Chapter 135: Clever Lady Song
In order to be able to use the bald head to celebrate the birthday of the bald head to carry out a birthday celebration, Mrs. Song personally went out and held a press conference, asking people from all walks of life and the general public to carry out the activity of 'dedicating the opportunity to celebrate the birthday' on the occasion of the bald head's 50th birthday.
As soon as the news came out, the provincial chairmen of the provinces urged the people to pay out of their pockets in order to pat their bald ass.
According to statistics, all walks of life in Shanghai alone donated more than 8 million yuan.
People from all walks of life who are squandering money and fighting for righteousness emerge in an endless stream, and there are countless people's donation activities in various forms and under various names. The patriotic fervor of the people was extremely valuable, and when they saw the Japanese planes dropping bombs on their heads in droves like crows, they thought that their country would become slaves if it did not have airplanes and a strong air force.
The bombs of the Japanese were like the best mobilization, and they generously donated money to buy the machine.
The workers tried to buy more 'Workers,' the businessmen tried to buy more 'Merchant,' the women tried to buy more 'Women,' and even the students mobilized to give up the pocket money given by their parents and buy a few more 'Student'.
The more named "reporters", "artists", and "farmers" mobilized countless reporters to write articles day and night, artists kept performing charity performances, and farmers sold their little grain to show their patriotism to the government.
Mrs. Song also thought of some 'tricycle number', so that those tricycle drivers saved up the money for each trip and handed it over.
Some are afraid that it will not be enough, and if the fundraiser is waiting for him for a day, he will make a few more trips to try to buy a few more 'tricycles'.
A sum of money was sent to Mrs. Song like a stream, which made her overjoyed, and immediately stabbed Zhou Zhirou to discuss and send someone to order two hundred planes abroad.
But at this time, it was already too late, the coastline and air routes from North China to East China and South China had been blocked by the Japanese army, and the import and export channels were blocked.
How can a huge amount of money donated by the people be turned into an airplane? How to explain it to the people? Mrs. Song had no claim for a while.
This little difficulty is naturally difficult for Mrs. Song.
Within a few days, a group of airplanes appeared in the sky over major cities, and the citizens looked up and shouted happily: "Look, everyone, the money we donated has become an airplane!" β
"Look, it's planes, so many planes."
People shouted at the planes pointing to the sky.
They rushed out into the streets, tilting their heads up, looking at the planes in the sky, counting the planes one after another.
This plane is the 'Worker' and that plane is the 'Doctor'.
A few days later, the planes of the "Good Farmer", "Middle School Student", and "Honor" also appeared in the sky, and the street pedestrians stopped to watch, applauding excitedly one by one, with tears in their eyes, that the planes they had donated money to buy had really arrived.
One after another, planes painted with beautiful oil paint flew over Jinling.
People rushed to tell each other and cheered loudly.
On the streets, children chased the direction in which the plane was flying, laughing and shouting.
The porter pulling the tricycle, the factory worker, the hospital doctor, the teacher, the journalist, people from all walks of life stopped what they were doing and stopped where they could see the sky, where they could hear the roar of fighter engines, it was a Chinese plane.
A sense of pride arises.
It's a pity that Mrs. Song lied to them.
It wasn't until the end of the twentieth century, in the late nineties, that an insider wrote an article exposing the inside story.
In order to get by, Mrs. Song ordered those planes to be painted with a layer of paint, spray-painted with words, and wrote 'Farmer' and 'Student' today, and changed to 'Worker' and 'Doctor' tomorrow.
The article said that the fuselage of an old Fiat alone was painted with five Chinese characters: 'Worker', 'Middle School Student', 'Teacher', 'Doctor', and 'Tricycle'.
Mrs. Song used the old plane, repainted it, and sprayed it with words, deceiving the enthusiasm of patriots from all walks of life.
After the Battle of Songhu, like a quagmire, the air power of the national army, only at the beginning of the outbreak of the Battle of Songhu on the battlefield, since then, has never set foot on the battlefield, the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army has always occupied the advantage of land, sea and air amphibious.
The only advantage of the national army is that it fights on its own soil and has abundant troops.
In three days, more than 15,000 casualties were lost, and in one week, the casualties reached a terrible 30,000.
