General, I'm sorry, I'm willing to apologize if I could. ”

Mitsuhiko Sato came to the command and took all the responsibility for this defeat. He was too aggressive, a battle was fought in a day and a night, and the losses were heavy. The original plan was to take advantage of the superiority of air and ground artillery fire to gradually attack Zhabei, gradually encroach, and gradually eliminate the living forces of the 88th Division, and the follow-up reinforcements broke through Zhabei in one fell swoop.

Although the commander had a certain amount of responsibility, the main responsibility lay in his own tactics, especially the tactics of street fighting, and his own side was completely defeated.

"Sato-kun, don't blame yourself too much, it's not your fault. That Kuramori was an idiot, and the biggest casualties of the troops came in the retreat. He should not have ordered the troops to cover the withdrawal, and the troops ended up scattered. He should concentrate his forces and use the road to break through in one direction. ”

Saying that, Hasegawa stood up from his position, then walked up to Sato, patted him on the shoulder comfortingly, and said, "You know, I was very angry when you said that Ye Lei was a god, this is not what a samurai should say." But then I thought about it and looked up a lot of information, and some things really couldn't be explained. As you said, he seems to have fallen from the sky, and his tactical thinking is indeed superior to ours. ”

"General......

Sato was very moved, but he didn't expect Hasegawa to blame himself and put the blame on Kuramori.

Hasegawa said: "Failure is not terrible, the important thing is to learn from failure." The reason why the Japanese Empire is proud of Greater East Asia is because we are constantly learning from the lessons and absorbing advanced technology. ”

Sato bowed his head and said, "My subordinates understand what His Excellency the General meant, and they must learn a lesson from failure." ”

"Yo Xi, this is our first samurai." Hasegawa felt that Sato was restrained and mature, which made him feel relieved, and continued: "Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent and not being defeated in a hundred battles is the wise saying of the soldiers. We need to learn from the enemy and understand their tactics, such as street fighting tactics, guerrilla tactics, sniper tactics, and special tactics. ”

"We have snipers, but they only snipe important targets on the battlefield, fight alone, and do not form tactics. ”

Hasegawa waved his hand and said, "I don't care about this right now. There is a batch of munitions that are about to arrive at Huishan Wharf, and this batch of munitions is very important and will affect the situation of the war. So my job now is to protect this batch of munitions and get them to the front lines. ”

"General, is there anything I can do to help?"

"No, I don't. Sato-kun, your task is to train your special combat team, and you must successfully rescue Miss Nanzo Yunzi. ”

"The subordinates understand that they will rescue Miss Yunzi at any cost!"

All this time, Hasegawa Kiyoshi has helped Sato, intentionally or unintentionally. The pressure exerted by the military in this defeat was very great, and as a result, Hasegawa assumed all the responsibility as the supreme commander of Hongkou District.

After a day and a night of fighting, Zhabei was once again riddled with holes, a large number of buildings were destroyed, ruins everywhere, and corpses everywhere. The aftermath of the 88th Division was very heavy, especially the bombed fortifications had to be rebuilt, but there was no money.

In the headquarters of the 88th Division, everyone was busy and chaotic, and it was not so chaotic during the previous battles, Ye Lei was left in the headquarters to assist in the tedious aftermath work.

"Report! A total of 1,325 corpses of devils were sorted out in the defense area, and Brigade Commander Peng asked for instructions on how to deal with them. ”

"Do you have to ask for instructions on this!? Buried! ”

Sun Yuanliang was a little angry, but the war preparation materials were still not sent, if it weren't for Du Yuesheng's generous help this time, the loss of the troops would have been even greater. And it takes a lot of money to build fortifications, but what about money!?

Ye Lei, who was on the side, interjected: "Dealing with the aftermath requires a lot of manpower, cleaning up the streets, rebuilding fortifications, treating the wounded, and disposing of the remains of our own soldiers. Division commander, my suggestion is to throw the devil's body at the junction of Zhabei and Hongkou, and let the devil collect the corpse. The devil will not give up the corpse, they are so tired, and they also need a lot of energy to cremate the corpse. Not only threw trouble at the other side, but also showed the humanity of our Chinese soldiers. ”

Sun Yuanliang thought for a moment and ordered: "Do it according to the wishes of Staff Officer Ye, and call a large number of reporters to be afraid of photos." First, it can boost the morale of the Chinese people to resist Japan; Second, fight an international public opinion war. ”

"Yes!"

