Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Really Hurt

On the morning of August 23, Zhang Zhizhong was still thinking about how to organize the next general offensive in the urban area. The sudden appearance of the Shanghai Dispatch Army surprised him. A terrible idea flashed out: the Japanese army wanted to steal my way out! The lesson was right in front of us. On January 28th, Bai Chuan sent troops to land at Qiyakou, and turned the situation around in one fell swoop. It is quite interesting that the Shantong Temple Division was responsible for landing at Qiyakou, and Chuanshakou is not far from Qiyakou. What makes people feel even more mysterious is that there is a company guarding Qiyakou, and the one stationed at Chuanshakou is also a company.

Do you have to fall in the same place when you fall? Hurry up and draw troops over. To mobilize a soldier and a general, you have to make a phone call, but when you make a phone call, you find that there is no connection at all, and even the Jiangfang Command has been disconnected. It turned out that the Japanese army had just bombed the periphery of the Nanxiang headquarters, and all the wires were blown off. Zhang Zhizhong first sent his staff out to make contact. After waiting for a while, he couldn't sit still anymore, so he simply got in a car and went straight to the front line of Jiangwan.

Even the wires around the headquarters were blown up, which showed that the Japanese planes had already been staring at this place firmly, so he ran into a ghost as soon as he went out, and there were 3 to 9 planes bombing and strafing in the sky non-stop. The target of the car was too obvious, so I had to come down and hide.I wanted to wait for the Japanese plane to leave before getting in the car, but unexpectedly, these guys were still hanging on the sky, so they pushed hard towards the car. Can't take a car anymore, let's walk. It is 18 miles from Nanxiang to Jiangwan. With these bare feet, it would take half a day to reach the distance. Zhang Zhi was very anxious.

On the way, I met a soldier riding a bicycle who was surprised to see Zhang Zhizhong. Why didn't the commander-in-chief take the car, but walked instead? It's not that I don't want to sit, it's that I can't sit. Without saying a word, Zhang Zhizhong got on his bicycle and left. Due to the sudden interruption of contact with the headquarters and the news that the Japanese army had landed from behind, the Jiangwan front line was in a state of turmoil. Only after seeing the commander in person adventurously did the troops feel at ease. Zhang Zhizhong immediately decided to dispatch two divisions to Luodian urgently.

Usually it is easy to deploy troops, but it is very difficult at this time, because the troops are all participating in the battle in Yangshupu, and the Japanese planes are constantly strafing and bombarding along the way, so it is very difficult to move. When a division commander received the transfer order, he complained to Zhang Zhizhong: How can he go if he is going to be bombed so hard that he can't lift his head up on the road? Zhang Zhizhong said: If you can't raise your head, you have to leave. Do you know that I walked from Nanxiang to Jiangwan during the bombing, so you can't walk from Jiangwan to Luodian?

By the time these two divisions arrived at Luodian, the Shantong Temple division had already broken through Chuanshakou. Luodian is an important road behind the Shanghai defenders. If the Japanese army takes control of this place first, not only will the front of Jiangwan be trapped, but the follow-up reinforcements will not be able to quickly reinforce it. Fortunately, the attack was early, and it was still the vanguard of the Shantong Temple Division that infiltrated Luodian, so Zhang Zhizhong quickly regained Luodian. If there is no such a tune and a blow, the situation in the future will be very different, and it will be difficult to even confront Matsui.

Zhang Zhizhong returned to the Nanxiang headquarters again, and it was already 12 o'clock in the middle of the night. Since the "ten-day siege", the former enemy commander-in-chief was either at the headquarters or at the front line, and he had not had a good meal or a good night's sleep.Over time, his eyes became red, his throat became hoarse, and he lost weight rapidly. After a little relaxation, I realized that I hadn't eaten dinner yet, so I casually drank some porridge, leaned back on the chair and closed my eyes. He couldn't fall asleep completely, and his mind was still turning over and over again on how to repel the landing enemies.

