"Today is the day of the expedition to Burma. Before the expedition, General Sun Liren accompanied the commanders to inspect the three armies, and although the soldiers were dressed in single clothes and cloth shoes, they were full of energy and high morale. Before leaving, we sang the expeditionary army song to strengthen the military might-'You don't see you, the Han Dynasty is the end of the army, and the weak crown is the captive, please be long-tasseled; You don't see, Ban Dingyuan, the peerless light cavalry urges the battle clouds! The boy should be in serious danger, how can he let the Confucian crown miss this life? The situation is that the country is in danger, and the feathers are fighting for each other'...... Great! Hurry! ”

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"After several days of marching, we finally arrived in northern Burma today. In the name of Shangfeng, I went to contact the British and discuss the accommodation and other related issues. Or because of the untidy appearance of our army's long-distance journey, the British were arrogant and extremely rude, and even placed our army in an abandoned grass hut, which made the soldiers angry. This was the first time I saw the British army, and its appearance was sloppy, weapons were discarded, and there were many people who played poker, smoked, drunk, and prostituted. Fortunately, many of the border people here are descendants of my Chinese people, which adds a touch of comfort to my heart. ”

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"It's been more than half a month since I arrived in Myanmar, and the climate here is unexpectedly hot. Yesterday I spent the night in the sweltering heat, and I didn't fall asleep until the middle of the night, but fortunately, Brother Zhengzhong gave me this watch, so that I would not ignore the morning exercise on the second day. Now that the Japanese army has captured Rangoon, a large number of British troops have begun to retreat. Our army is ready to march at any time, but the promised supply of weapons by the Allies has not yet arrived, which is more than worrying. ”

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Since he was in middle school, Zhu Jingxing has developed the habit of keeping a diary every day. After joining the expeditionary force, although he was busy with training and studying, he still insisted on writing down a chapter every day, and always wrote a few sentences more or less.

A few years later, these diaries were auctioned off for a sky-high price as important historical materials of the expeditionary force, and Zhu Jingxing's descendants also donated these days and collected them in the expeditionary force museum in Kunming.

Among them, the contents of these diaries have provided effective information for many historians in later generations to study this period of history. However, later historians have found that the contents of these diaries are not recorded before the opening, and several of them have already been

But the chapters on the Chinese army's march to the battlefield were torn out.

What is written in these torn contents? And who tore up these diaries? For a time, there were different opinions, and historical researchers provided many hypotheses, which also caused a lot of shock in the academic circles at that time.

Of course, that's all for later. Even if he kept a diary at that time, Zhu Jingxing would not have thought that his diary would become the object of future research, but he was extremely precious to these diaries.

One morning before the opening, Zhu Jingxing, who had breakfast, came back to find that the diary on his desk was missing.

Zhu Jingxing is the platoon commander of the third platoon of the special service battalion. Because of the tight accommodation, the platoon commander did not have a separate room, and on weekdays he slept in the same bunk as the brothers in the platoon, and his diary would be placed on the table in front of the bunk.

When he returned to his dormitory after breakfast today, he found that his diary was missing as he was sorting through his belongings. After rummaging up and down many times, I still couldn't find it.

This notebook was given to him by Mr. Wen Yiduo, a professor of the department, before he joined the army. There is also a gift from Mr. above, which is precious to Zhu Jingxing. The book itself has no value.,No one will steal it on purpose.,But where will it go?

Zhu Jingxing anxiously began to search around, and several young soldiers followed suit.

After a while, Hu Liqun in the platoon walked in with a cigarette in his mouth, and when he saw that everyone was looking for something, he casually asked, "What are you looking for?" What gold ingots are missing? ”

"I'm helping the platoon commander find his diary, and his diary is missing." A soldier replied.

"Oh. Don't look for that. Hu Liqun raised the book with a calfskin shell in his hand and said, "Is this it?" ”

Zhu Jingxing looked up and saw that Hu Liqun was holding his diary in his hand. He stepped forward and snatched it down and said, "Who told you to touch my book?" ”

Seeing that Zhu Jingxing was so angry, Hu Liqun said quite carelessly: "I had diarrhea in the morning, I didn't see anything, so I took this book away." Don't worry, I'm tearing up what you wrote, and the blank pages you didn't write are precious. ”

Zhu Jingxing came over to take a look, and sure enough, there were a few pages that were torn off. He said angrily: "Hu Liqun, who told you to tear up Lao Tzu's book?" Don't you take toilet paper when you go to the toilet? ”

Hu Liqun said indifferently: "Isn't it just a few pieces of paper?" Going to the front line is a burden. Also, don't take those books with you, it will exhaust you if you carry them by then. ”

Hu Liqun is a full veteran, who has participated in many battles and has been wounded, and he was originally promoted to be the commander of the third platoon, but considering that the expeditionary force needs to communicate with the United States and Britain, Zhu Jingxing was sent.

