Volume 1: Battle of Songhu Chapter 2: The Nationalist Army Has Returned

While the two were talking, a black and flickering object was suddenly thrown into the car window.

Feng Shengfa and Zhang Baiting are both Whampoa Military Academy students, and their years of military career have cultivated their quick reactions, and before the mass of things that flew into the window landed, the two dodged left and right, and Feng Shengfa took out his pistol at the same time, and kicked the suspicious object into the aisle where no one was there.

"Poof." The suspicious object hits the car door and falls to the ground.

There was no green smoke coming out, and there was no explosion, and when the two of them looked at it urgently, what kind of explosive was this, it was clearly a canned beef imported from the United States.

Feng Shengfa and Zhang Baiting looked at each other.

At this time, cheers suddenly sounded outside the window.

At the other end of the carriage, Sun Yuanliang, who was being interviewed, suddenly got rid of the reporter's entanglement, strode to the window, smiled and waved out of the window, and the photographer also pointed the lens of the camera out of the window and took a fierce shot, at the same time, a large number of cans, towels, cigarettes and biscuits were thrown in from the window like raindrops.

Feng Shengfa and Zhang Baiting put away their guns and stood in front of the window again, and then saw a scene that they will never forget.

At this time, the train has entered Nanxiang Town in the western suburbs of Shanghai, and is slowly driving into Zhenru Railway Station, where groups of Shanghai citizens are running forward with the train, and more people are flocking from afar.

There were gray-haired old men in the crowd, children with school bags on their backs, decent people in suits, and more stevedores in dusty homespun uniforms, but without exception, everyone's faces were full of surprises, the kind of real surprise from the heart, back, the national army back!

After a five-year absence, the Nationalist Army finally returned to Shanghai!

The national army has returned, and the humiliating days of being oppressed by the Japanese are finally over!

Looking at the fully armed and energetic soldiers of the national army in the carriage, the citizens rushed to tell each other and cheered, the workers threw their new towels and good cigarettes that they were reluctant to smoke into the carriage, the children threw into the carriage the biscuits hidden in their schoolbags and were reluctant to eat, and several businessmen even dismantled the whole box of canned beef and threw it into the carriage.

Feng Shengfa held a towel in his left hand and a can in his right hand, looking at the excited citizens outside the window, he couldn't help but burst into tears, and said in a choked voice: "It's deserved, it's deserved......

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It wasn't until late afternoon that Xu Shijiu finally returned to the station.

The playground was silent, but the bungalows on the west side that were used as classrooms were brightly lit, and the regimental members who had trained all day were practicing calligraphy under the supervision of the instructors, which was a major feature of the 19th Independent Brigade.

After turning around in each classroom, Xu Shijiu went straight back to the team headquarters, but as soon as he entered the door, Xu Shijiu found that the atmosphere in the team headquarters was a little weird, and the expressions of several soldiers who stood up and saluted were stiff, and the scar, one-handed, and one-eyed dragon that had already slipped away were all there, and they snorted at him again and again.

"Old knife, what's wrong with you guys?" Xu Shijiu was confused and said, "Mouth cramps? ”

As soon as the words fell, an angry roar suddenly came from the inner office: "Xu Nineteen, get me in!" ”

"Chief of Staff?" Xu Shijiu was stunned, and immediately hurriedly walked into the inner room, and said, "Why are you here?" ”

Seeing Xu Shijiu hurriedly walk into the inner office, Scar, One-Handed, and One-Eyed Dragon all sighed in unison, and then fled from the team headquarters as if flying.

Xu 19 walked into the office quickly, only to see Zhu Xia, the colonel and chief of staff of the Songhu Garrison Command, sitting in his position with an angry face, seeing Xu 19 walking in casually, Zhu Xia was suddenly angry, and the relationship between the two was very good, so he glared at Xu 19 and scolded: "You kid really don't know what to do, do you know that I found you for an afternoon?" ”

"Looking for me?" Xu Jiu laughed and said, "I'm not a yellow flower girl, why are you looking for me?" ”

"Still poor?" Zhu Xia pointed at Xu Shijiu, and then scolded, "Zhongshan Hospital and Dashijie can't find you, and finally contacted the headquarters of the 88th Division, and said that they didn't see you, everyone thought that you let the Japanese kidnap the ticket, so anxious that Commander Yang almost mobilized his guards to Hongkou to rob people with the Japanese, hum." ”

"The Japanese kidnap my ticket?" Xu Jiujiu pursed his lips and said disdainfully, "I'm almost the same as tying them up." ”

"You kid, don't be crazy." Zhu Xia straightened his face and said, "This time the Japanese are really likely to be anxious, and they will try to go out as much as possible in the future, the commander said, especially you Xu Shijiu, it is strictly forbidden to go out from today on!" ”

"Don't, I have to tell the commander about this, Shanghai is our Chinese territory, and I can still scare the Japanese?" Xu Shijiu snatched up the phone as he spoke, but let Zhu Xia hold it down.

