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Chongming Island is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River, with an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers, is the third in China, known as the "gateway of the Yangtze River, Yingzhou in the East China Sea", is the world's largest estuarine alluvial island, and is also the world's largest sand island. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At nine o'clock in the evening, north of Yinyang Village in the southeast corner of Chongming Island.

The sand and gravel road leading from the mouth of the Yangtze River to the hinterland of the island in the west is flat and straight, and this earthen carriage road on the island, which was originally less than three meters wide, has been expanded into a six-meter-wide automobile road with the unremitting efforts of the Japanese army for more than 20 consecutive days, and a battalion of Japanese engineers on the island is still extending the road to the southern river bank and the central area of the island without stopping, and more than 800 aborigines on the island are under the threat of the Japanese army's bright bayonets, smashing stones and cutting down trees day and night. The brothers of the Special Brigade of the Independent Division only learned of this situation after they infiltrated the island and approached the road construction line.

The salty and slightly fishy sea breeze blows from north to south, "whining". Under the lush undulating vegetation, the special soldiers who have been lurking here for a long time have been soaked, and the damp dense forest and the streams on the island have already made the soldiers shiver with cold, and the toes that were originally frozen and numb no longer have much sense, but more than 500 well-trained warriors who can be called the king of the whole army have no complaints, and under the roots of the high and deep weeds and low-lying shrubs around the airport that has been completed and have undergone two days of take-off and landing tests, a pair of cold eyes are closely watching ahead through the electrified barbed wire.

In the thick shadow of a century-old tree 2.3 kilometers northwest of the Japanese airfield, the "tick-tock" sound of a radio station was faintly heard. Under the dense rain cloth, a flashlight was used to illuminate the group numbers for the translators, and after a while, he received the latest news from the division headquarters:

The two Japanese brigades continued to occupy the Wusong Fort and began to attack Baoshan Calcium, and your division needed to wait for the end of the counterattack of the 16th Division before taking action.

Zong Xingzhen turned off the flashlight, let out a long breath, and whispered to the herald to inform the detachments to continue to lurk, waiting for orders, only then did he get out of the rain cloth, standing under the big tree that required five or six people to be able to hug each other, staring in the southwest direction, as if trying his best to listen to the sound of fierce battle from the Baoshan line, but the distance between each other was too far, and the narrow Changxing Island was separated in the middle, and the strong north wind blowing in winter was not conducive to the transmission of sound, and he could not get any information he wanted at all.

Zong Xingzhen shook his head helplessly, returned to the team headquarters and sat down next to the brothers, took out the unopened pack of cigarettes from his jacket pocket, put it under his nose and sniffed it again. Zong Xing, who has been an orphan since he was a child and has lived in the Daomen since he was six years old, is really not close to smoking and drinking, but at this time he really wants to smoke a cigarette, but under the strict military discipline and special operations regulations, he can only smell it to make his heart feel better.

At half past ten o'clock in the evening, the Japanese officers and men, with the support of naval guns, took Baoshan Town, the gateway to Shanghai, in one go, and the defenders who stubbornly resisted and finally failed hurriedly threw down more than 200 corpses and 100 tattered machine guns and rifles, and retreated in embarrassment.

Kuroda Nakasa, chief of staff of the 6th Combat Brigade of the Japanese Navy stationed in Shanghai, under the escort of more than 10 officers and soldiers, came to the only intact mansion on the old street in Zhennan with great interest, took a look at the burned documents, scattered papers, and broken military carpets under the corners of the stone houses, and asked loudly if the captain who accompanied him was a division headquarters of the 19th Route Army.

The sturdy captain nodded yes with a smug face, pointed to the antenna standing tall on the eaves of the house, and added: "Kuroda-kun, please see, this radio antenna, as well as the documents and letterheads that the enemy did not have time to burn, and these military blankets on the ground that only high-ranking officers have, according to the comprehensive analysis of all the circumstances, this place is indeed the headquarters of the so-called supplementary division of the 19th Route Army. ”

Kuroda Nakasa, who was tall and thin and had two mustaches, nodded slightly, and said emotionally, "Very good!" Ladies and gentlemen, in fact, this was defeated by the combined naval and air forces of our Imperial Japan. The very stubborn unit is not a subordinate of the 19th Route Army, let alone a vulnerable supplementary division, but one of the elite divisions of Lieutenant General An Yi, the representative of the Chinese Shaozhuang faction.

