Chapter 83: The far-reaching impact of the parade

Ma Zheng's words made all the senior generals present fall into deep thought, and after a while, Mr. Zhu asked, "Do you think this war will become a protracted war?" ”

"It's going to be a protracted war!" Ma Zheng said categorically.

"And how long do you think this war will last?" Mr. Zhu asked again.

Ma Zheng said solemnly: "No matter how long we must persevere, this is our responsibility and mission as soldiers." This war may last for ten years or eight years, but the ultimate winner will definitely be China. ”

Mr. Peng asked: "Do you have any basis for saying that the decision of this war is in the hands of the people?" ”

"Yes, may I ask you, who is in charge of the rise and fall of all dynasties? Is it the emperor, nor the general, but the people. Qin Shi Huang is powerful, the six kings are all over the world, how domineering, in the end, the Great Qin Dynasty he established was not the second and died, it was overthrown by a group of mud legs, and later became the emperor by a market gangster, so the common people are the help of the times. ”

Ma Zheng continued: "The greatness of our Chinese nation lies in the courage to fight against all inequality, and it is precisely under the guidance of the indomitable national spirit that the common hatred of the whole Chinese people has given us the capital to resist Japanese imperialism. And all the work we are doing, all the efforts and sacrifices we have made now are only to arouse the people's determination to resist Japan in order to achieve victory in this war. In the work of arousing the people's will to resist Japan, whoever does better in the Kuomintang and the Communist Party will be the leading force in the War of Resistance against Japan, and whoever will win the approval of the people. ”

Brigade Commander Chen of the 358th Brigade sighed and said: "After paying such a great sacrifice, what can we win in this war?" ”

Ma Zheng replied word by word: "The awakening of the nation!" ”

"The awakening of the nation?" Brigade Commander Chen said in surprise, he didn't expect Ma Zheng to give such an answer.

Ma Zheng explained: "The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression will surely lead to our victory after paying a huge price, and with the pain of the war, our Chinese nation will also win the true awakening of the nation." Therefore, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression will certainly be a great historical turning point for the Chinese nation from humiliation to self-reliance, and as long as we maintain the national consciousness and integrity and unite closely, then the fruits of victory in the War of Resistance will surely belong to all the people. ”

In this way, the questions and answers did not end until the afternoon, and all the commanders of the Eighth Route Army were impressed by Ma Zheng's military vision.

These people are not very strange to Ma Zheng, the so-called division commander who came over during the Red Army, Ma Zheng still has a lot of fame in the Red Army, and everyone who doesn't give a thumbs up when it comes to Ma Zheng. It's just that I didn't expect this guy to become so powerful after being seriously injured a few times, if it weren't for this crazy appearance that everyone is familiar with, maybe I thought it was a fake Xibei goods.

The parade is over, but the impact of the parade has just begun.

The strong lineup of the Duqi Brigade completely shocked all the guests who watched the ceremony, 6 infantry phalanxes, 3 cavalry phalanxes and 3 other phalanxes, although the total strength was only more than 4,000 people, but the effect of these more than 4,000 people walking in the east of Jining City was not much smaller than fighting a beautiful battle of annihilation.

The Great War is nothing new in these years, and now most of China is at war, from the vast forests and seas in the northeast to the grasslands and deserts in the northwest, from the coastal areas of the motherland to the inland, from the Yellow River valley to the Yangtze River basin, from the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River plains to the hills of Shandong and then to the Shanxi Plateau, it seems that there are battlefields everywhere. The rumbling guns seemed to completely destroy this 5,000-year-old civilization, and even more tore these hundreds of millions of Chinese sons and daughters to pieces.

Big battles and small battles, victories and defeats, true and false, false and false, and the common people can no longer distinguish between the true and the false. Chang Nationalist Government's radio station just said that the defenders of a certain place had beaten the Japanese invaders to the ground and annihilated countless enemies. But soon news came that the area had just been captured by the Japanese and the defenders had been wiped out.

Therefore, the nerves of the common people have been exercised quite tenacity, and they are even completely immune to some of the government's announcements, and because of this, it is difficult for some ordinary victories to arouse the excitement of the common people, because they do not know whether the news from the government is true or false.

But the military parade is different, the military parade is immeasurable for a country and a nation, Chen Feng knows this better than anyone else. For example, during the Soviet-German war, the Soviet army braved artillery fire to hold a large military parade on Red Square, and it can be said that the parade saved the Soviet Union.

At that time, the situation between the Soviet Union and Germany was almost a copy of the current China and Japan, due to insufficient preparation, the Soviet army was passive everywhere at the beginning of the war, and in just half a year after the war, the Soviet Union lost all the industrial areas in the west, and what was more serious was that millions of troops were annihilated or captured by the German army, and the whole country was in turmoil, and it could be destroyed by Germany at any time, which was not much better than the current China.

In the face of the brutal and ferocious German army, the resistance of the Soviet military and civilians was so powerless. Despite the heavy price, it was unable to stop the German offensive until the "Battle of Moscow", when the Soviet-German war entered a white-hot and victorious critical moment, Moscow faced the fall and the frenzied attack by the German Nazi army.

In November 1941, during the critical period of the Battle of Moscow, more than 1.8 million German troops, more than 1,700 tanks, more than 1,390 aircraft, and more than 14,000 artillery pieces were already under the city of Moscow. The mechanized units of the German vanguard were recently only 25 kilometers from Moscow. In order to boost the morale of the Soviet soldiers, Stalin and other high-ranking Soviet leaders resolutely decided that the traditional October Revolution Day parade would be held as usual.

Nazi German troops had already arrived near Moscow, but Stalin decided to hold a military parade as usual and made his famous speech at the parade, and the troops were inspected and then left for the front line.

This was the world's first and only live-fire military parade, in which all the troops under review were distributed real ammunition and went to the battlefield directly after the parade ceremony. On the way to Red Square in the parade phalanx, many soldiers were dusty and sloppy in clothes, and they didn't even know where they were going. The parade site was also relatively chaotic, and the column-type foot phalanx was extremely untidy for various reasons.

But this was a "miracle in a winter" created by the Soviet military and civilians, and the entire parade was carried out in the snow, with tanks, artillery and cars covered, and the shoulders and backs of the solemn commanders and fighters were covered with snow. The heavily armed units of the Soviet Red Army marched majestically past Lenin's tomb on Red Square, inspected by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, and then marched directly from Red Square to the front.

In times of crisis, even if the aggressor's artillery thundered, even if the positions that the Soviet soldiers on the front line exchanged for flesh and blood still changed hands frequently in repeated battles, even if the aggressor's footsteps were not far from Red Square.

However, the heroic and tenacious Soviet soldiers and civilians still strode through the military parade on Red Square to the battlefield ahead, and the military parade on Red Square in Moscow undoubtedly inspired the morale of the Soviet officers and men through the parade with a posture of contempt for the invaders, and at the most critical moment of the Soviet army, at the moment when the Soviet Union could resist the invasion, it injected strong morale into all the soldiers participating in the parade, and it was really with this strong and fearless morale that inspired the perseverance and fighting spirit of the polar bears of the Slavic nation to fight to the death against the German invaders.

Like the Soviet Union at that time, China at this time was also facing an unprecedented challenge from its strong neighbor Japan, which seriously threatened the survival of the Chinese nation. Against this background, holding a large-scale military parade is bound to greatly enhance the confidence of the people of the whole country in overcoming crises and difficulties.

It will play a positive and extensive role in enhancing national cohesion and combat effectiveness, and the thunderous and imposing military strength will certainly make those with ulterior motives stop making small moves, and the Japanese army will also not dare to act rashly.