Although this funeral, attended by almost all the military officials in Jingxing County, was the highest-profile funeral, it by no means meant that it was the last one.
As early as last night, the bodies of soldiers who died in yesterday's last pursuit battle or blockade battle and were collected by each army had begun to be buried one after another.
The Cunxingqi Brigade of the 3rd Army, the 129th Division and the 17th Division basically chose to bury the remains of the soldiers who died in the mountain where they died in the battle, and wrote down their serial numbers and combat experiences in detail so that their descendants could remember them after the war.
Come to pay your respects.
However, Liu Lang suggested to these officials that he should leave detailed drawings of the location of the burial tombs, keep a detailed record of the names and addresses of the officers and soldiers buried there, and ask nearby villagers to take care of them.
Only he, a little butterfly from the future, knew that the Patriotic War would last much longer than these generals thought. It was not one year or two years, but several times that time.
The long days of wind and rain have already mottled the names and records on the tombstone.
In the past, countless tombs of anti-Japanese heroes disappeared in obscurity in the terrible years. Not to mention that after experiencing several years of civil war, their families could not find their existence, even the comrades who personally laid them there
, I want to pay homage to them after the war, but I can no longer find a mausoleum that integrates with Qingshan.
In later generations, many times volunteers hoped to help the unknown bones found in the unknown tombs of the anti-war heroes to return home. The plan touched countless Chinese people, but most of them were helpless. The long years almost left them behind.
All traces of this world are quietly erased.
Even if he is found, his relatives are no longer here.
As a soldier, Liu Lang knows that they are not afraid of death, but they are afraid of being forgotten. Forgotten by time? Forgotten by relatives? Or forgotten by history? Maybe, a little bit of both!
Liu Lang hopes that this kind of helplessness will not happen again in China.
Liu Lang even hopes that one day in the future, the descendants of these heroes and the descendants of the Chinese nation who were blocked by them will stand on the towering Taihang Mountains during the traditional Chinese Qingming Festival, staring at their tombstones made of flesh and blood.
Say thank you to them.
Although, they may not hear it or may not want to hear it, but that doesn't matter.
The important thing is that the red leaves all over the mountain are dyed red by their blood, while the red flags and white flowers all over the mountain represent that a nation will not forget this era, this great era.
A nation that easily forgets its history has no hope. A nation that does not remember its history will inevitably become a stepping stone for other nations in the great development of various ethnic groups competing for success, and will eventually disappear in the tide of civilization development.
The generals all listened to Liu Lang's suggestion and ordered the personnel in charge of archives in each regiment's staff department to record the location of each martyrs' tomb and the names of officers and soldiers in detail and submit them to the division headquarters for preservation. At the same time, special funds were also allocated to nearby troops.
The villagers hope that after the troops leave, they can repair and pay homage to the tombs of the martyrs scattered all over the mountain.
This money, long before Liu Langlin went to Shimen, notified Liang Wenzhong to transfer the seizures from the homes of several Japanese elements who ransacked their homes in Jingxing County to the 129th Division and the 17th Division. The Cunxingqi Brigade belonged to the Central Army and was comparable in terms of funding.
Those two divisions are much better off and can handle it themselves.
The soldiers who died in the independent regiment were not buried in the Niangziguan area in eastern Shanxi. Officers above the rank of second lieutenant were wrapped in white cloth and placed in coffins, while officers and soldiers below the rank of sergeant were cremated on the spot and transported by the carts prepared by the Huashang Group.
The Independent Regiment Logistics Department and the Security Department sent guard troops to send them back to the Independence Regiment Martyrs Cemetery in Guangyuan, Sichuan for burial.
This work also started as early as yesterday after the 77th Infantry Regiment and the 78th Infantry Regiment were completely wiped out. Zhang Ruhao, Liang Wenzhong and Xiao Fenghua are in charge of this matter.
As for injured officers and soldiers, each army originally had its own field hospital, but in the future, the Army God and Lieutenant General Zhao seemed to have already targeted Liu Lang, a rich man, whenever they needed surgery or were judged by their own doctors to be seriously injured and difficult to treat.
He ordered the wounded to be carried to the field hospital of the Independent Regiment.
Originally, the field hospital of the Independent Regiment was not large in scale. Although the Independent Regiment won consecutive battles in Shandong, it was not unscathed. On the Jiuguan front line alone, dozens of casualties and hundreds of casualties were killed. In addition,
In the Qigen Village ambush, the Battle of the River Valley, the two raids at Jingxing and Shimen, and in yesterday's final pursuit battle, the number of people injured by bayonets, gunshot wounds, artillery wounds and even falls exceeded 400.
Don’t think that the battlefield is all filled with gunshot wounds. There are also many injured due to various accidents during charges and forced marches. For example, during the overnight rush from the river valley to Jingxing County, because of the rugged mountain road and poor visibility, there were at least two three-bungee vehicles.
The son fell off a cliff, causing non-combat casualties of more than ten people.
It can be said that the field hospital of the Independent Regiment is a little short of resources just to provide care for the minor and serious casualties of the Independent Regiment. However, looking at the equipment of the field hospitals of the two friendly armies, it is even more inadequate. Not to mention the lack of military doctors who can perform surgical operations, even the various military doctors.
There is a serious shortage of medicines, and many people don't even have anesthesia, so they have to have their limbs amputated or their wounds sutured. They can only accept it hard.
