A few heavily armed guards escorted Wu Shibao away, Sun Liren naturally would not be idle to send him to Shanghai, but just temporarily detained him, and then asked the Police Department of the Ministry of the Interior to come over to collect people, at this time he didn't have the time to care about such a small person.

Sun Liren immediately ordered his troops to move on, nearly an hour late from their scheduled departure.

In the course of this hour, Song Xilian led the 1st Brigade to engage in a fierce battle with Japan for more than an hour. The Japanese offensive was sharp, and under the cover of artillery, they launched an attack on the area around the Bazi Bridge with superior forces. Song Xilian did not back down, and calmly commanded the 1st Brigade to resist.

The main force of the Japanese was the Marines, and after a short exchange of fire, they began to attack the Bazi Bridge position with their rapid-fire guns.

The roaring cannons continued to sound, and the shells kept falling on the Bazi Bridge position. The officers and men of the Chinese army, who had not yet been able to build bunkers, suffered a lot of shells, and many officers and soldiers were killed when they were shot in front of the Japanese soldiers.

Seeing that many brothers were killed or wounded, the artillery of the Songhu Armed Police also began to counterattack. They were armed with a small number of 75 mm* guns and ordinary mountain guns, and with these advantages, they quickly began to counterattack the Japanese artillery.

Because the two sides met unexpectedly, they did not prepare too much ammunition, and the artillery belonging to them were all small-caliber artillery, so after a short shelling, the two sides began to enter the battle for position.

The first to attack were Japanese troops, and well-trained Marines leaped forward in a scattered line, using the surrounding buildings as cover, and soon burst into the eyes of the Chinese troops. However, for the warlike Song Xilian, this is undoubtedly the meat sent to the mouth.

After entering the predetermined firing range, the 12.7-caliber Hanyang-made machine gun and Hanyang-style heavy machine gun on the armored vehicle spat out tongues of fire, and the cross-fire network formed a tight blockade line, and the Japanese soldiers who rushed in front were torn to pieces, and the Japanese officers and soldiers behind immediately fell down and returned fire.

The covering fire of the Japanese army also continued to fire, and the fighting between the two sides was very fierce. The battle soon became white-hot, the Japanese began to charge under the cover of the fire behind them, the Chinese army organized a counter-charge, the sound of bullets passing through the flesh continued to sound, and after a while, many soldiers on both sides fell in front of the position.

The battle was fierce, casualties on both sides were increasing, and in the space of dozens of minutes, both sides poured large quantities of ammunition on each other's positions, and the vicinity of the Bazi Bridge became a scorched earth.

Through the lens of the "Chinese" binoculars, Song Xilian saw tragic scenes one after another, one by one the lively young men fell down in an instant, and some were even torn to pieces.

The troops still resisted with all their might, but the Japanese side continued to increase their forces, and now the opponent's forces had outnumbered their own forces, and they still had the advantage in firepower. According to this situation, not to mention the painful encirclement and annihilation of the Japanese army, it is difficult to say whether it can hold the position of the Bazi Bridge.

At that time, there was a thunderclap in the gloomy sky, and a moment later it was raining down!

The raindrops were so heavy that they had already splashed on Song Xilian's face, and he didn't move at all, continuing to observe the movements on the battlefield in the lookout.

Because of the heavy rain, the Japanese army temporarily slowed down the pace of the attack, and the officers and soldiers who were hungry and cold did not take care of rest and immediately built the damaged fortifications, and the position was busy, and the sound of ping-pong pounds was everywhere in the sound of the torrential rain.

Song Xilian put down the binoculars and raised his hand to look at his watch, more than 40 minutes had passed since the agreed arrival time, how could Sun Liren still lead the team into the predetermined location?

"Staff Officer Li!" Song Xilian shouted without looking back.

"Yes!" Staff Officer Li Mingjiang, who was wearing a training uniform, walked over: "Sir, are you looking for me?" ”

Song Xilian turned to him and asked, "Has Chief Sun contacted him?" What's going on on their side? ”

Li Mingjiang frowned and said, "It's already connected." I was just delayed because of some things, and now I am rushing to the scheduled location. However, I am worried that the heavy rain just now will affect their travel speed, the road is muddy on the way, and the 3rd Brigade has a lot of baggage......"

Song Xilian's face was grim, he walked to the map and asked, "Where are they now?" ”

Li Mingjiang looked at the map and followed the route for a few seconds before saying, "I was here fifteen minutes ago." ”

Song Xilian simply calculated the distance between the two places, although it was only less than ten kilometers, but the heavy rain just now will inevitably affect the traffic, when the river rises, the road is muddy, and the 3rd Brigade is an armored force, and it is still unknown when it will arrive at the predetermined position.

"Order each company to arrange shifts, be sure to hurry up to repair the position, and then order the gang to hurry up and cook, the brothers have not eaten several meals, and they can't collapse by themselves first." Song Xilian Lei Ling arranged all this.

While Song Xilian was arranging all this, Sun Liren was leading the team to Zhabei near the Bazi Bridge. The heavy rain had just made the roads muddy, many bridges had been washed away, and the roads could not move normally, and the short 10-kilometer journey took half an hour.

