In fact, the follow-up development was not as Yang Zhen imagined, and the development of the battle situation made him not expect that he still looked at the wrong person. In the fierce battle between Yang Zhen's headquarters and the Japanese army in the second year, the Third Route Army, which was far from recovering its vitality, took the initiative to attack the Japanese army in Heihe under unimaginable difficult conditions.

It gave great assistance to the 2nd Division, which confronted the Japanese army in Heihe, and pinned down most of the troops of the 1st Division of the Japanese Army from advancing westward. It greatly reduced the pressure on Yang Zhen's western front. And it was almost completely annihilated under the siege of the superior forces of the Japanese puppet army.

Feng Zhigang, commander-in-chief and successor chief of staff of the Third Route Army, Qi Baoxian, adjutant general, Li Jingyu, chief of staff of the three detachments, and Han Yushu, secretary of the party committee, died one after another in the bitter battle. After the political commissar Xu ** and the deputy detachment leader Park Desong of the three detachments were captured, they died in the Japanese puppet prison one after another.

After the remnants of the Third Route Army withdrew to the territory of Wuyun under the leadership of political commissars Feng Zhongyun and Wang Minggui, there were less than 100 remaining of nearly 1,000 people at the time of the sortie. Except for Wang Minggui, the leader of the three detachments, and Wang Jun, the political commissar of the nine detachments, almost all of the senior generals died.

In the following year, in order to cooperate with the Jidong Military Region, the Third Route Army paid the price of almost the entire annihilation. These are still things that Yang Zhen has not thought of. What he was thinking about now was the impact on his plan for the next step of coordinated operations on the internal and external fronts after the Third Route Army withdrew northward and lost its combat capability. Without the support of the Third Route Army, the pressure on the defense line of the entire western part will be greatly increased.

Looking at the map, the situation that is now very unfavorable for the entire Western Front made Yang Zhen's brows furrow tightly. He was considering whether to use Zhao Shangzhi, deputy commander of the military region, as the main commander, and the troops of the Third Route Army withdrawn to the base area as the backbone, and transfer a number of capable troops and some experienced commanders to organize an external combat unit.

During the war, they took the base area as the rear, crossed the Laoye Ridge to the west, and carried out guerrilla warfare behind the enemy line deep into the belly of the enemy army. In order to cooperate with the frontal battlefield, the strength of the Japanese Seventh Division stationed in Qiqihar was pinned down, so that it could not be transferred westward. and disperse the forces of the 1st Division stationed in the pseudo-Heihe province. This force is not destined to be too large, but the survival situation under the heavy Japanese pseudo-army makes him extremely hesitant.

Just when Yang Zhen was pondering, the report of the little tiger outside the door interrupted his train of thought. Hearing Xiaohuzi's report, Yang Zhen put away the map that had been marked with a lot of things by himself. Regardless of whether Yang Jicai is his younger brother in this era, something that should not be let him know, or something that should not be let him know.

Looking at Yang Jicai, who didn't know why he came here again and looked a little nervous, Yang Zhen handed him a glass of water and said, "Relax, don't be nervous." I came to you to ask about your family. How are your parents doing now, okay. Are your younger brothers and sisters studying? How's it going? ”

Hearing that Yang Zhen wanted to ask about his family's situation, Yang Jicai breathed a sigh of relief. Although he didn't understand why this chief, who was not a few years older than him, was so concerned with his family, Yang Jicai still hurriedly said: "My parents are still in good health and are still running the family's pastry shop." Although the business is bleak, it is barely making ends meet. ”

"My younger brother, who is one year younger than me, graduated from the National High School this year, because his parents are older, and his energy is far less than before. I was conscripted into the national army again, and my family had a business to take care of, so I gave up the Harbin Institute of Technology that I had been admitted to and did not study. Dropped out of school to help his parents run a shop at home. Before I left, my parents decided to set him a family business. The other party is his classmate in middle school, and he will get married at the end of this year. ”

"My sister also studied at Kaiyuan Girls' National Middle School, with excellent academic performance, and was also admitted to the national high school this year. Her parents are ready to let her rely on Fengtian Medical University after graduating from high school. First, as a doctor, not to mention that your life is guaranteed, you can also find a good family in the future. Second, it is close to home, which is convenient to take care of. A girl, it's still uneasy to be too far away. ”

Hearing Yang Jicai's answer, Yang Zhen couldn't help but give a thumbs up and said: "Of the five children in your family, the least of them have all gone to the national high school, which is really amazing." If it weren't for the 918 incident, your family would have had five college students. I'd love to meet these two old people. ”

