4.7 Attack!

The first Battle of Songhu, Huang Haoran made a great contribution! Later, he was unjustly imprisoned because of General Zhang's negligence. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoSo General Zhang has been saying good things about Huang Haoran and his troops in the Ministry of Defense!

General Zhang only complained in his heart for a while about Jiang Baili's stuffing of the 99th Division into the Beijing-Shanghai Garrison Command, and did not formally protest to Nanjing!

But now the performance of the 99th Division is a little out of line! To know

General Zhang is the commander of this Battle of Songhu!

Huang Haoran's freewheeling actions in General Zhang's eyes are treating war as child's play!

General Zhang's good impression of this unit because the 99th Division rushed to Shanghai day and night is now gone!

The 99th Division is already so close to the Japanese army, even if it is too late to give a death order to replace the 88th Division!

The big war is coming, and it is taboo to change the main attacking force! If you don't do it well, it will hurt the morale of the army! Now you can only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, let the 99th Division try it first!

It's also good to consume some of the strength of the Japanese army!

Huang Haoran, Huang Haoran, I hope your 99th Division can perform some seeds! Don't give me a fight!

If you really bring an unfavorable situation to the attack in Shanghai, the highest authorities will not let you go!

Although General Zhang acquiesced to the actions of the 99th Division, Dan did not spare Huang Haoran! General Zhang scolded Division Commander Huang on the phone! And repeatedly emphasized that the Battle of Songhu was the first time in these years that the country launched an active offensive against the Japanese army! When it matters! No one is allowed to wreak havoc in the middle! This time, the 99th Division's self-assertion of inserting the Japanese headquarters in front of the 88th Division was temporarily understood as a misunderstanding caused by poor communication between the various units! If this is the case next time, it will be severely punished!

Huang Haoran put down the phone and pursed his lips, he knew that General Zhang was advocating anti-Japanese resistance, and this lesson was also right for things and not for people, and Huang Haoran was willing to accept the criticism of the patriotic general.

The reason why Huang Haoran rushed to capture some key points in the downtown area of Shanghai in disregard of the deployment of the headquarters as soon as he came up was because he knew that General Zhang had listened to the supreme authorities so much that he had made a series of mistakes in the early days of the Battle of Songhu, and the 9th Division was now making up for these mistakes.

The price to be paid for mistakes on the battlefield is blood!

Huang Haoran didn't want to see the blood of his country's soldiers flowing in vain because of improper command!

On the same day, the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters made the important decision to send troops to Shanghai. The first batch of the Army was composed of the 3rd and 11th Divisions, called the Shanghai Dispatch Army, under the command of General Matsui Ishine.

War is on the verge of breaking out.

On the afternoon of August 12, the joint committee of the Songhu Armistice Agreement broke up due to a stalemate, and at 7 p.m. on the same day, Major General Okawauchi ordered his marines to enter positions and prepare for battle. At the same time, the Japanese Navy, which was in Shanghai, also entered combat readiness. Its deployment is:

(1) Bazi Bridge Garrison Force: The 3rd Brigade of the Special Marine Corps, with 4 150 mm mortars, 2 infantry guns, and 1 light tank, 1 armored vehicle, and 3 heavy machine gun vehicles, defended the front line from Bazi Bridge to Tiantongan (about 1,600 meters in front of the main defense area).

(2) Northern Garrison Force: The 1st Brigade of the Special Marine Corps (owed to the 1st Squadron), with 2 rapid-fire guns, 2 light tanks, 2 armored vehicles, and 3 heavy machine gun vehicles, defended the line from Shajing Port to Bazi Bridge through Zhizhi University and Patriotic Girls' School (about 2,400 meters from the front of the main defense area).

(3) Eastern Garrison Force: The 5th Special Marine Brigade (formerly the 1st Special Marine Brigade of Sasebo Town Guard), with 4 mountain guns, 1 light tank, 2 armored vehicles, and 3 heavy machine gun vehicles, defended the Gongda Yarn Factory and Hujiang University to the line from Huzhai to Tianbao Road.

(4) Western Garrison Force: The 1st Squadron of the 1st Brigade of the Special Marine Corps, defending the Toyota Yarn Mill.

(5) Central Garrison Force: The 6th Special Marine Brigade (formerly the 2nd Special Marine Brigade of Wugang Town Guard) and the 2nd Special Marine Brigade are attached to 4 150-mm mortars, 2 rapid-fire guns, and 2 infantry guns to defend the inland naval attaché office and other important strongholds in the Japanese defense area, and are ready to support the front-line troops at any time.

(6) Hongkou Garrison: 3rd Marine Corps (Izumo Cruiser Marine Corps), mainly defending Japanese clubs; The Hankou Special Marine Squadron (withdrawn from Hankow) with 4 mountain guns was attached to defend the girls' middle school and the area around Ouyang Road.

