Chapter 607: The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in Shanghai and the War of Resistance in Songhu

In this battle, although the battalion and the company suffered more than 30 casualties, they killed 68 Japanese soldiers and destroyed three armored vehicles, which can be described as a complete victory.

The Japanese attack on several other streets, although the 19th Route Army fought hard, also repelled the Japanese army.

Although, the commander of the Japanese Marine Corps, Sameshima Gudaisa, held a good card in his hand, the three brigades of marines, plus the warship sailors, 2,700 people, the total number of personnel is about the same as the personnel that the 156 Brigade can use, not to mention the advantage of equipment.

However, Sameshima had only two squadrons of the 1st Brigade and a part of the 5th Squadron of the 2nd Brigade, with a total strength estimated at only about 700 people. The 5th Squadron was the first to fire the first shot of the 128 Incident at Tiantongan Station, but this squadron was also responsible for protecting the Marine Corps Headquarters in the Hongkou Park area, so it did not dare to attack with all its might.

In this way, only the two squadrons of the First Brigade really fought hard to squeeze forward.

There were not many troops to participate in the attack, but the distribution of Sameshima was that the 1st Squadron of the 1st Brigade attacked in the direction of the Tiantongan Road intersection, Yokohama Road, and Dongbaoxing Road, and the 2nd Squadron attacked on the Qiujiang Road in the south.

With such a scattered offensive deployment, it is really difficult for these marines.

In fact, the fighting qualities of the Japanese marines were really good.

According to this reporter, when the Japanese troops were assembled at the Marine Corps headquarters to prepare for departure, they only heard the sound of weapons and equipment colliding, and thousands of people did not speak, and the junior officers did not need to be reprimanded, and the whole team quickly set off in 15 minutes. The Japanese marines in the reserve, who were blind in the dark, were on standby on the North Sichuan Road, and they were also silent, until the British reporter turned on the lighter and lit a cigarette, only to find rows of Japanese officers and soldiers sitting on the side of the road a few meters away from him.

With such strict combat discipline, it is conceivable that the training of these marines in peacetime must be very solid.

But no matter how good the training is, using two squadrons to attack two battalions in street battles is still seriously understaffed.

What's more, although the Japanese marines were well trained, they did not have much actual combat experience, let alone fought any hard battles. The last time the Marines fought in actual combat was during the First Sino-Japanese War.

At some intersections, the 19th Route Army was still accustomed to putting the Japanese troops close to fight, and when these marines saw that the opponent did not shoot, they did not know the necessary vigilance at all, and even unscrupulously approached the barricades and fortifications of the Chinese army, and were immediately suppressed by fire, and retreated in confusion.

The defeat in the first battle made Sameshima Guzhong feel great pressure, he knew that he had underestimated the enemy too much, and the Northeast Army did not represent the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, and the Northeast Army was only a part of the Chinese army.

Sameshima Gushige was forced to adjust his deployment, adding two squadrons of the 3rd Brigade as a reserve to prepare for a second attack.

The newly redeployed 6th Squadron of the 3rd Group was assigned to support the 1st Squadron of the 1st Brigade to the north, and the 7th Squadron was sent to the south on Canton Road to support the 2nd Squadron of the 1st Brigade.

Shark Island has a heavy style of play, which is really stable. The four squadrons, from north to south, pushed forward together, looking very stable, what is the effect? It's still the same sentence, you will know it when you fight.

At half past one in the morning of the 29th, the Japanese launched a second round of attacks.

The narrow alleys make it very difficult for the attackers in the street battles to advance.

There were 2 squadrons of the Japanese army on the North Road, and the face was faced by the 2nd Battalion of the 6th Regiment.

Wu Kangjian, the commander of the 2nd Battalion, is Zhang Junsong's junior brother and is from the fourth phase of Huangpu. At that time, he was on the same team as Wu Kangjian, Wen Qiang was on the Kuomintang side, and Zeng Zhongsheng, the boss of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Region at this time, was on the Red Army side.

The position of the 2nd Battalion was closest to the Japanese artillery position, and the defensive area was close to the outskirts, so it was relatively easy for the Japanese to develop their firepower. Under the heavy shelling of the Japanese army and the impact of armored vehicles, in the last round of fighting, the first line of the 2nd Battalion suffered relatively large casualties. …,

In this round of attack, the Japanese armored vehicles and infantry cooperated more closely, and often the armored vehicles rushed in, and the Japanese troops also rushed in.

