Feng Chen's heart was shocked, he stood firmly, calmed down his flustered mood for a while, and then with a smile on his face, he slowly turned around, looked at the returning Marine Zhongzuo and asked, "Sir, is there something wrong?" ”

The Zhongzuo walked straight up to Feng Chen, looked Feng Chen up and down again, and asked, "Shaozuo, listen to your accent, are you from Hokkaido?" ”

"No, sir, I'm from Osaka, and I'm from the same place as our General Ueda. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info," Feng Chen replied calmly.

"Roar! We are fellow villagers, and I am also from Osaka. Nakasa said with a smile on his face and a thumbs up.

Feng Chen was very anxious in his heart, he didn't want to talk with this Zhongzuo in the sky, he was afraid that he would lose if he said too much, but he couldn't show it obviously, so he could only pretend to be smiling and said: "Sir, I still have an urgent official document to be sent to the division headquarters, and I will definitely come to visit you another day." ”

"Yaxi, Yaxi, then you go and get busy, I'm on the cruiser Oi, my name is Taro Yamamoto, you must go to the ship to find me if you have a chance, let's have a drink." Taro Yamamoto smiled and patted Feng Chen on the shoulder and turned to leave.

After dealing with Taro Yamamoto, Feng Chen's heart was relaxed for a while, and he turned around and prepared to continue walking forward, but just as he took a step, Taro Yamamoto called Feng Chen again, Feng Chen turned around patiently, and asked suspiciously: "Nakasa?" ”

"Shaozuo, you haven't told me your name yet?"

"Oh, my name is Ichiro Ishikawa."

"I remember, goodbye, Ishikawa-kun." Taro Yamamoto then led the group of soldiers forward to continue patrolling.

Approaching the northwest corner of the village, the soldiers of the Ninth Division of the brigade had already appeared in the village, coming in and out, busy preparing for battle, Feng Chen and the three of them ignored this, and walked towards the outside of the village with their heads up.

Out of the village, the eyes suddenly lit up, a large open field was displayed in the field of vision of the three people, a large number of Japanese soldiers were building fortifications, there were large groups of Japanese soldiers patrolling from time to time, and more than 70 field guns of the Japanese Ninth Division were arranged in a higher position in this open land.

Feng Chen looked at it for a while and said in a low voice: "It seems that the artillery position of the Ninth Division is here." ”

"When the fight starts, I'll take someone to finish this place for him first!" Xu Jian said viciously.

"Look at it, there are about a few thousand enemies stationed near the village." Mo Sanqiang looked at the Japanese soldiers on the open ground and said.

"It seems that this time it will be another vicious battle, a tough ......battle," Feng Chen muttered to himself.

This is indeed a fierce battle!

……

In the early morning of the 20th, Ueda Kenkichi ordered the Japanese army to launch a general attack on the whole front by breaking through in the center and attacking on both flanks.

The 9th Division of the Japanese Army, which was in charge of the junction of Jiangwan and Miaohang, planned to besiege Wusong with the Kurume Brigade in the north and the Marines in the south to encircle Zhabei, in an attempt to cut off the connection between our Fifth Army and the 19th Route Army, and then break through each of them.

At dawn, the Japanese army used land, sea and air artillery to bombard the positions of the Wusong and Miaohang national armies, and then the infantry of the 9th Division launched a fierce attack with the cooperation of tanks, and the battle of Miaohang began.

Under the fierce artillery attack, although the Miaohang position was destroyed a lot, all the officers and soldiers of the national army were hidden in the trenches, and when the Japanese army approached, they started close combat, hand-to-hand combat, and bloody battles for a day, repelling many Japanese attacks.

The next day, when night fell, Sun Hongtao, the commander of the reconnaissance company of the 19th Route Army, took the initiative to ask Ying, willing to be the vanguard, smuggle into Fuzaobang, and lead people to end up the Japanese artillery position.

Sun Hongtao's request for battle was approved, and the general headquarters ordered two battalions of the 523rd Regiment of the 88th Division of the Fifth Army to follow Sun Hongtao's reconnaissance company to secretly infiltrate Gucun from the tunnel to sneak attack, and the 528th Regiment and the engineer battalion of the 88th Division attacked from the north of Miaohang.

In Gu Village, the Japanese army that was negligent in guarding was dizzy by the national army that fell from the sky, and suffered heavy casualties, and most of the heavy artillery on the Japanese artillery position in the northwest of Gu Village was also blown up.

After two days and nights of bloody fighting on the 20th and 21st, the Japanese army gained nothing but more than 1,000 casualties.

From 1 a.m. on the morning of the 22nd, Ueda Kenkichi gathered more than 20,000 people from the main force of the 9th Division and the 24th Mixed Brigade to launch a general attack on the position south of Miaohang, and an unprecedented fierce battle unfolded in Miaohang. The battle was most fierce in the Mai family house and Zhuyuan pier.

