Chiang Kai-shek personally called to summon Chen Zikun to attend the Military Committee meeting, which meant that Chen Zikun was already a member of the highest military authority of the Kuomintang, one level higher than the chairman of the National Defense Construction Supervisory Committee.
Chen Zikun hurried to the meeting, while Liu Ting stayed at home.
Although the weather was extremely gloomy, her mood was indeed sunny.
She liked Nanjing because only in Nanjing could they share the world between them.
Liu Ting made a call to the Jiangdong Provincial Government.
Originally, ordinary home phones could not make direct provincial long-distance calls, but Chen Zikun was already a member of the Military Commission, and his number was listed as the highest level without any restrictions.
The long-distance call went through multiple transfers, and the sound effect was very poor.
The electric current was sizzling, but I could barely understand it.
Liu Ting reported her identity, and Liu Cunren was hurriedly found to answer the call.
"Dad, I'm in Nanjing.
The war has started.
I can't go back to celebrate the New Year for the time being."
"Ting'er, take good care of yourself.
Everything at home is fine.
Don't worry about it."
After Liu Ting arrived in Shanghai, she sent a telegram to tell her family her whereabouts.
Now she said she couldn't go home for the New Year.
Naturally, she felt uncomfortable as a father, but she could accept this fact.
As her daughter got older, she would get married sooner or later.
It’s not the Chinese New Year at other people’s houses.
Until noon, Liu Cunren took out his pocket watch to see what time it was to get off work.
He packed up his things and walked out of the gate of the provincial capital with a cloth bag.
The Central Street was bustling with people.
The newsboy shouted at the top of his voice: "Sell newspapers, sell newspapers, Japan has a big move."
Attacked Shanghai and were repulsed by our army."
Liu Cunren hurriedly paid for a copy of the Huaijiang Newspaper.
Today's morning paper was late all morning.
It seemed that the page was temporarily added in the morning.
The content was about the Japanese Marines stationed in Shanghai who raided our Zhabei garrison and were killed by me in the 19th century.
The road army fought back heroically and is currently engaged in a fierce battle.
Seeing this, Liu Cunren felt a rush of blood rushing to his head.
Although he had long passed the age of a passionate young man, he still felt extremely excited when he saw the news of the heroic resistance of the Chinese army.
The Chinese army finally resisted and was no longer like Diutong.
The three provinces gave up Shanghai to each other like that For three days in a row, Chen Zikun was in Nanjing to counsel military affairs.
Battle reports from the Shanghai front came one after another.
The 19th Route Army fought hard and beautifully.
The commander of the Japanese fleet stationed in Shanghai originally clamored to end the war within four hours, but ended up fighting three times.
Still no results.
Instead, the 19th Route Army captured the Marine Corps headquarters and captured 3,000 rifles.
On February 1, Japanese warships bombarded Nanjing.
In order to prevent the war from expanding, the Chinese army did not fight back.
The Nationalist Government decided to move westward to Luoyang to show its determination to resist.
However, the military and political agencies still stayed in Nanjing and began to discuss ways to support the 19th Route Army.
Chen Zikun volunteered to lead the army in combat, but was declined by Chiang Kai-shek.
The Military Commission organized the Eighty-seventh Division, the Eighty-eighth Division, and the Central Instruction Corps stationed on the Nanjing-Shanghai-Hangzhou front line to form the Fifth Army, and appointed Zhang Zhizhong, the education director of the Central Military Academy, as its commander.
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Lead the army to Shanghai for support.
The Japanese offensive was frustrated and they had no choice but to accept British and American mediation and announced a three-day ceasefire.
However, they secretly mobilized their troops to prepare for a larger-scale attack.
The Chinese also used this time to actively prepare for war.
Chen Zikun and Song Ziwen had a good personal relationship.
The two discussed and arranged the tax The police headquarters went into battle.
"It takes a thousand days to raise an army but only a short time to use it.
This battle in Shanghai is a great opportunity for our men to serve the country."
Chen Zikun was still very confident in the combat effectiveness of the old anti-smoking corps.
Song Ziwen smoked a cigar: "That's not right.
The Tax Police Corps is the tax police.
It goes against the principles to join the war.
The Eight-Country Banking Group stopped allocating salt surplus funds, and the funds will be gone."
Chen Zikun said: "This is easy to handle.
Just change the designation.
I suggest that it be temporarily incorporated into the Central Military Commission, and then resume the tax police headquarters after the war is over.
