He didn't expect that he would point to the right person with a casual finger, and it was really the soldier's mother.
However, this old woman with a strong Sichuan accent was talking about them, not him. What does this mean?
He strode away from the crowd and walked towards the old woman. Liu Lang helped the old woman up with his own hands, "Honey, is your son also a soldier?"
"Sir, you are the one who is in trouble, can you make the decision for me?" A glimmer of light flashed in the old woman's dull eyes, staring closely at Liu Lang's collar badge, and her voice became urgent.
"I am Liu Lang, the leader of the Independent Regiment of the 23rd Army Group of the Sichuan Army. If you have any difficulties, I will make the decision for you!" Liu Lang comforted the old woman in his native accent.
"Captain? 23rd Army?" The light that had just appeared in the old woman's eyes dimmed. "If the captain is not good, my baby is not in the 23rd Army."
Obviously, the old woman knew what level of official the regiment leader was, but she did not know that Liu Lang, the regiment leader, was different from other regiment leaders. If we were to find a soldier, including the 23rd Army Group directly commanded by Liu Xiang,
The 22nd Army under Deng Xihou, the 20th Army under Yang Sen, the 43rd Army under Guo Rudong, looking at the entire Sichuan Army, if Liu Lang wants to find them, he will definitely be able to find them.
Who knows, he has an uncle who is the King of Sichuan!
Not to mention Liu Lang's Sichuan Army, even the armies in Songhu now, basically most of the army chiefs will give Liu Lang this face. And that face is all based on the performance.
The old woman didn't understand this, but Xia Guozhang, deputy commander of the 172nd Division of the 21st Group Army, understood it very well.
At that moment, the Army Major General, who was feeling a little ashamed, said: "Sister, if you have any request, it doesn't matter. As long as you tell me the number of your son's unit, Commander Xia and Captain Liu will definitely call you and ask you.
Peace of mind.”
Liu Lang calls "嬢嬢" and Xia Guozhang calls eldest sister. This is not because the Army Major General wants to take advantage of Liu Lang and raise him a generation out of thin air, but because Xia Guozhang is already in his early 40s this year and is not much younger than this old woman.
Even if he dared to shout, the old woman might not dare to respond.
He took the initiative to bring himself with him, which was also to express his apology for his soldiers hitting the old woman earlier. It was just to inquire about the life and death of a soldier, and Liu Lang's face was actually enough.
"Sir, are you the one responsible?" The old woman still had doubts.
The captain next to Xia Guozhang hurriedly introduced: "This is our 172nd Division Deputy Commander Xia..."
The person who could be sent to talk to Liu Lang by the deputy division commander was of course a smart person. When she saw that she had signed up as a deputy division commander, the old woman's eyes welled up with disappointment, and she quickly added: "Our division commander Xia has the rank of major general!"
This time, I was right.
As soon as she heard that there was a general in front of her, an incomprehensible light burst out from the old woman's dull eyes, and she knelt down with a plop. "Sir, please, let me see my children, please."
Please!"
"Sister, get up and talk, get up and talk!" The Army Major General quickly helped the kneeling old woman up, looked at Liu Lang who was thoughtful and said, "If you are just asking, I, Xia, can definitely do it, but if you go
See, I'm afraid only Commander Liu can help you, so you'd better give me your number first."
"My eldest son, second son, and third son all joined the 20th Army. Wa'er's father was worried about his son. The year before last, he also went to the 20th Army to become a gang leader, so Yao'er and I were left alone at home. Who knows?
My youngest son said he was going out to do business, but actually he was going to serve as a soldier. If I hadn’t received the letter he left for me three months ago, I wouldn’t have known about it.” Look at the two people standing next to me.
Officer, tears suddenly welled up in the old woman's dry eye sockets, and she started to cry. "It stands to reason that it is natural and natural for me to be a soldier, to be paid, to carry a gun, and to fight. My old lady should not come to them, but I am the only one left at home."
Just one pot! If the baby's father and the kids are all dead, I won't have any way to survive. I just want to leave a root for our Yang family, even if it's just one pot! I beg you, sirs.
.”
As soon as this statement was made, the entire audience was silent, including two army major generals.
No one expected that this old woman in ragged clothes who came looking for her son would have her whole family of five among the army.
The 20th Army, belonging to Yang Sen's unit of the Sichuan Army, has been fighting bloody battles on the front line for recent months, suffering heavy casualties. No one can guarantee that the old woman's husband and three sons are still alive.
Such an old woman naturally won the respect of all soldiers. Due to the inconvenience of turning on the independent regiment headquarters field radio station due to military confidentiality, the 172nd Division Division Headquarters radio station sent electricity to the 20th Army, and attached the old woman's husband and three
The name of his son and the number of his infantry regiment.
As for her youngest son, it was a bit difficult because he joined the army without telling his mother. Although he left a farewell letter to his mother before rushing to the Songhu front line, he did not leave his unit number and did not even know it.
In which army did he join the army?
However, they probably won't go anywhere else, and they presumably belong to the Sichuan Army. The 22nd Army to which Deng Xihou belongs is mostly from northern Sichuan, and the 23rd Army is mostly from eastern Sichuan. That is, the 20th Army and the 43rd Army are close to the southwest of Guizhou. According to Lao
As for the woman's hometown, Liu Lang still focused his verification on the 20th Army and the 43rd Army.