The entire 19th Route Army did not have much experience in street fighting, let alone much research, so in the confrontation with the Japanese army, it rarely used the commanding heights of the houses at the beginning, and just blindly defended the barricades, which suffered a great loss.

Under the onslaught of the Japanese army, the 2nd Battalion could hardly gain a foothold on the road, and as a last resort, Battalion Commander Wu led his men upstairs to the room, and the grenade machine gun began to greet him condescendingly. The Japanese army was rushing forward with their heads stuffed, and wondered why the other party did not block the road, and suddenly ate this "hail" that fell from the sky, and was immediately caught off guard, and the machine gun of the big beetle could only move forward, unable to deal with the enemy on the head, so they had to drag the wounded back in a hurry.

Wu Kangjian tasted the sweetness, and immediately ordered the construction of machine gun bunkers on the surrounding houses, leaving only a small number of troops behind the barricades, and the main forces were scattered to various commanding heights.

However, in the direction of Dongbaoxing Road, the Japanese army has successfully entered the Keming intersection of Dongbaoxing Road near the Songhu Railway, which is also the boundary of the garrison area demarcated by the Japanese army itself, but the Japanese army on this road is also unable to develop the results of the war.

If the attack from the north was unsatisfactory, then the battle in the south was a disaster for the Japanese army.

This tragedy of the Japanese took place in the direction of Canton Street. In charge of attacking here was the 7th Squadron of the 3rd Brigade of the Marine Corps, Takahashi, which had just been reinforced.

Takahashi's brigade came from Sasebo and was the last to arrive in Shanghai. On the morning of the 28th, he had just landed and participated in the attack that night. The third brigade didn't have time to get familiar with the terrain at all, and it was actually unfamiliar with its own attack area.

A group of Japanese rural soldiers who would be dizzy when they first entered the big city in Japan were even more dizzy in the big city in a foreign country.

At the beginning, the Japanese armored vehicles used heavy fire to suppress the resistance of the 1st Battalion and 2nd Company of the Chinese defenders, and once completed the breakthrough. However, the officers and men of the 2nd Company already had some understanding of the big Beetle at this time, and used the third insecticidal trick to concentrate a few heavy machine gun firepower to stubbornly counterattack, and after the armored car approached the barricade, the trick worked, and a few bullets finally penetrated the armored car, killing and injuring the crew inside the armored car.

Lost armored vehicle support, the Japanese offensive was quickly thwarted.

Knowing that the battle situation was unfavorable, Kazumatsu Takahashi, the captain of the 3rd Brigade, hurriedly took an armored vehicle to lead reinforcements.

Every brigade of the Japanese army had a standard-bearer, and this standard-bearer of the third brigade "bravely" leaned out of the armored car and waved the flag to encourage the soldiers to move forward. The armored vehicles carrying Takahashi rushed to the front first, and as in the previous attack, the armored vehicles blocked the sandbag fortifications of the Chinese army and fired heavily at the barricades.

Because it was defended by the 2nd Company and the Machine Gun Company, the firepower was fierce, so it was not attached to the Special Operations Team of the Fourth Route Army. However, with the experience of fighting armored vehicles, the 2nd Company and the machine gun company fought side by side, and they were not afraid of the Japanese army.

The three heavy machine guns of the machine gun company had been waiting for the Japanese armored vehicles for a long time. The harder and closer the armored vehicle rushed, the greater the bullet penetration.

At this time, the three heavy machine guns were only 20 meters away from the armored car!

Under the dense close-range strafing of three heavy machine guns, not only was the flag bearer knocked out of the car, but the driver of the car, the captain of the armored car detachment, and the captain of the Takahashi Brigade were all injured, and the machine gun of the armored car was also destroyed.

After losing their armored vehicles and not knowing the road, they only knew that the group of Japanese rural soldiers who rushed along the road would suffer.

They wanted to evacuate, but they couldn't, because their captain was still in the armored car, and they had to rescue Takahashi back. So, around the Takahashi in the armored car, the two sides launched a fierce battle.

