Chapter 177 Zhanghe Blocks 6
Li Qinglin's judgment was correct. The family had just arrived and met Li Wanxiang and Li Wanneng at the guesthouse.
Yesterday evening, the security chief delivered the county notification to his home. Li Wanxiang and Li Wanneng got up just after dawn this morning and rushed to the county town. When Li Qinglin and the others came back, they had just arrived.
When Li Wanquan saw Li Qinglin's face, he touched Li Qinglin's body with his hands, as if he wanted to know if all the parts of his son's body that had come down from the battlefield were still intact. After some inspection and inquiry, he finally felt relieved when he saw that Li Qinglin was safe and sound.
There were many people in the guesthouse, and Li Qinglin was hard to say a lot. It was already noon. Li Qinglin took Li Wanxiang and Li Wanquan to find a restaurant for lunch, and of course he had to bring the soldier who was "accompanying".
During the meal, Li Qinglin gave Li Wanquan and Li Wanxiang two gold bars each.
A few days ago, Xiao Liuzi didn't know what channel to sell the confiscated opium cigarettes. With the remaining money from selling guns and spoils in the past, Xiao Liuzi replaced all of them with gold bars.
After having money, Xiao Liuzi was about to spend all the money, but Li Qinglin did not agree. He said that half of the money would be left to improve the food for his brothers. There were more than 30 veterans from the 10th Division, and the others were divided by the head. Li Qinglin was the largest official, so of course he should have the big head. So Li Qinglin got four gold bars.
Li Qinglin handed the small cloth bag wrapped in gold bars to Li Wanquan and Li Wanxiang, and then asked them to take their two families to Xi'an.
But Li Wanquan and Li Wanxiang both disagree. They said that there have been war disasters throughout the dynasties, "The war disasters will be settled after the war." The devils came to hide for a while and it would be fine. Besides, we are all farmers, even if the Japanese fight, they always need farmers to farm, right?
Seeing Li Wanquan and Li Wanxiang think like this, Li Qinglin was secretly anxious. He described the cruelty of the Japanese he knew to them in detail, but these two duty farmers said that they didn't believe that the Japanese would do those things. They stubbornly thought that Li Qinglin was making up stories to deceive them.
There is a time requirement for the 25th Division to arrange visits to relatives this time, and Li Qinglin and his team had to rush back tonight. Seeing that Li Qinglin could not convince them for a while, he borrowed paper and pen to write a long letter to Liu Zhengsheng.
In the letter, Li Qinglin entrusted Liu Zhengsheng to escort his two families to Xi'an; ask Liu Zhengsheng to Wanfu Inn to find Xu Xicheng when he arrived in Xi'an, and after arriving in Xi'an, he asked Guo Chengshan to help settle down. In the letter, Li Qinglin clearly stated the address of Guo Chengshan's family and specifically stated that he had given the Guo family a grace to bury his father in western Jingxi last month. If his family members arrived in Xi'an, the Guo family would do their best to help.
After Li Qinglin finished writing his long letter, the time for the return journey was almost here. Li Qinglin asked Li Wanquan and the others to bring the things he bought, and then took out all the money in his pocket and gave them.
The time for real separation has come. Li Qinglin and the others boarded the car, and Wan'an's relatives waved goodbye. Everyone knew that the war was imminent, the life and death of those who joined the army were uncertain, and everyone was crying.
After visiting relatives this time, the officers and soldiers of Wan'anji calmed down their worries. After they returned to the garrison, they trained with peace of mind, and the team's combat effectiveness grew day by day.
On October 13, Shangfeng ordered the 52nd Army to move to the ancient city and standby in the Shexian area. On the 17th, the troops set off again and received orders from superiors during the march. The troops changed the marching path twice. On the 18th, the troops finally arrived at Guantai, the water-management area. The 52nd Army will work with the 32nd Army of Shangzhen to guard the Zhanghe River defense line together.
After arriving at the reserved defensive position on time, Guan Linzheng commanded the main force of the 25th Division to occupy the southern bank of the Zhang River west of the West Bond, and sent a regiment of the 25th Division to occupy a highland north of the Zhang River. The 145th Regiment where Li Qinglin was located was more than half of the casualties due to the Battle of Caohe, and is now placed behind the position in front of the reserve.
As the reserve team, the 145th Regiment was not nothing to do. While they stepped up their training, they were also responsible for the task of alert. After the troops arrived at the predetermined position, the first patrol of the entire regiment fell on Li Qinglin's fifth company and row.
It was almost evening when Li Qinglin and his friends arrived. During the patrol, Li Qinglin found that there was another unit adjacent to the 145th Regiment's garrison, which was the 32nd Army's 32nd Army's 32nd Army's 32nd Army's 32nd Army's 30th Army was completely crippled in the battle on the north bank of the Zhang River last month, and now it is also here to rest and replenish the reserve team.
Under the dim sky, Li Qinglin found a pile of fire not far from the base of the third regiment, and a group of soldiers were crying loudly. Li Qinglin approached and inquired, and it turned out that these soldiers were burning paper money. They were paying homage to the north bank of the Zhang River, Wang Runlan, a 1936 Chinese Olympic boxer.
