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

Although the injured brothers wailed, Yang Ling tried his best to treat them and asked the women's committee to help them take care of them. Many injured brothers' lives were saved.

Although most of the wounded survived, there were more than 170 bodies of brothers brought back from the battlefield.

For a time, in more than a dozen villages in the control area of ​​the third guerrilla detachment, almost every village had people wearing sackcloth, mourning and hanging white sails, and there was a lot of crying, permeating the atmosphere of sadness and pain.

"All the brothers who died in battle are given priority in pensions, and their families enjoy the treatment of military families..." Yang Ling also issued an order immediately to calm people's hearts.

Now that so many brothers have been killed or injured, most of them are new recruits. If one is not handled well, their guerrilla detachment will be hated by the local people and turn against each other, so Yang Ling also attaches great importance to it.

While issuing the order, Yang Ling personally led a group of staff officers from the guerrilla detachment headquarters to go door to door to pay condolences to the brothers who died.

The white-haired man sent the black-haired man, Yang Ling failed to bring these young brothers back from the battlefield alive, he was ready to be scolded and beaten when he decided to come to the door to distribute the pension in person.

After all, these poor folks trusted him, so they handed over their children to him and followed him to fight, but the living people returned with dead bodies that could not speak.

Yang Ling was ready to bear the scolding, and Hu Zi, the guard platoon leader, also received secret orders from Wang Huzi and the others to protect Yang Ling's safety if something went wrong.

The entire village was filled with a gloomy and heavy atmosphere, lifeless and without the slightest vitality. Occasionally, one or two faint cries could be heard, which added to the solemn atmosphere.

People in a village bowed their heads but did not look up. Some sons died on the battlefield and failed to return. The neighbors all went to help and comforted themselves.

Yang Ling and his group stopped in front of a dilapidated gate with a white sail hanging on the gate, symbolizing the death of someone in the family. There were low-pitched cries from the inner room.

Seeing Yang Ling and the others coming, the neighbors and folks who came to help all stepped aside. They looked at Yang Ling and the others with complicated eyes and remained silent, with an indescribable emotion.

They support the guerrillas to fight the devils, but they don't want their children and their husbands to go and never come back. They are very entangled and conflicted.

Yang Ling stepped into the house first. There were only a few simple farm tools in the barren yard. The body of the brother who died in battle had been sent back in advance and was being placed in the main room.

Two crying villagers with red and swollen eyes were lying on the dead body, sobbing hoarsely and in a low voice. Seeing this scene, Yang Ling and the others felt their hearts throbbing with pain.

They are all Chinese soldiers, and they have experienced the battlefields of mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Seeing the brothers next to them change one after another, they have become numb.

For them, all the casualties have become a set of cold numbers. They have fought too many battles, and they have been completely numb and empty.

And now seeing the two villagers with white hair on the sideburns crying hoarsely lying there and howling, the white-haired man sent the black-haired man, the heart-wrenching grief made their hearts heavy, a heavy burden guilt.

Thousands of brothers fell on the battlefield, and they were buried in foreign lands, and their families could no longer wait for them, like kites with broken strings, never to return.

Every brother's heart is extremely heavy, and the cold wind is blowing. Maybe they will be the same in the future, falling on this land they have fought, but they still have to fight.

"Mr. Yang is here."

Some villagers whispered to remind the two homeowners who lost their son who were crying into tears. They raised their heads and saw Yang Ling and the others standing in the yard.

There was anger, dissatisfaction in their eyes, and more the pain of losing their loved ones. Their lips squirmed, and they finally walked away silently.

Yang Ling and his group of officers came forward to offer their condolences and bow, sending the last journey for the sacrificed brothers. Everyone looked serious.

"My condolences......"

Although Yang Ling knew that it would be futile to say anything now, he couldn't find any other words to comfort the folks who had lost their loved ones.

Seeing that the two villagers were silent, Yang Ling took the money bag from the brother behind him and handed it over.

"I failed to bring your son back alive. This is my responsibility. I am standing here today. If I want to beat or scold me, I will never fight back. I just hope that you will accept these pensions. This is what you deserve. "

"No, Officer Yang, we don't blame you, everyone has his own life, and his life is here..."

