Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

Chapter 8: Departure from Lucheng

Two months passed in the blink of an eye. The 163rd Regiment had been trained by Su Dao to the point where he would fall asleep immediately whenever he had time. The strength in the hands of the soldiers also increased a lot. In addition to running five kilometers of cross-country every day, he was holding a gun, with a few bricks attached to it, and stood motionless for two hours. If the instructor found it easy to take advantage of the situation, he would continue to increase the time.

After training, Su Dao began to teach the soldiers to learn military boxing. As for which country's military boxing, Su Dao didn't know. Anyway, Su Dao handed it over to the instructor, and the instructor handed it over to the soldiers. This set of military boxing was practiced when Su Dao was fine in his later generations. However, he later found that this kind of boxing technique could not exert much power if he was alone.

But if two people or three people form a formation, it would be no problem to face the enemy that was twice as many as he did at the same time. After practicing, it was time to start dinner, and the afternoon training was relatively simple, just digging trenches back and forth, and then leading the soldiers to simulate battles in various environments, such as jungle warfare, street fighting, guerrilla warfare, etc. In just two months, Su Dao had handed over all the tactics he could think of to the soldiers of the 163rd Regiment.

However, Su Dao did not forget the most important thing, that was the gesture. Su Dao would never forget the gesture he had made for a long time when he first came here. Unexpectedly, the other party asked him what he had done for a long time to gesture. Su Dao was really angry.

Gestures have a relatively large effect in combat. First, it can effectively avoid exposing one's position, and second, it can confuse the enemy as much as possible, so that the enemy cannot figure out how many people there are in front of him, because no one speaks at this time, and even if he shoots, he will run away after he finishes his shot. It is impossible to count how many people there are.

Due to the lack of supply of weapons and ammunition, even though Su Dao often takes the soldiers to train, there is still relatively little shooting training. It has been two months since Su Dao came to the 163rd Regiment, and each soldier actually fired ten bullets. Even so, it was because Su Dao argued with reason. If not, Song Renyi would not be willing to use the bullets to waste the soldiers.

However, at the same time, Su Dao gradually became anxious. According to what he said before, the 163rd Regiment should have gone to Nanjing to change clothes a month ago, but unexpectedly, he has not received the order to change clothes to Nanjing yet.

The other troops involved in the dressing have already been replaced, but the 32nd and 78th Divisions have not received any supplements. Su Dao and his friends transported to Nanjing were indeed equipped with ten full-scale equipment, and Su Dao could still be sure of this, but the situation in front of him made Su Dao secretly worried.

Now Su Dao is not afraid of anything else, but is afraid that the equipment of the 32nd and 78th Divisions will be overwhelmed. This is not surprising at all. One more brigade or several regiments will be arranged in other troops close to the central government. With a slight split, the equipment of the two divisions will be divided up.

If this is the case, Su Daoke will be in big trouble next. Although the 163rd Regiment is now full of nearly 2,800 people, the weapons in his hands are less than 1,500, which is still good. The other regiments of the 32nd Division are basically maintained at about 1,000.

Time is passing rapidly. On August 9, Lieutenant Yuo Oyama, a Japanese Marine Corps stationed in Shanghai, led a soldier Saito to hide and drove a military vehicle to force the attack on the Hongqiao Chinese military airport, and was shot dead by the plane guards on the spot.

For a moment, an earthquake occurred in the international community no less than magnitude 8. The Japanese base camp was full of anger and shouted, demanding that the Chinese side deal with the incident seriously, hand over the murderer to the Great Japanese Empire, and withdraw all the Chinese troops in Shanghai.

On the other hand, China urgently sought assistance from the international community, hoping that Britain, the United States, France, Germany and other countries could intervene in the incident and try their best to mediate to avoid the war. On the other hand, it accelerated the transfer of surrounding troops to Shanghai, and at the same time, Japan was even more unwilling to be outdone.

On August 14, under the command of Commander-in-Chief Zhang Zhizhong, the local Kuomintang garrison Ninth Army commanded three German-armed divisions to start the general attack, and the Chinese Air Force also went to Shanghai to cooperate in combat. On the 15th, Japan officially announced the establishment of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force, with General Matsui Ishione as the commander, leading the two divisions to Shanghai for reinforcements, further expanding the war of aggression against China.

On August 13, thousands of soldiers from the Japanese Marine Corps, without the preparation of the Shanghai garrison in China, resolutely launched the famous August 13 Incident in history, namely the Battle of Shanghai. Only a few thousand Marine Corps were able to defeat the Shanghai garrison in a short time.

After the war began, Chairman Jiang immediately instructed the local garrison's 36th Division, 87th Division and 88th Division of the 9th Army to start fighting against the Japanese army under the command of Zhang Zhizhong. The troops of these three divisions were the German-armed division model units built by German instructors, and all the weapons and equipment were available, of course, except for heavy artillery.

With the joining of the Ninth Army, the war suddenly took a turn, and the Japanese Marine Corps had to retreat temporarily and breathe under the cover of naval guns. However, at the same time, when the Japanese base camp formed the Shanghai Expeditionary Army on August 15, only the 3rd Division and the 11th Division had enough troops of 50,000 to 60,000.

If the 50,000 to 60,000 Japanese troops successfully landed in Shanghai, the 36th, 87th and 88th Divisions on the front line would not be able to resist at all.

"Brother Su, Shangfeng ordered our master to arrive in Lucheng within five days, but Shangfeng did not mention any equipment replacement." Song Renyi ran to Su Dao's house with an anxious face and shouted.

Song Renyi has become accustomed to such days for two months. Whenever there is something he doesn't understand, he will ask Su Dao. Song Renyi also found that there seems to be no answer that Su Dao doesn't know.

"What? Within five days? No equipment issues were mentioned?" Even Su Dao was a little unbelievable. The 163rd Regiment's headquarters is in Xuzhou, about 600 kilometers away from Lucheng, which is more than 1,200 miles. Within five days, the troops will march more than 200 miles a day. Even if it is an iron-clad army, it is impossible to do it. Moreover, the march can only rely on feet now. The most important thing is that the above mentioned no problem about equipment.

"Brother Su, what should I do? The fight has started over there. If we marched urgently, we would not give us enough time to rest. If we go up like this, it would make the brothers die in vain. Isn't the hard practice of the past two months in vain?" Song Renyi continued.
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next