Beginning on August 13, 1937, the Ninth Army, under the command of Commander-in-Chief Zhang Zhizhong, commanded the 87th and 88th Divisions to start a general offensive, and the Chinese Air Force also went to Shanghai to coordinate operations.

On the 15th, Emperor Hirohito of Japan ordered Senior General Matsui Ishine to send a military commander to Shanghai to command the 3rd Division, the 11th Division and other troops directly under the army to attack Shanghai and further expand the war of aggression against China.

Dachang, the headquarters of the 33rd Brigade, the brigade commander Ye Peigao took the battle briefing he had just gotten that the Japanese landing force had been found in the direction of Zhang Huabin; Shanghai is a port city, and there are many places around it that can land, as far as their northern Shanghai is concerned, Chuansha, which is more than 20 kilometers north of Dachang, can land.

"Order Han Yingbin of the Gu family house to be on guard at Chuansha, and his guard post should at least advance to Luodian; Luodian is that unit stationed? ”

Looking at the combat map, Ye Peigao frowned and asked.

In his heart, Luodian, although it is a small town, but it is the transportation hub from Liuhe to Dachang and from Jiading to Wusong and Baoshan, if the Japanese army lands in Chuansha and seizes Luodian, it will make the battle situation in Shanghai take a sharp turn, so it is not an exaggeration to say that this is a place where China and Japan must fight for in the northern suburbs of Shanghai.

"Brigade commander, the Chuansha defense line is defended by a whole division of the 56th Division, and even if the Japanese army wants to land, it shouldn't be so easy to break through the defense line here! Luodian is less than ten kilometers away from us and we have absolutely time to react! ”

The staff officer said indifferently,

"Before the start of the war, who would have thought that the Japanese army's thousands of marines would be able to block the attack of one of our group armies, not to mention that it was our German model division that attacked, as well as two heavy artillery regiments and more than 300 aircraft; After more than ten days of fighting, the devil still resisted stubbornly in the reinforced concrete fortifications in Hongkou; So it's not a big mistake to be careful, go and give Han Yingbin an order! ”

Ye Peigao sighed and said, now that the battle situation is unclear, more and more troops are involved, and he is worried about the fate of himself and the 33rd Brigade.

"Yes, sir!"

Hearing his brigade commander say this, the little staff officer could only salute loudly and give the order.

Han Yingbin's death battalion is a bit special, a battalion of more than 600 people, there are no auxiliary troops, except for the people who have a squad of supervisors and guards in one of his battalion headquarters, there is only one cooking squad left, and even the heralds are concurrently served by the people of the supervision team, which leads to his four death companies are very strange.

Why is it wonderful? According to the standards of the national army, a company should have 166 people, but the company that dares to die has only 158 people; He almost did a few people to die, but he built four.

"Let the commander of the company lead the company to search forward, and go to Luodian to have a look; If there is no national army stationed in Luodian, let them build a position on the spot; If there are already troops, come back. ”

Han Yingbin, who got the order, thought about it for a long time and made a decision.

And Feng Ye is in the company of daring to die, and his platoon commander is the veteran with big yellow teeth; Luodian is only ten kilometers away from the sea, there is Yuepu in the east, Chuansha in the north is suitable for landing, there is the defensive position of the 56th Division, hundreds of high and low houses are tightly clustered together, two small streets pass through the town in the north-south direction, a dirt road leads to Chuansha in the north, and the end point of the avenue in the east is Yuepu Town.

The town was surrounded by vast patches of paddy fields and ditches, and the guns of Shanghai had been rumbling for almost ten days, and the inhabitants had already fled, leaving only a quiet empty city, sleeping in the dark night sky, as if they would never wake up again.

There were no recruits in the Death Company, the yellow-green military was equipped with German-style steel helmets, although it was a search to advance, but the veterans did not hold rifles, but carried rifles on their backs and bent over the fields, cloth shoes have been wet by the night dew, and the air humidity in Shanghai in early autumn is very high.

"Bang, Bang, Bang......"

The cloth shoes gradually soaked and made a soft noise when they stepped on the field.

"Boom, boom......"

A tremor was heard from the ground, causing the marching team to stop at dusk.

"It's the direction of Chuansha, it seems that the Japanese have really landed here, I hope the 56th Division can withstand it!"

Looking at the firelight coming from the sky, the face of the company commander turned pale, the bombardment movement of this large-caliber naval gun was too big, they were separated by more than ten kilometers, and they could still feel a clear sense of tremor, I don't know what the 56th division brothers on the position felt?

"The third platoon commander, go back and report to the battalion commander, and say that the devils will start attacking in the direction of Chuansha; The rest of the people, march to Luodian in a hurry! ”

A company shouted loudly, and then urged the lazy-looking veteran to run.

At this time, the Chuansha defense line, the Japanese Navy's naval guns were pouring a large number of shells on the sea, 155mm, 265mm, and occasionally more than 3oomm battleship main guns, the shells smashed on the Chuansha defense line with strong kinetic energy, and the landing was a large crater of several hundred meters, and the whole formation of the national army near the bullet impact point disappeared on the defense line, and many people could not even find the corpses.

In less than ten minutes of artillery bombardment, the 56th Division, which was negligent in its defense, did not even block the first wave of attacks, and under the attack of a brigade of the 22nd Brigade of the 11th Division, the defense line was penetrated!

"Kill and give!"

The commander of the 43rd Wing, Yoshio Asama, roared as hard as he could, ordering the Japanese to attack quickly.

"Order the first brigade to not have to stay after breaking through the Chuansha defense line, go straight to Luodian behind Chuansha, and hold there; The artillery and aviation of the Reich would provide them with fire support; Ordered the 2nd Brigade and the 3rd Brigade to clear the Chinese army near Chuansha. ”

Wearing white gloves, Asama Yoshio Osa issued an order, and under his order, teams of Japanese soldiers crossed the beach and rushed madly onto the river sand, spreading like flowing water.

"Bang, bang, bang......"

"Da-da-da... Da Da ......"

The messy shooting of rifles and the frantic shooting of machine gunners did not stop from the beginning, and the crazy Japanese troops frantically attacked the positions of the 56th Division under the cover of grenadiers and mortars.

"Kill!"

The remaining defenders of the position raised their broadswords, jumped out of the broken trenches, and bravely rushed forward, trying to block the Japanese attack with their broadswords.

"Puff, puff......"

The sound of bayonets entering the body kept sounding, and most of the fallen were ragged soldiers of the national army, and the Japanese troops who invaded China at this time were all elite veterans, proficient in marksmanship and white-knuckle combat; As more and more fighters fell, the Japanese troops who came in like a tidal wave finally occupied the position and built a bridgehead in Chuansha.

"Kill and give!"

The devil's squad leader and squadron leader roared as hard as they could, directing the Japanese army to attack from both sides from the gap, and as the gap got bigger and bigger, the loss of Chuansha became faster and faster!

What kind of unit is the 56th Division, this is the original reorganization of the old department of the five-province coalition army, it is the product of complete warlord melee, military discipline and training are all in a mess, with the continuous death of officers, the screams of death are becoming less and less, two hours, the Japanese 43rd Wing only took two hours to break through the Chuansha defense line, and the Japanese army chased the soldiers of the national army who were frantically fleeing for their lives in the Chuansha area.