The gunshot alarmed the Japanese army on the north bank of the Suzhou River and fired randomly on this side. From time to time, bullets dragged out dazzling traces and flashed through the sky. Fortunately, the two were very far apart. If they were hit by stray bullets from a thousand meters away, you could only sigh that you were too rude. It was useless to hide in the trenches, because the bullet was smashed from the sky.

Xu Shijiu ignored the little Japanese stray bullets, but stared fiercely at the officers and soldiers of the 19th Brigade and scolded him.

"Everyone has grown abilities, huh? Didn't you get enough fighting against Japan a few days ago, so you trained with your own people? Okay, since you still have this kind of spirit, I won't stop you, and I will stand up for me. Then I will swim across the Suzhou River and continue to work with Japan a little bit!"

Of course no one stood up. Several Japanese field divisions were stationed on the north bank of Suzhou River, not to mention that Japanese had a fierce heavy artillery group that was so cruel that it was unreasonable. Only a few hundred people in the 19th Brigade were not enough to stuff the Japanese teeth. Besides, how could everyone not hear it? The captain got angry and scolded him for a few words.

"What, wasn't it possible just now? Now I'm a cowardly guy?"

A veteran from Zhejiang could not help but say, "Captain, those Guangdong guys speak so badly."

"What are we talking about? Jiang Baitou didn't know how to fight at all, and he was just trying to command his mother. After saying that he had retreated, he said he wanted to defend himself. What's the matter? I'm not playing with us? I won't fight for this bullshit leader anymore." Before the Zhejiang veteran finished speaking, he immediately attracted more than a dozen Guangdong veterans' rebellious words.

This guy, another veteran of Zhejiang, is quitting again. Seeing that the situation is about to get out of control, Xu Shijiu made a quick decision to kick Ergua, who is closest to the corner but has not said a word. Ergua was stunned and thought to himself that I didn't say anything. He didn't do anything just now, and was kicked twice on the back by someone else. Why did the captain kick me?

This aggrieved, Ergua cried silently as soon as she slapped her mouth.

Xu Shijiu ignored Ergua and stared at the Guangdong veterans and scolded: "Shut up, the bald head is long, the bald head is short, the leader is the leader after all. You don't agree with it, at least the respect is finally necessary?" He paused and said, "Also, are you fighting for the leader? No, it is fighting for your wives and children, for your compatriots, for them!"

The officers and soldiers of the 19th Brigade turned around and looked in the direction of Xu Shijiu's finger. Not far from their position was a road. Under the bleak night of stars and moon, you could vaguely see the endless stream of pedestrians on the road. Because the road was too crowded, there were pedestrians in the muddy fields on both sides, supporting the elderly and carrying young people, pushing carts and carrying young people, making them feel very sad.

After the outbreak of the Battle of Songhu, the National Government began to plan to withdraw factories, schools, and institutions in Shanghai to relatively safe rear areas such as Wuhan and Chongqing. However, Shanghai citizens and the people in the suburbs did not leave. They all spontaneously stayed to help the national army fight against the invasion and had great confidence in defending Shanghai.

Of course, the difficulty of leaving their hometown is also one of the reasons why they are unwilling to leave.

However, after the big market fell, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse. Even the most optimistic people knew that Shanghai could no longer defend it. Therefore, in recent days, there has been a wave of refugees fleeing Shanghai. Millions of Shanghai citizens left the west of Shanghai from the public concession and the French concession, along the Shanghai-Song Road, the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway in a hurry, Jiaxing, and Kunshan.

The officers and soldiers who were still angry just now fell silent.

The refugees walked in a hurry and in a hurry. From time to time, some elderly people fell to the ground, and some separated children were wandering on the roadside, calling their mother helplessly. Some young mothers were sad in the crowd and shouting their children's nicknames in despair. Some were even killed by stray bullets shot by the Japanese army, and their relatives were crying.

