readx;? In the second attack of the Japanese army, a company of soldiers on the front-line position was completely lost, which made the brigade commander Xia Shuxun also taken aback, and he felt a kind of pressure in the face of the strength of the Japanese army's combat effectiveness, and at the same time, he admired the new 90th Division, which was able to carry the strong attack of several divisions of the Japanese army for a month. After the Japanese shelling again www.biquge.info Xia Shuxun sent a company of soldiers to reinforce the front-line positions.

The battle lasted all day, and a battalion of the 647th Regiment was almost defeated, and also lost the second line of defense. If it had not been for a single artillery bombardment of the attacking Japanese army with ten mortars, the last line of defense under the city walls might not have been able to hold. This result made the brigade commander Xia Shuxun frown tightly. The soldiers had done their best, and at the end of the day, not one of them took the initiative to retreat. Unfortunately, the gap in strength between the two sides is obvious, and if it weren't for the strengthening of the number of heavy weapons this time, it really couldn't stop the Japanese attack.

No matter what, the battle will still be fought, and the division seat has promised in front of the new 90th Division Commander Wang that as long as there is still a single soldier, the east gate and the north gate will not be lost. The 3rd Battalion of the 647th Regiment mainly guarded the town, and only the 2nd Battalion went up. Fortunately, tomorrow's defensive battle will be under the city walls, and the heavy machine guns on the city walls can condescend and strike at the attacking Japanese troops.

Early the next morning, the Japanese artillery bombardment began again, and the shells not only fell on the positions under the city, but also on the city wall, but fortunately, the city wall was still strong and did not collapse under the Japanese artillery fire. After the artillery bombardment, the Japanese sent another brigade of infantry to attack the positions under the city walls. The defenders used various fortifications and fortresses to stubbornly resist the Japanese army.

The rapid-fire guns of the Japanese army are the weapons that make the defenders extremely resentful, the shells of the rapid-fire guns have limited damage to the bunker, but the damage to the machine gun positions behind the sandbags is great, and this kind of artillery moves flexibly, where the Japanese attack is suppressed, you can move over and directly strike at the suppressive fire. Quite a few light machine-gun positions were destroyed by this shelling.

For this kind of artillery, the defenders did not have a very good way to deal with it, they could only see that the muzzle of the gun was moved, so they quickly transferred the machine gun, so that the continuity of the machine gun could not be brought into play, and the Japanese attack would have a lot less scruples. When the Japanese approached within 200 meters of the position, the four heavy machine guns on the head of the city began to strike at the attacking Japanese troops. The condescending heavy machine guns caused many casualties to the attacking Japanese troops, and they could no longer move forward easily, and after half an hour, the Japanese soldiers left nearly 100 corpses and retreated.

Faced with this situation, Ueno Kamefu ordered concentrated artillery fire to bombard the city wall of Huayang Town, and the wall of a town must have been a little thinner, and under the intensive artillery bombardment of the Japanese army, it finally could not support it, and the eastward side collapsed a section of several tens of meters. Dozens of defenders on the wall, along with two heavy machine guns, were drowned in the rising dust along with the collapsed wall.

Fortunately, the brigade commander Xia Shuxun was not on this section of the city wall, but the commander of the second battalion of the 647th Regiment was on it, sacrificing in the Japanese artillery bombardment. The collapse of the city wall made the soldiers on the position under the city wall panic, and the Japanese army was demoralized, and a large group attacked again, and when the defenders on the position counterattacked the attacking Japanese army, the Japanese army was less than 200 meters away from the position.

In the panic, the defenders were difficult to play even the usual level, seeing that the Japanese army was about to break through this line of defense, the commander of the 647th Regiment personally took a company of soldiers to the collapsed city wall, and set up light and heavy machine guns to strafe the attacking Japanese troops, and the other two heavy machine guns on the city wall also rang out, and several firepower were fully fired, so that the attacking Japanese offensive was stagnant, and the defenders on the position calmed down and threw grenades at the Japanese troops who were close to the position. Only then did the Japanese attack be repulsed.

On the third day, the Japanese army finally broke through the fortifications and city walls on the periphery of Huayang Town, and broke through into the town. Brigade Commander Xia Shuxun and the remaining soldiers of the 647th Regiment fought street battles with the Japanese army, and when they entered the street battles, the Japanese army's large-caliber artillery was useless, but rapid-fire guns, mortars, and grenadiers played the main role of assistance and support. The defenders, under the leadership of the brigade commander Xia Shuxun and the regiment commander, fought with the Japanese army for one house and one place.

Six days later, the Japanese army occupied most of Huayang Town, and the commander of the 647th Regiment also died, leaving only half a battalion of soldiers in the entire 647th Regiment. Brigade commander Xia Shuxun, with his wounded, decided to withdraw the whole regiment from Huayang Town and retreat to the fortifications outside the east gate of Songjiang. After six days of fierce fighting, the gunfire in Huayang Town stopped, and Brigade Commander Xia Shuxun led the remnants of less than a battalion of the 647th Regiment to withdraw from Huayang Town.

After the 23rd Brigade of the 18th Division of the Japanese Army occupied Huayang Town, it took a short rest, and after the brigade commander, Major General Ueno Kamefu, got in touch with the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, he learned that the 5th Division of the Japanese Army had just crossed the Huangpu River and was preparing to force the crossing of the Dazhangjing River and then launch an attack on the north and south of Songjiang County. In order to cooperate with the attack of the 5th Division, Ueno Kamefu decided to immediately launch an attack on the position outside the east gate of Matsue County.

