readx;? There was originally a security brigade stationed in this Songjiang county, and the captain's surname was Wu, who was from Songjiang. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThis security brigade is usually used to maintain order, help collect taxes or something. Now that the war in Shanghai has begun, the number of this security brigade has increased to 300 people, General Zhang Fakui has given some weapons and ammunition, and the captain has also given the rank of captain, which is considered part of the Right Route Army.

After Wang Haitao's new 90 th Division was stationed in Songjiang, before there was any reinforcement of troops, in line with the idea that "no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat," and it reorganized this security brigade, removed dozens of hooligans, scoundrels, the old, weak, sick, and disabled, and trained them to make up a few crooked machine guns so that they could maintain law and order in Songjiang City. After the recruits arrived, the security brigade participated in the training with the recruits, and all the weapons were replaced with Japanese-style equipment.

On the day when the 108th Division arrived in Songjiang County, Fei Gongxia, the county magistrate of Songjiang County of the Nationalist Government, once again came forward to entertain Wang Haitao's new 90th Division and the commander of the 108th Division. The previous two banquets were all politely rejected by Wang Haitao. In the evening, Wang Haitao and Su Zuxin came to the station of the 108th Division with artillery and ammunition replenished to the 108th Division, and the county magistrate Fei Gongxia and Captain Wu of the Security Brigade came to the station of the 108th Division with condolences.

Zhang Wenqing, the commander of the 108th Division, accepted artillery, ammunition, and condolences, but still declined the banquet of the county magistrate Fei Gongxia. Wang Haitao and Zhang Wenqing discussed the handover of tomorrow's position before returning to the division headquarters.

The next day, Zhang Wenqing sent Wu Qiwen's 322nd Brigade out of the city to fully take over the positions in the west and north of Songjiang County, while the 544th Regiment of the New 90th Division, which had taken over the positions, rushed to the No. 30 Bridge on the Huangpu River, a few miles away from Songjiang County, to garrison it. It turned out that Wang Haitao saw that Songjiang County had the help of the 108th Division, so he decided to expand the defense line, so the No. 30 Bridge on the north bank of the Huangpu River, Mishidu, and Deshenggang were also included in the defense line.

In addition to the 544th Regiment guarding the 30th Bridge, the 545th Regiment guarding the Shenggang and the 547th Regiment guarding Mishidu. The 542nd Regiment was guarding the defensive line of the city wall of Songxian County, and the 546th Regiment was the general reserve. Ten Gaoping two-purpose twin heavy machine guns were arranged on the city wall of Songjiang County, mainly for air defense, and they could also be condescending to support the outer positions of Songjiang. The other ten were reinforced into various units, the 544th Regiment and the 547th Regiment were reinforced with 10 100-0 heavy mortars, and the 545th Regiment reinforced 120 heavy mortars.

After the Japanese Sixth Division occupied the county seat of Jinshan, it handed over the county seat to the Kunisaki detachment behind, and the vanguard began to advance towards the county seat of Songjiang in the early morning of the 26th. A squadron of the vanguard of the Japanese army came to the south of Bridge No. 30, and when it saw that there were Chinese defenders north of the bridge, it set up several heavy machine guns and several mortars in the squadron to cover the infantry charge.

However, as soon as the Japanese heavy machine gun position and mortar position were built, there was the whistling sound of artillery shells over their heads, and in the panicked eyes of the Japanese army, the shells of ten 100 heavy mortars had already fallen on their heads, and in a burst of explosions, the smoke of gunpowder and dust flew up, and when the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, the Japanese position was already a mess, and the parts of mortars and heavy machine guns were scattered all over the place, and at the same time, the Japanese troops on the position were also blown up in all directions, and there were few living people.

Before the attack, the squadron leader of the Japanese army was furious, and the 6th Division, which claimed to be one of the best in the Japanese army in terms of combat effectiveness, had always been arrogant, and the squadron leader was annoyed and ordered the infantry to attack. Hundreds of Japanese troops rushed towards the north of the bridge under the crossfire formed by the defenders' light and heavy machine guns. These charging hundreds of Japanese troops, without exception, fell under the guns of the defenders.

Before the war, Wang Haitao said to commanders at all levels that the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army should not be taken prisoner and left no one alive. Wang Haitao's order of the new 90th Division was to be carried out unconditionally, so after the Japanese army was eliminated, when cleaning up the battlefield, the soldiers of the 544th Regiment had to make up for the Japanese soldiers who fell to the ground before moving forward, so that all the Japanese troops of this squadron were wiped out on the bridge.

Soon after this squadron was wiped out, the Japanese 6th Division gathered on the south bank of the Huangpu River. The No. 30 bridge on Huangpu Mian was the most convenient way to cross the river, so it also became the first choice for the Japanese army to cross the river, so the 6th Division arranged the 11th Brigade on the south side of the No. 30 bridge, and it was personally commanded by the division commander Gu Toshio. The 36th Brigade was commanded by Brigade Commander Mitsuru Ushijima and forcibly crossed the Huangpu River at Desheng Port.

After observing the position of the defenders north of the bridge with a telescope on the south side of the bridge, Tani Toshio said to Major General Tokutaro Shikai, the commander of the 11th Brigade and Regiment beside him: "There are not many defenders in China, and the fortifications are not complete, I believe that my Sixth Division will quickly defeat these Chinese troops, Shii-kun, prepare to attack." Tokutaro Shikai stood upright, bent down and replied: "Hey, Your Excellency the division commander, I will definitely take the position of the people of Shina as soon as possible." With that, he turned and left.

Seeing that Tokutaro Shikai was leaving, Tani Toshio turned around and ordered: "Order the 6th Wing of the Field Artillery to establish an artillery position in the south and shell the positions of the people in the north of the bridge." The herald next to him said "Hey!" and ran to herald. The 6th Artillery Wing received the order and quickly set up an artillery position south of the bridge, and half an hour later, the shells exploded on the defenders' positions north of the bridge.

