4.78 Plans and Changes (2)

The Japanese went mad and concentrated all their planes and artillery to destroy the Chinese fortifications in the Wusong area. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The fortifications were in ruins, and the 15th Army, which was not concealed and exposed in the open air, suffered heavy casualties.

The Security Corps had been beaten to semi-cripples on the first day of the landing of the 3rd Division, and the condition of the Shanghai Police Corps was even worse than that of the Security Corps, if it were not for the reinforcements of the 18th Army and the 56th Division arranged by Huang Haoran in advance in the Wusong area, the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army would have reached Luodian long ago.

The defense line of the 56th Division also showed signs of wavering in the evening, and Luo Zhuoying ordered to organize a demolition team, under the cover of machine gun fire, to destroy the highway bridge from the fort to Yunzaobang with ZHA medicine, which stopped the advance of the Japanese army.

Before the Japanese army landed from the mouth of the Liuhe River to Chuansha, Shizilin, Wusong, and Zhang Huabang, General Zhang and Vice Chief Chen could not be sure whether the real attempt of the Japanese army was to seize Luodian and Jiading from the northern front, cut off the communication between the 15th Group Army on the front line and the rear, and then annihilate them. Or attack Wusong and reinforce the remnants of the Marine Corps at Huishan Wharf?

Now, with the development of the war and the captured Japanese battle map, Matsui Ishone's target is Luodian and Baoshan.

The Japanese offensive was becoming more and more ferocious, and the Ministry of National Defense's "counterattack plan" had long since ceased to be possible.

The telegram was sent to the Ministry of Defense in Nanjing, and the highest authorities were furious when they saw it, and he slapped the table and said:

"I didn't expect General Zhang to be a person who didn't dare to take responsibility, this kind of retreat order was going to be issued through my mouth, what is he, the commander, doing? Just cherish your reputation so much? Mo San is also confused! actually accompanied General Zhang to mess around! What does it look like! ”

Jiang Baili was one of the few people who dared to speak at this time, and seeing that the generals in the room were all shrunk like ostriches, Jiang Baili had to open his mouth to explain his doubts to the highest authorities:

"Take a seat! General Zhang said the truth is also true, the Japanese army this time to reinforce Shanghai has a large number of troops, and they are all the elite of the Japanese army, General Zhang and Ci Xiu can command Ruoding, blocking the Japanese offensive in the past few days and building a defensive line is already very rare, Pudong's 56th Division and 99th Army are long-fought armies, has long been overwhelmed, if you persist any longer, it will inevitably be defeated by the Japanese army, since the start of the Songhu war, our army has always been in the upper hand, if you lose this army and division at once, it will inevitably dampen the spirit, The attitude of Britain, the United States, France and other countries in the concession that has changed with great difficulty will also be affected, and the gains outweigh the losses! It is better to withdraw the troops in Pudong to the front line of Luodian Baoshan as soon as possible, and then kill and injure a large number of Japanese troops with the help of fortifications, which can also create a situation in which our army has continued to achieve results in international public opinion......"

After listening to Jiang Baili's words, the highest authorities thought about it again and again, and finally decided to accept Jiang Baili's words.

Jiang Baili's last sentence that "the attitude of Britain, the United States, France, and other countries has begun to change" made the top authorities feel that the mediation they were looking forward to seemed to be getting closer and closer.

The order to let the 15th Group Army launch a counterattack was originally an impulsive decision, but now that General Zhang has become a villain, Jiang Baili has arranged steps for the highest authorities, and the highest authorities have just stepped down.

However, in the end, the highest authorities scolded General Zhang in front of the senior officials of the army, showing his prestige!

That night, the highest authority issued a warrant:

"The enemy in Zhanghuabang has not been able to repel so far, and the defeated enemy must land there with a division and regiment, and most of the enemy will land in the vicinity of tomorrow and tomorrow to attack our army. Therefore, the troops of the 61st Division and the 6th Division at Wusong in Dachang should build strongholds and fortifications on the one hand, and on the other hand, quickly and effectively contact our Zhang Huabang attack troops, flanking the north and south, and encircling them heavily. ”

Vice Minister Chen, who received the order, was relieved, and Chen Cixiu himself wanted to write to the highest authorities in the hope that he could withdraw the order for this counterattack, but he was unable to take this step after all.

