Fushan, located in the north of Changshu County, bordering the Yangtze River, as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, Fushan was placed in Siyan Duwei, which is the earliest administrative division of Changshu.

In the seventh year of Xiankang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Fushan "dismissed the salt department and established it as Nansha County", which belonged to Jinling County, and Fushan was the county of Nansha County. In the sixth year of Liang Datong in the Southern Dynasty, Nansha County was renamed Changshu County, and the jurisdiction remained unchanged, and Fushan was the county of Changshu County. In the seventh year of Tang Wude, Changshu County moved to Yushan. Since then, Fushan has been a major town in Changshu.

Fushan Xiang is an important town in northern Wu, a fortress of rivers and seas, and a military fortress in all dynasties.

During the Three Kingdoms, there were beacons built in the land of Nansha, and fire was raised to spread the military information. Song set the inspection village, Zhongjie village in Fushan. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Fushan Port Patrol Division, after the Jiajing Rebellion, built a castle, placed the general defense, and then the governor Wu Zongxian added a guerrilla. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Fushan set up a deputy general, later changed to garrison, guerrilla, and set up a general military officer in Daoguang, from the second rank of the officer. Wu Zongxian, Qi Jiguang, Li Xiucheng, Zeng Guofan, etc. all came to Fushan to supervise the army. In the 27th year of Guangxu, Fushan set up a telegraph office to transmit military information, which was the first in Changshu County.

Because of the very important location of Fushan, the Wufu Line, a defense fortification built by the Nationalist Government in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, took Fushan as a starting point and served as an important barrier against the Japanese army.

After the Japanese army landed in Hangzhou Bay, Gu Zhutong, commander of the Third Theater of Operations, issued an order to hold the line from Fushan to Changshu with the Eighth Army Corps of the Gui Department, of which the 176th Division, which was reorganized from the remnants of the 19th Route Army of the original Guangdong Department, was responsible for the frontal defense of Fushan.

After returning to China last year, he attached himself to Li Zongren's Gui Army with Cai Tingkai and served as the commander of the 78th Division of the rebuilt 19th Route Army, and after Jiang Gui reconciled at the beginning of this year, he served as the commander of the 176th Division of the Gui Army.

"Boom-"

The hail of heavy bombs fired from the ship roared in arcs through the air, sweeping towards the Chinese army's defensive line.

In the flames, the earth at the center of the explosion and the severed limbs and arms of the officers and soldiers were swept into the air by the tyrannical shock wave, and the shrapnel that shot horizontally caused a rain of blood while screaming over the heads of the remaining officers and soldiers.

In the continuous explosions and the blood and flesh sprinkled all over the sky, the officers and men of the 176th Division guarding the Fushan defense line clenched the weapons in their hands, their pale faces and fear in their eyes and trembling hands, fully showing their inner timidity, but if they escaped at this time, in addition to being severely punished by military law, they would also be attacked by Japanese tanks and infantry approaching the front-line position, and they would die faster.

In the fierce fighting for several days, the carefully constructed Fukuyama defense fortification group has been flattened by naval guns from the Yangtze River and Japanese bombers from the sky, and now several trenches have been excavated and restored overnight, but after round of artillery fire, most of them have collapsed.

As the sun gradually hung high in the air, the bombardment of naval guns gradually stopped, and the soldiers of a brigade of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army quickly approached a distance of about 100 meters from the front of the position.

In the sound of "ping-pong", all the Japanese Type 95 light tanks were shrouded in brilliant sparks, but unfortunately, the bazookas and unconscionable guns had been completely lost in the continuous shelling of the Japanese army, and the bullets of various calibers that rushed over like a swarm smashed small craters on the front armor of the Type 95 light tank, which weighed more than seven tons, and all of them were shocked out of the air.

In desperation, the officers and men hooked the board machine, and more than 20 Type 95 light chariots rumbled towards the position under the rain of bullets.

"Don't hit the tank, fight the devil" Ou Shounian, who could see clearly in the telescope, was angry and anxious, and shouted loudly to the communications staff officer beside him.

The order was conveyed to the front line, and the officers and soldiers of the former 19th Route Army, who reacted, adjusted their muzzles and rolled the dense bullets towards the Japanese troops who followed the tank attack.

