At this time, in order to support the transportation of the army, the railway has been completely stopped for passengers. Even the passengers on the train were all driven off the train and took the soldiers to the battlefield, Yu Qiaqing and others could only leave by road, but the machinery and equipment could leave by rail, after seeing that the machinery and personnel began to retreat, Jiang Cheng also began to retreat, secretly transferred the families of his team members to Sichuan, Jiang Cheng bought a large piece of mountain, and prepared to settle these people here. In the near future, it will probably be the only place where the land of abundance will be the last.

Jiang Cheng also withdrew the security team to Wangjiawan, which was still a wasteland at this time, close to the sea, Jiang Cheng bought a large manor, and prepared to let his troops help the national army at the most critical time.

August 13, 1937

The Japanese rejected the idea that the Great Powers wanted China and Japan to make Shanghai an undefended city, and at the same time, Chiang ordered Zhang Zhizhong to prepare to start an attack, and Zhang Zhizhong changed his headquarters from Liuyuan to Nanxiang in the northwest of Shanghai for the sake of command convenience.

Although later generations like to call it the Battle of August 13, in fact, this day was extremely peaceful, and there was no major battle between the two sides. The two armies were making their final preparations, and only a few sporadic exchanges of fire were restrained by each other.

The commander of the Japanese army was Okawa Neichuan who stationed his troops in an area of about 10 kilometers from Hongkou to Yangshupu, backed by the Huangpu River, and more than 20 warships of the 3rd Fleet were parked on the river, and the Japanese military headquarters directly told him that as long as the defense lasted for 6 days, the reinforcements of the two divisions would arrive in Shanghai.

Okawa is full of confidence in this.

Zhang Zhizhong looked at the rows of officers below, here are all the officers above the company level of the 88th and 87th Divisions.

Zhang Zhizhong waved his hand and said, "You are all the elite of the party-state, the cadre city of the country, I won't say much about a lot of vanity, for so many years, we have been training every day since 918." What is the purpose of planning every day? What is the purpose of our country's food and clothing to buy guns for everyone? ”

All the officers shouted in unison, "Kill the devil!! ”

Zhang Zhizhong roared angrily: "Now there are 10,000 Japanese troops in Shanghai, and 5,000 of them are civilians who have just picked up guns, you are the most elite troops of the party-state, the most courageous soldiers, I order you to attack!" Offensive! Offensive! ”

The bloodiest Battle of Songhu in the entire War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression began.

On this day, the typhoon came to the East China Sea, and the whole Shanghai was shrouded in dark clouds, Jiang Cheng looked at the sky and sighed to Li Qian beside him, "The wind and rain are coming." ”

The war was started from the Air Force.

August 14, 1937

The Japanese military department thinks the same as the White Party. To fight a war, it is necessary to strike first, and immediately order aircraft carriers such as the Fengxiang in the East China Sea and planes from Hsinchu Airport to take off and attack Chinese airfields.

But the weather was not good on this day, and the typhoon passed through the East China Sea. The Japanese aircraft carrier, which had planned to strike first, could not take off at all in the fierce wind and waves, and three of the nine planes that flew from Taiwan were blown away and almost could not return home, and only six of them arrived at China's Hangzhou airport.

If these six planes were to be chosen again, they would definitely choose to be blown home.

At this time, it happened to be the time when the Chinese plane arrived, and it was the Chinese Fourth Air Brigade, led by Gao Zhihang.

The Fourth Brigade was the strongest aviation unit in China at this time, and Gao Zhihang was known as the first of the four King Kongs of pilots.

Gao Zhihang took the plane and prepared to land. The Li Guidan squadron behind him suddenly frantically shook his wings. Gao Zhihang knew that there was a situation at a glance, and when he looked at it, he only saw six Japanese planes flying towards him.

Gao Zhihang was ecstatic, what is good luck. That's good luck. I saw Gao Zhihang piloting the Hawker 3 plane, taking the lead and rushing to the Japanese plane with his comrades.

The pilot of the Japanese plane took a look, good guy, more than twenty Hawk 3s. was so frightened that the plane almost disintegrated in volley, and quickly turned his head and wanted to run. They came to bomb, most of them bombers, where did they run too high.

This is the bad luck of these Japanese criminals. In fact, the National Army Air Force at that time was simply a world aviation exhibition hall. The 9 brigades were equipped with a total of 16 types of aircraft, and there was even a phenomenon that there was a squadron with two types of aircraft, but the 4th brigade as the main brigade was all Hawk 3 aircraft.

Gao Zhihang swooped over, the 12.7 machine gun frantically spat out tongues of fire, and a Japanese plane whimpered and spun in a blink of an eye.

