"Huh!" Song Yanzhuang rubbed his legs, struggled hard, and stood up, tried to take two more steps, then glanced at his mother and nodded, "We can go now!" "Good! Hold on a little longer! ”

The soldier nodded with a smile, and then pointed with his hand: "Continue along this road, there are less than 10 miles left, and you will be able to enter the territory of our Jiaodong Group Army!" Naturally, someone will come to your aid! "After saying that, the soldier stood up and left, because he had other tasks on his body, and he couldn't bring the mother and son back!" This military master, dare to ask the name of the honorable person, we will definitely give you an immortal card in the future! The young woman shouted at the soldier's back with great emotion. Ha ha! My name is Jiaodong Group Army! ”

The servicemen did not leave their names, only a string of hearty laughter. "The Jiaodong Group Army is worthy of being the backbone and hope of the nation!" The young woman's eyes were red and full of tears, and she felt that a bright lighthouse suddenly appeared in front of her, dispelling all the darkness and illuminating a bright avenue! "Mother, I also want to join the Jiaodong Group Army, and I want to become a big hero like them, killing little devils and saving the people of the world!" Song Yanzhuang clenched his fists, and his eyes became extremely firm!

In just a few months, he was only 14 years old, and he suffered military disasters and wars one after another, and finally escaped the Japanese army's burning, killing and looting, but he suddenly encountered natural and man-made disasters, which ruined his family! If it weren't for the sudden appearance of the Jiaodong Group Army today, the two of them would definitely have only a dead end!

Although Song Yanzhuang is not very old, he has also read books for several years, and he can be regarded as half an intellectual, so he naturally knows what it means to "repay the grace of a drop of water when a spring springs"! "Good! Let's move on! ”

With hope and physical fitness, it is different, the young woman's mental state is much better all of a sudden, and she also needs her son's support to start striding forward. In fact, there are many small episodes and small stories like this, Jiang Qiang sent a large number of elite scouts to guide and search and rescue the affected people along the way!

Due to the large number of people affected, most of the cases are directional, and if necessary, they will call in helicopters to come and drop food, medicine, or transport them back! June 24, Shiguanping, Yishui County, Shandong.

After more than 10 days of continuous search and rescue, the helicopter brigade of the Jiaodong Group Army has successively transported back more than 30,000 victims and placed them in Yishui County, Ju County, Rizhao County, and Anqiu County. At the same time, a large number of victims who had fled from Anhui and Jiangsu continued to pour into Shandong and into the Jiaodong Group Army Defense Area.

The counties and cities around the Jiaodong Group Army Defense Area were all occupied by the Japanese army, and the Japanese army had no way to gnaw hard bones, so they could only adopt a strict economic blockade of the Jiaodong Group Army Defense Area! Not only will all kinds of materials not be able to enter the Jiaodong Group Army Defense Area, but even the people who enter and leave will be strictly restricted and interrogated, and those who suspect the slightest will be severely tortured, and even "I'd rather kill 3,000 by mistake than let go of one"!

However, after these victims who were poorly clothed and hungry, and even suffered from dysentery, cholera and other diseases, entered Shandong, the Japanese army did not stop these fleeing victims, but was happy to drive them all to the Jiaodong Group Army Defense Area! The Japanese army did not do this out of kindness, but wanted to "bring disaster to the east", because the victims would not only consume a large amount of food, medicine and other necessities, but even if they did not do it well, it would cause a large-scale plague and seriously threaten the survival of the anti-Japanese base!