The 18th Army has arrived in Jiading, and this new force must be pushed up to ensure peace of mind. At this time, due to the continuous bombing by the Japanese army, the contact between the headquarters and the surrounding troops was intermittent. To command the 18th Army, you had to find them first. Early the next morning, Zhang Zhizhong rushed to Jiading, avoiding plane bombs along the way. After finally finding the 18th Army, Zhang Zhizhong was stunned by a sentence from the other party: why are you here? Monk Zhang Zhizhong was puzzled: I am the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, of course I want to come, is there anything strange about this?

Looking at the expression of the general of the 18th Army, he was still surprised, not like a joke at all. After sitting down and talking, Zhang Zhizhong suddenly realized that the current Songhu battlefield was demarcated by Yunzaobang, and the north was under Chen Cheng's command, and the south was under his command, while Luodian and the 18th Army were both in the northern battlefield. In other words, he, Zhang Zhizhong, is no longer the only commander-in-chief of the Songhu battlefield, and there are two commanders-in-chief. But I have never received a notification! Zhang Zhizhong suddenly became extremely embarrassed. He personally took Shi Shishi and ran to the front line to command, but it was a joke.

Now he has completely become an outsider, and he really doesn't want to stay or retreat. Zhang Zhizhong was terribly depressed. Although he couldn't fully guess the mechanism at the moment, he still vaguely felt one thing, that is, the command department was already dissatisfied with his command. Otherwise, why would he suddenly insert another person and let the He became half a commander in chief? Before the war, Chiang Kai-shek asked him: Are you sure about this battle? Zhang Zhizhong's answer at the time was: Yes! But this "yes" is a prerequisite, that is, the cooperation of the Air Force.The air force played well at the beginning, but now you look at it, from the headquarters to the front line, it has completely become the world of others. How can the army get any more cooperation?

