When the British-Japanese combined fleet hurriedly rushed back to "rescue the corpse" of the heavily damaged aircraft carrier, the cannon on the east bank of the Huangpu River rumbled.

The purpose of last night's raid by the Red Army was to compress the Japanese landing force to the maximum extent possible in a small corner near the beach and to reduce the space for its movement.

At dawn, the dive bomber units in the air force attacked the aircraft carriers of the combined British and Japanese fleets with all their might, while the Hawker and Bol 2 fighters in the hands of the Red Army repeatedly bombed the landing force after dawn. When the Anglo-British combined fleet withdrew to save the aircraft carriers, the Red Army on the side of the Huangpu River, under the cover of the air force, launched a comprehensive counterattack against the Japanese troops at the landing site, taking advantage of the fact that the landing force had lost the cover of naval artillery.

In the sky, wave after wave of planes, under the guidance of ground radio, took turns to drop bombs and strafe the Japanese positions. On the ground, Vickers and T37 tanks, temporarily thickened frontal armor, took the lead in the assault, and the soldiers followed closely behind, counterattacking the Japanese positions that had not gained a firm foothold.

At 7 o'clock in the morning of 1 August, on a front of more than 10 kilometers from the south bank of the Yangtze River to the shallow Fengxian District, the Red Army threw 20,000 troops into the army, all veterans of the battlefield. Under the cover of forty tanks, with five times the strength of the Japanese, a crushing assault was carried out with the tactics of flat push on the whole line.

The Japanese troops who landed in Shanghai had been tossed and turned on the sea for several days beforehand, and they had not slept all night after being disturbed by the attack last night, and they were already exhausted. At this time, the Japanese army lacked heavy weapons and anti-tank weapons, and lost the most critical cover of naval guns, although it resisted frantically, and even used "human bullets" against Red Army tanks. But in Pudong, the alluvial plain area of the Yangtze River. The Japanese had no air cover, no artillery support, and no terrain cover, and although their personal combat skills were excellent, their flesh and blood could not withstand the steel storm after all. The little beachhead that it had managed to establish with great difficulty last night was compressed by the Red Army in less than two hours into a narrow area of less than three square kilometers around Marina Town.

In the course of these two hours, Hitokazu Yamada's 4,000 landing troops were subjected to the double reception of being bombed by planes in the sky and crushed by tanks on the ground. The planes of the Red Army were all cheap gasoline incendiary (crab) bombs, ranging from 50 to 200 kilograms. Shoot a few shots. The whole position was burned to the ground. Under the radio guidance of the observation posts of the front-line troops, the bombs of these low-flying planes were ruthless and accurate. The bombing of each aircraft takes countless lives.

By ten o'clock in the morning, Yamada Hitoshi and the 4,000 soldiers around him were so dead and wounded that only a few hundred people were still able to fight. And this time. The HS129 fighter aircraft, which had completed the ship mission, also began to participate in the battle. Relying on its thick skin and rough flesh, it strafed the whole field at an altitude of less than 200 meters above the ground, and the 12 13-mm machine guns on the fuselage repeatedly plowed the Japanese positions like ploughing the ground. Almost every appearance terrified the devils on the ground.

Just when Hitokazu Yamada was ready to break the jade with all his staff, the front line where the two sides exchanged fire suddenly became quiet. More than ten minutes later, the Japanese soldiers on the position happily confirmed that the Red Army, which had attacked the last line of defense, had taken the initiative to retreat.

At this time, the intact Japanese soldiers in the hands of Yamada Hitokazu were less than 500 people. As for the wounded, there were more than 1,000 men, and the Red Army could easily annihilate his landing force with just one more charge.

But at the last moment before the complete victory of the anti-landing operation, the Red Army retreated on its own initiative and gave up.

"Amaterasu bless!"

When they ran out of ammunition and had no way back, they suddenly encountered the willows and flowers, and Yamada Hitoshi and Osa, who were desperately preparing to launch a Itaya charge, hugged their comrades and cried with joy.

An hour and a half later, the British-Japanese combined fleet, which had rushed back, began to fire wildly at the Pudong area. Countless shells lifted almost the entire land of Pudong.

