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The fierce gunfire woke up the citizens of Shanghai, and needless to say, the gentlemen and ladies who sang and danced in the Paramount Song and Dance Hall, the gentlemen who were still hugging the beautiful women and muttering intoxicating love words just now pushed away the beauties in their arms and rushed towards the exit; The beauties who were still intoxicated by the crooks of men's arms were even more pitiful, screaming and crying immediately sounded, and they ran so fast that their high heels broke their feet; Running slowly is not much better, either scolding a man who has no conscience, or calling for losing his wallet. But those ordinary Shanghai citizens, as soon as they saw that there was a fight, quietly pushed open the doors and windows to see what was going on. After looking at it, I found that the city of Shanghai tonight had become inexplicable, and the little devils were fighting among themselves and opened up to each other. Many cursed in a low voice, and then closed the doors and windows.

This is not to blame the citizens of Shanghai, in order to achieve the purpose of the surprise attack, the Eighth Route Army all wore Japanese military uniforms and steel helmets. It's more neatly equipped than the little devils of the Shanghai garrison!

At the same time as the Eighth Route Army was rapidly attacking and advancing. A column of baggage regiments has begun to check the freighters and cargo ships on the 16 Pu Wharf, and all cargo ships and motor ships have received a notice of requisition from the Eighth Route Army. Immediately afterwards, Tang Xingying and Zhao Xiaoman led the cadres and soldiers of the Political Department of a column to start propaganda and launch at various docks.

Before the departure, the Political Department of the Military Region drew up propaganda materials for entering Shanghai. At this time, take it out, post and distribute it, and preach it directly at the same time, and the effect is amazing.

Dock workers, sailors, and sailors were originally a group of people with discipline and unity, and Shanghai was a city with a glorious revolutionary tradition. Everyone knew that it was the Eighth Route Army that had entered Shanghai, and their enthusiasm rose all of a sudden, and soon many people asked to sign up to participate in the battle against the Japanese army and lead the way for the troops. Tang Xingying, Zhao Xiaoman, and the comrades of the Political Department of the First Column struck while the iron was hot, and immediately set up a picket team of Shanghai dock workers at the 16-Pu Wharf, wearing red armbands, and dispatching personnel to lead the way for the troops, and carrying the wounded in battle. Organize those requisitioned ships and motor boats. Prepare for the transport of captured weapons and ammunition, as well as oil, food, cloth, medicines, steel and other materials.

Since the establishment of the concession in Greater Shanghai, two completely different worlds have been formed. The paradise for foreigners is the concession, and the area controlled by the Chinese is called Huajie.

As the colonialists continued to cross the border to build roads and expand the concession, the concession land ran through the downtown area of Shanghai, and the southern city and Zhabei of the Chinese border were separated into two, and from the north to the south, it was necessary to pretend to be a concession. That's it. The colonists were still not satisfied, and actually threw out a "Greater Shanghai Plan", intending to merge Nanshi and Zhabei into the concession and move Shanghai County to Minhang. In this way, the Nationalist Government, which was weak and incompetent, unable to recover the concessions, and unwilling to be humiliated, had no choice but to start planning and building a new urban area. As a result, Dong Dayou, a master architect who graduated from Tsinghua University and studied in the United States for six years, and president of the Architectural Society of China, was appointed as the consultant of the "New Shanghai Central District Construction Committee" and the director of the architect's office. Planning and construction of a new urban area began in Jiangwan, in the northeast corner of Shanghai.

The reason why Jiangwan was chosen is because it is adjacent to the Huangpu River in the east and the concession in the south, which not only has the superior natural conditions for building a deep-water wharf, but also the railway extending from the north station can also be directly connected with the seaport, and the water and land transportation is extremely convenient. At the same time, the flat area here is wide, the prospect of attracting investment and building factories is immeasurable, and there are few moving households, which can reap the work of flat land construction, but there is no trouble of transforming the old area. After that, the "new urban area" can be promoted from north to south.

The national government acquired 7,000 acres of land in Jiangwan, and planned to build three parts: administrative district, commercial area and residential area. The main buildings include the Municipal Government Building, Library, Museum, Shanghai Sports Ground, Municipal No. 1 Hospital, 36 Houses, etc., as well as the Memorial Tower, Fountain, Art Museum, Cultural Palace and Five-hole Giant Archway. The highways in the area are radial with the Wujiaochang roundabout as the round point, and more than 100 roads crisscross and are dense like spider webs. It is still deeply felt that the names of these roads, a contrary to the concession using the Western transliteration of the naming convention, and with a strong realpolitik color, with "China, China, the people, the country, Shanghai, the sea, the city, the government" as the head, the east-west road names around the Wujiaochang start with the word "Zheng", and the north-south road names are headed by the word "country", such as Zhengtong Road, Zhengsu Road, Government Road, Guoquan Road, Guoshun Road, Guoji Road, in the meantime, feel solemn. The "New Municipal Government Building" is located in the four trunk lines of "Three People's Principles", "Five Rights", "World and Datong Road", which is clearly the meaning of "Three People's Principles", "Five Rights Constitution" and "World Harmony" at a glance.

Unfortunately, only halfway through the project, the Japanese army launched the "128" incident, and the armistice agreement stipulated that the squadron was not allowed to be stationed in downtown Shanghai. When the Anti-Japanese War broke out in Shanghai on August 13 and the Japanese army occupied Shanghai, the little devils thought that the old city of Huajie was dilapidated and could not do anything in the concession area at will, so they simply regarded the new urban area of Shanghai in Jiangwan as their own barracks, and concocted the "Shanghai metropolis" plan, preparing to build the Wujiaochang area of Jiangwan into a new colonial area with 560,000 immigrants and a construction area of 22.4 million square meters, which would be connected with the Japanese control areas in Hongkou and Yangpu, so as to limit the concession forces of the United States, Britain and France and effectively control the whole of Shanghai.

