"Fourth, shut up"

Scarface turned his head and scolded in a low voice, waited for a few brothers to calm down, bowed his hand to Wu Ming, and said politely: "Seventy-eight of our brothers accepted Chairman Jiang's recruitment because of fighting devils. Two months ago, on the front line of Luodian and Yunzaobang, which are known as the 'Flesh Mill', our brothers fought hard for 21 days and nights, playing with the Japanese devils, and after the fight to the fullest, there were only more than 500 people left in the whole division, and only 14 of our brothers left, and everyone was wounded...... Thanks to the admission of the new Second Division to the Dachang Shelter, I came to Pinghu."

"Division Commander Wu is an anti-Japanese hero, leading his troops to defeat the Japanese army several times, and some time ago he killed the commander of two major generals and brigades of the Japanese army, and captured the Japanese army wing flag, which is really damn relieved, this is the army we want...... Therefore, our brother recommended himself to fight devils with Master Wu. ”

The few people in front of him were a little uneasy, and Wu Ming was a little uneasy, and asked: "I told Lao Zhuang just now that our new Second Division is strictly disciplined, and orders are forbidden, I don't know if everyone can accept the military regulations and military discipline."

Scarface raised his head, puffed out his chest and said loudly: "Don't dare to boast about anything else, if you go to the battlefield, without the order of the commander, none of us brothers will take half a step back." ”

"Good"

Wu Ming clapped his hands and said happily: "Okay, when your injuries are healed, you will go with Lao Zhuang and them to supplement the brigade for training, okay?" ”

"Yes"

Scarface stood upright and saluted solemnly, although the movements were not standard, but they were full of emotion. The people behind also saluted unevenly, and it could be seen from their flushed faces of joy that they were all excited to join such a glorious unit as the new Second Division.

Wu Ming was also very happy.

These seemingly formidable soldiers will be able to play a greater role on the battlefield as long as they undergo rigorous training and strengthened discipline. As for how to restrain them, Wu Ming decided to give the supplementary brigade commander Yin Dizhong a headache.

The other officers and men of the Nationalist Army who were admitted to the Songhu battlefield saw that Wu Ming had even accepted the bandits, and they rushed to join the new Second Division.

In view of the enthusiasm of the officers and soldiers, Wu Ming agreed "reluctantly", and then asked them in the name of the division commander to obediently recuperate in the hospital and report to the supplementary brigade after recovery.

Wu Ming asked Chen Fang to lead the nurses to register the officers and soldiers, and pulled Steve to escape from the crowd that was gathering more and more, at this moment, a soft and soothing music sound came from nowhere, which made people feel relaxed and happy, and after twenty or thirty seconds, the music stopped abruptly, and a loud male voice sounded:

"Phoenix Radio Station Chinese and now inserts an important piece of news: After the newly formed Second Division of the National Revolutionary Army annihilated the 150th Wing of the Japanese Army in an anti-Japanese landing operation in Hangzhou Bay last week, killed the commander of the Japanese Wing, Yamamoto Shigetsu Nakasa, and captured the flag of the Wing, yesterday it defeated the 66th Wing of the Japanese Army, killed and wounded more than 2,000 Japanese troops, and won another great victory in the battle against Japan......

The news of yesterday's victory of the New Second Division was broadcast on the radio, and the cheers of applause and cheers of the people burst into an uproar throughout the field hospital, and the morale of the people was instantly bursting.

Wu Ming was stunned for a moment, looked around, didn't see the shadow of the tweeter, and looked at Steve in confusion at the moment. Steve smiled: "Master, you come with me"

Wu Ming followed Steve around a few rooms, the radio became louder and louder, and the group came to the gurgling river, and saw from a distance that there was a hexagonal pavilion under the big tree in front of them, and a radio was placed on the stone table in the center of the pavilion, and more than 50 wounded and sick people were sitting inside and outside the pavilion, listening attentively to the radio.

Steve said to Wu Ming as he walked: "Master, we have ordered more than 100 radios from the Maoliangwu Chamber of Commerce, and arranged for the wounded who are less injured to play them regularly. Not to mention, with this leisure and relaxation thing, the wounded's ideological work is much better, and they don't have anything to do to listen to the radio, so that the nurses can help them walk, and the wounded's illness will get better faster. ”

The wounded have just come down from the battlefield, and it is inevitable that they will have a long-standing backlog of trauma and anger in their hearts, and listening to the radio can effectively relieve tension. Wu Ming nodded and said appreciatively: "This method is good, your attitude of thinking about the wounded is commendable."

