Chapter 81 The Battle of Shanghai (I)

After listening to Zhang Zhizhong's report, Chiang Kai-shek frowned. From September 18th to January 28th to the Great Wall War of Resistance, the Japanese advanced step by step. Chiang Kai-shek did not want to resist Japan, but the gap between China and Japan was too big. In addition to GCD, the actual ruler of China was already overwhelmed by the actual ruler of China. He also knew that in order to consolidate his rule, he must first quell the civil strife, so he put forward the slogan that he must first settle the country's homeland with resistance against foreign countries. He tolerated the Japanese everywhere and signed the Songhu Armistice Agreement, the Tanggu Armistice Agreement and the Hemei Agreement.

Zhang Xueliang launched the Xi'an Incident completely disrupted Chiang Kai-shek's plan to first and then outside, and had to stop suppressing the Communist Party, engage in peace talks with GCD, and establish a united front against Japan. However, the Xi'an Incident also made Chiang Kai-shek's reputation as the leader of the country reach an unprecedented level. However, it did not stop for a few days, and today's incident occurred not long after the anti-Japanese collation corporators began, which really made Chiang Kai-shek very troubled. Past experience told him that the Japanese would never give up this time.

"The Chairman should reinforce Shanghai immediately. The Japanese Marine Corps has a total of 3,000 people in Shanghai, and the Shanghai security forces, except for the newly formed Third Security Regiment, the two security regiments of the Shanghai Security Command have no combat effectiveness at all. I suggest that the 87th Division and 88th Division of Changzhou and Wuxi will be stationed in Shanghai immediately." Zhang Zhizhong felt that the 128th Incident had repeated, and the Battle of Shanghai was inevitable.

"Be cautious, be careful, be cautious." Chiang Kai-shek shook his head. As the leader of a country, he really needs to consider all factors. At this time, any decision is related to the life and death of the entire country, and he has to be cautious. More importantly, he originally planned to organize 60 German divisions, only seven divisions, the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps, and the informal tax police regiment. It does not include the air force that has just begun to be formed and the navy that is not as good as the Beiyang period. The gap between the entire national defense force and Japan is undoubtedly very large.

"Please ask Minister He of the Ministry of Military Affairs, Chen Cizhang, Deputy General Manager Bai of the General Staff, and Minister Wang of the Foreign Affairs Department to come here immediately."

Just as Chiang Kai-shek summoned military and political officials to discuss urgently, Qiao Zhen led the spy company and the third company of the machine gun battalion to ambush the first brigade of the Marine Corps led by Yoshikawa Toro.

Chengjiaqiao is only twenty minutes away from Hongqiao Airport. When Qiao Zhen led the spy company and the third company of the machine gun battalion to Chengjiaqiao, he had just arranged an ambush position on both sides of Chengjiaqiao, and a convoy full of Japanese Marines had arrived at Chengjiaqiao, fifteen minutes earlier than the arrival time originally predicted by Shen Zui. It turned out that Yoshikawa Tomoro was worried about the safety of the security forces, so he drew all the Marines' vehicles and the captain of the First Brigade Kazuka Masao personally led a squadron to Hongqiao Airport first.

When Qiao Zhen saw twelve trucks loaded with Neon Marines slowly driving into the ambush circle in his glasses, he ordered Li Weishan, the company commander of the Third Machine Cannon Company: "Drop the first and last trucks first, trap them, and beat me hard."

There were three machine gun companies, six mortars and two spy companies, and eight mortars were installed on the artillery positions. Under Li Weishan's unified command, the four mortars were aimed at the first and last trucks. With the order, eight mortars opened fire at the same time. With the dull "dong dong", eight mortar shells flew towards the moving convoy. The first truck was hit directly by a shell and fell into a trap. The soldiers on the car were also blown down. However, the last truck was not hit, and four shells exploded around the truck.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack." With a burst of shouting, the neon troops in the car jumped out of the car and used the truck as cover. Because the first truck was hit by a mortar, it was burning in the road, blocking the direction of the progress. The trucks behind were ready to turn around.

"Yu Feng, blow the last truck off for me, and shoot the rest of the target convoys freely." Li Weishan shouted loudly at Yu Feng, the gunman who hit the first truck when the starter hit the first truck.

"Yes." Yu Feng quickly stretched out his right hand, picked up his thumb, squinted his eyes, and calculated the position of the last truck that was turning around.

"The angle of elevation is sixty-five, the distance is five, two and three, put it."

"Dong" As the sound of the mortar ejected from the bore, it drew a wonderful arc with the numerous shells flying towards the convoy, hitting the last truck.