The armored car broke down in front of the barricade, and the three heavy machine guns of the machine gun company on the barricade were very dense in frontal fire. Although more than a dozen machine gunners were killed and wounded by the Japanese grenadiers, and two heavy machine guns were damaged, the commanding heights of the buildings on both sides of the barricade were occupied by the 2nd Company, which condescended and firmly suppressed the Japanese troops. …,

With the help of the special combat team of the Fourth Route Army who rushed to reinforce it, the battle here quickly turned into a one-sided battle, without the cover of armored vehicles, under the fierce fire of the 2nd company and the machine gun company, as long as the Japanese marines who dared to attack became the target of the Chinese without exception, they fell to the ground and died, and those who did not dare to rush again had to lie down honestly.

It's just that it's not safe to lie on the road, and the Japanese soldiers were killed one after another by the accurate shooting of more than a dozen special combat members of the Fourth Route Army who were on the upper floor, so they had no choice but to throw down the high bridge and retreat.

After a fierce battle, the Japanese troops in the direction of Canton Street suffered 89 casualties, and most of the squadron was annihilated. Moreover, Takahashi Kazumatsu, the highest-ranking officer of the Japanese army who died in battle, died here.

It's just that the nightmare of the Marine Corps has just begun.

In the area of Guangdong Road, the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties. Further south, on Qiujiang Road, the fighting was equally fierce.

Engaged in the offensive here was the 2nd Squadron of the 1st Marine Brigade.

Like the other advancing Japanese troops, they were first confronted by the Chinese police. However, unlike other Japanese encounters, the Chinese police encountered by the 2nd Squadron were particularly powerful.

This group of policemen belonging to the Shanghai Police Department, is a brigade directly under the Shanghai Police Department, the weapons are very good, there are six ZB-26 machine guns, although they also built a barricade at the intersection, but the machine gun is set up on the second floor of the street, and has not fired, but after the Japanese army occupied the barricade, they suddenly opened heavy fire on the Japanese soldiers who went up to dismantle the barricade, and the fierce and dense machine gun fire instantly killed and wounded most of the Japanese soldiers.

At the critical moment, you still have to rely on the Beetle. Relying on the cover of two armored vehicles, the Japanese gradually stabilized their position on this road, blew up a machine gun with a grenadier, and the police withdrew, and the Japanese finally broke through the Chinese police.

But seeing that it was about to rush to the Songhu railway line, the fuel tank of the armored vehicle that rushed ahead was pierced and could not move. The soldiers of the 19th Route Army in the back stepped forward one after another to pick up grenades and began to play "bowling" again, and soon, an armored car was blown through the chassis, and four crew members of the armored car were injured.

Seeing that the front arch was immovable, the Japanese army drew out another squad in an attempt to detour the flank of the Chinese defenders.

The roundabout Sakaguchi team struggled to get out of the labyrinthine alleys, and when they ran to the railway line, Sakaguchi found himself even more equipped.

What appeared in front of their eyes turned out to be a majestic armored train!

In fact, in terms of heads, there were not many Chinese soldiers on the armored train, only one platoon. But the combat effectiveness of this platoon is much stronger than hundreds of policemen, and compared to those Japanese Beetles, the armored train of the Chinese can really be described as thick skin and thick fangs.

Facing the armored train, Sakaguchi and his squad looked at each other, unable to advance or retreat.

However, it is not possible to go back without letting go of such a shot, the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, the first strike is stronger, and the second attack suffers, of course Sakaguchi understands this truth, Sakaguchi immediately ordered the squad to open fire with machine guns, shoot at the armored train, and a grenadier also began to fire at the armored train.

Sakaguchi originally wanted to shoot a few shots, so he pretended to run away. But what happened next left Sakaguchi dumbfounded.

The people in this armored train were not from the 19th Route Army, but from the former Songhu Garrison Command, because no one in the 19th Route Army's group of "soil buns" could drive the armored train, so they had to stay.

Because the Japanese army came suddenly, the people in the armored train were startled by the sudden appearance of the Japanese soldiers, and only heard the sound of ping-pong bullets on the armored shell, as well as the sound of bombardment, which frightened these people from the Songhu Garrison Command half to death, and their first thought was not to fight back at the Japanese army, but to run. The people in the car hurriedly reversed.

