The 59th Army, the 77th Army, the 68th Army…
Those who have taken the civil service exam might quickly notice that the unit numbers of the reorganized First Army Group seem to follow a pattern… That's right, the sum of the units and tens digits of all three numbers equals fourteen. The significance is obvious: it commemorates the July 7th Incident and also tells others that these three units were among the first to fight the Japanese army.
However, this doesn't seem like an honor to us, because many people, when they think of the July 7th Incident, immediately think of our army losing the two major cities of Beijing and Tianjin! This was like a humiliation, deeply etched in our hearts, waiting for the day when the soldiers could wash it away with the corpses and blood of the enemy…
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