After the flag-awarding ceremony of the new Second Division, the recruits, who were still at a loss, suddenly had a sense of belonging and gradually integrated into the new collective.

The four flags represent the release of the four main forces of the new Second Division, just like the flag of the Japanese army, Wu Ming gave the four regimental flags a special significance, stimulated the morale of officers and soldiers, and greatly enhanced the centripetal force and cohesion of the troops

The atmosphere on the training ground changed drastically the next day, and the officers and men who had been somewhat lazy no longer had the intention of cheating and playing tricks; in the face of the greatly increased intensity of training, not a single one complained of being tired and tired, and followed the military commanders at all levels, united under the banners of each regiment, and sweated to their heart's content.

The bright red flag fluttered high and waved in the wind, deeply engraved in the hearts of every officer and soldier, who would rather die than discredit the flag of their regiment.

Fresh blood has greatly enriched the body of the new Second Division, the spiritual outlook of the troops has taken on a new look, and the glory and traditions of the new Second Division have been inherited and carried forward.

Many officers and men have constantly improved their technical and tactical level, and subtly and imperceptibly have gradually grown into a heavy cornerstone of this iron and steel unit.

Although after returning to the Pinghu Division, Wu Ming still focused most of his energy on the training of the troops, but he did not leave the Songhu battlefield for a moment.

On November 22, the Japanese 6th Division was resupplied from the rear and resumed the offensive on the city of Jiaxing.

Zhang Fakui led his troops to resist bravely, and at the same time strictly ordered all units to actively reinforce them, which finally caused the Sixth Division to suffer a setback under the city of Jiaxing. On the evening of the same day, the headquarters of the 10th Army transferred one division from the 18th Division and one detachment to Guoqi to bypass the Jiashan defense line and cooperate with the 6th Division to strengthen the offensive on Jiaxing City.

In this case, there was no need to hold on to Jiashan City, and the Chinese army retreated to Jiaxing City after seven days of hard fighting in Jiashan, and the Japanese army pressed forward step by step, attacking the Chinese army's defense line in Jiaxing City from the northwest, north, northeast and east respectively.

In the early morning of the 23rd, tens of thousands of Japanese troops were covered by artillery and aviation fire, and more than 30 tanks were mobilized to take the lead and attack the Chinese army's defense line from four directions.

The Chinese army used bazookas and unscrupulous guns to deal with the Japanese tanks, and then defended the Japanese attack with flesh and blood, killing from sunrise to sunset, and the Japanese army could not advance an inch.

On the morning of the next day, the Japanese army once again bombarded the Chinese defense line with intensive artillery fire, and the battlefield was full of blood and flesh, corpses and corpses were everywhere, and the enemy suffered heavy casualties. In the afternoon of the same day, the Japanese army, which had repeated its old tricks, continued to bombard the Chinese army's defense line with aircraft and artillery, and the Sujia railway defense position was the first to be broken through by the Japanese army. Subsequently, the 6th Division launched an infantry charge with a wing, and after thousands of shells opened the way, it quickly broke into the city of Jiaxing. The Japanese army set up light and heavy machine guns on the roof, swept towards the confrontation of the Chinese army, in the rain of bullets, the Chinese army desperately desperate, but the Japanese army poured into the city more and more, Jiaxing City crumbling in the artillery fire.

What happened in the area north of Pinghu made Wu Ming worried, but he didn't know that the actual situation in Jiaxing City was much more critical than he expected.

Chairman Chiang, who was sitting in Nanjing to prepare for the relocation of the capital, announced at a press conference that the new 2nd Division had completely annihilated the 114th Division of the Japanese Army and the 6th Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery, and had recovered the lost territories of Quangongting and Jinshanwei, triggering a tremendous repercussion in international public opinion. For a time, "Central Daily", "Ta Kung Pao" and other newspapers reported the achievements of the new Second Division, and the whole country was full of praise.

The three Song sisters launched a fund-raising activity for the officers and men of the New Second Division in Nanjing, raising a total of 1 million oceans in donations, and after the Ministry of Military Affairs withheld 200,000 yuan, the rest of the money was allocated by the theater command, and only 500,000 yuan fell into Wu Ming's hands.

Since the new 2nd Division was under the command of Zhang Fakui of the Right Wing Army, Chairman Chiang sent a telegram commending Zhang Fakui for his meritorious command, and at the same time attached an order to resist the Japanese army outside Jiaxing.

It was precisely because of Chiang Kai-shek's strict order that Zhang Fakui had to order his subordinates to defend the city of Jiaxing.

The strong coordination ability of the Japanese infantry and tanks, coupled with the rational use of mountain artillery, field artillery and infantry artillery, and the timely reinforcement of aircraft, caused heavy losses to the Chinese army holding Jiaxing City.

