readx;? At nine o'clock in the morning of the next day, Wang Haitao was in the command center facing the map, looking at the distribution of his new 90th Division's battle line, Wang Haitao was most worried about the defense line guarded by the 543rd Regiment and the 544th Regiment in Zhao Zhongwu's hands. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Info With the strength of two regiments, he held a seven-kilometer-long defensive line, although there was a small river to rely on, but for a Japanese division, a small river with a width of only ten meters, it was really difficult to rely on.

In addition to the small river, it is all wild, and the only way to fight the Japanese army in the field fortifications is to use people to go up and down. Therefore, the lack of a defense in depth on the defensive line of these two regiments is a shortcoming, and as long as the Japanese break through a little, the entire defensive line will collapse. However, in order to build fortifications in depth, these two regiments were not sufficient in number. When Wang Haitao was grieved, the guards came to report that there was a lieutenant general of the **26th Division named Guo Rudong outside the command who asked to see him.

Wang Haitao was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart that at this time, how could the commander of the 26th Division come to see him? However, Wang Haitao immediately left his desk and personally came to the gate of the headquarters to greet the commander of the 26th Division. At the gate of the headquarters, Wang Haitao saw a tall and thin lieutenant general officer with a serious face, who was about 50 years old, and his military uniform was a little old, but it was clean and neat.

After Wang Haitao and Guo Rudong saluted each other at the gate of the headquarters, Wang Haitao said: "Division Commander Guo is here today, there must be something important, please sit down inside." After speaking, Guo Rudong was let into the headquarters. After the two people in the headquarters sat down, Wang Haitao opened his mouth and asked, "Why is Division Commander Guo here today?" Guo Rudong took out an official letter and handed it to Wang Haitao and replied: "My 26th Division was ordered by the Ninth Group Army to reinforce Division Commander Wang's new 90th Division. ”

Wang Haitao heard Guo Rudong's thick Sichuan dialect, and after reading the official letter in his hand, he understood a little in his heart. Wang Haitao said: "Welcome, Division Commander Guo, you can really come to this front-line position! I wonder how many officers and soldiers there are in the 26th Division of Division Commander Guo?" Guo Rudong replied: "Division Commander Wang, although our 26th Division has only more than 3,000 people and poor weapons and equipment, our Sichuan army guarantees that it will fight to the last man, and we promise not to let the little devils be frightened. We went out of the river to fight hard with the little devils. ”

Looking at Guo Rudong, who was a little excited, Wang Haitao understood in his heart that because of the number and weapons and equipment of the Sichuan army, not to mention the Central Army, most of the local warlord troops would look down on them. So Wang Haitao said with a smile: "Division Commander Guo misunderstood, I asked you about the number of divisions to consider where your department should be placed, and as for weapons and equipment, I will supplement some of your department." ”

When Guo Rudong heard Wang Haitao say this, he smiled a little embarrassedly and said: "All the officers and men of our 26th Division have a total of 3,480 people, divided into three regiments and one division guard battalion. Wang Haitao asked again when the 26th Division was on standby in Zhujiazhai Village, not far from Yang Xing, and said to Guo Rudong: "Commander Guo, how about we go to your 26th Division now?"

Wang Haitao and Guo Rudong left the command headquarters, and before leaving, Wang Haitao did not forget to ask the guards to inform the logistics department to prepare lunch for the 26th Division. The two took the soldiers of the guard company to the 26th Division of Zhu's house, and Guo Rudong asked all the 26th Division to assemble. When the 26th Division, which had more than 3,400 people, stood in front of Wang Haitao, Wang Haitao finally understood why most of the troops looked down on the Sichuan army.

The unit in front of him is really a ragtag army of a ragtag army, not only is it dressed in shabby uniforms, but the best weapons in its hands may be a "Hanyang-made" for each of the people in the guard battalion, and there are also two imitation Czech-style light machine guns and a Mack heavy machine gun in the battalion. Other fighters had in their hands everything from the "Old Sleeve", "Singles One", "Water Lianzhu" to the Mauser 1871 rifle, and this was not just one for everyone, and some children of fourteen or five years old only had a large knife. In total, there were only six light machine guns and four heavy machine guns in the division.

Looking at such a unit, Wang Haitao was full of emotion in his heart, it was such a unit that had resisted the Japanese army in Shanghai for three months in history with such equipment, and if it had not been for the mistakes of the high-level command, it would have fought for even longer, and this was completely a fight for human lives! After thinking about the weapons and equipment in the warehouse, Wang Haitao said to Guo Rudong: " Division Commander Guo, I will take out all the captured Japanese weapons and give them to your 26th Division, and I will also supplement you with some of our division's automatic weapons.

