When the Ministry of National Defense sent Huang Ke's warrant to the North China Theater Command, Huang Zheng also took the initiative to ask Ying to find Liao Xiangdong, commander of the Airborne Army, and said that he was willing to lead his troops to recapture General Zhang Zizhong's body and return General Zhang Zizhong to China.

Liao Xiangdong knew that this matter was not trivial, and after Huang Ke reported to him, he immediately went up and directly asked the minister's office. Ten minutes later, Huang Ke appeared on the other end of the phone: "Let the paratrooper commander Huang Zheng answer the phone, I want to talk to him." ”

Liao Xiangdong handed the phone to Huang Zheng, and after Huang Zheng took it, he heard his father's familiar voice after a long time.

"Let's talk about it, why did you take the initiative to invite Ying to the Shandong battlefield?"

"Report to the commander-in-chief, General Zhang Zizhong was my commander and was kind to me. Militarily speaking, the place where the general's body is located is where I used to be stationed, and I am very familiar with the terrain there. In addition, our airborne troops have a strong surprise attack, and after planning the retreat route, the retreat speed is fast, and at this stage we have completed the battle in Suzhou, and there are more free places, so I think we can be competent for this task. Huang Zheng said firmly on the phone.

There was silence on the other end of the line, the task must be completed, but who to send was another matter. Do you want your son to take this risk?

Huang Ke was still a little hesitant, but what Huang Zheng said still had some truth, but there would definitely be someone more suitable than him, but if he rejected Huang Zheng's request, wouldn't it be a rejection of Huang Zheng's sincerity?

What is the most valuable? It's this kind of innocence.

"Okay, I agree with your involvement. You ask Liao Xiangdong to answer the phone. After Huang Ke finished speaking, Huang Zheng, who was on the other end of the phone, handed the phone to Liao Xiangdong.

After Liao Xiangdong received the call, he said uprightly: "It's me, the chief, please instruct!" ”

"I agreed with Commander Huang Zheng's operational report. Thirty minutes later, you draw up a battle plan and report it, and I will tell Liu Jian about your situation, and you will organize a commando team to be on standby at the airport at any time. Well, you repeat! On the other end of the phone, Huang Ke's hurried but clear voice came.

Liao Xiangdong looked at Huang Zheng on the side, and firmly repeated the order he had just said.

After confirming, Huang Ke hung up the phone.

The death squad set off in the dark. A group of dozens of them set off from Suzhou on a transport plane and headed straight for North China.

Because the general resisted bravely and also left a deep impression on the brutal Japanese, the Japanese army simply buried the general's body in Chenji that day and erected a monument.

This information was accurately transmitted to Suzhou, which is thousands of miles away. Huang Zheng and his entourage led the daredevils to take the Y-2 transport plane and went straight to Chen Ji.

Chenji is only a small township in North China, and its strategic location is not very important, and the Japanese army does not have many troops stationed here, so it is not difficult to parachute here, but when the troops are withdrawn, they are faced with the problem of crossing multiple Japanese blockade lines.

However, Huang Zheng was not worried, they had already contacted the troops in the North China Theater. After the mission was completed, they broke through to the west, and when they crossed the Japanese blockade, troops would come to meet them.

At this moment, all he could think of was how to bring the general's body back.

Thinking of this, Huang Zheng's eyes moistened a little. The general is one of the many generals he has followed, but he is the one that Huang Zheng admires the most. I didn't talk about personal relations or anything, but I was only impressed by the general's attitude of treating death as home, and of course, he was also indignant at some of the criticisms and public opinion accusations that the general received during his lifetime.

Thinking about it, the plane had already flown over the target area. The altitude of the plane began to drop, and the indicator light came on. The cabin door opened, and a cool cold wind blew.

"Hook! Prepare for ......"

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After the paratrooper death squad landed near Chenji, they began to complete the assembly. This area is sparsely populated, the Japanese army does not have many troops here, and the Japanese army has just occupied the place, and there are no air defense facilities that should be deployed, and the time is the second half of the night, so the officers and men did not have any large-scale clashes with the Japanese army when they landed in the air.

After landing on a flat ground, Huang Zheng retrieved his current position, confirmed the direction of action, and began to move towards the intended goal.

Chenji is a small market around here, so Huang Zheng and the others can also look for a target. After walking for several miles, the daredevils arrived at their intended target, but the situation was different from the information they had received in advance, there were constantly flashing car lights, wolf dogs barking, and the lighting of generators in Chenji's market.

It seems that no less than one squadron of Japanese soldiers was stationed here. It's just that I don't know if these Japanese soldiers stationed here are related to the remains of General Zhang Zizhong?

