After we listened, we quickly nodded, and then Zhang Fangniu said: "Freedom is not a soldier, being a soldier is not free, now the devil is about to attack, I will give you a little time, say goodbye to these girls, and then follow me to dig fortifications to prevent the devil's balls from blowing us up, and with the fortifications, you can protect your little life." ”

We hurriedly said okay, and then said goodbye to Qinglian, Qinglian and I walked to a place where there was no one, let Qinglian go back, and my father and mother said, just say that now the national disaster is at the head, loyalty and filial piety can not be both, let my father and mother rest assured, I will go back to filial piety after the war. Mao Qinglian cried and said: "Zhendong, after you finish the war, you must come back, I am waiting for you, waiting for you to go to the mountains to build a thatched hut together, you farm and I cook, we live that kind of fairy life, I said that it is your person, if you don't come back, I will wait for you for the rest of my life." ”

I said, "Okay, I'll go back." ”

At this time, Qinglian hugged me all of a sudden, hugged me with both arms, and cried in my arms, at this time I saw Qinglian crying, my heart melted, and hugged Qinglian tightly, this time the separation, maybe life and death, can never see each other again, so there is no need to hide my inner thoughts, Qinglian lay on my shoulder, I stroked the long hair behind Qinglian, comforted Qinglian, and asked her not to be sad, we must have nothing to do. After hugging for a while, I said goodbye to the others.

After saying goodbye, we officially arrived at the Sichuan Army, but being a soldier is no different from not being a soldier, their military uniforms are all on their bodies, and the guns in their hands are not as good as our own, so we have no choice but to accept our fate. We followed Zhang Fangniu all day long to repair fortifications in the outer city, Zhang Fangniu is a veteran oilman, and knows the power of the devil's aircraft cannons, so they are all fortifications and air-raid shelters built with big wood.

Our outer city here is the defense line to enter the inner city, our fortifications are not on the city wall, but the second line of defense under the city wall to prevent the devil from entering the inner city, the defense scale of Teng County is still very large, the city wall is 10 meters high, 5 meters thick, the outer trench is 5 meters deep, 12 meters wide, the north is the most complete, the east is second, although the south is relatively weak, but it is the defense focus of the Sichuan army. There is a 30-meter-high lama pagoda about 150 meters in the northeast corner of the city, and from here, you can see the situation inside and outside Tengxian at a glance, which is very beneficial to artillery observation. We were building fortifications at the southern wall.

Within a few days, the big war began. The Japanese army attacked the frontal position of our Jiehe River, and in order to consolidate the front-line position, division commander Wang Mingzhang urgently transferred the 372nd Brigade defending the city to rush to the aid of Chitouji and stabilize the position. At noon, in order to prevent the Japanese army from infiltrating the left side of Teng County, Division Commander Wang ordered the 727th Regiment defending Beishahe to draw out a battalion of troops and deploy troops to Hongding and Gaomiao in the west of Teng County. In the afternoon, the Japanese army increased its forces to attack Jiehe, but it still did not succeed, but made a quick right turn in the direction of Tengxian. At about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, its vanguard had reached the Longyangdian and Fenghe areas of Dateng County, which were only more than ten miles away from the city. The Japanese army's intention was very obvious, they wanted to abandon our frontal position and attack Tengxian County, a strategic point on our flank, so as to force our main force to abandon the frontal position.

At that time, there was an empty army in Tengxian County, with only the 122nd, 124th, and 1273rd divisions and the 364th Brigade and brigade headquarters, with a total of four spy companies, four communication squads, and four health teams, totaling more than 1,000 people, and there was not a single combat unit. At this critical juncture, Wang Mingzhang, commander of the 122nd Division, urgently transferred Zhang Xuanwu, commander of the 727th Regiment and a battalion of combat troops defending Beishahe, to return to the city for defense, and appointed Zhang Xuanwu as the commander of the city defense, responsible for defending the city. He also sent a telegram ordering the 266th Brigade of the 122nd Division on the Pingyi front line to return to Teng as soon as possible. Fearing that the journey would be blocked, Division Commander Wang called the headquarters for help. Commander-in-Chief Sun Zhen hurriedly contacted Commander Wang Zhonglian, the vanguard of the friendly Tang Enbo Corps reinforcing Teng County, and asked for rapid reinforcements. However, on the grounds that he had to wait for the army to arrive before he could go north, he did not move until the army approached the city. Sun Zhen had no choice but to leave a pistol company as a guard in the special service battalion on duty at the headquarters, and the other three infantry companies led by battalion commander Liu Zhirong to rush to the aid of Tengxian County by train, and arrived after nightfall. After midnight, only one battalion of the 266th Brigade arrived at Dongguan in Tengxian County, and the other troops were blocked by the enemy on the way and withdrew in the direction of Lincheng.

