The blood of the Anti-Japanese War stained the mountains and rivers

Ji Hongru was new to Yang Ling, and Yang Ling also told him the truth about what he had been doing these days.

The lack of troops in the entire regiment is not the biggest problem now. The biggest problem is the lack of morale. Since the breakout of Nanjing, the troops seem to have lost their souls.

Regarding the morale of the troops, Yang Ling also had his own thoughts. After he said it, he was affirmed and supported by Ji Hongru, which made him very happy.

After bidding farewell to Ji Hongru, Yang Ling took the time to find Zhang Hongying. Now she has returned to the hospital to treat wounded soldiers. After a series of life and death, the relationship between Yang Ling and her has developed by leaps and bounds, and they are almost married.

"Hongying—"

From a distance, Yang Ling saw Zhang Hongying who was chatting and laughing with a group of female soldiers, and waved his arms vigorously towards her.

"Sister Hongying, someone is calling you."

Seeing the talented Yang Ling in the distance, the gossiping female soldier began to speculate: "He doesn't like our sister Hongying, hehe."

"You talk too much." Zhang Hongying was surprised by Yang Ling's arrival. After a few seconds, she immediately stood up from the group of female soldiers with a blushing face, and ran towards Yang Ling at a trot, making the female soldiers behind her feel uneasy. envious.

Zhang Hongying was wearing a neat cotton military uniform. The thick cotton military uniform still couldn't conceal her good figure. After staying away from the flames of gunpowder and war, she regained her youthful vigor. Seeing Yang Ling at this moment, her face was full of excited smiles.

"Why are you here?" Zhang Hongying was very happy to see Yang Ling, and her tone was full of joy.

Yang Ling laughed and joked, "Why, you're not welcome?"

"Little girl, how dare you not welcome my deputy head Yang." Zhang Hongying also stuck out her tongue mischievously, as if she had wiped honey in her heart. She was too happy that Yang Ling could come to see her.

"How did you cut your hair?" Looking at Zhang Hongying's neck-length short hair, Yang Ling asked.

Zhang Hongying took off her military cap, turned around in a circle, smiled like a flower, and asked happily: "Does it look good?"

Yang Ling touched his nose, and replied in a pretentious way: "It's so ugly..."

"Go to hell!" Before Yang Ling could finish his sentence, Zhang Hongying was already waving her small fists, and rushed towards Yang Ling with all her teeth and claws.

"This is a hospital, keep your voice down." A doctor passed by and yelled in this direction.

Zhang Hongying stuck out her tongue guiltily, and dragged Yang Ling out of the hospital.

Far away from the battlefield of gunpowder, the two walked on the streets of Bengbu, chatting about each other's recent situation. Although the wind was cold, they felt the happiness they had never had before.

"I'm going to Wuhan in a few days." Zhang Hongying said with some reluctance, leaning on Yang Ling's arm.

"What are you doing in Wuhan?"

"Go to study." Zhang Hongying said with a smile: "In the future, you will have to call me Dr. Zhang when you see me."

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Text Chapter 336 Winter training ([-])

The winter of [-] was extremely cold. The howling cold wind swept southward from Siberia, and most of China was frozen and shrouded in severe cold.

The various units of the Japanese army that captured the capital Nanjing also stopped their continued offensive, and instead busy consolidating the occupied areas, began to rest and reorganize their troops, and trained the security forces.

In just four months, the Japanese army fought from Shanghai to Nanjing. Although they defeated the resistance of nearly a million Chinese troops, their non-stop attack was exhausting, and their strength was also seriously damaged.

Therefore, after the capture of Nanjing, the Japanese army only sent a small group of troops to attack Chuzhou on the outskirts of Nanjing, and then entered a rest period after the first line of Yangzhou.

The Japanese army was busy resting and replenishing troops, preparing for the next battle, and the Chinese side was also not idle, and was also preparing nervously.

The failure of the Battle of Shanghai and the Battle of Nanjing made the Chinese government completely give up hope for international mediation and intervention. The lessons learned in exchange for blood and tears made the high-level leaders change their strategy from desperately defending one city and one place to exchanging space for time , hoping to fight through a broad and long-lasting battle.

