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The landing site of the Japanese was in the southern part of the Pudong area of Shanghai.

It faces the Huangpu River from the Xuhui District, Huangpu District, Hongkou District, Yangpu District and Baoshan District of Shanghai to the west, and Chongming Island across the Yangtze River to the north.

From the beginning of the beach-rushing landing on 31 July to the early morning of 1 August, the Japanese sent 4,000 troops ashore in an adventurous operation through guò, during which they encountered night bombardment by the Red Army, cold guns, cold guns, and mines, and lost more than 400 people before and after.

In 1935, the Pudong area was a completely backward rural area. Compared to the concession across the river, it is a whole world.

Mosquitoes and leeches, wetlands, water mounds, and rotten paddy fields are the rural characteristics of the Pudong area. When the Japanese landing force left the coastline for a kilometer and began to penetrate inland, it immediately felt the difference between southern China and the dry land of the northeastern plains. The roads in the Pudong area are all dirt roads that humans have stepped on with their feet, and after yesterday's heavy rain, if you step on it, if you are unlucky, even your entire calf will sink into it.

The Japanese invading army that landed in Pudong formed an infantry wing. The heavy weapons they carried with them were only a few Type 92 light infantry guns, and as for tanks or something, it was impossible to think about until they obtained a dock where they could unload heavy equipment. In 1935, Japan did not develop a special landing ship, and they wanted to make a difference in the Shanghai area, and no one in their right mind would expect to rely on this unit to fight with the defenders in the dock area, which was the key protection of the Red Army.

However, the light yì won during the Sino-Japanese War. At the time of the Northeast Incident, the Northeast Army was even more incompetent than pigs, and the resulting inertia of thinking made the Japanese Army despise China to the extreme from top to bottom, and never sobered up from its excessive psychological superiority.

What are we with only four thousand?

At the time of the Northeast Incident, the Kwantung Army only dispatched more than 10,000 troops to drive more than 200,000 Northeast Army out of the Northeast like sheep. Each of our warriors of the Great Japanese Empire can defeat a hundredfold Shina people in one hundred.

That's what the commanders of the landing force, Hitoshi Yamada and Osa, thought so in their hearts, and so did the Japanese soldiers under his command who had been brainwashed by militaristic ideology.

However, the experience of 12 hours after the successful beach-grabbing made Ren Yamada and Osa realize the difference between their opponents.

A mine planted on the road to Marina Town before the Red Army. It wounded and disabled more than 20 Japanese soldiers. As a result, the Japanese later moved much slower. Along the way, his vanguard was constantly hit by mines, forcing the Japanese to avoid the avenues and take the trails that no one had ever walked. Landed at four o'clock and arrived at Marina Town at seven o'clock in the evening.

The mines used by the Red Army were very immoral. The charges are deliberately weakened. Kill people instead of killing them. On the road to the town of Guò Marina. Hitoshi Yamada and Osa permanently lost twenty-one infantry, including some demining engineers. Their injuries were all similar: all were on the soles of their feet, and some of the soldiers lost half of their feet. Some were blown off a few toes, and some had their heels blown off. None of the injuries were fatal, but they were enough to permanently disable the wounded soldiers.

Hitoshi Yamada, who was full of confidence in building his karma, had been attacked by this kind of mine-attack, which was "so immoral that it was bubbling", and he was vaguely aware that he would encounter an army that was different from all the warlord forces in China.

With the lessons learned, his troops had become very cautious before entering Marina Town. Soon the advancing infantry found a small number of buried mines. When the sappers got out, they were dismayed to find that the mines were pottery and stone mines that were difficult to detect with metal detectors, and that they had surprisingly few charges.