Yang Zhen's praise made Yang Jicai a little embarrassed and said: "Chief, my parents both like to read, and they are half a reader. Before entering the eastern part of the country, my father studied as a teacher teacher in Shandong for a year. When I first arrived in Kaiyuan, I worked as an elementary school teacher for a while. ”

"My mother is a banner man, and my grandfather is from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he once served as the magistrate for a period of time. After graduating from the Fengtian Provincial Normal Girls' School, she has been working as a teacher. Later, after the 918 Incident, because he was unwilling to work for the Japanese and help them implement slavery education, he resigned to help his father take care of the business at home. ”

"My parents have always attached great importance to the education of our siblings, and they have never stopped our studies no matter how difficult it is. After the 918 incident, the eldest brother went to the customs and never came back. The second brother died in southern Liaoning again. Our parents put their hopes on the rest of us. ”

"He used to tell me that I don't care about the Japanese education, but I must learn the knowledge. The little devil will be driven away one day, and this Manchukuo will not survive for a lifetime. Only when we learn the knowledge can we truly serve the country. So he always encouraged us to study hard. ”

When his words fell, Yang Zhen didn't answer immediately, but stared at him silently for a long time before finally making up his mind to ask, "Do you still have an impression of your eldest brother now?" Oh, even if you meet him, you can still recognize him. ”

Hearing Yang Zhen mention his eldest brother who has been away from home for eight years, Yang Jicai shook his head, but his eyes were a little red and said: "I was less than ten years old when my eldest brother left home, and I haven't seen each other for more than eight years, and I only remember what he looked like when I was a child." I remember that he didn't like to laugh and was very stubborn. When I made a mistake and was beaten by my father, I always didn't say a word. Neither cries out of pain, nor begs for mercy. ”

"Eight years have passed, and I'm afraid I won't be able to recognize even if we meet now. Who knows what he has become now. But my mom and dad don't say it, but I know they've been thinking about him all the time. My father always sighs when he mentions him, and my mother often secretly sheds tears because she thinks of him and his second brother. ”

"I miss him with a few younger siblings too. At that time, my mother still had to go to work, and my father was busy with business. I and several younger siblings were raised by him and my second brother. A few of us studied and he laid the foundation for him. As long as they were free, they led us to read and read. ”

Speaking of this, he took out two photos from the military uniform on his body and put them in front of Yang Zhen and said, "Chief, one of these is a family photo taken by the whole family when my eldest brother came home for the last time before the 918 incident. There is also a photo taken by the whole family after graduating from high school in my country. ”

After receiving the photo handed over, Yang Zhenqiang endured the excitement in his heart and did not pick up the photo, but forced a smile at Yang Jicai and said: "I brought you here so late, I'm sorry for you, Comrade Xiao Yang, go back and rest first." I'll put the photos here overnight and I'll send them to you tomorrow morning, okay? I promise you won't break or lose it. ”

Yang Jicai, who was confused by Yang Zhen's act of asking for a photo, and couldn't understand why the chief was so interested in his family, was a little reluctant, but finally nodded.

After Yang Jicai left, Yang Zhen picked up the two photos and looked at them carefully, but he was very excited. That's right, the eldest son standing next to the two old men in the first family photo is his current self. In the photo, the mother of this era did not face the camera as usual, but turned her head slightly sideways, looking at herself standing beside her with a gentle face.

The parents in the second photo look much older than the first. The warmth in my mother's eyes was gone, replaced by a trace of melancholy that could not be erased. The jet-black hair in the first photo is also more than half pale. Looking at the photo of his mother in this era, Yang Zhen's heart unconsciously had a warm feeling.

Looking at his mother's warm gaze in the photo, Yang Zhen's eyes didn't know when they were full of tears, falling drop by drop on the photo. Although he knows that this is not his biological parents, when the mother looks at her son in the photo, she can't express the love in words, but it makes him have not had a mother since he was a child.

In later generations, Yang Zhen was an orphan of a martyr. My father was one of the few martyrs in the last group of troops to go up in the Battle of the Two Mountains. His mother, who worked as a supervisor in a government hotel, left him less than two years old not long after his father went to the front, and ran away with a Hong Kong businessman and never came back.

Yang Zhen grew up beside his aunt since he was a child. Although his aunt's family is poor, the kind-hearted aunt loves him more than her own children, and gives him the maternal love that he has lacked since childhood. But no matter how much the aunt loves him, it can't replace the mother's position in a child's mind.

