The troops left behind on the front line were doomed to heavy casualties.

He pillowed his hands behind his head, wanting to relax in the next time to prepare for the next battle for the defense of Jinling.

However, Xia Yuan didn't have any clue how to intervene in it.

The process is no longer important, and with his personal strength, he can only affect the course of a war, but not the whole.

Jinling will eventually be breached.

The ambitions of the Japanese devils will not change because of the defeat in a small war.

The ambition of the wolf son, how can it be changed.

Otherwise, the Japanese devils would not have been so shameless that they would not recognize the comfort women, the massacre, and so on more than half a century later.

It was late at night.

Jinling Supreme Commander's Palace.

The bald head hasn't slept yet.

A table lamp was on, emitting a bright glow, and his bald head hid on a stool, looking at the battle reports transmitted from the front line, his mind buzzing.

The Japanese army captured Jinshanwei in Hangzhou Bay and moved towards Suzhou Creek.

He still had expectations for the Nine-Power Pact in his heart, and was hesitating whether to withdraw his troops from the front line.

At the moment of life and death, Zhang Fakui decisively adjusted his deployment and ordered Wu Keren, commander of the 67th Army, to lead his troops to advance in the direction of Jinshanwei through Songjiang to block the Japanese army head-on.

There is no doubt that a tragic resistance battle has begun.

The Japanese landing force had three divisions and 100,000 troops.

However, at the cost of huge casualties and sacrifices, this imminent response to the crisis stopped the advance of the Japanese army and bought time for the hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops in danger.

By this time, the Japanese army had already occupied the south bank of the Huangpu River, only five kilometers from Songjiang City.

Songjiang was the throat of Shanghai and Zhejiang, and once the Japanese army occupied Songjiang, it would cut off the retreat of the Chinese army to the west and south. At this time, there was only one local security team stationed in Songjiang, which could not withstand the attack of the Japanese army.

On the 6th, Zhang Fakui issued a death order, ordering the security commander to cooperate with Guo Rugui, commander of the 40th Army, and Wu Keren, commander of the 67th Army, to defend Songjiang County for three days, and severely punish them for violating military law.

In the evening of the same day, Guo Rugui led the 40th Army to arrive in Songjiang County.

The 40th Army traveled thousands of miles from Sichuan to participate in the Battle of Songhu, and after participating in several bloody and heroic blocking battles, it retreated from the main battlefield, and the officers and men of the whole army were left with only more than 500 people.

A few minutes late at night, the 67th Army led by Wu Keren arrived at Songjiang County, and before it could assemble, it was attacked by the Japanese army's fierce artillery fire, and then the Japanese army also launched a crazy attack on Songjiang County.

In order to defend Songjiang County for three days, and also to cover the retreat of the large army, the 67th Army fought bloody and bitter battles in Songjiang County, three days of bloody battles, and the main force led by the 67th Army fought hard and tragic in the Songjiang Defense Battle, every minute, every second, was the price of blood and flesh.

Bayonets tore flesh and blood, and cannonballs tore human bodies to shreds.

In the face of the Japanese attack, the national army guarding Songjiang brought its perseverance and fearlessness to the extreme.

The ammunition is gone, and there is not much left.

It took a bayonet for a long time, the blood was hot, and the bayonet could be blunt, and some soldiers' bayonets were very difficult to pierce their clothes and stab into the bodies of the Japanese soldiers.

Some companies found that a soldier killed the Japanese with a grenade, far fewer casualties than a bayonet.

Fighting bayonets, sometimes, one Japanese soldier can fight three soldiers of the national army.

But with grenades, you can get entangled with Japanese devils, and sometimes, one grenade can take away one or two Japanese devils.

In this way, to fight with the Japanese devils, many soldiers held bayonets in the trenches, and when waiting for the Japanese devils' troops, they would put the grenade in a position that they could pull with their hands, so that even if the Japanese devil's bayonet poked into their bodies, they would have time to pull the grenade on their bodies.

According to the words of the company commander, listen to the sound, don't know anything, wait for the next life to be reincarnated, and be a good man.

The bloody battle for the defense of Songjiang was very tragic.

Three days later, no order was received to retreat, but to continue for three days.

November 8th.

