As soon as the shelling ended, without waiting for the Ohara Brigade to clean up the battlefield and repair the fortifications, Scar arrived with the 19th Brigade, in addition to the 19th Brigade, there were more than 300 remnants of the 61st Division that Zhu Xia had gathered again.

In the face of the Ohara Brigade that was defending in danger, the 19th Brigade and the remnants of the 61st Division who took the initiative to attack did not have much to do, because they were extremely lacking in heavy firepower, and fought fiercely until noon, and even were counterattacked by the Ohara Brigade, seeing that the situation was about to get out of control, Zhong Song finally arrived with the main force of the independent 20th Brigade.

Looking at the tide of the central army swarming from the southern end of the fort, Ohara Shigemi knew that it was impossible to hold Fortress Hill again, and in desperation, Ohara Shigemi had no choice but to take Zuihou's remaining 100 or so remnants to withdraw from Fortress Hill in a hurry, but fortunately, the tide off the coast of Wusong had risen again, and under the response of the naval gunboats, he finally escaped back to the warship.

Although this operation was a failure, Ohara Shigemi was not very worried about his fate, no matter what, it was all caused by the poor cooperation of the navy, not to mention that he also defeated a division of the national army in Wusong Town!

As soon as the Japanese army withdrew, the veterans of the 19th Brigade began to look for Xu 19 like crazy, wanting to see people in life and corpses in death!

The entire 19th Brigade searched every inch of land up and down the fortress mountain, and finally found Xu 19 in the evening, when Xu 19 had been covered with a thin layer of floating soil, if it weren't for the careful heart of the two melons, it really couldn't be found, then again, if it weren't for the protection of this layer of floating soil, Xu 19 would not have known how many eyes were pierced by Little Japan.

"Knife team, I found the captain, the captain is still alive! He's alive! Ergua dug out Xu Nineteen, and then stretched out his hand to probe, and found that he was still breathing, and suddenly jumped three feet high, turned his head and roared.

"Captain, where is Captain?" Scar rolled and rushed to the top of the mountain.

Then there is the one-handed, one-eyed dragon and Gao Shenxing, although Gao Shenxing joined the nineteenth brigade for a short time, he has fully integrated into this collective, and followed the one-handed and other veterans of the nineteenth brigade to rush to the top of the mountain, which is completely a subconscious reaction, obviously, he is also very concerned about Xu Nineteen's life and death, because this is related to whether the nineteenth brigade can continue to exist.

"Here, Captain, he's here, here!" The two melons jumped, cried, and roared.

Scar, One-Handed, One-Eyed Dragon, and more than a dozen veterans swarmed up, trying to carry Xu Shijiu down the mountain with all hands and feet, Gao Shenxing hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop it: "Biedong, don't move, it's not clear about the captain's injury, messing around will only aggravate his injury, stretcher, go get a stretcher!" ”

Seeing Gao Shen's troubled appearance, Scar shouted: "Stretcher, go get a stretcher!" ”

More than a dozen veterans scattered like flies, and in less than a moment, they carried a stretcher to the top of the mountain, Gao Shenxing asked Xu Shijiu's body to lie flat as much as possible, and then carried him onto the stretcher.

As soon as the stretcher came down the mountain, Zhu Xia hurriedly greeted him.

Reaching out to probe Xu Shijiu's snort, Zhu Xia's tears came down, but he was happy, he walked forward on the stretcher and said with a crying voice: "I know, I know that you kid can't die, you belong to a cat, you are a fucking civet cat, cats have nine lives, can't die, can't die, can't die." ”

Xu Jiu was soon sent to the temporary field ambulance station in Wusong Town, but Yu Jiaxi, who got the news, had to endure the strong longing for his lover, and insisted on performing surgery for a seriously injured person before finally taking the opportunity to come to Xu Shijiu's hospital bed, looking at Xu Jiu who was unconscious on the hospital bed, Yu Jiaxi's beautiful eyes turned red in an instant.

"Miss Yu, you should check it on the captain." There are many veterans in the 19th Brigade who know the relationship between Xu 19 and Yu Jiaxi, but only the one-eyed dragon knows Yu Jiaxi's background, he knows that Yu Jiaxi is a highly talented student who returned from studying in the United States, and he is studying medicine in the United States, and his medical skills are quite clever.

Yu Jiaxi stretched out her hand to wipe away the tears that were about to overflow her eyes, and calmed down to check Xu Shijiu.

There are only two wounds on Xu Shijiu's body, one is a bruise on the forehead, which has been simply bandaged with gauze, and the other wound is on the left rib, which should have been picked by a devil's bayonet, and the whole skin was peeled off.

Putting away the earpiece, Yu Jiaxi asked, "How long has your captain been in a coma?" ”

Everyone's eyes looked at Ergua in unison, Ergua was so nervous that he couldn't even speak, and said dodgedly: "I don't know, when I found the captain, he was already unconscious?" ”

Scar then added, "It's been almost four hours since we found the captain. ”

Yu Jiaxi's heart sank suddenly, the two wounds were not fatal, but Ah Jiu was always unconscious, this is not a good phenomenon, but don't affect the old injury, Yu Jiaxi remembered that Xu Jiu still had a warhead in his head that had not been taken out, if the old injury was affected and the nervous system was compressed, Xu Jiu would probably be in a coma forever!

