Rise from eight hundred.

July 1995!

The international situation is changing rapidly. A certain politician from Taiwan Island was invited by Cornell University in the United States to visit in a personal capacity. The top Chinese officials were furious and recalled the ambassador!

High-level contacts between the two countries above the ambassadorial level have been stopped!

In mid-July, Tang Dao, the old president of Taihang Special Forces Academy, who had lived in Taihang Mountains for a long time and had never left Licheng County since his mother passed away, suddenly felt like moving on. He left Taihang Mountains with his wife and his granddaughter Tang Xiaodao.

  The first place the veteran, who was over 80 years old, drove to was Niangzi Pass in Jindong!

"Mingyue, do you still remember the battle in eastern Jin that year? Lao Cao, Xiao Tu and their squad were defeated and only two people were left, two of them were disabled, one was blind and the other had a broken leg. When Li Jiujin reported to me, I, as the regiment commander, was also heartbroken!" Tang Dao, who is over 80 years old and has almost completely white hair, still stands straight. Standing at Niangzi Pass, he said to his wife, who also has a head full of silver hair, with great emotion.

"Why don't I remember that battle? We won, defeated the 21st Division, and wiped out an infantry brigade of the 20th Division." When Tan Tai Mingyue recounted the glorious record of that battle, a trace of sadness flashed in her eyes.

"But our 2nd Division, 1st Regiment, lost thousands of comrades. I remember that Brother Zhao was only in his early 40s at the time, but his hair was almost completely white. Even Brother Cheng, who was so cheerful, smoked several cigarettes after seeing the casualty figures."

"Behind every victory are sacrifices!" Tang Dao muttered to himself, looking up at the Jindong Anti-Japanese War Memorial standing on the top of the mountain on the other side.

The monument is very tall, but it is not tall enough to write thousands of names.

At the second stop, Tang Dao went to Zishan in southern Hebei.

Today, Zishan is no longer the poor and remote place it used to be. With the booming economy of China and the increasing enthusiasm of the people for tourism, the local government has turned this place into a red tourism attraction.

The South Hebei Administrative Office, which had only five or six bungalows on the ground at that time, has been protected and renovated, and it looks much cleaner and tidier than it was more than 50 years ago. Many of the underground tunnels and military command centers built to defend against Japanese aircraft bombing, including the fortifications built on the cliff at that time, have also been restored.

When the local government learned that the old leader was coming, they were a little nervous, fearing that they would displease the old leader by developing the battlefield of the Great Patriotic War into tourism.

Tang Dao walked to the core area of ​​the scenic area and saw many white flowers tied to the pine trees around the Anti-Japanese War Memorial. He smiled when he learned that it was the Qingming Festival and the local schools had organized primary and secondary school students to walk here to pay tribute.

  Under the sweep of the economic wave, everyone is changing, but as long as young people do not forget the martyrs, it is great!

After all, the future belongs to those young people. They will find their own spiritual home in the midst of material desires.

The third stop, Tang Dao flew to Shanghai!

This time, he did not disturb anyone and even refused his granddaughter's company. The couple stood in front of the tall building that still stood on the bank of Suzhou River, holding hands.

They met here, and it has been nearly 60 years.

Back then, he was a heroic second lieutenant who led his troops to fight the Japanese army to the death in this desperate place to defend the last dignity of Chinese soldiers; she was a military reporter who risked her life to sneak into the warehouse, just to let the people of China know the names of these brave warriors who died bravely.

They all completed their tasks.

Here, he made the Japanese bleed so much that the Suzhou River was almost dyed red!

She was by the Suzhou River, watching him stab five Japanese pirates with his bayonet, which made the Japanese soldiers terrified. She wrote furiously to tell the whole of China that Songhu had never fallen.

The next day, old Tangtou, dressed in casual clothes, rode a bicycle and took an old lady to Songjiang, 20 kilometers away.

Today's Jiangnan town is no longer the dilapidated town it once was. Most of the broken city walls have been demolished, leaving only a small section and an old city gate to show everyone the long history of this Jiangnan town.

