Chapter 152

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Protagonist:

Lv Muzhi

Li Yingfang saw everyone gathered around the new tanks, and again took a letter from his briefcase, handing it to Lv Muzhi.

"Lu Commander, this is a personal letter written by your wife, entrusted to me to deliver into your hands."

Lv Muzhi took the letter, and Zhang Zhizhong turned back and saw it, smiling and saying: "No wonder they had you, this Deputy Director, personally escort it; delivering this letter is a job only you can do, no one else could really deliver it."

Lv Muzhi walked aside to open and read the letter; the letter could not be called a beacon-fire family letter, nor did it contain any romantic sentiments between husband and wife.

Zhu Sanxiang was handling construction and supplying military provisions in the Southwest, while Lv Muzhi was defending home and country on the front lines, both placing these matters first.

The letter, over a thousand words long, had more than nine hundred words at the beginning concerning production data of Southwest industry and mines; condensed, it was just four words: steady and improving.

The last few lines were what Lv Muzhi paid special attention to: "December 13th is our son's birthday; I hope the war ends soon, and we wait for you to come home at home."

Lv Muzhi let out a long breath, turned to look at Zhang Zhizhong and the others, and unexpectedly saw Zhang Zhizhong and Qiu Qingquan and others looking at him.

Folding the letter and putting it into the envelope, Lv Muzhi, while placing the envelope into his pocket, said: "Alright, unload the equipment quickly and distribute it to the various units; Li Yingfang, have the replacement personnel arrived?"

Li Yingfang came back to his senses: "They have all been transported here; arriving with this batch of equipment in Shanghai City were also our two thousand reserve personnel from the Southwest, used to replenish the current and future personnel losses of the troops for a period of time."

Zhang Zhizhong asked: "Wei Yue heard that you are implementing the reserve system within your own controlled area in the Southwest; this is good. The fighting has gone on until now, and replacement personnel for other units have not yet arrived, but your Youth Army's replacement personnel have arrived first."

Qiu Qingquan said: "That is natural; everything Lu Commander has deployed is tailor-made for the war."

Lv Muzhi again led people to inspect the two thousand replacement reserve personnel who had arrived; these two thousand were temporarily organized into the First Supplementary Regiment, each spirited and full of energy, orderly and disciplined.

Zhang Zhizhong nodded: "Without discussing their tactical and technical level, judging from order alone, this unit does not look like a reserve unit."

Lv Muzhi walked in front of the First Supplementary Regiment and saluted; the regimental commander of the First Supplementary Regiment stepped forward: "Report to the Principal, the First Supplementary Regiment has been brought here; please inspect!"

Zhang Zhizhong looked puzzled and asked: "Why does that lieutenant colonel officer call Wei Yue 'Principal'?"

Qiu Qingquan explained: "Uncle Zhang (Official) forgot? Lu Commander opened a military school in the Southwest, named the Southwest Military Academy; students graduating from there will be prioritized for assignment to the Youth Army; Lu Commander is the principal of the Southwest Military Academy, and this school name was personally inscribed by the President."

Zhang Zhizhong slapped his head and finally remembered: "Oh, I remember now; back then Wei Yue went to Jinling to ask the President for cadres, but military cadres were lacking, and Wei Yue seemed to have applied to build his own military crash school, which is this Southwest Military Academy, right? By now it should be the fifth class graduating."

Qiu Qingquan nodded: "Yes, the sixth class has just enrolled; there's no way, talent is tight, so we can only cultivate them ourselves, just like the original Whampoa Military Academy; the school term is only half a year, to train company and platoon cadres for the Youth Army, with engineers, artillery, infantry, and so on all available;"

The armored class was opened in the fifth class; the fifth class armored class of the Southwest Military Academy has already graduated early to serve in the Armored Infantry Regiment; the flight class was opened in the latest sixth class; after they graduate, they will enter the Southwest Air Force to serve."

Zhang Zhizhong and Qiu Qingquan were chatting, while Lv Muzhi stepped forward to inspect his own students.

His own Youth Army and this supplementary regiment, almost all company and platoon leaders were graduates of the Southwest Military Academy.

Seeing these young faces, Lv Muzhi felt as if he saw his former self.

Lv Muzhi shook hands with his students one by one and asked them to introduce themselves.

"Report to the Principal, Southwest Military Academy First Class, Private! Currently the regimental commander of the First Supplementary Regiment!"

"Report to the Principal, Southwest Military Academy Second Class, Chen Ren! Currently the battalion commander of the First Battalion of the First Supplementary Regiment!"

Zhang Zhizhong smiled at Qiu Qingquan: "Back when you and Wei Yue were still students, I was an instructor at the Whampoa School; so many years have passed, and now Wei Yue is himself a principal!"

Qiu Qingquan said: "What principal or not principal; on this Songhu Battlefield, aren't they all the country's army?"

Zhang Zhizhong nodded: "That's true; they are all forces resisting Japan!"

Several people were inspecting the supplementary regiment when news came from the front line: the enemy's reinforcements have landed!

Seeing this, everyone immediately rushed back to the South Xiang Headquarters.

The front-line intelligence had already reached the headquarters; after reading it, Lv Muzhi thought to himself: Indeed, the enemy's support forces have come!

On the Mutsu Battleship, Army Commander Matsui Iwane and Navy Commander Gu Qingchuan looked out into the distance from the deck, full of ambition.

"Great! The Cabinet has agreed to add 2.5 billion yuan in war funding, allowing us to completely let loose and go all out!"

Seeing Matsui Iwane's happy expression, Gu Qingchuan's mouth also curved upward: "It's not that your Army caused trouble; the Cabinet had no choice but to spend money!"

"Hey, Your Excellency Gu Qingchuan, what do you mean by that; didn't your side receive this funding?"

Gu Qingchuan raised his hand to signal Matsui Iwane not to get excited: "Alright, alright; apart from money, the Army's support forces have also successively arrived in Shanghai, and we can launch a large-scale offensive again!"

Matsui Iwane explained: "That's right; as far as I know, in the reinforcement plan, including transferring ten infantry battalions from the North China region, and also dispatching troops from Liugiu and Gaoli regions; the General Staff has also added the 9th, 13th, and 101st Divisions to join the Songhu Battlefield; finally, it is our Army's own Heavy Artillery Force!"

After speaking, Matsui Iwane faced the sea again, raised both hands and shouted: "Currently, the 101st Division has already mostly landed at Shizilin; the sorrow brought by over seven thousand casualties in the past half month will soon be resolved by great victory......"

Gu Qingchuan saw Matsui Iwane's excited look and thought Matsui Iwane had been driven mad with anger by Xia Guo's army; he hurriedly asked: "What's wrong with you, Matsui-kun; do you have a plan?"

"Plan? Yes yes... plan I of course have!"

Matsui Iwane walked to the map: "I found that our previous understanding of the artillery environment in Shanghai was completely wrong; we thought the land in Shanghai was soft and unsuitable for heavy artillery deployment, so the Third Division and Ninth Division only brought mountain guns for combat; unexpectedly, we suffered a fierce strike from Lv Muzhi's Heavy Artillery Regiment."

After the Third Division's survey these past days, the land environment in Shanghai can support heavy artillery deployment; once the troops are in position, my attack target... is Yangxing Town to the right of Luodian! The Fifteenth Group Army troops stationed there will suffer my fierce strike!"