readx;? When the second battalion used mortars to attack the attacking Japanese troops, Noboru Kunisaki let the twelve 75 infantry guns launch a sudden artillery bombardment on the mortar positions of the defenders. www.biquge.info Although the artillery was using their lives to save the mortars that were shelled, six of the guns were still destroyed, and only 50 officers and men and four mortars of an artillery company survived.

In the afternoon attack, although the officers and men of the 2nd Battalion stubbornly resisted the Japanese with their lives, only 100 soldiers of the two companies of the 2nd Battalion remained. By the evening of the 15th, the task of the 547th Regiment to block the Japanese army for three days had been completed, and Zhang Lingfu took advantage of the night to lead the 3rd battalion of the 547th Regiment and the 546th Regiment to withdraw from their positions, retreat across the Dazhangjing River, and join forces with the 546th Regiment at the Mishidu position.

On 16 July, Seishiro Itagaki's Fifth Division finally crossed the Huangpu River, and after crossing the Huangpu River, Seishiro Itagaki had three choices: First, to break through the Dazhangjing River head-on and launch a direct attack on Songjiang County five miles away from Mishidu; second, to break through from the Songjiang Railway Station and launch another attack from the west gate of Songjiang County according to the line of the Kunisaki detachment last time; and third, to attack the area east of Songjiang County according to the route of the Sixth Division last time, and then launch an attack from the east gate of Songjiang County.

After consulting with the two brigade commanders, Itagaki Seishiro decided to break through from Dazhangjing and capture Mishidu, and then attack the county seat of Songjiang from the south. At present, the Fifth Division, because of the attack in the previous days, has also lost several thousand soldiers, the Ninth Brigade has lost its combat effectiveness again, and only the 21st Brigade has suffered fewer losses, and Seishiro Itagaki has made the same decision as Tani Toshio at that time, that is, to merge the cavalry wing into the Ninth Brigade and to draw some soldiers from the baggage wing and the engineer wing to supplement the Ninth Brigade, so that the Ninth Brigade has nearly 3,000 soldiers, but the combat effectiveness will naturally drop a lot.

After the Fifth Division took the Huangpu River, the Sixth Independent Heavy Artillery Brigade also moved forward and re-established an artillery position on the south bank of the Huangpu River. The brigade commander, Major General Ichiro Mishima, was quite satisfied with the results of the previous artillery bombardment by the troops, and now he is also preparing to carry out the same artillery bombardment on the defensive positions of the Chinese army.

The width of the Dazhangjing River is only more than ten meters, and the depth is only just one person deep, if there is no blocking position in this river, the Japanese army's engineering troops will build a bridge on the river for half a day, but the defenders have built a fortification here in Mishidu, and the Fifth Division can only build a bridge with peace of mind if it repels the squadron guarding the river, whether it is in Mishidu or elsewhere, at least there is a road here, which can allow the troops to walk with heavy weapons such as artillery.

On the Mishidu position, the 546th Regiment and the 547th Regiment joined forces, with a total of more than 3,000 officers and men, including 1,000 baggage troops, but in fact only about 2,000 officers and men participated in the defensive battle. Relatively speaking, only the 3rd Battalion of the 546th Regiment and the 1st Battalion of the 547th Regiment were relatively complete, but fortunately, the losses of the heavy firepower battalions of the two regiments were not too large, and the number of heavy firepower together was still quite large.

The defensive battle of Mishidu is about to begin, but Huayang Town has already been beaten into a pot of porridge. If it weren't for the fact that the 6th Division was frightened by the total annihilation of Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadao of the 18th Division, the commander of the 18th Division, the 18th Division would have already broken through the defense line of the Chinese defenders and broken through into the downtown area of Shanghai, and now the county town of Songjiang in the west is where Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadao scruples lie, so the 18th Division has not carried out a large-scale attack on the frontal Chinese defenders' positions.

After receiving the order of Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, commander of the 10th Army, to assist the Fifth Division in attacking Matsue County, Ushijima Sadao finally put his mind at ease, and immediately sent the 23rd Infantry Brigade led by Major General Kamefu Ueno to assist the Fifth Division in launching an attack on Matsue County, and assigned Major General Ueno Kamefu a rapid-fire artillery brigade and a machine gun brigade. Major General Ueno Kamefu led his troops to the east of Songjiang City, and the first line of defense they faced was Huayang Town, which was garrisoned by the 647th Regiment of the 324th Brigade of the **108th Division.

After the 6th Division of the Japanese Army was completely annihilated, Huayang Town was garrisoned by the 108th Division. In order to guard against the attack of the 18th Division of the Japanese Army, the 324th Brigade of the 108th Division sent the 647th Regiment to build a large number of fortifications inside and outside Huayang Town, and many street forts and light and dark fire points were built in the town. When Division Commander Wang Haitao handed over the task of defending the east and north gates of Songjiang County to the 108th Division, division commander Zhang Wenqing personally inspected the fortification system of Huayang Town.

In addition, Zhang Wenqing also brought Tang Renxin, the brigade commander of the 271st Brigade of the New 90th Division, to Huayang Town, and asked Tang Renxin, an experienced person, to give guidance on the fortification system of Huayang Town. Under Tang Renxin's guidance and supplementation, a battle fortress was built inside and outside the entire Huayang Town, and in addition to the rich capture this time, the 647th Regiment also received a lot of trophies, including 10 Japanese-style heavy machine guns, 20 Japanese-style light machine guns, 40 Japanese-style grenadiers, and 10 Japanese-style 90 mortars. Each soldier was also given steel helmets, grenades, Japanese-style individual equipment and other items, and all kinds of ammunition in the regiment were very sufficient.

