Ye Ruxue almost finished writing the newsletter with tears in her eyes.

Two newsletters, one "How the Pudong Divine Artillery is Made", mainly tells the story of the artillery observers of the 2nd Artillery Brigade of the Pudong 8th Group Army who used their lives to guide the artillery to shoot, the protagonist is Liu Genshuo, the commander of the 1st Artillery Company, and an article "Zuihou A Nineteenth Route Army", which mainly tells about the battle of Fortress Mountain, and the protagonist is Xu 19.

Powell, editor-in-chief of Miller's Commentary, greatly appreciated these two war newsletters, and in order to make them public as soon as possible, he also specially asked the newspaper to print the field number and issue them in the afternoon of the same day.

These two war communications immediately caused a sensation throughout Shanghai.

Although Miller's Commentary was an English publication, Shanghai was China's largest treaty port at that time, with a high degree of internationalization, with a large number of elites proficient in foreign languages, and there were many church schools in Shanghai.

The sentence Ye Ruxue said at the end of "Zuihou a Nineteenth Route Army" immediately swept the entire Shanghai Tang: He is a Zuihou Nineteenth Route Army, but we must not let him become a hero of Zuihou!

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"He is a zuihou of the 19th Route Army, but we must not let him become a hero of Zuihou!"

On the steps in front of Dashijie, a young student in a Zhongshan suit was waving his arms and roaring hoarsely, "Students, don't hesitate any longer, quickly put on military uniforms, pick up steel guns, and go to fight the Japanese invaders, a 19th Route Army dies in battle, there will be thousands of 19th Route Army standing up, Chinese, it is endless!" ”

"Little Japan wants to destroy my China, that's a pipe dream, it's wishful thinking!"

"I recommend Xuanyuan with my blood, classmates, let's fight for the survival of China!"

The blood of young people is always hot, they may be very impulsive, they may be reckless, and they are even easily misled by the outside world, but they will always be the future of the country and the hope of the nation.

Under the call of the young people on the stage, one by one the young students wearing Mao suits and suits walked to the recruitment office not far away without hesitation, and resolutely wrote their names on the roster.

The second lieutenant officer in charge of recruiting routinely repeated those words: "Li Mingran, are you not afraid of death?" ”

"I'm afraid of death, but Zuihou and the Nineteenth Route Army have already died in battle, if I don't come out again, the country will perish, if even the country is dead, what's the point of me living?"

"Zhao Huajun, if you put on a military uniform today, you may never have a chance to take it off."

"I know, I know, if you are a soldier, you have to die in battle, but if I don't become a soldier, the kingdom will die!"

"Li Deling, was that your girlfriend just now? Are you really willing to leave her behind and face death? ”

"Sir, there is no reluctance, only willingness, as a descendant of Yan and Huang, it is our duty to fight for the country and the nation! If the country does not exist, how can the home be safe? ”

"Yes, if the country does not exist, how can the family be safe?"

The young students in the queue at the back echoed one after another, and the crowd was turbulent.

Five years ago, the 19th Route Army had fought a bloody battle against the Japanese invaders in Shanghai, and the citizens of Shanghai still remembered it vividly, and Ye Ruxue's war newsletter immediately aroused their hatred of the same enemy, and all of a sudden, young students enthusiastically joined the army, and the general public also donated money and materials, and even the beggars on the street donated the money they had begged, and the enthusiasm for the War of Resistance was unprecedentedly high.

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At the same time that the young people of Shanghai enthusiastically joined the army, a copy of Miller's Commentary was already on the desk of Chairman Chiang, of course, Chairman Chiang did not understand English, so a translation was attached at the bottom.

When reading the press release of "How the Pudong Divine Cannon is Made", Chairman Jiang was still in a very happy mood, but when he saw the second article "Zuihou a Nineteenth Route Army", his face immediately became gloomy.

zuihou a Nineteenth Route Army? There are still people who claim to be the remnants of the Nineteenth Route Army?

Since Chairman Jiang started in Huangpu, he first competed with Hu Hanmin and Wang Jingwei for the leading power in the party, and later competed with Li Zongren, Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan and others for territory.

But there were still two betrayals that made Chairman Chiang still haunt him until his death.

One is the betrayal of Zhang Xiaoliu in the Xi'an Incident that has just been quelled not long ago, and the other is the 19th Route Army, before the Min Revolution, the 19th Route Army has always been the force relied on by Chairman Jiang, otherwise they would not have been allowed to guard the Beijing-Shanghai important places, but it is such a force, Zuihou actually betrayed the party-state and established a separate government.

Therefore, it is impossible for Chairman Chiang to have any good impression of the remnants of the 19th Route Army.

After closing his eyes and pondering for a moment, Chairman Jiang asked Dai Li, who was standing in front of the case, "Yunong, has the identity of this so-called zuihou a nineteenth Route Army been clarified?" ”

"Check it out, it is the 3rd Regiment of the 119th Brigade of the 60th Division of the Nineteenth Route Army, that is, the guard company commander of the Huang Hanting Regiment, five years ago in the 128th Shanghai Anti-Japanese War, the Huang Hanting Regiment first artillery Taiwan, and then Temple Lane, and the Japanese army fought a series of bloody battles, and only two people survived in the whole regiment, and one of them was the person mentioned in the newsletter, surnamed Xu, formerly known as Han Soul, and later renamed 19."

