Zhang Zhizhong was not allowed, and Yang Hu did not dare to disobey the order, and several regiment commanders and battalion commanders could only disperse.

As a participant in the incident that year, Zhu Xia knew very well that Xu Shijiu's impression of Zhang Zhizhong was very negative, so he deliberately chased him out and comforted Xu Shijiu, and sent his own car to send him back to the station.

As soon as he entered the gate, Xu Shijiu found an abnormality, only to see two trucks parked on the playground, and a squad of the Central Army guarding both sides of the truck, it was a serious Central Army, wearing a steel helmet on his head, a light gray khaki military uniform, rubber-soled black cloth shoes on his feet, a German flower mechanism on his chest, and eight grenades on his waist!

As soon as the car stopped, Scar, One-Handed, and One-Eyed Dragon swarmed up to meet them.

Looking at the three Scars who were scratching their ears and cheeks with excitement, Xu Shijiu asked with a smile, "Sending arms?" ”

"Isn't that right?" One hand said excitedly, "Six Makqin heavy machine guns, eighteen Czech light machine guns, two hundred Hanyang-made guns, a full ten base ammunition, and fifty boxes of grenades!" Captain, people deserve to be the Central Army, and the shot is generous, and now the Shanghai Security Corps is the hardest of our 19th brigade. ”

"Okay." Xu Shijiu nodded and said lightly, "It's a little more than I expected." ”

As he spoke, the captain officer of the Central Army who led the team stepped forward and saluted Xu Shijiu, and said loudly: "Du Denggao, the quartermaster of the 88th Division of the National Revolutionary Army, was ordered to escort the munitions to the 19th Independent Brigade of the Shanghai Security Corps. As he spoke, he handed over the slip again.

Xu Shijiu didn't check it, he signed the receipt directly, and the captain officer collected the receipt, then removed the guards, and let people open the carriage, and with a wave of his hand, dozens of regiments quickly rushed forward, and moved down the large and small, long and short wooden boxes in the carriage, and stacked them into a pile on the playground.

Captain Du pointed to the wooden boxes arranged in a pile and asked Xu Shijiu, "Chief, don't you open it for inspection?" ”

"No need." Xu Shijiu waved his hand and said, "Captain Du, please say hello to the division, deputy division, and counselor for me, just say that I, Xu Jiujiu, miss them very much, and I must go to see them when I have time." ”

"The greetings of the chief must be brought to me, and I will take my leave." Captain Du gave another military salute to Xu 19, then turned around and got into the co-pilot of one of the trucks, and a squad of the Central Army also quickly boarded the car, and in a short time, the two trucks drove away from the station of the 19th Brigade with billowing smoke and dust.

Xu Shijiu turned his head and ordered: "Old knife, you distribute weapons and ammunition, Lao Du, Ah Long, you come with me, I have a very unpleasant premonition, the Japanese army will definitely strengthen the vigilance of the concession next, so our Jihua has to make adjustments, otherwise there is no way to send a truckload of explosives into the Japanese concession." ”

As soon as Xu Shijiu left, the veteran of the hundred and ten, who had been ready to move, rushed up.

A veteran regardless of the scar's presence, immediately pulled out his bayonet and eagerly pried open a box, only to see that it was full of yellow bullets, as well as canvas belts, and then pried open another bite, but it was filled with heavy machine gun parts, although the condition looked only sixty percent new, but the engine oil was applied, so there was no rust.

As the crates opened, the veterans cheered.

A veteran picked up a Makqin, grabbed the parts and skillfully assembled them without wiping off the oil, and muttered while loading: "The 88th Division has a bit of a conscience this time, and it sent us hard guys when it knew that we were short of guys, and it didn't take scrapped rotten guys to fool us, well, it's not bad." ”

A recruit came up and salivated and said to the veteran: "Brother Dog, let me hug Sa." ”

The veteran slapped the recruit's hand away and scolded: "You recruit egg, go aside." ”

The recruit withdrew his hand a little sneeringly, and said, "Brother Dog, why does the 88th Division want to send us arms?" ”

"Why?" As he spoke, the veteran had already assembled the heavy machine gun, and at that moment he pulled the bolt of the gun and said, "Because they did something wrong, they were nineteen ...... us back then" Speaking of this, the veteran's words suddenly stopped, and a painful expression appeared on his face, which seemed to evoke some unpleasant memories.

The recruits didn't know, and then asked again: "What did they do?" ”

The veteran suddenly turned his face, slapped the recruit on the head, and scolded: "You rookie egg, a dead thing, why are you asking this, huh?!" ”

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Sun Yuanliang, who was far away at the headquarters of the 88th Division, suddenly sneezed several times, and then said to Feng Shengfa and Zhang Baiting, who walked in together: "It must be that the nine-life civet cat received the munitions, but it orchestrated me behind my back. ”

Feng Shengfa and Zhang Baiting glanced at each other in surprise and said with a smile: "You know the master?" ”

"With such a large batch of munitions, can the Quartermaster Department not report me?" Sun Yuanliang glared at Feng and Zhang with a serious expression, but immediately couldn't hold back his face, and said with a smile, "I added four more imitation Czech and fifty boxes of grenades." ”

Feng Shengfa and Zhang Baiting looked at each other and smiled, and they should indeed say something to Xu Shijiu and Sun Yuanliang.

