Chapter 1299 Victory and Sacrifice, Never Walk Alone
Including Brigade Commander Wang, who thinks he already knows Liu Lang very well.
He found that he had a little more understanding of this little brother. The more he understood, the more he appreciated it. Liu Lang's actions were very consistent with his taste.
Those who are qualified to stand in front of the mourning hall are soldiers who have experienced countless life and death, from Army General to Army Major General with the lowest rank, and that battlefield where flesh and blood have never seen flesh and blood flowing? Life and death are almost accustomed to them.
The four coffins in front of the mourning hall were all colleagues who died in battle. After the sadness of the rabbit and the fox, they became calm. The horse and the corpse were wrapped in horses, which was originally the fate of soldiers.
They are all very rational, and just sadness can't solve any problems.
But the softness that Liu Lang showed at that moment was somewhat inconsistent with his name as the Iron Blood Captain, but why did that softness make his eyes as hard as they moist?
Liu Lang stood in front of the microphone and was unable to speak for a long time. However, he stood at the sight and turned around, facing the coffin of the four sacrificial generals, and saluted a solemn military salute.
Then he strided to the old woman who was stroking her son's coffin, knelt on both knees, and three "bang bang bang" sounds.
This action was shocked by the audience.
Jiang Chunyang's mother was also startled, and her face was already withered and wrinkled, and she looked shocked: "Little Sir, what are you doing? Get up quickly. Hong You, help the Little Sir."
"If the general is not here, can I beg my wife to be my adopted mother?" Liu Lang asked with his head raised.
The audience was silent.
The old woman opened her eyes suddenly and murmured, "How can this be done?"
"What's wrong?" Liu Lang said loudly: "The general has no head, and the general is immortal. General Jiang sacrificed his life for the country. I want to worship him as his righteous brother and learn from his heroic spirit. I also ask my adopted mother to agree."
Liu Lang said this. Especially the sentence: The general has no head and the immortality of the general makes people feel like a torrent that is about torrents rushing left and right in the bloodline and storm and bursting out without venting unhappiness.
"Brig Commander, have you heard it! Commander Liu, said you are immortal!" Huang Hongyou, who was kneeling on the side, burst into tears, like a child.
"Good child, good child!" The old woman's already dry eyes gushed out again, and she took a step forward to help Liu Lang.
"Then you will be my mother." Liu Lang stood up along the old woman's arm, tears also surged in his eyes, and asked, introducing himself by the way. "My name is Liu Lang, and he is now the commander of the Independent Regiment of the 22nd Army of the Kingdom Army. In the battle of Ling Pizhou East, our Ling Pizhou East Front killed more than 30,000 Black Hawk Empires, and he is not a coward."
"Okay! Chunyang would be very happy if I knew that there would be more brothers like you in Chunxia." When the old woman heard Liu Lang say this, a smile finally appeared on her sad face.
The so-called highest medal of honor and the so-called pension and reward are far less than happy to hear Liu Lang say that he killed 30,000 Black Hawk Imperial Army.
"Mom, wait!" Liu Lang smiled and patted the old woman's arms, who was a little excited, walked towards the three children, squatted down, took off the first-class medal of merit on his chest that had just been admired by Zhao Danyu, gently put it on the youngest, put his fingers into his mouth, and looked at Liu Lang's chest timidly, and said with a smile: "From now, I will be your father."
Seeing that the three children did not speak, Liu Lang said softly: "Children, remember that your father Jiang Chunyang died on the battlefield against the Black Hawk Empire. He held the city for 5,000 to 70,000 for ten days. He is a great hero. However, the father in front of you is not bad. In the Battle of the Ancient City four years ago, the Independent Regiment I led killed 20,000 Black Hawk Empire alive. I myself killed dozens of people and even built their heads into Jingguan. A few days ago, the Independent Regiment I led hanged the so-called noble cavalry of the Black Hawk Empire Army on the eastern front of Lingpizhou. It was like hanging wind chimes. Do you want to see it?"
Liu Lang's voice was very soft, but the generals who could hear his voice around him were covered in white-haired sweat for no reason. This person was as rumored, and he was extremely cruel to the people of the Black Hawk Empire.
Especially when he said that it was like hanging a wind chime, I guess a few very simple children had no idea. Although everyone didn't know what a wind chime was, the word "hang" made people involuntarily appear in their minds: hundreds of Black Hawks were like big fat pigs hanging in a slaughterhouse, hanging on the branches of Xianlu Mountain, swaying lightly in the wind.
The picture that I had in mind is really cruel, but it seems to be very cool.
"If you can avenge my father, we will recognize you as your father!" the oldest girl about ten years old said with a firm look on her face.
"Then I'm determined. I can promise that my independent regiment will definitely fight the 5th Division of Qiao Yinshuo, the invading Pizhou, in the future. I will not change my rank of colonel in this life," Liu Lang said solemnly.
This statement shocked everyone around, with Brigade Commander Wang and Zhao Shanyu the most.
The generals who looked at Liu Lang were almost all loudly, and Brigade Commander Wang opened his mouth even more anxiously: "Brother Liu, this statement must not be decided."
Judging from the military merits and honors of Ling Pizhou East and Zhao Shanyu's speech on behalf of the general, it is almost a foregone conclusion that Liu Lang's promotion to the military rank this time is, how can he give up for a promise to a child? In this era when the ancient style is still prosperous, we cannot underestimate the promise, especially Liu Lang's promises in front of everyone. If one day he destroys his promises, it will almost be ruined. No matter how outstanding his military achievements are, no matter how hard anyone can respect him.