Steve accompanied Wu Ming to the pavilion, and at this time there was a new program on the radio: "It's time for readers to write letters, and today we have invited a special guest, she is Chen Dacui, the mother of squad leader Wang Jinzhu, the seventh company of the 1st Brigade and 2nd Regiment of the New Second Division......"

One of the wounded stood up excitedly and shouted to the surroundings: "That's my aunt, Wang Jinzhu is my cousin."

Everyone looked over together, only to see the wounded soldier who spoke with a happy face, and everyone smiled.

Someone got impatient and yelled at the wounded soldiers: "Chen Ergou, are you kid yelling nonsense?" Hurry up and sit down for Lao Tzu, we still have to listen to the radio."

The wounded soldier named Chen Ergou hurriedly sat down, and the beautiful voice of the female announcer came from the radio: "Sister Chen told us that she received a letter from her son last week, in which she said that in the battle to recover the Japanese concession, Wang Jinzhu killed fourteen Japanese devils, one of whom was a Japanese lieutenant and two second lieutenants, and was awarded a third-class meritorious service."

Wang Jinzhu told Sister Chen that he was now the number one marksman of the Seventh Company. He asked Sister Chen not to remember him, he would definitely work hard to fight devils. ”

The female announcer paused, and then said, "Now let's ask Senior Sister Chen to say a few words to her son into the microphone." The wounded soldiers all listened with bated breath, and soon the voice of a middle-aged woman came from the radio speaker, with a hint of crying in her tone:

"Pillar, your letter lady has received it, and the whole village is very envious. Old man Du, who used to destroy his relatives, came to the door in person to propose marriage, I didn't plan to ignore him, but my mother knew your thoughts, you like their Lanzi from the bottom of your heart, so I agreed to come down for you. Just wait for you to finish fighting the devil, and you can go home and get married. Lanzi said, no matter what, she will wait for you......"

The woman's voice was choked, she was silent for a while, and then said: "Zhuzi, don't send money back, your father and mother are farming and raising pigs at home, and the Chamber of Commerce comes to buy, and you don't have to worry about food and clothing. Mother doesn't want anything, just one request, you must follow Master Wu to fight devils well. Be sure to remember not to be afraid of death...... Okay, let's not talk about it, there are still a lot of things waiting for me at home, let's talk about it next time

The wounded in front of the radio were silent, and an indescribable emotion brewed and stirred in their hearts

An impassioned female voice sounded over the loudspeaker: "Down with Japanese imperialism"

"Down with Japanese imperialism," the wounded soldiers could not help but chant along.

Wu Ming's eyes were moist, and he didn't go any further, and quietly bypassed the pavilion with Steve and the others.

Before leaving the field hospital, Wu Ming took Steve's hand and explained some precautions, and then took a car to the former enemy headquarters of Jiulong Mountain in Zhapu to observe the movements of the Japanese army, and at the same time sent people to reconnoiter the situation of the enemy and us on the front line in Jiashan

At the same time as the Japanese 114th Division launched an attack on Pinghu, the 18th Division and the 1st Division of the 6th Division launched an attack from Jinshan County to the line from Jiashan to Pingwang.

Guarding Jiashan were officers and men of the 62nd Division, the 109th Division, the 128th Division, the 41st Regiment of the 11th Reserve Division, and the 1st Regiment of the 13th Provisional Brigade, totaling more than 45,000 people.

The 128th Division, which belongs to the Hunan military system, was formerly the new 34th Division, which was reorganized from the Hunan First Garrison Army, belongs to the local security forces, and its equipment is extremely simple, and its main weapons are old sleeves and Hanyang-made, and a company cannot be equipped with a machine gun, and a division has only a few mortars, and there is a serious shortage of ammunition.

However, in the face of the two wings of Japanese troops, the officers and men of the 128th Division were calm and composed, avoided the bombardment of Japanese planes and artillery with close combat, and fought tragically with their flesh and blood. After a fierce counterattack, the Japanese had to retreat.

Among them, the Chen Shaowu battalion of the 764th Regiment bravely faced the frontal enemy in the middle, and the Zhang Jinghua battalion on the right flank stood out in front of the national defense fortifications. The Japanese army took turns to attack with the main force of seven or eight hundred people, and the battalion commander Zhang Jinghua led all the officers and men to bravely respond to the battle and started hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army. After the worst incident, the battalion commander was wounded, two company commanders were killed, and only one battalion attached, one company commander, and more than 20 soldiers remained in the battalion. Brigade Commander Tan Wenlie, who commanded the 382nd Brigade at the scene, immediately transferred the 763rd Regiment of the second-line echelon to replace the 764th Regiment. By six o'clock in the afternoon, the fortified positions were still standing, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties, and the offensive was frustrated.

