It was also at this meeting that Lao Jiang began to take action against Fujian, which was growing in power. The method adopted by Lao Chiang was to dismantle the Fujian army, hoping to disintegrate the Fujian army from within. The main force of the Fujian Army remaining in Fujian was reorganized into the 25th Group Army, and Jin Zhao still served as the commander-in-chief. The 201st and 204th Divisions, which had already gone north to North China, were reorganized into the 26th Group Army, with Weng Zhaoyuan as commander-in-chief.

Jin Zhao naturally saw through Lao Jiang's conspiracy at a glance, but Jin Zhao was not worried at all. Not to mention that Weng Zhaoyuan has always been of one heart and one mind with Jin Zhao, and he will never betray himself. Moreover, the 201st Division and the 204th Division are also Jin Zhao's cronies, and most of the middle and senior officers of these two divisions are from the system soldiers, and it is impossible for anyone to win them over! Moreover, the weapons and equipment of these two armies are all Fujian-made weapons, and if they lose the support of Fujian, even if the troops of these two divisions are pulled away, their strength will be greatly reduced, so Jin Zhao is not worried about this at all.

On August 21, Zhang Zhizhong issued the order for the fourth attack. The 87th and 36th Divisions launched a full-scale attack on the Yue Army from Yangshupu to Huishan Wharf. Our army fought a bloody battle at Zhaofeng Road and Huishan Wharf. This area is a high-rise building, and the army organized crossfire, dispatched armored vehicles to fight with our army street by street, and the battle situation was quite tragic. On the 23rd, after a short period of adjustment, the 36th Division and other units launched another fierce attack on the Huishan Wharf with three tanks and three infantry battalions.

Previously, the Central Army had never been trained in infantry and tank coordinated operations, and the coordination effect was very poor. The infantry forced the tanks to charge without covering, and as a result, the tanks were all destroyed by the Japanese army; After the infantry lost the cover of tanks, they suffered heavy casualties, and there was even a tragedy in which a battalion of troops crowded into a street and was killed by the Japanese army blocking the street entrance.

After paying a heavy lesson, our army's infantry and tank coordination ability has also been improved to a certain extent. This attack, with the coordination of tanks, destroyed many positions of the Japanese army one after another. The battle lasted until 5 p.m., and finally succeeded in clearing the Japanese army on the dock. The remnants of the enemy fled to the warships on the Whampoa River. However, the Japanese army fleet used naval guns to carry out a fierce bombardment of our troops, and all the tanks were destroyed by the Japanese army's artillery fire, and the 36th Division, which rushed into the dock, suffered heavy casualties under the artillery bombardment of the Japanese army and was forced to withdraw from its position.

The 87th Division, in accordance with the pre-war deployment, seized the opportunity to launch a fierce attack on the two flanks of the army. Compress its main forces shrink in several isolated strongholds such as the Marine Corps Command and the Gongda Yarn Mill. Under the fierce attack of our army, the Japanese army, which was cowering in a few isolated strongholds, could only hold on and wait for reinforcements.

Jin Zhao sent the Fujian Air Force to attack the airfield of the Chinese army in Taiwan, and almost all the army aviation units in Taiwan were wiped out. On the 22nd, after coordinating with the Nanjing political axe, the Fujian Air Force began to transfer to the airfield in the Songhu-Hangzhou area in batches to support the war in Shanghai nearby. On 23 July, the first batch of 24 fighters of the Fujian Air Force to go north won the first battle, shooting down 15 fighters of the Chinese army's navy and army aviation, which dealt a great blow to the arrogance of the Fujian Air Force. (In particular, there is no air force establishment in this country, only the army and navy are subordinate to the army and navy, and the army and navy are collectively referred to as the air force.) The fact that the devil himself does not have an air force does not prevent us from calling him an air force! The addition of the Fujian Air Force enabled our army to gradually grasp part of the air supremacy in the Songhu area, but it was still too late.

From August 13 to 23, our army besieged the 11th Yue Army in Shanghai, dealing a heavy blow to the Shanghai Yue Army, and at the same time our army also paid a heavy price. But in the end, he failed to completely annihilate the Yue army in Shanghai.

On 23 August, the vanguard of two divisions led by General Matsui Ishone, commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, forcibly landed at Wusongkou Railway Wharf, Lion Forest, and Chuanshakou under the cover of naval and air firepower of the Yue Army, and attacked the positions of our troops at Baoshan, Yuepu, Luodian, and Fuzaobang. Attempted to flank our Shanghai defenders from the northeast. Zhang Zhizhong sent Wang Jingjiu as the commander of the former enemy in Songhu to command the troops under the jurisdiction of the 9th Group Army to resist the landing army. At the same time, another line of troops landed at various wharves along the Huangpu River to support the remnants of the Japanese army besieged in the city of Shanghai, and attacked our army from the southeast. At this point, the army turned from defense to offense, and the situation of the war was immediately reversed.

After the battle situation suddenly became tense, Lao Chiang urgently ordered the air force to block the attack, and the Huaxia War Eagle took off from many airfields in the Songhu area and rushed to the battlefield, bombing and strafing in the Wusongkou and Chuanshakou areas where the Yue army had landed, causing heavy casualties to the landing troops. The plane on the aircraft carrier of the military took off urgently. The planes covered the sky and fought in the air.

And on the ground, there was also a bloody battle. Once the army established a beachhead in this generation, the army could rely on the superiority of mechanized troops and soon outflank our army in Hongkou, and the battlefield situation was precarious.

Lao Chiang urgently ordered Zhang Zhizhong's 9th Group Army to resist the landing of the Yue army in the vicinity of Wusongkou, and at the same time ordered the 15th Group Army, of which Chen Cheng was the commander-in-chief, to rush to the area of Chuanshakou to resist the landing of the Yue army. In addition, in order to better command the Battle of Songhu, Lao Jiang transferred Feng Yuxiang to the newly established Sixth Theater as the commander, and he personally served as the commander of the Third Theater.

After receiving Lao Chiang's order, Chen Cheng immediately commanded the 15th Group Army to launch a counteroffensive against the Yue army that had landed in the vicinity of Chuanshakou. In this battle, the 18th Army, which Chen Cheng relied on, served as the main attack. The 18th Army is the "five trump cards", the earliest, the largest, the most famous generals of the old powerhouse, is Chen Cheng's starting capital, Chen Cheng military group alias "civil engineering system" in the word "soil" represents the 18th Army's backbone force 11 divisions, "wood" represents the 18th Army (the department is named because the "earth" is dismantled as "eleven", "wood" is disassembled as "eighteen". ）。

Luo Zhuoying, commander of the 18th Army, said angrily to his generals at the military meeting before the war, "Nine. Since the eighteenth year, we have let go again and again, and endured again and again, but I don't know what to do, step by step, and the rabbit is anxious and bites! What's more, he is dignified Chairman Jiang? This time the commission is determined to fight to the end, this is a life-and-death battle related to the survival of the nation, either you die or I die, what to do! I don't need to say more! ”

"Rest assured! This time, we must let the little devils know that we know how powerful our 18th Army is! ”

"I can't wait! This time, I can finally go to the battlefield and kill the devil in person! Don't worry, don't give the little devil a look! Willing to die on the battlefield! ”

Looking at the angry subordinates, Luo Zhuoying nodded with satisfaction, and then said, "In that case, now announce the battle order!" ”