Although he was excellent in high school, he was the top student in the key high school in his city. However, in order not to drag down the industrialization of education at that time, tuition fees rose faster than wages. After being laid off, the buyout money of thousands of yuan has not been received, and the aunt and wife who are really unable to support their three children in college, Yang Zhen chose to become a soldier instead of taking the college entrance examination after graduating from high school. He is very energetic, he is unwilling to be a working boy for a lifetime, and wants to break out of the world of the strong in the army.

After Yang Zhen became a soldier, he was very careful. He was never willing to spend a dozen yuan a month, and he saved one piece and mailed it back to his aunt and uncle for his two cousins to study. What is ridiculous is that he, the orphan of a martyr, has not received any subsidies stipulated by the state because of his mother, whom he has not seen for more than ten years.

The Hong Kong man who abducted his mother made his fortune on the mainland, and was already a well-known billionaire at that time. In his city alone, he bought several factories in large quantities. My aunt approached the civil affairs department several times, but she just didn't do it. I also joked that there was a billionaire stepfather, and he was still worried about the country's money.

After Yang Zhen was admitted to the military academy, even though he lived with his step-husband in the same city with him, he always avoided him, and even asked him without asking which gate gave locust huan to make up the industry to suppress 3 Shuo Yuan, jumping Yu Zhuo Chun Till, Xiao Xiao Qiao, sawing the oracle, hanging Huan Huan, Naidi, and was more embarrassed!

When the calm Yang Zhen knew that he had ignored him for many years, but suddenly came to find his mother's true intentions, he was completely disheartened.

The mother came to him, not to really make up for the mother's love, let alone because she still had even a trace of affection for this son who had been abandoned by him since he was a child. The only reason he came to him was because his half-father didn't know anything except eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, but it was his younger brother who was the only heir of his so-called stepfather who had an accident in Shenzhen and was jealous and killed someone in a nightclub.

They had heard that relatives who had been spying on their property had found the underworld and wanted to kill Yang Zhen's straw bag brother in prison, so that they could inherit their family's huge assets as a side branch. In order to ensure the safety of this son, he came up with the idea of letting Yang Zhen, who looks seven points similar, to take the blame, so as to protect their roots. The reason is simple, he has no inheritance, and those people will not do anything to him.

looked at the swear in front of himself that as long as he promised to surrender on behalf of his younger brother, he would immediately apply for permanent residency in Hong Kong for him, and after he was released from prison, he would give his stepfather's company a year and get 5/5% of the dividends of 5 million Hong Kong dollars, and send him to study in the United States. And immediately arranged an easy and well-paid job for his unemployed aunt and uncle.

side by side chests to assure that this reprimand is just a passing scene. Over there, they have already bought off all the people from the public procuratorate and law over there, as long as they go in to deal with it for a year or two, they will guarantee that the mother and stepfather who got him out in the name of medical parole will give him a clumsy performance, and Yang Zhen's heart is completely dead.

Yang Zhen is very smart, although his mother and stepfather don't talk much. But he still came to a conclusion from the limited words that this matter was a deliberate game from beginning to end. His straw bale brother beat someone to death in Shenzhen, I am afraid that he also fell into the trap of others. They don't let themselves take the blame, but use themselves as bait and want to force the people behind them to show up.

It is much more reassuring to use an outsider like him than to use his own son. At least don't worry about whether your son's life will be threatened, and don't dare to let go. Otherwise, with their ability to buy the public procuratorate and law from top to bottom, will they worry about their precious son's personal safety in prison?

Dying in it is nothing for them to lose. Instead, let them use it as a lever to purge their relatives who want to usurp their property. If you don't die, you will get lucky. That blank check said that there was an account, and no one could help them if they didn't admit it.

In a short period of time, Yang Zhen, who could see the true thoughts of his mother and stepfather, seemed very calm, and just said lightly: "I finally saw what it means to be unscrupulous and saw the dark side of human nature." Then he turned and left.

From then on, until the accident, no matter how many times his titular mother approached him, he never saw the affectionate mother again. If he hadn't been in the military academy, his stepfather's hand wouldn't have been able to get in. I'm afraid his mother, who was already going mad, would find a way to put pressure on him.

He was once abandoned since he was a child, and after growing up and seeing each other, he was completely killed by his mother's ruthlessness. At this time, seeing the wordless love for the children in the eyes of the mother in this life in the photo, he could no longer calm down when he had been longing for maternal love in his heart.