The Battle of Hangzhou Bay on 5 November shocked Shanghai, China, and the world. When the naval battle in Hangzhou Bay had just taken place, Wang Yaqiao, who was far away in Hainan, issued a nationwide telegram.

In the telegram, he said that the naval unit of the Hainan Escort Force had gone to Shanghai that morning to ambush the Japanese troop carrier that was preparing to land in Hangzhou Bay.

Therefore, when the tremendous results of the battle in Hangzhou Bay were announced, and the submarine units of the Hainan Escort Force showed their banners again, the people of the whole country were excited.

Everyone rushed to tell each other that we also have a navy in China, and it turns out that our Chinese navy has suffered so much. With just eight submarines, fifteen troop carriers, four destroyers, and one aircraft carrier of the enemy were killed.

More than a dozen Japanese warships and troop carriers were damaged to varying degrees. If it weren't for the fact that this naval battle took place on the edge of Shanghai, the more than 70 planes on the aircraft carrier Eagle Xiang would have finally fallen into the sea.

Although the last data released by the Japanese army showed that they had also killed seven Chinese submarines, it should not be forgotten that there were still 50,000 Japanese troops on 15 troop carriers.

Because there were still dozens of mines in the sea area where the troop carriers were attacked, although other Japanese warships in Hangzhou Bay had tried their best to rescue them at the risk of triggering the mines, for most of the Japanese Tenth Army, which could not swim, most of them were killed or wounded within a few minutes of falling into the sea.

Therefore, of the nearly 50,000 soldiers of the Japanese Tenth Army in the fifteen sunken troop carriers, only about 10,000 were rescued. The Japanese suffered more than 40,000 casualties this time.

You must know that since the Battle of Songhu began, the entire Chinese army of 800,000 troops has been fighting with the Japanese army of 200,000 for nearly three months, and its own casualties have been nearly 200,000, and it has only killed and wounded more than 40,000 Japanese soldiers.

Fortunately, the Hainan Escort Navy only dispatched eight submarines, and killed 40,000 Japanese troops in one day, and only lost seven submarines, and only two or three hundred people were killed when they were full. What a battle loss ratio.

Unfortunately, the victory in the Battle of Hangzhou Bay did not change the result of the Japanese army's successful landing in Jinshanwei, and the wounded Japanese troops desperately rushed to the beach in Jinshanwei Town, Hangzhou Bay.

Since the Chinese troops defending here had only a few battalions of men and horses, the 10th Army finally managed to land 50,000 men under the fierce naval guns of the Japanese warships.

However, the commander of the Japanese Tenth Army forced the 6th, 16th, and 18th Divisions, which had just landed ashore, to attack various strategic points south of Shanghai, in an attempt to put tremendous pressure on the Chinese army. Forcing the Chinese army to retreat.

The strategic intention of the Japanese army was achieved, because at this time the Chinese army on the south bank of the Suzhou Creek in Shanghai had five armies totaling 600,000 men.

Although everyone belonged to the same sequence of the National Revolutionary Army, their relationship with Commander Chiang was originally inherently different, and the various armies to which each group army belonged were from different military camps.

Everyone was worried that the Tenth Army would be copied and wiped out in Shanghai. Therefore, these Chinese troops are playing a strategy of temporarily withdrawing from Shanghai and then trying to counterattack.

And Commander Chiang also pinned his hopes on the League of Nations held at this time to coordinate it, so he did not order an immediate retreat, and as a result, he lost a precious opportunity to retreat.

On 5 November, Xie Jinyuan's regiment, which had been fighting with the Japanese Third Division for 10 days at the Sixing warehouse, learned that the Japanese Tenth Army had landed on the Jinshanwei front line in Shanghai.

Ten days of defending here, destroying nearly 3,000 Japanese troops, while his own casualties were less than 50, this record was enough to make him laugh at the whole country.

And now there is not a single Chinese army around them, and now except for the British concession behind them, the Sixing warehouses have been surrounded on three sides by the remnants of the two wings of the Japanese Third Division, and they have no point in defending.

Xie Jinyuan looked at the scorched earth in front of him, and the surrounding houses were in ruins, and he secretly swore that one day, he would get back all the murders caused by the Japanese on Chinese soil.

Then, in accordance with Li Tie's explanation, Xie Jinyuan led more than 400 soldiers from the Sixing Warehouse to safely evacuate the Sixing Warehouse in the early morning of November 6 and proceed to the British Concession.

When they entered the British Concession, although they were heroically welcomed by the citizens of Shanghai, the British minister ordered the confiscation of all the weapons of Xie Jinyuan's regiment.

And Xie Jinyuan, who had already been mentally prepared, immediately ordered the soldiers to actively cooperate, and in this way, Xie Jinyuan led 400 brave soldiers into a closed military camp prepared for them by the British government, and lived a life of house arrest from then on.

And just after Xie Jinyuan's regiment had all retreated to the British Concession, on the morning of that day, a small group of very reluctant Japanese soldiers was sent out to carry out a harassing attack on the Sixing warehouse, as was customary.

