Rise From Eight Hundred

By the evening, the war merits issued by the theater command had been distributed by the Jiashan frontline command.

Each division and brigade basically got a share of this war merit feast.

The Military and Political Department rejected the Jiashan front's opinion to promote Tang Dao, the first meritorious person, to the actual head of the regiment, but in view of the contributions made by the two armies and one division of the Jiashan front in this battle, or in other words, they need to continue to hold on, all other requirements are met.

In addition to the request for merit in the Songjiang battle, they were all approved.

All officers and soldiers who died in the Songjiang city, according to the Songjiang command itself, were promoted by one level of military rank, and officers and soldiers who had military merits were promoted by one level of military rank; all officers and soldiers who participated in the Songjiang battle, including the Songjiang Security Corps, were rewarded with 20 yuan, which was allocated by the Military and Political Department and distributed immediately after the army returned.

In the past, this was decided by the Songjiang command itself. It was easy to say for those below the colonel, but the promotion of colonels required the approval of the Military and Political Department. This time, all the people below were solved. There is no need to raise the reward money by yourself, that is hundreds of thousands of dollars!

In addition, all the participating troops of the 67th Army, 43rd Army and 128th Division of the Hunan Army on the Jiashan front will be rewarded with 10 dollars. Those who have made meritorious service will be promoted by one level. All officers and soldiers of the 128th Division who participated in the night attack, regardless of life or death, from the regiment and battalion commanders and below, will be promoted by one level and rewarded with 10 dollars.

Of course, compared with this large-scale general award, the "Advance Regiment" that has not yet returned to the various units and is being concentrated on repairing is the biggest winner of this feast.

All officers and soldiers who died in the advance regiment, regardless of their rank, will be promoted by two levels, and the pension will be paid after the promotion, and 50 dollars per person will be compensated for resettlement expenses.

Those who survived this battle will be promoted by one level and rewarded with 30 dollars. If they have been promoted in the reward for the Songjiang Battle, they will not be promoted again, and an additional 30 dollars will be rewarded.

In other words, anyone who survived in the advance group would at least be promoted one level in rank, and could also earn a 60-dollar reward.

In addition to the substantial rewards of rank and dollars, the entire "advance group" won various medals, up to 600, nearly one-fifth of the medal ratio, which was a small record. Even in the Battle of Songhu, no unit had ever enjoyed such an honor.

Although medals cannot be cashed, they are still useful when sent back home. Not only will they bring honor to the family, but with this kind of "amulet" that records merits, the gentry in the towns will have to look up to them no matter how domineering they are, and dare not bully them at will.

Otherwise, once a commotion breaks out, unless you are a person with all-powerful hands and eyes, no one can stop the anger from the army.

Of course, this is only effective for gentry who are polite. For those bullies in remote areas who have long been accustomed to dominating, the country is nothing, let alone a small medal.

But it is better to have it than not to have it. At least it is a government's recognition of the lives of the soldiers on the front line.

Everyone, even in such a magnificent era, as small as a speck of dust, needs to find their own sense of recognition, right?

However, there are some who are jealous, but few are jealous. Everyone here knows that if it weren't for the troop that fell asleep as soon as it entered the garrison, they would not have received such a generous reward this time, even if they haven't seen a single dollar so far.

Such a heavy reward is not because the Jiashan front blocked the Japanese 18th Division for seven days and nights, but because the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade was completely wiped out. That was the battle that wiped out the most Japanese troops in the entire Battle of Songhu, and it was also a battle that knocked the Japanese dizzy with one punch. Until now, the 18th Division has not come back to its senses, and it didn't even fire a single shot all day.

In fact, this is still because the information of the front-line armies is not smooth enough, and it still underestimates the importance of the big guys to annihilate a Japanese heavy artillery brigade.

In the afternoon, the senior intelligence officer sent by the Renaissance Society arrived near the position of the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade and saw the 18th Division's lively "corpse collection" scene on the position.

The intelligence officer's trembling little hand sent back to the headquarters to describe: "It really is, red flags flying and a sea of ​​people"

The red flag is the sun flag, and the sun flag dyed red by blood looks extremely bright in the sun; and the mountain of people is of course a mountain of corpses. As for the sea of ​​people, it may be that the intelligence officer feels that it is really unaccustomed not to say the idiom in full here, not to mention that there are at least three or four thousand Japanese people in the field of vision, which deserves this word.

In order to collect the corpses, the 18th Division mobilized an entire baggage regiment and an infantry battalion.

