February 27 of 32 was also exactly one month after the 128th Anti-Japanese War, and it was also the last day that Kenyoshi Ueda was appointed commander-in-chief of the Japanese army in Shanghai.

By the time General Yoshinori Shirakawa arrived in Shanghai, he had already heard about the collapse of the Japanese headquarters in Shanghai due to a sneak attack by the Axe Gang.

Although he hated the incompetence of Kenkichi Ueda and others, General Yoshinori Shirakawa, who was born into the aristocracy, did not blame several former commanders for this.

Nor did he embarrass several Japanese commanders by the failure of several attacks on Shanghai, and he went directly to the Izumo, where he was greeted by a queue of nearly 100 warships off the coast of Shanghai, and Shirakawa Yoshinori had a friendly and peaceful discussion with the three former Japanese commanders-in-chief.

Hundreds of warships lined up on the sea, and the magnificent scene greatly boosted the morale of the Japanese army and also hit the confidence of the people of Shanghai to resist to the death.

At this time, the military strength of China and Japan was already very different. The Japanese side had nearly 100 warships, 90,000 Japanese troops, 300 aircraft, hundreds of tanks, and hundreds of artillery pieces of various types.

The Chinese defenders numbered less than 50,000 and had very few heavy weapons, only a few planes and dozens of small-caliber artillery, and not a single tank.

Although the Chinese defenders, with the support of Huaxing Company, there was no shortage of all kinds of light weapons and ammunition. However, they lacked the overall strength to resist the heavy equipment of the Japanese army.

Therefore, when the three former commanders saw such a strong strength, several people once again regained their confidence, and several people rushed to lead the Japanese army to attack Shanghai again.

This time, they must defeat the 19th Route Army and the 5th Army and fight for the honor of their Great Japanese Imperial Army.

looked at the three red-eyed generals in front of him. General Shirakawa Yoshinori couldn't help but shake his head: "I really don't understand, how did you become a general?"

Has the difficult leadership career for many years made you forget the most basic military knowledge you learned in military schools?

The defenders on the opposite side have no heavy weapons, and their number is less than half of the Japanese army.

Besides, who told you to risk the lives of imperial soldiers to fight with the ** people? Most of our soldiers are highly educated, but what are the soldiers on the other side?

Most of them are illiterate and semi-literate, and we suffer a great loss by letting our highly educated soldiers exchange their lives with uneducated soldiers.

Even if we exchange ten lives for one life, we will lose, because there are too many Chinese, and we cannot afford to exchange one for ten. So you won't use your brains anymore to think about avoiding the real and avoiding the false? ”

After teaching the three former commanders-in-chief in front of him, Shirakawa Yoshinori asked people to spread out the Sino-Japanese offensive and defensive situation map on the table, and he took a good look at the defense lines outside the concession near the Songhu fortress, together with the defenders of the Zhabei District, and then pointed to the Liuhe area in the rear of these areas and said:

"We have a lot of troops now, and in three days we just need to make a feint on the front. Then secretly send a force to detour through the Liuhe area, which was the weak point of the Chinese defenders.

As long as they successfully land there, the entire Shanghai garrison will be caught in a situation of being attacked from both sides, and the enemy will be attacked on the back of the belly, and under the condition that the troops are inferior to ours, the firepower is inferior to mine, and the danger of annihilation at any time, do you think that the Chinese defenders have any other way but to retreat? ”

The three generals couldn't help but slap themselves fiercely, "What a simple tactic, this is the only way to defeat the enemy since ancient times, with such a strong strength of the Japanese army and this sneak attack, how can the Chinese army be invincible?" ”

In fact, just as General Yoshinori Shirakawa had envisioned, on the afternoon of the 27th, the Japanese Shanghai Dispatch Army began to mobilize a large number of troops to assemble again in front of the Chinese defenders.

Because the ceasefire agreement was still in effect, the Shanghai defenders had received a solemn order from Commander Chiang that they were not allowed to take the initiative to attack, and could only passively organize defense.

