Two Sichuan Army veterans carried Xu Rui to patrol the streets, and Xiao Taohong followed beside him, holding Xu Rui's hanging bottle.
Xu Rui's physical fitness is indeed strong. After suffering such a serious injury, an ordinary person would not be able to recover without ten days and a half of bed rest. However, Xu Rui only recovered after losing two bottles of fluid.
A lot. At this recovery rate, Xu Rui will be able to bounce around again in at least a few days.
Xu Rui's health has recovered fairly well, but the situation in Jiujiang is not optimistic.
It is not that there is a shortage of troops. Although the Jiujiang garrison only has one regiment, the 799th Regiment of the Sichuan Army, there are almost 2,000 veterans including a battalion of Cantonese veterans. It is not much more than the defense of Feicheng, although there are three more troops in the defense of Feicheng.
There are more than a thousand recruits, but the combat effectiveness of the more than 3,000 recruits is better than nothing.
It's not that there is a shortage of ammunition. The Jiujiang Railway Station has been captured by the Sichuan Army. At present, the Japanese prisoners of war in the puppet garrison brigade are carrying military supplies into the city non-stop. There is really a lot of military supplies hoarded at Jiujiang Station. You know
This is for the 27th Division, enough to sustain the 799th Regiment for half a year!
It’s not that the opponent is too strong. The Japanese garrison troops stationed in Jiujiang only have one regiment. Adding Xingzi and the Japs coming from the De’an direction for reinforcements, only three or four brigades will be able to survive. In the next few days, even Anqing and Nanjing will
Japanese reinforcements will gradually arrive, but the number will never be too large.
Xu Rui dared to assert that the Japanese army that finally besieged Jiujiang would never exceed one brigade.
This was much easier than the Feicheng Defense Battle. In the Feicheng Defense Battle, the independent regiment had to face a Japanese division and an independent brigade, and the division that was the main attack had the highest combat effectiveness among the seventeen permanent divisions of the Japanese army.
As one of the top two main divisions, the pressure is really not that great!
Therefore, no matter in terms of our own troops, quality of soldiers, weapons and equipment, or in terms of the enemy's troops, quality of soldiers, weapons and equipment, the Jiujiang defense battle is not necessarily more difficult than the Feicheng defense battle. However, Xu Rui is really
I feel great pressure, and this pressure comes from the people of Jiujiang.
I must admit that this old devil Okamura Neji is indeed very powerful.
Although Okamura Neiji has died under Xu Rui's gun, the old devil's influence in Jiujiang has not disappeared. This old devil mobilized a large number of traitors to lead the party and subtly brainwashed the citizens of Jiujiang.
The effects it produces will not disappear so quickly.
When the Independent Regiment fought to defend Feicheng, Feicheng was in ruins and almost all the citizens had fled.
But now, the citizens of Jiujiang hardly ran away. Even though the gunfire sounded all night yesterday, the citizens of Jiujiang remained calm. At dawn the next day, they still went to the streets, set up stalls, and did business as usual. The people outside the city were still there.
They also carried their own produce and went to the city to sell it, creating a busy scene.
Of course, there was a war going on at the north gate, and there was no one left in that area.
In short, the citizens of Jiujiang are not worried about the Japanese coming into the city!
In addition, an even more frightening reality is that the citizens of Jiujiang are very indifferent to the Sichuan Army.
Or to put it more bluntly, the citizens of Jiujiang are very indifferent to the National Army and the National Government.
In the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Nanjing and even the Battle of Xuzhou, when the National Army and the Japanese army were fighting fiercely, local people would always organize themselves spontaneously to help the National Army dig fortifications and transport the wounded. Even if there were sometimes very few people, or
More or less, there will always be people who lend a helping hand to the National Army.
However, now, only the Sichuan Army Corps is busy in the entire Jiujiang City.
Not only did the people of Jiujiang not lend a helping hand, they obstructed the Sichuan Legion in every possible way from setting up defenses on the streets. It was even more difficult to requisition private houses to build fortifications. Moreover, many people looked at the Sichuan Legion with eyes filled with excitement.
Full of resentment, they seemed to resent the Sichuan Army for disturbing their lives.
Xiao Taohong and Xu Rui also "received" a lot of resentful looks.
"Uncle, the eyes of these people are so strange." Xiao Taohong pouted and said to Xu Rui, "Why do I feel like they are blaming us for driving away the Japanese?"
Xu Rui said: "They already resented us."
"What?" Xiao Taohong said in shock, "Why is this?"
"Why?" Xu Rui sighed slightly and added, "Because we destroyed their peaceful life."
Xu Rui is telling the truth. Even before the fall of Jiujiang, all the citizens who were unwilling to be slaves had already fled. Those who remained basically did not mind being ruled by the Japanese. It is difficult to say that these people were subjectively willing to be slaves.
, in fact, most of them have no choice but to leave their homeland.
However, there is no doubt that these people who stayed did not mind being ruled by the Japanese.
In addition, Okamura Neiji, an old devil who is very good at disguise, strictly adheres to the "equal treatment" policy under his rule. In a sense, the Japanese and puppet government in Jiujiang is even more clean and efficient than the Nationalist Government, and the lives of ordinary people are improved.
