Chapter 21 Veterans Don't Cry (Part 1)
A few days ago, Ergua once asked Gao Crazy, why others gave him the nickname of a madman. At that time, Gao Crazy, just smiled without answering. Xie Gouzi next to him said, if you had seen him go crazy, you wouldn't ask this. Now, Ergua finally knows why Gao Crazy has the nickname of a madman.
It’s so crazy that Gao Crazy Killer cut off the Japanese!
When he contacted each other, Gao Crazyman slashed with one sword and cut the Japanese soldiers and guns into two pieces. The Japanese lieutenant behind him stabbed him with a knife. Gao Crazyman dodged and then smashed the Japanese lieutenant's face with one elbow. The Japanese soldier behind him turned around and ran away in fear. He was chased by Gao Crazyman and cut half of his head off.
In the blink of an eye, Gao Crazy had already chopped down three Japanese soldiers in a row!
A Japanese soldier walked around Gao Crazy and tried to attack him, but was shot down by Gao Shenxing. Gao Shenxing fired and stabbed him, and the Japanese soldiers killed were no less than Gao Crazy and were killed.
Gao Crazy Man turned around and saw the Japanese soldiers who were shot by the headshot. He rushed to Gao Shenxing and bared his teeth. Then he leaned against Gao Shenxing and retreated to the corner of a broken wall, because the remaining dozens of Japanese were already pushing up with bayonets in a fan shape. Gao Crazy Man, no matter how powerful Gao Shenxing's hand-to-hand combat is, it is impossible for so many Japanese to attack together.
Soon, the two were forced to the corner of the broken wall and had no way to retreat.
The two sides confronted each other, Gao Crazy and Gao Shenxing refused to attack easily, and both of them were planning to bring in a few Japanese in the end.
The Japanese soldiers surrounding the two did not act rashly, because they knew very well that the two Chinese soldiers in front of them were masters of assassination. If they were to fight for bayonets with them, they might be caught by them if they were not careful and stabbed to death. The Japanese soldiers were indeed not afraid of death, but they would not rush to die.
A Japanese lieutenant took out the turtle box and quietly pulled the trigger. However, with a click, the gun did not sound. The turtle box's failure rate was even higher than that of the crooked handle. The Japanese lieutenant was so angry that he shouted in stiff Chinese: "Chinese soldiers, surrender. If you surrender, you can spare you all your life."
"Bah!" Gao Caizi spitted thick phlegm from a distance at the Japanese lieutenant.
At this moment, Ergua's call for help came from a short distance: "Brother Madman, save me, save me..."
Gao Crazy didn't look back, stared at the Japanese soldiers in front of him, and shouted: "Don't be afraid of Ergua. I'll fight with the Japanese when I pull the grenade. Kill one to protect the capital, kill two and make a profit!"
"Brother Madman, I'm afraid, I'm afraid..." Ergua held the grenade in her left hand and pulled the fuse in her right hand. She sat on the ground, kicking her feet hard, and her whole body kept slipping towards the corner of the wall behind her, tears and snot flowing all over her face. He was really scared, and his left hand holding the grenade was trembling violently.
The two Japanese soldiers who were rushing up had obviously discovered that Ergua was a new recruit, so although Ergua was holding a grenade in her hand, they were not afraid at all. They just held the bayonet carelessly and pushed forward slowly, while constantly talking in Japanese, trying to distract Ergua from her attention.
"Don't come over, don't come over, come over again, I'll pull the string!" Retreat to the corner of the wall, Ergua had nowhere to retreat, and had to wave grenades to the two Japanese soldiers while shouting at the top of their lungs. However, under the huge fear, he felt that a stream of hot urine had already sprayed out from his crotch, and he was so scared that he had incontinence.
"Oh? Haha..." Seeing this, the two Japanese soldiers burst into laughter and laughed so hard that they fell back and forth.
However, at this moment, the storm-like barrage suddenly poured out from the west of Broadway Road, surrounding Gao Crazy. The dozens of Japanese soldiers around Gao Shenxing suddenly burst into blood mist, and then fell down like wheat cut by a farmer with a sickle. Gao Crazy, Gao Shenxing suddenly turned around and reinforcements came up!
On the west side of Broadway Road, Xu Shijiu had already quietly touched up with more than 20 fully armed suicide squadrons. The German-style helmets, the German-made flower mechanism, and the twenty-two flower mechanisms opened fire violently, intertwined into endless barrage, and knocked dozens of Japanese soldiers on the bridgehead position into sieves.
The Japanese devils thought that the national army had run out of ammunition and rescued, so they were a little careless.
The two Japanese soldiers in front of Ergua were also shot. One was pierced through his neck and fell to the ground and kept twitching. The other was hit on the thigh. He struggled to get up and wanted to run back.
Ergua was stunned for a moment, and then, nowhere else, the courage came from, and a whistle bounced from the ground. A Taishan pressed the top of the head to knock the Japanese soldier to the ground, then swung the grenade and hit the Japanese soldier's face, one after another, one after another, until someone rushed up and grabbed the grenade from his hand.
Ergua turned around and saw that it was Xu Shijiu. She hugged Xu Shijiu's thigh and started crying. While crying, she started crying heart-wrenchingly: "Captain, all the people in our squadron are dead, all the people in our squadron are dead, all the dead, all the dead, all the dead, only the three of us are left, Captain, all the time..."
Xu Shijiu helped Ergua up with force, then patted his shoulder, and said, "Veteran, don't cry!"
More than 20 suicide squad members also stepped forward one by one, slapped Ergua on the shoulder one by one. Several veterans even gave Ergua a thumbs up. Although his pants were still wet, Ergua saw recognition and trust in the eyes of these veterans. Ergua suddenly was filled with a huge pride because he was also a veteran.
