“…… The gun is a good gun, the clothes are new, there is oil and meat in the meal, and the hat and boots are all top! ”

This was the first feeling of Comrade Dong Xiaoshan, platoon commander of a platoon of the 19th Division of the 10th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, on his way to Shanghai.

The more than 20 days from northern Zhejiang to Shanghai were the happiest and most comfortable days in his life!

Even in the warm climate of the Jiangnan water town, at the end of December of the Gregorian calendar, the breeze soaked in water vapor is quite biting cool. But platoon commander Dong Xiaoshan obviously didn't care about this test -- the knee-length grass green military coat, heavy locomotive hat, and artificial leather warm boots wrapped this young man tightly, and the collar of some kind of fluff rubbed his cheeks and neck repeatedly, making him feel warm.

Alas, thanks to the generosity of those foreign comrades in the international column, our troops are really very generous now!

The newly issued military uniform is really warm, the inside is good cotton, and the outside is a cloth that has never been seen to be waterproof, which is very suitable for wearing in cold weather. I remember that in previous years, such sturdy and warm muslin clothes were only affordable by large families, not to mention so many pockets that could hold a lot of things; and the boots on the feet, even the landlords in the township have never seen the old wealth, I don't know how much warmer than straw sandals; Then there are the steel kettles and lunch boxes that can't be broken, the sharp and weird daggers, the yellow and green rucksacks, the sturdy and smooth steel helmets, the body armor that can't be pierced by bullets, and the yellow basin made of "plastic...... Hey! Our Red Army is no longer a poor mud leg! No matter how much you walk, you feel energetic!

In addition to the "high-end and high-grade" outfit on his body, the meals he eats every day make Comrade Dong Xiaoshan so happy that he seems to be dreaming.

In the past, when I was in the Jiangxi Soviet District. It was difficult for everyone to eat, and although the Soviet government always gave priority to ensuring the supply of the army, most of the Red Army soldiers were still able to eat only two meals a day. A bowl of brown rice mixed with chaff and rice bran for one person -- this is still the time when the conditions are not good, and if the conditions are not good, they can only make do with pumpkin, yams, sweet potatoes and mixed beans, so that some intellectuals from big cities eat pantothenic acid in their stomachs all day long.

Moreover, when it came time to eat, the Red Army soldiers often had no food to eat, and meat, oil, and water were even more extravagant, and sometimes they could not even eat salt - because of the blockade of the White Bandits. The base areas of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, located deep in the inland mountains, have always lacked salt, which has almost become one of the common currencies of the Red Army...... As a result, many fighters are generally malnourished, with poor physique, weak body, and insufficient strength. No matter how much you exercise, it's hard to get strong.

Fortunately, most of the Kuomintang troops on the other side of the battlefield drank the blood of the soldiers so fiercely that the grassroots soldiers often ate worse than the Red Army. The physique is also mostly weaker than that of the Red Army. In the real fight, it was the Red Army that took advantage of it...... It seems that they are worse than each other?

However, hard days like this will come to an end in this month!

I remember that on the first day of the meeting with the international column in Changhua County, the comrades had not seen enough of the ironclad cars and the dioramas of the big iron men, and they were shocked by the sumptuous meal entertained by the comrades of the international column -- everyone was full of a big spoonful of roast beef with potatoes, fragrant white rice, and seaweed soup and stewed radish were used to accompany the rice, and the oil flowers in the dishes were also unprecedentedly heavy...... Such a high-grade cuisine. In Dong Xiaoshan's memory, even the big landlord with the most generous life in his hometown. I'm afraid you can only eat it during the New Year's holidays!

So, the comrades happily dried up this sumptuous meal, which was almost unprecedented, in one go, and then touched their round bellies and felt deeply satisfied. There are also a few comrades who are not very good in the stomach, because they have not eaten greasy and meaty meat for many years, but now they have eaten too much in one meal, so that they have diarrhea in the thatched hut on the ground again and again, and they are ridiculed as poor ghosts who can't eat oil and meat all their lives.

