With the fall of Beiping, Liu Lang ordered the whole army to be reorganized, ready to go on the expedition at any time.

The matter of the expedition has been sent by Zhang Ruhao to the Red Central Committee, and the Central Committee replied: This is a national war, and all the red troops are also waiting for the call of the people to go to the front line of resistance against Japan at any time, and your unit is already a member of the Red Army, and it is the responsibility of all officers and soldiers to serve the country and be loyal to the people. ”

Liu Lang then issued a mobilization order for the whole regiment on behalf of the regiment headquarters.

In addition to the garrison battalion of the base, the whole army, from the regiment commander Liu Lang and below, brought five catties of dry food for seven days and two months, five catties of dry food for "jerky" and "fried rice", one pound of water bladders for individual soldiers, 10 tablets of high-concentration sulfonamides, a field blanket, one pair of single shoes and one pair of cotton shoes, and two sets of single clothes, and the cotton clothes were handed over to the baggage company for transportation.

This time, Liu Lang's department did not wear a maverick camouflage uniform, but a regular national army combat uniform. Because this battle was a battle of up to 1 million people on both sides, the independent regiment of more than 3,000 people was like a drop of water in the sea, and the result of the maverick was not praised for being handsome, but by the Japanese army grabbing the target and bombing indiscriminately.

This is a precedent, once in time and space in the last counteroffensive, the entire battlefield only the Gui army wearing steel helmets and yellow uniforms, because the Japanese army set off smoke bombs were mistaken for poison gas, the Gui army, which had never fought with the Japanese invaders, was in chaos, the result was too obvious The target was shot by the Japanese as a live target, with heavy casualties, and nearly 10,000 people died on the battlefield.

Wearing the uniform of the national army will not be mistaken by your own side, and at the same time, it can also prevent the Japanese from knowing the number of the unit at the first time, which is more conducive to hiding themselves. A few months ago, the Independence Regiment re-produced the latest and non-maverick "tactical vests" based on the uniforms of the National Army, including leggings.

In addition to all the rations, the infantry carried a semi-automatic rifle, a triangular army thorn, 300 rounds of 6.5 mm machine rifle ammunition, 4 long-handled grenades, 2 grenades, a single sapper shovel, and a pair of simple gas masks; Sergeant and deputy squad leader, carrying a submachine gun, a triangular stab, a standard saber, a pistol, 300 bullets, 4 grenades, a single sapper shovel, and a simple gas mask; The main and auxiliary shooters of machine guns carry 500 rounds of machine guns and bullets, one pistol, 50 rounds of ammunition, four grenades, one individual engineer shovel, and one pair of simple gas masks; Bazooka shooters, carrying 3 individual bazookas and rockets, 1 pistol, 50 rounds of ammunition, 4 grenades, 1 individual sapper shovel, and a pair of improvised gas masks. Infantry carries a single load of more than 20 kg.

Lieutenant-level officer, one submachine gun, one pistol, 200 rounds of ammunition, two grenades, one three-edged military spur and one standard saber, and a simple gas mask.

Colonel-level officer, a pistol, 100 bullets, 2 grenades, a triangular military stab and a standard saber, a simple gas mask, and a wild silk stab-proof clothing.

Artillery, engineers, baggage soldiers, medical personnel, signal troops, and other branches of the armed forces, except for the necessary garrison personnel and infantry equipment, the rest of the soldiers are equipped with pistols, 50 rounds of ammunition and grenades, two three-edged military stabs, and carry professional equipment as much as possible to reduce their loads.

The artillery battalion carries three companies of rocket artillery company, mortar company, mountain artillery company, and a platoon of reinforced infantry garrison, 300 strong men, and is equipped with 10 12-barrel rocket launchers, 6 75-caliber Bofors mountain guns, 12 82-caliber mortars, and 8 20-mm twin-mounted anti-aircraft guns.

In the special brigade, except for 2 people who could not participate in the battle due to physical reasons, the rest of the 7 squads below Yu Xiancheng plus Mo Kitten and Shi Datou all went to the battle. The equipment is mainly based on receiving all the equipment half a year ago, and each team is equipped with a single radio communicator, and each person has a piece of wild silk underwear. The average weight of the special brigade is more than 30 kilograms per person.

In addition, each platoon-level unit is equipped with a newly developed infantry radio communicator and a telescope. Each company-level unit is equipped with an infantry radio communicator, a telescope, and a code book for the national material storage site. In addition to the equipment assigned to the company-level units, each battalion-level unit is also equipped with a field radio station.

