Liu Hanying, the commander of the Major General of the Anti-Japanese Independent Brigade in Bump Mountain, stood for a long time on the slope of the tea mountain southwest of Shuhuobu, his eyes swept over the tips of the tea forest, and landed on the chestnut bamboo dam in the south of Wulongji in the mountain col.

Lizhuba is a training ground opened up by the 79th Brigade. At present, on the threshing floor at the east end of Lizhuba, a silent and tragic struggle is going on -- the officers and men of the 79th Brigade are practicing stabbing skills.

Liu Hanying has been watching here for a long time. He was followed by Chief of Staff Zuo Wenlu and several staff officers. This time, they watched the training of the troops, neither inspecting nor inspecting, but quietly coming and watching quietly, which was very mysterious.

Liu Hanying's mood at this time was really complicated, even though it was a sunny spring morning with a warm and sunny day. The spears of the Seventy-ninth Brigade glittered in the sunlight like a silver forest, burning his eyes. He had just received a telegram that Shangfeng was going to expand the 79th Brigade of the remnants of the former 79th Army into the new 79th Regiment. This telegram not only shocked Liu Hanying, but also puzzled him. He seemed to see that General Chen, who was in a high position in the Military Commission, stood up and was scolding his immediate boss Jiang Wenzhao with a loud voice - "Hand over the person responsible for the Tojo Mountain Incident!" Shoot the murderer! ”

And he, Liu Hanying, happened to be one of the people directly responsible for the Tojo Mountain Incident. What's more, the root of the bane left by the Tojo Mountain Incident is still buried by his side. For Liu Hanying, that history will always be clear. Now standing on the tea mountain in Shuhuobu, the strong smell of blood still chokes his sinuses one after another......

The so-called Tojo Mountain Incident occurred at the beginning of the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance two years ago.

In May of that year, the Japanese army with 4,000 men and mobilized 40,000 troops of the puppet Manchukuo to attack the Tojo Mountain in the Central Plains, and the troops of the Chinese princes stationed in the Tojo Mountain had more than 200,000 troops. At that time, Liu Hanying was a regiment commander in Jiang Wenzhao's Fuyang Division of the New Sixth Army, and naturally he was also among the retreats. As a result, only the 79th Army, a non-descendant miscellaneous army, held its position in the entire Chinese army on the front line of Tojo Mountain, fought a bloody battle with the enemy and then turned behind the enemy, relying on the dangerous peaks and mountains to maneuver around the enemy, and opened up an anti-Japanese base area centered on Yuanji and Qinfeng. The establishment of the Yuanqin anti-Japanese base area directly threatened the two major strongholds of the Japanese army, Anfeng and Changshui, and pushed the enemy's flank at Tongyang, so the Japanese army was bound to destroy the anti-Japanese forces in the area, and from the beginning of September of this year, it carried out a two-month strict "sweep".

In the early days of the "sweep," the Japanese army adopted political inducements to surrender to the 79th Army, preaching that "it will not fight the Central Army, but will focus on the Eighth Route Army," and that it will also preach that "it will not fight Wu Peimei, who was raised by the queen mother, and will only fight Chiang Kai-shek's favorite Jiang Wenzhao," and "the 79th Army will have nothing but food and money, and it will have nothing but to sell its life."

It should be admitted that the Japanese army was indeed clear about the situation of the 79th Army.

The 79th Army was originally a local warlord army, and during the Great War of Chiang, Feng, and Yan Zhongyuan, it fought a tough battle with Chiang Kai-shek's descendants, especially with his life, causing heavy losses to Chiang's troops. Although it was incorporated into the National Revolutionary Army after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek's suspicion of the army has always increased, and there has been a long-term shortage of military salaries, and most of the weapons were made by warlords in the civil war, which is both earthy and stupid. However, such an army repeatedly bore the brunt of the battle of Guziguan and the Battle of Dongtiao Mountain in the Battle of Xikou and fought bloody battles with the Japanese army with inferior weapons and equipment.

It is incomprehensible that this army is often betrayed at a critical juncture, without security when it is most needed, and without reinforcements when it is most needed. More than 20,000 officers and soldiers often fought with hungry stomachs, and broadswords, stones, and even wooden sticks were weapons.

On September 27 of that year, the invading Japanese army mobilized more than 30,000 troops, divided into 14 routes and carried out a grate-style "sweep" to the garrison of the 79th Army. At this time, in order to ensure the transfer of Jiang Wenzhao's troops, the commander's department not only did not take protective measures against the remnants of the 79th Army, but ordered them to return to the line of fire.

Wu Peimei decided to disobey the order and retreat, and tore to shreds the order forwarded by the commander of the 121st Regiment of Jiang Wenzhao's department on the spot, and led the troops to open with tears.

Unexpectedly, at this time, the 121st Regiment had been ordered to block the retreat of the 79th Army, and even set up machine guns on the hill to supervise the battle.

Wu Peimei was furious and shouted: "Those who stand in my way are dead!" Then he personally picked up a machine gun and rushed forward. Placed in the place of death and then alive, the battle of the mourning soldiers was overwhelming, and the 121st Regiment that came to intercept was devastating by the remnants of Wu Peimei and quickly collapsed. But how did Wu Peimei know that when he led a team of less than 1,000 people to rush through the blocking line of the 121st Regiment, before he could let out a long breath, the seven entire regiments commanded by Jiang Wenzhao were nearly 10,000 people, claiming that they were ordered to encircle and suppress the rebels, and they had been surrounded to the ground. Without much effort, the supreme commander easily avenged the revenge of the Central Plains War.

