Originally, Old Man Wang lost the fight, and the landlord bully asked Old Man Wang to use his spare energy and make some money, so he threw Old Man Wang to the commander. The landlord and old wealthy man knew that very few people from the units who took over the troops could make it to the military camp alive.
few.
I just didn't expect that Old Man Wang would survive.
There were nine people in the hut, four or five of them were with Old Man Wang, who were both from Donglingou. The other few were from another village. The nine people were divided into three teams. It turned out that the scholar was from Old Wang's village.
, but Old Man Wang looked down on the scholar, and the scholar's head was a little awkward, so the scholar followed Xia Yuan.
Nine people and three forces are somewhat outrageous.
In fact, Xia Yuan did not interfere with their ideas. In front of the battlefield, all their intrigues would be reduced to ashes under the enemy's fire. Only by uniting can they survive.
For a minute, they stood at the door of the hut, and then they realized that there were a large number of recruits like them gathered on the playground. Most of them looked malnourished, with sallow complexions, and their bodies were as thin as bamboo poles, covered with flesh.
Bones, some people's legs are as thick as arms and look vulnerable.
Their platoon leader was the third platoon leader of the Ninth Company, a newly formed company. A veteran from the company who stayed at their door told a few people that in the last battle, several companies had been wiped out, but there were still some survivors in the Ninth Company.
A few people formed a team of officers of the Ninth Company, and then began to recruit soldiers. Most of the soldiers recruited were farmers who had never been on the battlefield and had no combat effectiveness.
When the second platoon leader came with his men, the veteran who was chatting with them stepped aside.
Xia Yuan glanced away, and the second platoon leader brought more than 20 new recruits who were wearing military uniforms crookedly like them. They had dark skin and rough hands. Most of them were strong men pulled from the village to join the team.
The second platoon leader had a worried look on his face. With so many recruits, it would take a long time to train.
Fortunately, there has been no fighting recently.
The July 7th Incident was also in the Eastern Fourth Province, and the Japanese have not come yet.
"Xu Liu, you will be the squad leader of the third class and manage the nine of them."
The second platoon leader's surname was Zhao. Xu Liu told them that the second platoon leader's name was Zhao Shiguo, just call him second platoon leader. Zhao had a vigorous and resolute attitude in everything he said and did. Those who survived the battlefield had experienced the cruelty of war.
Everything I do is a bit fiery and has a sense of arrogance.
The second platoon leader disliked these new recruits, but he had a pretty good impression of Xia Yuan.
"I hope you can all learn from him in the future!"
After the gathering, Platoon Leader Zhao also took the opportunity to name Xia Yuan, "How many of you, when I called you this morning, stood up and waited for me. When you entered the military camp, you must look like a soldier. Look at his attitude when he stood.
, look at you again!"
Everyone's eyes were immediately attracted to Xia Yuan.
Xia Yuan is 1.8 meters tall and stands out among a group of farmers captured from the countryside. He stands very upright, with his head held high and his face resolute. He is like a flag. At first glance, he is eye-catching.
As soon as he lit up, even though the second platoon leader didn't want to be attracted to him, his standard military posture and tall stature still caught his eye.
Make people feel good.
Everyone is imitating Xia Yuan's appearance, but they always look a little different.
"Practice hard. If you can practice well, I will make you the deputy squad leader." The second platoon leader walked up to Xia Yuan. He was very optimistic about this big man.
He has served as deputy squad leader and squad leader, and has taken over many new recruits. The quality of these recruits is simply hard to describe. But thinking about the time when he first joined the national army, he was just like them. Even he was not as good as himself at that time.
The tall guy in front of me.
Although his face is a little haggard, he is full of energy. Although his straight height may not be practical on the battlefield, after all, he is too tall and his target is too conspicuous, but with this energy, he is very eye-catching.
There is no other way. After experiencing so many worlds, joining the national army as a strong man is simply a dimensionality-reducing blow to these new recruits.
For a while, what the second platoon leader said made many recruits feel a little sour. Being able to be the deputy squad leader when they first joined the company was a much better treatment than them.
Xia Yuan responded calmly: "Yes!"
After the second platoon leader left, Xu Liu smiled and said to Xia Yuan: "Yes, we have received many recruits, and how many of them are like you? If they are all like you, who would be willing to use poisoning?"