However, General Zhang, a loyal person, stood up for the 15th Group Army, and Vice Chief Chen and several of his henchmen said: "General Zhang is really a public person, and it is our 15th Group Army's luck to have such colleagues!" ”

In order to stabilize Wusong's defensive line, the 61st Division was quickly transferred to the front line for reinforcements, and at the same time, the 99th Army also took out the 12th Brigade of Xie Wendong behind the palace, and successfully got rid of the entanglement of the 11th Division.

Lieutenant General Yamamuro Sotake, commander of the 11th Division, saw that the 99th Army took the initiative to abandon its position, and immediately reported to General Matsui Ishine, and after several days of fierce fighting, the 11th Division finally grabbed a piece of land from the hands of the 99th Army, although the 99th Army gave up on its own initiative.

When the 301st Brigade was responding to the 12th Brigade, Shen Lao Er was upset, he insisted that his two regiments were pierced through the waist of the vanguard of the Japanese army, Huang Haoran ordered Shi Jincai's artillery to cooperate fully in order to reduce the losses of the troops, and the Japanese army who was about to conquer the position of the 12th Brigade was caught off guard by the 301st Brigade, and the brigade headquarters of Major General Shinjiro Amaya, the commander of the 10th Brigade, was also attacked because it was too close to the line of fire.

Although Major General Shinjiro Amaya escaped, this attack caused the 10th Brigade to lose its unified command in a short period of time, and it did not launch a counterattack on Shen Yuanlong's 301st Brigade, and as a result, Shen Lao Er and Xie Wendong swaggered and disappeared from the Japanese army's field of vision.

The commander of the Yamamuro Somurai Division, who originally thought that the 99th Army had lost its combat effectiveness, saw that he had made a mistake in judgment, and for the sake of safety, he asked the vanguard of the 11th Division to stop advancing and began to step up the transportation of follow-up troops ashore.

So the 99th Army was given more than a day of rest.

During this period, only the naval guns of the Japanese Air Force and Navy came to harass them from time to time, and the rest of the time it was simply calm.

After the temporary 12th Brigade was rebuilt, the number of officers and men who returned to the second line of defense was only more than 1,200, and the number of casualties, wounded, escaped, and captured exceeded 60 percent of the number of the temporary 12th Brigade before the start of the war.

Fortunately, the remaining officers and soldiers who survived the blood and fire already had the appearance of soldiers, and their combat effectiveness had risen by more than one level.

The 12th Brigade has finally become a usable army!

Xie Wendong became the new commander of the 12th Brigade, and Zhu Huaihang was hit by a stray bullet during the battle and hung up......

As for where this stray bullet came from, Commander Huang didn't want to ask, and he didn't bother to ask.

What the 12th Brigade lacks most now is grassroots officers and weapons and equipment.

The original structure has long been disrupted, and there have been considerable losses of weapons.

Huang Haoran transferred more than 50 grassroots officers and a battalion of recruits to Xie Wendong.

This new barracks was an unexpected dividend brought to the 99th Army by the stillborn "counterattack plan".

Vice Chief Chen promised the three recruit battalions to honor two of them before the order was cancelled, and later due to the change of circumstances, the third recruit battalion and the armored vehicles of that company were gone, and Huang Haoran was heartbroken for the first mechanized unit that flew away from his mouth.

The other recruit battalion was divided into two by Huang Haoran, Wang Shankui and Shen Laoer's two brigades were one and a half, and the 301st and 302nd brigades were finally replenished for the first time since the start of the Songhu war.

The temporary 12th Brigade, which had increased 600 recruits, has somewhat recovered some of its vitality, and Xie Wendong's troops were deployed by Huang Haoran in the rear of Baoshan County, where Wang Huanzhi had already transported a batch of military supplies, and the temporary 12th Brigade was about to start redressing.

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