"Order the troops, retreat for the time being!! Return to the rear to rest!! Sasaki Hayakawa ordered.

At this time, this round of Japanese attacks had lasted for an hour, and they had nothing to gain except for the hundreds of Japanese corpses left in front of the street of Taihe Street.

Looking at the Japanese soldiers who were receding like the tide, Qin Chuan put away the sniper rifle in his hand.

Their defense was a complete success, and the Japanese counterattack yielded almost no results.

But there was no smile on his face.

Because at this time, in other neighborhoods, the offensive of the 88th Division had completely come to a standstill.

He worriedly used his binoculars to look into the distance.

That side was still shrouded in artillery fire, but the area covered by artillery fire was no longer the position of the Japanese army, but the position of the rear of the 88th Division.

From the beginning to the present, the Japanese naval artillery bombardment has not stopped. This made the infantry of the 88th Division, which was attacking, suffer very heavy losses.

Many soldiers did not die in front of the Japanese position, but were killed in the rear by the Japanese naval artillery shells.

The soldiers of the Nationalist Army, who were fighting in front of the Japanese barricades, had just driven the little devil's troops out of their positions, and before they had time to consolidate their barricade positions, they heard shouts of killing, coming from the darkness in the distance.

It was a counterattack force organized by the Japanese army, and it had already killed them as quickly as possible.

In the face of the continuous arrival of Japanese troops, these national soldiers had no fear. However, the troops supporting them in the rear were cut off by dense artillery fire, and they were unable to provide them with support at all.

These soldiers roared, and then rushed towards the Japanese soldiers again. But all this was to no avail, because the number of Japanese troops was too large, and in just a few minutes, the dense Japanese army had once again covered the entire neighborhood.

The dozens of soldiers of the national army who were holding on in the neighborhood were overwhelmed by such a tide that they could not even stir up a wave.

This is still the troops that captured the Japanese neighborhoods, more neighborhoods, many charging Nationalist troops, and they couldn't even break through the Japanese barricades.

They just launched one desperate charge after another under the cover of no heavy firepower, and then left a large area of corpses in front of the Japanese position.

At this time, in the headquarters of the 88th Division, all kinds of bad news continued to reach Sun Yuanliang's ears.

He had stopped pacing at this point, but kept shouting to the people in the staff to ask for more troop support from the rear, as well as more fire support.

But on the upper side, there are indeed no more troops that can be deployed. If troops are drawn from other lines of defense, the final result is likely to be the collapse of the entire line.

Chief of Staff Jia Litao, holding a telegram at this time, his face became even more solemn.

It was a telegram that a certain regiment had lost more than half of its weight and had to withdraw from the battlefield. A similar telegram would definitely arrive at the division headquarters in the next hour at the speed of falling snow.

He already had a hunch that this attack, as Qin Chuan said, should not exist at all.

At this time, on the entire front, only Qin Chuan's troops had gained a firm foothold in one block, and all the other troops did not make any progress.

"Master, let the troops withdraw! Our firepower was completely suppressed by the enemy, and even the follow-up troops could not be transported to the front. Jia Litao walked in front of Sun Yuanliang and said in a very solemn tone.

When Sun Yuanliang heard this, he immediately turned his head and said, "Confusing your heart, you are!" Now the battle is fierce, we only need one division of troops, into the follow-up battle, to be able to force the Japanese army out!! ”

Although he said this, he also knew very well in his heart that there were no more troops to invest on the entire front.

Even his armored battalion was already dead and wounded at this time, and a large number of tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed and injured in this battle, and they could not continue to fight.

Even more heavy than the losses of the armored battalions were those infantry units, which were not protected by armored vehicles and tanks, and faced the dense fire network of the Japanese army, and their losses can be imagined.

On the long battle line, in front of every Japanese barricade position, you can see the corpses of the national soldiers lying there in front of almost every barricade position.

Some of the remaining Nationalist soldiers had not yet received the order to retreat, so they could only hide in the dilapidated neighborhoods.

Orders were still coming from above to charge, but they no longer had the strength to charge.

Most of the Nationalist troops involved in this offensive suffered heavy losses, and many of them lost more than a quarter of their troops. This is a very fatal blow for the entire front.

Because the connection with the rear was cut off, the wounded soldiers in the front could not be transferred to the rear for treatment at all.

A large number of wounded remained in the area of artillery shelling, and could only endure the torture of their wounds. The stretcher team, blocked by intensive artillery fire, was unable to rush to the front and bring back the wounded.

By this time, the Japanese troops had realized that the enemy on the opposite side was the end of the crossbow and could no longer attack them.

At this time, in Takeda Yoshi's headquarters, the battle plan for the Japanese counterattack had been urgently formulated.

Some Japanese neighborhoods with relatively sufficient troops have even taken the lead in launching a counter-charge against the positions of the 88th Division.

"Master!! The Japanese counterattack has already begun, if we don't give the order to retreat, our entire gate position will be thrown into the hands of the little devils!! Jia Litao raised his voice.

At this time, Sun Yuanliang woke up like a dream, shook his head, and then said in a loud voice: "Order the troops, immediately retreat to the rear position to prevent the Japanese army's counter-charge!" ”

Soon, his orders were conveyed.

The soldiers, who had been waiting for orders from the front line, immediately withdrew from the neighborhood where they were fighting and began to disperse and retreat to the rear as soon as they received the order to retreat.

Behind them were a large number of comrades who had been left behind in front of the Japanese positions.

They could have survived, but they were buried there forever because of the wrong decisions of their commanders.

The morning light slowly poured from the distant sea into downtown Shanghai, and in the smoke of gunfire, you could see the broken streets everywhere, the remains of severed fingers, and a large number of corpses burning in the flames.

Last night's assault was now completely over. In this offensive of the 88th Division, almost no progress was made.