Chapter 49: The Lifeline (2)

Fangtai Town is under the jurisdiction of Jiading, it was originally a very wealthy town, located in the Central China Plain, and the water is considered to be the land of fish and rice, but the war made it seem a little depressed. However, the target of the Japanese army was Shanghai, and the Japanese troops who landed from Baoshan Liuhe have always attacked the downtown area of Shanghai, limited to troops, and did not attack the vast rural towns.

Since there were no devils attacking, only some people from above, the gentry who knew the news quietly moved away, while the ordinary people still lived quietly. For thousands of years, the Chinese people have pursued a policy of not caring about themselves.

The 300-year rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty made the Chinese people even less concerned about national affairs, which was the business of officials, and as long as the people could live, the affairs outside the door had nothing to do with them. Enthusiastic patriotism and national hearts, these have nothing to do with ordinary people.

Hundreds of years of enslavement and control have made it impossible for the Chinese people to distinguish what is a slave who has died in the country, because they themselves are slaves, the Manchus are aliens, and the Japanese are also aliens.

I am afraid that there is no better understanding of this kind of thinking than Xue Ru, the time has entered the 21 st century, and in the high-speed development of the information age, how many people really have a national heart? It's not that there are so many bullshit and shameless people who say that after such a failure in the War of Resistance Against Japan, China may be a developed country like Japan. When it comes to foreigners, they drool and die with envy, and they are ashamed of being Chinese.

As long as you can enjoy the benefits, you can not want any national character and national heart, not even personal dignity and integrity, not to mention any illusory national honor. If it weren't for the more serious thinking of the people of this era, how could there be more than a million Japanese troops who could run rampant across most of China. Japan, a small land, can bully China for a hundred years, and even the so-called social elites in later generations will immigrate with some ability?

They also give themselves a good name, this is to realize their self-worth, in order to have better conditions for scientific research. Shamelessly saying that science knows no borders, but they forget that scientists have nationality.

On the one hand, the territorial dispute with Japan has reached a fever pitch, but on the other hand, a large number of people travel to Japan and work in Japan, and there are those shameless women who marry Japanese.

These are all intolerable to Xue Ru, but she is an ordinary young man, and she only put on a military uniform through her own efforts, and she does not have any deep background. She can't influence others, and she can't change the status quo, so what can she do except do something that is scolded by others as an angry youth?

It's because I have a different mind in my heart, so I participated in those things with a hot head, so I was almost sent to a military court, and I also traveled to the anti-Japanese battlefield because of my vacation.

has such thoughts and feelings, so that she calms down and accepts the reality of crossing. But the hatred that has been pent-up for a hundred years has exploded, and she doesn't act like a girl at all, and she only thinks about how to kill the Japanese army all the time, and she doesn't think about the problem from any strategic height.

Xue Ru remembered that it was written in a book that the easiest way was to eliminate the Japanese physically, the longest way to eliminate them spiritually, and the most complete way to eliminate them culturally, but now all Xue Ru can do is physically eliminate the Japanese.

The troops withdrew from Qiaoting Mansion to Fangtai, and Xue Ru did not let the troops into the town, but stopped to rest in a forest that was not very dense. Lan Xun Zhou and Wu Yuzhao didn't understand this, why didn't they enter the town? Xue Ru did not explain, but called Ji Bing, who was the original telegraph operator of the Yasukuni Army, who could speak Japanese, and had been working with Liu Quan in communication. Zhu Baohua ran away, Ji Bing was a little scared, worried that Xue Ru would blame him, and he was usually very careful.

Xue Ru called Wei Ming again and whispered a few words, Wei Ming nodded again and again, and the reconnaissance team left the grove and walked towards the town. Everyone didn't know what Xue Ru was going to do, but the troops were very tired from the night's march, and they all fell down to rest.

More than two hours later, Wei Ming and the others came back, and they brought back a large amount of dry food and rice, as well as a lot of vegetables, which dozens of people pushed back in small carts. Xiao Yong knew what was going on, so he beckoned people to get up and eat.

