The crowd parted, revealing a dozen women in Tsing Yi and cheongsam with white flowers on their temples.
They are the stars of the Shanghai Grand Theater. After the battle at the Four-Hing Warehouse, where they played the drums and sang, they became far more famous than before. If the soldiers wanted to hear them sing, they had to do it.
The leading woman in green strode forward, stood on the embankment, and shouted loudly to the warehouse: "Sir, sir, I want to hear the little girl and others sing. We are honored to sing, but we sing for the heroes and sing for our country."
Songs, how can there be songs without music? Sir, please wait for a moment for the musicians to arrive. The little girl and others will sing you a new song composed by an anti-Japanese hero due to the Battle of Sihang Warehouse."
"Haha, no problem, good wine goes with good food, good songs go with good tunes, the sky is getting dark, the little devils don't dare to attack, our brothers can afford to wait. This time, we will be ready and waiting." Warehouse.
Lei Xiong couldn't help laughing.
In a good mood, he even said a few elegant words.
"I will definitely live up to your wishes." The woman in green looked towards the warehouse and smiled sweetly.
Turning to look at the soldiers who were holding the window open and staring so hard that his mouth was almost drooling, Lei Xiong shouted softly: "Rin Nenliang, you have to squeeze your balls, you, Zhao Laowu, you are the one who said it,
If you go any further, you're already outside the window, do you think you can't be killed by a fall from a height of more than ten meters, you bastard?"
"Hey, I wonder what song these pretty girls will sing for our brothers, company commander, I just want to hear it clearly." Veteran Zhao Laowu, who was named by Lei Xiong, smiled playfully amidst the laughter of the soldiers.
answer.
"Go away, just listen to the music with your ears. When did it become popular to listen to music and listen to the music with your ears? Please wipe your saliva for me. You girls are heroes now. Do you understand what a hero is? Stop it.
It feels like I have never seen a woman in my eight lives, which makes people laugh. I have lost all my shame for you. I asked a big star to sing for me, so I can restrain myself." Lei Xiong smiled and scolded, but in his heart he actually
Sighing silently.
Of course he knew why his brothers had made such a strange request just now. In fact, 780% of his soldiers were unmarried. They had not tasted the taste of women.
If they die in battle like this, before dying in battle, listening to women singing and seeing how pretty they look is probably their last wish.
While the soldiers were waiting with roaring laughter, the band arranged by Boss Du also appeared on stage.
The band, which numbered dozens of people, held their own instruments, lined up neatly, and stood solemnly and solemnly behind a dozen women.
"The beacon smoke is billowing and the heroes are singing, and the green mountains all around are listening, listening
The blue sky thunders and the golden drum beats, and the sea waves make harmonies
Heroic warriors drive away tigers and leopards, risking their lives to protect their homeland
Why is the battle flag so beautiful and the blood of heroes stained it red?
Why spring is always present in the earth, and flowers bloom in the lives of heroes
The hero jumped out of the trench, and a bolt of lightning split the sky, split the sky
The earth is sinking in and I am standing alone, the sky is falling and I am holding it up with only one hand
My feet are blazing in the fire, my whole body is shining with rainbows
Why is the battle flag so beautiful and the blood of heroes stained it red?
Why spring is always present in the earth, and flowers bloom in the lives of heroes
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From the beginning of the singing of more than a dozen women, the whole place fell into silence. Everyone was attracted by the lyrics and melody of this "Hymn to Heroes" pirated by Liu Lang in the future. The defenders of Sihang Warehouse fell silent.
Because, that song is about themselves.
When more than a dozen women finished singing once and re-sung the second time, the defenders of the warehouse first responded in a low voice, and then tens of thousands of people responded softly.
When she became popular, she was already singing like thunder.
Tears are no longer valuable at this time, because everyone shed too many tears today. They were moved by themselves and by the soldiers. But everyone shouted in unison, "Why does spring always exist in the earth? The life of a hero
When "flowers bloom", they still shed tears. Because they all understood that from this moment on, the seed called "unyielding" in their hearts had broken out of the cocoon, even if they faced the Japanese aggressors, they were far more sharp than China.
Even if they use swords and guns, they will not retreat again and again.
Unyielding is what the heroes on the opposite side bring to them, and it is also the most precious thing in this era like diamonds.
Many years later, many people who are still alive here still remember that on that gloomy evening, across the Suzhou River, there were tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians on both sides. Among them were generals, soldiers, old people, and children.
There are men and women, and they sing together "The beacon smoke is billowing and the heroes are singing..."
The whole of China was singing.
Once, twice, dozens of times, until the sound is hoarse and the night is deep, the singing still resounds throughout the battlefield, throughout the concession, and throughout Shanghai.
That is the hero of all Chinese people and the unyielding spirit of all Chinese people.
The Japanese looked as pale as the Chinese sang.
Even if their reinforcements are already on their way here, even if the machine guns they set up are already only tens of meters away from the chests of the Chinese people.
The ragged Chinese people, whom they regarded as pigs, were still singing loudly.
Because they have heroes and they are not afraid.
That night, newspapers in Shanghai, Nanjing, Xi'an, Chengdu, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau and other major cities printed extra headlines to publicize the "tragic farewell" between the defenders of the Sihang Warehouse and the people on the south bank of the Suzhou River.
In the early morning of the same day, as soon as the newspaper was published, students in major cities took to the streets again. For a while, this declaration of "tragic farewell" became the most popular slogan for the parade.
Behind us is Shanghai!
