Chapter 284: Heavy Troops Marching into Shanghai

"Long live the Yan Huang Army...... Long live victory......" The people roared with their loudest voices, and the depression of the past two years fully exploded.

"General Wei, that's General Wei......" As the tanks slowly entered the city, people finally found a young man standing on top of a tank, he was wearing a green military uniform, a shiny steel helmet, a solemn face, and kept waving to the people.

"General Wei, General Wei......" People waved the flowers in their hands in the same direction and jumped up vigorously, hoping to see clearly the object of worship in their hearts, and also hoping that the great man could see themselves.

"Welcome the Yan and Huang Army into the City ......" The student honor guard organized by various colleges and universities in Nanjing held high a huge welcome banner, which was one every 100 meters, and just across the entire street, the officers and men of the Yan and Huang Army and the military vehicles were able to pass through freely, and these words were also presented in the eyes of the officers and men of the Yan and Huang Army one by one.

Seeing the moment when the people cheered and excited, the soldiers felt that all the bloodshed and sacrifice were worth it, and the highest honor of the army was not the recognition of the people? Don't soldiers just want to see their own smiles on their faces to protect the people? At this moment, I have seen it, and what could be more gratifying than this.

"Compatriots, suffer", Wei Chendong stood on the tank, there were no superfluous words, only these few words, but in this sentence, it contained too much bitterness, too much apology, and too much condolences.

Hearing this, many people silently wiped their tears, because, General Wei's words are to the heart, in the past two years, when have you lived a human life, the ghosts of more than 300,000 relatives and compatriots keep wandering throughout the city of Nanjing, so that you can't eat well, sleep poorly, everything is not settled, and I don't know where the end is.

The Yan and Huang army slowly drove into the city, and the cheering people in the middle of the road also followed all the way, until they came to the presidential palace on Changjiang Road, the headquarters of the army. At this time, Matsui Ishine, commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, Yanagawa Heisuke, commander of the 10th Army, Toshio Tani, commander of the Sixth Division, Yoshisumi Ryosuke, commander of the Ninth Division, and Sadao Ushijima, commander of the 18th Division, and other high-ranking officials of the Nanjing garrison were all concentrated.

At 15:23, Wei Chendong got off at No. 280 Changjiang Road, and then walked to the presidential palace at No. 292, his sharp eyes scanning the opponents standing side by side.

Seeing Wei Chendong's arrival, the high-level members of the army led by Matsui Shigen were shocked and lonely. Matsui Shigen's face showed a hint of struggle, but he still gritted his teeth, carried it away, and came directly to Wei Chendong, holding his command knife high in both hands, and handed it to Wei Chendong.

Wei Chendong was silent, took the Matsui Shigen command knife with one hand, pulled it out, and said lightly: "Good knife, but there is too much blood, there is already a demon surname, and it is a magic knife."

Matsui Shigen's heart trembled, and he said seriously: "General Wei is much younger than in the newspaper, I never thought that General Wei was so young and promising, and Matsui was defeated."

For the rest, the high-ranking members of the army, led by Yanagawa Heisuke, also raised their command knives and whispered in pain: "I'll be willing to lose."

Some of the soldiers of the Yan and Huang Army immediately stepped forward to take their sabers.

"Yan Huangjun accepts your surrender application......" Wei Chendong's voice was still flat, and with a wave of his hand, he let people take these guys away.

"Kill them, kill them......" Suddenly, bursts of violent roars came out from the crowd of onlookers, which showed the hatred of the citizens of Nanjing for them.

Hearing the roar of the citizens of Nanjing, Matsui Shigen and their hearts trembled, although they knew that they were like rats crossing the street in Nanjing, but at this time they heard so many shouts and kills to themselves, and their hearts were also very uncomfortable.

Wei Chendong raised his hands high, signaling the angry people to calm down, and then shouted loudly: "Compatriots, please believe that all evildoers will be punished accordingly, but all this requires a process, a judicial process, please believe that the Yan Huangjun will not let go of any evildoer."

Hearing Wei Chendong's promise, everyone quieted down, because they believed that General Wei, who was jealous and hateful, would not lie to them.

Successfully taking Nanjing, Wei Chendong left 100,000 troops to sit in Nanjing, and the rest of the troops, led by an armored division, went straight to Shanghai, and together with General Huang Keqiang, attacked the Shanghai army from both the north and the south.

When Wei Chendong led his army to attack Nanjing, Huang Keqiang led 200,000 troops, 400 tanks, and more than 300 fighters to make a detour from Zhejiang to the south of Shanghai to attack.

At that time, at the end of the Battle of Nanjing, Huang Keqiang had captured Fengxian and Songjiang. The Shanghai garrison is composed of more than 250,000 infantry divisions and marines from the Shanghai Dispatch Army, and its commander, Lieutenant General Asakanomiya Hatoyan, is the direct commander behind the Nanjing Massacre, and is the uncle of Emperor Hirohito.

When he learned the news of the fall of Nanjing, the king of Chaoxiang Palace was shocked, he never thought that the Central China dispatch army would be so vulnerable, nearly 150,000 imperial elite soldiers were defeated in three days, and after learning that Matsui Shigen's department did not follow the instructions to break the jade, he scolded him for being a traitor and an irresponsible person.

