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Jin Zhao looked at the people in the hospital who were eager to work for the army, sighed helplessly, and said to several company commanders around him, "As soldiers, it is our duty to protect our family and defend the country. However, it could not ensure the safety of the people stationed there, causing hundreds of people to be displaced and even killed under the fire of the Japanese artillery. And the people of Shanghai not only did not blame us for their incompetence, but instead took out the food they had saved and used to reward our soldiers. You all remember to Lao Tzu, if you eat the things of the people, you will all give Lao Tzu to kill devils desperately! Otherwise, how can we be worthy of these Shanghai people, and how can we be worthy of the people of the whole country, if the little devils are allowed to occupy Shanghai, we will not be ashamed to see our ancestors and ancestors under Jiuquan. ”

"Yes!" Several company commanders shouted loudly in solemnity.

Originally, Jin Zhao took several of his company commanders to the hospital to visit those wounded soldiers, but he didn't expect to see such a touching scene. At this time, Jin Zhao, who had finished condolences to the wounded soldiers, left the hospital with several company commanders under his command and hurried back to the station.

What Jin Zhao didn't pay attention to was that when Jin Zhao said those few words, a pair of big black eyes, because of Jin Zhao's words, couldn't help but stay on Jin Zhao for a while, "Who was that person just now?" ”

"He! He is the commander of the first battalion of the fifth regiment, and he is famous in our brigade! Known as the Merry Battalion Commander! One of the wounded soldiers laughed.

"Merry Battalion Commander? Why do you call him Merry Battalion Commander? ”

"Well! That's a long story......"

February 1 was the last day of the armistice, and the enemy was still firing at our positions, occasionally mixed with the sound of small steel cannons. Although there was no fierce fighting, the air was getting tense step by step. At about 1 p.m., four enemy planes suddenly flew in and circled over Zhabei to reconnoitre. About two hours later, enemy artillery in the vicinity of Tiantongan began to bombard our positions in the vicinity of Tiantongan Road, Qingyun Road, and Baoxing Road, and at the same time, enemy planes came to blindly drop bombs. Then two enemy ironclad vehicles covered more than 200 infantry and stormed the position of the third battalion of the fifth regiment of our army, in an attempt to threaten the left flank of our army. After a fierce battle, the enemy did not retreat. The mortar company positions of the 5th Regiment were almost completely blown up at the point of enemy artillery fire. Company Commander Zhang Fufu of the Third Battalion and Ninth Company sacrificed his life for the country.

At about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, our entire front positions were shelled by the enemy. Especially in the area of Tiantongan Road, most of the western-style houses occupied by our army were destroyed. At the same time, enemy planes dropped bombs in all directions, and the explosion was deafening. The dilapidated shops and houses in Zhabei have been burned down again. Our army took advantage of the ruins and ruins to resist strongly. Fight your enemies in the midst of the flames and rubble.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, the division headquarters sent Wu Dan, commander of the artillery company, to lead two small artillery pieces to Zhabei for reinforcements. Weng Zhaoyuan immediately ordered Company Commander Wu to occupy a position near Zhongxing Road and open fire on the headquarters of the Yue Army, the Yue Ben Primary School, and the area around Hongkou Park, where the soldiers gathered. The two guns lived up to their mission, firing more than 50 rounds and hitting many times.

During the three days of the armistice, neither the enemy nor the enemy were offered acceptable terms at the negotiating table. During this period, while the negotiations were delayed, the Chinese side tried its best to increase its troops. Four destroyers of the 26th Destroyer Fleet of the Navy, commanded by the cruiser "Tatsuda," arrived in Shanghai on 30 January and landed at the Huangpu Wharf, accompanied by 474 soldiers of the 3rd Sasebo Special Marine Brigade and a large amount of munitions.

On the morning of January 31, the aircraft carriers "Kaga" (26,000 tons) and "Fengxiang" (7,470 tons) arrived in Shanghai with about 30 planes of the First Air Force and anchored in the waters of the Ma'an Islands, about 130 kilometers east of Shanghai. At 4 p.m., three cruisers, the "Nako" (5,195 tons), "Yura" (5,100 tons), and "Abukuma" (5,100 tons) and four mine ships, arrived in Shanghai and landed in batches carrying more than 2,000 marines.

On February 1, the cruise ship "Terukoku Maru" carried the 1st Yokosuka Special Marine Corps (525 people) to land at the Huishan Wharf in Shanghai.

At this time, the reinforced troops of the Yue army immediately showed their ugly faces, and the representatives of the Yue side attending the peace talks immediately changed their faces, slapped the table and scolded our representative division commander Ou Shounian, and said to the consuls and reporters of various countries: "At 9 o'clock in the morning, occupy Wusong." "And our representative Ou Shounian was naturally not to be outdone, and scolded the little devil for a while, such as the army's naked crime of aggression, and claimed that the officers and men of our 19th Route Army had already defended Shanghai with the determination to die. As a result, the first peace talks between the two sides completely broke down amid the bitter scolding of both sides.

Although the negotiations broke down, on February 2, there was no large-scale offensive by the army. Because the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army in Shanghai had already been replaced at this time, the Central Department of the Navy formed the Third Fleet with the "Izumo" as the flagship and Vice Admiral Nomura Kichizaburo as the commander of the ships other than the First Foreign Fleet in the Yangtze River area, and put them into battle under unified command. And Shiozawa Koichi was disgraced by the defeat in the battle, and was recalled to the country by the base camp of the army for investigation, and the army was handsome.

After Nomura arrived, the army began to reinforce the army. As early as when the situation in Shanghai was tense, he had planned to send the army, but the navy refused. The army and navy have always been at odds with each other, and the army invaded and occupied the three eastern provinces after the September 18 incident, which made the navy very angry, so it could not wait to provoke a war in Shanghai, hoping to take advantage of the Shanghai incident to suppress the momentum of the army in China. But with the unfavorable situation of the war, the navy had to be cheeky to ask the army for help. On 2 February, the Cabinet decided to formally dispatch the Army. Due to the urgency of the war situation in Shanghai, it was decided to send the Mixed Brigade (Brigade Commander Major General Kumaya Shimoto) and the Ninth Division (Division Commander Lieutenant General Kenkichi Ueda) to Shanghai, and to transport the Shanghai Mixed Brigade and the 2nd Squadron of Reading Vehicles (later called the 24th Mixed Brigade) to Shanghai. At the same time, the Yokosuka Navy also sent the 2nd Yokosuka Special Marine Brigade to Shanghai.

In the command room of the Izumo battleship, Nomura Kichizaburo looked at the group of military officers standing in front of him with a gloomy face, and said loudly, "Yaga Yalu! Thousands of your marines were defeated by the Chinese army, and even the headquarters in Hongkou was occupied by the Chinese people, and the face of the navy was lost by your group of waste, and you are not worthy of being called an emperor [***] people! Now that the cabinet has decided to send additional land forces to support Shanghai, tell us for yourselves, what should we do next? ”

"Your Excellency, General, rest your anger! Please give us another chance, we will definitely annihilate all the Chinese army in Shanghai, occupy Shanghai, and definitely not let the army waste come to see our jokes! A Marine said loudly with his head down.