On August 13, 1937, the Battle of Songhu broke out, also known as the "August 13 Songhu Campaign".

This battle was the first important battle in China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and it was also the largest and most tragic battle in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, which lasted for three months, and the army invested more than 300,000 people in 8 divisions and 6 brigades, and more than 70,000 people were killed and wounded; The squadron invested more than 600,000 people in 75 divisions and 9 brigades, with 333,500 casualties.

On 13 August, the Chinese army launched a large-scale attack on Shanghai, using the warships in the concession and the Huangpu River as operational bases to shell the Zhabei area, and the Chinese people rose up to fight back.

The next day, the Kuomintang political axe issued the "Declaration of Self-Defense and War of Resistance", declaring:

"China will never give up any part of its territory, and in the event of aggression, it can only respond with its natural right of self-defense."

The Ninth Army of the local Kuomintang garrison, under the command of Commander-in-Chief Zhang Zhizhong, bravely resisted the invading army. On 14 August, the defenders began a general offensive, and the air force also went to Shanghai to coordinate operations, and on 15 August, the company officially announced the formation of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, with General Matsui Ishine as the commander, leading the troops of two divisions to Shanghai to further expand the war of aggression against China. Zhang Zhizhong was determined to expand the results of the war, launched an all-front offensive against the invading army, and dispatched the air force to bombard the headquarters of the Hongkou army, and the two sides engaged in fierce battles.

On November 13, the Nationalist Axe issued a statement on the retreat from Shanghai:

"Soldiers from all over the world, hearing the righteousness of going to the difficulty, the day is coming, they are on the front line with their flesh and blood, building trenches, there is no retreat, the position is reduced to ashes, the military heart is still as strong as iron stone, the courage of the battle, the fierceness of the death, it is enough to show the spirit of national reading, lay the foundation for the rejuvenation of China."

The [***] squadron retreated to the defense line of Wufu and Chengxi, and the defense of Jiangyin began; At this point, after three months of bloody rain, the Battle of Songhu came to an end.

The fact that the army had been fighting bloodily in Shanghai for three months before barely capturing the [***] position had already made all countries in the world have an impressive attitude towards China's strength and determination to resist the Chinese language, and the army had not won the battle for a long time, and the morale of the people in this country was doubtful and confused.

It is almost certain that if it cannot end the war with China in the short term, then it will face the biggest Achilles heel of its strategy, that is, it lacks resources for war and people's livelihood, and it simply cannot withstand long-term attrition.

In this conference battle, [***] put in all the elite! Including the most elite German mechanics, there were heavy casualties, but what they brought to China was extremely significant.

Chiang Kai-shek took the initiative to turn the Eastern Front into the main battlefield, which had the practical needs of logistics and command.

Because most of the main forces and supplies came from the area south of the Yangtze River, the land transportation capacity at that time, under the pressure of the air force, could not support the operations of the army in the north. However, if the battle were to be fought in Shanghai, not only was the geography relatively close, but the Yangtze River was the artery of transportation, and this was also where Chiang Kai-shek's territory was located, and the command was relatively flexible and convenient, and there would be serious command problems on the North China front, which would be beyond the reach of the whip, and the Shijiazhuang camp fell in the melee under the condition that the various armies were difficult to coordinate and the command was improper.

During the thrilling three months of the Battle of Songhu, the whole of China gathered a consensus, that is, in order to resist the invasion of Yuben, China "will never end the war of resistance even if it fights to the point of one soldier and one shot." ”

This is the most tragic decision in the history of the Chinese nation, and the entire nation is determined to face the challenge of the historical crisis with all-round sacrifice.

From a grand strategic point of view, at that time, the Yue army had already occupied Beiping, and it was very likely that it would move south along the Pinghan Road and seize Hankou. Hankow is the center of China's land and water communications, and strategists call it the "center of operations." If Hankou is captured by the Yue army in the early stage, all the political and economic lifelines in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River will fall into the hands of the enemy, and it will not be able to retreat westward to establish a large rear base, and it will not be able to support the long-term war of resistance, so the Chinese [***] team will be forced to fight a decisive battle.

Chiang Kai-shek's decision to choose Shanghai as the place of the battle meant that the Yue army would never be allowed to fight south along the Pinghan Line and the Jinpu Line, but if the Yue army was allowed to go the opposite way, land from the sea, land from the south of the Yangtze River, and attack from east to west in the water network zone, then China's opportunity would come, and the water network and mountainous areas would inevitably greatly reduce the mechanization and heavy artillery combat vehicle capabilities of the Yue army, so that it would be impossible for the Yue army to advance rapidly in the mountainous terrain of the water network that was divided and broken!

And [***] layer by layer interception can buy enough time to transfer the assets in the east to the western mountainous area, and finally resist the Yue army in the western mountainous area who rushed out of the water network and was seriously injured!

And the development of the war situation, as Chiang Kai-shek expected.

This was Chiang Kai-shek's grand strategy of resistance. The whole [***] people, regardless of race, party, class, stratum, men and women, old and young, contributed to the formation of this grand strategy with their blood and lives!

This is an elaborate and intelligent work of art that has never been seen in the past, and an epic of the blood and tears of the whole nation! It is also the hub of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!

Since then, the rumbling sound of the anti-Japanese war in Shanghai has inspired the voices of the whole Shanghai and the entire Chinese people. The situation of fighting for the national reading power has finally appeared!

333,500 people! That's the number of casualties in the [***] squadron!

The Songhu battlefield along the plain of the Yangtze River has almost no natural barriers that can be defended. The squadron [***] who hastily arrived from all over the country could hardly even build decent fortifications, and it was all flesh and blood, and in this way the entire company and battalion were often killed in battle, but the morale of the follow-up troops never faded in any way, and they still moved forward.

In the war, dozens of [***] major generals and even lieutenant generals were killed, and even some high-ranking Chinese generals committed suicide because they lost their positions.

At the beginning of the outbreak of the "Battle of Songhu", the 26th Division of the Sichuan Army, which had sworn to leave Sichuan, was the first to enter the battle.

The 26th Division was not a descendant of the central government, and when it entered the Songhu front, it was still equipped with Hanyang-made rifles from the 20s, and the whole division had no heavy weapons at all.

However, in the Songhu battlefield, both the central and local troops did not shirk in the factional struggle, and all of them had the duty of defending the territory to the death. The 26th Division participated in the war for seven days, and the combat personnel of the whole division were reduced from 700 when they participated in the war!

But the 26th Division has never regretted it, and the Sichuan Army has never regretted it! All their sacrifices are worth it for the country and the nation!

However, what worries the 26th Division is that there is only one person whose life and death are uncertain, and his name is:

Goofy!

Commander of the 26th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 151st Regiment of the 76th Brigade of the 6th Division of the Sichuan Army, Gao Fei!