The trucks and carts that were once full of food and ammunition were unloaded to load corpses, but even so, it was still not enough. The Japanese army had to numbly pile up corpses on the car like stacking blocks, and the pile was so full that they had to hang two more on top.

The stench of blood flowing from the carts spread at least several miles along the wind, and the senior intelligence officers who had been strictly trained hiding in the wilderness were all suffocated.

As soon as they left that hellish place, they vomited all over the place.

In addition to the corpses, there were a large number of steel parts of the bombed artillery.

The Japanese have always been an extremely frugal nation. Although the artillery was blown up, these broken steel and iron could not be thrown away. They could be transported back to the country and melted down. Maybe they could make a few more artillery.

What else can this situation prove? It means that the advance team did not lie, and they really completed this impossible miracle battle. Although before the award was given, the senior intelligence officers lurking in Pingjin had already proved it.

In the evening, the Military and Political Department, which finally obtained real evidence to prove that it had won this great victory, quickly published an article titled "Our Army Won a Great Victory on the Jiashan Front".

The major newspapers that had received insider information from various channels quickly followed up and immediately organized printing. Because a large number of people were urgently needed to sell, the editor-in-chief of a major newspaper personally went to the street to be a "newspaper uncle".

However, because of this rare selling experience, it is said that it also caused misunderstandings from the editor-in-chief.

Who said that the life of a newspaper boy is difficult? This is just picking up money!

The city with lights on, at the moment when the newspaper is freshly baked, is like a pot of boiling water that has been boiled for a long time, completely boiling.

If a scholar in a long robe does not have a newspaper with "Great Victory on the Front" in his hand at this time, he really has no face to go out.

That's it?

Even if it is a laborer at the bottom of society, if he meets an acquaintance when he goes out, if the first sentence is not "Did you hear about it today?", he doesn't know how to greet people.

Young students were the main force bubbling in the boiling water. Under the leadership of student unions at all levels, they took to the streets with banners.

However, this time it was not a demonstration, but a celebration! It was a show of support! Support and solidarity for the soldiers who were still fighting the Japanese invaders on the front line.

Except for the big cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Hangzhou that have been occupied by the Japanese army, students took action in almost all big cities across China, from north to south.

And for the first time, the police in charge of public security did not stop the excessive behavior of these young people who were so excited that their eyes were shining. Even when they shouted the slogan "Long live China, long live the Chinese nation", many policemen also raised their arms.

"Big knife, chop off the heads of the devils!"

"The Great Wall will never fall! The Yellow River is surging for thousands of miles!"

These are the two songs that the parade teams in various places sang the most frequently.

The "popular songs" that Tang Dao taught the soldiers to hum in the Battle of Sihang Warehouse had already spread all over the country through telegrams after being taught by Tan Tai Mingyue.

Many people sang "This is a country where everyone is a soldier" and their eyes were no longer filled with tears, but were crying bitterly.

Because many of their relatives and close friends were on the battlefield, and no one could know their news.

This long-awaited victory was the only news for them.

In despair, how could they not cry when they received such news?

This was a moment when everyone was a soldier.

Cheers, laughter, and tears were the portrayal of China at this moment.

The large parade that spread to every major city lasted until late at night.

In the words of a Western journalist who witnessed this scene and wrote in his own records and published in Western newspapers a few days later: "This is a weak nation. Even with all its strength, it is still unable to resist the invaders, but it is also a nation with strong vitality. Because of a victory on the battlefield that seems insignificant to us, the whole nation is boiling.

It's not that their weak victory is hard-won, but I clearly saw their hearts that were hit by the victory. When they are no longer numb and become eager for victory, what kind of disaster will it be for their opponents?

Because they have tens of millions of square kilometers of land and more than 400 million people, which is more than the whole of Europe!

Oh my God! That's really terrible. When this nation wakes up."

The exclamation of Western journalists and the lament of "the empire's heavy weapons have all fallen into the hands of the enemy" finally published by Japan's "Asahi Shimbun" on the third day after this battle became the most striking contrast between Chinese media outside the country.

And the bigwigs in China who were almost depressed by the continuous defeats in the war finally breathed a sigh of relief, and their pants were finally saved.

Promoting military ranks, issuing blank check bonuses, and wholesale medals like cabbage are not a big deal.

After waking up and chatting with his subordinates for a while, Tang Dao finally received an order from the headquarters, asking him to go to the headquarters to attend the celebration banquet.