4.81 Cold sweat

Although Feng Yuxiang was nominally the commander of the Third Theater of Operations, it was difficult for Feng to really command the Central Army in the Songhu area because of the historical reasons of Feng's origin in the local faction. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In order to facilitate the coordination and command of the operations of the various group armies, on 26 August, Chiang Kai-shek appointed General Gu as the deputy commander of the Third Theater of Operations, assuming the responsibility of actually commanding the Battle of Songhu.

On August 28, the third day of General Gu's inauguration, and also the evening of the arrival of the highest authorities in Shanghai, the "Shanghai Dispatch Army" launched an all-out offensive, and the Japanese army aimed the spearhead of this attack at Wusong Fort and Wusong Town, and they wanted to sweep away the biggest nail in the way forward.

General Gu immediately mobilized the 18th Army of the Chen Cixiu Division, and General Zhang's 98th and 87th Divisions together with the 56th Division fought to the death against the Japanese army in Wusong.

In order to cooperate with the operations of the 15th Group Army, the 61st Division was officially included in the sequence of the 15th Group Army, which was also a large unit that General Zhang was withdrawn from his command again after Huang Haoran's department.

Although it seems that General Gu's decision seems to be selfless, General Zhang's heart has a different feeling, General Zhang has not given face to the most appropriate authorities several times when he was fighting in Shanghai, and the departure of the 61st Division is hard to guarantee that it is not the small shoes that the highest authorities gave General Zhang to wear!

The 51st Division, the 58th Division, and other units have already arrived in the vicinity of Changshu, Taicang, and Jiading, and are only one step away from Baoshan Luodian.

Huang Haoran shook his head secretly after learning the news.

Consumed! It's internal friction again! Everyone in the huge China only cares about their own ideas, like a plate of scattered sand, otherwise how can little Japan dare to bully us at our doorstep?

I heard that General Zhang had a big quarrel with the highest authorities on the phone, and it seems that the supreme commander of the Chinese army in the downtown area of Shanghai will soon be replaced.

Huang Haoran couldn't know the strength of the highest authorities.

What's more, General Zhang's long-term inability to attack Huishan Wharf has already given the highest authorities a good pretext, if it weren't for the fact that General Zhang's prestige in the Songhu combat unit is quite high, the old man would have done it a long time ago.

Now that the battle is getting bigger and bigger, more and more troops are being transferred to Songhu, and with the inflow of these new blood, General Zhang's influence will be diluted step by step.

There are too many central armies concentrated in the Songhu area, and who can command the descendants of these highest-level authorities, except for senior officers such as General Gu and Vice Chief Chen?

Huang Haoran respects an anti-Japanese hero like General Zhang, but thinking of General Zhang's upcoming fate, Huang Haoran can't help but sigh.

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From the night of August 28 to August 29, tens of thousands of Chinese and Japanese troops fought repeatedly in the Wusong area, and the losses of both sides were also very huge.

In the fierce battle, the commander of the 6th Wing of the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, Tatsuharu Kuranaga, rushed to the front line to command, but was shot several times and died at Wusong Wharf.

At 3 a.m. on August 31, several Japanese planes dropped a large number of flares on the bank of the Wusong River, and the miserable white light exposed all the positions of the Chinese defenders to Japanese firepower.

At 7 o'clock, more than 30 bombers and more than 100 shipboard guns jointly bombarded the Wusong position, and more than half of the officers and men of the 361st Regiment of the 61st Division suffered casualties.

After the Japanese army launched a charge, the retreating defenders fled for their lives towards Songbao Road and Tongji Road, and Yue Cen, the commander of the 1st Regiment of the Security Corps, was wounded.

It is difficult to support the whole line. Ji Zhangjian, the head of the Security Corps, personally led more than 40 pistol teams to the front line to supervise the battle, near Sanguantang, he saw the retreating defeated soldiers, the 1st Regiment of the 361st Regiment of the 61st Division, only held for more than an hour, and only a few dozen remnants remained!

Luo Zhuoying ordered the 6th Division to take over the Wusong Fort overnight.

On the 29th and 30th, the 4th Special Marine Corps and the additional troops of the Special Marine Corps arrived in Shanghai, and the Japanese army was reinforced.

General Matsui Ishine reinforced all the reinforced marines to Lieutenant General Yamamuro Munetake's 11th Division, and Japanese activities in the vicinity of Baoshan, where Wang Shankui was stationed, became active.

At dawn on the 31st, the Japanese army repeated its old tricks. More than 20 aircraft, more than 20 warships, and tanks attacked the battery together with the Japanese troops who landed on the fort, and the flesh and blood could not stop the steel after all, the defense line of the 6th Division was breached, and the battery station fell first. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the officers and men of the Security Corps who were stuck in the fort repelled more than a dozen attacks of the Japanese army, and finally they were no longer able to resist, and all of them died heroically!

The Wusong Fort has finally fallen!

Between the Japanese landing force and the county seat of Baoshan is now a flat river!

The reconnaissance platoon sent by Wang Shankui to Yuepu returned to Baoshan the next night, and Sasaki's judgment was completely correct, there was really a Japanese brigade active near Yuepu.

The reconnaissance platoon of the 302nd Brigade had an encounter with the Japanese alert troops, and after a short exchange of fire, the reconnaissance platoon immediately penetrated the Japanese army, but they did not expect that on the way they found that the radio station was broken, and the reconnaissance platoon commander decided to continue the task of finding the Japanese brigade headquarters, and then use manpower to transmit the information back.

Only 7 of the 35 warriors returned, but they also figured out the size and number of the Japanese troops near Wolpo.

The strength of the Japanese army operating near Wolpo was even stronger than Huang Haoran expected!

The commander of the 11th Division, Lieutenant General Yamamuro Munetake, took advantage of the brief ceasefire period with the 99th Army to transport all the follow-up units of the 22nd Infantry Brigade of Major General Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu ashore.

The current 22nd Infantry Brigade consists of the 43rd Infantry Wing of Yoshio Asama, the 44th Infantry Wing of Chitaka Nidaisa, and the 11th Cavalry Wing of Yunaka Tanabe assigned to the 10th Brigade by Commander Yamamuro Sotakeshi.

Moreover, these three wings are all complete Japanese wings that have not participated in operations, and the strength of the 22 brigade has exceeded eight thousand people!

These Japanese troops echoed the 10th Brigade near Baoshan, but the 10th Brigade and the 22nd Brigade, which had been repeatedly reorganized, looked malnourished compared to each other.

The 11th Division is eyeing the two important defense base points of Baoshan and Yuepu!

And due to the attraction of the previous anti-landing operation and the battle of Wusong Fort, the Chinese defenders in Yuepu currently have only one regiment of the 98th Division, and they cannot stop the strong troops of the 22nd Brigade in any case!

The commander of the Kuroyan Yisheng Brigade could capture Zhanwolpo at any time as long as he wished, and tear apart a corner of the triangular defensive circle formed by Baoshan Luodian and Wolpu.

But why did the 22 Brigade stay still?

This does not seem to be in line with the insolent character of the Japanese army.

However, Huang Haoran was still glad that he discovered the Japanese army's attempt in time, and he immediately reported the situation to Luo Zhuoying and Vice Minister Chen, and the staff officers of the Commander's Department of the Third War Zone were also shocked into a cold sweat!