Chapter 42: Before You Go

"I'm going too?" Wen Hui's question made everyone cry and laugh.

"You are the commander of the army, and you will definitely go to the battlefield with you." Yelena said with disdain.

"Is that so?"

"Master, it's the biggest problem if you don't go. After all, you are the leader of the army, if you don't go, you will be afraid of war, and if you don't move forward in battle, you can directly engage in military law. "Long Si buckled his head, although they have been in charge of the affairs of the army, but the chief officer is Wen Hui.

"I know, I know! Just gather all the people and set off. Wen Hui thought about it, he didn't go up and work hard, and it made no difference if he stayed in the headquarters.

"Yes!" A group of officers carrying Doudou below stood up and saluted, and it would be better if the chief officer could be more serious.

"Elena, you stay."

"Oh? Dear uncle, do you need a night of parting? ”

"I don't have time to joke with you, I'm out, you can show me something at home, if there is a dishonest ......"

"Is it okay to kill it? MSS should have seen blood for so long, and compared to the Cheka's predecessors, they are still too immature. Yelena's red lips spat out cold words.

"Well, the troubled times are re-enacted, you can look at the solution. But don't make it a purge, there is a shortage of people right now. "After two cleanings, there must still be those who don't have long eyes, but they don't dare to make too big a move, and the main guard is still spies.

"I want the gendarmerie to cooperate, you really don't give MSS a separate troop formation? It would be more convenient if there was a secret police force. Elena took the opportunity to ask for more rights.

"Dream! You have enough operators, and you still need independent troops, and you want to rebel? There are armies that can't be solved and will cooperate with your actions, don't pull everything into the bowl. Wen Hui nodded the girl's forehead, what he wanted was the ruthlessness of KGB's bite, and the function of killing the master was still forgotten, "Be obedient at home, don't make trouble for me, I'll go hunting." ”

"Okay, I'll wait for your failure." Yelena replied with a smile, now that Wen Hui has gone up, he is also bleeding the Japanese, and don't think about turning the tide of the war.

Wen Hui smiled, this girl is destined to be restless, as long as it doesn't affect his plans, let him go.

Long Si and they began to make preparations before the departure, Wen Hui was not idle, he said before that he was not the material to lead the troops to fight, but it does not mean that he is fine. Sufficient transport vehicles are the most basic guarantee for combat, and there is no need to repeat the weapons and ammunition for their own use, and he also has to pull an additional batch of weapons to "pick up people" on the battlefield, unlike the central military personnel who can distribute weapons, many local troops are "unarmed infantry", among which the Sichuan army is the most famous, these soldiers who fought out of Sichuan were once called "called Huazi" by friendly forces, not to mention that even the weapons and military uniforms are not unified, and the supply or something is also at the bottom of the sequence. After this treatment, the mother raised it is not counted, it is completely picked up! So Wen Hui is going to support them with some weapons, and by the way, see if he can pull some people over.

Of course, the main ones were field hospitals, and the well-established hospitals in Changsha, Hangzhou, and Nanjing, and the wounded on the Songhu battlefield would be sent to Hangzhou for treatment, and then transferred back to Changsha, and the hospital in Nanjing was prepared for the national government.

Wen Hui did this public and private half, for the public naturally hopes that more soldiers can be treated, reduce the secondary deaths, from ancient times to the present day on the battlefield directly killed soldiers accounted for only a minority, most of them died due to wound infection complications in the wounded barracks, the development of the era of thermal weapons This situation is more obvious, the necessary medical conditions are also the guarantee of combat effectiveness; For personal gain, there is a mess on the battlefield, and there is no effort to take care of the wounded in the battle (the stretcher team only exists on paper, and many wounded died on the position without anyone lifting them down), seriously injured and waiting for death, and the light injuries survived, and many of the wounded who came down from the battlefield were dragged to death by their injuries, these are all veterans who have seen blood, it would be a pity to waste them in vain, if they can save their lives, these people can form combat effectiveness with a little training after they are injured, And with the grace of saving lives, Wenhui can easily win the hearts of the people, and I believe that the soldiers below don't mind changing owners to continue the battle in the team of life-saving benefactors.

The field hospital is not only for their own use, but also open, that is, the doctors and nurses will be a little tired, but compared to the gains, fatigue, and drug expenditures are not a problem.

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The movement of the national government and the Japanese side was carried out almost simultaneously, but the movement of the troops was much slower than that of the other side, and the first to arrive at the battlefield at this time were the central army, and the local troops were still rushing to Shanghai on the "11th route", and the Japanese were much faster by sea.

