At dusk, a troop was marching eastward, and the soldiers were marching like flying. Even though it was the middle of winter, sweat soaked the soldiers' uniforms. This unit is the 15th Division, the 43rd Brigade, and the 127th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army. Suddenly, the radio signal on the back of a signal soldier began to flash, and the regiment commander Chen Jun ordered the troops to stop advancing. The troops marching to the sound of bugles stopped.

Soon a telegram from the military headquarters was delivered to the regiment commander Chen Jun, who personally sent a telegram to himself explaining that the situation was very critical. Chen Jun quickly glanced at the telegram, and said with a very serious face: "The army commander ordered that at least 3 divisions of the Japanese army have landed in Jinshanwei this morning and captured the line of Quangongting and Jinsiniang Bridge. The army commander ordered our regiment to rush to Lugang as fast as possible to intercept the enemy and cover the main force to defend on the line of Xingta and Zhujing. The situation was critical, and the troops were ordered to run forward. ”

In the afternoon of the same day, Army Commander Xiao Ke received an order from the Corps Headquarters: In view of the fact that the Japanese army had landed in Hangzhou Bay, the 15th and 16th Divisions were ordered to take advantage of the east-west direction of the upper reaches of the Huangpu River to block the Japanese army from going north to Songjiang at Xingta and Zhujing, ensure the smooth flow of the Nanjing-Shanghai-Hangzhou railway line, and cover the retreat of the main force of the national army to the greatest extent. Xiao Ke received an order from the corps headquarters, and while ordering the 127th Regiment of the vanguard force to block the attack in Lugang, one ordered the other two regiments of the 45th Brigade to rush to Xingta and Zhujing to build fortifications on the front line.

At about 9 o'clock in the evening, the 127th Regiment arrived at Xingta, at which time the 1st Division of the 79th Division of the National Army was in Lugang to block the attack of a wing of the 6th Division. In the dark of night, about two regiments of Nationalist soldiers were in rudimentary fortifications, resisting the frantic attack of the Japanese army. The 6th Division of the Japanese Army is a standard division regiment, and its combat effectiveness is very strong. At that time, the division commander Toshio Tani participated in the Russo-Japanese War. This person was not only boasted by the Japanese army as a fierce general, but also promoted as a tactician.

When the gunfire rang out at the Lugou Bridge, Kumamoto, Japan, where the 6th Division was located, was enveloped in a frenzy, and in the midst of the drumming noise of the citizens of Kumamoto, the 25,000 officers and men of the 6th Division embarked on the sixth journey of invading China. The 6th Division was quickly thrown into the North China Battlefield, and immediately after its arrival in China, it was incorporated into the First Army of North China. The 6th Division strengthened the Yongding River on September 14, captured Zhuozhou on the 18th, and Baoding on the 24th.

The 6th Division of the Japanese Army is known as the Beast Corps, and from the division commander to Toshio Tani, it pursues the tactics of burning and killing, and does all kinds of evil. On October 8, the 6th Division captured Zhengding, and along the way, with the connivance of the division commander Gu Shoufu, the Japanese army slaughtered more than 9,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians in Baoding and Zhengding alone. Due to the tight Songhu Campaign, the 6th Division was ordered to requisition the Songhu Battlefield and incorporated into the 10th Army. At this time, a wing of Japanese soldiers was attacking the defending Nationalist positions.

The 79th Division of the National Army served as the guard of the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway, and after the Japanese landed, the Ministry of National Defense ordered the 79th Division to intercept the front line of Xingta. The division has 6,000 soldiers, and at this time the interception force put into Lugang is two regiments, less than 2,000 people. The purpose of the interception at Lü Gang was to ensure that the main force built fortifications at Xingta. The Nationalist troops rushed to Lügang, and before the trench fortifications could be dug, the Japanese troops appeared. The arrogant Japanese army did not pay attention to the national army in front of them at all, and soon launched a tidal attack.