Keep it a secret.
In fact, it is to give an explanation to foreigners, and it cannot be covered in paper.
Fire, they must know it, but I believe they can understand it.”
Song Ziwen said: "For now, this is the only way to go."
Three days later, Japan sent an additional third fleet to support Shanghai and attacked Zhabei again.
The war spread to Jiangwan and Wusong.
A battle broke out between the tax police headquarters and the Japanese army.
As expected, it showed its skills.
The Japanese first regiment that attacked Jiangwan was surrounded and annihilated.
This is the Chinese New Year.
The Fifth Army was still being organized.
Chen Zikun's repeated requests for war were not approved, so he had to change his name and said that he was going to Shanghai to evacuate his family members.
This was approved by the Military Commission.
Chen Zikun flew to Shanghai alone without Liu Ting and entered the concession.
There was a depression everywhere.
After all, Zhabei was too close to be unaffected.
When he returned home, the ladies were busy collecting gold and silver, saying they were going to raise funds.
Lian Yan The children all took out their own piggy banks.
"What are you raising money for?"
Chen Zikun was puzzled.
"Raise donations for the 19th Route Army, buy guns, cannons, iron hats, and fight against little Japan."
Xia Xiaoqing said.
She was wearing a fancy outfit and scratchy tiger boots.
It looked like she was itching to go into battle in person and play a guest role in Mulan. .
"Nonsense."
Chen Zikun scolded, but he was very pleased in his heart.
Yao Yilei asked him: "What are you doing when you come back?"
Chen Zikun said: "Xue Bin has led his brothers into battle.
I'm worried.
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Come and have a look."
Yao Yilei was surprised: "Then you are going to Zhabei" Jian Bing was shocked when he heard this: "Zhabei is full of bullets, it's too dangerous."
Only Xia Xiaoqing didn't take it seriously: "Okay, I'll go too."
Chen Zikun said: "I am an army general who was not inherited from my ancestors, but was created with one knife and one shot.
I am still afraid of this."
He had made up his mind, and no one could dissuade him.
However, as a member of the Military Commission, it was against discipline to rush into battle.
Chen Zikun had his own way.
He asked someone to find a wrinkled old private uniform to wear, put on leggings, and With his floppy hat and a cowhide belt tied around his waist, he looked almost like a soldier.
The adjutants prepared a batch of condolences, including cigarettes, liquor, and cakes, and loaded a truck full of them.
Chen Zikun led the team and drove to Zhabei.
When they passed the concession gate, the Chinese prisoners not only did not check, but also saluted the truck.
The foreign patrolmen also turned a blind eye.
Chen Qingfeng explained that recently many Chinese people in the concession went to Zhabei voluntarily to work in the army, and the foreigners were no longer surprised.
When the car entered the Chinese border, the scene suddenly changed.
It was devastated, the trees were charred, bullet casings and gravel and rubble were everywhere, which showed the fierce fighting.
There were several policemen in black uniforms on the roadside, carrying rifles on their backs.
They were armed policemen from the Fifth Squadron of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau.
In the Battle of Zhabei, the policemen participated in the battle and made great sacrifices.
Chen Zikun immediately asked someone to bring him a few cigarettes. them.
The police said that going forward would be the tug-of-war with the Japanese, and suggested not to go any further.
Chen Zikun expressed his thanks, but still drove forward.
Sure enough, two blocks away, you could hear the sound of stray bullets.
From time to time, artillery shells fell, blowing up a cloud of smoke and dust.
There was a telephone pole lying in the middle of the street, and the car was forced to stop.
Several soldiers walked out of the roadside and said in Cantonese: "Go back, it's dangerous."
Chen Qingfeng got out of the car and said that we were here to work for the army.
The soldier immediately stood at attention and saluted when he saw his rank of major.
There was a forward headquarters of the 19th Route Army in a house on the roadside.
The largest officer here was a battalion commander.
I heard that someone was working for the army.
He hurried over and asked: "Which department are you in?"
"We are members of the Military Commission."
What Qing Feng said was true.
His general was now a member of the Military Commission, and these adjutants and guards were naturally promoted accordingly.
The battalion commander stood in awe and saluted: "We are the 1st Battalion, 6th Regiment, 156th Brigade, 78th Division, 19th Route Army."
Chen Qingfeng said: "Help move the telephone poles away, we are going to the front line."
The battalion commander said: "This is the front line, and further ahead is the Japanese defense line."