Everything has two sides, and the national army knows all about it. There are those who are truly willing to serve the motherland, and there are those who come to earn money. Most of them are those who have been oppressed and exploited by landlords and bullies and have no way out.
After the promulgation of the Six-year Military Service Law, a young man was captured.
Those who disobey and run away will naturally be punished with poison. If they are caught and not beaten, they will continue to run away.
Last night, several people were caught escaping. When they were running for exercise, they could see several people hanging with ropes from the trees on the roadside with bloodstains all over their bodies from whips. It was not to mention how miserable they looked.
"My dear, this beating is too harsh."
When the wind blew, the hanging people swayed a few times, and Old Man Wang was frightened to see them.
"Obey orders and maintain normal training, that's what you should do." Xu Liu looked at the man hanging in the tree: "If you disobey, you will end up like them."
Xia Yuan glanced at it and then withdrew his gaze. These people would definitely not survive. The officers of the national army never regarded these people as human beings. If they met a good officer, they might be able to survive. If they met a bad officer, they might survive.
These people were hung up for a day without food. When they get up tomorrow, no matter how badly injured they are, they have to get up for training. If they can survive for a week, they can call them Xiaoqiang. Most of them won't be able to hold on for long.
, will be tortured to death.
During this period, the number of non-combat attrition has exceeded the number of combat attrition.
The bald man once went to inspect the army and was so shocked by the sick soldiers and the new recruits who were being tortured. He ignored other people's gazes and went to beat the platoon leader and commander of the responding unit with his cane. That time, the bald man saved two hundred people.
, but throughout the country, this kind of situation is too common and occurs frequently. Over time, some officers who were originally friendly to the recruits will find that it is better to teach them with poisonous punishments than to treat them well, which will make them more obedient.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! By the year 1940, this situation will be even more serious.
Every once in a while, you will see a few such people hanging from a tree, which are used to warn these new recruits that this is the fate of escaping.
There are a lot of new recruits on the playground, there must be three to four hundred people, about the strength of a battalion. I don't know what kind of battle we experienced last time, but we have lost so many troops.
In the early morning, I ran a five-kilometer run and then went to eat. Everyone dragged their tired bodies and finally arrived at the eating place. The food was still the same as last night. There were not a few grains of rice in the big bucket of rice porridge. Stir it up with a spoon.
Just roll up the scattered rice grains. For lucky people, there will be some rice grains in the bowl. For unlucky people, the bowl will be full of rice water.
In the morning, Xia Yuan was praised by the second platoon leader. In addition, many people listened to what the second platoon leader said. The people in the cooking class recognized the big guy in front of them at a glance. Everyone else's bowls were filled with
When it was time to rinse the rice water, it was Xia Yuan's turn. The cooking class brother who served the rice stirred the bottom with a spoon a few times, stirred up the sunken rice, and gave Xia Yuan a full bowl of real rice porridge.
"Thank you, brother." Xia Yuan glanced at the brother who was serving the rice. He was the one who served everyone the rice last night. Most of the rice was served above. Ten grains of rice in a bowl is considered good.
I didn't expect that what the platoon leader said this morning would actually change the attitude of the little brother in front of me towards him.
However, Xia Yuan had no intention of hiding himself. When he actually touched the gun, that would be the time for him to show off his talents. It would be best if he could get the attention of those above him.
"The Battle of Songhu ended with the defense of the Four Lines Warehouse." Xia Yuan thought, he definitely couldn't just run away like the flying general. That would violate the rules of the system, and the final score would not be too high.
Not even a reward.
After thinking about it, if I could obtain a higher official position, I might be able to survive this unprecedented battle and even lead the last four hundred warriors to evacuate.
But there were some difficulties. The battle to defend the Sihang Warehouse was originally a "movie" performed for foreigners, just to gain more international support. So when the battle was at its most critical, Bald Head ordered them to withdraw.
There is no way, the Japanese army's status in the world is not low, it was fought by force. Don't look at the British concession in Shanghai. In the end, their concession was breached by the Japanese army. There are more than 400 warriors in the Sihang Warehouse.
More than 300 people were captured and worked as laborers, and very few came back alive.
