Xin Weiguo is the commander of the 3rd Battalion and 3rd Company of the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Reserve Division, graduated from the Central Army Military Academy in 1936, and is an out-and-out descendant of the Central Army. It stands to reason that he, the descendant of the Central Military Department, should maintain the authority of his faction, but what is more interesting is that Xin Weiguo and his seniors are not particularly able to talk.

From childhood to adulthood, Xin Weiguo's father told him that the Xin family was the descendant of Xin Qiji, a patriotic poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, and patriotism and serving the country was the eternal family motto of the Xin family. In those years of suffering, Xin Weiguo, who was dedicated to serving the country, threw his pen into Rong and resolutely became a Qiu Ba.

At that time, Xin Weiguo's mind was to protect his family and defend the country, and he was interested in doing a great career. Especially after the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xin Weiguo was full of enthusiasm to go to the battlefield to fight devils. The Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Nanjing, and the defeat of the 14th Corps in Shaanxi, made him indignant along the way.

Why? The first army of Tianzi No. 1 is like this, what else are you talking about protecting your family and defending the country? Of course, what made him even more unacceptable was that the First Army had been living in the Great Northwest since 1939, serving as a caretaker of the Communist Party.

Xin Weiguo didn't want to be a caretaker at all, he wanted to go to the battlefield to fight devils, wanted to kill his hometown in Jiangsu, and wanted to use the heads of the Japanese invaders to pay tribute to those dead clansmen. So every time he gets the opportunity to fight devils, he is very excited, and he really does his best to die without regrets.

The problem is, Hu Zongnan's First Army really doesn't welcome an alien like him, what kind of devil is he fighting? Isn't it good to stay in Xi'an honestly and enjoy happiness? It is precisely because he is not popular with his colleagues that with Xin Weiguo's qualifications and military exploits, it is impossible to work for five years and still be only a small company commander.

Especially after Hu Zongnan attacked the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area in 1940, Xin Weiguo, who was not "good" at fighting a civil war and was very dissatisfied, was simply kicked out of the First Army. Thrown to Dong Zhao's 16th Army mixed with sand.

In the 16th Army. Xin Weiguo was also having a very unpleasant time. Or even more unpleasant. The reason is simple, compared with the atmosphere of the First Army, the atmosphere of the 16th Army, which was born from a miscellaneous brand, is even worse. In all fairness, Hu Zongnan was quite good to the First Army, and although he could not eradicate the bad work style of eating empty salaries and drinking soldiers' blood that was common in the Kuomintang army, he was still much more restrained than ordinary troops.

But the 16th Army, which was born in a ragtag, was completely different, in the words of Xin Weiguo: "The black smoke and miasma are unbearable." "Eating empty pay is a common phenomenon in the 16th military, and as for drinking soldiers' blood, it is even more pediatric. A considerable number of the soldiers of the 16th Army wore tattered and patched uniforms, and some did not even have straw sandals. Winter is even more miserable when it comes, and from time to time soldiers are frozen to death and starved to death.

Is it because there is no allocation of military salaries and supplies? Yes, but not all, in the People's Party army, the soldiers' salaries are exploited layer by layer, and in the end there is not much sincerity that falls into the pockets of the soldiers, as for the supply of materials, it is the way for the quartermaster to make a fortune, and stealing and selling military materials is simply the norm. In many cases, the soldiers' meager rations were stolen and sold, and gold, silver, and the ocean went into the pockets of the officers. The soldiers had to live on a little moldy food.

More than once, Xin Weiguo could hear the soldiers scolding his mother behind his back. There was even an angry soldier who directly said: "How much you pay Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will give you as much money as you fight!" ”

The bad atmosphere of the army is not only in the above, Xin Weiguo can also see that the abuse of soldiers is commonplace, for the officers who scrape the army, the big soldiers under their hands are like slaves, all affairs, including their own eating, drinking, and Lazar are all borne by the soldiers, and they often scold and raise their hands to beat, and some officers even vent their anger on the soldiers when they are slightly unsatisfied.

