readx;? Knowing that the 5th Division of the Japanese Army had crossed the Huangpu River from Shengli Port, Wang Haitao's first reaction was that the 547th Regiment was in danger. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The 547th Regiment itself had only more than 800 fighters left, and if it was surrounded and attacked by the Japanese Fifth Division from the flank, there was a danger that the entire regiment would be annihilated. Therefore, Wang Haitao immediately sent a telegram to Zhang Jiongfu of the 547th Regiment, asking the 547th Regiment to guard the direction of Shengli Port, and once the Japanese army was discovered, it immediately abandoned its position and withdrew to Songjiang County in the direction of the east gate of Songjiang County.

At the same time as sending a telegram to the 547th Regiment, Wang Haitao also informed the 546th Regiment of Mishidu to prepare for the Japanese attack, and also notified the friendly 107th Division and the 108th Division. Zhang Lingfu received a telegram from Wang Haitao and immediately dispatched a reconnaissance squad to guard in the direction of Shengli Port, and the whole regiment, except for the officers and men of the first battalion who were on the front-line position, was ready to retreat at any time.

After crossing the Huangpu River, the Japanese 5th Division sent a large group of soldiers to advance to the flank of the No. 30 Bridge position, preparing to flank the defenders of China guarding the No. 30 Bridge with the 13th Division, but the main force avoided the front of Songjiang County and advanced in the direction of Songjiang Railway Station. The commander of the Fifth Division, Lieutenant General Seishiro Itagaki was still apprehensive by the overwhelming artillery bombardment of the New 90th Division, so he simply gave up the frontal attack and advanced to the flank of Songjiang County.

When a brigade of the Fifth Division was advancing to the flank of the No. 30 bridge position, it was discovered by a reconnaissance squad sent by Zhang Lingfu and immediately reported to Zhang Lingfu. Zhang Lingfu heard that a large group of Japanese troops came up from the flank, and secretly hated his lack of troops, if the 547th Regiment was fully manned, let alone a large group of Japanese troops coming up from the flank, it was a wing, and Zhang Lingfu was also confident that he could block the Japanese army.

Now the Japanese attack on the front-line position has not stopped, this is not a good opportunity to retreat, Zhang Lingfu ordered the second battalion to build temporary fortifications in the direction of Shengli Port, must block the Japanese army until dark, and sent half of the heavy fire company to the second battalion. Gao Guangshi, commander of the second battalion, still had less than 300 officers and men in his hands, and without saying a word after taking over the task, he immediately rushed to the direction of Shengli Harbor to garrison it, and Shao Jincheng, the commander of the fire company, also personally led half of the heavy fire company to go together.

The 2nd Battalion had just repaired some simple fortifications 500 meters from the flank of the position, and the vanguard of the Japanese army arrived, and a small group of Japanese troops was searching and advancing, when more than a dozen people were knocked down at once by the sudden machine-gun fire of the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, and the rest quickly fell to the ground and began to shoot at the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion. Although the soldiers of the second battalion also used Japanese-style equipment, there were more than 10 light and heavy machine guns, and the half-pound heavy firepower company not only had new light and heavy machine guns, but also five 60 mortars and two 82 mortars.

This kind of firepower is incomparable to the Japanese army, the light machine guns and two grenadiers in the Japanese squad have just been fighting for a while, and they have become the target of several sharpshooters in the second battalion, and after they were killed, the remaining dozen Japanese soldiers in this squad withdrew back, and against such a small group of enemies, the heavy firepower of the heavy fire company was not used at all. The soldiers of the second battalion knew that the Japanese army would attack next, so they took advantage of the fact that the Japanese army had not yet come up, and hurried to strengthen the fortifications and dig deep trenches. Prepare to block the Japanese army's brigade. Half an hour later, the Japanese brigade came to the position of the second battalion.

When the captain of the Japanese army saw that there was a blocking position of the Shina army in front of him, he ordered the two 75 mountain guns and four mortars equipped by the brigade to be erected, and at the same time all the eight heavy machine guns of the brigade machine gun squadron were set up 300 meters away from the position. When it was ready, the captain gave the order to open fire on the artillerymen, and the Japanese shells began to fall on the positions of the 2nd battalion.

In the attack on the squadron in front, these Japanese troops basically did not encounter the close shelling of the Chinese defenders, and they did not expect that the defenders with a small number on the opposite side would also have artillery. Shao Jincheng saw that the Japanese army was so arrogant behind the position, and openly built an artillery position in such a close place, so it would be a little sorry not to let these Japanese soldiers taste the taste of their own shells.

Shao Jincheng personally came to the artillery position and ordered the artillery to aim at the Japanese artillery position. The artillery backbone of the 547th Regiment was all withered from the original heavy artillery regiment, and at such a close distance, there was no need to even test fire to ensure that the first shot hit. After receiving the order of Shao Jincheng's three rapid fire from each gun, the seven mortars came in unison, and when the Japanese heard the sound of artillery coming from the defenders' positions, it was too late to dodge.

