War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 454: Mutual Appreciation! (2500 votes plus more!)

Early in the morning, the sun rises in the east.

Amid the roar of artillery fire, planes of the Nationalist Air Force began to take off one after another, and then a fierce air battle broke out in the sky!

After getting rid of the "heartache" of harassment by the Japanese Air Force, the 87th and 88th Divisions launched a frenzied offensive against the Japanese invaders in Shanghai under fire. In the Kuomintang's war report, they called this combat plan - encirclement and annihilation.

Yesterday, the 88th Brigade of the 264th Division of the National Government, led by General Huang Meixing, continued to launch offensives towards Baji Bridge, Patriotic Girls' School, and Chizhi University, and won victory after victory; General Zhu Chi of the 88nd Brigade of the 262th Division launched an offensive towards Qiujiang Road from Beizhan in the south. Its purpose is to join forces with the 264th Brigade and the 87th Division to encircle the headquarters of the Japanese garrison in the cross-border area and annihilate it in Shanghai.

Huang Meixing was a famous warrior of the Whampoa clique. During the last January 28 Incident, he was the head of a regiment and fought a bloody battle with the Japanese invaders in Miaoxing for two days and two nights. He was promoted because of his military exploits. Today, the superiors still named him to launch an offensive against the garrison headquarters because of his bravery!

The first battle will be at Baji Bridge!
However, the Japanese invaders had made sufficient preparations at Bazi Bridge in advance and set up many ambushes on the small bridge, which forced the soldiers to charge forward under a hail of bullets. After failing to capture Bazi Bridge for three consecutive times, it was only through a bloody battle in the fourth charge that they captured the small bridge.

It is said that the bridge was full of corpses that night, and the wails of wounded soldiers echoed throughout the night.

……

"Hurry up!"

"The brigade headquarters is located at the Patriotic Girls' School. Connect the phone line immediately. I want to report the battle situation to General Zhang!"

"Also, go to the 67th Army and ask them when the Northeast Army will be able to support us. I don't have enough manpower!"

"Wait a moment!"

"By the way, send a signalman deep into the battlefield. He must meet with the commanders of the regiments of our brigade and personally convey my order. Tell them what I said. When attacking, you must be careful, careful, and careful again. You can only attack when avoiding artillery fire. You must not bite the bullet and attack regardless of casualties. Do you understand?"

"Yes!"

Thumb, thump, thump!

Footsteps were heard in the corridor again...

Then, at that moment when a large number of people began to rush into the teaching building of the Patriotic Girls' School, there was still loud snoring in the classroom!

Xu Chaoyang and Liu Zhenji fell asleep early due to heavy blood loss. The girls' school students were even more sleepy with their protection, and they gathered in a corner with their knees resting. Shang Kun stood guard for two hours, staring at the artillery fire outside. When he woke up the fifth platoon leader for his shift, he was sitting by the window with his eyelids raised. He wanted to refresh himself in the cool breeze after the sky cleared, but when he turned his head to look outside, he saw a large number of troops rushing into the Patriotic Girls' School.

"Wake up, wake up everyone!"

"Someone is coming!"

He dug one by one, and finally he woke up his brothers. Then they heard footsteps coming from the corridor. When they heard the movement in the building, they immediately shouted, "There's someone in the building!"

"Who's in there? Come out!"

"Don't come out to throw grenades!!!"

He didn't even mention shooting, but just started throwing grenades. He must have hated the Japanese in his heart.

"One of our own!"

The fifth platoon leader quickly responded from inside the house, shouting several times: "We are one of us!" Then he remembered to continue: "We are from the 67th Army. We got caught up in the fighting last night and are trapped here!"

“We also followed the 87th Division in the battle two streets away from Chih-Chih University.”

The fifth platoon leader didn't know how to explain it, and he almost reported how many Japanese soldiers he had killed.

At this moment, a deep voice came over: "Put down the gun and walk out of the house empty-handed."

At this voice, Xu Chaoyang pushed open the door and walked out with his hands bare!
In front of him, a man of medium build and not very strong appeared. He did not have the murderous aura of a frontline soldier, but he had the energy to command the overall situation. He stood there in the corridor with his hands behind his back. When the two looked at each other...