"Once, a soldier of the second company confronted the company commander, and the company commander slapped the soldier eighteen times in a row, and punished the soldier for kneeling at the gate of the garrison for three days."

Even this is good, Xin Weiguo also recalled: "The newly captured strong man is simply not as good as livestock, and a disobedient strong man was beaten to death on the spot, and then the body was thrown into the field to feed the dogs......"

If it's just about abusing soldiers, it's even more difficult for Xin Weiguo to accept that his colleagues around him are indifferent to the national disaster one by one, but they are drunk and dreaming to death: some make a fortune in the country, and some take prostitutes and drugs (this is the norm, not only middle and low-level officers have this hobby, but there are also many high-ranking officers who smoke big cigarettes, Zhang Shaoshuai used to be an addict, and Li Yannian, who later died of poverty and illness in Taiwan, also loves to smoke a lot). What makes Xin Weiguo even more unacceptable is that a group of old classmates directly treasoned and defected to the enemy under the guise of saving the country!

The various evils in the army are simply too numerous to mention, anyway, Xin Weiguo, who is upright, really can't look down on it, living in such a collective, the only thing he can feel is pain, it is simply struggling in hell. More than once, he revealed the idea of breaking away from the scraping army, but he didn't know where he could go without the scraping army.

Struggling in pain, Xin Weiguo followed the army to Wuyuan like a zombie, and then suffered an attack by the Red Army in a daze. The sound of gunfire on the battlefield finally made Xin Weiguo sober up a little.

"The first platoon was stationed in place, the second and third platoons immediately repaired the position, and the machine gun platoon supported the first platoon. Listen to Lao Tzu, don't retreat, and those who take the lead in escaping will be shot! ”

Xin Weiguo could only use the simplest and bloodiest means to stabilize the morale of the army, although he himself hated this method. However, what made him speechless was that before the words of this order fell, some soldiers reacted: "Company commander, our platoon commander and deputy platoon commander have already run away......

I've got a grass!

Xin Weiguo was so angry that he almost vomited blood, the platoon commander and deputy platoon commander ran away just after the battle, if the enemy was killed in front of him, wouldn't these people be scattered as birds and beasts? However, Xin Weiguo knew that now was not the time to worry about this, and he had to secure his defense.

"I personally command you to secure your defenses!" Xin Weiguo gritted his teeth and drank, and then asked, "What about Deputy Company Commander Zhang?" Where is Deputy Company Commander Zhang? ”

Xin Weiguo's original intention was to let Deputy Company Commander Zhang replace him in the back and want to repair the defensive line, after all, no one could watch these unreliable soldiers, but another weak voice immediately shattered his dream: "Deputy Company Commander Zhang just said that he would go to the back to check the ammunition reserves. Took Adjutant Wang, Platoon Commander Ma and Staff Officer Deng with him......"

Okay. Xin Weiguo smiled bitterly. These main officers directly left him, the company commander, and ran away, and now not only is the company paralyzed, but even the second platoon is leaderless, this Nima is still fighting a hairy battle!

Xin Weiguo really wanted to just leave, he was really fed up with this mess, but looking at the hundred and ten pairs of eyes staring at him below, he couldn't bear it.

After a while, he sighed and said: "If you can trust me Xin, you can stay, and if you are afraid of death, get out!" ”

After speaking. Xin Weiguo resolutely led his guards straight to the platoon, and when he left, he was ready for the worst, and it was better for him to die than to struggle so painfully.

When Xin Weiguo arrived at the first platoon, the situation of this platoon was already very bad, the platoon of more than 40 people was now half left, some were dead, and some flashed with the fleeing platoon commander and deputy platoon commander.

After a lot of effort, he repelled two enemy attacks. Xin Weiguo stabilized the situation in a row, and then he didn't fight hard. Rather, a decisive retreat. On the way to retreat, he could only hope that the second and third platoons had already built a second line of defense according to his orders, otherwise, there would be no need to fight the battle in the back, waiting to be completely annihilated by the enemy!

Xin Weiguo really didn't have much confidence in the second and third platoons, in the past, with him as a company commander to supervise, the tasks could only be completed so-so, but now no one is watching, even if he is in place, it is not strange that he is scattered with birds and beasts.