There are still faint bullet holes on the rammed earth city wall, proving to people passing by that more than 50 years ago, a brutal and almost brilliant defensive battle broke out here.

The city was already very prosperous, with a bustling crowd of people, and the Songjiang specialty silk shop was even more crowded with people.

Tang Dao, whose face already had many wrinkles, stood on a busy commercial street, holding the hand of his white-haired wife and grinning. Tan Tai Ming Yue took the big hand, which was no longer broad, in her backhand and smiled faintly.

Many passers-by cast envious glances at the old couple.

They are so old and still so loving, how can we not envy them?

But perhaps only Tan Tai Mingyue understood her husband and why he smiled so brightly.

  To the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the 67th Army who sacrificed their lives here, has this prosperous era become what you wished for?

Tang Dao said this for the more than 67 officers and soldiers of the th Army who died in the battle here, and also for Xia Dayu.

Xia Dayu did not have the chance to see this prosperous era. After the founding of the New China, Xia Dayu, who had become a battalion commander, returned to his hometown once, paid tribute to his uncle Crow, and then went to find his brothers and sisters who had been waiting for his return in his hometown.

  When he returned to the military camp, he brought back 10 people!

13 years have passed, and those children who once suffered from hunger and starvation in the war have grown into young men and want to join the army to serve their country.

The following year, Xia Dayu led them to the ice field!

In the Battle of Songgufeng, the Chinese light infantry regiment achieved the highest record of marching 150 li in one night, and then created the glorious feat of severely damaging the ace infantry regiment of the US ace division with the strength of one battalion.

But the little bald guard of Tang Dao never returned!

Tang Dao, who was still in charge of negotiations in the Bear Country, was attending a night banquet organized by the Bear Country's senior military officials when he received the news.

That night, Tang Dao, who had a high alcohol tolerance, got drunk after drinking only 100 glasses of vodka. He got the eight enemy generals drunk while he himself was also drunk.

Maybe only when I'm drunk, my heart won't hurt so much.

After staying in Songjiang City for two days, Tang Dao went to Guangde again. It was the most glorious battle for the Four-Line Regiment to break through the blockade and escape.

It was the Laojinkeng ambush that defeated the Kunisaki Detachment in one battle, completely depriving it of its pursuit capability. The Fourth Battalion was able to cross the Yangtze River and be upgraded to the Fourth Battalion.

On the top of the mountain where almost all the two infantry companies of the Sichuan Army were sacrificed, there is also a small monument. It has no gatehouse or attic. It is just an anti-Japanese war monument no more than 9 meters high. The ground is paved with ordinary granite, but it is swept exceptionally clean.

When Tang Dao asked the local village party secretary who accompanied him, he found out that it was a rotation among the local villages. Five people came to clean the place every week. During the Qingming Festival, there was an endless stream of people coming to pay homage to their ancestors.

  The old soldier, who had already taken off his military uniform, saluted the old man who was no more than 60 years old!

On behalf of my young comrades, thank you!

The old man was at a loss as to what to do. This was just a story he had heard since he was a child, saying that an army had once come here and killed several thousand Japanese devils.

However, many people died and were eventually buried on this mountain. Many of them didn’t even have names.

Then, Tang Dao went to Shipai. It was the first battle of the Four-Line Regiment after it came out of North China. Just one battle made Yokoyama Isamu and the 11th Army realize how fierce the No. Regiment in North China was.

However, behind the military achievements, there are also countless bones!

It was here that Shi Dakuan lost his infantry company, but was fortunate to become a member of the Four-Line Regiment. He became the deputy squad leader of Tang Dao's guard squad, and was promoted to platoon leader after the Battle of Hengyang. Before rushing to the ice field, Shi Dakuan, who was only in his 20s, had already served as the battalion commander of the Sharp Knife Battalion. His two younger sisters had grown up, and under the care of the organization, they finished junior high school and entered the newly established nursing school. Tang Dao still remembered that Shi Dakuan wrote to him on the battlefield, happily telling him about his family situation, saying that his family had also arranged a marriage for him, with his elder sister's colleague in the hospital, and that he would go home to get married after returning to China.

