At one o'clock at noon, the flow of people on the Qiantang River Bridge was surging like a tide, and as the war approached, the people of Jiangnan dragged their families and mouths, carried packages, carried burdens or pushed wheelbarrows, and hurriedly fled towards the north bank.

"Get out of the way"

A group of officers and soldiers of the security division viciously pushed away the crowd, smashed a passage with the butt of their guns, surrounded a young officer who looked like a boy, and fled to the north of the bridge. Along the way, anyone who stood in their way was either knocked down or pushed down the Qiantang River, provoking the righteous indignation of the fleeing people, but they had weapons in their hands, coupled with the large number of people, the refugees dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, and could only cast angry eyes.

After getting off the bridge, the group of deserters, led by the young officer, rushed towards the city of Hangzhou.

"Da-da-"

A burst of machine-gun fire rang out at the feet, splashing a little smoke and dust. The deserters panicked and retreated several steps in succession, only to see a group of officers and soldiers with loaded guns jumping out of the front position, and suddenly surrounded the deserters.

"Who let you escape?" Among the officers and soldiers, a burly lieutenant colonel and regimental commander stepped out and shouted at the deserters.

The deserters drooped their heads and didn't dare to speak, the person who came was Chen Dazhi, the commander of the third regiment of the first security division, who was a member of Wu Ming's old teaching team, and was transferred to Hangzhou with Fan Maolin four years ago to serve as the deputy battalion commander of the first regiment and one battalion of the newly formed security division.

Chen Dazhi studied under Wu Ming, loved soldiers like children, never withheld military salaries, acted neatly, had a very high prestige in the first security division, and his three regiments were well-trained and had strong combat effectiveness, which made Ma Zhizhai, the commander of the first security division who had been more officers than soldiers over the years, jealous, but in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the whole division, he still had to promote Chen Dazhi again and again.

After encountering the Japanese army in the early hours of this morning, as the front-line battle became tight, Ma Zhizhai urgently dispatched two battalions from the third regiment to help, and now Chen Dazhi has only one battalion and a company directly under the regiment to guard the south gate of Hangzhou.

"Ouch, who did I say? Isn't this Head Chen? The young officer wore a military hat crookedly, his face was sweaty, and he squinted at Chen Dazhi.

Chen Dazhi's face was very ugly.

The young officer's name is Fang De, he is the commander of a regiment and a battalion, he has studied in college in Nanjing for two years, and he has no real skills except for running trains, if it weren't for his brother-in-law Ma Zhizhai, I'm afraid he would not be qualified to be a squad leader. Under his leadership, the first battalion quickly degenerated and corrupted, capable officers and soldiers were transferred away one after another, and the new recruits were all ruffians and hooligans in Hangzhou, and the battalion, which had been superior in combat strength under the leadership of Fan Maolin and Chen Dazhi, has become the battalion with the worst combat effectiveness in the whole division.

Chen Dazhi had a cold face and glanced at Fang De with disdain: "Who do I think dares to do anything wrong on the Qiantang River Bridge, it turns out to be the eldest young master of the Fang family" Speaking of this, Chen Dazhi looked around at the dejected deserters, and coldly reprimanded: "The Japanese army is besieging Xiaoshan County, if it is according to military law, I can ⊥ you deserters eat guns now"

Hearing Chen Dazhi say this, the deserters were timid, and they all raised their heads and looked at Fang De with eyes asking for help.

Seeing that his subordinates were reprimanded by Chen Dazhi, Fang De blushed, now that the Japanese army has approached Xiaoshan City, some Japanese troops have passed around the city and are approaching the Qiantang River Bridge, and it will be more dangerous to stay here for one more minute.

Fang De coughed a little embarrassedly, put away his arrogance, and replaced it with a flattering smile: "Commander Chen, we are about to go to the provincial capital to report on the battle situation on the front line...... My brother-in-law led the troops to fight the Japanese army in Xiaoshan County, and I came to ask Chairman Huang and Commander Xuan to rescue me. ”

Chen Dazhi stretched out his hand and asked coldly, "What about the order?" Is there an official letter? ”

"Ahh

Fang De was stunned, hesitated for a moment and hurriedly explained: "Isn't this a little devil calling?" My brother-in-law is fighting on the front line, and the situation is so critical, where can I have time to write an official letter? It's a verbal order given to me, Commander Chen, the military situation is urgent, I have to hurry to the city and report to the two generals Huang and Xuan, don't worry, the officers and soldiers of our first battalion will never be deserters."