(7) Barracks Area Garrison: The Special Marine Corps Command Brigade defends the Marine Barracks and its vicinity.

(8) Reserves: the 4th Special Marine Brigade (Artillery) and the 1st Marine Regiment (11th Fleet Ship Marine Corps), which are controlled and placed in the Navy Command; The 4th Brigade (4 150-mm howitzers of the 7th Squadron, 4 120-mm howitzers of the 8th Squadron, 4 mountain guns of the 9th Squadron, and 4 anti-aircraft guns of the Anti-aircraft Artillery Squadron) occupied positions in Shin Park (Japanese Volunteer Range Range), the 1st Naval Land, and the Marine Corps Barracks, and completed the preparation for firing at the predetermined targets.

In the early morning of 13 August, he sent troops to Yuedong Middle School, the Patriotic Girls' School, Zhizhi University, Wuzhou Cemetery, and Hujiang University, in an attempt to obtain these defensive base points and form a more complete defensive circle.

Shigeru Ito's 3rd Brigade was the defensive force of the Northern Garrison Force, and the seizure of Yuedong Middle School, Patriotic Girls' School, Zhizhi University, Wuzhou Cemetery, and Hujiang University was carried out by Ito Shigeru and his subordinates, the 3rd Marine Brigade.

A Japanese Marine Brigade was supposed to have about 650 troops, but now Major General Okawauchi has to defend a very large area, so part of the troops were withdrawn from Ito Shigeru's brigade, and now Ito Shigeru has less than 500 soldiers under his command.

Several targets of Zhizhi University and Aiguo Girls' School are located within the defensive range of the northern garrison force, and there is still a certain distance from the Chinese army that appeared in downtown Shanghai, Ito Shigeru felt that Zhizhi University and Aiguo Girls' School were the best choice to strike first, so he took one less squad Sakamoto Squadron and 100 soldiers in the township to go straight to Chishi University, while the other team led 200 soldiers in the township under the leadership of Captain Shiraki to go straight to the Patriotic Girls' School.

The devil's plan coincides with Master Huang!

Now the 99th Division is competing with the Japanese army for speed

The vanguard of the 99th Division encountered the resistance of the Japanese Bazi Bridge garrison at the Bazi Bridge, and the 301st Battalion of the 531st Regiment of the 2nd Brigade was the first to exchange fire with the Japanese army!

The Japanese machine-gun fire was fierce! The Type 92 infantry cannon and the grenadier are just right, if you blindly attack, the 2nd Battalion will lose a lot of time, and it will also consume a lot of time here at the Bazi Bridge.

Chen Shanhe, the commander of the 2nd Battalion, is now lacking time, if he can't quickly pass through this line of defense of the Japanese army, then several targets of Zhizhi University and Patriotic Girls' School will become huge fortifications under the management of the Japanese army, and then more Chinese soldiers' lives will need to be exchanged!

So not a second can be delayed!

Chen Shanhe ordered the officers and men to lie down on the spot, use the sapper shovel they carried with him to dig a simple bunker, and then asked his correspondent to call the commander of the mortar company of the 531st Regiment who was moving with the 2nd Battalion to the Baziqiao battle line.

Company Commander Sun is crawling forward quickly on the battle line, Chen Shanhe's battalion headquarters is too close to the line of fire, if you don't lower your body, a stray bullet that comes out of nowhere can take your life at any time.

Battalion Commander Chen carefully searched for the weak point of the Japanese defense line with a telescope in the improvised bunker, and Company Commander Sun turned in one by one, his head and face covered with mud, like a mud monkey.

Chen Shanhe didn't wait for Company Commander Sun to come to his senses, pulled Company Commander Sun down to the edge of the bunker, and then pointed at the Japanese soldiers who were shooting wildly on the opposite side, and asked:

"Old Sun, how should we fight the devil's desperate posture?"

Commander Sun glanced at it a few times while panting and said, "I think it's still the same!" First call in the artillery support of the division headquarters, and then I organize mortars to give you machine guns and grenadiers to shoot devils, and you let your soldiers prepare to attack! Isn't it just a bad line of defense? Our 99th Division smashed it and smashed it! ”

Battalion Commander Chen glanced at Company Commander Sun and said, "Sun Monkey! What do I want you to do if you play like that? In two hours at most, my 2nd battalion will definitely be able to send all the devils on the other side back to their hometown in the East! But, old man! We are going to seize the patriotic girls' school, and if we delay here, we will have to let the devils take the lead! Relying on Shanghai's secret agents can't stop the devil's regular army! Two hours! The daylilies are cold! ”

"Then what do you say! Let's just say it! "Company Commander Sun's words are very simple!

"Otherwise, Lao Sun, let's try the last simulated confrontation against the blind man of the 4th Battalion? Maybe it can be done! ”

Company Commander Sun remembered the embarrassment of the 4th battalion commander who lost the confrontation last time, grinned, and he agreed with Chen Shanhe's idea.

