Chapter 32: Attack on Huishan Wharf
In the headquarters of the Ninth Group Army, Zhang Zhizhong, who had been busy until more than two o'clock in the morning and had just laid down to rest for a while, was shouted by his own orderlies at a little after five o'clock. During the war, it was already very good to have a little time to rest, especially for a high-ranking officer like Zhang Zhizhong, who was in charge of the war of the entire group army, and when he was busy, he didn't even have time to go to the toilet.
At this time, Zhang Zhizhong dragged his tired body and came to the headquarters with the telegram in his hand, his eyes were staring at the huge combat map in front of him, and at the same time he frowned, as if he was thinking about something.
"When did the telegram come?" After looking at the battle map for a while, Zhang Zhizhong seemed to be worried about something, and hurriedly asked.
"About twenty minutes ago." The orderly replied that the telegraph had been sent to him ten minutes earlier, and judging by the speed of the translation, the telegram had been received about twenty minutes earlier.
"Immediately send a telegram to the Reading Force and ask them to immediately withdraw to the Zhabei position." didn't have time to think too much about it, Zhang Zhizhong directly issued an order for the reading group to retreat.
After the orderly responded, he hurriedly ran to the side of the signal soldier and personally watched him send out the contents of Zhang Zhizhong's telegram word by word.
Let the reading group retreat, Zhang Zhizhong was actually forced to retreat, Zhabei in front of the army is indeed only the strength of one brigade, but just behind the Zhabei opposite the army, there is a wing of troops, and further back, there are at least two wings of the army, the army is determined to eat the Huaxia defenders of Luodian in one go.
Otherwise, it would not have directly planted a division next to the Suzhou Creek, and the intention of the army was also very simple and clear, to capture Zhabei, and then the whole line of troops immediately went north to completely surround Luodian, so that the defenders there could not fly.
At this moment, for Huaxia, the Luodian defenders can't have an accident, once Luodian is lost, the war in the entire Shanghai is basically over. The loss of Luodian is equivalent to cutting off the back road of the entire Huaxia Shanghai army, and it will be meaningless to continue to defend it.
And when Su Dao sent a telegram, Zhang Zhizhong felt a little second, if the reading group was annihilated by the army, it would mean that Zhabei had already fallen into the hands of the army, this kind of major mistake, Zhang Zhizhong did not dare to make it. At this time, Zhabei was no longer as simple as an ordinary Zhabei, and once Zhabei was lost, the entire 88th Division and the 19th Group Army would pay huge casualties. The most important thing is that Zhang Zhizhong does not have a mobilized army in his hands at this time, and even if he plugs the loopholes, he can't plug it at this time.
"Commander, I can't contact the Reading Force, and their radio station hasn't been turned on." After trying many times in succession, he still couldn't send the telegram smoothly, and the orderly reported with some frustration, and at the same time secretly scolded in his heart that this Su Dao was too capable of causing trouble.
"What? Didn't turn on? Zhang Zhizhong was stunned for a moment, and then he had the idea of killing someone. Although Su Dao helped him get a batch of gas masks, Zhang Zhizhong was grateful to Su Dao in his heart, but this did not mean that he could let Su Dao do nothing. "Xiao He, you immediately go to Zhabei and let Su Dao's reading group immediately withdraw to the Zhabei position."
"Yes, Commander." The orderly soldier known as Xiao He saluted, and even though he was about to stride out.
"Wait, take my gun, if Su Dao refuses to carry out the order, shoot it on the spot." As soon as Xiao He ran out two steps, he was shouted to stop by Zhang Zhizhong, and he immediately threw his gun to Xiao He. At this moment, he has no choice, if Zhabei is lost, the responsibility is very great, and it may even lead to the defeat of this battle, Zhang Zhizhong is not interested in this risk.
Xiao He ran out quickly, the target was directed at Zhabei, the distance from Zhabei here is not too far, and it is estimated that Xiao He's speed will be about an hour to get there. However, Zhang Zhizhong still didn't seem to feel at ease, since Su Dao dared to launch a counterattack privately, he must have no fear, even if Xiao He held his matching gun, he might not be able to pull him back.
