At the beginning of September, Chairman Chiang came to Suzhou again.

At this time, with the arrival of Hu Zongnan's 1st Division, Li Yutang's 3rd Division, Li Yannian's 9th Division, Gui Yongqing's Central Military Academy Teaching Corps, Huang Jie's Tax Police Corps, and other troops, the national army gathered in the Songhu battlefield had exceeded 400,000 people, and the two divisions that the Japanese army had landed in advance gradually became a little unbearable.

Seeing that the Japanese army seemed to show signs of fatigue among the veteran soldiers of the division, the old German man Falkenhausen was so excited that he shouted for a counterattack in front of Chairman Chiang all day long, clamoring to drive the Japanese troops who landed in Shanghai into the Yangtze River to feed the fish.

Zhang Fakui, commander-in-chief of the 8th Group Army, was anxious when he heard this, and immediately summoned more than a dozen division commanders to join forces, and secretly sought the support of Chen Cheng, commander-in-chief of the 15th Group Army, and sent a joint exhortation telegram to Chairman Chiang, saying that there should be an upper limit on the number of troops to be sent to Shanghai, and that if this upper limit is exceeded, no more troops should be sent to Shanghai.

What is the upper limit of this force? It is the 40 German mechanics who have now been put into Shanghai!

In fact, Zhang Fakui's psychological bottom line is 20 German armament divisions, in Shanghai, a small place, the number of troops invested in 20 divisions is already very crowded, but now that 40 divisions have been invested, it can only accept the reality, the battlefield is not a casino after all, it is not something you can enter if you want to, and you can go if you want.

The implication of Zhang Fakui's words is that Zuihou's dozen German divisions, as well as the Gui army and the Sichuan army, should not enter Shanghai again, but should stay on the four defense lines of Wufu, Xicheng, Jiazha and Haijia as a general reserve.

Zhang Fakui, of course, this is the words of the old Cheng to seek the country, and he will think about defeat before he wins.

However, Chairman Chiang, who was on the rise, could not listen to Zhang Fakui's advice at all, and insisted on throwing the remaining dozen or so German armament divisions into Shanghai, along with the Gui army and the Sichuan army, and went to Suzhou to cheer up the high-ranking generals on the front line, encouraging them to fight for the blood of Chinese soldiers, fight for every inch of land, and defend Shanghai to the death.

Chairman Chiang's original words were that as soon as the war began, there was no distinction between north and south, and no distinction between people and children, all of whom had the duty to defend the land and resist the war! At this time, Chairman Chiang had already put behind Jiang Baili's general policy of exchanging space for time.

Not to mention, the leader's encouragement is really effective, Huang Wei, who just replaced Li Shusen as the commander of the 67th Division, put the steel helmet on his head, and took the death squad to the Luodian battlefield, this nerd is stupid, but stupid people have stupid methods, he took the death squad to build fortifications every fifty meters forward, and then took the death squad to rush forward.

After breaking through 50 meters again, let the follow-up troops follow up to build fortifications, and then move forward, so that 50 meters, 50 meters, and 50 meters advanced step by step, and was stunned to recapture Luodian from the Japanese army, and held it for a week, when Zuihou withdrew from Luodian, the correspondents, clerks, and men of the division headquarters were all killed, and the three regiment commanders under him were killed and two were seriously wounded, and the whole division was a reinforced battalion.

There is also Hu Zongnan, who has always regarded himself as the chief student of Chairman Chiang, who stormed Liu Xing and Yang Xing day and night, and the first army suffered more than half of the casualties without saying a word, and later Gu Zhutong went to the front line to inspect and inquire about the casualties of the troops, Hu Zongnan said to Gu Zhutong with a wry smile, If the headquarters does not transfer troops, I will be in the line of fire.

Huang Wei and Hu Zongnan are like this, and the other division commanders are similar, and they are all riveting and fierce.

Beginning in early September, nearly 400,000 troops from more than 40 German divisions of the Nationalist Army launched a fierce attack on the 3rd and 11th divisions of the Japanese army from all directions, and the situation facing the Japanese army suddenly became grim.