A large number of devil soldiers who followed closely behind the Type 95 light chariot had been comfortable before. Because of the absolute superiority of firepower of the Japanese army, since the launch of the offensive, there has been little success other than shooting and killing the struggling wounded Chinese soldiers. After months of hard fighting, these Japanese soldiers were happy to enjoy this rare leisure time, preparing to wait until the tanks rushed directly into the Chinese army's defense line, and then occupied the territory without bloodshed.

It's a pity that the leisurely leisure of the devil soldiers did not last long, after all, more than 20 tanks could not protect all the devils, and the rain of bullets through the tanks was overwhelmingly enveloped the Japanese soldiers, blood splattered everywhere, and there were screams everywhere, and those devils who were exposed fell like blood gourds in front of the Fushan defense line position that had already been soaked in blood.

The counterattack of the officers and men of the 176th Division suddenly aroused the bestiality of the devil tankers, and the Japanese tank guns began to roar, and one after another 37-mm grenades swooped down on the roaring light and heavy machine guns on the forward positions as if they had eyes.

The machine gunners of the Nationalist army, who were standing in the trenches and strafing with their bodies, flew into the air with guns in the midst of one crimson fireball after another, and the severed limbs and machine gun parts flipped in the air with the air current, and then smashed to the ground like hailstones, making a "bang-la-la" sound.

"Woohoo—"

"Boom-"

A Czech light machine gun that was singing happily turned into a part state in the continuous violent explosion, and the mobile phone of the machine gun that pulled the trigger was torn apart by the shock wave generated by the explosion and the sharp shrapnel sputtered before it could scream, and the head and a bloody severed arm crossed a terrible arc in the air and fell on the position.

On the front-line position, many officers and men spontaneously tied grenades to their bodies, and desperately suppressed sobs sounded from all over the position; when the Japanese Type 95 light tank forced more than 10 meters in front of the position, a captain officer rushed out of the crater, and then more than 50 officers and men with grenades strapped to their bodies quickly appeared from all over the defense line and rushed towards the Japanese tanks.

"Baga"

The commanders of the Japanese "bean chariots" who discovered this situation immediately turned their guns and opened fire, and as the 94-type 37-mm rapid-fire gun spat out tongues of fire, the officers and men of the 176th Division, who were launching a decisive assault, turned into a rain of blood in the dazzling fireball.

However, there were still Chinese officers and soldiers approaching the Japanese tanks, continuous explosions sounded, the officers and men of the charging death squad were reduced to pieces, and then the Japanese Type 95 light tank was also destroyed by cluster grenades, and five tanks stopped advancing, two of which were martyred in the shock caused by the violent explosion, and the flames of the large group of balls erupted from the torn hole of the devil's thin-skinned tank, and the dense shrapnel and steel fragments that burst out made the Japanese soldiers of a detachment hiding behind the "bean chariot" all turned into blood-spraying gourds.

The heroic scene drove the remaining officers and soldiers on the position into a frenzy, and they rushed out of the trenches, carrying explosive packs and cluster grenades, and rushed at the Japanese tanks with shouts.

"Baga, reverse"

The Japanese Type 95 light tank had only two crew members, in addition to the driver, it was the commander, gunner and loader, and the devil commander, who had a contemptuous look in his eyes, was finally frightened by the tragic scene in front of him, and while firing, he ordered to retreat in fear. The charging Chinese soldier pulled the string of the cluster grenade in his hand and rushed to the rapidly retreating Japanese tank.

Violent explosions sounded one after another, and the Chinese soldiers who launched the suicide attack turned into a rain of blood, and in the violent shock wave, the thin-skinned "bean chariots" trembled almost at the same time, as if they had been violently hit and knocked by some heavy object, and with a "bang" sound, the flames instantly jumped up from the back of the Type 95 light chariot and rushed out three or four meters high. The devil tankmen who survived opened their covers one after another and came out of the turret covered in fire, but before they could make their next move, the bullets fired in dense air knocked them upside down on the turret.