Seeing the self-blame on Yang Ling's face, the middle-aged man, whose rough face had been wrinkled by the years, shook his head cautiously, but tears rolled down from his eyes unstoppably.

The scrawny woman also sobbed softly and wiped her tears, which made all the brothers very sad.

"Accept these pensions, he is our brother, this is the only thing we can do."

The middle-aged man with a choked voice wiped his tears and declined: "Mr. Yang, it is his good fortune that the child followed you to fight devils. He died on the battlefield of fighting devils. He did not embarrass our ancestors. When he was a soldier, he went voluntarily." , now that you die for the country, how can we ask for your money?"

Yang Ling saw that the family of the deceased brother insisted on not wanting a pension, so he forced it into the hands of the other party.

"Your son is gone. He died for the country. If the two elders don't dislike it, we will be your relatives from now on."

"This...this is absolutely impossible..."

Yang Ling said and raised his hand: "Salute!"

The staff officers all raised their hands in salute.

The two villagers who lost their loved ones held the money bags in their hands, choked up and couldn't speak.

"From now on, the parents of our sacrificed brothers are our parents, and their sisters are our sisters. I hope everyone will remember this!"

"Yes!" The brothers all agreed in unison.

Text Chapter 827 Military Order

In October [-], China's main force had completed the first and second phases of training and replenishment, and the combat effectiveness of the troops had been restored to a certain extent.

At the same time, the nearly one million guerrilla troops transferred to the enemy's rear and the harassment operations of the regular troops restrained a large number of devils' troops, so that the devils were unable to launch a large-scale offensive on the frontal battlefield.

The victory of the first Changsha battle gave rise to optimism in Chongqing. In addition, the devils violated the interests of many countries in China, and the ambiguous attitude towards the devils' invasion of China in the world has been changed.

In just two months, the US ambassador to Japan and others successively strongly condemned the devils' invasion of China and issued warnings, which finally allowed Chongqing to gain the support of public opinion.

Although the devils were unable to launch a large-scale strategic offensive, they were still more than enough to launch local campaigns, and successively captured Chaoshan, Nanning and other places.

As a result, the Aogang international traffic line was cut off, and the Yunnan-Myanmar international traffic line was also seriously threatened. The guns and ammunition purchased from abroad could not be shipped back, which greatly affected the protracted war of resistance.

The Wang Jingwei Group actively prepared for the puppet government in Shanghai and other places, and it has been electrified several times across the country, which greatly affected the situation of the Anti-Japanese War.

In order to ensure the Yunnan-Myanmar international communication line, to win more foreign aid, and to prevent the establishment of the Wang puppet government and to review the combat effectiveness of the troops, Chongqing issued an order to prepare for the winter offensive.

The meeting decided to launch a large-scale winter counter-offensive operation nationwide, recover major cities and strongholds, and annihilate the Japanese and puppet troops in the Chinese battlefield.

In mid-November, the Chongqing side issued an offensive order to the troops in ten theaters across the country, and all the troops will use their full strength to attack the enemy in front of them.

The Sulu war zone behind the enemy where Yang Ling is located is also in the battle sequence of this winter offensive. The regular army, guerrilla troops, tax police troops, and various security brigades under the command of Commander Yu Xuezhong will participate in this attack.

The main offensive operations of the winter offensive are undertaken by the second, third, fifth, and ninth theaters, and the rest of the theaters are all assists.

The main task of the Sulu theater behind the enemy is to face Tai'an on both sides of the east and west, and launch attacks between Lincheng, Tongshan, and Chuxian to cope with operations along the river.

Yang Ling and their third guerrilla detachment wiped out the vital forces of the Japanese and puppet troops in Qinghe Town in the anti-encirclement and suppression battle, which greatly tempered the combat effectiveness of the troops.

Only a week after the end of the anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, they received an order from the commander of the Ninth Guerrilla Column, asking them to act immediately to recover Qinghe Town, and at the same time cooperate with friendly forces to eliminate the Japanese and puppet troops in the direction of the county.

"Order the troops to stop resting and enter a wartime state!"

"Let the battalion and company commanders quickly go to the headquarters for a meeting!"