During this one-and-a-half-month preparation period, the Japanese Army did not make any preparations. On the Tokyo side, a large number of former artillery party officers who had escaped from Shanghai were gathered. I asked them about their experience of fighting with the Red Army, so as to understand the tactics of the Red Army. In the past, Japanese military advisers had given military guidance to the Nanking government in China for a long time, and those officers had a considerable understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Red Army. Regrettably, most of these officers were members of the pro-control faction, and after learning about the fighting capacity of the Red Army, they were rationally opposed to the use of troops against South China at this time - interestingly, these rationalists were the most radical and all-out invading faction of China before the great upheaval of June 1935.

At that time, their view was that if the Japanese Empire could not fully invade China before the Red Army completely defeated the Nanking government, it would lose the last chance to invade China. This is because once the Red Army gains the territory of the Nanjing Government, there will be another qualitative leap in strength, and at that time they will not be able to deal with this kind of "petty fighting" at present.

After the June Offensive, the Nationalist government in Nanking was completely destroyed in less than twenty days, and the speed of drastic changes in the shape of China was beyond the imagination of all Japanese officers (and indeed beyond the predictions of the Red Army leaders themselves).

In fact, a very small number of rational factions in the Japanese military department who really understand the combat strength of the Red Army and can regard it as an equal opponent have already faintly realized in their hearts that the opportunity to delusionally encroach on or swallow China has been lost.

However, in Japan at this time, advocating invasion of China was the absolute right thing to do, and anyone who opposed it would be considered a national thief and punished by heaven. After the Northeast Incident, in the eyes of those radical young Zhuang officers, even the relatively safe "rational" practice of "encroachment" was considered unacceptable cowardly. As a result, the opposition of these rational people in the Japanese military department who really understood the combat strength of the Red Army could not even bubble up. And their high evaluation of the combat effectiveness of the Red Army also did not receive much attention from the military department.

"The army of the Red Bourish Vik in Southern China should be the most capable of fighting in China."

Before the war, Hitoshi Yamada and Osa, who participated in the war, evaluated the combat power of the opponent they were about to face, that is, "it should be" and this kind of discounted "high evaluation".

Before joining the war, Hitokazu Yamada fled to the artillery party officials. Knowing that the Red Army had massively used mine tactics during the period of guerrilla warfare did not attract his attention at that time. However, after landing in Pudong and experiencing the power of landmines, Hitokazu Yamada realized that the landmines, which he had previously regarded as a "coward" weapon, could emit such "obscene" power.

It was only two kilometers from the landing point to Marina Town, and the vanguard led by Hitoshi Yamada and Osa did not arrive at Marina Town until seven o'clock, and another factor was the cold guns and cold artillery attacks from the woods on both sides of the road or from the houses and buildings in the distance.

The range at which the attackers fired was usually between 500 and 600 meters away. Hitoshi Yamada and Osa have a sharper sense of hearing. Those gunshots were made by the sound of Mauser bullets. Although the 13 mm caliber anti-tank sniper rifle can smash the target and is full of power and shock, the biggest disadvantage is that it is too bulky and unsuitable for field sniper combat. So the weight is lighter. The Mocinagan rifle, which was extremely accurate, became the best choice for the Red Army.

However, the Mocinagan rifle used by the Shanghai Red Army was a German version of the Mauser caliber. And it's authentic German origin. The Mocinagan rifle was the most accurate bolt-action rifle of World War II. Even in the 80s, when a Chinese unit participated in an international shooting competition, it used this old gun from the World War II era to compete with a bunch of modern rifles. And with excellent results. As a pragmatist, Hannah did not feel the shame of using Soviet-style design at all, and at the arsenal in Kiel, Germany, relying on the high-precision machine tools she had developed, she also began to secretly manufacture Mauser-caliber Mosinnagan sniper rifles. In total, more than 10,000 pieces were slowly produced over the past two years, of which more than 2,000 were given to the Red Army for "trial" with the Soviet-made marking.

Because of the German nature of pursuing perfection, this batch of German versions of Mocinagan rifles was manufactured with high precision and exquisite workmanship, and the Red Army used it well, and when equipped with a 2.5x or 4x scope, it was simply a perfect tool for killing.

