[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 243: A Special Entrance Ceremony

The sudden change stunned everyone, it was the Duqi Division that passed just now, and these people in front of him also belonged to the Duqi Division. Different from the melancholy and sadness of the previous wounded soldiers, the elite in front of them makes all the people excited, this is China's soldiers, this is China's national defense force, and this is also the army that the people need.

And the faces of the intelligence officers belonging to all forces in the crowd changed again, unlike the people who were blindly excited, they were all professionals, and they could see at a glance the horror of this army.

The momentum of the soldiers is certainly terrifying, but what is even more terrifying is the weapons and equipment on this unit. In the eyes of ordinary people, the old sleeve is the same as that made by Hanyang, and there is not much difference between Hanyang-made and Zhongzheng and the Japanese's 38 big covers, anyway, any weapon can easily take their lives. But these intelligence officers are different, they know the model and the advantages and disadvantages of weapons.

Don't look at the tattered clothes of the soldiers of this army, they are not even as good as being called Hanako, but the equipment on every soldier can be called a local tyrant. It simply blinded their titanium alloy dog eyes, there were no old Hanyang-made sleeves common in the Eighth Route Army, there were no lieutenants in the Kuomintang Central Army, and even the most common Czech light machine guns on the Chinese battlefield were not there!

Grandma's turned out to be all Japanese-style equipment, 38 big covers, crooked handle light machine guns, 92-type heavy machine guns, and the small black steel cannons with cold light, even the equipment of the most elite field division of the Japanese army is nothing more than that!

The most important thing is that the total strength of this unit has made them lose their dentures and shatter the lenses of the ground, especially the faces of the Japanese intelligence officers, they are almost green, who ****** say that there are only more than 7,000 people in the Duqi Division? Who the said that the Duqi Division is less than 10,000 after being replenished, and is it blind?

Not counting the 6,000 wounded and more than 2,000 intact soldiers in the front, there were 10,000 or thousands of people in the ranks that were several miles away. Combined, the total strength of the Duqi Division is at least 20,000 or more. Such a serious underestimation of the opponent's strength, undefeated is a ghost.

At the back of the troops, a group of majestic cavalry pressed into formation, led by an officer in a tweed coat, although this person did not wear any symbols of status, but people still recognized this as the hero they were waiting for - Ma Zheng, the commander of the Seventh Division.

After a few seconds of silence. I don't know who shouted Ma Zheng, and then all the people at the city gate shouted loudly: "Ma Zheng! Ma Zheng! ”

A few minutes later, all the people in the city were shouting Ma Zheng's name, and the word Ma Zheng instantly resounded throughout the entire city of Wuhan, deafening and enduring.

Looking at the excited crowd, Ma Zheng's eyes moistened, he didn't know how to describe his excitement at this moment, let alone how to face these enthusiastic citizens.

Ma Zheng was really moved by these simple people! Perhaps in the eyes of the top leaders, there are differences and differences between the KMT and the CCP. But in the eyes of ordinary people, they are all the same, whether it is the Central Army or the Eighth Route Army, in their hearts they are all armies composed of Chinese, they are China's national defense forces, and they are all fighting to protect them.

To be honest, this entry ceremony was also carefully planned by Ma Zheng. Originally, the order of the Central Military Commission was to rush to Wuhan City before noon today and to conduct an award ceremony early tomorrow morning. But Ma Zheng knew that there was definitely more than one unit awarded the medal, the Seventh Division.

You must know that in order to fight this battle well, the Nationalist Government mobilized a total of more than 1 million troops, and more than 400,000 troops directly participated in the battle at the front. With so many troops, it is impossible for each of them to be as rubbish as Xue Weiying's troops, and China has never lacked heroes. Even if there is no Ma Zheng, the Nationalist Government will reward other heroic units.

In fact, according to the telegram forwarded by the Ninth War Zone, Ma Zheng learned that the troops entering the city today had at least eight infantry divisions and two aviation brigades, so that in order to let the people of Wuhan personally feel the tragic atmosphere of the war, and at the same time to let the compatriots in the three towns of Wuhan remember the price paid by their Seventh Division to defend Wuhan, Ma Zheng ordered the troops to set off overnight. After a day and a night of galloping, it finally arrived outside Wuhan before dawn on the 10th, becoming the first army to enter the city today.

