After the 11th Division landed, it went straight to Luodian.Luodian Town, located on the back of Songhu, is a Shanghai-Nanjing transportation hub. Once the Japanese army controls it, it can easily cut off the communication line between the Chinese army and the rear. Such a crucial strategic point, both sides in the battle will naturally spare no effort Fight with your life. According to the order of the Chinese High Command, the 11th Division launched an indomitable battle with the Japanese army in Luodian.They took back Luodian many times, but soon lost it again, and then fought again and again, sometimes the front line had to change hands seven or eight times.

There is a field ambulance station near Luodian, and there is an endless stream of wounded soldiers sent from Luodian every day.This kind of situation often happens. A stretcher soldier was still carrying the wounded one day, and was killed by a shell while rescuing the wounded on the front line the next day. The entire Luodian was littered with corpses and blood flowed like a river, which was called "Flesh and Flesh Mill".In an emergency, the High Command decided to send the 51st Division to reinforce Luodian to stabilize the war situation in the area. The 51st Division, which was still unknown at the time, was the predecessor of the 74th Army, which was later called the "Tiger Troop".The 51st Division itself has a relatively long history. Its foundation is to supplement the First Brigade. In the winter of 1933, it was reorganized from three supplementary regiments at the Baoding Training Office.

The soldiers and junior officers of the Supplementary Brigade were all from the north, and most of them were from the former Northwest Army.Carlson, an American military observer and Marine Corps intelligence officer, came to China ten years ago. At that time, the impression given to him by Chinese soldiers was that they were commodities that could fight. When fighting, they only chose the degree of contribution according to the amount of military pay. If you give more money, work harder. If you give less money, you will be cheated on the ground. The soldiers who Carlson said were paid for fighting were actually recruits.The Northwest Army is all recruits, and the quality of recruits is relatively high. At that time, all the recruits trained by the system of the Northwest Army generally underwent relatively strict training and possessed certain combat skills and experience.

The middle and high-level officers of the supplementary brigade are mainly filled by students from the Whampoa Military Academy.During the Republic of China, there was a catchphrase called "Baoding's classroom, martial arts training ground, and Huangpu's battlefield", which succinctly summarized the characteristics of China's three major military academies.Generally speaking, the education in Baoding Military Academy is the most complete, formal and solid. It takes seven years for the early Baoding students to graduate. Therefore, as long as the Baoding students can get in, they are mostly senior commanders at the division, army or even group army level. .The Yunnan Lecture Hall carried out brutal training, and the students had to be skinned if they were not exhausted on the playground. Therefore, for a period of time, the Yunnan Dian Army once dominated the southwest and was unmatched.

Compared with the above two time-honored brands, the Whampoa Military Academy has the nature and characteristics of a crash course. Not only is the training period extremely short, but the courses it learns are only military education at the regiment level. , The actual combat experience is relatively rich. Based on the brave and courageous northern veterans and the backbone of Whampoa officers who had received basic military education, the supplementary brigade quickly became a direct-line unit of the Kuomintang with strong combat effectiveness, also known as the Central Army. Carlson observed China for ten years.In these ten years, an army that can fight wars is a direct line, so it may not be able to survive and develop. Moreover, the supplementary brigade is not a regular designation, it belongs to the miscellaneous brand in the Central Army, and it is easy to be merged and supplemented by others if you are not careful. .It was able to gain a firm foothold gradually and expand its scale not only because of its military achievements, but also because of its endless Chinese-style wisdom.

It is said that Wang Yaowu went to see the prime minister a year before he became brigade commander.The fortune teller measured the five fingers of his left hand, and said that he had the appearance of a man of letters and martial arts, and if he walks like a tiger, he must be a noble man, and he will be happy with Qiao Sheng in the near future. Wang Yaowu may not have taken it seriously at first, but he did not expect that in the spring of the following year, it would really come true.Now not only is the business of the fortune teller booming, but even Wang Yaowu himself has a faint feeling of "Heaven's great responsibility belongs to everyone".

Some people said that he has a "swallow neck, bear back and tiger butt". Wang Yaowu was very happy to hear that. When giving lectures to the officers and soldiers of the brigade, he often deliberately spread his legs and leaned forward, as if he was about to pounce like a tiger at any time.Whenever he talked about something exciting, he would raise his right hand and point his index finger at the tip of his nose: "If I, Wang Yaowu, are greedy for life and afraid of death, I don't have the bones of my parents!" At that time, "Warrior of Wen and Marshal walks like a tiger", Wang Yaowu didn't know that his troops would really be associated with the title of tiger in the future. Troops find the best way to develop.