The plains of central Hebei are thousands of miles of fertile wilderness. There are no mountains and dense forests to rely on here, only endless green gauze tents and crisscrossing dirt roads.
From 1938 to 1943, Chen Tieshi, the commander of the Independent Regiment of the Jizhong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, led his troops in a five-year desperate struggle against the well-equipped Japanese army on this undefendable plain.
From "Toad Squatting" to the "Underground Great Wall", from sparrow warfare to serial thunder, he used the wisdom of farmers to make up for the gap in weapons and turned every inch of land into the enemy's graveyard.
In the Qi Hui battle, he cut off reinforcements and cooperated with the main force to annihilate 700 enemies; in the Huangyadong defense battle, he fought bloody battles for eight days and nights to cover the safe transfer of the arsenal; in the May Day sweeps, he broke out several times in desperate situations, each time paving the way with the bones of his comrades.
However, the price of heroism is heavy. The brothers fell one by one, the lover died in his arms, and finally he himself fell on the scorched earth of Liu Laozhuang.
But as he said on his deathbed: "The purpose of showing a sword is not to win, but to show it even though you know you will die."
The reason why a nation will not perish is because there is always a group of people who choose to burn themselves when the darkness is deepest.
Very good, very good.