Many things can be queued up according to priority, but those who are injured cannot wait. The result of waiting can only be death. A soldier dies on the battlefield, that is his destination and glory, but if he dies in the hospital,
Even dying on the hospital bed waiting for treatment is a shame for every medical staff, and it is a lingering shadow for life.
Because that is their battlefield.
The battlefield of the soldiers is on the front line, defending their homes and the country in the smoke of gunfire. The battlefield of the military doctors is on the operating table and on the hospital bed. They want to take back the lives of these soldiers from the hands of death.
The field hospital sent distress telegrams to the regiment headquarters one after another. They needed more plasma and more doctors.
Plasma is easy to talk about. Without even giving an order, those good guys will roll up their sleeves, reveal their strong arms, draw out their own red blood and pour it into the bodies of their comrades. But the doctor is a langdanzao, no matter how powerful he is, he can't change it.
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Usaburo Koizumi played a great role. After returning to Jingxing County from the front line and knowing the distress of Deputy Zhang, he volunteered to work as a group of captured Japanese military doctors.
Perhaps he was chilled by the cruel military orders issued by his commander after the city was broken, or perhaps he did not suffer the tragic fate he imagined after being captured. He encountered the Japanese military doctors of the 20th Division’s rescue team in Jingxing County who were massacred by their own side.
He was actually persuaded by Usaburo Koizumi.
In one afternoon yesterday, more than 30 Japanese military doctors participated in the rescue of the wounded. Moreover, there was no phenomenon that the Japanese military doctors acted mischievously and deliberately harmed the lives of the wounded as everyone was worried about at first. Although there were still a few under their hands.
One of the wounded eventually died of his injuries, but according to the judgment of our own military doctors, it was all because the injuries were too serious, and even they were unable to do anything.
Two days later, before the troops in Jingxing County returned to their respective stations, the two lieutenant generals were worried about going to the independent regiment field hospital to inspect the condition of their wounded. The two lieutenant generals could hardly believe their eyes.
According to the report they had, the two divisions sent a total of more than 600 seriously injured people to the independent regiment field hospital. According to their own estimates, if 200 of the 600 seriously injured people could survive two days, then they would have to
Thank God.
You must know that in this era, wound infection is the biggest reason why wounded soldiers cannot survive. Seventy percent of the wounded will eventually die from this. This is why for them, the commanders of the army, almost all soldiers are injured or killed.
This can all be considered as the reason for attrition. Not many seriously injured people can return.
But they don’t know that the most advantageous thing about the Independent Regiment Field Hospital is not the high level of military doctors, but the sufficient reserves of medicines, especially the new drugs that Huashang Group has not yet launched, but the Independent Regiment can’t wait to equip them with.
-----Penicillin is even more crucial for the wounded.
The effect of anti-bacterial infection in trauma is even greater than that of sulfonamide. This new drug, which will be worth ten dollars a piece in Europe and the United States in the future, will be used by military doctors without hesitation on the wounded, regardless of whether they are independent regiments or not.
Soldiers. The chance of the wounded and sick who have used penicillin to survive the infection is at least 90% higher than in the past when they relied on their own immune system.
Eighty-five percent of the seriously injured soldiers survived in the two divisions. Although some of the 600 people had their limbs amputated and could never return to the army, they were still alive. There were more than 500 people alive, which was predicted by the two generals.
It's twice as much as it was estimated to be and it has a twist.
However, in the short term, these seriously injured soldiers will not be able to return to the army, and all the troops have received military orders to mobilize. According to Chong Shangfeng, they are already considered elites, and they will not be able to stay in Jindong where there will be no more wars in a few months.
Meaning, they have to go where they are needed more.
Although the 17th Division and the 129th Division needed to repair due to excessive battle damage, it was not clear where they would be deployed, but the Independent Regiment had received a military order from the Ministry of Military Affairs and it was already clear where the Independent Regiment would go.
It was a bit difficult to take care of these seriously injured people. In the end, Liu Lang took the initiative to help these two solve their worries. However, the help was not in vain. The request of "taking advantage of the fire" almost failed the two Army soldiers.
The lieutenant general staged an incident of "two bespectacled generals beat up a greedy fat man" in front of countless officers and soldiers.
Of course, these are all things for later.
After a busy day, the military generals finally received urgent telegrams from the military headquarters. Army Major General Wang Shihe, the Chairman's Guard and Chief of Guard, has arrived in Taiyuan and will award medals on behalf of the Chairman to the main generals of various ministries who fought bravely on the eastern Shanxi front.
Although Liu Lang and Liu Tuanzuo were just a colonel commander, they were specially named by the Army Major General who arrived in Taiyuan and requested to go to Taiyuan to be awarded the title.
Although the urgent messages from various headquarters stated that they should speed up the processing of frontline military affairs and rush to Taiyuan, but thinking on the heels of this, they also knew that it would be unwise to leave the Army Major General who came to Taiyuan on behalf of the leader in Taiyuan City for a long time.
.There is no need for the leader to be unhappy. If that person in the Military and Administrative Department of Nanjing squints at your number, military expenditures will probably be reduced by one-third.
Liu Lang took the message and went straight to the 129th Division Headquarters. Although the battle was over, he still had to wait in line to divide the fruits! In addition to the supplies that had been transported to the mountains, there were also people. Juichi Terauchi had already agreed to exchange prisoners of war in the message.
, it seems that the speed must be faster than expected.