When the 23rd Infantry Brigade of the 18th Division of the Japanese Army, led by the brigade commander, Major General Ueno Kamefu, approached Huayang Town, Major General Ueno Kamefu frowned at the tight fortification system of the defenders. The Japanese attack did not have much to do, it was nothing more than shelling first, and then attacking with infantry under the cover of the heavy weapons of the wing.

The same is true of Ueno Kamefu, after concentrating all the infantry guns and mountain guns of the brigade, an artillery position was set up two kilometers away from Huayang Town, and all the infantry guns and mountain guns of the 23rd Brigade and Regiment together also had more than 20 pieces, plus mortars to support the infantry attack, the heavy firepower was not small. A more direct support firepower was the rapid-fire artillery brigade reinforced to the 23rd Brigade.

Although the effective firing range of the 12 Type 94 37-mm rapid-fire guns in this brigade was only 2,800 meters and was specially prepared to cope with the armored forces, the weight of this rapid-fire gun was light, and three or four soldiers could push it away, and the shells were fired quickly, and after using armor-piercing shells, they were still relatively destructive against some bunkers and fortifications.

After Ueno set up the artillery, he let the artillery shell the forward positions of the defenders, and let the rapid-fire guns also advance a few hundred meters in front of the position, and attack some bunkers and fortifications on the defenders' positions at close range. Under the shelling of the Japanese army, the defenders in the bunkers and fortifications were fine, but the soldiers in the trenches suffered many casualties under the shelling of the Japanese army.

Brigade Commander Xia Shuxun, who was watching the battle on the bunker of the city wall, sighed with emotion in his heart: Fortunately, after listening to the words of Brigade Commander Tang Renxin of the New 90th Division, he did not place too many troops in the front-line position, otherwise it would be just this artillery fire of the Japanese army, which would have caused heavy losses to the troops going up, and in this way, a company on the front-line position also lost one-third of the soldiers.

After twenty minutes of shelling, a squadron of Japanese troops, under the cover of heavy machine guns and several mortars, lined up in a straggler formation. There were still 300 meters from the position, and the light and heavy fire on the position began to fire. At this distance, light and heavy machine guns can hit a few Japanese soldiers, and only God knows where the rest of the rifle-wielding soldiers' bullets will go.

After the Japanese troops in front were knocked down by a few men, the Japanese troops behind advanced more carefully, and the rifles and grenadiers in the hands of the Japanese soldiers also began to return fire. In the trenches, soldiers were constantly shot and fell to the ground, and grenades thrown from grenadiers accurately landed in the trenches and the position of light machine guns, effectively killing and injuring the defenders. Fortunately, the two heavy machine guns in the bunker had been suppressing the attacking Japanese troops, and the soldiers on the position were able to shoot at the Japanese troops normally.

After the Japanese army advanced more than 100 meters, the casualties also increased, and the squadron leader saw that the situation was not very good, so he decisively asked the soldiers to throw more than a dozen grenades forward, and the team withdrew under the cover of the smoke of the grenade explosion. In the first battle, the Japanese army killed and wounded more than 30 soldiers, while a company on the defending position lost more than 60 people, and more than 20 were wounded. Half of the fighters who died were due to Japanese shelling.

After attacking once, Ueno Kamefu knew in his heart that the Shina defenders in front of him were no different from those in the east, except that the weapons were better and the fortifications were stronger. This unit should not be the ace unit of the China that annihilated the 6th Division. With the bottom in mind, Ueno's attack was much bolder, and the artillery bombardment of the defenders' positions was more focused on fortifications such as bunkers.

When the Japanese attacked again, a large group of infantry came up at once, and the eight heavy machine guns of the machine gun brigade also set up fortifications four hundred meters in front of the position, and the eight heavy machine guns fired at the same time, and the defenders in the dense bullet trenches could not raise their heads at all. The heavy machine gun in the bunker was about to return fire, but the Japanese army blocked the firing port of the bunker, and from time to time bullets flew into the bunker from the firing port, killing and injuring the soldiers in the bunker.

When the Japanese army slowly advanced to less than 100 meters away from the position, the brigade commander Xia Shuxun became nervous, and was about to send reinforcements to the first-line position, several light machine guns in the first-line position fired, and the crossfire of several light machine guns made the attacking Japanese troops fall down, and a few light machine guns were dumbfounded by the Japanese grenadiers and heavy machine guns after only a few minutes, but just when the Japanese heavy machine guns turned their guns, the soldiers in the trenches got the opportunity to shoot at the Japanese soldiers who rushed up.

The point is that the two heavy machine guns in the bunker also have a chance to roar again. The Japanese were now pinned down a hundred meters in front of the position, unable to move forward. When the Japanese heavy machine guns turned their guns and went back to the fighters in the trenches, several light machine guns replaced shooters and began to shoot again. After holding out for nearly 30 minutes, the Japanese retreated again, and this time there were less than 50 soldiers of a company on the front-line position, including the lightly wounded.