The corps also lost contact, and now in addition to a few senior staff officers, communication squads, and cooking squads from the division headquarters, there is only the health team left.

However, before I got in touch with the 19th Brigade, I received a clear telegram issued by the Japanese army to the whole Shijie, announcing the occupation of the Shanghai Municipal Government Mansion in Nanshi, with the fall of Zuihou of the Nanshi Municipal Government, the Pearl of the Orient Shanghai completely fell, this day is November 11, the 26th year of the Republic of China, known as the "Black Double Eleven".

Upon hearing such bad news, Feng Shengfa let out a long sigh.

All 59 German armament divisions (24 adjustment divisions and 35 finishing divisions) were successively invested, plus 26 divisions of the Sichuan Army, the Gui Army, and the Northeast Army, as well as local units such as the Shanghai Security Corps, the Jiangsu Security Corps, and the Shanghai Police Investigation Corps, and fought fiercely for nearly three months, killing and wounding more than 200,000 people, but in the end they still failed to keep Shanghai.

What is worse is that after this time, the national army has been seriously damaged and can no longer organize decent resistance, and now the Japanese army is striding towards Nanjing from the north and south, while the national army is being caught in the middle of the Japanese army and retreating in great strides.

Shanghai has already been lost, and the loss of Nanjing is inevitable, and it will not be too long.

The situation is so bad, how can it not make people sigh? Now recalling that the 88th Division had just entered Shanghai and had several discussions with Xu 19 about tactics, Xu 19 asserted that Chairman Chiang would definitely choose to fight the Japanese army in the suburbs of Shanghai, and would not leave reserves on the national defense line.

When he was in a state of grief, the communications squad leader, who was copying and translating the message, suddenly stood up and reported: "The division seat is the code name of the 19th Brigade, and I have contacted the 19th Brigade."

"Quick, where are they now?" Von Saint-Faton was in good spirits.

In the early hours of yesterday morning, a "fake telegram" pretending to be Yu Jiricun, commander of the 74th Army, forced the main force of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, which was attacking Kunshan, to return to Qingpu.

Feng Shengfa knew that this matter must have been done by Xu Nineteen, because the Nineteenth Brigade was in Qingpu that day, and this matter was like Xu Nineteen's style, but he had no intention of taking this matter for Xu Nineteen, which was certainly a great achievement for others, but for Xu Nineteen, who had always regarded himself as the remnant of the Nineteenth Route Army, it was not necessarily.

What Feng Shengfa is most worried about now is that the 19th Brigade has been trapped in Qingpu by the Japanese army.

The 58th Division is now completely disabled, and after the 172nd Brigade transferred some officers and men to supplement the 174th Brigade, there were less than 3,000 remnants left in the two regiments, and it was not known how many wounded would be left behind during the retreat

If even the Nineteenth Brigade is eaten, then he Feng Shengfa will really have no soldiers to use.

The communication squad leader translated Feng Shengfa's dictation into a group of numbers with reference to the cipher code, and then converted the numbers into a group of dots and dashes and handed them to the telegrapher, who pressed the button and sent out the dots and dashes of that group at different breakpoint intervals, and the complex long-distance communication was realized with simple Morse code.

Soon, the news came back: "Shizuo, they are in Qingpu, and they have fallen into the encirclement of the Japanese army. ”

Sure enough, it was in Qingpu, and it was already trapped by the Japanese army, Feng Shengfa sighed, and said: "Order, the main force of the national army that withdrew from Nanshi, Pudong and Beixinjing to the west has all been withdrawn from Anting, and the task of covering the westward retreat of the main force of the national army has been completed. ”

The communication squad leader hurriedly began to translate the message, but Feng Shengfa walked out of the headquarters with a lonely expression, the sky outside this day had already darkened, just like Feng Shengfa's mood at this moment, gloomy, depressed, depressed, not only worried about the fate of Xu 19 and the 19th Brigade, but also worried about the future of the 58th Division.

After the Battle of Songhu, the 58th Division lost almost all the Jishu equipment, mountain artillery, anti-aircraft artillery, and automobiles, and six or seven out of ten guns and weapons, but these can be replenished, even if the replenishment is not in place, it can be overcome, but the veterans of a hundred battles lost on the battlefield cannot be replenished.

The 58th Division had more than 10,000 officers and men, all of whom were well-trained and experienced elite veterans, but now, less than 4,000 of these 10,000 veterans had died, and most of them were wounded, and it was absolutely difficult to regain combat effectiveness without a year and a half of rest.

However, the situation was so bad that after the fall of Shanghai, the Japanese army was divided into two routes. Advancing towards Nanjing in great strides, there will inevitably be another large-scale battle in Nanjing, and the remaining 3,000 officers and men of the 58th Division may not even have the time to catch their breath, and then they will be thrown into the battle to defend Nanjing, right?

The 58th Division is like this, why shouldn't other German mechanics be like this?

Thinking of this, Feng Shengfa couldn't help but sigh again in his heart, if only he didn't fight the Japanese army in the suburbs of Shanghai, but chose to fight the Japanese army on the four defense lines....

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Qingpu, the headquarters of the 19th Brigade.

The communication squad leader handed the translated haode message to Xu 19, and after reading the message, Xu 19 instructed Ergua: "Ergua, you go and call all the company commanders over, emergency meeting"

By this day, the 19th Brigade had been fighting with the 6th Division of the Japanese Army in Qingpu for two days and nights, and all the fortifications on the periphery had been lost, more than 1,200 defeated soldiers and more than half of the original 400 veterans of the 19th Brigade had been killed or wounded, and less than 600 people were left to retreat to the city walls, resisting to the death.