Several other squadron leaders were also anxious when they saw it, this time was a rare meat eat, several squadrons pursued separately, and for a time the Japanese planes were named one by one. One black smoke torch after another appeared. Gao Zhihang's brigade killed these six Japanese planes without any damage, which made the other pilots who didn't hit it itching.

As soon as Gao Zhihang landed, he sent a telegram to report to Nanjing, saying that the air force had won a successful start and had achieved a 6-0 record in Hangzhou (4-0 in history).

Gao Zhihang is not only a qualified pilot, but also a qualified air force commander.

Gao Zhihang looked at his happy comrades-in-arms and thought, "The Japanese army is obviously so strong, why did it only send so many air forces, if the main force is exhausted this time, I am afraid that we will lose a lot -- typhoon, it must be a typhoon that makes it impossible for Japanese planes to take off." ”

After the judgment was completed, Gao Zhihang immediately sent a report to Nanjing to report his views, and Nanjing quickly ordered the Chinese Air Force to attack, dividing its troops into two routes, attacking the Japanese headquarters all the way and bombing the Japanese warships all the way, hoping to seize the fighters and knock out the Japanese command center.

It is a pity that the Chinese Air Force does not have powerful aircraft, and the most advanced Hawk 3 aircraft can only carry 250 kg of bombs. The Japanese Third Fleet again had anti-aircraft guns, and in the end only lost a few secondary guns, and the headquarters was even more unscathed in the face of 250 kg of bombs, only shattering a few pieces of glass.

After Gao Zhihang discovered the abnormality of the Japanese command, he immediately reported this information. Jiang Intermediary looked at the information, and remembered that magical young man, thanks to him, he now has a lot more heavy artillery, and he also has armor-piercing shells, hoping to use the country's heavy weapons to conquer the enemy's nest.

If the Air Force can be said to have fought beautifully, the Army has fought bloody.

Zhang Zhizhong ordered the 87th and 88th Divisions to attack from the east and west respectively, and in his opinion, with the combat strength of the 87th and 88th Divisions and the number of up to 30,000 people, it was not easy to deal with the 10,000 Japanese army, but he ignored the fact that the firepower of the Japanese army was still far superior to that of the Chinese army, and the result of dispersing and using troops was nothing more than a bitter battle.

The Japanese marines were cleaned up by the 19th Army once in 128, and they built a large number of reinforced concrete bunkers. In cooperation with the surrounding buildings, a fire network composed of heavy machine guns, mortars, and light machine guns, combined with large-caliber mortars, anti-aircraft guns, howitzers, and finally battleship guns on the seashore in the second-line positions, is actually a difficult bone to gnaw.

August 14, 1937 at two o'clock in the afternoon

The first battalion of the 523rd Regiment of the 88th Division was the first to reach the strategic Bazi Bridge, the so-called Bazi Bridge is actually no bridge at all, just a passage on a small ditch, no more than 10 meters long. There are hundreds of such small bridges in any large southern city, and they are not conspicuous at all.

However, the Bazi Bridge is located in the middle of the north and south positions in Zhabei, so it can be the best forward base if our army controls it, and if it is controlled by the Japanese army, it will cut off the connection between our army's positions. It is a battleground for soldiers.

Sun Yuanliang, commander of the 88th Division, knew the importance of this place and ordered the 523rd Regiment to occupy the Bazi Bridge at the first time.

The commander of the first battalion was Yi Jin, and Yi Jin immediately began to set up the position, pulled up those prefabricated cement modules and began to build the fortress.

The Japanese led the army to seize two brigades - the first brigade and the third brigade, the first brigade captain Yamakawa Sota found that the Bazi Bridge had been seized by the Chinese army, and immediately ordered the 60 mortars and grenadiers accompanying the army to attack, and at the same time ordered the chariots to charge, preparing a charge to take back the Bazi Bridge.

Yi Jin only saw that the soldiers who were building fortifications by the bridge were suddenly covered by a burst of artillery fire, and then bursts of bullets flew in. Hearing the familiar sound of the 38 big cover and the crooked handle machine gun, Yi Jin understood that it was the Japanese who came. At first glance, two Japanese small bean chariots creaked over, and the heavy machine guns kept strafing at their side.

Yi Jin pulled up his cuffs and laughed wildly, "It's good to come." Brethren, take out all our precious children and take good care of these little devils. ”

Thanks to Jiang Cheng's efforts, the German mechanic has been greatly supplemented. In particular, in terms of artillery fire, the first battalion has four mortars, eight heavy machine guns, and 27 light machine guns, which is the largest firepower in China. The most important thing is that because it is the vanguard, the first battalion was also supplemented with a 37 anti-aircraft gun. And because he arrived at the position an hour ahead of schedule, he arranged a lot of simple fortifications, occupied the surrounding houses, and only saw countless chains of fire sweeping towards the charging Japanese army, Yi Jin personally watched the artillery slowly aim the muzzle of the cannon at the first chariot with a tongue of fire, and pulled it violently, and the whole chariot suddenly stopped, and then burst into a violent fire.

