Just when the Kwantung Army was arguing over the Battle of Nomenkan, something happened that shocked the Japanese Central China Dispatch Army to the extreme, and the New Fourth Army actually attacked the outskirts of Shanghai and burned Hongqiao Airport.

In the thirties, Shanghai was China's absolute financial center and foreign trade base. After the Japanese army captured Shanghai, it was impossible to forcibly occupy the concession for the time being, as it had not yet broken with Britain, the United States, France, and other countries. In this way, the four major banks of the Republic of China, including the Central Bank of the People's Republic of China, the Bank of Communications, the Bank of China, and the Farmers' Bank, could still operate normally in the Shanghai Concession. The Japanese army also regarded Shanghai as the rear of their invasion of Central China, and did not block Shanghai's foreign trade. As a result, Shanghai even maintained a deformed wartime prosperity.

In the eyes of the Japanese army, Shanghai was absolutely safe.

After Ye Fei and Wu Kun led the Jiangkang Second Road to win the battle of Huanghuatang, they continued to advance eastward.

During this period, a detachment of the New Fourth Army used the guerrilla warfare skills of the old Red Army to make frequent sorties in the south of the Yangtze River, and successively won victories in the night attack on Hushu Pass, the night attack on Xinfeng Station, and the night attack on Jurong City.

After the surprise attack on Hushu Pass, Jiang Kang 2nd Road once again implemented the division of troops, Ye Fei led a detachment to develop the Yangcheng Lake base area, and Wu Kun led Liao Zhengguo's 2nd detachment to advance in the direction of the suburbs of Shanghai.

Wu Kun is a native of Wanxian County, Sichuan, who worked as a cattle herder and a slender man, and after joining the Red Army, he was promoted from a soldier to a regiment commander in the Four Front Army, and was a tiger general who rolled out of the battlefield. At the end of 1937, when he was transferred to work in the New Fourth Army, because he fell ill on the boat from Hankou to Jiujiang, he was carefully cared for by Yang Ruinian, a female soldier who was traveling with him, and they developed a good impression of each other. As a result, after reporting to the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army, Xiang Ying, according to the regulations on the marriage of cadres of the New Fourth Army to the 258th Regiment, believed that Wu Kun, who joined the army in 1930, was still one year short of eight years of military age, violated discipline, and turned Wu Kun's regiment commander into a deputy regiment commander.

Wu Kun is a person with a low level of education, but he has rich experience in actual combat, and he is not willing to die when he fights, so his comrades-in-arms gave him the nickname Wu Laohu.

Since there was no map, Liao Zhengguo could only rely on a pocket map used by middle school students to identify the direction of the march. When they arrived at the Wusong River, Wu Kun and Liao Zhengguo were dumbfounded, they didn't know what kind of river this was, and they couldn't figure out the location of the ground. When I found the fisherman and asked, I learned that this was Wusong River. At this time, there was a convoy of Japanese troops on the road, and there was a Japanese convoy in the Wusong River, so Wu Kun had to order the troops to camp and cross the river at night.

At night, five fishing boats were found, and the troops began to cross the river, with a platoon led by Liao Zhengguo to cover the rear. As a result, the Japanese army did not know where to hear the wind and touched it. Liao Zhengguo led the troops behind the palace to stubbornly resist, fortunately it was night, the Japanese army could not figure out the reality, and the scale of the devil troops was not large, just this, when the large army crossed and Liao Zhengguo led the team to cross the river, half a platoon of soldiers slept on the side of the Wusong River.

After crossing the Wusong River, the Second Detachment joined forces with the Qingpu anti-Japanese guerrillas of Gu Fusheng of the Shanghai underground party organization. With the cooperation of the Qingpu guerrillas, Wu Kun, who was not afraid of heaven and earth, braved the scorching heat of panting and sweating, fought continuously, and successively uprooted 16 small strongholds of the Japanese puppet army.

The Japanese army said that the New Fourth Army was the most hated and hateful thing in the world. Because of this kind of weather, it was hot and damp, and it was difficult to walk, and the New Fourth Army actually attacked everywhere, which made the Japanese army very upset.

The puppet army shouted the "four masters" of the New Fourth Army. The fourth master is always out of nowhere, taking advantage of the night to suddenly rush into the stronghold, poke with bayonets, blow up grenades, and set fire, so that the puppet soldiers can't be on guard at all, and they can't surrender if they want to. The fourth master is amazing!

The people at the bottom of Shanghai, who had been bullied by the Japanese army, finally saw hope, and under the organization of the underground party, some enthusiastic young people fled from Shanghai and defected to the New Fourth Army.

That night, Wu Kun and Liao Zhengguo led the soldiers to jump out of the four-way siege of the Japanese puppet army, and just camped in a village, the little devils surrounded them.

Since the New Fourth Army was reorganized and fought for more than a year, it has played triumphantly all the way. But victory is stained with blood, and every battle is won by the blood and sacrifice of martyrs. By this time, the composition of the ranks had changed, and the original Red Army guerrilla fighters had died in large numbers in battle, and hot-blooded young people who were bent on resisting Japan and saving the country joined the troops. These fighters had a high level of education, but at the same time they did not have the iron footing of the original Red Army guerrilla fighters. No, as soon as the team camped, the old soldiers helped the new soldiers pick up blood blisters.