In the Pudong area, the Red Army deployed dozens of sniper squads, usually in a squad of twelve people, scattered throughout Pudong.

These sniper teams were formed entirely according to the concept of "special operations" provided by Lin Han, and their size and numbers varied depending on the combat target, and they were equipped with very advanced weapons.

A squad of 12 people had three or four German Moscinagan sniper rifles, and four imported from the Czech Republic. The ZH-29 semi-automatic rifle, two to three MP18 flower machine guns, in addition to being equipped with infantry radio and other communications equipment. The reason why Linkhand paid to import semi-automatic rifles from the Czech Republic instead of using the German version of the G32 (i.e., imitation SKS) semi-automatic rifle was entirely Hannah's defense of the Soviet Union, and she did not want the Soviets to get the design of the SKS rifle too early.

Although there is only one squad of troops, with such a firepower allocation, they can completely confront the opponent of a platoon head-on.

Before the Japanese could enter Marina Town, they were attacked by a nearby sniper team. Taking advantage of the landlords, who were familiar with the terrain, they directly used their sniper rifles to kill the Japanese scouts who had been sent to explore the way, and then used their sniper rifles to shoot the officers in the marching procession -- and the same situation was playing out on Zhoushan Island at this time.

These sniper squads are not in the mood for combat, and quickly retreat after firing a few shots. If the Japanese forces pursued along the route they had left, they would encounter mines that had been planted along the route beforehand. If you take a detour to avoid mines, you will not be able to catch up with a sniper team that is familiar with the local terrain.

On the way to Marina Town, Yamada Hitokazu sent a vanguard search team of more than 100 people, and only ten shots were taken in total, six people were killed and wounded.

After being attacked by a combination of mines and cold guns, Hitokazu Yamada, although "not a big loss", has already woken up and began to really pay full attention to the opponent in front of him.

Long before coming to China, Yamada Hitoshi and the intelligence system of the domestic military learned that the Red Army had a powerful "sharpshooter" in the army, and it was said that their elite ace was a very beautiful woman. In the domestic war, this sharpshooter team always appeared frequently on various battlefields, carrying out the "decapitation" mission of shooting and killing the opponent's officers. It is said that the most shocking result was the shooting of Chang Kaishen, the former supreme head of the Nanjing government, in Nanchang.

This time he came to China to fight, and Hitokazu Yamada, who was "prepared", also brought some elite shooters, after encountering snipers. He immediately ordered his elite shooters to find their targets.

It's just that to be a good sniper, it's not enough to be able to shoot accurately, camouflage and observation, as well as the ability to strengthen your memory of environmental changes, are even more important than shooting accurately. Since the war had just begun, the Red Army on the front line still adopted a simple sparrow war, a hit-and-run tactic, and a head-on confrontation between the shooters on both sides did not take place.

It is also the constant harassment of these sniper teams, coupled with the obstruction of mines, a distance of two kilometers. Yamada's troops walked for nearly three hours to finish. The good thing is that it's summer. By seven o'clock, it was still dark.

Having learned the lessons of the previous era, Hitokazu Yamada's vanguard became more cautious after entering Marina Town. Soon they encountered an elaborate mine in the town, and two unlucky soldiers were killed. After realizing that this could be a big trap. At the same time, it was getting dark. Hitokazu Yamaguchi ordered the troops to stop advancing. The tempting idea of living in a private house was abandoned, and the vanguard was allowed to camp out in the wilderness.

The next day, after the incident, the sappers entered the buildings in the town to inspect them closely. Mines of all sorts can be found in almost every house. In the process of demining, another engineer was accidentally injured by a mine. Of course, as the British encountered on Zhoushan Island, the harassment of the Red Army was also constant on this night, from the Bo-2 night bombers flying in the sky to the infiltration attacks of small units of infantry on the ground. Yamada Hitokazu was even more depressed to find that in the local villages, they did not receive any supplies, and all the farmers could not find a grain of food and useful supplies in their homes. Two days before 31 July, the local Red Army organized men to carry out an emergency harvest of the farmland in the Pudong area, and the rice that was about to ripen was harvested and packed and transported away from the fields ahead of schedule, and the Japanese could not get any supplies in the Pudong area.

