The heavens start from Changjin Lake

What is marked on the appointment document is an independent reinforced battalion with four companies, including an artillery company equipped with four mortars and a strength of 500 people.

Commander Tang had prepared everything for Xia Yuan and was waiting for him to take up his post.

However, Commander Tang also said that if his performance was unsatisfactory, he would be dismissed from his post.

Recalling Commander Tang's words, he looked through his appointment documents again and fell into brief contemplation.

A civilian staff member of the national government sent Xia Yuan a brand-new major military uniform. After he put it on, he walked out of the room, looking a bit like a major in the national army, but his face was relatively immature. He looks like he's in his early 20s at most.

"Major Xia, Commander Tang said that you will be given one day to prepare. We will set off in a truck tonight. The troops are reorganizing on the front line, waiting for you."

"Okay." Xia Yuan took a look at the sky outside. It was still early, so he took the car arranged by Commander Tang and returned to Wang Cui's home.

Wang Cui, Wang Sangou, and Wu Youhua sat around the table. Wang Sangou had an anxious look on his face, but Wu Youhua could still keep his composure: "Don't worry, I'll ask about the situation through my connections. Sangou, you don't know Xia Yuan His true identity?”

Wang Sangou shook his head: "Brother-in-law, how did I know? I met him on the way to retreat. He was also running, but he brought a lot of guns with him at that time. I wanted to grab one, but he found me. .”

"I heard the people who took Brother Yuan away said, what kind of war god is he? What's going on?"

Wang Sangou's face showed confusion.

God of War, I seem to have heard of it somewhere.

"Songhu God of War, a man who single-handedly destroyed thousands of Japanese troops, and even the chairman of the Generalissimo is very fond of him." Wu Youhua took out an old newspaper from his arms, dated in September.

"He is actually so powerful." Wang Sangou said in shock.

"More than that, you have also come down from the battlefield. You know how difficult the Japanese devils are to fight. This is no longer a level of strength, but..." Wu Youhua seemed to be looking for a new word to describe it, but after thinking for a long time, he couldn't find it. A suitable word to describe Xia Yuan's power.

"Anyway, just be awesome." Wang Cui interjected.

"I know, sister. I have been on the battlefield and fought with the Japanese. The Japanese have very strong combat capabilities. There are more than a dozen people in our class, and they can only deal with five Japanese soldiers. Moreover, the ammunition they carry alone is as much as We carry about the same amount of ammunition as a squad.”

Wang Sangou flipped through the newspaper. He was illiterate and didn't know many words, but he still knew the word "God of War".

"I remembered that during the counterattack, I heard our company commander say that there was a war god from the division who was very good at fighting. It was also his credit that our division was able to break through the Japanese frontier positions in two hours."

"It took two hours to break through the Japanese forward positions, which is already very impressive." Wang Cui said.

"Not only that, that night, several other divisions fought all night to knock down the Japanese's forward position, but it took us more than five hours to knock down the entire Japanese position. In the past, our division's combat level was We were at the bottom, but we played surprisingly well that night, and when we rushed over, many of the Japanese positions had already been captured.”

Wang Sangou raised his head and asked: "Sister, you said that the reason why we were able to knock down the Japanese positions that night was all done by Xia Yuan alone."

Wang Cui glanced at Wu Youhua, thought for a moment, and said, "I don't know if he did it alone, but I think he must have put in a lot of effort."

"It must be." Wang Sangou put down the newspaper and said, "Brother Yuan's identity must have been exposed. He was taken away and he must be required to participate in the defense battle."

"You don't have to worry about this matter. I'll ask someone to inquire about it when I go back." Wu Youhua said.

"Brother-in-law, I'm sorry to trouble you."

"The family doesn't speak two languages."

squeak!
A military jeep parked at the door, and the three people were slightly surprised by the people getting out of the car.

"Xia Yuan."

As soon as he turned around, Xia Yuan actually put on the military uniform of a major in the national army.

"Brother Wu, Sister-in-law Wang." Xia Yuan stepped forward and said, "I'm going to the front line. The Japanese are coming with great force. Guarding Jinling is a soldier's bounden duty. I have already told the recruiters that Sangou will stay at home and take care of himself. I'll stay with you until I come back."

