The Japanese reinforcements broke through the outer blocking defense line and suddenly appeared on the battlefield. Faced with these energetic and well-equipped enemy forces, the Chinese brigades that besieged the remnants of the Japanese 14th Division followed military orders and began to withdraw and move in order to avoid destruction.
The 74th Army was ordered to withdraw as quickly as possible to Qinyang, Henan, to build fortifications to stop the pursuing troops. The order was issued to all brigades and regiments. The brothers who had just withdrawn from the battlefield and had not had time to take a breath hurriedly hit the road again and began to retreat.
Escape.
The lifeless earth was shrouded in the scorching sun. The blood-stained brothers dragged their exhausted bodies and trudged. Their military uniforms were blackened and torn by the explosions on the battlefield.
The stench of the array.
Compared with their miserable military appearance, the pessimism and disappointment of the failure to encircle and annihilate the Doiyuan Division is spreading like a plague. Their expressions are listless, their heads drooped and weak.
When marching to the Lanfeng battlefield, the army commanders at all levels emphasized that they had an absolute advantage this time and would definitely be able to encircle and annihilate the Tufeiyuan Division, which was alone and deep in the Lanfeng area, to avenge the country and the people who died.
After a winter of training, the brothers were enthusiastic about fighting. They maintained a high fighting spirit throughout the battle. They went all out and defeated the Doiyuan Division, so that they had to huddle in a small space.
Resistance within the region.
But what the brothers didn't expect was that their entire 74th Army had to pay more than 4,000 casualties. Just when they were about to wipe out the Dobien Division in one fell swoop, the friendly forces evacuated their positions without permission several times, resulting in their eventual failure.
The steps of the brothers were heavy, raising dust all over the sky. They retreated silently, with a feeling of unwillingness and anger suppressed in their hearts.
Army commanders at all levels also have anger stored in their chests, but what about anger? Gui Yongqing of the 27th Army and Huang Jie of the 8th Army who evacuated twice without authorization are both famous people in front of the Chairman, and they are high-ranking people.
Who dares to hold direct generals accountable?
"You evacuated bastard, you bastard!"
Captain Wang Huzhu turned around and looked back at the smoke-filled battlefield, his face full of unwillingness and anger. While cursing, he angrily kicked a wheelbarrow that was passing by to the ground, venting his inner anger.
"You have lost the battle, why are you kicking my car? If you have the ability to go back and fight the Japanese, how majestic a group of deserters will be when they are defeated." A middle-aged man with a gray turban on his head went to pick up the things that rolled on the ground.
package, while shouting in grievance.
The army suffered a humiliating defeat on the Lanfeng battlefield. Faced with the vicious Japanese army, millions of people had to drag their families with them and evacuate their occupied homes toward Wuhan. Their hearts were also full of dissatisfaction.
Abandon.
No one wants to become a refugee with no fixed place. The people in the enemy-occupied areas originally had confidence in their own army and donated money and materials to support them in fighting the invaders. But when they saw the army retreating again, their hearts
There are also feelings of disappointment and dissatisfaction.
The angry and unwilling soldiers and the disappointed and dissatisfied civilians were in a bad mood at the moment. They were crowded on this lifeless road, and the emotions accumulated in their hearts finally burst out.
Captain Wang Huzi, the company commander, was in urgent need of venting his emotions because of the failure to encircle and annihilate the Dofeiyuan Division, and the words of the middle-aged man who spoke to retort were the trigger for his emotions.
Wang Huzi's temper was already irritable. When he heard the sarcasm in the other party's words, he immediately rushed up with red eyes, grabbed the middle-aged man by the collar and shouted: "What the hell are you talking about? Who the hell is that?"
Deserters are defeated!"
The fierce look of the angry Wang Huzi was really scary, but the middle-aged man was also pessimistic and disappointed with them. He was not afraid of the roaring Wang Huzi and retorted: "If you are not a deserter, why are you running away? We will donate money and materials."
It's not for you to eat and drink, it's for you to fight the Japs, but you are good, you can run faster than anyone else, and leave us all to the Japs..."
The middle-aged man became more and more excited as he talked. They left their homeland where their ancestors had lived for generations, saw their homeland fall, and themselves became refugees, living a precarious life. All their dissatisfaction was vented.
"Who said we didn't fight the Japanese? Countless of our brothers died there! They will never come back!" Wang Huzi also roared excitedly, saying that if they didn't fight the Japanese, it would be an insult to them.
