War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 477: The people are old and do not know how to fight (500 votes plus more)
"You guys go out first."

When only Wang Hongkun, Wang Weizhou, and Xu Chaoyang were left in the 385th Brigade headquarters, Wang Hongkun added, "Weizhou, close the door."

squeak~
After Wang Weizhou closed the door, which was so old that the window paper on it was torn, the mysterious environment...

"Comrade Xu Chaoyang, I am Wang Hongkun, the commander of the 385th Brigade, and this is the deputy commander, Wang Weizhou."

Xu Chaoyang saluted, and after Wang Hongkun returned the salute, the two sides had their first formal conversation.

"Comrade Xu Chaoyang, before we begin this conversation, I feel it is necessary to describe to you the environment we are in."

“至今为止，我129师，共有9367名战士，迫击炮六门、重机枪29挺、步枪4136支、驳壳枪539支、子弹102828发。”

"So, do you understand the importance of the 217th Regiment to the entire 385th Brigade and the 129th Division?"

no……

This doesn't seem to have anything to do with what I just said about not being strict with subordinates, right?

However, Xu Chaoyang truly felt the "poverty" of our party from the data. It was so poor that even the number of bullets could be accurately calculated to the single digit. Even when he was training in Chahar, he no longer paid attention to such a number of bullets.

Judging from this set of data, the current equipment and configuration of the 217th Regiment is no longer a problem for the main force regiment when it arrives in Yan'an. This is the trump card and its importance is certainly significant!
As soon as an expression of 'understanding' appeared on Xu Chaoyang's face, Wang Hongkun stretched out his hand to a shabby table next to him and said, "Sit down and talk." Then, he led Xu Chaoyang and Wang Weizhou to sit on the long bench.

"The 217th Regiment is so important to us that we cannot afford even the slightest loss. Moreover, we must use this piece of steel where it counts..."

Wang Hongkun made a downward chopping gesture and then got to the point: "But the Japs didn't give us any time to think. After the July 7 Incident, they marched straight into Shanxi and captured Datong in a very short time!"

Wang Hongkun stretched out his hand on the map on the table and pointed in the direction of Datong...

"And the 217th Regiment is the only unit we have that has extensive experience in fighting against Japan."

"The 115th Division proposed that the 217th Regiment be transferred to Shanxi with the 115th Division in the name of secondment, and bring the best weapons and equipment in the base area to fight against the Japanese invaders." At this point, Wang Hongkun looked at Xu Chaoyang again: "That is, the 13 Liao 79-type rifles donated by you, Xu Chaoyang."

Xu Chaoyang had just sat down, but when Wang Hongkun said this, he raised his head: "Brigade Commander Wang, are you saying that if I don't come back, you want to transfer the 217th Regiment to the battlefield?"

"Of course we hope you can come back. The 217th Regiment led by you has made great achievements against the Japanese in Northeast China, Chahar, and North China. According to Comrade Yang Jingyu's statistics, the total number of enemies killed by the 217th Regiment is nearly 217. Therefore, not only is the th Regiment a rare unit of our party, but you, Xu Chaoyang, are also a priceless general!"

"The problem is, before I saw you, all the information we received came from SH. It's no exaggeration to say that we didn't even know about your arrival in Taiyuan until you arrived in the blink of an eye. So before you come back, the entire strategic deployment and combat plan can only be formulated under the assumption that you are not here."

"This is a result that was forced upon us by the circumstances in which so many people died in the Xi'an Incident. The devils would not have given us any time to prepare!"

Xu Chaoyang nodded. He had experienced this kind of urgency more than once.

"During the Xi'an Incident, the split of the Northeastern Army killed too many people. Now we have finally achieved the result of a united resistance. If you are in SH and can't come back, do we have to give up fighting the Japanese invaders?"

"If you get entangled by the Japanese in SH, will you not fight in the Battle of Taiyuan?"

"The 217th Regiment, the only unit under our party with experience in fighting against Japan, won't go up?"

"But this is not what I want to tell you!"

Wang Hongkun's emotions, which had just been adjusted, became excited again after he said the last sentence: "217th Regiment, disobeyed orders..."

After hearing the last three words, Xu Chaoyang finally understood why Wang Hongkun said "lax in governing subordinates" when they first met, but he was still wrong!
"I'm not talking about the 217th Regiment disobeying orders!"

Having said this, Wang Hongkun raised his head and glanced outside the door. This glance made Xu Chaoyang's heart skip a beat.

"You should have heard of the 'dongdang' when we first arrived in northern Shaanxi, right?"

He didn't say 'dongdang', he said...sufan!

"Comrade Liu Zhidan was almost killed by these people. If the Party had not led us there, our hometown would have been destroyed, destroyed alive by these speculators!"

"I don't know why this happened, but at that time... there was a river of blood!"

"If it wasn't for the chief leading us to arrive and shouting 'spare his life'..."

