readx;? The position outside the east gate of Songjiang City was mostly destroyed in the attack of the Japanese army, but after the 23rd Brigade of the Japanese army retreated to Huayang Town, the new 90th Division and the 108th Division worked together to repair these fortifications, and now the fortifications outside the east gate are more reasonable and stronger than before. After receiving Wang Haitao's order, Wei Hai set up a regimental command post on the east city wall, and the artillery position of the heavy fire battalion was also set up on the city wall.www.biquge.info

Not only that, the east gate city wall is the last line of defense of Songjiang County, and Wei Hai has arranged a number of heavy firepower points on the city wall. Two dual-purpose twin heavy machine guns were also placed here for air defense. On the first line to the third line of positions is Tang Yishu's first battalion, from the fourth line of defense to the city wall is Tang Weichu's second battalion, and Wei Yunbao's third battalion is used as a reserve to support the dangerous place at any time. In addition to being placed on the city walls, the heavy fire battalions were reinforced to the various defensive lines.

In the Japanese army in Huayang Town, there was one wing left in the 23rd Brigade, and the 103rd Brigade was much better, but one brigade was missing. The two brigades together exceeded 10,000 horses, the largest number of troops in the three directions, but the two brigades together had 30 75 infantry guns, mountain artillery, and some mortars. It's just that the strength of more than 10,000 troops made the two brigade commanders, Major General Yamada Toji and Major General Ueno Kamefu, full of confidence.

The day after the convergence, with the 23rd Infantry Brigade in front and the 103rd Infantry Brigade behind, more than 10,000 Japanese troops drove out of Huayang Town and rushed straight to the east gate of Songjiang County, leaving only more than 1,000 soldiers of the logistics department in Huayang Town. Two hours later, the vanguard of the 23rd Brigade of the Japanese Army had seen the city wall of Songjiang County from a distance, and naturally saw the newly repaired fortifications under the city wall.

The Japanese stopped their advance and set up artillery positions a thousand meters from their positions, and the attack was first launched by the 23rd Infantry Brigade of the 18th Division. A battalion of the 55th Wing advanced to a distance of 500 meters from the front-line position before stopping, and several mortars and several heavy machine guns in the brigade were erected. After the artillery shelling of the defenders' positions, the brigade, under the cover of mortars and heavy machine guns, formed a straggler formation and attacked the defenders' positions.

The soldiers of the 1st Battalion and 1st Company of the 544th Regiment on the position quickly entered the position after the Japanese artillery bombardment was over. At this time, the muzzles of all the soldiers were aimed at the attacking Japanese troops. When the Japanese army entered within 200 meters, the commander of the first company gave an order, and the whole company opened fire with light and heavy firepower, and the bullets flew towards the Japanese army like a rain of bullets.

After several attacks without progress, the soldiers of the 23rd Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army were replaced by soldiers of the 103rd Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army. The 103rd Infantry Brigade relied on the strength of the crowd and mobilized two brigades of soldiers to rush up at one time. Looking out from the position, the eyes were densely packed with Japanese soldiers wearing khaki uniforms. The individual quality of these Japanese soldiers, who have received long-term formal training, is really good, not only the offensive formation is reasonable, but also the cover and cooperation between each other are also very good.

In this way, it was very difficult for the soldiers of the battalion and company guarding the position to block the attack. Although there were not a few light and heavy machine guns on the position, and the submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles in the hands of the soldiers were stronger than the Type 38 rifles in the hands of the Japanese troops, they could not stand the large number of Japanese soldiers, and there were more than 2,000 Japanese troops in the two brigades, and the bullets in the counterfire were really so overwhelming that the soldiers of the company on the position could not raise their heads.

The Japanese army rushed up desperately regardless of casualties, and the commander of a company of the first battalion saw that his troops were too small to block the Japanese attack, and when the Japanese attacked less than 100 meters in front of the position, the commander of the first company asked the soldiers to throw grenades at the Japanese soldiers, and at the same time used walkie-talkies to ask the battalion commander for support. Tang Yishu, the commander of the first battalion, was on the rear position, and saw the situation on the front-line position clearly through a telescope.

After receiving a call for help from the commander of the first company, he informed the third company to prepare to support the first company, and on the other hand, let the ten mortars in the battalion open fire on the attacking Japanese troops, and use artillery fire to block the attacking Japanese troops. The mortar was fired, and the situation on the front-line position immediately improved, the artillery bombardment blocked most of the Japanese troops, and the Japanese troops who rushed to the front simply rushed up to their deaths under the crossfire of light and heavy machine guns. Coupled with the fact that the submachine guns in the hands of the soldiers were extremely powerful within a hundred meters, so many automatic weapons were enough to deal with the hundreds of Japanese troops rushing up.

Most of the Japanese troops who were blocked by artillery fire retreated, and the hundreds of Japanese soldiers who charged forward were all dead in front of the position. From 50 meters in front of the position to 200 meters away, the corpses of Japanese soldiers were almost covered, and the land became red mud. After this attack, the Japanese did not launch another attack for more than an hour, probably because the commanders of the two brigades were discussing how to take the position.

