Shanghai Railway Station

"Woohoo"

A long hissing sounded in front of the platform, and a locomotive dragged a dozen long carriages to stop in front of the platform. The passengers in front of the train station were surprised to find that the train Shanghai was dragging a lot of long flat cars, on which I didn't know what to cover with tarpaulins, in short, it was a very large guy.

"Whoa, whoa"

A carriage called a stuffy tank car was opened, and thousands of soldiers poured out of it. Well, it's not surprising, there are enough troops rushing to Shanghai these days, what Central Army, Jin Sui Army, Gui Department, Sichuan Army, there are too many to count, but there has never been such a strange dress as these troops.

Other people's military uniforms are either blue or yellow, or gray, but it is the first time that people who dye their clothes colorful. And many of these soldiers wore strange hats, which were neither steel helmets nor ordinary cloth hats, but leather hats without brims, and two round earmuffs on the outside, which made the self-proclaimed well-informed Shanghainese curious.

A few brave young students ran up to the soldiers and asked, "Sir, what team are you?" What kind of hat is you wearing? ”

The young soldier smiled, "Don't call me sir, I only graduated from high school last year, and I'm still a big soldier." We came from Chahar, the troops of the Soviet commander of the 7th Theater of Operations, and the hat on our heads was called a tank cap, which was a special hat for us tank soldiers. ”

"You're tankmen!" An inexplicable surprise appeared on the faces of the students.

"Of course, you see, aren't our brethren preparing to drive the tank down?" The soldier gestured to the flat car next to him.

At this moment, on the orders of the officers, the soldiers climbed on top of the flatbed truck and untied the tarpaulin. Suddenly, the mighty 'Northwest Tiger' tanks suddenly appeared in front of people's eyes.

"Wow, what a majesty!"

"It's really a tank!"

The men and women on the platform were amazed by the majesty of the 'Northwest Tigers' on the train.

"Defend Shanghai, defend China!" I don't know who took the lead, and began to shout slogans on the platform, and the station suddenly became noisy.

"Boom"

The tanks on the train began to start and slowly drove off the flatbed cars. At this time, several more trains came to the platform one after another. After stopping at the platform, countless black-pressed figures came down from above, and it turned out that the vanguard of the 102nd Infantry Division had arrived.

Hu Lian arrived with the first batch of vanguard troops, and as soon as he got off the train, he saw Lieutenant General Zhang Zhi, commander of the Ninth Group Army, who was already waiting in front of the platform.

Zhang Zhizhong, who was standing on the platform, saw Hu Lian who had just gotten off the train for the first time, he laughed and stretched out his hand to Hu Lian, "Bo yù, I am waiting for you, but I am looking forward to nectar for a long time!" I've finally got you covered. ”

After Hu Lian saluted, he also smiled and shook hands with General Zhang Zhizhong, who was of medium stature, with a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and looked more like a scholar than a general.

"Bo yù, I'm much more relieved that you're here this time. You don't know, in order to snatch you, I have offended a lot of people! Now that the battlefield situation is urgent, I hope Bo Yù can add glory to our Ninth Army! "Zhang Zhizhong's xìng love and his appearance really don't match, and he looks very bold and generous.

Hu Lianzheng replied: "Before the lowly post came here, Chief Su had instructed the lowly post that this trip must not lose the face of the Chahar fathers and villagers. We must add glory to the country and add glory to the military flag! I will never dare to forget this humble duty! ”

Zhang Zhizhong nodded again and again after hearing this: "It seems that I have offended so many people this time, and I grabbed Bo Yù right!" ”

Zhang Zhizhong didn't lie, this time the chairman assigned Hu Lian's 102nd Division to Zhang Zhizhong's Ninth Group Army, and Zhang Zhizhong didn't know how many people he slapped the table with and fought for red-faced. Although everyone knew that the chairman of the committee was very taboo about Chahar and Su Tong, even those who hated them the most (including the Japanese) could not deny the combat effectiveness of the troops belonging to the 7th Theater.

In the end, it was the chairman who slapped the board and assigned him to the Ninth Army. The Ninth Group Army was formed in the Shanghai area in mid-August 1937, and the first commander-in-chief of the group army was Zhang Zhizhong, with the 36th, 87th, and 88th Divisions under its jurisdiction.

Zhang Zhizhong commanded the most sharp troops of the Nationalist Government and undertook the most arduous combat mission. On 13 August, General Huang Meixing, who was the first to die in battle on the Songhu battlefield, was the commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 88th Division.