Fang De wanted to escape back to Xiaoshan County with Ma Zhizhai, but Ma Zhizhai himself almost died under the fire of the Japanese army, where could he take care of this unsuccessful brother-in-law?

Perhaps it was Fang De's luck, or the misfortune of the citizens of Hangzhou, that Ma Zhizhai retreated to Xiaoshan County, attracting the attention of the Japanese army, and it took time to choose to divide the troops, so he escaped with about a company of troops.

Hearing Fang De's nonsense, Chen Dazhi waved his hand and said lightly: "Where are there any reinforcements in the city now?" There are only so many people in our group...... Okay, I will send someone to ask for help for Division Commander Ma, I am short of money now, your troops are now under my command, and we will guard the Qiantang River Bridge with our three regiments."

"This ...... Isn't that good? When my brother-in-law asked, I couldn't answer" Fang De said with a sad face, he was a greedy and fearful of death at all, and he was thinking about how to escape from Chen Dazhi's clutches.

Seeing that Fang De was stunned, Fang De's guards jumped out and yelled at Chen Dazhi: "With the relationship between our battalion commander and the division, discussing with you is to give you face-"

"Smack-"

With a crisp gunshot, Fang De's guards were shot in the chest by Chen Dazhi's pistol, blood gushed out of his chest, his body went limp, his eyes widened at Chen Dazhi, and then he died with a tilt of his head. Chen Dazhi glanced at this fallen soldier impatiently, it was this guy who pushed a woman with a child in his arms off the bridge on the Qiantang River Bridge, and then thought of his usual evil deeds, Chen Dazhi had long wanted to clean him up.

"You, you ......"

Fang De's face turned red with anger, he pulled out his pistol and pointed it at Chen Dazhi, and roared angrily: "Niang Xipi, do you believe that Lao Tzu will kill you now?" ”

Chen Dazhi half-squinted his eyes and sneered: "Believe it or not, I will deal with all of you according to military law now."

Seeing that Fang De, the son-in-law, was going to be unfavorable to Chen Dazhi, the officers and soldiers of the third regiment held their guns, pulled the bolts, and were about to shoot when they waited for an order, and the deserters were frightened when they saw it.

Looking at the situation in front of him, coupled with Chen Dazhi's extremely tough attitude, Fang De's hand holding the gun trembled. When several of Fang De's followers saw it, they immediately ran to Fang De's side and pulled him to bite his ear. Fang De sighed hatefully and reluctantly put away the pistol.

Seeing that Fang De gave in, Chen Dazhi waved his hand and escorted Fang De and the others to the rear of the position, and built a defensive position along the foot of Hupao Mountain.

Half an hour passed, and the refugees on the bridge suddenly made a noise and accelerated the pace of escape. As the dense gunfire rang out, the Japanese army appeared on the south bank of the Qiantang River Bridge, and the people who fell behind were killed by the Japanese army one by one, and many people fell headlong into the Qiantang River, and their bodies rose and fell with the waves.

After occupying the bridgehead on the south bank, the Japanese did not attack immediately, but formed positions on the spot and waited for the arrival of heavy machine guns and infantry guns behind.

After another quarter of an hour, when the six infantry guns were set up, and the eight Type 92 heavy machine guns on the heavy machine gun positions began to spit out tongues of fire, the Japanese finally began to attack.

About a squadron of Japanese soldiers howled and rushed to the bridgehead, and under the supervision of the junior officers, they rushed towards the northern bridgehead.

"Boom-"

Dense shells continued to explode on the north shore positions, each explosion setting off a huge storm, in the center of which splattered stumps, severed arms, flesh, and more corpses scarred by sharp shrapnel.

Chen Dazhi calmly lay in the trench north of Zhijiang Road, commanded the troops to return fire, and with the four Makqin heavy machine guns and more than a dozen Czech machine guns firing wildly, the more than 80 devil soldiers who rushed in front were cut into pieces of minced flesh one by one or even piece by piece by the constantly rotating bullets that were hit at high speed, and the blood sprayed all over the sky was like a mist by the waterfall, which did not disperse for a long time.