After the engineer unit cleared the danger and built the bridge, the unit was able to continue its advance. Sun Liren got in the car and left, but before he had walked a few miles, the team suddenly stopped again.

The long convoy stopped on the outskirts of Shanghai, and the rain was pouring down, and visibility was only a few meters. Sun Liren, who was sitting in the car, was so anxious that he didn't care about the heavy rain and pushed the car door, put on a raincoat to check forward, and before he had taken a few steps, Liu Fangwu, the deputy captain of the 3rd Brigade, ran over.

"Liu Fangwu, why did you stop in front again?" Sun Liren scolded loudly.

Liu Fangwu didn't salute, he covered his hat with one hand and shouted loudly: "Sir, a tank in front is lying down!" ”

Sun Liren put a hat on his horsewhip and said, "Let's go, go and see!" ”

Sun Liren walked forward quickly, and Liu Fangwu didn't care about anything and followed. After walking for a while, the group walked to the front. Before he got closer, Sun Liren saw a group of people pointing around a "Running Bull 2" tank, and there were many officers and soldiers behind him who were ready to push the tank.

It was a narrow junction with muddy paddy fields on both sides, full of water and silt because of the irrigation and rain that had just passed, and for most tanks they would sink into it once they got inside.

"What are you doing here?" Sun Liren hurriedly stepped forward and asked loudly.

As soon as everyone saw that it was Sun Liren, they stopped their current movements, and an officer who looked like a squad leader walked up to Sun Liren and said, "Sir, the engine has failed and it has stopped halfway." ”

Sun Liren circled around the tank, and he asked the squad leader to try the fire again, but the squad leader tried the fire again but there was no response.

The squad leader got out of the tank and said, "Sir, it's still not good!" It can't catch fire. ”

Sun Liren asked the technical soldier: "What causes the engine to stop?" ”

A technical soldier said: "It's being investigated, and it will take about half an hour." ”

Sun Liren frowned, and after walking around the tank, he said, "Unload the tracks, come, and shout more brothers to push them to the paddy fields." ”

......After hesitating for a moment, Liu Fangwu immediately understood what Sun Liren meant, if this tank was pushed into the paddy field, it would temporarily lose its combat effectiveness, but if the battle situation was delayed, it would not be a matter of a few tanks. At a critical time, Sun Liren can only make a decision on the spot.

Liu Fangwu waved his hand and shouted at the back, and dozens of officers and soldiers rolled up their sleeves and ran over. The technician quickly removed the tracks of the tank and relied only on the load wheels to touch the ground. But it's a good push.

Sun Liren shouted the trumpet, and dozens of officers and soldiers worked together to push the tank into the paddy field next to it in less than a few minutes.

"You stay here with two soldiers to guard the tank and wait for rescue. Others get on the bus and move on! Sun Liren knocked on the squad leader's soft leather hat and walked back. The officers and men immediately got into the car, the tanks in the front row started, the roar sounded again, and the long line rushed towards the predetermined position.

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At the time of the fierce battle in Shanghai, the form of the Northeast region was not as good as that of the Northeast. Compared with the skirmishes in Shanghai, the first thing that began in the northeast was the large corps of the group army.

The Kwantung Army troops, who had landed from Arthur, went around with vengeful anger and resentment, and they unwittingly attacked the garrison of their old adversary, the First Army, resulting in heavy losses for the First Army.

After Du Yuming learned about this, he immediately reported to Zhang Xueliang, commander of the Northeast Theater of Operations, Zhang Xueliang remembered a scene many years ago in his mind, but this time he did not make his own decisions, he was ready to leave to ask the Ministry of Defense of the Nanjing Nationalist Government for instructions.

However, the telegram he asked for instructions had not yet been prepared, and the telegram from the Nanjing Ministry of National Defense informing the major theaters and field troops had already been sent. The Ministry of National Defense sent a telegram: The Japanese army took the initiative to provoke and attack Shanghai, Shandong and other places, and China and Japan were already in a state of war. At present, Japan in which it is stationed, regardless of whether it has any unfriendly acts such as provocation and attack, can take the initiative to attack!

After receiving this order, Zhang Xueliang began to dispatch troops.

The Northeast Army has now been reorganized into a national defense force, and has completed the transformation of the group army and mechanization, and all the weapons and equipment have been replaced with domestic, and the automation and firepower are no longer what they used to be.

With these abundant capitals, Zhang Xueliang naturally did not take the tens of thousands of Kwantung Army in his eyes, and he immediately ordered the issuance of an order of the Ministry of Defense to the field troops stationed in the northeast, and at the same time held an important military meeting.

This time, Zhang Xueliang decided to give the Japanese some color to see, but the war waited for no one, and before the military council arrived, the Kwantung Army had already begun to attack from Lushun in the direction of Shenyang.

This time they were attacking in a group, cooperating with the units of the Navy and Air Force, and intelligence said that the Japanese army had 100,000 troops in this attack!