Fushan Town is the northern starting point of the Wufu Line of national defense fortifications. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the 21st year of the Republic of China, after the 128th Shanghai War of Resistance ended under the mediation of the West, people of insight in the Nationalist Government, such as Jiang Baili and others, foresaw that there would be a war between China and Japan in the future, so they strongly advocated the construction of two strong defense fortifications between Shanghai and Nanjing, so as to serve as the main battlefield of the Sino-Japanese War in the future.

I have to admit that Jiang Baili is very strategic.

And the final facts also proved that Jiang Baili's judgment was correct, and Songhu really became the main direction of attack of the Japanese army!

However, it is very regrettable that the two defense lines that the Nationalist government invited German military experts to design and build at great expense did not play any role.

As for the reason, it is also very sad: Chairman Chiang listened to half of Jiang Baili's suggestions and built a national defense line, but he did not listen to Jiang Baili's other half of the suggestions, and finally chose the main battlefield in the open and flat suburbs of Shanghai, resulting in the main force of the Central Army, which was the most elite at that time, nearly 60 divisions, 24 finishing divisions, plus 35 adjustment divisions, all of which were beaten to pieces by the Japanese Navy's large-caliber naval guns.

History, sometimes that's how puzzling.

As a descendant, it is completely impossible to understand why Chairman Chiang fought a decisive battle with the Japanese army in the suburbs of Shanghai, because Shanghai was completely within the attack range of the Japanese navy, and the most powerful Japanese navy at that time was not the army but the navy, and the Japanese navy at that time ranked third in the world in terms of total tonnage, and its comprehensive combat effectiveness surpassed that of the US navy.

Chinese Navy? The tonnage is not even a fraction of that of the Japanese Navy!

However, Chairman Chiang resolutely drove 59 quasi-German armament divisions to the outskirts of Shanghai and fought a bloody battle against the Japanese Army in the open and flat suburbs of Shanghai under the bombardment of the Japanese Navy's large-caliber naval guns and the wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of the Japanese Naval Aviation.

In less than two months, all 59 quasi-German mechanics have been wiped out!

Three months later, all the local troops transferred from the rear were also disabled!

At this time, Chairman Chiang finally woke up from the delusion of "rejecting the enemy outside Songhu" and hastily ordered a retreat, but even by this time, the remnants of the defeated army who had retreated from the Songhu battlefield were still as large as 300,000 or 400,000, and as long as they were well organized, they could still rely on the two solid national defense lines of Wu Fu and Xicheng to resist the war for a long time.

Unfortunately, just as Chairman Chiang ordered the retreat, a fatal hiccup occurred.

Originally, on November 9, the order to retreat had already been issued, and the various units participating in the war were ready to retreat, but on November 10, Chairman Chiang suddenly learned that the League of Nations would hold a meeting in a few days, so he had an idea and asked the Nationalist Army to hold out in the western suburbs of Shanghai for a few more days.

Chairman Chiang's thinking was that as long as the Nationalist Army persisted until the League of Nations Congress was convened, the Japanese Government would be forced by the political pressure of the Western powers to choose armistice negotiations.

From this alone, it can be seen that Chairman Chiang can never become a great statesman, but can only be a politician!

This is because only politicians will pin their hopes on the interference of other countries, and politicians will always only believe in themselves, so Bismarck said that the truth is only within the range of cannons, so Churchill said that there are only eternal interests between countries, and there is no eternal friendship, so Chairman Mao said, self-reliance, abundant food and clothing!

In the game of big powers, small countries vainly try to make profits in the cracks, and the result can only be broken bones.

At that time, although China had a vast territory and a large population, it was a really small country in terms of national strength!

Two days later, the Congress of the League of Nations was convened, and Chairman Chiang did not wait for the result he wanted, but waited for the large-scale landing of the 10th Army of Yanagawa Heisuke at Jinshanwei, which was a dead ball, and the opportunity to retreat had been completely lost, and hundreds of thousands of remnants of the defeated army were like frightened cattle trampling across the grassland and fleeing to Nanjing.

When the remnants crossed the two defense lines of Wu Fu and Xicheng, they didn't even stop!

At the beginning, German military experts were invited to design the drawings, and General Zhang Zhizhong, commander of the Songhu garrison, personally presided over the construction of the two national defense lines, which became decorations, which is really embarrassing.

(Dividing Line)

At noon, the American freighter Atlanta had already arrived on the river outside Fukuyama Town, and then it broke down and stopped by the river under the pretense that the boiler room was faulty. Even a destroyer of the Japanese Navy offered to help, but the Atlanta politely refused.

As the night fell, the river grew dark, and the captain of Atlanta called the first mate, Jones, to him.

