Peiping. Ziguang Depot, Baoqing squatted at the door and smoked a cigarette bag and pot, and the guy in the factory came to hand over the car, and the two chatted about the war outside the city.

"Our 29th Army is really not Gaide, 37th Division Ji Xingwen, who is that? Ji Hongchang's nephew, can he be a bad seed, in the middle of the night with a brother of the company, all of them swam across the Yongding River with a ghost head knife with a bare back, and cut the little devil of Longma Temple to the head, crying father and calling mother, Ji Tuan's big knife was cut and curled, and he alone cut off twenty-eight little devils' heads. The little crooked man said that the spittle stars flew sideways, attracting all the apricots in the backyard.

"Then do we have a big loss?" Baoqing asked worriedly.

The little crooked man deliberately sold Guanzi, and waited for Xing'er to pour him a bowl of herbal tea made at the end of the tea leaves, drank it with a tilt of his neck, wiped his mouth and continued to blow: "The masters of the big knife team are all good men who are one in a hundred, and they have won the true biography of the old man Han Muxia, is that a joke, the big knives are made of stainless steel, ten copper plates are stacked together, and all two halves are cut down, boss, you say, no matter how hard the neck of this Japanese devil is, can there be a strong copper plate?" Cut, our broadsword team was unharmed, how many people went, how many people returned. ”

"Tsk, awesome!" Baoqing became excited, and the fan in his hand shook violently.

Xing'er also said: "According to this way of playing, little Japan will not be able to enter our Beiping for the rest of his life." ”

"That's a must." The little crooked man said.

Da Bolt also sang a children's rhyme: "The palms of the hands, the back of the hands, the wolf's heart and the dog's lungs, little Japan is most afraid of the big knife team." ”

An old man in a beige police uniform walked into the alley and shouted, "Baoqing, you're busy." ”

Baoqing's cigarette pouch stumbled on the sole of his shoe, and he greeted him and said, "Inspector Wang, have you eaten?" ”

Inspector Wang took off his hat, and the inner edge of the police hat was covered with sweat: "Baoqing, let me tell you something, each household has to pay 100 catties of bread, you can do it." ”

Baoqing said: "Is it to levy military rations for the 29th Army?" ”

Inspector Wang said, "Isn't it?" ”

Baoqing said: "I don't have to say, a hundred catties of flatbread, I'll come out." ”

Inspector Wang smiled: "You kid, you didn't have this kind of fun before. ”

Baoqing Mo held his bald head and said: "In the past, this big commander beat that supervisor, it was all Chinese killing each other, let's not worry, now the masters of the 29th Army take their lives and work with little Japan, can we be shrunken turtles, there is no side, the big cake can afford it, I will give another fifty pounds of watermelon, quench the thirst of the bosses, and kill a few little Japan." ”

Everyone laughed.

……

Outside Wanping City, by the Yongding River, drizzling rain, the head of the 219th regiment, Ji Xingwen, and his subordinates stood in front of a new grave, took off their hats and saluted, this is the cemetery of the soldiers who died when they attacked the bridgehead of the Yongding River Railway Bridge and the enemy position of Longma Temple the night before, one hundred and fifty men, only came back more than sixty, and the rest were all killed in the enemy formation, none of the brothers were of a bad seed, all of them were shot in the chest.

"Brothers, go all the way!" Ji Xingwen spilled a bowl of wine on the ground, and the soldiers raised their guns to shoot into the sky to see off the martyrs.

In the camp of the 29th Army in Nanyuan, thousands of college students lined up on the playground, this is the summer military training regiment of Beiping college students, the 29th Army has expanded rapidly in the past two years, Zhang Zizhong's 38th Division has five brigades and 11 regiments, with a strength of 30,000 troops, which is more than the Japanese A Division A has more soldiers, and the entire 29th Army has 100,000 horses.

The college students of the military training regiment lined up neatly in gray cloth uniforms, standing motionless in the rain, and Chairman Jiang's thick Zhejiang accent came from the loudspeaker: "...... No matter who the land is, no matter who they are, they all have the responsibility to resist the war and defend the land, and they should all have the determination to sacrifice everything! ”

After the training, Lin Wenlong and several classmates got together, and Yao Yilai conveyed the latest news to everyone: "Yan'an has decided to send 4,000 people to North China first, and the main force will be reorganized and set off." ”

Everyone exchanged happy eyes, and Lin Wenlong waved his fist and said: "As soon as the Red Army arrives, there will definitely be hardships for the Japanese." ”

……

Beitai, Jiangwan Villa, Chen Zikun and his wife listened to the leader's speech together on the radio.