Ma Zheng didn't think there was anything wrong with this, although this was a little unfair to other awarding troops, but thinking of the price paid by the Duqi Division for this battle, Ma Zheng felt that there was nothing to be embarrassed about.

You must know that the casualties paid by the Seventh Division in this battle were extremely heavy, and Huang Sicheng sent a thick stack of booklets before the troops started last night. He thought it was a list of trophies captured by the troops, but when he opened it, he was stunned - the list of the dead.

Ma Zheng read from the beginning to the end, one name after another, he may not know a few of these soldiers when they lived, but they were willing to listen to his orders to charge bravely, and finally confessed their lives to the position. Perhaps he had not cared about the names of the soldiers or called them by name before they appeared in this booklet, but now he had to read each and every one of them carefully.

In the end, Ma Zheng saw a number - 10523, Ma Zheng knew that this was not only a set of cold numbers, but also represented the eternal loss of 10,523 fresh lives!

Although there were only more than 7,600 men in the 7th Division when it went south, it collected 3,000 prisoners in Jiujiang and more than 15,000 captured by the Japanese army in Hukou, plus two infantry regiments and an artillery regiment supplemented by the Nationalist Government, and the number of soldiers fighting under the name of the 7th Division reached more than 33,000.

Now less than 22,000 people returned to Wuhan with him to receive the commendation from the Nationalist Government, including more than 6,000 wounded, which means that the total number of casualties of the 7th Division in this battle exceeded 16,000, and the casualty rate exceeded 50%.

Ma Zheng knew that whether it was for the sake of living or dying, he had to let the people of Wuhan let the high-level of the Nationalist Government and even the whole world remember them, remember their sacrifices and contributions to the Battle of Huihan, and it was not in vain that so many people threw their lives here.

At the same time, Ma Zheng also knows what the people came out early in the morning for, and what they want to see! For the people who have never been on the battlefield and have not seen the cruelty of war, they want to see the warriors who return triumphantly, and they want to see the elites who return to the city with great spirit.

These Duqi Divisions existed, but Ma Zheng did not put the glamorous side of the troops at the front, let alone put the wounded at the back or simply outside the city to recuperate like other troops, and let people carry the wounded into the city.

On the one hand, he wanted to make these wounded feel that the Duqi Division was a whole, and although they were injured, they could still enjoy the same collective honor and glory as the soldiers who were not injured, and there was no such thing as anyone eating meat or drinking soup here.

Secondly, Ma Zheng also wants to let the people of Wuhan feel what a real war is and what a national war is through these wounded. So Ma Zheng put Shangyuan in front first, and finally put the elite troops in the back.

Therefore, this morning, the people of Wuhan saw what they wanted to see, and at the same time saw what they had not seen before, and everyone seemed to have received a spiritual baptism.

Ma Zheng succeeded, and such a special ceremony to enter the city really made the people of Wuhan remember him Ma Zheng, remember the Seventh Division, and remember the Eighth Route Army and the Communist Party!

Just two hours after the troops entered the city, the report on the Duqi Division and Ma Zheng once again became the headlines of major media, and even the report was reported with a king-size headline. Unlike previous reports, this time the focus of the media report was not on the achievements of the Duqi Division, but on the heavy price paid for this battle.

Not only the 7th Division, but also the casualties of other units were also reported, and with the exposure of groups of astonishing figures, the people finally knew how much sacrifice the soldiers on the front line had paid for this battle, and how hard-won this victory was. (To be continued.) )

PS: PS: Today the author's lover is hospitalized, which is very serious, and the old man is not around, so the author can only go to accompany the bed. There is no Internet in the hospital, so you can only use your mobile phone to code words, and that speed is really speechless. It took me six hours to finish two chapters, and I was tired. The author tries not to let the break change, try to maintain the standard, please forgive me.