Standing in front of the Shipai Anti-Japanese War Memorial, Tang Dao's eyes were moist.

After the brutal Battle of Wusheng Mountain, the small soldier from Sichuan Province never wrote to his old superior again.

The war was almost over!

But he will never come back.

Shi Dakuan's old mother was eventually taken to the Tang family's old house by Xiao Handan to live with her. The two old ladies, one lived to 98 and the other 97, and were accompanied by Tang Xiaojiu and his wife, a disabled veteran who returned from the Ice Field War.

  The old lady passed away peacefully!

Tang Dao, Li Jiujin, Leng Feng, Gu Xishui and others who carried the coffin personally did not shed tears. She was finally going to see her three sons, something she had thought about for many, many years!

She lived only to see this new country for her sons so that she could go and tell them about it.

Finally, Tang Dao went to Hengyang!

He also stayed there the longest, for a full week. His footprints were all over Hengyang City. Although the city was no longer the dilapidated city it was 50 years ago, Tang Dao seemed to still be able to see and hear his soldiers standing in front of him: "Report to the commander, the enemy has been repelled!"

Before leaving, Tang Dao, his wife and granddaughter Tang Xiaodao, presented flowers to the Hengyang Defense War Monument!

  It was not until this time that foreign media noticed the whereabouts of the veteran Tang Dao. Considering the current international situation, it is hard for them not to imagine what this means.

But this was not the last stop for Tang Dao. Tang Dao then went northward, crossed Shanhaiguan, and crossed the Yalu River.

There, countless of his old comrades were waiting for him.

Back then, he was unable to bring them to this battlefield in person. Now, they must still be waiting for him on this battlefield. Their heroic spirits are still alive!

Because some people deserve a beating again!

The figures of Qian Dazhui, Heizi, Cao Yingchong and others flashed one by one in front of Tang Dao who was standing silently on the top of Wusheng Mountain like a movie.

Qian Dazhu was already the division chief of staff at that time, but the Iron Triangle blocking battle was really too cruel. In just over 10 days of defensive operations, 2.5 Chinese soldiers endured the fierce attack of more than 1500 artillery pieces, more than 300 tanks and 5 American troops. Even the army commander was seriously injured and unconscious in the end after fighting the enemy with a gun and bayonet.

  Qian Dazhu personally led a guard platoon to block the attacks of two US infantry battalions for two days and nights until the entire army was wiped out!

Whenever Tang Dao thought of the still immature young man he met in Songjiang, his heart would always ache.

Heizi was the commander of Li Jiujin's guard battalion. At the critical moment of the Battle of Wusheng Mountain, it was he who kept Li Jiujin, who was about to go to the front line with a pistol in hand, at the command center, while he himself led the last guard platoon to support the front line.

He had 18 wounds all over his body but refused to leave the battlefield. This strong man, who was 1 meters tall and weighed 9 kilograms, felt light when Li Jiujin personally carried him off the battlefield after the battle.

"Commander! Heizi has bled dry! There are holes all over his body, and I can't stop them up!" Li Jiujin, who was calling Tang Dao, cried like a baby again.

Since the Battle of Hengyang, Li Jiujin, who was almost 40 years old, had not cried like that for a long time.

Cao Yingchong married Zhuang Damei after the Battle of Hengyang and had a son and a daughter. However, the happy time was too short. He was named to be transferred to the ace army as the commander of the spearhead battalion. He bid farewell to his wife and children and stepped into the ice battlefield.

  The first battle is a fight to the death!

That place is called Changjin Lake, a battlefield with a temperature of minus thirty degrees Celsius!

That was the first time in the history of the Chinese Army that casualties from frostbite exceeded actual combat casualties. The number of officers and soldiers who froze to death alone reached more than 4000. However, they wiped out 3.6 enemies, including 2.4 U.S. troops, including an entire U.S. regiment. Lieutenant General Walker, commander of the U.S. 8th Army, was killed in a car accident in the chaos, resulting in what then-U.S. Secretary of State Acheson called "the longest retreat in U.S. history."