Because I didn't expect the army to be defeated, I didn't expect it to be defeated so badly, so, the king of Chaoxiang Palace Jiuyan never thought about retreating from Shanghai, now, Nanjing fell, Wei Chendong sent heavy troops south, directly attacking the north of Shanghai, has formed a north-south joint attack with Huang Keqiang on Shanghai, a full 400,000 Yan Huang Army, 800 tanks, nearly 1,000 artillery, more than 800 fighters, thinking of this series of appalling data, Chaoxiang Palace Jiuyan King did not think about tea, food is not fragrant, and finally remembered the matter of his subordinates suggesting the evacuation of Shanghai a few days ago, but now, Isn't it a little late to do this, and now if you want to retreat, you can only go by sea.

When he learned that Shanghai was besieged by the Yan and Huang Army, the base camp was shocked, and Emperor Hirohito personally issued a secret order to order the Shanghai dispatch army to retreat, and mobilized the whole country to recruit ships to provide emergency rescue.

When Huang Keqiang's troops heard that Wei Chendong took Nanjing in less than three days, he couldn't help but have the idea of comparison, and secretly vowed to take Shanghai in the shortest possible time, and the 200,000 Yan and Huang troops reinforced from Nanjing came with a great victory, and their morale was booming, and they intended to make persistent efforts to capture the largest metropolis in China.

On September 20, the two armies took Hongkou, where the base camp of the Yue army was located, with a sharp offensive, under the full command of Huang Keqiang, and the king of Jiuyan of the Xianggong hurriedly withdrew the command and fled eastward under the cover of the Yue army.

Huang Keqiang immediately ordered nearly 800 tanks of the two armored divisions to quickly pursue and defeat the retreating army to the east, and at the same time ordered all the fighters under his command to support them.

The Shanghai Dispatch Army gradually ran out, and the Third Fleet and the First Air Fleet also hurried to support, on the one hand, with fire support, and on the other hand, because they had received orders to receive the troops to retreat and rushed to the port of Shanghai.

"Damn, we just don't have a navy, send all the planes, artillery, and bomb me hard, and the army in Shanghai, don't even think about escaping", Wei Chendong stressed many times that we should be careful of the organized sea retreat of the army, and we should destroy them with the most fierce offensive.

On the camouflaged positions layer by layer, the "Xiao Houyi" was erected again, and here, there was not only one, but a whole three, their muzzles facing different directions, and they were quickly prepared by the Yan and Huang troops of one division, waiting for the battle order.

Soon after, the news came from the aerial reconnaissance plane, and the door of the hand was quickly opened, and after a while, with an order, the three "Xiao Houyi" opened fire almost at the same time, and three huge fireballs dragged the long tail flame towards the East China Sea.

The Third Fleet, which was at sea, also spotted this big guy that appeared out of thin air, and with a bang, they saw the heavy cruisers Ashigara, the light cruiser Natori, and the destroyers Asakaze on the other side one after another.

The Ashigara was the worst, such a big guy, the target was the most obvious, it was directly hit by a cannonball, and suddenly broke a large crater more than ten meters away, and the sea water quickly poured into it, from the interruption to two parts, in the shock of all the Third Fleet troops, it sank to the bottom of the sea in less than two minutes.

The Natori was hit in the cabin of the ship, and the entire deck was almost directly cut off, becoming a flatbed ship, but it was not good, and it caused a big explosion in the cabin, and it also went to sea a few minutes later.

Even the Chaofeng was the luckiest, the huge bullet just crossed between the two big chimneys, but the distance between the two chimneys seemed to be a little small, so it was accidentally wiped by the shell, and the two chimneys were undoubtedly broken in two from the middle, killing the unprepared army on the spot, and even smashed the power room, causing a fire, and the ship was frantically rescued.

"What just hit my ship?" The commander of the Third Fleet, Takahashi Inobo, looked shocked, and while ordering the fleet to leave the area as soon as possible, he quickly sent someone to find out the reason.

"Your Excellency, if you expect it to be good, it should be the cannonball fired by the super giant cannon of the Yanhuang Army," a large Zuo stepped forward and bowed.

"Super cannon?" Takahashi Yiwang's heart trembled, then he thought of the name he had heard, he used to think that this was just a weapon that the army was worried about, but now he didn't expect that he also suffered a big loss for no reason, this cannon is so powerful, the average ship can't carry it, this is too cost-effective, no matter how big the bomb is, it is impossible to have the high cost of the ship, if it is exchanged in this proportion, it is said that sooner or later the country will be beaten into a poor egg by the [***] team.

"Judging from the situation just now, they have more than one super giant cannon", Takahashi Yiwang couldn't believe this fact, while reporting the situation to the above, he led the fleet to turn around and leave the Shanghai area, and then use the fleet to rescue the infantry, I am afraid that before it arrived, it was finished by the giant cannon of the Yan and Huang Army, the danger was too great, and the cost was too high.

Vice Admiral Nagumo Tadaichi, commander of the First Air Fleet, heard the tragic situation of the Third Fleet and exclaimed, fortunately he did not let the First Air Fleet take risks, if he lost one or two aircraft carriers, it would be really a big deal, but before he could finish his happiness, he received an alarm that a large number of Chinese planes were attacking.

(To be continued)