By the time Xin Weiguo arrived at the positions of the second and third platoons, the situation was indeed not ideal, not that the soldiers had run out, most of the soldiers were there, or there were few officers left. As for the tasks assigned to them, not all of them were completed.

Of course, it was not that the second and third platoons were lazy, but that they were really weak, and there was no adequate distribution of sapper shovels from above, only three or four out of ten soldiers had competent guys (including a batch of rakes and hoes from the surrounding countryside), and the rest of the people at most used bayonets or bare hands to dig pits, and this winter is all frozen soil, what efficiency can it be?

Anyway, when he saw this scene, Xin Weiguo was so angry that he couldn't wait to rush to the logistics office and directly give those moths a surprise.

Xin Weiguo was fortunate that his company was not the main target of the Red Army, and after repelling them, the Red Army advanced in depth, and there was no time to take care of their small role on the flank.

This gave Xin Weiguo a chance to regroup, and in the interval between battles, he ordered the position to be repaired on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also reported to his superiors that a large number of officers had deserted. According to Xin Weiguo's meaning, this time he had to shoot a few officers to make an example. It's just that what he didn't expect was that what he was waiting for was not to kill chickens and make an example, but to scold the battalion commander.

"Shoot all the officers, who will lead the troops? If you want to kill, you have to kill those mud legs who took the lead in escaping, and kill a few more of them, if you don't deter them, how can you fight in the future? As for the question of the officers, they are all robed brothers, who hasn't been confused for a while? If you have to be forgiving and forgiving, why should you ruin the relationship between my brothers for a little thing? ”

If the battalion commander is just bullshit, then the regiment commander is a fucker, the third regiment commander not only did not punish the officers who fled, but also praised them, saying that they fought bravely and coped properly. On the contrary, he reprimanded Xin Weiguo, saying that he was ineffective in fighting and lost his position, and asked him to take full responsibility for today's defeat!

Xin Weiguo is not surprised by such a result, because the regiment leader is from a miscellaneous background, and the capital of his life is the regiment in his hand, and he is naturally strictly guarded against nails like Xin Weiguo that Hu Zongnan inserted, of course, he will not turn his elbows outward, and he must defend those henchmen who took the lead in escaping.

Xin Weiguo was already tired of these bullshit, so he didn't bother to fight with the head of the regiment who pulled the shelf, not to mention that soon, the head of the regiment was too busy to take care of himself. The reason is very simple, the Red Army's offensive was quite fierce, and the division and encirclement of the 1st Division and 3rd Regiment of the Reserve Division were completed the next day.

And what amused Xin Weiguo was that the root cause of the encirclement of this Tuanzao lord was the officers he called loyal and reliable. In the face of the fierce offensive of the Red Army, these people were about to collapse at the first touch, sorry, they should have collapsed without touching, and before the battle began, a large number of officers ran away that night, so that when the regimental adults woke up, they found that their regimental headquarters was empty. Even the guards didn't know what was going on.

The stunned Danza hadn't fully recovered from his hangover. The platoon artillery of the Red Army fell on his headquarters. In the end, it took a lot of effort for the regimental lord to crawl out of the collapsed headquarters. At this time, he should have regretted it, if he hadn't stolen and sold the equipment and materials for building fortifications, the command should not have been so vulnerable.

In just one morning, the 1st Reserve Division and 3rd Regiment reimbursed half of the men, some ran away, and some simply raised their hands and surrendered, leaving only a small number of fools like Xin Weiguo to hold their positions.

on this. The regimental lord was very emotional: "Lu Yao knows that the horsepower has been in the hearts of the people for a long time, and today I know that only you are good in Weiguo, after this battle, the regiment commander must promote you as the battalion commander!" ”

It's not that Xin Weiguo is not interested in the battalion commander or something, but he knows it very well, even if he can become the battalion commander? In the face of the big tree that has rotted from the roots, what can a small battalion commander do? What's more, after this battle, prepare the 1st Division and 3rd Regiment, no. The existence of the Reserve 1st Division or even the 16th Army is a question.

