Chapter 1 Nineteen Brigade
On August 9, 1937, Shanghai North Railway Station.
Since the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, China and Japan fought in Pingjin. However, Song Zheyuan, who was the director of the Hebei-Chahar Pacification Office and the commander of the 29th Army at that time, always had unrealistic fantasies about the Japanese, which caused the ideological confusion among the soldiers of the 29th Army, and even serious lack of preparation for war, and the result was that the soldiers were defeated like mountains of defeat.
In August, North China was already full of smoke, but Shanghai was still calm.
However, no one knew that this was just the last tranquility before the storm came.
Xu Shijiu walked in a standard step, walked through the playground of the garrison and walked out of the camp gate. Two security teams guarding outside the gate raised their guns and saluted. Xu Shijiu replied to the standard military salute.
As soon as he left the gate, the crowded voices came to his face. Xu Shijiu narrowed his eyes against the vicious sun in the afternoon. Not far away was the exit of the train station. A train arrived at the station. The dark crowds followed the flood that broke the dike and rushed out from the exit. Among the passengers, there were old and young, men and women, fashionable clothes, and shabby clothes, but without exception, all of them had vivid expressions. Shanghai was the paradise in the minds of all Chinese people in that era.
Xu Shijiu looked at the big clock on the top floor of the Western Church opposite the train station. After 2:00 pm, it was the hottest time of the day. Under the double baking of the sun in the sky and the concrete road surface, the air became extremely hot, and even the raised haze was full of heat. It sucked into the lungs and made people feel burned and irritable.
Xu Shijiu's mood was not affected by the heat at all because he saw a beautiful scenery.
Just under the shade of the French sycamore tree opposite the road, a girl stood. The girl was wearing a white floral cheongsam. Her jade arms exposed outside the cheongsam were like lotus couples, white and tender. The well-cut cheongsam further outlined the girl's slender figure, thin waist and upturned chest and buttocks, which made pedestrians stop and look back.
Seeing Xu Shijiu, the girl's slightly frown willow eyebrows stretched out immediately. The pair of big eyes that were originally covered with a faint coldness suddenly showed joy that could not be hidden. She quickly tiptoed on her feet, raised her lotus-like jade arms to wave to Xu Shijiu across the road: "Ajiu, here, here."
A faint smile appeared on the corner of Xu Shijiu's mouth.
Xu Shijiu had actually seen the girl opposite long ago. Although he just walked out of the gate of the station, he had just glanced at it quickly, but he had already imprinted the general situation of the entire street into his mind. This is a habit developed from the bloody battlefield after many years of military career. I guess he will never change it in this life.
Looking at Xu Shijiu walking across the road, the girl's smile became more and more vivid.
From a female perspective, Xu Shijiu is undoubtedly very attractive. He is young, with a heroic figure, tough facial features, and a blue and black security uniform that does not look rustic at all when worn on him, but it shows a bit strange heroic spirit. However, what is most attractive about Xu Shijiu is the cold aura he accidentally revealed.
Chapter completed!