As for whether he can fight with the Fifth Division and kill 5,000 of his men, that is not the most important thing. In the eyes of these generals, even a fight is impossible at least in the short term. From the perspective of defense, the independent regiment, which is still hundreds of miles away from Chengguan City, is mainly based on the Lingpizhou East Defense Zone. A small promise with the child is almost at the cost of ruining the future.
"Haha, uncle has made a promise. You will change your words when the promise is fulfilled. We can hang it, and it will not change for a hundred years." Liu Lang ignored others at all, and directly stretched out his little finger and touched the little girl's hesitant little hand and smiled, "That's all."
He reached out and picked up the youngest child, turned around and walked towards the microphone.
"Victory and sacrifice have never been done alone."
Liu Xueyuan's last battlefield diary in Lingpizhou East was titled as the first sentence of Liu Lang holding General Jiang's orphan, his newly acquired son, who delivered a speech to award the medal.
"This awarding ceremony is no longer to let everyone remember the general and the awarding of the medal, nor to let everyone remember the geometry of the Black Hawk Imperial Army in Ling Pizhou East. Since I chose this mourning hall, I want to make all the Guancheng, Ling Pizhou, and even the whole kingdom. I remember them above the mourning hall, and remember tens of thousands of kingdom soldiers who are still fighting bloody battles with the Black Hawk Imperial Army in Canghuai Valley.
Please remember to say, "This war is a war of national survival and death, and there is only sacrifice. If you retreat again and reach the Jiangning River, the soldiers will not exist, so there will be no officials. This means that I die and my country will die." Finally, he fulfilled his promise and died in battle against the first lieutenant general commander of my kingdom on the front line of the Black Hawk Empire.
Please remember that because of a six-character telegram order "defend for seven days", we led our troops to defend the small town for seven days and fought tens of thousands of surging Black Hawk Empire troops. Only nearly half a dozen ammunition and food were left, but because of a six-character telegram order "defend for three more days", the 196th Brigade was killed, and the 196th Brigade, the chief of staff, regiment commander, battalion commander, platoon commander, were killed. The 196th Brigade, which is known as the Tiger Bo, and their Major General Brigade Commander Jiang Chunyang.
Please let us remember..."
Liu Lang's powerful voice echoed above the mourning hall.
"Sacrifice may not necessarily bring victory, but victory requires sacrifice. The thousands of soldiers who died have died, but we cannot let their families cry and live in trouble again because of the death of their relatives.
I hereby propose to establish a rescue fund for my family members who were injured and disabled in the Ling Pizhou Battle. I will donate 200,000 silver coins first."
Liu Lang said this naturally had a basis, especially after seeing General Jiang’s mother and three orphans, he felt even more urgent.
In fact, although the kingdom’s pension to ordinary officers and soldiers was average, and if he gave more than ten or dozens of silver coins, the pension to senior generals was actually quite good. In addition to the 20,000 silver coins given by the kingdom, lieutenant generals like Hao Mengling also donated a total of 60,000 silver coins from the gentry in Wubin City, Hao Mengling’s hometown.
However, there is a saying that when people leave, tea is cold. At the beginning, the national politicians took great care of the family of the first Lieutenant General who died in the Patriotic War. But later on, who would still remember it? Sixty thousand silver coins were seen a lot in 37 or even 38 years. Generally, the annual income of a family of more than 100 silver coins is good.
However, as the war progressed, the subsequent soaring prices were unavoidable for everyone. In just a few years, there were not much 60,000 silver coins.
Because the Black Hawk Army occupied Wubin City, as the government moved to Wanwu City, the general's wife with four children was unsustainable, and her underage second son had to sell tea eggs on the street to help her mother maintain her life. In the end, she met an old superior general on the street. Feng Yuxiang, who almost vomited blood, made a big fuss about this, caused an unpublic uproar, and someone came out to take care of the general's family, and finally his four children were able to go to school without burden.
This is the lieutenant general who has enjoyed the "state funeral" ceremony, not to mention the other officers and soldiers with lower ranks.
Liu Lang's proposal suddenly popped up at the end of his speech made the generals in Ling Pizhou a little confused.
Especially the old man in Ling Pizhou almost glared at his eyes. It was not because of the proposal of Commander Liu, nor was it because of Commander Liu who donated 200,000 yuan alone. From the perspective of money, looking at the entire Ling Pizhou, who has more money than the ruler of Ling Pizhou? He could get millions of silver coins to give the rich Liu of Qiu Tongzhou in seconds.
The most important thing is that this person remembers that the 30,000 silver coins that Captain Liu came to deliver silk gold yesterday seemed to be mortgaged with two highest honor medals. In the end, he pinched his nose and bleeded heavily to help him redeem it. In the end, he just gave thanks and didn't mention paying back the money at all.
At this moment, he opened his mouth and had 200,000 silver coins.
Could it be that if you want an old man, I will help you pay the bill? The old man in Ling Pizhou secretly only bit his back teeth.
A group of politicians in Ling Pizhou were also hesitating. Yesterday, the fat man from Qiu Tongzhou had no trace of his trap. The silk gold that was originally only given 500 yuan was directly raised to at least 2,000 by the "jade-throwing brick" of 30,000 silver coins. Now he has another 200,000...
Chapter completed!