After all, it was a train, which ran fast and quickly got out of the effective range of Japanese machine guns. …,

But when the heartbeat calmed down, the people from the Songhu Garrison Command in the car checked and were happy. Although the devil's machine gun cannon hit very fiercely, but not a single bullet and a piece of shrapnel can penetrate the armored train, very simple, the armor steel plate of the Japanese Beetle is only 5.5 mm thick, but the thickness of the steel plate of the armored train of the Chinese is measured in centimeters, not an order of magnitude at all, how can the machine gun penetrate?

At this time, the people from the Songhu Garrison Command, who had come to their senses, were not polite, reversing and moving forward, and they were killing back violently. Didn't you hit me with a machine gun? I will serve you with a cannon. The armored train had a rotating turret on it, and when it turned its head, it opened fire. Although the hit was not very accurate, only two shells hit the position occupied by the Sakaguchi squad after firing more than a dozen shells, but they immediately caused huge casualties to the Japanese army.

Sakaguchi knew that if he fought with these somewhat annoyed and angry Chinese, he would not be able to gain any benefit at all, and hurriedly ordered the whole team to retreat.

Fortunately for Sakaguchi, the Songhu Railway is an alley railway, with many houses on both sides, and as long as it retreats into the neighborhood, the Chinese armored train loses its target. If this was in the field, the Japanese squad would not even have a chance to retreat smoothly.

The victory in the first battle made the people of the Songhu Garrison Command on the armored train come to the spirit, and they drove the armored train and began to patrol back and forth along the Songhu Railway.

Encountering such a ferocious steel monster, not only did the soldiers of the Japanese Marine Corps dare not rush close to the railway, but even the Japanese Beetles could only hide.

In the face of an unfavorable battle situation, Sameshima Guzhong is already going crazy. Both rounds of attacks were crushed, and he had to send reinforcements to regroup his scattered garrisons and prepare for a third attack, but it would take time.

When the Japanese army began to attack at half past eleven o'clock in the evening of the 28th, although there was a report from Bi Guangheng, the 19th Route Army began to make preparations, and it cannot be said that the 19th Route Army was taken by surprise. But it did make the 19th Route Army rush for a while.

For no other reason, the Shanghai government had accepted the Japanese ultimatum and bent its knees to compromise. It is said that you don't stretch out your hand and don't hit the smiling person, I agreed to all the conditions of your Japanese, why do you still do it? What other reasons do you have to do it? Many officers and men still do not believe that the Japanese can be scoundrels to such a point.

What's more, the withdrawal of the 19th Route Army is imminent, from top to bottom, in fact, everyone is a little lax. Fortunately, this was a street battle, and they encountered the Japanese marines who had little actual combat experience, and the officers and men of the 19th Route generally had a ruthless spirit of playing with their lives, which made the Japanese army suffer a big loss. If it were replaced by some other local troops in the country, it would be difficult to say the outcome of this battle.

The two attacks of the marines were bloody, and Samejima Godaisa was of course very anxious, but there was one person who was more anxious than Sameshima Goshige, and this person was Shiozawa Koichi, the commander of the First Foreign Fleet as the supreme commander.

He gave the order to attack, but now that the war is fought like this, if you want to talk about responsibility, he is the first sinner, and if there is no improvement in this war, it is estimated that he will retire from active service.

At this point, for the sake of his own future, he has to use his strength to breastfeed.

On the ground, Shark Island Guzhong has already used all the people he can draw, and he doesn't need to make any more trouble. The warships on the surface of the water have also drawn the formation of sailors to the front line, and they will not help much. After thinking about it, Shiozawa Yuki did not play the last trump card - the plane.

Most of the reinforcement warships sent by the Japanese Navy to Shanghai were destroyers, but there was one warship that stood out from the crowd, and that was the seaplane carrier Notoro.

In the past, when many people wrote about the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, they would refer to the Noto Lu as an aircraft carrier. At first glance, it is true that this warship also carried aircraft, but to say that it was an aircraft carrier would be a big mistake. …,

Aircraft carriers, planes take off from fixed decks on warships. The seaplane carrier carries a seaplane, and the aircraft brought by the warship cannot take off directly from the warship, but must first be hoisted from the warship to the water next to the warship, and then the plane will take off from the water. The plane had to land next to the warship before it was hoisted onto the warship.

