Chapter 23: The 99th Army Advances

5.23 The 99th Army was transferred

Zhao Tiehammer did not work in vain in the end, the squad leader first criticized his unorganized and undisciplined, and then affirmed his bravery, and at the end of the dialogue, the squad leader decided to let Zhao Tiehammer offset his merits, but still gave him a prize. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The prize was a crooked machine gun brought into the tunnel by Ono's companions, and Zhao Tiehammer finally became a machine gunner.

The ammunition of the crooked machine gun is easy to solve, and it is common to the 38 big cover, Zhao Tiehammer took the bullet box taken from the squad leader with a smile, and then sat in the corner of the machine gun bunker to tinker with his machine gun.

The artillery of the little devil outside was very fierce, and the machine gunners inside the bunker put down the guard plate of the firing port and gathered next to Zhao Tiehammer to make fun of him.

"I said Zhao Yingying, will you use this little devil's machine gun? Do you want a few brothers to help you? ”

"Mine! It's mine! Don't touch it, you have the ability to grab it yourself! ”

"Look at your baby, let me tell you, this little devil's machine gun is far inferior to our Czech, the German instructor has long said it!"

"I don't like how good yours is, it's mine! It's mine! ”

The veterans felt a little bored when they saw Zhao Tiehammer holding the crooked handle in his arms like a hen guarding a chicken, so they scattered to rest, and Zhao Tiehammer finally had a chance to take a closer look at the Japanese machine gun.

This little devil's machine gun looks weird, the butt is arced to the side, no wonder it is called the 'crooked handle' machine gun, there is a threaded heat sink on the barrel, and the open ammunition bucket is located on the left side of the machine gun body, Zhao Tiehammer took out the bullet and tried it, he found that the bucket can hold 6 5-round magazines, and the machine gun is also equipped with an oil can, as for the use of this oil can, he Zhao Tiehammer does not know.

Does the Devil Heavy have to go to the kitchen to cook part-time? Zhao Tiezhu leaned in front of the oil pot with his nose and sniffed it, and he smelled a smell of gun oil.

It seems that this oil pot is for machine guns......

With a new gun, Zhao Tiehammer wanted to try it, he ran to the squad leader and muttered in a low voice:

"Squad leader, can you let me play a shuttle too?"

The squad leader looked at Zhao Tiezhu, who was eager to try, and said with a smile:

"That's right, even the bullets have been tinkered in, Tian Wa, you can let the hammer hit you in your position for a while."

Zhao Tiehammer happily ran to the side of the shooting port, took down Tian Wa's Czech style, and then set up his crooked handle.

Looking at the puffing machine gunner Tian Wa, Zhao Tiehammer gritted his teeth and smiled, then pointed to his crooked handle and said:

"You can't do that! Look at me, Japanese machine guns! ”

"The devil is coming! It's rushing up with the cannonballs again, it's just a deadly way to play....."

The squad leader was lamenting the fierceness of the Japanese army, but Zhao Tiehammer happily opened the baffle of the shooting hole.

Looking at the piles of little devils outside, Zhao Tiehammer pulled the trigger hard, to Zhao Tiehammer's surprise, the recoil of the crooked handle machine gun is very small, very easy to control, the arc butt is very convenient when aiming at the cheek, and the shooting accuracy is very high.

This pleasure lasted until the end of 30 rounds, Zhao Tiehammer began to fill the ammunition supply bucket again, the "crooked handle" machine gun in combat use of the reloading procedure is very complicated, the Japanese army will give their machine gunner a sub-shooter, and this sub-shooter is actually the ammunition loader, which shows the cumbersomeness of the crooked handle machine gun loading.

Zhao Tiehammer loaded a box of bullets, Tian Wa's Czech style had already finished two boxes of bullets, looking at Tian Wa's smug face, Zhao Tiehammer angrily held his "crooked handle" and came to the shooting hole again.

Tian Wa actually made a gesture of please!

Zhao Tiehammer explained to Tian Wa and the squad leader while shooting:

"I'm not very skilled, this is a good gun......"

Before the words fell, Zhao Tiehammer's "crooked handle" suddenly got stuck, and he glanced at Tian Wa, who was gloating next to him, and then asked his squad leader for help.

"Squad leader! This... What to do? ”

"If you tell you it's a rotten gun, you just don't believe it! Now you have an experience, right? ”

The squad leader finally got the opportunity to teach Zhao Tiehammer a lesson, and he immediately popularized the knowledge of firearms to Zhao Tiezhu......

The simpler the structure of the firearm, the higher the reliability; Conversely, reliability is worse.

The structure and action of the "crooked handle" are too complicated. And the high complexity of this structural action also buries the hidden concern of high failure rate.