Relying on strong firepower, the Japanese army broke through into Songjiang Castle from the east, south, and west sides of Songjiang Castle under the cover of heavy firepower such as tanks, armored vehicles, heavy artillery, and aircraft, and the defenders resisted to the death, and most of the officers and men of the 67th Army were killed.

In the end, only two platoons were left to break through.

When the remnants of the 67th Army crossed the river, the Japanese pursuers arrived, and the 43-year-old young army commander Wu Keren was martyred, the first lieutenant general to die in the Songhu Anti-Japanese War.

67 Military Northeast Army.

The four eastern provinces were too bitterly suppressed, and the policy of non-resistance was decided by the superiors, not their low-level soldiers.

The soldiers are obedience to orders as their duty, and the retreat without resistance, many people are aggrieved, and the Battle of Songhu will be held, and the Northeast Army will come with 7 divisions, most of which will suffer heavy casualties.

After the Japanese occupied Songjiang, the fangs were revealed.

They divided into two routes, all the way through Zhejiang and Anhui to Jinling.

At the same time, the Japanese 16th Division landed at Baimaokou, Taicang, Jiangsu, and the forward pointed directly at the Beijing-Shanghai railway and highway, forming a convergence with the 6th and 18th Divisions.

After the six divisions of the Japanese army on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek forcibly crossed the Suzhou Creek, they also quickly moved closer to the 10th Army that landed in Hangzhou Bay.

The situation has reached a rather critical moment.

The Chinese army retreating to the south bank of the Suzhou Creek was attacked by the enemy, and if they did not retreat, they would be completely annihilated.

In such a critical situation, Bai Chongxi once again suggested to the bald head that the Chinese army should immediately retreat to the Wufu line, and He Yingqin and others also proposed that the time had come when they could not help but retreat.

Under the persuasion of many people, the bald head realized the importance of preserving the living force, and on the night of the fall of Matsue, he gave the order to retreat.

However, at this moment, he was still very worried that the retreat of the national army in the Battle of Songhu would have a negative impact on the meeting of the 'Nine-Power Convention', but the night he gave the order was already too late.

The perfect time for retreat had passed, and the situation of the battle deteriorated in an instant, and hundreds of thousands of troops were plunged into a very terrible chaos.

Japanese planes constantly took off from aircraft carriers and dropped bombs on roads filled with retreating soldiers, and they allowed enemy planes to bomb and machine gun fire without shelter.

The dilapidated bridges and stations were crowded with retreating routs, and they were similarly heavily bombarded by Japanese fighters and artillery from the rear.

Roads were scarce, the retreating troops on the roads were crowded, and at the same time, the bridges at the port of Hakuzuru were blown up, vehicles were blocked, and order was disordered.

It was a sudden order to retreat, the defenders holding the south bank of the Suzhou Creek were not prepared in the slightest, the retreat was completely unplanned, crowded with soldiers and cars, and the few roads were blocked by Japanese aircraft.

It was not so much a retreat as an unprecedented rout.

The four-wheeled car is eager to grow wings and flee the scene.

The soldier only hated being born on two legs and running slowly, unable to outrun the bombs dropped by the Japanese devil's fighter jets and the bullets that strafed.

The shattered corpses left only a blood-red ground, covered with severed limbs and stumps, and the wounded affected by the explosion were in tatters, and screams of pain resounded through the wilderness.

There was no command, there was no order, the formation of the ranks was completely chaotic, and it was impossible to distinguish which company it was.

A few days after the retreat, it began to rain again.

The dead on the road, the scrapped cars, and the corpses and bones stretched for more than 10 or 20 miles along the few retreating roads, and the hundreds of thousands of people who came down from the battlefield were all scattered.

Not long after the outbreak of the Songhu War, a very serious problem can be discovered, even if it is a faction, subordinate to an army, and the regiments of a division have no cooperation when counterattacking the Japanese army, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of defenders crowded on the south bank of Suzhou Creek, all of them are local troops from all over the world.

The language is incomprehensible, the order is incomprehensible, this retreat can be imagined.

The order to retreat was so sudden that before the various units could coordinate the retreat routes of the various units, the Japanese devils' plane bombs fell overhead.

It is better to say that it is a retreat, than a great rout.