The soldiers of the suppressed first battalion waved their arms excitedly, and the second chariot wanted to retreat as soon as it saw the tragic situation in front of it, and the anxious Yi Jin hurriedly urged, "Fight, fight." I'll give you meat, beef!! ”

The gunner's nervous hands were shaking, and his mouth was muttering, "Beef, beef." With a sharp pull, the second tank also became a fireball, and the gunner stood up excitedly and shouted, "I hit, I hit, battalion commander, I want to eat beef." ”

Yi Jin also began to wave his fists, "Don't worry, I just spend my own money to buy it and let your kid eat beef, by the way, what's your name?" ”

At this time, the gunner suddenly pounced on Yi Jin, and Yi Jin was stunned and pounced, with a bang. A shockwave thrust him aside.

On the Japanese position, Yamakawa Sota patted the mortar man next to him and said, "Yo Xi, it's good, the gun position of Shina has been destroyed, and the whole army is charging!" ”

Yi Jin pushed away the battle defense artillery on his body, which he couldn't even name, and had just been transferred to his own unit for less than three hours, covered his eyes tremblingly and said, "Brother, we don't eat beef today, we eat devils!" Brothers! Give me a desperate fight! ”

For a time, mortar shells kept smashing into the infantry group of the Yamakawa brigade, and the fire chain of the machine guns swept the Japanese soldiers who rushed forward one after another to the ground.

Yamakawa Sota couldn't believe his eyes, when had he ever seen a Chinese army with such firepower, not to mention the Japanese army, even the German army. Yamakawa Sota gritted his teeth and roared, "Attack!" Offensive! He immediately contacted the artillery and chariot units behind him, hoping for support. At the same time, let the third brigade hurry up.

At this time, China's heavy artillery had arrived, and the 8th, 9th, and 10th regiments of the artillery up to 36 German-made 150 heavy guns and 16 Liao-made and Japanese-made 150 heavy guns roared together, and the mortars, mountain artillery, and infantry guns of various units also began to attack. The most elite fighters charged with bayonets and under the cover of artillery fire and machine guns. The defending Japanese army was stupid at once by such an attack, is this still the weak Chinese army?

The rifle fire of the Mauser 98K, the fire chain of various light and heavy machine guns, and the cover of mortars made the Japanese troops who were exposed to the first line of the Japanese army on the front line of positions to be beaten to pieces at the first time.

Okawa Uchiden looked at such a scene with a telescope in the watchtower of the Navy General Headquarters, took a step back, grabbed the staff officer next to him and shouted, "That's not right, this must be the German army, damn the Chinese people, they actually hired the German army to fight, don't they have the shame that a samurai deserves?" ”

The staff officer lowered his head and said, "General, that's the German armor division of China!" ”

Okawa Neichuan couldn't believe it, and took out the binoculars again and said, "Virtuous mechanic? How can you have such a strong fighting power? Just this ignorant country? ”

At the beginning, there were no fortifications at all the points seized by the Japanese army in the early stage, and most of them were temporary fortifications piled up with barricades and civil sandbags in the past few days. Under the fierce attack of the 87th and 88th divisions, they were quickly defeated and retreated. In addition to the Bazi Bridge due to its geographical location being too important, after replenishing two brigades, it paid five or six hundred casualties and then blocked the attack of the Nationalist Army, and successively lost strategic points such as Zhizhi University, Wuzhou Cemetery, Hujiang University, and Bazi Bridge.

Zhang Zhizhong was excited to see the incomparably smooth battle, but Jiang Cheng, who was watching the battle with Huang Jinrong and Yu Yishan in the concession, was worried. He knew in his heart that there were no major fortifications of the Japanese army in these places, and they were only on the outside line, and the meat was eaten, but could the bones be gnawed?

Sure enough, the attacking troops soon ran into problems, and the Japanese troops in several defensive points of the attacking force built permanent fortifications with heavy machine guns and machine guns. Fortunately, the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine guns were air-cooled and could not change the barrel, so every few hundred rounds had to be stopped. This gave the Nationalists an opportunity, and at first the soldiers carried rifles, bullets, and grenades, but later they simply took only grenades and approached and threw them in. Everything is OK, it's useless to carry weapons if you can't rely on it, it's better to leave it for your comrades in the future.

The 87th and 88th divisions are worthy of the essence of the Chinese army. None of them retreated, and they all rushed forward. A corpse often lies on the ground before a fortification.

