At the end of the night, the new Second Division sacrificed more than 200 people, seriously wounded more than 300 people, and slightly injured more than 700 people, which seemed to be a lot of casualties, but compared with the good results of destroying more than 4,000 enemies and recovering the northern urban area of Jiaxing City, such a payment was already very cost-effective.

Chen Yanhua ordered the troops to return to the camp on the south bank of Fanli Lake in the south of Jiaxing City designated by the Right Wing Army Headquarters to rest, and then arranged for a stretcher team to send the wounded away, and the bodies of the sacrificed soldiers were also sent to Haining by boat, cremated and transported back to the Phoenix Mountain Martyrs Cemetery.

After everything was taken care of, Chen Yanhua rushed to Zhang Fakui's headquarters with his adjutant and guards

Under the rising sun, Zhang Fakui and Liu Jianxu walked out of the gate of the headquarters together to welcome the victorious returning warriors. Chen Yanhua cheered up and gave a detailed report on the course of last night's battle, and Zhang Fakui and Liu Jianxu, who had already expected the change of troops through the front line, opened their mouths in surprise and were shocked.

Such a huge victory, the Eighth and Tenth Armies did not achieve it with all their might, but now it was won by a supplementary regiment of the new Second Division, which really embarrassed the two army generals.

After Chen Yanhua finished his report, he saluted and said goodbye, and went to the camp to have breakfast and rest.

At the end of the night, although Chen Yanhua did not directly participate in the battle, his responsibilities and obligations were not inferior to those of the front-line officers and soldiers, and he was already very tired.

Camouflage tents were set up in the woods by the lake, and Deputy Regiment Commander Zhao Shuqing reported that the quartermaster chief sent by the headquarters had suggested that all weapons and equipment should be sent to an air-raid shelter not far from the camp for unified management, so as to avoid the threat of Japanese aircraft.

Chen Yanhua, who kept yawning, was nibbling on steamed buns and drinking porridge while listening to the report, he hadn't closed his eyes for two days and two nights, his mind was already muddy, he shook his head hard, and didn't find anything wrong, so he instructed to send someone to strictly guard it and ignore it.

At half past seven in the morning, Zhang Fakui convened a meeting of his generals to discuss the next battle.

Both generals of the National Revolutionary Army, the army commanders and division commanders under the two major group armies had mixed feelings. Originally, everyone was eager to pick up the skin and cramp for the new Second Division's arrogant and domineering robbery, but now when they look at the real achievements of others, they can only consciously shut their mouths.

Liu Jianxu has an extra layer of thought.

At present, the two miscellaneous divisions under the Tenth Army have taken over the defense area of Chen Yanhua's regiment, but judging from the results achieved by Chen Yanhua's regiment, the Japanese army must be at the end of its strong crossbow.

Liu Jianxu secretly calculated that if he took advantage of the great opportunity when the Japanese army was stunned by Chen Yanhua's regiment and sent his own lineage, on the one hand, he could take the opportunity to expand the results of the battle and make the Hunan army famous all over the world, and on the other hand, he could obtain replenishment from the Japanese through battlefield capture.

For a while, Liu Jianxu's face was cloudy.

"Ahem"

Zhang Fakui, who was sitting in the chairman's seat, coughed lightly and called Liu Jianxu's soul back. Seeing that Liu Jianxu was a little absent-minded, Zhang Fakui frowned slightly: "General Liu, what do you think?" ”

Liu Jianxu rolled his eyes and smiled: "Commander, now the new second division has successfully expelled the Japanese army from the north of the city after a hard night's hard fighting. I suggest that they be used as surprise soldiers, first, to prevent them from making mistakes, and secondly, since modern times, there has been a saying that there is no Hunan army without Hunan, and our Hunan army can completely replace the new Second Division to continue the offensive, and strive to expel the Japanese from the Sujia railway station and restore the pre-war defense line. ”

As soon as Liu Jianxu's words came out, he immediately won the response of Tao Guang, commander of the 28th Army, Tao Liu, commander of the 62nd Division, and Chen Guangzhong, commander of the 63rd Division.

The 1st Regiment of the Supplementary Brigade of the New 2nd Division fought for one night, and judging from the corpses of Japanese soldiers seized on the battlefield, there were more than 4,300 corpses, which shows that the Japanese army was embarrassed at that time to hear that the 52nd Division and the 128th Division on the front line had made a small fortune by picking up foreign money, which made Liu Jianxu and his descendants and generals blush.

Since joining the Songhu battlefield, under the threat of Japanese artillery fire and aircraft, the Hunan army has suffered a lot of losses and suffered a considerable blow to its morale. Now taking advantage of the east wind of Chen Yanhua's regiment and replacing it with a soldier of the Hunan army, I believe that he will definitely be able to beat the Japanese devil crying and calling his mother.

