At this time, the withdrawal of troops from the downtown area of Shanghai had come to an end, and most of the remaining troops had safely withdrawn from Shanghai, except for a few troops who were still fighting and withdrawing while fighting.

Due to the resolute resistance of the Matsue line, the Japanese army's encirclement plan came to naught. The Japanese General Staff Headquarters, which had drawn up the encirclement plan, sent a telegram to severely criticize Matsui Ishi, commander of the Central China Front, and Matsui Ishine naturally shifted all the responsibility to Yanagawa Heisuke's 10th Army, and in the end, the commander of the 6th Division, Tani Toshio, became a victim and resigned on charges of being unfavorable to the battle, and Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba, who was transferred from the Kwantung Army, succeeded him as the commander of the 6th Division.

Of course, this is a later story, and I will not show it for the time being.

Moreover, due to the resistance of the guards and others in Songjiang for many days, the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties, and when the siege of Songjiang City was calculated, the Japanese generals were taken aback. It turned out that including the Kunizaki Detachment, the 18th Division, and later the 6th Division, the three parts combined, in the Songjiang battlefield alone, excluding the losses of chariots, artillery and other losses, the casualties of the soldiers alone had reached a staggering 24,000 people. Its Chinese detachment was completely disabled, with more than half of the 18th Division losing more than half of its troops, and even the 6th Division losing one-third of its troops.

The Japanese generals gritted their teeth with hatred for the "culprit" anti-Japanese protector, but at the same time, the morale of the soldiers was extremely low.

Gu Shoufu was helpless about this, especially when he learned that the evacuation of the squadron in downtown Shanghai was nearing completion, and the encirclement plan had obviously failed. So he simply ordered the troops to rest in Songjiang, and no longer pursued and withdrew from the Songjiang squadron.

At this time, Bai Fei did not know that the Japanese army had given up the pursuit, and was still doing his best to command the troops to deploy defense in the Caogang River, and he was busy for a long time, but he didn't even see the shadow of half of the Japanese soldiers before dark.

After Bai Fei cursed a few words, he withdrew with his troops, headed north along Youdun Port, and crossed the Wusong River. After walking for a short time, I saw that the highway in front of me was crowded with fleeing Shanghai people, carrying large bags and small bags one by one, helping the old and the young, looking nervous, and hurrying towards Suzhou.

Bai Fei frowned, and was about to find someone to ask about the situation in the city, when suddenly, there were several explosions from the back of the line, and someone shouted: "Run, the Japanese are chasing..."

The pedestrian procession was suddenly in chaos, the crowd was surging, everyone began to run towards the front, and people were constantly trampled after being pushed down due to crowding, and the shouts and cries were endless.

Bai Fei immediately sent someone to clear the way, but he was able to stop the panicked crowd and eager to flee for his life.

Seeing that the fleeing crowd did not listen to their commands at all, Li Hu hurriedly planned to shoot into the sky to deter, but was stopped by Wang Weiguo.

Wang Weiguo said: "Shooting at this time will only create greater chaos, and it will not help, so it is better to go to the back to block the Japanese army as soon as possible." ”

Bai Fei immediately nodded and said, "I'll lead the special combat team to go around from the side, and you guys will follow." ”

said that he didn't wait for others to object, and he had already taken people away.

The group went around to the vicinity of Gupu, turned a corner, and saw that in the open space a hundred meters ahead, about a small group of Japanese soldiers were slaughtering unarmed refugees.

Several Japanese soldiers set up a few crooked machine guns on the ground and broke the fleeing team in two, and the people in front ran away, but the crowd behind them was blocked by bullets and could not move forward. The rest of the Japanese rushed forward one after another, stabbing and stabbing in the crowd with impunity. Many of those refugees were physically able, but they were frightened by the Japanese army, and they did not dare to resist until the bayonets were added, and they only knew that they wailed and screamed like sheep, which made people feel extremely worried and resentful.

"Special combat team, kill all these sons of bitches for me."