At the request of Hasegawa Kiyoshi, the Japanese Navy Military Command Department ordered on the night of August 15 to be transferred to the Port of Arthur to standby, with a total of about 1,400 men from the 1st Special Marine Brigade of Yokosuka Town Shoufu and the 1st Special Marine Brigade of Kure Town Shoufu, which were originally preparing to land in Qingdao. About 1,000 men from two groups of Marines in Sasebo sent reinforcements to Shanghai. The above two brigades at Lushunkou set sail on the morning of the 16th, increased their speed and arrived in Shanghai on the morning of the 17th, and the two brigades in Sasebo set sail on the morning of August 18 and arrived in Shanghai on the night of the 19th.

Following the reinforcements of the four brigades, reinforcements from the two divisions arrived one after another on 22 August, and Matsui Ishine arrived at the Ma'an Islands east of Shanghai by warship, and according to the local situation, he determined that the 11th Division would land from Liuhe and the 3rd Division from the Wusong area on the morning of 23 August.

However, the naval headquarters in Hongkou had no choice on the side of the national government, and the Japanese marines and the national army who were huddled in the surrounding area fought repeatedly house by house, and although the casualties were large, they lasted until the reinforcements arrived, and by this time the first phase of the operation of the national government was declared a failure, and the enemy entrenched in Shanghai was not eaten. Upon learning that a large number of Japanese reinforcements had landed at Xiaochuanshakou and Liuhekou, the government decided to end the offensive and concentrate its forces on "anti-landing operations."

Wen Hui's side has also been prepared, and a new division with a thousand conscripts as the skeleton is ready to go, and from last year to now, one year of training is enough for these people to become qualified soldiers. Columns of soldiers were preparing to board the train at the train station, and the platform was crowded with ordinary people who were about to send their sons, husbands, and brothers to the battlefield of the national war.

"Ryuzaki, I'll leave it to you and Yelena here." Wen Hui wore his teacher's dress to say his final goodbye.

"Knowing that, the Hengyang area has entered combat readiness, the training camp is running at full speed, the scale of the factory is expanded, production is guaranteed, and a curfew is implemented at night to prevent spies from sabotage...... I memorized it all. Yelena was impatient with Wenhui's nagging.

"One more point, high-level personnel pay attention to safety, your guard team will not relax twenty-four hours a day." If Yelena's high-ranking people were assassinated, the result would not be good.

"I know, you should be careful, if something happens to you, all our efforts will be in vain." It's rare that Yelena didn't talk back.

Wen Hui smiled and nodded, and when he was about to get into the car, the guards ran over: "Division, there are reporters outside asking for an interview." "After it became the economic center of the belly, there were many reporters stationed there, and when they learned that the army was ordered to participate in the war, it was natural to find some topics to make headlines, and the soldiers who were about to leave were more valuable than those who stayed behind.

"Journalists?" Wen Hui frowned and remembered something, "Also, drive these reporters away!" A guy who has not achieved enough things and has more than enough failures! The order was given, everyone was forbidden to have private contact with the media, and not a word was to be leaked to the public without an order, and the gendarmerie took over the matter. ”

Originally, Wen Hui didn't care about the interview, and the military prestige was also good under the boost of newspaper public opinion, but these reporters also broke down during the Battle of Songhu, when the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Artillery Brigade and 2nd Regiment (equipped with 8 Bofors mountain guns) stayed in Pudong and set up an artillery position near Yangjing, which was located on the left side of the Japanese troops, facing the Japanese headquarters in Hongkou, which could overlook the movements of the enemy ships and their rear troops on the Huangpu River, and set up a secret and good observation post on the opposite bank using submarine wires. to direct artillery fire and correct impact deviations, even at night. All the gun emplacements were hidden in low-lying ditches or deep in bamboo forests, and they were cleverly camouflaged, and during that time the Japanese bombed but could not find anyone to shoot, and even the Japanese Navy's flagship "Izumo" was damaged in the tail and took three days to repair.

Originally, the battle went well, but the Shanghai reporters who came to interview after hearing the news (not spies and had no sense of secrecy) leaked the secret, and the artillery battalion commander introduced the battle, and the reporters did interviews and took photos. Early the next morning, "Shishi Xinbao" took the lead in publishing pictures and texts. Then various newspapers reprinted the report, hoping to use the artillery achievements to make a strong reputation, but they did not expect to provide information to the Japanese.

When Zhang Fakui, commander of the Left Wing Army, saw it in the newspaper, he immediately realized the seriousness of the matter. Thanks to his timely order, the 1st battalion was ordered to move quickly. At noon on the same day, a group of enemy planes attacked, blowing up all the bamboo forests near Pidgin, and the residents in its vicinity were also plagued by pond fish. After the incident, the commander of the artillery battalion was dismissed, the newspaper was investigated, and the reporter was detained.

So Wen Hui is really grateful for these big mouths, and there are a lot of things that he can't see on his side, so it's better to guard against them, lest they be sold unknowingly.