4.48 Pre-War Conference (II)

"If we just want to block the devils, the way of play is very simple, as long as we can hold Baoshan, Luodian, and Liuhe for a while, I think the commander of the theater and Nanjing will not fail to understand the value of these defense base points, that is to say, we just need to hold on until the next batch of reinforcements arrive, but before the reinforcements come, we can only fight with the Japanese army for an inch of land, and the losses of the troops will be very large!"

Fan Jie's words are basically the actual situation, and Huang Haoran also knows this, and he also knows that the Chinese army has adopted such a defensive posture after the failure to resist the Japanese army on the beachhead in history, of course, everyone knows the final outcome, so he is more concerned about the way of playing with a vote and leaving. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Fan Jie saw that Huang Haoran listened to his first style of play and did not make a sound, and knew that the military seat was obviously not interested in the first way of playing for being dull, so he began to introduce his second set of plans.

"The strength of the Japanese army in this landing is two divisions, which seems to be unstoppable, but the Japanese troops of these two divisions cannot be put ashore at once, that is, it will take several days for the Japanese army to transport the two divisions ashore without a little interference, which can be judged from the time it takes for the devils to form and board the ship from the mainland, and it is almost certain that the first Japanese troops to go ashore will not carry too much heavy equipment, and these Japanese advance troops are the best targets for us to start.......”

Wang Shankui couldn't help but ask, "Even if these Japanese troops can't carry heavy weapons, but there are dozens of Japanese warships parked on the sea, as long as the Japanese troops stay within the range of the Japanese ships' artillery fire, we will not have to face huge casualties, and the follow-up troops of the Japanese army that continue to reinforce behind will crush our attack, and at that time, I am afraid that we will be chased away by the devils......"

"That's right, this is indeed the most unfavorable situation we may face, so the key to our army's operation is to divide the landing of the Japanese army into several sections, and it must also be able to attract the vanguard of the devils, and the premise of all this is to give the devils a worthy goal, this goal must be tempting enough, and it must seem to be able to eat, so that the little devils who go ashore first will have the motivation to take risks, and we can create fighters!"

Fan Jie's words were finished, and now all the people began to fall silent, only Feng. Rich's German translator translated Fan Jie's words into German and spoke to von. Richie listened.

"Need a bait?......"

Huang Haoran's mind was spinning rapidly, Fan Jie's plan sounded like that, but there were many key connections needed in the middle, if there was one link that could not keep up, then the whole plan would come to naught, and the 99th Army would have to return to the road of passive resistance, which was also the last thing Huang Haoran wanted to see.

A decoy that interests the Japanese army, a suitable position for attack, these two points have become the most important key to be solved at present, from the distance to the coast, Luodian is the farthest, Baoshan is the closest, and Liuhe is not far away, but even Luodian, which is the farthest from the sea, is only less than 30 kilometers away, which is also within the range of Japanese naval artillery fire.

"It is not easy to counteract the superiority of the Japanese army's artillery fire, and we are afraid that we will not be able to take out the bait that the Japanese want, the theater and Nanjing are staring at every move on the battlefield, as long as we dare to lose an inch of land, I am afraid that the sword of the highest authority will be waved immediately......"

Wang Huanzhi obviously has no interest in Fan Jie's "painting cake" plan, which can only be seen but not eaten, and his words have already revealed his disapproval.

"Bait, it doesn't have to be dead...... Huang Haoran said slowly:

The people in the room were shocked, and they all looked at their military seats.......

That night, the military headquarters of the 99th Army issued three orders:

The telegram ordered the 12th Brigade to march towards downtown Shanghai, cross the Huangpu River, and move closer to the 99th Division in Pudong.

The telegram ordered all the 121st Divisions in Jiangxi to be drawn and destined for the Changshu National Defense Line.

The telegram ordered the 301st Brigade of the 99th Division to go to the front line of the Liuhe River to build fortifications, the 537th Regiment of the 302nd Brigade to Chuansha Town, and the 535th and 536th Regiments had other tasks.

The 20,000 troops of the 99th Division were transferred from Puxi to defend Pudong in the starry night, and their movements were fast and orderly.

During the day on the 22nd, the Japanese army gathered in Yinxianggang Town, Yinhang Town, Zhanghuabang, Wusong Town, Baoshan, Lion Forest, Chuansha Town, and Liuhe River.

Huang Haoran also received a telegram order from the 99th Army to be transferred to the 15th Group Army, and at the same time, Vice Minister Chen also issued an order to resist the Japanese landing.

Before the garrison area on the south bank of the Yangtze River, there was only one division of the 56th Division, and the long coastline, the 56th Division could only fortify everywhere, and the result was that the troops guarding such a key point as Chuanshakou had only one company, not to mention the anti-landing, that is, it could not add some decent trouble to the Japanese army, and the 537th Regiment immediately found that there was no danger to defend in this area after it arrived in Chuansha Town, and Shanghai belonged to the water network area, and the sapper shovel had just dug down less than two meters deep and saw groundwater, and there was no way to build decent fortifications.

There are only some sporadic cement machine gun bunkers left on the beachhead, and since the start of the war in Songhu, the war zone has not even thought of building a few permanent fortifications here, and now it is about to fight with the Japanese, so it can only be caught blind.

When the 99th Division was busy, the Japanese troops on the river were not idle, and General Matsui Ishine had already decided that the first attack wave would be launched by Lieutenant General Yamamuro Munetake's 11th Division, and the chief of staff of the 11th Division, Katamura Shihachi Daisa, sent the 10th Brigade and the 12th Wing of the Anda 23rd Brigade to take the lead.

At 0:00 on the 23rd, the 12th Wing, the advance wing of the 11th Division, will enter the area north of Chuansha Town and forcibly land, thus opening the prelude to the landing of the "Shanghai Dispatch Army" on all fronts.

Throughout the day, the 12th Wing was making final preparations before the landing operation.

It was not easy to transfer personnel and equipment from a warship to a bumpy landing craft, and the 23rd Zo of Anda was busy directing his soldiers to climb up and down on the net ropes, from the transport ship to the landing craft or lifeboat, the large and small ships on the water were stuffed with Japanese heads with steel helmets, and the dispatch of mules, horses and heavy weapons was even more cumbersome, and the thick long hair on the head of the 23rd Zo of Anda was so anxious that it fell out a lot.

Now it was the turn of the Navy to look at the jokes, and these bastard sailors laughed at the fact that the Army was nothing more than a pack of landlubbers, and that it would not be possible to set foot on the soil of Shanghai without the escort of the Navy.

Even more troublesome than these are seasickness and marine accidents.

The small landing craft and lifeboats are much worse than the large tonnage transport ships to resist the waves, and many army soldiers began to vomit, which seriously affected the combat effectiveness of the 12th Wing, due to the lack of experienced landing craft operators, collisions between ships were frequent, and in just one afternoon, the 23rd Zo of Anda witnessed at least 2 squads of officers and soldiers fall into the water due to the capsizing of the boats, and 2 soldiers sank with equipment and never surfaced again......

The 537th Regiment of the 99th Division was busy laying mines on the beachhead and finding a suitable place to intercept it.

In this way, China and Japan ushered in the night of the 22nd in a busy situation.

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