Without Bai Fei's orders, Li Hu had already led people to rush forward. After a burst of gunfire, the perpetrators were eliminated.

The refugees who escaped death wept bitterly and kowtowed to Bai Fei and others to thank them. Bai Fei sighed and told them to run for their lives. At this time, a refugee's words caught Bai Fei's attention, and he said that near Fangtai Town, there was a squadron that was besieged by the Japanese army and couldn't get out, and now he doesn't know what happened.

At this time, the rest of the troops led by Wang Weiguo and others also followed, and Bai Fei discussed with them and decided to take the team to have a look. Unexpectedly, less than a kilometer away, the special combat team in charge of exploring the road came with news that a large number of Japanese cavalry had been found ahead.

Everyone immediately rushed forward, only to see a group of about 600 Japanese cavalry crossing the Beijing-Shanghai railway.

Wang Weiguo said: "It looks like a Japanese cavalry wing. ”

Wu Dazhong asked on the side: "Tuanzuo, do you want us to greet them with cannons?" ”

Bai Fei shook his head and said, "Later, we will set up 4 Gatlings here, and then the special combat team will be responsible for attracting the devil cavalry to come over, I want to see if the Japanese cavalry can break through the bullet blockade..."

When they heard this, they all laughed.

Soon, Gatling was set up. The special combat team on that side swept away the Japanese soldiers who had just crossed the railroad with guns, killed dozens of cavalrymen, and then ran away.

The commander of the 11th Wing of the Japanese Cavalry, Tanabe Yunakasa, was furious, and immediately ordered the cavalry to chase after them, and when they reached the intersection of Tashan Road, they found that the enemy who was sneaking up on them was actually four or five hundred meters ahead, and there were quite a few of them, four or five hundred people.

In general, the same number of cavalry against two to three times as many infantry will not be at a disadvantage.

Tanabe sneered, drew his command knife, and shouted: "Give me to destroy this group of Zhina army, all of them, kill them!" ”

The cavalrymen of the 11th Wing of the Japanese Army drew their sabers one after another, slapped their horses and rushed forward, but none of them used cavalry rifles, and obviously no one paid attention to the four or five hundred people in front of them.

Tanabe led the cavalry to accelerate, and the distance of several hundred meters quickly jumped over, and he was about to rush to the enemy's position, and suddenly, he saw the ** soldiers in front of him quickly disperse to both sides, and then, he saw the most unforgettable horror picture in his life before dying.

I saw countless bullets shooting at them like splashing water, and immediately scattered the more than 200 cavalrymen and horses who charged in front, and the corpses were thrown into the air like broken sacks, blood and flesh were splashed everywhere, and the screams of the soldiers who were shot and the neighing of the horses before they died were constantly heard.

In just a dozen seconds, more than 200 people in front of them have all been killed, however, the soldiers who came after couldn't stop the speed of their horses at all, and continued to rush forward one after another, and then continued to be killed and broken, and the bones of the beating were gone.

It turned out that once the cavalry was launched, it was very difficult to slow down, and unless there was a long-distance buffer zone, it could only rush forward. However, Bai Fei knew this, so he put the Japanese troops all the way to within 100 meters before he ordered to open fire.

Tanabe was riding on his horse, and when he saw his cavalry as if he had fallen into a meat grinder, his heart suddenly cooled. His lips were dry, and he tried to order a retreat, but the voice he shouted was so hoarse that he couldn't hear it. Seeing that his cavalry was about to be killed and wounded in just a few moments, the grief-stricken Tanabe immediately pulled out his pistol and tried to kill himself, but before he could pull the trigger, a barrage of Gatling bullets hit him, instantly beating him into a puddle of minced flesh and spreading the footsteps of his men.

After all the Japanese cavalry were wiped out, Bai Fei looked at his watch and said, "Well, it's not bad, it's quite cool to use this thing to deal with cavalry, it's time-saving and convenient." In the future, if you encounter cavalry, you will also use this method. ”

The people around him giggled and laughed, and said yes!