Rise From Eight Hundred

"A great victory in the Jindong counterattack!"

"Recover Niangziguan, Jingxing, and Shimen!"

"Severely damaged the enemy's 21st Division, wiped out the enemy's 39th Infantry Brigade, and wiped out a total of 50,000 enemies in half a month!"

The series of headlines released in the "Jin Province Anti-Japanese War Briefing" were like bombs exploding across the land of China.

When everyone focused their attention on the Central China Battle where China and Japan gathered millions of troops, good news once again came from the barren land of Jin Province.

The whole country is excited!

If the victory in the air battle in mid-September was a shot of stimulant for the entire Chinese nation's war of resistance, then this sudden victory in the Shanxi counterattack can completely make people suddenly have a feeling of "the rain has stopped and the sky is clear, our China" OK again' illusion.

Because the news clearly stated that this battle was an active attack by the Second Theater. China and Japan were 80,000 versus 80,000, with almost the same troop strength. Moreover, this time it was no longer a pure defense, but an attack. There is defense in the middle, and attack in the middle of defense. The Chinese and Japanese generals played a game in the Taihang Mountains with only a few chess pieces!

The strength of the troops was almost the same, and there were no solid defenses. However, they defeated the Japanese army, annihilating not only an infantry brigade, but also recaptured important places such as Niangziguan, Jingxing, and Shimen. Although they evacuated again after only half a month, But that also means that the Chinese army is confident that it is more capable of conquering cities and fortresses.

This is the first time in the whole year of the war!

In particular, the special reporter of the "Jin Province Anti-Japanese War Briefing" interviewed Brigadier Cheng of the 683 Brigade. The content was so explosive that Brigadier Cheng became famous abroad.

After quoting several of the sentences that firmly stated that all China and the entire Chinese nation would resist the war, Western newspapers commented at the end of the article: China, the sleeping lion, is about to wake up, and the iron-blooded war that will cause headaches for the Japanese has already emerged.

Westerners are relatively reserved, but China and Japan started a war of words because of these remarks.

For example, this sentence: Our 683 brigade army plans to carry out football sports during the unit's rest period to commemorate the officers and soldiers who died in this battle. Major General Takagi Yoshito's fat head and big ears are quite round! Just looking at it makes me want to turn around.

This is a sacrifice, is it necessary to use the head of the Army Major General as a ball?

Also, damn, how is football played? Now that we have the ball, we can’t miss the court! Many people want to ask a certain brigade commander.

The Chinese don't care whether the Japanese army major general's head can really be kicked. They are mainly interested in the new sport of football.

The Japanese, on the other hand, exploded, believing that the Chinese generals did not respect international law. They severely condemned China for destroying the remains of its own soldiers who died in the war, and demanded that the Chinese military punish the people and newspapers who made such remarks, otherwise they would not rule out taking action. What an extreme act.

The North China Front Army Headquarters was even furious and immediately issued a statement in the occupied zone newspaper, offering a reward of 100,000 yen for Brigadier Cheng Da's head.

"It's funny, when you massacred our captured soldiers and innocent people in Jinling, why didn't you respect international law? Excessive behavior? If you are in the first grade of junior high school, I will be in the fifteenth grade. During the Han Dynasty, I, the Chinese nation, could seal the wolf and live in Mount Xu to drink from Lake Baikal. , the powerful Xiongnu nation has disappeared in the long river of history, either we will kill all 40 million Chinese people, otherwise, when our Chinese army sets foot on the Japanese island, the Japanese people will be destroyed!"

These words were not spoken by Tang Dao, but the exact words said by Army Commander Xue, who was so angry that his eyes were bloodshot during the Battle of Central China, that he pointed at the nose of a pro-Japanese Western reporter at a press conference.

It is said that the scene was completely silent!

In the current Sino-Japanese war, the Japanese seem to have the upper hand, but China is so big. The Japanese want to swallow this elephant for an unknown period of time. If the Japanese dare to carry out fierce retaliation now, then the Chinese will When they turn over, I'm afraid the means of revenge will never be less than those of the Japanese.

Is the blood shed by tens of millions of people on the Japanese mainland enough to extinguish the anger in the hearts of the Chinese people? no one knows.

Especially when thinking of the disappeared Xiongnu mentioned by General Xue, the Japanese themselves couldn't help but shudder.

Have there been many enemies in the 5,000-year history of Chinese civilization? Guifang, Donghu, Huns, Turks, Jurchens, Mongolia, which one is not so powerful that it makes Eurasia tremble, but now except for the Mongols who live in a corner and live by raising cattle and sheep, where are the other ethnic groups?

