readx;? At 8 o'clock in the evening, the four main regiments of the New 90th Division all entered the position, and the task of the 543rd Regiment was relatively heavy, and the matter of rebuilding the fortifications made the regiment commander Tang Weimin very troubled. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info the bridgehead position here is a concrete floor, not to mention a bunker, even the trenches cannot be dug out, only sandbags can be used to stack into fortifications, but this kind of fortifications cannot prevent shelling.

After studying the ground type, Tang Weimin decided to retreat the position back 50 meters, form a lone shape to face the bridgehead, place heavy machine gun groups on both sides of the lone position, and use fan crossfire to attack the attacking Japanese army. The front is dominated by light machine guns, and two heavy machine guns are placed in sandbag fortifications to suppress Japanese firepower, but the sandbag fortifications of heavy machine guns are topped with logs, and the logs are covered with sandbags to form a fortress built with sandbags.

The soldiers of the 543rd Regiment, with the help of the soldiers of the other two divisions, were busy all night before they were able to complete the fortifications, and the dozens of mortars of various calibers of the heavy fire battalion were also scattered into several positions, but they were all aimed at the Japanese artillery positions and heavy machine gun positions. Because the position was changed to an arc setting, both the front and the flank needed to be defended, so Tang Weimin put the three companies of the second battalion on it at once.

Putting a battalion on the first line of defense at one time was also unacceptable for Tang Weimin, who had participated in the war for a few months, and there were not many veterans brought by the soldiers in the regiment from Guangxi, and although these supplementary soldiers had also undergone training and some actual combat, their combat effectiveness was much worse than when they first came out of Guangxi.

In this kind of positional defensive warfare, the opponent is again the powerful Japanese army, and after the combat effectiveness declines, it can only rely on the strength of the people to carry it. Fortunately, the weapons and equipment are not bad, and the grassroots officers in the battalion are all veterans, and with these veterans as the foundation, the troops can still be reassured. The next morning, the Japanese troops north of the bridge were preparing for today's attack as before.

Seeing that the Japanese army had arranged the artillery positions and heavy machine gun positions in an orderly manner, four 92 infantry guns, eight 90 mortars, and eight heavy machine guns were all placed in place one or the other, it was time to launch an artillery bombardment on the defenders' positions. The Japanese attacked the defenders' positions here for several days, and never encountered the defenders' artillery counterattack, so they were making all kinds of preparations unscrupulously.

Tang Weimin watched in the telescope as the Japanese army laid out the position, and then a brigade of infantry was assembling. Tang Weimin, in line with the principle of striking first and being strong, notified the mortars of the heavy fire battalion to start shelling the Japanese troops, and the gunners, who had already been prepared, had already aimed at the Japanese artillery positions and heavy machine gun positions, and at this time, after receiving the order to open fire, almost at the same time, dozens of mortar shells flew out of the chambers.

The unprepared Japanese army only reacted when the mortar shells fell, and the result was that only three rounds of shells were used, and the Japanese artillery positions and heavy machine gun positions ceased to exist.

When the shelling of the Japanese position, the assembled Japanese infantry had already reacted and began to disperse, but the shelling came too quickly, and when the shells fell, nearly half of the Japanese troops were still in the assembly area, and these hundreds of Japanese soldiers were scurrying around under the mortar blows. After three rounds of artillery fire, dozens of craters and hundreds of Japanese corpses were left in the assembly area.

The fact that the first Japanese attack of the day had ended before it had even begun, was a great surprise to the Japanese high-brass. After exchanging news with Lieutenant General Fujita Susumu, commander of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, and Lieutenant General Munetake Yamamuro, commander of the 11th Division, they also believed that the Shina army on the south bank of Suzhou Creek had changed its defense, and that the newly arrived Shina army should be the main force of the Shina army, with very fierce firepower and a large number of heavy weapons and artillery.

I thought that with a little effort, I would be able to break through the Suzhou Creek defense line of the Zhina people, so as to attack the downtown area of Shanghai and occupy the largest seaside city in the Far East, but I did not expect that the Zhina people would replace the local troops on the south bank of the Suzhou Creek with the main force. The most important thing now is to find out the number of the troops of the opposite branch of the army, so that the command can make a decision.

The Japanese troops who attacked the Old Garbage Bridge and the Fahuadu Bridge suffered great losses, and the Japanese 101st Division attacking at the Zhongshan Road Bridge did not win favor. The 101st Division of the Japanese Army had the help of the 1st Brigade of Japanese Tanks, and the Japanese Army, who did not know that the defenders on the opposite position had changed their defenses, still bombarded with artillery fire for a while, and a large group of Japanese troops launched an attack under the cover of four tanks.

The heavy machine guns on the Japanese tanks continued to spit out tongues of fire as they advanced, and the heavy machine gun bullets hit the defenders' positions in dust. When the chariot just drove through the center of the bridge, the windows of several buildings on the defender's position burst out at the same time, and several black shadows flew towards the four Japanese chariots at a rapid pace, and several explosions came out in an instant, and the four Japanese chariots had become four large fireballs.

At this time, the defenders' positions were in full swing with light and heavy weapons, and the mortars on the roof of the building were also firing shells at the attacking Japanese troops. The ferocious fire stunned the Japanese at once, and by the time they came to their senses and retreated, a large group of Japanese troops had already lost half of their soldiers. This blow made the Japanese army not recover for a long time.

