Sheshan Town, Qingpu, the headquarters of the 6th Japanese Division.

The division commander of the division, Sesou Osu, is holding a military meeting to convey the orders of the Central China Front Army Command.

"The Ohara Brigade failed to blow up the Anting Bridge, and the retreat passage of the Shanghai West China Army was still unobstructed. Every hour passed, thousands of Chinese troops would retreat to Kunshan through the Anting Bridge. Commander Matsui ordered us to go north overnight to seize Anting and cut off the western retreat path of the Shanghai West China Army."

Hearing Matsui Ishigen ordered the 6th Division to go north to capture Anting overnight, the commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade Tokutaro Sakai immediately jumped up and said, "Terminal Commander, we may not be able to go north!"

The officers present turned their heads together and looked at Tokutaro Sakai in shock.

Long before the landing of Kinshanwei, the attack route of the 6th Division had been determined, that is, to occupy Qingpu through Songjiang, and then Qingpu captured Anting Town, and cooperated with the Shanghai condemnation army to complete the encirclement of the main force of the Shanghai-Western Army. Now, Matsui Ishione just took the time a little earlier, but Tokutaro Sakai jumped out to object. What did he want to do?

"Sansuka Sakai, do you know what you are talking about?" Tanisuo rubbed his eyes, feeling a little unhappy. This old Japanese man was almost sixty years old. The hard work of the boats and trains made him exhausted. He was already considering forming a detachment, which would carry out the combat mission of his division so that he could be lazy.

Sakai Tokutaro did not explain much, but pointed to the map on the table and said, "As far as I know, the 11th Division did not go south to Jiading after capturing Liuhe, but went straight to Taicang. The purpose was not to ask, and it must be to capture Kunshan first. Commander Matsui ordered our troops to go north to Anting. What is the purpose?"

"Huh?" Tanisuo nodded thoughtfully, and the participants also fell into deep thought.

As the saying goes, where there are people, there are martial arts, and where there are troops, there are factions.

Although the Japanese base camp has combined the Shanghai Condemnation Army and the 10th Army into the Central China Front Army, and Matsui Ishione serves as the commander, Matsui Ishione also serves as the commander of the Shanghai Condemnation Army. Moreover, the Shanghai Condemnation Army performed poorly in previous operations, so the old guy may not have the idea of ​​deliberately suppressing the 10th Army.

For example, now, while ordering the 6th Division to go north to Anting, the 11th Division ordered the 11th Division to take Kunshan directly. Once the 11th Division captured Kunshan before the 6th Division and blocked the main force of the national army east of Kunshan, the first achievement of encircling and annihilation of the main force of the Shanghai-Western National Army will fall on the 11th Division, and the 6th Division will only cooperate with the action.

Tanisuo put his reading glasses on again and asked, "Sakura Sakai, what do you mean?"

Tokutaro Sakai picked up his pencil and drew a thin and long arrow on the map, and said in a deep voice: "My opinion, give up Anting, and plunge straight along the Qingkun Highway to the northwest, and seize Kunshan in front of the 11th Division. In this way, the first contribution to encircling and annihilation of the main force of the Shanghai West China Army is our 6th Division."

Tansuo's turbid old eyes suddenly lit up, and he began to weigh the pros and cons in his heart.

Ken Fujimura, the captain of the 6th Field Artillery Regiment, said with some concern: "Qingkun Highway is just a simple road, and the road conditions are far from enough to compare with Songjia Highway and Kunhu Highway. Can the marching speed be guaranteed along the Qingkun Highway and the Qingkun Highway to enter Kunshan? Also, if our division commander drives straight into Kunshan, will it be too aggressive?"

Ken Fujimura's concerns were not unreasonable. The 10th Army immediately divided its troops after landing in Kinshanwei. Even the 6th Division had divided its troops after capturing Songjiang. The 36th Infantry Brigade of Niushima was heading straight to Nanshi along the Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway. The only ones heading north to Qingpu were the 11th Infantry Brigade and the division's direct troops.

Kunshan has now become the main throat for the Chinese army to retreat westward, and a large number of national troops will inevitably gather here. The 6th Division has only half of the division's strength. Will it be surrounded by the national army in turn? Also, will the Chinese army retreating west along the south bank of the Wusong River counterattack Qingpu and cut off the logistics supply line of the 6th Division?

"Fujimura San is worried." Sakai Tokutaro waved his hand and said disapprovingly, "Through the battle of Songjiang and Qingpu, we can find that the morale of the Chinese army is very low and the fighting will is extremely weak. I dare say that as long as an infantry brigade appears outside Kunshan City, the Chinese army will collapse without fighting, so there is no need to worry about the supply line at all."

The captain of the 6th Cavalry Regiment, Natsuki Kinta said: "But, how should Commander Matsui explain?"

Sakai Tokutaro said: "This is easy to deal with. I will draw an infantry brigade to continue to go north along the Matsuka Highway."

Tani Shouo finally made up his mind and slapped the table and stood up: "Order, with the 11th Infantry Brigade as the base, plus field artillery, engineers, baggage, and cavalry, each group of a motorized detachment, and headed straight to Kunshan along the Qingkun Highway. In order to speed up, all vehicles and horses of the division headquarters were transferred to the Sakai Detachment."

"Hayi!" Sakai Tokutaro stood up and Jushou.

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Baihegang, the 19th Brigade station.

Seeing Xu Shijiu walking in with a gloomy face, Deputy Captain Gu Wei came up and asked, "Captain, what's wrong?"

