Shanghai Zhabei and Huben Brigade Temporary Headquarters.

In the courtyard, Qiao Anbang was looking up at the night sky with one hand on his back, anxiously waiting for Yali and their return.

After Zhao Gengyuan and them set off, Qiao Anbang ordered all regiments to prepare for battle, and now they only need to wait for Zhao Gengyuan and their success, and then they can launch the final general attack on the Yue army that is shrinking in Hongkou and other places.

Qiao Anbang was anxious, and suddenly, a slight sound of footsteps sounded outside the courtyard, and when he looked up, he saw Yali walking in lightly with tears on her face.

Seeing that it was Yali alone, Qiao Anbang couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Yali, what's wrong?" Zhao Gengyuan, what about them? ”

"Master, Deputy Head Zhao, they are all ......" Yali cried very sadly with a aggrieved face.

Rao was prepared, but when he really heard the news that Zhao Gengyuan and they all died, Qiao Anbang couldn't help but be stunned, and he didn't care about comforting Yali, so he hurriedly asked, "Then did they succeed?" Did you destroy the Izumo? ”

"Hmm......" Yali cried so much that she nodded lightly: "Deputy Commander Zhao and thirty soldiers fell into the siege of the Yue army after planting torpedoes and bombs, none of them surrendered, all of them used up all the bullets, and finally killed themselves. ”

"Master, I'm sorry, it's Yali who is useless, I couldn't get them out...... Woooooooooo

"Okay, Yali, don't be sad, don't blame you for this, it's glorious to be able to die on the battlefield as soldiers, and they will live in our hearts forever." Qiao Anbang hurriedly hugged Yali and comforted him softly.

After comforting Yali, Qiao Anbang immediately turned his head and shouted, "Herald! ”

"Yes!" A herald hurriedly strode in from outside the courtyard, stood up and saluted Qiao Anbang, "Brigade seat, please instruct." ”

"Pass my order, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd Regiment, armored company, and artillery battalion immediately enter the battle, and you tell them that they must wipe out all the troops in Shanghai at all costs before dawn!" Qiao Anbang commanded in a deep voice.

"Yes!" The herald replied with an excited expression, and immediately turned around and took the order to leave quickly

Off the coast of Songhu, the Izumo, which was blown into two sections, has begun to enter the water on a large scale, and the hull is gradually sinking, and the surviving devil sailors on the deck are running back and forth in horror at the moment crying for help.

In the explosion just now, Matsui Ishone, who was sick in bed, Tsukada Tsukashi, who was guarding him on the side, and Kawatani Kiyoshi, who was in the captain's room, were all killed, and the ammunition depot was under the captain's room, so after the explosion began, the first to suffer were Kawatani Kiyoshi and several of his combat staff officers who were in the captain's room.

Matsui Ishone died even more miserably, and was directly crushed alive by the detached deck caused by the explosion.

At this point, Qiao Anbang's goal of killing two birds with one stone has been achieved, and just when the Third Fleet of the Japanese Army was in chaos and was eager to rescue the survivors on the cruiser Izumo, thousands of officers and men of the Tiger Brigade in Shanghai launched an all-out attack on the remnants of the devils.

Without the threat of devil naval guns and aircraft, the 105 howitzer group of the Huben Brigade once again displayed its might, unscrupulously pouring steel shells on the positions of the Yue army, and the entire position of the Yue army was plunged into a sea of artillery fire, and the dazzling fire almost wanted to illuminate the entire night sky.

Suddenly subjected to a fierce attack, the devil commander hurriedly asked for help from the command of the naval fleet, but after calling for a long time, he still couldn't get in touch with the headquarters.

In the end, although the other teams of the Third Fleet were in contact, the naval fleet, which had fallen into a panic, ignored the army's request for help, and in order to prevent another attack by China's mysterious special forces, all naval ships withdrew from the waters of Shanghai.

As a result, the 2,000 devil army who were ordered to stand by the army were ruthlessly abandoned by their own navy.

Although the remnants of more than 2,000 devils who did not have any naval and air force fire assistance resisted desperately, they could not escape the fate of being completely annihilated in the end.

Under the fierce artillery attack of the heavy artillery group of the Tiger Brigade, the devils were almost killed and wounded more than half, and the surviving remnants of the devils were no longer able to resist the front of the Tiger Brigade, and the battle was over before dawn.

Nearly 2,000 devils were all killed, and none of them escaped the net, so far Shanghai, the Pearl of the Orient, was officially recovered by the Tiger Brigade

Zhabei, the headquarters of the Tiger Brigade.

Qiao Anbang stayed up all night, sitting at the conference table at the brigade headquarters and anxiously waiting for news from the front.

Suddenly, Wang Gensheng, the commander of the guard company, ran in excitedly, stood up and said to Qiao Anbang: "Brigade seat, good news, the front regiments have called, the battle has ended, and more than 2,000 people of the Japanese army were completely annihilated by our army in one fell swoop, and none of them escaped the net, and now the entire Shanghai has been recovered by us." ”

"Good! Well done! Qiao Anbang couldn't help but praise it, and then said: "Immediately send a telegram to Chairman Chiang, and prepare a telegram to report to Chairman Chiang the victory with the detailed battle situation of our soldiers recovering Shanghai!" ”

"Yes!" Wang Gensheng suddenly agreed, and immediately turned around and wanted to leave.