In this way, Jiangwan Wujiaochang became the base camp of the Japanese army in Shanghai, where the headquarters of the 13th Army was located, where all the cavalry and special forces of the Japanese army were stationed, and even the puppet Shanghai Municipal Government was also located here.

The deployment of the Eighth Route Army was that the cavalry column went ashore through the Wusong River, surrounded and attacked the headquarters of the 13th Army of the Japanese Army, the headquarters of the Marine Corps, the Jiangwan New Area where the Jiangwan Airport and Hongqiao Airport of the Japanese Navy were located, and the Yangpu concession controlled by the Japanese, and blocked the Japanese retreat to the north. The first column marched west along the Huangpu River, and the main force went ashore at the 16 Pu Wharf, and the main force of the armored regiment and the mechanized rapid mobile force composed of armored vehicles and automobiles composed of heavy machine gun regiments, a column of supplementary regiments, and engineer regiments were outflanked from south to northwest. blocking the escape routes of the Japanese army to the west and southwest; A column of the main force swept across the Chinese border after landing from the 16th shop. Then attack the Hongkou Japanese occupation area in the northwest of the concession, and together with the cavalry column, attack the main force of the Japanese army in Shanghai.

The reason for this deployment was that the tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles of a column of mechanized troops needed to go ashore from the China Merchants Wharf at the Shiliupu Wharf. Moreover, the cavalry has strong mobility and can be deployed at the fastest speed after going ashore, and the encirclement is deployed, which is convenient for sealing the passage for the Japanese puppet army in Shanghai to escape to the northeast.

In this way, the Eighth Route Army's operational guiding ideology was manifested. That is, to completely block the waterways, railways, and highways where the Japanese puppet army in Shanghai had fled, surround them on all sides, close the door and beat the dogs, and break through in the middle. Whether it's a devil or a traitor, no one is allowed to slip away!

Because of this situation, the battle between the main force of the first column in the county town of Shanghai and the Chinese border was unusually smooth. Battles in the true sense of the word were fought on the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway and in Hongkou, Yangpu and Jiangwan.

Shigeru Sawada, commander of the 13th Army of the Japanese Army, and Yasuo Karakawa, chief of staff, did not flinch after confirming that the Eighth Route Army fleet had attacked Shanghai. While reporting to the commander-in-chief of the Chinese dispatch army in Nanjing, General Nishio Toshizo, and the Tokyo base camp. On the one hand, he ordered the Japanese puppet army in Shanghai to urgently mobilize, set up positions, and resolutely eliminate the Eighth Route Army that attacked Shanghai.

The reason why Sawada Shigeru dared to give the order to defend Shanghai was based on three judgments: first, the Eighth Route Army was running for a long time, and the number of ships was bound to be limited, and the number of troops transported to Shanghai was inevitably limited; Second, several divisions of the 13th Army were deployed in the surrounding areas of Shanghai, and although they were cooperating with the Second Battle of Changsha of the 11th Army, Changsha was as important as Shanghai. If the order continues, all divisions and regiments will return to Shanghai as quickly as possible. Moreover, the navy participating in the Far East campaign has already sent three aircraft carriers back to the mainland, which can reinforce the Shanghai operation as quickly as possible. Third, Shanghai was the base camp of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army had been operating for a long time, not only with the troops of the 13th Army, but also with the Marine Corps. It is also possible to urgently arm the expatriates, and during the August 13 Incident, the ** squadron once captured the mainland of the Marine Corps Headquarters, but was finally defeated. Shigeru Sawada is confident that he will stay in Shanghai and wait for help.

If he had been on the battlefield in North China, fought with the main force of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong, and had seen the process of the annihilation of the Japanese army's Eighth Division, the First Chariot Division and other elite divisions, I believe he would not have ordered to defend Shanghai to the death, and I am afraid that he would have ordered the arsenal to be blown up and the entire line to retreat as soon as he received the report.

After Zhao Dahe led two light tank battalions ashore, he bypassed the Huajie area on the outskirts of Shanghai County and went straight to the Tiantongan Station of the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway.

Sawada Shigeru is not a mediocre hand, when he ordered to defend Shanghai, he had already understood the situation on the battlefield in Shanghai. The Eighth Route Army landed on the Huangpu River, and it would inevitably focus its attacks on Jiangwan, Yangpu, and Hongkou; as for the public concessions and French concessions controlled by Britain and the United States, with the relations between China and these countries, the Eighth Route Army would not attack, and it could be used to block the Eighth Route Army's attack from the southeast for the Japanese army. As for the Chinese border, there are not many garrisons there, as long as they can contain the Eighth Route Army that has landed. The key is to recapture the Wusongkou fortress, and the second is to protect the Shanghai-Nanjing railway, so that the army headquarters and the combined fleet can be sent for reinforcement. Now that the Wusongkou Fortress has no time to take care of it for the time being, the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway must be preserved no matter what.

Because Sawada Shigeru had this consideration, the Japanese garrison in Shanghai strengthened the garrison of Tiantongan Station and North Station for a time.

The Japanese troops reinforcing Tiantongan Station had just arrived, and the headlights of the Eighth Route Army Mechanized Group were flowing towards Tiantongan Station like the Milky Way!

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