What worried Zhang Zhizhong was the failure of the blitzkrieg.This is not his fault, it is the fault of the high command. He called off the general offensive three times, sacrificing the fighter opportunity with diplomacy. As a result, the bones became more and more difficult to crack, so that Shanghai was not completely occupied, and the opponent waited for strong reinforcements. Zhang Zhizhong thought that he did not make any mistakes in tactical command. Moreover, he was so desperate and always rushed to the front line to supervise the battle. It can be said that he worked hard and complained. Of course, fighting a war is a matter of opinion. Chiang Kai-shek felt that the fight was not good, and it didn't matter even if he scolded him in front of his face. In Jiading, Zhang Zhizhong learned that Gu Zhutong, the deputy commander of the third war zone, had also arrived in Suzhou, so he temporarily decided to go to Suzhou the next day. While meeting with Gu Zhutong, he could also discuss the situation of the war. When he arrived in Suzhou, Zhang Zhizhong thought that he should call Chiang Kai-shek. He just hung up, and before he could tell his grievances, the other party had already roared: I couldn't find you for two days, where did you go? It turned out that Chiang Kai-shek had been looking for him for the past two days, but Zhang Zhizhong was not at the headquarters. I wanted to explain, but Chiang Kai-shek got angry and couldn't tolerate others' excuses: Suzhou is the rear, and you, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, came from the rear! Zhang Zhizhong was already sulky, but when he was questioned like this, his heart became inexplicably angry, and he also shouted: I came to the rear to discuss issues with Gu Mosan (Gu Zhu with the same word), and I have been in the front, "Chairman" What exactly do you want? Chiang Kai-shek probably didn't expect that the always gentle and refined "Educator" would call him "Principal Jiang", and after muttering something, he hung up the phone with a snap. This phone call deeply hurt Zhang Zhizhong. Before going to the Songhu battlefield, Zhang Zhizhong specially wore a neat general's uniform, with both the chest badge and the collar badge on the shoulder. He told his subordinates and staff the reason for doing this: if a general dies on the battlefield, the enemy officers and soldiers will salute and protect him when they see it, and will allow you to take the body back, so you can't dress carelessly, at least let the other party know you Is the chief. Even on the way from Nanxiang to Jiangwan, he was so nervous and even a little embarrassed, Zhang Zhizhong still wore high riding boots and maintained the meticulous appearance of a senior general. Some people may find it troublesome, but Zhang Zhizhong will not. He is a person who has been injured and is afraid of being injured, so he always knows to protect his dignity. Zhang Zhizhong was born in a poor farmer's family in Anhui. The family saved money for him to study, and he studied in a private school for ten years.He is also very smart, and was called a "little genius" by his teachers and relatives and friends since he was a child. A "Zuo Zhuan" can't be remembered no matter how many times he has read it.But such a well-known "little genius" has been studying hard for ten years, but has repeatedly failed in the examination of talent. Later, he went to seek refuge with a family member and accompanied the young master to study in the mansion.A casual guest in the mansion looked down upon him, and even ridiculed him in front of the young master: He is a young master, do you deserve to live with him in the mansion, a poor boy? Zhang Zhizhong was still young in the world at that time, and he didn't know the dangers of the world. How could he stand this kind of stimulation? After all, people have gains and losses.It can be said that Zhang Zhizhong's ability to step up to the stage of obeisance is inseparable from his youth experience, and what that experience gave him, besides telling himself to work hard at all times, of course, there are also shadows that cannot be erased. I can fail, but I will never accept insult and embarrassment, even if it means wandering to death, drifting to death, freezing to death, or starving to death! Physical pain can be borne, what cannot be borne is mental anguish. After Zhang Zhizhong returned to the headquarters, he wrote a letter of resignation. After 30 days, Chiang Kai-shek finally agreed to his resignation from the military, and he abandoned the military and entered politics. In the vast night, Zhang Zhizhong bid farewell to the battlefield where he had fought bloody battles for 40 days. Although he was still standing on the stage, the lights went out and the sound stopped, leaving only a tired body and a lonely and sad mood. Tears, can't stop anymore. Many things in this world, once started, will not end immediately, including those grievances and grievances between people, stumbling. A year later, the fire in Changsha led to the most serious self-defense incident since the Anti-Japanese War. Zhang Zhizhong, then chairman of Hunan Province, could not absolve