When the battle of Nanking ended, the overall situation of the entire Chinese country was decided. However, even so, the garrison of the Rising Sun Empire still stayed in Shanghai. After all, the value here is so great that there is a reason to hold on to it, both politically, economically, and militarily. So much so that they could not see the current situation in China clearly. Still holding the attitude of giving it a try, I plan to stick to this place.

Driven by huge economic interests, it is even more impossible for the major domestic chaebols to give up this piece of fat on their mouths. Coupled with the huge industries and vested interests they all have in this place, how can they give it up so easily?

And this place involves the vital interests of almost all the well-known chaebol groups in the empire, and even the emperor of the Rising Sun Empire, Fang Lang himself, has no way to change this situation, although everyone knows how stupid and ridiculous this decision is, but the so-called public anger is unbearable, even in a theocratic country like the Rising Sun Empire, it is not exempt. So the war machine of the entire empire began to run at high speed for this, and soon the defenders of Shanghai received orders from the base camp to hold on and wait for reinforcements.

At the same time, a large reinforcement fleet is rapidly being assembled in the country, and it is expected that it will be ready to arrive in the country within a week at the latest. However, at this time, the situation in Shanghai was not optimistic, except for the direction near the sea that was still under its control, the other three directions were found to have traces of large-scale movements of Chinese communist troops. However, due to the serious damage to the intelligence system in China, and the fact that all the Imperial reconnaissance and communication satellites in space have lost contact again for some reason in the past few days, the communication between the Shanghai defenders and the Imperial base camp has been completely interrupted. The three long-range radar stations in the city were also subjected to strong interference from unknown interference sources, completely losing their due role. As a result, the defenders of the city became blind and deaf, and could not get any valuable information. Even when the domestic reinforcement fleet will arrive is unknown. To add insult to injury, in the past few days, according to the latest report of the patrol, the Chinese communist fleet seems to have appeared in the direction of the sea, and the entire city has been completely surrounded on all sides. At this point, a bloody battle is inevitable!

Although the entire Shanghai area is well fortified, with sufficient ammunition and weapons, and all war readiness materials. However, the strength of the city's defenses became a big problem. Because at this time, the main battlefield of the Rising Sun Empire was in the Soviet Union in Europe, and almost all the main ace divisions were transferred there to participate in the General War. Most of those who remain in Asia are second-rate or even third-rate troops, which are simply embarrassed and of great use. In addition, the puppet army of the Allies is too uncompetitive, which is why today's embarrassing situation has emerged. Originally, if he had retreated earlier, maybe the losses would have been less, but unfortunately, the wrong decision of the imperial top brass completely buried all the garrisons in the entire Hua Kingdom.

By the time we find out that something is wrong, it's already too late! Coupled with the constant intervention of domestic interest groups, the avoidable Shanghai War broke out. At this time, in addition to a complete Imperial Class A division, the regular army in the city only had a few independent mechanized wings and the Seventh Imperial Task Force anchored in the harbor. Although there are still three regular divisions of the puppet army and more than 3,000 armed police forces, it is almost an impossible task to hold on to and block the CCP's huge ground corps for a long time with this strength without new reinforcements.

Even if the Imperial fleet on the mainland departs today, I am afraid that it will not be possible to arrive in time in three or four days. With the obstruction of the Chinese Navy's fleet in the Canadian Sea, it is conceivable that counting on reinforcements is simply a distant matter. And although those puppet army troops have sworn allegiance and there are more than 100,000 of them, it is still difficult to be fully trusted because the puppet government has collapsed. But in general, it is better to have these people than nothing, although the combat effectiveness is a little worse, but it is also a good choice to use them as cannon fodder at the critical moment!

On the other hand, Li Feng on the fortress side also made new arrangements after receiving the latest information from the intelligence department that infiltrated the city. The original offensive plan was no longer suitable for the current situation, and the original main attacking force, the Third Corps, encountered strong resistance in the Battle of Hangzhou, which led to heavy losses for the Corps, and the remaining forces were not enough to complete the arduous task of taking Shanghai. Unfortunately, an important piece of information was missing from this extremely detailed information, and this fatal omission also caused the subsequent battle of Shanghai to become extremely cruel and bloodthirsty, like a meat grinder devouring the lives of countless soldiers. It was even bloodier than the most tragic Battle of Tokyo Bay in this plane!

Although Li Feng learned about the military deployment of the Rising Sun Empire in the entire city of Shanghai, it was still unknown how many secrets the city hid. For such an important city as the Rising Sun Empire, the defense system inside the city must be quite dense and complex, but the information obtained by the intelligence department is far from the estimate of the staff department. What's worse is that the defense system and command system of the Rising Sun Empire, which used Noah to easily handle in the past, are completely ineffective.

And this can only mean that the entire city has a set of equivalent devices that are completely independent of the local core host of the Rising Sun Empire. However, this device is a special system that is completely independent of the external network, and cannot be connected, which makes it impossible to invade. Unless someone can bring the device to the vicinity of the hidden host line and use physical means to connect and transmit data to the other party's system. Otherwise it is simply impossible to shut down the entire war machine.

