Volume 1: The Battle of Songhu Chapter 23 Niang Laozi, let's go
The next morning, when Ye Ruxue arrived at Huangpi by car, there was already a sea of people outside the parade ground.
It is the widest section of the highway in Huangpi that is used as a parade ground, and a viewing platform has been set up on the south side of the highway, and hundreds of military police javelins are inserted around the viewing platform, and all the officers above the regimental commander of the army and the 74th Army are waiting at the entrance of the viewing platform early, and there is quite a little disharmony between them, but there is no one on the viewing platform for the time being.
The highway is more than ten miles long, and the north and south sides are full of armed gendarmes, and a cordon has been set up.
Both sides of the cordon were full of Wuhan people who had heard the news, bustling and crowded, and there were banners pulled up by students from various universities in the crowd, which were full of all kinds of slogans, calling on the people of the whole country to resist the war, and some students were waving their fists to give speeches, and more students were shouting anti-Japanese slogans, and the scene was in an uproar.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, a huge convoy slowly drove along the Jinghan Highway from Hankou, and on both sides of the convoy there were hundreds of gendarmes running in a neat queue to follow up.
The convoy stopped, and the officers of the Military Commission at the door of the car got out of the car one by one, and what was surprising was that they did not see the figure of Chairman Jiang, and it turned out to be He Yingqin, Minister of Military Affairs of the Military Commission, and Bai Chongxi, Deputy Chief of General Staff, who led the team, and Gui Yongqing couldn't help but turn around and glared at Feng Shengfa viciously, which was all a good thing for the 58th Division.
Chairman Chiang was obviously angry about what happened to Gao Shenxing yesterday.
Chairman Chiang did not come, and the senior generals of the army and the 74 th Army were all in a somewhat depressed mood, but the officers and men of the two armies participating in the parade and the patriotic masses on both sides of the highway were not affected in the slightest.
The training of the 59 German armoury divisions of the national army was planned by German advisers, and its military parade was no different from that of the German army; although it did not have the uniform march on foot on the Soviet-style military parade, it was much more rigorous than the American-style military parade, and more than 30,000 officers and soldiers of the two armies formed a phalanx one by one with the battalion as a unit, stepped in unison, and walked through the parade ground in turn.
When the phalanxes of the battalions of the 74 th Army walked into the parade ground one after another, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became warm, and the reason was very simple, because the more than 10,000 new recruits of the 74 th Army were all from Hubei, and there were tens of thousands of families of the recruits who came from hundreds of miles to see them off
In the wave after wave of cheers, Yu Jishi, Wang Yaowu, Feng Shengfa, and other senior generals of the 74 th Army quickly left their gloomy mood behind, and the officers and men of the 74 Army who walked by in unison from under the viewing platform continued to raise their guns to salute the stage, and the generals on the stage also kept raising their hands to salute in return, and the atmosphere at the scene became more and more enthusiastic.
Ye Ruxue pressed the shutter again and again, and fixed the national military array one by one on the film.
In the hustle and bustle of the crowd, Ye Ruxue saw her cousin Yu Huan, she was desperately squeezing forward from the crowd, squeezing and beckoning desperately to the front, Ye Ruxue turned the lens of the camera, and soon found the phalanx of the 19th Brigade.
Ye Ruxue and her cousin have been staying in Shashi for more than half a month, and her cousin and the student soldier company commander have fallen in love.
"Arwen, come back alive." Yu Huan squeezed in front of Ye Ruxue, but he didn't find his cousin who was close at hand, but just waved to Shu Tongwen while shouting, "Come back alive, remember to come back alive......"
Ye Ruxue pressed the shutter without hesitation, and froze the female student who sent Lang to the battlefield forever.
At this time, a soldier of the national army suddenly ran out of the infantry phalanx behind Shu Tongwen, ran to the cordon on the side of the road, and knelt down to a white-haired old woman.
The captain of the gendarmerie who was in charge of the guard came over and was about to make a ruthless effort to disperse the mother and son, when a group of women, the older of whom was in their forties, and the younger of whom was only eighteen or nineteen years old, came from behind the old woman, and they held hands to protect the old woman and the soldier in the middle.
Ye Ruxue seemed to feel something, and struggled to squeeze into the cordon, the gendarme responsible for maintaining order looked at the camera on Ye Ruxue's chest, hesitated and did not step forward to stop it, Ye Ruxue easily came to the old woman and the soldier's side, and faintly heard the conversation between the mother and son in the sobbing.
The truth of the facts is shocking, this is indeed a mother and son, the seven women who are holding hands to protect the two are all the daughters of the old woman, and they are also the sister of the soldier, the soldier is already the only male in the family, he originally had an elder brother, who joined the army two years ago, and was also in the 58th Division, but he had died on the battlefield of Songhu.
