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Shigeru Sawada was the only one-eyed lieutenant general in the Japanese army. This guy is a Soviet expert who is proficient in French and Russian. It may be that there are too many bad things to do, and when Sawada Shigeru was a big sa, he got glaucoma in one eye and was removed. are all crippled, and it stands to reason that they should be honest and keep the other eye. As a result, this guy was restless and single-mindedly expanded the invasion of China, and he was promoted all the way to the rank of lieutenant general, and he also served as the deputy chief of staff for a long time under Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace.

When Prince Zaihito of the Idle Yuan Palace stepped down as chief of staff, he arranged for Shigeru Sawada to be the commander of the 13th Army stationed in the Shanghai area. One of the reasons why the Japanese army base camp was arranged in this way was that the public concession in Shanghai still existed, and it was necessary to coordinate relations with Britain, France, and the United States. Another reason is that Shanghai's economy is still developing abnormally, and Sawada Shigeru can make a lot of money when he comes to Shanghai. It can be regarded as a kind of remuneration for his personal long-term service as deputy chief of staff.

During this time, Sawada Shigeru has been paying attention to the situation in the Far East, and he regrets it in his heart, feeling that it is the biggest regret of his life that he was not able to participate in the battle between Japan and the Soviet Union in the Far East, because she is a famous Soviet expert in the Japanese army, and when the real war comes, he can only stay in Shanghai to watch the battle, which is a waste of talent!

During this period, due to the results of the Japanese army in the Far East, the Chinese troops sent to the army were like chickens and blood. Screaming and screaming, hoping to fight as hard as the Kwantung Army. The Japanese Eleventh Army took advantage of the situation and proposed to launch the Second Battle of Changsha. Naturally, it was strongly supported by the Chinese dispatch army and the base camp. This morning, the Eleventh Army was in full swing. An onslaught was launched on the 9th theater of operations. The 13th Army also transferred troops to join the 11th Army's attack sequence, and at the same time launched offensive operations to the 3rd Theater to contain the 3rd Theater from supporting the Ninth Theater.

In Sawada Shigeru's mind, the Eleventh Monarch's first Battle of Changsha did not achieve the expected goal, and he was beaten badly, and this time he will definitely be able to achieve satisfactory results with the power of the Far East's victory.

Sawada Shigeru is concentrating on commanding the troops to cooperate with the 11th Army in the Battle of Changsha. In the evening, he received a plausible report that suspected that the Eighth Route Army fleet had passed through Wusongkou, and he thought it was incredible, and ordered the troops to find out the situation.

In Sawada Shigeru thought, the guys below must be drunk and dazzled, Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government has no navy, where did the Eighth Route Army come from? Besides, even if the Eighth Route Army really wants to attack Shanghai, it must have some clues in advance, and the Eighth Route Army can't fall from the sky or drill out of the ground, right? Recent intelligence from all quarters shows. Liu Yimin's main force fought fiercely with the Twelfth Army in Shandong, Shandong, and the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army in northern Jiangsu did not make any major moves, and were busy repairing relations with Han Deqin and the troops of the Fifth Theater! Shandong is separated from Shanghai by thousands of mountains and rivers, and Liu Yimin's department, which is the most capable of fighting the Eighth Route Army, has to pass the Lianyungang and Xuzhou defense lines and the Jiangbei defense line if he wants to fight Shanghai. Now the intelligence shows that Liu Yimin's troops are trapped in a net in Shandong, like a tiger in a cage, no matter how they jump, they can't get out of the cage.

This is all Sawada Shigeru's own conjecture, how did he know that Liu Yimin has always followed the four words "surprise" in wars, and stabbed the unexpected heart of the Japanese army. Something like the attack and occupation of Shanghai, not to mention that Sawada Shigeru could not think of it, even Chiang Kai-shek and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army could not think of it. Even his own people can't imagine that this battle is undoubtedly won!

Sawada Shigeru ordered the troops to inquire about the situation. This investigation scared the souls of Shigeru Sawada and Yasuo Karagawa, the chief of staff. It is true that there is a huge fleet of ships entering the Huangpu River through Wusongkou. If it was a large Japanese fleet entering Shanghai, the headquarters of the 13th Army would have known about it, so how could it enter the Huangpu River at night so quietly and secretly?

Sawada Shigeru was the deputy chief of staff of the Japanese army, and he was a powerful character, and he immediately realized that the story of the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack on Tianjin and Qingdao was repeated in Shanghai, and it must be Liu Yimin who went south by sea from Shandong and attacked Shanghai!

All of a sudden, the telephones and radio stations of the 13th Army Headquarters of the Japanese Army were busy, conveying the commander's urgent orders to the troops stationed in Shanghai.

It's late, it's late, and if you want to block the footsteps of the Eighth Route Army advancing into Shanghai at this time, it's a bit of a fool's dream! Not to mention Sawada Shigeru, who was the deputy chief of staff, even the last chief of staff of the Japanese army, Prince Kanin Miyazaihito, and the current chief of staff, Sugi Sugimoto, are here, and they don't want to stop the Eighth Route Army from attacking Shanghai!

