The international situation is changing rapidly. A certain political figure from the Bay Island was invited by Cornell University in the United States to visit in a personal capacity. China's top officials were furious and recalled the ambassador!
High-level contacts between the two countries have stopped at ambassadorial level and above!
In mid-July, Tang Dao, the old director of the Taihang Special Forces Academy who had lived in the Taihang Mountains for a long time and had never left Licheng County since his mother passed away, suddenly became very restless and left the Taihang Mountains with his wife and his granddaughter Tang Xiaodao.
The first place the veteran, who was already in his eighties, drove to was Niangziguan in eastern Jindong!
"In that year's battle in Jindong, Mingyue, do you still remember? Lao Cao, Xiao Tu and the others fought until there were only two people left in one class. They were still two disabled people. One was blind and the other had a broken leg. Li Jiujin reported to me.
At that time, I, the leader of the regiment, was also very sad!" Tang Dao, who was already in his eighties and whose hair was almost completely white, was still upright. He stood at the door of his wife and said to his wife, who also had silver hair, with great emotion.
"Why don't I remember that battle? We won, defeated the 21st Division, and wiped out an infantry brigade of the 20th Division." When Tantai Mingyue told the glorious record of that battle, his eyes flashed.
A little bit of pain.
"But our 2nd Division and 1st Regiment lost thousands of comrades. I remember that Brother Zhao was only in his early 40s at the time, but his hair was almost white. Even Brother Cheng, a cheerful man, was shocked when he saw the number of casualties.
Smoked several cigarettes."
"Behind victory, there are sacrifices!" Tang Dao murmured to himself, looking up at the Shanxi Anti-Japanese War Monument standing on the top of the mountain on the other side.
The monument is very high, because it is not high enough to write thousands of names.
At the second stop, Tang Dao went to Zishan in southern Hebei Province.
Today's Zishan is no longer the remote and remote place it once was. As China's economy booms and national tourism enthusiasm gradually increases, it has been turned into a red tourist attraction by the local government.
The Jinan Administrative Office, which had only five or six bungalows on the surface at that time, has been protected and renovated. It looks much cleaner and tidier than it was more than 50 years ago. The underground tunnels and military command centers built to defend against Japanese aircraft bombing include the fortifications built on the cliff at that time.
, and many have been restored.
When the local government knew that the old chief was coming, they were still a little nervous, fearing that they would cause the old chief's displeasure by developing tourism on the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War.
Tang Dao walked to the core area of the scenic spot and saw many white flowers tied to the pine trees around the Anti-Japanese War Memorial. Knowing that it was the Tomb Sweeping Day, local schools organized primary and secondary school students to walk to pay homage, but he smiled.
Sweeping by the economic wave, everyone is changing, but as long as young people never forget the martyrs, it will be great!
The future, after all, belongs to those young people, and they will find their own spiritual home in the crosscurrent of material desires.
The third stop, Tang Dao flies to Shanghai!
This time, he did not alarm anyone, and even refused to accompany his granddaughter. The couple stood in front of the tall building that still stood on the bank of the Suzhou River, holding hands.
They met here, and it was nearly 60 years ago.
Back then, he was a heroic second lieutenant who led his troops to fight the Japanese army in this desperate place to defend the last dignity of the Chinese soldiers; she was a reporter with the army who risked her life to sneak into the warehouse, and she just wanted to let the people of the country know about this group of people who were fighting for their lives. The names of dead warriors.
They all completed their tasks.
Here he was, letting the Japanese shed all their blood and almost turning the Suzhou River red!
She was by the Suzhou River and watched him stabbing five Japanese pirates with bayonets, which made the Japanese army's heart burst. She wrote furiously and told the whole country that Songhu had never fallen.
Another day, Mr. Tang, dressed in casual clothes, rode a bicycle and took an old lady to Songjiang, 20 kilometers away.
The small town in Jiangnan today is no longer the dilapidated town it was in the past. Most of the dilapidated city walls have been demolished, leaving only a small section and the old city gate to show everyone the long history of this small town in Jiangnan.