"Hey man." The captain took his pipe in his mouth and asked Jones, "I heard that you just found a white Russian woman from a noble background, so you must have spent a lot of money, right?" ”

"It's a little." Jones smiled, but the long legs of the white Russian woman appeared in his mind, as well as the snow-white ****** like a grinding plate, and the crotch was hot, I have to say that women from noble backgrounds are different, that foreign atmosphere, that mood is really not comparable to those big girls in the United States, there is one thing that is not good, too good at spending money.

The captain unloaded his pipe, and said with a low smile: "I have a job here, and I can make a lot of money, do you want to take it?" ”

"Captain, isn't this okay?" Jones immediately showed a look of vigilance, he also thought that the captain was looking for him to do private work, and it was not okay to hide from the shipping company to do private work, in case the company found out, he would not only be fired, but also have to suffer a lawsuit, Jones did not want to lose this well-paying job, so he resolutely did not do it.

The captain smiled and said: "Don't worry, this is the company's job, not a private job, but it has a certain danger and needs a warrior to lead the team, are you willing?" ”

"Dangerous?" Jones asked, "How dangerous?" ”

The captain said, "Take two rubber boats and go to the river to pick up a batch of goods." ”

Jones said: "I thought it was something, it was just a batch of goods, and it was fine. ”

The captain said: "I have to make it clear to you that this is a batch of smuggled goods, and if it is intercepted by the Japanese Navy, you don't expect the company to come forward to bail you out, and you will have to bear all the consequences alone." ”

"There's no problem with that." Jones asked dryly, "How much do you get paid?" ”

The captain took a puff of his cigarette and said slowly: "You are the team leader, the remuneration is two hundred dollars, and you are responsible for finding the rest of the crew, a total of four people are needed, and each person is paid fifty dollars, of course, if you can persuade the crew to accept a lower payment, the rest of the difference is also yours, and when you finish your work, the employer will pay you." ”

"Goode." Jones excitedly said, "I've got the job done." ”

Jones went in a hurry, and soon found the four crew members, and negotiated ten dollars each, this guy was really dark enough, and directly deducted the crew's pay from fifty dollars to ten dollars each, and the remaining forty dollars fell into his pocket.

Unbeknownst to Jones, however, the captain was actually darker.

Because Xu Rui's remuneration to the captain through Stilwell is a total price of 1,000 US dollars, deducting the remuneration of the first mate Jones and the four oarsman crew members, the captain will get 600 US dollars for nothing without doing anything! However, under the temptation of heavy money, Jones, the first mate of the Atlanta, and four American crew members were full of energy, and after putting down the rubber boat, they rowed to the river in the dark.

When he arrived at the agreed place, Jones turned on the flashlight and flashed it three times, and a moment later, a faint light lit up in the darkness ahead, and it also flashed three times.

"Over there!" Jones immediately went up with a dinghy.

A moment later, the rubber boat entered a reed swing, squeezed through the dense reeds and walked forward for about twenty meters, then hit the land and ran aground, and then, footsteps sounded in the darkness ahead, and then several figures walked over quickly, in the darkness could not see the appearance of those people, but there was a suffocating pressure rushing to the face.

Jones immediately instinctively grabbed the revolver on his waist, and the four crew members immediately tensed.

Several figures quickly approached, and to Jones's surprise to the four crew members, the man walking in front actually spoke fluent American English: "Excuse me, is it Captain Wilkin?" ”

"Oh no, Captain Wilkin didn't come." Jones hurriedly replied, "I'm his first mate, Jones." ”

"First mate Jones, is it?" While speaking, the figure approached, but it was an ordinary Chinese, but a pair of eyes were very sharp, and said, "What should I do, Captain Wilkin must have already said it, right?" ”

"yes, let's get to work." Jones jumped onto the sandbar as he spoke, "Where's the cargo?" ”

Naturally, it was Leng Tiefeng who spoke English just now, Leng Tiefeng took a flashlight and shone it behind him and said, "Look." ”

Jones and the four crew members saw the two hundred and forty large wooden crates piled up on the sandbar, and took a breath of cold air, oh Maigaard, so much? Looks like we're going to be busy tonight.

But when Jones lifted the first crate, they breathed a sigh of relief.

Because these wooden crates are not as bulky as imagined, each box weighs about 100 kilograms, and a rubber boat can hold five boxes, and two kayaks are ten boxes, so that twenty-four trips are done, and in terms of time, one trip back and forth is about a quarter of an hour, and twenty-four trips is six hours.

It will be almost until two o'clock tomorrow morning.

As it turned out, the first mate Jones was right.

It was busy until more than two o'clock in the morning the next day, when all the two hundred and forty wooden crates were loaded onto the Atlanta freighter, and when the last crate was wrenched to the deck by a winch, Jones finally sat down on the ground with exhaustion, and then turned his head and asked Leng Tiefeng: "What are these crates in?" ”

"It's munitions, shells, explosives, or something." Leng Tiefeng said, "Tell your people, don't touch it, otherwise we won't be responsible for blowing up your freighter." ”

"Oh God, don't worry, it won't." (To be continued.) )