The 10th Group Army under the command of Liu Jianxu, the 45th Division and the 52nd Division under his command had already suffered huge losses in the early stage of the operation, and had not been replenished so far, and the 128th Division, which had been formed by the sons of Xiangxi, was stationed on the front line of Ningbo, Xiangshan, Zhenhai, and Fenghua, and had not experienced any fighting until the beginning of November, and it was not until the Japanese army landed that it was ordered to urgently go to Jiashan to stop the enemy advancing westward, and fought side by side with the 109th Division. Several temporary brigades fought continuously, and there were no five out of ten, and they were powerless to resist.

It was under these circumstances that the Japanese army still took three days and three nights to take a corner of the north of Jiaxing, and it has to be said that the Chinese army showed blood and courage.

In the night, with the latest battle situation on the front line, Liu Jianxu broke into the war room of the Right Wing Army Headquarters at Changsheng Bridge in Nanhu, and said to Zhang Fakui, who was gathering in front of the map to check the situation of the enemy and us amid the rumbling cannonballs: "Commander, you can't hold it any longer, the brothers have suffered heavy casualties, and if you continue to hold on, the troops will be exhausted."

"Nope"

Zhang Fakui's face was terrifyingly dark, and he said loudly: "The order of the commission is not to let the enemy enter Jiaxing City one step, now that the Japanese army has entered the city, you and I should kill the enemy with all our might, and do our best to force the Japanese army out of the city, even if the most rearly strength is not enough, we will commit suicide to thank the countrymen, but now you are shaking the hearts of the army......

Speaking of this, Zhang Fakui's whole body trembled, and he was angry: "If you say retreat, don't blame Lao Tzu's military law for doing my order, you and I must fight to the death with the little devil in this Jiaxing City."

Liu Jianxu looked at Zhang Fakui a little speechlessly.

After the 918 Incident, Zhang Fakui took the initiative to ask Ying to resist the Japanese, and led his troops to the north to assist the Northeast Army Ma Zhanshan, but the military funds were not available, and the troops could not be pulled. The following year, the 19th Route Army fought with the Japanese in Shanghai, and Zhang changed from going north to aid Ma to east to aid Cai, but the military expenditure was still unsettled. At the end of the First Battle of Songhu, Zhang once again asked to lead his troops to aid Heilongjiang, but Chiang Kai-shek refused to allow it, but transferred him to Jiangxi to "suppress the Communists". Zhang Fakui felt that the national affairs were in danger and had no way to serve the country, so he went abroad to travel to Europe and the United States alone in October of that year.

Zhang's propaganda of resisting Japanese aggression and saving the country abroad was welcomed by overseas Chinese in various places, and in London he made a speech saying: "If there is an opportunity, I am willing to lead a lone brigade to fight against the enemy, hoping to avenge the country in case of emergency." In the United States, a doctor named Yalun filled a family heirloom glass with brandy and said to Zhang: "In my lifetime, if you can defeat Japan, I would like to give you this cup." Zhang Fakui drank it all without hesitation.

In the spring of 35, Zhang returned to China and went to Nanjing to meet Chiang Kai-shek, and proposed: "The only way out for China in the future is the War of Resistance Against Japan." Chiang promised him to be the vanguard of the anti-Japanese resistance in the future.

After the July 7 Incident, Zhang Fakui said: "If I can't fight against Japan again this time, I have decided to go into the mountains and become a monk, and I will never ask about the world in the future." After the August 13 Incident, the Japanese army attacked Shanghai, Zhang served as the commander-in-chief of the Eighth Army and the Right Wing Army, defeated dozens of Japanese attacks in Pudong and personally commanded the artillery to bombard the Japanese headquarters and the Japanese warships on the Huangpu River, posing a major threat to the enemy, and was known as the magic artillery.

With the landing of Japanese troops in Hangzhou Bay, Chiang changed to Zhang to command the left flank and the Central Army. In the face of the endgame, Zhang Fakui still said: "Do your best to shed the last drop of blood."

For such a general who is loyal to state affairs, Liu Jianxu should not have persuaded him again, but weighing the strength of the enemy and me, he still made a bitter suggestion:

"Commander, our 10th Army on the Northern Front is about to lose its combat strength, and the 55th, 62nd and 63rd Divisions on the Eastern Front are also seriously damaged, and the rest of the divisions have no time to reinforce for a while, and we are now embattled."

Zhang Fakui glared at Liu Jianxu and sneered: "Then how did the new second division do it?" The defense line in the Pinghu area was long, and the new 2nd Division had only one division, and under the threat of Japanese planes and fleet artillery groups, it carried it stubbornly for more than half a month, and also fought a counterattack by the Japanese army, destroying a division and a heavy artillery brigade of the Japanese army. Now that we have six divisions and four brigades, more than four times more than Wu Ming, can't we expel the Japanese army from Jiaxing City? ”

Liu Jianxu was about to cry, who didn't know that Wu Ming's guy was a demon? People are more popular than people, who dares to compare with that stunned young man?