But now, this great mother wants to send her only son to the battlefield of resistance against Japan.
Ye Ruxue's tears flowed down, the great mother, in order to resist the invasion of the Japanese invaders, she had already dedicated her eldest son, but when the country needed it, she did not hesitate to give the rest of her son, didn't she feel sorry for her son, no, no, her heart must be dripping blood at this moment.
Some took the lead, others followed suit, and soon, more recruits rushed out of the queue and hugged their loved ones.
Looking at the families of thousands of officers and soldiers who were crying with their heads in their arms, the gendarmes no longer had the idea of maintaining order, and many of them were also looking for their relatives in the crowd, because in a few days, they would also go to the Xuzhou battlefield, and they might not be able to come back.
The order was chaotic, and the parade could no longer continue.
Ye Ruxue's camera lens was always aimed at the old woman and his son.
Shu Tongwen, the commander of the student soldier company, suddenly appeared in the camera, said a few words to the old woman and the soldier, the old woman wiped her tears, and finally let go of the soldier, the soldier had tears in her eyes, turned back three times in one step, and waited to go out more than ten steps away, and suddenly turned around and knelt on the ground, shouting while kowtowing: "Mother, let's go"
In the hustle and bustle, Ye Ruxue heard the heart-rending shout of the old woman: "Thin girl, fine girl, come back alive, remember to come back alive......"
Ye Ruxue pressed the shutter again, and tears burst out of her eyes again.
The next day, a touching photo appeared on the front page of the Central Daily, Ta Kung Pao Hankou Edition, Declaration Hankou Edition, and other large newspapers, in which a young Nationalist soldier knelt on the ground and kowtowed to an old woman.
On the left side of this photograph is a war newsletter entitled Lang Laozi, Son Go, in which Ye Ruxue writes that a country, a nation, when her children are willing to sacrifice themselves, when her mothers are willing to sacrifice their children, it will never perish.
Two days later, a middle-aged woman appeared in a pharmacy in Hankou to grab a pair of medicines.
The woman was about forty or fifty years old, and although her clothes were shabby, it was evident that she must have come from a large family.
The pharmacy guy grabbed the medicine according to the prescription, and after grabbing the medicine, he took the Central Daily package medicine on the counter, the woman took the medicine and turned into an alley, Zuihou walked into a dilapidated courtyard, just entered the door, there was a violent cough in the wing room on the left side of the courtyard, the woman put down the medicine and hurriedly walked in.
"Lao Shu, bear with me any longer, the medicine has already been caught."
"It's okay, I'm fine, isn't it just a cough."
As she spoke, the woman had already walked out with a middle-aged man in her arms, if Shu Tongwen saw this scene, he would definitely cry in distress, this middle-aged couple was none other than his parents.
In August last year, after Shu Tongwen returned to his soul, he insisted on staying in the 19th Brigade, Shu Mohan and his wife couldn't do it, so they could only go by him, and then the 19th Brigade moved to Honghe Road and Bridge, and then transferred to Wusong Town, Zuihou seemed to be transferred to the Luodian battlefield again, and when the national army was defeated on a large scale from Shanghai, the couple had no news of their son.
In the past six months, Shu Mohan and his wife have lived in torment every day.
After arriving in Hankou, Shu Mohan and his wife would go to the bulletin board of the Wuhan camp every day to see the list of fallen officers and soldiers, and then about half a month ago, they saw Shu Tongwen's name on the bulletin board, Shu Mohan vomited blood and fainted on the ground, and after returning home, he fell ill, and he became thinner and thinner day by day.
Helping Shu Mohan to sit down on the chair, Shu's mother began to decoct the medicine.
Unpacked the medicine bag and poured the medicine into the crockpot, Shu's mother was about to put the newspaper wrapped in medicine on the crockpot, but she was suddenly stunned, and after a few seconds, Shu's mother unfolded the newspaper with trembling hands, flattened it, and then looked at a photo on the newspaper and was stunned.
"Awen" Shu's mother trembled her hands and covered her mouth, trying not to let herself cry.
Ah Wen's words instantly exchanged for Shu Mohan's violent cough, and after a long time, Shu Mohan sighed: "Tongwen, don't keep thinking about the child, he died for the country and died as he deserved."
"No, Lao Shu, come and see, Awen, Awen is still alive" Shu's mother finally cried, and handed Shu Mohan the newspaper with the medicine package to read, Shu Mohan was stunned for more than ten seconds at the photo, and hurriedly checked the date when he was done, and when he saw that it was the newspaper two days ago, Shu Mohan couldn't help but cry.