Among this group of people, the one who cried the most sadly was a strong man. His name was Jin Guidi, Wang Runlan's Olympic teammate, and Wang Runlan's comrade in the 32nd Army.
There were also Olympic athletes on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War, which shocked Li Qinglin. Through Jin Guidi's account, Li Qinglin finally learned about China's participation in the Berlin Olympics and Wang Runlan's heroic sacrifice.
Wang Runlan was born in 1913 in a wealthy gentry family in Raoyang, Hebei Province. He is the eldest among seven brothers and sisters. Wang Runlan is tall, strong, and has a height of over 1.8 meters. He is from a wealthy family and loves martial arts since he was a child. He has practiced boxing and kicking with rural martial artists since he was a child. Over time, he became the local boxing champion.
Wang Runlan is not only proficient in martial arts, but also outstanding in her studies. She was admitted to Hebei Provincial Hejian Middle School in 1931. During her time at school, he had excellent grades in various subjects, especially sports, which was a strong point.
Wang Runlan graduated from high school in 1934, and his father issued a ban on military affairs to him: "You should learn how to do business. This is the right way. Don't dance guns and sticks all day long without learning." The young and energetic Wang Runlan contradicted his old father and ran away from home.
After running away from home, Wang Runlan was admitted to the second phase of the Hebei Military and Political School held by the 32nd Army and the Shangzhen Department in Peiping. Soon, he was selected into the Western Boxing Team founded by Shangzhen with his excellent martial arts skills.
In the boxing team, Wang Runlan systematically learned Western boxing. During training, he studied hard and practiced hard and innovated. Later, in several boxing competitions held by society, Wang Runlan repeatedly defeated Western players and won extremely high praise from society.
In 1936, Wang Runlan and Jin Guidi, three other boxers, were selected as Chinese Olympic athletes by the National Sports Association of China and participated in the Berlin Olympics.
In the boxing competition, Wang Runlan reached the final and became the second of the 69 contestants in the Chinese delegation to reach the final. However, when the final was about to begin three days later, the Chinese delegation was told that Wang Runlan had failed in the preliminary round and he would not be able to participate in the final.
After receiving this notice, the Chinese delegation was extremely angry and they negotiated with the organizing committee many times. This openly turned black and white and forcibly deprived Chinese athletes of the finals under the public eye also aroused international public outrage, and some countries with a sense of justice supported them. However, the people of the organizing committee were extremely discriminatory to the poor, weak and backward China, and they had certain political needs, the Chinese delegation never received a reply.
Wang Runlan, who was treated unfairly, failed to participate in the finals. After returning to China, he was full of anger. He studied harder and practiced harder, determined to be a shame in the next Olympics, to show the might of the Chinese boxing champion and to strive for the Chinese people.
However, Wang Runlan's sports dream was shattered by the guns and cannons of the Japanese invaders. After the full war of resistance began, Wang Runlan served as the platoon leader of the Third Battalion of the 32nd Army's Supplementary Third Regiment. On September 14 last month, in order to cover the transfer of the main force, he was ordered to lead his troops to block the Japanese army on the north bank of the Zhang River.
In the following four days, the officers and soldiers who supplemented the third regiment repelled the Japanese attacks again and again with their flesh and blood. In the close-up battles again and again, Wang Runlan used his superb martial arts to defeat the Japanese army and more than a dozen Japanese became ghosts under his sword.
On September 19, Wang Runlan was injured by Japanese artillery shells, but he still supported himself with his strong will to rather die than retreat.
On September 21, the defenders on the position were all injured and injured. Wang Runlan gathered his last strength and rushed towards the Japanese tanks with cluster grenades. With an earth-shaking explosion, the Japanese tanks were blown up. Wang Runlan sprinkled the last drop of blood for the country and the nation!
The paper money was slowly burned to ashes, and Jin Guidi's narrative was finished. Looking at the slowly darkened ashes, the brothers who supplemented the third regiment lined up. They looked at the north bank of the Zhang River from afar and shouted slogans: "I would rather fight for the dead ghost than be a slave to the deceased country!"
Li Qinglin and his friends' eyes were wet, and everyone at the scene joined the ranks. Li Qinglin and his friends also yelled: "I would rather fight for the dead ghost than be a slave to the deceased country!"
(When querying Zhanghe blocking war information, the author suddenly found the real experience of Chinese Olympic athlete Wang Runlan joining the War of Resistance and dying for his country.
In the face of national crisis, the Olympians who joined the War of Resistance Against Japan include: boxer Jin Guidi, who died in the defense of Anyang in 1937; boxer Jin Gui, who died in the Taierzhuang battle in 1938; pole vault athlete Fu Baolu, who joined the Air Force of the Republic of China, and died in the air battle in 1938 in 1938!
For various reasons, before this, the author knew very little about the situation of the sports delegation participating in the Berlin Olympics in the Republic of China at that time. For Wang Runlan, if it were not for the decline of the country's fortune and the weak nation, he would not have been unreasonably deprived of the boxing finals by reaching the finals with his strength.
As a hero who can definitely enter the history of Chinese sports and the history of Chinese Olympics, Wang Runlan does not have to go to the battlefield as a subordinate officer, but he went there, and he left so heroically and without hesitation!
Salute to the heroes who sacrificed their lives bravely to resist foreign aggression!)
Chapter completed!