Wu Youhua and Wang Cui were a little surprised, but they didn't know where to start.

They had previously promised to become members of the underground party, but they had not yet sworn in to join the party, but now they actually put on the uniform of a major in the national army and went to the front line.

They don't think Xia Yuan is a ruthless person. From their interactions during this period, they can see that Xia Yuan is definitely not such a person. He carries the feelings of his family and country in his heart.

"Just go and do it. When you come back, we can talk about other things." Wu Youhua sighed in his heart. Thinking of Xia Yuan's record in the Songhu battlefield, he couldn't bear to let him leave. The underground job was obviously not suitable for this. For a veteran, his world should be a vast battlefield.

"Brother Wu, you must remember what I told you before."

Before leaving, Xia Yuan made another explanation, then found Wang Sangou and whispered: "I put my gun under the bed and leave it to you. Jinling cannot be defended. The Japanese will break the city sooner or later. Protect it with your gun." your family."

"Brother Yuan, don't worry, I won't be a deserter this time." Wang Sangou said firmly in his heart.

This time, Wang Cui stood behind him and absolutely couldn't just flee from the battlefield.

Xia Yuan didn't chat with them for too long. He simply explained a few words and left, just like seeing an old friend.

"Let's go." When he got to the jeep, Xia Yuan nodded to the driver and started the car. He looked back at the three people standing at the door, waved, and the car disappeared around the corner.

The Independent Battalion was on the front line, responsible for supporting the defenders guarding Jiangyin. After several battles, the Independent Battalion suffered heavy casualties. Some of the supplementary troops were those who escaped from the battlefield.

There are Sichuan Army, Hunan Army, Guangxi Army, and Northeastern Army. The personnel are relatively mixed. These local armies have hatred among each other. Although on the battlefield, everyone can laugh away their grudges, that is only when the commander is around.

Now there are hundreds of thousands of troops retreating from the battlefield. A large number of broken troops retreated from the battlefield. They mixed together without any command. When they got to a comfortable place, they looked at each other and did not like each other, and there were many incidents of shooting. , it doesn’t please anyone.

This is the current situation in the Independence Camp.

The deputy battalion commander received the newly-appointed battalion commander. He was a close call from Commander Tang himself. He had a strong identity. He was the God of War who came from the Songhu Battle and had great military exploits. His superiors said that this man would be able to rise to prominence once the war is over. The minimum is a group leader.

The upper limit is unclear.

This man's performance on the Songhu battlefield was truly outstanding, and everyone in the army knew about him. He had been in newspapers several times, and even the Chairman of the Generalissimo was full of praise.

The deputy battalion commander's surname is Yuan. He is in his 30s and has thick eyes. He does not look like a talent for fighting, but more like he was transferred from the civilian service. When he learned about this matter, he took it seriously and took the battalion headquarters with him that day. A group of cadres were waiting at the gate of the camp.

In the camp, soldiers from all over the place huddled together, a group on the left and a group on the right, standing in various positions of the camp. These soldiers were all huddled together. Without the sanction of their superiors, they looked down on each other.Deputy Battalion Commander Yuan wanted to discipline them, but he was from a civilian background and did not know how to fight, so he could not suppress these people.

At present, the Japanese are constantly attacking the defenders on the Jiangyin River, and their superiors are constantly organizing new troops to support the front line. A battalion just went up yesterday, which was also composed of broken troops who retreated from Shanghai. It is said that not long after they went up, they They were crippled by the Japanese soldiers, and there were not many left alive.

He looked back at the military camp. There were hundreds of people in each battalion, divided into waves and four companies, but they were like a broken board, torn apart. His original intention was to break these soldiers from different places and crush them. After being in a group for a long time, I believe we will gradually become familiar with each other.

Unexpectedly, it had the opposite effect. There were three platoons in a company, but they were divided into several different groups. They couldn't deal with each other, which really made him sweat.

Deputy Battalion Commander Yuan could not suppress these soldiers and urgently needed a capable officer to suppress these soldiers.

Seeing the jeep approaching from a distance, Deputy Battalion Commander Yuan rushed to greet it: "Captain Xia, I've waited for you."