The footsteps of November are getting closer and closer, the autumn wind in Shanghai is getting colder, and the hanging wind is like a sharp blade, blowing people's faces, cutting pain.
The Japanese corpse collection team was put together by Xia Yuan, with heavy casualties, and after a circle of pursuit, it was suddenly discovered that when pursuing, the casualties were the largest.
After one round of attack, a Japanese squadron suffered a quarter of the casualties, that is, they attacked one round and suffered more than 50 casualties.
The Japanese underestimated the combat capability of this lone Shina man, and then the matter was reported, which quickly aroused the alarm of the 3rd Division.
The 3rd Division was founded in 1888, formerly known as Nagoya Zhentai, which was established in 1873, and was also known as the Nagoya Division because it was organized in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. After its establishment, the division participated in all major wars related to China in modern Japanese history, and it was also a first-class division that was located in China from the beginning of the war to its surrender.
In 1945, the division surrendered at Zhenjiang.
In 1937, the division commander was Lieutenant General Fujita Shin, and the chief of staff, Tayuan Toshio Osa.
Just as the 3rd Division was steadily advancing in the direction of Dachang, the news that the rear corpse collection team was attacked by unknown people also spread to the wing, and then the incident was recorded by the wing commander and sent to the division headquarters.
At first, this was an inconspicuous document, when the national army counterattacked, there were many dead national soldiers, there was no detailed statistics, it can be determined that the national army's attack in one day, more than 20,000 people died, corpses were everywhere, and the fleeing soldiers were like defeated dogs, everywhere, during this period, they pursued and killed a lot, and there were always some people who pretended to be dead and became fish that slipped through the net.
It is normal for the rear corpse collection team to encounter some soldiers of the national army who pretend to be dead when collecting corpses, which is very normal.
Therefore, Lieutenant General Fujita Shin, the commander of the 3rd Division, did not pay attention to it at the first time, compared to the casualties of the corpse collection team, at this moment their focus was completely on the battle in the direction of the attack.
The offensive was of great importance, and it directly determined the victory of the Songhu battlefield.
Not only did the national army know the importance of the big field, but the Japanese army also knew it, so taking the big field was the most important thing for the Japanese army at the moment, and the fact that the corpse collection team in the rear was attacked by the unknown people was put in the eyes of Lieutenant General Fujita Shin.
However, a new piece of information soon presented from a subordinate wing caught the attention of Fujita Shin.
This information was printed in several important cities in China, such as the Shanghai Concession and Jinling.
'The god of war has created a prestige again, and Yang Xing has fought the Japanese army! β
'In the battle of Fumohama, the god of war tore through the defense of the 3rd Division of the Japanese army with his own strength. β
'The strongest god of war in the national army's participating troops! β
'Songhu God of War, raise the prestige of our country! β
A different newspaper was sent to Lieutenant General Fujita Shin's desk, with huge fonts, stabbing people's eyes hurt, and at first he didn't pay attention to it, until he saw the contents of the newspaper clearly, and then picked up the information presented by the wing, Fujita Shin suddenly realized that this soldier, who was boasted by the newspaper as a god of war, was likely to have suffered from the corpse collection team.
It has been several days since the battle at Fumohama, from the first day, when the national counterattack force was routed, to the pursuit in the rear, and the attack on the field.
They did not receive a message from the name of the god of war.
Recall carefully, on the night of the 21st, the national army attacked the Japanese defense line, and the Hujiazhuang defense line that was first torn apart was the 7th Infantry Wing of the 3rd Division.
Integrating the entire Japanese defense line, most of them held out for several hours, and only the forward positions were torn apart by the national army, but the Hujiazhuang position was not only torn apart by the national army, but also destroyed the headquarters of the 7th Infantry Wing, and the wing commander Kanazawa was killed by the Chinese people.
Moreover, as the war progressed, the interspersed troops of the national army once hit the abdomen of the Japanese army, like a pair of scissors, cutting off the entire Japanese army up and down.
In the next few hours of fighting, the formation of the 7th Infantry Wing was difficult to maintain, and it had to abandon its position and withdraw from Hujiazhuang.
The Nationalist army then occupied Hujiazhuang.
At first, they thought that the battle of Hujiazhuang seemed to be just an accident.
Now seeing the newspaper of the Zhina, the division commander suddenly realized that the loss of Hujiazhuang did not seem to be an accident.
