Zhou Wu was thinking nonsense, and the old army commander laughed: "Zhou Wu, it's a good thing, the Military Command Department sent a notice early this morning to reorganize the three regiments of the 15th Division that were disabled on the Luodian battlefield, a total of 4,000 people, and your 6th regiment, and specially drew 1,000 people from other places to supplement them to form an independent brigade of our army." ” "With the approval of the chairman of the committee, you will be the commander of the independent brigade, directly under my leadership, and your military rank will also be promoted from colonel to major general."
Hearing this news, the doubts and doubts in Zhou Wu's heart were swept away, so that he had at least nearly six thousand troops in his hands, and his confidence in fighting against the devil suddenly increased a lot.
As soon as he wanted to express his gratitude to the army commander and the division commanders for cultivating the scene, the division commander Yu Shiming hurriedly said: "Congratulations to Major General Zhou on his promotion, you see that I am not wrong, your kid has a bright future."
Now you are the third general from our 11th Division, and you are so young, you have a lot to do. ” In addition to Yu Shiming, the chief of staff of the 11th Division is also a major general.
"Brigade Commander Zhou, please follow me to the city to receive recruits and equipment."
Said the officer who came with the old commander.
Zhou Wu first exchanged a few polite words with the old army commander and division commander, and instructed the fat man to take out the best things to entertain the old army commander and these military officers.
He himself took the chiefs of staff Ding Ning, Zhai Daping, Zhang Ercheng, and several battalion commanders to follow those officers to go through the handover procedures.
When he returned, the old army commander and the officers of the military department had already gone back, only the fat man was drunk and red-faced, and his tongue was bossed, and he walked staggeringly.
Seeing Zhou Wu, the fat man put a fat hand on his shoulder, and muttered in his mouth: "Tuan Tuanzao, just now the army commander and the division commander toasted me."
My old Liu is so old, and I haven't met so many chiefs to drink with me, so I drank a few more drinks as soon as I was happy, and they just left. ” After saying that, he was full of burps and drunk, and Zhou Wu hurriedly asked someone to help the fat man out to rest.
"Immediately order the officers above the platoon level to come to the regimental headquarters for a meeting."
Soon, all the officers who were qualified to come to the meeting arrived, and Zhou Wu briefly told everyone about the reorganization of the troops into an independent brigade, and everyone was naturally happy.
Can you not be happy Once they are reorganized into brigades, they are promoted to one rank, platoon commanders to company commanders, company commanders to battalion commanders, and so on.
Ding Ning was promoted to brigade chief of staff and promoted to colonel.
Because Zhao Lijin fought bravely in this raid on the Japanese army, he was exceptionally promoted to deputy battalion commander with the rank of captain.
This confused Lao Zhao, and he was raised two levels at once, and he couldn't adapt to it.
Zhou Wu dispersed the new recruits who had been added in and assigned them to the previous battalion commanders to let them lead, the original spy company was upgraded to a special service battalion, Zhai Daping was the battalion commander, and Zhang Ercheng of the mountain artillery company was promoted to the commander of the howitzer battalion.
Lao Zhang looked at the brand-new 100mm howitzer he had just received back, and happily felt like he had picked up a gold ingot, touching the black and shiny cannon and smirking.
"Brothers, our 6th Regiment is now reorganized into an independent brigade, and you have all been promoted.
But at the same time as the promotion, the burden on his shoulders is also heavy. ” "Behind us is Nanjing, the capital, where we have our gray-haired old father, our children waiting to be fed, and our wives who silently dedicate themselves to us, so we have to fight to the end and block the little Japanese devils in Shanghai and Luodian."
The officers were enthusiastically boiled by Zhou Wu's words, and they all expressed their willingness to fight to the end, resolutely not to be deserters, and to work hard to defend Shanghai and Luodian.
Zhou Wu struck while the iron was hot and arranged the defense of the reorganized independent brigade.
The establishment has been expanded, and the defense zone has been expanded accordingly.
Now Zhouwu's defense area accounts for half of the Luodian defense area, and the other half is guarded by the 29th Division.
Zhou Wu had a hunch that a violent storm was coming, and he would be greeted by a battle that did not know the ending.
He was prepared for the worst and was ready to die for his country.
And just a few days after Zhou Wu was promoted to the commander of the Independent Brigade, the devil's army began to move frequently at sea and on land.
According to the air force reconnaissance report, the Japanese army sent three divisions and regiments from the mainland and Japanese-occupied Taiwan to Shanghai.
In addition to the ones that have landed before, the total number of devils in Shanghai has reached more than 300,000.
Similarly, the Nationalist army had as many as 600,000 troops on the battlefield in Shanghai, but air and sea supremacy were always in the hands of the Japanese army.
It is said that after the devil received reinforcements, he began to land in Baoshan, Chuansha, Lion Forest and other places in Shanghai.
At this time, the Japanese army on the front line of Luodian had concentrated more than 30,000 people in one and a half divisions.
Zhou Wu felt that a bloody battle was coming.
The water network in the Luodian area is vertical and horizontal, and the terrain is flat, which is particularly suitable for the Japanese army's mechanized troops to fight, and because the Nationalist army has lost air and sea supremacy, they will be subjected to a triple three-dimensional attack from enemy ships and air planes on the sea and land artillery.
In such a network of waters, trenches often do not provide much cover.
In addition, the typhoon season is coming, the number of days of heavy rain has increased, and the trenches are full of oceans, which is very unfavorable for holding the battle, but no matter how difficult it is, it has to be defended.
In order to reduce the casualties of the troops, Zhou Wu tried not to let the troops nest together, and divided the troops into three echelons and arranged them in turn along the defensive positions.
The howitzer battalion was on standby, dismantling and dispersing 100 howitzers in peacetime, and quickly transporting the scattered artillery mounts to firing positions in wartime.
It was assembled in the shortest possible time, fired in the shortest possible time, and evacuated immediately after completion to prevent bombing by enemy aircraft and ships.
Running around assembling cannons like this is a bit tiring, but there is a bonus, the devils will never know where your heavy artillery is, and it will be a lingering nightmare for them.
At the same time, Zhou Wu ordered the special battalion to send a crack squad to go out to reconnoitre, report the movements of the devils at any time, and communicate with the 29th Division jointly stationed in Luodian in a timely manner, and agreed to support each other and advance and retreat together.
As soon as he finished arranging these things, Zhou Wu heard a sudden burst of heavy artillery explosions and the loud sound of devil plane aerial bombs from the front position.
"Here Comes the Devil" Zhou Wu immediately asked the staff officer of the brigade headquarters to connect the phone of Liu Xiaolei, the fat man of the first regiment commander of the forward troops.
"Brigade commander, the devil is fucking crazy, the planes in the sky are bombing, the warships on the river are bombing, and they are all calling me here, and dozens of brothers have died.
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Later, the little devils will definitely charge, and when the time comes, you must let Lao Zhang bombard the little devils fiercely, and let them taste the taste of being bombed. ” The fat man gritted his teeth on the phone, obviously red-eyed by the gunfire of the little devil.
Zhou Wu told the fat man on the phone to use his brains more, don't wait for the bombing, and when the devil charges on a large scale, he will naturally let Zhang Ercheng make a move and stew a pot of steel broth for the little devil.
After hanging up the phone, Zhou Wu picked up the binoculars and looked at the forward position, which was completely enveloped in gunsmoke.
The devil's shelling continued, and the heart-rending explosions made him feel dizzy even three miles away, let alone the soldiers who were holding their positions. t1706231537: