readx;? After listening to Chiang Kai-shek's words, Wang Haitao replied immediately: "Thank you for your praise, but you dare not be ashamed of your duties." www.biquge.info"Chiang Kai-shek smiled and said, "Sit, sit." Wang Haitao sat on the sofa opposite Chiang Kai-shek in a standard sitting position. Seeing Wang Haitao sit down, Chiang Kai-shek said again: "I have learned something about your situation from Bai Jiansheng [Bai Chongxi], as an overseas traveler, you care about the motherland, build such a large army with the strength of your family, and can stand up when the country is in danger, it is not easy. ”

Wang Haitao replied: "When my father was a teenager, he went overseas with his fellow villagers and worked hard overseas for decades to create a foundation. However, my father always cherished the motherland, and when he was seriously ill, he heard that the Japanese had invaded and occupied the three eastern provinces of China, and he was even more angry. His last words, asking me to return to my motherland, fight for the country, and let my family do their best to support me, allowed me to pull such a team within a few years. Haitao didn't dare to forget his father's words, and he would do his best to drive away the sun. ”

After hearing this, Chiang Kai-shek nodded and praised: "Although the overseas traveler is overseas, he still has the heart to serve the country. This also shows that the Chinese nation has the will of the people, and we will certainly defeat the Japanese and return the day to our country. Chen Cheng also said at this time: "The reason why the Shanghai defense line was able to withstand the repeated attacks of the Japanese invaders this time was due to the artillery borrowed from Division Commander Wang, but the consumption during this period of time was relatively large, and there were not many shells, can Division Commander Wang support some more shells?"

Wang Haitao replied: "Commander-in-Chief Chen, all the artillery shells from the garrison to Shanghai have been delivered to the headquarters with the artillery, and now the only way to get the shells is from the Longzhou County Arsenal in Guangxi, where the lowly post is stationed. When Chiang Kai-shek heard this, he said: "Commander Wang, you immediately let the Longzhou Arsenal transport artillery shells to Shanghai, and no one should stop you along the way with my warrant." ”

Wang Haitao stood up and said, "Yes, Chairman, I will do it immediately." Chiang Kai-shek nodded and finally said: "Do a good job, as long as you fight for the party-state, the party-state will not treat you badly." Wang Haitao replied: "The lowly post understands that the lowly post must work hard for the party and the state and serve the chairman." After finishing speaking, Wang Haitao saluted the three of them again before exiting the room. As soon as the cold wind blew out of the room, Wang Haitao found that his underwear was already drenched with sweat.

To say that Wang Haitao did not have a little pressure or nervousness in this meeting is nonsense. After all, he must be dealing with a head of state with a set of lies, and this head of state can decide his own life and death with one sentence, so Wang Haitao breathed a sigh of relief after withdrawing. After Wang Haitao left, Chiang Kai-shek asked Chen Cheng and Zhang Fakui: "Cixiu, Xiang Hua, what do you two think of this Wang Haitao?"

Zhang Fakui said first: "Commission, I think this Wang Haitao is a general, and it is not easy to have such a command level at a young age. Chen Cheng continued: "Xiang Hua is reasonable, it is naturally a good thing that this person can be used by our party and state, but it is necessary to prevent the other side from co-opting him." Chiang Kai-shek nodded and said: "This person Yunong is investigating, but judging from the situation after this person returns to China, there has been no contact with **, but I will tell the two farmers to pay more attention to this person." Now that the party-state is employing people, we should reward them more to comfort their hearts. ”

What Chiang Kai-shek and the three of them talked about in the house, Wang Haitao would not know. As soon as Wang Haitao arrived at the headquarters, Wang Haitao immediately sent a telegram to Tang Renli in Longzhou County, asking Tang Renli to replenish a batch of heavy artillery shells to Shanghai as soon as possible, and made it clear that he would send a convoy back to Longzhou to return the ashes of the sacrificed soldiers and the seriously injured and disabled soldiers, in addition to the damaged weapons, and asked Tang Renli to properly handle all matters and bring materials and arms with the convoy when it returned to Shanghai.

After resting for a few days, seeing that the 18th Division of the Japanese army did not move, Wang Haitao handed over the task of reconnoitring and guarding the 18th Division of the Japanese Army to the east. After taking over Wang Haitao's orders, he immediately sent the 324th Brigade, which had not suffered any losses before, to Huayang Town and deployed defenses to the east.

The two regiments of the New 90th Division suffered the smallest losses, one was the 546th Regiment and the other was the 547th Regiment, and Wang Haitao sent these two regiments forward to the banks of the Huangpu River to build fortifications to guard against the Japanese attack. The fortifications outside Songjiang Castle that were destroyed by the Japanese army were repaired again by the rest of the regiments. As for the materials, they use the materials from the collapsed houses in Songjiang County.

Just after Wang Haitao assigned all the tasks, General Zhang Fakui sent two Zhejiang militia regiments to the new 90th Division to supplement the source of troops. The two Zhejiang militia groups have a total of 1,900 young people, and this time they are all young men, there are no old or young people, and these two militia groups have received short-term military training, and each of them has fired 10 rounds of ammunition.