"It looks like it's going to be a big fight this time." Chan said.

Yao Yilei said: "What should we do? ”

Jianbing said: "Jiangbei is very close to Nanjing, so it should be safe. ”

Lin Wenjing said: "I don't know how long the war will last, it's better to take precautions, I suggest sending people to the southwest to buy some houses, in case the war burns to Jiangbei, we also have a place to go." ”

Chen Zikun said: "Pessimistic point of view, the southwest may not be safe, the Shanghai concession, Hong Kong is relatively safe, eggs can't be put in one basket, you pick yourself, who goes to Shanghai, who goes to Hong Kong?" ”

Xia Xiaoqing said: "Where are you going, if you want to escape before you fight, can you still win this battle?" The Japanese are not three-headed and six-armed, so I will fight with them first, and then I won't go anywhere anyway. ”

Just as Liu Ting came in, she said that the Nanjing Military Commission had sent an urgent telegram to Director Chen to Beijing to discuss military affairs, and asked to arrive in the afternoon.

"Let the airport prepare the plane, and I'll be there in no time." Chen Zikun went back to the bedroom to change into a military uniform, and in the face of the slightly loose body shape and the fat on his waist in the dressing mirror, he couldn't help but sigh: "I'm old." ”

A little head sticks out of the door, it is Yan'er, the little girl is already twelve years old, and she is as beautiful and cute as Yao Yilei.

"Daddy, are you going to Nanjing, take me with you, it's summer vacation, and I haven't gone out to play yet." Yan'er said.

Chen Zikun put on a thin woolen Verding military uniform, turned around and said: "Daddy goes to work, I can't take you there, don't you have to practice swimming every day." ”

Yan'er came over to help her father sort out the armed belt and saber, and said coquettishly, "You want to go." ”

"Next time." Chen Zikun said perfunctorily.

Yan'er pouted and wanted to make trouble, Yao Yilei came in and pulled her daughter away.

Chiang Kai-shek, in the name of commander-in-chief of the navy, army, and air force, ordered the national economy to move to the wartime track, and the central organs and military industries began to move to the interior.

The Central Committee also has a major decision, that is, to open up the Shanghai battlefield, an all-out war of resistance, the North China Plain is conducive to the Japanese mechanized troops galloping, the Jiangnan water network is dense, the lakes and marshes are scattered, the terrain is complex, there are national defense fortifications, which is beneficial to China, and Shanghai is an international metropolis, Britain and the United States have many interests, and a war here can attract international attention, and Britain and the United States can intervene. The navy repeatedly proposed to blockade the Jiangyin fortress so that the Japanese warships on the Yangtze River would have nowhere to escape.

……

In late July, the Japanese army wantonly increased its troops in Pingjin, planes bombed Langfang, and the Japanese army put forward an ultimatum demanding that the 29th Army withdraw from Pingjin, but Song Zheyuan refused, and a larger-scale conflict was about to break out.

The weather is extremely hot, outside the Nanyuan barracks is a vast green gauze tent, the sentry standing guard found that there was a strange movement not far away, hurriedly pulled the bolt and shouted the password, the answer to him was a bullet, the Japanese scouts had touched the vicinity, the gunshots rang out, the surprise attack turned into a strong attack, a group of Japanese soldiers rushed out of the green gauze tent, and rushed to the barracks with a rifle with bayonets.

Six years ago, a team of Kwantung Army attacked the Beida Camp outside Shenyang in this way, and 500 lightly armed infantry easily captured the Beida Camp guarded by 10,000 people.

However, it was not the Northeast Army stationed in Nanyuan, but the officers and men of the 29th Army, and the Chinese army, which had been waiting for a long time, put the Japanese troops within 50 meters, machine guns and rifles fired in unison, grenades rained out, and the Japanese soldiers suffered heavy casualties, leaving corpses to retreat in a hurry.

The university students cheered for the first time and witnessed the death of the arrogant Japanese soldiers under the guns, and the joy of victory made the enthusiastic male and female students sing the song: "Big sword, cut off the heads of the devils......"

