When Meng Qingshan learned of the dangerous situation in Shangjiang, he immediately asked to be discharged from the hospital and prepared to personally lead the team to support the Second Division, but as soon as he got dressed, he was pressed on the bed by Zhou Baozhong, who rushed over.

"Old Meng! Dean Zhou said that you are not out of danger yet, in case the wound is infected, it will be troublesome, our conditions are poor, unless you want to go abroad for treatment, the delay may be longer, you still lie here obediently to recuperate, the front-line affairs are handled by us, you only need to be responsible for moving your head, and the rest of the things will be handed over to us, not all work there, and you don't have to go to the headquarters. Zhou Baozhong persuaded.

"Lao Zhou, how is the situation in Shangjiang? Where did the devil hit? Can the second division stand up? Meng Qingshan asked worriedly.

"Lao Meng, don't get excited, the situation in the Shangjiang area is somewhat, but just now Division Commander Zhang Yunzhi has sent a telegram to the headquarters, saying that the Japanese attack has been repulsed, please don't worry. And Comrade Ji Qing led a batch of supplies and three garrison regiments to Shangjiang. As long as they can hold out for six days, we will be able to eat the 10th Division and deploy troops to support the Shangjiang area. ”

"Tell Zhang Yunzhi not to fight hard with the Japanese army, their task is to hold back the pace of the Japanese attack, not to fight hard...." Before he finished speaking, his eyes slowly closed.

Zhou Baozhong knew that Meng Qingshan was tired and fell asleep, and did not call a doctor, because this was the case several times before, first observed Meng Qingshan, found that he was breathing steadily, and said helplessly: "The commander-in-chief looks at you like this now, and he will make you tired like this after saying a few words, if I really agree with you to go, then I am not crazy." You are the key to our resistance to the United Nations. "Huzi, you have to watch the commander-in-chief, and you can't let him move anymore. Does this make the wound infected? ”

"Understood."

"Division commander, do we want to let the Fifth Regiment withdraw, the battle during the day. The five regiments are almost crippled, and now there is less than one company of troops left in the entire regiment, so I think it is better to let them retire and recuperate, and leave some fire for the fifth regiment. ”

"I didn't expect the little devil's attack this time to be more fierce than ever, this artillery fire suppressed our artillery, so that our artillery regiment had no chance to play at all, and what was even more infuriating was that the plane in the sky, how could it always be finished, how many planes did this little devil have. We can't defend here, let's see if we can let the little devils divide the troops, and we will destroy one first, which can also relieve us of pressure. ”

"Division commander, why don't we withdraw to the front line of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains to block the Japanese army?"

"Old Devil Cui bites so tightly, how can he withdraw? As soon as we withdraw, the little devils will be able to follow immediately. In the face of its absolute superiority in ground-to-air firepower, the troops were not defeated, but let the little devils crush them. Don't forget, the little devil also has a full cavalry wing. ”

"Then can we defeat that devil cavalry wing. In this way, once we retreat, it will also prevent them from pursuing. ”

"But right now, we don't have the troops we can mobilize."

"What do you think, division commander, if I go and ask the political commissar for reinforcements?"

"Okay, that's it."

Jiamusi Port. Close to the Songhua River, up to Yilan, Harbin, down to Heilongjiang. Direct access to the Sea of Japan; Through the Songhua River, it can still reach the middle and upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River and the banks of the Ussuri River, which is convenient for the export and transshipment of grain, timber, coal and other products. After the indemnity of Gengzi in 1900. The navigation of Russian steamships on the Songhua River brought great convenience to the movement of personnel and the transportation of grain, wood, and coal. The twenties of the Republic of China. Jiamusi City's waterway passenger and freight transportation is becoming more and more prosperous, and it is already a well-known inland port in the lower reaches of the Songhua River, but the wharf is still in a natural state. The total amount of grain, groceries, salt, coal, timber and other goods imported and exported annually is more than 150,000 tons.

During the puppet Manchurian period, the Japanese invaders intensified the plundering of materials in the Sanjiang area, especially after the completion of the Tujia and Suijia railways, most of the import and export goods in the lower reaches of the Songhua River, Heilongjiang River and Ussuri River were transshipped through Jiamusi Port. The volume of goods transshipment surpassed that of Harbin and became the largest transshipment port in the middle and lower reaches of the Songhua River. In order to meet this need, the Japanese puppet regime confiscated and occupied the original official and civilian vessels and monopolized water transportation. In the old wharf of Jiamusi, a Yuan wooden pile wharf was also built. In 1937, the puppet Harbin Shipping Bureau expanded the 456-meter vertical steel sheet pile wharf on the east side of the old wharf of Jiamusi, whose berth could accommodate 15 ships of 800 tons. Railway branch lines and loading and unloading lines have been laid in the port area, so that the loading and unloading transshipment capacity of Jiamusi Port has increased dramatically. From 1935 to 1938, the loading and unloading volume of Jiamusi Wharf reached 72, 86, 56 and 1.44 million tons respectively. The main water transport routes are Jiamusi-Harbin, Jiamusi-Heihe, Jiamusi-Hulin, etc. The annual passenger volume is 540,000 people. The total volume of passenger and freight transportation accounted for about 20% and 70% of the total water transportation in Heilongjiang at that time.