Dong Xiaoshan originally thought that being able to beat a tooth sacrifice like this would already be a rare enjoyment. After eating, the comrades of the international column also distributed a rectangular black block about a finger length to each of the soldiers, wrapped in a very strange kind of oiled paper, and the company commander who had been in elementary school said that this was called chocolate in foreign countries, and that everyone could eat it as a snack during a break, so that they could replenish their physical strength -- when distributing chocolate, Dong Xiaoshan and his platoon were almost about to blow up their nests, and everyone looked at the foreign food in their hands very rarely, and they exchanged words and discussions, and after a long time they were willing to eat it......

This was the first time in Dong Xiaoshan's life that he had eaten such a Western food as chocolate - he had never tasted such an indescribably wonderful taste, in fact, because of his family's poverty when he was a child, he had never even eaten much sugar...... Therefore, at that moment, Dong Xiaoshan swore extremely solemnly from the bottom of his heart that after overthrowing the Kuomintang opposition and defeating the Japanese devils, he must eat a piece of chocolate every day!

Then, when dinner was held that day, Dong Xiaoshan was stunned to find that he had received another piece of chocolate......

All in all, since the "Changhua Division", the Red Army officers and men of the Red Tenth Army have lived a happy life that they could not even dream of in the past -- every meal is fragrant white rice, there is always meat in the oily side dishes, there is candy after the meal, each person is given one or two packs of cigarettes every week, and from time to time all kinds of canned meat and canned fruits are distributed, for example, Dong Xiaoshan has tasted canned yellow peaches, canned pineapples, canned coconut fruits, canned oranges in sugar water, canned fruit sweet corn, and canned cherries...... Some of these fruits are of a variety that even the self-proclaimed well-informed city soldiers can't tell what they are. Alas, this revolution is a festival every day!

I really hope that such a good life can go on forever, if I can eat and dress like this every day, it will be worth it to be killed by the white bandit army tomorrow!

-- And the traversers are also very happy: the backlog of expired and near-expired food in Shanghai's major supermarkets finally has a good place to go......

In addition to eating and wearing good food and cigarettes every day, the guns in the hands of the Red Army soldiers were also replaced with a brand-new "flower mechanism", and each soldier had one for each. It is lighter than water beads, and you don't need to pull it when you fight, and you can buckle it at once. Listening to the company commander say what is called "56 and a half", I am energetic! I don't know how many times stronger than the old sleeve of the White Bandit Army and Hanyang! In the hands of Dong Xiaoshan, the platoon commander himself, and a few veterans, there is actually a better new game, called the "QLT89 50mm grenade launcher", which is treasured by the leading comrades, and is only given to veterans, and the recruits are not allowed to touch it.

- But. Although the name of this thing is stinky and long, it is really powerful, and it looks like it is just a round rod-shaped thing. It's about the same size as a large tea caddy made of bamboo tubes in the countryside, but it can go more than a mile with one shot! (Ultimate range 800 meters) and it is also a silent, flameless and lightless "three no" product, the enemy is bombed by it, and may not even know what's going on!

In the XXI century. This thing is not suitable for use on hardened floors. It was gradually eliminated by the People's Liberation Army. But in the days of the Republic of China, it was difficult to find a battlefield full of hardened ground - even in the urban areas of Shanghai and Beiping, there were still many gravel roads and rammed earth roads!

In short, Platoon Commander Dong Xiaoshan likes this thing very much, and thinks that it can almost withstand a cannon in terms of power!

“…… Hum! Our Dong Xiaoshan is now an old revolutionary-the shotgun has been replaced......"

Platoon Commander Dong Xiaoshan carried a grenade catapult on his back, a 56 semi-automatic rifle on his shoulder, a pistol and a tactical dagger pinned to his waist, and his heart was quite fluttering.

Jiangnan water town in the winter of December of the Gregorian calendar. Although it hasn't snowed yet, it's a little chilly. But for those who were born in the deep mountains of southern Gan that are shrouded in clouds and mist all year round. For Comrade Dong Xiaoshan, who has worked hard for so many years, this tidal point is really nothing.