They are all the same kind of people, and Wu Yuqiang, who soon had a good relationship with Xiao Yong and Qiao Han, asked strangely: "I said Brother Yong, does the captain have a relationship with Fangtai?" Can you get a hot meal so quickly? ”

Xiao Yong said proudly: "I'll tell you, don't say it." ”

Wu Yuqiang immediately asked with great interest: "Say it quickly, I promise not to say it." “

Xiao Yong, Qiao Han, and Wu Yuqiang lowered their heads, and Wu Yuqiang jumped up for a long time: "It's so good, the captain is really talented, I like it." ”

Xiao Yong slapped him: ", do you like the captain?" ”

Wu Yuqiang said with a smile: "Grass, what are you anxious about?" The captain is not your wife, why can't I like it? ”

Xiao Yongyin said fiercely: "You kid dare to think carefully, I will destroy you." ”

Qiao Han looked at Xiao Yong strangely: "I said Xiao Yong, don't you really like the captain?" Let me help you ask? ”

"Get out" Xiao Yong was in a hurry, so frightened that Qiao Han hurriedly went to eat. Liu Yuanshan came over with a piece of flatbread and asked, "What's the situation?" What are you arguing about? ”

Qiao Han and Wu Yuqiang immediately began to speak in a whisper, Xiao Yong also knew that the three of them were talking about him, he looked at Xue Ru, who was holding a map not far away and studying with Wu Yuzhao, Lan Xunzhou, and Xiang Wenbin, and a trace of tenderness appeared in his eyes.

He didn't know when it started, his head was full of Xue Ru, and he knew that Xue Ru always disciplined himself, but he just couldn't forget it. Sometimes he deliberately gets angry with her and wants to quarrel with her, but his heart is always full, but he doesn't dare to show it.

The more powerful Xue Ru behaved, the stronger the military command, the more Xiao Yong didn't dare to show it, so he secretly paid attention to her most of the time. But Xue Ru didn't seem to feel it at all, and most of the time he was studying things with Lan Xun Zhou, which made Xiao Yong angry and jealous, but he couldn't help it.

At this time, Du Heng also squeezed over, he was the original battalion commander of the Yasukuni Army, and he also had the rank of lieutenant colonel, but now he has become a deputy squadron leader, these people are all at the level of squadron leader, and they got together to study their captain, and they kept pointing at Xiao Yong.

Xiao Yong wanted to get angry, but he was afraid that Xue Ru would know about it, so he couldn't get off the stage. Anyway, Xue Ru is the commander and doesn't give himself face, so how can he stay in the Snow Fox Brigade in the future, staring at a few people with resentful and murderous eyes.

Xue Ru didn't have time to pay attention to them, because there was time for Wu Yuzhao to convey Xue Yue's meaning to Xue Ru. In fact, Xue Ru understood Xue Yue's meaning from the beginning, and he may know his responsibilities better than Xue Yue. Xue Yue's meaning is to transfer the strength of a regiment to the Snow Fox Brigade is to let her block the devil and buy time for the retreating national army.

But Xue Ru knew that what happened on the Kunshan line was not the problem of the Japanese army's pursuit, but the retreating hundreds of thousands of troops, and knew that the devil was approaching, and they all wanted to retreat in a hurry, causing chaos. But to what extent the chaos was, Xue Ru didn't know.

Since you know in advance, of course, you have to try your best to avoid it, if it is your own brigade, it is indeed very difficult. But the strength of a regiment can be accepted in Kunshan, which should help.

So she has to arrive in Kunshan as soon as possible, take over the fifth regiment of the security brigade, and gather the troops, a security regiment with little combat effectiveness, of course, there will be no generals, this is why she led Wen Bin, after all, Xue Ru knows that she has no experience in commanding thousands of people.

It's not bad now, Xue Yue sent Wu Yuzhao, he is the deputy chief of staff of the group army, and his level is no worse than Xiang Wenbin, so the Snow Fox Brigade has become the most peculiar unit. The number of a brigade has an establishment of more than 2,000 people, the captain is a captain, the chief of staff is a major and colonel, and the squadron leader is a colonel, a lieutenant colonel, a major, and a sergeant, and the ranks are all chaotic.

