This is Director Dai's 10th day in the Einsatzgruppen.

Two days ago, he sent a report to the Quasi-JS Committee to apply for the reorganization of the "Jiangsu and Zhejiang Action Committee Special Forces" into the "Jiangsu and Zhejiang Action Committee Loyal and Righteous National Salvation Army", and this application was finally responded to today.

As a result, he immediately carried out the reorganization of the Shanghai Einsatzgruppen at the Einsatzgruppen station.

The Songhu Headquarters was thus established.

In order to fulfill his promise to Director Xu, while appointing Zhang Shihao as the commander-in-chief of Songhu, he was removed from the post of head of the special second district - but there was no head of the new snake district, which was regarded as an explanation to Director Xu.

Zheng Yaoxian served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Songhu Command, Xu Baichuan served as the chief of staff, and these two plus Zhang Shihao, who served as the commander-in-chief, were completely nominal, and the real commander was actually Tan Zhongshu, who served as the deputy commander-in-chief.

The Songhu Column of the Songhu Command has two detachments and one action corps: the Beijing-Shanghai (Nanjing, Shanghai) detachment, the Shanghai-Hangzhou detachment (Shanghai, Hangzhou), and the Songhu Action Corps.

In addition, Director Dai also set up a second class for the training of guerrilla cadres under the Songhu Headquarters, which was responsible for the training of guerrilla cadres.

On the day the reorganization was completed, in order to celebrate the establishment of the Songhu Command, the Songhu Command decided to launch a large-scale raid and harassment operation west of the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway Station and Shanghai West Railway Station.

In just three days, a number of strongholds of the Japanese army were pulled out, so that the Japanese army had to retreat near the railway - in order to ensure the smooth operation of the railway, the Japanese army had to transfer reinforcements from Pudong and the city to ensure the smooth operation of the railway.

Just when Tan Zhongshu led his troops to confront the Japanese near the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway, Director Dai took a group of elite troops, left the large army, went south along the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway, and finally crossed the Huangpu River to Pudong.

……

Fujita Agency.

Looking at the battle report, Fujita Yoshimasa had to sigh:

"The resistance elements in the Songhu area have become a big climate!"

Shanghai had obviously fallen into the hands of the Japanese army, but in the area where it left the city, the resistance elements were still rampant, and even dispatched nearly 2,000 people to confront the Japanese army near the railway.

When this force was assembled, as the head of the secret service, Fujita Yoshimasa really felt extremely troubled.

Kiuchi Kagezo said: "Captain, this also shows that Zhang Shihao is desperate to save people in Meihua Lane!" ”

"It's true, our opponent has always been a low-key, high-profile person. The guerrillas on the outskirts of Shanghai had not assembled since the end of the year, and this build-up and confrontation with the Imperial Army west of the railroad must have been forced by him. ”

Fujita Yoshimasa said with a smile: "He knew that once he gathered and revealed his family's background, he would inevitably attract the blow of the imperial army like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, so he has been scattering the guerrillas, and this time he took the initiative to assemble, which proves that he is indeed in a hurry!" ”

Hearing this, Kiuchi Kagesa suggested: "Chief, this is also an opportunity, don't you prevent us from eating both?" ”

The most troublesome thing for the guerrillas is that they are scattered in a vast area, and once they go to encircle and suppress, they will flee, and this unprecedented assembly and confrontation with the Japanese army, Kiuchi Kagesa feels that this is an excellent opportunity!

If we can catch it all, Shanghai will be settled down from then on.

Fujita Yoshimasa looked at the map for a long time, and finally shook his head: "No! ”

"If we have fewer people to dispatch, once we engage head-on, they will definitely flee in pieces, and we will not be able to annihilate them."

"But at present, the war in Xuzhou is at a tense time, and our army has suffered losses in Taierzhuang, so it is difficult to concentrate troops at this time."

But Kiuchi Kagesa felt that this was a rare opportunity:

"Captain, I don't think we need too many troops, one brigade is enough - we can transfer troops from Chenjiaqiao!"

"No way!"

Fujita Yoshimasa scolded sharply: "Chenjiaqiao and the South Railway Station are responsible for the supply and guarantee of arms, and there must not be a single problem!" It is better to let the resistance elements swagger west of the railroad than to mobilize the defenders of Chenjiaqiao! ”

Kiuchi Kagesa hurriedly admitted his mistake, but in his heart he felt that Fujita Yoshimasa was too careful.