In addition, the Japanese army also took advantage of the situation to plant many agents and traitors among the victims in an attempt to fish in troubled waters for infiltration. Therefore, in the past few days, under the joint action of both the enemy and us, a large number of disaster victims have dragged their families and families to climb mountains and wade through rivers to go north to Ju County, Yishui County, Rizhao County and other areas where the Chinese Tiger Ben Army is stationed! After learning that the victims were coming in large numbers, Yang Fan made important instructions at the first time: "First, open a free porridge shop, and no one must starve to death;

second, to make every effort to treat patients with dysentery and trouble; Third, we must do a good job in epidemic prevention, and the temporary resettlement sites should be clean and hygienic; Fourth, so that the victims can be fed, clothed, and treated, and at the same time, the population information is registered, and all people are screened and assessed before proper resettlement! ”

Civil affairs, medical care, military and police, construction, intelligence and other institutions are operating in full force, not only building a large number of temporary resettlement sites, setting up a large number of porridge shops and medical aid stations, but also a large number of civil affairs and intelligence officials have gone deep into the victims to visit and register with each other!

Jiang Qiang naturally will not let go of this kind of good opportunity to brush up on prestige and presence, and he will run to the resettlement point at two ends in three days, and go deep into the people's feelings and condolences at the scene, which can be said to be a sufficient gesture! Under a series of strong relief measures, the relief work for the victims was orderly, and there was no public order chaos or epidemic. The victims who entered the prevention area were not only able to eat enough, live in clean and comfortable houses, but also receive medical assistance, and find jobs and livelihoods after stabilization.

"Are you Commander Jiang?" "Commander Jiang, thank you for your great grace! Please be worshiped by mother and son! As soon as Jiang Qiang and his entourage walked into a refugee settlement, a mother and son ran to them and knelt down, kowtowing incessantly. It turned out that the mother and son were Song Yanzhuang and his mother Zhai Qichun, who were rescued before!

After two days of careful treatment, Zhai Qichun's dysentery has been cured, and the whole person's mental outlook has recovered, and he has become a high-end lady again! "Sister, hurry up, I can't stand it!" Jiang Qiang hurriedly bent down to help Zhai Qichun, and said in a low tone: "This is a national disaster, this is a national martyrdom, this is a sin created by a little devil, I just do my best!" ”

"Commander Jiang's kindness to us is higher than the sky, but we have nothing to repay now, so we can only ask God to bless Commander Yang with a long fortune and a long auspicious appearance, and lead everyone to drive the little devil out of China as soon as possible!" Zhai Qichun was extremely stubborn and kowtowed three times before he was willing to give up.

"Big sister, get up quickly! Everyone is a Chinese compatriot, and it is reasonable for one side to be in trouble and all sides to support! Yu Yanluo helped up Zhai Qichun, as the county magistrate of Qixia County, she has not shown up to organize various charitable aids these days, and today she happened to follow Jiang Qiang to Yishui County to observe the people's feelings! Thank you, Mrs. Jiang! If it weren't for your many helps, our mother and son would have been dead in the wild and become lonely ghosts! Yu Yanluo heard people call her like this, but Yu Yanluo did not object, and Jiang Qiang was also very embarrassed at this time.

The great grace is not grateful, our mother and son will definitely remember the great grace in this life and this life, and if there is any dispatch in the future, we will definitely go to the soup and go to the fire! "Although Zhai Qichun met Jiang Qiang for the first time, he heard a lot of key information from others, and this time he took the initiative not only to thank him in person, but also to ask for directions!" Brother Jiang, how pitiful these orphans and widows are, I want to arrange for them to work in Qixia County, is it okay? ”

After a simple conversation, Yu Yanluo found that Zhai Qichun's temperament was very unusual, and her tragic experience was even more sympathetic, and she wanted to further help the mother and son get out of trouble! According to the procedure, the victims will gradually leave the aid station after a period of conditioning and observation, and after confirming that there are no hidden dangers of the epidemic such as typhoid, dysentery, and trouble!

After that, they have to be strictly screened and screened before they will be issued temporary ID cards with different levels of authority, and with temporary ID cards, they can also go to various places in the defense area to find jobs and make a living! Especially to find a job in Qixia County, the conditions are more stringent, because in Qixia County, even ordinary enterprises will involve modern industrial technology and equipment, and not everyone can go to work!