At the same time that Ueno Kamefu led the 23rd Brigade to approach the position outside the east gate of Matsue Castle and prepare to launch an attack on the position, the attack of the Japanese 5th Division on the Yoneichi line began. Across the 10-meter-wide Dazhangjing River, the Japanese army's heavy artillery of various calibers simultaneously launched an artillery bombardment on the defensive positions of Mishidu. The Mishidu position was filled with gunsmoke and dust, and huge explosions continued to sound one after another, and even the vibrations caused by the explosion of the shells could be felt in Songjiang Castle.

On the southern wall of Songjiang City, Wang Haitao, Su Zuxin and the two brigade commanders were all holding binoculars to observe Mishidu, watching the bombardment of the Japanese army's large-caliber artillery, Wang Haitao regretted a little in his heart, if he had dozens of 150 heavy guns in his hands, the Japanese army might not dare to be so arrogant, but at this time, only Mo Huang endured the Japanese bombardment.

Mishidu was originally a small bazaar, and the last time the 6th Division attacked, the 547th Regiment built fortifications. At that time, the 547th Regiment demolished all the useless things such as wooden shackles and simple houses here, and built bunkers and trenches 30 meters from the river. And it has been extended to the fortifications outside the south gate of Songjiang before stopping, that is to say, the fortifications outside the south gate of Songjiang City have been connected with Mishidu.

The last time the 6th Division attacked here was not long, so the damage to the fortifications here was not serious, and after the 546th Regiment spent three days repairing the damaged fortifications and reinforcing the anti-artillery holes, it was restored to the way it was when it was first repaired. The Japanese army's large-caliber artillery bombardment made the position full of large and small craters, and the bunkers were also destroyed a lot, and the defenders on the position also sacrificed dozens of people under this artillery fire.

After the Japanese bombardment ended, the infantry began to use all kinds of items they found to cross the river and began to force the crossing of the Dazhangjing River. At the same time, on the south bank of the river, heavy machine guns and mortars also began to cover fire at the Japanese troops who forced their way across the Dazhangjing River. In the undestroyed bunkers and fortifications of the defenders' positions, light and heavy machine guns spat out tongues of fire and pounced on the Japanese troops crossing the river.

Although the Japanese troops who crossed the river kept screaming and falling into the river, the rest were struggling to row boats or rafts to the north bank, the distance of ten meters was too short, only a few minutes, the Japanese troops approached the north bank, and the Japanese troops on the shore threw grenades in front of the defenders' positions, and in the explosion of the grenades, these Japanese soldiers bent down and rushed onto the river embankment, and then lay behind the river embankment, and fired at the defenders on the position with their weapons.

Nakamura Masao, commander of the 21st Brigade of the Japanese Army, who was supervising the battle on the south bank, saw that his troops had landed on the north bank and were fighting fiercely with the defenders of China. The Japanese army continued to land on the north bank, and although the defenders were also fighting back, the number of Japanese troops was increasing, and the defenders on the front-line positions were gradually overwhelmed.

Wei Erxi, commander of the 546th Regiment, and Zhang Lingfu, commander of the 547th Regiment, who were watching the battle in the back, were both a little anxious, once the Japanese army gained a firm foothold on the north bank, the battle would be even more difficult to fight. The two regiments together had more than 30 mortars, as well as 10 75 infantry guns, and considering the counterattack of the Japanese artillery, the 10 75 infantry guns were not used at first, but the mortars were dispersed.

Thirty mortars were divided into ten groups, each with three guns, and after three shells were fired, they were transferred. This is also a guerrilla tactic that has no choice but to be. Sure enough, the mortar attack worked, and the Japanese soldiers who had landed on the north bank fell under mortar fire. And when the Japanese artillery fire retaliated against the mortars, the mortars had already completed three shells and diverted.

In this way, the defenders used the guerrilla tactics of using mortars and the light and heavy machine guns in the bunker fortifications to keep the Japanese firmly under the embankment on the north bank, and for the whole day, these Japanese troops could not get closer to the position. However, in one day, the Japanese engineer unit successfully erected two pontoon bridges on the river, and with the two pontoon bridges as a guarantee, the Japanese army could freely pass through the Dazhangjing River.

On 19 November, the form of the front north of Shanghai changed, and the 21st Group Army, which had established a position north of Fuzaobang by counterattacking, was unable to withstand the Japanese attack from three directions, and was forced to withdraw to the south bank of Fuzaobang after suffering heavy casualties. Among them, Major General Pang Hanzhen, commander of the 170th Division and 100th Brigade of the Seventh Army, Major General Qin Lin, commander of the 171st Division's 511th Brigade, and more than 10 regiment commanders were sacrificed, and countless officers and soldiers below were sacrificed.

The Japanese army did not miss the opportunity, concentrated the 3rd, 9th, 13th, and 1014th divisions, forcibly crossed the Fuzaohama, attacked the Fumohama defense line, and finally broke through the defense line, and the troops pointed directly at the town of Dachang, which was garrisoned by the 18th Division. Dachang Town is a strategic place in the north of Shanghai, and it is also the core of the entire Songhu North Battlefield, and it is also the distribution center for all the troops' material supplies, and it is also the last barrier to enter the Shanghai solid highway from the north and east.