The War of Resistance - #1313 - Chapter 1305: Difficult to march

“Our terrain in China is high in the west and low in the east, so all the big rivers flow from west to east.

However, the flow from west to east refers to the main stream, and the tributaries mostly run from north to south.

The Huaihe River runs from east to west, and it has a tributary, the Baisha River, which runs from north to south.

According to the news from above, the Japanese army is attacking Gaocheng along the road, and the Baisha River is a natural barrier.

Looking at the scale of the Japanese attack this time, it means that after taking down Xuzhou, they want to attack Wuhan.

How important is Wuhan now? Nanjing was lost, and the national government wanted to move to Chongqing, but that was just a government agency, and now the military command center is in Wuhan.

Moreover, since a lot of northern provinces have been lost, in order to persist in the resistance against Japan, the personnel and materials transferred from the northern provinces are all assembled in Wuhan.

Therefore, the reason why the Japanese army wanted to attack Wuhan was that they wanted to complete their efforts in one battle, and wanted us to surrender China.

And we are now in Nanyang, Henan, and we are the nearest large army. The mission of our army is to go south from Nanyang, cross the Huaihe River and fortify along the tributary of the Huaihe River called Baisha River, and strive to block the devils. longer time. “

The above is the general meaning of Shang Zhen’s report of brigade commander Liu Chengyi, and of course it can also be said to be an order.

The Northeast Army didn’t have much wealth, so Shang Zhen and his 337th Brigade started to move again, and now it’s only been more than two months since the 51st Army finished the Lanling blockade at the end of the Xuzhou Battle. .

Under the scorching sun, a tired teacher who couldn’t see the side was moving along the road.

The trouble of not having enough to eat disappeared, but the hardships of the march came again.

An hour passed, two hours passed, four or five hours passed, and the troops were still marching forward, and everyone’s footsteps became heavy, but they moved their hands mechanically in accordance with the rhythm of the large troops moving forward. leg.

“I feel like we’ll never reach the horizon ahead.

When I saw this forest before, I thought that this forest might be here, but no, there is still a horizon ahead. “Chen Hanwen sighed like this during the march.

“Yes, you will never reach the horizon ahead, because the earth is round.” Chu Tian gave such an answer.

The soldiers around the two of them really heard them.

To be honest, how many people in China today know that they all live on the sphere of the earth? Some soldiers were hearing the term “Earth” for the first time.

Normally, soldiers would naturally ask, but this time no one answered their questions. As for the reason, they were too tired to talk.

A whole day passed in this march, and when the sun went down, the order came from the front to rest in place and continue marching tomorrow, so soldiers fell down on this road now. .

A column of smoke from a picnic began to rise, first one, then two, three, and four. That was when the cooking teams of each combat unit started cooking.

It’s just that the bunches of cooking smoke are quite far apart, and it looks more like beacon smoke when foreign enemies invade from a high altitude.

“Oh, my waist is about to break!” At this moment, an officer was rubbing his waist while walking along the road.

But his words were overheard by a junior officer who was sitting by the road, and the junior officer suddenly ordered in his slightly hoarse voice: “Whoever dares to come to us and complain about his back pain while traveling in a carriage, Let the whole company beat him up, and I will be responsible for the accident!”

This sentence can be said to be the opposite.

Although it is said that the Northeast Army’s military capacity is not complete, how can the lieutenant colonel and captain wear the same military rank?

However, when the words of the junior officer reached the ear of the officer who was rubbing his waist, the officer was so frightened that he turned around and walked back, yelling: “It’s against the sky, it’s against the sky!” , actually wanted to hit the officer!”

He turned around in such a hurry that he bumped into another junior officer who was walking from behind.

“That old **** is going to beat me again!” The officer saw the person and complained, but he only said a word when he saw the other party give him a hard look, and then they said: “You really deserve a beating! “

The officer was so frightened that he ran away in a hurry. When he fled, his pace was not slow. The pain in his back was due to the bumpy ride in the carriage, and his legs still didn’t hurt.