At the same time, due to the shortage of troops, a large number of defenders in the rear were again transferred to the front. In this way, a large number of defensive vacancies inevitably appeared in the flanks and rear of the Shanghai defenders.

Although Li Tie knew that in the original history, the Japanese army seemed to have launched a sudden attack from the flank of the Shanghai defenders, and he also informed Commander Chiang and Commander Cai of the possibility that the Japanese army would attack the Shanghai defenders from the flank.

However, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and how can the two battle-hardened generals not know the death hole of this passive defense, but now it is different from the past, they used to have more people than the Japanese army, and they could also stop the Japanese attack by reserving enough reserves.

However, the Japanese troops attacking the side were already well prepared, and this strength was twice as large as theirs. And 50,000 people to defend a city as big as Shanghai is simply a pipe dream on the premise that there is no air force and no navy.

However, Commander Chiang and General Cai had immediately reported the current unfavorable situation in Shanghai to Commander Chiang in Luoyang, and Commander Chiang was actively trying to find a solution.

Commander Chiang immediately telegraphed several provinces and municipalities around Shanghai to immediately dispatch the main forces that were fighting bandits in various places to move closer to Shanghai, and a total of nearly 200,000 troops received orders to move closer to Shanghai.

On the first day of March, the Shanghai defenders had all been mobilized for a few days, and the Japanese troops on the opposite side did not show any signs of attacking, and the Shanghai defenders began to be a little careless.

On this day, the Japanese Ninth Division suddenly began to attack the Shanghai defenders with all its might, and all kinds of aircraft and artillery bombarded indiscriminately for a while.

While the Shanghai defenders were still desperately resisting, the Japanese 11th Division, with the help of warships, quickly dispatched troops to the mouth of the Liuhe River and captured the rear of the Shanghai defenders.

Knowing that the back road was cut off, the Shanghai defenders immediately became in chaos, and at this time the front-line soldiers were engaged in a battle with the Japanese army, and the Shanghai defenders were simply unable to repel the 11th Division that had already occupied Liuhekou and other places.

In desperation, the 19th Route Army and the Fifth Army had to retreat to the outer suburbs of Shanghai overnight, and redeploy in the area of Jiading County, waiting for new reinforcements to arrive before counterattacking.

Without the resistance of the Shanghai defenders, on March 2, it took only one day for the Japanese army to fully occupy Shanghai. The next day, under the mediation of ministers from many countries, the two sides again reached an armistice.

The reason why the Chinese defenders agreed to mediate was because they were no longer able to counterattack and waited for reinforcements. The Japanese armistice was because they had just occupied the downtown area of Shanghai, and 90,000 people sounded like a lot, but when Shanghai was full, there were places everywhere that needed to be sent troops.

At the same time, Jiading County was no longer within the scope of the Japanese naval artillery attack, considering the effect of reducing casualties, Shirakawa Yoshinori decided to postpone the attack, first look at the strength of the first person before making further plans.

At this time, the temporary office of the Luoyang Nationalist Government, Commander Chiang had already received information that Shanghai had been lost and that the Japanese had sent nearly 100,000 troops to capture Shanghai.

At the same time, he also got the 200,000 reinforcements, which were progressing slowly, because they were at war with **, and they couldn't retreat for a while.

The biggest headache for Commander Chiang was that the government was seriously in deficit, and the funding gap for civil affairs alone was as high as 30 million, and if the 200,000 troops were mobilized to fight the Japanese army, at least 30 million yuan would be needed.

Commander Jiang has already sent more than a dozen telegrams to Song Ziwen in a row, begging Song Ziwen to take him for the sake of the family, and help him borrow another 30 million yuan no matter what.

Otherwise, the government will fall and the army will be scattered. Without the Japanese attacking, their China would have perished at the hands of Chiang Song.

Song Ziwen immediately united with the Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebols again, but everyone only made up less than 10 million by smashing pots and selling iron, and where can I get 20 million?

Seeing that Commander Jiang was so worried, Dai Li, who was Commander Jiang's confidant, couldn't help but remind Commander Jiang: "Principal, that, that Li Tie seems to be the richest man in the world, why don't we borrow something from him?" ”

"That's right! How did I forget him, Shanghai is his lair, in order to drive out the Japanese, who will pay for the military if he doesn't pay for it? Commander Jiang was overjoyed when he heard Dai Li's words.