In the Pudong area now, there are only two kinds of people active. invaders of the Japanese and defenders of the Red Army. Other than that, there is no other human to be found.

Such an efficient "clear wall" and such an efficient organizational ability, coupled with the fact that Hitoshi Yamada and Osa, who had been tormented by the Red Army's attacks all night last night, had completely abandoned their sense of contempt for the Red Army before coming to China, and had become like a very small number of rational people in China, and were no longer optimistic about this operation in South China.

However, invading the Yangtze River valley in the name of "interference" is a decision made by the base camp of the military headquarters, and how can a middle-level officer on the front line make a decision. Despite the growing psychological uneasiness, Hitoshi Yamada and Osa could only grit their teeth and carry out the extremely unreasonable instructions put forward by their superiors: to take these 4,000-strong mixed troops to the north along the coastline and completely control the Pudong area east of the Huangpu River, so as to pave the way for the next military operation.

However, before the next military operation of Yamada Hitoshi and Osa begins, they must first face one thing that they encountered last night: that is, the air attack of the enemy plane in their heads.

On 1 August, when the sky had cleared, all the planes from the airfields around Shanghai took off at dawn and began to bomb their troops, who had taken advantage of the bad weather to force their landing. At the same time, fighters from three aircraft carriers in the East China Sea also began to take off and began to compete with the Red Army's land-based planes for air supremacy over Shanghai.

At six o'clock in the morning, because of the distance, before the naval planes arrived, the landing troops of Yamada Hitonaka were bombed by Red Army planes in the coastal periphery. After all, it is impossible for the aircraft carrier to be arrogantly arranged close to the coastline, and the nearest field airfield of the Red Army is only more than thirty kilometers away from Yamada Hitokazu's troops, and the advantage of distance allows them to start bombing in advance

When dozens of Hawker II and HS129 attack planes flew over the heads of his landing force and began to throw incendiary bows, fire bombs, and sweep the field with machine guns like hens, Hitoshi Yamada, who had no decent anti-aircraft weapons and no support from the HNA, could only look for air raid bunkers everywhere in a very depressed manner to evade. However, near their landing site, lurking in the vicinity of the Red Army's front-line observation posts, under the radio guidance of the ground observation posts, those devil soldiers hiding in the woods can always be accurately found and bombed by the planes in the sky.

In the early morning of 1 August, just after dark, these aggressors, who rushed from Japan in high spirits, did not even see the face of a Chinese in China, and they again suffered huge casualties.

Hitoshi Yamada and Osa, who endured the constant bombing and strafing of the planes in the sky, cursed viciously in their hearts as they watched the tragic situation of their subordinates flying flesh and blood in the bombing.

"Baga! What kind of shit war is this? ”

Such a humiliating war was something that Japan had never encountered since the First Sino-Japanese War.

Although the idea put forward by the people of the Imperial Road faction of "rejecting the naked exposure in the north and suppressing the violent branches in the south" is crazy, there is one point that their opinions are crooked and to the point: If the Kwantung Army does not enter the pass, and the local army does not land from Shandong, but from the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian, which are protected by the Red Army, it will only be a foolish act that will achieve twice the result with half the effort.

With the great development of aviation weapons, the side of the landing operation has vainly imagined a landing operation without gaining air supremacy, and has even forced a landing ship to go to war without even preparing a decent landing ship.

It is a pity that this war, which was initiated by the British and in which the Japanese participated "excessively" with enthusiasm, was strongly interfered with from the very beginning by political factors. Japan, which was anxious to take advantage of the Red Army's unstable foothold to annex China, and Britain, who was committed to settling the Chinese problem "as soon as possible," were extremely ill-prepared to go to war, so the second landing on Shanghai turned into a disaster from the very beginning. (To be continued......)