After a while, Gu Wei, deputy captain, Hu Jie, commander of the artillery company, Lu Yong, commander of L Company, Qin Xueming, commander of 2 companies, and one-eyed dragon, commander of 3 companies, arrived one after another, among which Lu Yong was the commander of L Company of the original guard battalion, and the remaining 100 people of L Company were basically veterans of Zhejiang of the original guard company, and Qin Xueming was the Qin man who had fought with the Japanese army nine times with bayonets.

Xu Shijiu took out Feng Shengfa's breakout order and circulated it to several company commanders.

Qin Xueming said: "What else is breaking through?" There are tens of thousands of people in Xiao Ri, and the county town is surrounded by water, just our more than 500 people, can't break out at all, my opinion, rather than die in vain on the way to break through under the guns of Xiao Ri, it is better to stay in the city and fight with Xiao Ri Ben in the streets, so that you can still get a few cushions. ”

Gu Wei, Lu Yong, and the one-eyed dragon were also in favor of defending to the death and fighting with the enemy in the streets.

Only Gao Shenxing and Ergua who were standing behind Xu Shijiu had a strange expression, two days ago they planted mines outside the east gate, they didn't know what Xu Shijiu's intentions were, and this Ricun finally understood that as early as two days ago, Xu Shijiu had already left a way out, needless to say, the five hundred mines were left for Xiao Riyi.

Sure enough, Xu Shijiu said disapprerovingly: "Who said we couldn't go out?" ”

Gu Wei, Lu Yong, Qin Xueming, and the one-eyed dragon all looked at Xu Shijiu in astonishment.

"I've already prepared a big gift for Xiao Ri Ben, a full five hundred mines, this gift is not light, right? As long as these 500 mines are detonated, the Japanese troops outside the East Gate will be blown up into the sky! Xu 19 knocked on the map and said, "When the day comes, we can go as we want, Xiao Rijian originally wanted to stay with our 19th team, and he still owes some ability." ”

Gu Wei and several company commanders suddenly looked uplifted when they heard this, if they really want to go out, who wants to stay and wait for death?

"But now there's a problem." Xu Shijiu said, "Because the wire is not long enough, the detonator was buried at the small stone bridgehead 500 meters away from the east gate, and now this 500-meter distance and the minefield are occupied by the Japanese army, so we must first advance 500 meters, and then we can detonate the mine and break through." ”

Qin Xueming said: "It's not just 500 meters, and I'll hand it over to our 2nd Company." ”

Xu Shijiu said: "Okay, I will transfer all the sixteen light machine guns of the whole brigade to your 2 companies, you select 30 soldiers to form an assault team, and hang the light machine gun around the neck as a submachine gun. ”

"Yes!" Qin Xueming stood upright and raised his hand in salute.

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Outside Qingpu County, Gu Shoufu and Shimono Kazuho had already arrived at the headquarters of the Sakai detachment.

Sakai Tokutaro is reviewing to Gu Shoufu, because the Sakai detachment did not fight this battle, also in Qingpu County, three days ago they easily defeated a brigade of national troops, but now in the face of only one regiment of the Chinese army, but after two days of fierce siege and failed to capture the fortifications, this contrast is too great.

Gu Shoufu waved his hand and said, "Sakai-san doesn't have to worry too much, this time you are not facing an ordinary Chinese army, and their commander is not an easy one. ”

Sakai Tokutaro nodded and said: "Let the division commander say this, it seems to be true, this group of troops has a strong will to fight, and their morale is also very high, and the army three days ago is completely incomparable to it, and the tactical literacy of this group of other troops is very high, and the construction of positions and the setting of machine gun fire points are very orderly."

The most unbelievable thing is that this group of Chinese troops is also equipped with a kind of artillery that has never been seen before, which can accompany individual maneuvers, which poses a great threat to the armored vehicles and chariots of the imperial army, while the anti-aircraft artillery and main cannon of the imperial army are difficult to lock and destroy them, and the imperial army lost six chariots in just one day yesterday!

But fortunately, after noon today, this new artillery of the Chinese army did not appear on the position, and the imperial army also successfully captured the peripheral positions, if I guessed correctly, the artillery shells of the Chinese army should have run out, so tomorrow the imperial army will definitely be able to capture Qingpu County. ”

Gu Shoufu listened carefully and reminded: "Sakai-san, you have to strengthen your vigilance and beware of the breakthrough of the Chinese army. ”

"Breakout?" The corners of Sakai Tokutaro's mouth twitched, if it was replaced by Shimono Kazuho or which of the following wing captains said such a thing, he might have slapped him a long time ago, nearly 10,000 people in the Sakai detachment had already surrounded Qingpu County, and the Chinese army in the city was only four or five hundred people, how to break through?

"Yes, be sure to beware of them breaking through." Gu Shoufu nodded very seriously and said, "Sakai-san, this group of Chinese troops must be completely annihilated, if their commander can capture them alive, it is best to do so, if they really can't be captured alive, then make sure to kill them, such a person who is a threat to the imperial army must not let him escape alive." ”

"Division Commander, you're too worried." Sakai Tokutaro was still a little unimpressed, and said indifferently, "Qingpu County has been surrounded by the imperial army, not to mention the Zhina army, even a mouse can't escape......

As soon as the words fell, a gunfire like bursting beans suddenly rang out outside the tent.