The order given by the bald man was to leave an elite division in Zhabei, Shanghai.
Naturally, Deputy Chief of Staff Bai would not go against the advice of his boss, and gave the order to Deputy Commander Gu of the Third Theater Zone to keep the 88th Division of the 9th Army.
What unit is the 88th Division? In the Central Army, it is neither Hu Zongnan’s 1st Army System, nor Tang Enbo’s 13th Army System, nor Chen Cheng’s Civil Engineering Department, but a guard unit from the bald boss, a standard direct lineage.
direct lineage.
After the establishment of Huangpu Military Academy in 1924, a military academy guard was formed to serve as the security guard and attendants of the bald principal. Later, the guard was expanded into a special agent battalion, and during the Northern Expedition, it was expanded into a guard regiment of the National Revolutionary Army Headquarters on the basis of the special agent battalion.
As the bodyguard of Commander-in-Chief Chiang Kai-shek.
In 1927, when the Republic of China government established Nanjing as the capital, the guard regiment was upgraded again and expanded to the capital guard division. Following the rise of the bald man's status, his guard troops also completed the transition from guard team, spy battalion, guard regiment to guard division.
After that, there were many changes in the organization of the guard force. In December 1930, the guard division and the 1st Military Academy Teaching Division were merged into the guard division. At this time, the guard division had two brigades and six regiments under its jurisdiction.
Two special agent regiments, an artillery regiment and some other special forces, the total strength is almost equivalent to two divisions of other troops!
In March 1931, during the reorganization of the army, this large guard division was divided into two integrated divisions consisting of two brigades and four regiments, designated as the 1st Guard Division and the 2nd Guard Division.
In December 1931, the bald man announced his resignation under internal and external pressure. Naturally, his guard troops lost their honorary title of Guard Division. The 1st and 2nd Guard Divisions were renamed the 87th Division and the 88th Division respectively.
Zhang Zhizhong, commander of the 87th Division, and Yu Jishi, commander of the 88th Division. It can be seen from this that the status of the 88th Division, which was formerly the closest guard force of the bald man, has always been directly controlled by the bald man and is deployed in important areas of Gyeonggi.
The troops that the bald man valued and trusted were just like the Imperial Guards in ancient times. They were also the first troops to receive German equipment and training.
In other words, the 88th Division is not only the elite, but also the elite among the elites in the entire Chinese army. From the perspective of Liu Lang, a man from the future, the 88th Division is also the only Chinese equipment in this era except for the independent regiment.
The best troops, even compared with the Japanese army at this stage, are not bad, and are even stronger than their opponents in terms of light firearms.
Admiral Bai faithfully implemented the bald man's advice. Once he stayed, he became the most elite. As soon as the report was sent to the bald man's desk, the bald man also had a flash of regret in his eyes. He hesitated for a long time before signing his own.
name.
These big guys know very well that if they really stay, the 88th Division, which is almost an outcast, no matter how elite it is, will not be able to withstand the Japanese attack that will follow.
After all, without the assistance of friendly forces, the Japanese army would not only have air supremacy and naval artillery to assist in the battle, but also have a greatly superior force, and the annihilation of the entire army would be inevitable.
Fortunately, after arriving at the third theater under the command of the headquarters, the actual host of the third theater, Deputy Commander Gu, was not happy at first.
Deputy Commander Gu himself was unwilling to let the 88th Division stay because of his personal feelings, because he was the commander of the 2nd Division, the predecessor of the 88th Division, the 2nd Guard Division. So Gu called the 88th Division to
Division commander Sun Yuanliang conveyed the order, but Sun strongly opposed the plan. Afterwards, Sun sent his chief of staff Zhang Boting to the theater headquarters 20 kilometers away from the front line for repeated negotiations.
Although these few people were not willing to sacrifice their elite soldiers in vain, they were all die-hard supporters of the bald boss and knew that this was actually the boss's idea, otherwise Deputy Chief of Staff Bai's orders would not be able to get out of the headquarters. So Sun Jingzhang suggested to Gu,
Since it was for political purposes, the troops who stayed in Zhabei would be sacrificed if they had more troops, and they would also sacrifice if they had fewer troops.
At the same time, guarding multiple data points is guarding, and guarding one or two strongholds is also guarding. Anyway, it means that the boss's face must be maintained, but it cannot be maintained blindly. If it is completely ruined, the boss will not be happy, right?
Therefore, Deputy Commander Gu finally agreed that the 88th Division should set aside a regiment of troops and take care of the remaining positions. After Zhang Baiting returned to the Sixing Warehouse at the 88th Division Headquarters, Sun Yuanliang decided to use the Sixing Warehouse as a
We held on to the stronghold, but felt that the strength of the regiment was still too high. Before the final evacuation, we played a trick and decided that only one reinforcement battalion would be enough. So we used the 1st Battalion of the 524th Regiment as the basis and assigned the necessary special forces.
The troops formed a reinforced battalion of more than 400 people. They were led by Lieutenant Colonel Xie Jinyuan, Major Deputy Regiment Shangguan Zhibiao, and Major Battalion Commander Yang Ruifu.
In the end, through the operation of many big shots, an elite division that the bald man was about to abandon turned into a battalion and was abandoned at the division headquarters of the 88th Division in Zhabei, Shanghai -
--Sihang Warehouse.
When Liu Lang received the news, it was already 10 o'clock in the evening on October 26. Holding in his hand the secret message Zhang Ruhao urgently sent from the regiment headquarters, Liu Lang stood by the window of the Central Hotel suite and looked at Shanghai.
The direction is full of darkness.
As a person from the future, he certainly knows what the battalion left behind has done, and also knows their ending.