"It's none of my business how many of you died. I just saw you running away. Our village was taken over by the devils and we lost our home. How will we live in the future..."
"You're a bunch of losers, what's the use of raising you?" Some people around also started shouting.
Wang Huzi and others fought passionately to defend their home and country, but in the end they shed blood and sacrificed their lives, but were not understood by the people. Instead, they were criticized. Unable to bear it any longer, they raised their fists and hit the person who yelled the loudest.
"ah!"
No one expected that Wang Huzi would suddenly start beating people. The people who were crowded with the army were suddenly confused, and many people screamed.
"The soldiers are beating people! The soldiers are beating people!" Someone in the chaotic crowd shouted, causing chaos on the crowded road.
Wang Huzi started to beat the man, and the young men from the other village also rushed forward. The brothers in Wang Huzi's company also pressed forward, shouting and refusing to give in to each other.
It started out as a fight between a few people, but eventually turned into a group fight involving hundreds of people. There was a period of wailing, a smoky atmosphere, and the road was blocked.
When Yang Ling saw the team stopped and a commotion broke out in front, he thought it was the Japanese troops who had crossed the line and moved to the front, so he hurriedly led the regiment's security platoon to the front quickly.
However, when they arrived at the scene of the incident, they discovered that it was not a group of Japs intervening at all, but a group fight between soldiers and civilians. Wang Huzi, the company commander, not only did not stop it, but instead started beating him shirtless, which made him angry.
There is smoke coming out of the seven orifices.
"Bang!" Yang Ling pulled out the shell gun from his waist and pulled the trigger toward the sky.
The two sides who were shouting and fighting together were shocked by the sudden sound of gunfire, and they all stopped. Only Wang Huzi and a tough man struggled on the ground, strangling each other's neck.
Yang Ling waved his hand, and the brothers in the security platoon immediately stepped forward to separate the two fighting parties. Yang Ling kicked each of the two fighting parties together, and then let them separate.
The encirclement and annihilation of the Tufeiyuan Division failed, and Yang Ling, as the commander of the army, was not in a good mood. At this time, Wang Huzi was not worried and tried to cause trouble for him. He wanted to slap his ears with melon seeds.
"What's going on?!" Yang Ling asked with a dark face, staring at the two people with bruises and swollen faces.
"Sir, he started beating people!" the citizen angrily pointed at Wang Huzi and complained.
Wang Huzi also raised his neck and said: "Regiment Vice-President, our brothers are protecting them through life and death, but they call us deserters and defeated generals. I can't swallow this breath in my heart!"
Yang Ling kicked Wang's beard and cursed: "You can't hit people even if he scolds us. We are soldiers. We have the strength to save the little devils. Don't be arrogant to our own people!"
Wang Huzi was unconvinced after being scolded like this, but because of Yang Ling's majesty, he snorted and did not dare to refute.
"The reason they scold us is because we have failed to live up to our expectations! We brothers left our homes to fight in the army, and sacrificed thousands of brothers along the way. We crawled around in the rain of bullets, with our heads tucked into our trousers every day.
But we failed to hold on to this land and kept losing battles. We deserved to be scolded by them! Who told us that our lives were so cheap? We couldn’t even get a straw mat when we died..."
Yang Ling scolded Wang Huzi who bowed his head silently, but he heard the people around him lower their heads in shame. When the country was destroyed and the family was in ruins, unity was needed, but they blamed the retreating army for the fall of their homeland. In fact, this army
He also shed blood and sacrificed his life to protect this land.
"Take out your money and give it to the injured fellow man to apologize." After Yang Ling finished scolding, he said to Wang Huzi and the others.
Although Wang Huzi and the others were extremely reluctant, they still took out the military pay they had saved and handed it over to the common people who had bruises and swollen faces to apologize.
Yang Ling's words made these common people know that they should not put all the responsibility for the fall of their homeland on the army. After calming down, they would not accept money at this moment.
"Sir, we also have something wrong. Don't worry about it. The bosses shed blood and sacrificed their lives with great efforts. You are fighting the Japanese in the front. We are not unreasonable people. We can take the money from the boss to buy his life."
A middle-aged man shouted to the people around him: "Guys, please tell me if this is true."
"Yes, bosses, please keep the money, we don't want it." People around him also agreed.
Seeing the actions of these people, Yang Ling was deeply moved and raised his hands to salute them. Wang Huzi and others also raised their hands, which made the people feel uneasy.
"Boss, are you hungry? I still have some pancakes here." A common man looked at these blood-stained soldiers and subconsciously took out the dry food in his package.