Chapter 130
readx; With the lack of warships, the little Japanese army suddenly became numb, and February 5 was a day of bad luck for the little devils, not only the fighters were knocked out, but even the two powerful warships were sunk. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info On that day, the morale of the whole Japanese army plummeted and stopped attacking the defensive positions of the 19th Route Army.
Directly on the 18th, Ueda, who was strong outside the country and had a strong middle cadre, issued an ultimatum (in fact, he was not confident enough to embolden himself), threatening the Chinese defenders to retreat 20 kilometers before 17 o'clock on the 20th! For this unreasonable request was sternly rejected by Cai Tingkai (Gao Lao Cai Menqing is very, little Japan is bluffing, battleships and fighters have been killed by fighter jets and battleships and other combat troops sent by Zhao Heng, where is there any capital, afraid of a bird!) )。
On the 20th, Ueda saw that the 19th Route Army ignored him for two consecutive days, so under the constant urging of the base camp, he had to order the general attack of the Japanese army, which had already been demoralized, on all fronts. This guy's tactics are pretty good at the moment, but he doesn't know how the big butterfly of a perverted traverser will affect this '1.28 incident', or the same sentence: the ideal is very plump but the reality is very skinny, and the headache for Ueda is still to come......
It's a pity that the defending 19th Route Army and the newly arrived 5th Army fought side by side (in fact, it was a one-man show of the 19th Route Army, and the 19th Route Army, which was full of combat power after being strengthened by strong strength, was beaten down, and the devil stopped at that time), (the Fifth Army was reduced to a spectator guarding next to the 19th Route Army, watching the 19th Route Army with explosive combat effectiveness beat up the little devils very hot, and I wish that the fish in the little devils would be sent to the door to add some merit to the Fifth Army) closely cooperated, Use the Yangtze River Delta water network zone and existing fortifications to resist tenaciously (the situation of dense rice fields, the Japanese army had to wade through the water that did not reach the chest to move forward, the attacking Japanese army is generally the army and can swim not a lot of height, let alone 1.7 meters, some shorter devils often fall into it accidentally and have to help their companions pull it up), and organize troops with strong combat effectiveness to break into the river, The enemy at the junction of the temple and the line (the top of the 19th Route Army sent a tank battalion equipped with amphibious tanks and an amphibious armored infantry battalion). After 6 days and nights of fighting, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses (almost pressed and beaten by the 19th Route Army, there were no battleships to drop firepower, there were no air fighters that used to be called in place at any time, and there was no almost extravagant fire support in the past, so the hard-pressed devils tasted the taste of being bombarded by large-caliber heavy artillery on the opposite side. began to reminisce about the days when there were warships and planes in the past, and some brave devils in the devil's army who were not afraid of death launched several 'pig rush' decisive charges, but they were all beaten back by the 19th Route Army, which had obvious excess firepower on the opposite side), and changed from the full-front attack to a focused attack, and then was forced to suspend the attack from a key attack.
Just the offensive and defensive Zhabei position lost most of the troops, which made Ueda, who was the commander of the ground offensive, very troubled, and the combat troops that were killed by heavy artillery alone accounted for a lot, and what was even more humiliating was that most of the Ninth Division (in a state of dissatisfaction with the formation) was chased by the enemy's armored troops and ran around, almost letting the division and regiment headquarters be wiped out, and there were dozens of Type 89 B medium tanks assigned to the ground offensive troops that were killed by the opponent's strange tanks, and Ueda's face became darker and darker. He was afraid that if he continued like this, sooner or later he would be driven into the sea by the opposite squadron to feed the fish.
After weighing the pros and cons, Ueda finally gave up the futile attack, retreated to the starting point, and waited for reinforcements, and the Zhabei position was still in the hands of the Chinese. In the retreat, they were pursued by the Chinese/army, but fortunately, the devil in charge of the broken back allowed the pursuing Chinese troops not only did not take advantage of it, but almost wiped out the whole regiment. It can be seen that the combat effectiveness of Little Japan is not boasted, which makes the entire 19th Route Army put away the smugness and contempt of winning a few battles.
Ueda, who had been holding down the news of the downed fighter and the sinking of the battleship, listened to the situation on the front line reported by his subordinates from time to time, and even the news that the current offensive was blocked did not know that the big-mouthed bastard leaked, and it was quickly transmitted to the ears of the bigwigs in the Japanese local base camp.
Two hours later, Ueda took the telegram sent from the headquarters of the Tokyo base camp and read it, and suddenly there was a lot of sweat on his forehead, this letter was sent by Prince Tokumasa, in which he directly scolded Nomura in charge of the attack as a waste and a bastard, and Ueda as a commander was a pig-headed idiot, and at the same time replied to the request for the first fleet of the Shanghai Overseas Navy to withdraw to the mainland for repairs, which was greatly damaged. In order to teach a lesson to the squadron defending Shanghai, the base camp decided to add two divisions and the 11th and 14th divisions to Shanghai from the 24th to the 26th to support the operation, including a number of 1,000-ton warships and several hundred fighters.
From February 27, the Japanese army, which was almost overwhelmed by the Chinese/army stationed in Shanghai, suddenly soared to 90,000 troops after receiving reinforcements from the 11th and 14th divisions of the army, and the navy sent 80 warships and 300 combat planes for the sake of shame.
