readx;? With Chiang Kai-shek's instructions, the general headquarters in Nanjing began to act, and a telegram was sent to all parts of the country. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 So from the railway, from the road, from the waterway, all the troops from all over the country are converging on Shanghai. For a time, on the roads leading to Shanghai, Sichuan soldiers wearing straw sandals, Jiangxi soldiers wearing hats, Erguang troops with prominent cheekbones, and the Central Army, which were regarded as elites, either took a car or walked to the battlefield in Shanghai.

On the third day after General Zhang Zhizhong sent a telegram asking for help to Nanjing, the first batch of reinforcements arrived in Shanghai, namely the 13th Division of the Hubei Army, the 18th and 19th Divisions of the Hunan Army, and the 32nd and 33rd Divisions of the Northwest Army. General Zhang Zhizhong had another five divisions and more than 30,000 people in his hands. It's just that the weapons and equipment of these five divisions are really miserable, only the 13th Division of the Hubei Army is slightly better, and there are still a few heavy machine guns and light machine guns in the division, and other divisions don't even have a few light machine guns, let alone heavy machine guns.

However, it is better to have reinforcements than no reinforcements, and General Zhang Zhizhong left the 32nd Division as a reserve, and the other four divisions were all sent to replace the troops on several defensive lines that had been in an emergency. With the new troops, the entire line of defense was stabilized once again. In the following days, troops arrived one after another, and the available forces of General Zhang Zhizhong increased, as if after the arrival of the 3rd and 36th Divisions of the Central Army, General Zhang Zhizhong had the intention of counterattacking the Japanese army.

At this time, Wang Haitao had already taken the new 90th Division to Songjiang County. Wang Haitao knew that in the Battle of Songhu in history, the 10th Army formed by the Japanese army landed at Jinshanwei in the north of Hangzhou Bay, and then the Japanese army broke through the defense line of the squadron, and after the 6th Division and the Guoqi Detachment captured Songjiang County, it caused the defeat of the Chinese defenders in Shanghai, and finally led to the loss of Shanghai.

If history hadn't changed too much, he would have encountered one of the original culprits of the Nanjing Massacre in history, the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army. In this way, he will be able to fight with this Sixth Division, and go to meet the commander of the Sixth Division, Gu Shoufu, who is not even as good as a brute. It would be best to keep him and his 6th Division under the county seat of Songjiang as much as possible.

Therefore, as soon as Wang Haitao entered Songjiang County, he sent engineering troops to Songjiang County, and began to build fortifications around the city wall of Songjiang City from two kilometers outside the county seat. In order to speed up the progress, Wang Haitao took out another money to hire 2,000 people to help repair the fortifications. Just when Wang Haitao was worried about the lack of troops, Nanjing, according to the instructions of Chairman Chiang, sent people to bring Wang Haitao a reward of one million legal currency and four soldiers of the supplementary regiment.

One million fiat currency Wang Haitao didn't look at it, and the four supplementary regiments with a total of 5,000 soldiers made Wang Haitao overjoyed. After the 5,000 soldiers were selected for escape, 1,000 old and weak people were sent to the logistics and baggage troops, and the remaining 4,000 young men were immediately assigned to various regiments. As for weapons and equipment, the new ones are not enough for the Japanese equipment, and if there is any, they will be equipped first.

Moreover, weapons and supplies are sent to Shanghai every month in Longzhou County, and damaged weapons in Shanghai, as well as the ashes of seriously injured and sacrificed soldiers, are also being transported to Longzhou County. Wang Haitao took out the weapons and ammunition in the storage ring again. Among them, 30 120 heavy mortars and 30 100 heavy mortars are powerful weapons with a range of about 5 kilometers.

In addition to the heavy weapons of a company of 50 75 infantry guns and 20 Gaoping dual-purpose twin heavy machine guns, there was no shortage of heavy weapons to guard Songjiang County. The original city wall of Songjiang County is a bit old, so it is also within the scope of repair. In short, Wang Haitao did his best to turn Songjiang County into a strong defensive fortress, in order to eliminate the Japanese Sixth Division led by Gu Shoufu as much as possible under Songjiang City.

Commanders at all levels knew that time was pressing, so all units were trained by veterans and recruits, and these veterans used all means to make the recruits miserable, in order to make these recruits mature as soon as possible, so that the troops could recover their combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

The training of recruits is hard, tired and tired, but whether it is food or the attitude of the commander, there is nothing to say. Only during training will these commanders and veterans strictly scold the recruits who make mistakes, and they will beat and scold them a few times when they are angry, and there will never be bullying of recruits when they leave the training ground. The favorite thing for recruits is that before resting after dinner, a squad of recruits sits around the squad leader and other two or three veterans in the dormitory, and listens to them talk about the events on the battlefield.

Through the veteran's narration, the recruits learned a lot of experience, which were exchanged for life and blood. With this experience, recruits will have more chances to save their lives when they go to battle.

Soon, half a month passed, and the Chinese defenders on the outskirts of Shanghai were still stubbornly resisting the Japanese attack, and General Zhang Zhizhong also launched a counterattack a few days earlier, like the new 90th Division, first with a large-scale artillery bombardment at night, and then an infantry charge. It is a pity that there is no cooperation between several attacking divisions of the squadron, although it also caused certain losses to the Japanese army, and pushed the defense line forward by two kilometers, but the stamina was insufficient, and under the counterattack of the Japanese army, they had to retreat to the original defense line, and several attacking divisions also suffered heavy casualties.