The other devil soldiers had to lie down on the spot, crouched on the bridge and fired at the defenders on the north bank, and the battle suddenly became deadlocked.

Chen Dazhi looked left and right, called the first battalion commander Wang Linlai, and asked him to detonate the Qiantang River Bridge. As early as a month ago, Mao Yisheng, the designer of the bridge, had marked several key points on the bridge, and after receiving the news of the attack on the south bank early this morning, Chen Dazhi had already sent people to place explosives in these places, just waiting for the fuse to be ignited.

Wang Lin responded to the task, but did not leave immediately.

After two seconds of silence, Wang Lin raised his head, looked at Chen Dazhi and said: "Tuanzao, we only have one battalion of troops, and now that the Japanese army has launched an attack, you put Fang De, an unstable factor, behind our position, I."

"Bang bang—"

Before Wang Lin finished speaking, he fell headlong on the ground, and a bloody hole was opened in the back of his head.

Chen Dazhi's eyes widened in disbelief, and he looked at the rear of the position, the gunshots rang out again, he was shot in the head and shoulder continuously, and before his consciousness disappeared, he saw Fang Dezheng holding a rifle and looking at him with a cruel smile, and the surrounding doglegs were holding guns to shoot at the officers and soldiers of the three regiments at the front of the position, and the position was suddenly in chaos.

With Fang De's defection, the defense line of the three regiments quickly collapsed, and the rest of the army, under the leadership of the deputy regiment commander, Major Zhu Tao, withdrew to the mountain range of Hupao Mountain and Dahua Mountain.

Twenty minutes later, the Japanese army had completely occupied the Qiantang River Bridge, and the commander of the 70th Wing of the Japanese Army, Sonoda Kameura Nakasa, under the guidance of Fang De, inspected the position on the north bank, and the officers and men of the 3rd Regiment who were captured were held in one place by the Japanese army, casting a vicious gaze at Fang De.

Captain Sonoda happily patted Fang De on the shoulder and said appreciatively: "Yo Xi, Fang Jun, your great goodness, our Great Japanese Empire needs outstanding talents like you very much to contribute to the construction of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere."

Hearing Captain Sonoda's half-baked Chinese official words, Fang De's face bloomed with a smile, and he flatteringly suggested to Sonoda Nakasa: "Your Excellency, there are not many troops in Hangzhou City now, as long as we seize the time to attack, I guarantee that you can capture the main military and political officials of Zhejiang Province, establish immortal feats, and get countless wealth and beauties."

Afraid that the captain of the Sonoda Wing would not be at ease, Fang De patted his chest and continued to preach: "My brothers and I can lead the way for the imperial army. ”

Sonoda Nakasa's Chinese is not very good, listened to the translator's words, smiled and waved his hand: "No, no, no, the treasures and beauties in Hangzhou City, don't worry, they are destined to belong to our Imperial Japanese Army." Now we have insufficient troops, and there is less than a brigade that follows me north, as long as we hold the Qiantang River Bridge, it will be a great achievement. ”

The Sonoda Wing was dispatched by the commander of the Nakamura Brigade to occupy such a strategic point as the Qiantang River Bridge and receive the main force of the brigade to cross the river. The reason why the Seventh Brigade will first occupy Jiangnan and then attack Jiangbei is mainly to cut off the retreat of the military and political officials and citizens of Zhejiang Province in Hangzhou, catch turtles in the urn, and prepare for the next battle, so it is very important to guard the Qiantang River Bridge.

After listening to Sonoda Nakasa's words, Fang De was disappointed, and after he shot Chen Dazhi, he suddenly found that there were many advantages to cooperating with the Japanese army - not only could he kill people like Chen Dazhi who he hated so much, but he could also lead his troops to seize all the treasures and beauties that caught his eye.

Seeing Fang De's disappointed expression, Sonoda Nakasa patted Fang De's shoulder affectionately as a sign of encouragement.

After all, Fang De was the first traitor to surrender to the Japanese army in Hangzhou, and he must be treated well, Sonoda promised that after the Japanese army took Hangzhou, what benefits would the Japanese army have Fang De still had a share, and Fang De was overjoyed to hear it, and the doglegs also clapped their hands happily.