Chapter 196: It's on Fire (Asking for Subscriptions, Asking for Monthly Passes, Asking for Various !! ）

The parade is over, but the impact of the parade has just begun. This time, the 40th Group Army completely shocked the Chinese and Japanese sides with a strong lineup, 6 infantry phalanxes, 1 cavalry phalanx, and 5 equipment phalanxes, although the total strength was only more than 20,000 people, but the effect of these 20,000 people walking in Zhangjiakou 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. The radio station of the regular government has just said that the defenders of a certain place have defeated the Japanese invaders and destroyed 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 tenaciously, 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. It can be said that the parade saved the USSR.

At that time, the situation between the Soviet Union and Germany was almost a copy of the current Sino-Japanese side, due to insufficient preparation, the Soviet army was passive everywhere at the beginning of the war, and in just half a year, 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 not possible to stop the German offensive. Until the "Battle of Moscow". At the critical moment when the Soviet-German war entered a white-hot and victorious situation, Moscow faced the fall and a 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 were killed. More than 1700 tanks. More than 1390 aircraft. More than 14,000 cannons have been sent to 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.

November 6, 1941. The Germans approached the city and continued to attack Moscow. "The enemy army is besieged by thousands of people", but the people of the Soviet capital braved the enemy's artillery fire and solemnly held a grand meeting to celebrate the 24th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution at the Mayakovsky station of the underground railway. Stalin made a report entitled "The 24th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution." Stalin pointed out that the German reserves were about to be exhausted, the Soviet reserves had just been fully expanded, and Germany was greatly weakened compared to the Soviet Union. The blitzkrieg waged by the German fascists against the Soviet Union was completely bankrupt, and German imperialism and its army were bound to perish. In the early morning of the 7th, a heavy snowfall stained all the streets of Moscow white. In the early winter mist with snowflakes, the military and civilians in the capital held a grand and unique military parade on Red Square to mark the 24th anniversary of the October Revolution.

At that time, the army of Nazi Germany had already reached the vicinity of Moscow, but Stalin decided to hold a military parade as usual and gave his famous speech at the parade, and the troops were reviewed and immediately left for the front line to fight. This was the first and only live-fire military parade in the world, in which all the troops under review were distributed with real ammunition, and they went to the battlefield directly after the parade ceremony. On the way to Red Square in the parade phalanx, many soldiers were covered in dust and sloppy 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 one winter" created by the Soviet military and civilians. The entire parade was held 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.

At the moment of crisis, even if the aggressor's artillery roared like thunder, even if the position of the Soviet soldiers on the front line exchanged their flesh and blood still changed hands frequently in repeated battles, even if the aggressor's footsteps were not far from Red Square, the heroic and tenacious Soviet soldiers and civilians still strode through the Red Square parade to the battlefield ahead, and the Moscow Red Square military parade undoubtedly inspired the morale of the Soviet soldiers through the parade with a posture of contempt for the aggressor, and at the most critical moment of the Soviet army, at the moment when the Soviet Union could resist aggression, It injected a strong morale into all the soldiers who participated in the parade, and it was with this strong and fearless morale that it inspired the perseverance and fighting spirit of the polar bears of the Slavic nation to fight to the death against the German invaders. The encouraging effect of the parade on the units and people of the Soviet Red Army cannot be underestimated. Regarding the military parade, the British newspaper News Chronicle reported at the time: "The battle for Moscow is in full swing, and Moscow has organized an annual traditional military parade, which is an example of valor and fearlessness." ”

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.

After watching the parade of the 40th Group Army, Kurokimori Daisa and others also looked like ashes, and immediately resigned to the 40th Group Army, and wanted to return to Beiping overnight to report to General Terauchi Shouichi.

Whether it is Chen Cheng, Fu Zuoyi, or Hei Musen, their reports are full of adjectives such as powerful, shocking, and incredible.

At the same time, with Chen's permission, Claire sent some of the photos taken at the parade and the manuscript she wrote herself back to the Washington Post's Shanghai branch, where she sent them to the U.S. headquarters.

The next day, a front-page article titled "The Great General" made the front page of the Washington Post, an article dedicated to Chen Feng by none other than Claire. At the beginning of the article, she recounts what she has seen and heard in China in the past few months as a bystander, and she does not deliberately defame the Japanese, but writes about what she saw in Shanghai and the occupied areas such as Nanjing.

Then, in the tone of a war critic, she described the contrast of strength between China and Japan, analyzed it from many aspects, such as politics, military, economy, culture, and national quality, and came to a seemingly normal conclusion: China will perish.

But then there was a big turning point, she mentioned Chen Feng's Xinghe Security Regiment, and then listed the gorgeous transformation of the Security Regiment from an infantry regiment of more than 1,000 people to a large group army with more than 100,000 troops. In her pen, Chen Feng is an omnipotent general, but also a wise man, he strategizes to win thousands of miles away, he points out the country, and the Japanese invaders are annihilated when they talk and laugh.

At the same time, the article sent a large number of photos, and the editor-in-chief of the Washington Post also took care of Claire, and on this day the Post freed up more than half of the space for Claire's article, of course, it was all because the editor-in-chief of the Washington Post knew Claire's strong identity.

At the same time as foreign media reports, domestic newspapers and magazines were not far behind, whether it was the Central Daily of the National Government or the Central Daily. The Xinhua Daily reported on the incident in the highest form of news.

Chen Feng was on fire, the 40th Group Army was on fire, and for a time the reputation of "elite" and "tiger army" was added to his body. Under the influence of this grand military parade of the 40 th Group Army, the people of the whole country once again broke out into a large-scale anti-Japanese upsurge, and for a time various phenomena such as the fever of joining the army and the fever of donations were staged in major cities in the rear. The common people are not far behind, they donate food and materials when they have no money, and let them join the army if there are many men in the family, and this phenomenon is the most prominent in Zhangjiakou.

Soon after the parade ended, there was already a long queue at the recruiting station of the 40 th Group Army in Zhangjiakou, which made the head of the armed forces department in charge of conscription bitter and happy.

The military parade also greatly increased the arms business of the 40th Group Army, and Chen Cheng said that in the evening of the same day, he hoped that Chen Feng could make a second transaction with Chen Feng's department as soon as possible, especially artillery. Last time, due to the limited number of vehicles and the fact that the two sides were trading for the first time, they mainly traded guns and ammunition, and only traded less than one artillery battalion for heavy artillery.

When the artillery was transported back to Wuhan, Lao Jiang realized that Chen Feng did not lie to him, all 150mm large-caliber heavy cannons, this is the main equipment of the Japanese army's field heavy artillery brigade, even if it is as strong as the Japanese army, it is only equipped with 6 brigades, which shows the value of this equipment, so Lao Jiang can't wait to get the remaining more than 80 cannons back.

And the World War II zone and the medium. The communists also strongly demanded that an arms deal be made with the 40 th Group Army as soon as possible, and the two sides even promised that they would not be in arrears in payment on delivery. Several other big warlords also placed orders with Chen Feng after learning of the situation, ranging from one regiment to one division, and Chen Feng was also surprised by their popularity. (To be continued......)