The whole escape scene was chaotic and noisy, heartbreaking.

Xu Shijiu took his gaze from the refugees and gritted his teeth and said, "I know what you are thinking. Yes, retreating to the national defense line can at least temporarily save your life. Staying at this uncovered Suzhou River can only be a dead end. Who doesn't want to live, who wants to die? Lou Yi is still greedy for life, and I, Xu Shijiu, don't want to die either!

But have you ever thought about what they should do if we run away?!"

Xu Shijiu suddenly pointed at the refugees on the road, and his voice suddenly became louder: "In order to support our war of resistance, they donated all the food in their homes. They would rather be hungry than let us eat; in order to buy a few more boxes of medicines and to save a few more wounded people, they donated all the savings at home, but they were sick but had to hold on.

Also, in order to replenish troops, how many elderly mothers have sent their children to the battlefield?

For the war of resistance, for the country and the nation, they did their best. Now Shanghai is about to fall, but you want to leave it and leave them to the Japanese invaders, so that the Japanese invaders will massacre them and bully them. Don’t you feel blushed and not feel ashamed?”

Whether it was Zhejiang, Guangdong, or Hubei, all of them lowered their heads in shame. Xu Shijiu's words were like a sharp sword piercing into their hearts, and like a sharp mirror reflecting the selfishness in their hearts. The dozen Guangdong, who had just called the most fierce, felt their faces burning with a burning burn.

"I'll put my words here today." Xu Shijiu held his armed belt tightly with his hands and shouted loudly, "As long as the people of Shanghai have not yet withdrawn, I will never leave West Shanghai. Even if I die, I will never take a step back!"

The expressions of more than 800 officers and soldiers gradually became solemn. After a moment, Guangdong veterans from the 19th Route Army, who were born in the old 19th Route Army, put down their backpacks, Zhejiang veterans from the former guard camp returned to the trenches, and Hubei supplementary soldiers also picked up engineer picks and began to strengthen the fortifications. Everything returned to the time before the retreat order was issued.

The veterans of the neighboring troops who came to watch the lively neighboring troops also returned. When they came, they were full of confusion and anger, but when they left, they had become extremely calm. Xu Shijiu not only taught a lesson to the arrogant soldiers and generals of the 19th Brigade, but also taught a lesson to these veterans of the neighboring troops: Soldiers should have the responsibility of soldiers!

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However, Xu Shijiu was just a colonel captain after all. If he could lead troops, he could only influence more than 800 people under his command. Under the influence of Xu Shijiu, the more than 800 officers and soldiers of the 19th Brigade had figured it out, but there were 85 divisions on the battlefield of Songhu, and more than 500,000 people. So many officers and soldiers were not something Xu Shijiu could influence.

Although Chairman Jiang's orders did not lead to a large-scale mutiny, there were many small-scale fights. This bad influence was left and the morale plummeted.

And Japan would not show mercy because of the low morale of the national army. Because of Chairman Chiang's strategic mistake, an unprecedented catastrophe was approaching the more than 500,000 soldiers of the national army on the battlefield in the Shanghai.

In the early morning of November 5, 1937, the Japanese Navy Air Force dispatched hundreds of bombers, carrying 500 kilograms of heavy bombs to launch a carpet bomb on Kingsoft. At the same time, dozens of warships and hundreds of guns from the newly formed Navy Fleet fired volleys, blowing the National Army's beachhead into a sea of ​​fire.

Two hours after the shelling, the 6th and 18th Divisions of the Japanese army landed forcibly from the east and west sides of the Kinshanwei. Before landing, the commander of the 10th Army, Heisuke Yanagawa, convened the heads of each division to meet. This vicious old Japanese man said at the meeting that once he landed, the mountains, rivers, plants and trees were all enemies.

What the implication is that, whether soldiers or the people, they will kill everything they see along the way!

