On the night of 11 November, the scene of a sneak attack by the Japanese army like the location of the Huaxing car dealership was staged in various Huaxing territories, but unfortunately, without exception, all the attacking Japanese troops ended in failure.

The next morning, when the news of the annihilation of dozens of Japanese troops and some of them reached the ears of Fujita Susu, the commander of the Third Division, after organizing a night of organization, most of them were driven back by the Chinese army, and some of the squads were wiped out, he even wondered if he had heard it wrong.

He couldn't believe that the invincible Imperial Japanese Army would let these inconspicuous neighborhoods block their way. Lieutenant General Fujita immediately ordered all the attacking troops to divide and attack together, and they must take all the blocks where the four Huaxing industries are located.

But the brutal street fighting, and then the brutal tunnel warfare, will only make the war more cruel. Groups of Japanese soldiers rushed into these neighborhoods, fighting the Chinese defenders one building after another, and even each piece of ruins had to change hands several times.

In this fortification, which was full of bomb shelters and hidden, the attacking Japanese army encountered such a difficult opponent for the first time. Their own planes and artillery have already blown up several neighborhoods several times.

But from time to time, a few elusive Chinese soldiers could pop up underground to raid them, and this meat grinder-like battle lasted for three days.

The commander of the 3rd Division and the commander of the 11th Division finally agreed that they could not waste their great time attacking the Huaxing industry, which was defended by less than 10,000 remnants.

They should immediately continue to pursue the Chinese army to the west and north. However, if the Chinese army here is not wiped out, it will not be possible to go north to pursue the Chinese army with peace of mind.

In the end, after consultation between the two armies, it was decided that each of them would leave a brigade to continue the attack on the Chinese army here, while each of them would lead their own large forces to continue the pursuit of the Chinese defenders.

However, as the precious three best days of pursuit had passed, by the time they made a detour out of Shanghai and pursued the Chinese troops on the lines of Kunshan and Suzhou, and on the lines of Jiaxing and Hangzhou, a large number of fortifications had already been built in these places.

At the same time, hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops have arrived in Wuxi via Suzhou and Hangzhou via Jiaxing to rest and recuperate.

Seeing that the pursuing troops of the 3rd Division and the 11th Division had missed the opportunity, they could only intensify their attack on Jiaxing and Kunshan, and at the same time, hundreds of air force planes began to bomb Suzhou and Jiaxing incessantly.

Including Wuxi and Hangzhou, where Chinese troops were gathered at this time, the Japanese air force did not let go of bombing.

If the Nationalist Government at this time could reorganize its drums, take Jiaxing and Kunshan as the foundation, and then use Suzhou and Hangzhou as fortresses, retreat step by step, and block the attack step by step, then China's future situation will certainly not be as out of control as it was in the previous life.

But even with the Huaxing Escort this time, it bought three precious days for hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops in the downtown area of Shanghai. The National Revolutionary Army of this life still did not escape the fate of defeat.

Because all the Chinese troops were still retreating to Wuxi and Hangzhou one after another, and many of the troops who arrived in these two cities first spontaneously rushed to Nanjing, they thought that the withdrawal to Nanjing was the most important thing.

After seeing the fall of Shanghai, Commander Chiang, who was distressed that most of his elite troops of the National Revolutionary Army had been destroyed, made another stupid move, and he ordered all the troops to rush to Nanjing to organize defense, and at the same time discussed with the Kuomintang bigwigs the possibility of moving the capital.

In the end, while the soldiers were still retreating to Nanjing, the top leaders of the Nationalist Government had already made up their minds to move the capital to Chongqing.

And the most infuriating thing is that on the day when this decision was just decided, this news, which should not have been known to the army first, was spread all over the city on the same day.

Not only did the citizens of Nanjing know about it that day, but even the Chinese troops in the vicinity of Shanghai knew about it. So the generals of these troops were confused, whether they would continue to withdraw to Nanjing according to the order, or find another way.

The reason why Commander Chiang made a stupid move was that as soon as he saw the news of the relocation of the capital exposed, he did not immediately try to remedy the news that had greatly damaged the morale of the army, but instead ordered the retreating Chinese troops to block the attack on the spot to cover the secret operation of the Nanjing government to move the capital.

Sometimes, I can't believe what the heads of the high-level people think, it is a taboo for soldiers to change the order every day, the former order also allows all the troops to return to Nanjing, and the next order is to block on the spot.

What's even more excessive is that the number of each order conveyed to the troops is different, and not all the orders received by the troops are the same, because at this time the various troops have been scattered, maybe the person who gave the previous order has not found the troops, and the latter order has arrived, so how can the troops carry it out?

