In the middle of the night, two regiments from the First Brigade, led by Gaoshi to Taicang. Yanghanyuan established a city with martial law and sent patrols to patrol the whole city to maintain public order. At the same time, they began to set up defenses in the city. Before dawn, the Second Brigade and the Third Brigade arrived one after another. Only then did Yanghanyuan start to set up defenses outside the city. He placed a brigade in the city and two other brigades outside the city.

At dawn, a large number of defeated soldiers retreated, including many senior generals, several of whom were even alone, such as Feng Shengfa, the commander of the 87th Division. Because the division command was attacked by the Japanese plainclothes team, he escaped with only a few guards; and the commander of the 19th Army Xue Yue only brought half of the command.

Chaos, once in chaos, most of the troops' system has been completely lost, and everyone is only concerned about running westward. This situation has shaken the morale of the 133 army, and the soldiers are a little confused about why they still have to stay here?

Faced with this situation, Yang Hanyu issued a notice clearly stating that he stayed here to cut off the rear of the entire army and block the Japanese army. He was also a supporter of the brothers of the 20th army who were fighting hard in front of him.

In addition to issuing notices, Yang Hanyu also used secret tricks to allow each unit to recruit personnel from the defeated troops, as much as possible. Gao Dezhou and others immediately took action and set up recruitment stations in various major traffic arteries, either forcibly staying, inducing or automatically, recruiting more than 3,000 people within two days, which was considered to be a supplementary force for the troops' early losses.

Yang Hanyu arranged defense in Taicang, but Yang Sen was already in a tough battle. He left 135 in Luodian to block the attack, and led the army directly under the group and 134 to Jiading to block the attack.

The defenders fought extremely cruelly, and the Japanese offensive was overwhelming. The 88th Division and the Tax Police Corps at the temple were fighting and retreating. They joined forces with 135 in Luodian, but they still could not stop the Japanese attack. The 88th Division had only 3,000 people left, and the Tax Police Corps had only more than 4,000 people left.

However, it was precisely because of the hard battle and sacrifice of Yang Sen's 20th Army and the 88th Division and other troops who cut off the rear, that most of the defeated troops were able to successfully withdraw from Songhu.

On November 13, the 13th Division and the 11th Division of the Japanese army launched an attack on Jiading; on the same day, the 9th Division and the 3rd Division of the Japanese army broke through the defense of Luodian 135 and 88th Tax Police General Regiments. Wang Jingjiu commanded the 135th and 88th Divisions to retreat to Xu Xing to cover the Jiading side.

On the night of the fifteenth day, Yang Sen gave up Jiading and quickly retreated to Taicang through the Beijing-Shanghai Highway. At this point, all Shanghai was lost. A few soldiers who had no time to retreat fled into the concession and disarmed the British and French troops.

History has changed a little here. Due to the transfer of the 88th Division to the main battlefield and the gradual retreat that Chen Cheng began in advance, Xie Jinyuan's 800 lonely troops did not appear as history. Xie Jinyuan retreated with the 88th Division and retreated to the Wufu Line through Taicang.

The war situation in Shanghai took a sharp turn and made Chiang Kai-shek regret it. The Brussels Conference still did not come up with any useful resolution. It directed to generally demand a ceasefire between China and Japan, maintain the nine-nation convention, and even did not even make the most basic statement of condemning Japan's aggression. All of this disappointed Chiang Kai-shek. The nine-nation convention disappointed Chiang Kai-shek and turned his hopes to Todman's mediation.

On November 15, the 6th Division conquered Minhang area attacked Qingsong. The flanks of the 21st Army were threatened. Liao Lei commanded his troops to retreat in the direction of Qingpu. Relying on Qingshan Tianma Mountain and Qingshan to launch defense. Guoqi Detachment and part of the 6th Division conquered Songjiang.

On the 17th, the 13th Division, the 11th Division, and the 101th Division launched a strong attack on Taicang along the Beijing-Shanghai Highway. Yang Sen commanded the 133 and 134th Yang Hanyu to fight.

"I'm chasing me so hard." Yang Sen observed the enemy situation in Songta Temple, the highest place in the city. He fought a battle with the 13th Division in Jiading. Then he was chased to death. Within a few hours of running into Taicang, the Japanese were chased. However, Yang Handi counterattacked and defeated the Japanese vanguard squadron. Forced the Japanese army to slow down. He won time for the smooth development of Yang Sen's territory 134 and its direct troops.