"It's only 100,000 yen? If Gou Ri's money is more generous and the bonus is increased to 2 million, I will send my head there myself." After seeing this, Brigadier Cheng Da dismissed the Japanese soldiers with disdain. I lit the newspaper with a match and lit myself a cigarette. "Chief of Staff, Lao Wang, let's go and have a drink with that imposter Tang Dao."

Brigadier Cheng grabbed Tang's collar and insisted on eating big fish and meat. Of course, it was not because he was afraid that the Japanese North China Front Army Headquarters had placed a reward of 100,000 yuan on his head, but because those words were not his at all. They are all nonsense made by a fake person when trying to appease tens of thousands of people.

The real situation is that there was no general-level person present at the time. In order to appease the people, Commander Tang Da took the initiative to take the name of the famous 683 Brigade Major General, regardless of his military rank. This was no problem at first, but I didn’t expect that Tang Dao had no clue. Yes, that sentence was immediately written down by the reporters present. Afterwards, he accepted the interview without blushing or heartbeat, as if I was Brigadier Cheng Da. You can see whether I am handsome or not.

Fortunately, due to confidentiality reasons, the military did not allow any photos of soldiers above the rank of major general to appear in newspapers. Otherwise, Brigadier Cheng Da's wife would have been surprised to find that her husband was both young and handsome.

What, are you pretending to be old when you go home?

"Damn it, Commander Zhao is the highest commander of Shimen. Why did you use my name instead of his?" Brigade Commander Cheng took a big gulp of wine and questioned Tang Dao.

Comrade Wang Xiaoqiang, who also took a big gulp of wine, watched happily and wanted to know how this cunning brother would get away with it.

"Hehe, Brother Cheng, you are younger. Otherwise, at my age, if I pretend to be Commander Zhao, people won't believe it! Moreover, you have a good personality. If it were someone else, it might be solved by a drink. To put it in a flattering way, Brother, you are my idol." Commander Tang explained seriously.

Wang Xiaoqiang looked at Tang Dao's serious explanation and could only say that he was impressed by the fact that he could flatter someone to such a level.

Tang Dao was not flattering, but telling the truth, the truth.

Brigade Commander Cheng is only in his early 30s now. He is one of the "Three Heroes of Huangpu" not only because of his talent, but also because of his handsome appearance. He can be tough and elegant.

This extremely cheerful person is not only very good at playing with the 80th Army, but even the two serious bosses are very happy to see him. Even in the government, he has a lot of classmates and old friends.

When he was caught doing underground work, the principal didn't even say he would kill him! A group of generals came out and jointly wrote a letter to the principal asking him to spare his life. Looking at the entire Chinese military, he is probably the only one who can be treated like this.

Let alone he is a Tang Dao idol, I am afraid that many soldiers in the future will take him as an example.

"Well, although your flattery is obvious, I am really comfortable! I won't embarrass you. I'll have a drink. Can you give me 100 captured Japanese rifles from the 683rd Brigade?" Brigade Commander Cheng picked up a large wine cup with an eight-cent cup.

Tang Dao glanced at the wine cup, still trying to gauge the big brother's alcohol tolerance, and saw Wang Xiaoqiang and the chief of staff of the 683rd Brigade were also eager to try, so he smiled bitterly: "You three are here, don't trade wine for guns. All the Japanese weapons captured by our regiment in the battle of Jindong this time, except for the 105mm howitzer, the rest will belong to your 683rd Brigade."

As soon as these words came out, the three officers who commanded thousands of troops and fought a bloody battle with the Japanese army were stunned.

This time, the Four-Line Regiment defeated the 21st Division, seized about 4,000 rifles, 110 machine guns of various types, more than 80 grenade launchers, 6 infantry guns, 14 mountain guns, and 3 105mm howitzers. In the battle to annihilate the 39th Infantry Brigade, all the captured weapons were given to the 17th Division, and the Four-Line Regiment didn't even keep a pistol.

In the Battle of Shimen, all the spoils of the annihilation of 3,000 Japanese troops and more than 2,000 puppet troops were given to other participating units, but even this was the second most captured unit in the counterattack in eastern Shanxi.

The other divisions didn't know, but Brigade Commander Cheng knew it very well, so he planned to drink 10 glasses of wine to get some autumn wind from Tang Dao.

Who would have thought that Tang Dao was straightforward and didn't want anything except the heavy artillery.

"Big brother, I accept this favor. I won't go home until I'm drunk today!" Brigade Commander Cheng has always been a straightforward person. In his excitement, he poured the wine in the small cup directly into the big bowl and drank three bowls in a row.

In a man's words, everything is in the wine!

That night, the three military commanders of the 683rd Brigade were all drunk!