Just when the defensive position of the national army was in jeopardy, the 127th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army rushed to the battlefield. The guns and artillery on the battlefield were like thunder, and a subordinate said in the dark: "Regiment commander, I am very fortunate that there is a national army unit here to block the attack, but it seems that the firepower of the national army is too weak, and it is difficult to resist the impact of the Japanese army." "Order the 1st Battalion to flank and disrupt the Japanese attack. The 2nd and 3rd battalions quickly made a detour into the positions of the national army. ”

It was not a problem to break through the positions of the national army, and the commander of the Japanese wing was smug. Suddenly, there was a dense burst of gunfire from the west, and a unit suddenly appeared from the west in the dark night, and a rain of bullets swept through, and the explosion of grenades exploded in the Japanese charging ranks. Seeing this, the wing commander was taken aback and immediately ordered the attacking troops to retreat. The Japanese were well trained, and the attacking forces quickly shrank back. "Report to the wing commander, the reinforcements of the national army troops have arrived, and the enemy's firepower is very fierce, and the combat effectiveness and strike firepower are significantly higher than the frontal enemy army."

Another subordinate reported: "This support soldier made a shock and quickly entered the frontal position, and it is estimated that the number of troops will not be too many." "Take advantage of the enemy's reinforcements to maintain stability and attack immediately!" The wing commander decisively gave the order. Soon the Japanese threw in a brigade to attack. The Japanese artillery was prepared, and then the soldiers attacked. At this time, the soldiers of the 127th Regiment were entering the positions of the national army one after another. At the critical moment, reinforcements came, and the morale of the soldiers of the national army was greatly boosted.

The officers and soldiers of the two sides did not have time to communicate, and in the face of the rapid attack of the Japanese army, the officers and men of the Eighth Route quickly entered the battle. On the position, a machine gunner of the Eighth Route Army quickly set up a machine gun, and his movements were skillful and in one go. A soldier from the national army next to him asked, "May I ask which part of you are from?" "We are the Eighth Route Army!" Before the soldier could continue to ask questions, the Japanese attacked. The Japanese soldiers were still far away, and the Nationalist soldiers were the first to shoot, while the well-trained soldiers of the Eighth Route Army did not shoot.

When the Japanese entered 200 meters, a dense rain of bullets suddenly rained down. The Japanese charge formation was overturned on their backs, and the Japanese were obviously unprepared, and were suppressed by heavy fire, and the speed of the Japanese attack was greatly reduced. The sudden ferocity of enemy fire on the front made the attacking Japanese realize that they had encountered a real opponent. Several Japanese grenadiers had just fired a few grenadiers, when suddenly a rocket hit the position of the Japanese grenadiers, and several of the grenadiers were engulfed in flames from the explosion.

At present, the Eighth Route Army has developed many varieties of rockets, including armor-piercing explosive shells specially against tanks and combat vehicles, anti-personnel bombs against soldiers, and incendiary bombs. It was an anti-personnel bomb that had just been fired. The Japanese could not contain the machine-gun fire, and the attacking troops were suppressed and could not move. At this time, the mortars of the Eighth Route Army suddenly launched a bombardment, and the Japanese army could not bear it, so naturally this round of attacks was aborted. The Japanese forward units were beaten a little dazed, they had never met such an opponent.

On the Japanese offensive position, several 92 infantry guns were firing. Due to the speed of the march, the mountain artillery attached to the wing was still behind. Fighting against the Chinese army in North China, the 92 infantry artillery and grenadiers could solve the problem, but this time it didn't work. "Report to the Wing Commander, judging by the defensive and firepower allocation, the enemy has at least two regiments of reinforcements!" The Japanese combat staff was based on the analysis of the degree of the enemy's firepower, so there was a miscalculation.

Another operational staff officer reported: "Opposite must be the elite units of the Chinese army, with strong combat effectiveness and well-trained soldiers. In particular, the opponent's small artillery was very accurate, which caused our grenadiers to be unable to function. The opponent's ** landing point is very even, and the explosion area is connected. The distribution of machine gun fire from the opposing side was very reasonable, and a rain of cross-bullets was formed with almost no dead ends. "An operational staff officer is very professional in analysis.