Due to the preparations of the officers and men of the 88th Division of the Fifth Army of our defending army, the Japanese counterattack was frustrated.

As a result, starting at 3 o'clock in the morning, the enemy concentrated superior artillery fire and began to bombard all positions in the Miaohang area in an attempt to destroy our army's fortifications and living forces.

Under the fierce bombardment of enemy artillery, most of the fortifications of the 88th Division were destroyed, and the casualties of officers and men continued to increase.

After dawn, a large number of Japanese planes joined the operation, and the battle became even more intense!

After receiving the battle report from the Miaohang front, the general headquarters of the 5th Army and the 19th Route Army immediately took emergency measures: Army commander Zhang Zhizhong led the teaching corps to the headquarters of the 88th Division to take command, and ordered the reserve of the 88th Division to carry out a counterattack on the enemy's breakthrough area, a part of the 87th Division to reinforce Miaohang, and another part of the 87th Division to cross the river to attack the enemy's flank.

The General Headquarters of the 19th Route Army also launched a counterattack against the Japanese army from the left, right, and front, and at the same time ordered two regiments of the 61st Division to reinforce Miaohang successively.

On the way to reinforcements, braving the rain of bullets and bullets of the Japanese army, the anti-Japanese officers and soldiers of the defending army fought one after another, and the battle lasted until the afternoon of the 22nd, and the situation of fierce fighting in Miaohang developed in the direction favorable to the Chinese army.

When the three supporting armies continued to advance on the Japanese army, gradually forming a battle situation of encircling the enemy attacking Miaohang from three sides, the Japanese army had to stop the offensive again.

In the evening, the Japanese planes ceased their activities, and the troops of the 88th Division, with the cooperation of the three support armies, launched a counterattack on the Japanese army on all fronts, and the Japanese army retreated one after another. At about 10 o'clock in the evening, most of the Japanese army retreated to the east of Songhu, and the remaining remnants of the Maijiazhai army were completely wiped out by the 87th Division.

During the campaign, the Chinese army annihilated more than 3,000 Japanese troops, which was known as the "Great Victory of the Temple".

The great victory at the temple greatly boosted the heroic spirit of the Chinese nation in defying the Japanese imperialist aggressors and causing the Japanese invading army to suffer a crushing defeat that had never been seen since the First Sino-Japanese War.

At the time of the bloody battle of the defenders of Miaoxing, on the 20th, the magazine "Struggle," a publication of Shanghai's underground party organ, published a refutation of the rumors of the "Wu Hao Notice," pointing out sharply that the so-called "Wu Hao Notice" was actually "a new trick of the Kuomintang to spread rumors and slander."

However, the magazine "Struggle" is limited by the distribution conditions, and the scope of influence is small.

In order to safeguard the party's prestige and also to protect Comrade Wu Hao's reputation, the higher authorities held that it was necessary to adopt an open and legal method to make further clarifications to the public opinion circles.

The Shanghai party organization entrusted this arduous task to the intelligence group of An Zhida.

On the night of the 19th, Feng Chen returned to the military headquarters of the Fifth Army after reconnoitring the Japanese artillery position from Gucun, and immediately returned to the city with Mo Sanqiang without staying too long at the military headquarters.

The next morning, that is, when the Japanese army launched a full-scale attack, Feng Chen arrived at the Tianfu General Store on Fukaisen Road at the appointed time.

An Zhida and Zheng Liangcai were already waiting in the store, and when they saw Feng Chen arrive, An Zhida instructed Zhang Jianxiong to be on guard outside, and the other people held a meeting in the room on the second floor, and An Zhida conveyed the instructions of his superiors.

An Zhida was the first to speak: "After the Kuomintang spy Zhang Chong concocted the so-called 'Wu Hao notice' to slander Comrade Wu Hao, the Central Committee was very indignant and issued a proclamation in the name of the chairman of the Chinese Soviet Republic. ”

"The proclamation solemnly declares: In fact, Comrade Wu Hao is holding the post of the Military Commission in the Central Government of the Soviet Union, and not only has absolutely not broken away from the Communist Party, but also will not make the absurd and reactionary remarks in that notice......

Speaking of this, An Zhida paused, took a sip of water from the cup in front of him, and then said: "The superiors have asked our intelligence team to adopt an open and legal way to further clarify the facts in Shanghai's public opinion circles. ”

Feng Chen said: "I have been thinking about this matter in recent days, and I think that the bell needs to be tied to the bell." ”

"The person who tied the bell is the spy Zhang Chong, can we let Zhang Chong come forward and say that the notice was forged by him? Is this realistic? Zheng Liangcai didn't understand what Feng Chen meant, and looked at Feng Chen in confusion and asked.

"Comrade Liangcai, I didn't mean that."

"And what do you mean......?"