Chapter 234: Fighting Together
Originally, the night before, Huaxing Aviation Military Academy let the family take the nest, and Li Tie held back a fire. When Li Tie returned to the club, he discussed it with Wang Qi and others overnight, even if the Japanese had already regarded Li Tie as a target, they would naturally guard against Li Tie from time to time.
Then Li Tie's original plan to take advantage of the Sino-Japanese war will not work. The last few agreed that they should work with the Nineteenth Army.
Only in this way can everyone twist into a rope and fight with the powerful Japanese army. So early in the morning, Li Tie put on his colonel's military uniform and took Wang Qi and others to the division headquarters of the 78th Division.
However, at this time, the Japanese army had already begun to bombard Wusong Fortress, and the entire 78th Division was also busy, and he was stunned for a long time because no one called him, and no one paid attention to him when he shouted to see the commander of the 78th Division.
However, because he did not receive the order to pass, the guards in charge of guarding only stopped him outside the gate of the division headquarters and said that he would not let him in.
It looks like it's all about to run away.
This astonishing discovery was like a thunderbolt that scorched Li Tielei's exterior and tenderness inside.
"Is there any mistake? What's wrong with the world? Didn't the 19th Army actively resist the war in the previous life? Why is the current situation diametrically opposed to the previous life?
Has this butterfly been tossed ruthlessly and changed many of the original historical trajectories? "Fortunately, Major Li Tie's military uniform is real, not to mention that Li Tie is a celebrity in Shanghai and even in the whole country.
After he took out his colonel's identity certificate and then brought out the boss of his Huaxing company, although the guards at the division headquarters did not dare to be rude to him, they still did not let him enter the division headquarters, and as a result, Li Tie was so angry that he cursed from time to time.
In the end, he simply took advantage of the panic to give Wang Qi a look, and Wang Qi hugged the sentry and knocked the sentry unconscious into the post, and they forced into the headquarters of the 78th Division.
However, when Li Tie entered the division headquarters wearing a military uniform, he took Wang Qi and a few people to stop him, even if he was running around in the 78th division, there was no one who didn't open his eyes to stop him.
In this way, Li Tie unknowingly really found the division command post, and just outside the command post, the soldier's unique loud voice had already come out of the command post.
"Ou Shounian, do you want to run away without a fight? Do you want to give up the good mountains to the Japanese like Zhang Xueliang in the Northeast? You coward, believe it or not, I shot you? Cai Tingkai, commander of the 19th Route Army, pointed to the nose of the 78th Division Commander in front of him and scolded.
"Commander Cai, please calm down, and please don't label me a coward, I am also a Chinese **, and I will not run away without a fight, but we all received Minister He's order not to clash with the Japanese army.
He ordered our army to take the initiative to retreat to the area around Nanjing, waiting for a counterattack. This is an order personally issued by Minister He Yingqin. Now that Commander Chiang has not officially returned, Minister He is the highest military commander.
Soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty, so what's wrong with us following orders? Ou Shounian believes that he is fighting on the basis of reason.
"Fuck it, why is he not in Shanghai, he knows what the situation is in Shanghai now? Is it a conflict now? Now it's the Sino-Japanese War.
The Japanese had just occupied the three eastern provinces, and now they were fighting the idea of Shanghai. Now they are shelling the Wusong Fortress and bombarding the garrison of our army in Zhabei. This is not war? What kind of conflict is this?
I want to ask you, when we joined the National Army and participated in the Northern Expedition, what was our ambition back then?
Is it to bring down the warlords, to bring down the powers, and now that the powers have bullied the heads, you still want to run away without a fight, do you want to be sinners of the country?
Do you want to watch millions of parents in Shanghai being ravaged by the Japanese? Commander Cai asked in a fierce voice.
"Commander, it's not that we don't want to resist, but what do we use to resist? The brothers haven't fired for eight months. In this way, there was not a single desertion from the brothers' units.
Everyone tightened their belts to save money and ensure daily exercises. Today, in order to maintain basic training, our brothers have only five bullets per person, and each class is not given a single grenade.
What do you want us brothers to do with the Japanese? Li Kuo, chief of staff of the 78th Division, asked.
Commander Cai looked at the old brothers in front of him, and he was also deeply ashamed: "Brothers, I know that you are very bitter, and the whole army is very bitter.
I also know that many regimental brothers take turns organizing brothers to go to the docks every day to work as coolies to earn money to maintain our army.
It's me Cai who is incompetent, can't lead everyone to glorify their ancestors, can't lead everyone to be fed and clothed, but let everyone suffer with me.
But don't forget, since we, the children of Guangdong, have followed Mr. Sun's anti-Qing resistance for more than ten years, have we Guangdong children ever retreated from the war?
In the Northern Expedition, the predecessor of our 19th Route Army was known as the Iron Army, and it was an Iron Army that could not be defeated. Just before I came here, Commander-in-Chief Jiang Guangnai, commander-in-chief of the Beijing-Shanghai garrison, had just spoken with me on the phone.
He also knows our current predicament, he has gone to the city government to ask for war funds, if the Shanghai municipal government does not approve, he will go back to sell cars and villas, and he will go bankrupt and make up for the brothers' money.
He said that he would also contact the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce and Industry to raise donations, and that there are not many other people in Shanghai, but there are many patriotic rich people.