There was a fierce battle outside the east gate, and the 26th Brigade of the 13th Division here in Mishidu began to intensify the Zhangjing River under the cover of dozens of mountain guns of the division's mountain artillery wing. The Japanese soldiers piled up sandbags in front of the ferry, which were half a man high, and machine guns were mounted, and the soldiers in the trenches and sandbag fortifications on the front line of the defenders were hiding from the Japanese shelling, and only a few heavy machine guns in the bunkers could stop the Japanese troops crossing the river.

The Japanese army was ruthless in trying to force the crossing of the Dazhangjing River at one time, and there were nearly 100 ferries on the river more than 10 meters wide, including self-made logging, and almost paved a bridge over the Dazhangjing River. Soon, the Japanese troops in front rushed across the Dazhangjing River with bullets, and set up light and heavy machine guns on the river embankment to shoot at the defenders. After most of the Japanese troops had crossed the river, the artillery of the mountain artillery wing stopped shelling, but before the soldiers in the trenches and sandbag fortifications could raise their heads, Japanese mortar shells and grenades from grenades flew again.

Although the Japanese army's firepower was fierce, these soldiers of the first battalion of the 546th regiment were unable to advance half a step under the fire of the Japanese artillery and suppressed the Japanese troops on the river embankment with light and heavy machine guns and submachine guns. Major General Numata Tokushige, the commander of the 26th Brigade, was a little anxious at this time, and in order to take the defenders' first-line positions as soon as possible, Major General Numata Tokushige asked the division commander, Lieutenant General Ogisu Tatsu, to carry out artillery bombardment of the defenders' positions in China again.

After thinking about it for a while, Lieutenant General Ogisu ordered the Mountain Artillery Wing to continue shelling the defenders' positions. Once again, the shells fell on the positions defended by a battalion, and in the smoke and dust, the Japanese troops behind the embankment launched a surprise attack on the defenders' positions, regardless of accidental injuries. This caught the officers and men of the first battalion on the position by surprise, and when the shelling stopped and the smoke cleared slightly, the Japanese troops had already rushed to the front of the position.

The 1st Battalion of the 546th Regiment is a unit that grew up in Shanghai on the basis of a guard company of the former Independent Brigade, and more than half of the officers and men in the battalion are ** members, and they have been fighting hard since the elimination of the Japanese garrison in Shanghai, and those who have survived are all elites. At this time, seeing that the Japanese army had rushed to the front of the position, he first threw a round of grenades at the Japanese army, and then resolutely jumped out of the trench and fought hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army.

It's just that the soldiers are very smart, and when facing the Japanese army, they don't like the Japanese army to withdraw the bullets in their rifles one after another, but first shoot out the bullets in the guns against the Japanese army, and then rush towards the Japanese army. When it came to hand-to-hand combat, except for a dozen soldiers from the original guard company, the other fighters were really no match for the Japanese army.

There was chaos on the position, seeing that there were fewer and fewer soldiers in the first battalion, at this moment the regiment commander Wei Erxi personally took the three hundred soldiers of the second battalion to support him, and the submachine guns and shell guns in the hands of the soldiers of the second battalion showed their might, and the Japanese army finally couldn't resist it and retreated, Wei Erxi did not chase after him, hastily cleaned up the battlefield, set up the wounded, carried the remains of the sacrificed soldiers, and returned to the position.

According to Wang Haitao's order, the 546th Regiment abandoned the Mishidu position, and the whole regiment withdrew to Songjiang County, so Wei Erxi led the remaining 500 soldiers of the 546th Regiment to retreat to Songjiang County after repelling the Japanese army. The warrior did not understand this order, but an order is an order, and if you don't understand it, you have to carry it out. So the soldiers of the 546th Regiment, who were unwilling, still returned to the city. After abandoning the Mishidu position, the position outside the south gate of Songjiang City, which was defended by the 542nd Regiment, was about to be directly attacked by the Japanese army.

Let's talk about the Songjiang Railway Station, the Fifth Division is worthy of being one of the best divisions in the Japanese army, even if there is only half of the division left, the 108th Division is very difficult to defend, the Japanese army of the Fifth Division, not only the quality of individual soldiers is first-class, the marksmanship is absolutely good, but also very fierce, not afraid of death, even if it is wounded, it has to stay and rush.

Although the 108th Division has strengthened a lot of heavy weapons, the quality of individual soldiers is too far behind that of the Japanese troops of the 5th Division. At a distance of 200 meters, the Type 38 rifles in the hands of the Japanese soldiers basically did not need much aiming, and they could accurately hit the target while advancing, while the soldiers of the 108th Division could only rely on a platoon of guns to block the Japanese troops, and whether a row of bullets could hit the Japanese could only rely on luck.

In addition, on light and heavy machine gun positions, the Japanese could always use mortars and grenadiers to bring in shells or grenades. Once the light and heavy machine guns are dumbfounded, it will be difficult to hold the position. In just one day, the Japanese Fifth Division broke through the four lines of defense of the 108th Division. Now one-third of the Songjiang railway station position fell into the hands of the 5th Division.

The 108th Division mobilized the strength of a regiment, and on the railway, using several concrete rooms on the platform as heavy fire points, plus a ring of sandbag fortifications, barely blocked the pace of the Japanese attack. The two sides are separated by several railroad tracks, and they are at loggerheads. The 5th Division did not suffer significant losses in the one-day offensive, with nearly 100 killed and wounded, while the 108th Division lost a battalion of fighters.