auspicious baby

Chapter 102

Not long after, news of Tang Weiqu's death came.

In Rehe, Tang Weiqu was ordered to go north to the Great Wall to support the troops.

In World War I, there were more or less internal power struggles, not active resistance.

In the hasty formulation of the Jehol defense plan by the Beiping Army Branch, the participating troops were unified into two group armies, commanded by Zhang Liang and Zhang Chao, the commanders of the North China Defense Zone.

On February 23, the Eighth Division of the Japanese Sixth Division and tens of thousands of puppet troops, with the support of aircraft and tanks, launched a general attack on Chengde, the capital of Rehe Province, in three routes.

The Jehol garrison has more than [-] people including the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Army Corps. Since more than half of them have not yet reached the designated position, each department had to rush to fight.

Life and death, glory, sacrifice, a series of antonyms flash in the minds of soldiers on every battlefield in the continuous bombardment. Some people are willing to sacrifice their lives for the country, and some people want to live more. Armed with gold ten thousand taels, he took refuge in the enemy soldiers.

On March [-], the vanguard of the Japanese army occupied Chengde without bloodshed. Tang Quan, chairman of Rehe Province, pretended to be in charge of the war, and fled with a load of opium treasures. Because of this, on March [-], Zhang Liang was forced to take the blame and resign. Acting chairman of the Beiping Army Branch.

He Fei was single-handedly promoted by General Tang. Because of his bravery and combat talent, in just ten years, relying on his excellent record, he rose all the way to the chairmanship.

Tang Weiqu was also transferred to his barracks as chief of staff.General Tang did not appreciate this second son-in-law. After all, his qualifications and talents were mediocre, but he was also a person who grew up by his side, and he was good to his daughter. He had a small selfish intention to help him in the officialdom Go with the wind.

In less than ten days, the 20 defenders retreated hastily, and nearly 8 square kilometers of Jehol fell into the enemy's hands. Therefore, the Japanese attack turned into a pursuit. The Chinese troops took the opportunity to rush towards the Great Wall. Immediately, with [-] troops and tens of thousands of puppet troops, they separately advanced to each entrance of the Great Wall.

In the face of the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Rehe and the unscrupulous Japanese invaders, "not only is the world so big that there is no place for us to stand, but we are also sinners of the nation forever." An atmosphere of desolation and grief permeated the north land.

At the same time, after the fall of Shanhaiguan, they called the League of Nations many times to stop the Japanese army from invading the south, but Western countries believed that only if the Chinese army resisted the Japanese army vigorously could there be hope for international negotiations.

So the hope of counting is like the foam blown by the wind, it will be blown apart if it is not evaporated.

The bombardment was overwhelming. Even if the number of our own troops was three or four times that of the enemy, mere flesh and blood with knives and guns of uneven quality could not stop the cannons of the Japanese army.It is too expensive to defend the country and homeland with one's life.

The Japanese army was like hungry ghosts in the Shura field, roaring and invading in all directions, and no one survived the territory they passed. Residents who had no time to escape either died happily or were raped to death.

The war was prolonged, and in order to keep the territory, the front line was also forced to be stretched.

Gu Zhang, who was stationed in Tianjin, also received an order in a hurry to command one side of the army and stand by for orders.

After He Fei garrisoned the Great Wall, he re-arranged the strategic deployment and set up defenses along the Great Wall in an attempt to block the advance of the Japanese army. The Chinese troops participating in the war, including the Northwest Army, the Northeast Army, and the Central Army, had a total of 25 armies, and some anti-Japanese volunteers, about [-] people , to adapt to the military, temporarily rearranged.

According to He Fei's order, on the crossing of the Great Wall, Gu Zhang's army was stationed in Tianjin, Dagu, and guarding the Jinpu Railway. The No.30 First Army was responsible for the defense of the Luanhe River and the winter area.The three armies adjusted on the spot, and used three divisions to help defend the area east of Lengkou of the Seventh Division. The No.20 Ninth Division and the No.40 Army are responsible for the defense of Xifeng Mountain and Malanyu, and so on, sending legions to garrison the fortress along the [-]-kilometer front.

