Under the enthusiastic inspiration of Wu Ming, Gong Lina completely put down the frame of the Central News Agency reporter, went deep into the wounded soldiers of the New Second Division, and then came to the front line of the war, interviewing ordinary soldiers, discussing the reactions of ordinary people under the current situation of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the national salvation ideas of the officers and soldiers.

According to the subsequent interview records, Gong Lina has published a series of reports such as "Who is the cutest person" in the "Central Daily".

Zhejiang is rich in western Zhejiang, and every officer and soldier of the new Second Division has a different story, but they all have one thing in common, when the Japanese invaders ravaged the land of China, they bid farewell to their parents, kissed their lovers and children goodbye, took weapons, and walked to the battlefield without hesitation, they are a group of ordinary and respectable people.

Immediately after the report was published, it aroused unanimous praise from readers, especially for ordinary people, the officers and soldiers of the new Second Division told in it were like the boy next door, familiar and amiable, which greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of young people to join the army.

In the minds of many young people, the new Second Division is tantamount to a representative of the Chinese army. For a time, the young people in Shanghai were close to the water and got the first month, and they simply crowded the registration point for the new Second Division to join the army.

The overwhelming public opinion propaganda of the new Second Division also inspired all units of the national army on the Songhu battlefield.

The 88th Division successfully attacked, cleared several Japanese strongholds in the southern section of Wusong Road in one fell swoop, and pressed from west to east towards Daming Road, Broadway Road, and Huishan Wharf, which were held by the Japanese army. At the same time, the 1st Division of the 87th Division occupied the town of Yinxianggang, where the Japanese army was entrenched.

Luo Yuming's brigade of the new 2nd Division successively conquered some scattered strongholds of the Japanese army near Daming Road, and advanced from north to south to the line of Tangshan Road and Huade Road. After conquering the Gongda Yarn Factory, Yang Sixian's Brigade and Yin Dizhong's Supplementary Brigade attacked from north to south along Yangshupu Road, and achieved fruitful results along the way.

At the same time, Chen Cheng's 15th Group Army also achieved fruitful results along the Yangtze River.

Since the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet was almost completely annihilated, the remaining destroyers and the two reinforced cruisers were unable to quickly and efficiently support the army operations, and as a result, the landed Japanese troops stormed the left flank defense center Luodian for three days without success. In particular, under the blows of the two major defensive weapons, bazookas and unscrupulous guns, the 3rd and 11th divisions of the Japanese army suffered heavy losses.

Taking advantage of the great chaos of the Japanese army, the 98th Division successively recovered Wusong, Baoshan County, and Lion Forest, and the 11th and 36th Divisions and the Shanghai Police Security Corps repelled the Japanese troops on the front line of Zhang Huabang and forced the enemy back to the vicinity of the landing ground, and the situation on the entire Songhu battlefield gradually developed in a direction favorable to the Chinese army.

On the heavy cruiser "Aoba", where the headquarters of the Japanese Shanghai Dispatch Force was located, no one spoke, and in the midst of smoke, the commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, General Matsui Ishone, had a cold face and a pair of vicious eyes staring at the map in front of him.

After a long while, Matsui Shigen coughed heavily, raised his head to look at the general Zuo present, gently tapped his fingers on the table, and said slowly:

"Ladies and gentlemen, the current war situation is worrying, the marines in the concession area have almost lost everything, the strong strongholds have fallen one after another, the Third Fleet of the Navy has almost been completely annihilated on the Huangpu River, and the landing operations of the Third Division and the Eleventh Division have been stubbornly resisted by the Chinese people. I ask you to tell me, why is this happening? ”

Everyone bowed their heads in shame, eager to burrow their heads into their crotches.

Matsui Ishone's cold gaze swept around, and everyone in sight trembled. Matsui Shigen let out a heavy breath of turbidity and said coldly:

"Before coming to Shina, His Majesty the Emperor personally summoned me and asked me about the operational policy of the dispatch army, and I answered. Subsequently, His Majesty gave us an edict to encourage us to fight bravely against the enemy......"

When Matsui Ishone mentioned Emperor Hirohito, everyone raised their heads and looked at Matsui Ishone, secretly speculating which unlucky guy Matsui would choose to disembowel?