"Let's not talk about that stinky boy." Sun Yuanliang waved his hand and changed the topic, "That's the case, it's really like there is no cover here, as soon as the Japanese opportunity comes, you can't find a place to hide, so I want to move the headquarters into the concession, and set up a place to stay here, Brother Holy Pharaoh or Brother Baiting, you can leave one, and the two sides will contact by phone, how about it?" ”

Feng Shengfa said with a smile: "The headquarters is the center of my 88th Division, and there is no room for mistakes, the division seat is right to think like this, then let me stay behind, Brother Baiting will be stationed in the French Concession with the division." ”

Zhang Baiting wanted to object, but Sun Yuanliang said directly: "Okay, it's decided." ”

After that, Zhang Yuanliang turned around and left, but as soon as he arrived at the door, he suddenly turned back and said: "Oh yes, around four o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Wenbai (Zhang Zhizhong)'s headquarters will go to Nanxiang, Holy Pharaoh brother, you will meet him on my behalf, if Zhang Wenbai asks, he will say that I and Bai Ting entered the Japanese Concession to spy on intelligence." ”

Feng Shengfa smiled and saluted with his legs, and responded: "Yes, the humble post must bring the words." ”

In the afternoon of the same day, Sun Yuanliang moved his division headquarters into the Guanyin Hall in the public concession, and a few days later moved to the Fuxin Flour Mill, and then changed several locations in a row, Zuihou moved into the Sixing warehouse until the 88th Division evacuated Shanghai, Sun Yuanliang was known for being good at saving his life, and the nickname of General Fei was really not in vain.

Besides, Feng Shengfa, when he arrived in Nanxiang, Zhang Zhizhong had already arrived in advance.

Zhang Zhizhong really asked about Sun Yuanliang, Feng Shengfa said according to Sun Yuanliang's instructions, Zhang Zhizhong naturally didn't believe it, and he was able to roughly guess Sun Yuanliang's whereabouts, but he was also helpless about this, although he was extremely dissatisfied with Sun Yuanliang, but he was Chairman Jiang's confidant and favorite general, and he could not be removed if he wanted to.

Zhang Zhizhong chose his Beijing-Shanghai garrison headquarters in Guyi Garden, and he was busy until late at night, and all the offices could figure out the clues, and just as Zhang Zhizhong was about to rest, a call from Nanjing came.

Today, Chairman Chiang convened his staff for a one-day meeting, and Bai Chongxi, deputy chief of the General Staff, and Chen Cheng, vice minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs, persuaded him to go and say that it was not until late at night that Lao Chiang finally made up his mind to fight!

Zhang Zhizhong picked up the phone, and before he could speak, Chairman Jiang roared with a thick local accent in Ningbo on the other end of the phone: "Wenbai, drive the Japanese army in Shanghai down the Huangpu River for me!" ”

When Zhang Zhizhong put down the phone, it was already the early morning of the next day, that is, August 11.

With a phone call from Chairman Chiang, the Beijing-Shanghai Garrison Command suddenly became busy.

Zhang Zhizhong asked Tong Yuanliang, chief of staff, about the specific locations of the 87th Division, 88th Division, 36th Division, the 20th Independent Brigade, and the two independent artillery regiments.

Zhang Zhizhong also telephoned Nanjing and asked Chairman Chiang for instructions to postpone the attack until dawn on the 12th, and Chiang agreed, and Zhang Zhizhong asked Tong Yuanliang to issue combat orders to the 87th Division, the 88th Division, the Shanghai Security Corps, the Shanghai Police Corps, the Jiangsu Security Corps, and all other combat units that could be contacted.

History has played a joke on China here.

From a historical perspective, objectively and fairly, the old Chiang's determination was quite timely, and if Zhang Zhizhong had been able to order all departments to launch an attack without hesitation as soon as he received Chiang's call, then the direction of the Battle of Songhu would have changed, and at least the outcome of the first phase would have been completely different.

Because at this time, the top level of the Japanese government had not yet reached an agreement on how to deal with the Hongqiao Airport incident, and the Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai did not know whether the Japanese government would choose to abandon Shanghai or choose to start a war with China in Shanghai.

This is the direct reason why Xu Shijiu can openly carry a gun and operate in the Japanese Concession.

The Japanese government will not make a formal decision until after the cabinet meeting on the 13th, and the two and a half divisions of the army will be sent to the sea in Xiangshang, and the more than 2,000 marines transferred by Hasegawa Kiyoshi will not be able to rush to Shanghai until the evening of the 11th, that is to say, there is at least a 20-hour time difference between them to be used!

At this time, the Japanese army in Shanghai had less than 3,000 marines, plus an armed merchant regiment of less than 2,000 men.

If Zhang Zhizhong can give the order to attack at the first opportunity, the first wave of the offensive of the Shanghai Security Corps and the Shanghai Police Corps will basically be able to sweep away the 70 or 80 Japanese strongholds on the periphery, and the 87th Division, 88th Division, and the 20th Independent Brigade will basically be able to divide and encircle the Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai in a few major strongholds.

Once the Japanese army in Shanghai is divided and surrounded, the battle situation will be completely under the control of the national army, because the national army not only has an absolute advantage in terms of troops, but also has an advantage in equipment, even if the main force of Hasegawa Kiyoshi's 3rd Fleet plus three marines arrives, I am afraid that it will be difficult to turn the tide of the war, because the Chinese air force is not a decoration.

With the three marines urgently transferred by Hasegawa Kiyoshi and under the suppression of the Chinese Air Force and the artillery of the Nationalist Army, let alone going ashore from the Huishan wharf, I am afraid that it will not be easy to rush to the beach and land on the front line of Wusong and Baoshan.

But history has no ifs, and these can only be empty words.

As a standard soldier, Zhang Zhizhong's style and ability are unquestionable, but he is not flexible enough in the grasp of fighters, and his creed is not to fight unprepared battles, but unfortunately, when he is ready, the Japanese army is also ready, and the Japanese government's mobilization and logistical support capabilities are not comparable to the national government at that time.