War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 669 He is wronged (11 votes in November)
Tea Mountain, corpses everywhere;

The cliff was filled with smoke.

On the battlefield, a lonely flagpole was stuck into the ground, with the flag no longer able to flutter; smoke rose from the bomb craters on the ground, and it kept shaking in the cold wind.

Zhang Zhizhong won the battle. He led the entire army to fight desperately and defeated the Japanese. At the cliff west of the Hexi River, the Japanese were forced to flee in panic.

At that time, Zhang Zhizhong's troops of the 59th Army were cleaning up the battlefield, and the 40th Army, which came to support them, had just escaped from the battle in the Tea Mountain...

On the battlefield, Zhang Zhizhong looked back and saw the veteran Pang Bingxun waving his arms and shouting, "Quick! Quick!" The moment the two looked at each other across the battlefield, Pang Bingxun could no longer move forward an inch and stood still.

He was speechless.

The two men, both carrying hatred, seemed to choose silence at this moment, letting the cold wind blow through.

"I owe you..." Pang Bingxun said this after a long silence. Then, he walked past the corpses on the ground with his hands hanging down and his head lowered.

He couldn't bear to step over the bodies of the soldiers, so he could only pick up the soldiers' sides and walk on the battlefield. Zhang Zhizhong saw all the small details, and when Pang Bingxun approached, the first action he took was to grab Zhang Zhizhong's wrist and stuff the box gun in his hand into his hand: "I'll give it back."

As the saying goes, old people are cunning and old horses are slippery. You saved his life, but now he personally puts the gun in your hand and tells you with a righteous look: "I don't want to owe you anything!"

Zhang Zhizhong raised his hand and threw the box gun away. How could he have the heart to do it?

Pang Bingxun's gray hair was stuck together with blood, and there was a wound on his cheek where a piece of flesh was cut off by shrapnel. An almost sixty-year-old man was still fighting against the Japanese on the front line in Linyi. Now you raise your hand and shoot him?
But Zhang Zhizhong's action surprised Pang Bingxun for a moment, as if he had not expected this result...

During those few seconds, Pang Bingxun took a step back, and in the battlefield filled with corpses, he shouted in the moonlight: "40th Army!"

"kneel!!!"

Something different from what happened in history happened again. The two did not meet and laugh off their grudges. Instead, Pang Bingxun came and knelt under the moon - to repay his gratitude.

When Pang Bingxun knelt, his subordinates also knelt, and all the people in the 40th Army knelt.

There was no sign of relaxation on Zhang Zhizhong's face, but the problem was... he felt better.

No matter how great the hatred was, Pang Bingxun's kneeling on the battlefield, covered in the blood of the devils...

huh... huh... huh...

Zhang Zhizhong took three deep breaths, as if the fire in his heart had been extinguished and he was only supported by stubbornness. He slowly stretched out his hand, and then, after holding his hand out for a long time, he took a step forward to help Pang Bingxun up.

There was no humility of "General, you are too kind", nor was there any reluctance of "I came to save you because of orders", but just a simple sentence: "To resist Japan and save the country."

After hearing this, Zhang Zhizhong couldn't control his tears. He turned his head away for himself and for his grievances.

Pang Bingxun also used his sleeves to seal his eyes at this time, but he really couldn't cry, so he could only echo and say: "To resist the Japanese and save the country."

Then, there was a long silence. The two of them just stood there in the sea of ​​blood and corpses covered with smoke, in the moonlight, in silence.

……

"Great victory!"

"Great victory!!!"

Wuhan.

The diary-teller who was supervising the battle had not left yet. The moment his subordinates ran into his office shouting, everyone in the office turned around and looked at the door.

This time, the soldiers didn't have to worry about saying something wrong. Even if they did, it wouldn't matter: "A great victory in Linyi!" "Zhang Zhizhong led the 59th Army to rescue Linyi in time, lifted the siege, and cooperated with the 40th Army to kill enemies under the city!"

"Then, the 59th Army and the 40th Army split up and General Zhang led his troops to drive out the Japanese invaders on the east bank of the Yi River. However, the remaining Japanese invaders were unwilling to give up and wanted to fight Pang Bingxun again."

"General Zhang crossed the river again to attack the invaders. The 59th Army and the 40th Army fought bloody battles at Chaye Mountain, Liujia Lake, and Yatou. They won victory after victory, annihilated another enemies, and defeated the Japanese invaders' attack. It was a great victory in Linyi!!!"

