readx;? When the commander of the 107th Division, Jin Kuibi, was on the battlefield in North China, he had learned the power of the small Japanese army. www.biquge.info In the North China battlefield, a division like him, let alone blocking half of the Japanese army, is very difficult to block the attack of a large group of the Japanese army, and if the Japanese army has a wing, then it will only have to retreat. It is not easy to be able to block the attack of the Japanese Fifth Division here, and not lose half of its position all day. This is due to the favorable timing, location, and people, and the new 90th Division has supported a lot of heavy weapons and ammunition.

Yesterday, counting the soldiers who died in the bombing of Japanese planes, the whole division lost more than 1,000 men, and a regiment was wiped out. Now on top of the front-line position is the 638th Regiment, which has just gone up, which is a fully staffed regiment, and the regimental command post is set up in the box office next to the railway station. The regiment commander Wu Youbao also became a veteran of the battalion commander when he was in the Northeast Army, and became the commander of the 638th Regiment after reorganization.

Wu Youbao still has a set of battles, as if he had fought a few vicious battles with the small Japanese army on the battlefield in North China, and he was more familiar with the Japanese army's offensive methods. It was also difficult for the Japanese army's 75 infantry guns to completely destroy the concrete fortifications, so Wu Youbao placed almost all the heavy machine guns of the whole regiment in several concrete fortifications, and the light machine guns were also scattered, striving to get the support of light and heavy machine gun fire on several defensive surfaces.

The four Japanese-style mortars assigned to the regiment are treasures in Wu Youbao's eyes, and they will not be easily used until the critical time. In order to prevent the Japanese counterattack, Wu Youbao arranged four hand-pushed rail cars on a section of railroad tracks, put mortars on the rail cars, and after firing a few shells, immediately let the soldiers push the rail cars to transfer the mortars. As for whether it will succeed or not, we will not know until we have tried.

The soldiers of the 638th Regiment stacked sandbags on the platform on the south side of the railway, anyway, there were many items in the station warehouse, and sandbags and sacks for supplies were used. Therefore, the sandbags were stacked almost one person high, and there were shooting holes left in the sandbags, so that in addition to the Japanese army's artillery fire, small arms could be fired at each other, and the damage suffered by the soldiers could be minimized. With a one-person high sandbag and a height of tens of centimeters from the railroad track to the ground, the Japanese army would not be able to climb in front of the sandbag if they did not break the sandbag fortifications.

In addition, Wu Youbao also made some articles on the two abandoned trains, using the front and carriage of the locomotive, plus the protective plate as a fortification. In this way, the 637th Regiment took advantage of all available terrain and built a defensive position that gave troops like the Fifth Division a headache.

Lieutenant General Seishiro Itagaki was very satisfied with the performance of the soldiers during yesterday's attack, and through yesterday's one-day battle, Lieutenant General Itagaki also learned how effective this 107th Division was, and in the eyes of Lieutenant General Itagaki this 107th Division was no match for the Imperial Japanese Army led by him. Soon he will be able to occupy this railway station, and then continue to attack Songjiang County from the flank to avenge his revenge.

In Songjiang County, after Wei Erxi returned with the remaining soldiers of the 546th Regiment, he first arranged for his subordinates to send the wounded to the field hospital, and he himself came to the division headquarters to meet the division commander Wang Haitao. In the command center, division commander Wang Haitao, chief of staff Su Zuxin, brigade commanders Tang Renxin and Tang Longzai were all there, and everyone was gathered around the map on the table, discussing something.

Wei Erxi shouted at the door: "Report!" After getting permission, he walked into the command headquarters, saluted everyone first, and then stood aside without saying a word. Wang Haitao raised his head and glanced at Wei Erxi and asked, "Erxi, how are the casualties of your regiment?" Wei Erxi replied: "Report to the division, there are still 500 officers and soldiers left in our regiment who still have combat effectiveness, and if they don't withdraw, they will definitely be able to block the attack of Little Japan." ”

Wang Haitao said: "What, do you have any opinions on the order I asked you to withdraw?" Wei Erxi replied: "Shizuo, the subordinates don't dare, the subordinates just think that they have given up the position so easily, and it is a little cheap to make Japan." Wang Haitao smiled and said: "The guard battle has been fought for so long, go down and take a good rest, as for why you gave up your position, you will understand when the time comes, but you can rest assured, it will never be cheap to Japan." ”

Wei Erxi seemed to understand a little, but he didn't quite understand, so he could only stand up and salute and said, "Master, chiefs, my subordinates retire." After Wang Haitao nodded, he lowered his head to study the map again, but the brigade commander Tang Longzai accompanied Wei Erxi out of the headquarters. Out of the headquarters, Tang Longzai said to Wei Erxi: "Erxi, the division seat has its own intentions in arranging it this way, the division seat will not let go of this thirteenth division easily, think about the sixth division of the Japanese army." ”

Wei Erxi listened to the words of the brigade commander Tang Longzai, thought about it carefully, and finally understood, with a smile on his face, he saluted Tang Longzai and said: "Brigade seat, subordinates understand, it is useful to go to the place of our 546th regiment, don't forget the brigade." With that, he turned around and strode out of the headquarters. Tang Longzai looked at Wei Erxi's back and nodded.