However, Xue Ru couldn't care so much, and she no longer hid it, but said directly: "Deputy Chief of Staff Wu, I also tell you the truth, we must reach Kunshan as soon as possible, and there are many things to do to ensure that the road from Jiading to Kunshan is unblocked, otherwise the six or seven hundred thousand troops will be chaotic and the consequences will be unimaginable." ”

Wu Yuzhao said: "Won't it? When I came, the commander received an order from the theater that the Central Group Army should be withdrawn and merged into the two corps on the left and right, that the theater commander's headquarters had arrived in Suzhou, and that Liao Lei's headquarters of the 21st Group Army had entered Shanghai. ”

Xue Ru didn't want to argue with him, and said solemnly: "I know very well that I have proposed to the commander that the Japanese army will land in Hangzhou Bay, and the Suzhou Creek defense line will not be able to hold it. ”

Wu Zhaoyu still has a strategic mind, glanced at the map and said in surprise: "Why didn't the commander say it?" ”

How does Xue Ru know why? In history, the national army may not know, but he has reported it, and Xue Yue has also looked for Chen Cheng for this, but there seems to be no change on the battlefield. Besides, Xue Ru's position, it is impossible for her to grasp the situation of the entire battlefield, so she said: "I don't know, maybe the theater command has a decision." ”

Xiang Wenbin asked strangely, "How did Captain Xue know that the devil would land from Hangzhou Bay?" ”

Xue Ru knew that someone must ask this, so he had to say: "This is the consistent tactics of the Japanese army, and it is also the common sense of military strategy, we cannot underestimate the sea power of the Japanese army, so we must protect the Beijing-Shanghai railway, which is the lifeline of the retreat of the national army." ”

Hearing that it was so serious, several people stopped talking, and for a long time, Lan Xunzhou asked, "What should we do?" ”

Xue Ru said: "Immediately go to Kunshan as quickly as possible, accept our own troops, complete the reorganization in the shortest possible time, and send troops to protect all the bridges and roads from Jiading to Kunshan." We then contacted the defending forces of the Xicheng Line, prepared to block the attack, and covered the withdrawal of the large army to Nanjing. ”

Several of them were high-ranking officers and understood the consequences if they happened. Wu Yuzhao said: "The 15th Division of the 73rd Army is stationed in Kunshan, and I know the commander of Wang Dongyuan, so let's contact them for help." ”

Xiang Wenbin said: "They are all subordinates of the Hunan Army, I am an old acquaintance with Peng Yue, the commander of the 31st Brigade, he is also a subordinate of General Tang Shengzhi, and he can also speak, it should be no problem to have the help of the 31st Brigade of the 15th Division." ”

Xue Ru nodded and said: "That's great, we have too few troops, there is a water network on this road, there are many small rivers, and many heavy weapons are not easy to retreat down, so build a pontoon bridge as much as possible." Chief of Staff Lan led people to mobilize the people, and Chief of Staff Wu contacted the local 15th Division to ask the regiment commander to seize the time to reorganize the troops, and we replenished ammunition and supplies in Jiading and quickly rushed to Kunshan. ”

Several people hurriedly agreed. The troops gathered, did not enter Fangtai Town at all, and rushed directly to Jiading, and Xue Ru and them entered Jiading in the afternoon. Garrisoned in Jiading was the 35th Regiment of the Jiangsu Security Brigade, which had the quartermaster depot of the 1st Army of the Left Wing Corps.

Xue Ru ordered the squadron leader to arrange for his soldiers to comb and change their hair into military uniforms in the city, and wait for weapons and ammunition to be replenished. They only stayed in Jiading for one day, and then drove to Kunshan, about Xue Ru's arrangement, Wu Yuzhao and Xiang Wenbin just shook their heads, girls are girls after all, and they are still thinking about taking a bath and getting a haircut at this time. But these soldiers, who had been fighting on the ground for several months, were very happy, and the small town of Jiading immediately became lively.

This is also a troop of seven or eight hundred people, and there are several kinds of military uniforms, and their only mark is that they all wear a red silk scarf around their necks, which looks very special.

Xue Ru was short of time, so he did not participate in the banquet of the 35th Security Regiment, but directly approached the 1st Group Army Quartermaster Depot stationed in the north of Jiading City.

There is only one battalion of troops here, and the quartermaster Fang Quan looked at the commander's order in his hand with a smile on his face: "It turned out to be Captain Xue, Chief of Staff Wu, what do you need Although I said, this is the weapons and ammunition of an army." ”

Hearing this, Xue Ru was taken aback: "What did you say." ”