However, when Yu Yanluo opened his mouth, Jiang Qiang naturally would not refuse, and even nodded and said, "You can call the shots!" "Thank you, Mrs. Jiang! Thank you, Commander Yang! You are our parents! Zhuangzhuang, don't hurry up and kowtow to your benefactor! Zhai Qichun's heart suddenly bloomed, knowing that this was not just an early job opportunity, but a real favor and opportunity! Thank you, Mrs. Jiang! Thank you, Commander Jiang! Song Yanzhuang hurriedly knelt down with his mother again and kowtowed to thank him!

"Alright! Sister, hurry up! Yu Yanluo is also very happy in her heart, being able to use her ability to help the people in distress who are grateful is a kind of joy and happiness for her!

After going around the dozen aid stations and resettlement sites in Yishui County, Jiang Qiang took a helicopter back to Qixia County, along with Zhai Qichun and Song Yanzhuang's mother and son. After returning to Qixia County, because Zhai Qichun's mother and son now have no job and no place to live, Yu Yanluo arranged for them to go to the guest room building in the front yard and told them some precautions.

The mother and son are naturally grateful for a while, and they promise that they will never go around at home, and will strictly follow Yu Yanluo's instructions. Zhai Qichun's mother and son have been completely calmed down from the moment they boarded the helicopter, although their family background was very good before, but they have never taken a plane, let alone this kind of helicopter that only Jiaodong has! Along the way, Zhai Qichun's mother and son were in a trance, and when they saw the high-rise buildings and prosperous city scene from the window, they felt that they had been dreaming!

And when the helicopter docked on the roof apron of the Qixia County Government Building, and stepped on the ground down-to-earth, seeing the Qixia County Building, which was not the palace but better than the palace, Zhai Qichun's mother and son were even more dumbfounded! Everything in front of them was beyond their imagination, and it wasn't until Yu Yanluo spoke to them again to explain the matter that they suddenly came back to their senses!

On June 26, the 50 pilots of the Nationalist Army who had been trained in the Jiaodong Group Army finally graduated, and Jiang Qiang generously gave each of them two sets of special pilot suits, and sent planes to send them to the Kuomintang! Soon, these pilots arrived in Wuhan to report to the team under the help of a special person! After the "Lugou Bridge Incident" in 1937, Japan invaded China on a large scale, followed by the loss of Pingjin, the defeat of the Battle of Northern Hebei, the defeat of the Battle of Taiyuan, and the Japanese army approached Wuhan, and the situation of the Anti-Japanese War was very critical.

On November 17, 1937, Lin Sen, the leader of the Nationalist Government, led the officials of the Nationalist Government to evacuate Nanjing, and three days later issued the Declaration on the Relocation of the Nationalist Government to Chongqing in Wuhan, announcing the relocation of the capital to Chongqing, and Chongqing officially assumed the responsibility of the wartime capital of China. After the Nationalist Government announced the relocation of the capital to Chongqing, the highest military and political organs of the Kuomintang were not immediately moved to Sichuan, but to Wuhan. Soon, Nanjing was uninsured, and Wuhan became the de facto wartime capital.

The thoroughfare of China's nine provinces has become the focus of attention of the whole country and even the world for a while. Seeing that the Japanese army showed no signs of stopping the offensive, the Chinese army put forward the slogan of "Defend Great Wuhan". On January 17, 1938, the Wuhan Garrison General Headquarters was established, with Chen Cheng as the commander-in-chief, and the garrison had 14 divisions, a brigade and a special forces. Subsequently, seven divisions were formed into the Yangtze River Defense Force, and Liu Xing was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Yangtze River Defense, responsible for defending the Yangtze River fortresses such as Madang, Hukou, Jiujiang and Tianjiazhen in the lower reaches of Wuhan.

In March 1938, after Li Zongren commanded the great victory in the Battle of Taierzhuang, the chairman of the National People's Congress changed from his famous theory of "the country will be destroyed in three days of the War of Resistance against Japan" to the theory of quick victory. The chairman of the CPPCC National Committee hurriedly transferred his more than 200,000 Central Army troops to the Xuzhou battlefield, planning to take advantage of Li Zongren and other victorious remnants of victory to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army in Xuzhou, so as to achieve greater results and victories.