There are still vague bullet holes on the city wall made of loess, proving to people passing by it that a tragic and almost gorgeous defensive battle broke out here more than 50 years ago.
The city is already very prosperous, bustling with pedestrians, and even more people coming and going in front of the Songjiang specialty silk and satin shop.
Tang Dao, who already had a lot of wrinkles on his face, stood in the bustling commercial street, holding the hand of his white-haired wife and grinning. Tantai Mingyue held the big hand that was no longer generous with her backhand, and smiled lightly.
Many pedestrians passing by cast envious glances at the old couple.
How can you not be envious of being so loving at such an old age?
But perhaps only Tantai Mingyue understands why her husband smiles so brightly.
For the tens of thousands of 67 officers and soldiers who sacrificed their lives here, has this prosperous era turned out as you wished?
Tang Dao read this for the more than 10,000 officers and soldiers of the 67th Army who died in this battle, and also for Xia Dayu.
Xia Dayu didn't have the chance to see this prosperous age. After the founding of New China, Xia Dayu, who had already become a battalion commander, returned to his hometown once. After paying homage to his Uncle Crow, he went to find the group of younger brothers and sisters who had been waiting for his return in his hometown. .
When he returned to the military camp, he brought back 10 people!
Thirteen years have passed, and those children who were hungry in the war have grown into young men and want to join the army and serve their country.
The next year, Xia Heavy Rain took them to the ice field!
In the Battle of Songgu Peak, the Chinese Light Infantry Regiment achieved the peak of marching 150 miles in one night, and subsequently achieved the great feat of severely damaging the Ace Infantry Regiment of the American Ace Division with one battalion.
But Tang Dao’s little bald guard never returned!
Tang Dao, who was still in charge of negotiations in the Bear Country, was attending a night banquet organized by the top military leaders of the Bear Country when he received the news.
That night, Tang Dao, who drank a lot, only drank 100 glasses of vodka before he got drunk. He drank eight generals of the opponent and got drunk at the same time.
Maybe as long as I'm drunk, my heart won't hurt so much.
After staying in Songjiang City for two days, Tang Dao went to Guangde again. It was a brilliant battle in which the Four Elements broke through the blockade and escaped.
It was during the Laojinkeng ambush battle that the Guoqi detachment was defeated in the first battle and completely lost its ability to pursue. The Si Xing Battalion was able to cross the Yangtze River and was upgraded to the Si Xing Regiment.
On the top of the mountain where almost all two infantry companies of the Sichuan Army died, there is also a small monument. There is no pavilion or attic. It is just an Anti-Japanese War monument that is only 9 meters high. The ground paved with ordinary granite is covered with
Extremely clean.
When Tang Dao asked the local village party secretary who accompanied him, he found out that it was a rotating duty for each local village, and five people would come to clean it every week. During the Qingming Festival, there was an endless stream of people doing the cleaning.
A veteran who has taken off his military uniform pays a military salute to an old man who is no more than sixty years old!
On behalf of my young comrades, thank you!
The old man was at a loss. This was just a story he had heard when he was a child, saying that an army once came here and killed thousands of Japanese.
However, many people died and were eventually buried on this mountain. Many of them did not even have names.
Then, Tang Dao went to Shipai, which was the first battle of the Four Lines Regiment from North China. In just one battle, Hengshan Yong and the 11th Army knew how ferocious the First Regiment in North China was.
However, behind the battle achievements, there are also a lot of bones!
It was here that Shi Dakuan lost his infantry company, but was fortunate enough to become a member of the Four Lines Regiment. He became the deputy squad leader of Tang Dao's guard squad, and was promoted to platoon leader after the First World War in Hengyang. Before rushing to the ice field, he was only
In his 20s, Shi Dakuan had already served as the commander of the Sharp Knife Battalion.
His two younger sisters have also grown up and have completed junior high school and entered the newly established nursing school with the care of the organization. Tang Dao still remembers Shi Dakuan writing to him on the battlefield, happily telling him about the situation at home and saying that
I also arranged a marriage for him. He is my eldest sister’s colleague in the hospital. After he returns to China, he will go home to get married.