Because of Yanagawa Heisuke's words, the 10th Army went westward and burned and robbed after the landing of Kinshanwei. After entering Nanjing, it even created the horrifying Nanjing Massacre. Ten thousand prisoners of war and more than 200,000 unarmed innocent people were brutally killed. The crimes committed by the Japanese were all the same as the "Stock and Unspeakable".

At this time, the right-wing army group responsible for Hangzhou Bay defense had already put the only four main divisions under its jurisdiction into the battlefield in western Shanghai. Moreover, the commander-in-chief of the right-wing army, Zhang Fakui, believed that even if the Japanese army did not land in the Lion Forest, they would also land along the Yangtze River north of the Liuhe River. It was never expected that the Japanese army would land in Jinshanwei.

Therefore, at that time, there were only two companies of the 62nd Division and local security teams stationed.

The 6th and 18th Divisions of the Japanese Army easily got ashore. In the words of the Japanese soldiers participating in the landing operations, this was even easier than an exercise.

When the news reached Nanjing, Chairman Jiang was shocked!

The senior leaders of the Nanjing Command opened the map and saw that it was broken. After the Japanese army landed in Jinshanwei, they could go straight to Songjiang northwest. Once Songjiang was lost, the railway traffic between Shanghai and Hangzhou would be cut off. Then the dozens of divisions that were still defending west of Shanghai could only squeeze into Kunshan’s retreat!

This is not counting, there are even worse things. According to the information provided by the Blue-Yi Society, the Japanese army is also planning a landing along the Yangtze River. Once another Japanese army lands along the Yangtze River north of the Liuhe River and then goes south to Taicang and Kunshan, then the 85 elite divisions on the entire Songhu battlefield will be captured by the Japanese army!

Such serious consequences are absolutely unbearable by the National Government!

Chairman Jiang was anxious and looked for troops on the map while talking on the phone with Chen Cheng. Finally, he found that the 67th Army of Wu Keren, who had just been transferred from North China, was near Songjiang. Wu Keren's 67th Army of Wu Keren was the Northeast Army. Because he couldn't stand the mutual inclination between the various factions on the battlefield in North China, he took the initiative to request the South to transfer.

The Sixty-Seventh Army is well-equipped, well-equipped, and has strong combat effectiveness.

So Chairman Chiang gave Wu Keren an order, ordering the 67th Army to hold on to Songjiang for at least three days, why three days instead of five days, seven days or even longer? This is because two days later, on November 7, the Nine-Country Convention will hold a meeting in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, to discuss China's affairs.

In the end, the 67th Army really defended in Songjiang for three days, at the cost of the entire army being destroyed. The commander Wu Keren also died heroically. He was also the highest-ranking general of the national army who died during the Battle of Songhu.

In theory, with these three days, it was enough for the Nanjing Command to make overall arrangements and the vast majority of the main divisions in western Shanghai to withdraw from the battlefield. However, it is regrettable that Chairman Jiang made trouble again. In the past three days, he did not order dozens of main divisions in western Shanghai to withdraw from the battlefield, but missed the last chance!

Why? Because Chairman Chiang always had unrealistic fantasies about the Nine-Country Convention.

The cruel reality finally gave Chairman Chiang a heavy blow. The Nine-Country Convention finally only verbally condemned Japan. This result was even worse than not having a meeting. The Japanese government was somewhat worried if it didn't hold a meeting. But after this meeting, the Japanese government touched the bottom line of the Nine-Country Convention and had no scruples anymore.

Since then, the division commanders of the Songhu front line have repeatedly broken through the termination line set by the Japanese base camp and gradually burned the war to Nanjing, the capital of China, which is directly related to the Japanese government's understanding of the bottom line of the nine-nation convention. Otherwise, the two courages of the Japanese may not dare to let the division commanders of the front line do whatever they want.

On November 8, Songjiang was lost, and the 80 divisions guarding west of Shanghai had lost the best opportunity to retreat and were facing an unprecedented severe crisis.
Chapter completed!