Zhang Zhizhong led Hu Lian to the headquarters of the Ninth Army in Shanghai, and after taking a seat, Zhang Zhizhong smiled: "Bo Yiù, I won't hide it from you now, the situation of our army is very bad now, and the Japanese have transferred the 9th, 101st, and 14th divisions from China to reinforce Shanghai." So far, the Japanese army in Shanghai has five divisions and 120,000 troops, and it seems that the situation is still increasing. ”

Hu Lian said in a deep voice to Zhang Zhizhong: "Please rest assured, Chief Zhang, our 102nd Division has never been afraid of any difficulties, and even if all of them die in battle, they will never lose the face of our Chinese soldiers." ”

"Good!" Zhang Zhizhong showed appreciation, "In this way, Bo yù, you will arrange the troops to be deployed on the front line of the North Station, there is no major war there yet, how about you make adjustments when you are familiar with the environment?" ”

Hu Lian nodded, and then left the army like Zhang Zhizhong.

At 3 p.m., all the trains carrying the 102nd Division arrived in Shanghai, and so far, more than 18,000 people of the 102nd Division have arrived. Hu Lian ordered all the officers and men of the division to immediately go to the north station to set up defenses.

When the 102nd Division passed through the city, the citizens of Shanghai were alarmed, and they flocked to the streets to see this army full of legends.

Three infantry regiments, one tank regiment, and various units directly under the 102nd Division passed through the downtown area of Shanghai one after another, causing thousands of people to empty the alley. Their dignified military appearance, good equipment, and full morale all aroused bursts of cheers from the citizens of Shanghai.

Wang Changqing and Zheng Xiǎo You led the Sixth Regiment to the forefront of the team, looking at the crowd watching and cheering next to them, Wang Changqing smiled and said to Zheng Xiǎo You: "Xiǎo You, come and sing a song to refresh everyone!" ”

"Yes!"

"If the Motherland suffers a violation and sings!"

Under the leadership of Zheng Xiǎoyou, the soldiers of the Sixth Regiment began to sing.

"If the Motherland has been violated

Hot-blooded men should be self-reliant

Drink this bowl of hometown wine

The strong man is gone

The surging Yellow River is mighty and the Yangtze River

Give me life, give me strength

Let the blood donation be dyed into the most beautiful flowers

Open on my chest

The military flag fluttered and the military horn sounded

The sword was unsheathed, thundering and lightning flashed

The brave wins"

First, the 6th Regiment sang first, and the song became louder and louder, until in the end, the entire 102nd Division was roaring. At first, the citizens of Shanghai on the side also murmured and sang in the xiǎo voice next to them, but in the end, their voices became louder, and they converged into a torrent that drifted to the whole of Shanghai.

By the time Zhou Zhen's armored regiment appeared, the atmosphere at the scene had reached a high cháo, and it detonated people's national pride.

"Long live the 102nd Division!"

"The Japanese get out of China!"

One slogan after another resounded to the sky!

Not long after the 102nd Division arrived at the railway station, in the new flagship of the Japanese Third Fleet, the Kako, the commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, Matsui Ishine, was also sitting in his office looking at the information just sent by the agents stationed in Shanghai, and was secretly stunned. The information written in the intelligence is very simple: 'The Chinese army has come to reinforce again, and it is reported that it is the 102nd Infantry Division of Chahar, which has about 17,800 men and more than 60 chariots. The number of artillery pieces is unknown! ’

What made Matsui Ishine frown was not that the defenders on the opposite side had reinforcements, but the words 'Chahar' in it, and this place had even become a taboo for the Japanese military.

So far, about 100,000 imperial troops have been killed or wounded in their hands, and many generals have either been broken or demoted, or even directly transferred back to their homeland. This forced Matsui to be cautious.

"Send me the information of the 102nd Chahar Division!" Matsui Shigen said to the section chief of Shanghai Special High-tech next to him.

"Hey!"

The chief of the special high section immediately took out another piece of information from his purse, and respectfully gave it to Matsui Ishine.

"Yo Xi!" Matsui Shigen looked at this Jīng Ming's special senior section chief appreciatively, and then looked at this information.

Judging from the data, from the establishment of the 102nd Division in 1935 to the present, it has been from Chahar to Siberia in two years, and then from Siberia to Rehe, and each time it has acted as Su Tong's vanguard.

In the last month, this division and two other Chahar troops worked together to eat the 40,000 Chengde defenders led by Lieutenant General Tatsumi Kusaba and gave the empire a solid slap in the face.

After reading this information, Matsui Ishine had to admit that the combat effectiveness of this unit was first-class among the Chahar troops, and it could even be compared with the permanent divisions of the empire.

But Matsui immediately thought that if he could eliminate this division in Shanghai, then who else would dare to look at him in the Japanese military circles. I can also give a good look to those who oppose my appointment as commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, and I, Matsui Ishone, have the ability to sit in this position.

After thinking of this, Matsui Shigen immediately said to the special senior section chief beside him: "Immediately order the agents to keep an eye on the situation of this branch and report to me as soon as there is any trouble." ”

"Hey!" The chief of the special high section bowed and immediately went out.

Matsui Shigen turned to look at the 'Schematic Diagram of the Battle of Shanghai' hanging on the wall, and a hot current welled up in his heart, "Yo Xi, let me use the blood of this ace army to make our military flag even fresher!" ”