Xiang Yingxin, whose pseudonym is Xiang Ying, was a war correspondent stationed in Baotou from the Central Daily News and participated in the entire large-scale civilian support movement from Datong to Yixian County.
Xiang Yingxin followed the first group of civilians and set off from Datong to Hunyuan County.
Because the Japs in and around Datong have basically been wiped out by He Guangming's battalion, and there are fighter jets from the Chahar Independent Regiment Aviation Brigade passing by in the sky, safety is guaranteed, so the civilian team can march along the road, so they start walking
It was relatively easy. After only one day's journey of more than 100 miles, the team arrived at Hunyuan County late that night.
The distance from Hunyuan County to Lingqiu County is almost a hundred miles, but it is much more difficult to walk because there are mostly mountain roads from Hunyuan County to Lingqiu County and there are too many road detours, so the civilian team chose to take a shortcut.
However, the trail has to climb up and down, which is not only strenuous but also more dangerous. From this section onwards, the civilian team began to suffer casualties.
At noon, Xiang Yingxin had just helped an old lady push her wheelbarrow over a hill and was about to take a sip of water. Suddenly there was a loud noise on the mountain road not far ahead, and there were faint sounds of crying. Xiang Yingxin immediately felt relieved.
He was startled, then put away the kettle as quickly as possible, picked up the camera and rushed forward.
After walking not far, Xiang Yingxin came to the mountain road ahead.
It turns out that there was a landslide on the mountain road, because there was a heavy rain in the mountainous area last night, which caused a landslide and blocked the narrow mountain road. It doesn't matter if the mountain road is blocked, because the mountains nearby are not too steep, and it is not easy to take a detour.
It was difficult, but the falling gravel and mud buried two civilians.
Most of the civilian teams took the village as a unit and went on the road collectively.
A fellow villager was buried by a mudslide. As a fellow villager, of course he would not sit idly by.
Soon, the rest of the peasants took action, finding tools and digging with all their strength. Those who couldn't find the tools even dug with their hands. Inspired by the peasants, Xiang Yingxin also joined the ranks of digging with bare hands. If time were spent,
Going back half a year or even three months, Xiang Yingxin would never have imagined that one day she would actually do such a thing.
Xiang Yingxin felt it was untrue, that she would care so much about the lives of two civilian husbands!
Dozens of workers dug for two hours and finally dug out the two workers who were buried by the mudslide.
However, it is a pity that both civilian husbands have suffered misfortune because they have been buried underground for too long.
Seeing this, many civilians burst into tears, but Xiang Yingxin couldn't help himself for a long time at the scene before him.
Among the two civilians who were buried, there was an old man. His limbs and even his face were bruised and bloody by the rubble. It is completely conceivable what kind of pain he endured before he died? But even so, the old man's backbone
He was still upright, using his old but still broad shoulders to protect a wooden box under him.
That wooden box was the material he was carrying, a large box of heavy machine gun bullets!
Looking at the old man's straight spine, Xiang Yingxin burst into tears, while continuously pressing the shutter, engraving this precious picture into the history of history forever on film.
The two peasants were hastily buried, and the remaining peasants were filled with grief and continued on their way.
Supplies had to be sent to the front line as quickly as possible. They couldn't stop, and they didn't even have time to grieve for the dead villagers.
It took two full days to walk the hundred miles from Hunyuan to Lingqiu. It was not until the evening of the third day that the first group of civilians finally arrived at Lingqiu County.
At the beginning, Xiang Yingxin thought that their enemy was just a difficult mountain road.
However, after passing Lingqiu County, Xiang Yingxin realized that the enemy of the civilian team also included Japanese soldiers!
Late at night on the fourth day, because the moonlight was very good, the civilian team decided to march at night, trying to cover a few more miles before the moon went down. As a result, when they reached a red stone ridge, fierce gunfire suddenly rang out on the road ahead.
Immediately afterwards, the local Eighth Route Army guerrillas rushed over and told them that there was a war ahead, and asked the civilian team to take a detour immediately.
The civilian team immediately took a detour, but when they were halfway there, a group of soldiers suddenly caught up behind them. It was unclear what the soldiers looked like in the darkness, but the civilian team instinctively felt that it was not the Eighth Route Army, so they accelerated their march one after another.
Speed, but the heavy supplies on their backs slowed them down.
After a while, the soldiers behind him caught up.
Sure enough, it was the Japanese. The Japanese chased and shot at the civilian husband continuously.
Xiang Yingxin had also received special training in the military command, so she could still remain calm at such moments. Because of this, she was able to discover that even at this time, none of the civilians responsible for transporting supplies threw away the supplies! Everyone
, no matter men, women or half-grown children, they all gritted their teeth and ran forward without saying a word.
Of course, bullets will never have eyes, and they will never choose to fly around because of the heroism of civilians. During the pursuit, civilians continued to be shot and fell down. There were fewer and fewer civilians left, and they were getting more and more panicked.
