In the early morning of September 16, the northwest Dachang position in downtown Shanghai.

"It has not been easy for our department to develop from a poorly equipped engineer battalion to what it is today, and it has been decades since then. In the old days, I attacked in the middle of the river, fighting for the city and land, so that the lives were devastated, and the people were displaced! So far, I am ashamed and unforgettable. Today's national disaster is at the head, and it is the time for our department to wash away the shame and kill the enemy to serve the country! Therefore, I hope that all officers and soldiers will work together to fulfill their military duties and serve the motherland!! ”

"Kill the enemy and serve the country!!" In the night, those men wearing straw sandals and carrying large swords and hats on their backs held their heads high in the wind! Watching their division commander speak generously on the high platform, although they may not be able to understand what their division commander is saying.

But they knew that this battle was different from all their previous battles. This time out of Sichuan, maybe it was desperate......

Along the way, in fact, they already have this kind of awareness. The welcome reception along the way, and the "Mulan in the Army" sung in the opera by Shang Xiaoyun, one of the four famous figures of Peking Opera, have already explained what they are doing this time.

When they saw the wounded who were constantly being sent to the rear along the way, they knew what it meant to be miserable! You also know what you're up against.

This unit was numbered the 43rd Army of the National Revolutionary Army. But in reality, the 43rd Army was only under the command of a 26th Division. Therefore, the army commander Guo Rudong is also the commander of this division. Although it was Liu Yuqing who really served as the division commander.

Indeed, as Guo Rudong said, it is not easy for the unit under his command to come to this day. And his ruthless role of daring to make a revolution back then, with explosives tied to his body, and acting as a death squad, is indispensable.

After graduating from the Sichuan Officers' Crash Course that year, Guo Rudong served as a platoon commander in the engineer battalion of the Second Division of the Sichuan Army. This is the reason why Guo Rudong said that "our department has developed ...... from a poorly equipped engineer battalion."

However, the death squad of the year is no longer the simple student who can run 60 miles to deliver letters on the wedding night for the revolution and run with tumors in his feet. All kinds of tempering made him both a politician and a soldier.

He was attached to Yang Sen and became a division commander under Yang Sen. However, they united with anti-Yang forces to attack Yang Sen, and the result was a fiasco. He also participated in the Battle of Xiachuan East under the support of Yang Sen, but under the influence of Liu Xiang, he betrayed the alliance and used troops against Yang.

He had sheltered the Red or the Left wing of the Kuomintang, and had avoided fighting the Red when he was chasing them. At that time, Guo Rudong's reason for giving his cronies was: no supplies, no soldiers. If it's empty. It's yourself who suffers.

And this unit, which only has one division, has now come to Shanghai proudly under the leadership of his most cherished military commander! Take over this position!

When Guo Rudong gave a morale-boosting speech, Liu Yuqing, commander of the 26th Division, met with Song Xilian, the commander of the 36th Division, at the headquarters of the 36th Division.

This position was originally defended by the 36th Division. Whether it is the 36th Division or Song Xilian, they are all Jiang Zhongzheng's henchmen! I don't know how much stronger the Sichuan army is with the skills in my hands and the equipment I hold!

At this time, the 36th Division was preparing to withdraw from the battlefield, the headquarters was in disarray, and the guards and staff officers were coming in and out. Pack up your bags. The 36th Division had not been fighting in Shanghai for a long time, but it had already been completely defeated, suffered heavy casualties, and was no longer able to fight.

Song Xilian looked tired, his military uniform was full of gunsmoke and dust, and he hurriedly introduced the tragic state on the battlefield to Liu Yuqing. He also said that Dachang was the main direction of the Japanese army's attack, and the pressure was twice as high as that of others.

Finally, he patted Liu Yuqing on the shoulder and said softly with those inexplicably complicated eyes: "Brother Xianting." The position is handed over to you, so I can do it myself, I hope you and I can have a future period. There are also some weapons and ammunition here. I'll give it all to you......"

After that, Song Xilian sighed, grabbed a steel helmet, loaded it, and left in a hurry with his subordinates.

Liu Yuqing looked at Song Xilian's back in a daze in the thick of the night, he felt that there was obvious distrust in Song Xilian's words, and Song Xilian's subtext was obvious: "Can you hold it?!" ”

Liu Yuqing stood silently in the rain, and he was also asking himself. Can we hold it?! Song Xilian's 36th Division, I don't know how much stronger he is! Not to mention those officers trained by the Central Military Academy, that is, the training, the quality of the soldiers, and the weapons are all stronger than themselves! They all play like this. Can we hold on?!

The 26th Division was a small force, and its brand and foundation were much weaker than Song Xilian's 36th Division.

The division numbered less than 10,000 men, with four regiments plus a communications company and an engineer company, each regiment had three infantry battalions and a mortar company, but no more than four mortars, each battalion had three infantry companies and a heavy machine gun company with four heavy machine guns under its jurisdiction. Three infantry platoons per company, one light machine gun per platoon.