The Japanese troops on the defensive line saw that the Chinese army had not launched an attack for a long time, so they stopped shooting, in this situation of being besieged by the Chinese army, the bullets still had to be spared, and the Japanese have always had a tradition of frugality, did they not see Japanese men not even wear a pair of pants, so they took a rag and wrapped it there?

The Chinese army must have been suppressed by the fierce firepower of the imperial army, and the officers and men of the 3rd Brigade thought so......

The silence lasted for about five minutes, and the large number of large-caliber shells that fell from the sky like hail made them understand what the Chinese army on the opposite side was waiting for!

The first salvo of the mountain artillery battalion of the artillery regiment of the 99th Division turned the Japanese position into a sea of fire, and the mud and corpses raised by the explosion were scattered everywhere, and the current commander of the 3rd Brigade, Captain Kagawa, immediately judged from the density of the artillery fire that there was at least one battalion of Chinese artillery participating in this shooting!

A battalion of large-caliber mountain artillery means that they have at least a fully loaded Chinese division in front of them!

Such a fierce artillery fire must be followed by an even more fierce infantry attack!

All the Japanese soldiers hid in the trenches, lying on the ground and desperately pressing bullets into their guns, and at this time, they couldn't remember any virtues such as frugality!

The artillery of the Chinese army began to extend, and the Japanese soldiers who had just evaded the artillery fire immediately crawled out of their hiding place and began to shoot wildly, and when the smoke cleared and their sight recovered, they suddenly found that the front of the position was not the large number of Chinese soldiers who had fallen to the ground as they imagined, but it was empty.

A Japanese second lieutenant poked his head out to see what was going on, and suddenly he fell backwards violently, a hole in his eyebrow was punched, a bullet flew out of the back of his head, and white brains flowed to the ground.

At the same time, the same fate befell the Japanese army, which had six or seven emerging!

Snipers of the Chinese troops!

The Japanese officers and soldiers of the 3rd Brigade collectively shrank down by half a foot, and the Yamato man, who was not tall, now stood in the trench with his legs bent and looked even more obscene......

Just dodging the cold guns of the Chinese army snipers, the mortars of the Chinese army spoke again, and the shells accurately landed on the machine gun fire point exposed in the Japanese shooting just now, and the position of the Type 92 heavy machine gun and the crooked handle was beaten to dust, and the machine gunners were killed and wounded in large numbers.

The junior officers of the Japanese army shouted for the soldiers to take over the dead machine gunners, and a few devils just rushed up and were turned into corpses by cold guns and cold guns, and the former mighty machine guns have now become hot potatoes, and no one wants to get close.

The mortars of the Chinese army rang out several rounds, but suddenly there was no movement, and the last round of shells that fell on the position did not explode, but emitted a large amount of yellow gas, which soon filled a section of the Japanese defense line.

Gas!

I didn't expect that the Chinese actually used this internationally banned weapon in advance of the Imperial Japanese Army!

Isn't meanness an adjective reserved for the imperial army?

The pungent yellow gas made the devils on the battlefield suddenly mess up!

Originally, the Japanese troops wore gas masks, but because they did not expect that the Chinese army would use poison gas in front of so many Western journalists in Shanghai, the soldiers regarded the gas masks as a burden and discarded them in the warehouse.

The devils hurriedly rushed to the warehouse to look for gas masks, and the ghost soldiers took off their crotch cloths and wet them with water or urine and covered their mouths, and they didn't know whether the poisonous gas was effective or smoked by the smell of their own urine, and many devils began to cough violently!

This only aggravated the fear of the Japanese soldiers who did not get gas masks!

The entire defense line was in disarray, and the machine gunners did not care about the accurate mortars of the Chinese army, and fired wildly at the front of the defense line, they were afraid that the Chinese army would take advantage of the chaos to sneak attack!

In the smoke screen, the shouts of the Chinese army suddenly sounded, and the artillery, which had been silent for a long time, also spoke again, and the Japanese defense line suddenly crumbled!

After about fifteen minutes, the yellow smoke screen gradually dissipated, and the devil wearing the gas mask realized that the flank of the position had been broken through by the Chinese army, and the Chinese soldiers with Thomson submachine guns were shooting along the Japanese trenches on both sides!

The densely flying bullets harvested the lives of the Japanese soldiers like harvesting leeks, and the resistance of the 38 Dagai looked so pale!

Seeing that all the trenches were about to be occupied by the Chinese army, Captain Hagawa hurriedly asked the remnants of his Japanese troops to ignite the ZHA medicine and blow up a section of the trench, which barely formed two defensive positions and blocked the onslaught of the Chinese army with machine guns.