After the armored regiment of the Eighth Route Army went ashore, it immediately divided its troops, and two light tank battalions guided a huge automobile fleet to draw an arc to the west and outflank the whole of Shanghai, and the target of the attack was the railway station, the purpose of which was to cooperate with the cavalry column that landed from the wharf along the Wusong River to encircle all the Japanese puppet troops in the downtown area of Shanghai, and not let any of them go. Heavy tank battalions and armored vehicles of a column and a brigade guided the infantry, divided into small arrows, and attacked in the downtown area of Shanghai, implementing the tactic of center-flowering.

At this time, the guns were already firing in downtown Shanghai. The Japanese puppet army, which woke up, hurriedly occupied the position and tried to resist stubbornly.

After Wang Dahu, commander of the 1st Column and 1st Brigade, and Wang Xinyun, political commissar of the 1st Brigade, went ashore, they immediately spread out the map, looked at the street lamps, and immediately ordered the troops to move quickly.

Wang Dahu's order was concise and powerful: "Fast, fierce, accurate, ruthless!" Use your iron fist to smash all the Japanese puppet troops who dare to resist! When encountering the devil's firepower point, whether it is a barricade or a building, bazookas, infantry guns, and guns and grenades are all greeted, so that the Japanese army has no chance to entangle with our army! ”

Wang Dahu, the first Red Army platoon commander that Liu Yimin met in Xinwei after crossing, has become a middle- and high-ranking general of our army who has experienced a hundred battles under Liu Yimin's careful training, commanding the most elite first brigade of our army, and the orders issued are naturally decisive and powerful!

The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 1st Column Artillery Brigade, and units directly under the column all poured into the city of Shanghai, and all regiments, battalions, companies, and platoons bravely fought to be the first to rapidly attack and advance in accordance with the targets indicated on the Japanese puppet army's defense map drawn up in advance by the Shanghai underground party.

As soon as the commander of the first battalion, Zhang Guangming, led his troops to attack the east gate of the old Shanghai county, which was still preserved, they encountered the fire of the Japanese army. This is a squadron of devils who have gone into battle in a hurry, and the sandbag barricade seems to have not been completed, so the little devil has set up a machine gun on the half-lazi barricade, spitting out a tongue of fire like a poisonous snake letter, trying to block the way of the first battalion.

The three tanks of the heavy tank platoon covering the attack of the first battalion simply ignored the crossfire of the machine guns and rifles of the little devils, the motors roared, and the on-board machine guns clattered so loudly that the little devils could not raise their heads. Immediately afterwards, the three tanks of the Eighth Route Army were directly crushed one after another. Only a slight rattle was heard, and the little devils and the guns in their hands shattered under the tank tracks.

As soon as they saw the Eighth Route Army attacking with heavy tanks, the living little devils became anxious, and threw grenades one after another, trying to use the smoke from the grenade explosion to blow up the tank with explosives.

The first battalion is equipped with one-color Bayi automatic rifles and Bayi machine guns, which are the tips of sharp knives cultivated by Liu Yimin, how can the little devils succeed? No, the battle groups that followed the attack behind the tanks were deployed on the spot, and the Bayi automatic rifles in their hands kept firing, killing those little devils who were rolling all over the ground and trying to blow up the tank.

The devil was really well-trained, and in such a short period of time, he went to the roof of the building, set up a machine gun on the roof, and fired wildly at the Eighth Route Army, which was following the tank attack and advancing on the street. Several soldiers couldn't dodge and were knocked to the ground by the devil's machine guns, and red blood was sprinkled all over the ground at that time.

Zhang Guangming's eyes were red, and he immediately ordered to fire a grenade to kill the little devil machine gun fire point on the roof of the building.

After the Eighth Route Army successfully developed a gun grenade, it was the first time that it was used in a fortified operation. However, due to Liu Yimin's guidance, the gun grenades developed by the Shandong Eighth Route Army were made with reference to the gun grenades of our army in later generations, which had a longer range and greater lethality than the gun grenades developed by the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army in history.

Several grenades burst out of the air and landed on the devil's machine gun position on the roof of the building, overturning the devil's machine gun.

Zhang Guangming was overjoyed, the gun grenade was successful in the first battle, this thing saves money and materials than rockets, and is easy to mass-produce, so it can be produced more by the arsenal in the future.

After taking out the devil's machine gun position, the 1st battalion fire support company's 1st machine gun and grenadier all opened fire to suppress the position hastily arranged by the devil in the east gate. Da, da, the Bayi machine gun and the Bayi automatic rifle made a crisp sound and fired accurately.

The devil infantry pulled the bolt and fired, and the Bayi automatic rifle of the Eighth Route Army could fire a few bullets. The 38 big cover encountered the Bayi automatic rifle, and it is strange that the little devil is not dead! Moreover, the class that came was the most elite unit of the Eighth Route Army, and the quality of the individual soldiers was much higher than that of the Japanese puppet army garrisoning Shanghai. The little devil has no other way than to die or run away. Since the little devils want to rely on the geographical advantage to drive the Eighth Route Army out of Shanghai City, then they can only report back to the large and small shrines in the East.

There were not many devils in the county seat of Shanghai, and after the Eighth Route Army entered the city, it attacked rapidly, quickly controlled the north gate, south gate, and west gate, and began to attack the urban area of Shanghai Special City.

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