After the Spring Festival of the 26th year of the Republic of China, the independent regiment was personally signed by Liu Lang to prepare for war.

All personnel of the Independent Regiment have been given family leave and are not allowed to leave the barracks without authorization, and all officers living in the newly built Shuguang Town have been changed from one day of vacation every six months to one day of vacation every 45 days; The Quartermaster Department began to reserve ammunition needed by all branches of the armed forces, the baggage company was changed from a pre-war establishment of 81 personnel to a wartime establishment of 481 personnel, and all the strong men of the 400 baggage companies who were trained once a half a month in peacetime were transferred to active duty, and their training was strengthened in such subjects as military training, material handling, vehicle driving, and mule and horse feeding.

All 2,000 officers and men of the base garrison battalion are fully staffed, and all vacancies will be transferred to the new barracks within half a month, and at the same time, the new barracks will be abolished, and all the recruits will be added to all branches of the independent regiment, the establishment of the teaching team will be abolished, and all the officers and men of the training team will return to various departments.

The instructors of the teaching team returned to their original posts, and the instructors seconded from the New 61 Brigade returned to their original units, but Liu Lang had already arranged the positions of the ten red instructors.

There was one infantry company commander, one infantry company deputy, one artillery company deputy, and one baggage company commander in the base garrison battalion.

Of the four infantry battalions of the combat unit of the Independent Regiment, the commander of the first battalion is still concurrently served by Liu Lang himself, and the deputy battalion deputy is transferred to the base garrison battalion as the deputy commander of the major, which is considered to be a high promotion, and the position of deputy battalion is vacant, Liu Lang appointed it to Ye Zihua, the best performer among the ten red instructors.

The remaining five red instructors, however, went to serve as company lieutenants in the other three infantry battalions, and like their colleagues in the garrison battalion, they were all awarded the rank of lieutenant. The original personnel were either transferred to the security regiment as company-level commanders, or transferred to the company-level combat units of the base garrison battalion as commanders, and they were all promoted.

Ten red instructors have not come for nothing for more than a year, they have been on the training ground with the sergeants and veterans during the day, and they have taught them tactics and culture at night, and the backbone sergeants of each company can be said to be their students, and they have a natural concept of integrating officers and soldiers.

It can be said that the independent regiment has made all preparations for the coming of war, whether in terms of staffing, material preparation, and troop equipment training.

The clouds of the impending war can be felt not only in the independent regiment, not only in Guangyuan, nor only in the whole territory of Sichuan, where the whole army has been redressed and reorganized. In fact, as far as the eye can see, all that can be seen is the hideousness of the Japanese army, which has surrounded Beiping on three sides.

The whole of China understands that war is not inevitable, but imminent.

In June 1937, the Japanese army, which had occupied Fengtai by despicable means, began to conduct frequent exercises.

On July 7, 1937, the Japanese garrison at Lugou Bridge held a so-called military exercise in the vicinity of the Chinese garrison's position without informing the local Chinese authorities.

On the evening of July 7, 1937, the soldiers of the 29th Army sang from Wanping City on the bank of the Yongding River: "Japanese warlords, enemies of the people, for the country and the people, our generation's vocation ......" This is the "Dinner Song" sung by the soldiers of the 29th Army before eating. The soldiers who sang all looked sad and angry. Outside Wanping City, there are Japanese soldiers who are eyeing each other.

Hundreds of Japanese troops, heavily armed, rushed to the Lugou Bridge, telling the Chinese soldiers stationed at the Lugou Bridge that a Japanese soldier had disappeared during the exercise, and demanded that they enter Wanping County, southwest of Beiping, to search for them. The Chinese defenders rejected this impudent demand. The Japanese then opened fire on the area around the Lugou Bridge, attacked the Chinese defenders inside the city, and shelled Wanping City. The 29th Regiment of the 37th Division of the 219th Army of the Chinese defenders returned fire.

At 5 o'clock in the morning of July 8, most of the companies of the 219th Regiment of the 29th Army defending north of the Lugou Bridge spilled blood on the Lugou Bridge, and only 4 people survived, and the railway bridge and Huilong Temple were lost.

The command of the 29th Chinese Army immediately ordered the officers and soldiers on the front: "Ensure that the Lugou Bridge and Wanping City, the Lugou Bridge, the graves of Er, should live and die with the bridge and not retreat." ”

He Jifeng, the commander of the 110th Brigade of the 37th Division, and the troops guarding the Lugou Bridge were the 219th Regiment under He Jifeng. Hearing the sound of artillery on the Lugou Bridge, he immediately led the 220th Regiment to help, and organized a death squad, armed with grenades and broadswords, to raid the Japanese army after dark and recapture the lost position.

The brigade commander of the major general who carried a big sword on his back stood in front of his 150-member death squad, and his voice was deafening: "My generation is a patriotic soldier, raised by the people, and should serve the country with death." Lugou Bridge is the grave of our 29th Army!"