In addition, the whole army was equipped with a steel helmet according to the number of people, which was transported by the baggage company and collected before the battle. The baggage company is required to carry dry rations for the whole army in January and bullets, grenades, artillery shells and other materials for the whole army in February. The baggage company will be equipped with 250 tripod vehicles, the artillery battalion will be equipped with 80 tripods, the engineer company will be equipped with 20 tripods, the field hospital will be equipped with 30 tripods, the regimental communication platoon will be equipped with 10 tripods, the regimental guard platoon will be equipped with 15 tripods, the first infantry battalion will be equipped with 110 tripods, the death battalion will be equipped with 70 tripods, the bayonet battalion will be equipped with 70 tripods, the rock battalion will be equipped with 70 tripods, and 420 people from two squadrons of the Blue Army will act with the army, with 50 tripods. The remaining 35 tripods were used by the Quartermaster Department for the purchase of materials and maintenance and deployment.

In addition to the 90 people in two platoons of logistics support personnel, including the cooking soldiers, the Quartermaster Department brought 30 technical workers of various types to be responsible for the repair and maintenance of vehicles, guns, artillery, and other weapons and equipment.

The Quartermaster Department, as the quartermaster unit of the whole regiment, is responsible for preparing all the supplies within a week.

Liu Lang knew that if nothing else, the expedition would be this month.

The bald commander must have already adopted part of Mr. Jiang Baili's opinion, that is, to increase the troops in Songhu, lead the Japanese to concentrate heavy troops in the southeast, and change the direction of the Japanese invasion from north to south to from east to west, so as to facilitate long-term combat.

The war of nations is about to begin.

In the north of China, more than 100,000 Japanese troops have swept through Pingjin, and the Chinese army is retreating, but China has quietly turned all the elite forces it can mobilize to the southeast.

The color of blood has hung over the economic center of China.

Behind Songhu, since it is the capital, China cannot afford to lose.

At the beginning of August, the war in the north continued to erode, and it was already felt that this was by no means a local battle but a national war, and the Chinese High Command, in accordance with the National Defense Plan, concentrated its forces to prepare to annihilate the 3,000 Japanese marines in Shanghai, and the navy blocked Jiangyin and completely annihilated the Japanese Yangtze River Fleet. However, due to the leakage of secrets, the Japanese Yangtze River Fleet fled from the mouth of the Yangtze River in a hurry.

The Chinese army will not tolerate the presence of the Japanese Navy's Marine Corps in Shanghai when war has already begun in North China. Moreover, since the war had begun, the stipulation that Chinese troops could not be stationed in the downtown area of Shanghai after the 28 January Incident was naturally nullified in the eyes of the Chinese side. On August 13, the Chinese troops secretly stationed at Hongqiao Airport killed Captain Yuo Oyama, a Japanese soldier who had come to reconnoitre, for the "August 13" incident.

Under the impetus of the anti-Japanese wave of the whole people, the national government issued the "Declaration of Self-Defense and War of Resistance" the next day, declaring that "China will never give up any part of its territory, and in the event of aggression, it can only respond with the exercise of its natural right of self-defense." "On August 14, the Ninth Army of the local Nationalist Army, under the command of the commander-in-chief, General Zhang Zhizhong, commanded three German armament divisions to start a general attack, and the Chinese Air Force also went to Shanghai to coordinate operations.

On August 14, the morning of the second day after the outbreak of the Battle of Songhu, the two armies had not yet fought on a large scale, and neither army expected that on this day, the air force would occupy the leading role on the battlefield.

According to the combat plan drawn up by the Japanese side, the task of the Japanese naval air force was to carry out a large-scale surprise attack on the Chinese air force on the first day of the war, and strive to achieve the effect of preemptive strike. At midnight on the 13th, Hasegawa Kiyoshi issued an operational order to the naval air force under his command to rush out in the early morning of the 14th: the Second Air Force attacked the airports of Nanjing, Guangde, and Hangzhou; The 1st United Air Force's Luwu Air Force attacked Nanchang Airport; The 8th and 10th Squadrons and the 1st Mine Squadron attacked Shanghai Hongqiao Airport; The 1st Air Force and the Kisarazu Air Force were on standby as reserves.

At dawn on the 14th, a huge low-pressure air flow moved over the sea off the southeast coast of China, and the sky was stormy, with wind speeds reaching 22 meters per second. Due to the bad weather conditions, at 5:30 a.m., Hasegawa Kiyoshi ordered: wait for the weather to improve and then take to the air for combat.

Although the Japanese side has learned that the Chinese Air Force has urgently transferred most of its combat aircraft to the southeastern coastal area, at least in the local airspace of Songhu, there is no obvious superiority or inferiority in the air force of the Chinese and Japanese armies, the Japanese army still does not take the Chinese Air Force seriously.

They generally believe that the Chinese Air Force has old models and a limited number, and they are reluctant to take them out; Moreover, the pilots of the Chinese Air Force lacked combat experience and did not have the courage to fight the Japanese with real guns and ammunition, so as long as the Chinese Air Force combat planes were destroyed in the parking hangars or runways of several airfields along the southeast coast by means of a sudden attack, the Chinese Air Force would basically be wiped out.

However, this time the Japanese were wrong.