But at this time, the attacking Red Army, under the early warning of the air force and Lin Han, had already retreated ahead of the range of the naval guns, unscathed.

It was not the threat of the Anglo-Japanese naval guns that rushed back in a hurry to prevent the Red Army from launching a final charge, because of the distance, they had to travel another hour and a half at sea to reach the effective shore range of the naval guns. The Red Army could have made a time difference and would have withdrawn after eating the last few hundred Japanese troops.

Stopping the Red Army's offensive was Lin Shuai, the supreme commander-in-chief of the front, who was ordered by Chairman Li Runshi in Nanjing.

Because Chairman Li Run-seok did not want to drive this group of landed Japanese troops into the sea lightly.

Chairman Li explained to the Red Army generals:

"After the success of today's raid, I had an idea called the Monkey Teasing Tactic, which is to hang a bunch of bananas in front of them, so that they can see it, they can't touch it, but they just can't get it. Pudong is this bunch of bananas, if we take the bananas too lightly, the monkey will be angry. ”

What is the last thing the Red Army top brass wants to see about the Sino-Japanese war situation at the moment?

It was the Kwantung Army that entered the customs, and it was the Japanese army that landed in Shandong, and the local war of aggression against China became a full-scale war of aggression against China. The Red Army was confident of resisting the Japanese invasion and even had the confidence to suppress the front line north of the Yangtze River. Now the Red Army is getting stronger every day, and the later the Japanese can drag on the full-scale war of aggression against China, the better.

What is the situation that the Red Army most wants to see?

Except for the fact that the later a full-scale war breaks out between China and Japan, the better, that is the situation at hand: The British and Japanese governments, under the pressure of the domestic people and the government, foolishly sent troops to China in a panic without sufficient preparations for war, and the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian, which were mainly defended by the Red Army, were engaged in landing operations. Let Britain and Japan wage war at the rhythm of the Red Army on the battlefield that the Red Army wants most.

Lin Han's assassination in Tokyo, Japan, eliminated several important think-tank figures in the ruling faction in one fell swoop, and if Nagata Tetsuda or Ishihara Waner were still in power, the Japanese military would not have been so stupid to follow the rhythm of the Red Army. Fortunately, the Japanese political power is now in chaos, and the evil consequences of wanton interference in military command for political reasons have been clearly revealed.

Shanghai is actually the most unsuitable battlefield for the Japanese, and the landing battle in the area of Hangzhou Bay is simply a war that the Japanese should not fight and cannot fight!

Pudong is easy to attack and difficult to defend. For the Red Army, it was easy to attack and difficult to defend, but for the Japanese army that landed, it was not a dangerous place that was easy to attack and difficult to defend.

At sea, Britain and Japan can be kings, but on land and in the air, the Red Army, which has the advantage of home field, is the side that has the absolute upper hand.

Field airfields cannot be built here, there is no strategic depth, there are no unloading docks. Even decent shelters to hide from shelling are hard to find. And the landing of the Japanese army. There weren't even a few decent guns.

This is the worst battlefield for the weaker side, and the Red Army, which has the advantage of home field, is the strongest here. In the Yangtze River Delta region, there is an area covered by naval artillery. It seemed to be the worst battlefield of the Red Army. But this area. It is only 20 kilometers from the sea. However, in the entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, after the aircraft carrier was defeated, the Red Army already had absolute air supremacy. In fact, this is the best battlefield. The Red Army, which had air superiority, could dispatch planes at will to slaughter unconcealed opponents at will.

Chairman Lee concluded:

"Don't hit the Japanese too hard and too hard, and beat the Japanese to the point of losing hope and running away. Take a breath of relief, give them a little hope, and let them continue to throw their troops into the bottomless pit of Pudong like fuel. ”

When the order to withdraw troops was received, Lin Han's Nanchang was parked by the Huangpu River, serving as a front-line command center for the attack on Pudong.

