The winter of 1937 was particularly cold, and the howling cold winds swept south from Siberia, and most of China was frozen and shrouded in bitter cold. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Japanese troops that had captured the capital city of Nanjing also stopped continuing their offensive and were busy consolidating the occupied areas and beginning to rest their troops and train the security forces.

In just four months, the Japanese army fought from Shanghai to Nanjing, and although they defeated the resistance of nearly a million Chinese troops, they were tired enough from their non-stop attack, and their troops were also seriously damaged.

Therefore, after the capture of Nanjing, the Japanese troops only sent a small force to attack Chuzhou on the periphery of Nanjing, and the Yangzhou line was transferred to a period of recuperation.

The Japanese troops were busy resting and recuperating their troops and preparing for the next battle, while the Chinese side was also not idle and was also preparing intensively.

The failures of the Shanghai and Nanjing battles made the Chinese government completely abandon hope for international mediation and intervention, and the lessons learned in exchange for blood and tears caused the top leaders to change their strategy, from fighting hard to defend one city and one place to exchanging space for time, hoping to fight a sustained war in a vast depth and depth.

The loss of Nanjing caused the Chinese side to abandon the idea of peace talks and turn to active preparations for war, and a steady stream of recruits from the rear were transported to the front-line units with heavy losses for training, countless weapons, ammunition, and food were also pulled to the front line one by one, and the railway and highway lines were busy like ants.

The two battles of Shanghai and Nanjing inflicted heavy losses on the Chinese side, thousands of wounded soldiers were transported to the rear, and a large number of wounded soldiers died of infection due to the lack of medical personnel.

Taking advantage of the temporary suspension of the fighting, countless volunteer young students and front-line medical nurses were transferred to Wuhan, the wartime capital, for surprise training and study, so as to replenish the field hospitals with huge gaps in various theaters.

Zhang Hongying was also sent to Wuhan with a large number of selected female medical nurses, and when she left, she hugged Yang Ling, who was seeing her off, and cried profusely.

The two met and met on the battlefield filled with gunpowder, this emotion of life and death was harder than Jin Jian and stone, thinking that he would be separated from Yang Ling for a long time, Zhang Hongying couldn't hold back her tears.

"Okay, okay, don't cry, girls look good when they laugh." Yang Ling was like coaxing a child, gently patting the crying sad Zhang Hongying.

Yang Ling's heart was also reluctant, but he also knew in his heart that this front line was very dangerous, and it would be safer for Zhang Hongying to return to Wuhan, the rear, and he hoped that she could stay in a safe place.

Yang Ling's comfort did not stop her crying, but made her even more sad, and it was not until before the train started that she reluctantly boarded the train.

"You must take care of yourself and take care of yourself-"

Zhang Hongying's eyes were red and swollen from crying, leaning out of the train window, waving her arms and shouting at Yang Ling.

Yang Ling was also reluctant to wave to her: "Don't worry, you have to take care of yourself."

Zhang Hongying's voice became farther and farther away with the train, and finally only the whistling wind remained.

Looking at the train that finally turned into a black dot and disappeared, Yang Ling's heart suddenly became empty, and he felt an unprecedented loss.

But he also knew in his heart that in this war years, there was no love that was tired of being together, he was a soldier, and his duty was to protect his family and defend the country.

Now that the Japanese are hideous and his family and country have been lost, he quickly recovered from his loss and devoted himself to the training of the army.

After the Battle of Nanjing, there were only 350 surviving veterans of the 301st Regiment of the 71st Army, and morale was sluggish.

The remnants of the brothers fought badly and badly in Nanjing, and when they withdrew to Bengbu, they were no longer human, one by one dejected and lifeless, without any life.

With the cooperation of Lu Xing, the commander of the first battalion, Yang Ling began to reorganize the troops, and the original 350 brothers plus the nearly 200 brothers brought by Yang Ling were reorganized.

Lu Xing still served as the commander of the first battalion, and the commander of the second battalion was the commander of the 58th Division

Major Chen Ming, who was transferred, served as the commander, and the commander of the third battalion was concurrently served by Yang Ling, the acting deputy regiment commander.

Lao Yanbang was promoted by Yang Ling to become the deputy commander of the third battalion, Wang Meng, Liu Yidao, and Wang Huzi also continued to serve as field company commanders, and Qin Shou was promoted to be the commander of the special agent company directly under the regiment.