, but even so, no civilian husband has thrown away the supplies on his back, including a young woman with a baby in her breast pocket!
Finally, a group of Eighth Route Army soldiers came up on the mountain road ahead and blocked the Japanese pursuers.
After walking for a few miles, the civilian team finally stopped to take a breath. Xiang Yingxin saw the young woman with a baby on her chest and a wooden crate on her shoulders. She was standing there panting, so she walked up and gently walked over.
He gently patted the young woman's shoulder and wanted to tell her that the Japanese would not catch up for the time being and that they could stop and rest for a while.
As a result, Xiang Yingxin just patted her gently, and the young woman fell straight to the side.
Xiang Yingxin was stunned for a moment, and then he took back his right hand in a daze, and found that his fingers were covered with blood!
Perhaps it was a fall, but the swaddled baby started crying loudly. The cry immediately attracted the attention of nearby villagers, who gathered around them, only to find that the young woman had already died! Xiang Yingxin turned on the flashlight with trembling hands,
With the help of the flashlight beam, she could see clearly that there were several huge bullet holes in the young woman's chest!
Absolute fatal injury! Under normal circumstances, just one bullet can completely incapacitate a person.
Therefore, Xiang Yingxin couldn't figure out what kind of force was supporting the young woman's body? She was supporting her, holding the baby in her arms, carrying the army's military supplies, and ran for more than ten miles after being shot.
The mountain road? It wasn’t until the last moment that he finally collapsed. Even though he fell at the end, he still kept the posture of carrying the ammunition box on his shoulders!
However, when Xiang Yingxin's eyes fell on the baby's pink face, she understood everything!
Hope! Whether it is the old man who was buried by the mudslide before or the young woman in front of him, it is precisely because they are full of hope that they are so strong! Their hope is for their children, for the land, and for the future of the nation! For the children, for
In order to give this land a better future for future generations, they will never bend their backs even if they bear a heavy burden. They are the true backbone of the Chinese nation!
…
In Tianjin, the war room at the headquarters of the Chahar Independent Regiment.
Du Junjie was working on the sand table with several combat staff officers, but the target of the operation was not the battlefield around Peiping, but the Far East where the Chinese and Soviet armies were fighting.
Zhukov didn't know what kind of psychology he had, but he actually took the initiative to inform Xu Rui of the news about the Far East battlefield. Perhaps, Zhukov actually had the intention in his heart to let Xu Rui give guidance to the Soviet army at the critical moment, but it was impossible for him to do this.
Speaking out, Zhukov always had a very high self-esteem and was unwilling to show weakness.
Du Junjie said in a deep voice: "Commander, the Japanese armored group is advancing very quickly. After capturing Obluchye at noon yesterday, today it has advanced to the outskirts of the small town of Novoraichhinsk. It will take three days to move forward."
After advancing three hundred kilometers, the speed is not much worse than ours. The Nordic Fox really deserves its reputation."
It took three days to advance 300 kilometers. This speed cannot be considered fast, but it is definitely not slow. It can only be considered normal. It seems that Rommel's advisory team was a little acclimatized after arriving in Japan and commanded the Japanese armored group.
It's not as easy as commanding a German armored group.
This information about Rommel was naturally reported to him by the Soviet intelligence agency.
Xu Rui smiled slightly and added: "The Nordic Fox does have some abilities, but as for this blitz, the real test has not yet come, from Birobidzhan to Obluchye, and then to Novoreichhinsk.
It’s more than 300 kilometers, and the road conditions are pretty good, but after passing Novoraichhinsk, the road will be difficult to walk!”
Du Junjie asked: "Captain, how do you know? Have you been to the Far East before?"
"Of course!" Xu Rui subconsciously nodded, but when the words came to his lips, he changed to "I haven't been there!"
In fact, Xu Rui has of course been to the Far East, and also walked the roads in the Far East. He knows that the road conditions in the Far East are very bad, especially in spring every day, when the ice and snow melt, making the unsolidified roads muddy.
Sometimes it can even swallow heavy equipment such as tanks!
Digua said: "Captain, how do you know that the road to the Far East is not easy to travel if you have never been there?"
"Nonsense, why can't I know if I haven't been there?" Xu Rui snorted, "As long as someone has been there!"
After a pause, Xu Rui continued: "So, the advancement speed of the Japanese armored group will definitely slow down."
"Even so, the situation of the Soviet army is not optimistic." Du Junjie said worriedly, "Because the two large groups of the Soviet Far East Front's eastern and western groups have made almost no progress in the siege of Ishihara Kanji's Seventh Army! More than one million troops surrounded
Ishihara Wanji's 200,000 men attacked for many days, but they were unable to break through even the outermost outpost!"
Mei Jiuling echoed: "Yes, this old devil Ishihara is really a tough guy!"
