readx;? The next morning, on his way to the Jinling Arsenal, Wang Haitao saw several military recruitment stations, where military police were maintaining order, and some young people were handing out leaflets to pedestrians. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info At the same time, I also saw the gendarmerie playing the "Interim Regulations of Nanjing City in Wartime" while driving in a car equipped with a loudspeaker. The content is basically the content that Wang Haitao assigned to Xiao Shanling yesterday.

This Xiao Shanling is not slow, and his ability to do things is also good, which has been affirmed and appreciated by Wang Haitao. Today, the intensity of military and police patrols in Nanjing City has increased markedly, checkpoints have been set up at some major intersections near the city gates, and at the same time, the officers and men of the teaching corps are building fortifications.

When Wang Haitao's car came to the gate of the Jinling Arsenal, the troops who were already anxious were waiting at the gate with their vehicles. As soon as Wang Haitao arrived, all the officers and soldiers saluted Wang Haitao in unison. The guard battalion around Wang Haitao was all dispatched this time, and all the way from the factory gate to the warehouse were under martial law. The first to arrive at the door of the warehouse was the nearest 66th Army, and the people who came were Major General Huang Zhinan, chief of staff of the 66th Army, and Colonel Yu Ziwu, chief of the General Affairs Division.

Wang Haitao distributed light and heavy weapons and supplies to the 66 th Army in accordance with the number of weapons set yesterday, and after the count was correct, Major General Huang Zhinan signed for receipt, and then loaded it into a truck and transported it away. When loading the truck, Wang Haitao told Major General Huang Zhinan where to strengthen the firepower and where to place mortars to play the greatest role. Wang Haitao's familiarity with several positions of the 66th Army also amazed Major General Huang Zhinan.

The 66th Army was followed by the 74th Army, and the 74th Army was actually Lieutenant General Wang Yaowu, commander of the 51st Division. After loading the car, Wang Yaowu said to Wang Haitao: "Commander Wang, it's really nice to follow you." Wang Haitao couldn't help laughing.

It took a busy day for all the troops to receive all the new weapons and equipment. The rest was loaded by the guard battalion and pulled back to the warehouse for sealing, which was prepared for Xiao Shanling to form a militia team. Wang Haitao did not return to the headquarters until after dark, and the urgent telegram from the reconnaissance regiment had just arrived again, telling Wang Haitao that the Japanese army would launch an attack on Liyang County tomorrow, and that it was the Japanese 22nd Division that was attacking, and that the Japanese Third Division had bypassed Wuxi City and was attacking Wujin County in Changzhou City.

According to reconnaissance, the Japanese army used a large number of ships to cross the Taihu Lake from Suzhou and then went ashore near Yixing, and the Yixing defenders were negligent in guarding the direction of Taihu Lake, and after the Japanese army succeeded in the sneak attack, they occupied Yixing City within two days, and the 13th Independent Brigade of the Sichuan Army of the Yixing defenders retreated to Liyang. At the same time as this telegram was sent, Guo Ruxuan, commander of the 91st Division guarding Liyang, also called to say that the 13th Independent Brigade of the Sichuan Army, the defenders of Yixing, had withdrawn to Liyang County today, telling him that Yixing had been lost. There were only more than 1,300 officers and men left in the 13th Brigade under the command of Tian Zhongyi, commander of the 13th Independent Brigade.

After Wang Haitao read the second telegram, he asked the confidential room to send a telegram to the 91st Division, and the call was received, and your unit will exchange fire with the Japanese army tomorrow, so be prepared. The 13th Brigade of the Sichuan Army was organized into a reinforced regiment, and your unit tried to change its outfit as much as possible, and then incorporated it into your unit to participate in the battle of Liyang Guard. After sending the telegram, Wang Haitao asked the guard battalion to transport a batch of guns and ammunition to Liyang overnight, which was used to redress the 13th Independent Brigade of the Sichuan Army.

The next day was March 6, 38, the defenders of Liyang City exchanged fire with the 22nd Division of the Japanese Army, and the Battle of Nanjing officially began. The 22nd Division of the Japanese Army suddenly attacked Yixing City after crossing the Taihu Lake by boat from Suzhou, so it did not make much effort to occupy Yixing City, but in fact, the 22nd Division did not carry many heavy weapons, and even the wild mountain artillery wing of the division did not act with the synchronized brigade.

The first line of defense outside Liyang County was built on the section from Tangzhuang to Dalin Village, eight kilometers away from the city wall. In front of this line there was a small river less than ten meters wide, and although it did not have much effect on the Japanese attack, it was still an obstacle of size. Guarding the first line of defense was the 561st Regiment of the 273rd Brigade.

There are several shallow places in this small river, the water can only flood people's calves, if it is not winter, you can directly wade across the river, in these places and two small wooden bridges that can only walk people, the regiment commander Fu Bingxun has arranged a company to defend. The trenches, sandbags, bunkers and other fortifications on the position were densely repaired, and what was even more terrifying was that mines were laid 50 meters from the front of the position to the river.