But it was all worth it. From today, the three main regiments of the 683rd Brigade, the 771st Regiment and the Independent Regiment, replaced all Japanese weapons and equipment, and the 772nd Regiment eliminated all Japanese weapons and equipment and instead equipped according to the equipment list of the Four-Line Regiment.

The obsolete weapons can be equipped with three reserve regiments. If the heavy firepower support of mountain artillery and 150 heavy mortars is added, the combat effectiveness of the 683rd Brigade with 6 infantry regiments can not only fight against a Japanese infantry brigade, but also a mixed brigade or detachment of 10,000 people. It can really be called the "No. 1 Brigade in the World".

Of course, the purpose of Brigade Commander Cheng and his troops to come to Dakouzidong Town is not simply to "raise troops to ask for punishment" and collect autumn wind, but to discuss important matters such as post-war rewards and burials of sacrificed soldiers with Tang Dao.

Why did the huge transport team take nearly 20 days to transport back and forth three times in this battle in eastern Shanxi? It was not just because the batch of materials was too large.

Among them were the remains of the officers and soldiers who died in the 1st Regiment of the 5th Division. According to the previous rules, they were buried where they died in battle. If the situation was urgent, they would often dig a big pit and bury the dead collectively.

But this time is different. As the deputy director of the front-line staff, Tang Dao suggested to the front-line command as early as before the Battle of Shimen began that the remains of all the sacrificed officers and soldiers must be transported back to the divisions for burial, and the burial places of the remains must be recorded and preserved in detail according to the officers' and soldiers' native places and names.

This has a lot to do with Tang Dao's seeing too many "old soldiers" sent home on the Internet in the future. In the future China, countless tombs of anti-Japanese martyrs will be discovered. In order to avoid being discovered by the Japanese invaders, many tombs do not even have a tombstone, let alone any names and native places.

Those bones have dried up over the years and look very hideous, but they were also the beloved sons of their parents, the pillows that their wives missed, and the fathers that their children respected. But throughout his life, those who loved him did not expect him to return home again, even as a piece of dry bones!

There were no conditions before, but now that they have won a great victory, the Japanese army dare not make any changes. Tang Dao is determined not to let these soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country and the people stay alone in those desolate mountains and wilderness, and he has recorded their names and hometowns so that their relatives can find them after the war.

As the blind mother of Commander Jie Guji said: I raised you when you were young, and you accompany me when I grow old. Son, although your body was blown to pieces by the Japanese devils' artillery, the clothes you usually wear are still there, and mother knows that you are still by her side!

The 80th Army Group has a new plan. The 511th Division will continue to contain the Japanese invaders behind enemy lines in northwest Shanxi, and the 921st Division will go to Hebei Province to break up the whole into parts to hinder the Japanese invaders' southward advance. Only the army headquarters and a small number of defense troops will be left in southeastern Shanxi.

Therefore, what Brigade Commander Cheng meant was that in order to prevent the Japanese invaders from destroying large-scale martyrs' cemeteries in the future, he hoped that the officers and soldiers who died in the 683rd Brigade would also be buried in the area of ​​Dakouzidong Town.

In the battle of Qingshiyan, the 4th Battalion of the 4th Battalion of the 4th Regiment, with only more than 1,000 officers and soldiers, blocked the successive attacks of an infantry brigade of the 108th Division, and launched a precise decapitation counterattack against the artillery positions and command center of the 108th Division after the arrival of reinforcements. The strength of the 4th Regiment has been recognized by both China and Japan.

Otherwise, the head of Brigade Commander Cheng, who claimed to kick the head of a Japanese Army Major General as a ball, was worth 100,000 yen in the Japanese North China Front Command, and the price of Tang Tuanzuo's head had already soared to 200,000 yen, becoming the top three in the must-kill list of the Japanese North China Front Command.

And the one ahead of him was not only the commander of the Second War Zone, but also the commander of the group army!

"There is no need to find another location, just bury them in my Four Lines Martyrs Cemetery. They are all soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country. The Martyrs Cemetery Management Office will register and record the information of all buried martyrs!" Tang Dao naturally agreed without hesitation.

This time, more than 2,000 officers and soldiers of the Four Lines Regiment died in the battle, especially the newly established 4th Battalion suffered particularly heavy casualties. More than 1,400 officers and soldiers, together with more than a thousand militiamen, workers, and technicians called by Lao Tantai and Teacher Xiao He, died in a total of 809 people, with a death rate of an astonishing 25%. If the injured are added, the casualty rate will reach 50%!

Fortunately, about 4,000 young and strong men transferred from Shimen this time asked to join the Four Lines Regiment by name. After a rough test, 2,000 people were eliminated, and 2,300 people still passed and became members of the Four Lines Regiment's recruit camp, which basically replenished the front-line troops!