There is an organized retreat, the situation is fine, there are troops behind the palace, layers of blockade, weapons and equipment and all kinds of materials can be sent back one after another.

The unorganized retreat was completely unattended, no one was broken, all of them were fleeing, they were all retreating, most of the heavy weapons were lost, no one pulled the baggage, and all those who could run ran away.

Everywhere on the battlefield, there were corpses, guns, grain and grass.

It's all over the place.

There were not many bombs carried on the planes of the Japanese devils, and Songhu was a great plain, and the forests were piece by piece.

The planes of the Japanese devils threw stones into the forest, and the soldiers in the forest began to run when they saw it, and they had no backbone in themselves, and one swept away ten, ten rolled away a hundred, and a hundred swept away all.

As soon as I saw someone running, the herd mentality appeared, and they all started running, for fear that if they ran slowly, they would be blown up by the Japanese devils.

The Japanese devils used machine guns from the planes to strafe them.

The Japanese army adjusted its tactics, not only pursuing it head-on and killing the troops after the Nationalist army was broken, but also organized several small-scale advance troops from the area west of Qingpu to Nanxiang on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek and to the Kunshan Highway to attack the headquarters of the Chinese army.

The Chinese army originally retreated to the Wufu and Sujia defense fortifications line as planned, relying on the defense fortifications to resist again.

But the chaos, disorganization, and disorder of the retreat had stillborn the original plan.

Nicknamed the 'Chinese Hindenburg Line', these lines were built at great military expense by bald heads, and most of them were made of solid reinforced concrete.

In addition to the chaos and disorder of the Chinese army when retreating, the troops did not have any command and missed the defensive line.

The defensive line itself was also very problematic.

The Japanese were coming from Shanghai, that is, from the east, but many of the concrete pillboxes had firing holes facing north, south, or in any direction.

And the most important point is that when these bunker fortifications are no longer in use, the doors are locked, and most of the keys are managed by the local security chiefs and the local government street organizations.

As a result, as soon as the Battle of Songhu began, the situation of the battle changed slightly, and the people in these villages fled.

Where the keys went, it was not known at all.

When some of the troops who still had command and kept discipline arrived at the rear line of defense, all the lines were locked with keys, and they could not be opened at all, and they could not enter the pillboxes.

Unable to enter the fort, these two lines of fortifications were in vain, and the elite Japanese troops quickly pursued them, and the Chinese troops who had escaped from the danger were crushed.

The bald head later said in the review of the Battle of Songhu that we were not defeated in a war, but when we retreated, we were defeated in retreat.

Of course, what he said was reasonable, but in the final analysis, it was his untimely delivery of the order to retreat.

On the 18th, the 100,000 troops of the Japanese 10th Army had occupied Songjiang Castle and began to encircle the Nationalist army in two ways.

When the Nationalist army began to retreat that night, the large forces of the Japanese army had already approached the Nationalist line.

An order to retreat without warning, without any preparation, a great retreat of hundreds of thousands of people.

In the final analysis, there was still no time to prepare, and the order to retreat was not given in time.

Later, the great man said: "Don't care about the gains and losses of one city or one land. Saving land and losing people, people and land are lost. ”

If the bald head had ordered the troops to retreat to the second position earlier, perhaps the Battle of Songhu would still have a chance.

But the bald man's idea was to take care of the so-called political influence, and when he couldn't hold on, he suddenly ordered a retreat, and the retreat turned into a rout.

But even with such a rout, there are still young soldiers of the national army who go forward.

On November 9, Wu Jiguang, the commander of the 174th Brigade, led the troops to retreat to Baihe Port in Qingpu.

The Japanese troops on the other side of Baihe Harbor, under the cover of aircraft and heavy artillery, launched a fierce attack on the position of the 174th Brigade.

The 174th Brigade fought fiercely with the Japanese army without any reinforcements, and the battle was extremely cruel, and the entire Baihe Port was shrouded in Japanese artillery fire, and the rudimentary bunker fortifications were torn apart by the heavy artillery and aircraft of the Japanese army.

Fought until the 11th, when it was completely surrounded by Japanese troops.

Wu Jiguang led his troops to break through the siege that day, but was hit by Japanese artillery shells and was martyred.