himself of the blame. One of the reasons is that at that time, the commander-in-chief of the 9th theater was Chen Cheng, but Zhang Zhizhong seldom contacted him actively, and his eyes were smeared about the military developments on the front line. Changsha set fire to it because Zhang Zhizhong had received information in advance that the Japanese army had arrived at Xinqiang River. He misheard and mistook Xinqiang River for Xinhe.In fact, the Xinqiang River is in Yueyang, and the Xinhe River is in Changsha, and the distance between the two is 300 miles! While character creates people, it also creates tragedies one after another. People's personalities are very different and different. For example, the new former commander-in-chief Chen Cheng's life purpose can be summed up in four words: never admit defeat! Due to his short stature, even when taking photos with people, he would try to raise his shoulders as high as possible to show that he would not be overwhelmed. Chen Cheng, Zicixiu, from Qingtian, Zhejiang, graduated from the 8th period of Baoding Military Academy. Before the Whampoa students came out, the Baoding students were not that popular in society, so for a while Chen Cheng was very unhappy, and he was poor.After returning home, even his wife looked down on him and often spoke sarcasticly to him. After being stimulated, Chen Cheng's reaction was not crying, but furious.He set off immediately and became an instructor at the Whampoa Military Academy in Guangdong. After that, Chen Cheng went on to prosper, and in turn he gave his wife a divorce letter.At this time, his wife saw that he was prosperous, but she refused to leave, but she still had to leave. Chen Cheng finally "redeemed" himself out at a price of 100,000 yuan.What happened is a bit like the joke about the overwhelmed water. It is well known that Chen Cheng has always been a big celebrity around Chiang Kai-shek.Those who thought the old man was eccentric said behind their backs that it was because both of them were from Zhejiang.In fact, Chiang Kai-shek has a lot of fellow villagers in Zhejiang in the military and political departments. If you don't have any real stuff in your stomach, how can you get into his eyes. First of all, Chen Cheng is really capable, and he has an unyielding spirit in everything he does. Relying on an 11th division, he pulled out the 18th army, thus developing a unique "civil engineering department".This "Department of Civil Engineering" is not the Department of Civil Engineering in a university of science and engineering, but a den of outstanding generals. Behind it, there are a series of names of "top students" - Luo Zhuoying, Xia Chuzhong, Huang Wei, Hu Lian... The reason why it is called "civil" is that "earth" is disassembled into "eleven" and "wood" is disassembled into "eighteen". In the Kuomintang, Chen Cheng is known as the "little committee chairman". His perseverance, self-discipline and military and political talents are almost the same as those of Chiang Kai-shek. Therefore, Chen Du ranked first in the "Chen Hu Tang" three branches of the Central Army. Of course, being competent doesn't necessarily mean being trusted.Deng Yanda, who also served as the dean of education of the Whampoa Military Academy, is capable enough. He almost formed a rivalry with "Principal Jiang" among the students of Whampoa, but that would not work, it is called a sworn enemy. Chiang Kai-shek's ability to obey Chen Cheng's words and have a high degree of trust is undoubtedly due to the fact that the latter is an "absolutely loyal minister". During the Republic of China, there was a political joke that went like this. One day, Chiang Kai-shek had a whim and wanted to test the loyalty of his cronies and subordinates to him.He pretended to call everyone for a meeting, and after everyone sat down, he suddenly ordered everyone to die. At this time, He Yingqin sat still and did not move, just thinking that Chiang Kai-shek was farting.Gu Zhutong was eloquent, citing many reasons why he could not die, such as he still had to continue to work, the country and the mission agreed that he could not die, and so on.Liu Zhi could neither speak nor dare not disobey orders, so he burst into tears and begged bitterly: the younger one has a 70-year-old mother, and the next one has a baby to feed, please forgive me. The only one left was Chen Cheng, but seeing him standing upright, he saluted the ground, then held his head high, turned around and walked out the door... When the Battle of Songhu started, Chen Cheng was still in Lushan Mountain. On the issue of the Anti-Japanese War, he was an active fighter. He was even incompatible with He Yingqin. The war was tense and there was an urgent need for employment. Chiang Kai-shek called Chen Cheng on the second day of the battle: come to Beijing to discuss. After arriving in Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek gave him two options, either to go to the North China battlefield or to the Songhu battlefield.The former is in charge of directing, while the latter goes to investigate. Chen Cheng went to the Songhu battlefield. After he went there, he found that although there were many