The Japanese army had just occupied Pingjin, and the land of China once again set off an anti-Japanese upsurge. Workers, students, government workers, and ordinary people from all over the country spontaneously took to the streets to hold anti-Japanese demonstrations.

The entire Republic of China not only set off countless anti-Japanese, anti-Japanese, and boycott Japanese goods. Many young people even went directly to various recruitment stations to sign up for the army.

There were also many heroes of the mountains and forests who voluntarily went down the mountain and took the initiative to accept Zhao'an, and they voluntarily laid down their arms for only one purpose, that is, to send them to fight the Japanese.

Patriotic businessmen all over China, including overseas, donated money and materials, and all walks of life were organizing activities to actively produce and resist Japan and save the country, and even prostitutes in many big cities took to the streets to donate money and make a contribution to the anti-Japanese war. There are even many backbone beggars, and even the Japanese resolutely do not want alms.

As the economic center of the Republic of China, Shanghai, which is also the location of Li Tie's base camp, is the best and largest organization of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement in Shanghai.

First of all, the 100,000 rickshaw drivers named as peripheral members of the Axe Gang, who were actually the ears of Huaxing Company in Shanghai, were all mobilized by Li Tie.

Every rickshaw was plastered with various anti-Japanese propaganda slogans, and Huaxing Company organized nearly 10,000 young and strong employees of Huaxing in Shanghai to conduct military special training again.

The Huaxing Escort Brigade organized 200,000 dock workers and rickshaw drivers to conduct military training for half a month free of charge, and Huaxing Company invested 10 million yuan in this alone.

At the same time, he was well aware of the importance of the Anti-Japanese War in Shanghai in the future, and Li Tie even joined forces with the three tycoons of Shanghai to start street battles in various streets and buildings in Shanghai, so as to deal the biggest blow to the Japanese invaders.

With Li Tie taking responsibility by example, the Shanghai gangsters also responded positively, and the three tycoons even organized nearly 20,000 Qinggang disciples to conduct simple military training.

As a support for their anti-Japanese resistance, Li Tie gave them 20,000 box guns and 5 million rounds of ammunition for free. Bullying can bring a little more trouble to the Japanese army in the future Shanghai Anti-Japanese War.

Even when the anti-Japanese movement in China was in full swing, Japan did not stop at this time. After the Japanese occupation of Pingjin, the attitude towards China in China was basically divided into two factions.

One faction was dominated by Ishihara Waner, deputy chief of staff of the army, and these elite Japanese staff officers did not want to expand the scope of the war in China, because at this time Japan could no longer digest the Chinese region in its possession.

They hoped to stabilize the current situation between China and Japan, and if necessary, even wanted to withdraw from the Pingjin area, in exchange for deception by the Nationalist Government for the complete recognition of Japan's occupation of the puppet state of Manchukuo.

In their opinion, now is not the time for a full-scale war with China, as long as the puppet Manchukuo and Korea are completely swallowed up, they Japan will have a large area of land on the mainland that can live.

Since then, the Japanese have no longer had to be threatened by earthquakes and tsunamis, and the people have a place to live and work in peace and contentment. In time, when Japan's national strength is further strengthened, it will not be a question whether Japan will go south and invade China again or go north to occupy the land of the Soviet Union north of Heilongjiang......

On the other hand, the Japanese military officers were mainly members of the Japanese imperial family, and they believed that since Japan had now occupied China's Pingjin region, it was better to take advantage of the opportunity to expand the results of the war.

To the west, it can annex the area north of the Yellow River, and to the south, it can directly threaten Central China, and even take the opportunity to destroy the whole of China.

However, Ishihara's faction resolutely disagreed with the royal faction to take the enemy so lightly, because although China is still a relatively backward country, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and once the Chinese are forced to fight with the Japanese.

In the end, Japan, which is small in land and has few people, is not necessarily the opponent of China, which has a large land and a large population, and if there is a real national war between the two countries, the final result must be a defeat for both sides, which will only give the Western powers an advantage. I am afraid that at that time, all of Japan's immediate interests in China will eventually become someone else's wedding dress.

The two factions have been arguing over this, and on several occasions they even went to the front of the emperor. However, because the strength of the two factions is not much different, and the strategies proposed by each seem to be very reasonable, Emperor Hirohito, who is not familiar with military affairs, does not know how to choose. In the end, the only way to do so is to procrastinate, and to let the two factions toss is not to adjudicate.

Therefore, since the Japanese army occupied Pingjin, because the views of the two factions of the main war and the main peace have not yet reached the same opinion, and the final plan for China's strategy has not yet been unified, the Japanese army in China has suspended the operation of continuing to attack China.

However, on August 9, as in the original history, two Japanese marines who had drunk too much tried to force their way into Shanghai's Hongkou Airport, which was guarded by the Shanghai military police.

Of course, the Shanghai military police, which were guarding the city, could not allow the Japanese soldiers to enter or leave such a strategic place as the Hongkou Airport at will, and as a result, the two sides clashed.

During the conflict, two Japanese soldiers first took out their pistols to provoke the military police guarding the airport, because it was just in time for the time when the anti-Japanese sentiment in Shanghai was at its strongest, and the military police guarding the Hongkou Airport were originally from the army, and none of these soldiers hated the Japanese soldiers to death.