It was at this moment that the gunfire of the guard post rang out.

When the gunshots rang out, Wu Kun was discussing with Liao Zhengguo and the two about tomorrow's marching route. You must know that Jiang's resistance to Japan risked violating the ban, and the Third War Zone forbade the New Fourth Army to come to the East Road to fight devils, saying that it was beyond the defense zone. This kind of truth seems to be ridiculous to later generations, but during the Anti-Japanese War, in order to restrict the development of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, it was stipulated in this way. of troops can only fight in their own defense zones. Therefore, if the old Sixth Regiment, the main force of the New Fourth Army, wanted to fight devils in the East Road area, it had to act under the banner of the civilian armed Jiang Resistance. It's kind of like black humor.

As soon as he heard the gunshot, Wu Kun stood up and said to Liao Zhengguo, the leader of the second detachment: "Old Liao, you organize the new soldiers to retreat, and I will lead the troops to repel the attack of the Japanese puppet army!" ”

After speaking, Wu Kun grabbed the quilt on the bed and put it on his head, pulled out the shell gun and rushed out.

Liao Zhengguo is also an old Red Army, and after graduating from Kang University, he was assigned to work in the New Fourth Army. Seeing Wu Kun rushing out with the quilt on his head, he knew that there was a lot of water here, and the quilt could play a part of the protective role as soon as it was wet.

Admiring Wu Kun's boldness and carefulness, Liao Zhengguo immediately gathered the new soldiers who were camping in the village and rushed towards the other end of the village.

Wu Kun was old in fighting, and whenever he went to a place, he had to lead the cadres and staff officers of the battalion and company to the main cordon to inspect the terrain on the spot and brew a battle plan. He had to estimate, measure, and predict everything that could happen, and draw up countermeasures. Fortunately, it was an old Red Army commander with rich combat experience like him, and if he had been replaced by a man with poor combat experience, he would have to be dumplings made by little devils this time.

When Wu Kun rushed to the cordon, the troops had already exchanged fire with the Japanese troops who rushed up.

Wu Kun saw that there were not many Japanese puppet troops charging on the front line, and the total number was only four or five hundred. However, the small steel cannons of the Japanese army had already been erected, and the machine guns were also fiercely fired, covering the charge of the troops.

Experienced Wu Kun knew that this was a great plain, with a water network and a large rear of the Japanese army, and our army was a lone army, so it was necessary to fight quickly and retreat quickly. If there is a slight delay, you may be stuck by the devils, and when the Japanese puppet army comes to help, you can't leave if you want to.

Wu Kun shouted to the battalion commander who commanded the blockade, and ordered loudly: "Blow the trumpet, concentrate your fire to suppress the devil, and transfer while the night is dark!" ”

After giving the order, Wu Kun shouted loudly to the soldiers: "Brother comrade, the sky is red, the ground is red, and the eyes are red. Kill the devil! ”

After shouting, Wu Kun raised the shell gun and shot at the little devil who was running at the front, smacking the dog and gnawing the mud.

The military horn of the New Fourth Army was remembered, Wu Laohu came up, and the soldiers fought more vigorously. Suddenly, the machine gun stopped screaming. Wu Kun pounced, didn't even look at it, pushed the sacrificed machine gunner away, grabbed the Czech machine gun and opened it against the Japanese puppet army's charging formation.

As soon as I finished firing a magazine, I heard the sound of "sun", and the grenade fired by the little devil's grenadier arrived. Wu Kun didn't think about it, immediately stopped shooting, dragged the machine guns one by one, and rolled to a low wall. The co-shooter also followed, took out the magazine from his backpack, and handed it to Wu Kun to change.

Wu Kun looked through the low wall, the little devil was really not afraid of death, nor was he afraid of being shelled by his own people, just at this moment, he had already rushed to the front of the position, and a few of the first to rush had already fought with the soldiers with bayonets.

Wu Kun didn't delay for a moment, the machine gun stretched out, and it opened with an uproar, knocking the little devil's charging formation into a stagnant.

That's enough, because Wu Kun's machine gun fired again suddenly, blocking the follow-up team of devils from rushing into the position, the soldiers opened fire, stabbed and stabbed, and solved the few little devils who broke into the position.

After changing the magazine again, Wu Kun shouted: "Concentrate on throwing bombs, drop bombs continuously, and press down the little devil." After shouting, he pulled the trigger fiercely and swept towards one of the little devil's machine gun crews.

The attack of the Japanese puppet army was repulsed, and Liao Zhengguo sent someone to report that the new soldiers had retreated, and the lookout post could already see the lights of the devil's reinforcements, and asked Commander Wu to retreat immediately.

Wu Kun looked at the remains of the martyrs left on the battlefield and ordered to withdraw from the battle and take the wounded to transfer.