"Xu Chaoyang!"

It is understandable that a low-level officer does not know Xu Chaoyang, but it is impossible for the man in front of him not to know Xu Chaoyang!
Xu Chaoyang was so famous in the past few years that the South elected him as an anti-Japanese pioneer and wanted to hang his photo in the newspapers every day. How could Huang Meixing not recognize him?
"Why are you here?" Xu Chaoyang heard the other person's tone and felt that they were old acquaintances, but he did not have much impression of the face in front of him.

Huang Meixing then remembered: "Oh, I don't know you, but your achievements in Rehe, Chahar, and Xifengkou have been used as teaching materials by the Huangpu Military Academy. Now, your battle reports on the battlefield have trained batches of patriotic patriots."

As he spoke, he walked up to Xu Chaoyang, took off his gloves before shaking hands, and said, "264 Brigade, Huang Meixing."

Xu Chaoyang shook Huang Meixing's hand. The feeling of traveling through time and space to shake hands with a historical figure... or the feeling of shaking hands with a famous anti-Japanese general who died on the Battle of Shanghai... was really different.

But this person was not lucky. When she was reporting military information to the rear from the Patriotic Girls' School, she was hit by artillery fire and died on the battlefield...

Wait a minute!

Xu Chaoyang was probably a little sleepy and just remembered the fate of this man. He glanced out the window in confusion. He began to worry that a shell might fall suddenly and catch them off guard.

But the Japanese artillery fire had stopped, as if there was no artillery fire all around.

"Captain Xu?" Huang Meixing asked as a reminder.

"Ah..." Xu Chaoyang came back to his senses.

Huang Meixing continued to ask: "Shouldn't you be on the battlefield in North China?"

He really brought up the issue: "Song Zhe was still promoting your achievements in recovering Tong County a year ago. How come there has been no news for more than a year?"

Xu Chaoyang smiled, looked at Huang Meixing and said, "Brigade Commander Huang really doesn't know anything about this?"

"Yes... I know a little bit." Huang Meixing responded, "I have some friends in the Military Control Commission, and we talked about you when we had dinner together..."

"I heard that in the battle of Tianjin, the person who defeated the garrison troops and took out the eyes of Tashiro Kan'ichirō was you."

The reason why Huang Meixing always paused when speaking was that he was thinking about whether he should say certain things or not. However, considering that the other party was also a famous anti-Japanese general, he was honest with him, but he still spoke in very general terms.

The fifth platoon leader turned his head and glanced at Xu Chaoyang. He felt sorry for Xu Chaoyang. Although he was a genuine member of the Northeast Army, it was forbidden to mention Xu Chaoyang's name in the Northeast Army. However, the 29th Army and the National Government promoted him as a hero. Even the brigade commander in front of him looked at Commander Xu as if he were a star. What was going on?
"It's hard to put into words."

Xu Chaoyang's smile became more and more bitter. The fact that he left the 29th Army was probably no longer a secret. However, Huang Meixing in front of him was probably still not very clear about his true identity, otherwise he would not have said the following words.

"I know."

Huang Meixing looked at Xu Chaoyang with great admiration and said, "Sometimes I also want to fight the Japanese without any hesitation, but I can't do anything because of the party, the country, and the military discipline." He thought that Song Zheyuan didn't let him fight the Japanese, which led to the withdrawal of the 217th Regiment.

"That's right, the opportunity has finally come..." He also talked about his own situation.

"report!"

A soldier ran up from downstairs, stood beside Huang Meixing and shouted, "67th Army, Commander Wu Keren is here!"

"Hurry up and meet them!"

Huang Meixing turned around and walked downstairs. Xu Chaoyang stopped her and said, "Captain Huang, there are still children in this school who couldn't go home because of the battle yesterday. Can you send some people to take them back first?"

"Guard Battalion!" Huang Meixing gave the order directly: "Send a platoon to send the students home first." After that, he patted Xu Chaoyang on the arm.

"Hiss!" Xu Chaoyang grimaced in pain!

"You are hurt?"

"Call the military doctor!"

(End of this chapter)