197 Ready to Rob
Zhou Yun has been to Shanghai for three months. In the past three months, he has done nothing except killing Matsui Saburo, killing Fukuhara, and killing Japanese Lieutenant General and Deputy Chief of Staff.
After three months of lurking, the 300 members of the Special Operations Corps have merged into Shanghai like water entering the sea.
They have legal identities, fixed occupations, and business operations.
But Zhou Yun had new ideas.
The cause was the last time the Japanese deputy chief of staff. In his memory, Zhou Yun discovered a secret warehouse of the Japanese army.
This is an arms warehouse. The secret is that the weapons in it are all old. In the defense battle in Shanghai, the weapons of the Chinese army were later picked up by Japan.
The Japanese army did not use Chinese military weapons, so these guns and ammunition became garbage. Tens of thousands of guns were pushed into dozens of small hills.
These things are under the control of the deputy chief of staff. He has sold hundreds of guns. They are all big landlords and merchants who support the Japanese army, who buy guns and ammunition, and guard the house and the hospital.
The reason why I had the idea of this warehouse was Director Dai's intention.
During the Shanghai War, the Military Control Commission established a loyal and righteous army to save the country.
The Battle of Shanghai began on August 13, 1937. In order to strengthen the organization and leadership of the general public to participate in the War of Resistance, the old man ordered the establishment of the "Suzhou-Zhejiang Action Committee" in Shanghai on September 4, with Dai Li, Song Ziwen, Zhang Zhizhong, Wu Tiecheng, Yu Hongjun, Du Yuesheng, Yang Hu, Qian Yongming, Liu Zhilu, Bei Zuyi, Ji Zhangjian, Cai Jinjun, Yu Zuobai and others as members, including Dai Li, Du Yuesheng and Liu Zhilu as the Standing Committee members, and Director Dai was the Secretary-General.
On September 7, the old man ordered Director Dai and Du Yuesheng to "form a guerrilla armed force of ten thousand people within one month, cooperate with the regular army to fight against Japan, harass and restrain the Japanese army in front of the enemy and eliminate traitors and spies."
Director Dai was originally determined to form an armed force in the Military Control Commission sequence, and Du Yuesheng was willing to take the opportunity to expand his power. Therefore, inspired by his participation in the War of Resistance, with the vigorous publicity and mobilization of the Kuomintang Jiangsu and Zhejiang Action Committee, many workers, students, teachers, and unemployed and out-of-school youths participated enthusiastically.
By the end of September, five detachments and a spy brigade were formed, with a total force of 11,000. The commander-in-chief was Liu Zhilu, who was from the Guangxi clan and was the "Wu" generation of the Qing Gang, and the chief of staff was Yang Zhenhua, the former chief of staff of the 87th Division. The detachment captains of the five detachments were He Xingjian, Lu Jingshi, Zhu Xuefan, Zhang Ye and Tao Yishan, and Zhao Lijun, the captain of the spy brigade Zhao Lijun (He Xingjian, Zhang Ye, Tao Yishan and Zhao Lijun both graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy).
In addition to the five detachments formed in Shanghai, the Northern Detachment of the Rangers was also formed in North China, with the commanders and deputy commanders Wang Tianmu and Chen Gongshu, the military commander-in-chief.
In order to improve the military quality of the Rangers, Director Dai tried every means to transfer elite military talents from all over the place, including: more than 600 lieutenant-level officers who graduated from regular military academy, more than 100 graduates of Nanjing Central Police School, more than 200 middle and senior cadres from the Nanjing Special Service Headquarters, and also selected 600 squad leaders from the Zhang Fakui troops of the 8th Army who were fighting in Pudong, and the deputy squad leaders were as grassroots backbone.
After Director Dai noticed that there were many young students among the Rangers, he also set up Qingpu technical training classes, Songjiang special training classes, and Sheshan teaching team to select personnel from the Rangers for training.
As the situation in the Battle of Shanghai became increasingly tense, the ranger team that had just formed had not yet been trained was urgently sent to the front line. On the west, south, Pudong, Suzhou River, along the two railways of Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, it maintained traffic and covered the main combat and transfer. At the same time, it used guerrilla warfare to raid, sniper, reconnaissance, and sabotage the Japanese army.
With the reversal of the battle, the Rangers were in Suzhou River, Nanshi, Fengxian and Shanghai County. The troops that were not even uniformly equipped with rifles and grenades even entered the frontal battle with the Japanese army. The casualties were naturally very heavy. The Rangers suffered more than 2,700 casualties in the Battle of Shanghai, almost one-quarter of the total number of Rangers, and more than 5,000 were injured, almost half of the total number of Rangers.
At the end of the year, the Northern Detachment was also surrounded by Japanese troops near Baodi, Hebei, and the entire army was wiped out.
After Shanghai fell in early November, the first and second detachments of the Rangers moved into guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines in Pudong, the remaining units of the Third Detachments retreated into the concession and continued to carry out anti-Japanese activities under the leadership of the Military Control Commission. The Fourth Detachment basically suffered losses, while the remaining units of the Fifth Detachment were broken into pieces and transferred to the underground.
In December 1937, Yu Zuobai, the military leader of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Action Committee, led more than 1,700 remaining troops to Likou Town, Qimen County, Anhui Province.
In January 1938, the remaining unit of the First Detachment was led by He Xingjian to retreat to Sui'an through Fenghua, and was organized into the Zhejiang East Detachment of the Rangers in Dongyang with the guerrilla cadre training class held by the Military Command Mao Sen in Jiangshan, Zhejiang.
Subsequently, Director Dai unified the remaining troops of Anhui and Zhejiang into the teaching group of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Action Committee. The troops in Anhui were reorganized into the 1st teaching regiment, and the troops in Zhejiang were reorganized into the 2nd teaching regiment. Director Dai also served as the general leader, and Yu Zuobo was appointed as the deputy general leader, and was responsible for actual command.
Afterwards, the old man ordered Director Dai to "residize and reorganize the national army scattered along Pudong and Shanghai and Hangzhou, and strengthen guerrilla work behind enemy lines." Therefore, Director Dai arrested and trained a large number of regular army troops that were dispersed in the Battle of Shanghai behind Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Shanghai. By the end of April, the Rangers had developed to five detachments, one directly affiliated brigade, the Nanjing Operation Corps, the Shanghai Operation Corps, together with the teaching 1st and 2nd Regiments, and the total strength of the total troops was restored to more than 15,000.
As the total number grew, a problem arose: that is the problem of weapons.
Every battle will lead to a group of people and a group of guns.
Now, Nanjing Wuhu has also been occupied by the Japanese army, and the weapons and ammunition of the national army cannot be transported to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai at all. Some of the formed troops have three people and one gun, while more people have no guns and only big swords.
How can such strength fight against the Japanese army?
At this moment, Zhou Yun reported to the director that in Shanghai, the Japanese army had a secret warehouse filled with weapons and ammunition from the National Army.
Director Dai was overjoyed when he heard this. It was hot this day, and someone sent ice water!
Director Dai asked if he could get some, even a few thousand guns.
Zhou Yun knew that the director had dealt with the Loyal and Righteous National Saving Army, and he also knew that he was short of guns. So Zhou Yun agreed.
He was ready to attack that warehouse. Not only because the Military Control Commission needed it, Zhou Yun also knew that the Red Party guerrillas in Jiangbei also needed it.
With so many weapons on your sleep, why not let them contribute to China's great cause of war of resistance?
Chapter completed!