Chapter 443: Calm North China

The sound of killing shook the sky, the military flag hunted, rushed over to support Song Xilian's 36th Division, compared to Liao Lei's 87th Division, Song Xilian was under much more pressure, his position front, there was no Japanese tank force, all, the 36th Division fought relatively easily, after repelling the Japanese army's many attacks, Song Xilian's hands, there was still a complete brigade of reserves not used.

The strict situation of the 87th Division made Song Xilian's head "boom", the 36th Division was the left defensive force of the 87th Division, and the position abandoned by the 276th Brigade was at the junction of the defensive positions of the two divisions, Song Xilian realized that the problem was strict, the last line of defense of the 87th Division was impossible to stop the ferocious attack of the Japanese tanks and infantry, the 87th Division was finished, and the 36th Division had no good fruit to eat, so everyone was finished together.

He didn't have time to ask Zhang Zhizhong, and immediately personally brought a brigade of reserves to support, and the heavy artillery regiment of the Tenth Army also killed the Japanese tanks, Song Xilian seized the opportunity, the soldiers of the 36th Division, crossed the trenches, rushed to the Japanese army that was already covered in bruises and strong crossbows, and the addition of this new force finally crushed the Japanese army that had completely lost its spirit.

On this day, which is known as the happiest and most fierce day since the beginning of the Songhu Campaign, a total of more than 50,000 Japanese soldiers fell at the front of the Chinese defenders' positions on the front line of Wusong, Chuansha Hekou and Lion Forest, a chariot wing was completely annihilated, two heavy artillery brigades lost more than half, and Matsui Ishine's Shanghai dispatch army was killed with blood and corpses all over the field, and its vitality was greatly damaged.

The troops of the Ninth Army and the Tenth Army of the Chinese defenders, Chang Feng, also paid a heavy price, the Central Army suffered more than 36,000 casualties, but Liao Lei's 87th Division suffered more than 15,000 casualties, so to speak, the 87th Division was disabled, Chang Feng supported the heavy artillery regiment in the direction of the Lion Forest, lost 21 mén of heavy artillery, 461 dead soldiers, and the anti-tank gun detachment was completely annihilated.

At this cost, Jī fought for three days and killed more than 100,000 Japanese troops, which can be said to be a complete victory if it were not for the scum of the commander of the 276th Brigade.

At the headquarters of the Ninth Group Army, Zhang Zhizhong's face was terrible, his eyes were full of anger, the brigade commander who escaped, was escorted by the military police, standing in the conference room with his head down, looking not too afraid, after learning the news that the commander of the 276th Brigade of the 87th Division abandoned his position and fled, Zhang Zhizhong angrily broke the teacup, and immediately ordered the Military Justice Department to send a squadron of military police, that is, to chase to the ends of the earth, and also arrest this scum.

This escaped brigade commander, his eyes had already seen the high-rise buildings in Shanghai, and before he could take a step forward, he was caught up by the military police, and his guard platoon still wanted to use force, but the military police killed the platoon commander and several squad leaders on the spot, and the five huā tied up this guy and his men back.

Zhang Zhizhong convened a meeting this time to deal with this brigade commander, and a staff officer who knew what was going on in it quietly told him that this person had some background, and that he was a distant nephew of Chen Guofu, director of the Organization Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee, and that he could be a major general and brigade commander of the 87th Division, and that he was recommended by Minister Chen, and that division commander Liao Lei was a fellow countryman of Minister Chen, and the relationship was very complicated.

Liao Lei's face was terrifyingly pale, and his expression was atrophied, on the one hand, he was bleeding too much, and he had not recovered yet, and more importantly, his subordinates had such a humiliating thing, the 200,000 ** who participated in the war, only this guy abandoned his position and fled in battle, his heart was full of pain, how could he raise his head in front of so many colleagues?

What happened is clear at a glance, this guy is a shameful deserter, because he, 200,000 troops, almost collapsed on the whole line, Zhang Zhizhong ordered, drag him out, and correct the law on the spot, in order to warn all the troops, this guy was anxious, shouted: "Commander Zhang, be merciful, for the sake of my uncle's face, let me go, I will be rewarded"

Zhang Zhizhong smiled coldly, for the sake of your uncle's face, leave you a whole corpse, otherwise, cut off your head and hang it in Shanghai City, so that everyone knows the shameful fate of deserters, there is no scum like you in the Central Army, pull it out General Zhang Zhizhong waved his hand very annoyingly.

This is the first major general-level officer shot in the Songhu battlefield, the whole line was shaken, the commander of the 87th Division Liao Lei asked for punishment, his subordinates became deserters, of course and responsibility to be the division commander, Zhang Zhizhong comforted him with kind words, Liao Lei's appearance on the battlefield, Zhang Zhizhong already understood, for such a general, how can he bear to reprimand, in view of the fact that the 87th Division has lost its combat effectiveness, transferred back to downtown Shanghai to recuperate, and sent troops to take over the defense line of the 87th Division, it is said that Liao Lei was sick in Chuáng for three months, And from time to time to say to himself, "Improper employment"

At the mouth of the Yangtze River, the flagship of the Third Fleet of the Japanese Navy, Matsui Ishine is already a little demented, his last sharp sword, returned with a feather, more than 100,000 soldiers can never return to Japan, and those tanks and heavy artillery, a series of failures, like a rough boxer, hit him violently, he was numb in pain.