At four o'clock yesterday morning, the Japanese army launched a surprise attack, tearing through the defense line of the 764th Regiment in one fell swoop, and advanced along the railway attack to Lujiabang. According to the 767th Regiment, which was guarding the first line of defense fortifications at the Gannan Bridge in Lujiabang, stubbornly counterattacked, and in response to the retreating 764th Regiment, it worked hard to restore its original position.

After daybreak, the Japanese bombarded with planes and heavy weapons, most of the rudimentary fortifications were destroyed, and a regiment of major was burned to death in the fortifications.

The officers and men of the 767th Regiment, which was exposed to the flat fields, fought for every inch of land, charged back and forth, and fought hand-to-hand many times. The fierce battle lasted until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when the Japanese army reinforced and attacked, the Chen regimental front was almost shaken, and the division commander Gu Jiaqi ordered all the companies and platoons directly under the division to enter the battle. At four o'clock in the afternoon, the second battalion of Ouyang Lie's regiment was dispatched to reinforce it, and together with Chen's regiment, they rushed back and forth to fight and kill, and after fighting until dusk, they stabilized their positions and expelled the enemy to the east of Lujiabang.

After the enemy was defeated at Lujiabang, he divided his troops and attacked south after nightfall.

On the right flank of the 128th Division, Rihui Bridge and Sunjiabang, they were stubbornly blocked by the Chinese army, and the two sides fought fiercely all night, and the Chinese officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties, but the position was consolidated as before.

After inspecting the front-line positions at Jiulong Mountain and confirming that it was unlikely that the Japanese troops would land head-on from Zhapu, Wu Ming returned to the Pinghu Division headquarters on the morning of 12 July, just in time to catch Zhang Dongning and Long Shaogang sitting together to listen to the program of Phoenix Radio.

At this time, a male voice came from the radio, and the voice was very stern and had a considerable deterrent effect: "Our radio hotline has received distress calls from several towns in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and since the Military Commission, the Ministry of Military Affairs, and the Third Theater Command issued a general retreat order, some troops on the Songhu front line have been circulating in all directions, taking advantage of the fire to loot, and some of them have even taken the radio and telephone lines from the telegraph office to remove them...... Here's a call from the county seat of Wujiang: At noon today, a group of unknown rout soldiers raided the British Chamber of Commerce in the county town and loaded all the materials in the warehouse into trucks......"

When Long Shaogang stood up to pour the tea, he found Wu Ming walking in, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute. Wu Ming waved his hand, signaling Zhang Dongning not to be polite, and he casually found a stool to sit down, and the radio speaker was still playing the list of businesses, government agencies, and military stations that had been looted by the rout.

Wu Ming glanced sideways at Zhang Dongning and pointed to the radio: "Dongning, these are all sent by you."

Zhang Dongning shook his head: "Division, you gave me a regiment, the collected militia officers and soldiers are less than 1,000, where can it bloom everywhere, even Wujiang County on the edge of Taihu Lake has been affected, it is definitely not our new second division people to do it......"

Wu Ming frowned, listening to the rout soldiers on the radio who were robbing many supplies in groups, many of which were urgently needed by the new Second Division and Mao Liangwu. It would be a pity if these materials were not controlled by themselves, but were returned to the Japanese as scrap.

Dai Ziran asked with some surprise: "Who is so bold that even the British dare to rob things...... Where would ordinary people dare to send cars to forcibly transport stolen goods......"

Long Shaogang also showed a puzzled expression.

Zhang Dongning smiled secretly in his heart and said to Wu Ming: "Master, although these things are not ours, those things are now in our hands."

"What?"

Dai Ziran exclaimed in surprise, then took Zhang Dongning's hand and asked anxiously: "What's the matter, Chief of Staff, you can make it clear and understand."

Zhang Dongning smiled slightly, and saw that Wu Ming also showed concern, so he revealed the mystery.

It turned out that the day before yesterday, after Zhang Dongning received the task of pretending to be a defeated soldier and looting supplies, he found Chen Yanhua, the commander of the first regiment of the supplementary brigade who cooperated with him in the mission. Chen Yanhua saw the rout troops retreating along the railways and highways, and came up with a brilliant idea to send the people of the militia to blend in with the rout, and encourage the rout to rob.

Zhang Dongning said with a smile: "When the rout and robbery are successful, our officers and soldiers disguise themselves as military police, like tigers descending from the mountain, and smoothly capture them together with the supplies, so that we can get both people and money......