A day later, the Japanese troops on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek finally figured out that it was the strongest division in the Chinese army defending on the south bank of the Suzhou Creek, and the main force of the new 90th Division gasped. The name of the person, the shadow of the tree, the ferocity and difficulty of the new 90th Division are well known to everyone in the Japanese army, and now that the new 90th Division has come to the south bank of the Suzhou River, how to attack makes several Japanese division commanders have no idea in their hearts.

After the situation was reported to Lieutenant General Hatohiko Asakamiya, commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, Lieutenant General Hatohiko Asakamiya scolded angrily: "Baga! The abominable 90th Division of the New Chinese Army, which had just broken the 20,000 warriors of the Imperial Japanese Army in Songjiang, has now arrived on the south bank of Suzhou Creek. I must defeat this new 90th Division and capture their division commander Wang Haitao. ”

Just when King Hatohiko of Asaka Palace was ruthless, the chief of staff, Major General Iizawa Mamoru took a telegram and hurriedly walked in. Major General Mamoru Iizawa said to Lieutenant General Hatohiko of Asakanomiya: "Your Excellency, your Excellency, the Tokyo base camp has called, the third batch of reinforcements has been assembled, and we can arrive in Shanghai in three days to fight." ”

It turned out that due to the stubborn resistance of the squadron in the Battle of Shanghai, the Japanese army not only failed to occupy Shanghai for a long time, but also suffered losses in the Battle of Shanghai, and the two divisions were completely annihilated, which also caused strong dissatisfaction among the Tokyo base camp and the Japanese people. In order to occupy Shanghai as soon as possible and achieve victory, the base camp urgently formed the 14th Army, the commander of which was Lieutenant General Nakajima Masatake, the commander of the former Guards Division, under the command of the 21st Division, the 22nd Division, and an independent heavy artillery brigade.

These two divisions are all first-class divisions of the two-brigade regimental system, but in consideration of the terrain here in Shanghai, instead of setting up a cavalry wing, a heavy machine gun brigade and a rapid-fire artillery brigade have been strengthened, and the independent heavy artillery brigade has 12 320 heavy mortars for siege in addition to 48 150 cannons and 240 240 heavy howitzers.

After reading the telegram, King Hatohiko of Asaka Palace was excited in his heart, and he felt that his troops were insufficient, so the Tokyo base camp was sent to the snow, and he threw all the 14th Army into the direction of Songjiang, and crushed the Songjiang defense line of the people of China with the power of thunder, and then surrounded the Chinese army, as if it were the new 90th Division, in Shanghai.

With this idea, what King Hatohiko had to do was to drag the new 90th Division of China firmly on the south bank of Suzhou Creek, so King Hatohiko of Asahokamiya asked the planes and the independent heavy artillery wing on the battlefield to assist several divisions and regiments to launch an attack on the defenders of China on the line of Suzhou Creek. After receiving the order, although the commanders of these divisions of the Japanese army were still a little afraid of the new 90th Division on the south bank, their pride as Japanese soldiers still made them continue to launch continuous attacks on the south bank of the Suzhou River.

Several divisions and regiments of the Japanese army were in various wings in turn, and Japanese planes in the sky were constantly carpet bombing the positions on the south bank of Suzhou Creek. Several regiments of the new 90th Division also organized heavy machine guns to confront the Japanese planes in the sky, and the result was that both were defeated, and although dozens of Japanese planes were also defeated, the losses of heavy machine guns and machine gunners were also very serious.

In the three-day defensive battle, the four regiments of the New 90th Division lost more than half of their officers and men, and Wang Haitao was anxious to take out a large number of captured Japanese-style weapons to equip the withdrawn divisions, and let them continue to go up to assist these regiments in defense. These local units were just too poorly armed, but once they changed their weapons and equipment, the officers and men of the new 90 th Division were impressed by their fierce and fearless vigor of death.

Needless to say, officers at the company and platoon levels, even officers at the battalion and regimental levels were fighting with the Japanese army with their weapons. The Japanese army has never had the upper hand in light and heavy weapons, and in the face of the special terrain of the bridge deck, there are really not many ways to attack.

In 1938, on New Year's Day, Chiang Kai-shek delivered a speech in Nanjing. In his speech, he reaffirmed the determination that "there is no distinction between north and south, no distinction between the old and the young, the whole people resist the war, and all parties are united to resist Japan." In his speech, he expressed his condolences and thanks to the Chinese people who are fighting bloodily on the Songhu front.

On New Year's Day, another round of solidarity with the battlefield in Shanghai and the anti-Japanese soldiers on the front line was set off in all parts of the country, and countless donations of money and materials poured into Nanjing and Shanghai from all over the country. The citizens of Shanghai, on the other hand, spontaneously organized many condolence teams and rushed to the front lines. Among these people, college students from major schools are the mainstay, and they rushed to the front-line battlefield with enthusiasm, but they were basically stopped from the battlefield.

Wang Haitao's division headquarters also came here with several student teams, and Wang Haitao was still very moved by the enthusiasm and heart of these students to serve the country, so he made an exception to receive them in person. When these students heard that General Wang Haitao, commander of the New 90th Division, who had made great achievements in the war, would personally meet with them, they immediately burst into joy. In their hearts, General Wang Haitao is already a god-like existence, and the citizens of Shanghai call this General Wang Haitao the god of war.