For the 13th Division of the Japanese Army that dared to openly use poison gas, Wang Haitao had no intention of letting them go at all. However, now his new 90th Division has been seriously reduced, and it is too difficult to defeat the 13th Division head-on, so Wang Haitao decided to use a strategy, first of all, a plan to pride the enemy, the periphery of Songjiang City after striking at the living force of the 13th Division, and then give up some positions in a planned way, so that the 13th Division has the illusion that it can successfully capture Songjiang County with a little more effort, when the 13th Division goes deep into Songjiang City, choose the right time to cut off its retreat, and then attack with large-scale artillery bombardment, and finally the infantry attack, with the goal of annihilating most of the 13th Division. This is Wang Haitao's plan.

However, there are still several problems to be solved in this plan, the most important of which is the problem of insufficient troops. If you want to completely block the retreat of the 13th Division, the troops in your hands are completely insufficient, but if you can't cut off its retreat, the battle of annihilation can only be fought into a crushing battle, which is not the result Wang Haitao wants. For this reason, Wang Haitao specially wrote down this plan into two written reports, and sent the soldiers of the reconnaissance company to personally present it to General Zhang Fakui, commander of the Right Route Army, and General Zhu Shaoliang, commander of the Central Route Army.

Soon after, General Gu Zhutong, acting commander of the Third Theater, personally replied to Wang Haitao, and the Third Theater agreed to the operational plan of Division Commander Wang Haitao, and in order to ensure the plan, the 109th Division stationed in Fengjing and the 106th Division stationed in Qingyang Port were dispatched to the Songjiang Theater, and Division Commander Wang Haitao was specially appointed as the temporary commander of the Songjiang Theater, and the new 90th Division, 106th Division, 107th Division, 108th Division, and 109th Division were temporarily assigned to the Songjiang Theater under Wang Haitao's unified command.

Wang Haitao was both happy and a little worried about the fact that he was able to arrange the battle according to his own ideas, and he was worried that if he could not complete the plan, he would not be able to explain it to Commander Gu in a bad way. In order to better improve the plan, Wang Haitao invited Zhang Wenqing, the commander of the 108th Division, to study the plan together.

From Zhang Wenqing, Wang Haitao learned the general situation of the 106th Division and the 109th Division, both of which are B divisions of the 2nd Brigade and 4th Regiment, each with between 7 and 8,000 people, all of them retreated and then transferred to the Songhu Battlefield after a fierce battle with the Japanese army on the North China battlefield.

After listening to Zhang Wenqing's introduction, Wang Haitao realized that it was impossible to use these two divisions to block the retreat of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army, and it seemed that they could only defend Songjiang County, and draw out a few regiments of the New 90th Division to cut off the retreat of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army. It's just that these two divisions don't know when they will arrive in Songjiang County, and they hope that they won't make a mistake.

In the next two days, fierce battles were fought on the three positions, at the Songjiang Railway Station, although the Japanese Fifth Division was fierce, but the artillery fire was not powerful, and it could not move a few concrete fortifications of the defenders, and the 638th Regiment of the 107th Division was under the command of the regiment commander Wu Youbao, desperately resisting the Japanese attack, and several movable mortars played a great role, not only to keep themselves from being destroyed, but also to effectively combat the Japanese attack at a critical time. Although several sandbag fortifications were destroyed by Japanese artillery fire, most of the fortifications remained intact and the casualties of the soldiers were satisfactory.

On the other hand, after the Japanese army attacked several times and failed to capture the defenders' positions, they also slowed down the intensity of their attacks, and Itagaki Seishiro was not willing to consume too many of his soldiers here, so he reduced the intensity of the attack on the one hand, and on the other hand, he started the idea of air support.

On the position outside the south gate of Songjiang County, the 26th Infantry Brigade of the 542nd Regiment and the 13th Division of the Japanese Army was on top of the front. The 542nd Regiment is the unit that started with the new 90th Division, and Wang Haitao has always favored the 542nd Regiment, and since the 542nd Regiment arrived at the Songhu battlefield, it has always been used in the most important places, and the 542nd Regiment should be the regiment with the largest number of veterans in Guangxi in the new 90th Division, and it is also the regiment with the strongest combat effectiveness in the new 90th Division.

As soon as the 13th Division of the Japanese Army launched an attack on the position defended by the 542nd Regiment, it found that it was completely different from the position it had attacked before. The defenders on this position are not only fierce in firepower, but also have a very strong individual quality, and their marksmanship is much better than that of the soldiers in their own troops. This kind of defense was also encountered by me when I first arrived in Shanghai, and for a full month, one of my divisions could not move forward with the help of large-caliber artillery and aircraft.

After personally observing an attack, Lieutenant General Ogisu Libing, the commander of the division, couldn't help but take a breath of cool air, and Lieutenant General Ogishu Libing decided to attack a few more times, but if he couldn't do it, he could only use chemical weapons again. However, just as Lieutenant General Ogishu was about to use the gas bomb again, not only did it rain in the sky, but also a southwest wind blew, and the defenders' position was upwind, so the poison gas was temporarily unusable.