The soldiers of the 29th Army looked at this group of over-energetic student dolls in bewilderment, why were they so excited after a small battle.

An old squad leader in his forties took two puffs of dry tobacco and said to the soldiers in the class: "Little Japan has never suffered losses, and it will definitely come to retaliate later, it is nothing if we die, these college students are all Wenqu stars, you must protect them." ”

The big-headed soldiers all nodded.

Half an hour later, more than a dozen black dots appeared in the sky, and the closer they flew, the red plaster on the wings could be seen, and the old squad leader shouted: "Get down!" ”

Anti-aircraft machine guns began to fire, but they could not stop the bombing of Japanese planes, and one bomb after another fell in the barracks, flames and smoke billowed from everywhere, ammunition depots were detonated, bunkers were blown up, and soldiers were killed and wounded.

After the plane dropped the bomb, it finally left, Lin Wenlong crawled out of the mud pile, looked around blankly, everywhere were broken walls, the craters were dense, and the body of a male classmate was lying next to him, just now he took a rifle and shot into the sky, but was hit in the head by shrapnel and died on the spot.

Lin Wenlong wanted to cry, his comrades-in-arms who were talking and laughing just now, but now they were dying bloodily in front of him, he couldn't accept this cruel reality.

There was a strange sound in the sky, "Boom...... Under the sharp whistle, the old squad leader swooped over with an arrow and pressed Lin Wenlong underneath, and the shells exploded not far away, and the Japanese began to shell.

The preparation for the shelling lasted for half an hour, the ears of the bombers were buzzing, the casualties were still intensifying, Lin Wenlong's eyes were red, and he asked the old squad leader: "Why don't you fight back!" ”

The old squad leader said: "There are no artillery, no planes, what to fight back?" ”

Lin Wenlong was speechless, he was an intellectual and knew what the result would be when the collision between flesh and blood and steel would be.

There was another roar, and several iron-clad turtles drove up from afar, with scarlet plaster flags on them.

"Enemy tanks!" Someone whispered.

The machine gun rang off, hitting the iron plate of the tank, sparks splashed everywhere, unscathed, and behind the tank was a large group of Japanese soldiers advancing on their waists.

A Chinese soldier rushed over with a grenade, and was swept down by the tank's side-by-side machine guns at a distance of dozens of paces, and the open area was the stage for the tank, and there was infantry cover, with the existing means of the 29th Army, it was difficult to be effective.

An officer with a major general's badge hurriedly came and shouted: "Why hasn't the military training regiment been withdrawn!" ”

"We will not withdraw, we are soldiers, and we will die on the front line!" A college student said with righteousness.

The major general was furious: "It's not your turn to fight and play with your life, when will the soldiers die, you go up again, old camel, take them away!" ”

The troops sent a battalion of soldiers to cover the withdrawal of the college students' military training regiment to the city, and the 29th Army continued to resist in place to delay the safe retreat of the college students.

Old Camel is the nickname of the old squad leader, and he and his brothers in this class were ordered to protect Lin Wenlong and a dozen other male and female students back to the city.

Lin Wenlong and others walked with one foot deep and one foot shallow, at the end of July in the suburbs of Beiping, there was no wind at all, the heat was suffocating, suddenly there was a noise in front, walked over and looked, the guards were surrounding a person and were urgently rescued, the wounded were covered in blood, the head was shot, both eyes were blind, and the person was estimated to be unable to do it.

"This is Deputy Commander Tong Linge." One of the students recognized the wounded as the deputy commander of the 29th Army from the collar badge.

Everyone silently took off their hats to mourn, they couldn't help much, they could only leave in a hurry, and walked to the vicinity of Dahongmen to meet a group of defeated soldiers who withdrew from the front line, and heard them say that Zhao Dengyu, the commander of the 132nd Division, was ambushed by the Japanese army and died.

Lin Wenlong felt that his throat was sweet, something was blocked there, and he couldn't cry if he wanted to, so he found a corner to sit down and looked blankly into the distance.

"After giving birth to a baby, the crockpot will not be broken from the wellhead, and the general will inevitably die before the battle, so I want to open it." The old camel sat beside him, took out his cigarette pouch and lit it, and smoked it.

It was getting dark, but it was still hot.