At the beginning of the Battle of Songhu, due to the appearance of the Xia Dynasty, it made a good start, which greatly boosted the morale of the officers and men of the Nationalist Army, and also made the high-ranking of the Nationalist Army feel like a rival, and they did not accept the opinions of the Xia Dynasty, and were determined to rely on the superiority of troops to fight the Japanese army on the tidal flats, and refused to give up an inch of land. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In accordance with this strategic principle, the Nationalist Army formulated the tactics of heavy defense, piled up a large number of troops near the river, and fought to the death of the Japanese landing force. Soon, the consequences of this tactic became apparent.

First of all, under the cover of the navy and air force, the Japanese army attacked the Wusongkou Fort, and the defenders of the fort basically suffered casualties after more than an hour of resistance. Immediately the Japanese Navy entered the Wusong Pass.

More than a dozen small-tonnage gunboats of the Chinese Navy's river defense fleet were all sunk by the Japanese army within 20 minutes of the start of the battle. The Japanese sent minesweepers to clear the mines on the river, and the forward reached Chuanshakou.

The defenders of the Chinese Army opened fire on the Japanese warships with artillery. The Japanese also opened fire on the Chinese troops on the shore.

The difference in the equipment of the Chinese and Japanese armies has fully manifested.

Of the various artillery pieces deployed by the national army on the riverbank, the largest caliber is only 130 mm, and only 26 are more than 100 mm caliber. The rest of the artillery was mostly 88-mm and 75-mm infantry guns. All of them add up to just over 140 doors.

The Japanese army had more than 470 naval guns, and more than 210 guns of 203 mm caliber or more. Among them, there are many huge cannons of more than 330 mm, the largest caliber of naval guns reaches 406 mm, and a shell weighs more than half a ton, and there is no one who is spared in a radius of 100 meters after the explosion.

Not only that, but there was also bombing by Japanese planes in the air.

In just half an hour, the number of casualties in the defense units of the national army was as high as more than 10,000, and most of the artillery was destroyed. The Japanese army then began to land, and the Nationalist army could not stop it at all.

After the Japanese landing, they immediately attacked the positions of the Nationalist army, and soon took control of a large area of the beachhead, and the follow-up troops continued to climb the river bank.

The officers and men of the Nationalist Army were extremely brave, and under the inferior equipment, they bravely counterattacked the Japanese army, trying to press the Japanese army down the river bank.

However, the gap in equipment could not be made up by relying only on human flesh and blood, and the Japanese 11th Division, which landed at Chuanshakou, soon occupied Lion Forest and other places, and then attacked Luodian. Cai Bingyan, commander of the 201st Brigade of the National Army, led his troops to counterattack, and all of them were killed soon after.

Chen Cheng was appointed commander of the 15th Army to reinforce Luodian.

After the Japanese 3rd Division landed at Wusongkou Iron Wheel Wharf, it successively occupied Baoshan and other places. Zhang Zhizhong led the Ninth Army to reinforcements.

Japanese reinforcements of the 9th, 13th, and 101st Divisions were also on the way to reinforcements.

Faced with the sea of fire of the Japanese army, the Chinese army could only fill it with a sea of people. Feng Yuxiang said afterwards: "When a division goes up, in less than two hours, half of it will be lost, or three hours, it will be less than two-thirds. "It can be seen that the battle situation is fierce.

Chairman Chiang personally assumed the post of commander of the Third Theater of Operations. The development of the war made him very anxious. The bad news came one after another, and his heart was bleeding.

Xia Chao decided to make a move.

In order to keep it secret, he did not notify anyone, but just told Zhang Zhizhong that he would look for the fighter by himself. Zhang Zhizhong agreed to his request.

Sept. 8 at 11 p.m.

Xia Chao took the Tiger Ben Camp that had been trained and run-in to the vicinity of Dongliqiao Village on the Baoluo Highway between Baoshan and Luodian. Prepare to ambush the Japanese army.

Due to the flat terrain, in order to prevent accidental injury, the main force of the summer dynasty built fortifications along the south side of the road, and two platoons of troops were placed at each end of the east and west ends of the road, forming a triangular fire network.

In order to prevent the Japanese from occupying the village of Dongli to the north, a reinforced platoon was placed in the village of Dongli.

Historically, in order to open up the connection between Chuanshakou and Wusongkou, the troops of the Third Division rushed to Luodian Town along this road. The summer dynasty was determined to destroy its reinforcements here.

Xia Chao now has 630 troops in his hands, although the number of troops is small, but all of them are elite soldiers he dug up from everywhere, not to mention his special combat team, not to mention the firepower, all of which are automatic weapons, and a large number of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns. The firepower was not weaker than a wing of the Japanese army.

That's not all, Arthur, the commander of the direct company, led people to plant more than 2 kilometers of explosives on the road, just waiting for the arrival of the Japanese army.

The 3rd Division, also known as the Nagoya Division, was organized in Nagoya. It is one of the first new armies established among more than 200 divisions in Japan; The 3rd Division participated in almost all major Japanese wars in modern times, including the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, the dispatch of troops from Siberia, and the dispatch of troops from Shandong. It is the only division that has been fighting on the Chinese battlefield from the beginning of the war to its surrender.

Major General Kanichiro Ueno, commander of the 29th Infantry Brigade of the 3rd Division, was ordered to lead the 18th Infantry Wing to attack the town of Luodian.

The reason why Major General Kanichiro Ueno personally undertook the mission of rushing was that after the landing operation began, he was ordered to lead the 18th Wing as the reserve of the division and regiment, and did not participate in the landing and beach rush operation.

Seeing that other troops were making contributions, he was already eager to try. This mission was requested by him on his own initiative.

The division commander, Fujita Shin, asked him to set out in the evening and take advantage of the night march in order to achieve the suddenness of the attack. However, Major General Kanichiro Ueno was very arrogant, and he thought that it was a shame for the dignified Imperial Japanese Army to sneak attack the vulnerable Chinese army. So, instead of setting off yesterday evening, he did not set off until 4 o'clock in the morning, at the urging of the division headquarters.

This small change made the summer dynasty very uncomfortable.

8 a.m. It has been 8 hours since the Tiger Battalion entered the position, and the Japanese army has not yet appeared, and Xia Chao is a little skeptical that history has changed. He decided to wait another hour, and if it didn't work, he would leave.

At this moment, Zhang Quan, the leader of the special operations team, sent someone to report that the Japanese army had appeared, with a strength of about one wing, all of which were mechanized troops.

Xia Chao immediately ordered the troops to be ready for battle.

The Japanese opened the road with 12 tanks and 36 armored vehicles, followed by trucks full of infantry and trucks pulling artillery, and the team stretched for more than three kilometers. Mighty marching forward.

Suddenly, one of the armored vehicles in the head stopped.

It turned out that on the Baoluo Highway, there is a river, there is a small bridge on it, called Dongli Bridge, which is more than ten meters long, I don't know when, a truck overturned in the middle of the bridge, and it was full of bricks, which just blocked the road.

Two Japanese soldiers got out of the stopped armored car, one was the captain of the brigade and the other was the staff officer of the brigade headquarters, and they went to the overturned car to take a look, and then beckoned the Japanese soldiers to get out of the car to clear the road.

The cars in front of the Japanese troops stopped, and the ones behind continued to advance, stopping in turn, and the distance of the entire convoy was reduced.

Soon, a car drove to the bridge, and the staff officer hurriedly stepped forward to open the car door, and a Japanese major general came down from above, who was none other than Kanichiro Ueno, the commander of the 29th Infantry Brigade of the Third Division.