In his opinion, it was completely possible to let the marines of the Jiangnan Shipyard go to Chenjiaqiao to guard the munitions, transfer the guard brigade of the Chenjiaqiao arsenal group, and defeat the guerrillas head-on, and then use the railway line defenders to accompany the imperial alliance army to pursue the scattered guerrillas and expand the results of the battle.

But Fujita Yoshimasa disagreed, and he, the head of the special high section, couldn't help it.

……

After clocking in and going to work in Meihua Lane for 13 days, Zhang Anping finally "couldn't stand it".

He started taking time off.

More than half of the staff in the special high school class in Meihua Lane has been transferred, and Hasegawa is no longer squatting here, Zhang Anping, the deputy director, is naturally the highest officer, and he approves it himself when he asks for leave, is there a problem?

Absolutely!

Therefore, he handed over the matter of plum blossoms to Wang Manchun and Mingcheng in a bright way, and he went home to recuperate.

Deputy Director Zhang Anping can rest, but Commander-in-Chief Zhang, who was removed from the post of district head, can't rest, and after returning home, he hurriedly "cheated the corpse" as Zhang Shihao.

He's going to the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway.

Fujita Yoshimasa, who is enough to eat, is the same as Wang Ba, who has eaten the scales, he actually ignores such a good opportunity, and would rather confront the railway line than send troops to encircle and suppress - since this is the case, then he will go and add a fire!

Temporary headquarters of the Songhu Column.

As soon as Zhang Anping came in, several spies from the Qingpu class saluted:

"Hello District Chief!"

"I'm not the mayor now." After Zhang Anping said a sentence of hypocrisy, he naturally sat on the top of the command - Lao Tzu is not the district head, but the Shanghai District and Songhu Headquarters are still my Zhang Shihao!

Who is not convinced?

Tan Zhongshu still had eyes, and after hurrying over, he saw Zhang Anping in the upper position, and immediately saluted respectfully: "Commander-in-chief." ”

"Straight down to business - why haven't you made much progress here?" Zhang Anping asked in a reproachful tone.

According to his requirements, the Songhu Column needed to put great pressure on the railway line, and it was best to stop the railway line.

Tan Zhongshu explained:

"Commander-in-chief, the Japanese army has gathered more than two thousand troops along the railway, and there are more than a thousand puppet troops to assist, and there are their armored trains on the railway, they can gather superior forces in a short time, I am afraid that if I make a rash move, I will be bitten."

As I said before, the Einsatzgruppen seems to have good combat effectiveness, but in a small-scale battle, it can fight the Japanese army with bazookas, but if the scale increases, when it comes to the battle at the company (squadron) battalion (brigade) level, it will only be pressed by the Japanese army.

After all, the heavy firepower of the Einsatzgruppen is a short board, and after consumption, the inventory of the first batch of bazookas has bottomed out.

In the past, it was able to wipe out the Japanese squadron-level troops, and the Einsatzgruppen used the advantage of ambushes to attack more and less, and it was never a frontal hard shock!

Therefore, Tan Zhongshu could only take advantage of the shortcomings of the Japanese army's inconvenience to attack, and kept moving and harassing along the railway line.

But that's not what Zhang Anping wants.

It is necessary to let the Japanese army feel the pain of the skin before the defenders of the Chenjiaqiao arsenal can be transferred out!

In the face of Tan Zhongshu's bitterness, Zhang Anping could only offer a trick:

"I brought 15 MG34 general-purpose machine guns and 50 bazookas, can these things fill the gap?"

Tan Zhongshu was overjoyed: "Yes!" ”

He was ecstatic in his heart, it was a blessing to have such a commander-in-chief!

"I also have information - there is a train full of munitions at the South Railway Station, which will leave at 6 p.m. and take the Beijing-Shanghai Railway to the front line after passing through the West Railway Station."

Zhang Anping asked: "Today, can you break through the Japanese defense line and solve this train?" ”

Tan Zhongshu glanced at the time, calculated it, and said after a long time: "Commander-in-chief, I'm worried that we don't have enough manpower. ”

"Understaffed?" Zhang Anping was stunned, more than 1,700 people, are you worried about the lack of manpower?

Tan Zhongshu explained:

"To solve this train, it is necessary to transfer the protected armored train. To achieve this, we must feint to attack the West Station. ”

"But on the front line of the West Station, the Japanese army has a large group of defenders, and if it wants to make the enemy nervous, it must at least triple the enemy's strength."

"There are a large number of permanent fortifications on the periphery of the Japanese army's west station, and it is difficult to break through in a short period of time.

"So when attacking, you must cover both flanks, and even if nothing happens, you can evacuate safely."

With Tan Zhongshu's explanation, Zhang Anping understood.