In view of the large build-up of the Chinese army in the Xuzhou area, in early May, the Japanese army quickly gathered more than 300,000 people from more than 10 divisions and regiments to attack the Xuzhou area, intending to annihilate the elite of the central lineage in one fell swoop. On May 15, 1938, when the Japanese encirclement in Xuzhou was about to be formed, the chairman of the committee found that his main force was in danger of being encircled in Xuzhou, so he hurriedly decided to abandon Xuzhou. In this way, the so-called Battle of Xuzhou was defeated at the very beginning.

Moreover, the mobile troops transferred from various places were pulled around in this way and did nothing, and although they succeeded in breaking through the encirclement and retaining their vital forces, they had an adverse impact on the war situation throughout the country. At present, after more than four months of fierce attacks, the Japanese North China Front and Central China Front, under the attack of the north and south, finally repelled the resistance of nearly 500,000 troops from the Fifth Theater, occupied almost all of Henan and most of Anhui, and advanced to the line of Xiaogan, Macheng, and Huangpi north of Wuhan. The rumbling sound of artillery from the direction of Huangpi can already be heard in the city of Wuhan.

The evacuation of Wuhan had already begun a month earlier, and now it was almost underway, and dignitaries from the party, government, military, police, business, and academic circles had already left Wuhan for Chongqing. After arriving in Wuhan, these pilots were received at a high level and underwent strict flight tests at the first time! Naturally, they carried out coquettish operations without reservation, turning and climbing, diving, somersaulting, leaf drifting, barrel rolling, hammerhead maneuvering, cobra maneuvering, separating S maneuvering and other difficult tactical actions one after another, "Oh my God! Did they really only train for three months? Instead of three years? "That's amazing! These technical moves alone are an ace! ”

Seeing is believing and hearing is false, everyone present, including Soviet pilots Kidalinsky and Prokofiev, were dumbfounded, and for a while it was hard to believe that three months ago they were still a group of rookies who didn't understand anything! "Mother's Hippie! It's well spent! Although it is said that the layman looks at the lively insider's doorway, the chairman can also see that this is not an ordinary slip, and then turned his head to Zhou Zhirou, the commander-in-chief of the Air Force beside him, and asked: "Baifu, what do you think?" ”

Zhou Zhirou nodded again and again: "Very good, I think I can continue to send people over for training!" There are never too many good pilots! "Well, that's it!" The chairman nodded, although there are Soviets here to help train pilots, but considering all factors, it is really better to send people to Gaomi for training!

On July 1, 1938, Jiaodong University was officially established! For this matter, Jiang Qiang laid out the layout for more than a year, and finally built the shelf! Although it is the war-torn era of the Anti-Japanese War, Jiang Qiang knows what it means to "make the country strong when the youth is strong"! If you have spare strength in your hands, you will never send half of the eldest and intellectual young people to the battlefield, which will only cut off the potential for the follow-up development of the nation, and the rejuvenation of the country through education and the first place in science and technology are not just for fun!

Therefore, in more than a year, Jiang Qiang not only expanded the education system of primary, junior high and high schools, but also began to implement 6-year compulsory education, consolidating the foundation of education! In addition, a large area of land has been encircled in the suburbs of Qixia County to build a comprehensive university, and more than ten high-standard reinforced concrete buildings have been built one after another, and sufficient teaching books, equipment, facilities and equipment have been purchased!

In order to prevent large-scale air raids by the Japanese army, Jiang Qiang's minimum requirement for the newly built building was that it must be able to withstand conventional bombing and also have underground air defense shelters. Since it is currently in the defensive stage, Jiang Qiang has always paid great attention to air defense, and has been doing his best to strengthen the construction of air defense forces!

