Chapter 12: Order and Chaos
5.12 Order and Disorder
Song Xilian saw Commander Huang at the checkpoint of the highway, and he is now grateful to Huang Haoran from the bottom of his heart, if the 99th Army had not laid such an iron threshold in Changshu, how could the 36th Division pass so quickly?
The 99th Army set up a false target 4-5 kilometers away from this section of the road, where the Japanese planes were fighting with the "possible" Chinese troops, the anti-aircraft guns of the artillery regiment of the 99th Army were shouting happily in the concrete fortifications, and the shells were drawing dazzling beams in the sky, and the Japanese Air Force had lost several planes tonight. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The 99th Army garrison has undergone a great purge some time ago, and the traitors and Japanese agents have basically disappeared, without the guidance of these people and Huang Haoran's intentional misdirection, the Japanese Air Force has made one mistake after another in front of the 99th Army......
Song Xilian couldn't help but think to himself, if China could have a few more strong troops like the 99th Army, maybe the outcome of the Songhu War of Resistance would be a different result......
Commander Song was a little distracted, and he didn't even notice that Huang Haoran walked over and stretched out his palm to him.
Captain Huang's arm could only stop in mid-air so awkwardly.
Song Xilian's chief of staff immediately coughed a few times behind his back, Song Xilian reacted and realized his gaffe, he quickly held Huang Haoran's hand, and said with some apologies:
"Commander Huang, thanks to you sitting here, tens of thousands of soldiers of my 36th Division were able to escape, your great kindness I Song Xilian remembered, and I will repay it in the future!"
"Commander Song is polite, everyone is an anti-Japanese team, what do you say about gratitude?"
Huang Haoran said this, but his heart blossomed, Song Xilian is also a calf in the Central Army, and now he is not convinced in front of him?
This sense of accomplishment is really refreshing!
Although Huang Haoran has had a brilliant record of fooling the highest authorities before, he prefers to see some famous anti-Japanese generals express their appreciation for him in front of him, who made Huang Haoran a fan of these people before?
Song Xilian, the commander of the 71st Army, who was rich in blood and gold, was naturally the object of Huang Haoran's reverence.
Huang Haoran politely asked Song Xilian to go to an observation post at a high place, where he could see the situation in front and behind the checkpoint at the same time, and Song Xilian also wanted to observe the progress of his 36th Division from a high place, so he happily went.
After climbing the observation post, Song Xilian first poked his head out to look at the situation in front of the pass, a regiment of the 36th Division on the highway had already passed more than half, and the officers and men of the 99th Army were directing the traffic in the flow of people, and the equipment and personnel who passed the pass were separated, so the speed of the troops passing through the pass had increased a lot.
Song Xilian couldn't help but nodded, now it seems that it is a lucky thing that his 36th Division can be arranged to retreat from Changshu, you must know that the areas where other troops are passing through now are all a mess.
At this time, Song Xilian's chief of staff once again pulled Commander Song's clothes behind his back, and Song Xilian finally felt a little unhappy, but he also wondered in his heart, his chief of staff has always been very cautious, why did he lose his temper again and again today?
Song Xilian turned around and glared at his chief of staff, but saw his chief of staff constantly mouthing at the back of the checkpoint, Song Xilian walked a few steps behind him with doubts, and then looked out from the pass.
Song Xilian was shocked by everything in front of him!
Behind the level is no longer a pitch-black world, countless tarpaulins are knotted and connected to the ground from the highest point of the level, forming a huge roof.
Under the roof is a brightly lit area, and countless iron fences are placed on the ground, separating a large number of officers and soldiers, and the crowd can only move according to the designed route, and the troops who have passed the checkpoint are again diverted and integrated in this big house, and when they go out from several exits in different directions, they will find that the people around them suddenly become familiar.
The troops in such a mess before the gate just went around in this "big room", and then resumed their respective formations, which is no different from magic!
The troops were constantly moving outward, and the logistics staff of the 99th Army prepared a lot of food and hot soup at each exit, and these exhausted soldiers were suddenly and indirectly treated like this, and they were all a little choked.
Song Xilian didn't know what to say, his biggest headache was solved by Huang Haoran lightly!
"Commander Huang! Have all the troops that passed the customs have undergone such reorganization? ”
Although Song Xilian had already guessed the answer, he still wanted to confirm his judgment through Huang Haoran's mouth!
