With Dong Ku's order, Sun Tao, who had completed the task of encirclement, suppression, and annihilation, waved his army straight to Danyang and made an encirclement posture against Zhenjiang. In Jiangyin, the Japanese 105 howitzers were mounted on the positions near the river bank and firmly blocked the Yangtze River.

After receiving Sun Tao's order, Yu Lei changed his previous strategy of steady artillery bombardment and advance layer by layer, and after a simple phone call with Gu Zhutong, sixty 150 heavy artillery pieces were divided into three groups and launched an attack on the surrounding positions around Nanjing.

Lao Zhao fought a battle, heavy losses, a standard regiment in the No. 6 position, a division guard battalion, a brigade guard battalion, a total of 17,800 people, the last behind, less than 40 people alive, only 38. Those cooking squads and horsemen all died, and the regiment commanders, including battalion, company, and platoon commanders, were the only ones left, Zhu Quan, who was rescued and was still unconscious, and Wang Tie, the commander of the division's guard battalion, which could be described as quite tragic.

When Qu's army had just left and rushed to Danyang, he received all the materials captured on the battlefield, except for antiques including rings. Necklaces, jade pendants and other items, others unceremoniously received the bag, so that his troops jumped into a squad, a squad must have two crooked handles, a platoon of six mortars, four heavy machine guns, and the combat effectiveness directly jumped to the elite.

Sun Tao personally visited Lao Zhao's troops, one division after another, and thanked them for their efforts in this battle.

"Boss, this is a message from the captain, he told you to rest and get ready to receive weapons and equipment from Shanghai."

When Sun Tao left the No. 3 Field Hospital, he handed Lao Zhao a telegram.

"Shanghai?"

Lao Zhao was stunned.

Although he guessed that Dong Ku cut off this supply line in order to attack the Japanese army in Nanjing, he did not expect that his purpose was to attack Shanghai. You must know that the Battle of Songhu was fought for more than two months, and the damage was heavy. The Japanese army has also put a lot of effort into the protection there.

"Good! Give me half a month, and I will pull up the disabled troops again, and now I have money and guns. It's not easy to find someone? ”

Lao Zhao said confidently.

Where did he know that in the middle of the month, there would be no Japanese in Shanghai.

When Nishio Shouzo felt uneasy, a major war broke out in Wuxi and Suzhou at the same time.

Liu Zhong's troops advanced lightly, with no heavy weapons or artillery. Wuxi direction. Only twenty 150 heavy guns rushed from Changzhou, and while they were still on the way, Liu Zhong launched an attack on Wuxi.

The defending enemy in Wuxi was less than a brigade, and although he was a recruit in his hands to deal with this number of Japanese troops, it did not delay him from carrying out a strong attack.

The team, quietly touching Wuxi, the vanguard force, is based on the Huya warriors. The assault troops were organized, and under the cover of trees and wild grass, they touched the position of less than 200 meters outside the gate of Wuxi, and further on, there was an unobstructed open space.

Here, a large number of Japanese troops left from here, so although the Japanese army was fortified. But he didn't expect the attack to come from the direction of Changzhou.

Troops. Quickly and covertly approached the city gate, the heavy machine gun position in front was already clearly visible, and behind, less than a hundred meters was the city gate.

Yu Ke, who was in charge of the assault attack, was also one of the six students Dong Ku rescued in Harbin, and Yu Lei's elder brother. He took with him the members of his brigade. With the selected recruit elite, he quietly lurked less than two hundred meters away from the city gate, and carefully observed the position in front of him through the grass.

The positions in front were guarded by about a squadron of about a squadron, more than a hundred people. Four 92 heavy machine guns, six light machine guns, as well as grenadiers, and sandbag bunkers, it can be said that they are easy to defend and difficult to attack.

This, for the advance army, is all decoration, and there is no need to worry about it at all. Yu Ke observed how many Japanese troops there were in the city and how much firepower there was, which was the obstacle to the charge.

"The first detachment is responsible for the city wall on the left side of the city gate, the second detachment is responsible for the city wall on the right, the others charge head-on, remember, the movement must be fast, the large army is five hundred meters behind us, as long as we occupy the city gate, hold on until the arrival of the large army, and drive the Japanese army out of the city from the other side, our task is completed."

Yu Ke whispered on the walkie-talkie and gave orders to the commanders: "Snipers prepare, guns and grenades prepare!" ”

Under the scorching sun, the Japanese soldiers swayed at the city gate, not knowing that their heads had been locked by the cross, and they did not know that they had already stepped into the ghost gate.

After Yu Ke finished assigning the combat mission, he raised the semi-automatic in his hand, and a grenade was shot out with it.