The lucky Japanese squad leader saw that there were no bullets fired around, and there were no grenades thrown above his head, and he suddenly realized that the Chinese defenders here had fled.

After the squad leader yelled at the Sixing Warehouse three times and no one answered, he made a meritorious service this time, and he became a combat hero of the Japanese Third Division, because he led a small group of Japanese soldiers to occupy the Sixing Warehouse.

In order to smear his face, the commander of the 3rd Division said that he would personally meet with the squad leader and his heroic squad.

As a result, when the squad went to the headquarters of the 3rd Division to receive the commendation, the 3,000 Japanese troops of the 1st and 2nd Wings of the 3rd Division who survived by luck began to frantically destroy the warehouses of the four elements.

They smashed everything that could be smashed in the Four Rows warehouse to vent their frustration for ten days. While the soldiers of the two wings were still frantically wreaking havoc.

A soldier came to report to the 2nd Wing Commander that a huge warehouse had been found in the basement, but the iron door had been welded shut, and they suspected that there was something good hidden in the underground warehouse.

The commander of the second wing, who had long been red-eyed, immediately led several hundred soldiers to the underground warehouse, and with the help of the sappers of the wing, they took a lot of effort to open the door of the warehouse.

But what appeared in front of me was not gold, silver and jewelry, but boxes of ammunition that had not yet been used.

But the most strange thing for the captain was that when the whole warehouse was quiet, he seemed to hear a tick-tick sound coming from not far behind him.

Then the co-captain followed the ticking sound and found behind a wall calendar behind the warehouse door, from behind which the ticking sound came.

When the second wing captain opened the wall calendar curiously, he saw a red dial pointing in the direction of twelve o'clock, and when he just opened the calendar, the hand had just reached the designated position.

And then with a bang, he didn't know anything. At this time, there were nearly a thousand Japanese soldiers in the underground warehouse and the four rows of warehouses.

When the reporters of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army were reporting outside the Sixing Warehouse about the Japanese army's finally occupying the Sixing Warehouse, they suddenly heard an explosion from the warehouse in the distance, and then felt a huge vibration under their feet, and the whole person was unstable.

There seemed to be a huge earthquake in the Sixing warehouse, and I heard a loud bang, and then there was a sound of rocks collapsing.

When the reporter who accompanied the army finally stood firm, he found that his colleagues in front of him and the nearby Japanese soldiers were looking behind him in amazement.

Then he quickly turned around, and saw the picture that he would never forget, only to see that the original Sixing warehouse, which was more than 20 meters high, had disappeared, and a thick gray smoke on the ground was rushing towards his own face hundreds of meters away.

Instinctively, he closed his eyes and covered his face with his hands, the military reporter and the people around him were drowned in countless clouds of rubble and dust.

Fortunately, the dust was not lethal, and when he felt that the gray tip was no longer hitting his face, he let go of his hands and opened his eyes, and he found that not only the tall Sixing warehouse had disappeared, but even the thousands of Japanese soldiers who had just entered the Sixing warehouse to search had all disappeared.

When Xie Jinyuan's regiment left the Sixing warehouse, it detonated the ammunition in the underground arsenal, and as a result, the Sixing warehouse collapsed as a whole, and more than 1,000 soldiers, including the commander of the second wing, were buried under the rubble.

The commander of the third division, who had just finished praising this squad, listened to the report of the staff officer on the situation in front of him, that is to say, in order to deal with a small four-line warehouse, their third division lost more than 4,000 people, and one and a half wings disappeared in their third division.

And in the end, they didn't even catch the shadow of the other party, although in the end some intelligence officers pointed out that this Xie Jinyuan regiment had all fled into the British Concession, and was placed under house arrest by the British Concession in the form of disarming, but the commander of the third division still shouted angrily, and sent people to support the British Concession to arrest all the people of Xie Jinyuan's regiment for me, and then died.

It's a pity that not only will the British not let him enter the British Concession at will to arrest people, but even the commander of their Shanghai Dispatch Army will not agree, because now the entire Shanghai Dispatch Army is suffering from huge casualties in Hangzhou Bay.

The Tenth Army's nearly 100,000 troops lost nearly half of its strength in this battle alone, although the remaining soldiers were enough to complete the task of cutting off the rear of the Chinese army.

However, nearly 20 warships and aircraft carriers, and 40,000 soldiers of the 10th Army were killed, and it was impossible not to be heartbroken, and the Japanese generals who claimed to have destroyed China in three months bowed their heads in shame. Now they can't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into.

Now it took three months to attack Shanghai, and the losses have been nearly 100,000 people, if it were not for the fact that they were only one breath away from fully occupying Shanghai, their current Shanghai dispatch army would have collapsed.

Therefore, in order to maintain morale and to end the Battle of Shanghai as soon as possible, the commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, despite the low morale of the Tenth Army, which had just suffered heavy losses, ordered an all-out attack on the front line of Suzhou and Jiaxing.