The "crooked" machine gun was also very sensitive to weather and the environment, so the Japanese army adopted the method of loading oil cans next to the loader and lubricating the parts and ammunition at any time to maintain reliability.

However, after pressing the gourd and raising the scoop, relying on the oil pot to solve the reliability but causing new problems, once the oil-coated magazine encounters a large amount of dust, it will clump, causing more trouble than when there is a shortage of oil!

In fact, even in the hands of well-trained Japanese troops, the failure rate of the "crooked" machine gun will be relatively low only in the season when it is neither hot nor cold, neither dry nor wet, and under the ideal conditions of careful cleaning and maintenance and low combat intensity.

Now that this high-fault gun has fallen into the hands of Zhao Tiehammer, a rookie egg, it is naturally worse than the worse, and now Zhao Tiehammer's second box of bullets has not been finished, and the ammunition retractor is stuck.

After listening to the squad leader's words, Zhao Tiehammer was so angry that he threw the "crooked handle" to the ground, he felt that he was too wronged, and he risked his life to catch a little Japanese, and he actually changed such a broken gun!

"What, you're not unfamiliar with this Japanese gun now?" Tian Wa stabbed Zhao Tie Hammer in the sore spot with words while changing the magazine.

"Damn! Whoever is carrying the Japanese gun and who is in a hurry! Wood lump little Japan, what kind of thing is this made!! ”

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Nanjing, Shishiyuan Hotel.

The fall of Shanghai left Dai Mengru, the female writer of "Declaration", and her assistant Fang Xiaoqian stranded in Nanjing, and soon the sisters felt the constraints on hand.

At this time, Nanjing's Central News Agency suddenly came to the door, and they hoped that Dai Mengru, a well-known female writer, could open a column in the government's mainstream newspaper, and write about what Dai Mengru was good at.

Dai Mengru and Fang Xiaoqian's living environment immediately improved, and now the hotel where they stay is located in the center of Nanjing, with a superior geographical environment, and the Yiyi Garden was built in 1930, which is the exclusive hotel used by the highest authorities and "ladies" to entertain diplomats.

If it weren't for the fact that Dai Mengru, a beautiful writer, has some appeal in the cultural circle, and the highest authorities and "Madame" are not in the mood to hold a diplomatic banquet recently, she and Fang Xiaoqian would not have had the opportunity to live in the Shiyiyuan Hotel.

In order to catch up with tomorrow's manuscript, Dai Mengru sat in front of the desk and climbed the lattice, Fang Xiaoqian fell on the wide bed and boredly flipped through the old newspapers of the past few days, and by the way, there was a conversation with Dai Mengru:

"Sister Mengru, I heard that the train tickets to the southwest have been sold at sky-high prices, and the ferry tickets are also very nervous.

"What is the situation in Shanghai now, don't you know? The words in the newspaper are just to appease the people, you see which of the officials we have seen these days is not secretly sending their families and soft to the southwest? I don't know how my colleagues at the poster office are doing now? I'm so uncomfortable in my heart......"

Dai Mengru was not in the mood to write those scenes that whitewashed the peace for the Central News Agency, but now that Fang Xiaoqian was ticked by a few words, she simply put down the pen and turned around to talk to Fang Xiaoqian.

Fang Xiaoqian rolled on the bed, buried her face in the mattress, and pointed the back of her head at Dai Mengru:

"Why, isn't it going to be posted in the column tomorrow? I see that you have written and torn, torn and tossed for several days, but don't break the manuscript and let people kick us out, I don't want to sleep on the road! ”

Dai Mengru really admired Fang Xiaoqian's rough lines, she couldn't be so free and easy anyway, but she couldn't see Fang Xiaoqian so carefree, so she wanted to stir up this little girl's good mood.

"Dead Nizi, it's just heartless, and I don't know how to worry about my family, I'm still so happy all day long!"

Unexpectedly, Fang Xiaoqian actually got up all of a sudden after listening to Dai Mengru's words, Fang Xiaoqian made a grimace at Dai Mengru, and then said with a smile;

"Why don't I have a heart or lungs? My family is in Sichuan, and it is very comfortable! It's not like you have a General Huang who is desperately working in Songhu, so naturally he can't be afraid! .....”

"You! ...”

Dai Mengru was just about to jump up and teach her little sister a lesson, when a few knocks suddenly came from outside the door.

"Who's out there?"

Dai Mengru tidied up her somewhat disheveled hair, and then observed her appearance in front of the mirror, and Fang Xiaoqian on the bed also jumped up and began to tidy up her crumpled clothes.