The first round of shelling of the heavy fire company blew up the Japanese artillery position, and the second round of continuous shelling in the latter caused the artillery and artillery on the Japanese artillery position to fly into the air. Seeing that his artillery position was shrouded in gunsmoke and dust, the Japanese captain angrily drew his command knife and let the machine gun fire to cover the infantry for attack.

The firepower of the salvo of eight heavy machine guns was still quite terrifying, and the soldiers of the second battalion were pressed in the trenches and couldn't raise their heads, but the Japanese army or forgot that the defenders still had artillery, Shao Jincheng saw that the Japanese artillery position had been destroyed, so he let the artillery shift the muzzle and aimed at the Japanese heavy machine gun position, and it was another round of artillery fire, and the Japanese heavy machine gun position was also devastated.

The heavy machine guns of the Japanese army were dumb, and it was the turn of the soldiers of the second battalion, and the fighters on the position fired at the Japanese troops who rushed up. And the mortars, having eliminated the heavy machine-gun positions of the Japanese troops, began shelling at the charging infantry. Seeing that the charging soldiers fell on the way to attack, the captain of the Japanese army came to his senses, and the army he was facing was by no means the army that was poor in all aspects before, and hurriedly gave the order to retreat.

Seeing the remaining hundreds of Japanese soldiers retreating back in a panic, Gao Guangshi did not chase after him, the regiment commander's order was to hold on until dark, there was no need to chase this group of enemies, don't fall into the enemy's ambush. After sending a platoon of soldiers out to clean up the battlefield, Gao Guangshi once again asked the soldiers to strengthen their positions. After the Japanese brigade had escaped more than a mile, it saw that there were no pursuers behind it, so it stopped, and as soon as the captain counted the number of soldiers, there were only half of the soldiers left in the brigade, and all the heavy weapons were lost.

Zhang Lingfu heard the report that after the 2nd Battalion had repelled the Japanese attack, he decided not to retreat for the time being when he saw that there was no danger in the rear of the flank, and used the advantages of the terrain to block the Japanese army for a period of time. When Zhang Lingfu made the decision to continue to hold on, the 5th Division of the Japanese army had already come to the vicinity of Songjiang Railway Station. Guarding the Songjiang Railway Station, it is still the ** 107th Division.

In the last battle, the Japanese army did not attack the Songjiang Railway Station, so now the 107th Division is still a fully equipped division. During these relatively peaceful days, the officers and men of the 107th Division clearly knew that this place would be attacked by the Japanese army sooner or later, so all the officers and men spared no effort to build a complete fortification system here at the railway station.

Thanks to the generosity of the new 90th Division, which sent 15 mortars and dozens of light and heavy machine guns, the original 107th Division had good light weapons, but after defeating the 5th Division of the Japanese Army last time, it even sent 4 Japanese-style 75th infantry guns. At this time, the firepower of the next 07th Division was greatly strengthened. The division commander Jin Kuibi built an artillery position in the strongest warehouse behind the railway station, placed four infantry guns in the warehouse, and reinforced the top of the warehouse to deal with the Japanese shelling.

Mortars and light and heavy machine guns were allocated to two brigades, and the rest was reinforced to guard companies. Now the scouts have reported that some Japanese troops are coming in the direction of the railway station, and Wu Qian, commander of the 319th Brigade of the 107th Division, who is guarding the first few imitation lines of the railway station, has given an order to prepare for battle in the command post.

The first line of defense of the defenders was set up at the perimeter wall of the railway station, which was reinforced, with a number of shooting holes in the wall, and some of the buildings outside the wall were cleared, leaving 300 meters of open land, and two lookout posts were erected on the high part of the wall, on which machine guns were erected. The Japanese 5th Division stopped a kilometer from the wall.

At this time, the strength of the Fifth Division that could be used for attack was only about 6,000 people, and the rest were auxiliary arms with poor combat effectiveness. After the last defeat and retreat to the south bank of the Huangpu River, although the division commander Itagaki Seishiro was reprimanded by his superiors, the responsibility was not all on the 5th Division, so he was not punished, but the navy transported supplies and weapons.

As if the Fifth Division was replenished with 36 infantry guns and 12 rapid-fire guns, Seishiro Itagaki reinstated the artillery wing. It seems that the Japanese army will not attack without artillery, so the artillery wing plays a pivotal role in the fifth division, and it is the restoration of the artillery wing that Itagaki Seishiro has the confidence to take revenge.

After looking at the defensive positions of the defenders, the first decision Itagaki made was to build an artillery position and use artillery fire to destroy the wall in front of him. Soon after, the Japanese artillery fire fell on the wall, although the wall was reinforced, but still could not withstand the continuous bombardment of so many Japanese artillery, after the Japanese shelled for 20 minutes, the wall collapsed in many places.

On the first line of defense is the 637th Regiment of the 319th Brigade, the regiment commander Zhang Hanlin [a fictional character] is also a veteran of the Japanese army on the battlefield in North China, and knows the strength of the Japanese artillery fire, so there are not many troops in the wall, the Japanese artillery bombardment seems to have collapsed the walls in several places, but the officers and soldiers of the 637th Regiment did not lose much, only a dozen soldiers were sacrificed, and more than ten people were wounded.