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Nanxiang Guyi Garden, 9th Army Headquarters.
Zhang Zhizhong just went to Zhenru Railway Station to meet Xia Chuzhong, the commander of the 98th Division. Chairman Jiang was dispatching troops to Shanghai from all over the country. The 98th Division was the first reinforcement division to arrive in Shanghai.
After meeting Zhang Zhizhong, Xia Chuzhong led his troops into Yangshupu.
Zhang Zhizhong strode into the war room, and asked while untiing his armed belt, "Mu Tao, is there any progress?"
Tong Yuanliang put down his pencil and saluted Zhang Zhizhong first, and then replied: "Chief, the 87th Division's attack on Hujiang University, Gongda Spinning Mill and several major strongholds in the Navy Playground were very unsuccessful. The 517th Regiment of the 259th Brigade belonged to more than half of the casualties, and the 522nd Regiment of the 261st Brigade belonged to almost all were exhausted, leaving only a few food loads."
Zhang Zhizhong waved his hand impatiently and said, "I've known this a long time ago."
Tong Yuanliang said again: "The battle situation on the Navy Command has also occurred repeatedly. After the Japanese army contracted, our army's offensive was seriously hindered. Before dark, the Japanese army invested more than a dozen armored cars and about an infantry brigade's forces, launched a strong counterattack, and broke through several defense lines of our army in succession. The Patriot Girls' School was also lost again."
Seeing that Zhang Zhizhong's face turned gloomy, Tong Yuanliang quickly continued, "But don't worry, the 264th Brigade is organizing troops to fight back. Gao Zhisong (the brigade commander of the 264th Brigade who succeeded General Huang Meixing) has already issued a military order on the phone. If he cannot take back the Patriotic Girls' School tonight, he will come to see him."
"Where are the other side of Qiujiang Road and Honghe Road Bridge?" Zhang Zhizhong was most concerned about Yang Han Xianyuan Regiment, because as long as Han Xianyuan Regiment can be nailed to the position, the connection between the Japanese army in Hongkou and the Japanese army in Yangshupu will be cut off, and the Japanese army in Hongkou will not be able to obtain any material replenishment from Huishan Wharf. This is undoubtedly crucial for the entire Shanghai war situation.
Tong Yuanliang's face became more and more serious, and he said, "Han Xianyuan's regiment guarded Qiujiang Road to death, with great casualties. Sun Yuanliang has even sent his division guard battalion. The 19th Brigade guarding Honghe Road Bridge was bombarded by the Japanese Navy cruiser Izumo, and there were also heavy casualties. At present, the two sides are still fighting fiercely, and the situation is unclear."
"What did you say, the 19th Brigade?" Zhang Zhizhong frowned when he heard this.
Zhang Zhizhong had to worry. Although the backbone of the 19th Brigade was all veterans of the 19th Route Army, and Xu Shijiu's tactical command ability was also extremely outstanding, this was not enough to make up for the 19th Brigade's disadvantage in weapons and equipment. Isn't it too hasty to hand over the Honghe Road and Bridge position to the 19th Brigade to defend?
"Isn't this a joke? Let a security brigade take this important task?"
"This is indeed a bit unconsidered. The 19th Brigade is not the Central Army after all."
"Honghe Road and Bridge connect Hongkou, where the two districts of Yangshupu are located. The Japanese army in Yangshupu District will definitely gather heavy troops to fight back with all their might. If the position is lost, who will bear the responsibility?"
Several high-speakers in the war room immediately started to whisper.
Tong Yuanliang was speechless. He had never been to the front line and he didn't have much to say anything.
In the suffocating silence, a burst of rapid footsteps suddenly came. When everyone looked back, they saw a communications officer hurried into the war room and reported to Zhang Zhizhong: "Chief, the 88th Division has just called. The 524th Regiment and the 19th Brigade have repelled the Japanese counterattack and defended Qiujiang Road and Honghe Road Bridge."
"Is that so? The position is held?!" Zhang Zhizhong was very surprised when he heard this.
"No way, just a security brigade guarded Honghe Road Bridge?"
"It's not surprising that Han Xianyuan's delegation can defend Qiujiang Road, but the 19th Brigade can also defend Honghe Road and Bridge position?"
"I don't believe it either. I dare to fight the Japanese army with those broken guns from the security team? Did I win?"
Several senior officials in the war room whispered again, and a colonel staff officer directly asked the communication staff officer: "Brother, did the little Japanese not launch a counterattack on the Honghe Road and Bridge position at all?"
Zhang Zhizhong and several other combat staff members also looked at each other, thinking that this was reasonable.
"How could it be?" The communications staff shook their heads and said, "The phone was called by Zhang Boting, Chief of Staff of the 88th Division, who made it clear on the phone that the Japanese army mobilized six armored vehicles, two tanks and two infantry brigades of troops to launch a fierce attack on Broadway, Xihuade Road Bridge, guarded by the 19th Brigade, and fought for the whole afternoon. Oh, by the way, there are still several Japanese gunboats and artillery fire support on the Huangpu River and the "Izumo" cruiser."
"What, there are tanks, armored vehicles, and the cruiser Izumo?!"
"Oh my God, the main gun of the Izumo is 203mm in diameter! This guy can knock down a building with a steel and concrete structure in one shot. On the ground, it will be a big pit with a diameter of dozens of meters!"
"I can't imagine, I can't imagine how this 19th Brigade persisted?"
"All afternoon, all afternoon, I have to persevere for an afternoon under the bombardment of Japanese tanks, armored vehicles, gunboats and cruisers. Everyone, did I hear it wrong?"
Chapter completed!