"Woo!" The alarm was made, and the pilots rushed to the apron and started the plane to slide onto the runway. After more than ten days of fierce battle, the Air Force won a big victory, but the losses were not small. The main model of p40 lost sixteen aircraft and two bf109s lost two. But worse, the parts were insufficient and the repair technology was low. Seven injured p40s and three bf109s were unable to fight.

Gao Zhihang took his team members to the air, and a radio wave also rose into the air in a house not far from the airport. Two minutes later, the Japanese planes in the sky received news that the Chinese Air Force was dispatched almost at the same time, and more than 150 Japanese planes formed a protective wall outside Shanghai. The two sides launched fierce air battles on the front line of Jiading, Suzhou and Hangzhou outside Shanghai. The Chinese Air Force was not afraid of the few enemies.

There was no suspense in the ground battle without the cover of the air force. Although Chinese soldiers fought bravely and were eventually forced to withdraw from Huishan Wharf, Song Xilian and Wang Jingjiu's attacks made no progress. Most of the two regiments at Huishan Wharf were all killed. Luo Zhedong, the commander of the 518th regiment, was seriously injured and was snatched out of the battlefield by several soldiers. Liu Mantian, the commander of the 517th regiment, was killed in battle. All two cadres below the regiment battalion were killed. More than 1,600 people came back, and only more than 50 people were injured.

When Huishan Wharf succeeded, Hasegawa Kiyoshi was very proud and prepared to launch a full-line counterattack the next day. However, that night, Song Xilian launched a strong attack. Song Xilian braved the artillery fire and personally visited the frontier to supervise the battle. The artillery of the entire division was covered with artillery fire. The figures of Chinese soldiers flashed in the fire. Sanqi put on a "bayonet" to carry out close-up shooting, and if they could not penetrate the exterior wall, they would hit doors and windows.

In the darkness, soldiers of the 36th Division rushed bloodily, and the Japanese army fought back to death. The two sides fought around the headquarters. The battle situation was extremely chaotic. Song Xilian, on the front line, had just received a report that he had seized a position. In less than two minutes, new news came, and the position was taken back, and then it was lost again..., and each step was repeatedly fought. When it was dawn, both sides felt a little exhausted. Looking at the sky at dawn, Song Xilian sighed slightly and ordered to retreat. He knew that if he did not retreat, it would be difficult for the troops to withdraw under the cover of Japanese artillery fire after dawn.

The 36th Division retreated, and Hasegawa Kiyoshi was finally able to let go of his nervousness all night. In the battle last night, he almost thought that the position had been broken through several times, and was rescued by brave soldiers several times. The tenacity of the China National Team shocked him again. He did not expect that the China National Team, which suffered serious losses during the day, launched a continuous night attack. After taking a breath, he ordered to prepare for a counterattack, and the original plan remained unchanged.

The 27th attack failed and the battlefield initiative began to gradually lose. Chen Cheng felt that he regretted that after he took office as commander-in-chief of the front enemy some time, he believed that the tactical mistake in the past was that he did not concentrate superior forces, but formed a tactic of fuel. He ordered the temporary suspension of attacks and wait for the arrival of the 74th Army and the 14th Division. The 67th Division did not make full use of the favorable opportunity to capture Huishan Wharf to continue the attack, resulting in the current dilemma. The Japanese army's artillery fire was too much, and the only one that could suppress the advantage of Japanese naval artillery was the Air Force, but the tactical advantage of the Air Force was resolved by the Japanese numerical advantage. The Japanese army often entangled the Chinese Air Force with its superiority. Although the Chinese Air Force still had brilliant results, it could not support the ground. However, the Japanese army used their naval artillery advantages to open the way with heavy artillery. The Ninth Army fought hard on the whole line, and the positions were often lost after all the defenders were killed.

"How long can you hold on?" Chen Cheng turned to Zhang Zhizhong.

"There is no problem in two days." Zhang Zhizhong knew that Chen Cheng was going to make up his mind.

"Okay. Stay for two days." Chen Cheng said flatly: "I have transferred troops from the 10th Group and the 8th Group Army. In addition, a division from the 74th Army will be transferred to the urban battlefield. The Shanghai war may undergo a major change in the next few days. In two days, Hu Zongnan's first army and the 6th Division of Zhoudi will be able to arrive at the battlefield."

The 6th Division of Zhou was the original Zhejiang Army system, but was defeated. Zhou was brought into force. What is strange is that such a unit has always existed in the central system. Chiang Kai-shek still trusted Zhou and kept the land number and personnel structure of the troops. Before the July 7 Incident, the 6th Division had been suppressing bandits in Fujian. After the start of Songhu, due to the poor equipment of this unit, he did not intend to transfer it to the war, but Zhou repeatedly called Chiang Kai-shek to ask for the war. Chiang Kai-shek agreed that the troops had reached the border of Zhejiang and Fujian. After entering Zhejiang, the traffic situation was much better than that of Fujian. Chen Cheng estimated that within two days, he could reach the battlefield at most three days.