"Okay, the commander is negotiating with Mayor Yu at this time, what are you making trouble with at this time? You haven't explained your business yet. Zhu Xia said this, and said, "Say, what did you do all afternoon?" ”

"Didn't do it." Xu Shijiu spread his hands, very indifferent, "I went with Jiaxi to meet an elder." ”

"What, I've seen the elders, so you're done?" Zhu Xia suddenly perked up when he heard this, Yu Jiaxi he had seen, she was a good girl, but he immediately realized that now was not the time to say this, but after such a beating, the anger in his chest was gone, and he coughed dryly at the moment and said angrily, "You kid, do you know that something big happened in the afternoon?" ”

"Big." Xu Jiujiu said disapprerovingly, "The four eastern provinces have fallen, North China has become a pot of porridge again, seeing that half of the sky of the Nationalist Government has fallen, Jiang still does not dare to declare war with Japan, and he is still pretending to be pitiful and sympathetic to the West, the situation is so unbearable, what can be more significant?" ”

"Ah Jiu, don't criticize the leader behind your back!" Zhu Xia frowned, changed the topic, and said, "This afternoon, the military police of the 20th Independent Brigade killed two Japanese soldiers at the gate of Hongqiao Airport. ”

Xu Nineteen said: "Our Nineteenth Brigade has long been ready to attack Hongkou at any time. ”

"That's not what I mean." Zhu Xia waved his hand and said with a solemn expression, "The old brothers of the 19th Brigade are nothing, but most of the newly recruited brothers are locals, and their families must be evacuated from Shanghai immediately. ”

"Evacuate your family and write a suicide note?" Xu Shijiu suddenly became alert when he heard this, and said in a deep voice, "Do you want to move really this time?" ”

Zhu Xia nodded, and said with a serious expression: "Ah Jiu, let me tell you this, the opinions of the high-level of the national government have become more and more unified, and it is no longer a suspense to fight with the Japanese in the Songhu area, and the remaining suspense is, when will there be a war with the Japanese?" But in the afternoon, this matter will be troubled, and it is estimated that it will be soon, maybe tomorrow. ”

Seeing that Xu Shijiu was silent and did not speak, Zhu Xia continued to ask, "Why are you unhappy?" Didn't you look forward to the day of war with the Japanese? ”

Xu Shijiu shook his head and asked, "Do you know the specific Jihua, and what scale the battle is going to be?" ”

Seeing that there was no one left and right, Zhu Xia lowered his voice and said: "I have a classmate in the Ministry of Military Affairs, and my classmate said that the leader has adopted Vice Minister Chen Cheng's suggestion and decided to fight the Japanese army in Songhu to attract the main force of the Japanese army in North China to East China, and then use the dense water network in East China and the defense lines of Wufu, Xicheng, and Jiacha to continue to consume the Japanese army. ”

Xu Shijiu bowed his head lightly and said: "Chen Cheng is a visionary, he knows that the plain terrain of North China is beneficial to the Japanese army's mechanized troops, but East China is not conducive to the mobility of the Japanese army's mechanized equipment, so it is correct to fight the Japanese army in East China, I am afraid that as soon as the war starts, Jiang will have a hot brain and a decisive battle with the Japanese army in Shanghai......."

"Xu Nineteen!" Zhu Xia said in a fire, "How many times have I told you, don't criticize the leader behind your back!" ”

"Okay, I don't say, I don't say." Xu Shijiu shook his head with a wry smile, and couldn't help but say again, "But do you remember what I said today, and see if I can judge it correctly or not?" ”

"You still say!" Zhu Xia was extremely angry, grabbed the two books in front of him and smashed them.

Xu Jiujiu stretched out his hand to catch it, his eyes lit up for a moment, and he suppressed his excitement and said: "Japanese infantry drills? And the infantry artillery coordination course at the Japanese Army University? ”

"I know you like to study the Japanese army, and this is specially for you." Zhu Xia pointed at Xu Shijiu, and said angrily, "Do you know how much it cost me to do it for these two broken books?" But what about you? Don't say anything about poking out such a big basket for me in the afternoon, and give me all the fucking blockage, no, I have to beat you up today. ”

As he spoke, Zhu Xia picked up the thin bamboo pole placed on the map shelf and was about to fight.

"Chief of Staff, just your small body, it's not that I underestimate you." Xu Shijiu flipped through the Japanese infantry drill code, and sneered while looking at it, "The discounted bamboo pole is not worth a few dollars, but don't hurt you, hehe." ”

"You kid!" Zhu Xia looked at Xu Shijiu's tall and sturdy body, put the thin bamboo pole back on the map frame, and took out the Browning pistol from the holster, and was about to open the safe, "I can't kill you, I'll shoot you now." ”