readx;? On the ninth day of the Songjiang defensive battle, here at the east gate, Gu Shoufu's 6th Division faced the last line of defense of the defenders outside Songjiang City. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info And the city wall here was also blown out of a gap more than 20 meters long by the plane, although there are also defenders' fire points on the ruins of the gap, it is always easier to attack than the towering city wall. Lieutenant General Tani Toshio and Major General Ushijima Mitsuru both saw hope here for an attack on the county seat of Matsue.

In order to strengthen the troops, Gu Shoufu transferred back the 11th Brigade, and at this time the two infantry brigades of the 6th Division together were less than 6,000 men, and the three battalions of the 543rd Regiment guarding the defense line of the east gate had been replaced, and a company of the 542nd Regiment had established a position on the ruins of the city wall. Gu Shoufu, who was determined to take the county seat of Songjiang, desperately drew 1,500 soldiers from the cavalry wing and the engineer wing to join the attacking team.

In the eight-day defensive battle, the 543rd Regiment of the New 90th Division once again reduced half of its soldiers, but at the cost of 1,000 people, it was exchanged for nearly 6,000 people of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, and the combat effectiveness of the New 90th Division was enough to be proud of the ** team. Wang Haitao knew that the 543rd Regiment had fought quite hard in the past few days, but he was ruthless not to replace it, and the purpose was to rearrange the troops, form an encirclement of the 6th Division at the right time, and eat the 6th Division of the Japanese Army in one fell swoop.

In Wang Haitao's view, as long as the Sixth Division can be eaten, even if the 543rd Regiment is exhausted, it is worth it. On the morning of the ninth day, dozens of Japanese planes again came to the skies over Songjiang County, and in the ground-air battles of the past few days, the New 90 th Division destroyed 72 Japanese planes at the cost of losing eight Gaoping 2-use twin heavy machine guns and more than 10 Type 57 heavy machine guns.

After the Japanese planes flew to Songjiang County, the ground-air battle began again, and the heavy machine guns on the city wall and various firing points on the ground spat tongues of fire at the Japanese planes in the air at the same time, and the Japanese planes shuttled through the fire net, throwing aerial bombs on the ground one after another. From time to time, Japanese planes were hit in the net, or exploded into a ball of fireball, or planted headlong in black smoke.

On the ground, once a fortification was directly hit by an aerial bomb, the dust and smoke would be mixed with the limbs and blood of the defending soldiers, and various gun parts would fly into the air. The plane finished dropping the bomb, and the plane that was not hit flew to the eastern sea. The defenders on the ground quickly entered the remaining fortifications, and the Japanese ground forces were about to begin the attack.

So far, Wang Haitao has never used the 50 75th infantry guns and armored battalions, but only asked various units to use the existing mortars to deal with the enemy. The last line of defense outside the east gate, because its back is against the city wall, can be supported by heavy fire on the city wall, so even if the Japanese army is attacking with their lives, it is fruitless. After a day of fierce fighting on the ninth day, Wang Haitao felt that the time was ripe to make a move against the Sixth Division.

On the evening of 9 July, Wang Haitao gathered together the officers of the new 90th Division and above, and also invited several officers from the 108th Division. After the people arrived, Wang Haitao looked at everyone, and the first thing he said was: "Everyone, I have decided to fight a decisive battle with the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army tomorrow and strive to eat the Sixth Division." Wang Haitao's words surprised and excited everyone.

Wang Haitao continued: "After a few days of defensive battles, the Sixth Division suffered heavy casualties, and it is already a strong crossbow, and now the Sixth Division has less than 6,000 available soldiers, and it is time for us to act." Tomorrow, after blocking the first attack of the Japanese army, the 543rd Regiment will abandon its positions outside the city and withdraw into Songjiang County. The 542nd Regiment set up barricades on the streets 300 meters from the gap in the east to block the Japanese troops entering the city, and did not let the Japanese troops go deeper into the city. There should be ambushes on both sides of the main road of the east gate to prevent the Japanese troops from scattering in all directions.

Tonight, the 544th Regiment, the 545th Regiment, and the 547th Regiment left the city from the south and north gates respectively, forming an encirclement behind the 6th Division. After hearing the order, the 75th Infantry Gun of the Heavy Artillery Regiment covered the main street inside the East Gate with artillery fire, and ten minutes later the artillery fire extended to the outside of the city.

When the artillery fire extended to the outside of the city, the armored battalion began to attack, and the guard battalion took on the cover of the armored battalion. The reconnaissance battalion also went out of the city tonight, and the target was the headquarters of the Japanese Sixth Division in Huayang Town, and the snipers should pay more attention to it and be sure to kill Lieutenant General Tani Toshio, the commander of the Japanese Sixth Division. The 546th Regiment served as the general reserve and assisted the 542nd Regiment in defending Songjiang County.

Commander Zhang of the 108th Division, tomorrow your 108th Division must entangle the Japanese Kunisaki Detachment so that it cannot divide its troops to support the 6th Division. In the end, Wang Haitao said: "I don't want to take prisoners in this battle of annihilating the Sixth Division, and I won't leave anyone alive!" Wang Haitao's murderous order made everyone breathe a sigh of relief. After Wang Haitao decisively ordered all the tasks, the officers who received the order were no longer surprised, and some were only excited. One by one, they simply took the task and walked out of the headquarters.