Moreover, Xin Weiguo knows it very well. At this time, the reason why Lord Tuanza praised him so much was only one reason, it was just for him to sell his life, and when it came to the end of the battle, what this Tuanza said was probably not as good as a fart.

Yes, Xin Weiguo felt that the future was very bleak, and in his experience, the enemy this time was too strong, and the 16th Army was simply not on the same level compared to others. Look at the intensity of other people's firepower, look at the coordination of other people's infantry and artillery, it's like passing a sieve to the 16th Army, don't want to run away from one.

However, although the future is very bleak, Xin Weiguo is not prepared to flee for his life or surrender on the spot like those incompetent teammates. As a descendant of Xin Qiji, he has his own pride, and he must not tarnish the reputation of his ancestors, even if the descendants of the Xin family die, they cannot die like a turtle!

Xin Weiguo is mentally prepared, this battle will be his last battle, after this battle, only Chengren is him!

I have to say that Xin Weiguo fought very bravely, with his enthusiasm, he took the lead, and in the next day, he repelled ten attacks of the 107th Division of the Red Army in a row. So much so that Konev, who had just rushed to the battlefield to observe, said: "The soldiers in China are not bad in the end, after all, there are still a few bloody men." ”

It's just that there are too few men like Xin Weiguo, and more scraping the army is tofu scum and mud, such as the Tuanzao who had just praised Xin Weiguo before, and he turned his face and put on makeup as a common man, ready to escape from the encirclement by taking advantage of the chaos, who would have thought that this thief with a mouse face and fine skin and tender flesh is really not like the peasants in the northwest, and he was directly caught alive by the Red Army.

There were so many such things that it took less than two days for the 1st Reserve Division to be torn apart under the heavy blows of the Red Army, and only a very small number of troops were still holding their ground.

For example, Xin Weiguo, his company, and the hundreds of men and horses that were collected one after another, on the second day of the battle, there were only less than fifty people left. He himself had suffered two gunshot wounds, and only a few minutes earlier had he and the rest of his brothers held their positions with great difficulty with bayonets.

At this point, Xin Weiguo was interesting enough to the party-state, but in the face of the Red Army's persuasion, he still chose to say no! At the last moment, he called the guards who had been following him, and handed over the suicide note, a watch and a few oceans that had been written long ago: "I hope you will hand it over to my family, and the watch will be given to you as a souvenir. ”

Without waiting for the guard to refuse, he said very strongly: "I have decided to die for my country, but you don't have to die with me, you can take the rest of these brothers and go!" The rest is my responsibility! ”

The scene at that time was very touching, the guards refused to leave, and finally Xin Weiguo forced him to leave the position with a gun. When everyone else had left, Xin Weiguo looked at the empty position and lit the last cigarette.

For him, the biggest regret is that he will die on this inexplicable battlefield, instead of dying to defend his family and country, which is something he is deeply ashamed of, and it is also the sorrow of the aspiring soldiers in that year.

The artillery fire was ready to begin, and mortar shells exploded around the position, kicking up large clouds of mud and sand, and in this noisy scene of smoke and dust, Xin Weiguo, who was quietly squatting in the trench, felt unprecedented peace.

He no longer has to be entangled, no longer has to look at the evil deeds and ugliness of those colleagues, and no longer has to continue to struggle. He calmly pressed the bullet into the magazine of the ZB-26, not feeling fear at all.

When the artillery came to an end, and when the Red Army infantry jumped out of the trench again and rushed towards his position, the man who was alone in defending the position resolutely raised his gun and fired, leaving only his last voice on the battlefield: "Kill!!" ”

At sunset on the third day, the last resistance of the Reserve 1st Division was also crushed, and this division was wiped out in formation, and ironically, when the Reserve 1st Division was eliminated, the friendly troops next to it, whether it was the Reserve 3rd Division or Dong Zhao's descendant 28th Division, were all watching and playing soy sauce...... (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank you to the lost remnant maple, nirvana, the glorious charter, the deep sea snail, the king of the horse, the future of the wilderness and Comrade Juventus!