It is also more stable and prosperous than during the National Government, and at least Taoist organizations are not as rampant as before.
Therefore, the citizens of Jiujiang have a very good impression of Okamura Neji and the Japanese army.
The citizens of Jiujiang have a good impression of Okamura Neiji and the Japanese army, but naturally they cannot have a favorable impression of the Sichuan Army.
While the two were talking, a fierce quarrel suddenly came from the street ahead. It seemed that there was a conflict between the Sichuan Army soldiers and the local people. Xu Rui quickly asked the two Sichuan Army soldiers carrying the stretcher to carry the stretcher over.
Not far away, Xu Rui and Xiao Taohong saw the two parties arguing.
It was indeed a conflict between the Sichuan Army and the local people. The reason was that the Sichuan Army wanted to demolish the brick wall of a private house on the street and use the removed bricks and stones to build a barricade on the street so that when the Japs invaded Jiujiang City, they could easily follow them.
The Japanese engaged in street fighting, but the Sichuan army's actions were resisted by the people.
"Why? Why are you demolishing my house?" A decent middle-aged man wearing a silk shirt and a melon cap on his head stood on the steps of his building, looking condescendingly at the Sichuan Army soldiers at the foot of the steps. He stretched out a fat
His fingers almost poked into the face of the Sichuan Army platoon leader who was leading the team, "This is my private residence, you don't have this right!"
"We are here to resist the Japanese!" the Sichuan Army platoon leader said anxiously, "we are here to fight the Japanese!"
"What does your resistance to Japan and the Japanese have to do with me?" the middle-aged man said plausibly.
"Hey, why are you like this?" The Sichuan Army platoon leader's face changed with anger, "Why aren't you patriotic?"
"Patriotic?" the middle-aged man said suddenly, "I love my country, does the country love me? What I wear on my body, what I wear on my head, and what I eat and use at home are all earned by myself. This shabby
What has the country done for me? Since she has given me nothing, why should I love her? It would be better if this country were destroyed."
"You!" the Sichuan Army platoon leader was furious and was about to draw his gun.
"Hey, if you can't say anything, you have to draw a gun or kill people?" The middle-aged man was not afraid at all, and said, "Is this how the Kuomintang treats the people? With such a party, even if we want to love China, we can't love it.
Get up, folks, don’t you think so? Are you patriotic? Do you love the Party?”
"do not love!"
"Kuomintang get out!"
"National Army get out!"
The people watching all around started to boo.
Some even dared to take advantage of the chaos and pick up bricks and throw them at the Sichuan soldiers. A Sichuan veteran was caught off guard and hit a brick on his forehead, causing blood to flow profusely in an instant.
Now the Sichuan Army platoon leader was really angry and immediately rushed into the crowd to beat the assailant.
The people of Jiujiang who were watching naturally refused to give in, and the two sides immediately came into physical contact and struggled with each other.
Seeing this scene, a look of dismay flashed across the middle-aged man's eyes. This guy was actually a hardcore traitor. He deliberately wanted to incite the hatred of the people of Jiujiang against the National Army and the Kuomintang, so as to mobilize the people to help the Japanese army drive the National Army away.
Go and let Jiujiang return to Japanese rule again.
Seeing that the situation was about to get out of control, Xu Rui quickly ordered the shooting.
Xiao Taohong took out the Browning pistol without hesitation and fired a shot into the sky above her head. However, the next moment, Xiao Taohong was stunned for a moment because she did not hear the loud gunshot, and then she realized what she was doing.
He added a silencer to his pistol, then snatched the 38 cap from the shoulders of the Sichuan Army veterans carrying the stretcher, and fired twice into the sky.
"Bah!"
"Bah!"
Two crisp gunshots rang out, and the conflicting parties instinctively stopped.
"Help me up." Xu Rui asked Xiao Taohong to help him up, and then walked to the middle-aged man.
Xu Rui looked deeply at the middle-aged man, with a cold look in his eyes, because he could see clearly the essence of this middle-aged man at a glance. He was a hard-core traitor and a leader!
I love my country, does the country love me? This is their motto!
In fact, no nation or period is short of such people, and China is not short of such scum.
After entering the 21st century, China has risen to become a superpower, and there is no shortage of such scum. However, at that time, these scum were no longer called the leading party, but were called the wall-pushing party and the public intellectuals! They thought behind the scenes.
, dedicated to one ultimate goal, which is to make China a slave to the West forever.
They are servile to the core and do not want their country to be strong and their nation to be strong!
Whenever their country achieves even the slightest achievement, they immediately insult and ridicule it in every possible way!
China ranks first in total industrial output value? What is there to be proud of? They are just low-end products with low added value, sweatshops!
What? China's high-tech export volume far exceeds that of the West, and is about the same as that of Europe, the United States, and Japan combined? Those are all copycats, not original, infringing on intellectual property rights, and just a bunch of bandits, despicable and shameless!
What? Is China’s high-speed rail technology independently innovative? Its safety and practicality have far surpassed that of Japan’s Shinkansen? Do you believe this nonsense? Anyway, I don’t believe it. If you kill me, I will not take the high-speed rail. The Chinese are an inferior nation.
, how is it possible to make products that are more reliable and superior to those of the Japanese?