Gu Wei was the former deputy battalion commander of the Guard Battalion. After the Guard Battalion merged with the 19th Brigade, he became the deputy captain of the 19th Brigade. He graduated from the 10th Infantry Department of the Central Military Academy and is a standard professional soldier. His loyalty to the leader has been integrated into the bone marrow. Whoever dares to say bad things about Chairman Jiang will be anxious.

Xu Shijiu shook his head and sighed: "The army is collapsed."

"The troops collapsed?" Gu Wei said in surprise, "No, except for the 1st Company who came with you to receive military supplies, the rest of the companies, the artillery company and heavy machine gun company are all resting in the nearby villages, and they are in good mood."

"I'm not talking about our 19th Brigade, but about the 174th Brigade in Qingpu." Xu Shijiu met the defeated troops of the 174th Brigade on the way back. He knew from the defeated troops that Qingpu had lost, and sighed, "Qingpu has lost, the 174th Brigade has collapsed, and Wu's brigade has also died for his country."

"Ah?!" Gu Wei was shocked when he heard this.

As soon as Wu Jiguang's 174th Brigade collapsed, the 19th Brigade and Baihegang were directly exposed to the Japanese army. Moreover, Gu Wei had to worry that more than 3,000 officers and soldiers of the 174th Brigade guarded Qingpu, but in less than one day the Japanese army was defeated. Their 19th Brigade had only more than 800 officers and soldiers. How long could they last?

Gu Wei stood up and said, "I'll wake up my brothers and speed up the construction of fortifications."

"Forget it, how many fortifications can be built in a hurry? And these fortifications cannot withstand the bombing of Japanese artillery and aviation." Xu Shijiu waved his hand and sighed, "Brothers have not rested for a long time. It seems that it is another fierce battle. Let them sleep for a while."

Gu Wei nodded, sighed, and said, "Oh, then I'll go and take a walk."

After Gu Wei left, Xu Shijiu called Gao Shenxing, who was sitting at the door wiping the sabre, and ordered: "Shenxing, go and call Li Zihan, the engineer squad leader, over to me."

Gao Shenxing agreed and went back.

There were very few engineers in the 19th Brigade. The squad leader Li Zihan was specially asked by Xu Shijiu from Qiu Weida. The remaining few were college and middle school students who joined the army temporarily. The military experience was far worse than Shu Tongwen, a student soldier from Nanyuan. Xu Shijiu was unwilling to go to the battlefield to die for nothing, so he organized them into the engineering squad.

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The engineer squad and the guards lined up, in the small courtyard behind the brigade headquarters.

The yard has already snored. Speaking of which, the brothers have not slept well for a long time, so most brothers have died of sleep as soon as they touch the ground.

Li Zihan held back her sleep and was writing a diary.

After writing the diary, Li Zihan gently closed the diary and put the diary together with a tap fountain pen into a canvas bag. The gap on the canvas bag that was exploded by Japanese artillery shells had been repaired. When he was about to pull his hand out of the bag, he touched something, and then subconsciously took the thing out of the bag, but it was a photo.

The photo shows a young girl with long bangs and two thick braids hanging from behind her ears and hanging on her bulging chest. She smiled sweetly in front of the camera, and there seemed to be a hint of shyness in her smile, and the youth and vitality were almost rippling out of the photo.

Holding the photo, Li Zihan couldn't help but look at it in a daze.

"Brother Zihan, who is she?" Ergua appeared behind Li Zihan at some point, hugged her knees with her hands, and looked at the girl in the photo with envious face, and said, "It looks so good."

Li Zihan smiled and didn't mean to put away the photos and prevent them from seeing them.

"Is it your wife?" Ergua lowered her voice and said with Li Zihan's ears, "Brother Zihan, let me tell you, Brother Shenxing also has a small notebook with a photo inside. There is also a woman on it, she looks better than you. If you don't lie to you, she looks like a fairy girl and looks better than the top brands on the big stage."

The smile on Li Zihan's face froze and said, "Ergua, you secretly turn the platoon leader's things, don't you want to live?"

Gao Shenxing usually doesn't talk much, except that Xu Shijiu almost doesn't care much about others, and the expression on his face is always cold, and the soldiers in the guard platoon are a little afraid of him.

As they were talking, the footsteps sounded outside. When the two looked back, they saw Gao Shen walking in. Ergua was so scared that she shivered. She quickly turned around and lie down, pretending to be asleep.

Gao Shenxing's eyes swept over Li Zihan's face and said, "Li Zihan, the captain is looking for you."

Li Zihan quickly put away the photos, then came to the brigade headquarters with a canvas bag. As soon as he entered the door, Xu Shijiu said, "I got a batch of Bufus Mountain Cannon shells, 500 rounds, how long will it take to convert them all into landmines?"

Li Zihan thought for a while and replied: "If detonators, batteries and wires are ready-made, one night will be enough."

Xu Shijiu was stunned and said, "There are detonators, but there are no batteries and wires, and I can't get them now."

"Then you can't do remote control thunder, you can only modify the trigger thunder." Li Zihan was still very good at this and said, "If it is easier to modify the anti-infantry to trigger the lightning, it will be more troublesome to modify the anti-tank thunder."

Xu Shijiu thought for a while and said, "Then change twenty anti-tank rays, and the rest are all modified against infantry rays, shells and detonators in the back yard. You can take someone to get them yourself."
Chapter completed!