"Walkie-talkie!" Li Zihan, the commander of the engineer platoon, suddenly shouted excitedly.

When Xu Shijiu turned his head to look, he saw Li Zihan with a bundle of wires around his neck, carrying a satchel in his left hand, and was laboriously turning over a Japanese soldier with his right hand. ”

Xu Shijiu's heart moved, and he hurriedly grabbed the microphone first, and then took the earpiece from Li Zihan's hand and put it to his ear, and sure enough, he heard someone shouting inside, and immediately ordered Ergua: "Ergua, go and find Gao Shenxing." ”

Ergua Fei went, and after a while, he led Gao Shenxing back, Gao Shenxing's face and body were all stained with blood, but the short sword in his hand exuded a green cold light, not even a trace of blood, Gao Shenxing took the sword, and took the earpiece from Xu Shijiu's hand and put it to his ear.

"This is the division headquarters, call the Nakamura Brigade!"

The first sentence of Gao Shenxing's translation startled the big guy, but Xu Shijiu's eyes suddenly flashed a strange light, division and regimental headquarters? Could it be the division headquarters of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army? This step walkie-talkie has a communication distance limit, generally not more than 20 kilometers, is it ...... Sheshan Town?!

"Report to the division headquarters, just say that the Nakamura Brigade has just encountered a small group of Chinese routs and has annihilated them, and the Nakamura Brigade is continuing north along the Songjia Highway." After saying this, Xu Shijiu let go of his right hand holding the microphone tightly, and handed the microphone to Gao Shenxing, who took the microphone and translated Xu Shijiu's words in Japanese.

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Sheshan Town, Qingpu, Headquarters of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army.

Gu Shoufu, the old devil, was also alarmed, and he was sitting in the big tent of the communications team drinking hot tea.

Shimono Yihuo's thick eyebrows have been crouched, and he has never walked away next to the walkie-talkie, and the communication soldier has been calling into the microphone, but there has been no response from the other side, and the uneasiness in Shimono Yihuo's heart has become more and more intense, is there really something wrong with the Nakamura brigade? Otherwise weishenme has not seen a response for so long?

Gu Shoufu's old devil was not too worried, and persuaded Shimono Yihuo at the same time: "Shimono-san, don't worry, most of the Nakamura brigade has encountered a small group of defeated troops of the Zhina Army, and it will be fine, besides, what can happen?" What if you encounter a formed Chinese army? Can the Shina Army still destroy the Nakamura Brigade? ”

Shimono Kazuko frowned and did not respond to Gu Shoufu.

Just when Shimono Kazuho's patience was about to run out, there was finally a response from there.

"Chief of Staff, contact the Nakamura Brigade, they have just encountered a small group of Shina rout, and they have now defeated it, and they are continuing north along the Songjia Highway......" The communication soldier repeated, not realizing that the accent of the communication soldier on the opposite side was not a Kumamoto accent, and it is no wonder that the walkie-talkie at this time is still very primitive, and the sound transmission effect is very poor.

"Shimono-san, I'm not wrong, am I?" Gu Shoufu stood up, smiled and patted Ye Yihuo on the shoulder, "It's just a small group of broken soldiers, don't be so nervous." Feeling out his pocket watch to check the time, Gu Shoufu said again, "There are still four or five hours before dawn, and I have to go back to sleep again." ”

Shimono Ichiho shook his head, it seemed that he was really a little too nervous, and he also left the communication team at the moment and returned to his marching tent to rest.

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On the Songjia Highway, the 19th Brigade is rushing south!

The vast majority of the officers and men were already exhausted and panting and sweating like pulp, but none of them slowed down.

Xu Shijiu didn't mean to let the soldiers stop and rest, because in the battle just now, there were still a small number of Japanese soldiers who took advantage of the night to run into the wilderness on the side of the road, although these little Japanese were not very familiar with the nearby terrain, but it still could not be ruled out that there would be small Japanese who escaped by luck and reported to the division headquarters in Sheshan Town.