Only then did the Japanese soldiers who escaped death realize that the poisonous gas just now was a little strange, and although the smell was pungent, no officers and soldiers had died of poison until now!

Could it be the emperor's blessing?

Captain Ha Chuan took off his gas mask and took a few breaths of air hard, and he concluded that these yellow gases were not poisonous gases!

It's just some smokescreen!

It was the fierce artillery fire and accurate marksmanship of the Chinese army that left too deep a shadow on the Japanese army, so when they saw the smoking shells, they took it for granted that the Chinese army carried out a poison gas attack in disregard of the Geneva Convention!

At this moment, in the place where the Japanese defense line was breached, a large number of Chinese troops poured into the rear of the Japanese defense line like a tide, what kind of crisis would Ito Shigeru Shaosa on the side of Chishi University, Captain Kawakawa no longer dared to think!

Hurry up and fight back!

Captain Hagawa organized the Japanese troops who came back to their senses and began to try to recapture the broken position, and more than 200 devils climbed out of the trench they had just blown up with bayonets and began to counterattack!

Chen Shanhe had long expected that the devil would react and give him such a hand, so he organized machine gun crossfire early to block the road of the devil's counterattack!

The screaming Maxine greeted the devils who rushed up with a dense rain of bullets, and the Japanese soldiers who were shot trembled like a sieve!

Coupled with the firepower network composed of Czechs and Thomson, the counterattack organized by Captain River is more like suicide!

The 2nd Battalion relied on the fortifications built by the 3rd Brigade to kill and injure the devils who rushed up!

The Japanese soldiers who fell in front of the fortifications they built did not know what it was like to die before they died.

Maybe it's "tangled"!

The 3rd Brigade of the Special Marine Corps defending the line from Bazi Bridge to Tiantongan was originally insufficient, and it was thankful that it could hold the front line of about 1,600 meters in front of their main defensive area, but now it was divided into two sections by the 2nd Battalion, and Captain Hechuan commanded his Japanese troops to retreat into the fortifications of the two defensive lines after this unsuccessful counterattack, replenish ammunition, and wait for the final attack of the Chinese army!

Chen Shanhe's 2nd Battalion did not come to break through this Japanese defense line, Battalion Commander Chen asked Company Commander Sun's artillery to continue the bombardment, and then informed his troops not to fall in love with the battle, and directly broke through the breakthrough of the Japanese defense line, and went straight to the Patriotic Girls' School and Yuedong Middle School, and the 1st and 3rd Battalions followed the 2nd Battalion to quickly pass through the Japanese defense line, and went straight to the Wuzhou Cemetery and Hujiang University.

Chen Shanhe left the Japanese Bazi Bridge garrison to the 4th Battalion that came up behind, and the 2nd Battalion still had the orders of the division commander to carry out.

The commander of the 4th Battalion, Zhou Blind, did not rush to let the troops attack the remnants of the Japanese army, but let the special shooters of each company clear the active targets on the Japanese position, and each company of the 99th Division was equipped with special marksmen who used M1924 rifles equipped with scopes, and these special marksmen were fed by Commander Huang with a lot of bullets, and the 3rd Brigade of the Japanese Special Marine Corps tasted all the hardships in front of these special marksmen today.

Anyone who accidentally exposed any part of his body would attract bullets from the top marksmen of the Chinese army, and in less than ten minutes, more than 20 Japanese soldiers were killed.

Sun Monkey's mortar company set up 8 82mm mortars and continued to bombard, blowing up the Japanese fortifications in a mess!

The 3rd Brigade was overwhelmed by the accurate fire and heavy artillery fire of the 4th Battalion, and did not even have time to organize fire on other Chinese troops who were quickly passing by the side of the defensive line!

With a large number of troops of the 99th Division entering the rear of the Bazi Bridge and the Japanese northern garrison, the 3rd Brigade is now actually surrounded by the 99th Division!

Captain Kawakawa and his men had only a handful of time left......

Although the 531st Regiment passed through the Japanese defense line quickly, after all, it was delayed for some time, and Ito Shigeru and his Sakamoto squadron entered Chishi University one step ahead of schedule!

Shigeru Ito hurriedly ordered Captain Sakamoto to lead the soldiers into the house, hoping to rely on the large number of houses in the university to defend against the attack of the Chinese army.

What Ito Shigeru didn't expect was that there were already people in these teaching buildings and dormitories!

Ambushed inside were members of the Shanghai Youth Gang led by Guan Yongbo, who knew the tactical position of Zhizhi University in the eyes of the Japanese army, so they infiltrated the campus of Zhizhi University several days in advance.

The weapons of the Green Gang are not as small as those of the regular army, especially the number of spears, but in order to support Guan Yongbo's assassination in Shanghai, the 99th Division secretly transported a batch of MP-18 "flower machine guns" and some grenades to Guan Yongbo, and now, these weapons have come in handy!

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