North Railway Station, the station of the 19th Brigade.

"Supper, brothers, supper......" Secretary Elder Cao ripped open his broken gong throat and shouted heartbreakingly.

There was no response in the barracks, no one rushed out of the barracks to snatch food, and the two men holding the horse spoon next to them were also in tears, the 19th Brigade was disabled this time, and it was still full of more than 600 people when they were pulled out in the morning, but when they came back at night, there were only more than 100 Liao Liao left, and almost all of them were injured.

After waiting for a few minutes and no one came out, Lao Cao instructed the two men with a gloomy expression: "You go find a few helpers to come over, put them in a bowl first, and then send them to the brothers one by one, and those brothers who just came tonight, let them come over and eat together, this glutinous rice ball will not taste good if it is cold." ”

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"Brother Crazy, why don't you go to supper?" Ergua asked the madman Gao while wiping the German-style steel helmet in his hand with his sleeve, but immediately remembered that he was wearing a brand-new khaki military uniform, so he quickly stopped again, and then blew and blew on the sleeve, and then dusted off a few bits of dust that fell on the upper of the rubber-soled black cloth shoes.

Ergua likes this central military outfit very much, at least it looks much more energetic than the security uniform.

"I don't have an appetite, I don't want to eat." The tall madman lit a cigarette and looked out the window at the night sky in a daze.

"I don't have an appetite either, I don't want to eat." Ergua turned his head as he spoke, but found that the madman Gao didn't change the khaki military uniform of the Central Army at all, but only buckled a German-style steel helmet on his head, and Gao Shenxing was still wearing the original half-worn grass green military uniform, so he asked, "Brother Madman, Brother Shenxing, why don't you change into a new military uniform?" ”

The high madman took a cigarette in his mouth and said lightly: "I'm used to this black skin, I'm too lazy to change it." ”

Gao Shenxing didn't pay attention to Ergua at all, just wiped his short sword very carefully with a rag, and after the battle, he returned to his usual indifference, and he ignored everyone he saw, but Ergua noticed that his short sword was very sharp, and under the illumination of the horse lamp, it reflected bursts of dazzling cold light from time to time.

"Or, I'll change it back." Ergua said and grabbed the security uniform he had just changed into again.

"No, Ergua, it's good for you to wear this." The high madman shook his hand to stop it, and when he saw Ergua's embarrassed expression, he guessed that he must have touched the urine stains in his pants, so he relieved, "Ergua is not ashamed, really, when I went to the battlefield for the first time, I was also scared of the little Japanese cannon, and Xie Gouzi ......"

Speaking of this, the voice of the high madman suddenly stopped, and his expression darkened suddenly.

Gao Shenxing's action of wiping the sword also paused slightly, but he quickly sighed on the blade again, and wiped the blade of the sword vigorously and carefully again.

"Thank you, dog, let's take a sip." The high madman said and handed the remaining half of the cigarette to the air in front of him, as if Xie Gouzi was standing in front of him, just a gust of wind blew, blowing the fire of the cigarette roll into a faint red, it really looked like someone was smoking, the high madman suddenly laughed, and said, "Smoke, smoke, it's not easy to buy cigarettes over there, right?" ”

Ergua's eyes turned red again, but this time he couldn't hold back his tears.

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Zhu Xia personally drove Xu Shijiu to the headquarters of the 88th Division of Guanyin Hall.

At about ten o'clock in the night, Yang Furui took the 3rd battalion that had just been replenished to replace the 19th Brigade with a serious reduction from the Honghe Road and Bridge position, and soon after the 19th Brigade returned to the station, Zhu Xia also arrived with Zhang Zhizhong's commendation order and nearly 200 supplementary regiments, and then Sun Yuanliang called again, and Zhu Xia personally drove Xu 19 to Guanyin Hall.

"Ah Jiu, your nineteenth brigade has suffered such heavy casualties, but the headquarters has only replenished you with less than two hundred people, you won't blame me, right?" Zhu Xia asked while driving.

"How so." Xu Shijiu said lightly, "I've been used to it for a long time." ”

Zhu Xia sighed: "This time there is really no way, the casualties of the 88th Division are also very large, most of the supplementary regiments who have participated in the training have been given priority to supplement the 88th Division, I have tried my best to fight for you to get less than 200 people, I also heard that in a few days, the entire Security Corps may be broken up and incorporated into the 87th and 88th Divisions." ”

Xu Shijiu said: "This is also expected. ”

Compared with those young students or young people in society who have never touched a gun, the regimental members of the Shanghai Security Corps have received two years of military training and have fired a few rounds of ammunition on the shooting range.

Zhu Xia hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Ah Jiu, this may be the time I zuihou have helped you." ”

Seeing that Xu Shijiu looked sideways in surprise, Zhu Xia said: "That's the case, I have received an order from the Commander's Department of the Third War Zone, and I will go to the 61st Division tomorrow." ”

The Third Theater was formed just yesterday, and the Japanese troops in Shanghai were unexpectedly stubborn, and the more they fought, the more difficult it became, and more and more central armies were assembled in the Xiangshang Sea, and it would have been difficult to unify the command of these central armies without setting up a theater commander's department, but the selection of the commander-in-chief of the Third Theater was quite intriguing.

Feng Yuxiang is the originator of the Northwest Army, and even Song Zheyuan, the highest military and political chief of the five provinces in North China, is Feng's old subordinate, and it stands to reason that Lao Jiang should appoint Feng as the commander-in-chief of the First War Zone, so as to better play Feng Yuxiang's leading role, but Lao Jiang just pressed Feng in the three war zones, and his vigilance was clearly revealed.

