The news of Peng Dingjie's death came from Guo Bingxun. Yang Zhen, who was about to wipe his face, was shocked. He didn't even notice that the towel in his hand fell into the basin in front of him. The death of his old comrade meant to Yang Zhen.
It's undoubtedly a pretty big blow.
Recalling that at the Japanese germ warfare base, we went from being on guard against each other to becoming acquainted with each other in that small cell, and became true comrades who shared life and death and would never leave. After breaking out of the germ warfare base, we were hunted and surrounded by the Japanese army together.
Life and death together while fighting desperately to find a way out.
After the army was established and continuously expanded, Peng Dingjie, who served as the General Logistics Director, struggled with his illness and tried every means to plan in order to fill the belly and the muzzle of the ever-expanding army. The scenes seemed to be right in front of him. But now he has passed away forever.
After that, Yang Zhen's heart felt as painful as a knife.
Yang Zhen closed his eyes and felt that Peng Dingjie's sallow face was always showing up in front of him. After opening his eyes for a long time, Yang Zhen turned his head to look at Guo Bingxun, whose eyes were also a little red, and sighed slightly for a long time: "
Lao Guo, you should not have told me this matter, and you should not have kept it from me for such a long time."
Yang Zhen, who was immersed in the news of the death of his old comrade, ignored the half sentence after Guo Bingxun, which said that they were the only two comrades in the same cell. The meaning of Guo Bingxun's words had actually revealed to Yang
Zhen revealed other meanings. Back then, there were only a few people in the cell they were in. Now that two people are here, Peng Dingjie has died of illness, and the only remaining little tiger may have something wrong with him.
Hearing Yang Zhen's sigh and his extremely sad look because of the death of his old comrade, Guo Bingxun didn't even know whether he should tell him the other bad news. But considering Yang Zhen's psychological endurance and the
Regarding the follow-up work issues, Guo Bingxun thought it would be better to tell him all at once.
As an old comrade who broke out from the Japanese germ warfare base together, Guo Bingxun understands the significance of Xiao Huzi to Yang Zhen and the relationship between them. If Peng Dingjie is Yang Zhen's life and death comrade, then Xiao Huzi is in Yang Zhen's life and death.
In Zhen's eyes, he was like a family member. The impact of Xiao Huzi's sacrifice on Yang Zhen can be imagined.
But Guo Bingxun also knew that this matter could not be hidden. Instead of Yang Zhen finding out by himself, it would be better to tell him now about the sacrifice of a tiger who he regarded as his younger brother. Guo Bingxun thought that even though these two people came one after another
The blow may be a bit big for Yang Zhen. But Guo Bingxun believes that Yang Zhen, who he sees as having a will of steel, will definitely be able to survive it.
But even though he had already made a decision, Guo Bingxun still hesitated for a moment before saying: "No. 1, there is another unfortunate thing. Although I am hesitant in my heart, I still decided to tell you. Your old guard platoon leader Huzi is here
During this battle, he unfortunately died on the northwest battlefield of Fengtian."
"When Huzi's tank unit made a deep assault on the Japanese army, it was ambushed by Japanese crossfire. While covering the retreat of his comrades, the tank in which Huzi was riding was destroyed by a Japanese anti-tank gun on the spot. Huzi was in
After jumping out of the vehicle, because the follow-up rescue infantry did not follow up, he unfortunately died while leading the crew to break through."
After telling the news, after hesitating for a moment, Guo Bingxun took out a piece of paper from the leather bag he was carrying and handed it to Yang Zhen. After sending the paper to Yang Zhen, Guo Bingxun smiled bitterly and felt that he had
It's like a crow's mouth, full of bad news. Because the news on this piece of paper is probably what Yang Zhen doesn't want to see.
The news of Hu Zi's sacrifice felt like another blow to Yang Zhen, who had not yet recovered from the shock of Peng Dingjie's death. In the current world, except for Yuan Zhiruo and Li Huilan, everyone who had followed him from the pass was captured together.
, stayed in a prisoner of war camp together, and one was sent to a Japanese bacterial warfare base, and accompanied him to escape from the Japanese bacterial warfare base with a narrow escape.
He has been accompanying him and protecting him along the way. In Yang Zhen's heart, Huzi is probably one of the closest people around him. It can even be said that he regards him as his own brother. Now Huzi has also sacrificed his life.
On the battlefield, this series of unfortunate blows made Yang Zhen quite sad.
The joke about waiting until he found his family and marrying his sister to him was still echoing in Yang Zhen's ears. Although he also knew that the war was so cruel, not to mention the death of a battalion commander, even the sacrifice of cadres at the regiment level.
It's not uncommon. As a soldier, you should be prepared to die to serve your country from the day you go to the battlefield. But when he received the news of Hu Zi's sacrifice, Yang Zhen still felt very sad.
As for what Guo Bingxun told him next, after the next batch of 100 Stirling bombers and 150 Blenheim bombers are in place, the British will not provide the Anti-Japanese Alliance with other than original equipment and spare parts.
, notification of any other weapons and equipment. On the contrary, for Yang Zhen, it is the one with the least impact among all the bad news.
It was only a matter of time for Yang Zhen that the British ended their aid, which was not generous in the first place. Moreover, after the arrival of large quantities of American-made equipment and the Anti-Japanese War itself reaching mass production on some equipment, the British aid itself was actually second-rate.
The equipment, on the contrary, has become secondary.