Standing in front of the Shipai Anti-Japanese War Memorial, Tang Dao's eyes were moist.
That little Sichuan provincial soldier never wrote to him, the old commander, again after the brutal Battle of the Five Sacred Mountains.
The war was almost over!
But he will never come back.
Shi Dakuan's old mother was eventually taken to the Tang family's old house by Xiao Hanlian to live with her. The two old ladies, one lived to 98 and the other to 97, were accompanied by Tang Xiaojiu, a disabled veteran who had returned from the Icefield War, and his wife.
The old lady was very peaceful when she left!
Tang Dao, Li Jijin, Leng Feng, Gu Xishui and others who personally carried the coffin did not shed any tears. She was finally going to see her three sons, whom she had thought about for many, many years!
She only lives because she wants to see this brand new country for her sons so that she can go down and tell them about it.
Finally, Tang Dao went to Hengyang!
He stayed there the longest, a full week, and his footprints were all over Hengyang City. Although the city was no longer as dilapidated as it was 50 years ago, Tang Dao still seemed to be able to see and hear his soldiers.
They stood in front of him: "Report to the commander of the regiment that the enemy invaders have been repulsed!"
Before leaving, Tang Dao, along with his wife and granddaughter Tang Xiaodao, laid flowers at the Hengyang Defense Battle Monument!
It was only then that the foreign media noticed the whereabouts of Tang Dao, a veteran. Considering the current international situation, it was difficult for them not to think about it. What does this mean?
But this was not Tang Dao’s last stop. Tang Dao then headed north, crossing Shanhaiguan and crossing the Yalu River...
There were countless old comrades waiting for him there.
Back then, he failed to bring them to this battlefield in person, but now they must still be waiting for him on this battlefield, with their heroic souls still alive!
Because some people deserve a beating again!
The figures of Qian Dazhu, Heizi, Cao Yingchong and others flashed one by one in front of Tang Dao, who stood silently on the top of the Five Sacred Mountains, as if playing a movie.
Qian Dazhu was already the chief of staff of the division at the time, but the blocking battle in Cheorwon was really cruel. In just over 10 days of defensive operations, 25,000 Chinese soldiers withstood more than 1,500 artillery pieces and more than 300 tanks.
As well as the violent attack by the 50,000-meter army, even the army commander was seriously injured in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy with a gun and bayonet and fell unconscious.
Qian Dazhu personally led a guard platoon to block the two American infantry battalions from attacking in turns for 2 days and nights until the entire army was exhausted!
Every time Tang Dao thought about the young man he met in Songjiang who was still a little green, his heart would always feel painful.
Heizi was the guard battalion commander of Li Jiujin. At the critical moment of the Battle of the Five Sacred Mountains, he was the one who held Li Jiujin down at the command post while holding a pistol and wanted to go to the front line. However, he led the last guard platoon to support him and went to the front line.
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He suffered 18 wounds all over his body but could not survive the battlefield. He was a strong man who was 1.9 meters tall and weighed 200 kilograms. After the war, when Li Jijin personally carried him to the battlefield, he felt light and airy.
"Sir! Heizi has drained all the blood from his body! There are holes all over his body. I can't stop them!" Li Jiujin, who called Tang Dao, cried like a child again.
Since the Battle of Hengyang, Li Jiujin, who is almost 40 years old, has not cried like that for a long time.
Cao Yingchong married Zhuang Sister after the Battle of Hengyang and gave birth to a son and a daughter. However, the happy time was too short-lived. He was named and transferred to the ace army as the commander of the sharp knife battalion. He bid farewell to his wife and children and stepped into the ice field battlefield.
The first battle is a fight to the death!
That place is called Changjin Lake, a battlefield at minus 30 degrees!
It was the first battlefield in the history of the Chinese Army where frostbite attrition exceeded the actual combat attrition. More than 4,000 officers and soldiers died of frostbite alone, but they annihilated 36,000 enemies, including 24,000 American troops, including the total annihilation of the American army.
A whole regiment, Lieutenant General Walker, commander of the 8th U.S. Army, also overturned and died in the chaos, achieving what the then U.S. Secretary of State Acheson called "the longest defeat in American history."
