In the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army successively sent up to 300,000 troops, but when Shanghai was almost occupied by the Japanese army, the plot suddenly reversed, and the Chinese army counterattacked back at a faster speed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

If this was all there was, the Japanese army would have reluctantly accepted such a defeat, but the 300,000 elites stationed there, after all the efforts of the entire Japanese country, could have retreated less than 80,000.

Seven of the First Divisions were disabled, and the 13th Division, which suffered the heaviest losses, was almost wiped out, and only a mere 3,000 men returned, and they were all non-combatants. You must know that there are more than 28,000 people in a fully staffed A Division. In the entire Japanese Empire, there were only twenty divisions in total, and one-third of them were crippled at this time, which is a huge loss.

This is not counting, and even, the top leaders of the Central China Front Command, including Matsui Shigen, are almost dead.

Such a large loss, not to mention since the Meiji Restoration, has never been seen in the entire history of Japan's foreign warfare. And how can this generation of Japanese soldiers, the craziest and most arrogant generation, accept such a fiasco. More importantly, the fiasco was not aimed at the world's number one power, but China, which has always been looked down upon by others and is being invaded by them, which is even more unacceptable to them.

"A bunch of fools......" Umezu Mijiro's face was very ugly, he felt that this defeat had a lot to do with the command of Matsui Ishine and other Central China Fronts, especially the detour back to Jiangsu from the last high-level retreat, which made Umezu Mijiro feel stupid.

In fact, this is just the mental effect of Umezu Mijiro, most of the Japanese have the character of gamblers, and whether this final retreat is a fool's action depends on whether the result is successful or not. If it succeeds, no matter how stupid the action is, for the Japanese, it will be a success, a heroic act. However, once it fails, no matter how wise it is, I am afraid that it will be labeled as stupid.

There is no way, the Japanese have such a character, and when they encounter some major events, they will either win or lose big. For example, the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway in the official history are very good proof.

However, at this time, Japan was a crazy and stubborn race, and this defeat in front of them was not enough to make them retreat. Under the orders of the Japanese military headquarters and cabinet, the Japanese army quickly reorganized the seven divisions that had been heavily damaged based on the troops of several divisions that had withdrawn back to the Japanese mainland.

However, the defeat in Shanghai also sounded a wake-up call for the Japanese that they could no longer regard China as an opponent, and should treat it as an opponent who was almost equal.

In the past, it was precisely because China was not regarded as an opponent that many military operations were very aggressive, and the defeat in Shanghai was the biggest example, when the sea retreat was cut off, the Japanese army in Shanghai immediately became a lone army, and it was impossible to replenish it in the face of the constant encirclement and beating of the main force of the Chinese army.

"With this victory of the Chinese army, I am afraid that Nanjing will take this as an opportunity to peek into North China. At present, the most urgent task of our army is to strengthen the defense of North China, and not to make any further advances in the near future. ”

"At the same time, we must continue to increase the investment of troops, and I am afraid that Central China will not be able to invade in a short time, so we must ensure that North China and Northeast China cannot afford to lose ......."

"The Chinese army is in full swing, I am afraid that it will launch an offensive with all its might, and we must increase the number of troops in North China as soon as possible......"

The defeat of the battle in Shanghai can be said to affect the whole body, and the Japanese army immediately realized that the situation in North China was urgent, and if they did not quickly strengthen the defense of North China, North China might be a second Shanghai at that time, which was definitely not what the Japanese wanted to see.

As a result, the Japanese base camp immediately ordered the Korean garrison and the Kwantung Army to seize the time to withdraw part of their forces to reinforce North China. At the same time, the North China Front should hurry up and build all kinds of fortifications.

Indeed, after taking complete control of Shanghai, Nanjing did not have time to rebuild Shanghai, which had been damaged by the war, so they planned to increase their troops to North China, in an attempt to take advantage of the heavy losses of the Japanese elite to counterattack, first seize North China, and then wait for an opportunity to recover Northeast China.

The Nanjing side is so anxious that Shanghai's victory is really too great, and its self-confidence has swelled to the point of no return.

Not only Nanjing, but also Yan Laoxi of Shanxi jumped out, some time ago because Wei Qidong gave up Taiyuan to ask for Shanghai, so that Taiyuan fell into the hands of the Japanese army, his Jin Sui army also suffered heavy losses, and the core area of Shanxi was occupied by the Japanese army, which made him very unwilling. Now, the Chinese army has suffered heavy losses to the Japanese army, and he can also free his hands, and he naturally wants to take the opportunity to take his Shanxi back.

Yan Laoxi not only sent telegrams to Nanjing again and again to request the invasion of Shanxi, but also sent many telegrams to Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi, and the contents of the telegrams were all the same as the recovery of Shanxi.

"Brother Dong, is the atmosphere in our entire army a little too fanatical now? With our current military strength, can we really defeat the Japanese army in North China at once and recover North China? During this time, Tang Xinyi also clearly felt the extremely fanatical mood in Nanjing and the army, as if she could already despise the Japanese army or even defeat them easily.

Wei Qidong sighed, "I've thought of this before. In the official history, a tragic victory in the Battle of Taierzhuang made the top of the army a little dizzy, and attempted to have a decisive battle with the Japanese army in Xuzhou, which almost led to the main force of the Chinese army being surrounded and annihilated in Xuzhou. ”

"The victory in the battle of Shanghai this time is unprecedented, and the fanatical atmosphere of the army is already difficult to contain."

"I have to make my point out or it'll be too late." Wei Qidong thought for a while and said.

Immediately, Wei Qidong listed his views one by one, and then wrote a long article and sent it to Nanjing in person. The content of the telegram roughly meant that the Chinese army did not have an advantage in North China, after all, the Chinese army had already lost control of North China, and the Japanese army, because it had already connected North China, Northeast China, and Korea into a line, whether it was from Northeast China and Korea or from Japan, it was much more convenient and easy.

Moreover, with the capabilities of the Chinese army, it was almost impossible to cut off the supply lines of the Japanese army and seize air supremacy, as in the battle of Shanghai.

In the battle of Shanghai, the Chinese army achieved such a big advantage, the combat process was still so difficult, its own losses were not small, and tens of thousands of Japanese troops escaped, which in itself is very telling. Moreover, the Kwantung Army plus the North China Front Army totaled more than 300,000, and the Korean side could also send reinforcements at any time, as well as the Japanese mainland.

Japan has more than 70 million people, and from 918 to the present, Japan's invasion of China has never really unleashed its war potential. It can be said that with Japan's capabilities, it is not a problem at all to gather a few million troops, but the total number of troops invading China is only about 6 or 700,000.

In other words, as the war becomes difficult, the Japanese army will continue to increase the number of troops invading China. But the Chinese side, faced with a Japanese invasion of less than a million, has already mobilized almost all of its forces to deal with it.

In modern warfare, what is fought is the strength of the country and the quality of the soldiers, and in this regard, China is not even one-tenth of Japan's, so how can it easily underestimate Japan's opponent?