In particular, the 11th Division of the Japanese Army, which landed from Chuanshakou and Shishilin Fort, fought fiercely until September 10, with more than 8,000 casualties and nearly 40% losses, and the 44th Infantry Wing, which mainly attacked Luodian and fought viciously with Peng Shan's 11th Division, Feng Shengfa's 58th Division, and Huang Wei's 67th Division, was basically disabled.

If it weren't for the fact that it was backed by the Yangtze River and could receive fire support from the Japanese Navy's 3rd Fleet, the 11th Division might have been driven into the Yangtze River by the Nationalist Army to feed the fish.

The bureaucrats of the General Staff Headquarters in Tokyo were finally a little anxious, and hurriedly put into practice the proposal of the two Chitaka on tactical innovation, because Japan's industrial foundation was by no means comparable to that of the Nationalist Government at that time, and the efficiency of the war machine was even more amazing after it was turned on at full speed, and in just a few days, tons and tons of small aerial bombs were modified and urgently transported to Shanghai.

At the same time, the Japanese army had already completed the reconstruction of the Yangshupu naval playground and built a new airfield in Pudong, so that the Japanese naval aviation no longer had to be subject to the bad weather off the coast of Wusong, and the aviation regiment directly under the Shanghai Dispatch Army also had a fixed take-off and landing airfield, so the flight intensity of the Japanese air force immediately increased.

Since mid-September, the number of daily sorties over the Songhu battlefield has suddenly increased by more than ten times.

Now the national army is miserable, and nearly 400,000 people from more than 40 divisions are already very crowded in an area with a width of no more than 40 kilometers and a depth of only 5 kilometers; now not only has the flight intensity of the Japanese navy and army aviation increased, but after changing the 500-kilogram and 250-kilogram heavy aerial bombs into 5-kilogram and 10-kilogram small aerial bombs, the number of bombs mounted on each sortie has also greatly increased, and the number of bombs has surged, and the bombing density has naturally surged, and the results can be imagined.

Beginning in mid-September, the Japanese planes over the Songhu battlefield were like mosquitoes in August, and as soon as they flew away, a group of bombs came again, and the bombs continued to fall from the sky like rain, and hundreds of thousands of national troops hid in the fortifications, which was not safe, but they still had to follow Chairman Chiang's admonition to "fight for every inch of land" and repeatedly launch attacks.

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With more and more Nationalist troops entering the Songhu battlefield and more and more wounded, coupled with the bombing of several highways and railways by the Japanese army and navy, the logistical and medical support for the entire Third Theater suddenly became tight.

The reason why Chairman Chiang made up his mind to defend Shanghai to the death was actually due to his considerations.

At that time, China's navy was extremely weak, with a total tonnage of more than 60,000 tons, and once China and Japan went to war, the entire coastline would inevitably be completely blockaded by the Japanese navy.

At that time, the industrial foundation of the national government was beyond imagination, and the heavy industry was still the old foundation left over from the Westernization Movement of the late Qing Dynasty.

The rest, like mortars, mountain artillery or something, can only be imported.

All in all, if there is no material assistance from the outside world, the Nationalist Government will not be able to last long.

Although the production capacity of weapons and ammunition is insufficient, it can still be partially replenished.

However, in terms of medical equipment, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the Nationalist Government was poor and white, and there was no need to mention drugs such as atropine and sulfonamide powder, and even a small plate of gauze had to be imported from the West.

However, the Western powers have never been a good thing, they don't care how hard you fight and how many people die, anyway, they just pay money with one hand and deliver goods with the other, but the military expenditure of the national government at that time has exceeded the fiscal revenue several times a year, and nothing can be taken out except for white strips, so there is a port of Shanghai that is actually equal to nothing.

Therefore, in late September, the supply of ammunition, food, clothing, and medicine in the entire Third War Zone began to run in shortage, and the officers and men of the Nationalist Army were forced to fight with hunger, and the wounded who could have been treated died in large numbers due to the lack of medicine.

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Luodian flank, 58th Division headquarters.