This is also one of the reasons why Hu Liqun is full of malice towards Zhu Jingxing. Moreover, among the officers and men of the expeditionary force, except for veterans like Hu Liqun, most of them are young people who have newly joined the army, and because of their different backgrounds, knowledge, and ideas, two distinct factions have naturally formed.

The Expeditionary Force Command also noticed these situations, and in order to eliminate the adverse effects, they simply reorganized these troops and reorganized them, but the contradictions between the two groups of people still existed to varying degrees, and Zhu Jingxing's platoon was one of them.

After all, Zhu Jingxing was a little young and vigorous, and when he saw Hu Liqun teasing himself like this, he was naturally furious. After he took the diary, he punched Hu Liqun in the face.

Lao Hu didn't expect Zhu Jingxing to be so violent, and after receiving a punch, he was naturally unwilling. He stood up with a carp, and then waved his fist towards Zhu Jingxing.

Zhu Jingxing was born in a peasant family, although he was a scholar, his physical strength was no worse than that of Hu Liqun, and the two immediately scuffled. After seeing this, the surrounding officers and soldiers immediately stepped forward to pull the rack, and it took a lot of effort to pull the two people apart.

At this time, Senior Mu Dan and the supervising officer of the division headquarters happened to pass by, and hurried in after seeing this scene.

Toot toot! The supervising officer blew the whistle, and all the officers and soldiers instinctively stood up straight after hearing this, and the supervising officer came over to take a look, and understood what had happened from the faces of Zhu Jingxing and Hu Liqun.

He said with a straight face: "You two, come with me!" ”

The two came to the supervisor's office with Senior Mu Dan and the supervisor. He glanced at the two of them and asked, "Why are you fighting?" ”

"Report, it was the platoon commander who hit me first!" Hu Liqun said first.

"Report, he tore up my diary and deliberately found fault." Zhu Jingxing was not to be outdone.

"You kid did it first, won't you tear up a few pieces of paper?" Hu Liqun said again.

"Do you know what that book is? Why did you tear up my diary? ”

The two of you looked at me and quarreled again. The supervisor said impatiently, "Okay! The army is about to leave, and you two big men are fighting for such a, don't you feel red? Capable of it? Let's see you on the battlefield in a few days, whoever can beat the Japanese devils is really a hero! ”

"Ask yourselves, do you lose the face of the expeditionary force? We are now not only representing ourselves abroad, but also representing our China, and you are fighting over this little thing, is it to make the British and Americans laugh at it? ”

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The supervisor scolded back and forth for ten minutes, and after scolding Zhu Jingxing began to scold Hu Liqun, and then scolded Zhu Jingxing, and so on repeatedly, and then stopped because of his dry mouth.

After the supervisor finished speaking, he drank the glass of water in front of him in one gulp, and then glanced at Mu Dan next to him, and after the two made a simple eye contact, the supervisor coughed. Then he asked Mu Dan: "Brother Mu Dan, these two people committed this kind of behavior that disrupts military discipline before the war, what do you think should be done with these two guys?" ”

Mu Dan knew that the supervisor didn't want to leave them a record of punishment, and deliberately asked himself to find a step for himself. Just when that look was returned, he already understood what it meant.

Mu Dan also said with a straight face: "The impact of the fight before the war is bad, and it stands to reason that it should be severely punished, but now the pre-war treatment is afraid of disturbing the morale of the army." Since they can't run out of strength, I think they should clean up our public latrine, right? ”

The supervisor nodded: "Okay, you clean the latrine before noon, let's go out." ”

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Zhu Jingxing and Hu Liqun carried cleaning tools to the public toilet next to them.

The toilet was built temporarily, with a large manure trough dug in the back. Sun Liren has extremely strict requirements for administering the army, especially for the hygiene of officers and soldiers. After arriving here, the troops were asked to dig public toilets, because there are many snakes and insects in Myanmar, which are easy to spread diseases, so the public toilets are flushed every day and sprinkled with quicklime after cleaning.

In addition to these, the toilet manure trough has to be cleaned regularly every few days, which is a heavy task, and each row takes turns cleaning it on weekdays.

Let Zhu Jingxing and Hu Liqun do this work today, the workload is really not small. When they arrived, they realized that the work required the cooperation of two people, and that the dung buckets used to transport the manure were more than special wooden barrels, and they had to carry the dung after it was filled, which forced them to cooperate.

After Zhu Jingxing arrived, he said to Hu Liqun: "Hu Liqun, this is the task given to us by the upper peak, no matter what contradictions we had before, but now we must cooperate." ”

Hu Liqun snorted coldly: "Listen to you!" ”

Seeing the two people panting and working together to pick up dung, the supervisor in the distance smiled at Mu Dan and said, "It's better for you to do this, don't the two of them like to fight?" Let them cooperate today. ”

Mu Dan said with a smile: "A student officer and a veteran soldier must have a run-in, and they are about to go to the battlefield, although they can't reach a tacit understanding, but they must realize that only by cooperating with each other can things be done." ”

"You shouldn't be a translator, you should be a staff officer." The supervisor laughed.