After a brief thought, Huang Zheng sent several sharp soldiers to investigate. The platoon commander Zhu Fucai said that he would simply find a common man to ask about the situation, and as he said that, he led a few soldiers to take advantage of the night to touch out.

Half an hour later, Zhu Fucai and the others returned.

Zhu Fucai said: "The situation has been clarified, and the senior officials of the Japanese army came here yesterday to bury the general, and then withdrew. There are still dozens of Japanese soldiers in the bazaar. ”

Because the Japanese army has been moving more frequently in the past few days, they can't say how many Japanese soldiers there are.

Huang Zheng frowned when he heard the news and asked where the general was buried by the Japanese?

Zhu Fucai said, "On the hillside to the east of the market, we are now on the west side of the market, and we have to go through the market." ”

Huang Zheng took a deep breath and said, "It's only dry!" Brothers, even if it is a Japanese division in front, we have to go up, because the remains of the general are still there. ”

After speaking, he didn't make any detailed battle plans, and took advantage of the night to lead everyone to launch a surprise attack on the Japanese army.

The Japanese army was moving at this time, and they did not expect the Chinese army to come, so they were a little overwhelmed when they first encountered the attack.

Most of the daredevils were equipped with automatic firearms, so their weapons brought a lot of damage to the Japanese as soon as they came up. However, this Japanese army was battle-hardened after all, and soon they began to shrink their defenses, calling for reinforcements and starting to counterattack.

After a night of fierce fighting, the two sides were still unable to break through the Japanese defense line by daybreak, and Huang Zheng immediately ordered a charge and bypassed the market.

In this way, the daredevils fought and circled, and soon broke a gap in the northern part of the bazaar. The Japanese army had never seen such a ferocious Chinese army, and they fought continuously all night without any stop, let alone rest, or even time to drink saliva.

By the time they fought the next morning, they were already exhausted, and their strength was not superior to that of the death squads, and they still had heavy machine guns to rely on for their defenses.

Therefore, after seeing that the daredevils had shifted their direction, the Japanese army did not transfer to pursue, but called for reinforcements after repairing and preparing to encircle.

After a night of fierce fighting, the members of the death squad finally found the grave of the Japanese army for the general.

Coming to the general's tomb, the daredevils were in a heavy mood and silent, this place is the land of North China, where Huang Zheng and General Zhang Zizhong once fought together.

Huang Zheng looked around and looked around, the grass and wheat seedlings in early spring were green and endless, and there were some wild flowers blooming around and dancing wantonly with the spring breeze.

He remembered that he once rode through this place with the general, and it was also the early spring season, and the general pointed to this good spring and said: "Zhao Zheng, you see, the wheat grown here can ripen after a few months, and when the wheat is ripe, it can be milled for cooking, and after cutting a crop of wheat, you can plant sweet potatoes, sorghum, and corn; Wait until autumn to re-ripen, and then plant the wheat. What a fertile land it is! ”

Huang Zheng still remembers the general's words, and he was puzzled at first why the general was so familiar with agricultural activities, but later he learned that the general had been stationed here for a long time, and he understood when he was familiar with the common people.

In his eyes, this is a fertile land, and the land is a group of hard-working people.

But these are going to be gone?

The great rivers and mountains have been lost; So general, horse leather shroud. In the face of all this, Huang Zheng's mood is indescribable, he has too many things to say in his heart, but he doesn't know how to say it.

"Stand upright!" Huang Zheng shouted.

Salute!

All the daredevils stood in front of the grave and saluted, and although there was silence at this time, everyone's hearts were shaking.

"Pick up the general!" Huang Zheng shouted, and the daredevils opened the coffin and lifted the remains of the faithful.

There are not a few Japanese soldiers who rushed to hear the news, the daredevils fought and retreated, the mottled gunfire was intertwined back and forth in the night sky, and the gunshots like bursting beans continued to explode, although they went deep into the tiger's den, but the soldiers had made up their minds to die, so they were not afraid at all.

At this time, air force bombers bombed the Japanese positions, and the artillery units on the front lines of the two armies also began to respond. Amid the roar of 10,000 cannons, the soldiers brought back the remains of General Zhang Zizhong.

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After the remains were returned, Huang Ke personally ordered the remains of General Zhang Zizhong to be sent to Nanjing and placed in the martyrs' cemetery. The central government telegraphed the whole country to hold a state funeral in Nanjing. This is also the second person to hold a state funeral by the central government after Mr. Sun Yat-sen, and the only soldier since the Anti-Japanese War.

On the day the special plane was transported back to Nanjing from Jinan, a drizzle fell on the streets of Nanjing, and Huang Ke and members of the central government went to the airport to greet him in person, and posthumously awarded him the rank of general on the spot.

When the hearse was transported to the place of the martyrs' cemetery, there were tens of thousands of people standing on both sides of the road who came spontaneously.