At present, more than 10 air defense radars have formed an air defense early warning network, and a large number of air defense antiaircraft guns and antiaircraft machine guns are equipped in the suburbs, cities, military, industry, bridges, and other important places. Surface-to-air missile. Continuously train pilots, give priority to the purchase of fighters, and the total number has skyrocketed to 70 aircraft, with a fairly strong air defense force! It is no exaggeration to say that unless the Japanese army wants to fight for their lives, even if a hundred fighters come to make trouble at a time, Jiang Qiang can win the battle and beat the little devil air force!

In terms of teachers, a large number of well-known professors, education bureaus, university lecturers, and even many foreign teachers have been recruited through channels such as Zhuang Tao and Yu Yanluo, newspaper recruitment, and door-to-door recruitment. The first president of Jiaodong University was Yan Yangchu, a famous educator handpicked by Jiang Qiang, and Jiang Qiang really took a lot of trouble and thought about it.

Yan Yangchu is also known as Xingfu and Yuchun, and is a native of Bazhong, Sichuan. In 1913, he studied at St. Paul's College in Hong Kong. He entered Yale University in 1916 and received a bachelor's degree in political science and economics, and a master's degree from Princeton University in 1920. After returning to China in 1920, he organized the education of Chinese civilians and began the experiment of rural civilian education in Baoding, Hebei Province. Throughout his life, Yan Yangchu advocated education of "literacy, livelihood, literature and art, health, and citizenship" to cure the four chronic diseases of "poverty, ignorance, weakness, and selfishness" in old China.

At present, Jiaodong University has more than 40 departments in 10 colleges, including the Military College, the School of Foreign Chinese Languages, the School of Economics and Management, the School of Mechanical Engineering, the School of Medicine, the School of Architecture, the School of Civil Engineering and Water Conservancy, the School of Law, and the School of Journalism and Communication. In general, although the overall scale of Jiaodong University is still far less than that of the 985 and 211 schools in later generations, it is at the first-class level in this era, both in terms of hardware facilities and faculty.

In order to avoid an uncontrollable butterfly effect, Jiang Qiang had to divide the students and admitted majors into three, six, nine and so on through political review, such as the Military Academy, the Mechanical Engineering College and other important college majors must be rooted in the seedlings! Before passing the tests and officially becoming the core elite, ordinary people will not be able to get in touch with things that are beyond the times, and the truth can only be grasped by a few people!

Jiang Qiang attended the ribbon-cutting and listing ceremony, and also made an important speech from a lofty position in front of the public, which won the applause and a lot of prestige for a while! After working for most of the day, Jiang Qiang was able to completely implement this important event, and Jiaodong University was officially put into operation.

For the construction of the army, the construction of the industrial system, and the relief and resettlement of refugees, Jiang Qiang naturally grasped both hands, and never slackened, and constantly consolidated the foundation and strengthened himself with his greatest efforts! It only takes a year and a half for the strength and heritage of the Jiaodong Group Army to reach a new level!

After several months of intense construction, 16 sets of direct coal liquefaction units are nearing completion, and they are only one step away from being officially put into operation. This makes Japan extremely excited, the resources are poor, the oil is extremely scarce, and Japan, which has always been subject to the West, has a thirst for oil completely from the bones! If we can really produce oil that meets the requirements of use, we don't have to think about it, and Japan will definitely expand its production scale like crazy!

The painful experience of fighting with the Jiaodong Group Army also woke up the Japanese devils to a certain extent, and not only made a breakthrough in the research of imitation automatic firearms, but also accelerated the research work on the upgrading of tanks, anti-tank weapons, and aircraft! Since the withdrawal of troops back to the defense area after the victory in Taierzhuang, Jiang Qiang has not engaged in large-scale battles with the Japanese army for more than 3 months, but he has not been idle during this time!

After more than three months of training, Jiang Qiang made a more rational adjustment to the establishment of the troops, and also added two new units, the 17th and 18th brigades. So far, the 6 infantry divisions of the Jiaodong Group Army have all become a three-three system, that is, the 6th Division, 18 Brigade, 54 Regiment, 162 Battalion, 486 Company, 1458 Platoon, each infantry division has a full strength of 20,000 people, and the conventional infantry is as high as 120,000! 1,200 people in the gendarmerie brigade, 7,000 in the special operations brigade, 2,000 in the heavy artillery brigade, 800 in the baggage brigade, 600 in the tank armored regiment, 800 in the Flying Tigers, and 2,500 in the engineer brigade!