Therefore, the 19th Brigade must race against the defeated soldiers of Little Japan and race against time.

Xu Shijiu unbuttoned the discipline button of his military uniform, let the cool breeze pour into his chest, and swept away the suffocating heat caused by running for a long time, while constantly shouting to the officers and soldiers around him: "Hurry, faster, faster, don't slow down, don't stop, hold on, hold on to me, even if you die, you will die in Qingpu County!" ”

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The Nanjing Command, sleepless tonight.

Chairman Jiang is anxiously waiting, He Yingqin is anxiously waiting, Liu Fei, who has been staying up all night, and a group of senior staff members in the headquarters are also anxiously waiting, waiting for news from Xue Yue! Whether Xue Yue can rush to Kunshan in time, whether he can organize enough troops in time, and whether he can hold Kunshan will directly determine the life and death of the 500,000 national army! What's more, it will decide the life and death of the national government and the entire Chinese nation!

Time passes quietly in waiting, and with each minute that passes, hope becomes more and more slim.

Chairman Jiang was silent, but He Yingqin was already a little breathless, pacing back and forth in the command hall with an anxious expression, while muttering: "Why hasn't it arrived yet, why hasn't it arrived yet?" ”

In the suffocating depression, a colonel staff officer strode into the command hall and excitedly reported: "Commission, Commander-in-Chief Xue has arrived, Commander-in-Chief Xue has arrived in Kunshan!" ”

"Pick up Kunshan right away." He Yingqin's expression perked up, and he yelled, "Take Xue Yue immediately!" ”

"Wait a minute." Finally, Chairman Jiang was still sober, and quickly stopped He Yingqin, "Don't call Boling, don't bother him, what he lacks most now is time!" Everyone suddenly realized that although Xue Yue had arrived in Kunshan, the current situation had not improved, and if he could not organize enough troops, Xue Yue's arrival would be in vain.

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At the Kunshan Railway Station, Xue Yue made a brief phone call to Nanjing in the dispatch room, saying that he had arrived in Kunshan, and then asked the stationmaster to gather the guard company of the railway station, block the railway and the nearby roads, set up roadblocks with barbed wire and horse rejection, and set up a Makqin heavy machine gun.

At this time, the first few divisions to withdraw from western Hushan had already retreated to Kunshan, and looking at the past, there were national troops everywhere on the roads and railways, some were sitting on the side of the road chatting, some were really sleepy and fell asleep, and more people were carrying guns on their backs and walking slowly on the road, and when they arrived in Kunshan, they no longer had to panic as when they first came out of western Shanghai.

The accents of these defeated soldiers are different, and their statures are also different in height, but without exception, they are all wilting, like walking corpses that have lost their souls, and the fierce battle for nearly three months has already made their spirit and spirit almost exhausted, and the change of government and order of Chairman Jiang at the time of Zuihou has made their morale extremely depressed.

Soon, the two roadblocks were crowded with routs, because they couldn't pass, many routs were scolding, some were even trying to come up and move away from the horses, Xue Yue gave an order, the machine gunner pressed the button without hesitation, and the Makqin heavy machine gun suddenly spit out a dazzling tongue of fire, hitting a string of sparks on the road.

The routs who tried to move the horses were startled and hurriedly retreated.

Xue Yue jumped on a truck next to him, stepped on the hood and climbed onto the roof of the cockpit, and then raised the loudspeaker found in the station and shouted to the routs crowded in front of the roadcar: "Brothers, I am Xue Yue, and some people call me Tiger Boy behind my back, I Xue Yue has never begged anyone when I am so old, but today, I want to ask you for a favor......

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On the Qingkun Highway, the huge convoy of the Sakai detachment was marching forward mightily.

Tokutaro Sakai, who had just gotten out of the car, was not in a hurry to return to his armored car, but stood on the side of the road with his saber on his hand and watched the rolling advance of the steel torrent under his command, while the commander of the 6th Cavalry Wing, Kinta Inoki, and the commander of the 6th Field Artillery Wing, Kenya Fujimura, stood behind Tokutaro Sakai and enjoyed the magnificent marching scene together.

