readx;? When he came to the river, Wang Haitao asked the soldiers of the guard company to withdraw first, but no one was willing to get on the boat first, and finally Wang Haitao gave an order, and Tangshan Leopard let other soldiers get on the boat first, and he took a squad to stay to protect Wang Haitao. When the pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info and the other boat returned to the shore, the Japanese search force had already searched the river, and several soldiers guarding the defense line saw that the Japanese army had been pressing, so they opened fire on the searching Japanese army.

The gunfire alarmed more Japanese troops, and they concentrated here. The number of Japanese troops is increasing, after sacrificing a soldier, the rest of the soldiers retreated to the river while fighting, Wang Haitao did not get on the boat by the river, no one refused to get on the boat first, and when the soldiers who blocked the attack also arrived at the river, Wang Haitao got on the boat with everyone. As soon as the boat started, the Japanese chased them to the river.

The fighters on the boat mounted light machine guns on the stern of the ship and fired at the pursuing Japanese soldiers, who also began to fire at several boats in the river. At this moment, tanks parked on the south bank of the Suzhou River began to bombard the north bank of the river with tank guns to cover the last boats crossing the river. The reconnaissance company, which had already crossed the river, under the command of Tang Xiaoshan, also set up mortars and opened fire on the north bank of the river.

This shelling made the Japanese troops on the north bank of the river panic, and they didn't care about shooting at the boats in the river, so they found cover and took cover. Wang Haitao and others crossed the Suzhou Creek without danger, and only a few soldiers were slightly injured. On the south bank of Suzhou Creek, the team led by Xie Jinyuan was still waiting on the shore, and Zhang Boting, chief of staff of the 88th Division, was also here.

As soon as Wang Haitao came ashore, Zhang Boting greeted Xie Jinyuan and others. Zhang Boting held Wang Haitao's hand tightly and said: "Senior Commander Wang, on behalf of the 88th Division, I would like to express my gratitude to Senior Commander Wang for his help, don't say anything else, in the future, Senior Commander Wang will be useful to our 88th Division, you just have to say." Wang Haitao also said with a smile: "Chief of Staff Zhang is polite, they are all party leaders, and they should help their colleagues, so why say thank you." By the way, I promised Regiment Commander Xie when he was in the Fourth Element that I would give him a few new weapons after leaving the Fourth Element, but unfortunately I don't have many of them, so I will give Commander Xie five 40 bazookas plus fifty rockets. After saying that, let his subordinates bring weapons and ammunition.

Xie Jinyuan was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that Wang Haitao would really give such a precious new weapon to himself. When he saw Wang Haitao's soldiers sending weapons and ammunition over, he saluted Wang Haitao excitedly, and then said: "The officers and soldiers of Xie Jinyuan thanked Master Wang. Master Wang rest assured that Jin Yuan will definitely use these weapons given by Master Wang to strike hard at Little Japan. ”

Wang Haitao nodded with a smile and said: "That's good, but even if these weapons are destroyed, they can't fall into the hands of the Japanese, otherwise once the Japanese army masters the technology of making this weapon, it will be a bad thing." Xie Jinyuan replied: "Commander Wang, I promise that even if the whole battalion is sacrificed, I will not let these weapons fall into the hands of Little Japan." After the two units separated, Xie Jinyuan's troops returned to the 88th Division with the chief of staff, while Wang Haitao led the team back to the headquarters of the Central Route Army.

In the face of such a powerful force as the New 90th Division, which made the Japanese fearful, General Zhu Shaoliang, commander-in-chief of the Central Route Army, had the idea of rearranging the New 90th Division on the Suzhou Creek defense line, and Zhu Shaoliang also talked about this method with General Gu Zhutong, acting commander of the Third Theater Theater. General Gu Zhutong considered that on the defense line on the south bank of Suzhou Creek, the Japanese attack had not yet begun, and the Songjiang City side was also very important, so he did not express his position, but only replied to Zhu Shaoliang and others.

Therefore, when Wang Haitao returned to the headquarters of the Central Route Army, General Zhu Shaoliang only encouraged Wang Haitao and asked Wang Haitao to return to Songjiang County to continue garrisoning, and at the same time gave Wang Haitao a supplementary regiment of 1,000 soldiers. Wang Haitao naturally couldn't ask for this, and this supplementary regiment was placed in Sheshan by Wang Haitao and handed over to Zhao Zhongwu for training, and he was given the number of a provisional independent battalion directly under the division.

After returning to Songjiang County, Wang Haitao met with Su Zuxin and others, and learned that the Japanese army had not moved in the past few days, so he focused on the outer fortifications and the training of recruits. At present, half of the soldiers of the 2nd Brigade and 6th Regiment of the New 90th Division are using Japanese-style equipment, and although the division may be considered very good in other places, it is already very poor compared to when it first came out of Guangxi, but fortunately, each regiment has a main battalion that is still equipped when it came out of Guangxi, and the heavy firepower battalion of each regiment is still equipped with new weaponry.

At this time, the Chinese troops rushed to Shanghai from all over the country to participate in the war had exceeded 700,000 people, and after three and a half months of fighting, more than 100,000 officers and men were killed and wounded, and the German armourers of the Central Army, who were the first to participate in the war, suffered heavy casualties.

