You were tasked with guarding the Sihang Warehouse, and you ended up with a German-equipped division

Chapter 36: Replenishing weapons and ammunition for brother units, preparing for new battles.

These words were like a heavy hammer blow, or the straw that broke the camel's back. Yoshizumi Ryosuke's vision went black, his body swayed, and he almost fell to the ground.

Hiroshi Nakagawa quickly helped Ryosuke Yoshizumi up.

"Division Commander, are you alright?"

Yoshizumi Ryosuke sat in a chair, rubbing his forehead and waving his hand as he said:

"It's nothing, just a little high blood pressure. Give me a cigarette, I need to calm down."

Since the battle at the Four-Line Warehouse, Yoshizumi Ryosuke's subsequent battles have been remarkably smooth sailing.

He hadn't experienced that surge in blood pressure in a while.

After finishing his cigarette, Yoshizumi Ryosuke calmed down and said:

"Concentrate your forces and continue the offensive."

Hiroshi Nakagawa reminded:

"But our artillery firepower is probably..."

"Don't you still have brigade and regimental artillery? Without artillery, do you not know how to fight?"

Yoshizumi Ryosuke posed a question.

"yes!!!"

After answering, Hiroshi Nakagawa thought to himself that the division commander was acting impulsively again. The enemy had already reinforced the Xinzhuang bunker complex, strengthening the defenses. This attack would probably be ineffective.

The best solution, of course, is to wait for the replacement artillery to arrive, since although a large number of artillery pieces of the artillery regiment have been destroyed, the artillery units are still intact.

Inside the Xinzhuang bunker complex, Xu Dingguo, the commander in charge, was quite surprised to see that the person who came was Li Jianghe.

"Commander, what brings you here?"

Li Jianghe was equally surprised. He had originally thought that Xu Dingguo and his men had already retreated with the main force of the Guangxi Army.

Xu Dingguo sighed and said:

"It's a long story. We received orders to block the pursuing Japanese troops in the Xinzhuang area to buy time for our brother units to retreat to Nanjing."

However, I didn't expect that only our Fifth Regiment and some defeated soldiers gathered along the way would actually remain.

The two divisions that were supposed to stay here also fled as soon as it got dark.

The adjutant, Liu, standing to the side, said indignantly:

"Unexpectedly, in the end, those who were willing to stay and fight against the Japanese were still us ragtag troops, while the Central Army soldiers ran away faster than anyone else."

After listening to what the two said, Li Jianghe roughly understood the situation.

He was not surprised that other Nationalist troops fled, since most Nationalist troops were fleeing and only a minority were actually left to fight back against the Japanese army as ordered.

"Commander, how many men do you have left?"

Li Jianghe asked the question.

Lieutenant Liu answered for him:

"I just did a count, and there are less than 500 people left at most. The key issue is that we've run out of ammunition; we've used up all our bullets."

At this point, his anger intensified. "The corrupt Central Army not only left, but they also took the ammunition from the warehouse."

Five hundred men is not many; their total strength is even less than that of Li Jianghe's current force.

"Commander, staying here is certain death. The enemy on the other side is the main force of the 9th Division."

Li Jianghe suggested.

He knew very well that Japanese troops were also flanking them from both sides, and if they continued to hold the Xinzhuang defense line, it wouldn't be long before the Japanese cut off their retreat.

But Xu Dingguo said:

"Jiang He, you take your men and go first. I'm staying here. The brigade commander has died in battle. His orders to me were to stay here until dawn."

He was a traditional soldier, much like Xie Jinyuan, and he would carry out orders from his superiors without fail.

Xu Dingguo hoped that Li Jianghe would leave, after all, such a talented young man was the future of the country and the nation.

He also believed that Li Jianghe would play an even greater role on the future battlefields of the War of Resistance against Japan.

"Hold on until dawn..."

Li Jianghe calculated the time and knew that there were at most three hours until dawn.

However, the Ninth Division suffered heavy losses and was bound to launch a fierce attack afterward.

These 500-plus people probably won't even be able to withstand the next wave of attacks.

"Commander, I'll stay behind with some men too, let's go together."

Li Jianghe made up his mind.

He doesn't have a large number of troops, but he has enough merit points to summon new units, as well as powerful firepower, including artillery.

"Jiang He, you are still young. You must live, live..."

Xu Dingguo was about to speak again, but Li Jianghe interrupted him, saying:

"Commander, you don't need to persuade me anymore. I'll stay with my men. We can all survive, and we can all go and defend Nanjing."

Seeing the determination in Li Jianghe's eyes, Xu Dingguo stopped pressuring him.

"Good, well done, Jiang He."

He patted Li Jianghe on the shoulder repeatedly.

"By the way, we captured a batch of Japanese weapons and ammunition. Since you've run out of ammunition, why don't you use these weapons and ammunition?"

Li Jianghe asked.

These Guangxi soldiers fought fiercely with the Japanese army in Shanghai for a long time and often captured Japanese weapons on the battlefield.

Upon hearing that Li Jianghe still had ammunition, Xu Dingguo said with a hint of excitement:

"How many? Please don't worry about it. I know your troops fought a bloody battle with the Japanese army at Sihang Warehouse, and you must have suffered heavy losses in ammunition and personnel."

"Not much, not much."

Li Jianghe spoke very modestly, but in reality, the weapons and equipment he had captured from the Japanese were enough to equip an entire reinforced battalion.

Soon, they arrived at several trucks piled high with weapons and ammunition.

It was filled with captured Japanese Type 38 rifles, Type 96 light machine guns, Type 92 heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, and even Type 92 infantry guns.

Upon seeing this, Xu Dingguo, his adjutant Liu, and the others rubbed their eyes in disbelief.

Lieutenant Liu clicked his tongue and said:

"Wait, Jiang He, are you trying to break through? How come you're getting more and more equipment as you fight?"

Li Jianghe thought to himself, "Not only am I getting more and more equipment, but I'm also getting more and more people."

Now, Li Jianghe, along with the personnel he had previously summoned, has a total force of over seven hundred men, all equipped with German weaponry.

These personnel, along with their widespread use of machine guns and submachine guns, were enough to give the Japanese a run for their money.

Xu Dingguo stared wide-eyed, thinking that when Li Jianghe said "not much, not much," he really meant not much.

Who knew that Li Jianghe was still being modest at this time, saying that it wasn't much, but it was enough for all five hundred men under his command to be equipped with Japanese weapons.

"This... River, you have truly saved us from dire straits."

Xu Dingguo grasped his hand, unable to contain his excitement.

After saying that, he gave the order for the soldiers to collect their weapons and ammunition.

This time, Li Jianghe directly replenished their supplies with 100,000 rounds of ammunition, 2,000 hand grenades, and a large number of captured Japanese helmets, gas masks, and other items.

With these, they should be able to hold out until they reach Nanjing.

The soldiers were quite excited after receiving their ammunition.

Previously, due to a lack of ammunition, we were extremely cautious when fighting the Japanese, fearing that our bullets might miss their mark.