The Japanese tanks were destroyed one after another, and the Japanese infantry accompanying the battle was firmly suppressed by the defenders, and it was impossible to stop the Chinese army from fearing the impact of life and death. Finally, after another Type 95 light tank was blasted, the Japanese began to retreat, and then another round of shelling began.

By the time the deafening artillery roar receded like a tidal wave, and it was already noon, Ou Shounian staggered to his feet, and the division command post had become a pile of ruins.

Ou Shounian stayed in the dark anti-artillery hole for a long time, and could not immediately adapt to the strong light of the direct midday sun, so he had to squint his eyes, and after he regained his adaptation to the sun, with a sad mood, he opened his eyes and looked at everything on the front line:

The endless plains and the rolling Yangtze River in the distance are like water in the sky, Japanese planes in the distance are flying in the long sky, artillery is spewing fire in the distance, hundreds of ships are cruising on the Yangtze River in the north, and as far as the eye can see, there are burning villages everywhere, rivers blocked by corpses, writhing and groaning lives, and countless deep and shallow craters and trenches, everything is so tragic and tragic.

The battlefield was quiet, Ou Shounian's brain was blank, the trench in the reserve position where he was located was also blown up by the indiscriminate bombardment of the Japanese naval guns, and there were many bloodstained wounded soldiers sitting or lying in the trench, and the division chief of staff was lying unconscious on a piece of oilcloth. He crouched down in some heartache, and a female nurse with a dark face said something to him, but he could not hear anything, only people's mouths were closing one by one, like fish thrown on the dry ground trying to suck up water.

The front of the position was littered with shattered corpses, and the winter sun hung motionless overhead, shining on the devastated scorched battlefield and dead soldiers.

Ou Shounian cheered up and walked along the traffic trench step by step, the officers and soldiers who were alive along the way greeted the arrival of the commander with a look of numbness and despair of survivors who had survived the disaster, and in the distance, the Japanese army rushed over like a tide, and those tanks were like strangely shaped turtles, wriggling like a dream, slowly sweeping towards the position.

At 7 p.m. on November 27, eight days longer than in history, Fukuyama fell. At 9 o'clock in the morning of the next day, with the cooperation of a wing of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, which was attacking the rear of the Changshu flank, Changshu and Yushan were captured by the Japanese army, so that the Chinese army on the front line of Suzhou was very likely to be strategically surrounded by the Japanese army.

Under these circumstances, at two o'clock in the afternoon of the 28th, Xue Yue ordered to abandon the plan to hold the Wufu line, and ordered all the left flank troops to withdraw west to the Xicheng line for defense.

Haining County, the headquarters of the new second division.

The staff officers came and went without making a sound.

Zhang Ying, who was standing in front of the map by the wall, took Dai Ziran's place, holding the indicator baton and introducing the latest battle situation:

"As the Nationalist Army gradually abandoned the national defense line, as of 9 o'clock this morning, the Japanese army marched westward to the following locations: the 6th and 18th Divisions captured Jiaxing, and their forward was approaching the Luodong line and Nanxun from the southeast; The Kunisaki detachment occupied Miaogang on the south bank of Taihu Lake and approached Nanxun from the northeast; The 9th Division occupied Suzhou; The 11th Division occupied Mocheng Town, north of Suzhou; The 16th Division captured Fukuyama; The 13th Division occupied the area of Xiaojiaqiao, north of Changshu and south of Fushan. ”

"In addition, the division headquarters has received the latest information, the second and seventh divisions of the Japanese army have landed in Shanghai Port, and based on all aspects of information, these two divisions are likely to be put into the southern front to fight. Our new Second Division has brought great humiliation to the Japanese, and is regarded by the Japanese as a thorn in the side, and may become its primary target. ”

After listening to Zhang Ying's introduction, the school members suddenly became noisy.

The new Second Division has just adjusted its sequence, and half of its men and horses have been assigned to support the battlefield on the northern front of the Right Wing Army, and most of the remaining officers and soldiers are newly replenished soldiers, although they have a certain combat strength, but in terms of individual soldier quality, they are no longer the opponents of ordinary division soldiers of the Japanese army, and now the enemy has come two at once, and they are still the main divisions.

In the face of the grim situation, everyone's faces were extremely ugly.