However, in the absence of sufficient intelligence, the difficulty of operation is comparable to that of a Hollywood movie to single-handedly take on an army heavily armed to the teeth. However, Li Feng did not know that the underground base where the main engine was located was more than 1,000 meters underground, and even if it was located, it would be difficult to completely destroy it even if it was a large-yield ground-drilling nuclear bomb. And the existence of this host has also made a major change in the deployment of the entire campaign, and the threat level has been increased by several levels at once, and the planned 500,000 offensive army has been quickly increased to one million. Because the defense of a city with a national host is absolutely impossible to be as simple as in the intelligence! It's a pity that Li Feng still underestimated the combat potential of this city's station, and paid a bloody price for it!

Shanghai, the Pearl of the Orient, Asia's most important port and financial center, is about to suffer the biggest catastrophe since its construction. The defense system of the whole city is almost impeccable, in addition to the tens of thousands of automatic defense turrets on the surface, there are also a large number of defense means hidden in the city that no one knows, and the underground network and fortifications are dense, and the fully automated weapon control of the intelligent host is matched with the extremely dense surveillance system in the city, so that the comprehensive combat capability of the entire defense system has been greatly improved.

The ubiquitous automated weapon factories in the city make the absence of weapons and ammunition a major problem for the city's defense, and the research center in the city's underground base has several sets of advanced equipment capable of producing androids. Although it cannot be produced on a large scale, it is still easy to assemble an elite army of 1,000 people in three days under the premise of sufficient materials.

The most difficult area of the city to capture was the Jiangyin Fortress between Nanjing and Shanghai, which was originally a strong fortress used by the Kuomintang regime to defend Shanghai during the War of Resistance against Japan, but after it was captured by the Japanese army, it was gradually transformed into a well-defended steel fortress.

After decades of continuous reinforcement and transformation, the entire fortress has become a modern super fortification that can cover dozens of kilometers of the perimeter at 360 degrees. Countless ultra-high-power fortress-class wave energy cannons are deployed on dozens of large rotating turrets, and the main defense structure uses a large number of razor-class cruisers' nano-rigid armor, and the thickest point even reaches more than ten meters. Even if the Soviet Kirov airship, which had an amazing destructive ability, wanted to blow up this king shell, it would take a lot of time. And the dense firepower of the thousands of {Defense Mode} Defenders VX around the fortress may have been brought down long ago. In addition, more than a dozen nano beehives are deployed inside the entire fortress, which can be perfectly defended by continuously using the nano swarm barrier in case of emergency. In addition, there are various facilities such as a large hangar, an automatic manufacturing plant for weapons and combat vehicles, a large shipyard, a long-range radar, and a super energy wave destruction device.

In addition, the fortress has a small underground city that can accommodate 300,000 people in case of emergency. And the living materials in the warehouse are enough for these people to live for ten years. However, there are currently less than 50,000 people stationed in the entire fortress, far from the minimum of 100,000 people in the design standard, and this makes many weapons systems in some fortresses can only be controlled remotely by intelligent hosts under the city.

On the other hand, the Rising Sun Empire North China Command, the Navy Building, the City Government and the three air defense buildings in the city are also difficult points in the attack. In addition to the heavy armament of these places, the large number of defensive weapon systems deployed around their buildings is also a major annoyance. The materials used for these buildings are identical to those used for the fortress, except that they are even stronger than the fortress in some key parts. It may be quite difficult to completely destroy it with the help of conventional warheads.

The city was transformed from a weak economic and cultural center into a steel fortress armed to the teeth. And how many secret fortifications are hidden in the city, how many mysterious research institutes of the empire are there. Not even the supreme commander in charge of the defense here could fully understand it.

At this time, the forces to attack the city had been basically deployed, and the 300,000 field army troops assembled by the CCP were responsible for launching an attack from the west, while the Jiangyin Fortress and Chongming Island in the north were responsible for the first and second aircraft carrier battle groups of the fortress and the clone troops of the second army that had completed the reorganization. To the south, the remnants of the Third Army and the 500,000 Wehrmacht troops in the fort who had just been replaced with the weapons of the Mechanized Corps were in charge. This is also the first extremely brutal and impressive bloody street battle in which the Wehrmacht has participated, and these young fighters will finally face a battle that borders on madness and despair!

Li Feng originally wanted to take advantage of this battle to test the combat effectiveness of this newly formed unit, whether the commanders were qualified, and whether the soldiers' military skills were excellent. He didn't think about how many young lives his decision had cost to this unit, which had not experienced brutal combat. Because Li Feng did not take this battle seriously, how difficult it would be for a million well-equipped army, with the full support of the navy with tens of thousands of air force fighters and two aircraft carrier battle groups, to attack a city guarded by only 100,000 regular troops!

But this time Li Feng was really wrong, and it was ridiculously wrong! Because he and his staff ignored an important detail in the information just provided by the CCP's Shanghai underground party organization in the city, that is, at least one-third of the city's 30 million population were pure-blooded Rising Sun Empire people, and half of the remaining two-thirds were Chinese-Japanese mixed-race. And this only shows one thing, that is, the entire city has become the homeland of the Rising Sun Empire. For them, the real aggressor is Li Feng and the CCP's field army, not the national liberators they imagined. Such a large and crazy war reserve population is simply a nightmare for all besiegers!