Especially in 1944, the British turned to counterattack in the India-Burma battlefield. After successfully driving the Japanese army out of India and counterattacking into Myanmar, the British no longer provided assistance for tanks, fighter jets and other equipment that was more urgently needed by the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
In addition to the British-made Stirling bombers, even the number of other aircraft has become smaller and smaller, and the delay has become longer and longer.
It can be said that the British stopped aid, basically as expected by Yang Zhen. Together with the British tanks transferred from the Soviets, the Anti-Japanese Alliance is now equipped with more than 500 tanks, more than 70 Blenheim bombers, and
The more than 500 Stirling bombers currently equipped are enough to support the entire war until the end.
As for the number of Hurricane fighters, which number up to more than 300, because their performance is no longer suitable for the current battlefield, most of them have been converted into reserve reserves, and some have been converted into hurricane fighters for ground attack. Among the current Anti-Alliance aviation forces, they have become
A dispensable role.
What the Anti-Japanese Alliance urgently needs now is not the second-rate equipment from the British, but new fighter jets that can compete with the Japanese new fighter jets. The Hurricane fighter jets given by the British are not only no match for the Japanese new fighter jets, but even the old one-type fighter jets.
They can only barely compete with each other. God almost gives the Japanese army the results of the war, so it’s okay not to need this kind of assistance.
The British cessation of all aid except for the original supply of weapons and spare parts was far less severe than the death of Peng Dingjie and the sacrifice of Xiao Huzi. The card in his hand could almost be said to represent an ultimatum.
After balling up the paper and throwing it into the wastebasket, Yang Zhen turned around and said to Guo Bingxun: "Lao Guo, have Lao Peng and Hu Zi been buried?"
Looking at Yang Zhen, who was clearly exhausted mentally and physically from the successive blows, Guo Bingxun nodded: "Political Commissar Li buried Lao Peng in the Qunce Mountain Martyrs Cemetery. As for Hu Zi, they were buried on the spot according to the place of death.
In principle, together with the martyrs who died on the battlefield west of Fengtian in this battle, they were buried in the Guojiadian Martyrs Cemetery south of Gongzhuling."
After listening to Guo Bingxun's report, Yang Zhen said: "Huzi no longer has any family members in the pass, and I am his family member. Lao Peng's original wife and children have not been found for so many years. He himself has never been able to find them again.
We feel sorry for Lao Peng."
Seeing the sadness on Yang Zhen's face, Guo Bingxun nodded, but shook his head and said: "No. 1, after years of hard work, the Security Department of the Military Region, together with the Social Department of the Northeast Bureau, reviewed a large number of Japanese and puppet household registration files, as well as old
After searching the Japanese and puppet police station files in Peng's hometown, we have found the whereabouts of Lao Peng's family."
"After he joined the Anti-Japanese War, his wife remarried with her children to avoid being implicated. Now she lives with her husband in Harbin. In order to prevent her children from being threatened by the Japanese puppets, she changed her two children to follow her husband.
Husband’s surname. That’s why we haven’t found it all these years.”
"Now his daughter is in our army and is a student at the Nursing School Affiliated to our Military Medical University. The Security Department has taken his son back, and Lao Peng also met his children before he died. It can be said that before Lao Peng left,
We didn’t leave too many regrets. In order to find Lao Peng’s family, we have been searching for so many years, but we never thought that his family is living under our noses.”
"However, the man Lao Peng's wife remarried is a friend of his who grew up in the same village. He is a Russian baker in Harbin. He has a decent family life and loves his two children. These two
The child has not suffered anything and has been studying all the time."
"Last year, after graduating from middle school, his daughter was admitted to the nursing school of our military region. His son is still in elementary school. The political department of the military region has sent people to transfer his son to the middle school for the children of the military region. Now the political department's headache is that he
My wife has remarried, how should I pay the subsidy to the martyred family members, whether to give it or not."
Regarding Guo Bingxun's doubts, Yang Zhen thought about it and said: "In this way, let the political department send more flexible people to talk to his ex-wife. The treatment that should be given should still be given. Even if it is not for the sake of Lao Peng's ex-wife,
It’s also for the sake of the two children. After all, they have taken care of Lao Peng’s children for so many years.”
"His ex-wife had no choice but to remarry in order to protect and support the two children. Let's not worry about this matter. Of course, we cannot directly use the name of martyrs. After all, his ex-wife has remarried. Let the Political Department consider it.
, provide a certain one-time subsidy in one name.”
"Since the eldest daughter has already joined the army, there is no need to consider other aspects. Let the Political Department go through a procedure to transfer her from the nursing school to the Military Medical University. If her grades are acceptable, she will be sent to study abroad. As for his son, he will be raised by the army instead.
.Lao Peng left these two children, we must take good care of them, otherwise we will really feel sorry for Lao Peng."
"As for the British assistance stopping, it's not a big deal. Anyway, the things they provided, except for the radar, are basically second-hand and second-rate. The British equipment we have now is enough.
After a while, they stopped providing assistance, but it will not affect our future operations."
"The British have gained the upper hand in the India-Burma battlefield. They feel that we no longer need to cooperate with them in the overall strategy and share the pressure of the Japanese army with them. These British devils are really fucking realistic. The reality is
In reality, without Butcher Zhang like them, we wouldn’t be able to eat only pigs with hair on them.”
"By the way, Lao Guo, please pass on the message. A military region standing committee meeting will be held in the afternoon. All standing committee members and deputies will be present. The first is to study our overall strategy for the next step. The second point is for the US Army Aviation. This time
Some things about stationing in Northeast China. I also need to re-adjust the division of labor among all deputy commanders and deputy political commissars. Look at the documents on my desk, they are all piled up."