After several days of hard fighting, the 87th Division occupied Hujiang University, and the 88th Division occupied Wuzhou Cemetery, Baoshan Bridge, Bazi Bridge and other key points. On the 14th, the Supplementary Brigade of the Second Division, who arrived in Shanghai, replaced the 88th Division to defend the Shanghai Patriotic Girls' School, Zhengzhi University, and was responsible for attacking the Dongying Army Command of Hongkou Park and Jiangwan Road.

On August 15, Hirohito ordered General Matsui Ishione to send the commander of the Expeditionary Army of Shencheng to command the troops directly under the Third Division, the 11th Division and other troops to attack Shencheng, further expanding the war of aggression against China.

After the Japanese army reinforcements landed on the rear of the Chinese army, our army was no longer able to destroy the Japanese Marines, and the purpose of the war was not achieved.

Logically speaking, we should consider retreating and building a second line of defense at this time to avoid the benefits of the Japanese army's naval guns. However, the commander of the National Government, led by Chiang Kai-shek, considered to facilitate combat supply in Shencheng, mainly to continue to fight in Shencheng with foreign leases, which is very likely to cause interference from major European and American powers, and may win a glorious peace under the mediation of the great powers, and then defeat Japan's ambitions for North China, which is extremely beneficial to the relatively weak China.

Unfortunately, Chiang Kai-shek didn't know that the great powers such as Europe and the United States, which ended not long ago, were already incomplete. Chiang Kai-shek tried to help the European and American powers to help China resist the invasion of Japan.

The world is bustling for profit, and the world is bustling for profit. Western powers will not support China. These countries hope that China and Japan will fight for a longer period of time, so they will have a big war. For example, from the September 18th Incident in 1931 to the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, Japan's war preparations such as steel and oil have been provided by the United States during the past ten years, which also provided good conditions for the United States to get rid of the Great Depression.

Whether it is an individual or a country, it is unrealistic to rely on external help. Only when one becomes stronger can one cope with all difficulties.

On August 21, a huge fleet led by the battleships of the Japanese Changmen and the Muao were transported by the Japanese army, about 10,000 vanguard troops from Japan to the Ma'an Islands. On the evening of the 22nd, the Japanese army took a light cruiser in the Ma'an Islands and then drove into Chuansha Town and Wusongkou area respectively.

On the 16th, the Japanese army retreated to Jiangwan, with the Japanese Marine Corps Headquarters as the center. China and Japan continued to join the army in Shencheng.

In this battle, the State Government successively invested eight armies and forty divisions, fifteen independent brigades, nine temporary brigades, the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps, the Seventh Artillery Regiment, a Gendarmerie Regiment, the Shencheng Security Corps, the Shencheng Police Corps, and the Su Provincial Security Corps, with a total force of more than 550,000. The Japanese side invested five divisions and one brigade, with a total army of 130,000.

During this period, Wu Siren had repeatedly proposed to Chiang Kai-shek's retreat, but none of them were adopted. Both China and Japan made real fuss, and both sides began to continue to increase troops to Songhu.

The Chinese army was brave and strong, resisting the artillery fire of the Japanese army with the flesh and blood. All officers and soldiers were ready to die. When the front fell down, the back caught up and started barricade battles and hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army, each of them bravely took the lead.

The tenacious resistance of the Chinese military and civilians made Japan's clamor for "occupying Shencheng in three days and destroying China in three months" vain, and its image fell sharply in the international community.

On August 27, the battle situation became even more tragic. That night, Luo Youqing mobilized his troops from Yuepu, Xinzhen, Luodian and Pujiamiao to continue to attack the Japanese army. The 11th Division of the Japanese army's main force responded with cannons, planes, and tanks. The small Luodian was once again drowned by the sound of cannons and killing. The two sides tug-of-war and repeatedly rushed back and forth. During the day, it was the time for the Japanese army to show their power. The planes, cannons and tanks all came into battle, turning the position in front of the Chinese army into a sea of ​​fire, and the defenders had to withdraw from the position. At night, it was a good time for our army to counterattack. Taking advantage of the enemy's superior equipment that could not exert its power, they beat them to drive out the enemy and regain the lost position during the day.