Except for the 4th Battalion, which had to fight hard because of the small number of enemies, the casualties of the veterans in the first, second and third battalions were mostly new recruits, and the combat effectiveness was basically not reduced too much.

But if the more than 2,500 officers and soldiers who died in the 683rd Brigade are added, the Martyrs Cemetery will bury more than 4,500 people at one time, which is definitely a great test for the Martyrs Cemetery Management Office, which was established not long ago and has only 10 people.

The first is the excavation of the tomb. At the command of Tang Dao, the 2,000 recruits who had just joined the recruit camp took on this task. This is also the first lesson for the recruits in the recruit camp.

Before stepping onto the battlefield, you have to face death!

Any victory is exchanged for bloody sacrifices.

According to the rules of Taihang Mountain, a soul-calling banner must be placed in front of each tomb!

At that moment, the whole mountain was in mourning!

According to Tang Dao's requirements, all the remains buried in the martyrs' cemetery must have a good coffin, and they will spend a lot of money to buy it.

The big trees in Taihang Mountain suffered a disaster, and I don't know how many big trees were cut down! At this moment, Tang Dao didn't care about environmental protection. No matter how picturesque the mountains and rivers are, if they are taken away by the Japanese, they will belong to others no matter how beautiful they are.

In addition to these aftermath matters, the most important thing is to celebrate the victory!

The senior officials of the Military and Political Department arrived at the Second War Zone Command a week ago. It is said that all kinds of medals were packed in boxes, but the money was a little less. It is said that each division participating in the war was rewarded with 20,000 oceans, which was not enough for the pension.

Fortunately, the spoils were huge this time. In addition to the proportion given to the theater headquarters, each division also handed in some extra food and weapons, which made the stingy old man bleed a little. For example, the 921st Division exchanged for 200,000 yuan, which was basically enough to pay the pension. The stingy old man's direct 101st Division is said to have taken 500,000 yuan, and the 12th Division, which belongs to the Yunnan Army, got an additional 100,000 yuan from its boss. Basically, they would not treat their officers and soldiers badly.

In other words, the 22nd Army, a Sichuan Army, was not loved by its grandmother or uncle, but fortunately they still had the confidence of the Four-Line Regiment. They didn't even have to wait for Division Commander Li to come and cry. Tang Dao took the initiative to present 3,000 taels of gold found from the corpses of puppet soldiers and Japanese soldiers in Shimen, which also filled the big hole for the poor Sichuan Army.

"Those medals are useless except for looking good. Why don't we hold a celebration party together as a brigade and a regiment, and give out the war medals made by your brother!" Wang Xiaoqiang said the truth drunkenly after drinking five bowls of wine in a row.

Tang Dao was naturally very happy. Once the medals were issued, the Four-line Regiment and the 921st Division would be completely tied together, even if no one wanted to deny it in the future.

But after this proposal was sent to the headquarters of the 80th Army Group, it was finally rejected by the well-thought-out bigwigs.

Of course, it was not to push the Four-line Regiment out, but this time the Four-line Regiment was too popular, and the activities of the Military Control Commission in southeastern Shanxi suddenly became frequent. In order not to further stimulate that person's nerves, the 80th Army Group decided to continue to maintain the status quo, at least to give him some face.

In order to prevent Tang Dao from having other ideas, the deputy chief of staff of the group army was even sent to Dakouzidong Town to attend the medal awarding ceremony of the Four-line Regiment. He was the maker of most of the tactics of the 80th Army Group.

Tang Dao thought about it and it made sense. With the title of the 22nd Army, it would at least be more convenient for him to go to other places, so he didn't force it.

On October 9, the Four-Line Regiment held a martyr burial meeting and awarded medals to those who had made military contributions at the Martyrs Cemetery.

This may be the largest medal awarding meeting of the Four-Line Regiment in the six months since its establishment. Not only all officers and soldiers of the Four-Line Regiment except those on combat duty attended, but also the lieutenant general-level chief of the staff sent by the Second War Zone, and the commander or deputy commander of the Fifth Division of the Jindong War arrived. The chief officers of the 921st Division, the 17th Division, and the 104th Division were present in person.

No matter generals or soldiers, they all wore white flowers on their chests and their faces were solemn!

Tens of thousands of people in Dakouzidong Town, not only the families of the fallen officers and soldiers wore mourning, but the rest of them also wore hemp ropes and white cloth around their waists, wore white shoes, and sent off the fallen soldiers with the courtesy of relatives!

That day: the whole mountain was covered with mourning!

The medals were brilliant!

Generals gathered!

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