Huang Haoran looked at Song Xilian, who blushed in shock, with a smile, and then slowly spoke:
"Yes! All the units that have passed through our 99th Army Defense Zone have been restored to their basic structure, and although the combat effectiveness of these units has not yet been restored immediately, as long as they can be repaired a little, they can basically be pulled out to fight immediately! ”
Song Xilian grabbed Huang Haoran's arm and said excitedly:
"Commander Huang! You are doing this because of the community! I.. I will definitely ask Nanjing for your credit! I, Song Xilian, have never been convinced by others, but this time I have completely convinced you, Brother Huang! ”
Huang Haoran heard Song Xilian call himself Brother Huang, he knew that he had formed a good relationship with Song Xilian, and in the future, the 99th Army in the Central Military System added another boost, and his heart was simply beautiful!
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Huang Haoran didn't expect that the frequency of celebrities would appear so often tonight!
Song Xilian had just said goodbye, and Sun Liren broke in again.
After Sun Liren retreated and was in distress, he ran for more than two miles with a few entourages before encountering a unit of the Tax Police Corps.
Although Sun Liren was not the head of the tax police corps, he was strict in governing the army and had a high prestige in the tax police corps, so he immediately got the command of this unit.
It was suggested that Sun Liren should immediately retreat to Jiaxing, but this proposal was rejected by Sun Liren.
Now several groups of armies on the left and right flanks with hundreds of thousands of troops are retreating towards the Wufu line, Jiaxing, an important transportation artery, is estimated to have been a mess for a long time, before the road Sun Liren encountered a number of scattered troops, they have no radio and military maps at all, and they have no concept of the Wufu line, but these people feel that it is right to withdraw to Jiaxing for safekeeping.
There are only a few highways, but there are so many troops, all of them are crowded to Jiaxing, so what does it look like on the road?
"Let's not go to Jiaxing, change to Changshu!"
"Changshu? General Sun, the order of the war zone is for us to retreat from Jiaxing? If you change the route, do you have to communicate with President Gu? ”
Some of his officers cautiously raised objections.
"When is this all about? Do you want to report for instructions? The Japanese are not far from us, and you have all seen that the broken troops have begun to destroy bridges and roads, and the troops of several group armies on the right flank have fallen into chaos. Changshu is the territory of the 99th Army, and I believe that Huang Haoran, a victorious general, will never be so chaotic in his defense area as here! Needless to say! The whole army turned to Changshu! If you encounter scattered troops along the way, gather them all together and go to Changshu with us! ”
This part of the tax police regiment was only more than 2,000 horses when they went on the road again under the command of Sun Liren, but when they reached the border of Changshu, the troops under their jurisdiction had exceeded 10,000, and they actually contained four times more sporadic troops than them along the way, and the numbers were varied.
One can imagine what the Chinese army in the Songhu area has become into chaos!
When Sun Liren arrived in Changshu, Song Xilian's 36th Division had already passed more than half, and seeing the very orderly flow of people in front of the checkpoint, Sun Liren knew that he had come to the right place!
Huang Haoran still took Sun Liren to the observation post as usual, and he planned to do the same to buy Sun Liren's heart.
Sun Liren was also stunned when he saw the huge "diversion machine" of the 99th Army for the first time, but after all, he, an "American general", had drunk foreign ink, and soon saw that the principle was similar to that of foreign streamlined production lines, so he broke the key in one sentence.
Huang Haoran had to admire Sun Liren's IQ, you must know that this is a method that he thought about for several nights to hold back, but he didn't expect Sun Liren to understand the mystery after watching it for a while!
"General Sun is really a senior military talent who has stayed abroad, and my little carving insect skill can only be ugly in front of General Sun!"
"Not so! General Huang is too polite! I'm just looking at the real thing and guessing the principle, naturally it's much easier, if I ask myself to come up with such a good way to reshuffle the troops, I'm afraid I won't be able to do it...... General Huang is really talented! ”
Huang Haoran saw that Sun Liren had a good impression of him, so he had the idea of recruiting, Sun Liren is not like Song Xilian, and the tax police corps is not the 36th Division, and the status of these two people is completely different in the eyes of the highest authorities.
Sun Liren will soon experience the lowest ebb of his life, this person is really a fierce general, if he can get him, the level of the leadership of the 99th Army will immediately rise more than one grade.