Why is this happening? He asked himself more than once, is he careless or underestimating the enemy, three days is enough to subvert his inherent impression of the Chinese, is this still the army he is familiar with? A few divisions can sweep most of China, Matsui has always thought so.

But the ruthless reality made him painfully find that all his experience in this sick country of East Asia was outdated, and he was facing an army that was not inferior to the imperial soldiers, and the war must be fought, but the strength in his hands could still launch a fierce offensive?

Matsui's face was more than ten years old, like an old man who had been taken away by Chōu, ignoring the complicated gazes of the surrounding generals and staff, and staggered out, locking himself in the cabin, not allowing anyone to disturb him, and the Japanese soldiers on duty found that the lights in the cabin of His Excellency the Commander had not been extinguished all night.

On August 26, the whole day, the Japanese army did not attack, and fought for three whole days on the beach, and the Chinese defenders, who had been able to breathe and breathe, seized this rare time to repair and strengthen the fortifications, replenish the ammunition, transport the wounded, and bury the bodies of the Japanese soldiers.

It's just that the Japanese reconnaissance planes kept flying over the sky to conduct low-altitude reconnaissance, and the green-headed flies hated it, and the high-level guns of the Central Army Air Defense Regiment that couldn't be held back were invited down one by one shell, and the rest of the Japanese planes flew away in fright.

The high artillery of the air defense brigade of the Sulu Mobile Corps, because of the artillery sighting radar "Sky Eye", the Japanese reconnaissance plane was already in the target, but Chang Feng strictly ordered that no artillery should be fired, and the soldiers had to watch the friendly troops shoot down the plane with envy, Chang Feng instinctively had a premonition, Matsui did not move on the ground, and he had to make up his mind in the sky, and the air defense brigade could not be violent, and he reported his judgment to General Zhang Zhizhong.

Since the start of the Songhu battlefield, the Japanese army in North China has frequently dispatched to the position of the independent division in the form of a large corps, launched a number of attacks, after a slight blow, the Japanese army immediately retreated, the next day, and again, in the past few days, the Japanese army transferred troops, three out of Pingjin, four to the west of Hebei and southern Hebei, busy and happy, from Huai'an, Yangyuan, Weixian, Laiyuan to Baoding, Hejian, Cangzhou in southern Hebei, there are wars, but they are not fierce.

According to the requirements of the division headquarters, our division stuck to the existing position and did not pursue, which made Tang Qiuli angry to the root of his teeth, because the Japanese heavy army group was gathered, and the gap between the various divisions was very xiǎo, and no suitable fighters could be found at all, and the troops were fortunately surrounded by the Japanese army.

In doing so, the Japanese army also had the intention of attracting itself to North China and not being able to divide troops to support the Songhu battlefield, but Tang Qiuli was a little confused, the Japanese Army, which has always advocated attack, has a million heavy troops in North China, and in the face of more than 100,000 troops of the independent division, it will not attack in a big way, and will run away and scatter itself, but will engage in these xiǎo tricks, and the Japanese commander in North China will not have his head in the water, right? The Japanese way of thinking, with the judgment of a normal person, really can't guess.

The plan to annihilate the Japanese army in western and southern Hebei failed to materialize, and the intention of introducing the Japanese army into the Taihang Mountains and Shanxi was not realized, and the commander of Shanxi, with hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands, was idle and panicked, that is, he did not send it to the Hebei battlefield to share part of the pressure for Tang Qiuli, and he once sent a letter to Yan Xishan in his capacity as the chairman of the Northern Army Branch, and affirmed the stakes, emphasizing that the Pingjin battlefield was actually the battle of Shanxi.

Tang Qiuli thought that he was sincere, how do you know, this prince first cried poor, poured bitter water, the troops had no food and clothing, lack of guns and artillery, and could not pay money for several months, and the soldiers had no intention of fighting, and then put forward conditions, this and that, and then they could send some troops, and said sourly, Vice Chairman Tang was rich and rich, and the central government looked at it again, asking for money for money, and for guns for guns, my old man borrowed your light, Tang Qiuli finished reading the telegram, he was happy, and he no longer had the heart to fight with this old man.

Sulu Mobile Corps on the Songhu battlefield, he will receive detailed news every day, compared to North China, at present, he is more concerned about the direction of Songhu, the anti-landing war in the Wusong area is bloody, and there is no intention of mobilizing the troops deployed in Hangzhou Bay, there is Zhang Zhizhong and 200,000 Central Army, his heart is a lot more down-to-earth, he knows that next, Brother Qiusheng's shoulders are more courageous.

In the next step, the area around Hangzhou Bay will be the main battlefield of the third phase of the Songhu Campaign, and they only hate that they can't spare their hands and are nailed to death by more than one million Japanese troops in North China, otherwise, the threat of the southern front can be solved in the first war, and the northern front will be much easier to fight.

He also received a report from Chang Feng who asked for punishment, for this young man's appearance on the Songhu battlefield, Tang Qiuli was somewhat surprised, and more happy, the independent division produced another general who could take charge of himself, and lost heavy artillery and anti-tank guns, of course he was distressed, but Chang Feng was able to play such a record, no matter how big the loss was, it was worth it.

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