At the time of the pull-out, Tokutaro Sakai was still a little worried that the national army would blow up the Shipu Bridge, but it turned out that his worries were completely unnecessary, because the Shipu Bridge was relatively far away from the Songhu front, there was not even a single Chinese defender on the bridge, and the Sakai detachment crossed the Wusong River from the Shipu Bridge very smoothly.

After crossing the Shipu Bridge, less than 20 miles further is Kunshan.

"Inoki-san, Fujimura-san, don't you have anything to say?" As he spoke, Tokutaro Sakai sniffed almost greedily at the smell of gasoline in the air, which he loved to do when he went to Kyoto with his father as a child, chasing cars and smelling them.

"The iron flow is rolling, it's so spectacular, it's so beautiful!"

"Yes, the Empire finally has a mechanized legion!"

Kinta Inoki and Ken Fujimura glanced at each other and sighed sincerely.

Sakai Tokutaro waved his hand, and his gaze at the distant sky suddenly became deeper, as if he saw Nanjing, the capital of China, hundreds of kilometers away, and said: "Inoki-san, Fujimura-san, you only see the steel flow, but you don't see the ultimate goal that this steel car flow ultimately points to."

Inoki-san, Fujimura-san, since Toyotomi Hideyoshi, countless Yamato sages have fought for their lives and have never been able to realize the ultimate dream, it is very likely that it will be realized in the hands of you and me, no, not possible, but certain, we will definitely realize the ultimate dream of the Yamato nation, we ...... It's time to conquer the whole country of China! ”

Kinta Inoki and Ken Fujimura were thrilled when they heard it, yes, since the Warring States Period, generations of Yamato sages represented by Toyotomi Hideyoshi have practiced the dream of leaving the island and stepping on the mainland again and again, but they have failed again and again, and they can't even defeat the Korean Peninsula.

However, now, the steel torrent of the empire will soon run over Kunshan, and soon the army will come to the city of Nanjing, and the Chinese dragon, which has been inherited for thousands of years, will soon crouch at the feet of the Yamato nation! Japan conquered Great China with a projectile island country, and when he arrived under Jiuquan, they were enough to laugh at the sages.

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Kunshan Railway Station.

More than 10,000 troops have been intercepted, which is enough to form a Type B division, but there are very few units in formation, and the more than 10,000 officers and men come from more than a dozen divisions, even if they belong to the same division, and they also come from different regiments and different companies, and they are not familiar with each other, let alone trust.

It would be a fantasy for such a unit to achieve effective command!

There is also a shortage of officers, and Xue Yue can only temporarily promote the platoon commander to serve as the battalion-level commander!

What is even worse is that the morale of the troops is very low, the generals have no fighting spirit and fighting spirit, and there is a serious shortage of weapons and equipment; due to the hasty withdrawal and the congestion of the roads, mountain artillery, mortars, heavy machine guns, and other heavy equipment have almost been thrown away, and there are very few light machine guns, and some soldiers have even thrown away rifles.

Such troops, let alone fighting with the Japanese army, are afraid that they will collapse as soon as the Japanese army shells them.

Looking at the troops that were being assembled, looking at these depressed soldiers, Xue Yue sighed or sighed, it was only more than three months before and after, and the heroic division who stepped on the Songhu battlefield with great vigor and high spirits had already become like this, who was wrong? Defeat? Xue Yue couldn't figure it out, he really couldn't figure it out.

A temporarily appointed battalion commander hurried to report that the Japanese army had been discovered!

Xue Yue lifted his spirits and led his troops into the preset position outside Kunshan, he had done his best, as for what kind of battle could be fought, whether Kunshan could be held in the end, and whether the more than 80 divisions and more than 500,000 troops on the Songhu battlefield could be safely withdrawn...... It really wasn't something he could decide.