As his grenades fired, hundreds of grenades flew towards the city gates, towards the city walls, and fell with a bang amid the panicked shouts of the Japanese troops.

In the sudden attack, the steel ball screamed, Yu Ke quickly planted another grenade, jumped up, and in the explosion, launched a charge at the city gate.

The sudden explosion caused the Japanese army to panic, and outside the city gate, there was only one round, and no one stood again. In the firelight, the heavy machine guns and light machine guns were tilted to one side, and there was no one to help them.

On the city wall, after all, the explosion was much less powerful than the open place below, and most of the Japanese troops did not lose their combat effectiveness except for the buzzing of their ears, and after a short panic, they saw the colorful figures rushing in the distance.

"Enemy attack!! Shoot!!! ”

The Japanese soldiers on the city wall roared and rushed to the battle positions one by one.

But their movements were also locked by the soldier in charge of sniping, and they just showed their heads, and in the sound of poof, they fell back to the base of the wall before they had time to shoot.

Running, the grenade in Yu Ke's hand flew out again. This time, the target is not the city gates, but the city.

Pieces of guns and grenades whizzed over the city, and in the loud bang, the Japanese bombers behind the city gate who heard the explosion turned their backs, and the streets were in chaos. Houses collapsed and dust was flying.

The sparse gunfire of the Japanese troops on the city wall was not enough to threaten the crowd of chargers, and in less than 30 seconds, 200 meters passed through.

As he got closer, Yu Ke pulled down the grenade, knocked it, threw it on the city, and in the firelight, he kept jumping over the sandbag bunker, rushed to the city gate that had just been closed, threw a grenade at the city head again, and shouted: "Demolition team!" Blow open the city gates!! ”

With his shout, a smoking explosive bag slipped under the city gate, and the figure dispersed and hid to the side.

Rumble!

There was a loud bang, and in the firelight, the ancient gate of the wood-clad iron was blown to pieces.

At the moment when the smoke and gas rolled up, the gun and grenade in Yu Ke's hand had already flown into the open city gate.

Grenades clattered. flew into the city gate, and with that, the crowd poured in, and against the wave of explosion, pulled the trigger, and beat the panicked Japanese soldiers into a sieve.

"Take the city. Occupy the streets, lay out the defenses!! ”

Yu Ke yelled, slammed the trigger, and killed several figures who rushed out of the corner of the street in the distance.

The crowd quickly diverted, and the Japanese troops at the head of the city rushed to the city wall before they could recover from the grenade, and then the heavy machine guns turned their guns and aimed them at the corner of the street where the figures poured out.

The sound of tom tom sounded terrifyingly. Dense bullets and grenades exploded, blocking the street facing Chengmen, and with it, signal flares were lifted into the air.

The large army in the distance saw that the city gate had been controlled, and in the middle of the order, a tide poured in.

The Japanese troops in the city were disturbed by the sudden explosion and the fierce gunfire, and quickly organized their troops to pounce on the place where the gunfire rang out.

But thousands of Huya and elite recruits had taken over all the passages leading there, and there was a dense sound of gunfire and explosions. Blocked the Japanese army's attempts to reinforce.

Outside the city, another city gate is a kilometer away. A huge pocket had been torn open, and the fields and ditches were crawling with soldiers, waiting for the Japanese army to retreat and annihilate them.

Really. As the brigade swarmed into the city, the battle became uncontrollable. The advance army's charge advanced rapidly in a dense rain of bullets, in a hail of gun-grenade explosions, and all hastily constructed lines of defense were paper-paste. A grenade was torn apart, and then in the sound of gunfire, it rushed by.

The Japanese army, which could not be resisted, quickly retreated in the midst of continuous falling, and fled in a hurry along another city gate, not even taking care of the baggage. They knew that they couldn't hold Wuxi at all.

Those who held on became corpses, and those who fled, who had just escaped a thousand meters away, fell like wheat harvesters in the fierce gunfire, and when they reacted and ambushed, there was not much left of the troops.

"Rush!!"

As three red flares were raised, a crowd of people swarmed out, quickly strangling the few remaining Japanese troops.

Fighting, there is no suspense at this moment, two divisions fighting a brigade, it is a bit of a bully, besides, the weapons are still advanced, or a sneak attack. At the end of the battle, it is estimated that the entire occupation will be completed in a maximum of one hour.

At the moment when the battle in Wuxi began, Suzhou was also fiercely attacked.

The attack on Suzhou was no better than Wuxi, it was too close to Shanghai, and the battle could not last too long, so the attack here was launched from all sides, and the crowds of people swarmed and threw guns and grenades to open the way, and when the Japanese army could not react, they rushed into the city from all sides. Those puppet soldiers didn't even have a chance to fire, they were swept by bullets and fell to the ground one after another. In just 10 minutes, a wing of Japanese troops was completely annihilated, and then, the artillery was put on one after another, and all the light and heavy machine guns in the ammunition depot were lifted out and placed on a new position three kilometers outside the city.