And even the common people and the soldiers in front of them know that the government is going to move the capital, how can you cover the secret relocation of the capital?

Therefore, the army of hundreds of thousands had no fighting spirit, and it was pointless to resist desperately anyway, and everyone waited for the capital to be moved, and then counterattacked the Japanese army under the leadership of the Nationalist Government.

As a result, the leaders of the five major group armies once again played a trick of what it means to leak a thousand miles. Hundreds of thousands of troops rushed to Nanjing. They all wanted to be the first troops to reach Nanjing.

Maybe the troops who arrived first would have the honor to follow Commander Chiang to the new capital, after all, the entire government moved the capital and arrived in the new capital, and it would never be possible without enough forbidden army protection.

As a result, starting from Commander Chiang's order to prepare for the relocation of the capital, on the 15th, the Japanese pursuing forces had already surrounded Jiaxing and Suzhou, two important strategic points, and even more pointed at Wuxi and Hangzhou.

On the 19th, the high-level government made another stupid move, believing that there was no danger to defend the first line of Suzhou and Jiaxing, and decided to abandon the two places and retreat to the first line of defense in Wuxi.

As a result, on the morning of the 19th, Jiaxing was occupied by the Japanese army, and on the 20th, Suzhou was occupied by the Japanese army, and within two days the two most important railway lines from Shanghai to the outside world were occupied by the Japanese army.

In fact, how did they know that at this time, the Japanese army's supplies were already seriously insufficient, and due to the impact of the naval battle of Hangzhou Bay, the Japanese Third Fleet and the Fourth Fleet had all withdrawn to the sea off Shanghai to search for the submarine force of the Hainan Escort Army, which no longer existed.

At the same time, there were still dozens of floating mines in the nearby Hangzhou Bay that had not been cleared, so the supply of the Japanese army had already been interrupted.

Even many of the Japanese troops besieging Suzhou and Jiaxing did not have a single bullet in their guns, and the only thing that the Japanese army had enough was aircraft bombs and heavy artillery shells.

If the Chinese troops in the two places could launch a decent counterattack against the Japanese army besieging them, even at the regimental level and above, they would surely find that the arrogant Japanese army in front of them was nothing more than a group of paper tigers.

Unfortunately, the war did not take place, when the Japanese soldiers occupied Suzhou and Jiaxing bloodlessly, they found a large number of supplies in the two cities that could be used by the Japanese army, including a large number of guns and ammunition used by the Japanese army.

On November 23, the Japanese army, which had been partially supplied with ammunition, finally arrived in Wuxi and prepared to attack the Jiangyin fortress from the land.

At this time, when the Jiangyin Fortress was fought at the Battle of Songhu in early August, dozens of ships of the First Fleet and the Second Fleet of the Navy of all the Nationalist Governments had already been completely damaged in the battle with the Japanese Third Fleet and the Fourth Fleet.

At the beginning of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, in order to prevent the Japanese army from going up the Yangtze River, they attacked Shanghai from the flank. The last dozen or so ships of the Nationalist Government and dozens of merchant ships had already sunk themselves at the mouth of the Yangtze River to stop the Japanese warships from going upstream.

Therefore, at this time, the Jiangyin fortress no longer had a single ship that could attack, and there were only dozens of artillery batteries, and tens of thousands of Chinese defenders who were forcibly left behind to resist the Japanese army.

On 20 November, when the Japanese army had just occupied Suzhou, the Huaxing guards who remained in downtown Shanghai and Yue Xiaofei's motley army, which numbered less than a few thousand, gradually retreated to the neighborhood dominated by Huaxing supermarkets in a ten-day street battle with the Japanese army.

At this time, there was no other place in various parts of Shanghai except for Huaxing Supermarket, and there were still organized battles.

Now the battle of Huaxing Supermarket is the last place in Shanghai that the Japanese army did not occupy, or a brutal street battle or a strange tunnel battle.

Today, there are nearly 5,000 Chinese troops in the neighborhood where the small Huaxing supermarket is located. After these ten days of fighting, the members of the Huaxing Escort Team are familiar with the ground, and they always fight more and less, although it has been a full ten days, there are still more than 3,000 Huaxing members intact.

In addition to the more than 1,000 seriously wounded, only 2,000 lightly wounded who had not lost their combat effectiveness were still alive.

Of the 2,000 surviving Chinese soldiers, only Yue Xiaofei was a regiment commander, and the rest of the highest commanders were just a battalion commander, so now Yue Xiaofei has become the leader of these people.