Behind Shanghai is the capital Nanjing!
Behind Nanjing is home, the defenseless wife, children and children!
We have no retreat! We have no choice but to fight to the death!
In just a few days, these words spread like the wind across the entire land of China.
And the "Heroic Hymn" that was appropriate to the occasion became popular across the country, and even spread faster than the future Red Republic. Because in that era, the Red Army only fought at home, but in this
At this time, the enemy invaders have already invaded the home.
There is no time when all of China needs heroes more than now.
Of course, whether the propaganda department deliberately did so or pretended not to care, except for a few insiders, no one knows the name of the super "cultural thief" behind the "Hymn to Heroes" author.
This is exactly in line with the wishes of a certain group. Otherwise, he will always have the psychological shadow of owing others copyright fees. If you really count it, it is really an astronomical figure. Calculated according to this popularity, the copyright fees plus
Even if he was fined, even if he, Mr. Liu, had a fortune of hundreds of millions, he would probably go bankrupt.
Besides, how long does it take? Life goes on, and piracy doesn’t stop. What’s more, sometimes, piracy is really something you can’t help yourself.
After the "Hymn to Heroes" became a hit on the scene, and the chorus of more than a dozen women and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians was played over and over again on the radio, Lieutenant Colonel Ji realized that he had married a husband who was almost all-around talented.
Not only can he fight, he can also write poetry, and now he is even so good at composing music and lyrics.
Just when Lieutenant Colonel Ji was still immersed in the aura of his almighty husband and could not extricate himself, reporter Liu Da was the first to take action. No one showed up, and the call came. "Captain Liu, our newspaper wants to use the Songhu Battle to inspire
The patriotic enthusiasm of the people across the country, please help us write a song to sing about the motherland!"
Reporter Liu Da naturally said this for a reason. In this era, China has just overthrown the feudal dynasty and has not yet emerged from the semi-feudal and semi-colonial era. Even if they receive education, many people still accept the same old routine. To put it bluntly, this
At that time, the vast majority of Chinese people did not have the concept of a country.
To future generations, this may be a bit of a fantasy, but to the Chinese of this era, it is like this. Including the vast majority of soldiers, if you talk to them about patriotism and love for the nation, it would be more practical to give them an extra piece of military pay.
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Even the Liu Lang Independent Regiment used high military pay to attract people from the beginning, and then slowly instilled the concept of patriotism and patriotism, and cultivated it bit by bit.
The national government, which nominally unified China through the war against Japan, naturally wanted to use "patriotism" education to unite people all over China, and important propaganda departments such as newspapers and radio stations were naturally the vanguard.
Of course, such propaganda is also necessary for the Red Army, which attaches great importance to patriotism. In fact, like the national government, they are now "poor". When there is no actual benefit to unite people, then
I can only use idealism.
To put it bluntly, the current goals of both parties are the same. To the people of the country, whether you have read a book or not, everyone must learn to be patriotic now. Only if you are patriotic can you shoulder the mission with passion.
Pick up the gun and join our team to fight the little devil.
Without such powerful propaganda, do you think that more than 20 million people would really join the army and fight the Japanese?
If there was no publicity, no matter how brutal and brilliant the battle at Sihang Warehouse was, it would probably end at the Songhu battlefield and the concession, where hundreds of thousands of Chinese people would know about it, and then quietly disappear in this ruthless road of history.
In the long river, not even a small bubble will bloom.
Faced with such a request, how could Liu Tuanzuo refuse?
"My Motherland and Me" was released in less than a quarter of an hour.
"My motherland and I cannot be separated for a moment..." Just the first sentence brought several women to tears. Even though Liu Tuanzuo's humming was not very catchy, his lyrics were well written.
OK!
"Husband, you must also write a song for me, leave me alone."
Lieutenant Colonel Ji, who is a new wife, is not as selfless as Reporter Liu Da at the moment. She only hopes that her husband, who is about to go to the battlefield, will be hers alone at this time. As the situation on the battlefield in Songhu becomes increasingly serious, she has already had a premonition.
, my husband and the brothers of the Independent Regiment are about to embark on a journey, and many of them may never be seen again.
No problem, "Moon on the Fifteenth" was given to his wife and all the wives of soldiers. Liu Tuanzuo almost didn't think about it. This song was so familiar to him that he couldn't be more familiar with it. All he had to do was turn the border into a battlefield, that is,
Can.
"Liu, can you give me a song too?" The little foreign girl who heard the news was so shy that she joined in the fun.
How about "yesterday once more"? Poor Liu Tuanzuo only remembers this English song. No matter whether it succeeds or not, he can only use it to suit the occasion. Although the tune is not very accurate, and it does not have Carpenter's flavor of using softness to overcome hardness, it is still good.
Well, Lang Tuan Zuo deliberately smoked two cigarettes with a smoky voice that was enough to make waves surge in the little foreign girl’s blue eyes like the sea. If it weren’t for the real wife watching her sideways, Lang Tuan Zuo would probably...
I'm afraid, the little butterfly from the future is destined to go further and further down the dark road of piracy and cannot look back.
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ps: I recommend a friend’s new book "The Blood-stained Mountains and Rivers of the Anti-Japanese War", a new book called Seedling, book friends can collect it first. There is also a book called "The Blood-Stained Mountains and Rivers of the Anti-Japanese War", with 3.2 million words and 10,000 books. It is very well written. You can check it out.
Take a look. Ahem, the Mountains and Rivers of the War of Resistance series is highly recommended.