Chapter 229: Hold Your Ground
When Han Fei heard the decision of Division Commander Wang and Division Commander Liu to stay and fight the enemy to the end, he felt that something was wrong, thinking that the Central Army had run away, and that the Sichuan Army, as a local miscellaneous army unit, could not be compared with the Central Army in terms of weaponry, equipment, training and combat effectiveness, and staying here was simply a death!
But the attitude of Commander Wang and Commander Liu is very resolute, they think that it is good to be able to resist the devil here for a while, at least it can buy some time for the people of Shanghai to escape, every time the Japanese invaders occupy a place, burning, killing and looting are all evil, everyone knows, and after the Japanese invaders landed from Hangzhou Bay, the **** defeat on the Songhu battlefield has been decided, if no one comes out to resist the devils at this time, it will inevitably cause great chaos, and the Sichuan army is willing to break off the rear and cover the retreat of other troops and the people.
Han Fei heard this, and was moved, these Sichuan army troops are too great, they know that they will die, but they still have to move forward generously, how can this kind of spirit be compared to those Central Army troops who are rushing to evacuate? It's really a real man! Admire, admire!
Han Fei immediately decided: The spy company and the Sichuan army troops will resist the devils here in Jinshan, and the devils can be contained as many as they can, in short, the devils must not be allowed to occupy Jinshan and Fengxian so easily!
Several scouts came back and reported: "A large number of devils are rushing towards the position, and it is estimated that there is a wing of devils!" ”
Han Fei received information from the reconnaissance plane sent by Captain Gu again, saying that the reconnaissance plane had discovered that there was probably another brigade or so of devils who were surrounding Han Fei and them, and while the current encirclement had not been completely closed, it was suggested that Han Fei immediately break through in the northwest direction and turn to Wuxi and Taihu Lake!
Han Fei hurriedly took a look at the unfolded military map, and felt a chill in his back, this posture is that the devil brigade is going to surround and destroy himself. Although the Sichuan Army now has two divisions at hand, and the number of troops is larger than that of the Devil's Brigade, its combat effectiveness and equipment are far inferior to that of the Devil's Field Brigade, and if you fight a positional battle with the Devil's Brigade on the tidal flats of Pingchuan here, you will definitely die.
What to do? Han Fei wanted to evacuate in the direction of Wuxi and Taihu Lake according to the order of the theater headquarters, and Captain Gu also suggested this, but Han Fei had not yet said this plan, Division Commander Wang and Division Commander Liu shook their heads again and again: "There are only us people left in the Jinshan area, if we retreat, the southern gateway of Shanghai will be opened, and the devil can drive straight in, from here along the Taihu Lake in the west to Nanjing, Nanjing is the national capital, once it is lost and falls into the hands of the Japanese invaders, then we will not lose the country!" Therefore, if others retreat, we can't retreat, so we will fight to the death with the Japanese invaders here! ”
Han Fei blamed himself for the selfish thought just now, he felt that he was not as conscious as the officers of the Sichuan Army, and everyone who came all the way out of Sichuan had already made up their minds to die with the Japanese invaders, and I was still here to worry about the gains and losses of individuals and small teams, this is too undeserved, just like that, stay here and fight with the devil!
In fact, Han Fei couldn't figure out what the true intentions of the big army of devils who landed ashore at this moment? He still thought that the main force of the devils here was coming for him and the two Sichuan army troops? As everyone knows, this is exactly one of the devil's bad moves: use a brigade to contain Han Fei and the two Sichuan army troops, and the rest of the main force will attack in the direction of Wuxi and Taihu Lake, cut off the **** back road on the Shanghai battlefield, and take Nanjing City directly!
On the battlefield of Jinshanwei, Matsui Devil used a brigade to deal with Han Fei is very worthy of the spy company, of course, his troops have suffered big losses in Zhabei and Baoshan and other places, and the special forces transferred from the Japanese mainland, just arrived in Shanghai, they were beaten by Han Fei and them everywhere, fortunately, the spies were later connected to the evacuation order and rushed to Jinshan to resist the devil landing force, otherwise, this Yamamoto devil led by the devil special combat team would lose so much that it would not be able to find.
In other words, the mountain wood devils here in Zhabei escaped the blow of Han Fei's spy company, thinking that they had great ability, relying on close cooperation with Yamamoto's special forces, they finally repelled the attack of the spy company, and took advantage of the situation to reoccupy Huishan Wharf and Gongda Yarn Mill and other places, and the **** troops left there were about to collapse at the touch of a button, and they retreated in the direction of Dachang.
After the mountain wood devils succeeded here in Zhabei, the sixth division of the devils in Nakajima poured into Zhabei, controlled the Huishan Wharf and the nearby area, and began to attack in the direction of Dachang, the defenders here in Dachang resisted stubbornly, and the devils in Nakajima attacked several times in a row, and they were all repelled by the **** defenders who stubbornly resisted!
The battle on Luodian's side was also extremely fierce, and the position changed hands many times, often during the day the devils relied on superior air firepower and naval artillery firepower to capture the position, but at night they were snatched back by the **** night attack, and the positions of the two sides were staggered, and a tragic tug-of-war began.
The Nakajima devil originally bragged to the Matsui devil: all the Luodian positions were taken within three days, but now it seems that this cowhide is about to be blown off, although he ordered his subordinate devil brigades to storm the **** position of Luodian regardless of a single one, but they were all resisted by the **** troops who resisted stubbornly with flesh and blood, and the **** troops suffered heavy casualties, but the position was still firmly held in their hands, so angry that the Nakajima devils were furious, and called the devil air force planes to bomb the Luodian position indiscriminately, in order to vent their anger!
In the direction of Luojiabang north of Jinshanwei, those devils who were transferred from the Nakajima Division encountered the stubborn resistance of the **** troops here, and they could not advance or retreat in the muddy tidal flats and reeds, and it was difficult to move an inch, Matsui was very dissatisfied with this, and he originally had an opinion on Nakajima's disrespect for himself, so he hurriedly seized this handle and asked Nakajima to take Luojiabang within three days, otherwise don't stay on the battlefield in Shanghai, and return to China!
Nakajima saw that Matsui was ruthless, although Matsui did not have the right to directly remove his division commander, but he had the right to complain to the base camp, if he couldn't take Luo Jiabang again, he would definitely be blamed from above.
Nakajima gave a death order to those devil officers under his command: transfer two more wings from the direction of Luodian to Luojiabang, attack from behind the resisting squadron, surround and annihilate them!
And at this moment, it was the two regiments under the Sichuan Army Commander Liu and Division Commander Wang who were resisting the onslaught of the devils here in Luojiabang, when they found that more and more devil soldiers were attacking behind them, and the positions were conquered by the devils one after another, and the troops suffered heavy casualties, and they saw that they could not hold it, so they hurriedly sent a rescue telegram to Division Commander Wang and Division Commander Liu, and immediately carried out reinforcements, otherwise Luo Jiabang would not be protected!