Since the Meiji Restoration, the spirit of bushido has been deeply rooted in the marrow of every soldier. Every time a battle was lost, someone took responsibility for it, and committed suicide by disembowelment to thank the emperor and the people. Now that the Shanghai Dispatch Army lost the first battle, the battle situation is quickly in a passive position, and someone must now take responsibility for this unfavorable situation.

The generals sitting around the round table were all afraid of Matsui Ishone's critical eyes.

Now that the battle has only just begun, Matsui Ishine must stay behind to direct the rest of the battle, so he has to pick out a scapegoat among the officers present. At this time, the estrangement between the navy and the army was immediately revealed, and most of the generals present here were from the army, and they had only arrived in Shanghai for a short time, and gradually everyone's attention was focused on Sugiyama Rokuzo Daisa, chief of staff of the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet, who was sitting in the back.

Matsui Ishine also complied with this request, and shifted his gaze to Sugiyama Rokuzo Daisa's face, and the cold eyes seemed to be looking at a dead man.

Sugiyama Rokuzo's heart tightened, and after thinking about it, he couldn't hide anyway, he stood up suddenly, panted heavily, and said to Matsui Shigen:

"Your Excellency, the Third Fleet of our Navy has suffered heavy losses, and the former commander, Admiral Hasegawa, has been killed...... I, a sinner, have not yet avenged them, please allow me to leave a useful body, and when I have finished avenging the robe, I will definitely disembowelment to thank His Majesty the Emperor."

Sugiyama Rokuzo bowed ninety degrees, and the tip of his forehead and nose smashed directly on the table, and immediately the blood flowed, but Sugiyama Rokuzo still remained motionless, letting the blood flow sideways.

Matsui Shigen sneered, the fat on his face shook, and said coldly: "Sugiyama-kun, since the battle of the Huangpu River, the Third Fleet has been completely annihilated, and you have lost a total of one ironclad cruiser, two light cruisers, three destroyers, and eleven gunboats. What makes people regret is that 2,782 naval soldiers remained forever on the Huangpu River in China and could never return to Japan. ”

Holding back his anger, Matsui Ishone tapped his index finger on the tabletop, his vision covering poor Sugiyama Rokuzo like a spider's web.

Sugiyama's whole body trembled, and Matsui Ishone's fingers tapped on the table as if they were hitting his heart. He turned his head and looked at the new commander of the fleet, Rear Admiral Nanyun Zhongyi, who knew that Nanyun looked at his nose and nose and his heart, and he didn't say a word, obviously unwilling to participate in this matter, and his heart was suddenly like ice.

Matsui Ishone's fleshy face was covered with a layer of cold frost, and the corners of his mouth raised a sinister and vicious sneer, and his voice became even sharper:

"When I was still in Japan, Hasegawa-kun said in a telegram that the strong fortress of our Imperial Japanese Army in the Shanghai concession area could hold on for half a year. Who would have thought that the offensive of the Chinese army in the concession area was fierce and rapid, and now they had conquered two important fortifications of the Marine Corps Headquarters Building and the Gongda Yarn Mill, which not only stained the blood of 5,000 soldiers of the Imperial Japan, but also frustrated the tactics of the military headquarters to flank the north and south wings and blossom——"

Matsui Ishine was even more imposing, and shouted: "Shouldn't you, as the chief of staff of the Third Fleet, be responsible for this?" ”

"Hail"

Sugiyama Rokuzo nodded heavily, but remained motionless. After all, the army and navy belong to two systems, and even if Matsui Ishine is a general, he can't order Sugiyama Rokuzo, who is the admiral, to cut himself.

"Ahem—"

Nanyun Zhong coughed twice, and said with great difficulty: "Sugiyama-kun, the commander of the military command and Lord Lu Xiang have called one after another, you should apologize to His Majesty the Emperor."

Sugiyama Rokuzo looked at Nagumo Tadaichi in shock, shook his head sadly, and slowly walked out of the room as if he was in mourning.

Although the other Japanese army and navy generals were extremely sympathetic to Sugiyama Rokuzo, the big stone in their hearts finally fell to the ground, and people became much more relaxed.