And within ten days, the attacking Japanese army was also uncomfortable, and more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded in these five Huaxing industries.

If it weren't for the fact that the number of the troops on the opposite side had always been that of the Hainan Guards, the red-eyed Japanese soldiers would even want to rush into the British and French concessions and burn down all of Shanghai's Huaxing industries to relieve their hatred.

Beside the wide streets, the huge building of the Huaxing supermarket, which is riddled with holes, still stands in ruins. In the wide underground air-raid shelter of Huaxing Supermarket, the five regiment commanders, including Yang Shuai, who were in charge of the Huaxing defense battle, and Yue Xiaofei were studying the final battle together.

According to the prior plan, Yang Shuai will lead all the soldiers to leave Huaxing Supermarket from the secret passage tonight, but after these ten days of fighting, there are still more than a thousand seriously wounded who cannot be taken away.

Knowing that there was still a way to live, Yue Xiaofei took the initiative to ask to stay and carry out the last mission with these wounded soldiers. However, his proposal was opposed by all the wounded soldiers.

The seriously wounded demanded that the supermarket detonator be left behind, and that they would die with the enemy.

Looking at the heroic seriously wounded in front of him, Yang Shuai and several regiment commanders saluted the wounded together. He then placed the detonators of the entire Huaxing supermarket in the hands of several wounded people whose arms were still relatively intact.

After an hour, when the five thousand soldiers had safely left the area, they could explode at any moment.

It may be that the Japanese army is tired from the fierce battle that has been going on for several days, and it is more likely to celebrate that the Japanese army going north has just occupied Suzhou. The soldiers of the entire 3rd and 11th Divisions that remained that night did not carry out the usual harassing assaults.

It wasn't until the early morning of the next day that the rested Japanese army again organized a team of several hundred people and began to touch the ruins of Huaxing Supermarket.

This time they searched back and forth in the ruins twice, and did not encounter the Chinese soldiers who usually suddenly came out of the ground, and they concluded that the same thing must have happened the same as the previous times, and the other day, whenever they occupied the ruins of a Huaxing industry and could not see the Chinese soldiers, these Chinese soldiers retreated in the direction of the Huaxing supermarket.

Now the entire Huaxing supermarket is surrounded by ruins, and only a few floors high Huaxing supermarket is still standing in tatters, where can these cunning Chinese soldiers run?

I saw that there were no bullets fired even in the building of Huaxing Supermarket. The hundreds of Japanese soldiers happily rushed into the building of Huaxing Supermarket, and when they rushed into the vast underground bomb shelter with great smoothness, they found that there were seriously wounded people lying here.

When these Japanese soldiers wanted to go up and capture the wounded, several wounded put their hands in front of a detonator, and they looked at the Japanese soldiers rushing towards them with firm eyes, and slowly pressed the detonator in front of them.

Boom, boom, countless loud noises came from the ground of Huaxing Supermarket. The Japanese soldiers hundreds of meters away felt a violent tremor under their feet, and then they watched as the Huaxing supermarket, which had been bombed for many days, collapsed with a bang. None of the hundreds of Japanese soldiers who rushed in earlier escaped.

When this loud sound spread throughout Shanghai, Yue Xiaofei, who had already drilled out of an inconspicuous tunnel in the Shanghai Effect District, looked at the downtown area of Shanghai, and a thick black smoke was rising into the sky.

Yue Xiaofei knew that it must be the smoke and dust from the collapse of Huaxing Supermarket.

Yue Xiaofei wiped his tears, he knew that there were even more tragic battles waiting for him. He asked Yang Shuai beside him: "The original Chinese Revolutionary Army has all been sacrificed, and now there are only the Sixth Brigade of the Huaxing Guard, let's say, where are we going?" Didn't the radio say that Suzhou and Jiaxing were lost? The southbound and northbound passages are also blocked, so where else can we go? ”

"Nanjing." Yang Shuai replied while pulling out the soldiers who had not all come out from the tunnel entrance.

"How is that possible? With so many of us, such a big target, planes in the sky, and Japanese soldiers around, how can we reach Nanjing safely? ”

Although he knew that the people of the Huaxing Escort were not simple, he also agreed to lead the two thousand living miscellaneous troops to join the Huaxing Escort. But hearing Yang Shuai's irresponsible answer, Yue Xiaofei was still very angry.

"Of course, it's a swagger, and even if we all escape safely, we will naturally have to carry out Plan A." Yang Shuai said disappreciatively.

"What is Plan A?" Yue Xiaofei asked in a daze.