Thinking of them, even after so many years, Tang Dao, who has always been strong, can't help but his eyes sparkling.
If these brave and fearless young officers under his command could survive until the war, what kind of stars would they be?
But they left their young lives on this ice sheet for the sake of their motherland.
It was a real asymmetric war of flesh and steel, but they still did it just like they did against the Japanese pirates. They and the soldiers younger than them used their flesh and blood to keep the enemy at bay.
"Before I left, my little grandson asked me if I missed the grandparents sleeping in the monument." Tang Dao pointed to the martyrs cemetery and said softly.
"I told him, yes, grandpa misses them a lot, and I'm afraid that if I don't come to see them again, I won't be able to remember what they look like. Time is really the sharpest weapon in the world, and it can almost annihilate everything!"
"However, I still remember that back then, I warned a certain five-star general not to cross the 38th North Latitude line on this land. At that time, the general laughed, and so did the entire Western world." Tang Dao
The volume suddenly increased, and the deep sound exploded like muffled thunder on the top of the mountain that had been bombarded by millions of tons of artillery shells.
"The result? The result is that more than ten years later we told them that you cannot cross the 17th parallel in that jungle land. This time they listened to the advice. In 10 years, they have not crossed that line.
But do they know that I have been waiting for them to cross the line! The troops of our Fourth Army Regiment and our sons and daughters have been waiting for the day when they cross the line, but they are actually very timid."
Tang Dao's tone suddenly became gentle and he turned his gaze to the mountains: "My brothers, you say that more than 40 years have passed and they seem to have forgotten our warning again. What should we do?"
"Fuck them!" Tang Xiaodao suddenly clenched his fist and raised it to the sky, his almond-shaped eyes widening.
Today, Tang Xiaodao has grown into a big girl. She just graduated from mainland China. Although she studied information technology, no one in the Tang family has a gene for violence!
During the years when his parents went to war, Tang Xiaodao, who was raised by his grandparents, was invincible against all the brats in the family area.
The tough-headed little grandson of Lao Cai's family almost ran away just looking at Tang Xiaodao, but in high school he became Tang Xiaodao's little follower.
"Well said! It's just one more fight with them! You're such a son of a bitch." Tang Dao laughed heartily.
An old man and a young man asked and answered each other. The old man laughed so hard that the mountains reverberated, but the accompanying people from the peninsula who were present felt as if they had fallen into an ice cellar.
The old man in front of them was dressed in ordinary clothes, but they knew that what he said represented an attitude, an attitude that not many people on this planet could ignore.
The original words spoken by the old man with white hair and beard on the Five Sacred Mountains soon reached the ears of US intelligence personnel, and the top management of the US side fell silent.
Although the old man said, 'Time is the sharpest weapon in the world and can destroy everything!' But no one dares to forget the war more than 40 years ago.
Chinese light infantry is unique in the world!
Even if they have been studying for decades, they still dare not say that they have reached the heights that Chinese soldiers once achieved.
What's even more terrible is that the Chinese soldiers who are also learning from them can now even use rocket launchers to shoot rockets across the wide strait, not to mention those ballistic missiles that appear to only have no more than a hundred.
Can we trust the data reported by the Chinese themselves? To say the least, it is a sneaky minus 0.
By the time Tang Dao returned from the ice field, it was already August. The three war zones and two major fleets began to block the strait for live-fire exercises. All soldiers on vacation were also recalled. Officers and soldiers who had retired within five years were also ordered to report to the local armed forces.
Register and conduct training.
China has entered the second level of combat readiness!
Although China at this time is far less powerful than it will be 20 years from now, the third generation of soldiers has grown up, and the bravery inherited from their grandfathers and fathers still exists!
The American aircraft carrier stayed in Guam and did not enter the strait as they planned, even though the senior spy told them that many missiles were actually blank bombs!
Soon after, the Americans were very lucky because the senior spy was quickly captured by China.
Maybe, it is false information deliberately released by the Chinese people, just waiting to invite you to the urn! The American people were shocked and broke out in a cold sweat!