troops on this battlefield, it was still not enough. It looked like the stronghold was surrounded by us, but the density of the encirclement was not enough and there were too many gaps. Sun Tzu's Art of War has a saying: Ten is to surround it, five is to attack it, and double is to fight it.That is to say, if you have twice as many people as the opponent, you can fight him boldly, and if you have five times as many people as him, you can attack his city, but what should you do if you still can't take him after attacking for a long time? It is necessary to encircle, and to achieve the purpose of encircling, no one's ten times the number of people usually can't handle it. What Chen Cheng hopes is not only ten times, but preferably 20 times, 30 times, so that he can be sure to encircle and annihilate them. A few days later, he reported to Chiang Kai-shek, and Xiong Shihui, who was then chairman of Jiangxi Province, also inspected and reported with him. Xiong Shihui watched the battle and said he couldn't fight. It was the period of the "ten-day siege", and Zhang Zhizhong was still launching an active attack in Shanghai, but Xiong Shihui was an old man after all. Even if his army was in the limelight, he knew that the situation was not good. It was difficult to win this battle. Since he could not win, Why are you still fighting? Chiang Kai-shek was not interested in this kind of judgment based on facts. Why did he think that the Battle of Songhu would definitely be won, but the essence of the problem is not here. He turned his head to Chen Cheng. Chen Cheng said that now it is not whether you can fight, but whether you want to fight. Oh, see you.Chiang Kai-shek's eyes lit up immediately, let's listen specifically. Chen Cheng first mentioned the northern battlefield. At that time, the battle of Nankou was still in progress, but Chen Cheng believed that the expansion of the war in the north was inevitable.The motorization speed of the Japanese army is extremely fast. Once they succeed, they can go south quickly along Pinghan Road and take Wuhan directly.Once Wuhan is lost, the Chinese battlefield will be cut in half vertically. In that case, China will be at a disadvantage. The only plan for now is to concentrate our forces, continue to expand the scale of the Songhu battlefield, and lure the Japanese troops originally planned to be transferred to North China to Shanghai little by little. What Chen Cheng said was actually the strategic policy of the 1936 National Defense Plan.Chiang Kai-shek expressed his complete agreement, so he made a decision on the spot: "Fight! Fight! Definitely fight!" Chen Cheng joined the Songhu Battlefield, originally to assist Zhang Zhizhong in besieging the Marine Corps stronghold, but after he arrived, he happened to catch up with Matsui's landing at Chuanshakou, so he was urgently appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the former enemy commander-in-chief of the Songhu North Battlefield. The main force used on the battlefield, such as the 18th Army, is basically the team of Chen Cheng's "civil engineering department". This is the reason and background for the sudden appearance of two commanders-in-chief, the North and the South, on the Songhu battlefield. For the northern battlefield, the most important thing is to defend Luodian.If this retreat is cut off by Matsui, the army will be on the verge of collapse. The Shantong Temple Division did not rush up all at once, but landed echelon by echelon. As more and more Japanese troops landed, the battle in Luodian became more and more intense. On August 26, Cai Bingyan, a major general and brigade commander in the 18th Army, was shot and fell to the ground a few hundred meters away from the Japanese position. When he was dying, there were still two words in his throat: Forward! Cai Bingyan is Chen Cheng's favorite general, and this sad news undoubtedly shakes the front. Chen Cheng rushed to the front line in a hurry, while encouraging and decompressing the troops of his children, while personally giving instructions. The officers and soldiers reported that the Japanese firepower was so fierce that they could not lift their heads.Chen Cheng also learned that some soldiers had never seen such a big battle, and they were very nervous. The shadows of the devil soldiers at the front of the position had not been seen clearly, and the bullets in their rifles were about to be discharged. Chen Cheng said, have you noticed that the sound of the devil's light and heavy machine guns is "papapa", what does that mean, it is to test you, asking whether you are afraid or not. Can we be convinced? Of course we have to answer him straightforwardly: not afraid!Don't be afraid! If you use the gun in your hand to express it, it means firing two rounds, "no" - "scared"! In this way, the little devil knows that we have courage, so he dare not go forward and attack desperately. If you shoot indiscriminately with your eyes closed, it's "fear, fear, fear". When it's over, the devil knows that you are young and inexperienced. When you run out of bullets, they will come up to greet you. Chen Cheng rolled all the way from the pile of dead bodies. He