For Wang Haitao, these people are undoubtedly a relief in the snow. Wang Haitao put the 1,900 people, the 300 people sent by Du Yuesheng, and Du Haisheng into the 543rd Regiment to replenish the 543rd Regiment, which suffered the greatest losses. There is no free lunch in the world, this time General Zhang Fakui took the initiative to replenish the new 90th Division that was not under his jurisdiction, and Wang Haitao reciprocated, and also selected a part of the captured Japanese weapons and gave them to General Zhang Fakui.

The two fronts in Shanghai were in a state of confrontation, and the Japanese army was unable to launch a large-scale attack, and the squadron could only hold the line after trying to counterattack several times without success. However, all this changed with the arrival of Japanese reinforcements. On 6 November, the Japanese Fourth Fleet reached the waters off the coast of Shanghai and joined up with the Japanese Third Fleet.

The arrival of the Fourth Fleet meant the arrival of Japanese reinforcements and the commander of the New Central China Front, King Hatohiko Asakanomiya. After handing over to Matsui Ishone, King Hatohiko of Asakanomiya ordered the Japanese infantry to land in Shanghai with the Fourth Fleet, the Fifth Division to land at Jinshanwei, and a heavy artillery brigade to land at Jinshanwei, while the rest of the Japanese troops all landed on the line from Wusongkou to Lion Forest.

After landing, the reinforcements should be sent to all divisions and regiments as soon as possible, so that the damaged divisions and regiments can regain their combat effectiveness as soon as possible. Compared with those supplementary regiments in China, which are basically peasants, the best ones have received military training for a short time, and the worst ones have not even touched a gun, and such supplementary regiments have no combat effectiveness at all. The Japanese army's supplementary troops are all reserve soldiers among the Japanese people, who have not only received strict military training, but also exist in formations.

After studying the form of Shanghai with the chief of staff, Major General Mamoru Iizawa, King Hatohiko of Asakanomiya rejected the tactics of encircling the Shanghai defenders on the left and right of Matsui Ishone, and instead changed to the tactics of focusing on breakthroughs and blossoming everywhere. On 10 November, the rested Japanese launched another large-scale attack on the Fuzaobang defensive line of the Shanghai defenders. More than 100 planes were dispatched from the sky to assist in the battle.

This time, the Japanese concentrated the forces of the ninth, third, thirteenth, and 1014th divisions, and with the assistance of the independent heavy artillery brigade that had just landed, prepared to force the crossing of Fumohama and then attack Dachang and Nanxiang. To the north, the 11th Division and the 16th Division attacked the defensive positions of Guangfu and Chenjiaxing. Defending the front of the Japanese offensive were the **8th and 59th Divisions.

Caught off guard, a large number of officers and men of the 8th and 59th Divisions were killed by Japanese aircraft bombing and heavy artillery shelling, and in just one day, the two divisions suffered all casualties, and the two divisions that withdrew overnight together were less than 1,000 officers and men. Commander-in-Chief Zhu Shaoliang sent the **61st Division and the 77th Division to replace the two divisions that were scattered. After holding on to the 36th, Commander-in-Chief Zhu Shaoliang was unwilling to be beaten passively like this, so he first launched an artillery attack on the Japanese army on the night of the 13th, and then let Liao Lei's 21st Group Army make a comprehensive counterattack.

Liao Lei's 21st Group Army suffered considerable losses in the three-day confrontation with the Japanese army, and Major General Pang Hanzhen, commander of the 170th Division's 510th Brigade, was unfortunately shot and killed in the Japanese artillery bombardment. Even so, after receiving the order, these Guangxi men of the 21st Group Army rushed out of their positions fearlessly and launched a decisive attack on the Japanese army opposite.

Although the 21st Group Army launched the counterattack as in history, the difference from history is that the equipment of the 21st Group Army that is now counterattacking is very different from that of the 21st Group Army in history. Because Wang Haitao purchased a large number of advanced weapons from Germany, the automatic weapons of the 170th Division, which is now the main attacker, now account for half of the division.

Xu Qiming, commander of the 170th Division, once discussed with Wang Haitao the offensive and defensive methods of using new weapons, and learned a lot from the training of the Independent Brigade that year, which he popularized and practiced in the 170th Division, and now he is using them just right. The counteroffensive of the 21st Group Army took the Japanese army by surprise, and the Ninth Division was even more apprehensive about the counteroffensive of the new 90th Division in Luodian some time ago.

The 9th Division withdrew first, and the 101st Division faced the attack of the 170th Division, although the Japanese army set up a firepower net with heavy weapons, but these Guangxi men of the 170th Division rushed up with guns and bullets, and the comrades in front fell, and the people behind stepped on the bodies of their comrades in front and rushed forward. Moreover, the 170th Division concentrated all its automatic weapons and rushed to the front, and these automatic weapons also greatly killed and injured Japanese soldiers.

The 101st Division of the Japanese army did not withstand the impact of the 170th Division and retreated in defeat, and the 21st Group Army took the opportunity to make a surprise attack with the whole army, pushing the Japanese army back more than 10 miles in one go, killing more than 2,000 Japanese soldiers. It was only after dawn that the Japanese stabilized their ranks, and by this time the 21st Army had rebuilt its defensive line and cleaned up the battle. The 21st Group Army is now on the north bank of Yunzaohama and has become a salient and will face the Japanese army attacking from three directions.