The Japanese army's attack often starts at dawn. It first uses aircraft bombing as a prelude and retreats later. Then it raises manned observation balloons from its own positions, guides the navy and artillery to carry out secondary artillery attacks, and finally tanks cover the infantry to advance. Our army hides in cotton fields during the day, controls roads at night, burys mines and bundles of grenades, sets up obstacles and lies on both sides. When the enemy tanks come out and are blocked by obstacles, they fight with the infantry behind them. This tactic is smart and has achieved miraculous results.

The battle for Luodian always touched Lao Jiang's heart. He knew very well that although Luodian was a small town by the river, it was only two square kilometers, but it was the intersection and hub of several highways such as Baoshan, Shencheng District, Jiading and Songshan. Once Luodian was lost, the overall situation would be shocked. So Lao Jiang ordered several times: Luodian's relationship is important and must be conquered within a time limit. All the soldiers advance and do not retreat, and have enemies but not self. If they fail, they will be able to achieve success. Chen Cixiu vowed: he will do everything to ensure that the task is completed.

The main force of our army, which was confronting the 11th Division of the enemy of Luodian, was Peng Shan's 11th Division and Li Shusen's 67th Division. The two divisions fought hand in hand and took turns to fight. They had been holding on for five days and nights, and repelled the Japanese attacks countless times.

While causing heavy damage to the enemy, the officers and soldiers of the two divisions suffered huge casualties, and the number reached a terrifying level. One brigade commander, two regiment commanders, battalions, companies, and platoons were killed in battle. General Li Shusen, the commander of the 67th Division, was also seriously injured and could not continue to command.

After consulting Wu Siren, Lao Jiang sent Huang Wuwo, who had returned from Germany, to take over the command of the 67th Division commander on the front line.

Huang Wu, I did not let down this trust and continued to lead the 67th Division to defend Luodian.

The battle situation became more and more tragic. After the arrival of the subsequent troops, the Japanese army launched a more fierce offensive. The shells were overwhelmed, and raindrops splashed onto the defending positions. Wherever the artillery fire went, flames rose and flesh and blood flew everywhere.

The Chinese defenders fought to the death. After the bullets were finished, they rushed out of the trenches to fight with the enemy in hand and blades. The tanks came up, and they rushed over with grenades tied to them and died together. Both sides were injured and injured, and the Japanese army had to pay a heavy price for every step forward.

On the 28th, the Chinese army that was defending Luodian fought fiercely with the enemy for several days, and the position was broken by the enemy due to excessive casualties. On the 29th, Huang Wuwo led the 67th Division to recapture it. He was bombarded by the enemy's powerful firepower and was forced to withdraw before he stood firm. Luodian finally fell into the enemy's opponent. Since then, the focus of the competition between the two sides turned to the outside of Luodian, attacking and defending, defending and attacking, the intensity has not diminished, and the stalemate battle has not stopped for a moment.

American journalist Tiltman braved the fire of war to Luodian. The Chinese army in Wusong and conducted inspections on the positions of the Chinese army in Wusong and wrote a touching record. His text said: "The Chinese army on the front of the Wusong District are facing a collection of extremely important mechanized force. Those who use it are also known as the Japanese army famous for their fierce battles. However, they are still unyielding and dealing with the good and good-spirited. Their heroic and discipline are truly worthy of the highest praise."

"Today, the division that resisted the advance of the Japanese army would not retreat even if its artillery fire was far inferior to the enemy."

"The battle in Luodian was extremely fierce, which caused me to be unable to advance to the Chinese army on the front line. I was forced to abandon the car I rode in at a certain location. I hid in the ditch for half an hour. During the Wei Dynasty, the Japanese army launched artillery bombardment, plus tail shells, and occasionally several heavy artillery shells. The area outside Liuxing District was quite damaged. Soon I looked at the Wusong Front and saw a huge number of Chinese army lying in the trenches, which was very pleasant, and it was almost a matter of repelling the fierce enemy."