I don't need to explain how An Yi is this person, now the film model battalion that we have watched internally in our army is to promote this person's merits and inspire the morale of the squadron, plus the addition of some follow-up information, we should all know this person's courage and resourcefulness very well, be familiar with his series of achievements in the Chinese civil war, and also know how headache he is through his unscrupulous all-round strikes and huge losses to our army since the start of the war.

It can be said that, putting aside the opposing positions and looking at it objectively, the young An Yi is indeed a rare excellent general in the squadron, and after several years of uninterrupted expeditions, he has grown up to an astonishing degree, and has become the number one enemy of our Great Japanese 6th Army and Navy, therefore, it is not surprising that our army has paid a high price for capturing this strategic location, and it is not surprising that the navy has spent millions of shells and fuel, otherwise with my more than 3,000 soldiers, it will be difficult to fight here, and even pay a greater price to successfully implement the three-way Deng6.

Ladies and gentlemen, the immediate task is to immediately build a defensive array and continue to open up, and our Great Japanese Imperial Brigade will firmly occupy this bridgehead position leading to the Shanghai urban area, and occupy the first station of the outer ship wharf and the lifeline of the Songhu Railway J1 near the sea, so as to control the Huangpu River and the most important passage to the sea in Shanghai and even Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the strategic significance is very far-reaching.

At the same time, our heroic Navy 6 Squadron will also fight a hard battle, and achieve the final victory in the pain of nearly 10,000 casualties before and after the war, and the great invincible Navy 6 Squadron will be famous all over the world and shine in the annals of history! "Long live Hi Yi Yiyi!"

A group of Japanese soldiers shouted in unison with great excitement.

The night sky was pitch black, the wind was howling, and while the Japanese troops in Baoshan were sweating and building fortifications nervously, groups of Chinese officers and soldiers, under the guidance and cover of the officers and men of the special brigade, carried heavy backpacks and quietly marched from the damaged trenches on the north and south edges of the town.

In the fork river, about three kilometers south of the town, the officers and men of the 46th Brigade Machine Gun Battalion bundled the decomposed mortars and shells on their backs, lay on the small bamboo rafts tied with bamboo, and slowly pulled the ropes set up by the engineer brothers.

Beneath the ruins north of Baoshan Town, the brothers of the 48th Brigade huddled in the narrow, weeping sewers, cellars, or camouflaged mud of the deep craters, waiting for the first round of shelling to sound.

In the underground headquarters of the 24th Army in the south of the town, there was a busy scene, and more than ten generals, including Yin Jinan, the acting army commander, Ye Cheng, the new deputy army commander who had not yet arrived but had already started the actual work, and Xie Chi, the commander of the 16th Division, gathered under the horse lantern, nervously listened to the reports one by one, and made the final arrangements for the progress of various units and the deployment of mobile troops.

At this time, An Yi, the former chief of the enemy's general staff in the Songhu Theater, was covered with a military blanket, fell on the two patchwork planks in the corner, and slept soundly, he had not closed his eyes for three days and three nights, and no one could bear to wake him up at this time.

"Report Eleven, Eleven, Eleven"

Xiao Fu eleven eleven and Xie Chi waved his hand to stop Han Chengfu, the director of the confidential department, pointed to An Yi in the corner, and asked him in a low voice What was going on.

Colonel Han Chengfu glanced at An Yi distressedly, squeezed into the middle of the generals, and reported in a low voice: "Most of the Japanese warships have moved away, and it is estimated that they are returning to the dock at the southeast corner of Changxing Island and Chongming Island for replenishment, and there are only a total of four small gunboats cruising in the waters of the Huangpu River Estuary and Baoshan Linjiang Wharf.

"Great! The time has come for us to expand. Xie Chi said happily.