The Noto Ryu is such a seaplane carrier, with a body size of more than 10,000 tons, but it only carries three water reconnaissance planes and another spare plane. It is said that the trade of water reconnaissance planes is to conduct reconnaissance, but it is no problem to get a few bombs, and the army group of mountain monkeys used reconnaissance planes to bomb the Northeast Army in Manchuria, and the navy has no problem in this ability.

Seeing that the marines on land couldn't open the situation, Shiozawa Koichi played this last trump card.

After receiving the order, the four seaplanes of the Noto Lu were hoisted into the sea one after another, and they hurriedly took off in the night and flew straight to Shanghai.

At about 4:40 a.m., the four seaplanes of the Notoro flew into the war zone.

It is said that the planes attack at night, and the Japanese planes without navigation equipment can easily get lost. However, the Zhabei battlefield was a residential area, and the battle was raging early, and the Japanese pilots easily found the battlefield.

It's just that the battlefield is easy to find, but the target is hard to find. A large area of the battlefield was on fire, and there was no fixed front to distinguish, where to see the position of the 19th Route Army. The hit rate of these Japanese pilots can be imagined, and they saw bombs dropped, but they rarely hit the positions of the 19th Route Army.

The army suffered very little damage, but the common people suffered. Large swaths of homes were blown up, and soon even more intense fires erupted. The houses in Zhabei are all brick and wood structures, and the houses in this area are particularly dense, and a fire broke out and soon spread.

In normal times, there will be a fire brigade coming, but if the battle is like this, it is useless for you to call the fire alarm.

The bombardment by the Japanese planes did not injure many Chinese soldiers, but the ferocious fire forced the 6th Regiment to retreat step by step, and some positions were forced to abandon in order to avoid the fire.

Seeing that the opportunity was available, the fire stopped for a while, and at about 5 o'clock in the morning, Onijima Gushige commanded the marines to launch another attack. This time, what the Japanese did not expect was that the Chinese in front of them did not retreat and advanced, but launched a fierce counteroffensive.

The Chinese can launch a counterattack, is it that the 6th Regiment of resistance suffered few casualties, and there is still room for strength? Of course not.

Although the Japanese army suffered losses, the officers and men of the 6th Regiment also suffered heavy casualties, or even more so.

If nothing else, let's just say that the Japanese armored vehicles, these Beetles, caused a lot of casualties to the Chinese army. Don't look at the 19th Route Army, which has summed up a few tricks to kill insects, but it's easier said than done.

In hand-to-hand combat such as grenade bombing chassis, the casualties are naturally insignificant, and even the most stable concentrated machine gun fire also requires heavy sacrifices.

The technical and tactical level of the Japanese army is naturally not comparable to that of the 6th Regiment of the defeated group of recruits, and even in the number of machine guns, the Japanese army has a far advantage.

In particular, the Japanese grenadiers hit very accurately, and the situation of hitting was very common, and the machine guns of the sixth regiment posed a great threat, and in half a night, the sixth regiment lost 18 light and heavy machine guns, and even Zhang Jinshan, the commander of the machine gun company, was killed. Fortunately, Bi Guangheng sent this batch of arms, so Weng Zhaoyuan was able to replenish Zhang Junsong in time.

At this point in the battle, the 6th Regiment is actually already clumsy, it depends on who can grit his teeth and persevere, and the other depends on whose reinforcements can arrive early. And the 6th Regiment was able to launch a counterattack precisely because the reinforcements arrived on the battlefield first.

In fact, if you want to talk about distance, the Japanese reinforcements are closer to the battlefield. The Japanese reinforcements consisted of the 2nd Brigade being dispersed to guard the troops, as well as the marine squads of various warships, most of which were subordinate to the Public Concession and the Black Concession, which was building roads across the border, so these reinforcements were not too far from the battlefield. However, first, the troops were too scattered, and it would take time to gather them, and second, and most importantly, Sameshima Guzhong did not expect the battle to be like this, and it was too late to transfer troops when the battle situation was unfavorable. In the end, Weng Zhaoyuan took the lead.

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