"You are." Xia Yuan got off the car and looked at the soldier wearing glasses curiously, his eyes falling on the other person's shoulders and chest, "You are the deputy battalion commander."

"Yes, my surname is Yuan, just call me Lao Yuan." Deputy Battalion Commander Yuan said.

"Let's go in first." Xia Yuan smiled, his eyes swept over the people following him, smiled and nodded, and his eyes fell on the military camp again, where the troops were broken into groups, without organization and order.

"Captain Xia, these soldiers are here to withdraw from Songhu. They can't find the troops. They have been sent to our camp for the time being. They, uh, come from different places. You know, the previous places were very fierce. Who cares? None of them are pleasing to the eye, so I thought of breaking them up and putting them in different classes, so that they would get familiar with each other and their grievances would disappear." Deputy Battalion Commander Yuan introduced the situation to Xia Yuan, rubbed his hands and said, "I didn't expect that. On the contrary, it will become more and more chaotic.”

"Leave it to me." Xia Yuan nodded, expressing his understanding of the situation. In the face of such a chaotic organization, it is obviously not an easy task for them to let go of their grievances, especially when they can't find their own The troops will stick together and stay together.

If we follow the way of the national army, we will definitely beat and scold these group members. Not only will this not resolve the grievances between them, but it will also be counterproductive.

If you want to resolve the grievances between them, you must learn from the Red Party and resolve them ideologically.

This not only reminded Xia Yuan that after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the civil war began, and the Red Party was unstoppable. The national army retreated again and again, and could no longer withstand the rising Red Party.

Under such circumstances, many teams surrendered one after another.

The soldiers in these ranks are completely different from those in the Red Party.

After the end of the Anti-Japanese War and the start of the Civil War, most of the soldiers in the national army were young men, ruffians, and veterans, purely for military pay.

The ranks of the Red Party are the party's commanding gun, and those who participate in the army are all children of farmers and are the people's soldiers.They fight for their families and a happy life.

In the life in the base area, everyone has their own land and house. There is no exploitation, no oppression, no exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. Everyone lives happily.

Such happiness is hard-won, how could they let the Kuomintang people destroy their happy life.

The two sides have different positions.

Even if many national troops surrender, it is not easy to transform these troops and make them understand the core ideas of the Red Party.

This is a major ideological reform, and one can imagine the hardships involved.

Xia Yuan only needs to walk along this road again.There was chaos within the ranks, and soldiers from all over the country joined groups to keep warm. The fundamental reason was that during the warlord melee period, the grievances of the commanding class were carried through to the ranks. It was easy to resolve the grievances between each other.

"Is that our commander?"

"Looking so young."

"Hey, he looks familiar. I seem to have seen him somewhere."

"Oh, this head is not low."

Xia Yuan got out of the car and attracted the attention of the camp soldiers, who all cast curious glances.

"gather!"

Xia Yuan walked to the center of the camp, the smile on his face disappeared and his voice rose.

It was a bit messy, and the voices discussing him disappeared. The soldiers looked at Xia Yuan who was standing in the middle of the camp, and then looked at each other, wondering whether it was better to assemble or not.

"Didn't you hear what I said? Assemble! What do the company commanders want you to do for food? Your own soldiers can't even watch?"

Xia Yuan's face gradually became gloomy and his eyes were cold.

"Quickly gather!"

The company commanders of each company started to move, and the soldiers slowly came to the center of the camp to gather.

A company is divided into one area, but a company is divided into several groups. Group after group gathers together, looking at each other and feeling a little uncomfortable with each other.

Arriving at the battlefield in such chaotic order would definitely lead to death.

Xia Yuan looked at the soldiers in front of him, pacing back and forth, his eyes lingering on them and then moving away.

There was no movement for a full 10 minutes.

A soldier couldn't help it and asked: "Sir, what are you going to do? We are all waiting."

Xia Yuan stopped, looked at the soldier in front of him, and asked, "Are you from Sichuan Province?"

"Yes." said the soldier.