On 15 October, the county seat of Jiading was the first to be lost, and the 78th Division of the Central Army defending the county town of Jiading was completely lost under the wanton bombardment of Japanese aircraft and artillery, while the 32nd Division of the Northwest Army, which had been reinforced, was discovered by Japanese planes on the way to reinforcements.

When the remnants of the 32nd Division arrived at the county seat of Jiading, the Japanese army had already entered the county seat. The remnants of the 32nd Division and the remnants of the 78th Division fought fiercely with the Japanese troops attacking the city for four hours in Jiading County, and finally abandoned Jiading County due to the difference in strength and numbers. At the time of withdrawal, the two divisions together had less than 400 soldiers. The city of Jiading was littered with corpses, and the town was in ruins.

After losing the county seat of Jiading, General Zhang Zhizhong also organized a counteroffensive of the troops, hoping to recapture the county seat of Jiading, but several counteroffences were in vain, and the troops were lost. On 12 October, the 61st Division of the Central Army, which was guarding the Chenjiabang Ferry Terminal, was also too strong by the Japanese army, and when there were only less than one regiment of soldiers left, the division commander Yang Bufei ordered to retreat.

The 61st Division's private retreat threw away the Chenjiabang Ferry Terminal, and the defensive positions painstakingly established by General Zhang Zhizhong fell into the hands of the Japanese at both ends. Although General Zhang Zhizhong dismissed Yang Bufei, commander of the 61st Division, from his post and investigated the case, he still could not recover his disadvantage. In the end, General Zhang Zhizhong could only order the whole army to retreat to the south of Yunzaobang and build a defensive line relying on the river Yunzaobang.

The loss of this line of defense alarmed the general headquarters in Nanjing, and Chiang Kai-shek was furious and set up a base camp in Nanjing, and personally served as the commander of the Third Theater of Operations. General Zhang Zhizhong was forced to resign. After the resignation of General Zhang Zhizhong, the Nanjing base camp immediately made adjustments to the Shanghai front, and established three front armies, the left, center, and right armies, the Left Route Army under the jurisdiction of the 19th Group Army, the commander of which was General Xue Yue, and the 15th Group Army, which was commanded by General Luo Zhuoying. The commander-in-chief of the Left Route Army was General Chen Cheng.

The Left Route Army had three corps, the General Headquarters of the Jiang Defense Army and the General Reserve, a total of 16 divisions, two fortress headquarters, four independent regiments, and one Jiangsu security team. The combat area is Wanqiao, Luodiannan, and Guangfu areas north of Yunzaobang.

The Central Route Army was under the jurisdiction of the Ninth Group Army, and its commander-in-chief was General Zhu Shaoliang, including seven armies, 19 divisions, an independent brigade, an artillery brigade, a Songhu garrison headquarters, and a Shanghai Security Corps, including the new 90th Division. The combat areas are: North Station, Jiangwan, Miaohang Line and the area west of it. The Right Route Army was under the jurisdiction of the Eighth Group Army and Zhu Jianxu's Tenth Group Army, and the commander-in-chief was General Zhang Fakui.

The Right Route Army has 10 divisions, 3 independent brigades, 3 newly formed brigades, a Central Military Academy Teaching Corps, and a coastal defense unit. The combat area is south of Suzhou Creek and the north bank of Hangzhou Bay. After Chiang Kai-shek personally became the commander of the Third Theater of Operations, he transferred the 21st Group Army of the Gui system, and the commander was Wang Haitao's old boss, General Liao Lei. and five divisions under Liu Xiang of the Sichuan Army. So far, Shanghai has 75 squadron divisions and more than 700,000 people.

All this is sooner or later than in history, but it still happened, the only difference is that there is more variable of Wang Haitao's new 90th division. And the number of Japanese troops wiped out was far greater than the historical number, so that the Chinese defenders were relatively much easier to defend. Up to now, although the Japanese army has gained the upper hand, it is still far from fully occupying Shanghai. And after more than two months of hard fighting, the Japanese army also showed fatigue.

Although Wang Haitao was concerned about every move on the front line, the new 90th Division, which had not yet recovered, could not help the front line. When General Zhu Shaoliang saw that the New 90th Division was full of wounded soldiers and that the troops were all new recruits undergoing training, he made no mention of the fact that the New 90th Division would go to the front again. Anyway, he has eighteen divisions available under his command, and the supply of troops is sufficient.

Half a month after the new 90 th Division was stationed in Songjiang County, the lightly wounded soldiers returned to the unit one after another, and as soon as these wounded soldiers returned to their original units, they were immediately promoted to serve as grassroots officers in the troops. This finally relieved Wang Haitao, who was always worried about the combat effectiveness of the troops.

As the days passed, the battle on the front line was in full swing, Wang Haitao knew that the establishment of the Japanese Tenth Army was certain, and it would not be too delayed, it should be soon, which also meant that the time for his new 90th Division to participate in the war again was also fast, so Wang Haitao handed over all the training to Zhao Zhongwu, and all the logistics to Su Zuxin, and he threw all his strength into the construction of the fortifications day and night.