If we add the staff department, intelligence department, communications team, health team, service team, field hospital and other military establishments, the total number of military personnel in the Jiaodong Group Army is as high as more than 136,000! In addition to this, there are a large number of paramilitary organizations such as reserve militias, which can be replenished at any time! At present, the Japanese army is focusing its attention on Wuhan, with a total strength of about 300,000 troops attacking Wuhan, equipped with 300 aircraft of various types and 120 ships of various types.

On the Chinese side, the chairman of the NPC Standing Committee served as the commander-in-chief of the defense of Wuhan and ordered the troops of the 5th Theater of Operations, which had been transferred from the Xuzhou battlefield to the border between Henan and Anhui, a total of 26 armies and 58 divisions, to maintain the original posture, secure the main position in the Dabie Mountains, and actively break the Japanese troops attacking along the river and from southern Henan. The 9th Theater of Operations, of which Chen Cheng was the commander, had a total of 23 armies and 49 divisions, and was responsible for the defense of Wuhan and south of the Yangtze River.

Together with the reinforcements of the 3rd and 1st Theaters, as well as cavalry, artillery, engineers, and the navy and air force, the number of troops participating in the defense of Wuhan was about one million. Wuhan is 800 kilometers away from Gaomi, and now there is a yellow flood area in front of it, and it is difficult for Jiang Qiang to take advantage of it if he wants to plug in now, it is really beyond the reach of the whip!

Moreover, in order to achieve the goal of besieging the Jiaodong Group Army for a long time, the Japanese army not only gathered a large number of troops around the area under its jurisdiction, but also built a large number of permanent fortifications such as pillboxes and fortresses. Therefore, it is not easy for Jiang Qiang to expand and support outward!

Helicopters can transport troops out, but without tanks, heavy artillery and strong fortifications, there is not much difference between going out and fighting with the Japanese army and sending people away! However, Jiang Qiang has now digested the results of the Battle of Xuzhou, and his confidence has begun to swell from top to bottom, so naturally he can't continue to stay at home like this! At this time, if you don't take advantage of the fire to rob and further expand the territory and the population of the jurisdiction, you are really called a fool!

It's just that when the cannon sounds, it is ten thousand taels of gold, especially for Jiang Qiang, the ammunition and weapons and equipment consumed in every battle are all silver in vain, so if you want to make a big move, you have to carefully calculate and deduce!

"Stand up!" "Salute!"

As soon as Jiang Qiang walked into the conference room, Huzi, Xu Guangming, Zhou Hao and others stood up and saluted. "Please be seated, everyone!" Jiang Qiang returned the salute, waited for everyone to sit down before he sat down and said: "At present, the Japanese army has mobilized more than 300,000 people from 14 divisions to attack Wuhan, and the brothers of the national army are fighting bloody battles against the Japanese invaders, and there are comrades who are bleeding and dying all the time!" Although we are too far away and now we are blocked by the Yellow Flood Zone, which makes it impossible to go to the front line to participate in the battle, we must not just watch it!

Therefore, in order to cooperate with the Battle of Wuhan, contain and eliminate the living forces of the Japanese army, and cut off the Jiaoji railway line, I decided to launch a summer offensive against the surrounding Japanese army! ”

"Haha, Mr. Zuo, the brothers have been waiting for your words for a long time!" "Boss, you give the order, we will fight wherever you say!" "That's right! These days, just to make the brothers of the special operations brigade enjoyable, it's time for us to go out and exercise! "Yes! I've been dreaming of killing little devils these days! ”“……”

Sometimes fighting a war can be really addictive, especially a succession of big wins! As soon as Jiang Qiang's words fell, the eyes of everyone in the room lit up, and they couldn't wait to howl!