When the Japanese 22nd Division set up a blockade line on the outskirts of Shanghai, it fought a tough battle with the New 90th Division, and in addition to the fact that it was a smooth attack on one city after another, when the vanguard discovered the defensive position of the Zhina army on the west side of the river, they did not take it seriously at all. Without waiting for the arrival of the troops behind, the captain of the vanguard sent a squadron of Japanese troops under the cover of several mortars to attack the defenders' positions along a wooden bridge.

To the west of the wooden bridge is a company of the 561st Regiment, with four bunkers, all of which are equipped with heavy machine guns, and between the bunkers are trenches and sandbag fortifications, and the sandbag fortifications also have wooden roofs, and inside are light machine gun positions. The rest of the fighters, with the exception of a platoon in the back as a reserve, were ambushed in the trenches. At this time, the Japanese mortars fired, unless the shells happened to fall in the trenches and would cause damage to the soldiers, other shells, let alone bunkers, and even sandbag fortifications could not be damaged.

As soon as the Japanese troops in the front ran across the bridge deck, the company commander commanded two heavy machine guns to block the bridge deck, and it was difficult for the Japanese troops to turn around on the narrow bridge deck, and as soon as the heavy machine guns rang out, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers in front were knocked to the ground. The Japanese soldiers on the bridge could only lie on the ground if they rushed over the bridgehead, and the Japanese soldiers who wanted to rush across the bridgehead were knocked to the ground, and in two minutes, there was no Japanese soldier standing on the bridge, either to avoid the bullets and jump into the river, or to fall on the bridge deck.

The Japanese soldiers who jumped into the river saw that the water was only up to their knees, and they rushed to the positions west of the river one after another, but as soon as they came ashore, the light machine guns and the guns in the hands of the soldiers in the trenches rang out, and the Japanese soldiers were knocked to the ground one after another. The squadron commander of the Japanese army saw that this was wrong and ordered a retreat, so the Japanese waded back to the eastern riverbank, and at this time the Japanese of one squadron lost a third.

The attack met a strong resistance, which surprised the Japanese captain of the vanguard team, who put away his contempt and began to carefully examine the defenders' positions across the river with the binoculars in his hand. This saw the captain of the brigade as a surprise to the fact that the defensive positions of the people on the opposite side had not been built in a hurry, and there were many bunkers alone, as well as enclosed sandbag fortifications, and trenches criss-crossed. Obviously, the defenders of China have been prepared for a long time, and such a position is by no means something that can be captured by one brigade of their own.

The captain who saw it clearly issued a guard on the spot, waiting for the order of reinforcements, and when the defenders saw that the Japanese army was no longer attacking, the veterans relaxed first, while the recruits were still lying on the edge of the trench, holding their guns and staring nervously at the Japanese troops across the river. The company commander had arranged an observation post and let the soldiers rest in place, and then the recruits sat down in the trenches.

The veterans sat or leaned, smoking cigarettes and bragging in the trenches, and the topic of conversation except women was eating, drinking, and merrymaking. There was a 40-year-old veteran who dragged the Sichuan dialect and said: "If you want to say that this Central Army is really incomparable to the original miscellaneous army, it has good food, military salaries, better weapons, and even the cigarettes smoked are cigarettes wrapped in tin foil, which is really his grandmother's energy." ”

Another veteran next to him said: "What is this, I heard a fellow of the 90th Division say that the salary of the 90th Division is six oceans with a clang, and when he first withdrew to Suzhou, Shangfeng also paid ten oceans of hardship alone." I heard that the pension and disability pension of 100 yuan for one person who died in the war and were disabled were sent directly to his home. ”

At this time, a recruit muttered: "Good boy, a hundred oceans, I can buy ten acres of good land and a good cow in my house." With this hundred oceans, even if Lao Tzu dies, it is worth it. Another recruit asked: "That's the people of the 90th Division, the 90th Division is the own people of the military seat, and we Sichuan babies can also have this treatment?"

As he was talking, the company commander walked over, and the recruit pulled the company commander and asked, "Company commander, do you think that we can be the same as the people of the 90th Division, and we will have a pension of 100 oceans if we die in battle?" The company commander kicked the recruit and said: "You melon baby, what are you talking about? Although Shangfeng said that we were reorganized into the 90th Army and treated the whole army the same, then don't think about dying in battle, the military salary for a year of life is more than 70 yuan, plus some rewards from the last summit, it is almost 100 yuan less. ”

The recruit got up and asked: "Company commander, you say that there are so many, but how many can be sent to our little soldiers?" The company commander scolded again: "You melon babies, listen, now is not the past, the current military salaries are paid by the military administration office according to the real name of the head, who the dares to deduct and cheat will lose his head, our new military seat is not a foolish master, these military salaries are paid by himself." ”

The words of the company commander made his subordinates talk for a while, but to put it bluntly, they all said that this soldier is really worth it now, and what if there is such a commander, he has no intention of going back alive if he fights back. The same discussion was going on in different units, and the result was that the 91st Division, which was originally the Sichuan Army, had more and more fighters who dared to fight hard.

With good weapons and equipment, coupled with soldiers who can fight hard, the combat effectiveness of the 91st Division is enough to shock the Japanese army. The 22nd Division of the Japanese army reached the place where the vanguard had stopped, and the captain of the vanguard hurriedly reported to his immediate commander the situation after their arrival, and the fact that he had commanded a squadron to launch an attack, only to be repulsed by the defenders.