The War of Resistance on the Great Wall began in early March, first at Lengkou, and then expanded to the eastern section of the pass. The Japanese army, supported by tanks and aircraft, launched a fierce attack.

On March 14th, the advance team of the No.57 Brigade of the Japanese army invaded Lengkou, and all the soldiers of the [-]th Division counterattacked and recovered in the rain of bullets and guns.

Even though the terrain of Xifengkou is dangerous and easy to defend but difficult to attack, in the era of cold weapons, a cannon is enough to kill a brigade of soldiers hiding in the forest and preparing to ambush.

War is so inhumane, even if you are full of reason and passion, it is reasonable but not profitable.

Human flesh can't stop technology, and it can only retreat steadily.

At that time, a shell shot into the sky, and the headquarters exploded in an instant. Tang Weiqu and other commanders were all bloody and bloody in an instant, with no bones left.

The Thirteenth Regiment of the First Reinforcement Division, which arrived later, temporarily delayed the Japanese attack. The ten-mile spring breeze, ignorant of national hatred, swayed leisurely, blowing on the face, blowing up the souls of the dead soldiers, tinged with blood, under the bright sunshine, There was a burst of coolness.

The head of the Thirteenth Regiment sent someone to dig out the wreckage of several people in the headquarters. The people were beyond recognition, and he could barely tell who was from who by his clothes.

The war was urgent, and many soldiers were shrouded in horse leather and buried in other places.

If you can't go back to your birthplace, you can only let the tomb stele cross thousands of mountains and rivers, and look far away.

Many people died, but it could not stop the war.

For a while, the whole country panicked.

The former famous city was besieged from three sides, and everyone felt powerless.

During Gu Zhang's garrison, Bao Xiang has been watching the front line, praying for safety.

It lasted until May, and the Nanjing government signed the "Tanggu Agreement" to protect itself.

……

Baoxiang remembered that it was a rosy evening when Tang Shishi appeared in front of the Gu family's mansion with disheveled hair and Gu Bei.

Gu Bei changed his surname to Tang Bei.

I haven't seen her in a few years. Tang Shishi is vaguely old, with a haggard and thin face. Although she is wearing makeup, it is like a mask hanging on her face, and she has completely lost her original style.

Before she could speak, tears fell.

Gu Bei remembered Baoxiang, but he hadn't seen him for a few years, so he became timid and called him softly, "Uncle."

Baoxiang also knew about Tang Weiqu's sacrifice, and when he saw the mother and daughter like this, his heart felt bitter.He forced a smile, ran over, bent down, patted Gu Bei's head, and asked Tang Shishi, "You, just the two of you?"

Tang Shishi was immersed in her sad world, she didn't answer at a loss, and asked to find Gu Zhang.

People always have bad roots.

How many people don't know how to cherish and appreciate their relatives when they are alive, and they see all the shortcomings of each other.

After the divorce, Tang Shishi married Tang Weiqu, she was not willing, nor was she forced to go to Liangshan, it just didn't matter.So the next day is just as indifferent as before, it doesn't matter about the affection between husband and wife, it doesn't matter about being happy and harmonious.

A pool of stagnant water is Tang poetry's evaluation of life.

But the usual life will eventually change its track due to force majeure.

She felt that there was a pool of stagnant water, but it was because someone silently maintained it for her. Now, people died, and the water was confused.

During Tang Weiqu's half-month expedition, it was the longest time he was away from home. Before leaving home, he would always take her to a nearby temple to ask for a few peace talismans, one for himself, one for her, One is Gu Bei, his daughter in name, although he is not close, but for her sake, he took a copy along with it.

