"Hai." Tsukada suddenly stopped his feet and stood at attention and said, "This Baoshan Regiment has indeed become a serious problem for the Imperial Army. Since the Qiqi Lugoqiao Incident, the Imperial Japanese Army has won many battles in the China battlefield, and
They all achieved great victories at a very small cost, but in the case of the Baoshan Regiment, the imperial army repeatedly suffered losses."
Matsui Iwane said: "Moreover, the losses suffered by the imperial army are getting worse every time!"
Tsukada attacked: "Your Excellency, General, Yue Weihan and the Baoshan Regiment are so difficult to deal with. Is it possible to consider deploying one or two alliances from the 6th Division to fight with the Kunisaki Detachment?"
"This is not necessary." Matsui Iwane waved his hand and said coldly, "Now is the critical moment to attack Nanjing. It is not appropriate to make major adjustments in military deployment. Besides, the defeat of Tashiro Regiment and Shigeto Detachment was not due to lack of strength, but to a lack of strength.
It’s because you underestimate the enemy, so you should immediately telegraph Kunizaki Noboru and ask him not to underestimate his opponent!”
"Hai." Tsukada once again put his feet back and stood at attention, then Shi turned around and left.
…
Pukou.
It was already midnight, but the Pukou Pier was still crowded with people. Thousands of refugees were supporting the elderly and young, carrying children and children, and were slowly moving forward with the surging crowd.
In the chaotic crowd, a seven or eight-year-old child was helplessly calling for his mother.
No one responded, no one even heard the child's cry, because his tender voice had already been drowned by the huge noise. His mother may be looking for him anxiously elsewhere, or maybe... she is no longer alive.
.
Not far away, a young woman was kneeling on the ground crying. In front of the young woman, lying on the cold ground, was a young man in his early twenties. In the young woman's arms, the baby who was not yet one month old had wide eyes.
He was sucking the sweet milk beautifully. He was still young and didn't know what separation was, let alone what farewell was.
Farther away, a frail old man was sitting on the edge of the pier, silently smoking a cigarette.
Behind the old man is the cold, vast and ever-flowing Yangtze River. On the other side of the Yangtze River, the ancient and virulent city of Nanjing is groaning in the flames of war.
…
Several miles away, the fire was dim.
On the cold river beach stood a large, dark crowd.
Nearly two thousand remnants of the Baoshan Regiment have just arrived. More than a thousand men of the two Sichuan Regiments who crossed the river in the evening have also joined the remnants of the Baoshan Regiment. They are all looking sideways at the Pukou Pier a few miles away. Although they are separated by
It was far away, but the officers and soldiers could still clearly see the chaotic situation on the dock, and they could even more clearly hear the heart-rending cries coming from the wind.
"Did you all see it?"
"Did you all hear that?"
At this moment, Yue Weihan's expression turned out to be unprecedentedly sad and angry.
"I would rather be blind or deaf, unable to see or hear anything!" Yue Weihan's voice became hoarse due to excessive exertion, "But I'm not blind, let alone deaf!"
"I saw it and heard it, but I couldn't do anything!"
"I can only watch my children lose their mothers, my wives lose their husbands, and the elderly lose their sons. I can only watch my fellow villagers' homes being destroyed and their relatives separated, but I can't do anything, I can't help.
If not, what kind of fucking soldier am I? And what kind of man am I!?”
Jiang Feng whimpered, and the officers and soldiers were silent.
"It hurts so much." Yue Weihan put his hands on his chest with a painful expression, "This place... really hurts!"
"I would rather you stab me here. I would rather die in Nanjing on the other side of the river. That would be better than watching helplessly such a human tragedy!"
"Painful? Shameful?"
"The more painful thing is yet to come, and the more embarrassing thing for you is yet to come!"
"Ahead is Jiangpu Town. If we cannot hold Jiangpu, and if the Japanese army captures Pukou, then the 700,000 fellow villagers in Nanjing will become meat on the kid's chopping board, all the women will be raped, and all the men will be raped.
They were driven to the riverside and slaughtered en masse, and all the children would lose their parents!"
"By then, the Yangtze River will be filled with corpses of Chinese people!"
"By then, the Yangtze River will be completely dyed red with blood!"
"When the time comes, you, you, him, and me, everyone will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history. Cowards, cowards, deserters, and bastards will become our eternal titles!"
"This is by no means a scaremongering. The little devil has already said that Nanjing will be destroyed and no chickens or dogs will be left alive!"
"Regiment leader, don't say anything!" Cao Xinglong suddenly took a step forward and said with a ferocious expression, "Jiangpu Town, our Baoshan Regiment is on guard. Even if the little devil dispatches ten field divisions, there is nothing we can do.
fear!"
"That's right!" Chi Chengfeng also said with a ferocious expression, "His grandma will just leave these hundreds of kilograms of meat in Jiangpu Town."
"Young Master, I don't care about others, but I, Niu Dagen, will never be a deserter!"
"Our brothers from the Sichuan Army have no intention of returning alive since we left Sichuan."
"My enemy, ever since General Rao died for his country, we no longer want to live."
"Stop saying anything and just fight with those stupid little devils!"
"I'll kill these little bastards!"
On the river beach, more than 3,000 officers and soldiers immediately started shouting and the crowd was excited.
Yue Weihan's words just now aroused the national hatred of all officers and soldiers, and also awakened their dignity as soldiers. After all, the brothers in the national army are all good. They have sacrificed their lives for eight years in the war of resistance.