Moreover, as the most advanced and developed place in China during the Republic of China era, the densely populated rural scenery on the outskirts of Shanghai is also completely different from the desolate mountains of southern Jiangxi and western Fujian that Dong Xiaoshan is accustomed to seeing - the ground is as flat as a big cake, and there are endless rice fields everywhere, and there is not a single mountain in sight; There are incredibly many houses in villages and towns, and a village behind has not disappeared from view, and there is a black eaves in front of it; The rivers in this place are also criss-crossed, dense, and you have to cross a bridge on average if you walk one or two miles, which is worthy of being a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and you have to cross the bridge after walking a few steps.

In addition, unlike the medieval mountainous areas of southern Gansu, the suburbs of Shanghai are crisscrossed by roads and railways, with telephone poles everywhere on the roadside, colorful cigarette advertisements and posters with the words "Improper Woman (Cheongsam Girl) with Her Thighs Bared", and the pavement is either paved with asphalt or ash (cement), and at worst, paved with gravel and smooth roads, and you can see very foreign rickshaws and bicycles in some small villages and towns......

-- The Huahua Shijie of Greater Shanghai is really much more interesting than the countryside of our Jiangxi Soviet District!

The journey from Suzhou to Shanghai was almost a military parade for the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. Except for a battle with the Shanghai security corps and police in Kunshan County, there was little resistance. Even the battle in Kunshan County was like a joke: the two armies suddenly met on the street, the Red Army blew the military trumpet, the red flag was beaten, and several RPGs bombarded over, and then the new "flower mechanism" in his hand suddenly burst out, and the people on the opposite side suddenly either cried wolf and fled, or they couldn't escape and surrender with a white flag...... It was over in less than half an hour.

Along the way, those rural people in Suzhou and Shanghai looked at this "high-end and high-grade" team with red flags fluttering with disbelief, as if they couldn't believe that they were the mud-legged Red Army with "dirt and scum" in their previous impressions...... Hehe, I heard that Shanghainese people despise outsiders and think they are rustic. Now that there are so many good things, our Red Army will not be too cold to enter Shanghai!

“…… Onward, forward, forward! Our team to the sun! With the land of the motherland and the hope of the nation, we are an invincible liliang ...... We are the people's soldiers! We are the armed ...... of the nation"

The cheerful singing voice not far away pulled Platoon Commander Dong Xiaoshan back to reality from his imagination.

Following the prestige, a petite girl in a dark green trench coat and a black velvet hat is standing in the top hatch of a military jeep, singing and cheering up the soldiers on the march with a megaphone, like a cheerful lark, bringing passion and excitement wherever she goes.

“…… Female Journalist of the Comintern Column......"

Noticing the "camera" in the girl's hand, Dong Xiaoshan couldn't help muttering in a low voice - he actually didn't know what the difference between this thing and a camera was, and he didn't even know what the reporter was doing. But according to the company commander, journalists are people of culture, and they can write books about our wars. Write it in a newspaper, even make a movie, and then release it to the people of the whole country, so that the big guys will know how powerful our Red Army is!

Recalls the war movies that the political commissar organized everyone to watch collectively a few days ago: "The First Sino-Japanese War", "The Red Baron", "All Quiet on the Western Front". "Dreadnought Admiral Kolchak", "Verdun Meat Grinder", "Battle of Jutland...... It not only let everyone see the tragic scene of artillery fire in the sky, gunsmoke covering the sun, and many planes like mosquitoes. also made Dong Xiaoshan vaguely understand how the foreigners' war was fought...... I have to admit that this Westerner is really a strong ship, and there are so many ironclad ships that they are like dumplings. Even in land warfare, the Chinese have lagged far behind them. The kind of play we have in the domestic melee. On the territory of foreigners, it is estimated that it is similar to a joke.

Alas, the foreigners fought each other, and 100,000 shells could be fired in an hour, and several mountains could be leveled in one battle. And what about us Chinese? Even if you add up the stocks of various artillery shells in the entire Central Soviet District, I am afraid that it will not exceed 10,000 rounds......