The fall of Nanjing made the Chinese side abandon the idea of ​​peace talks and instead actively prepare for war. A steady stream of recruits from the rear were transported to the frontline troops that suffered heavy losses for training. The highway is as busy as ants.

The two battles in Shanghai and Nanjing caused heavy losses to the Chinese side. Thousands of wounded soldiers were transported to the rear. Insufficient medical personnel caused a large number of wounded soldiers to be infected and die.

Taking advantage of the temporary cessation of the war, countless volunteer young students and front-line medical soldiers were transferred to the wartime capital Wuhan for assault training and learning to supplement the huge gaps in field hospitals in various theaters.

Zhang Hongying was also sent to Wuhan along with a large number of selected female medical soldiers. Before leaving, she hugged Yang Ling who was seeing her off, crying uncontrollably.

The two met and got acquainted on the battlefield filled with gunpowder. This life-and-death relationship is harder than gold and stone. Thinking that she will be separated from Yang Ling for a long time, Zhang Hongying couldn't hold back her tears.

"Okay, okay, don't cry, girls look good when they smile." Yang Ling patted the sad Zhang Hongying gently as if coaxing a child.

Yang Ling was also reluctant, but he also knew in his heart that the front line was very dangerous. It would be safer for Zhang Hongying to go back to Wuhan in the rear. He hoped that she could stay in a safe place.

Yang Ling's consolation not only did not stop her crying, but made her even more sad. She didn't board the train reluctantly until before the train started.

"You must take good care of yourself, take care of yourself—"

Zhang Hongying's eyes were red and swollen from crying, she leaned out from the train window, waved her arms and shouted at Yang Ling.

Yang Ling waved to her reluctantly: "Don't worry, you have to take care of yourself."

Zhang Hongying's voice became farther and farther away from the train, and finally only the whistling wind remained.

Looking at the train that finally turned into a black spot and disappeared, Yang Ling's heart suddenly became empty, feeling an unprecedented loss.

But he also knew in his heart that in this war-torn era, there is no such thing as love together. He is a soldier, and his duty is to defend his family and country.

Now that the Japanese invaders are ferocious and his family and country are in ruins, he quickly recovered from the loss and devoted himself to the training of the army.

After the Nanjing Defense War, only 71 veterans of the 301st Regiment of the 350st Army survived, and their morale was low. Faced with this mess, Yang Ling assumed the responsibility of his deputy regiment commander.

The surviving brothers were beaten miserably in Nanjing, and they were in such a mess when they withdrew to Bengbu that they were no longer human, and they were all downcast and lifeless, without any vitality.

With the cooperation of the first battalion commander Lu Xing, Yang Ling began to reorganize the troops. The original 350 brothers plus nearly 200 brothers brought by Yang Ling were reorganized.

Lu Xing still served as the first battalion commander, and the second battalion commander was assigned by the 58th Division

Chen Ming, the major who was transferred, was in charge, and Yang Ling, acting deputy head of the third battalion, was the commander of the third battalion.

Old Smoker was promoted by Yang Ling to become the deputy battalion commander of the third battalion, Wang Meng, Liu Yidao, and Wang Huzi also continued to serve as field company commanders, and Qin Shou was promoted to become the company commander of the spy company directly under the regiment.

The original group of old brothers also had their own places to go, such as Shunzi was promoted to be the deputy company commander, and Wang Zikun, a student soldier who had just joined the army in Nanjing, was also considered a veteran of the war and was promoted to be the squad leader.

Yang Ling's reorganization allowed the 301st Regiment to set up a shelf again. Although there were insufficient soldiers and many companies and platoons were seriously empty, Yang Ling was not in a hurry at all. He had already received news that additional troops were on the way.

Because Yang Ling had conducted a thorough investigation of each company in advance, he had no objection to the adjustment of officers this time, and he was convinced.

After the reorganization was completed, Yang Ling started to improve morale. First, he ordered the cooking teams of each company to boil water, and ordered every brother to take a bath.

Although many brothers in their regiment were issued new cotton padded clothes, they were reluctant to wear them. They were still wrapped in the dirty clothes from the battlefield, and their unkempt military appearance was disheveled.

"You guys take a bath first, it's freezing cold, why take a bath, what a mess."

Company Commander Wang Meng nestled in the warm blanket, unwilling to come out.

Yang Ling wasn't too polite: "One knife, stand it out for me!"