"Xiao Wu, send a report to Sun Yuanliang, ask him to send scouts to pay close attention to the movements of the Su Dao Reading Regiment, once Su Dao breaks through the second line of defense of the Yue Army, the 88th Division will counterattack the Yue Army on the whole line. Send a report to Wang Jingjiu, ordering the 87th Division to enter a state of readiness, and once the 88th Division is engaged in a counterattack, the 87th Division will immediately support the 88th Division from the flank. Send a report to Song Xilian, pay close attention to the battlefield dynamics, and let the troops be on standby at all times to prepare for the final counterattack. Immediately afterwards, Zhang Zhizhong issued a series of orders.
Although the best way at this time is to ignore the Reading Regiment, and to transfer a regiment to take over the Zhabei Defense Line, but because of the appearance of the Reading Regiment, it has already disrupted all the deployments of the two armies, and once the Reading Regiment is annihilated, the next army will definitely send a large number of troops to attack a little, in order to seek to break through the defenders' positions.
The Reading Force Regiment can be said to have poked a big hole this time, the Ninth Army only has the strength of these three divisions, and Zhang Zhizhong can only command such a small number of troops, although it seems to be a lot, but the defects on the entire battlefield are a little small. Finally, after much thought, it was decided to report the situation to Nanjing, and although the operation seemed to be a violent collision, if it was successful, it was very likely to drive the army into the sea in one fell swoop.
It's just that this requires the cooperation of other friendly forces, and it is not something that he can do with the Ninth Army.
About five kilometers northwest of Huishan Wharf, the soldiers of the Reading Regiment are wiping their weapons, and the battle just now made many soldiers feel a little disgusted, and even many people could not bear the cruelty of the battlefield, fighting while vomiting, and the symptoms were strong and even sat directly on the ground, and they could no longer raise the steel gun in their hands in a short time.
The stabbing was originally one of the most brutal forms of fighting, but before the stabbing used the reading regiment of white phosphorus bombs, the soldiers could not imagine the scene there, and they did not even dare to recall, whenever they were about to remember the scene, they forced themselves not to think about it, or to think about something else, they could never forget that the burned insincere and benevolent soldiers were full of painful deaths.
"Tuanzuo, the scouts are back, there are about two wings of the army at Huishan Wharf, and there are several light warships of the army in the wharf, and there are about two brigades of troops in Hongkou." Liu Sanpao walked to Su Dao's side and reported.
Su Dao took out the map and looked at it, it marked their current location, which formed a triangle with Hongkou and Huishan Wharf, no matter which side Su Dao chose to attack, the enemy on the opposite side would quickly return to help. As for the Huaxia defenders on the opposite side, God knows if they dare to chase them out.
Su Dao's fingers lightly tapped on the combat map under his hand, and after about ten seconds, Su Dao's fingers suddenly fell to Huishan Wharf, and said, "This is it!" ”
In fact, the choice of Huishan Wharf Su Dao was seriously considered, the army of Huishan Wharf had just landed from the mainland, and it had not completely recovered at the moment, otherwise it would have rushed to the front line to support, but the army in the direction of Hongkou had arrived in Shanghai three days ago, compared with them, Su Dao preferred to fight the army troops who had just arrived in Shanghai and had a large number of people. It's just that Su Dao feels that the troops with fewer people are too boring, and they are a bit of a waste of the equipment they exchanged.
"Tuanza, think twice, although the army at Huishan Wharf is a military army that has just come from Yueben, and it has not fully adapted to the environment here, but there are two wings there, nearly 8,000 people, and there is also the support of naval artillery, and we have more than 3,000 people in the past, I'm afraid it's not enough for people to stuff their teeth." Liu Sanpao secretly took a breath of cold air in his heart, this Su Dao was too capable of tossing, and more than 3,000 people rushed to fight with the 8,000 Yue Army.
"The war is fought by the brain, not the troops, in the Battle of Chibi, Zhou Yu can defeat Cao Ying's 200,000 soldiers with 50,000 soldiers, why can't we use 3,000 soldiers to defeat the 8,000 people of the Yue army? Are we not as good as the ancients? ”
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