Comrade Dong Xiaoshan was thinking like this, until he found that the camera in the girl's hand seemed to be facing him, and Dong Xiaoshan suddenly felt a shock in his heart. Hurry up and fold your belly and make a look of being in good spirits -- if you let the reporter comrade take a picture of himself falling crookedly and sloppily during the march. and then show it to the comrades of the whole army, then he Dong Xiaoshan will not be able to raise his head for the rest of his life!

“…… Well, for now, we have to cheer up and not lose the face of our great Red Army! ”

Dong Xiaoshan muttered to himself like this, and at the same time, he watched the military jeep sprayed with the words "Into Science" passing by in the posture of welcoming the leader's review...... Because he was so nervous, he accidentally didn't hear the repeated calls of the company commander.

Unfortunately, he slapped the back of his head hard, and then turned his head to see the angry face of the company commander with round eyes.

“…… Dong Xiaoshan! I've called you a few times! Call all of you platoons and get on the truck! The division commander asked us to organize an advance team and rush to Anting Town today! The company commander pointed to the large truck parked next to him and shouted, "...... Immediately, immediately, get me moving now! ”

“…… Ah, this...... Company commander, it's time for lunch! Do you want comrades to go hungry to war? ”

Dong Xiaoshan raised his neck and looked at the sun, and said a little reluctantly. Not far in front of him, the smoke from the fires of the cooks could already be seen, and even the aroma of the food could be faintly smelled, and he and the soldiers were already beating drums in their bellies......

“…… Don't worry, I'm not hungry for you! The company commander gave him an angry look, and casually threw him a green cardboard box, "...... Today I will give you a new thing, the fried noodles with shredded pork and cabbage that you can heat by yourself! Grab this and eat it while walking in the car! ”

A moment later, just as Dong Xiaoshan and his subordinates were sitting in the back of a bumpy truck, clumsily and curiously pouring water into the fever pills, making the self-heating rations of the individual soldiers hot, several unmanned reconnaissance planes whizzed over their heads and headed straight for downtown Shanghai in the east......

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From Suzhou to Shanghai, it is about a distance of more than 100 kilometers. For the soldiers of the Red Tenth Army, who still mainly relied on two-legged marches, unless they could show the strength to "fly to capture the Luding Bridge," it would be absolutely impossible to reach Shanghai in one day.

Of course, this does not prevent the traversers from sending some interesting "little gifts" to the enemy on Christmas Eve......

However, in order to speed up the advance of the Red Army as much as possible, the traversers still took out dozens of trucks, and people with driver's licenses played the role of truck drivers, carrying some Red Army soldiers to take the first step, so as to seize the important traffic points along the way as soon as possible.

The tanks and gundams of the "Comintern Column," which looked very capable of bluffing, had to be put away for the time being, because the conditions of the roads along the route were too poor -- Shanghai was located in the area of the water network south of the Yangtze River, at the end of the Yangtze River Delta, and it was originally a tidal flat silted out of the mouth of the Yangtze River, and all kinds of ditches and rivers were really dense, and it was necessary to cross the bridge after walking a few steps...... And the vast majority of bridges in the Republic of China era were obviously not able to carry the weight of tanks......

Therefore, the Russian wolf girl Sonya, the political commissar who advanced with the forward troops, had to change to a relatively light wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, and then in the urgently modified carriage, he secretly discussed the next stage of the operation with the commander of Xun Huaizhou, who had just become a werewolf not long ago.

“…… First of all, it is necessary to explain the bad news, due to the devastating destruction of the Suzhou railway station, it is impossible to use the railway movement troops, and at the current pace of advance, it is probably impossible for our army to reach the downtown area of Shanghai tonight; Then there was good news, according to the results of the reconnaissance of the drone, the assault boat assault team led by General Su Yu had landed and seized the town of Anting along the waterway of the Wusong River (a tributary of the Huangpu River, originating in Taihu Lake). ”

Facing General Xun Huaizhou, she reached out and tapped the map, and her fluffy wolf ears stood up excitedly, "...... Therefore, we are preparing to host the most splendid fireworks display here, giving the Japanese Marines an absolutely impressive Christmas present......" (to be continued......