In the past time and space, Xie Jinyuan, the deputy lieutenant colonel of the 524th Regiment, who was actually its acting commander, led more than 450 people from the 1st Battalion of the regiment, known as the Eight Hundred Warriors, to defend the Sixing Warehouse in Suzhou, Hebei alone. From October 27 to
On the 31st, they fought bloody battles for four days and nights. They resisted dozens of attacks by a regiment of Japanese troops and killed more than 200 enemies. Finally, they were ordered to break out of the encirclement and retreat into the public concession. This feat greatly enhanced the prestige of the army and the country, and became the most exciting battle in the Battle of Songhu.
chapter!
It can be said that these more than 400 people, relying on this battle, have become heroes in the hearts of the people across the country. Because with their presence, Shanghai would not have fallen.
However, the final outcome of these four hundred heroes cannot be described as tragic or heroic, but can only be described as tragic.
After successfully winning political sympathy from the international community and inspiring the determination of the entire Chinese people to resist the war, the national government compromised under pressure from various concessions in Shanghai and ordered Captain Xie to lead 400 strong men to retreat to the concessions on the south bank of the Suzhou River and disarm.
.Because of the pressure from the Japanese army, if the concession dared to let them return, they would send troops into the concessions of various countries on the south bank of the Suzhou River. As a result, the four hundred warriors were detained in the military camp by the concession for three years.
But this is not the end of the saddest fate of this abandoned army. As the defenders were detained in the "lone camp" for more than three years, Japan claimed to allow the release of these soldiers, but on the condition that they were disarmed and treated as refugees.
As a member of the Communist Party of China, Xie Jinyuan left Shanghai. Commander Xie refused these conditions and subsequently refused many attempts by the reform government of the Republic of China and the Wang Jingwei regime to surrender. For this reason, Xie Jinyuan was bribed by Hao Dingcheng and others in April 1941, who had been bribed by the Wang puppet regime.
Four soldiers were assassinated.
At that time, more than 100,000 people attended his funeral, and within three days, a total of 250,000 people crowded into the Gujun military camp to pay their respects to his body. Xie Jinyuan was posthumously awarded the rank of major general after his death.
After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese army stationed in the public concession, and four hundred warriors were escorted to the Southeast Asian islands for mining and road construction. Most of them died in foreign lands. Only a handful of survivors survived the U.S. counterattack. When the U.S. military took them from the concentration camps together with the British
When the military prisoners of war were rescued together, the warriors were already as skinny as wood and dying.
As members of China's most elite soldiers, they did not die on the battlefield, but died in prisoner-of-war camps due to ugly political compromises. Not only did they become the abandoned sons of the big shots on the battlefield, but they also became
A lone figure at the big shot negotiation table.
This time, are they not as miserable as before?
Of course not, Liu Lang looked into the void with a somewhat cold gaze.
In this time and space, since he is here, the Japanese army will have to pay a greater price, and they will not have to become the abandoned ones on the battlefield or at the ugly negotiation table. Whether it is the Japanese or those blond and blue-eyed people, they only care about
The foreign devils who have their own interests, and even the big shots in the upper echelons of the government, can no longer influence the fate of this lone army.
The message in his hand was sent by Chen Yunfa, who had arrived at the Songhu front line and sneaked into Zhabei. It had only seven words: Everything went according to plan!
Yes, according to this point in time, it is the time when Xie Jinyuan and others received the military order to notify the first battalion of the 524th Regiment to converge at the Sixing Warehouse. I just don’t know whether Chen Yunfa and others who have arrived there in advance can get the
The trust of the hero leader.
The front line of the Japanese army is actually no longer the key point. In the past, Xie Jinyuan led more than 400 people to fight bloody battles here for four days and nights, which proved his commanding ability and the elite combat effectiveness of the German armorers.
However, Liu Lang not only hoped that the most elite first team of the special operations brigade he sent could save more blood for the Japanese army, but also wanted them to lead this lone army to escape smoothly, instead of being aggrieved and trapped in the concession.
To be detained for three or four years and finally to die on a small island in the Pacific Ocean is the greatest insult to a soldier.
Yes, the biggest problem now facing Chen Yunfa, captain of the first team of the special operations brigade, is to make the army lieutenant colonel with thick eyebrows, big eyes, and big ears accept the existence of his unexpected reinforcement team. Even if they
Not a stranger either.
Xie Jinyuan, a fourth-generation student in Huangpu, served as a second lieutenant platoon leader during the Northern Expedition and was already a deputy lieutenant colonel during the Songhu Battle. In the early stages of the Songhu Battle, the regimental commander died in the line of duty, and he was the acting commander of the 524th Regiment for two months.
After arriving at the division headquarters to cover the retreat of the main force, he notified all the units of the first battalion of the 542nd Regiment to converge at the Sihang Warehouse at the division headquarters. This is the strongest fortress that can be found on the north bank of the Suzhou River.
However, he did not expect that when he led the main force of the first battalion into the division headquarters that should have been empty, there was actually a middle-aged man in robes with a smile standing in the lobby on the first floor of Sihang Warehouse and seven people wearing
Soldiers wearing the same gray-blue military uniforms and fully armed were lined up like them.
He didn't recognize the man in the robe, but judging from the man's unyielding aura when he saw hundreds of armed soldiers entering the hall and quickly occupying various key points and pointing their guns at him, his expression remained unchanged.
That person is no ordinary person either.
The seven soldiers were even more elegant. Hundreds of guns were pointed at them, but they didn't even look straight ahead.
"Who are you?" Xie Jinyuan waved his hands calmly, and then the soldiers around him put down their guns.
At this time, as long as you are not Japanese, everything is easy.