At that time, a comrade raised a question: "What if I am not fooled and just run away?" ”

Lin Han replied for Li Runshi: "That's better." In the area by the beach, there are only a few hundred people who can fight without being injured, and there are also thousands of devil soldiers lying everywhere who are seriously injured and lightly injured. If we really annihilate them, we will have to take these wounded soldiers who have been captured. Do you say that it is better for us to kill these devils and wounded soldiers or not? ”

Someone immediately replied: "Of course, you can't kill prisoners indiscriminately, this is the Red Army's policy of taking prisoners, it is iron discipline." ”

Lin Han said: "Yes, these wounded soldiers, if you can't kill them, you have to treat them for injuries and diseases, these all cost money!" It's a burden, a huge burden! For those high-ranking officials in the upper echelons of the Japanese imperialist countries, these soldiers were nothing more than cannon fodder worth two cents and five cents, and when they died, the officials could at most pay a pension of tens to hundreds of yen, and it was a bottomless pit to treat the sick who were alive and wounded. In order to save money, the imperialist chaebols who have lost their conscience wish that all the wounded soldiers who were maimed and burned by us will die in China, nor do they want to see these disabled people go back and waste their medical expenses and disability pensions. We really wiped out this group of enemies who landed, and that was the big trouble, and after receiving these wounded soldiers and prisoners of war, it was tantamount to helping those people in the Japanese military department "reduce the burden". (Note: Before World War II, the Japanese military department's conscription postcard and stamps were worth two cents and five cents)

As soon as Lin Han said this theory, all the Red officers and soldiers at the scene suddenly realized, and combined with the design of the "crippled landmine" he proposed before, everyone felt that he was reasonable, but they couldn't help but look at him with strange eyes.

There is a sentence that Lin Han is embarrassed to say: "Only the dead Japanese are good Japanese, but what is better than the dead Japanese is the crippled Japanese." ”

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In the afternoon, the beachhead in Pudong was quiet, and the battered Japanese could only cower in a corner of the beach, and the Red Army did not continue to attack in the face of the threat of naval artillery, and even stopped the air raids.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, after the naval shelling had stopped, a man with a red cross flag suddenly appeared in front of the Japanese beachhead, a messenger sent by the Red Army, but his identity was a member of the consulate who had been detained in the Japanese concession. Soon, the messenger was quickly brought to Yamao Hitoshi and Osa.

This man sent a request for an armistice forwarded by the leadership of the Red Army.

"In the spirit of humanitarianism, we propose a truce between the two sides for several hours in order to facilitate the treatment of each other's wounded. At the same time, we will guarantee that during this period, we will never send the air force to bomb your humanitarian relief ships that are evacuating the wounded. ”

For Hitoshi Yamada and Osa, who were at the end of their rope and were sending a "request for tactical guidance" (in fact, a request for retreat) to their superiors, the Red Army's sudden request for a truce was like pie in the sky, and after getting in touch with their superiors, the Red Army and the Japanese army soon reached a brief armistice.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the British and Japanese fleets sent some small ships from the sea to dock on the beach, and received a large number of Japanese wounded lying on the beach and groaning, where they lacked medical care and medicine, and many of them would die in a short time if they were not treated. In the process, the Japanese carried private goods. Quietly replenish thousands of devil soldiers to the shore with this opportunity.

Of course, the entrainment of the Japanese could not escape the eyes of the Red Army's surveillance, but they pretended not to see it, and as long as the Japanese did not send heavy weapons ashore, they would not react. Seeing that the Japanese cooperated with the hook so well, Lin Han could almost imagine the scene of Chairman Lee Run-seok clapping his face and laughing at the moment.

Taking the initiative to create an opportunity for the Japanese to evacuate the wounded and bring the fresh troops ashore was the brainstorm of Lin Han after he said that "leaving the wounded soldiers to the Japanese to increase the burden", and he sent this idea back to the headquarters in Nanjing, and he quickly received an agreed reply.

Not only that, but the Red Army cadres on the Shanghai side were instructed by their superiors. A press conference was also held at noon. On the one hand, we will give an account of the results of this morning's battle and issue a statement against aggression. On the one hand, he made a high-profile announcement of a "humanitarian" truce by 7 p.m., and at the same time agreed that foreign correspondents stationed in Shanghai should take advantage of this gap to go to the front line to interview the Japanese on the beach - if they had the courage to do so. In addition, the Red Army also contacted the church hospital run by foreigners in the concession and asked them to send people to help treat the wounded Japanese soldiers on the beach. Even stated the seriously wounded Japanese on the beach. The Red Army allowed them to be transferred to the Concession Hospital in Shanghai for treatment.

on this. Lin Han's students from the Northeast who were instilled by him with too many ideas that "only dead Japanese are good Japanese", and those students who hated Japanese extremely much. They could not understand this excessive "humanitarian" approach of the upper echelons of the Red Army towards the wounded of the invading army, but Lin Han, as a man of the future, understood this.