After Wang Haitao and other subordinates left, they sat down with Su Zuxin and Zhao Zhongwu, repeatedly discussing whether there were loopholes in the layout of this operation, whether there would be an accident, and how to deal with it. It is not an easy task to completely annihilate a main division of the Japanese army. In history, several times in the history of the extremely superior forces tried to annihilate an ordinary division of the Japanese army without success, so to complete this matter, no matter how careful it is, it is not too careful.

In the end, Wang Haitao asked the signal soldiers to find the two brothers Tang Yun and Tang Shu, who were already company commanders. Tang Yun and Tang Shu are the sniper seedlings that Wang Haitao found in Evil Tiger Mountain, and Wang Haitao has been personally taking the two brothers with him in Longzhou for several years, and he has also given each of them a Soviet-made "SVD" sniper rifle taken out of the arms warehouse.

In the past few years, the two brothers have won the eighty percent level of Wang Haitao's shooting, and they are the best in the new 90th Division. Now Wang Haitao called them here for only one purpose, that is, to ask the two of them to personally snipe the commander of the Japanese Sixth Division, Gu Shoufu. After repeated explanations of attention, the two left the command. Back in the barracks, the two took out their treasured "SVD" sniper rifles and matching bullets at the same time.

On the morning of the 10th day, the Japanese began the same offensive as before, and soon after the first attack was repulsed, Ushijima Mitsuru organized a second attack. A large group of Japanese troops attacking cautiously approached the defenders' positions, and when they reached a distance of 150 meters from the defenders' positions, the dense rain of bullets that the defenders would have fired before did not appear this time. The Japanese continued to approach cautiously, a hundred meters, fifty meters, and the defenders' positions were still silent.

At the last twenty meters, the captain of the Japanese army shouted, "Kill and give!" and took the lead in rushing towards the defenders' positions. However, after rushing to the defenders' positions, they found that there was no one on the defenders' positions, and the defenders' firepower points on the ruins of the original city wall were gone. On the one hand, the captain of the Japanese army sent people to report to the commander of the Ushijima Manchu Brigade, and on the other hand, he sent a small group of soldiers to advance into the city of Songjiang County.

Ushijima had already seen his subordinates occupying the defenders' positions in the telescope, and in Ushijima's heart, the Shina defenders must have abandoned Songjiang County after seeing that they couldn't hold it anymore. Therefore, as soon as the messenger came to report, Ushijima ordered this brigade of Japanese troops to enter the county seat of Songjiang. After receiving the order, the captain of this brigade led all the troops into Songjiang County.

But it didn't take long for gunshots to be heard in the city, which made Ushijima, who was about to lead his troops into the city, suspicious again. Soon after, another signal corpsman came to report that there was a small force of the Zhina in Songjiang County that was blocking it, and it seemed that it was the broken rear force of the Zhina people. As soon as Ushijima heard this, he ordered all the 36th Brigade to enter the city, defeat this small force as soon as possible, and occupy the county seat of Songjiang.

At the same time as giving the order to enter the city, Ushijima Mitsuru sent someone to report the situation to the commander of Tani Shofu's division. More than 3,000 soldiers of the 36th Brigade entered the county town of Songjiang under the leadership of the commander of the Ushijima Brigade, while outside the city were nearly 3,000 soldiers of the 11th Brigade waiting to enter the city. And after getting the report from Ushijima Man, Gu Shoufu loosened his frowning brows, and said to the chief of staff, Shimono Ichihuo Dazuo: "Shimono-kun, I said that the people of Shiona will not be able to stop the progress of our Sixth Division, this time General Ushijima Man has made the first contribution, and we will soon enter Songjiang County, and it will not be too long before the Sixth Division enters the downtown area of Shanghai." ”

After the 36th Brigade entered Songjiang County, all of them were blocked on the main road at the east gate, and 300 meters in front of them was a barricade fortification built by a company of the 542nd Regiment, which completely blocked the way for the Japanese army to advance, and behind all the intact and damaged buildings on both sides of the main road, there were defenders who were constantly firing cold guns, and the Japanese army was unable to break through the barricade fortifications in front of them in a hurry, and the branch roads on both sides were also blocked and could not be passed.

After the commander of the 36th Brigade and the 45th Wing of the Japanese Army found that something was wrong, he hurriedly found the brigade commander Mitsuru Ushijima. When Ushijima Mitsuru reacted and was about to order the withdrawal of troops from the county seat of Songjiang, the sound of artillery bombardment was heard from the city. At this time, the 36th Brigade, from the brigade commander Mitsuru Ushijima to the commander below, all had a change of color on their faces. Ushijima shouted, "Oh no! We've been fooled, get out quickly!"

At this time, it was too late to retreat, and as soon as Ushijima finished speaking, the scream of cannonballs was heard in the air. Fifty infantry guns covered a 300-meter-long street with all their might, and the density of the shells was conceivable, and the Japanese soldiers screamed and flew into the air in the sound of the shells, or were blown into several pieces and flew in all directions. Ten minutes of covered shelling turned the 300-meter street into a living hell.

Ten minutes later, when the artillery fire extended outside the city, the 300-meter street had become a river of blood, littered with mutilated corpses and limbs of Japanese soldiers. At this time, the light and heavy armored vehicles and tanks of the armored battalion attacked in whole under the cover of the guard battalion. However, there were not many targets to shoot at in the 300-meter street, and the few Japanese soldiers who were wounded or survived were already a piece of cake for the guard battalion.