"Report!" Liu Hai arrived at Zhang Zhizhong's headquarters in the temple.

"The humble position is the instructor of the Whampoa Military Academy, Liu Hai, the director of the artillery department, come to report!" Bangs shouted.

"Oh, you're Bangs!" General Zhang Zhizhong turned his head to look at the bangs

"It's quite young, so young is the director of the artillery department of Huangpu, it seems to be very set!"

"The chief has won the prize!" Bangs said.

"You previously served as the commander of the Wusong Fort of the 19th Route Army, I heard that the results are outstanding, we have just come to Shanghai, and we have little experience in fighting against Japan, I want to hear you talk about the Japanese army!" General Zhang Zhizhong said.

"Yes, sir!" Bangs walked in front of the map,

"The Japanese army's attack a few days ago was very fierce, but due to the stubborn resistance of the 19th Route Army, as well as the setback at the Wusong Fort, the progress was not large, and the casualties were not small, and now the Japanese army has retreated to the concession again, and the United States and Britain and other countries have once again mediated the armistice, and the Japanese army promised to stop the war, the purpose is obviously to wait for support!"

"Director Liu, let me say it first, this time we have an artillery regiment and an artillery battalion, and after the merger, we will temporarily form our Fifth Army Reinforced Artillery Regiment, and you will be the commander!" Zhang Zhizhong said

"But now what I want to know is how effective the Japanese army is?"

"The Japanese army's combat power is very strong, its warship artillery is fierce, the infantry artillery is especially intensive, the 19th Route Army has suffered no less because of the lack of artillery power, and the Japanese soldiers' marksmanship is also very powerful, almost bullets bite meat! But generally speaking, the offensive steps of the Japanese army are actually very simple, that is, the artillery bombards the infantry and the infantry rushes after the artillery bombardment, its tactics are dull, and the soldiers are also very rigid, if we can make full use of the mobile and flexible tactics, then we will definitely be able to deal a heavy blow! Bangs said what he thought.

"Hmmm! I know, the commanders of the divisions and divisions will come back for a meeting in a while to determine the strategy and tactics, and you will also participate! Zhang Zhizhong said.

"Yes!" After bangs finished speaking, he stood there. Within an hour, Zhang Zhizhong specifically inquired about the operational characteristics of the Japanese army and the rules of the use of artillery, and Liu Hai told everything he knew, but Liu Hai said that he had fought artillery battles with Japanese warships so far, and had not fought with the artillery of the Japanese army!

An hour has passed, and the officers of the 87th and 88th Divisions under Zhang Zhizhong, as well as the headquarters of the Teaching Corps, have all arrived!

"This is Director Liu, director of the artillery section of the Whampoa Military Academy, and he will be ordered to command all our artillery!" Zhang Zhizhong introduced.

"Hello everyone!" Bangs salute!

"You're welcome, Director Liu, our gang is all dependent on your artillery support, you can't be petty!"

"Yes, yes, especially the chariot of the little devil, I heard that it can still run after turning over, but it is amazing!" A group of officers began to chatter.

"Quiet!" Zhang Zhizhong roared

"Now let's arrange our operational deployment, the 87th Division is responsible for defending the first line of Daliuhai, the 88th Division is defending the first line of Miaoxing, and the teaching corps and the 528th Regiment of the 88th Division are used as reserves! The artillery is commanded by Director Liu, and the artillery positions are selected by themselves to bombard the enemy! After Zhang Zhizhong finished speaking, Liu Hai was grateful, dozens of cannons of a reinforced artillery regiment were under his own command, and he was also allowed to choose his own artillery position, which was a trust in himself.

After Liu Hai received the order, he went to the North Railway Station to accept the artillery regiment, looking at the dozens of cannons in front of him, Liu Hai understood how much responsibility he had to bear, so he didn't dare to slack off at all, and personally ran outside to find an artillery position, a reinforced artillery regiment has a total of 32 cannons, and it is indeed a little difficult to defend such a long line of defense.

In addition, Liu Hai took into account that the Japanese army still had air superiority and could bomb and reconnoitre, so the artillery positions could not be too concentrated, otherwise the enemy planes could destroy several guns if they came to blow up one *.

"Second Battalion Commander!" Liu Hai called one of the battalion commanders of the artillery regiment over.

"The lot of your battalion is here, immediately build an artillery position, listen to the order to fire at any time, and most importantly, the distance between the cannons must not be less than fifty meters!" Liu Hai pointed to a clearing in front of him, which was behind the temple line, and it was the best place to cover the battle of the temple line.

"Yes!" The second battalion commander turned around and ran.

"Third battalion commander, your location is under the hill three kilometers away from here, your combat mission is to cover the battle on the front line of the Daliu River, and the rest of the artillery is stationed in the open space on the left flank as a reserve, and no artillery is allowed to fire without an order!" Bangs continued to give orders.

"Yes," the officers agreed, and each began to prepare!

"Report!" Liu Hai ran to the headquarters and watched Zhang Zhizhong deploying for combat.

"Is there anything wrong with Director Liu?" Zhang Zhizhong raised his head and said.

"Please send me a platoon and a few walkie-talkies, I will go forward to conduct artillery reconnaissance!" Bangs said.

"Let the scouts do this kind of work, and you, Director Liu, can command the artillery operations at my command headquarters!" Zhang Zhizhong said.

"No, no, no," Liu Hai said hurriedly

"It is very important for the artillery to go out to observe, to be able to formulate the shelling target and coordinates in detail, and directly allocate the intensity of artillery fire according to the needs of the front line, ordinary people can't do it, now the enemy is strong and I am weak, and it is necessary to give full play to the power of artillery, so I must personally go out to observe to confirm the bombardment target!"

"You guys go out first!" Zhang Zhizhong asked the staff officers around him to go out first, and then walked up to Liu Hai and said

"Director Liu, you are not from our Fifth Army, you are the person of Commander Chen of the Eighteenth Army, and when you came, your cousin, Commander Guo, took special care of you, and you must let you live, so I am responsible for this!"

"Commander Guo?" Bangs said in surprise.

"Yes, your cousin has been promoted, and now he is the commander of the Eighteenth Army, he still has to give face, after all, we are all from the Whampoa department, in case you have something, it will be difficult to talk when we meet in the future!" Zhang Zhizhong said.

"Please rest assured, the national disaster is at the head, as a soldier, my generation should sacrifice his life for the country on the battlefield as the highest glory, how can I be greedy for life and afraid of death, I am willing to make a suicide note, and I will never embarrass the commander if there is something!" Bangs said resolutely.

"Okay, it's worthy of being my Chinese man!" Zhang Zhizhong said

"However, Director Liu, you have come back from studying in Germany, such artillery talents, there are only a handful of them in our national army, as the so-called thousands of troops are easy to buy and hard to find, even if we fail now, as long as there are talents like you, we can continue to fight the Japanese invaders, if you are gone, it will be the loss of the entire Anti-Japanese War!"

"Commander, I know what you said, but as a soldier, you must serve the country, you can put the command headquarters less than five miles away from the front line, what reason does my little colonel have not to serve on the battlefield, your commander can do this, I can too!" Bangs said resolutely.

"Alas! In that case, then I won't force it, but I'll send a company to you as a guard, and that's all right! Zhang Zhizhong said.

"Thank you Commander, but one company is a bit too much, a reinforced platoon is enough, more is useless, and it attracts the attention of the enemy!" Bangs said.

"Good!" Zhang Zhizhong agreed!