Chapter 80: The Soap Bubble of Peace
4.80 Peaceful soap bubbles
Huang Haoran lowered his head and carefully looked at the telegraphic paper in his hand, but it really had a relatively large military value
"In order to strengthen the army's firepower, the General Staff Headquarters ordered the 2nd and 3rd Independent Heavy Artillery Brigades and the Independent Siege Heavy Artillery Brigade to be dispatched to the "Shanghai Dispatch Army" ......
Good guy, as soon as you shoot, there are hundreds of heavy artillery, it seems that the little devil has increased his weight in Songhu, and there are more and more cards in the hand of Matsui Shigen, the old devil, and it is getting better and better, and the elite soldiers of the 99th Army are indeed playing one less one. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
It is indeed a worrying thing to trade-off.
"Is there any need to quarrel with such a piece of information? I don't see it, so which of you will explain it to me? Sasaki, you say! ”
Sasaki realized that he had been given the opportunity to perform in front of his immediate boss, and he was a little excited.
Sasaki understands very well that as long as he hugs Huang Haoran's thigh in the 99th Army, then his special high science can really sit back and relax.
Sasaki cleared his throat and answered Huang Haoran's question in what he thought was the most appropriate tone:
"Commander, this information seems simple, that is, the artillery strength of the Japanese army is about to be greatly strengthened, but we can't look at this telegram independently, fifteen minutes after the appearance of this telegram, another telegram with related content appeared, and the telegram mentioned a place, Yuepu! Based on the subordinates' understanding of the Japanese invaders, such an important telegram would not have been sent to the command organs below the brigade headquarters, that is to say, there should be a Japanese brigade headquarters operating near Yuepu, which is not far from Baoshan......"
When he heard Sasaki keep calling his own compatriots "Japanese traitors", Huang Haoran burst into a smile from the bottom of his heart, but he was unwilling to show his emotions in front of the "Japanese traitor", and his face was still unfazed.
There is some truth in Sasaki's analysis, Japan is a resource-poor country, they attach great importance to heavy equipment, and such a large-scale artillery reinforcement plan is indeed impossible for the middle and lower officers of the Japanese army to understand.
However, the chief of the confidential section insisted that the Japanese 11th Division had been fighting fiercely with the 99th Army for many days, and had just made some progress, which could be regarded as suffering in front of the 99th Army.
It was precisely because the 11th Division was jealous of the 99th Army that it was impossible for such an important military organ as the brigade headquarters to run to such a place as Yuepu, which was very close to the defense line of the 15th Group Army.
Moreover, Yuepu is not an empty city, where is a regiment of the 98th Division responsible for defense, and the General Assembly has not yet notified the news of the fall of Yuepu.
Today, there are several strong forces of the Chinese army, such as the 99th Army, the 98th Division and the 18th Army, stationed in the area of Baoshan and Luodian.
It can be said that the position of Yuepu is already the inner line of our army's defensive circle, whether it is the troops of the 15th Army or the 19th Army, they can launch an attack on Yuepu in a very short time, if there is really a Japanese brigade headquarters active there, then the courage of this Japanese brigade commander is too big, right?
Sasaki insisted on his judgment, while the head of the confidential section emphasized the factor of the actual situation, and as a result, the quarrel between the two began to escalate.
But now they don't have to continue arguing, because the person who can make the decision is standing in front of them.
After Huang Haoran confirmed by phone that the regiment of the 98th Division still existed, he ordered a reconnaissance platoon to be sent in the direction of Yuepu.
Regardless of whether it is a trick of the devil or not, it is also necessary to let the troops search that area.
Yuepu and Luodian and Baoshan County form a triangle, and such an important defensive fulcrum will definitely be attacked by the Japanese army, and the 99th Army will not participate in the battle there.
It's also good to familiarize yourself with the environment in advance!
The troops of the 99th Army stationed in Baoshan were relatively close to Yuepu, and there was a temporary 12th Brigade and a section of Wang Shankui's 302nd Brigade.
Of course, such an important task could not be handed over to the 12th Brigade, so the task of sending a reconnaissance unit fell to Wang Shankui's 302 Brigade.
The first suitable candidate that Brigade Commander Wang thought of was Zhang Hao and Battalion Commander Zhang, but he immediately remembered that Zhang Hao had been abducted to the 301st Brigade by Shen Laoer, Wang Shankui could only pat his thigh and choose another general.
Since it was an important task assigned by the military seat, Wang Shankui drew a platoon from his guard camp and rushed to Yuepu with a radio station.
In downtown Shanghai, General Zhang's siege of Huishan Wharf finally made progress, and the 19th Group Army once occupied the east and west of Yihe Road and Daban Wharf, but was finally recaptured by the Japanese army.
The remnants of the Japanese army at the Huishan Wharf were about to follow in the footsteps of Okawa Nei Denqi, but at this juncture, the Americans, who had not even moved to sink their own warship by the Japanese, suddenly became active.
U.S. Secretary of State Hull called for a truce between China and Japan.
When the highest authorities got the news, they immediately became excited, and he immediately set off for Shanghai, intending to put his political skills to good use.
The Japanese replied to the appeal of US Secretary of State Hull: All 105 planes on the aircraft carrier outside Wusongkou took off!
The 12th Brigade flew to Nanjing, Hangzhou and other places to bomb, while the 11th Brigade dropped bombs on the outskirts of Shanghai.
The 3rd Division on the shore also launched a new offensive, and Vice Chief Chen, who learned that the supreme authorities were about to arrive in Shanghai, threw his starting unit, the 11th Division, into the Wusong battlefield, and the 11th Division fought fiercely for more than five hours to repel the enemy at the Lion Forest.
The 36th and 87th Divisions of the 19th Group Army in Puxi also transferred four regiments to surround the enemy at Zhang Huabang, and our troops in Yangshupu withdrew in batches and held along the concession intersection, and the remnants of the marines at Huishan Wharf were once again able to continue their lives.
The commander of the Japanese Navy's 3rd Fleet, Hasegawa, announced the blockade of China's coastal ports, from Shanhaiguan to Shantou.
More than half of China's coastline was cut into it at once, not to mention military supplies, and even the ships transporting refugees from Shanghai were forced to anchor in the sea outside Wusongkou and were isolated by Japanese warships.
The next day, the highest authorities personally inspected the front line in Shanghai.
The arrival of the highest authorities boosted the morale of the officers and men of the Chinese army, and the 87th Division launched a fierce attack on the enemy at Zhanghuabang, but the Japanese could not resist and were forced to retreat to the vicinity of Zhanghuabang Station, and set fire to the Zhanghuabang pier while retreating.
While there has been a military uptick, the international community seems to have been reminded of the war in China overnight.
The US Government reaffirmed that it would not give up its interests in the Far East, and the British Council of Prime Ministers, Foreign Ministers, and Privy Councillors decided to safeguard their interests in China and welcomed the US President's call for an armistice.
The whirlwind of mediation suddenly arrived in Shanghai, a city that had been struggling with the war for half a month.
The supreme authorities happily said to his "courageous" Chen Bui: "The international situation has been reversed, Britain, the United States and France have all expressed sympathy for our country's war of resistance, and the Japanese Government will inevitably stop the war under tremendous international pressure, and the negotiations will soon become the next war ...... between us and Japan."
The good mood of the highest authorities could not even be maintained until night, and the Japanese troops landed at various wharves in Yangshupu District one after another, and transported large quantities of ordnance and baggage; That night, we counterattacked our northern position.
The gunfire in the Pudong area rang out intensively again.
The soap bubble of peace, burst! ......
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