Dai Li was immediately ordered to draft a telegram, demanding that Li Tie donate 30 million yuan for all the military expenses of the Shanghai War of Resistance.

Alas, Commander Jiang, when will he be able to change his problem of taking advantage of it?

When Li Tie received a telegram from Dai Li at the Golden Tiger Club to borrow money, he couldn't help laughing, because in the original history, both the Chinese side and the Japanese side finally stopped because they lost both sides.

Although both sides suffered heavy casualties, the Chinese's ability to resist attacks far exceeded that of the Japanese, and as far as Li Tie knew, this general Shirakawa Yoshinori cherished the lives of Japanese soldiers very much.

Therefore, taking advantage of the current cease-fire, if it is planned properly, it is not impossible to force China and Japan to truly cease fighting.

He can now see that Shirakawa Yoshinori is digesting Shanghai, and he is also observing the follow-up reaction of the Chinese government, and if the Chinese government's response is strong and effective, then he will not dare to fight again.

This is because the expansion of the war again will lead to a national war between the two countries, which will be very disadvantageous to Japan, which has just occupied the northeast, because Japan is now short of troops in Japan, and the domestic economy does not allow it to expand the scope of the war again.

The Emperor and the Cabinet were already very dissatisfied with the Admiralty's unauthorized expansion of the Battle of Shanghai, and before they came to Shanghai, they received the Emperor's personal advice that the Battle of Shanghai must be ended as soon as possible.

It's just that there are still a large number of unwilling people in the cabinet and the military department who want to take the opportunity to expand the results of the war, and if they can't find a good reason, they really can't take the initiative to stop the war.

At the same time, General Yoshinori Shirakawa knew very well that he was the last batch of Shanghai reinforcements, and if he sent more troops, he could only draw people from the Japanese reserves.

Therefore, Shirakawa Yoshion was very cautious, he sent a large number of spies to start spying on the real bottom line of the Chinese government, and at the same time restrained the Japanese soldiers in Shanghai not to do things that anger the heavens and people, otherwise military law would be involved.

And Li Tie clearly knows the current mentality of China and Japan, but he can't tell Commander Chiang the true mentality of the Japanese now, otherwise he might have made some stupid moves when Commander Chiang is happy.

As soon as the Japanese occupied Shanghai, Wang Yaqiao left the city of Shanghai because of his notoriety, and he and Chiang commanded them to arrange defenses together.

Although Li Tie is famous, he is only a patriotic businessman after all, and on the surface, Li Tie has not directly participated in military operations against Japan.

Moreover, in order to stabilize the hearts of the people in Shanghai, the Japanese army did not dare to arrest Li Tie at will, and the most important thing is that Li Tie is the largest investment businessman in the United States, and he is also the viscount of Britain, with the title of real nobility in Britain.

On the day that Shanghai was just occupied by the Japanese army, the ministers of the United States, France, Britain, and Germany sent a note to the Japanese ministers, saying that other people were in charge, and Li Tie's life must be protected, so the Japanese did not dare to find trouble with Li Tie because Li Tie's Huaxing Company vigorously supported the squadron to fight against Japan.

Therefore, all the people in Shanghai have seen an interesting scene, all the merchants who have contributed to the squadron in the Shanghai Anti-Japanese War have been harassed by the Japanese army to a greater or lesser extent, but the Huaxing Company, which has contributed the most, is as calm as ever.

The Huaxing company that has been treated so preferentially makes everyone in Shanghai admire, look at the Huaxing company, beat the Japanese, and still call for wind and rain in Shanghai.

So Li Tie did not leave Shanghai, he has been discussing with the Thousand Tailed Scorpion at the Golden Tiger Club for the past few days how to proceed with the next step.

And at this time, the arrival of an uninvited guest made Li Tie have a flash of inspiration, and he knew how to make Shirakawa Yoshinori take the initiative to sign the armistice document.