Chapter Seventy-Five: Hurry Up and Prepare for War
At the gate of Fudan University in Shanghai, it has been surrounded by enthusiastic young students. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In the center of the crowd, there stood a squad of soldiers of the Tiger Ben Special Combat Team, all of them armed with automatic weapons and wearing German steel helmets on their heads, standing in a row in high spirits.
Standing at the end of the platoon were two national mercenaries, one of whom was Mark Li, who was even more outrageous, holding a heavy machine gun with the bracket removed in his hand and a bullet belt wrapped around his body. It looks very arrogant.
In front of them, stood two officers, a man and a woman. The male officer is delicate and spiritual, and the female officer is sassy and charming. They are Chen Shuming and Zheng Lanni.
I only heard Chen Shuming say: "Teachers and students, the Japanese invaders will not die in my heart, after annexing our three eastern provinces and occupying Pingjin in North China, the war has burned to our hometown Shanghai, Shanghai is in danger, East China is in danger, and the whole country is in danger!" ”
Zheng Lanni continued: "The Japanese invaded our land and slaughtered our people, the blood of the Chinese army and civilians has stained the black soil in the northeast and the fields in North China, and the butcher's knife has reached Shanghai, and the blood will stain the turbulent Huangpu River." ”
Chen Shuming said: "The Japanese invaders are pressing forward step by step, and the huge China can no longer put down a calm desk. ”
Zheng Lanni said: "The Japanese invaders want to destroy our China, let us be slaves of the country." ”
Chen Shuming asked, "Students, can we agree?" ”
Zheng Lanni said: "Students, can we be slaughtered by others? ”
Chen Shuming and Zheng Lanni said at the same time: "Can't! We will not say yes! ”
In the past few days, the patriotic enthusiasm of the young students, who had already been holding back their strength, broke out, and everyone kept chanting the slogan: "Down with Japanese imperialism!" ”
"Japanese devils get out of China!"
"Defend Shanghai to the death and defend the whole of China!"
Zheng Lanni said: "Students, an inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood, 100,000 young people and 100,000 soldiers!" The country is in danger, and the husband is responsible! Please stand up! ”
Mark stood up and said in a not-so-standard Chinese dialect: "I love China, and I will help you fight the Japanese yellow-skinned monkeys!" ”
Chen Shuming said: "We are a glorious tiger camp, welcome students to join us!" ”
When the students heard that they were the famous Tiger Ben Special Combat Team, they were very excited and gathered around, and many of them were curious to touch the weapons in the hands of the soldiers.
A tall and thin young man said, "Sir, my name is Li Lizhi, I am a third-year student in the Department of Literature, and I want to sign up for your Tiger Camp. ”
Zheng Lanni said: "Okay, on behalf of the Tiger Camp, I welcome Li Lizhi to join. ”
Then, a delicate female student said: "My name is Gu Xueting, I am a second-year student in the Department of Architecture, and I want to sign up." ”
Chen Shuming said: "Welcome to Gu Xueting, your major will play an important role in the army. ”
Many students have long had the idea of joining the army to serve the country, but now when they see someone taking the lead, many people immediately sign up. There were too many applicants, so Chen Shuming and Zheng Lanni had to simply screen by visual inspection, and finally selected 121 students.
Tang Mingxuan, president of Fudan University in Shanghai, walked over and said excitedly: "Students, I am very touched by your patriotic enthusiasm, and I announce on behalf of the school that all students who have joined the army will be issued official graduation certificates. ”
The students cheered.
Through tacit cooperation, Zheng Lanni found that Chen Shuming was indeed very capable, and added some good feelings towards him.
After completing the recruitment task and increasing the number of troops, Zhang Zhizhong arranged a new barracks for them according to the requirements of the Xia Dynasty.
Zhang Zhizhong has already allocated them sufficient German-style weapons, including six armored vehicles and two tanks. However, Xia Chao thought that these weapons were not suitable for the Tiger Battalion, and his goal was to equip a large number of anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, which were very useful for fighting planes, tanks, and large pillboxes, and it was easy to fight street battles, and it was even more terrifying to fight ordinary infantry.
Cui Xiaobao was in charge of logistics, and he had been busy enough in the past two days, he received the weapons allocated by the Ninth Group Army, and got a batch of antiaircraft machine guns from the training and sorting office of the German armament division in charge of Chen Cheng. That's not all, through his father, who was the deputy commander of the Nanjing Garrison, he collected a batch of anti-aircraft guns from the warehouse of the Nanjing Liberation Command.
He even took tanks and armored vehicles from Song Ziwen's tax police corps in exchange for some American and French anti-aircraft machine guns.
At present, the Tiger Battalion is equipped with more anti-aircraft weapons than a regular air defense battalion.
16 Soviet-made DShK 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns, 8 French-made Hatch Chase M193013.2mm anti-aircraft machine guns, and 8 American-made M2 quadruple 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns. 4 German 77-mm anti-aircraft guns.
Among the anti-aircraft guns made in the early days, the best performance was the 77-mm anti-aircraft gun made in Germany in 1914. Its outstanding feature was the simple gun tray mounted on a four-wheeled gun mount. This gun tray could be folded up and towed by horses or vehicles when marching; When fighting, open the gun tray and prop up the gun body to shoot in the air. The use of the gun disc not only facilitated the transfer of artillery positions, but also shortened the time from the march to the combat state. Because it uses a control handwheel to adjust the body tube for aiming, and for the first time, it uses a gun dial, so the shooting rate is high.
Looking at the 77-mm anti-aircraft gun in the summer, imagining the scene of using it to fight the thin-skinned tanks of the Japanese army, my heart was full of lust and extremely refreshing.
In the summer, the dynasty arranged for Chen Shuming and Zheng Lanni to send the newly recruited young students back to the Jiangjun Mountain training base in Nanjing.
All that remains is to intensify the run-in of the troops and prepare for the coming brutal battle.
At this time, it was already the afternoon of August 16th.
In the summer, the DPRK convened a meeting of the officers of the Huben battalion, requiring the officers to get acquainted with each soldier in the shortest possible time, and to carry out heart-to-heart talks among the soldiers, so as to strengthen mutual understanding and strengthen cooperation between officers and soldiers and comrades-in-arms.
At 7 o'clock in the evening, Xia Chao attended the combat meeting held by Zhang Zhizhong. As a rule, the participants in the meeting were those generals above the brigade commander, and Xia Chao was an exception, and everyone had no objections.
Zhang Zhizhong first announced the instructions of the Supreme Military Council and Chairman Chiang, the main meaning of which was that the Nationalist army had increased its troops in Shanghai in large quantities and was determined to defend Shanghai to the death and repel the Japanese attack.
The initial plan was to rush to repair fortifications in the coastal areas to prevent the Japanese army from landing, and even if the Japanese army forced the landing, it was necessary to resolutely counterattack and prevent the Japanese army from penetrating deep inland.
In the conference room, there was a lot of discussion about the battle plan drawn up by the Military Commission. They all agreed with this combat plan.
The more I listened to it in the summer, the more frightened I became. Historically, this was the case, and a large number of troops deployed along the coast of the Nationalist Army were exactly within the range of the Japanese naval guns, resulting in a large number of casualties.
The high-ranking members of the Nationalist Army, especially Chairman Chiang, have an average military talent.
Xia Chao stood up and asked to speak.