"Commander. How many days do we have to fight here? Can Kunshan be defended?" Yang Hanyu asked with some concern. All the troops who could be withdrawn have been withdrawn. The remaining troops were retreating along the Anting Kunshan line to the Wufu Line. Kunshan defense was taken as Zhu Shaoliang's unit of the Ninth Army, who was withdrawn from the city.

When the Ninth Army was mentioned, everyone was irritated at the venue. The main force of the Ninth Army, the 87th, 88th, 36th Division, had all been transferred away. The remaining areas were the 18th Division of the 3rd Division of Li Yutang and the Security Corps of the 98th Division of Xia Chuzhong.

"The 21st Army is retreating to Kunshan." The supplement of Chief of Staff Liu Yong did not bring any comfort to those present, which means that the Japanese 6th Division and Guoqi Detachment also rushed towards Kunshan.

The 21st Army's defense line in Qingpu only supported it for one day and collapsed. The casualties of various units of the Army suffered serious losses in succession. The Japanese army found a weak point and broke through in one fell swoop. Liao Lei quickly lost the sky blue defense line, but failed to gain a foothold in Qingpu and retreated directly to Kunshan.

Yang Sen's hand holding the telescope paused significantly. He slowly lowered the telescope and turned around and asked, "What do you think you should do? It is definitely impossible to go directly. If you want to leave, you have to beat him up before leaving.

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This is true. If the Japanese army are allowed to pursue this way, the troops will likely become fleeing under the pursuit of the Japanese army and will eventually be out of control. It is better to fight harder and then leave.

"I think this is the case. Send the engineer battalion out to rest and recuperate the road, especially the bridges. You must not let them explode the bridge." The Chief of Staff was very nervous. The troops had a lot of heavy equipment, and there were several bridges from here to the Wufu Line. It was impossible for the troops passing by in front to not receive the order to explode the bridge.

Yang Sen was also nervous and immediately ordered the Engineering Battalion and the Group Army's direct guard regiment to draw a battalion to explore the way, and specifically asked to bring it to the radio station and report the situation at any time.

The Japanese army's offensive was fierce. Yang Hanyu used the experience he gained in Luodian to make full use of the three days he arrived first to dig trenches with a depth of three kilometers from various positions around Taicang.

"Boom!" "Boom!" The frontier positions were filled with fire. Compared to Luodian, the Japanese artillery fire in Taicang was much smaller than that in the absence of naval gun support.

"Have you found the Japanese artillery position?" When fighting in Luodian, the Japanese army was supporting the fire of naval artillery, so Yang Sen simply gave up on searching.

The attempt of the artillery position was in Jiading, but now he wanted to try it out.

Artillery observers are all young students who graduated from the Artillery School. They know all the ranges of various artillery models equipped by the Japanese army. After many drills, they have become mature artillery observers.

Liu Yong was stunned. He was still concerned about this at this time. He immediately called to inquire. He put down the phone and reported to Yang Sen excitedly: "I found it, mom, I found it."

"Okay, I'll teach him a lesson!" Yang Sen waved his hand and the military coat she was wearing slid down from her shoulders.

Sixteen 150mm howitzers and twelve military 105mm howitzers opened fire at the same time. The Japanese army had no idea that they would be counterattacked by the Chinese team. They were caught off guard and the artillery fire suddenly weakened. After six volleys, the artillery fire turned to the infantry concentrated in the frontier. This round of artillery fire suppressed the Japanese army's arrogance a little.

"Haha, it seems that those dolls were not learned in vain!" Yang Sen danced with joy, and there were obviously fewer shells falling from the front: "I'm not going to teach you a lesson, I don't know how many eyes Mr. Ma has!"

The Japanese army's attack was disrupted. The Japanese officers and soldiers who were burned out during this period continued to launch an attack without artillery fire. They were attacked by regiment artillery fire and then smashed to pieces in front of the positions of the 20th Army.

"Airplane! Japanese plane!" the guard shouted loudly.

Yang Sen and others looked up at the sky, and more than a dozen planes appeared in the sky to the east, "Scatter, disperse!" After Yang Sen said that, he immediately flashed into a covert trench, and then looked up at the sky in the covert trench.

"Damn, where is our plane?" the guard muttered beside him: "If we are not the Central Army, we won't cover us."