"It's me! Adjutant Qin of the Political Department! ”

"It's coming, it's coming!" Fang Xiaoqian took three steps and ran to the door and opened the door, while Dai Mengru stood in the middle of the room, looking at Adjutant Qin who walked in with a smile.

"Hello Dai writer! Hello Miss Fang! ”

This adjutant Qin is also familiar with the two sisters, so there is no consideration in his words, and it is this adjutant Qin who invited Dai Mengru to the Political Department of the Central News Agency, and I heard that he is a nephew of Wang Zhaoming, a senior member of the Nanjing government.

"Adjutant Qin, came to see us at such a late hour, did you want to talk about personal matters? If you think I'm in the way, can you signal ......"

"Xiao Qian! What nonsense! Adjutant Qin is on behalf of the government! ”

Adjutant Qin had long been accustomed to Fang Xiaoqian's character, so he ignored this crazy girl, but formally notified Dai Mengru of the new task of the Political Department.

"Writer Dai, the Central News Agency plans to ask you to interview the newly appointed commander and deputy commander of Nanjing's urban defense, hoping that you can find something to boost the morale of the people from the conversation, and then write an interview and publish it in your column in the newspaper. Time... Just these two days. I'll let you know first, so that you can be mentally prepared......"

Interview with the commander of Nanjing's city defense!? In other words, the defensive battle of Nanjing has officially been deployed, and it seems that the Japanese are moving much faster than they imagined in the Songhu area!

Adjutant Qin was a little surprised when he saw Dai Mengru's expression, thinking that Dai Mengru was unwilling to interview high-ranking officials in the army, so he said with relief:

"Writer Dai, this is a separate interview, purely to cooperate with the anti-Japanese propaganda, if you find it difficult, you may as well say it directly......

"No, no!" Dai Mengru, who came back to her senses, knew that Adjutant Qin must have misunderstood, so she quickly stated her position:

"Since it is a matter of benefit to the anti-Japanese resistance, I am naturally duty-bound, I just want to ask which are the two generals of the Nanjing City Defense Commander and the Deputy Commander, I can also do a data collection and prepare my homework in advance, so as not to get cold ...... when I get it."

"Writer Dai is thinking about it very much, and it's okay to tell you, but now the appointment of the commander and deputy commander of Nanjing's city defense has not been announced to the public, and I also hope that Writer Dai can keep this secret!"

Dai Mengru nodded at Adjutant Qin, indicating that she understood, Adjutant Qin glanced at Fang Xiaoqian again, and Fang Xiaoqian immediately began to shake her delicate little head up and down.

"The commander of Nanjing's urban defense is General Tang Shengzhi Tang, and the deputy commander is Lieutenant General Huang Haoran and Huang ......"

"Huang Haoran? Which Huang Haoran? Isn't it the commander of the 99th Army? ”

Dai Mengru heard Huang Haoran's name, as if he had been struck by lightning, and hurriedly asked Adjutant Qin.

Adjutant Qin didn't expect Dai Mengru to have such a big reaction, he said hesitantly:

"Who else could it be but him? How? Writer Dai, do you know...? ”

"Acquaintance! We've had a meeting with him... No! The two sides of the world! Right? Dream like sister! ”

Adjutant Qin's question made Dai Mengru a little embarrassed, but fortunately, Fang Xiaoqian jumped out to relieve her.

"That's even better! I think you'll have a great meeting! It's not too early, I have other official business, Dai Writer, Miss Fang, I quit! ”

Fang Xiaoqian sent away Adjutant Qin, and Dai Mengru waved her hand in a daze:

"I got the opportunity to meet by accident, and I don't know how he is now......"

Fang Xiaoqian didn't send Adjutant Qin far before she ran back, as soon as she pushed the door, she saw Dai Mengru standing there like a wooden stake, Fang Xiaoqian immediately ran up and hugged Dai Mengru in a circle......

"You crazy girl, let me go!"

"Oh! Sister Mengru wants to see the lover of her dreams......"

"Door! You're not shut! ”

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"Throne! Nanjing Secret Electricity! ”

Huang Haoran took the telegram handed over by Fan Jie, unfolded it, and after reading it, he threw it directly to Fan Jie, he leaned back on the chair and looked at the ceiling, and muttered:

"Nanjing! I am back......! ”

Fan Jie saw that Huang Haoran threw the secret message to himself, and knew that Huang Haoran wanted him to also look at the secret message, Fan Jie quickly browsed it, and his face immediately changed color!

This is actually a letter of appointment from the Ministry of Military Affairs!

Huang Haoran was appointed as the new deputy commander of Nanjing's city defense, with full responsibility for all military operations in the Nanjing defense circle!