Finally got rid of the pursuit of the Japanese puppet army, and a big river blocked the way. That's not all, the Zhongyi Rescue Xu Leisheng Department didn't know how to hear the gunshots, took advantage of the fire to rob, set up a defensive line on the other side of the river, and opened fire on the second detachment.

I don't know what's going on, but the Eighth Route Army in North China and the unity have been doing well since the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, and there has never been a case of cannibalism. The New Fourth Army did not have such luck, and since Jiang Kang advanced eastward, it has repeatedly fought with Zhongyi Rescue. These guys, familiar with the ground and sharp noses, can't be found when they fight devils, and every time they appear when the Japanese puppet army attacks the New Fourth Army, they are poisoned behind their backs. In the eyes of the cadres and soldiers of the New Fourth Army, these guys are almost as bad as the Japanese puppet army.

Wu Kun's eyes were red when he saw that Zhongyi had come to kill him again, and he ordered to blow the military horn and eliminate Xu Leisheng's department.

The New Fourth Army's bugle sounded, machine guns and rifles were fired, and grenades were thrown across the river. The sound of gunfire and grenade explosions drowned out the sound of the river flowing.

Xu Leisheng's department is indeed Dai Li's loyal rescue, and the backbone is all spies. Such a unit is different from a regular army, and it does not have so many concepts of discipline in its head, and it also fights devils. Especially fighting, without mercy.

The second detachment led by Wu Kun and Liao Zhengguo, based on the second battalion of the old sixth regiment, was the elite unit of the detachment under Chen Yi. Although Xu Leisheng's loyalty and righteousness were well armed and equipped, where was the opponent of the athletes of the Jiangkang Second Detachment, who was born in the old Red Army guerrilla unit and did not want to die in battle, it didn't take long for Xu Leisheng's troops to collapse and begin to flee.

The trumpet of the New Fourth Army blew even louder, the troops crossed the river, and the troops divided into two routes and launched a pursuit of Xu Leisheng's troops.

It's a pity that the crossing of the river was delayed, and the terrain of Xu Leisheng's department was familiar, and the New Fourth Army chased sixty miles in one go, and even let them run.

At this time, the comrades of the Shanghai underground party who served as guides reported that they had arrived at Hongqiao Airport. Wu Kun and Liao Zhengguo saw that there was a large open space, surrounded by barbed wire, and there were only a few houses in it.

Wu Kun and Liao Zhengguo glanced at each other, grandma's, this is Hongqiao Airport! The old men finally came here, if you don't go in to take a look, take a look, and create some surprises for the little devils, you won't be the fourth master!

To Wu Kun and Liao Zhengguo's surprise, the garrison of Hongqiao Airport was very loose, and the soldiers smoothly touched in, and even entered the bungalow, and slipped out of the bed and locked up the pseudo-policemen and pseudo-staff who were working for the devils, locked them in a house, and seized more than a dozen rifles. But no little devil was found, so Wu Kun and Liao Zhengguo ordered the troops to search separately.

It didn't take long for the fighters to find planes in the corner of the airfield, and four of them.

It is a pity that the New Fourth Army is not a special combat team of the Eighth Route Army. If Li Lingfei were allowed to lead the team to touch here, these four planes would have to be captured in their entirety. The soldiers of the New Fourth Army had never seen an airplane on the ground, and they were very excited when they saw the plane, and they looked around and began to bet. Some say that the plane is fake, but if it is real, it cannot be so small. Some say that it must be true, the little devil is big, and the small plane is just right for them to sit.

Fighting and arguing became loud arguments, and the sound wore far, far away in the quiet night.

Wu Kun and Liao Zhengguo came to Hongqiao Airport by chance, and they were not familiar with the airport's defenses. In fact, the devils have bunkers all around the airport. The reason why they are relieved to let the puppet army serve as the internal defense of the airport is because the devil knows that his firepower can cover the airport.

The voices of the soldiers of the New Fourth Army alarmed the devil garrisons in the pillbox fortifications around the airport, searchlights turned on, and machine guns rang out. Moreover, the devils stationed at the airport urgently reported to the authorities that the New Fourth Army had entered the Hongqiao Airport and asked for urgent tactical guidance.

The devil's gunfire became more and more intense, and Wu Kun saw it and knew that he couldn't stay any longer. Immediately waved his big hand and shouted: "Burn the plane!" ”

Braving the rain of bullets, several fighters rushed to the gasoline drum not far from the plane, pried open the lid of the barrel, and splashed gasoline on the plane. Then the torch was lit and thrown at the plane. Suddenly, the fire erupted, enveloping the little devil's four planes in flames.

The little devils guarding the bunkers around the airport, because they didn't know how many people there were, were so frightened that they hid in the bunkers and fired, and they didn't even dare to come out to pursue them, so they could only watch the fire burn and burn, turning the four planes into ashes.

That night, the Japanese troops in Shanghai poured out of their nests and all flocked to Hongqiao Airport. Even the Japanese warships in the Huangpu River received orders to support the operation, and all the naval guns were withdrawn from their gun jackets.

When the big army of little devils arrived at the airport, there was still a trace of the New Fourth Army, leaving only the wreckage of four burned planes, looking at the angry faces of the little devils.