It's not that he doesn't understand military affairs, but what he understands is small-scale battles, and he really doesn't understand this kind of thousand-scale battles.

After listening to Tan Zhongshu's explanation, Zhang Anping also felt reasonable.

To put it simply:

Attack on the arms train, at least 400 people, right?

Feint to attack the west station, if there are few troops, it will be an itch, and if there are more troops and there is no cover, it will become an act of sending people to the head.

And Tan Zhongshu had more than 1,700 people at his disposal, and if he hadn't taken advantage of the long maneuver of the railway line, he would not have been able to pose a threat to the defending Japanese army at all.

And if he does not transfer the armored train to support the West Station, then even if he gathers all his forces, he may not be able to gnaw the arms train protected by the armored train in a short time.

If they can't bite it, the defenders of the West Station will come to support along the railway line, and no matter where they ambush, they will return in vain, not to mention, they may be gathered and annihilated!

The Japanese army is in an advantageous position along the railway, and the reason why Tan Zhongshu can only defend is because the railway line is too long - but the advantage of the Japanese army is that it can complete the deployment of troops in a short time with the help of the railway line!

After sorting out these, Zhang Anping also instantly understood Tan Zhongshu's intentions - this guy didn't want to fight, but wanted to find someone to help!

He revealed Tan Zhongshu's purpose:

"You want the CCP's guerrillas to help?"

"The commander-in-chief is wise." Tan Zhongshu didn't hide it either, explaining:

"Over there, we are facing off on the railway line, and we have also mobilized manpower, we are in charge of the north section of the West Station, and they are in charge of the south section of the West Station, if they are called to help, let them take care of our two wings, there will be absolutely no problem in this battle!"

Red Heart Zhang hesitated for a while, and said, "Then ask them for help - in this way, if they are willing to contribute, the task of taking the arms train will be handed over to them, and then they will only be responsible for our single wing!" ”

On the surface, Zhang Anping naturally didn't want to gnaw on the most difficult bones, but in fact, he wanted to send supplies to the guerrillas.

Take down the arms train, how much munitions is this!

Tan Zhongshu said: "Yes! I'm going to go to the guerrillas for a consultation. ”

……

Regarding Tan Zhongshu's door-to-door discussion of cooperation, the guerrillas agreed without much hesitation.

The reason is very simple, the guerrillas covet a train of weapons and equipment!

However, there are still different opinions on the guerrillas side of the cooperation with Zhang Shihao.

Yuan Nong, who had withdrawn from Shanghai into the guerrillas, said:

"Zhang Shihao, this person is extremely vicious! I thought that he was letting go of the mustard because of the anti-Japanese national united front, but who would have thought that he would take advantage of our friendliness to him to plant internal responses in our base areas and sabotage our revolution! ”

"This man is very malicious towards us, what if he has other motives this time? Let's say borrowing the hands of the Japanese against us? ”

Yuan Nong's worries cannot be said to be unreasonable.

But after thinking about it again, the head of the guerrilla side decided to fulfill the agreement - if Zhang Shihao really had bad intentions, they could also withdraw in time and would not be bitten.

After all, Zhang Shihao's people are facing the perfect garrison fortifications of the West Station, and the battle of the West Station is not easy to fight!

After the guerrillas unified their understanding, they immediately began to move to the area around Wangjiajing, and at the same time divided a part of their men to rush to the West Railway Station to prepare to support the Einsatzgruppen (Loyal and Righteous National Salvation Army), leaving only two people on the railway line south of the West Railway Station as suspicious soldiers to bluff.

……

6 p.m., South Railway Station.

A train full of munitions started after a foul sound.

In front and behind this fully loaded munitions train was followed by an eight-car Type 94 armored train.

Normally, such munitions trains were escorted only by one armored train, but in recent days the guerrillas have been active on the railway lines, and the Japanese have had to intensify the escort fire of important trains.

(The firepower configuration of the Type 94 armored train: eight carriages, 10 heavy machine guns, two 105 cannons, and two 88 anti-aircraft guns.) ）

At the same time as the arms train departed, a telegram was also sent to Tan Zhongshu.

At 6:30 a.m., the munitions train passed through the West Railway Station and continued north.

At 6:50, the sky darkened, three signal flares were lifted into the air, and then two kilometers away from the West Railway Station, countless Einsatzgruppen members rushed out and launched an attack on the Japanese fortifications outside the West Railway Station.

The Japanese army, relying on the complete fortifications, did not pay attention to the resistance elements at all, but ten minutes after the exchange of fire, the Japanese army was stunned.

Where did the resistance get so many offensive weapons?