At the beginning of September, the 58th Division was replaced by Chen Cheng because of excessive casualties, Huang Wei's 67th Division was pushed to the front of Luodian, and the 58th Division was transferred to the flank, responsible for attacking the enemy on the north side of Luodian, which was facing Chuanshakou on the north side of Luodian, where the 12th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army was stationed, and the wing commander Anda 23 Zuo, this old devil is also a powerful character.

After the Japanese army innovated its tactics, the bombing density increased tenfold at once, and when the reconstruction of Yangshupu Airport was completed and the Pudong Airport was completed, this battle could not be fought at all, and small Japanese planes took off from these two airports one by one, bombing from early morning until dark, and sometimes even at night they would come out and bomb blindly.

The national army was so bombed that it could not even lift its head, not at night, and now little Japan has also learned to be obedient, pulling up dozens of kilometers of barbed wire on the battle line, and the devil's sappers have also rushed to repair hundreds of kilometers of improvised roads, armored vehicles, tanks, and side three-wheeled motorcycles are patrolling back and forth all night long, and not even a mouse can enter.

Unable to get a map of the deployment of small Japan's troops and firepower, the theater commander's headquarters was in a hurry, and the 58th Division could only fight hard, and the result can be imagined: from the beginning of September to the middle of September, there were less than 6,000 of the more than 10,000 officers and men left when they first entered the Songhu battlefield, and this was still the number after two supplements.

This guy is completely taking human lives to consume the bombs of Little Japan, and he is still taking the lives of the officers and soldiers of the German Mechanic Division, this is the German Mechanic Division, the German Mechanic Division that the Nationalist Government has spent a great cost to train the German Mechanic Division!

Xu Shijiu looked at the dense red arrows marked on the map, each red arrow here represents a German armor division of the Central Army, at a glance, there are forty or fifty red arrows, and he said to Feng Shengfa with a wry smile: "Master, if you continue to fight like this, not only will Shanghai not be able to hold it, but Nanjing may not be able to protect it." ”

Feng Shengfa didn't say anything for a long time, of course he knew how serious the consequences would be if he continued to fight like this!

China has a vast territory and a large population, and the regular army on the register has 200 divisions and more than 2 million troops, but the core of the national army is still 59 German divisions, and now these 59 German divisions are frantically consuming on the Songhu battlefield, and under the indiscriminate bombardment of the Japanese army, a division is lost almost every day!

If the equipment is gone, you can buy or build, but these veterans have lost and have no place to replenish them!

At that time, China was no better than small Japan, which had a complete military service system, and all the young and middle-aged people in the country basically received formal military training, and the front-line troops were exhausted, and the combat effectiveness of the reserve forces would not be too different, but this was absolutely not the case with the national army.

The Nationalist Government did not have a perfect military service system, these 59 German armament divisions were all fought during the Northern Expedition, and most of the soldiers were veterans of a hundred battles.

According to the rate of losing one division per day, it will only take two months at most, and the 59 German divisions of the Central Army will be completely lost, and by that time, the situation will be completely out of control!

A few days ago, Zhang Fakui jointly issued a telegram of advice, and Feng Shengfa also signed it, but Zuihou still could not change Chairman Chiang's decision, and Chairman Chiang not only transferred the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps and the Tax Police Corps of the Bank of the Eight Nations to the Songhu battlefield, but even issued mobilization orders to the Gui Army and the Sichuan Army, and the local troops will also come to the Songhu battlefield in the near future.

Obviously, Chairman Chiang was determined to fight the Japanese army in Shanghai.

Feng Shengfa could also guess Chairman Jiang's painstaking efforts, and said with a wry smile: "Since the Japanese Navy completely blocked China's coastline, Shanghai has become the only port of communication between the Nationalist Government and the outside world. ”

"Keep the port of Shanghai? The price is too high. Xu Shijiu shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "Moreover, Westerners will not care about your life or death, you can't take out real money, even if you keep the port of Shanghai, they will not sell you weapons, ammunition, food and medicine, and there is a port in Shanghai. ”