Guo Rudong looked at Wang Haitao and said, "Senior Commander Wang, can you really support some of our weapons and ammunition?" Wang Haitao replied: "Of course, I will send it to you later, I can't let you use this weapon to fight the Japanese flying guns and artillery." Guo Rudong said gratefully: "That's really grateful to Master Wang, if there are better weapons and equipment, who would be willing to fight with human lives." ”

At noon, a row of 15 large trucks drove into the 26th Division of Zhu's house. Wang Haitao and a platoon of soldiers from the baggage battalion came with the car. After seeing Guo Rudong, Wang Haitao said: "Division Commander Guo, let's arrange for the soldiers to eat first, and then send the weapons down after eating." The soldiers of this platoon are responsible for teaching you how to use and maintain these new weapons of our division. ”

Lunch was specially ordered by Wang Haitao to be made by the Logistics Department for the 26th Division, and the rice was returned to the pot. Spicy cabbage and hot and sour soup. The officers and men of the 26th Division have not been taken seriously since they left Sichuan, and now that they can eat such an authentic Sichuan-style meal, they can't help but be full of gratitude to Wang Haitao and the new 90th Division. After eating, the 26th Division assembled, and all the original guns were put aside.

Wang Haitao asked the people from the logistics department to bring the list of Wuyu equipment and began to hand over to Guo Rudong. First of all, the Japanese-style equipment, which was captured during the fighting during this period of time, and after Zhang Lingfu's 547th Regiment replenished the guns sent from the rear, the 547th Regiment returned most of the Japanese-style equipment in the logistics office. There are 1,800 Type 38 rifles, 40 light machine guns, 15 Type 92 heavy machine guns, 30 grenadiers, 4,000 grenades, and 80,000 rounds of ammunition.

Then there were 800 Type 56 semi-automatic rifles, 300 Type 56 submachine guns, 20 Type 56 light machine guns, 10 Type 57 heavy machine guns, 50,000 rounds of ammunition, and 100 light machine gun drums. In addition, there were 20 60 mortars and 10 82 mortars, with 800 and 400 shells, respectively. 20,000 grenades with wooden handles. In order to deal with the Japanese tanks, two 82 recoilless gun squads of the 26th Division were specially reinforced, with a total of four guns, 200 armor-piercing shells, and 400 grenades.

Guo Ruxuan got this list, and his hands trembled with excitement. These weapons can already make the entire 26th Division redress, he never expected Wang Haitao to be so generous and generous. When the officers of the logistics department told Guo Rudong that each soldier also had a personal backpack like the soldiers of the New 90th Division, which contained individual rations, first-aid kits, sapper shovels, water bottles, and other items, Guo Ruxuan was speechless with excitement, and what moved Guo Rudong even more was that when Wang Haitao saw that the officers and soldiers of Sichuan were only wearing straw shoes on their feet, and that many soldiers had straw shoes broken and could only go barefoot, he asked the logistics office to send 3,000 pairs of liberation shoes for later generations.

Guo Rudong held Wang Haitao's hand tightly and said, "Senior Commander Wang, how can you make me grateful to you?" Wang Haitao said with a smile: "Senior Commander Guo has seen the outside, they are all party members, and for the common purpose, to improve your combat effectiveness, won't my position be more solid?"

Guo Rudong said: "Master Wang, we Sichuan people are poor, but we are not stupid, we know who treats us sincerely. I didn't say it, if you have any tasks, you just have to explain, I have nothing to say, the 26th Division is the last person, and it will definitely complete the tasks. ”

Wang Haitao said: "Division Commander Guo, you first distribute these weapons, and in the afternoon, my soldiers will teach everyone to use our division's new weapons, and then ask Division Commander Guo to go to my headquarters, and we will discuss tomorrow's actions." Guo Rudong agreed, and began to distribute weapons and ammunition to the soldiers of the 26th Division. New weapons were given priority to the guard battalion, and the rest of the fighters were basically replaced with Japanese-style weapons.

Thirty mortars made it difficult for Guo Rudong, and the 26th Division could not find a few people who could use mortars, so in the end, Wang Haitao transferred dozens of artillery from the New 90th Division, first taught the soldiers of the 26th Division to use it, and then followed the 26th Division to aim in battle. After the officers and men of the 26 th Division got the new guns, they all couldn't put them down, just like the soldiers who got the new weapons, and they all wiped the new guns over and over again.

In the past, the "Hanyang-made" guns in the 26th Division were now all given to those 14- and 5-year-old child soldiers who did not have guns before. The individual backpacks distributed next made these soldiers of the 26th Division surprised and curious, and they never thought that there would be such a material allocation one day in their impressions, and even the division commander Guo Rudong was shocked by this individual soldier material.

Wang Haitao watched these soldiers reluctant to wear the rubber shoes after taking them, and after comparing the sizes, he couldn't help but feel a little sour when he immediately put them away. Wang Haitao finally took out five 54-style pistols and ten original German Mauser automatic pistols and bullets, and then Wang Haitao said to Guo Rudong: "These pistols are prepared for the officers of the 26th Division, Division Commander Guo, please accept them, these pistols are all original German goods, and I personally brought them back from Germany." ”

Guo Rudong picked up a 54-style pistol, played with it for a while, and said: "Senior Commander Wang, I am a few years older, I shouted at you, brother, I Guo recognized your brother, and I will not thank you." If you have anything to say in the future, I, Guo, will not give up when I go to the soup and the fire. Wang Haitao knows very well that people in this era will not easily promise anything if they are soldiers, but when they say it, they will not easily regret it.

So he said with a smile: "Brother Guo's words are serious, friends and colleagues should help each other, I, Wang Haitao, still have the ability to help Brother Guo, and what are you talking about, let's go to the headquarters to study the war." Guo Rudong promised to return to Yang Xing's headquarters with Wang Haitao.