Millions of soldiers of the national army have sacrificed their lives for the country. They are all eternal martyrs of the Chinese nation...
Facing the angry officers and soldiers, Yue Weihan was choked and speechless.
In Jiangpu, the Baoshan Regiment will face the most brutal battle. The more than 3,000 people standing here are likely to all die in battle. Yue Weihan is clearly taking them to death, especially these soldiers are still very young, young
It’s really heartbreaking. Most of them don’t even know what it’s like to be a woman. Ask yourself, can you not feel guilty?
However, Yue Weihan had no choice but to grit his teeth and be determined. Who said they were soldiers?
Isn't it that the common people contribute money and food to support the army so that the army can protect their lives and property when foreign enemies invade? As soldiers, there are some things they must do and some responsibilities they must bear.
But then again, if the Baoshan Regiment can survive this battle, then this army will be defeated.
The three consecutive days and nights of forced march from Wuxi to Jiangyin, and the forced march from Jingjiang to Yangzhou have well tempered the will of this group of defeated troops. The consecutive victories over the Nakagawa Regiment, Tashiro Regiment and Chongteng Detachment have greatly inspired them.
The confidence and morale of this group of defeated troops have been restored, and if they can defeat the Kunisaki detachment next, then this team will have a soul!
Yue Weihan knows very well that in order to create a steel division that cannot be dragged down or defeated, sufficient supplies are important, sophisticated equipment is important, and a steely will is important. Use me in the first battle, and use me to win.
Faith is important, but the most important thing is the military soul forged in the fire!
The so-called military soul is not the personal charm or will of the first military commander, nor is it any military and political guiding ideology. To put it bluntly, it is the supreme sense of glory and belonging brought about by a major victory worthy of being recorded in history, such as
The Battle of Shangganling and the 15th Army of the Volunteer Army. Shangganling is the military soul of the 15th Army!
The Kunisaki detachment is a burning fire, it’s time to cast a soul for the Baoshan regiment!
The battle with the Guozaki detachment has two outcomes, either the entire army is destroyed, or it is reborn from the ashes. Yue Weihan firmly believes that if the Baoshan regiment can survive this battle, even if only a few hundred people die in the end, the Baoshan regiment will
A radical change has taken place, because their record book has already recorded a significant mark!
This important event is the Battle of Jiangpu and the Battle of Nanjing!
The Battle of Jiangpu and the Battle of Nanjing will be the eternal glory of the Baoshan Regiment. At least within a hundred years, no matter the personnel changes, no matter how time passes, no matter what difficulties it faces, no matter how powerful the enemy it faces, this army will be able to do anything.
Fear will always be detrimental...
…
At four o'clock in the morning, more than 3,000 broken troops from the Baoshan Regiment and the two Sichuan Regiments finally arrived at Jiangpu Town on foot.
As early as half an hour ago, Niu Dagen's artillery battalion had arrived at Jiangpu from Yizheng, dragged by baggage trucks. At the same time, more than fifty trucks of baggage arrived with the artillery battalion.
Yue Weihan waved his hand, and a large number of Japanese light and heavy weapons were unloaded from the truck.
From Yangzhou to Yizheng, the Baoshan Regiment annihilated the Tashiro Regiment and defeated the Chongteng Detachment. Although they did not bother to clean the battlefield carefully due to time constraints, they still captured a lot of weapons. When passing by Liuhe, they also left a weapon for the local security team.
Some of the weapons were equipped, but the remaining weapons were still enough to equip two regiments.
Seeing the piles of light and heavy weapons, the two remnant soldiers of the Sichuan Army immediately stared blankly.
The Sichuan Army has always been famous for its poor equipment. How bad is the equipment of the Sichuan Army? It is so bad that hundreds of thousands of Sichuan Army are in front of them. However, Yan Xishan, Cheng Qian and other senior generals of the party and state did not blink an eye, and directly took over the Sichuan Army.
They turned them away. In the entire battle sequence of the National Army, the equipment of the Eighth Route Army was probably worse than that of the Sichuan Army.
"Why the hell are you still standing there? Hurry up and get weapons!" Seeing that the remnants of the Sichuan Army were stunned but didn't know how to step forward to get weapons, Yue Weihan couldn't help but jump to his feet and scold, "Listen up to me, you idiots."
, If you can use a machine gun, you can use a machine gun, if you can use a rifle, you can't use a rifle, so get out of here as soon as possible."
The remnant soldiers of the Sichuan Army burst into laughter and rushed forward to grab their firearms.
Yue Weihan ignored the remnants of the Sichuan Army and waved to several battalion commanders, battalion deputy, regimental deputy Liu Yi and the two leaders of the Sichuan Army's remnant regiments, Lu Xiufeng and Li Yulin, to come to him.
After everyone had arrived, Yue Weihan said: "Now I will announce the organizational adjustments and personnel appointments. The original six infantry battalions of Baoshan Regiment will be reduced to three battalions, and the two Sichuan Regiments will be reduced to Baoshan 4th Battalion and Baoshan 5th Battalion.
Colonel Lu Xiufeng serves as the deputy regiment and commander of the 4th Battalion, and Colonel Li Yulin serves as the deputy regiment and commander of the 5th Battalion."
After that, Yue Weihan turned his attention to Lu Xiufeng and Li Yulin and said, "You two have no objections, right?"
"No objection, as long as there are enemy attacks, let us be company commanders." Lu Xiufeng and Li Yulin responded at the same time.