In August, he once recited a poem at the moon viewing party: "Why bury bones in mulberry ground, there are green mountains everywhere in the world." ”

November 12, 1937.

The Japanese occupied the last position in the Shanghai area.

City.

According to the official data of the lunge of the Orientation Research Institute of the Japanese Defense Agency, in this battle, the total strength of the Japanese army reached about 250,000, including a total of 9 divisions and two detachments of the army, as well as the third and fourth fleets of the navy, until November 8, 1937, the Japanese army killed 19,360 people and wounded 79,057 people in the Shanghai battlefield, a total of 98,417 people.

The Chinese army has committed 750,000 troops and suffered about 300,000 casualties, but so far, there is still no accurate figure.

There are too many people missing.

However, many of the divisions that went to the battlefield were dissatisfied with their formations, and their strength was uneven.

The initial attack of the Japanese army was from north to south, after occupying Beiping and Tianjin in turn, taking Shanxi and Wuhan, and then moving south to occupy Guangzhou.

Wuhan was a very important city, a very important hub of the Yangtze River, and once the Japanese occupied Wuhan, they would be able to divide the Chinese resistance from east to west, part in the east, including the Nationalist government, and part in the west.

The Battle of Songhu greatly disrupted the Japanese attack, forcing the Japanese army to move from north to south and from east to west, so that in the later attack, Japan followed China.

China's topography is high in the west and low in the east, and the further west, the more complex the terrain becomes, and it is difficult for the Japanese army's mechanized troops to carry out, especially the Three Gorges moat, which the Japanese army did not break through in the end.

After the Battle of Songhu, the international view of a backward country like China changed very much, and China also received international support.

However, the idea of a bald head was ultimately frustrated.

The international focus was on the mustache, and not long after the rise of the mustache, World War II broke out, and the attention of Western countries was even less on China.

In the face of the menacing Japanese army, international mediation could no longer be counted on.

Whether Jinling is guarded or not has become the most important issue for bald heads at present.

But judging from the hesitation of the bald head, whether Jinling will defend it or not is still a question that needs to be carefully studied and discussed.

Songhu was occupied by the Japanese army, and the Nationalist army fled.

For the people of Jinling, it did not have much impact.

After living in Wang Sangou's house for a few days, Xia Yuan couldn't just eat and not work, his size was not small, and he had to be strong, so he did short-term work in some places in Jinling where he worked hard, and Wang Sangou was not idle, so he found a job to do.

Wang Cui and Wu Youhua have a lot of rooms at home, which provides them with a place to stay.

It saves the cost of accommodation.

During this time, Xia Yuan had a general understanding of Wang Cui and her husband Wu Youhua.

I think it's a comrade from the underground dang, the joint method is not clear for the time being, since he and Wang Sangou moved in, Wang Cui and Wu Youhua basically didn't have much performance, but the two often go out, I don't know if they are connecting outside.

Xia Yuan was careful, although he found out, but he didn't have too much contact with them, and during this time, he lived in Jinling in peace.

The situation in Jinling is better than in other places, after all, it is the capital of a country.

But after coming here, I heard Wang Cui mention that the matter of moving the capital of the country has nothing to do with them ordinary citizens, and the troops will not fight against each other, they will live well, even if the Japanese devils come over, there is no big problem, think about the four eastern provinces, that is, they have fallen, and the people there still live, but they have changed their rulers.

Wu Youhua works outside and knows a lot, and when he eats, he chats with Wang Sangou and Xia Yuan, and he chats for a while when he is free.

will also talk about some national events, such as moving the capital, such as the Japanese devils calling.

Chatting and chatting, Wu Youhua found that Xia Yuan, who was from Yudi, was actually well-informed, and Xia Yuan could answer some of the many questions he raised, and the way of answering was very special and innovative, and secondly, when this person spoke, he would always have one or two unpredictable words popping out of his mouth.

Moreover, he speaks with a very special accent.

It doesn't look like Yudi, but it can be heard clearly.

Every late at night, Wu Youhua and Wang Cui lay on the bed and chatted, first talking about Wang Sangou, Wang Cui's younger brother, chatting and chatting, and then chatting about Xia Yuan.

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