Chapter 203: Then we have no choice but to risk it (3rd update, please subscribe!)
Fortunately, in addition to ruthless people like Tang Dao who dug big holes for themselves and half-buried themselves, there were also people in Songjiang.
It is none other than Commissioner Wang.
Although this person was frightened by Tang Dao's determination to put everyone in a pit to die with the enemy, he was also a big shot who had experienced many scenes and knew that no matter how several lieutenant general-level bosses decided,
, he, the number one person in the Songjiang area, had to risk his life to accompany him.
The outcome has been decided. No matter how scared he is, it will be of no use, so he might as well give it a try.
It’s not that you want to turn a bicycle into a motorcycle, it’s just that the stupid Japanese want to kill me, so I’m going to eat a piece of your flesh no matter what.
Jiangnan scholars may appear to be gentle and gentle, but they are not as ruthless as the northern men, but once they risk their lives, they are definitely ruthless.
"If there are no materials, we will demolish them. We will start with my Wang Gongyu house first. The roof beams used in my Wang family are all fine 100-year-old nanmu. If my house does not have enough, I will demolish the ones from other houses. I will write a list. Anyone who dares to stop them will be demolished on the spot."
Justice." The white-faced commissioner had a murderous look in his eyes.
"If we don't have enough manpower, we'll have to recruit them by force. I'm now ordering the security team and all blacksmiths, house builders, and people in related industries, regardless of age, to be recruited as civilian laborers on the spot. The pay will remain the same. Those who refuse will be recruited on the spot."
Fa-rectification! Damn it! Songjiang is not the Songjiang of me alone, but the Songjiang of the Songjiang people. The Songjiang people are fighting like a fool with little Japan."
What else can be said? Looking at the red-eyed Songjiang County Magistrate, Tang Dao and the generals of the 43rd Army all felt that Songjiang like this was at least not in vain.
Yes, no matter how arrogant this person’s order is, what he said is right. Songjiang is not one person’s Songjiang, and China is not one person’s China. If you want to survive, everyone must work together.
A few gunshots made the former wealthy people realize that war was really coming.
The white-faced commissioner who usually called them brothers was like a wolf that took medicine. He refused to acknowledge or tell his relatives, and was extremely cruel. He personally brandished a pistol and killed his own cousin, and the one who ate his own cousin
The unlucky guy was just trying to stop the soldiers from demolishing the Wang family ancestral hall.
The Wang family ancestral hall, which has been inherited for three hundred years, turned into rubble amid the wailing of the Wang family and the murderous gaze of the white-faced County Magistrate Wang. The nanmu beams as thick as an adult's waist were cut into several sections and carried away with the pulling of a big saw.
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Although Songjiang City does not have much of such scarce materials as steel plates, it can still be scraped together after demolishing the whole city. Even if it is not enough after dismantling all the steel plates, we can use iron sheets to make up for it. In Songjiang City's economic situation, iron sheets can be used.
The usage rate in the relatively developed Jiangnan town is still very high.
What's more, there is a group of blacksmiths who were forcibly left behind.
It may be an impossible task for them to produce shaped iron tools in such a short period of time, but it is still possible to melt the iron and turn it into pieces of iron plates, even if the shape is not so regular.
The requirements for Tang Dao are very simple. They do not require that these iron plates can withstand artillery fire of any caliber like the super-hard steel plates of tanks. They should be sandwiched in sandbags and logs and be able to block one or two direct artillery fires.
Even with the most rudimentary defense, as long as you can survive for a while, you will have one more chance to shoot outwards, and you will have more possibilities to kill your opponent.
This is not the survival mode of the weak, but the claws of the weak trying to reach out to the strong. It’s okay to eat me, but I have to scratch your blood all over.
It's a little sad, but it's the best that the soldiers and civilians in the small town can do now.
Songjiang, a small town, started roaring like a fully wound machine under the forced order of the Songjiang County magistrate who set an example.
Young and strong, or rather no longer just young and strong, because of Wang Gongyu's unkind and strict orders, all fourteen-year-old apprentices and masters over fifty in each workshop were left to participate in the construction of various fortifications.
middle.
Of course, the five yuan and ten kilograms of grain promised previously will not be a small reward. Those with family members will take them away first, and those without family members will also be given money and grain to individuals.