has never stopped fighting since he joined the army, so he can be called a veteran in combat. He has practical experience in combat, but he can really convince him that he can explain the truth so plainly and interestingly. Not to mention, all the soldiers love to hear this. There are not many educated people in the army, and no one can understand the slightly complicated ones. Only this, you can understand it as soon as you hear it, and you will remember it immediately. This is taught to ordinary soldiers, but for generals and above, good advice has to be taught separately. During the day, the Japanese aircraft, artillery and tanks were all on board, and if they couldn't fight recklessly, they would withdraw from their positions and hide in cotton fields or villages. Airplane bombing, let it go, artillery bombardment, let it go, anyway, in a word, he is strong, he is strong, the breeze blows the hill, he is horizontal, and the moon shines on the river. We'll vent our anger at night. At night, the plane couldn't find the target, and the artillery couldn't hit it accurately, so there was only one tank left. There is also a way to deal with tanks, that is, to bury landmines on the road. If there are not enough mines, then bundle grenades instead, and then set up obstacles on the road. No matter how good the tank is, it is afraid of landmines and cluster grenades. Even if you avoid them, there are still obstacles in front of you. As soon as the tank stopped, the ambushes on both sides came into battle with bayonets and fought hand-to-hand with him. In the northern suburbs of Shanghai, rice fields and ponds criss-crossed, especially after it rained, the road surface was muddy, and when the Japanese army bombed it, the roads were all muddy roads as far as the eye could see. In hand-to-hand combat on such a road, the Japanese army did not actually take advantage.They wear boots, but we wear straw sandals. Straw sandals are meant to be worn in the wind and rain, but boots are not good. Don’t look at the “squeaky” sound when walking on the road. The egg is finished in the mud, and it cannot be pulled out. When he was about to pull it out, when he looked up, the gleaming bayonet might have reached his chest. This kind of hand-to-hand combat has been fought too much, and the Japanese army is obviously at a disadvantage.They don't know how to make straw sandals themselves, so they just pick up the broken straw sandals left on the battlefield and put them on their feet to meet the "contingency needs" such as hand-to-hand combat. In this way, there is a tug-of-war between each other, which is often: Matsui takes the position during the day, and Chen Cheng takes it back at night. Xiao Luo's shop was overturned by both parties. After the death of the brigade commander of the 18th Army, the division commander was also seriously injured and it was difficult to continue commanding. Not everyone can represent a dignified teacher. At this time, Chen Cheng thought of his favorite general——Huang Wei, who was studying in Germany. Huang Wei, a native of Guixi, Jiangxi, graduated from the first phase of Whampoa. Some people say that Chen Cheng is the most similar to Chiang Kai-shek in terms of behavior, so there is a saying of "chairman of the big and small committees". In the "civil engineering department", Huang Wei's personality is closest to Chen Cheng, so he is called "Chen Cheng's shadow". ". Huang Wei is a primary school teacher. After becoming a soldier, he still puts on the air of being a teacher. He is usually strict, Ding is Ding, Mao is Mao, and he never jokes with you. Others are serious, maybe they are pretending, but Huang Wei is not pretending.He is just the opposite of Hu Lian, another later named general of the "Civil Engineering Department". Hu Lian does not stick to small details, and he does everything from meat to vegetables, while Huang Ze seems to be a modern Taoist teacher. When Huang Wei was recalled from Germany, his studies had not yet ended, but at this time Luodian's position had been breached. Huang Wei, who was ordered in danger, took the soldier talisman from Chen Cheng, quickly led his troops to counterattack, and the position was regained.Since then, the primary school teacher has stuck to Luodian like superglue. At the end of the fight, Huang Wei's subordinates were either dead or injured—or seriously injured, and when there were really no soldiers to send, he simply left only one dispatcher in the division headquarters for external liaison, and the rest of them were clerks with pens. , the fireman who cooks, all gathered together, led by himself, holding a gun and yelling, rushed to the battle. After the Battle of Songhu, Mr. Huang was given the nickname: Bookworm, saying that he likes to admit death, and he is like a stupid boy in war.He himself also expressed his feelings for it, saying that "one inch of rivers and mountains and one inch of blood" in the Songhu battlefield, and every inch of land gained or lost was exchanged for blood. Luodian, this little place that was originally unknown, has since become known all over the world, because it has a new title called: Flesh and Flesh Mill.