He explained to the students:

"It's king, not overbearing."

"War is not just about killing people on the battlefield. Diplomatic warfare, propaganda warfare, psychological warfare are all equally important, and sometimes even more important. ”

"In the vast majority of wars in the world, the winners and losers have actually been decided before the outbreak of war. The role of the generals and the army is only to accomplish this inevitable result. ”

Lin Han understood the thinking of the top brass of the Red Army. First, this is a rare and high-profile good opportunity to "package" the Red Army in a high-profile way to let countries around the world reacquaint themselves with the Red Army. Second, this can dissipate the mortal spirit of the Japanese army on the beach and weaken their will to resist. Third, the Japanese landing force on the beach was really beaten too hard and painfully in the early offensive of the Red Army, and the loss rate of the troops was close to 90 percent.

Lin Han's proposal was in line with Li Runshi's strategic idea of turning Pudong into a wound for the Japanese to constantly lose blood, so as soon as his opinion was put forward, several high-level leaders of the Red Army agreed to his proposal after a little discussion. These leaders of the Red Army were all outstanding people, and they played on the basis of Lin Han's great brains and built a new one, so as to launch a propaganda and public opinion offensive.

Before sending the Japanese as messengers, the Red Army had already made a request for a temporary truce to the British negotiators who were negotiating in Nanking at eleven o'clock in the morning. The arrogant British delegates at that time did not know that their fleet had suffered heavy losses in the East China Sea, and it was not until they contacted by telegraph that they understood that something was wrong. After some negotiations, it was not until 12 o'clock that the British and Japanese leaders learned that the situation on the front line in Shanghai had reached such a point -- to save face, to report good news but not bad news, and to delay reporting bad news and mourning were common problems of bureaucracy, and no country was an exception.

Knowing the predicament of the landing force, the British and Japanese sides quickly agreed to a temporary truce. At this time, the Chinese side sent the detained members of the Japanese consulate to act as negotiators at 2 p.m. to deliver a letter of representation.

During this truce offered by the Red Army on its own initiative, there were really foreign journalists who were bold and fearless of death, and the number was a large number. Together, they flocked to the outer beaches of Pudong to interview both sides of the battle on the front lines.

While the Japanese took advantage of the opportunity to transfer the wounded and secretly played the "entrainment" of the guò sea route to add troops to the beach, the Red Army set up loudspeakers on its own front and gave anti-war speeches to the Japanese soldiers on the beach, interspersed with the broadcast of some native Japanese songs.

After the Red Army occupied Shanghai, it did not turn it into a completely closed land, but made a statement to the whole world that journalists from all over the world were welcome to come and report on it, so as to "let the whole world hear our voice." Therefore, although a large number of foreign nationals evacuated Shanghai by ship in July, a large number of foreign journalists entered Shanghai at the same time, and of course, there must have been many foreign spies among them.

Originally, the armistice was only until 7 p.m., but later, in line with the principle of "humanitarianism", the Red Army complied with the demands of the Japanese and deliberately extended the armistice until before 12 p.m.

After midnight, the Japanese wounded on the beach were evacuated, most of them by sea, while the seriously wounded were transported by land to the Shanghai Concession Hospital, where they were briefly treated and then transferred back to Japan by an International Red Cross hospital ship. For these wounded, the leaders of the Red Army generously stated that they could stay here in the hospital until they recovered, and that they would not be treated as prisoners of war, but the Japanese, who wanted to save face, were of course unlikely to agree to this.

Afterwards, Lin Han manipulated his influence in the Western media and hyped up the incident, calling it "a flash of humanity in war". However, in his heart, he smiled hehehe: these seriously injured and crippled soldiers will not die, and they will have to add a burden to the Japanese when they return to Japan.

After 12 o'clock on 18 August, and after the time entered 2 August, gunfire rang out again on the beaches of Pudong. (To be continued......)