It was not that the soldiers of the 7th Infantry Wing were negligent in their duties, nor that they were not heroic enough.
It's that the people of China are too strong.
"It's incredible, can anyone really do it, with the strength of one person, to win a battle?"
Fujita Susumu graduated from the 16th class of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School on October 24, 1904, and during the same period, there were notorious generals of the Japanese invasion of China such as Okamura Ninji, Kenji Dohihara, Seishiro Itagaki, and Toshiyoshi Ando, and on November 1, the army was appointed as a second lieutenant in the army.
Later, he studied in France, studied intellectually, and became a military attachΓ© to the Chilean legation on April 20, 1921. Until he returned to China on December 28, 1922, he served as the captain of the wing, and later served as an instructor of the Japanese Army Infantry School, the commander of the 15th Wing of the Army, and the chief of staff of the 19th Korean Division.
On December 7, 1932, he was promoted to the commander of the 32nd Brigade of the Army Major General, and on March 5, 34, he was attached to the Army Weapons Factory, and on April 21 of the same year, he became the first mechanized unit in Japan, the first commander of the 1st Brigade of the Kwantung Army, and the commander of the Army Infantry School on March 7, 1936. On August 1, he was promoted to lieutenant general, and on August 2, 1937, he succeeded Ito Masaki as the commander of the 3rd Division and participated in the Battle of Songhu.
Fujita's resume and experience can be said to be smooth sailing, and his study abroad and employment experience have broadened his horizons and horizons.
The European powers, undoubtedly the most developed regions at the time, had soaring science and technology, strong military power, and advanced ideas, and countless people who studied abroad.
Because of this, Fujita is quite clear about war.
The Japanese army was well-trained, and the Nationalist army was mostly inferior peasants.
The Japanese army's weapons and equipment are superior to those of the national army, and it has artillery of various calibers, tanks of various types, a naval fleet, and an air fighter formation.
At the same time, the military level of the Japanese army during this period was extremely strong and the national strength was vigorous.
On the other hand, China, a backward agricultural country, and the domestic division of the country, perennial warlord scuffle, infighting, it seems that Jinling is the first government today, but in fact, many local armies do not deal with Jinling.
It is precisely because of this that attacking China at a time when China is divided has a high probability of being able to defeat China.
The most critical point is that their soldiers' combat capabilities far exceed those of the China, and more than one and a half stars.
Since mid-August, the casualty ratio between China and Japan has remained above 7:1.
Therefore, Fujita Jin is quite himself about his own soldiers, but he is not optimistic about dealing with the people of China at all.
He also knew quite well that war was never a one-man war, but a war of one army, a war of comprehensive coordination, and that if the Japanese army wanted to attack China, it needed several divisions and regiments to attack from all sides.
The naval fleet blockaded China's ports and important river basins.
The Air Force blocked China's air routes.
The 11th Division attacked Luodian and took the Jiading, Beijing-Shanghai railway, and cut off the blood vessels of China.
The 3rd Division attacked from Wusong, took Yanghang directly, occupied Fuzaobang, and cut off the connection between Luodian and Dachang Nationalist troops.
All offensive units have their own tasks.
Fujita is clear that any war is never a solitary show.
But someone turned a war into his own show, which made Fujita feel quite incredible, "How did he do it by tearing apart the defenders' defense line with his own strength." β
He has been in the army for more than 30 years and has encountered countless wars, large and small, and this lieutenant general is also the first time that he began to doubt.
There really is someone who can tear apart the defense of a team on their own.
If that's the case, then this guy, who is called the 'God of War' by the people of China, is quite terrifying.
Of course, he was more suspicious in his heart.
Fujita Shin opened the wing and sent it up, and the casualties of the corpse collection team have reached more than 100 people from the time they found out that the Shina people were shooting at them and began to return fire.
The corpse collection team attacked twice, and each time the casualties were around a small team, and the combat ability of this person exceeded that of any person they encountered, and the people of the corpse collection team immediately felt that this lone person was definitely not simple, and immediately reported it.
This was not reported, and it was not tightened, and as soon as it was reported, it directly shocked the entire division headquarters of the 3rd Division.
If this person is really the god of war published in the newspaper, then the problem is big.