"Say less empty words." Yang Sen scolded a little impatiently: "Jiading, Luodian, everyone has come; killing ten thousand enemies will cause 8,000 yuan to lose oneself; our plane may have consumed almost the last two months."

Yang Sen's judgment was not very accurate. Although there were not many aircraft, there were about twenty P40s and nine BF109s. After three months of operation, the Chinese Air Force eliminated about four hundred Japanese aircraft, which was nearly twice the total number of Chinese Air Force aircraft. But the Air Force's own losses were almost the same.

However, the Air Force is now in chaos. The army retreated, and the Air Force also retreated. All radar stations in Zhejiang and Jiangsu were blown up, and all airports in Hangzhou and Suzhou were also blown up, especially the radar station. Zhou Zhirou ordered that the radar station must not fall into the hands of the Japanese army and must be completely destroyed, otherwise all officers of the radar station guards will be executed.

Under this strict order, the Japanese army was still far away, and the guard officers at the radar station exploded the radar station, and some radar stations that were not needed to be bombed for the time being were destroyed in advance, resulting in a decline in air surveillance.

In addition to the chaos in the lower class, the upper class of the Air Force was also in chaos. The National Government was preparing to officially announce the relocation of the capital in Chongqing, and the Air Force Command was also in the ranks of relocation. Zhou Zhirou knew very well that if she could not hold the Wu Fu line before leaving, many equipment would probably not be able to take it away. So she asked Chiang Kai-shek for instructions and asked the Air Force Command to start moving to Wuhan in advance. Zhou Zhirou took the wife's route in this matter, and obtained Chiang Kai-shek's consent through Soong Mei-ling. So the Air Force Command began to retreat from November 16th. From this day on, the frequency of the Chinese Air Force on the battlefield decreased significantly.

"Boom", "Boom" Japanese planes began to dive bomb. Obviously, Japanese planes did not find the artillery position of the 20th Army, and regarded this densely-wooded commanding heights as a hidden area with artillery, and threw the bombs here in a concentrated manner.

The explosion shook the earth, the soil rose and fell, and a bomb exploded nearby. The guard rushed to Yang Sen and a back of mud fell on his back.

"Damn it, why didn't the air defense regiment open fire? Watch the commander get bombed!"

After more than twenty minutes of bombing, the guard stood up and slapped the dust on his body, while muttering. Yang Sen couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "You turtle son knows what? The air defense regiment covers the heavy artillery brigade. If they didn't fire, it means that the Japanese planes had discovered our artillery position. This is a good thing."

These guards of Yang Sen have been with him for more than ten years. They are all his confidants and are loyal to him. Yang Sen is also very tolerant of them, so he dares to accuse his subordinates of the officers.

The second wave of the Japanese offensive was delayed for a long time, and the second wave of attack was launched in the afternoon. This time it was a coordinated battle between land and air. The airplanes and underground infantry and artillery fire plowed the positions.

Then, guided by more than 20 tanks, they rushed towards Taicang's front. When about two thousand meters away from the position, the artillery soldiers of the 20th Army began to shoot. The Japanese planes immediately dived towards the artillery positions. The air defense regiment immediately carried out air shooting. The Japanese planes did not expect that there was still air defense firepower on the ground, and two were caught off guard and shot down. The remaining Japanese planes were pushed up in a hurry.

When the tanks entered five hundred meters, the anti-tank hands on the frontline began to shoot, and one tank after another was destroyed. Japanese soldiers without tank cover still rushed towards the position and fought fiercely everywhere in the position.

Four or five tanks rushed into the position, and the Chinese soldiers allowed them to pass, and then blocked the Japanese army behind the tank. There were only more than 40 people left in the front line company, and none of them retreated, blocking the Japanese army from the position.

After the second-line position troops destroyed the Japanese tanks, they began to reinforce the front. The front was in danger. The division's artillery weaved a fire net behind the Japanese army, cutting off the Japanese army's follow-up forces.

"Damn, I don't believe it, I can't defeat you!" Yang Sen cursed viciously in the command center. A whole company was reinforced by the second line. Although the Japanese army's performance was still tenacious, it was already at the end of its strength.

"Tell Yang Hanyu that you can send someone out to reward him in the evening..." Before Yang Sen finished speaking, he contacted the staff and rushed into the command center with a telegram.

"Kunshan is lost!"

Yang Sen was so shocked that the telescope almost landed, Kunshan was lost! Why is it so fast!
Chapter completed!