Judging from the total strength of the Chinese garrison today, it is less than 50,000, and the Fifth Army is much worse than the 19th Route Army, which is regarded as the nouveau riche as the main force of the operation, in terms of equipment and number of personnel, and after a month of hard fighting, the casualties are very slight but not so serious, but only two regiments were sent to garrison the river defense in the Liuhe area on the left, which can be regarded as weak.
Shirakawa, the new commander of the Japanese army, who had come to take over, learned the lessons of the failure of the frontal attack of the previous three commanders, and after several studies through continuous intelligence reconnaissance, he decided to land on the Liuhe River on the flanks and flank the Songhu defenders on both sides.
However, Shirakawa was still a little nervous and worried......
On March 1, he commanded the 9th Division and other units to attack Song, Shanghai (Ha, this is punishment. Whoever called the 9th Division was driven away as soon as it came up), escorted the 11th Division into the mouth of the Yangtze River with the 3rd fleet, and suddenly landed from the mouth of the Liuhe River, Yanglinkou, and Qiyakou, and quickly outflanked the defenders.
The Songhu defenders, who did not have so many troops, could be said to be suffering from the enemy on their backs, and the president of the Nanjing government of the Beiyang Department found that the 19th Route Army was now awesome, and immediately stopped sending reinforcements (Mr. President: You are amazing, then you can defend there alone, do you need the support of the army and the air force, sorry, the pilots and fighters alone are about to eat up the money and food of the national government, I really have no choice.) I hope that the brothers of the 19th Route Army will carry forward the spirit of the Northern Expedition and so on...... )。 In view of the huge disparity in strength, the 19th Route Army and the Fifth Army were forced to retreat to the Jiading and Taicang lines.
Seeing that the Chinese/army was retreating, Bai Chuan didn't even think about pushing the troops directly to press forward step by step, so the Chinese Defense Forces, including the 19th Route Army, resisted the Japanese attack in the Jiangwan area until March 2, although with the help of the biplane zero fighters sent by Zhao Heng, but after all, the number was too small.
Because the Japanese ships were frantically entangled with the battleship Shenwei, it was unable to take care of the land defenders, so the Japanese army took the opportunity to land on the Liuhe River in Taicang, forming a situation of being attacked by the enemy on their backs, so they were forced to retreat on all fronts.
On March 3, the Japanese army announced an armistice after occupying Zhenru and Nanxiang, but the Japanese army still suffered heavy losses, and the battleships alone lost about 20 to 30 ships, on the other hand, the Shenwei was just a whole body became pitted, and most of the Japanese infantry weapons on the army side were bolt-action rifles and Chiba light machine guns and heavy machine guns, a small number of medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns, and the Type 89 B tank known as the medium tank, and the 19th Route Army completely destroyed the Japanese army in these aspects, but unfortunately it was the lack of troops that dragged it back.
In this campaign, the Chinese/army fought bloody battles with the support of the people, successively defeated the Japanese attack, caused the enemy to change commanders three times, increased the number of troops several times, and suffered more than 10,000 casualties (in fact, the Japanese army died more than 30,000, and the 19th Route Army and the Fifth Army died only two or three thousand, which was partly the result of air raids and Japanese precision marksmanship), and suffered a heavy blow.
However, the authorities of the Beiyang government in Nanjing compromised and retreated at this juncture (political struggle, Jiang Zhicheng was worried that the 19th Route Army would grow stronger and threaten himself, and at the same time, because of the private collusion with the Japanese, and the foreign powers jumped out under the guise of the so-called armistice and mediation, so it was like this), did not continue to send reinforcements, the heroic defenders were finally outnumbered, and the defense line was finally forced to retreat by the Japanese army who were not afraid of death and used corpses to pile up the charging road to break through from the flank.
Due to the interruption of shipping on the Yangtze River due to the war in Shanghai, the interests of the great powers (I can't stand the birds, there are a lot of shells that have fallen into the concession, and if this continues, there will be no living people in it) in Central China was damaged (yo ho, the little JP dared to grab this big fat meat with us), so they forced the Japanese government to negotiate (it can't be done without restrictions, otherwise these little dwarfs may do something harmful to the powers).
China and Japan, under the mediation of Britain, the United States, France, and Italy, held talks in Shanghai on 24 March (the talks went back and forth, and each side sprayed each other with words and swords), and it was not until 5 May that the "Songhu Armistice Agreement" was formally signed. The Japanese army returned to the pre-war defense area (the northern and eastern areas of the Shanghai Public Concession and its cross-border road construction areas), but the strength of the troops should not exceed 10,000, the number of warships should not exceed five, and the number of warplanes should not exceed 20, while the Wehrmacht temporarily stayed in the current station (Anting Town on the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway to the Hupu line on the Yangtze River), the number of troops allowed to be 30,000, and the number of fighters could be kept 40, if there were no large warships, they could ask the foreign powers to send some warships to help garrison, of course, the cost was separately, and the war zone was divided into demilitarized areas. Soon, the Beiyang government transferred the 19th Route Army, which had previously shone in the heroic war of resistance, to Fujian to wait.