The original group of old brothers also have their own places, such as Shunzi was promoted to deputy company commander, and Wang Zikun, a student soldier who only joined the army in Nanjing, is also considered a veteran of the war and promoted to squad leader.

Yang Ling's re-reorganization made the shelves of the 301st Regiment set up again, although there were insufficient soldiers, and many platoons were seriously empty, but Yang Ling was not in a hurry at all, he had already received the news that the replenishment of soldiers was already on the way.

Because Yang Ling had conducted a thorough investigation of each company in advance, he had no objection to the adjustment of officers this time, and he was convinced.

After the reorganization was completed, Yang Ling began to work to improve morale, first ordering the cooking squad of each company to boil water, and compulsorily ordering every brother to take a bath.

Although many brothers in their regiment were given new cotton clothes, they were reluctant to wear them, and they were still wrapped in the dirty clothes that came down from the battlefield, and their unkempt military appearance was unkempt.

"You guys wash first, it's freezing this day, what kind of bath are you taking, tossing blindly."

The commander of the first company, Wang Meng, nested in the warm quilt and was reluctant to come out.

Yang Ling was not polite: "A knife, give me a frame!"

"Howler!" Liu Yidao rolled up his sleeves, and with a few brothers, he dragged the captain and company commander Wang Meng out of the bed and began to pick up clothes.

"Hey, what are you doing, what are you doing." Wang Meng was pressed to the ground, and the brothers hurriedly shouted as they scrambled to help pull their clothes.

But the brothers were polite to him, and they stripped them naked and threw them into steaming vats, making a splash.

"Liu Yidao, Lao Tzu and you are not finished." Wang Meng didn't want to take a bath, in his eyes, the smoke and dirt on his body was the best honor for a soldier, which was only available to veterans who had fought in war.

Now that he was stripped naked and thrown into the bath vat, he couldn't help but scold his mother, and the brothers around him all let out laughter.

Their company commander Wang was a fierce general in battle, but he didn't expect to be afraid of taking a bath, the brothers were so happy that they leaned forward and leaned back, and Liu Yidao kept watering Wang Meng with a scoop, which made Wang Meng scold again and again but helpless.

The brothers washed away the smoke and dirt from their bodies, changed into new cotton uniforms, swept away the unkempt decadence, and gave people a new feeling.

In addition, Yang Ling deliberately went to Bengbu City, bought a large number of recent newspapers, and gathered the brothers to read them to them.

Most of these newspapers reported on what the Japanese army did in Nanjing, slaughtering civilians, plundering, and killing soldiers who laid down their arms in batches.

In addition to reading the newspaper, Yang Ling also found some stragglers who had escaped to tell the truth, most of them who had escaped from the massacre of the Japanese army, and they choked up and told their experiences.

"We didn't get the news when we retreated, and when we got the news, the surrounding troops were all withdrawn, and we were surrounded in the Shogunate Mountain for a few days and nights without eating, and the devils told us to put down our weapons for food, saying that this war was a contradiction between them and Chairman Chiang, and it had nothing to do with our soldiers, we were so hungry that we believed in the devils, but as soon as we put down our weapons, we were tied up by the devils, and we had pity for our more than 3,000 brothers, all of whom were driven to the Yanziji River and let the devils use machine guns to make a sudden ......"

The brother who had survived the death wiped away his tears as he spoke, and he was really moved by the fact that the atrocities of the Japanese invaders were not as good as those of the beasts, so that the brothers who were sitting and listening at the bottom had red circles in their eyes when they heard it, and they were holding back a breath of anger in their hearts, and they wanted to take revenge with a gun now.

After a few speeches, the brothers' original languishing posture was swept away, and each brother became murderous, and Yang Ling took advantage of the atrocities of the Japanese invaders to arouse their common hatred.

"Deputy Head Yang, your method really works."

Lu Xing, the battalion commander of the major, threw himself to the ground for Yang Ling's now admirable five-body body, and he didn't expect a few simple speeches to boost the morale of the brothers.

Yang Ling also knew that the brothers were now holding back a breath of anger in their hearts, and he also struck while the iron was hot, and he instructed Lu Xing: "Our morale is up, and we will start training tomorrow."

If the troops want to win the battle, it is not enough to rely on a momentum, Yang Ling also hopes that through strict training, the combat effectiveness of the brothers will be improved, and the next time they encounter the Japanese army, they will take revenge for this blood revenge!

"Yes!" Lu Xing now obeyed Yang Ling's orders without question.