What Huang Haoran didn't expect was that Sun Liren already had the intention of pulling his own rod into an army at this time, and the long-term restraint in the Tax Police Corps had made Sun Liren unbearable, and he now had to have an army that he could have the final say no matter what.
A general who is unwilling to be subservient to others naturally can't be bought, Huang Haoran explicitly hinted several times, Sun Liren didn't take over, and Commander Huang felt disappointed......
It seems that his "domineering spirit" is insufficient, and the famous generals of this era are not interested in the small pond of the 99th Army!
"General Huang, Liren has something to ask for!"
Commander Huang, who was still immersed in the regret of not being able to buy Sun Liren, subconsciously replied:
"You say, you say, as long as I can do it, I will do it!"
Sun Liren saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, and immediately hit the snake with the stick:
"Commander Huang, a few days ago, many brothers of our tax police corps passed by Changshu, but there is no news, Commander Huang's troops are stationed in Changshu all the year round, and you are the highest local governor here, you should know some inside information, right?"
Huang Haoran's heart tightened, he didn't expect that he didn't dig up Sun Liren, but he was asked to start an account!
This Sun Liren is really not a fuel-efficient lamp!
Smart people don't tell lies in front of them, since Sun Liren dares to ask, he must know some things about the 99th Army's "robbing people".
In this case, it is better to simply admit it frankly......
"General Sun, your brothers are not missing, I really can't bear to see these brothers travel long distances to Wuhan with serious injuries, so I sent them to our hospital, and those brothers who escorted the wounded also volunteered to stay and take care of them, as for why no one reported to your minister, so that General Sun asked this question today, I think it should probably be a communication problem!"
When Sun Liren heard such a watertight answer, he thought that Huang Haoran was a strong opponent even more, but he was unwilling to let the carefully trained soldiers of the Tax Police Corps fall into the pocket of the 99th Army, so he directly proposed an important person to Huang Haoran:
"The brothers of the Tax Police Corps thank you for Commander Huang's kindness, but I don't know what the situation of those brothers is now?"
"What's the situation...... I don't know much about this medical matter, but Deputy Army Commander Wang is in charge of this matter......"
Kicking the ball is really the best way to avoid problems.
After all, Sun Liren is just a major general, and Huang Haoran did not explicitly say that he would swallow the wounded soldiers of the Tax Police Corps. The 99th Army's spending money on treating the wounded of other units can only be praised, and it will never lead to any sin. Therefore, Sun Liren could only discuss the problem of these wounded soldiers with Huang Haoran amicably.
"Commander Huang, thank you for your help, but you see that I happened to lead a team to pass by here today, should I let those who have recovered from the wounded go to Wuhan with me, or simply let me take the wounded with me, after all, Changshu will soon face an attack by the Japanese, and it is not convenient for your department to bring so many wounded......
Of course Huang Haoran will not be dragged to the sky by a few words, Sun Liren's words are really good, but if he is allowed to take away the cured soldiers with these few cheap words, then who will Huang Haoran report to report so much money for medicine?
This Sun Liren is slippery! In Sasaki's words, it is "cunning big"!
Dealing with such a fox can only be more cunning than him.
Huang Haoran's eyes rolled, and Sun Liren shouted in his heart, it seems that most of this Commander Huang has already thought of a way!
"General Sun, the wounded treated by our department are scattered in hospitals all over the defense area, and it is really difficult to verify and assemble for a while, so it is better to treat it as if my 99th Army owes you the Tax Police Corps, as long as the Tax Police Corps comes with an official letter in the future, I will definitely return to Zhao!"
Sun Liren didn't expect Huang Haoran to agree so simply, although he didn't hand over the person immediately, but this kind of handling method is no different from handing over the person on the spot, as long as Sun Liren arrives in Wuhan and sends an official letter to his boss, the 99th Army will return thousands of healthy elite soldiers of the tax police corps, and Huang Haoran will not only get nothing in the end, but also pay for the medicine in vain.
Could it be that this Commander Huang is an extremely righteous figure?
Doesn't look like what he did before?
Now it was Sun Liren's turn to be embarrassed, he grabbed his head and stood up, shook hands with Huang Haoran and said a word, and then walked down from the observation post with a full stomach full of doubts to rectify his troops.
