centimeters away, Lei Zhen could clearly feel the rolling heat wave emanating from her bright red face. Smelling the scent of jasmine emanating from the girl, and feeling the unique enthusiasm of the Kunming girl, even Lei Zhen's heart couldn't help but flutter slightly, not to mention the driver who was sitting next to him and already showed an envious expression on his face.

But in the entire spy platoon, the most eye-catching thing is not Lei Zhen, but standing on top of the truck, wearing a military uniform, carrying an American submachine gun on his shoulder, wearing resin sunglasses, and wearing a pair of high-waisted military boots under his feet.

If it weren't for the fact that it was already December and she really couldn't find flowers, it was estimated that she, a female soldier of the spy platoon with 10,000 green leaves and a little red, would have been covered with flowers.

In this way, the convoy was full of cheers and hopes, and it drove all the way to the west, and the fighting spirit of the officers and men of the 200th Division also increased to the highest point as they walked through one city after another. But when the convoy came to the vicinity of Baoshan, it suddenly stopped, and this stop stopped for a full thirty-six hours.

It wasn't until he received instructions from his superiors that Lei Zhen knew that as the vanguard of the Burmese troops, the division headquarters suddenly received an order from Chiang Kai-shek conveyed by the Fifth Army: "There is no need to enter Burma for the time being!" ”

This sudden order was tantamount to pouring a spoonful of ice water from the Arctic Ocean on the heads of each of the officers and men of the 200th Division, who were in high spirits. It was because of this order that the 200 divisions, which were already ready to fly, actually stopped their footsteps near Banqiao and were ready for training.

In the face of this absolutely unexpected change, seeing that the day by day passed, the fierce momentum of the officers and soldiers of the 200th Division was smoothed out little by little, and the ghost really didn't understand.

"Master, now the morale of our two hundred divisions is like a rainbow, even if there is a little devil in front of him, it is estimated that as long as an order is given, the brothers of the whole division will scream and pounce on them, giving them a blow to the head. Even a layman like me, who became a monk halfway, knows that in the art of war, there is a saying that there is a drum, then decline, and three exhaustions, the old man Jiang is the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy, and he started with Sun Yat-sen, and has experienced hundreds of battles and battles, so it is impossible for him to not understand this truth, right? ”

Faced with the ghost talent's inquiry, Lei Zhen was silent for a long time before replying: "Ghost talent, you have to remember that war has always served politics. The confrontation against the Chinese army in Burma is composed of the American reinforcements who have just been severely knocked on by the Chinese people at Pearl Harbor who are eager to retaliate, and the British colonial troops stationed in Burma. ”

Looking at the ghost talent with a puzzled face, Lei Zhen knew that the ghost still didn't quite understand, because politics itself is the darkest and most elusive thing. Once the political element is mixed in on the battlefield, everything will become ethereal.

Entering Burma to take the initiative to attack the Japanese army was a life-and-death move for China, so the vanguard was the 200th Division of the Fifth Army, which was the most elite.

The U.S. side suffered a big loss at Pearl Harbor and was eager to retaliate, but their strategic focus was on the South Pacific theater, and the reason why they participated in the Burma War was that they did not want to see China's political axe surrender, so their own army could then be transferred to the land forces in China and put into the situation in the South Pacific theater.

The most should belong to the British [***] team. Burma is their colony, and of course they want to repel the soldiers more than anyone else, but at the same time, they are worried about the Chinese [***] team, and they have the idea in their hearts that "after this war is over, if the Chinese [***] team does not leave here, it will be in trouble" and so on. It is precisely because of this that the British political axe hopes that the Chinese [***] team will enter Burma to assist them in fighting against the Japanese army, and they will have a suspicious and wary attitude towards the Chinese [***] team entering Burma, and even use diplomatic means to obstruct it in many ways.

The expedition was like this, the whole army stopped where it should not have stopped, it was difficult to supply, it was difficult to train, neither up nor down, no wonder the entire 200 divisions, everyone was depressed.

(To be continued)