Zhang Zhizhong looked at Chen Cheng, and this decision could not satisfy him. He advocated the retreat because he did not want to hard-head in Hongkou and Yangshupu, causing casualties in vain. Now, Chen Cheng meant that he did not want to withdraw his troops, and he would continue to compete with the Japanese army for the initiative on the battlefield.

"Boom!" "Boom!"

Song Xilian jumped into a crater quickly. The once prosperous street was already full of rubble, and the Japanese offensive stopped temporarily. A few cold bullets just now almost landed beside him. After the smoke of gunpowder, a rescue team member with a Red Cross wrapped around his arm ran over and asked if anyone was injured.

Song Xilian looked at the slim female student with a little dirty face and muttered softly: "You shouldn't come here." Then he turned around and left. The guard looked at the girl who suddenly became a little angry, and ran away with Song Xilian. Almost all the buildings on both sides of Liuchang Street were destroyed. The soldiers were using the intervals of Japanese artillery bombardment to fix the fortifications. The ambulance team was busy sending the wounded away. The atmosphere on the battlefield was relatively depressing.

"How is it? Is it still possible?" Song Xilian stood in front of a street barricade and asked the sergeant in front of him.

"Report to the division commander, it's okay, we can hold the position." The sir replied calmly, his face was darkened by the smoke of gunpowder and his military uniform was covered with blood.

"Injured?"

"Damn Japanese, I'll kill nine Japanese, that's fine." The sergeant laughed, revealing his yellow teeth.

"Good thing, after the battle, you will be alive. I will promote you to the platoon leader." Song Xilian patted his shoulder.

"Hehe," a soldier next to him laughed. Song Xilian's eyes paused. The soldier quickly explained: "Teacher Commander, he is already a platoon leader. At the beginning of the war, he was a corporal, and later became a sergeant squad leader. Now he is a sergeant platoon leader. The regiment commander has already said that he will be promoted to lieutenant after the war."

"Haha! It seems that I am still stingy." Song Xilian laughed loudly. His laughter infected the soldiers around him, and the atmosphere became a little active.

But Song Xilian was in a bitter mood. The experience of this soldier showed the serious losses of the 36th Division. The platoon-level officers were almost changed in the company. Some regiments changed twice. In just over a dozen days, a corporal was promoted to the position of platoon leader. Those middle and lower-level officers who lost were the elite military officers of the army. In this stage of combat, the 36th Division showed tenacious combat effectiveness, especially its small group combat, with appropriate firepower configuration and particularly flexible, and exerted great power in this kind of urban street fighting. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to rush into the Japanese headquarters of Hongkou and almost ended with Hasegawa Kiyomi's nest.

Victory was lost when it was about to be obtained, and the situation changed. The Japanese army is now advancing step by step. The 36th Division turned attack into defense. They fought hard for two days and were pushed back step by step by step by step by Japanese army. The Japanese warships were parked at sea. He could hit you, but you couldn't hit him. The whole division felt very dissatisfied and had to scatter the anger on the Japanese infantry. They defended extremely resolutely. The suicide squads often penetrated into the rear of the Japanese army during the Japanese attack, causing the Japanese army to be restless. The Japanese artillery bombardment destroyed the buildings in Shanghai and opened up various streets. These streets were fully utilized by the 36th Division. When the Japanese army attacked, they sent suicide squads to go around to the flanks to attack the Japanese army. This tactic caused a great loss on the first day.

The command center of the 12th Regiment was set up in a half-collapsed pavilion. A large hole was broken at the top of the room, and there were two walls left in the room. When Song Xilian entered, there were very few people in the command center, including only the regiment commander Gu Baoyu and the chief of staff Su Pengxian. Deputy regiment commander Yu Xinzhi had been killed in battle. Most of the staff in the regiment had already left the troops to serve as middle and lower-level officers.

"Captain Gu, how many people do you have now?" Song Xilian asked when he entered the door.

"One thousand hustle." Gu Baoyu was not surprised by Song Xilian's arrival at all. This was his habit. When the battle was most difficult, he always rushed to the frontier to see, rather than through staff to understand the situation. Under his leadership, almost all the officers of the 36th Division were like this. They liked to rush to the frontier and get first-hand information. The command center of the 36th Division was also higher than other troops. For example, the command center of the local regiment should be placed five thousand meters away from the frontier according to regulations, but here is only eight hundred meters away from the frontier.

"Which Japanese army is the opposite?" Song Xilian asked. Yesterday, the Ono Battalion, the Third Division, was attacking.

"Oituka Brigade of the Orbitan United." Gu Baoyu said: "The Japanese have increased their troops again, and it can be seen that this army has just been off the ship."

"Commander Zhang ordered us to stay here for at least two days. Can we do it?" Song Xilian had no special purpose when he came to the 212th Regiment headquarters, but the ability of senior generals to appear at the forefront at this time will greatly boost morale. Now the troops are the time when morale is most needed.
Chapter completed!