Chen Qingfeng asked his men to move out the consolation items.
Chen Zikun stood in the team without saying a word and helped move the things.
He went to the front line not to show off, but to see the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army and the 19th Route Army.
These are extremely valuable first-hand information, which is very important to a senior official of the Military Commission.
After a while, the brothers in the first battalion were smoking the British brand cigarettes donated from the concession.
They were having fun when suddenly someone shouted: "Take your mother, the Japanese are coming."
Sure enough, a wheeled armored vehicle appeared on the street with a murderous look.
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The iron plate was covered with rivets.
The body of the vehicle was painted with the Navy's Rising Sun Seal.
The water-cooled sleeves of two heavy machine guns protruded from the turret.
Chen Zikun had been engaged in the imported arms trade.
I know this is a British-made Vickers 25 armored vehicle.
The armored steel plate is 6 mm, which can withstand the 79 mm bullet fired by the Chinese army.
The armored vehicle fired wildly, and the 77-caliber machine gun bullets hit the sandbag bunker, suppressing the 19th Route Army.
Up in the sky, the six brothers who had been smoking cigarettes and chatting and laughing just now were blown to pieces.
The 19th Route Army fired back one after another, firing at the armored vehicles from upstairs windows and behind bunkers, causing sparks to fly from the steel plates.
The armored vehicles were unscathed.
The brothers in the national army were helpless and watched as the armored vehicles and field artillery approached step by step.
Chen Zikun and others were guarded by brothers from the 19th Route Army.
They couldn't help but feel anxious when they heard such intensive gunfire.
They stared at the general with eager eyes, waiting for him to say a word.
"Find some wine bottles."
Chen Zikun said suddenly.
He personally took a bottle of wine from the condolences, opened the bottle cap and poured it all.
He took a rubber tube from the truck cab, opened the car's fuel tank cap, and the rubber He inserted the tube, took a few puffs, and poured the gasoline into the empty bottle.
Then he tore off the hem of his military uniform and plugged the mouth of the bottle, saying, "Do this as I do."
The guards followed suit and quickly made six Molotov cocktails.
"I'll do it."
Shuangxi picked up the Molotov cocktail and was about to go into battle.
"No one wants to fight with me."
Yan Jinan picked up the Molotov cocktail and rushed away first.
After all, he was a descendant of the Yan family in Cangzhou.
His movement skills were so nimble that he was already on the roof before others could see him clearly.
The street fighting in Zhabei was extremely difficult.
There were many civilian houses and the battle lines were intertwined.
Those with stronger firepower had the upper hand.
The Japanese army had aviation cover and the cooperation of armored vehicles and heavy artillery.
The 19th Route Army relied on its flesh and blood to withstand the enemy's repeated attacks.
Following the armored vehicle were the Japanese special marines in blue.
They were responsible for protecting the safety of the armored vehicle.
When they saw the figure on the roof, they immediately opened fire.
Yan Ji moved around in the south, and the bullets could not hurt him at all.
The Molotov cocktail hit the armored vehicle, but they forgot to light the cloth strips.
Yan Jinan hurriedly lit another Molotov cocktail and used the Yan family's secret weapon skills.
It hit the observation window of the armored vehicle.
Flames suddenly burst out and screams continued.
On a whim, he picked up another Molotov cocktail and was about to smash it down when a bullet hit him.
It flew in and hit the Molotov cocktail, and suddenly half of its body was on fire.
At this time, Chen Zikun had already led people to come around from the side.
There was a burst of machine gun fire.
The Japanese Marines in the alley fell down like fallen leaves in the autumn wind.
Shuangxi rushed up and stuffed a smoking grenade into the window of the armored vehicle, and rolled on the ground. , there was a muffled roar, the armored vehicle stopped, and a raging fire started.
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The fire on Yan Jinan's body was extinguished by everyone, but his clothes were burned and his arm was blackened.
He fainted from the pain.
Seeing that his arm could not be saved, his life could not be saved if it was infected.
Chen Zikun asked Shuangxi to quickly send Yan Jinan back to the concession hospital for treatment.
Qingfeng ran over and said anxiously: "General, withdraw.
Let the 19th Route Army defend this place."
"Nonsense.
As a soldier, we have the duty to defend our territory.
No one is allowed to take a step back except the wounded," Chen Zikun immediately rebuked.
The officers and soldiers of the 19th Route Army stared dumbfoundedly at the private reprimanding the major commander
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