With the support of the people of Shanghai, we will definitely defeat the Japanese attack. As the commander-in-chief, he gave me a bottom line, and we could resist the Japanese army with confidence, and he conveyed the order of the Nationalist Government to counterattack, and he refused to accept the order to escape.
In the future, he will go to the military justice office to kill or kill him alone, and he has only one request, asking us not to flee without firing a shot, and not to learn from the bears of the Northeast Army.
He asked us to set an example for the people of Shanghai and for the whole people, and not to tarnish the reputation of our sacred Iron Army, which took decades to create.
We don't have guns, we still have knives and guns, we don't have knives and guns, we still have fists, the Japanese army attacking this time is only a few thousand, and we have more than 7,000 people in the 78th Division alone.
In addition, Commander Chiang has also ordered the brothers of the 60th and 61st Divisions to come to reinforce them respectively, and the reinforcements will arrive in Shanghai in three days at most.
In addition, General Zhang Zizhong has also taken the initiative to ask Ying to come to Shanghai for support, and I believe that in a few days, our Shanghai garrison will exceed 50,000 people.
I don't have any other demands now, no matter what, everyone will have to bite my teeth and hit my head for three days.
Within three days, when reinforcements did not arrive, and the army could not be heard, I committed suicide in front of everyone to be fully loyal. After speaking, Commander Cai knelt in the command room, pointed to the sky with one hand, and swore to the sky that he would live and die with Shanghai.
All the old brothers of the 78th Division were moved by Commander Cai and knelt in front of him. When everyone joined the army, they made a grand wish, not to be born on the same day and month of the same year, but to die on the same day and month of the same year.
Since God wants everyone to die together in Shanghai, it is good to serve the country and the people, everyone will go to the national disaster together, and there will be a companion on the Huangquan Road.
For a while, there was a tragic situation in the command post, everyone hugged each other, first cried, and then laughed, whether it was the division commander, the brigade commander or the chief of staff, everyone finally decided to fight the Japanese army to the death.
Just as these generals were hugging their heads and crying, they heard a cheer from outside the command room. Then the generals immediately stopped crying, and it was really not elegant for outsiders to see a group of big men hugging their heads and crying.
I saw that Li Tie's eyes were red, and Wang Qi and Du Bin, who were also tearful, walked into the headquarters.
Everyone saw a handsome young man wearing the uniform of a colonel of the Central Army walking in from outside the door, first in a flurry and then in an uproar:
"Oh, isn't this the boss of Huaxing Company, Li Tie, the head of the four tycoons in Shanghai? How did he run into the headquarters of the 78th Division, and he was still wearing the uniform of a colonel. ”
Li Tie came to Commander Cai, first saluted Commander Cai with a standard military salute, and then gave a military salute to the many generals and colonels in the headquarters.
"Commander Cai, generals, let me introduce myself, under Li Tie, the colonel of the Special Service Department of the Logistics Department of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army, and the principal of the Huaxing Aviation Military Academy.
Just last night, the Japanese army sent a small detachment to attack our Huaxing airport. Destroyed almost two hundred fighters inside the airfield. It also killed and injured nearly 100 flight cadets.
I am here to inform you of this news. I didn't expect to see the great spirit of everyone sacrificing themselves for the country and the people, and I was deeply moved.
For this War of Resistance, I, Li Tie, hereby promise that I will be responsible for making up for all the military debts owed by the Nationalist Government. As for arms, it is not a problem, my Huaxing started by selling arms. A large amount of ammunition is available all year round.
It is no exaggeration to say that there are rifles, and you can throw them with one stick, and as for the ammunition, everyone can do it hard, and you can't use it up if you have nothing to throw it in. ”
Li Tie's witty words greatly diluted the grievances of the generals present. Commander Cai immediately ordered all units to assemble at Zhabei and the railway station, and sent another regiment to collect ammunition at the Huaxing warehouse.
Everyone obeyed the order, and seeing that Commander Ou Shounian's face was gloomy, Commander Cai came to him, patted him on the shoulder, and said affectionately:
"Jiemei, I know, you are a good soldier, you have followed me from birth to death since you were a child, I know that you are not greedy for life and afraid of death.
I used to teach you that a soldier should take obedience to orders as his duty, and this is not wrong, today I want to teach you the last sentence, how can you be a really good soldier?
A really good soldier is a soldier who dares to disobey incorrect orders, you know? ”
"Uncle, I understand, don't worry, Ou Shounian will definitely be a really good soldier from now on." It turned out that Ou Shounian turned out to be General Cai's nephew.
Li Tie looked at his uncle and nephew who were still pulling arrows just now, and secretly glared at Wang Qi, because just now when Commander Cai scolded the district division commander, Wang Qi proposed to him outside the headquarters that he rushed into the headquarters and killed the district division commander with a knife.
Fortunately, Li Tie didn't agree, otherwise the joke would have been big. However, when Li Tie and Commander Cai discussed how the two sides could cooperate to fight the enemy together.
I only heard a murmur outside the headquarters. Then, I saw that the sentry who had been knocked unconscious just now rushed into the headquarters with a group of soldiers with rifles, and shouted loudly: "Division commander, we were attacked by thieves, and the thieves knocked me unconscious, and threatened to kill the headquarters." ”
Then, the soldier found that the eyes of more than a dozen generals and colonels in the command headquarters were wide-eyed, and they were looking at him with a surprised face, and then he realized that Commander Cai and the district division commander were looking at him helplessly, and the thief who knocked him unconscious was smiling at himself with a cheap face.