Wei Hai, the commander of the 544th Regiment, was standing on the high ground in front of the command post, and he was also using a telescope to observe the Japanese Sixth Division across the river. It is a good thing that the vanguard of the Japanese army was completely annihilated just now, this not difficult battle made those recruits who went to the battlefield for the first time have a psychological preparation, and the easy annihilation of the Japanese army also made these recruits have no sense of fear of battle.

When the Japanese shells landed on the position, Wei Hai saw through the telescope that the soldiers on the position did not panic, and the soldiers were quietly hidden in the trenches and fortifications, bearing the Japanese shelling. Because the defense of several key points along the Huangpu River was made by Wang Haitao temporarily, there were only simple fortifications built temporarily, which could not be compared with the fortifications on the periphery of Songjiang County.

Seeing that the Japanese army arrogantly set up its artillery position on the south bank of the Huangpu River, less than 3,000 meters away from its own artillery position, not to mention the 100-00 heavy mortars that had just been allocated, even the original 82 mortars could hit the Japanese artillery positions. Therefore, Wei Hai asked the signal corps to send a message to the heavy fire battalion: confirm the direction of the Japanese artillery position, and then prepare to destroy the Japanese artillery position.

After receiving the order, Wei Yonglu, the commander of the heavy firepower battalion, personally went to a high ground to observe the Japanese artillery position. The 18 82 mortars scattered by the heavy fire battalion and the 10 100-00 heavy mortars that were reinforced later were also ready, and they could be fired as soon as the azimuth coordinates arrived. After observing for a while, Wei Yonglu already knew the situation of the Japanese artillery position.

According to the distance and direction, the 60 mortar could not hit the Japanese artillery position, and only relying on the 82 mortar and the 100 mortar, then the artillery was a little less, but the mortar fired quickly, and it should be able to inflict heavy damage on the Japanese army before it reacted. In order to ensure the effectiveness of the shelling, Wei Yonglu personally calibrated each gun, and let the 60 mortar and 82 recoilless guns that could not be used be withdrawn.

When the Japanese artillery bombardment came to an end, twenty-eight mortars on the artillery positions of the heavy fire battalion roared at the same time. The dense shells accurately flew to the artillery positions of the Japanese troops south of the bridge. For a time, the explosions of shells on the Japanese artillery positions came and went, and the unprepared Japanese artillery and the artillery on the positions were drowned in the fire and gunsmoke.

After the defenders' mortars fired five shells each, Wei Yonglu stopped shelling and began to shift his position. After the smoke of gunpowder on the Japanese artillery position cleared, all that remained were the corpses of Japanese soldiers who had fallen horizontally and everywhere, and only five of the 48 artillery pieces could still be used. This shelling was like a blow to the head, and Gu Shoufu was dizzy for a while, and his eyes were full of gold stars.

After Gu Shoufu and Chief of Staff Shimono Ichihuo Dazuo saw the tragic situation on the artillery position, the anger in Gu Shoufu's heart could hardly be suppressed, and after scolding a few words of "Baga!", Gu Shoufu barely calmed himself down. Without the artillery support of the field artillery wing, whether the few infantry guns and mortars of the infantry could capture the position of the Chinese army, which had many artillery pieces, Gu Shoufu also had no bottom in his heart.

The chief of staff, Shimono Ichihuo Dazuo, said to Gu Shoufu: "Your Excellency the division commander, it seems that the Chinese army on the opposite side is not simple, and the troops that can have so many artillery pieces in the Chinese army will not have any other troops except for the central army of a few German divisions, but shouldn't these central armies of German weapons be fighting with other divisions in the north of Shanghai? How could they appear in this Songjiang county?"

Gu Shoufu replied: "It should be that the headquarters of China has been preparing for the landing battle of the imperial army near Jinshan County, so it will arrange the main force in this Songjiang County. However, even if there is the main force of the Zhina Army in Songjiang County, it cannot stop the pace of our Sixth Division. I don't see that there are many defenders of Shina on the opposite position, so let the infantry attack bravely, and let the Shina people see the bravery of my emperor samurai. ”

With Tani's words, half an hour later, a brigade of the 13th Wing of the 11th Brigade, under the cover of heavy machine guns and several infantry guns and mortars, launched an attack on the defenders' positions north of the bridge. When the Japanese attacking infantry stepped onto the bridge, the soldiers in the defending positions entered the positions one after another, and all kinds of guns were aimed at the attacking Japanese soldiers.

The defenders' position was originally a reorganized battalion of soldiers, and the soldiers of this battalion were killed in the Japanese shelling for nearly 20 minutes, and more than 50 soldiers were seriously wounded, and the rest of the soldiers all felt happy about the destruction of the Japanese artillery position. At this time, when I saw the Japanese infantry coming up, I wanted to give these Japanese soldiers a little bit of strength. Most of the soldiers in the first battalion had Japanese-style firearms, only some veterans still had semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns in their hands, and most of the heavy firepower was new-style firearms, and only a small number were Japanese-style.

When the Japanese infantry advanced to the center of the bridge, the Japanese light and heavy machine guns and artillery opened fire first, and the soldiers in the dense bullet pressure could not raise their heads. At this time, the commander of the first battalion, Tang Yishu, decisively ordered the battalion heavy firepower company to use more than a dozen 60 mortars in the battalion to knock out the Japanese mortars and heavy machine guns. After a burst of artillery fire, the Japanese mortars and heavy machine guns were silent, and the light and heavy weapons on the defenders' positions fired hateful bullets at the Japanese troops on the bridge at the same time.