"Move fast!!" Li Rongbin shouted, directing the soldiers to dig trenches and build a defensive line.

The city is also in full swing. The news has definitely come out. What the advance army has to do at this time is to clean up the traitors and arrest all those pro-Japanese elements.

With the interrogation, more and more pro-Japanese elements and traitors were arrested and put into the barracks of the Japanese army, and gambling halls, tobacco houses, and kilns were connected to the pot. The property was confiscated, and the person who carried the life of the person was directly killed. The owner of the smoke house went up and down, and no one remained.

It is understandable that these people grovel to please the Japanese in order to survive, after all, they want to live, but they are in trouble, this is a cancer, and doing things for the Japanese is traitors, and there is no room for negotiation.

Dong Ku would not let Lao Zhao's team participate in such an operation, and even took away all the Japanese prisoners they treated while cleaning up the battlefield. Of course, the probability that these Japanese troops are alive is already zero. And these things that have something to do with the Japanese, as long as they are verified, Dong Ku will not tolerate them either. But he won't let Lao Zhao see it, that will cause a lot of trouble.

Wuxi and Suzhou were shocked, Nishio Shouzo had been informed, and under the shock, at the moment when the city was broken, he ordered to send reinforcements, and at the same time, strengthen the defense of Baoshan and other places, and in the tense atmosphere, call for reinforcements from surrounding troops.

He had understood that his previous worries were not superfluous. The enemy is really going to besiege Shanghai. And he's really on an island.

Shanghai, after the loss of Suzhou, has opened its doors to become a peeled hard-boiled egg, ready to be attacked at any moment.

Dong Ku listened to the situation report in the concession, and he was not worried about the attack on Suzhou Creek and Wuxi at all.

If the superior forces of several times are to fight for a few more hours, then the commander can step down. The occupation was completed in Suzhou, and immediately after the end of the battle in Wuxi, he ordered: "The troops are assembled in Suzhou and surrounded Shanghai in a roundabout way!" The troops there in Hangzhou advanced at the same time, and the encirclement of Shanghai was completed within twenty-four hours, and all the artillery was in place! ”

With the order issued, Liu Zhong quickly mobilized his troops, and the two divisions there in Wuxi left only one battalion to guard the baggage and food that could not be taken away, and the rest of the rapid march rushed to the Baoshan line. The troops in Suzhou held out for the time being, blocking the counterattack of the Japanese reinforcements, and when the troops there in Jiaxing and Wuxi were in place, they blocked all roads and surrounded Shanghai.

After Nishio Shouzo couldn't contact Wuxi and Suzhou, he already understood that he had become a loner. He did not hope to recapture Suzhou, he kept sending electricity in the headquarters, asking for reinforcements from the base camp, sending telegrams to the troops in Nanjing and Yangzhou, so that they could return to Shanghai and have another battle of Songhu in Shanghai.

It's a pity that his calculation has been invalid, at the moment when Suzhou was attacked, Yu Lei's artillery fire had already bombarded the edge of a peripheral position in Nanjing, and in three hours at most, the position moved forward, and he could directly bombard Nanjing and encircle the defenders of Nanjing. They are too busy to take care of themselves, where can they still send troops back to help?

In Yangzhou, after the defending enemy received the telegram order, the army moved, but did not leave Yangzhou, but only entered Zhenjiang, formed a corner with Danyang, and guarded the passage between Yangzhou and Nanjing.

They have already learned that near Danyang, a large number of enemy troops have approached, and a big battle will break out in a few hours, where do they dare to come back? None of them dared to say that they would be able to fight back.

At this time, the Japanese army in Bengbu, Xuzhou, and Shangqiu also had a big battle with Zhang Zizhong's troops who gathered back, and the battle was together, although Terauchi Shouichi received a request for help from Nishio Shouzao, but in the face of more than 300,000 national troops, he did not dare to move, and did not dare to leave Xuzhou. Here, it will be a decisive battle, once he is reinforced, it is possible that Zhang Zizhong's troops will retake Xuzhou, cut off the connection with Yangzhou, and cut off the only supply line for the reinforcements, becoming a lone army.

Nishio Shouzo's request for help made the base camp fry immediately. Shanghai, which they had occupied only after suffering heavy losses, was now about to be lost, and it would play a very big variable for the entire war situation, and they would have no foundation for attacking Wuhan and Changsha, and only North China was the piece of North China, and the transportation line was long, which was not conducive to the operation of the large army at all, and was not conducive to the rapid occupation of these key points. (To be continued......)