"Brethren! Horizontal and vertical are all one death! If you die, you will die like a man! Fight with the little devils! One of the routs suddenly shouted loudly, turned and rushed back towards the position.

The rest of the rout roared as if they had suddenly come to their senses, and they all turned and rushed back. Lai Zuoliang raised the submachine gun in his hand and shouted, "Brothers! Kill devils with Lao Tzu! After saying that, he rushed over with the guard company.

After a bloody battle, Lai Zuoliang finally succeeded in recapturing the position, and Lai Zuoliang, who was covered in blood, was sitting in the trench, and a soldier next to him was blasting a wound on his shoulder.

At this time, a communications soldier ran over and shouted, "Report to the brigade!" Shizuo called and asked if we could still hold our position outside the city! If we can't hold it, the division can send a reading group to support us. ”

Lai Zuoliang moved his arm, nodded gratefully to the bandaged soldier, and then said, "Report to the division!" As long as I rely on Zuoliang alive, the position outside the city will definitely not be lost! Just ask the division to give us as much artillery support as possible! As for his baby pimple reading group, let's wait until the time of ** to use it! ”

The sky gradually darkened, and the little devil who had been crazy for a day finally stopped attacking, retracted his position, and silently licked his wounds, preparing for a bloody battle.

Also on August 13, the battle on the battlefield of Nankou was also extremely fierce, and Seishiro Itagaki continued to launch a fierce attack on Nankou and conquered Nankou Town in one fell swoop. But as it continued to develop the offensive, it was stubbornly blocked by the defenders, and the offensive was again blocked.

However, neither the bloody battle of Duolun nor the Battle of Nankou could attract the attention of the world, because on this day, the army once again provoked a war in Shanghai, and people's eyes once again focused on the prosperous Shanghai.

On August 13, 1937, relying on the preset position in Hongkou District, the Marine Corps opened fire on the Chinese defenders from Tiantongan Station of the Songhu Railway to Yokohama Road, and attacked along the Baoshan Road under the cover of tanks, but was repulsed by our defenders. The August 13 Incident broke out, and the tragic Battle of Songhu finally kicked off.

Jin Zhao, who got the news, couldn't help but sigh, what should have come has come after all. Jin Zhao called Lu Xingrong and Ding Rongguang again, asking them to be ready to go north to Songhu at any time. Because Jin Zhao knew that Lao Jiang would have a decisive battle with the Yue army in the Songhu area, that is, the Battle of Songhu that everyone in later generations would know. During the Battle of Songhu, Lao Chiang transferred more than 70 divisions and more than 700,000 troops from all over the country into the Songhu battlefield, and Lao Chiang would definitely draw the Fujian army that was shouting for the War of Resistance to Save the Country to go north to Songhu, so Jin Zhao had to prepare in advance.

In fact, Jin Zhao was reluctant to fight the Yue army in the Songhu area, because he knew that the unprecedented scale of the Battle of Songhu ended in defeat. The terrain around Songhu is open, and it does not use defense, but it is very advantageous for the Yue army, which has a much higher degree of mechanization than that of China. In addition, the Songhu area is a coastal area, and the powerful combined fleet of the Yue army can directly give the Yue army strong artillery support, which makes the already poorly equipped Chinese army even more passive.

Jin Zhao also wanted to persuade the hot-headed old Jiang, but thinking about the relationship between him and Lao Jiang now, it is estimated that persuasion will be in vain. Although Jin Zhao did not agree to a decisive battle with the Yue army in the Songhu area, if Lao Jiang ordered the Fujian army to go north to resist, Jin Zhao had no reason to refuse at all, Lao Jiang pressed down with a hat of national righteousness, so that all the warlords could only obediently obey, even the Red Army had to announce that it accepted the reorganization of the central government and sent troops to resist, not to mention Jin Zhao!

Thinking about the huge casualties of the Chinese army during the Battle of Songhu, Jin Zhao was distressed, since the Battle of Songhu could not be avoided, then Jin Zhao was now thinking about how to reduce our losses. Now that the Fujian Navy is in its infancy, it can't help at all, and it can only deliver food to the little devils. Thinking that only the Air Force could take a shot, thinking of this, Jin Zhao grabbed the phone and asked the main person in charge of the Fujian Air Force to come over for a meeting.

On August 14, the day after the August 13 Incident, the "Declaration of Self-Defense and War of Resistance" was issued, declaring that "China will never give up any part of its territory, and in the event of aggression, it can only respond with the exercise of its natural right of self-defense." ”

In order to seize the initiative in the war, the army stationed in Shanghai was eliminated before the arrival of reinforcements. On the day of August 14, General Zhang Zhizhong, commander-in-chief of the Ninth Group Army, commanded the 87th Division, the 88th Division and other units to launch a comprehensive general attack on the Shanghai Army! (At this time, the 87th and 88th Divisions had completed the reorganization of the German Armament Division), and at the same time dispatched the air force to bomb the Marine Corps Headquarters, Huishan Wharf and surface ships. The focus of its attack was initially on Hongkou, and later on the Gongda Yarn Mill. At this time, our army had an absolute advantage in the Shanghai area, in addition to the two German armament divisions, there were also two heavy artillery regiments equipped with German artillery, namely the 10th Artillery Regiment (100 mm cannons) and the 8th Artillery Regiment (150 mm howitzers), plus tanks and air forces to assist in the battle, it should have an overwhelming advantage.

At this time, the army in Shanghai only had more than 3,000 marines, and the retired soldiers urgently mobilized from the merchant group, a total of only 4,000 people. Heavy weapons were also insufficient, but they relied on strong fortifications to resist stubbornly, so that our troops were unable to complete a major breakthrough.

In response to the continuous provocations of the army, General Huang Meixing, commander of the 2** Brigade of the 88th Division, stationed near Zhizhi University, had long been full of anger. As soon as he received the order to attack, General Huang Meixing immediately led the officers and men of his headquarters to launch a fierce attack on the army.

Huang Meixing, born in the first phase of Huangpu, once led his troops to participate in the first Songhu Anti-Japanese War. After the war, he was promoted to commander of the 2** brigade. Later, he entered Fujian with his troops to defeat the 19th Route Army, and in the battle of Youxikou, the 88th Division was almost wiped out. Huang Meixing was seriously wounded, but he still gritted his teeth and insisted on commanding the troops to resist bravely, and finally only led the remnants of more than 100 people to break out of the encirclement and make peace with Wei Lihuang's troops.

In this battle, General Huang still took the lead and personally went to the front line to command the operation. Under the leadership of General Huang, the 2** Brigade was invincible all the way, and in just half a day, it continuously captured more than a dozen strong fortresses of the Yue Army.

At 6 o'clock in the afternoon, when the 2** Brigade attacked the stronghold of the Patriotic Women's University, the artillery fire was intensive, and hundreds of planes bombed it. General Huang led his troops to rush to the Bazi Bridge, unfortunately was hit by a cannonball, and died heroically after rescue efforts failed, at the age of 41. Becoming the first senior general to die in the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, Nanjing Political Axe was posthumously promoted to lieutenant general in recognition of his heroic dedication to the country and the nation. (To be continued.) )