"This time our Sixty-seventh Army has arrived, the battle will be much easier to fight." The teacher pointed out, and Mr. Wang paid a very rare compliment to Lei Liang.
"Easy to fight?" Lei Liang, who was busy eating, looked up at Mr. Wang and said.
"You eat first, then chat later." Mr. Wang said quickly.
Lei Liang's food was given by Shang Zhen and others.
Since they came to Songjiang County, Shang Zhen and the others rushed and fought, and fought and rushed again. There was no leisure at all.
But the same is true for the Sixty-seventh Army.
The 67th Army first arrived at Qingpu by train, and then headed for Songjiang on foot in the rain.
Therefore, the Sixty-seventh Army and Shang Zhen suffered the same crime.
After Shang Zhen and the others helped Wen Changqing complete the first blockade against the Japanese army, they returned to Songyuan County and entered private houses at night, and were very lucky to have a full meal and sleep.
However, the entire 67th Army had no time to eat. Most of the troops had been dispersed and were digging fortifications and building trenches within the 30-mile defense line. They even started fighting with the Japanese troops who were crossing the river or had already crossed the river. bloody battle.
Let’s not mention how brutal the bloody battles have been so far. Given the terrain of Songjiang, how easy is it to dig trenches?
The terrain was already low-lying, and after another day of rain, the soil was dug out, and then there was water underneath. Therefore, many officers and soldiers of the 67th Army were soaked in the "puddles" they dug.
They would rather not dig, but is it possible not to dig? The Vietnamese army's firepower is much stronger than theirs. If you want to survive, you must soak in the water!
And all this is just that the current battlefield is still a little far away from Songjiang County, and Shang Zhen and the others still know nothing about it.
Now Lei Liang is still devouring the rice that Shang Zhen and the others brought out after eating there.
Shang Zhen and the others also considered how easy it was to have a full meal under the current circumstances, so they deliberately made an extra pot of rice, which everyone either packed with something or simply put in their pockets.
Would anyone say that it is useless to store food in this way? The answer can only be that hunger is always more terrifying than matai (dirty)!
Seeing Lei Liang's hungry look, Shang Zhen finally gave him part of his rice.
After three strokes and five divisions, Lei Liang ate with his hands and finally filled his stomach.
"You said you were ready to fight just now, right?" Lei Liang looked at Mr. Wang and asked, not forgetting to stuff a white rice grain from his black hand into his mouth.
At this time, Mr. Wang naturally would not answer, and Lei Liang did not need Mr. Wang's answer, so he continued directly: "I just received a report that our division has now suffered more than 2,000 casualties. Commander Two of them have already been killed, and the 107th Division is no better."
"What?" When Lei Liang said this, not only Mr. Wang was stunned, but Shang Zhen and the others were also stunned.
You must know that it is only the dawn of time now. From last night to now, nearly 5,000 people have been killed. That is just one division!
But then Shang Zhen realized that it was entirely possible that there were such heavy casualties.
Lei Liang's words completely confirmed his thoughts: "We have heavy mortars and heavy machine guns. Compared with other armies, the firepower of our 67th Army is just as strong.
Although it is cloudy now and the Japs’ planes will not dispatch armored vehicles or come out, the Japs’ cannons are much more powerful than ours. There are Japs’ gunboats on the Huangpu River. In some areas, the Japanese army’s strength is already Five times ours!
We got the order from the summit to hold on for three days. We have no place to retreat if we want to. If we retreat now, the hundreds of thousands of troops behind us will be surrounded by the Japanese army.
So this is no longer a matter of losing the four northeastern provinces and North China, but that the vitality of our entire China has been severely damaged, and I am afraid that we will really become slaves to the subjugation of the country!
What's more, we are the Northeast Army, which has been notorious for not resisting for a long time. Our 67th Army is also the elite unit of the Northeast Army. It is our duty to defend this place and leave a way for other armies to survive.
Commander Wu said that we must fight to the death to wash away the shame of our Northeast Army's non-resistance, and let the people of the country know that our Northeast men are upright men, not just words! "
Lei Liang talked a lot, and he talked very quickly.
As the commander of the guard company of division commander Chang En, he naturally has many opportunities to be with Chang En, so he naturally knows more information than ordinary officers.
Of course Shang Zhen and the others knew that Commander Wu mentioned by Lei Liang was Wu Keyong, Commander of the 67th Army.
Shang Zhen and his group had participated in the Double Twelve Incident, so they had a certain understanding of the situation at the top of the Northeast Army.
As the commander of the most elite unit of the Northeast Army, Wu Keyong, commander of the 67th Army, is naturally a close confidant of the young marshal.
Wu Keyong personally participated in the Xi'an Incident. After the Xi'an Incident, because the pro-Japanese faction of the Nationalist Government wanted to kill Chiang Kai-shek, they sent the Central Army to attack Shaanxi. At this time, Wu Keyong took the unorganized 67th Army with him. The predecessor confronted the Central Army.
If so, that's all. After Marshal Zhang was sentenced to prison by someone, Wu Keyong even joined forces with the current commander of the 51st Army, Yu Xiuzhong, and the generals of the Northeast Army to try to rescue their Marshal with arms!
At that time, they also named the rescue plan "Cow Herding Plan" because their young commander was born in the year of Ox.
Regardless of whether that "cow" will be released or not, Commander Wu is also a great man!
Just because someone is the chairman of the National Government does not mean that he is the chairman of the local factions. The local factions only recognize their own leaders.
It's just that at this time, Lei Liang hasn't finished speaking. Most Northeastern people have a straightforward personality and can't hold back when they start talking.
"Commander Wu also said that this time both the Central Army and other troops put in a lot of effort to fight the Japanese, and the casualties were not small.
Now it seems that the Japanese invaders are too powerful. If we just hope that our Northeast Army will be able to fight back to our hometown, in the end we will need the entire Chinese army to defeat the Japanese invaders and regain the three northeastern provinces.
Then our Northeast Army needs to act like we want to return to our hometown. If we don’t work hard ourselves, how can others help?
So Commander Wu said, this time the order from the top is to hold Songjiang for three days. We must complete it to the letter. If the regiment commander dies, the brigade commander and division commander will take over. All the brigade commanders and division commanders are dead. I, the army commander Just go up to it! "
The more Lei Liang spoke, the more excited he became, and his voice naturally became louder and louder, sounding extremely sonorous and powerful.
And Shang Zhen and the others seemed to see the decisive and unhesitating expression of a senior military officer when he made the above speech!
Lei Liang's words, of course, should not be accurately said to be Lei Liang's words, but the words of Wu Keyong, commander of the 67th Army, which have directly aroused the passion of veterans like Shang Zhen.
Yes, the Northeast Army wants to fight back to its hometown. If you don't work hard, can you expect others to help?
It's like living at home. If you don't work hard, you always count on others for help. How is that possible? After all, you need to be self-reliant!
Mr. Wang secretly glanced at Shang Zhen and saw that Shang Zhen had returned to his expressionless look, while the others had their chests heaving and their faces flushed.
When Chang En, commander of the 108th Division, told them to follow him, Mr. Wang thought it would be safer this time.
But now it seems that people like myself are really trying to defend their position and are in danger of escaping.
Oh, think about it.
Such a big army commander said he wanted to rush forward, but he was just a small soldier. If he really died, he would die. Anyway, he had a scar on his head as big as a bowl, but eighteen years later he was a good man again!
Mr. Wang was thinking about this when all of them heard bursts of gunfire coming from outside the county town.
oops! Did the Japanese army come so quickly? They actually hit the county seat