"Wait." Qiao Anbang raised his hand to stop.

"What else do you command?" Wang Gensheng stopped and turned around and asked.

"Pass my order, after dawn, except for the necessary vigilance troops, the officers and men of the whole brigade will have a day off, so that the brothers can have a good rest and relax, but there is one rule, no one shall cause trouble for no reason, otherwise the military law will deal with it!" Qiao Anbang said in a deep voice.

"Yes!" Wang Gensheng was very excited and stepped forward again, turned around and walked away quickly

In the early morning, the whole Shanghai was plunged into a cheer, and tens of thousands of Shanghai citizens, workers, and enthusiastic young people flocked to the Tiger Brigade station, one to express their condolences and reward the soldiers, and the other to see the demeanor of this [***] elite army.

The soldiers who had a day off did not have time to enjoy the rare holiday during the war when they were surrounded by enthusiastic citizens, and the young female students frequently secretly sent Qiu Bo eyebrows to the soldiers who looked at each other, and the male students were full of admiration and asked the soldiers to explain the battle to them, and they all expressed their intention to join the Tiger Brigade.

At the same time, the leaders of Wuhan walked away.

Wang Shihe, chief of the guard, was so excited that he was almost speechless when he received the telegram from the Huben Brigade two hours ago, and when he came to Chairman Chiang's dormitory with the telegram in hand, he suddenly heard that Chairman Chiang had stayed up late last night until late at night and was asleep.

So he forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart, paced back and forth outside the dormitory and waited patiently, he did not dare or was reluctant to disturb Chairman Chiang's rest, because since the outbreak of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Chairman Chiang had hardly slept a single night.

Although the current battle for the defense of Nanjing was temporarily reversed by the appearance of the Tiger Brigade in the sky, the situation in the northern battlefield deteriorated sharply, and after the army captured Shanxi, it began to attack Shandong.

Due to the fact that Han Fuqu, deputy commander of the Fifth Theater and chairman of Shandong Province, fled south in fear of the war, not only a large number of land north of the Yellow River were lost, but also caused the army to easily cross the Yellow River, and after losing the natural barrier of the Yellow River, the door to central Shandong was wide open, and in less than half a month, Jinan, Qingdao and other important towns in central Shandong were lost one after another, and the army and soldiers approached Xuzhou, an important town in the Central Plains.

Therefore, Chairman Chiang is so busy that he can't take a break.

Wang Shihe waited patiently for about an hour, and the door of Chairman Jiang's bedroom suddenly opened, and when he saw Wang Shihe guarding the door early in the morning, Chairman Jiang, who had just gotten up, said in surprise: "Shihe, what's the matter so early?" ”

"Commission, Shanghai victory, victory!" Seeing Chairman Jiang coming out, Wang Shihe hurriedly got up and said excitedly: "Three hours ago, the Tiger Brigade sent good news from Shanghai, and after two days and nights of bloody fighting, the Tiger Brigade completely annihilated the Songhu area, and Shanghai has now been recovered. In this battle, the Tiger Brigade annihilated more than 10,000 Japanese troops, destroyed more than 100 enemy planes, and captured countless combat materials of the Japanese Army. ”

"What do you say? The Tiger Brigade recaptured Shanghai? Chairman Jiang was taken aback when he heard this, obviously unable to believe it.

"Yes, not only did they recapture Shanghai, but they also eliminated the Third Fleet Headquarters of the Japanese Navy and the Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters in one fell swoop, and achieved an unprecedented victory since the Anti-Japanese War!" Wang Shihe hurriedly nodded and replied excitedly.

"Amazing, amazing!" Chairman Chiang was shocked at first, and then said to Wang Shihe ecstatically: "Shihe, immediately report this war report to all theaters throughout the country, and order the propaganda department to publish this news immediately so that it can be published as soon as possible." I also immediately summoned Chinese and foreign journalists in Wuhan, and I would like to hold a press conference to inform the world of the brilliant achievements I have achieved. ”

"Yes!" Wang Shihe hurriedly stepped forward and immediately turned to leave

At noon on the same day, Chairman Chiang held a press conference in the War Hall of the Wuhan Military Commission on the reconquest of Shanghai, and when Chairman Chiang solemnly announced to the Chinese and foreign reporters present that Shanghai, the largest international metropolis in the Far East, had been recaptured by the Tiger Brigade of the National Revolutionary Army in the early hours of this morning, the reporters present were deeply shocked, especially the British and French, who had always looked down on the British, and their mouths were wide enough to stuff goose eggs.

The Chinese reporters were ecstatic, and some female reporters were even more excited and shed tears.

After the press conference, reporters from various countries quickly sent back to their countries the news of the explosion that shocked the world.

In the afternoon of the same day, the news of the victory of the Tiger Brigade in Shanghai and the recovery of Shanghai spread to large and medium-sized cities all over the country at an extremely fast speed under the deliberate rendering of the national political axe.

Wuhan, Guangzhou, Yucheng, Changsha, Guilin, and other large and medium-sized cities broke out in large-scale demonstrations and rallies in the evening of the same day, and the crowds participating in the rallies came from all walks of life, including students, businessmen, peddlers, pawns, and ordinary citizens.

They congratulated the Tiger Brigade on its glorious achievements in Shanghai with a march and rally, and overnight, Qiao Anbang and his Tiger Brigade became a household name throughout the country, from the elderly to children.

(To be continued)