Every time Tang Shishi asked for the talisman back, she only promised it with her mouth, and threw it away when she turned around.

This time is no exception.

As soon as the hand is loosened, the bright yellow paper talisman is floating in the wind, and the burning red cinnabar characters are faintly visible.

She thought she shouldn't have thrown it away at the time, and she regretted it.

The news of Tang Weiqu's death in battle reached her ears like thunder in the night.When listening, he didn't react much, and even asked clearly about his place of burial, and entertained the messenger with the demeanor of being the master of the house.

In Liu Ma Hua Guduo hugged her and cried, "Miss's life is miserable! My uncle's life is miserable!" It was heartbreaking, but it couldn't shake Tang Shishi's heart.

She thought, what a cold-blooded animal she is.

When everyone thought that Tang Shishi had survived the pain of losing her husband, early that morning, the sun was just right, and when the red and green window panes, the rainbow of seven colors refracted on the ground, she conquered it.

The window panes were replaced by Tang Weiqu herself, because when she passed by the church, she said casually that it was beautiful.He just remembered it, and in the afternoon, he took tools and a few pieces of glass that he forcibly broke into the church, and quickly installed them with his hands and feet.

She laughed in her heart, she just felt that the brightly colored glass and the simple and elegant decoration of the bedroom did not match at all, so she left a sentence, "There is something wrong." Shi Shiran left without looking at the smile that was fixed on Tang Weiqu's face, silly smile into a wry smile.

She kneels and sits under the window sill of the cantharidin, stretches out her finger, and touches the seven-color light. Once her finger touches it, it will block the light and leave a shadow. She stretches out her hand, looking beautiful and lovely, but she can't touch it anymore.

Tears burst out of the embankment in an instant, tilting and surging.

No shouting, just quietly, alone, kneeling on the cold ground, miraculously sluggish, everything seemed to be still, only tears were streaming down.

Later, when she clamored to go north to bring Tang Weiqu home, General Tang tried his best to dissuade her, saying that the war in Beiping was in turmoil. According to his ability, he even took a group of people to die and be buried with him.

Speaking of this, it is useless to ask again.

Tang Shishi seemed to lose her soul, muttering to herself, "Why did you send him there?!"

"What?" Her voice was hoarse and whispered, General Tang could not hear clearly.

"Why did you send him?!" She almost roared out.

"Slap!" With a crisp sound, General Tang slapped her, his face flushed with anger, which was very ugly, and he tremblingly said, "It's right for a man to sacrifice his life for the country. You are sad when he died, and there are others What about the other soldiers?! They are also other people’s husbands, other people’s sons, and other people’s fathers. I have no regrets, I don’t regret it, and it’s not your turn to regret it!”

Tang Shishi let out a "wow", cried bitterly, and beat her chest like crazy, her heart hurt, the pain made her breathless, and the pain made her heart feel like a knife.

She is actually a moth, acting with reckless feelings, she was like this when she first met Gu Zhang, and she is still like this now, she doesn't understand why she has made her life such a mess.

It turns out that time really does imperceptibly.

After getting along day and night for several years, unconsciously, I have a deep affection for him.

In the past, she passionately pursued Gu Zhang, thinking that he was extraordinary, and her attachment to him was like a river flowing eastward. Because of admiration, because of his talent, because of his appearance, she was crazy attached to him. In fact, she couldn't find Gu Zhang. A sense of security, the more he wants a sense of security, the more he is forced to make choices. In the end, a chase is also a farce.

And Tang Weiqu, since she was a child, knew that he was not a smart person, vulgar and mediocre, from the outside to the soul, she had never admired him from the bottom of her heart, but it was just such a person who had been rejected by him since he was ten years old. Father adopted her until she got married, had children, divorced and downcast, and waited silently. She was used to taking his dedication for granted, and only when the yin and yang were separated, did she wake up. Unfortunately, it was too late, and she couldn't even ask for warmth.