Wang Shankui didn't know where to flash out, and asked his military seat with a smile:
"Junza, do you really plan to return those more than 2,000 elite soldiers to the Tax Police Corps?"
Huang Haoran felt that Wang Shankui was now a little broken by Shen Laoer, and this guy liked to joke with himself more and more.
"What do you say??"
Huang Haoran dragged out the sound of the last word for a long time......
Wang Shankui immediately understood what Huang Haoran meant, he rubbed his big hands vigorously, and shouted:
"I know that the military seat has left a hand, our 99th Army has always been a goose plucking, how can we not take advantage of it?"
Goose plucking? When did their own troops get such a nickname?
It's not a good nickname if it gets out!
Wang Shankui wanted to know what kind of plan Huang Haoran had, and he knew that Junzuo had personally agreed to Sun Liren just now.
"What? Want to learn a hand? Master Wang, when did you become so gossipy? It's not like you......"
"Hey......
Wang Shankui smiled a little honestly.
"Actually, there's nothing that can't be said, I just promised Sun Liren to return to Zhao, but my original words were that I would only hand over an official letter from the Tax Police Corps, do you think that with the performance of the Tax Police Corps in Songhu and their status in the eyes of the highest authorities, will this force be able to restore its structure? After changing the official letter from other troops, I, Huang Haoran, did not admit it, we have a word first, and we can't break our word. ”
Shade! Sure enough, it's a military seat! This bad water came out in the blink of an eye.
The Tax Police Corps is destined to fail to fulfill Commander Huang's promise.
Sun Liren, who was standing in the queue, suddenly sneezed desperately......
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On 10 November, the Japanese continued their attack on the south bank of the Suzhou Creek in an attempt to join up with the Japanese forces on the Songjiang side. Its 3rd and 11th divisions continued to attack westward with one division each, but were stopped by the troops behind the right flank combat army. By dusk, the broken troops could no longer support and moved to cover positions.
On November 11, the 51st, 58th, 96th and 154th Divisions of the covering forces after the three theaters were arranged to occupy the covering positions as planned. The rest of the troops moved to Kunshan through the line of Qingpu ----- Qiujiang.
At 21 o'clock, the Japanese 6th Division passed through Tianmashan Town, approached the right flank combat army to cover the position, and the 51st and 58th divisions had a fierce battle, and Wu Jiguang, commander of the 174th Brigade of the 58th Division located in Baihe Port, led his troops to repel the Japanese attack several times, and unfortunately was shot and died.
At 1 o'clock on the 12th, the covering troops gradually broke away from the enemy and assembled near Kunshan. By the evening of the 12th, most of the Right Wing Army had withdrawn to Kunshan and its southwestern region. In addition to the 10th Group Army, which used a section of the line of Dushan ------ Fengjing Town as a cover, the main force gradually assembled between Jiaxing and Hangxian counties.
At the same time that the main forces of the Chinese defenders were withdrawing from Shanghai one after another, the 165th Brigade of the 55th Division (Brigade Commander Major General Zhang Bin), the Shanghai Security Corps, and the Special Brigade of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Action Committee, under the command of Cai Jinjun, the captain of the Shanghai Security Corps, were ordered to hold the first-line position from Rihui Port and the southern head of the French Concession to the bank of the Huangpu River to defend Shanghai Nanshi. After the 165th Brigade arrived in Nanshi on the 8th, it had built fortifications on the spot, which had not yet been completed, and the Japanese army had launched an attack. The enemy bombarded with heavy artillery fire and dispatched planes to bomb at low altitudes. After two days of hard fighting, the Chinese defenders suffered heavy casualties and ran out of ammunition and food, so Zhang Bin led part of his troops to retreat into the French Concession. On the morning of the 11th, the Japanese troops forcibly landed at Rihui Harbor and forced the Chinese defenders to retreat to the Manufacturing Bureau Road with a fierce offensive. It was led by chariots and covered infantry attacks. Colonel Jiao Changfu, commander of the 330th Regiment of the 165th Brigade, led more than 40 people to retreat to the junction of China and France, but was blocked by barbed wire and machine guns in the French Concession. After midnight, the fighting extended to the Bund in Nanshi. The defenders, having completed their task of covering the retreat of the main force, abandoned their positions and evacuated the city.
On that day, the whole city of Shanghai fell.
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