readx;? When the commander of the 10th Army, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, received a telegram from Major General Ichiro Mishima, commander of the 6th Independent Heavy Artillery Brigade, he was so surprised that he could hardly believe his eyes. If it weren't for www.biquge.info fact that Major General Ichiro Mishima was usually a strict and unsmiling person, Heisuke Yanagawa would have almost thought that this was Ichiro Mishima joking with himself. After calling back to verify the situation and learn the details, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke reported the bizarre incident to the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, Lieutenant General Hatohiko Asakanomiya.

This incident was reported to the Tokyo base camp by King Hatohiko of Asakanomiya, which aroused great attention from the Japanese side, and a special detachment was sent to Shanghai to inspect the actual situation. Wang Haitao and the soldiers rushed back to Songjiang County in the early hours of the morning, and after entering the city, Wang Haitao did not take a break, came to the location of the logistics office, and after choosing a wide field, he asked the guard company and the reconnaissance company to set up a cordon.

Tang Yisheng, the deputy director of the logistics department, was also called to the scene, and after emptying the scene, Wang Haitao began to play tricks and take materials out of the storage ring. Although Tang Yisheng had seen Wang Haitao conjure things out of thin air before, first, there were few times, and second, there were not many things. Now Wang Haitao took out the equipment of a heavy artillery brigade of the Japanese army, and there were dozens of large-caliber artillery pieces alone, not to mention the ammunition and materials in an arsenal, which shocked Tang Yisheng a lot.

After taking all the items, the field was almost full, 36 150 cannons, 12 240 heavy howitzers, light and heavy machine guns, and dozens of ammunition in the ammunition warehouse, and the shells were piled up one box after another. Only then did Wang Haitao ask Tang Yisheng to call the personnel of the logistics department to count the number and register them, and as for how these arms and materials came from, Wang Haitao issued a gag order.

After the registration is completed, it is the divisional heavy artillery regiment that comes to receive the heavy artillery and is proficient in using the method. Wang Haitao asked the officers and men of the Heavy Artillery Regiment to spend one day learning and familiarizing themselves with these Japanese artillery, and prepared to let the Japanese army also taste their own artillery. The soldiers of the heavy artillery regiment are also old men of the former independent brigade, and they have long known Wang Haitao's ability to bring heavy weapons, but now that they see so many big guys, they are so excited that no one asks how these big guys came about.

Although there are differences between German artillery and Japanese artillery, the principle is the same, and the method of use is also similar; the officers and men of the heavy artillery regiment learned how to use these large-caliber artillery pieces in only half a day, and in the evening they were even more familiar with various performances, and they could be used to launch artillery attacks on the Japanese army.

On this day, the attack of the Japanese Fifth Division was not violent, and the intensity of the artillery bombardment was also significantly weakened, and the 546th Regiment and the 547th Regiment in front of the position were relieved, although the soldiers did not understand why the Japanese army was so weak in one attack, but they were all happy about it, and they wished that the Japanese army would be like this every day, but the attack of the 23rd Brigade of the 18th Division of the Japanese Army did not weaken at all, and the 108th Division was out of breath.

Seeing that the Japanese were attacking too fiercely in the direction of the east gate, Wang Haitao asked the 50 75th infantry guns of the original division heavy artillery regiment to support the 108th Division, and the heavy artillery regiment was given the order, and the first round of artillery fire knocked out the artillery position set up by the 23rd Brigade and regiment, and then carried out an artillery bombardment for half an hour on the attacking soldiers of the 23rd Brigade and the soldiers assembled in the rear.

The 23rd Brigade finally tasted what it was like to be bombarded intensively by artillery, and the half-hour covering bombardment caused the 23rd Brigade to lose two brigades of soldiers, and even the brigade commander, Major General Kamefu Ueno, was slightly wounded, and the entire 23rd Brigade retreated to Huayang Town to defend itself after being hit by artillery fire to prevent the counterattack of the squadron, so that the officers and men of the 324th Brigade of the 108th Division guarding the east gate could finally rest while defending.

One day later, Wang Haitao asked the heavy artillery regiment to launch an artillery bombardment of the Japanese Fifth Division on the north bank of the Huangpu River, and the heavy artillery regiment used all its artillery, the 75th infantry artillery to strike at the Japanese troops between the front of the position and the Dazhangjing River, and the heavy artillery to attack the Japanese troops from the Dazhangjing River to the Huangpu River. Wang Haitao and the commander-in-chief of the New 90th Division both stood at the head of Songjiang County, observing the area where the artillery was shelling.

After the shelling began, it was the turn of the Japanese position to smoke and flames, and the air waves flew into the air with the corpses or limbs of the Japanese officers and soldiers. Lord Death is laughing wildly and wielding his Death Scythe, harvesting life.

Seeing that the artillery bombardment was almost over, Wang Haitao asked the heavy artillery regiment to stop firing, divert and conceal the artillery, and prevent the Japanese retaliatory air attack. The 542nd Regiment, the 546th Regiment, and the 547th Regiment guarding outside Songjiang City attacked on all fronts, striving to drive the Japanese Fifth Division across the Huangpu River. The order was issued, and Tang Renxin, commander of the 271st Brigade, took the initiative to take charge of commanding the attacking troops.