"61st Division?" Xu Shijiu frowned, but quickly stretched out again.

Zhu Xia also sighed softly in his heart, the 61st Division is the old unit of the 19th Route Army, after the Min Revolution, all the officers above the company commander of the 61st Division were replaced by Whampoa officers, but the officers and soldiers below the company are still the old men of the 19th Route Army, I am afraid that many of them are Ah Jiu's life and death brothers, right?

Thinking of this, Zhu Xia suddenly had a strong idea, but he didn't say it, because he wasn't very sure, and he had to get the consent of Yang Ruofei, the commander of the 61st Division.

There was silence in the carriage, but fortunately, the Guanyin Hall had also arrived.

Xu Jiu opened the car door and got out of the car, but Zhu Xia didn't get out of the car, but said through the window: "Ah Jiu, there is still a big mess of things waiting for me to do in the headquarters, so I won't accompany you in." ”

"Lao Zhu, congratulations on your ascension, if I am still alive after the war, I will give you a wine to celebrate, heh." Xu Shijiu waved his hand to Zhu Xia in a dashing manner, then turned around and walked into the Guanyin Hall.

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Guanyin Hall, the war room of the 88th Division headquarters.

Division Commander Sun Yuanliang, Deputy Division Commander Feng Shengfa, Chief of Staff Zhang Baiting, and several senior staff members were gathering together to discuss the 19th Brigade, and it was obvious that the tenacious performance of the 19th Brigade also gave them a great impact.

"It's really unimaginable that the 524th Regiment fought so Qiujiang Road, and the pressure faced by the 19th Brigade was almost several times that of the 524th Regiment, I really don't know how they persevered?" Zhang Baiting shook his head and said with emotion, "I heard that Hasegawa Kiyoshi's cruiser Izumo also participated in the shelling, which is even more unimaginable. ”

Sun Yuanliang waved his hand and said lightly: "I'm not surprised at all by this, the bloody battle in Temple Lane back then, the situation was much more dangerous than this time, but Xu Hansoul, this kid, didn't rely on the strength of a company to directly attack the hinterland of the Japanese army and eliminate the Japanese artillery position in one fell swoop?" ”

"Xu Hansoul and the 19th Brigade have such a tenacious performance, and I don't think it's surprising either, their performance is in the same pulse as the 19th Route Army five years ago." Feng Sheng crossed his arms and said in a deep voice, "It's just that what makes me curious is that only the 19th Brigade has inherited the strong bloodline of the 19th Route Army, but the 60th, 61st, and 78th Divisions have not?" ”

"That's true." Zhang Baiting bowed his head lightly, and said thoughtfully, "Before the Min Revolution, the three main divisions of the 19th Route Army can be said to be the most capable troops in the battle sequence of the national army, even if it is our 88th Division, we have to sigh to ourselves, the 128th Shanghai Anti-Japanese War, the 19th Route Army has more than 30,000 people, but it has beaten more than 100,000 Japanese troops and even Yi and the four marshals, but now? ”

Sun Yuanliang said: "The current 60th, 61st and 78th divisions, although they are dressed in the skin of the Central Army, take the salary of the Central Army, and the equipment is also the standard of the Central Army, but the combat effectiveness is not even as good as the miscellaneous cards. ”

Zhang Baiting sighed: "After the Min Revolution, the spirit of these three divisions has collapsed. ”

Feng Shengfa said again: "But how did Xu Hansoul inherit the strong bloodline of the Nineteenth Route Army with the hundred or so disabled soldiers who were cut out during the reorganization of the Nineteenth Route Army?" ”

Sun Yuanliang said: "I think the key is because of Xu Han's soul. ”

"I don't think so." Feng Shengfa shook his head and said, "In addition to Xu Hansoul's personal factors, I think there must be other more critical factors, I think there should be a tradition within the 19th Route Army, after the 60th, 61st and 78th Divisions were reorganized, due to the entry of Huangpu officers, this tradition was discarded, but the 19th Brigade did not." ”

Sun Yuanliang smiled and changed the topic: "Okay, let's not talk about this, let's talk about the current battle situation." ”

An operational staff officer echoed and said: "Division, the 8th Independent Artillery Regiment has moved forward, and tomorrow morning it will be able to carry out close direct fire and targeted elimination of the Japanese army's peripheral fortifications." ”

Zhang Baiting said: "Although the direct fire of large-caliber heavy artillery is huge, it also has drawbacks, the first is that the heavy artillery has strict road restrictions, and can only attack through a few main streets, and the second is that the distance is close, and it also exposes itself to the fire of the Japanese army, especially the Japanese army's defense artillery, which is a great threat!" ”

Feng Shengfa looked at Sun Yuanliang and said with a smile: "Bai Ting is right, we can't pin all our hopes on the artillery, so the division seat also prepared a sharp knife for the Japanese army in Hongkou!" ”

"Huh, sharp knives?"

"What sharp knives?"

"Do you have to organize death squads?"

Several senior staff members looked at each other, and at this moment, a slightly hoarse voice suddenly sounded outside the war room: "Report, Xu 19, the captain of the 19th Independent Brigade of the Shanghai Security Corps, has been ordered to report to duty!" ”

"Here comes the sharp knife, hehe." Sun Yuanliang smiled, turned around and shouted, "Come in!" ”