At that moment, Yu Jiaxi said to the veterans: "The conditions here are too simple, and I can't diagnose the reason why your captain is unconscious, but there is a field hospital in Jiangwan, where the facilities are relatively complete, and there are expert doctors drawn from various hospitals, so let's quickly find a way to send your captain to Jiangwan." ”

Scar was anxious when he heard this, and yelled at a few veterans: "Why are you still stunned, hurry up and find a stretcher!" ”

Zhu Xia hurriedly stopped: "Don't look for a stretcher anymore, take my car, it's night anyway." ”

So everyone carried Xu 19 into Zhu Xia's car, Zhu Xia explained to the driver and went back to the division headquarters, he was the chief of staff of the division, and the division commander Zhong Song had just arrived, so he couldn't get out of his body at all, Scar, one-handed, one-eyed dragon and Ergua They naturally didn't have these constraints, and ran all the way to Jiangwan Field Hospital.

It's just that when he arrived at the Jiangwan Field Hospital, he still couldn't find out the cause of Xu Shijiu's coma.

Waited until the next day, that is, at dawn on August 22, Xu Shijiu still did not wake up, and the scars could not continue to stay in the hospital, so they had to leave Ergua behind, and repeatedly told Ergua that once the captain woke up, he quickly called Zhu Shenzuo of the division headquarters, and Ergua responded with a mouthful, and everyone was reluctant to go.

Yu Jiaxi also stayed in the field hospital to take care of Xu Shijiu nearby.

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During this time, two major events happened in Shanghai, one was that Ye Ruxue's two war newsletters published in the "Miller's Review" caused great repercussions in Shanghai, and the other was the Iron Fist Jihua launched in the early morning of the 22nd, but the Iron Fist Jihua who was pinned on high hopes ended in a miserable defeat.

Ye Ruxue's two war newsletters greatly encouraged the confidence of Shanghai citizens in the War of Resistance Against Japan, but the fiasco of the Iron Fist Jihua dealt a heavy blow to the confidence and morale of the officers and men of the Kuomintang.

You must know that all the troops assembled in Shanghai are well-equipped Central Army, German armament divisions equipped with German weapons, and even tanks, but they are still helpless with the thousands of Japanese troops in the Japanese concession, and they can't even beat a small Huishan wharf.

Zhong Song, who had just been promoted to lieutenant general and commander of the 61st Division, was one of the few senior generals of the Nationalist Army who were not affected.

This Zhong Song is also a legendary figure, he was admitted to the first phase of the Whampoa Infantry Department, but when he graduated, he was the second phase of the artillery department, and in the middle of the typhoid fever was misdiagnosed by the school doctor as hopeless, and pushed the morgue to die, and later during the Liberation War, he also worked tenaciously with Mr. Peng in the northwest, known as Zhong Song who could not be killed.

There is also Zhong Song's independent 20th Brigade, which is not an ordinary unit.

After the September 18 Incident, Chairman Chiang carried out a five-year reorganization of the army, and among the first batch of 10 units to be adjusted, the remaining nine units, including the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps, were all division-level units, but Zhong Song's 2nd Division Independent Brigade was a brigade-level unit, which shows how much Chairman Chiang attached great importance to Zhong Song and his independent brigade.

Zhong Song reduced the four regiments of the original 61st Division into one regiment, and all officers above the platoon level were replaced.

Zhu Xia's 19th Independent Brigade, which he had finally dug up from the Shanghai Security Corps, was also removed from the establishment table by Zhong Song, who had always looked down on the local security team, and he would rather recruit recruits with no military experience to slowly retrain than to add the veterans of the local security team to his own troops.

It must be admitted that Zhong Song's point of view still has a certain degree of truth, because the new recruits are malleable, and under the influence of the backbone veterans in the army, it is easy to grow into an excellent soldier, while the soldiers of the local security team are not, these soldiers are often in the army for many years, and it is difficult to change the many accumulated habits that they have developed, not to mention, they will also bring other soldiers in the army.

However, what Zhong Song didn't know was that Xu Nineteen's Nineteenth Brigade was by no means an ordinary local security team.

When Zhu Xia didn't know how to explain, Liu Anqi, who had just been transferred from the 87th Division to the deputy commander of the 61st Division, said to Zhong Song: "Division, the Shanghai Security Corps is not comparable to other local security teams, and this independent 19th Brigade is especially not simple, his backbone veterans are all from the 19th Route Army of that year. ”

"Oh?" Zhong Song was slightly moved, of course he knew about the Nineteenth Route Army.

At this moment, Deng Zhongmei, the brigade commander of the 183rd Brigade of the 61st Division, walked in with a telegram and said: "Division, deputy division, and staff, is the 19th Independent Battalion of our 61st Division the 19th Independent Brigade of the original Shanghai Security Corps?" Is the captain called Xu Nineteen? ”

"yes." Zhu Xia nodded and said, "What's wrong?" ”

"That's right." Deng Zhongmei raised the telegram in his hand, and continued, "The Commander's Department of the War Zone asked us to send someone to Fortress Mountain to find the body of Xu Shijiu, buy a good coffin, and then invite representatives from all walks of life in Wusong Town to come, and try to make a grand memorial ceremony, which can be regarded as the posthumous mourning of the martyrs of the Anti-Japanese War." ”

"Martyrs of the War of Resistance? Mourning behind you?! Zhu Xia was confused.

After reading the message, Zhu Xia's expression was a little crying and laughing, Ah Jiu, he is not dead yet, why did he become a martyr? And posthumously awarded to the colonel? What's this called?

Seeing Zhu Xia's expression, Deng Zhongmei asked, "Counselor, what's wrong?" ”

Zhu Xia shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Brigade Commander Deng, I'm afraid that this Xu Shijiu's body can't be found, because he is not dead at all, and he is now lying on the bed in the Jiangwan Field Hospital." ”

"What do you say, he's not dead?" Deng Zhongmei was stunned and said, "No, Shangfeng clearly said that he was dead." ”

"I don't know about that." Zhu Xia spread his hands and said with a wry smile, "And this thing is really strange, how did Shangfeng know that Camp Commander Xu was killed in battle?" ”