Those women who wanted to wait for their husbands or sons to leave together were also organized by the crazy but rational County Magistrate Wang.
Boil water for cooking! All the meat that could be found in Songjiang was collected. Almost all the live chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs were slaughtered on site. In the afternoon of that day, the soldiers and civilians who had already started digging were given a feast.
‘Hammer’…
Fortunately, we have a military rank!
During the construction of fortifications, each person had four taels of rice, two taels of meat, and even four taels of wine per meal, which were contributed by several wine shop owners. A fleet of large trucks carried large bottles of wine that could hold five to six hundred kilograms of wine.
The tanks were transported, weighing a hundred thousand kilograms.
In their words, they were smashed together when they planned to leave. Now it is better to hand it over to the army so that the army can soothe their muscles and keep out the cold at night.
Jiangnan’s wine contains more rice wine and less white wine, but it is most suitable for this moment. A small amount of alcohol can stimulate the brain center and make it excited without making people drunk. It can also quench thirst. It is definitely a good wine for working people.
In terms of staple food, rice and flour are all eaten in Jiangnan. However, in order to facilitate food supply during the war, under Tang Dao's suggestion, nearly a thousand women worked together to make cakes.
Pancakes from the northwest.
The pancake itself is easy to carry, just stuff the baked pancake into your pocket. It is already November weather, the pancake is not easy to deteriorate and damage, and a pancake weighs two ounces, even if you swallow it with cold water, it is still guaranteed
The energy consumed by a soldier in half a day.
If there was any extra meat, it was boiled in salt water. Each infantry platoon was given a large piece, which was carried by a dedicated person. When it was time to eat, he would take a bayonet and cut off a piece to satisfy his cravings.
It was so hard to eat the rice that I choked and rolled my eyes. When the Sichuan soldiers heard that they were treated with large pieces of meat, I don’t know how many of them had tears of excitement in their eyes.
During the war, you either die or live, but those poor people are not so particular. The 26th Division of the 43rd Army fought bloody battles in Dachang Town for seven days. I don’t know how many soldiers were shocked by the Japanese cannons before they even took a bite of food.
died.
Even among the few hundred people who survived in the end, probably less than half had enough meals in seven days, let alone any meat.
It's better now, even if he dies, he will still be a dead ghost.
Of course, Commissioner Wang is responsible for all these trivial matters regarding eating and drinking.
The soldiers went about their professional affairs. The five infantry companies of 600 that the 43rd Army had arrived were assigned to the four walls. One infantry company was responsible for the city, leading more than 6,000 Songjiang civilians to dig trenches and build firepower fortifications. The 26th Division staff officer
The commander, Major General Liu Gongdu, is in charge, assisted by two major generals, brigade commanders, and four colonel commanders.
Even though the 43rd Army is tenacious in fighting, there is still a big gap between the 43rd Army and the German armorers trained by the Germans in terms of fortification construction.
Therefore, Lei Xiong, Leng Feng, Cheng Tieshou, Li Jiujin and others also divided the four infantry squads and two firepower squads of the Sihang Battalion into five groups to join them, both for work and for guidance.
Tang Dao, on the other hand, took his signal corpsman Erya and two lieutenant generals to patrol the whole city. While observing and discussing positions inside and outside the city where troops could be stationed to attack the Japanese army, he also looked for a place in the city that could be used as a headquarters.
The Japanese invaders' heavy artillery is terrible. If the headquarters is not strong enough and a single artillery attack leaves the frontline troops unscathed but brings down a bunch of high-ranking officials in the headquarters, then the battle will be impossible to fight.
The two lieutenant generals did not ride horses, and even personal guards were sent to the construction site. Tang Dao, the commander of the joint command headquarters' war supervision battalion, was their staff officer and part-time guard.
Facing the coming war, everyone seems very small, but everyone is like a screw, working hard in his position.
If you don’t fight hard, you will die. The officers and soldiers of the 43rd Army and the Sixing Battalion who had dealt with the Japanese army knew this very well.
When the afterglow of the setting sun was about to withdraw the last ray of light from the ancient city wall of the small town in the south of the Yangtze River, smoke and dust billowed outside the city.
The 67th Army marched for ten hours and arrived!
It is a full 24 hours earlier than before in time and space.