"The soldiers from Sichuan Province are very powerful. I have seen soldiers from Sichuan Province on the battlefield. They wear straw sandals and coir raincoat hats and don't even have a decent gun. However, these soldiers with backward weapons and equipment went to the battlefield to fight with the Japanese devils. , all the troops were wiped out, and they blocked the Japanese army's crazy attacks for several days. No one retreated, it was really good, it gave us Chinese face!"

Xia Yuan's words made the soldier from Sichuan Province freeze on the spot.

There were also many soldiers from Sichuan Province in the team. After hearing Xia Yuan's words, his eyes turned red and he held back the tears.

At first, they rushed to the battlefield and met friendly troops. No one thought highly of them. The superior officers did not want to see them, and the logistics did not give them supplies. They did not even have a rest. They wore straw sandals and endured the pain of worn out feet. Painful, rushing to the battlefield to fight the Japanese devils, just condensing energy.

Forcibly turning a shabby army into a trump card army.

But it also came at a huge sacrifice.

They sacrificed their lives for the country and the fight against Japan.But when they fled, some soldiers saw that they didn't even have decent clothes, so they thought they were deserters and even lost their shoes. They grabbed the weeds on the roadside and woven them into shoes to put on their feet.

This humiliation disappeared with Xia Yuan's words.

"With three million Sichuan soldiers out of Sichuan, how could the Japanese invaders invade China?" Xia Yuan's sonorous voice swept over the crowd and landed on the soldiers: "What's your name?"

"Sir, my name is Qian Dajin!" The soldier responded loudly without looking down on Xia Yuan.

"Qian Dajin, what a good name. Keep your chest straight and don't insult the name of the Sichuan Army."

"Yes!"

"Which army are you from?" Xia Yuan clicked on another soldier who was holding a group.

"Guijun."

"You are the Gui Army. Okay. When we attacked Rozaobang, I also followed the Gui Army. I guess many of you who came down from Songhu had defended Rozaobang. The Japanese devils fought fiercely and fiercely. , and finally broke through the Rozaobang defense line. The next target of the Japanese was Dachang. The Gui army brothers left the province to fight. After walking for three full months, they just arrived in Songhu. When the Rozaobang was gone, they shouldered the task of recapturing the Rozaobang. Zaobang’s mission.”

Xia Yuan clasped his hands behind his back and shouted: "In order to complete the mission of regaining Zhongzaobang, they have to tear a hole in the Japanese defense line, get in, and then tear it apart from the inside of the Japanese. Six divisions, more than 4 Thousands of people encountered the Japanese Class A Division, the 3rd Division, with more than 4 troops. There were tanks, armored vehicles, flat-fire artillery, howitzers, mortars, grenades, and countless light and heavy machine guns. Fighting on the plains, There were no bunkers, and [-] people, the moment the attack order was given, they all picked up their guns and rushed forward."

"For a whole day, six divisions were crippled. Are they cowards? No, they are heroes! Just like the Sichuan Army, they are heroes!"

"Northeastern Army, some people say that the Japanese are coming. The Northeastern Army ran away without firing a single shot. They say that the Northeastern Army is a coward and a coward. Which soldier sees his home being occupied by someone else and doesn't want to rush up and fight with them? Those who are fighting have been ordered by their superiors to retreat without firing a single shot, and they feel aggrieved, but what is even more uncomfortable is that you, as compatriots, are sneering at them."

"During the battle in Songhu, they came and went to the battlefield with all their strength to beat the Japanese devils hard."

"The 49th Army and the 67th Army were transferred from the North China front line. They had just withdrawn from the front line. They ran directly to Songhu without rest. When they arrived in Songhu, they didn't even have time to rest or reorganize. , rushing into battle, in addition to buying time to cover the retreat of the army, it is an unrealistic fantasy to think about reversing the defeat. "

"The 67th Army stood firm in Songjiang and fought a bloody battle for three days with a total of 10 troops from the Japanese 10th Army. The entire army was exhausted. Only two platoons broke through. How many people did the two platoons have? More than 60 people, under the leadership of the army commander When we broke through and crossed the river, the Japs caught up with us, and the commander died in the battle.”

"No one in the Northeast Army is a coward!"

"I think if it hadn't been for the order to retreat, the Northeastern Army would have fought the Japanese with their chests high." (End of Chapter)