Lamenting in his heart, Liu Jianxu persuaded again: "Commander, the weapons and equipment of the new Second Division are the best in the whole army, and when they were exercising in Yushan, they still won the victory with one enemy and three enemies. Let's be realistic, let's recognize the comparison of the strength of the enemy and the enemy."

"Although the combat effectiveness of the new 2nd Division is strong, our six divisions and four brigades are holding the city, which is far more than the new 2nd Division being exposed to the plains and bombed by Japanese naval guns and aircraft, right? The time and place are favorable, we have all occupied, why can't we continue to resist? The more Zhang Fakui said, the more angry he became: "Wu Ming can lead the new second division to defeat the Japanese army in absolute adversity, can't we?" I think some people are not determined to fight."

Liu Jianxu was extremely depressed, and just when he was about to go to the front line to supervise the troops with a bitter face, he suddenly remembered an idea and hurriedly said: "Commander, how do you see this, the new second division is a rare elite in the national army, and Jiaxing is the core town of the Zhajia defense line.

Zhang Fakui sighed deeply, he really hated all the departments under his command.

It is also the national army, and the new second division has repeatedly won big victories, becoming the only bright spot of the national army on the Songhu battlefield.

Now Jiaxing City has reached the most critical moment, and Zhang Fakui has accurately realized the true strength of the new Second Division, and there is no other way, he has to follow Liu Jianxu's advice and ask the new Second Division for help.

Zhang Fakui's telegram for help was sent to the headquarters of the new Second Division, causing an uproar.

Under the bright horse lamp, Zhang Ying pointed to the combat map and said disdainfully: "Some people are really thick-skinned, Jiaxing City has six divisions and four brigades garrisoned, even if each department is lost by nearly half, three integrated divisions can be pieced together." With the defense of a large number of dwellings, and without the bombardment of the heavy artillery of the Japanese fleet, the pressure is much less than ours at the beginning, but we still have to ask our division for help."

Dai Ziran said: "Judging from the defensive battle of Jiaxing City from the intelligence department, it is indeed full of mistakes and omissions. From stubbornly defending the defense line outside the city for half a step, to desperately counterattacking after being attacked by the Japanese army, and simply and rudely using human lives to carry the Japanese army's artillery fire. With such a clumsy tactic, where can a battle be won? ”

Wu Ming's views are very different from Dai Ziran and Zhang Ying, after all, the performance of the First Warring States Army in Jiaxing is still remarkable, and he said at the moment: "What are you talking about? You don't look at what kind of equipment we have, and what are others? Taking the 128th Division as an example, this unit was reorganized from the local security forces in Xiangxi, and the soldiers mostly used Hanyang-made old sleeves, and the division had three Czech-style light machine guns at the platoon level, and a heavy machine gun company equipped with six 30 water-cooled heavy machine guns at the battalion level, and only 12 8L mortars in the artillery battalion directly under the division, which had no combat defense against flat fire and antiaircraft artillery, and if it had not received eight rocket launchers and 12 unconscionable guns from the headquarters of the Right Wing Army, it would not have posed a threat to the Japanese tanks at all. It is such a unit, still fighting hard in Jiashan for seven days, and fighting in Jiaxing for two days and two nights in a row, and Zhang Fakui, who showed the bloody nature of a soldier, far better than those generals who escaped and defected on the battlefield in North China. ”

"That's right...... Wouldn't it be worse if you ran into those fleeing generals on the battlefield in North China? Long Shaogang started a round for Wu Ming's words: "In contrast, we don't at least don't have to worry that Commander Zhang will run away or even defect, leaving our belly and back to the enemy."

Dai Ziran and Zhang Ying thought carefully and nodded silently.

"Lao Long is right, Jiaxing City is in danger, we can't help it" Wu Ming immediately decided: "Jiaxing is located on the northern flank of our division's defense line, once it is lost, it will be meaningless to hold on to Pinghu, so from the overall situation, we must divide our troops to rescue." ”

Since Wu Ming had made up his mind, everyone stopped thinking about anything else and began to discuss which troops to send to Jiaxing.

Dai Ziran suddenly thought of Chen Yanhua's supplementary regiment: "Division, the supplementary regiment is stationed on the first line of Wangdian and Kipshi, and there are convenient railways and highways connected to Jiaxing City, so you can rush to help." The four main regiments of our division have just been replenished with soldiers, and they have not been running in for a long time, so it may be inappropriate to rush into battle."

Dai Ziran's suggestion is deeply in line with Wu Ming's heart, Chen Yanhua's supplementary regiment is the same configuration as the four main regiments, and it is a well-deserved main force of the supplementary brigade.

According to Wu Ming's opinion, Dai Ziran immediately drafted a telegram and ordered Chen Yanhua to lead his troops to Jiaxing City. At the same time, all units of the new 2nd Division entered a state of emergency, and once Jiaxing was unstable, the whole division withdrew from the Pinghu and Zhapu defense lines.