The one who lamented that the backache was about to break was Wang Qingfeng, the one who ordered him to be beaten was Wang Laomao, and the one he turned and bumped into was Shang Zhen.

This was really the first time Shang Zhen stared at Wang Qingfeng, it turned out that he was just too lazy to talk to that fat man.

But this time you came to us walking in a carriage and said that your back hurts, you are no longer an ordinary debt!

“Don’t pick the soles of your feet if they are blistered, it hurts even more!” Shang Zhen ignored Wang Qingfeng and yelled. The soldiers looked up at their company commander, who was picking their own thigh He hurriedly put his hand down.

If you walk a lot, your feet will get blisters, even veterans with calluses on their feet.

“Boy Shang, tell me how far we have to go, isn’t it almost there?” When Shang Zhen sat next to Wang Laomao, Wang Laomao asked.

“It’s early, it won’t be here in ten days.” Shang Zhen replied.

“What? So far?” Old Mao Wang was surprised, and the soldiers who heard Shang Zhen’s words all looked over.

“I don’t know how far it is, but when I was at the brigade headquarters, I estimated the brigade commander’s map, and there is always a straight line distance of three or four centimeters.” Shang Zhen replied.

The maps are all scaled down, so one centimeter on the map probably represents 100 kilometers.

Shang Zhen said that three to four centimeters on the map would be three to four hundred kilometers in reality, and this is still a straight-line distance on the map, and which road is drawn with a ruler? Those are all with bends, if it is four to five hundred kilometers, it is normal.

It is indeed a crime to march four to five hundred kilometers on foot with a tired army like them.

Old Mao Wang was surprised for a while, but this time he didn’t swear at people anymore, but he couldn’t help but sighed, and then said: “It’s better to catch the strong man!”

Shang Zhen didn’t answer, but what he thought was, I’d rather walk away with blisters on my feet!

It was getting dark after dinner, and the snoring of soldiers could be heard on both sides of the road, but there was a whisper from one place, that was some veterans headed by Shang Zhen.

“The strong men are the cannon fodder of the veterans, the soldiers are the cannon fodder of the officers, and the miscellaneous soldiers are the cannon fodder of the Central Army. This is life!” That was Gu Bing’s voice.

Shang Zhen was also present, but none of the veterans objected to Gu Bing’s statement, because those who just participated in the discussion were all sensible people.

Even though Shang Zhen was the company commander, he was also an officer, but what kind of officer was he? He charged ahead and retreated. Everyone knew that Gu Bing was not talking about Shang Zhen.

“How about exchanging space for time? Isn’t it just taking advantage of our large territory in China to procrastinate? It is not wrong to use the word ‘delay’ to say that the enemy is strong and we are weak.

But if this drags on, the people in the places occupied by the little devils will suffer old crimes.

And then divide the troops to guard every step of the way. For example, there are 200,000 troops, and they have to be divided into many shares to release them everywhere. In the end, Yi’er became a place where there are more devils than our army, UU Read www.uukanshu.com People’s planes, cannons, tanks, what do we have, in the end they are all wiped out, anyway, it is not their Central Army. “Gu Bing continued to complain.

No one went to argue with Gu Bing, because everyone was tired after talking for a while.

Shang Zhen sat cross-legged on the side. He was also tired, but he had no intention of answering the conversation. Wouldn’t he let his own people complain when they were tired from the march?

Gu Bing’s statement is certainly biased. For example, you can’t say that the Central Army did not do anything to fight the devils, such as the Battle of Songhu, but there are more insights.

But so what? The power to determine the direction of war has never been in the hands of small people with true insights.

After complaining, Gu Bing finally lay back and fell asleep, and his audience naturally fell asleep earlier than him, including Shang Zhen.

However, there is one person who is still sitting cross-legged, that is a big fool.

(end of this chapter)