Yin Jinan nodded slightly, discussed with Ye Cheng in a whisper, and immediately gave the attack order to Zhang Xiaowu, the chief of operations, Zhang Xiaowu saluted excitedly, and led the two guards to run out of the headquarters, Xie Chi said a word to go to the 4_17 Brigade that was responsible for the assault on the Western Front and strode away.

Ye Cheng threw down the marker, raised his head thoughtfully, and was startled when he suddenly saw An Yi's smiling face appear next to his head.

An Yi looked down at the latest situation that had just been marked on the map, nodded with satisfaction and smiled:

"Good, good, very thoughtful, if the troops march well, the battle will be over in less than two hours. If the command of the enemy army is hidden. In the Shi family compound where the 48th Brigade Brigade Headquarters was originally stationed, he told all departments to besiege and attack it, but they did not need to attack and occupy it, and even surrounded the remnants of the enemy around the Shi family compound, and used the superior firepower to cut off its breakthrough attempt, and then calmly ate it in one bite, although the enemy headquarters was in a hurry to the rear headquarters, we can surround and send reinforcements to rob while the fire is burning, haha! ”

"Commander, that's how we set it up. Judging from the absence of any anomalies in all directions of the front, the divisions are progressing smoothly and are currently estimated to have reached the attack position. Major General Deng Chuanxiang, a party representative, replied happily.

An Yi nodded with satisfaction: "Okay!" After this battle, I will ask you for credit, to all the officers and men of the 24th Army, several of you deputy army-level commanders are properly commanded, and the merit is great, and the commission is in Nanjing, but it is closely watching the front-line battle situation day and night, although we now have the hat of the 19th Route Army on our heads, but in addition to the reputation, the interests will definitely not be less, in the face of the series of achievements that have been made and are about to be achieved, the bosses of the commission and the military commission will not be stingy with the promotion of officials, it is estimated that in a few days, several of you will also have the same rank as me, All of our brothers at all levels will benefit, too! However, the most important thing is that through this series of battles against Japan, we have established the confidence that our army will win, and even if we face the Japanese devils again in the future, we will not be in a hurry, and we will even have a psychological advantage, which cannot be bought with anything! ”

The generals nodded again and again, deeply agreed.

At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, as the three red signal flares rose into the air, illuminating the earth in a bloody color, the two artillery battalions behind the 47th Brigade in the west, the brigade's subordinate machine gun battalion, and the 46th Brigade in the south roared at the same time, and hundreds of large and small artillery pieces burst out of sharp whistling and flew down the enemy formation, blowing up the Japanese troops who were in the midst of intense construction and had no time to cover up, wailing in all directions, and also suddenly waking up the entire Shanghai that had just been calm for two hours and gradually falling asleep. The sky over Wusong Baoshan was illuminated with blood red, including Cai Tingkai and other countless soldiers and civilians who had just fallen asleep got up again, looking at the raging war in the north, the Japanese army that was caught off guard and hastily responded to the battle suffered heavy losses, and retreated sharply, hurriedly formed a defensive line and sought the direction of breakthrough, but with the support attack of the officers and men of the 44th Division in the south without hesitation, the line of the Japanese army's southward retreat was immediately lost.

Who wants to just stand firm, the town of the middle school suddenly gunfired, grenade explosions suddenly sounded, the Japanese army in the north and the two squadrons of Japanese troops in the northeast as a reserve were suddenly attacked by a large number of Chinese officers and soldiers who suddenly appeared behind them, dense light machine guns and machine gun bullets rained, flying towards the unobstructed Japanese troops behind, several built heavy machine gun fire points were blown to pieces by a stream of flying grenades before they could shoot.

Under the enemy's back, the Japanese army fell one by one, and the rest of the people were scattered, and the northern battlefield, which originally worried Yin Jinan the most, was the weakest because of the huge advantage of the Japanese army in the support of warships on the river, and it became the area that was first bulldozed by the stoic and brave soldiers.

