readx;? Although the 547th Regiment led by Zhang Lingfu was the latest to be established, the least numerous, and poorly equipped of the new 90th Division, during the month-long defensive battle, Zhang Lingfu's 547th Regiment had been training, and only in the last few days did it replace the 544th Regiment and fought with the 16th Division of the Japanese Army at the wall of Luodian Town, and the losses of personnel and equipment were not serious. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After the arrival of new recruits in Songjiang, the 547th Regiment was divided into 300 people, and the current 547th Regiment should be in the front of the new 90th Division in terms of combat effectiveness. And Wang Haitao added ten 100 mortars to the 547th Regiment. After Zhang Lingfu received the order to defend the Mishi Ferry, he took the 547th Regiment to the Mishi Ferry. Mishi Ferry is only five miles away from the south gate of Songjiang County, and behind the 547th Regiment is the outer fortifications of Songjiang County, so Zhang Lingfu is also very confident in his heart.

After the 547th Regiment came to Mishidu, Zhang Lingfu asked the soldiers to repair the fortifications. Mishidu faces the Dazhangjing River, which is not wide, but more than one meter deep. There are no bridges over the river, and the only way to cross the river is to use ferries or temporary bridges. Zhang Lingfu used the houses and sandbags at the ferry to build a group of fortifications with depth. When the 544th Regiment and the 545th Regiment fought fiercely with the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, Zhang Lingfu led the 547th Regiment to seize the time to improve the fortifications.

In three days, when the 544th and 545th regiments withdrew to Songjiang County, the fortifications of the 547th Regiment had been completed. After the Sixth Division and the Kunizaki detachment crossed the Huangpu River, the Dazhangjing River in front of them was the last obstacle to reach the city of Songjiang. On the south bank of the Dazhangjing River, Lieutenant General Tani Toshio, commander of the 6th Division, and Major General Noboru Kunizaki, the commander of the Kunisaki detachment, stood on a high ground at the same time, looking at the defenders' positions across the gap with binoculars.

The dense water network around Shanghai, the water pools everywhere, and the small lakes caused the Japanese army a great headache, and the defenders often used this to block the Japanese army, and the Japanese army, as the attacking side, did not have a very good way to face the defenders who did not retreat. As if it encountered the new 90th Division, which was not inferior to the Japanese army in terms of firepower and individual skills, it was even more difficult to attack.

Facing the Dazhangjing River, which is not too wide, Gu Shoufu and Kunizaki Deng understood that there was only one way to cross the river. However, the Dazhangjing River is shallow and narrow, and the gunboats cannot enter it, and the field artillery wing of the Sixth Division has also been disabled, and now the Sixth Division and the Kunisaki Detachment together have only a few dozen mountain artillery and infantry guns, and there are not many mortars, so it seems that they can only rely on aircraft to help in the battle.

After reading the situation, Tanisoo arranged the artillery positions according to the maximum range of the artillery, and after requesting the support of the aircraft, he began to prepare the means of crossing the river. Before the arrival of the Japanese army, all the boats on the river were collected by Zhang Lingfu and destroyed. The Japanese army searched for a long time but could not find a small boat, relying on a dozen or so rubber boats of the engineer wing to no avail, so Gu Shoufu asked the engineer wing to make a raft out of wooden planks and door panels to cross the river.

Fortunately, the river was not wide, and the requirements for ferries were not high, so the engineering wing stepped up to make rafts. Early the next morning, dozens of Japanese bombers flew toward Songjiang County, and the Japanese army knew that there were anti-aircraft rapid-fire guns on the city wall of Songjiang County, so they did not carry out dive bombing, but carried out large-scale bombing on the ground at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters.

Heavy aerial bombs fell in and around Songjiang County, not only causing a lot of houses in Songjiang County, but also destroying some of the fortifications, and even two bombs on the city wall. Fortunately, the walls had been strengthened and did not collapse, but two fortresses on the walls were blown up. The bombardment may have damaged some of the fortifications, but the damage to the defenders was minimal, and only a few of the observation posts that remained in the fortifications were injured.

Several bombs also fell on the positions of Zhang Lingfu's 547th Regiment, and these bombs did not hurt the soldiers except for the destruction of a few fortifications. Tani saw all this through the binoculars, and he could not blame the poor support of the aircraft, so he had to let his artillery open fire and then force the crossing of the river with infantry. After the Japanese shells fell on the positions of the 547th Regiment, they did little damage to the fortifications of the fortress, but the damage to the trenches and sandbag fortifications was quite large.

Under the cover of artillery fire, Japanese rubber boats and rafts carrying infantry began to cross the river. The battalion commander Du Haifeng found that the Japanese troops had begun to cross the river in the fort, so he ordered the light and heavy machine guns in the fort to open fire. More than a dozen light and heavy machine guns completely blocked this section of the river, and although the Japanese piled sandbags on the bow of the boat, there were still Japanese soldiers who were hit by machine guns and fell into the river screaming.

The river was only a dozen meters above the river, and when the Japanese troops approached the north bank under machine gun fire, they could not get off the boat at all. At this time, in addition to light and heavy machine guns on the defenders' positions, rifles and submachine guns in various fortifications also opened fire at the same time, and the dense bullets killed all the Japanese soldiers who dared to show their heads, and the remaining Japanese troops could only cower behind the sandbags on the bow of the ship.