"Xu Nineteen?" Chairman Jiang smiled coldly and said, "It's just a company commander, and you can't do it yourself!" ”

Obviously, Chairman Chiang believed that Xu Hansoul's change of name to Xu 19 was a vain attempt to restore the name of the 19th Route Army.

Chairman Jiang thought for a while, and then advised: "Isn't Zhong Song's brigade already stationed in Wusong Town and artillery Taiwan? He can be searched for his body and buried in a thick manner, and posthumously presented by the Ministry of Military Affairs as a colonel of the army, and he is also a hero who sacrificed his life for the country. ”

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Chairman Chiang was not happy, and Zhang Fakui, commander-in-chief of the 8th Army, was also angry.

The reason why Zhang Fakui was angry was very simple, Ye Ruxue exposed an important piece of information in the newsletter "How the Pudong Artillery Was Made": The cannons of the Pudong artillery were hidden in the bamboo forest during the day.

"Nonsense, just nonsense!" Zhang Fakui slammed the Miller's Commentary in his hand on the table, and yelled at his adjutant, "Does this Ye Da reporter still have a sense of confidentiality?" Pudong is a horse and a flat river, and there are only a few bamboo forests that can hide cannons, how can she poke such important information into the newspaper? ”

"This ......" Adjutantant's face changed greatly when he heard this, he really didn't expect this layer.

Zhang Fakui said again: "Immediately inform Cai Zhongrui to transfer all the artillery in the bamboo forest, quickly!" ”

"Yes!" The adjutant snapped and hurriedly ran to call Cai Zhonghua, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the Independent Artillery.

Zhang Fakui's caution finally saved the artillery in Pudong, and almost as soon as the 12 guns of the 2nd Artillery Brigade were transferred, the Japanese Navy's bomber group flew over Pudong immediately afterward, and then one after another heavy aerial bombs fell like rain, and several bamboo forests in Pudong were almost razed to the ground.

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Zhang Fakui was angry, but Zhang Zhizhong was a little sad.

Looking at Tong Yuanliang, Zhang Zhizhong asked, "Mu Tao, is the Nine Lives Cat really dead?" ”

"Nine-Lives Cat?" Tong Yuanliang was stunned at first when he heard this, and then immediately reacted that Zhang Zhizhong was talking about Xu Nineteen, because of the 128th Shanghai Anti-Japanese War five years ago, Xu Nineteen participated in more than a dozen mortal battles before and after, and only two people died in the whole regiment, but he survived and was unscathed, so he had the nickname of the Nine Lives Cat.

"I'm afraid I'm going to be spared this time." Tong Yuanliang sighed and said, "Several observation sentries at the East Fort observation post, as well as that Ye reporter, have all seen with their own eyes, the four Bufus Mountain cannons fired at least two hundred shells at the top of Fort Mountain, and the entire mountain was blown to the ground, not to mention flesh and blood, even the steel and iron bones had to be melted." ”

"It's a pity." Zhang Zhizhong shook his head, followed by a soft sigh.

Soon, however, Zhang Zhizhong was in no mood to sigh, because the iron fist Jihua, which had been pinned on by Chairman Chiang, was about to begin, and the two armored companies that had been belatedly arrived at the time, and the general adviser of the German advisory group, Falkenhausen, had also rushed to the headquarters of the 9th Army in Nanxiang to take command in person.

At 9 o'clock in the evening of August 21, all the combat units participating in the Iron Fist Jihua had entered the attack position, and Song Xihao, the commander of the 36th Division, called Hu Jiaji, the commander of the 216th Regiment, who was in charge of the main attack, to the division headquarters and said a few words of encouragement in person.

At 0:00 a.m. on the 22nd, more than 500 officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 216th Regiment, under the leadership of the battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Xiong Xinmin, took the lead in launching a fierce attack from Zhaofeng Road, while Lieutenant Colonel Gu Xinheng led the 3rd Battalion to feint from the flank of Pingping Road, and the 1st and 2nd companies of the combat vehicles also dispatched all 15 Vickers tanks, and cooperated with the 216th Regiment to go straight to Huishan Wharf along Zhaofeng Road and Pingping Road.

This was the first coordinated operation between armored troops and infantry in the history of the Chinese military, but the effect can only be described as miserable.

Although the tank has strong protection and fierce firepower, it needs infantry to cooperate in protection, especially in street battles, otherwise it is easy to be attacked by the enemy to get close to blast, but the officers and soldiers of the country do not understand these at all, they only know that the tank armor is very thick, and such a thick armor needs infantry to protect, isn't this?

Therefore, in the actual battle, the officers and men of the 216th Regiment only forced the tanks to open the road in front, but did not give the necessary protection at all, and the result can be imagined, the Japanese army only used a few bundles of explosives to blast the armored vehicles of the national army, and by the time they finally attacked the Huishan wharf, the two tank companies had only two tanks left.