Zhang Fakui was thoughtful.

Although Zhang Fakui, who was born in the Guangdong military system, controlled the right-wing army, his command, whether it was the Eighth Army or the Tenth Group Army, was dominated by the Hunan Army. In addition, if the 62nd and 63rd Divisions, which belonged to the Eighth Army, could make meritorious contributions on the battlefield, his face would also have some brilliance.

Soon after the meeting, the 62nd and 63rd Divisions were stationed in the northern part of the city, and the 52nd and 128th Divisions, which had just made a small fortune from the corpses of Japanese soldiers, were transferred to the eastern part of the city.

Tao Liu and Chen Guangzhong got together to discuss, and felt that it was difficult to achieve the effect of destroying the withering and decaying with their own strength alone, so they went to the army commander Tao Guang to find a way, but Tao Guang had nothing to do, and went to Liu Jianxu again. Liu Jianxu smiled mysteriously: "Isn't the weapons and equipment of the New Second Division's Supplementary Brigade and the First Regiment managed in a centralized and unified manner?" Anyway, those good guys are sleeping, and they don't need it for a while, so why don't we borrow it? ”

Tao Guang comprehended and immediately led people to the air-raid shelter on the east bank of Fan Li Lake where weapons and equipment were stored, and saw that the soldiers of a squad of the supplementary regiment were vigilantly patrolling back and forth.

Tao Liu smiled knowingly, and soon brought a battalion of officers and soldiers over, each carrying a wooden box on his shoulder, and walked towards the air-raid shelter.

"Standing still"

The guards of the first regiment shouted vigilantly: "Who are you? This is a military stronghold, and if we go any further, we will open fire."

"Don't get me wrong, we're allies"

Tao Liu strode forward and showed his ID: "I am Tao Liu, the commander of the 62nd Division." Japanese fighters will soon come to the county town to bomb, we will put a batch of weapons and equipment into the bomb shelter, please cooperate"

The guard hesitated: "But-"

"It's nothing, is it just that you are allowed to store it, and it won't let us also ensure the safety of our weapons and equipment? Where in the world is there such a truth?"

During the conversation, the officers and men of the 62nd Division of one battalion had already approached the bomb shelter and occupied a vantage point. With Tao Liu's order, these elites from the 62nd Division suddenly made a move, and threw the officers and soldiers of the Supplementary Regiment who were caught off guard to the ground.

Subsequently, the baggage regiments of the 62nd and 63rd Divisions rushed into the dugouts and began to carry weapons and equipment. After receiving submachine guns, rocket launchers, and light and heavy machine guns, the morale of the 28th Army was high, and they believed that it was not a problem to defeat the current Japanese army.

Just as Tao Guang came to the forward headquarters of Maqiao Port and was about to give the order to attack, Lieutenant General Gu Toshio, the commander of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, who had already come up with a bad breath, had already taken the lead.

The first was the artillery cover of two field artillery wings of the 6th and 18th divisions. After the Japanese artillery poured shells on the starting positions of the two Hunan army divisions, more than 30 fighters of the Japanese army air force that had taken off from the Shanghai airfield rushed to join in the fun and threw bombs ranging from 10 kg to 250 kg on the heads of the Hunan army.

When the artillery coverage was over for a quarter of an hour, the Japanese infantry guns, light and heavy machine guns opened fire one after another, and then opened the way with eight tanks and twelve armored vehicles

The officers and men of the 62nd Division, who had been dizzy from the previous artillery fire, suffered such a fierce attack again, and after resisting for a quarter of an hour, they lost their armor and fled in all directions, making Tao Guang almost dumbfounded.

How came it that only two or three hours later, the Japanese army returned to an invincible state?

Although the Hunan army was fierce, because it was in a state of preparing for an attack, too many people gathered on the front-line positions, and as a result, the Japanese artillery and aircraft bombarded it, and suffered heavy casualties.

Seeing the fierce assault and interspersing of the Japanese army, Tao Guang was full of gall, and under the escort of the guards, he retreated to the rear in embarrassment, and for a time, the entire northern area of the city was full of Hunan army collapsed.

In fact, neither Liu Jianxu nor Tao Guang knew what to do, even if they supplemented a regiment to conduct defensive operations in person today, they might not be able to withstand the counterattack of the Japanese army, after all, the Japanese army's firepower advantage during the day was too great, and this was by no means something that could be recovered simply by using human lives.