The soldiers were shaking with excitement; this great victory came at the right time. It would not only boost the morale of the entire army, but also silence the gossips of the people all over the world.

Diary Brother looked at the soldier in front of him motionless, and it took him a long time to react: "Say it again."

He didn't dare to believe it!

The soldier repeated his words amid the laughter of the people around him, and this time the diary brother stood up and shouted loudly, "Good!"

Brother Diary stood up and walked out from behind his desk with his hands behind his back. After walking back and forth twice, he immediately said, "Immediately call all the journalists who can be found to come to the meeting, and tell the Propaganda Department to put down all the work at hand and focus on promoting the Linyi victory."

At this time, the diary brother is like a first-grade primary school student who comes home skipping and jumping, holding a test paper and blinking at his parents and saying, "100 points." But the subtext is: "Praise me!"

……

Xu Chaoyang cried.

A man was in the headquarters, holding the battle report just delivered by his subordinates, slumped in a chair, leaning forward, letting his tears fall uncontrollably.

Zhang Zhizhong won the battle, but he never had the chance to take revenge.

He had to hold back all his grievances, put aside his past grudges under the plaque of "Fighting the Japanese Invaders", and let countless hands push him to stand in front of everyone and say, "For the sake of my country, I am willing to put aside my personal grudges."

Xu Chaoyang can't do this.

If Yang Jingyu had not stabbed the commander of the 770th Regiment, he would still be at loggerheads with that gang until today; even if he couldn't kill Wang Jinshan on the battlefield because of personal grudges, he would have said a few unpleasant words!

No human being could endure that kind of grievance, but Zhang Zhizhong endured it.

In the past few days, Xu Chaoyang was listening to the battle report from Xuzhou with a tense scalp. He heard that not long after Zhang Zhizhong rescued Linyi again, the Japanese attacked again. Pang Bingxun turned around and asked for help for the second time. In the end, it was Zhang Zhizhong who saved Linyi again...

He heard that after Tang Enbo arrived in Linyi, the National Government's army won the great victory of Taierzhuang. The good news boosted the morale of the people across the country time and time again.

But what about those who curse Zhang Zhizhong?

What about the people who were said to have opened the gate of Peking and let the Japanese in?

Have you ever come out and apologized?
When you open your mouth and put the blame on others, have you ever thought about how painful it will be for them?

Have you ever thought about how you would feel when someone forces you to do something wrong and puts the blame on you?
……

Xuzhou was not lost. It was the National Government Army that retreated on its own initiative. After fighting in Xuzhou for five full months, the entire army safely evacuated Xuzhou.

At that time, in the eyes of the people, Chi Fengcheng represented the bravery and invincibility of defending Taierzhuang to the death; Tang Enbo, who rushed to fight for the country, had already tried his best; Li Zongren, who was in charge of the battle, ordered the enemy to be lured deep into the territory and completely defeated Seya Kei's 33rd Brigade, and then the entire army went to kill. Every scene on the battlefield in Xuzhou was spread throughout the streets and alleys as a legend.

The National Government also used 27 planes to bomb the Japanese positions...

But who can prove Zhang Zhizhong’s innocence?
During the entire Taierzhuang Victory, the Nationalist Army statistics showed that 11984 Japanese invaders were killed or wounded, 719 Japanese invaders were captured, 31 artillery pieces and 11 armored vehicles, 8 large and small tanks, more than 1000 heavy machine guns, and more than rifles were seized. Since then, the Taierzhuang Victory ended and the Battle of Xuzhou officially came to an end.

At this moment, the Japanese 3rd, 9th, and 13th Divisions began to advance from south to north; in the north, the 16th Division formed a siege from Jinxiang, Shanxian, and Yutai west of Xuzhou;
After the 14th Division crossed the Yellow River from Puyang to the south and attacked Heze and Caoxian, the encirclement was about to be closed. At this moment, the elite troops of the devils, namely the divisions numbered 1-16, had already appeared in the 3rd, 9th, 10th, 13th, 14th, and 16th divisions (there was also the 5th Division in history). There was no possibility of defending Xuzhou any longer, so they had to abandon Xuzhou and break out to the mountainous area on the border between Henan and Anhui. Xuzhou fell.

(End of this chapter)