At this time in Jiamusi Port, snowflakes fell in the sky and stopped, so that the ground was paved with a white cotton coat, but the sky was dark and the eyes could not see the five fingers, and the air at night was even colder. Although the weather was cold in the early winter, the Songhua River had not yet frozen, and on the muddy and narrow path in a dilapidated slum shack area south of a wharf in Jiamusi, some laborers in tattered clothes walked to the wharf with torches, rag shoes, and a shoulder pad tied to their shoulders, and hurried towards the wharf with their arms in their arms under the shouting and scolding of the Japanese military police.

They used to be residents of the city, but after the Japanese army occupied Jiamusi, they issued residence permits to the few remaining residents in the city, and all of them rushed to live in a fixed area in the southeast of the city. Young women were selected to be sent to the barracks to wash clothes, and young men gathered near the docks and forced them to help the Imperial Army load and unload their goods, giving them two catties of cornmeal every day.

For the poor people who have no way to go to heaven and no way to the earth, and have an attitude of resigning themselves to fate, this is enough for the family to barely survive. Therefore, even at night, they have to go out to work, and strive to be able to use their humiliation and sweat to bring food rations for their families to live, not that their group of people is not patriotic, but that they can't even support their families, where can they take care of national hatred, no matter when there is work at the dock, this group of people will definitely run over to work, in order to be able to pull a piece of cloth for their families to spend the winter, of course, there are many people who are laborers captured by the Japanese army everywhere.

Chen Lei was also mixed in with this group, and his purpose this time was to blow up the Japanese warships and sabotage the ammunition supply to support the front.

After walking for five minutes, I looked up and saw that not far away was a checkpoint set up by the Japanese military police, and all personnel and vehicles entering and leaving the dock were to be checked. Chen Lei took advantage of the firelight to casually look at the tired coolies in front and back, found the fighters in the lurking laborers in the crowd, inadvertently raised his arm and yawned, made two gestures, and then stood in line among the coolies to be examined.

He reached out and took out the residence permit from his pocket, and then glanced at his name, place of origin, and address, "Chen Dong, a native of Jiamusi, lives at No. 33 in the slum. "These are all documents that the underground party got for him.

Chen Lei looked forward in the queue, two-thirds of the wide road was blocked by a triangular horse blocked by barbed wire, leaving only one-third of the opening to let people in, more than a dozen soldiers wearing green steel helmets and wearing yellow military police clothes of the Japanese army were scattered in front of the sentry post with long 38 large covers, several soldiers sat on ammunition boxes in the machine gun bunkers stacked with two sandbags, and the muzzles of two crooked machine guns stared vigilantly at these ragged and yellow-skinned coolies, telling people that anyone who dared to move would be immediately beaten into a stopper, At the same time, there were several squads of Japanese patrols around.

Soon it was his turn, and a puppet Manchurian policeman came to him and took the residence permit handed over by Chen Lei, flipped through it casually, and asked while touching and patting his dirty and shabby clothes, "Where do you live?" ”

"Slums."

"I'm familiar with the slums, why haven't I seen you?"

"Uncle, you are such a noble character, where will you remember our group of little people, I was sick a few days ago and have been lying at home, so you don't know me."

"Really? Didn't you starve your kid to death if you didn't work these days? ”

"How can there be a villain's life, it is all because of the care of the neighbors that he escaped from the hands of Lord Yama."

"Yo drink! It seems that your kid's popularity is quite good. ”

"Yaga! Work quickly, or you'll all die. A Japanese soldier kicked a laborer and scolded.

"The boy looks at you pleasing to the eye, and gives you a reminder, when you move things for a while, don't carve a collision, otherwise you don't have to kill you Taijun, you can kill yourself yourself, understand?"

"Understood, understood."

Maybe he thought he was talking too much, and the devil next to him came over with a rifle and shouted: "Baga! ”

The puppet Manchurian policeman immediately changed his face, kicked Chen Lei in the buttocks, and scolded: "Get out, do a good job!" If you don't work well, you don't want to get food. ”

Chen Lei pretended to be a wreck, staggered into the dock area with his butt covered, and blended into the crowd. (To be continued.) )