The permanent fortifications they had painstakingly managed were broken through one after another under the blows of mysterious shells with tail flames, and the self-proclaimed iron defense line was lost one after another in just ten minutes, and in less than 20 minutes, the first and second two strongest defense lines were broken through one after another.

The Japanese army was in a hurry, although the West Railway Station did not have as many supplies as the South Station, but it was also an important hub, and if it was taken and destroyed by the resistance, it would not be able to support supplies to the front line for at least ten days and a half.

I thought it was a routine harassment operation, but who would have thought that this was an action under the pressure of the whole army of the resistants!

As a last resort, the Japanese army immediately reduced the strength along the railway line and urgently supported the west station, and at the same time called in the armored trains that could be used to support.

The Japanese commander on the defense was also on fire, and the Chinese army actually dared to hit me? Then I'll devour them all!

Just when the battle at the West Railway Station was heating up, the guerrillas, who had just arrived less than an hour after arriving near the Wangjiajing railway line, finally saw their prey.

"At the head is an armored train, followed by a loaded munitions - comrades, get ready for battle!"

"Bazooka team, get closer!"

"Ready!"

"Fire!"

At the sound of the order, more than a dozen rockets dragged their tails and pounced on the armored train that was moving at an average speed.

The thickness of the main armor of the armored train is 10 mm, and it is more than enough to defend against the bullets of the guerrillas, but this time the guerrillas do not pay attention to martial virtues, and greet them with more than a dozen rockets at the beginning, and the rockets that can break through the armor of the tank, in the face of the 10 mm train armor, are as easy as eating tofu.

The armored train was lying on its stomach at the first time, and the key was that the location where it lay was more than a kilometer away from the munitions train behind it, and the heavy machine guns were useless at this distance.

The on-board anti-aircraft gun and the 105-mm cannon, because they were the key greeting objects, only one remained that could still function, but after only three roars, it was dumbfounded by three rockets.

An armored train that has lost its mobility and artillery is just a pile of scrap metal, and at a distance of more than a kilometer, it cannot support the munitions train at all.

Seeing this, the Japanese commander organized the soldiers to get out of the car to support, but before they came out, they were hit by the bazooka - during the day, the bazooka was easy to be taken care of by the Japanese army, but at night the rocket team changed places after the fight, and the Japanese army did not recruit at all!

The armored train could not be supported, and the escort soldiers of only one detachment on the munitions train could not cope with the all-round attack of more than 300 guerrillas, and were completely annihilated in less than 15 minutes.

Then, the guerrillas were stunned.

A whole train load of ammunition, light and heavy machine guns, rifles, grenadiers and grenades!

What nonsense are you talking about, move!

Empty to the air!

As much as you can move!

Because the West Station attracted the attention of the vast majority of the Japanese troops, the Japanese troops were unable to come at all in the first place, so the guerrillas were given more than an hour of precious time to transfer the equipment and munitions.

Their efficiency was not high at first, after all, it was only about 300 people, but in the next half hour, the mobilized people came with donkey carts, horse-drawn carts, and ox carts, and this efficiency went up at once.

Unfortunately, time is limited, and more than half of the weapons and ammunition cannot be transported.

Seeing that the devil's support was coming, the guerrillas could only endure the pain and blast.

rumble

After a loud bang, countless guns and ammunition turned into expensive garbage in the explosion, and the Japanese commander of the armored train saw this scene and entered the armored train with a saber without saying a word.

West Station.

After more than 40 minutes of fierce fighting, Tan Zhongshu commanded his subordinates to fight to a place 800 meters away from the West Station, and they saw that they could get to the West Station, but their subordinates hurriedly reported:

"Commander Tan, the left flank and the enemy have exchanged fire! There were also gunshots on the right flank! ”

Facing the nearby West Railway Station, Tan Zhongshu ordered:

"Withdraw!"

With this retreat, the various units participating in the war began to evacuate in an orderly manner.

In this battle, the Songhu Column approached the West Railway Station, and the Chinese guerrillas blew up a train full of munitions, which angered the Japanese Shanghai Garrison Command, and the next day mobilized a large number of troops and began to wipe out the Songhu Column and the guerrillas.

Although this decision was fiercely opposed by Yoshimasa Fujita, the secret services had no right to interfere with the decision-making of the garrison headquarters after all, and they could only give up unwillingly.

When he learned that the Japanese army had gathered two brigades of troops to go out of the city to "suppress bandits", Zhang Anping, who was sitting in Meihua Lane, showed a meaningful smile.

The winner is decided!

(There should be two more first-timers.) )

(End of chapter)