readx; On January 28, 1932, at 23:25 p.m., Rear Admiral Koichi Shiozawa, commander of the Japanese 1st Foreign Fleet, submitted an official letter to the Shanghai Municipal Government, forcing the Chinese/military to withdraw from Zhabei and dismantle the fortifications. The official document www.biquge.info said: "The Imperial (Japanese) Navy believes that the security of the Zhabei area, where there are many people living in the country (Japanese expatriate), is worrying. Therefore, the deployment of troops should be carried out to assume responsibility for the maintenance of law and order. The Commander hereby demands that the Chinese side promptly withdraw from the hostile facilities of the Chinese army in the Zhabei area. ”

At 23:50, before the Chinese side could reply (or have no time to react), more than 4,000 Japanese troops opened the road with armored vehicles and attacked Zhabei Tiantongan Road, Qiujiang Road, Hengbang Bridge and other places. The 19th Route Army of the Beiyang Government, stationed in these areas, fought back, and the Songhu War of Resistance broke out on January 28.

For Rear Admiral Koichi Shiozawa, who was preparing to make trouble in Shanghai, as the commander of the Japanese First Foreign Fleet and also the commander of the Special Marine Corps stationed in Shanghai, he commanded 2,300 Japanese marines under his command plus more than 1,000 armed expatriates (purely to raise momentum and courage, counting on these guys who are nothing, let's wash and sleep) Under the cover of more than 20 tanks and ironclad vehicles, he can easily take a regiment of the 19th Route Army in front of him1. 2,000 men and even the entire 19th Route Army were routed and wiped out. This is nothing more than wishful thinking on the part of the major general, and the reality is often very shocking.

But it's a pity that he didn't know that last night the whole army of the 19th Route Army had completely changed its shotguns to artillery, just taking the 156th Brigade of the 78th Division of the 19th Route Army Zhang Junsong Regiment stationed at Tiantongan Station as an example, as far as its fully reequipped equipment completely overwhelmed the Vickers machine gun armored car and the tattered 38 big cover rifle and the 11-year-old light machine gun that was in trouble with the old favorite. This regiment is also equipped with a lot of secret weapons rented from Zhao Heng, the magic modification of the MT-25 light tank designed by Mao Xiong Strange back then, and hired a lot of tank crews. In view of all of the above, Major General Shiozawa Koichi had no idea that he was going to hit the iron plate tonight. The smug major general looked at the night sky and then at his watch, drew his waist and put on the commander's saber and gave the order to attack.

The imposing Japanese marines and armed expatriates, totaling more than 3,300 people, together with more than 20 Vickers machine gun ironclad vehicles, occupied the Songhu railway defense line westward along every branch road on the west side of the North Sichuan Road (the northern area of the public concession has been divided into Japanese defense areas many times): Target Road, Qiujiang Road, Hengbang Road, etc., but unfortunately, after the encounter with Zhang Junsong Regiment of the 156th Brigade of the 78th Division at Tiantongan Station, he thought that it would be easy to eat Zhang Junsong Regiment in front of him with his pile of scrap copper and rotten ironAfter he ordered to bombard the 75 field guns and infantry of the same caliber for a period of time, he was immediately beaten by Zhang Junsong's regiment with 105 mm artillery and large-caliber heavy machine guns, and after the attacking devils dropped 400 corpses in a panic, the Japanese marines with a total size of 2,300 people were sharply reduced to 1,900 people. The Marines, who were inferior to the Japanese Army, panicked and crawled back to a place outside the Tentongan Station.

Zhang Junsong's regiment beat away the 2,300 Japanese marines in front of him, leaving behind the corpses of 400 of the unlucky ones. As a result, the 6th Military Police Regiment, which had just arrived to take over the defense of the 156th Brigade in Zhabei, saw that Zhang Junsong's regiment not only won the battle but was also unscathed, so the 6th Military Police Regiment complained vigorously that the brother troops did not even keep the soup for themselves.

Shiozawa Koichi originally planned to use these more than 20 ironclad vehicles as the lead, and then divide the army composed of 2,300 people plus more than 1,000 expatriates in his hands into five routes, and launch an attack from various intersections in Zhabei Basically, this is a bad trick used by all countries in the world throughout the ages, but as soon as the Fifth Route Army encountered the fully redressed Nineteenth Route Army Zhang Junsong Regiment, it became a rout after a battle first, looking at the messy and dejected marines in front of him, he had to sigh, If the opponent didn't even touch a single hair but abandoned 400 corpses, then the next battle may not be easy, and it seems that only by waiting for the help of the fighters that take off from the seaplane carrier "Notoro" tomorrow can we stabilize the position.

On the 28th day of 1932, at 23:50 on the night, the Japanese Marine Corps under the command of Major General Shiozawa suddenly launched an attack on the Chinese garrison on the west side of the North Sichuan Road, and the 6th Regiment (Zhang Junsong Regiment) of the 156th Brigade under the 78th Division (Weng Zhaoyuan Brigade) of the 19th Route Army, which was fully equipped and strengthened, immediately returned fierce to the enemy. At this time, the Japanese army, with more than 20 ironclad vehicles as the lead, divided the troops into five routes, and launched an attack from various intersections in Zhabei. However, the Japanese did not expect the strong firepower of the defenders of a regiment of the 19th Route Army in front of them, and instead abandoned 400 corpses in the battle, and four or five Vickers armored vehicles were destroyed, and they were defeated. In the first battle, the 19th Route Army won a complete victory, and the first confrontation between China and Japan was defeated by the first wave of attacks by small Japan.