Ma Ming has been a veteran for nine years, he was still a small soldier when he was 128, and now he is a company commander. Looking at the Japanese pillbox at the intersection in front of him, he was angry and afraid, his soldiers were all elite soldiers, and he had ten light machine guns, but he couldn't seal the machine gun muzzle on the opposite side, and there were constantly threats of devils' riflemen and light machine guns on the upstairs next to him, and he was struggling.

Ma Ming stomped his feet and said, "Brothers, give me to attack the building next to me, and walk on the main road, which is to send me to death." ”

During this period, most of the buildings in the Shanghai Concession were made of stone, and the Shikumen buildings of later generations came from this period, but these buildings are now the biggest obstacle to the Chinese army's attack.

Ma Ming asked people to take MG-34 to feint from the front, and he led people to attack through the roof, and the attack from the roof did make the Japanese fortress a decoration, but the Japanese army also set up light machine gun positions on the roof. Ma Ming tried to calm himself down, secretly stretched out his rifle and shot at the helmet worn by the Japanese machine gunner who was firing pointed, the crooked handle stopped suddenly, and the soldiers who followed behind seized the opportunity to rush out, several squad leaders took the lead, and the shell guns connected the points, killing the deputy shooter, and the light machine gun on the roof opposite found that it was wrong, and was about to turn around, but a strong soldier threw a grenade and was also scrapped.

Ma Ming exhaled, this time the fight was not bad, there was no sacrifice, waved his hand, let the brothers continue to step forward, a grenade suddenly hit the middle of the troops in front, four or five soldiers fell in response, it turned out that the commander of the Japanese fortress position found the abnormality and ordered the grenadier to attack, this kind of narrow battlefield, the grenadier is extremely suitable.

Ma Ming hurriedly commanded the troops to return to the house, looking at the bunkers on the other side of the street that were constantly spitting tongues of fire and worried.

When it was quieter outside, I sneaked up again, but found that the Japanese army had also sent people to the roof, and all of a sudden, the bullets in front and the artillery fire in the back were splashing flesh and blood on both sides.

Ma Ming saw that the attention of the Japanese army was attracted upstairs, and went downstairs to the second platoon commander who feinted and said, "Our artillery can't blow up the devil's bunker, we can only take the explosives bag, everyone sign up by themselves, ten people will make an all-out assault and finish off the devil's bunker." ”

The second platoon commander was the first to say, "I will take the lead in rushing, company commander, you command, who wants to go with me?" ”

Suddenly there was a rush to answer.

Ma Ming nodded and said, "Okay, let's attack again, and I will let the brothers upstairs also assault." ”

Ma Ming contacted the mortar position behind again, and smashed the pillbox, in the artillery fire, the second platoon commander with ten warriors with explosives bags, rushed forward, the Japanese troops on both sides of the building wanted to block, and were entangled by the national army upstairs, the troops upstairs because the distance between the two armies was too close, and finally simply started hand-to-hand combat, holding grenades and helmets to smash when they were close, and blowing up when they were far away.

Ma Ming ordered the machine gun to shoot at the mouth of the pillbox like crazy, and the Japanese soldiers in the bunker also knew that the national army was going to fight hard, and they didn't care about the strafing, one after another warriors were knocked down, and finally the second platoon commander and the three soldiers could only hold the corpses of their comrades as meat shields and crawl forward, watching the bodies of their comrades being torn apart by heavy machine guns, Ma Ming pulled off a handful of hair alive.

Finally, the second platoon commander rushed to the pillbox, he exchanged glances with another soldier, and threw a grenade first, so scared that the devil inside bent over as if picking it up and throwing it out, this pillbox is connected with the fortifications, even if it really kills a few people, it is useless, the Japanese army can soon replenish it, the second platoon commander gritted his teeth and stuffed the explosive bag into the shooting port, and he also threw it on, and shouted at the soldier next to him, "I'm afraid that I can't stand it alone, and you can also go up." ”

The soldier's eyes were extremely frightened, and his legs seemed to have taken root and wanted to escape, but he looked at the platoon commander who had been beaten by the machine gun and vomited blood to death, gritted his teeth and pounced on it.

The explosives bag finally sounded, and the bunker, which had blocked the entire company for more than half an hour, fell into flames, but Ma Ming's company had lost more than 30 lives, and more than 40 people were injured, losing half of its combat effectiveness.

Ma Ming roared angrily, "Brothers, rush me!" He picked up a Czech style and rushed forward, and there was a small bunker next to the half-turned bunker, and a few bullets got into Ma Ming's chest.

Ma Ming vomited blood, stretched his hand forward with all his might, as if there was the hope of victory in front of him, and it seemed that he was waiting for his family at home, he looked around with hazy eyes, and suddenly fell into darkness.

But the fighting continues. (To be continued......)

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