Chiang Kai-shek was afraid that if the war continued, the Central Army would be completely lost on the Shanghai battlefield, so he signaled to Gu Zhutong, acting commander of the Third Theater, asking Gu Zhutong to use the local troops that arrived in Shanghai later to replace the troops of the Central Army on the front line, and withdraw the Central Army to the rear for rest. Gu Zhutong naturally and unconditionally obeyed Chiang Kai-shek's orders, so the units of the Central Army on the Suzhou Creek defense line retreated to the Wufu defense line for rest, and the vacated positions were filled by the five Sichuan army divisions that had just arrived in Shanghai: the 144th, 145th, 146th, 147th, and 148th.

In this way, only 12 local miscellaneous divisions were defending the entire 35-kilometer defense line on the south bank of Suzhou Creek, and the Central Army, together with several divisions that had participated in the battle at the beginning, a total of 11 divisions and a Shanghai Tax Police Corps, all withdrew to the Wufu defense line for rest, and several divisions of these troops, such as the 87th Division, the 88th Division, the 98th Division, and the 14th Division, did suffer heavy casualties.

It is as if there are only some officers left in the 88th Division, so they still retain their numbers. However, the 1st, 3rd, and 36th divisions are basically complete. Half of the officers and men of the 11th, 67th, 36th, and 78th divisions were lost in the battle. It has to be said that this retreat of the Central Army had a certain impact on the morale of the Chinese defenders.

On 8 December, the Japanese army had already exhausted its forces and began to launch tentative attacks on several important bridges and ferries in the Suzhou Creek. The commander of the 10th Army, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, had four divisions in his hands due to the arrival of the 13th Division, and heard that the new 90th Division of the Chinese Army had been transferred to the defense line on the south bank of the Suzhou River, and that the defenders of the Chinese army guarding Songjiang County had been replaced, so he issued an order to the 13th Division and the rest of the 5th Division to re-attack.

The 13th Division of the Japanese Army again came to the south of Bridge No. 30 on the Huangpu River, and at this time the troops defending Bridge No. 30 were the remaining 800 soldiers of the 547th Regiment. When the 5th Division failed to attack Bridge 30 last time, it sent a wing to smuggle across the Huangpu River from the flank and flank the defenders of Bridge 30 before taking Bridge 30, this time the 13th Division attacked Bridge 30, while the 5th Division chose to smuggle across the Huangpu River from Shengli Port.

Wang Haitao also had insufficient troops at hand, so he could only focus on defending the periphery of Songjiang City, and could only send a platoon to defend a place like Shenglidu. After establishing the artillery position of the wing, the commander of the 13th Division, Lieutenant General Ogizhou Libei, let the artillery wing open fire to cover the attack of the 116th Wing of the 26th Brigade.

In the face of artillery attacks such as the Japanese 75 Mountain Artillery, the soldiers of the 547th Regiment did not pay attention to it at all, and the 75 Mountain Artillery was much less powerful than heavy artillery such as the 150 howitzer. When the Japanese infantry began to attack, as soon as they advanced to the center of the bridge, they encountered a comprehensive blow from the light and heavy machine-gun fire of the defenders, and could only drop dozens of corpses and retreat.

When the 13th Division of the Japanese Army attacked the arch bridge in Chenxiang, it also experienced a similar counterattack, and when Major General Numata Tokushige, the commander of the 26th Brigade of the 13th Division, observed this Japanese attack, he was shocked in his heart, the methods and weapons of this counterattack were too similar to those at that time, and they were simply the same.

In order to be able to more accurately judge the situation of the defenders on the opposite side, Major General Numata Tokushige launched several more attacks on Bridge No. 30, and several attacks were repulsed without exception, but through these attacks, Major General Numata Tokushige was sure that this time he had encountered the new 90th Division of the old rival Shina Army. Major General Numata Tokushige hurriedly reported the situation to the division commander, Lieutenant General Tatebei Ogisu.

When the report was delivered to Lieutenant General Hatohiko of Asakanomiya, the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, Lieutenant General Hatohiko shouted in disbelief: "What about it? The new 90th Division of the Chinese Army is still stationed in Songjiang? How is this possible? What kind of troops are the troops that appeared in the Sixing warehouse? Why is there a flag of the Tiger Division? Moreover, when the Third Division was pursuing, it saw with its own eyes the chariots of the Chinese Army on the south bank of the Suzhou Creek and was attacked by chariot guns. Could it be that the new 90th Division of the Chinese Army has been separated?"

After thinking for a while, Lieutenant General Hatohiko of Asakanomiya gave the order for a full-scale attack on several divisions, and the Imperial Japanese Army could not abandon the attack because it was afraid of a branch army, so it would not be worthy of being the emperor's samurai. Under the cover of aircraft and artillery, several divisions and regiments that received orders again launched a fierce attack on the defensive positions in the north and south of Shanghai.

The 13th Division was desperately attacking the No. 30 Bridge, while the 5th Division crossed the Huangpu River at Shengli Harbor with great ease. A platoon of soldiers guarding Victory Harbor was still unable to stop the attack of the Japanese Fifth Division after desperately blocking it, and all the fighters died on the position, except for one soldier who reported the news. When Wang Haitao got the news, the Fifth Division had already crossed the Huangpu River.