So when the two took out their pistols to provoke rebellion, the gendarmes who couldn't help it shot and killed two Japanese soldiers on the spot. The killing of these two Japanese soldiers became the fuse of the Shanghai War of Resistance.

When the news of the Japanese soldiers killed by the Chinese military police reached Japan, the main war faction immediately gained the upper hand, and Ben's military and civilians also believed that their powerful Japanese empire should once again teach the Chinese who did not know how to be polite.

The commander-in-chief of the Japanese army in Shanghai issued an ultimatum to the Shanghai Municipal Government, demanding the surrender of the Chinese soldiers who had fired the shots and the expulsion of all the gendarmes from Shanghai.

From then on, only the police were required to maintain law and order in Shanghai, and unreasonable demands such as the removal of fortifications at all military points in Shanghai, including the Hongkou airport.

However, the Shanghai Municipal Government at that time responded positively to Commander Chiang's call and immediately rejected the threat of the Japanese army, so the main battle faction of the Japanese army's native army base camp immediately decided to mobilize a brigade from the mainland to Shanghai to put pressure on China.

It was at this time that the dignitaries of the Nationalist Government thought that it was better to destroy the Japanese 3,000 marines in Shanghai than to wait for the Japanese army to bully them.

In this way, the morale of the Japanese army could be dealt a blow to the morale of the Japanese army, and at the same time, Shanghai could be fully occupied first, and the initiative in defense and victory in the war could be established.

Everyone was thinking that if they wanted to recapture the Pingjin area anyway, they would have to fight with Japan sooner or later, and if they wanted to wield their troops in the northeast, they would have to fight with the Japanese army, and instead of going north to Pingjin and Northeast China to fight a big war with Japan, it would be better to fight a battle in Shanghai, which is located in the interior and is an international metropolis.

Because there are hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops in the vicinity of Shanghai, which is located in the mainland, and at the same time fighting in Shanghai, the Nationalist Army can be given more convenient and can get the strong support of the Chinese people.

Moreover, Commander Chiang also believed that as long as there was a big fight in Shanghai, the forces of various countries would definitely come forward to suppress Japan. As long as there are a few victories in Shanghai, perhaps this will not only teach the Japanese a lesson, but also take the opportunity to enhance China's international status.

So the wishful thinking of Commander Chiang ordered Zhang Zhizhong's Ninth Army to immediately go to Shanghai and prepare to besiege the Japanese garrison of more than 3,000 marines in Shanghai.

When the Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai saw that China had sent troops to Shanghai in flagrant violation of the Songhu Armistice Agreement, Vice Admiral Hasegawa Kiyoshi, commander of the Japanese Third Fleet, immediately ordered the fleet to sail into the Huangpu River and the ports of the Yangtze River to occupy various attack positions first.

At the same time, 3,000 marines also went to the lease area and forcibly occupied various important places in Shanghai. Because the 3,000 marines at this time were extremely short of heavy weapons, they believed that they must not be the opponent of hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops with these 3,000 marines.

Hasegawa Kiyoshi ordered the 1st Special Forces of the Navy stationed at the Japanese shipyard in Sasebo and other units to immediately go to Shanghai to reinforce the imminent battle in Shanghai.

On 13 August, the Chinese army, which believed that it was better to attack from the ground and attack the central government at the rear, took the initiative to attack in an attempt to destroy the 3,000 marines before the arrival of Japanese reinforcements and give the Japanese a disadvantage.

However, the results of the two sides were really asymmetrical, even if China attacked the Japanese army with ten times the number of troops, and even dispatched aircraft to carry out air strikes, but few results were achieved.

It turned out that China's air force had just been established, and it was very lacking in the ability to attack on the ground, not to mention that the Japanese army's anti-aircraft firepower was very powerful, and the naval guns of the Third Fleet not only had a long range, but also had great power.

Therefore, even in the early days of the war, China's military strength was overwhelming, but just like Chinese football in later generations, it was always overwhelming.

Although the Chinese army was always attacking and the Japanese army was defending, thousands of Japanese troops were always defending their positions, and the Chinese army did not take the Japanese positions at all.

The main reason why the Japanese army did not take the Japanese position despite the use of aircraft and tanks is that the Chinese army does not understand the key to air-ground integration and coordinated operations.

Many of the troops had never even been trained to work with infantry and tanks, and if they were not allowed to attack the Japanese positions, the Japanese large-caliber mortars and mountain artillery were sparsely faced.

Either the crowds of Chinese soldiers charged the Japanese positions in dense formations, but before they could rush to the Japanese positions, they were beaten into a sieve by dozens or hundreds of light and heavy machine guns of the Japanese army.

After three days of fierce fighting, after depleting the military strength of the Chinese army, the Japanese army began a planned retreat to the Jiangwan area, where the headquarters of the Japanese Marine Corps was located.

With Jiangwan as the central point, under the protection of dozens of warships, it entered the stage of confrontation with the Chinese army.

It was at this time that the high-ranking members of the main war faction in Japan, who wanted to destroy China in one fell swoop, removed Ishihara Wan'er from his post and investigated it, and at the same time decided to organize a Chinese dispatch army of 300,000 men, who were to compete with the Chinese army in Shanghai.