Among the seven regiments that participated in the siege of Wu Peimei's department at that time, there was Liu Hanying's 246th regiment.

This is undoubtedly a great injustice. But soon after, the newspapers in Chongqing, Guangzhou and other places appeared with a subtle wording of the news -

30 Sep, 28 Sep (ZXS) -- A few days ago, more than 200,000 Japanese troops invading China launched a large-scale attack on the Dongtiao Mountain area, and the Nationalist Army's No. 1 Army, No. XX Army, and the 79th Army fought side by side to resist the enemy east of the Totiao Mountain's Qin River, and the two generals of the Nationalist Army, Jiang Wenzhao and Wu Peimei, were seriously wounded. The misfortune of the country, the military general Pei Mei Gong died a heroic martyr at the age of forty-seven......

When the newspapers that still smelled of ink were scattered all over the cities and battlefields, some people really thought that they could cover the pages of history. But Liu Hanying didn't believe that things would be that simple, and his bosses didn't believe it would be that simple.

Less than half a month after the Dongtiao Mountain Incident, Liu Hanying received an order from Shangfeng: The 162 remnants of the 79th Army, led by Shi Yunbiao, the head of the Wu Peimei Division, and Mo Ganshan, the deputy head of the regiment, were on standby in the 30 miles southwest of the Dongtiao Mountain. At the same time, Shangfeng also deliberately confessed, and he should be doubly compassionate to Shi Yunbiao, Mo Ganshan and others, and they must not cause harm without authorization. He went up and cut out between his teeth, and gave each of the one hundred and sixty-two people fifty dollars.

After receiving the order, Liu Hanying was shocked into a cold sweat. In this way, the 79th Army has still not been eradicated. These 162 people must not be underestimated, they are undoubtedly the root of the 162 banes, and if one of them comes forward, the truth about the Tojo Mountain Incident will be in danger of being made public.

Liu Hanying thought angrily, Shangfeng was simply confused. At present, in the deep hinterland of the national army, one hundred and sixty-two people are just barely surviving, and eliminating them is like strangling an old, weak, sick and disabled dog.

But soon after, Liu Hanying knew that Shangfeng did not take the wrong medicine, and Shangfeng's order came from Shangfeng's Shangfeng.

As a matter of fact, the truth of the Tojo Mountain Incident is no longer a secret, and it was actually learned by General Chen, the veteran commander of the former 79th Army, who held an important position in the Military Commission, that among the more than a dozen conditions negotiated with the Supreme Commander, it was also one of the important conditions for this General Chen to save the lives of these 162 people and build a symbolic commemorative contingent for the former 79th Army. Otherwise, if anyone dared to attack these 162 people, the truth of the Tojo Mountain Incident would immediately be revealed to the world. A detailed written document will appear in the operational command of the Allied High Command.

Liu Hanying could fully imagine how Admiral Chen was thunderous in front of the Supreme Commander - the huge anger was enough to make him desperate.

After doing something unfortunate and being grabbed by the tail, coupled with the tremendous pressure of the anti-fascist struggle all over the world, the superiors of the upper peaks had to take a step back. Let's stabilize the old thing first, anyway, it will be a long time to come, and one hundred and sixty-two people are just a lump of lean meat on the cutting board, after the Dragon Boat Festival in May, and August 15. The problem is that since then, Liu Hanying's life has been sad. Shi Yunbiao, Mo Ganshan and others became his subordinates, and became a non-donkey and non-horse-like 79th Brigade to follow him around.

After entering Bump Mountain, other troops were expanding, and Liu Hanying had to add more than 100 soldiers to the 79th Brigade in order to take care of the balance. And deep down in his heart, this growing brigade is a bomb planted next to him. He thought more than once about getting rid of this bomb, but the top and even the highest commander did not agree. If it's just to defuse the bomb, it's not too difficult, of course, the problem is that it might detonate a bigger bomb. Liu Hanying realized in horror that he could be blown up by this bomb at any moment. However, for the sake of more important concerns, Shangfeng will not take his will as his will.

Do it yourself.

Liu Hanying's entanglement with Shi Yunbiao and Mo Ganshan can really be said to have indescribable bitterness. Those two people are definitely not donkeys who eat grass, they don't come to treats, they don't take advantage of it, they don't talk about meetings, they don't like rewards, their faces are always cold, it's rare to smile, and they don't smile. If Liu Hanying himself could call the shots, he would have shot them a hundred times a hundred times. However, not only could he not be shot, but now Shangfeng had another order, presumably the stubborn General Chen of the Military Commission had recited the mantra to the supreme commander again, and Shangfeng actually ordered the 79th Brigade to be expanded into a regiment, and Shi Yunbiao and Mo Ganshan were restored to their positions as chief and deputy regiment commanders.

Faced with such a telegram, Liu Hanying had no choice but to knock out his front teeth and swallow blood. Raising tigers is a problem, and he also has to add wings to the tiger, this time he really wants to put his surname Liu in the fire pond to roast.