This situation is similar to that of the 180th Division. He can change the fate of some people, but he cannot change the attitude of his superiors. They do not care about the life or death of these people. What they care about is how much international support they can get. Naturally,
They didn't care about the fate of the four hundred warriors. After the Songhu Battle in 1938, they were imprisoned in prisons in the concession for several years.
Later, Xie Jinyuan was assassinated in April 1941. In December of the same year, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War broke out. The Japanese army entered the concession and detained all this lone army and sent them to various places to do hard labor.
Being escorted to New Guinea, some of the soldiers escaped and some died of torture...
The Battle of Songhu was an even more brutal battle, with more than 700,000 Chinese troops and more than 300,000 Japanese troops. The number of dead and injured Chinese soldiers far exceeded 300,000. It was like a flesh and blood mill.
While thinking, Old Man Wang came over, interrupted Xia Yuan's thoughts, and said enviously: "Big man, when you become the deputy squad leader, don't forget about us. We all came from the same place as you.
of."
Xia Yuan glanced at Old Man Wang and said with a smile: "Just because you help me beg for water, I will never forget you. Everything else is a different matter. We must unite and not be divided. When we get to the battlefield, you
Are you still like this? This will only make you die faster. What I want is a group of brothers who can leave their backs to you."
"That's right." Old Man Wang nodded.
People in the other village also nodded, feeling that what Xia Yuan said was right and reasonable.
"I won't say anything else. One chopstick is easy to break, but ten chopsticks are bunched together. You all know this truth." Xia Yuan looked at everyone and said: "Fighting in a nest is not a hero. We must
Set your sights on the Japanese."
"Japanese?"
Everyone was a little surprised.
They were in the village with little information and had not heard anything about the Japanese.
In 1937, the Japanese were still far away from Henan. Their main scope of activities was in the four northeastern provinces. After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, they launched a war of aggression against China in an attempt to destroy China within three months. The first one launched was Songhu.
The battle was followed by the Battle of Jinling, the Jinling Massacre, etc.
After their arrogant idea of destroying China was shattered in three months, they occupied Jinling and took an extreme measure, that is, they carried out a brutal and inhumane massacre. They tried to use this method to make the Chinese people fearful and timid, but they did not expect that it had the opposite effect.
It aroused the determination of the whole country to resist Japan.
If it is inconsistent with the outside world and engages in internal fighting, China will perish sooner or later.
The few people in this hut are a microcosm of the whole of China. If there had been no Xi'an Incident, if there hadn't been... it's a pity that there had been no ifs. When China was in danger, there was a group of people who stepped forward to save China from the fire.
Among them, they are the heroes of the nation.
It is a good thing that Xia Yuan is in power. Although Old Man Wang and others are very envious, they also admire Xia Yuan. There is no way, they don't have Xia Yuan's size, nor Xia Yuan's ideological consciousness, nor Xia Yuan's
No one can compare to Xia Yuan in terms of experience. It can be said that no one in the entire 40th Division can compare to Xia Yuan, not even the commander of the 40th Division.
Many of the commanders of the national army are members of their families, and there are few commanders who have climbed up from the ranks step by step from the rank and file with real skills.
"gather!"
The rest time in the morning was only half an hour. Xu Liu called the people of the third squad to assemble, and then the platoon leader came over to lecture, and then took them to meet the commander of the ninth company. The commander of the ninth company was a rough man with dark skin.
Mi Qi is in her early years, with scars on her face, and looks fierce.
"My name is Du Guanggui, your company commander. From now on, you will be soldiers of the Ninth Company. Train well and don't think about escaping. Run. Where can you run? Can you run out of China? The Japanese are coming.
, they want to destroy China, you run home, are you waiting for them to come to your home and kill your relatives?"
The ninth company commander's surname was Du Guanggui. His speech was not as dry as the second platoon commander's, but he was easy to understand.
However, everyone was still quite unfamiliar with the Japanese. They suppressed this question and started training with Du Guanggui. Before the training, Du Guanggui led a few soldiers to bring them guns. A bunch of old Hanyang-made, also known as 'old sleeves'
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When receiving the gun, Xia Yuan picked up a Hanyang-made one that looked pretty good. He pulled the bolt and took a look at it. He couldn't help but frown. The rifling was smoothed.
Most of these guns were eliminated and the unwanted ones were thrown to them. They had a characteristic that they would not shoot where they pointed.