The rifles held by the soldiers below were even more pitiful, some of them were so old that they seemed to have lost their teeth, and even the rifles in the chamber were about to wear out. Some soldiers lacked parts for their rifles, and the bolts had to be tied with hemp rope. Otherwise, it will fall off.

Some soldiers had double-barreled rifles that they didn't know which year they were made. And the entire division and even the whole army still do not have a single artillery, no logistics, not to mention the extravagant field hospital......

After a long time, it wasn't until Wang Zhendong, the deputy division commander standing next to him, said, "Division commander, let's go." ”

Liu Yuqing came back to her senses and couldn't help but smile bitterly! It doesn't matter if you keep it or not. At most, it's just a whole division! But how?! Isn't it also a kind of glory for a soldier to die on the battlefield for his country?!

At dawn on the 16th, the front-line troops of the 26th Division were ordered to enter the designated position and stand by.

"Boom! Rumble!! Rumble...... "As soon as dawn ...... a few observation balloons were hung in the sky, a group of Japanese planes immediately roared into the sky, aimed at this covert area and dived and dropped bombs, strafing back and forth, as accurately as someone had reported to the enemy the hidden position of the troops!

This place was blown up in smoke, a sea of fire, and the explosions were incessant, deafening!

"Wow...... "In the past, it was only the 26th Division that experienced a civil war with a small number of troops, how could it have been in such a battle situation?! Even the soldiers in front and the officers were all distracted, and under the leadership of some dizzy officers, the front-line troops ran into a nearby bamboo forest to hide.

Entering the bamboo forest, it seems that the Japanese planes will not be able to find them. After circling for a while, the officers and soldiers who "buzzed ......" flew away from the position, and fled into the bamboo forest breathed a sigh of relief.

"Chirp...... Rumble! Rumble!! As soon as the plane flew away, a platoon of artillery fell from the sky, and large-caliber howitzer shells and thunderous naval artillery shells rained down on this bamboo forest!......

saw that the entire bamboo forest was uprooted at once, and the soldiers of the 26th Division who were hiding in the bamboo forest came with bursts of screams! But the screams were drowned out by the roar of heavy artillery......

It was just a few volleys, and the bamboo forest, along with the nearly two hundred lives inside, disappeared from the earth in a cloud of smoke......

"Ge Lao Tzu Di, Turtle Son!! These bastards! Liu Ruqing, who rushed to hear the news, beat his chest hatefully, and roared with red eyes: "In the future, anyone who takes the lead in running around in the bombing will be shot on the spot!" Soldiers run around, officers shoot and shoot!! ”

Lesson me! A lesson in blood!! As soon as the war began, more than 200 brothers were killed without even seeing the Japanese army! How many brothers can the entire 26th Division fill it in?!

The defense of Dachang Town is unfavorable, but it is also an unavoidable fact. In fact, neither the Central Army nor the Sichuan Army were good at positional warfare, let alone the excavation of trenches and fortifications.

The most terrible thing is that the field is surrounded by an open field, the terrain is flat, and there is no danger to defend at all. The position could only be dug in the cotton field, and even the command post of the division could only be set up in the cotton field, and a pit and communication trench were dug down from the flat ground, on which some wooden beams were put horizontally, and then covered with earth, and the command post became a command post.

However, the flat terrain has become the advantage of the Japanese army, and they can directly spread out their tank troops to attack the defenders on the position!

"Rumbling ......" At this time, there was a roar from the position! Sure enough, according to the usual habits, after the shelling, the Japanese launched an attack with tank units as the pioneers!

"Ge Lao Tzu Land! Fuck him with Lao Tzu as a turtle son!! The Sichuan army, who had never seen a tank, was stimulated by the blood of his brothers, his eyes were red, and he grabbed the machine gun and fired at the Japanese ......tank!

"Clanging ......" Unfortunately, those bullets hit the steel plate of the tank, but they were bounced off. Although the Japanese tanks were extremely poorly armored, they were not penetrated by heavy machine guns!

Finding that there were no weapons on the position that could hurt themselves, the Japanese tanks began to increase their horsepower frantically! "Woo~" roared towards the position and rushed over!

"Tutu Tu Tu ...... Rumble! Rumble!! Boom......" The machine gun roared, sending out a rain of bullets. And the Japanese not only began to spew out tongues of fire, but even the artillery also started to sweep the position with a frenzied blast!

The 26th Division, and even the entire Sichuan Army, had never experienced such a battle at all! For a time, countless soldiers were knocked down in a pool of blood by machine guns and artillery......

"Turtle son!! Rush with Lao Tzu! The red-eyed platoon commander roared angrily, and he thought about the Japanese tanks with his people! But, what can you do if you kill it?!

Under the Japanese machine-gun fire, countless charging Sichuan soldiers fell in a pool of blood! And those Sichuan soldiers who rushed in front of the Japanese tanks were even more at a loss in the face of this steel monster!

They roared and slashed with big knives and pulled out grenades to blow them up! But they still didn't hurt the tank, but they were still charging! Even desperate to climb into the tank, but do not know how to start......

"Kill the enemy!!" The roar of the platoon commander who rushed out of the position seemed so tragic......