That night, she took Gu Bei by the hand and boarded the train going north overnight.

When I turned around and went to Tianjin to change trains, I found that the train track to Peiping had been bombed and there was no train to get there.

In desperation, she had no choice but to ask Gu Zhang for help.

Seeing that Tang Shishi's mental state was not right, Baoxiang hurriedly dragged people into the house, and ordered the old lady to serve tea and prepare water. At the beginning of the conversation, he heard Gu Bei's stomach growling, and hurriedly ran to the kitchen to make some food.

Turning around and thinking again, it's better to go upstairs first and grab Gu Zhe, the little slob, and let Tang Shihai see his son, maybe he will feel more at ease.

Gu Zhe is now sleeping alone, and is next door to the master bedroom. According to Gu Zhang, he is half a child with a free mind. He compared it with his own childhood and gained experience.So let him sleep in the room next to his own, which is easy to take care of, and secondly, when he finds something wrong, he can correct it in time.

In fact, the whole family joined the old mother Zhang Chunming and the two long-term laborers, and agreed that it was just Commander Gu who was overthinking.

When Baoxiang went in to grab people, he was sleepy soundly on his back, and Baoxiang pushed him, but he didn't wake up, and he didn't move. Baoxiang bent down, "Your father is back."

Waking up in an instant, Gu Zhe's sleepy eyes were filled with horror.

Gu Zhang is very strict, among the big and small family rules, one of them is not to sleep in late.The consequences of not listening to the warning are very serious, and Gu Zhe committed the crime under pressure.

"I lied to you."

"Oh my god, uncle, you don't bring such a scary..."

Baoxiang tugged at his ear, "Your mother and sister are here, downstairs, go and have a look."

Gu Zhe seemed to be sleepy, his reaction was a bit slow, he put on his clothes belatedly, and when he was about to go downstairs, Baoxiang grabbed him, "You also know that Uncle Tang is gone, your mother is in a bad mood, take care of me." Stay with her."

Gu Zhe nodded solemnly.

Gu Zhe walked through the porch, and the curtains were blown by the wind, waving incessantly. In the swaying and swaying, he vaguely heard crying, and then imprinted in his eyes, it was the face of Tang Shishi crying with red eyes, his sister hugged her, Weeping softly, crying suppressedly.

Gu Zhe has grown up a lot, and so has Gu Bei, except that Tang Shishi sent him a photo of Gu Bei two years ago, he has never seen it again, when he was still young, but the memory is still fresh and engraved in his mind , he remembered that his younger sister was still a crybaby like she was back then, and she would cry until his father Gu Zhang's stick touched her body. Although it was noisy, it would not be as sad as it is now.

Gu Zhe's little heart, which was wider than the sea and taller than the sky, also felt melancholy.

He called out, "Mother." Seeing that Tang Shishi didn't respond, he raised his voice again and called out.

Tang Shishi raised her head blankly, "Oh, it's Gu Zhe." Wiping away her tears, "Come here, I want to see you."

Gu Zhe sat down beside her, and Gu Bei called him in a low voice, "Brother."

After all, the flesh and blood have been separated for too long, and Xiang Gu is speechless.

Gu Zhe felt that he had a lot of things to say, and knew that he should enlighten his mother well, and then come to appease his sister, but seeing his mother and sister who were both familiar and unfamiliar, the firecrackers that were about to fire were like wet water, dumb up.He felt inexplicably aggrieved.

Fortunately, not long after, his uncle came out with bowls and chopsticks, and some porridge and side dishes, and the atmosphere was finally not so quiet.

Baoxiang smiled embarrassedly, "Sister Zhang went back to her hometown, there is nothing prepared in the kitchen, eat some porridge and water first, and have a good dinner after dinner." He saw the little girl Gu Bei looking at her with eager eyes. That pot of porridge, he sighed in his heart, felt that she was pitiful, and quickly served her a bowl of porridge, Gu Bei looked at her mother, as if he didn't dare to eat it.