The commander of the Japanese army believed that the situation was serious and ordered to report to the brigade headquarters, and the brigade headquarters learned of the situation and quickly reported it to the division headquarters. At this time, the division commander Gu Shoufu had not yet left the Quangong Pavilion, and he was also a little stunned when he received the report from the forward troops, and it was self-evident why two regiments of elite national army troops suddenly appeared in front of him. Tani immediately met with Commander Yanagawa Heisuke to report on the situation of the vanguard troops. At present, the large forces of the Japanese army are still ashore, and all kinds of light and heavy are piled up on the docks, and if the national army transfers elite troops at this time, the consequences will be unimaginable.

"How did the intelligence of the Intelligence Headquarters do it, didn't it mean that there was no main force of the Chinese army in this area? Why did the elite units of the Chinese army suddenly appear? Immediately inquire with the headquarters and ask the Intelligence Headquarters to provide accurate information. Order the forward troops to stop the attack, and in addition, immediately fortify the area around the Quangong Pavilion and the Golden Silk Bridge! And send reconnaissance units. Yanagawa Heisuke gave the order decisively. Although the Japanese army was fierce and arrogant, the Japanese army would not easily get involved in danger, and the Japanese troops would never act rashly without more than 50 percent certainty.

Given the Japanese army's knowledge of the Nationalist troops, they basically knew what to expect. However, the Japanese army knew very little about the troops of the Eighth Route Army in Jiangxi, and the relationship between the Communist Party and the Kuomintang, the Japanese army basically ignored the Eighth Route Army in Jiangxi. In the Songhu Battle for nearly three months, there was not a single unit of the Eighth Route Army on the battlefield, which showed that the contradictions between the Nationalist Government and the Communist Party were still surging, so the Japanese Army's intelligence headquarters devoted all its energy to the troops of the Nationalist Army, so the Eighth Route Army suddenly appeared on the battlefield, and the Japanese army did not expect it at all.

Soon after, the headquarters of the Dispatch Army sent a telegram: It was believed that the Chinese troops encountered by the 6th Division in Lugang were the elite units of the Nationalist Army. Judging from the operational situation on the Songhu battlefield, the elite units of the national army were equipped with two new weapons, one was a single rocket launcher, which posed a deadly threat to armored combat vehicles, and the other was a round explosive package fired by an earthen artillery. The greatest threat to the earthen artillery installed by the Chinese army is the power of the explosion, and the gunpowder used in it is TNT explosives. It is also judged that on the front line of Hangzhou Bay, even if there are elite units of the Chinese army, there will not be more than one division. The 10th Army was ordered to continue its attack after dawn and capture Songjiang as soon as possible.

In addition, after dawn, Shanghai will dispatch reconnaissance planes and bombers to support the operation. Yanagawa Heisuke finished reading the telegram report: "Order the 2nd Independent Mountain Artillery Regiment to quickly move north, and make sure to break through Lyco tomorrow morning." "The Japanese army advocated artillery strikes, and Commander Yanagawa Heisuke knew it in his heart. Even if the elite troops of the Nationalist Army were intercepted at Lü Gang, it was impossible for their artillery to reach the battlefield, so there was nothing to worry about.

After the Japanese army was pushed back, the regiment commander Chen Jun met with a brigade commander of the Nationalist Army. When they met, the brigade commander of the national army was overjoyed and said: "Your unit arrived in time to save our unit from being annihilated. The Eighth Route Army really lived up to its reputation and was powerful in combat. The brigade commander of the national army looked at this fierce army with an expression of envy in his eyes. Thanks to the brothers of the 67th Division for blocking the Japanese army first, the situation is now very critical, and we have heavy Japanese troops in front of us. The main force was ordered to fortify on the front line of Xingta and Zhujing to cover the retreat of the main force of Songhu. As soon as Chen Jun's words fell, an operational staff officer ran over to report: "Report!" Call from the military department! ”