The veterans had shining medals hanging on their chests. This was their honor, earned with their lives. Many people's eyes were red and sparkling.
The new recruits who were standing in awe saw the veterans standing in front with their heads held high. Some were envious and others were jealous. Most of them clenched their fists tightly, eager to kill the enemy bravely and be able to win such a supreme honor.
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"Killing the enemy on the battlefield, the honor belongs to these brothers who survived, to those brothers who died lying on the battlefield, and to every soldier who defended their home and country!" Zhou Zhidao looked serious and the atmosphere was solemn.
"Raising troops for a thousand days and using them for a while. The extremely vicious devils want to destroy our country and exterminate our race. As soldiers, we will fight bravely and fight bravely! We are martyrs when we die! We are heroes when we live. I hope each of you will do a good job."
Be prepared to sacrifice your life for the country at any time and fight the little Japanese to the bitter end!"
The recruits were inspired, almost clenching their teeth and shouting: "Fight to the bitter end! Fight to the bitter end!"
Seeing these officers and soldiers raising their arms and shouting, the onlookers had tears in their eyes. It was these brave soldiers who stood in front of them and marched forward one after another, so they could live a stable life.
Seeing the excited brothers, Zhou Zhidao also stopped speaking and turned towards Yang Ling: "Captain Yang, please say a few words and then we'll set off."
"Yes!" Yang Ling stood up and agreed, stepping forward.
"Brothers, our friendly army brothers in front have been fighting bloody battles with the Japanese in Mahuiling for several days and nights. Now it's our turn. Are you afraid?!" Yang Ling scanned the audience with his sharp eyes and asked coldly.
"Don't be afraid!" Whether they were veterans or new recruits, they were all fearless at this moment, with a thunderous roar coming from their throats.
Yang Ling nodded with satisfaction: "You are worthy of being my Yang Ling's soldier, he is talented! He is a man!"
"In the last battle, our regiment made the Kishi Maruyama Brigade cry for fathers and mothers. We sacrificed more than a thousand brothers and displayed the majesty of our sharp knife troops. Now we are strong again. I hope you will not live up to the name of our sharp knife troops this time.
! Let the little devil have a taste of the power of our sharp knives!"
"Must win!"
"Must win!"
Seeing the brothers who were high in fighting spirit, Yang Ling didn't waste any extra words and directly gave the order: "Let's go!"
The commander of the first battalion, Lu Xing, ran to the front of his team with a straight face and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Attention to all the first battalion, turn left! Two columns, set off!"
"Attention, Second Battalion, turn left!"
"All the third battalion, listen to the order and turn left!"
The officers issued orders one after another, and under the guidance of the flying flags, the heavily armed brothers marched in two columns to the front line of Mahuiling.
Seeing the orderly departure of the troops, brigade commander Zhou Zhidao was very satisfied and praised Yang Ling: "I didn't expect that you are so good at fighting and you are so good at training troops. In just a few days, you trained a group of new recruits like they were screaming."
Tiger and Wolf are truly the pillars of the country."
Yang Ling had just been unexpectedly promoted and received the Medal of Baoding. He was also very grateful to Zhou Zhidao for his kindness and humbly said: "I was able to train soldiers at that time. It was all under the guidance of the brigade commander."
Zhou Zhidao's tense face softened after receiving such a compliment from Yang Ling, and he said: "This time the Japanese are coming with great force. The battle on the Mahuiling front line will be tough. You must be mentally prepared."
Yang Ling stood up and said: "Don't worry, sir, I'm ready to die for my country at any time. As long as there is one person in our group, the little devil can't even think of taking a step forward."
"Okay, I feel relieved with your words. You guys go up first. I will go to the 302nd Group to have a look, and then I will lead the main force up."
"Yes!" Yang Ling stepped aside to get out of the way, and Zhou Zhidao, escorted by a group of guards, went straight to the station of the 302nd Regiment.
The brothers were inspired by Zhou Zhidao's patriotic speech and saw the veterans being awarded medals. At this moment, their emotions were high and they strode forward boldly. The whole team was filled with murderous intent and wished they could fly to the battlefield to fight with the little devils.
When the onlookers saw the team leaving, they rushed to the roadside one after another. They saw these mighty brothers stuffing hard-boiled eggs and newly made cloth shoes into their hands.
These days, Yang Ling and the others are stationed here and maintain strict military discipline. Qiu has done nothing wrong, and they have been unanimously praised by the villagers.
"Take it with you and go on the road, don't be hungry."
Although the villagers' houses were blown up by Japanese planes, they still gave their brothers the only food they had, not wanting them to go hungry to fight.
"Auntie, our army has dry food, just keep the pancakes." Seeing the aunt who had no family left, stuffing food for herself, some brothers felt their noses sore.
But the aunt stubbornly pushed the pancake into the brother's hand: "Auntie still has some, just take it."
There were also barefoot children running and jumping with the team, looking at the brothers who were carrying guns on the front line. They said in childish voices: "Uncle, when will you come back and continue playing with us?"
The brothers looked at the young children and replied with doting looks on their faces: "We will come back after we finish fighting the Japanese."
"Why do you want to beat up the little devil?"
"Because they are bad people."
Children with simple minds also said: "When we grow up, we will also fight against the Japanese and the bad guys."
The villagers crowded on the roadside, watching the team rush to the front line with tears in their eyes. Facing the eager eyes of these villagers, the brothers couldn't help but feel that their shoulders were heavy. They straightened their backs and strode towards the battlefield with their heads held high.
After bidding farewell to the reluctant villagers, the brothers stepped into the smoke-filled Mahuiling battlefield without hesitation.
Before they even arrived at the battlefield, the brothers could already feel the thick battlefield atmosphere. The choking gunpowder smoke floating in the air lingered for a long time, covering the sky above the Mahuiling area like gloomy dark clouds.
Both sides of the road were littered with bombed-out horse-drawn carriages and burning houses, and printed slogans could be faintly seen on the blackened walls: "Down with Japanese imperialism, swear to die as slaves of the subjugated country..."
After the rain, the road was wet and full of trampled mud, and the sun hidden behind the clouds made the air hot and humid. Allied officers and soldiers in ragged clothes and with depressed expressions rested on the roadside in twos and threes, and their dirty clothes exuded acid.
Bad smell.
"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!" The drivers of several cars loaded with injured people pressed their horns hard, causing the wheels to spin and mud to fly.
There was a commotion in the team, and they hurriedly moved to the side of the road, watching the car speed by. Through the swaying curtain, you could see a bloody mess inside, with blood already flowing out and a bloody ribbon spilling out.
"Wuang——"
A harsh whistling sound sounded from the sky, and several Japanese planes suddenly appeared from outside the mountains, roaring and swooping over.
The new recruits who were heading to the front suddenly became panicked, running around like headless flies, but the veterans were calm and calm, and shouted: "Get off the road quickly and hide in the grass!"
Although the recruits were fully armed and looked majestic and high-spirited, they were still a group of recruits who had been in the army for less than a few weeks. They threw themselves down in the grass and ditches on the roadside one after another.
But the Japanese plane was not aimed at them this time. It flew over the heads of the recruits lying on the ground with strong wind at low altitude, and went straight to the cars that were speeding forward to transport the wounded soldiers on the road.
"Boom——"
The car transporting the wounded soldiers was swept by a series of bullets, and a large amount of blood mist suddenly spattered. The speeding car fell into the ditch, and was soon exploded into a ball of fire by the bomb dropped by the Japanese.