Wang Haitao asked the guard company to follow Tang Renxin to protect Brigade Commander Tang. The officers and men of the three regiments were pressed and beaten by the Japanese army for so many days, and they were sulking in their stomachs, and today they first watched the Japanese army being destroyed and ravaged under artillery fire, and then the brigade commander commanded the whole line to attack.

The Fifth Division had been completely blinded by the half-hour artillery bombardment, and the Japanese troops, who had never been bombarded by such multiple shells, were not prepared to be shelled at all, and the half-hour shelling not only dealt a blow to the officers and men of the Fifth Division, but more seriously, the morale and confidence of the officers and men were also seriously damaged. Under the double blow, the all-out counterattack of the squadron lost its resistance.

Even the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Itagaki Seishiro, was also under the protection of the squadron of guards around him, and only escaped from the No. 30 bridge across the Huangpu River, and when the Fifth Division reassembled on the south bank of the Huangpu River, the entire 25,000-strong division had 14,000 men left, nearly 6,000 of whom were lost today, and the division's supplies were basically lost. The division commander, Seishiro Itagaki, let out a long sigh and sent a telegram to General Yanagawa Heisuke.

For the new 90th Division, today was another great counterattack, not only capturing a large number of weapons and ammunition, but also a large number of military supplies, which took a whole day just to transport. This made Tang Yisheng, the deputy director of the logistics department, happy and anxious. I am glad that so many more materials have come out at once, and I am anxious about where to put so many materials? It is definitely not possible to put them outside, and it would be a pity if they were destroyed in the event of an air raid or artillery bombardment by the Japanese army.

In the end, all the logistics personnel and the officers and soldiers of the 543rd Regiment who stayed in the city went into battle and dug several air-raid shelters in the city overnight before putting these materials in. According to Tang Yisheng's estimate, the captured grain alone this time was enough for all the officers and men of the New 90th Division to eat for half a year. There was no problem with arming troops of 5 to 8,000 men with Japanese-style armament.

After this attack, the Japanese Fifth Division could only hold on the south bank of the Huangpu River, and would not attack again until it had the weapons to resist the numerous artillery pieces of the defenders of China. The commander of the 18th Division of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Sadao Ushijima, learned that the 5th Division had been bombarded by many heavy artillery bombardments by the defenders of Shina and suffered heavy casualties, and also gave the commander of the 23rd Brigade, Major General Kamifu Ueno, an order to hold on to Huayang Town.

The fighting in the southern part of Shanghai has calmed down, but the fighting in the north of Shanghai is in full swing. The Japanese army mobilized the strong strength of all six divisions, and with the assistance of numerous artillery, aircraft, and combat vehicles, launched a frantic attack on the first-line positions from Shanghai North Railway Station to Jiangwan, which were garrisoned. During this period of time, the squadron guarding the defensive line, whether it is the main regular army such as the Central Army, or the miscellaneous army such as the Sichuan Army and the Hunan Army, has shown the integrity of the Chinese people.

There was no rout, no surrender, some were just desperate and vicious battles. The Chinese defenders are not as good as the Japanese army in any aspect, but there is only one thing, the determination of the Chinese people not to be afraid of death is something that even the Japanese army must be impressed. If the weapon is not good, use human life to go up, every position occupied by the Japanese army is occupied by the Japanese army after desperate resistance, dead and wounded, many positions on the Chinese defenders until the whole army is wiped out before losing the position.

The same was true of the first-line positions from the North Station to Jiangwan, where one-third of the heavy artillery borrowed by the Central Front from the New 90th Division was destroyed by Japanese aircraft and artillery, and the rest had all the shells and could no longer support the defenders. After withstanding the Japanese army's three-day onslaught, the six divisions have basically been exhausted, and there are more than a dozen regiment commanders and battalion commanders who died on the position.

In order to preserve his strength, Zhu Shaoliang ordered the abandonment of the defense line from the North Station to Jiangwan on November 24, and the whole army retreated to the south bank of Suzhou Creek. The south bank of the Suzhou Creek is the downtown area of Shanghai, where there are various leased territories of foreign powers, and the Japanese artillery will have some scruples, so this line of defense should be the easiest to defend, and it is also the last line of defense in Shanghai.

Historically, Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly issued orders to retreat and hold on, leaving the defenders at a loss and causing confusion among the various troops. Although the Japanese 10th Army landed at Jinshanwei in the south of Shanghai, which once caused the Nanjing camp to panic, with the outstanding performance of the new 90th Division, it not only completely annihilated the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, but also lost troops to the 5th and 18th Divisions of the Japanese Army.

Compared with the continuous defeats in the north, the Nanjing camp was full of confidence in the new 90th Division, and all its attention was focused on the northern front of Shanghai, and Chiang Kai-shek naturally would not casually order a retreat to abandon Shanghai. The success of the new 90th Division in the south also greatly boosted the morale of the Chinese defenders on the northern defensive line, and when retreating to the south bank of the Suzhou Creek, the battle of the Four Elements Warehouse Defense took place as in history.