The confidence, bravery and spirit of facing death in the Luodian battle shocked both China and the foreign countries. Hu Yuzhi described it in the monograph on "Defending Dashen City" as follows: "The fierce battles of Wusong, Luodian, Yunzaobang, and Dachang are no less fierce than those of the Marna and Songna River battles in the European War. However, in terms of the courage and sacrifice of our soldiers in the war, there is no precedent in the history of the European War. In any famous battle in the European War, the weapons of both sides were equal. In the Shencheng War, we used the army, mainly infantry teams, to fight against the enemy's most elite army, air and navy. As a result of two and a half months of fierce battle, the enemy made progress, but how many positions were obtained from the progress? It was only more than ten kilometers away from the north bank of the Huangpu River.

Although we often sacrifice thousands or hundreds of athletes to defend a foot-by-in, the enemy must pay the same or greater price to obtain this foot-by-in.

Central News Agency followed the military reporters to witness the hand-to-hand combat between the enemy and us in the southwest of Luodian Donglin Temple, and recorded the actual combat situation in detail: "At dawn, the enemy dispatched a large number of troops to attack Donglin Temple. On the one hand, the enemy's firepower was very fierce, and on the other hand, the number of enemies and us was very different. Our positions were broken through by the enemy one after another, and our guards were all lost, and even died one by one. However, the dozens of remaining soldiers still had the last drop of blood and the last bullet, guarding against the enemy."

If Verdun in World War I was a "meat grinder", Luodian in the Battle of Shanghai was an absolute "flesh and flesh mill": the corpses were piled up like mountains, blood flowed into rivers, and the entire town was covered with tiles, but the scorched earth was left, and the cruel situation was unbearable.

The first half of the Battle of Shanghai was basically the same as in history. Apart from the lack of participation from the Tax Police Corps, Chiang Kai-shek almost invested most of his assets, but in the later period, it was very different from the original time and space. The reason was that there was one more Wu Saren.

At dawn on November 5, under the command of Heikawa, the newly formed 10th Army of Japan was escorted by the fleet at Caojing Town, Quangong Pavilion, Jinsi Niang Bridge, etc. near Jinshanwei, Hangzhou Bay, with the intention of encircling the south of the Chinese Army's defense line in the Songhu.

Originally, in history, Chiang Kai-shek always believed that the Japanese army had full force to attack the front of Shencheng, and there was no possibility of landing from Hangzhou Bay, so when the war became fierce and the troops were exhausted, the troops defending Hangzhou Bay were put into the front battlefield one by one. When the Japanese army landed, on the coastline of dozens of kilometers from Quangongting to Zhapu on the north bank of Hangzhou Bay, there were only two infantry companies of the 62nd Division of Tao Guang, the 6th Company of the Second Regiment of the Second Artillery Brigade and a few places to defend, so they were quickly defeated by the Japanese army.

However, due to Wu Dimo's intervention, the Hangzhou Bay Kingsoft Guard's front line was indeed led by Fang Zishan, the best defender, to garrison more than 20,000 elite troops of the Third Regiment of the Tax Police Corps. For this reason, Wu Siren also specially granted almost all the large-caliber heavy artillery that had been snatched from Fengtai to the Third Regiment.

Wu Siren's preparation finally played a decisive role. Under Fang Zishan's command, the Japanese landing troops were seriously injured, and almost all the landing craft were destroyed and sunk.

"Uncle, you can't hesitate anymore. Get out quickly! Our tax police chief team will cut off the rear."

After learning that the Hangzhou Bay blocking war began, Wu Siren hurriedly came to Lao Jiang and began to persuade him with great thought.

"But I hope the battle can last until the Nine-Nation Convention comes to fruition, so that we can win the support of Western friendly countries."

Chiang Kai-shek was still hesitating at this time, hoping to end the war with international mediation.

"Uncle, the retreat is about to be cut off. Hundreds of thousands of troops, we must preserve these forces of the war of resistance. In this way, we will first withdraw the large army and fight a blocking war in one place, so as to show the Western countries our determination to resist and win their support."

Wu Siren said with a confident and extremely serious expression. He knew that he had to persuade Chiang Chiang to withdraw his troops at this moment, otherwise everything would be too late.

Lao Jiang asked happily: "Where is it?"
Chapter completed!