The Messenger turned and left.

However, the problem has not been solved, first, the 88th Division needs to be replenished again; Second, war readiness materials and promised defense funds have not been in place for a long time. So, Sun Yuanliang picked up the phone and personally called his uncle Song Ziwen, who was in charge of general logistics.

"Hey~ Is it Minister Song, I'm Sun Yuanliang, let me ask you, why hasn't the armament of our 88th Division been sent yet?"

"Oh~ It turned out to be Master Sun." There was perfunctory laughter on the other side of the phone, and then Song Ziwen said: "I'm very sorry, I haven't been transported to the front line so late." However, you also have to consider my difficulties, the Japanese army bombs every day, and it is difficult to transport supplies from the rear to the front line. Things are prioritized, and the war in the north is even tighter, so we need to make a priority. Master Sun also needs to understand my difficulties. ”

"When will that be in place?"

"The promised 240,000 defense fortification funds for the 88th Division will be in place in a few days, and as for the armament, I will find a way as soon as possible."

Sun Yuanliang hung up the phone, feeling that the armament was far away and there was no hope. Song Ziwen's tone was extremely perfunctory, and he really didn't know where he offended him.

Chen Cheng's troops fought very hard, but Zhabei was not easy either. The 88th Division was the first unit to enter the battlefield, and the troops were replenished twice, sacrificing one brigade commander and one-third of the officers below the regimental commander.

Zhang Baiting, the chief of staff on the side, seemed to know the reason, and sighed: "It's my fault, I offended this uncle of the country." ”

Sun Yuanliang and Ye Lei didn't understand very well, Zhang Baiting said: "This matter has something to do with Du Yuesheng." ……”

Song Ziwen came to Songhu, in addition to the logistics work and propaganda work of the troops, he also had two personal purposes: first, he was afraid that the private force of the General Taxation Corps would be eaten by others, or sent to the front line to die; Second, he owns many factories in the Zhabei area, and others are in Shanghai, which is also convenient for his subordinates to rush and transport property to the rear.

However, Shanghai was Du Yuesheng's sphere of influence, and Du Yuesheng had a close relationship with Zhang Baiting, chief of staff of the 88th Division, and with the pass of the 88th Division, Du's disciples transported a large number of materials from the Zhabei factory to the rear. This is what Lu Zuofu meant, and Song Ziwen's materials were mixed with a large number of public materials, and finally assimilated into public property.

In the process of rushing to transport materials, the Song subordinates and the Du disciples clashed in order to compete for this benefit, which made Song Ziwen very unhappy. This uncle of the country does not think about the major affairs of the country, and only cares about his own private affairs, which has to be chilling.

After listening to this, Sun Yuanliang said: "Damn, it's not that I feel sorry for the tax group, it's better not to fall into my hands." ”

The feud between Song Ziwen and Sun Yuanliang began here. Later, in the process of retreating, Sun Yuanliang really put the tax regiment on the most dangerous left flank of Suzhou Creek, and the tax regiment suffered heavy losses during the Japanese counterattack, and the head of Sun Liren was seriously wounded and sent to Hong Kong.

Ye Lei also felt chilled after hearing the reason, because there were too many people in the Kuomintang like Song Ziwen who put private affairs before public affairs and self before others, which finally led to the defeat of the Kuomintang.

Ye Lei's position is firm, but now it is a unified anti-Japanese war, so he doesn't care for the time being.

At the junction of Hongkou and Zhabei, the soldiers of the 88th Division transported all the corpses of all the devils here. More than 1,000 corpses were pushed into several hills, and the scene was as horrible as a small hell.

Han Xianyuan sent someone to inform the Japanese side to come and collect the body, which made Hasegawa Kiyoshi very troubled, and he knew that the Chinese side would definitely make a big fuss and create international public opinion. Public opinion warfare is one of the important components of war, and as the great man said, if you want to overthrow a regime, you must first create public opinion. This shows the importance of public opinion warfare to war.

However, what Ye Lei did not expect was that the "public opinion war" Japanese army was professional.