It still took time to wait for the feedback from the 20th Army and the 43rd Army. They placed the old woman in the car Liu Lang was riding in to take a nap, and arranged for someone to bring her hot tea and food. Although it was not fresh refreshments,
The old woman still ate very sweetly. Looking at her devouring the food, Liu Lang could imagine that the peasant woman who did not know Chinese characters had never left her hometown. She was the farthest peasant woman to go to the market in the town. She chose to leave her hometown.
She mustered up so much courage and put in so much effort to find her relatives.
In order to see her husband and son, she even walked all the way to Songhu, and then was carried away by the wave of refugees, and she had no supplies along the way.
Without strong enough faith to support him, Liu Lang knew that even a trained soldier would find it difficult to survive alone without any ability to protect himself.
However, this mother did it, and the motivation to support her survival may be her son and husband in the military camp. Even if life or death is uncertain, there is still hope.
With a family of five all in the military, Liu Lang's heart was hard enough. At this moment, he couldn't help but pray for this mother.
He was afraid that this mother would be disappointed. And her disappointment might mean the end of her life. Because the news coming from the two armies might be extremely cruel.
The 20th Army arrived in Songhu and was divided into two divisions. Liu Lang is unable to know the specific casualties of the 20th Army now, but in the past time and space, the 20th Army had a total of 3,706 killed, 7,049 injured, and 241 missing. The proportion of casualties accounted for
Sixty-five percent of the total strength of the army, which is more than 17,000 men.
In particular, the 794th Regiment, one of the three infantry regiments of the 133rd Division of the 20th Army, where the old woman's three sons belonged, had only 40 people left in the regiment when it withdrew from the battlefield. Legend has it that the 794th Infantry Regiment came to take over the defensive position.
When the officers and soldiers of the 48th Army watched the remaining soldiers of the 794th Regiment place the bodies of their fallen comrades in the trenches, filling up a 500-meter trench, many people burst into tears on the spot.
At this time, it was already noon and the visibility was extremely high. Although there was no early warning from the secret agent hundreds of kilometers away on the secret radio, it was obviously extremely unsafe for the two armies to be blocked on the highway.
However, it is not unusual for any party to move its heavy equipment off the road. Although the 21st Army was defeated and lost the courage and confidence it once had, they can at least maintain their intact structure. As long as they are moved
If the confidence they once had is given back to them, they can still be a fighting force.
No matter what, they must be given the respect of Paoze, even if the independent regiment is advancing and they are retreating. On this road, it is not just Xia Guozhang's 172nd Division, but also the 173rd Division, the 174th Division... six infantry divisions,
Although there are no tanks and trucks like the Independent Regiment and the Guard Regiment, there are still a lot of artillery, carriages, baggage and other materials. It is not something that Xia Guozhang can do just by saying to give way.
Liu Lang then entrusted Tang Yongming, the head of the Guard Regiment, and Zhang Ruhao, the deputy of the regiment, to go to the rear with a colonel leader sent by the Army Major General to report to General Liao, Commander-in-Chief of the 21st Group Army, and request the entire 21st Group Army to get out of the way and let the independent regiment
Passage.
Naturally, negotiations will not be accomplished overnight. Even if Tang Yongming still holds the military order from the Supreme Command, the 21st Group Army also has the withdrawal message from the Supreme Command.
Seeing that the two armies collided together and the road was completely blocked, the infantry in the fields simply took the opportunity to stop to repair and eat something before setting off again later. The Gui army's meals were also simple, with dry food bags in them.
It was filled with fried rice noodles. I used the helmet as a pot to scoop up a ladle of water from the ditch on the roadside and boil it. This was considered lunch.
The surrounding refugees had rice noodles and food distributed by the independent group, and began to make pots and rice. When they fled, they did not just leave alone, they often took all the household belongings with them.
Of course, this property sounds miserable. In fact, it is just bedding, clothes, an iron pot and even a kitchen knife. However, it comes in handy now.
In the wilderness, there is smoke everywhere, and there is also the smell of rice and wild vegetables mixed together. The refugees are reluctant to eat the little rice at once. They are basically two centimeters of wild vegetables found in the wilderness. It is said that
Wild vegetables, but it is already late autumn, and after countless refugees passing by, how many wild vegetables are there? In fact, most of the pots are just some leaves and bark that are not poisonous.
The reason why there is the smell of rice is that hunger makes people's sense of smell become more sensitive. Even the green smell of bark and leaves can make people smell the smell of rice.
Only those who have experienced hunger can know this feeling.
It's not like the defeated soldiers had never tried to steal the food from the refugees. Liu Lang's previous words alone were not enough to wake them up from their decadence.
But Liu Lang had already expected that this would happen, and specifically ordered the entire police reconnaissance battalion to be responsible for maintaining order. He also ordered in front of the Gui army that anyone who dared to rob the people would be killed without mercy.
Yes, what really prevented the defeated soldiers from plundering was the guns in the hands of the police reconnaissance battalion and the machine guns mounted on three bungs. In order to frighten this group of defeated soldiers whose morale was extremely low, the police reconnaissance battalion pulled
He took out all his light and heavy weapons except cannons.
The yellow and orange bullet belts hanging on the heavy machine guns and the machine gunners with their hands on the triggers of the heavy machine guns were enough to wake up the defeated soldiers. The murderous guys in front of them were defeated in the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War and the North China battlefield.
The elite of the Japanese who passed 2 divisions.
They probably killed more Japanese than they had ever seen.