This is tantamount to pulling Huang Haoran to be the head of the Royal Forest Army!

If Huang Haoran received such an order in another time period, Fan Jie must have jumped three feet high, deputy commander of Nanjing City Defense, what a prominent position!

Once Huang Haoran climbs to this position, it can be said that his career has entered a new stage, and it is possible to enter and exit the generals, and the 99th Army will also ascend to heaven and become a member of the Royal Forest Army.

But what time is it? The Japanese devils have made it clear that they are eyeing Nanjing, and now to be the deputy commander of Nanjing's urban defense, isn't it just to be the watchdog of the mausoleum for the highest authorities? The entire 99th Army has to live and die with Nanjing!

It's ugly, it's to go to the capital of the Nanjing government to accompany the funeral!

Fan Jie felt that this was simply a catastrophe!

"Throne! Which bastard is behind the scenes to give our 99th Army a black hand? Don't worry! We still have some relationship in Nanjing, or you should immediately go to your brother-in-law Jiang Baili, and ask him to get this damn letter of appointment to someone else!" ”

Huang Haoran didn't say anything, his heart had already flown into a dream that he had been doing for many years.

In his past and present lives, Huang Haoran didn't know how many times he had dreamed that he had changed the appearance of that hellish city, and the fate of 300,000 people had changed! Whenever he woke up, he could only be melancholy......

Huang Haoran has been complaining that God did not give him this opportunity......

Now, everything has changed!

He has such a strong army as the 99th Army, and he also has this letter of appointment as the deputy commander of Nanjing's urban defense.

What Huang Haoran did in the bloody battle in Songhu is today's situation!

He finally had a chance to change this nightmare!

Nanking! Will you be my Nanjing?

Fan Jie suddenly felt a powerful aura erupt from his military commander, this aura was like a whirlpool, full of excitement and uneasiness, Fan Jie suddenly seemed to understand many things......

After the shock, Fan Jie began to be taken over by a certain excitement, and his cerebral cortex began to erupt......

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"In the last two days, the fire is on full swing!"

After learning the news that the positions would be taken over by the Sichuan Army and the Guangxi Army in two days, the units of the 99th Army showed the Japanese 3rd Division and the 16th Division what kind of firepower it was.

Even the artillery regiment and the 10th artillery regiment began to fight against the Japanese artillery!

Every time the Japanese army failed to attack, it would inevitably be counterattacked by all units of the 99th Army, and the impact was so strong that sometimes it actually exceeded the Japanese offensive.

In the face of the aggressive momentum of the 99th Army, several division commanders of the Japanese army decided to attack after attack, but the direction they chose to break through was north of Changshu City. The 98th, 171st, and 13th Divisions of Luo Zhuoying's Left Wing Combat Army resisted vigorously and temporarily stopped the enemy's offensive.

Under the fierce attack of the Japanese army, the Fukuyama line defended by Luo Zhuoying's troops was in danger. In view of this, the headquarters of the commander of the 3rd Theater issued operational instructions for the cameras of all units to move to the Xicheng position.

In accordance with this instruction, the units in the theater immediately prepared for the transfer to the Xicheng line. The Japanese army began frequent movements on the Zhizhi (Tangkou) Chang (Shu) Highway and the area north of it.

While closely monitoring the enemy's movements, the 99th Army began the work of transferring in, and the two divisions of the Sichuan Army, which had arrived in Wu County, immediately rushed to the southwest of Changshu City, exchanged guards with the 99th Army, and took up operations in this area.

On the afternoon of the next day, more than 20 enemy planes bombed Changshu City in turn.

After dusk, about 1 squadron of the Japanese army passed through the gap of about 8 miles between the 15th Army and the 2 divisions of the Sichuan Army, entered the north of Changshu City, launched an attack on Yushan, and in the evening, occupied the northern end of Yushan City. Shen Lao Er personally commanded the 301st Brigade to counterattack the enemy at Yushan and recapture the position.

At night, the two Guangxi divisions that changed their defenses were thrown into the northern end of Yushan to attack the Japanese army. In the second half of the night, the Japanese army arrived from the reinforcements landed in Hupu Town and attacked the outskirts of Changshu. The two sides are locked in a stalemate.

The 15th Army, after occupying the defensive positions from Sifang Bridge to Fushan Town, was attacked by Japanese troops for several days. Fighting was fierce in Fukuyama Town, but after reinforcements from the 18th Army, it gradually stabilized.

On the night of the 22nd, the 99th Army moved to Changzhou separately and went straight to Nanjing via Zhenjiang, and on the same day, Suzhou fell.

The fall of Suzhou was three days later than in history, and Huang Haoran had already begun to quietly influence the progress of history......

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