Chapter 8: Departure to Deer City

Two months of time passed in the blink of an eye, the 163rd Regiment has been trained by Su Dao to the point that as long as he is free, he will fall asleep immediately, and the strength in the hands of the soldiers has also increased a lot, in addition to running five kilometers cross-country every day, it is to hold a gun, a few bricks underneath, stand motionless for two hours, if the instructor finds that he is opportunistic, he will continue to add time.

After training, Su Dao began to teach the soldiers to learn military boxing, as for which country's military boxing Su Dao did not know, anyway, Su Dao handed it over to the instructor, and the instructor was handing it over to the soldiers. This set of military body boxing was practiced and played by Su Dao when he was fine in his later life, but later he found out that this kind of boxing method could not exert much power at all if he was alone.

But if two or three people form a formation, even if they face twice as many enemies as themselves. After the practice, it was time for dinner, and the afternoon training was relatively simple, that is, digging trenches back and forth, and then taking the soldiers to simulate battles in various environments, what jungle warfare, street fighting, guerrilla warfare, etc., in just two months, Su Dao had handed over all the tactics he could think of to the soldiers of the 163rd Regiment.

However, Su Dao did not forget the most important thing, that is, gestures, Su Dao could not forget that when he first came here, he gestured to several soldiers for a long time, but he didn't expect the other party to ask him what he was doing for half a day? really made Su Dao angry.

The role of gestures in the battle is still relatively large, one is to effectively avoid leaking one's position, and the other is to confuse the enemy as much as possible, so that the enemy can not figure out how many people are in front of him, because no one speaks at this time, even if he shoots, he runs after the fight, and it is impossible to count how many people there are.

Due to the lack of supply of weapons and ammunition, even if Su Dao often takes the soldiers to training, but the shooting training is still relatively small, from the beginning of the 163rd Regiment of Su Daolai to the present, it has been about two months, and each soldier has fired ten bullets. Rao is like this, or is it because of the result of Su Dao's arguments, if not, Song Renyi would not be willing to take the bullets for the soldiers to waste.

It's just that at the same time, Su Dao's heart gradually began to become anxious, according to what was said before, the 163rd regiment should have gone to Nanjing for a change of clothes as early as a month ago, but what he didn't expect was that he had not received an order to go to Nanjing to change his clothes.

The other units involved in the rearmament had already been reequipped, but the 32nd Division and the 78th Division had not received any supplements. What Su Dao and they transported to Nanjing was indeed the equipment of ten full divisions, which Su Dao could still be sure, but the situation in front of him couldn't help but make Su Dao secretly worried in his heart.

Now Su Dao is not afraid of anything else, he is afraid that the equipment of the 32nd and 78th divisions will be topped. This kind of thing is not surprising at all, if one more brigade or several regiments are arranged among other units close to the center, the equipment of the two divisions will be divided up with a little bit of this.

If this is the case, Su Daoke will be in big trouble next. At present, although the 163rd Regiment has a full strength of nearly 2,800 men, it has less than 1,500 weapons in its hands, which is still good, and the other regiments of the 32nd Division basically remain at about 1,000.

Time was passing rapidly, and on August 9, Yuo Oyama, a lieutenant of the Marine Corps stationed in Shanghai, led a soldier Saito to hide and drove a military car to forcibly storm the Hongqiao Zhongyu airfield, and was killed on the spot by the aircraft guards.

For a time, the international community suddenly had an earthquake no less than magnitude 8, and the base camp was full of angry shouts, demanding that the Chinese side seriously deal with the incident, hand over the murderers to the Great Empire, and withdraw all the Chinese troops in Shanghai.

The Chinese side urgently sought assistance from the international community, hoping that Britain, the United States, France, Germany and other countries would intervene in the incident and try their best to mediate to avoid war. On the one hand, it accelerated the transfer of surrounding troops to Shanghai, and at the same time, it was not to be outdone.

On 14 August, the Ninth Group Army of the local Kuomintang garrison, under the command of Commander-in-Chief Zhang Zhizhong, commanded three German armament divisions to begin a general offensive, and the Chinese Air Force also went to Shanghai to coordinate operations.

On 13 August, several thousand soldiers of the Marine Corps of the Yue Army, with the help of the guns of the ships of the Shanghai Fleet, resolutely launched the famous August 13 Incident, that is, the Battle of Songhu, without the Chinese defenders of Shanghai were ready. Only a few thousand marines were able to defeat the defenders of Shanghai in a short period of time.

Immediately after the war began, Chairman Chiang instructed the 36th, 87th, and 88th Divisions of the Ninth Group Army stationed in the local garrison to begin fighting against the Japanese army under the command of Zhang Zhizhong.

With the addition of the Ninth Army, the battle suddenly took a turn for the worse, and the Marines had to temporarily retreat, only to breathe under the cover of naval guns. At the same time, however, when the Shanghai Dispatch Army was organized on 15 August, only the 3rd Division and the 11th Division had 50,000 or 60,000 troops.

If 50,000 or 60,000 devils were allowed to land in Shanghai smoothly, the 36th, 87th, and 88th Divisions on the front line would not be able to resist at all.

"Brother Su, Shangfeng ordered our division to rush to Lucheng within five days to standby, but Shangfeng didn't mention anything about any equipment replacement." Song Renyi's face darkened with anxiety, and he ran to Su Dao's house and yelled.

In the past two months, Song Renyi has been accustomed to this kind of talk, but as long as there is something he doesn't understand, he will ask Su Dao, and Song Renyi also found that there seems to be no answer that Su Dao doesn't know.

"What? Within five days? Didn't mention the issue of equipment? Rao is Su Dao is also a little hard to believe. The 163rd Regiment is stationed in Xuzhou, about 600 kilometers away from Lucheng, that is, more than 1,200 miles. It is impossible for even an iron-clad army to do it, and now the march can basically only rely on feet? Most importantly, there is no mention of equipment at all.

"Brother Su, how can this be good. There is already a fight over there, and if we march over in a hurry, Shangfeng will not give us enough time to rest and recuperate, and if we go up like this, we will let the brothers die in vain, and won't these two months of hard training be in vain? Song Renyi continued.

"I'll accompany the troops to Lucheng, I'll go and tell the above, send my brother, you immediately order the troops to pack the necessary items, this time we will travel lightly." Su Dao had already decided to go to Lucheng with the troops, which was Kunshan in later generations, and it was relatively fast to directly support Shanghai from there. As for the equipment, if it really doesn't work, Su Dao can only put it together, and just try to see if those books are true or false, after all, he only exchanged one rifle last time.