The Minister of Agriculture of the future Republic, who was awarded the Order of Liberation of the First Class, fulfilled his promise, and after his death, his ashes were scattered next to the Lugou Bridge, and he continued to guard the sun, moon and stars of the motherland together with his subordinates who had shed their blood on the battlefield.

After the Japanese army provoked the July 7 Incident, it caused strong repercussions throughout the country. On the second day of the July 7 Incident, the Central Committee of the Red Party sent a telegram to the whole country, appealing: "Compatriots of all China, Pingjin is in danger! North China is in danger! The Chinese nation is in danger! Only when the whole nation carries out the war of resistance is our way out! And put forward the idea of "not allowing Japanese imperialism to occupy an inch of China!" "Shed the last drop of blood to defend the homeland!" A loud slogan.

However, the bald headmaster still had luck and put forward the policies of "not yielding, not expanding" and "not seeking war, but fighting the war". Call Song Zheyuan, Qin Dechun and others "Wanping City should be held and not retreated", "Lugou Bridge and Changxin Store must not be lost".

Seeing that it was impossible to attack the Lugou Bridge, the Japanese army played the trick of "sitting on the ground and negotiating", and while paralyzing the Chinese side with negotiations, they actively deployed troops.

On 9, 11, and 19 July, the agreements reached three times between the Japanese garrison in North China and the Jicha authorities were proved to be dead letter by the intermittent artillery fire at the Lugou Bridge.

On July 26, the North China garrison issued an ultimatum to the 29th Army, demanding that the Chinese defenders withdraw from the Pingjin area by the 28th, otherwise action would be taken. Song Zheyuan sternly refused, and on the 27th, he issued a telegram to the whole country to defend himself and defend the territory, resolutely defending the land and resisting the war.

On July 28, the Japanese army launched a general attack on Beiping as planned. Under the command of the 20th Division of the North Korean Army, which had gathered around Beiping, the 1st and 11th Brigades of the Kwantung Army, and the infantry brigade of the Chinese Garrison Army of about 60,000 people, with the cooperation of more than 100 artillery pieces and armored vehicles and the cover of dozens of aircraft, launched an all-out attack on the 132nd, 37th, and 38th Divisions of the Chinese 29th Army stationed in the suburbs of Beiping, in Nanyuan, Beiyuan, and Xiyuan.

Nanyuan was the focus of the Japanese attack. About 8,000 troops of the 29th Army stationed in Nanyuan resisted bloodily, General Tong Linge, deputy commander of the 29th Army, Lieutenant General Zhao Dengyu, commander of the 132nd Division, and 1,300 students of the military training regiment who just dropped their pens and carried their guns fought back, and only 300 remained after the war.

On July 29, the 29th Army was forced to withdraw from Beiping and retreat to Baoding.

Liu Lang stood in front of the officers and men of the whole regiment, holding the battle report in his hand, facing northern China, and couldn't help but burst into tears.

Thousands of veterans who originally belonged to the 29th Army were in tears.

Liu Lang has worked hard to do a lot, taking advantage of the friendship with the Great Wall of the 29th Army, he has sent a lot of mountain artillery and mortars and light and heavy machine guns to the 29th Army through underground channels in the past three years, and often takes the opportunity to remind General Song to be careful of the villain's heart of the Japanese invaders, but the stubborn wheel of history finally crushed his efforts, and what should have happened has happened after all.

A general and a lieutenant general were martyred, the brigade and battalion commanders suffered many casualties, the headquarters of the 29th Army suffered heavy losses, and was forced to retreat under the threat of Japanese aircraft, artillery and tanks.

However, Liu Lang also knows that the loss of the northern gateway is not the biggest threat that China is currently facing, and the battle that threatens the greatest threat has not yet begun, in the southeast of China, where there is Shanghai, the economic center of China, and the capital, Nanjing, ------.

"Pingjin has been lost, the southeast enemy has gathered heavy troops, our independent regiment will definitely fight with the Japanese invaders, and all the officers and soldiers of our independent regiment will fight to the last soldier, do you dare to die with Lao Tzu?" Liu Lang, who rarely cried but was in tears at the moment, re-faced his subordinates and roared hoarsely.

"Yes, we can." The officers and soldiers raised their arms, raised their guns, and roared like their commanders.

In this midsummer, the roar of thousands of people resounded through the mountains of the Qinling Mountains also started the journey of the independent regiment to the front line of resistance against Japan.

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PS: I was in a bad mood and nagged a lot yesterday, thank you for the relief of the book friends, and at the same time thank the "long-term people" book friends for their seriousness, it was Fengyue who thought too simply, and only thought of changing the machine gun and rifle to a unified caliber, but did not take into account the flange problem of bullets of various calibers, thank you for your professional guidance. I will try to be more rigorous in the future.