Pengpu

Our train chuffed into Pengpu, 100 miles above Nanking, at dusk after a seven-hour trip.

Pengpu's narrow, cobbled streets bustled in the early darkness with shoving soldiers and civilians.

The front lay about ten miles north of Pengpu.

Commander-in-Chief Liu Shih flew down to the grey-walled rail town of Pengpu on the Huai's south bank, to set up a new operational base.