The expression on Wang Hongkun's face was one of lingering fear, which showed how serious the situation was at that time!
Xu Chaoyang thought that the great leader he was talking about should be the sun. Xu Chaoyang didn't know much about Liu Zhidan, nor about that period. As a soldier in his previous life, he was very disgusted with that period when reading history books, and even skipped through them. But he didn't expect that almost a year had passed, and Wang Hongkun still had to close the door when he mentioned this period...

"Liu Zhidan is such a good comrade, but he was framed as a bandit by this group of people. How could he be a bandit! Even the chief kept praising him. How could such a person be a bandit?"

Wang Hongkun sighed and lowered his voice even more.

"After that incident, the commander-in-chief suddenly realized something and began to be stricter in disciplining the army and more lenient with the people..."

"The chief said that this is Wang Yangming's philosophy of mind. I didn't understand it, but there was one sentence I did understand, which was what the chief said, 'There are two roads to take in this world. One is to seek outside. The government has already taken this road, but it is obvious that it did not work. The other road is to seek inside. Only when we build ourselves like a copper wall and iron fortress can we be indestructible.'"

Xu Chaoyang didn’t know what Wang Yangming said, nor had he read "Instructions for Practical Living", but at this moment, he seemed to understand it.

The great leader regards the entire country as a person, and the national government and our party as ideological trends. The ideological trends sought outside have already produced results, so the only thing left...isn't this the only way?

For anything, strict self-discipline is the foundation.

"So, as soon as we met, I told you that you didn't discipline your subordinates. Comrade Xu Chaoyang, given the severity of the current situation, no one knows whether that incident will come back before the Japanese are driven out of this country. Although we rescued Comrade Liu Zhidan at the time, we still cannot let anyone with ulterior motives take advantage of the 217th Regiment's disobedience before the battle!"

"I can understand that the 217th Regiment has not received any education from the Party, but others may not understand it. Can you understand what I am saying?" That incident was not a secret, either then or now, but everyone is keeping it secret.

"To be honest, when I heard about this, I was very angry. I was angry that the 217th Regiment could not take orders seriously. I was so angry that I was shaking."

"The 217th Regiment is made of fine steel, and you, Xu Chaoyang, are even finer steel. You are the finest steel I, Wang Hongkun, have ever seen in my life. How can I... just watch..."

Only then did Xu Chaoyang understand why the Three Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention of our Party and Army were so resolute, and why they were even turned into a catchy song in 1935. It turned out that everything had a traceable path.

"At the same time, I envy you..."

Wang Hongkun's voice suddenly fell.

This time, Xu Chaoyang didn't understand. If he envied 217's weapons, equipment and combat achievements, he could understand it, but what did it mean to envy himself?
Wang Hongkun looked at Xu Chaoyang with inquiring eyes and put his hand on Xu Chaoyang's shoulder: "I envy you for not having to go through all this..." Then he quickly took his hand away.

"But if this condition is met, who would be willing to go through all this?"

"Even with this condition, I don't want to experience war. Just like what the great leader said, who doesn't want 'people to be old and not know the art of war'?"

This was also the first time that Xu Chaoyang could understand classical Chinese so clearly. Even though he didn't know how old the elder was, to him, "people to elders" should mean an old man. If one could live without knowing weapons from birth to old age...

Xu Chaoyang was stunned, and suddenly looked up at Wang Hongkun. Isn’t this talking about himself in his previous life?
This kind of real feeling is far more shocking than just the line in the movie "Our current wonderful life was created by the revolutionary martyrs." This is a feeling like deep pain.

The people govern the elders, and do not know how to fight...

It turns out that this sentence is the dream of all sages in this era!

Xu Chaoyang smiled at that time. He not only felt that he was too childish for arguing with netizens online, but also felt that he was so happy at that time.

Yes, netizens.

Xu Chaoyang can let it go now. If their behavior back then was seen by the older generation, it would probably be just like the playing of their children and grandchildren. But at this moment, they were in the most severe environment, having just experienced the last sufan in 1936, the Xi'an Incident in 1936 and the outbreak of the full-scale war of resistance in 1937.

There is no moment of leisure!
I was also afraid that... the 217th Regiment would be harmed in the aftermath of that incident.

Xu Chaoyang wondered, when Wang Hongkun learned the news about the 217th Regiment, he must have been furious, right?
It's like the children of my generation will never understand their parents' anger, but when they grow up, they fall into a vicious cycle of 'parents are loving and filial when they don't do their homework, but there is chaos when they do their homework', and no one can escape this.

"Wang Hongkun!"

"I heard Xu Chaoyang is back?"

A strange voice sounded outside the door, and then someone greeted and said, "Master!"

Xu Chaoyang’s eyes widened instantly. This time, he was finally going to meet the big shot in the eyes of the whole nation. He was about to meet... Ru Shuai!
"Chaoyang, remember what I just said to you, did you hear me?"

Wang Hongkun also specifically instructed...

(End of this chapter)