Thinking of them, even after so many years, the usually strong Tang Dao still couldn't help but have sparkling eyes.

  What a shining star it would have been if all these brave and fearless young officers under his command could survive the war!

But for the sake of their motherland, they left their young lives on this ice field.

It was a truly asymmetric war of flesh and blood against steel, but they still did it as they did when they fought against the Japanese pirates. They and soldiers younger than them used their flesh and blood to keep the enemy out of the country.

"Before I left, my little grandson asked me if I missed the grandparents sleeping in the monument." Tang Dao pointed to the martyrs' cemetery and said softly.

"I told him, yes, Grandpa misses them very much. I'm afraid that if I don't visit them again, I won't be able to remember what they look like. Time is really the sharpest weapon in this world. It can almost destroy everything!"

"However, I still remember that year, I once warned a five-star general not to cross the 38th parallel north on this land. At that time, the general laughed, and the entire Western world laughed too." Tang Dao suddenly raised his volume, and his low voice exploded like a muffled thunder on this mountain top that had been bombarded by millions of tons of artillery shells.

"What was the result? The result was that more than a decade later we told them again that they could not cross the 17th parallel north of that jungle. This time they listened to us and did not cross that line for 10 years.

But did they know that I have been waiting for them to cross the line? My army of the Four Lines and our sons and daughters have been waiting for the day when they cross the line, but they are so cowardly. "

Tang Dao's tone suddenly became gentle, and he cast his eyes toward the mountains: "My brothers, you tell me, more than 40 years have passed, and they seem to have forgotten our warnings. What should we do?"

"Fuck them!" Tang Xiaodao suddenly clenched his fists and raised them to the sky, his almond-shaped eyes wide open.

  Tang Xiaodao is now a grown-up girl. She just graduated from Lu University. Although she majored in information technology, everyone in the Tang family has a violent gene!

During the years when his parents were in the war, Tang Xiaodao, who was raised by his grandparents, was invincible among the little kids in the family quarters.

Old Cai's chubby grandson would almost run away when he saw Tang Xiaodao, but when he went to high school he became Tang Xiaodao's little follower.

"Well said! It's just one more fight with them! Damn those sons of bitches." Tang Dao laughed heartily.

An old man and a young man asked and answered each other. The old man's laughter echoed in the mountains, but the accompanying personnel from the Peninsula side felt as if they were in an ice cellar.

The old man in front of them was dressed in ordinary clothes, but they knew that what he said represented an attitude, an attitude that not many people on this planet could ignore.

The original words spoken by the white-haired old man on the Five Sacred Mountains soon reached the ears of American intelligence personnel, and the US top brass fell silent.

Although the old man said, "Time is the sharpest weapon in this world, it can destroy everything!", no one dares to forget the war more than 40 years ago.

China's light infantry is unrivaled in the world!

Even though they have studied for decades, they dare not say that they have achieved the level that Chinese soldiers once achieved.

What's even more terrible is that the Chinese soldiers, who are also learning from them, can now even use rocket launchers to fire rockets across the wide strait, not to mention the ballistic missiles of which there are only a hundred or so on the surface.

How can we trust the data reported by the Chinese themselves? At least they have secretly subtracted a zero.

By the time Tang Dao returned from the ice field, it was already August. The three major war zones and the two fleets began to block the strait for live-fire exercises. All soldiers on leave were recalled, and officers and soldiers who had retired within five years were ordered to register with the local armed forces and undergo intensive training.

  China has entered level two combat readiness status!

Although China at this moment is not as powerful as it will be 20 years later, the third generation of soldiers has grown up, and the bravery inherited from their grandfathers and fathers still exists!

The American aircraft carrier stayed in Guam and ultimately did not enter the strait as they had planned, even though the senior spy told them that many of the missiles were actually blanks!

Not long after, Americans were very thankful because the senior spy was quickly captured by China.

Maybe it was fake information deliberately released by the Chinese, just waiting to lure you into a trap! The Americans were so frightened that they broke out in a cold sweat! (End of this chapter)