The people who hid in a very safe place not far away and watched the battle by the light of the fire were very happy to watch, not to mention how comfortable it was to see little Japan eating deflated. Zhao Heng said to Cai Tingkai, who was holding an infrared telescope beside him: "Uncle Cai, my weapon is not worth saying, just the first time Little Japan launched an attack, I suffered a big loss." Hehe, I'll see some little Japan tomorrow. ”

Cai Tingkai, who was in good spirits on happy occasions, put down the binoculars, touched his beardless chin, and replied to Long Bazun beside him, and at the same time did not forget to pick out some more things from Zhao Heng: "This is very good, there is no need to beg people everywhere, how many guns and ammunition do you still have?" Our 19th Route Army is all inclusive, how about paying in installments according to what you said. ”

Zhao Heng waved his big hand: "Okay, no problem, I have as much as you want." ”

At this time, the head of the regiment Zhang Junsong, who came over, said: "Lose his mother, Mr. Long, those guys of yours (referring to semi-automatic rifles, light machine guns, large-caliber heavy machine guns, and cannons) are really powerful, but unfortunately they didn't dispatch tanks, but I don't know how powerful these iron guys you said." The regiment commander was a little sorry, he regretted that the armored units that were hiding behind were not dispatched above, that is, they did not use the MT-25 light tank magic modification to hunt down Shiozawa Koichi and his men who retreated in embarrassment. However, the 400 people who were able to keep the Japanese were considered to have received the first blood.

Zhao Heng squinted his eyes at the place where the defeated enemy Shiozawa Yuichi and his group were located in the distance from the fire emitted by the Japanese armored vehicles burning in the distance: "Yes, a big show will be staged tomorrow, and the land and air battle will be very fierce at that time." ”

Prince's Palace, Tokyo, Japan.

Another younger brother of Taisho, the uncle of the current Japanese emperor, Prince Tokumasa, who has never appeared in history, was furious at the moment with the war report sent back from Shanghai, only to see him angrily scolding: "Yagaya Road, Shiozawa is simply a rice bucket!" A regiment of the 19th Route Army scared him so much that he peed his pants!! What enemy fire is ferocious, what heavy artillery covers the shooting! Could it be that the battleship in his hand is an ornament!! These navy bastards shirk their responsibilities whenever the war is unfavorable!! ”

He knew that the most powerful person in the whole of Japan was His Royal Highness the Prince, and the current emperor who was in the late middle and second illness was just a puppet of the prince on the surface. The baby-faced man who was kneeling on the tatami mat and was known as the brain of the Kwantung Army glanced at the battle report on the coffee table, and he knew what was going on, so he said to the middle-aged prince with a gloomy expression in front of him: "Your Highness, even if Shiozawa Zaihan Bucket does not happen to such a strange thing, according to what they reported, it is likely that the Shina people have a 105 mm cannon and a large number of automatic weapons......

Hearing what Ishihara said, Tokumasa had long been dissatisfied with the guys in the navy, and one or two of them were squeezing the army's resource rations on a large scale at every turn, either to build large ships or to add new shipbuilding facilities. His cold gaze stared at Ishihara Wan'er in front of him for a while before he said, "Forget it, you can't make excuses like this, tell that idiot... If by the beginning of February, the 19th Route Army could not eliminate the 19th Route Army in front of it and complete the occupation of two-thirds of Shanghai, then it would go to jump the Huangpu River and not have to return to Japan. In addition, the commander of the new Third Fleet, Vice Admiral Nomura Kichizaburo, is ready to leave for Shanghai to replace Koichi Shiozawa's rice bucket!! ”

Ishihara Wan'er lowered his head and drank sake without looking at Tokumasa's fierce and gloomy gaze: "Your Highness, in what name do we ......?"

Tokumasa stood up and took a small wine glass to look at the snowflakes that were still drifting in the sky outside the house, and the cherry blossom tree in the courtyard still had a lot of cherry blossom petals left, fluttering in the cold wind, and it seemed that there was not much left. Swallowing the sake mixed with egg whites in the cup in one gulp, he turned to Ishihara Wan'er, who happened to be looking up at him, and said, "Just take the order of the emperor's ** department!" Those guys don't dare to make a fuss about this. ”

Ishihara's mind turned around and suddenly brightened, and he suddenly stood up and respectfully bowed to Dezheng: "Your Highness is wise!" The Imperial Japanese Empire has His Royal Highness who should be able to fulfill the grand wishes of the emperors of the past dynasties ahead of schedule. ”

As soon as Dezheng remembered that this order would be obstructed by the prime ministers and his group in every way, he was very uncomfortable in his heart, so he snorted coldly in front of the baby-faced: "Hehe, let those old decays get out of the way, what can a group of cowardly old literati have the ability to make the Great Japanese Empire fulfill its long-cherished wish for thousands of years." ”

Shiozawa Koichi, who was far away in Shanghai, had no idea that his fate had been finalized by the most powerful man in Tokyo, and that a vigorous battle would be staged tomorrow, and whether the 19th Route Army could turn from a small pheasant into a big phoenix depended on tomorrow.