The devils attacked very quickly, our outer city position was the first to bear it, the devils first bombarded with aircraft artillery, we had to hide in the bomb shelter, the devil's artillery was very powerful, the earth-shattering cannon sound, so that we almost collapsed, the bombs exploded around the air defense fortifications, the shock wave pushed people directly into the sky, and then tore people apart, and the stumps fell with the soil, this is a terrifying power, more terrible than the ghosts.

When the devils had finished bombing, we went out to take a look, and it was terrible to see, the wood of the fortifications was burning in the fire, the blood stained the surrounding soil red, there were scattered remnants everywhere, some of the remnants were burning in the fire, the internal organs were everywhere, the air was filled with gunsmoke and the stench of roasted meat, and we could no longer avoid the smell of these roasted meats. The young body is torn apart by the cannonball in an instant, and in the blink of an eye, life and death will be goodbye, war has always been cruel. When we and some of the recruits saw this, our hearts were churning, and we vomited vigorously, first spitting out the rice, and then the water, and when the water was spit out, it was bile.

At this time, Zhang Fangniu said: "You melon babies, you can't stand this, hurry back, I'm a fairy in the day, this bomb is like no money." ”

At this time, a soldier came running and said that there was an important situation, and then read: "Wang Mingzhang, commander of the 122nd Division of the National Army, all officers and soldiers, we have decided to defend Tengcheng to the death." I am with you to survive and survive, and to perish and perish. The south and north city gates were immediately closed and blocked, and the east and west city gates were temporarily left on traffic roads and were also ready to be closed at any time. No one is allowed to leave the city without my warrant, and those who violate it will be punished on the spot. ”

After the communication soldier finished reading, he turned around and left, when Zhang Fangniu came over and said: "Brothers, you have also heard, our division commander and Teng County live and die together. Today I prepared horse meat for everyone, everyone is full of food and drink, so that you can fight hard with the devil, kill enough to kill one, kill two and earn one. ”

Then he came up to me and said, "Brother, I killed your horse, and do you complain against me?" ”

I said, "Don't complain, my horse is a place to die for the country." ”

Zhang Fangniu said: "Okay, then I will let people carry the horse meat, so that everyone can eat and go on the road together." ”

After finishing speaking, let people carry the stewed horse meat, and after lifting it up, let everyone eat, but everyone can't eat it, as soon as the horse meat reaches the mouth, it will directly take the contents of the stomach and spit it out together, and it is really unbearable, at this time Zhang Fangniu said: "You melon babies, one by one have never fought, you must know that before people die, they are better than hungry ghosts, eat, eat hard, eat full, if the devil attacks." When the time comes, I won't be able to eat if I don't have a head. ”

The bowl of the gang for everyone was full of horse meat, the Sichuan Army was a hard-working army, at that time, not only the supply of military salaries, clothes and ammunition was not timely, even the food was also layer by layer, we were in the 122nd Division these days, all day long is the nest head and wild vegetable soup, even the nest head can not be full, everyone has two meals a day, one meal two nests, so one by one skin and bones, the face is full of green vegetables. In normal times, seeing horse meat must be closer than seeing ancestors. But today it was different, the old soldier Yauzi carried a bowl of horse meat, turned his head to face the wall of the fortifications, and ate there, and we could not do it, as soon as we smelled the stench of horse meat and human flesh mixed together, our hearts were churning, and we retched there, and then our stomachs were empty, and we could not vomit anything.

When Lao Dao saw this, he said in his mouth: "Alas, you people, really, this is the last meal, you still haven't eaten enough, what's this, look at my old Dao, squatting outside to eat for you, how can you fight devils without eating?" ”

After saying that, we squatted in front of a pile of minced meat and ate horse meat, we looked at it, our hearts were horizontal, and then we forced ourselves to eat, and if we couldn't eat it, we swallowed it hard, and didn't want to smell the pungent scorching smell, so we gasped with our mouths and forced ourselves to eat a bowl of horse meat, which was relatively thick, and ate it to the stomach. After eating, we persuaded others to eat and taught them how to eat so that they didn't vomit.

Finally, we all ate a little, and then the devils attacked again, and the shells of the cannons, with whistles, came towards us, and Zhang Fangniu shouted: "Brothers, go into the bomb shelter." ”

Then there was the explosion of shells, a huge explosion, which made our anti-aircraft and anti-artillery fortifications fall down one by one, and we had to lie on our stomachs and lower our heads, and let the clods of earth fall.