After Baoxiang served Tang Shishi the porridge, he stroked the top of Gu Bei's hair, "Uncle boiled it himself, you liked it the most when you were young, and these peanuts, do you remember that it was the old man at the street corner, the little one?" Bought from a street vendor." He spooned a spoonful of peanuts into her bowl, "You will know after a taste, and you will definitely remember the taste."

Talking about things from childhood, Gu Bei lowered his head and thought for a while, "I don't remember."

Gu Zhe said again, "Why don't I remember it? I remember it clearly. I even stole a silver dollar to buy it, but I was beaten by my father until my ass blossomed. What's more, on the east street, there is a Is it a lake? When we were young, we sneaked out to swim together, and Uncle Bao dragged one of them to Dad like an eagle catching a chick, and it was beaten until the ass bloomed again."

The "Eagle" knocked on the table, "I saw you all swam far away that time, and I can't swim, so I was so frightened. It's clear that I beat you. If you don't punish me by kneeling and memorizing the house rules, it's really forgiving." about you."

Listening to Baoxiang and Gu Zhe's constant reminiscence of the scandalous things in the past, Gu Bei burst out laughing, not so timidly anymore.

Baoxiang put the bowl to Tang Shishi's hand and gently pushed it over, "Miss Tang, let's have something to eat, Gu Zhang is on his way back."

"I'm not hungry." Tang Shishi lowered her eyes, without any anger on her face.

Baoxiang sighed and didn't force her anymore.

When it was dark, Gu Zhang came back in the dark.

Tianjin City, where he was stationed, was defeated without a fight. After retreating from the war zone, he has been depressed.

When Tang Shishi saw him, she walked one meter away from him, stood up and said, "Gu Zhang."

"You want me to help you go to the Great Wall, right?"

She nodded.

"No, it's too risky."

"Gu Zhang, just for the sake of the past, help me."

"It's because of the past that I can't watch you go. You know how the battle is going over there, so what can you do if you go there." Everyone is dead.This sentence is too hurtful, Gu Zhang swallowed.

"I just want him to go home, ahh!" Tang Shishi cried uncontrollably, "What can I do? I don't know, I really don't know! I failed him, and now I regret it, so I just want to see him! "

"You are still young, there is no need, just calm down." Gu Zhang slowed down his tone.

Baoxiang and Gu Zhang discussed it, and decided to let her stay at home for a while, and send her to the south to go home. One is afraid that she will be overwhelmed on the way, and the other is that she will not be able to bear it physically. If you can't bear it, your body will collapse.

The wind and rain at night were so powerful that they whirred and shook the ground.

Baoxiang pushed away Gu Zhang's malicious hand, and said angrily, "What time is it now, go away, don't bother me."

Gu Zhang stretched out his hand dully, stuck it up, and hugged him, "Don't bother with those bad things, they happen, it's useless to worry about it, why don't you just look forward and think about the future." As he spoke, His nagging vigor in admonishing soldiers in the barracks came up again, and his tone was naturally a thousand miles away, so gentle and crooked, he said casually, "If I die in battle, don't be sad... ..."

Before he finished speaking, Baoxiang bit his chest muscle hard, and the pain caused Gu Zhang to beg for mercy. After he let go, Gu Zhang just felt baffled.

"Don't say such things!" The night was dark and blurry, but with the night light outside, Baoxiang's eyes were shining brightly and rippling with water.

"What?" Gu Zhang was puzzled, what did he say just now?

"You are not allowed to die, no matter when and where, you are not allowed to die!" He emphasized his tone.

Gu Zhang's heart softened into a ball, and he rubbed his forehead with the tip of his nose, "No, how could you be willing to make you a widow?"

"Fuck off!"

"Hahahaha!"

Gu Zhang always had a way to bring him back from his grief, he thought, he was reluctant to die.

As soon as the day turned, it was two months later.

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