This time, the dozens of boats were attacked by two squadrons of infantry of the Japanese army, and the two Japanese squadron leaders saw that this was not going to work, and if this continued, their own soldiers would all be shattered here sooner or later. A squadron leader took two grenades from his waist, slammed them on the steel helmet above his head, and threw them forward with all his might. And the soldiers around them also followed their example and threw grenades forward.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the gunpowder smoke and dust rising from the grenade explosion to block the view of the defenders, the Japanese squadron leader drew his command knife, pointed forward, and shouted: "Kill it!" while jumping off the boat and rushing forward. This was not the first time that such a situation had been encountered on the positions of the defenders, and although the smoke and dust from the grenade explosion blocked the view, the weapons in the hands of the fighters did not stop firing.

The shore is only less than 50 meters away from the fortifications, when the figure can barely be seen through the smoke of gunpowder, the Japanese army is only 20 meters away from the position, dozens of grenades flew out of the defender's position, and the machine guns and submachine guns are even happier, the explosion of the grenades and the dense bullets, so that the Japanese troops who rushed to within 20 meters all fell in front of the position, and more than 400 Japanese troops in two squadrons were all killed in this attack, and the corpses were spread from the shore to the front of the position. More than a dozen soldiers of the first battalion were killed, and more than 20 soldiers were wounded.

Gu Shoufu was overjoyed when he saw the infantry rushing to the north bank in the telescope, but not long after seeing that all the infantry rushing up were killed, he couldn't help but scold: "Baga!" slammed the telescope in his hand on the ground. Then he ordered the artillery to intensify the shelling, so that the artillery could vent the anger in his heart. The rafts and rubber boats that the engineer wing had worked the day were all left on the north bank, and it became a problem what to use to cross the river below.

In this way, for three consecutive days, the Sixth Division and the Kunisaki Detachment were blocked by the 547th Regiment in Mishidu, unable to advance an inch. Three days later, the Kunisaki detachment was ordered to go north along the Dazhangjing River, looking for a road that could reach the county seat of Songjiang. After the Kunisaki detachment went north, it engaged in a fierce battle with the ** Independent 45th Brigade guarding the Songjiang Railway Station at the Songjiang County Railway Station.

Songjiang Railway Station is located ten miles southwest of Songjiang County, and it should have been the defense area of Wang Haitao's new 90th Division, but because the military supplies and various supplies of the Right Route Army had to be transported by Songjiang Railway Station, Commander-in-Chief Zhang Fakui transferred the 45th Independent Brigade to guard Songjiang Railway Station, and Wang Haitao did not fight for this place. The 45th Independent Brigade is the Lu Army, the brigade commander Zhang Luanji, the three regiments under his command have a total of more than 5,000 soldiers, the equipment is not bad, there are artillery companies equipped with six 75 mountain guns, and each company has a Mark water-cooled heavy machine gun, and there are many Czech light machine guns.

After Brigade Commander Zhang Luanji learned that the Japanese army had landed at Jinshanwei, he realized that the Songjiang Railway Station would be the target of the Japanese army sooner or later, so he built fortifications with many pseudo facilities and railways inside and outside the railway station. With well-built fortifications and relatively good weapons, Brigade Commander Zhang Luanji led the officers and men of the 45th Independent Brigade to stubbornly resist the Japanese Kunisaki detachment.

The 18th Division of the 18th Division was aimed at Minhang District, once it occupied Minhang District, then the downtown area of Shanghai was close at hand, and after understanding the movement of the Japanese army, Zhang Fakui, the commander-in-chief, urgently transferred his 55th Division to reinforce the 57th Division guarding Minhang, and also sent two regiments of the 62nd Division to Caohang Town to defend.

In the face of the all-out attack of two divisions of the Japanese army and a Kunisaki detachment, Zhang Fakui dispatched troops and sent generals to do everything possible to block the Japanese army outside the city of Shanghai. However, whether it is combat effectiveness or weapons and equipment, the first troops do not have the upper hand, and can only rely on the advantage of the ground to carry out stubborn resistance, compared with other ** teams, Wang Haitao's new 90th Division is much better.

The 6th Division failed to break through the defense line of the 547th Regiment for several days, and could only use a roundabout method to attack northward from the line of Zhaojiazhai, Sanguantang, and Zhuangjiadai. After occupying the deserted town of Huayang Town, the Sixth Division could finally face the county seat of Songjiang. Gu Shoufu also set Huayang Town as the headquarters of the Sixth Division.

Huayang Town is located fourteen kilometers east of Songjiang County, so that the front of the Sixth Division will be the east gate of Songjiang County. Guarding the east gate were the 2nd Battalion of the 543rd Regiment and half a heavy firepower battalion. The first battalion and the other half of the fire battalion were guarded outside the south gate. The 2nd Battalion put the 1st Company on the first line of defense, and the veterans of the 1st Company were the most numerous among the three companies, and it was also the most combat-effective company of the 2nd Battalion.

These veterans are the backbone of a company, and if there are half of the veterans in a squad, the squad will have a good battlefield performance. Now the Japanese army is about to launch an attack on the position, and the recruits on the position are very nervous, only those veterans don't care about the Japanese army at all, they are making preparations in an orderly manner, and they also comfort the recruits from time to time. Under their leadership, the tension of the recruits was slowly eliminated and became calmer.