As the fierce battle in the northern battlefield ended first, the brothers of the 48th Brigade, under the command of Colonel Gao Guodong, the deputy brigade commander, divided the troops into two routes, quickly attacked to the south and west, and attacked from three sides with the brothers of the 4th Brigade of Cai Shaohua, who was responsible for the heavy task of attacking the fortifications in the west, and it took only 35 minutes to break the Japanese defense line and start a large-scale charge.

Thousands of officers and men of the 16th Division did not stop, rose up in pursuit, and together with the brothers of Li Zhide's 46th Brigade, who captured the southern front and quickly completed the outflanking of the eastern road, they surrounded the remaining 700 enemy troops in the narrow area of the Shijia compound and its surroundings in a narrow area of two square kilometers. Colonel Li Zhenhan, the captain of the special brigade, coaxed and walked around, and let out the rumors that as long as anyone can kill the five devils, he will have the opportunity to participate in the next round of selection of the division headquarters.

After receiving the good news from the front line, An Yi raised his wrist and looked at his watch: "Okay, one hour and twenty-eight minutes, it is really surprising to achieve such a quick result under heavy tasks and complex terrain, only eleven minutes slower than the 44th Division of Hutou in the south to advance to the original position, good, very good!" With such an excellent performance of the Sixteenth Division, I am afraid that it will make the independent brothers embarrassed, hehe...... Exhibit to Major General One by One"

"Seal!"

The director of the Political Department, Zhan Zhi Lizheng, replied loudly.

"Immediately telegraphed Chairman Chiang in Nanjing, and at the same time transferred to the headquarters of the 19th Route Army and the Central Military Commission: At 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, the 24th Army launched a counterattack on the enemy on all fronts, and under the decisive command of Acting Army Commander Yin Jinan and the generals, Gu Changfeng's 44th Division defeated the enemy in only one hour and 17 minutes, annihilated more than 800 enemy troops, recovered the first-line positions from Langqianhe to Chenjiaxiang, and planned to set up a dense minefield on the west bank of the Songpu River to prevent the enemy from counterattacking; Xie Chi's 16th Division took the initiative to abandon the Baoshan and Wusong lines in advance, lured the enemy to go deeper, and counterattacked on the whole line by surprise, and it took only one hour and 28 minutes to regain the lost ground, and annihilated more than 2,000 enemies in one fell swoop. An Yi.

At 1:50 a.m., the headquarters of the Nanjing Military Commission.

Chiang Kai-shek rubbed his tired eyes, slowly stood up, glanced at the generals who stood up and waited for the meeting to disperse, and then thought of the worrying battle situation on the front line, waved his hand in disappointment, and whispered, "Let's go back and rest for the time being."

As soon as the generals and commanders packed up the documents, the confidential staff officer of the Central Military Commission suddenly pushed the door in, and under the stunned gaze of the generals, he ran to Chiang Kai-shek's side in a few steps, and excitedly presented the good news in his hand:

"General An called, at twelve o'clock at midnight, our 24th Army suddenly launched a counterattack on the whole line, and the 44th Division of General Gu Changfeng successfully regained the position on the west bank of the Songpu River, destroying nearly 1,000 enemies; Originally, I thought that the 16th Division of General Xie Chi, who would not be defeated in the hard battle and lost Baoshan, was not the defeat we thought it was, but took the initiative to give up, lured the enemy to go deeper, and succeeded in the counterattack in only one hour and 28 minutes, reoccupied Baoshan, and achieved a great victory of annihilating more than 2,000 enemies. ”

All the generals cheered, Chiang Kai-shek's hands trembled and received the good news, his eyes were moist, he finally sat down slowly after reading it, looked at the chandelier on the ceiling, and was full of emotion for a while, originally thought that the 24th Army lost more than half of the battle so that Wusong Baoshan, a strategic place, was lost, Shanghai was in danger, Chiang Kai-shek and the army were extremely worried, and they also felt distressed.

After a while, Chiang Kai-shek glanced at the delighted generals and commanders, and said with emotion: "Iron-blooded hero, the sharp blade of the country...... My students have realized their ideals with their blood, and they are still indomitable, fighting ceaselessly, brave as tigers, and full of resourcefulness in the face of hard fighting and serious attrition in the face of hard fighting and serious attrition.