Matsui Ishine glanced at Sugiyama Rokuzo's back with pity, and he didn't care where he went to disembowel, and he knew clearly in his heart that this was unfair to Sugiyama Rokuzo. But this is war, and the kindness of women will only drag the entire Shanghai dispatch army into the quagmire.

Matsui Ishone turned his head suddenly, including the new commander of the Navy's Third Fleet, Nagumo Tadaichi, all the generals quickly lowered their heads, and none of them dared to make eye contact with Admiral Matsui's eyes.

Matsui Shigen focused his gaze on the two people in front of him, and shouted coldly: "Fujita enters Yamamuro Sotake."

"Hail"

"Hail"

The commander of the 3rd Division, Susumu Fujita, and the commander of the 11th Division, Munetake Yamamuro, quickly stood up, bowed their heads, and looked humble.

Matsui Shigen looked at the two of them, and saw that the two of them were a little numb in their scalps, and then said coldly: "You two immediately order the troops to retreat to the booth position and put them under the protection of the powerful artillery fire of the navy. ”

"Huh?"

The two were dumbfounded, and raised their heads to look directly at Admiral Matsui.

Matsui Ishone, whose face was gloomy, sat back in his seat, and his voice became even colder:

"The Cabinet has implemented the "National Spirit Mobilization Implementation Program", and now the empire has moved to a full-scale wartime system, and a few days ago it officially established a wartime base camp. Today, the Tokyo base camp sent instructions that in order to achieve the goal of destroying China within three months, the General Staff Headquarters has decided to soon transfer the 9th and 13th Divisions, as well as the 18th Division, the 101st Division, and the 114th Division, which are currently being organized, to Shanghai. ”

"At the same time, the 5th and 6th Brigades of Field Heavy Artillery, the 3rd Flying Regiment, the 6th Division of the North China Front, and the Shigeto Detachment, which is composed of the Taiwan garrison, will also be transferred to Central China to smash the defense line of the Chinese army in Songhu and force the Chinese government to fully surrender to the Japanese Empire within three months."

"At the same time, the Military Command Department will send the Second Fleet and the First Air Force to join the Songhu battlefield, and we will have eight battleships, eight cruisers, and four aircraft carriers, and the support firepower on the opposite shore will reach the point where the enemy is terrified, so please continue to work hard."

After listening to Matsui Ishone's introduction, Fujita Susuru, Yamamuro Sotake and others were overjoyed, if so many divisions joined the Shanghai battlefield, the Chinese army would definitely collapse at the touch of a button, and then the territory of the Great Japanese Empire would be able to encompass the whole of China

Matsui Shigen coughed lightly, his eyes passed, the generals of the army and navy were overjoyed, Matsui Shigen was very satisfied with the effect of his motivation to the soldiers, and then said:

"However, now that the Imperial Army in Shanghai is temporarily in a weak position, I have asked the Imperial Ministers of Japan to send a joint note to Britain, France, the United States and other powers, asking them to mediate the war between the Empire and China."

Everyone understood what Matsui Ishine meant, and now it was just a "drag" trick, and asking Britain, France, the United States, and other countries to mediate was just a pretense, and when the main force of the Japanese army arrived, it would definitely destroy the defense line built by the Chinese army along the coast and on the banks of the Yangtze River in one fell swoop.

Putting the good news almost away, Matsui Ishone's face turned cold, and his fierce gaze came out again, especially staring at Fujita Jin and Yamamuro Sotake, and ordered:

"From tomorrow, the imperial army is not allowed to fire a single shot or a cannon at the Chinese army, our great Japanese empire has always been peace-loving, and besides, Japan-China goodwill, we want to establish a greater East Asia co-prosperity sphere dominated by the empire, and we cannot do without the support of the Chinese, understand?"

"Hail"

Fujita Jin and Yamamuro Munetake nodded heavily, and their attitudes were more deferential.

Matsui Shigen raised his aggressive gaze, turned his gaze to the huge map of Shanghai by the wall, and said in a very cold tone:

"Okay, then everyone must repair well, and if you are still weak and defeated as before when you receive the order to attack, you can judge yourself like Sugiyama-kun."

Everyone hurriedly bowed their heads, and they should say yes in unison. At this moment, there was a terrible scream from the cabin below, followed by the sound of things falling to the ground......