In other words, if you add a regiment to defend, you will definitely abandon the front-line position, and then rely on the ruins and broken walls, scatter the defense, and then make full use of your own weapons and equipment to deal with the Japanese army, and wait until dark to be the world of the Chinese army. However, the 62nd and 63rd Divisions were not, although they had the courage of the Hunan people, they had no choice but to fight lawlessly, and even tried to take advantage of the victory to counterattack, and as a result, they suffered unnecessary losses due to heavy artillery and aircraft bombing by the Japanese army, and the weapons and equipment of the new 2nd Division that they quietly snatched were mostly melee weapons, and in this kind of face-to-face offensive and defensive battle, they may not be able to take any advantage, and as a result, in just one day, the area north of the city that was regained by the replenishment regiment last night was lost again.

When Chen Yanhua woke up, the sunset had completely set the horizon, and the western sky was full of sunset.

After a good night's sleep, the officers and men were full of vigor and vigor. After a brief dinner, the officers and men got the news that the lost territory of Guangfu had fallen again last night, and that the two Hunan army divisions that had taken over the defense of the 52nd and 128th Divisions suffered more than half of the casualties, and they confronted the Japanese army on the front line of the moat.

Replenish the regimental headquarters of the 1st regiment of the brigade.

"This bunch of scumbags and shameless"

When Chen Yanhua ordered people to go to the air-raid shelter to get weapons and equipment, he saw guards who were tied up like zongzi, and the officers and soldiers of the two squads who then went to the air-raid shelter to investigate were also gagged and thrown into the air-raid shelter.

Not to mention that weapons and equipment are the lives of soldiers, but now flamethrowers, submachine guns, and light and heavy machine guns have all been taken away by the 62nd and 63rd divisions, and after the defeat of the two divisions, most of these equipment were lost on the battlefield and cheapened by the Japanese, and the 28th Army alone could not bear the huge insult to the officers and men of the new 2nd Division

Chen Yanhua angrily rushed to the headquarters of the Right Wing Army to find Zhang Fakui's theory, but Zhang Fakui was speechless and pushed the problem to Liu Jianxu.

Liu Jianxu, who was a little weak in his heart, pretended not to care: "Since your weapons and equipment are not used for the time being, why can't we borrow them and use them?" It's just that I was unlucky, and I happened to encounter a counterattack by the Japanese army, and I was lost on the front line......"

Hearing Liu Jianxu's bullshit explanation, Chen Yanhua was so angry that he scolded the "bandits", Liu Jianxu was also angry, and when he opened his mouth, he wanted to deal with Chen Yanhua's crime of contempt for his superiors, and he also called the officers and soldiers of the headquarters guard regiment to confine Chen Yanhua

After Wu Ming's edification, the generals of the new Second Division are all characters who do not admit defeat, and so does Chen Yanhua. He glanced at Liu Jianxu coldly, and snorted coldly: "I have never seen such a brazen commander since I joined the army...... The so-called Tao is different, do not conspire with each other, and say goodbye"

After speaking, Chen Yanhua walked out of the gate of the headquarters without looking back, leaving the two generals with big eyes, no one expected Chen Yanhua to be so strong.

When Wu Ming received the news that a regiment had withdrawn from Jiaxing City, the first line of the moat in the north of Jiaxing City had been captured by the Japanese army, and the battle was unfolding in the heart of Jiaxing City.

Wu Ming immediately let go of the idea of leading the troops north to save the crisis in Jiaxing - such a friendly army is really not worth saving

The division headquarters and colonels were filled with righteous indignation one by one, and they all accused Liu Jianxu of his despicable behavior.

"Master, why don't we announce their words and deeds to the world through Phoenix Radio, so that the world can know their ugly faces?" Zhang Ying was so angry that her face turned red.

"Yes, they deserve to be spurned by the whole country...... I don't have the ability to fight Japanese devils, but I attack my own people," Dai Ziran said indignantly.

"Inappropriate"

Wu Ming shook his head: "The war in Jiaxing has reached a critical moment, although we can't go to help, but we can't add to the chaos." We are now ready to move to Haining at any time. In addition, the two coastal defense regiments of the Navy stationed at the Zhapu battery were notified to immediately fill the artillery, blow up the battery, and then move to the west. Otherwise, when we evacuate, I'm afraid they won't be able to leave."

"Row"

Long Shaogang, who has always been upright, smiled bitterly: "Alas, it was originally a good war situation, but it was ruined because of some people's misdeeds, it's a pity."

"Nothing to be sorry about"

Wu Ming's eyes were resolute: "Today they can forcibly borrow our weapons and equipment to bind our soldiers, and tomorrow they can betray us in a grand manner, in exchange for their own safety, it is better to ask for others than for themselves, since the friendly army is unreliable, we only have ourselves to ensure our own rights and interests."

In the evening of the same day, the two naval coastal defense regiments were unwilling to evacuate Zhapu, and with the fall of Jiaxing City in the early morning of the next day, the main force of the new 2nd Division began to retreat to Wangdian and Haining County.

From beginning to end, Wu Ming did not ask Zhang Fakui for instructions, and at this time, silence was the greatest contempt.