"Good fight, Yu Feng, I'll ask you for credit when I go back." Li Weishan saw the last truck crossing the middle of the road, igniting a raging fire, completely blocking the road, and he couldn't help but slapped his thigh.

Yu Feng smiled slightly at Li Weishan and continued to direct his No. 1 gun to open fire at the Neon Army convoy.

Yu Feng was originally a recruit from the Third Battalion. Because of his high level of education, he was drawn into the Machine Cannon Company and became a mortar gunner when he formed the Machine Cannon Battalion. During his usual training, Yu Feng quickly stood out among all gunners and was appointed as the gunner commander by Li Weishan, the company commander of the Third Company.

As the mortars opened fire, eight M2 Browning heavy machine guns arranged on both sides of the road began to speak, constantly splashing barrage at the neon army hiding beside the truck. The terrible 12.7mm bullets easily penetrated the thin steel sheet of the truck and kept hitting the neon army hiding behind the truck. Mixed by the roar of the heavy machine guns, the Galand rifles in the hands of the soldiers of the spy company aimed at the Neon army that had nowhere to hide, running back and forth with precise firepower, and the firepower of the fifty Galand rifles was comparable to twenty light machine guns.

Yoshikawa Toro was caught off guard. Fortunately, he and Ike Ken Masao were sitting in a truck in the middle. When the cannon sounded, Ike Ken Masao, who had a lot of combat experience, pulled him out of the car and rolled into the ditch next to the road.

"Baga, what unit ambushed us? Could it be that Hua's German division has arrived?" The dense artillery fire and continuous heavy machine guns made everyone in the ditch, covering their faces that had just been wiped with their hands. Yoshikawa Toro was confused for a moment.

"Baga, the damn Chinese people, don't dare to face us head-on. Masano-kun should organize a counterattack immediately. The troops must stick out, otherwise they can only wait for death here." Yoshikawa Toyoro looked at both sides. The bullets flew over from both sides. It was obvious that the enemy had set up an ambush here and was waiting for them.

However, the counterattack was not organized. The heavy machine gun bullets shot from both sides like hornets not only made it impossible for the Neon Army, which had no time to hide in the ditch on both sides, had no way to hide. Moreover, being hit by a 12.7mm bullet was either cut in half, broken hands and feet, or lost their heads.

"Ah." A soldier lying under the truck saw with his own eyes that Cao Chang's waist was broken by bullets, his legs were still hanging on the car's baffle, but the upper half of his body was already lying on the road, and his internal organs were flowing everywhere from the car to the ground, and his intestines were still hanging on the baffle. Cao Chang stared at him with his gray eyes, and his hand holding the command knife was still twitching.

The soldier was frightened and collapsed. He screamed and stood up from the ground. Before he could stand up, a bullet that flew from afar lifted half of his head off, and the scream stopped abruptly. With a plop, the red and white objects quickly used from half of his head, mixed with Cao Chang's internal organs.

The 12.7mm bullets that kept firing not only caused a large number of casualties to the Neon Army, but also caused great panic to their psychology. These Japanese have never seen machine guns that could knock people into two pieces in half.

Eight sixty mortars were launched continuously, eight M2 Browning heavy machine guns, eight Browning light machine guns from the spy company, and fifty continuous fires of Galand rifles that popped up from time to time, suppressing a whole squadron of neon troops in the ditches on both sides of the road and unable to lift their heads. Only trucks were beaten into hornet's nests and nearly hundreds of corpses left on the road.

Neon troops hiding in the ditch on the roadside were all lowered their heads at this time, and they didn't even have the courage to probe their heads and ambush positions on both sides. They could not organize an effective counterattack under such circumstances. At this time, they would only suffer greater casualties.

"Chief of Staff, let my people rush to ensure that all the little Japanese hiding in the ditch are cleaned up." Peng Hui, holding a Thomson submachine gun in his hand, looked at the messy road that was beaten with excitement and asked Qiao Zhen for his order.

At this time, Peng Hui felt very regretful. Because Qiao Zhen arranged an ambush position to be some distance from the road, half of the soldiers in the spy company equipped with Thomson's submachine guns had no chance to fire due to the range. They were satisfied with just looking at the machine gun company and the machine gunners and riflesmen in his company. If they had known this, it would be better to change them to rifles when they came out. Without Galand, it would be fine to change them to Zhongzheng, and at least they would have the chance to kill one or two Japanese.

"No, the follow-up team of Neon Army is about to come up. Order the machine gun company to withdraw first, heavy machine guns will alternately cover, and the spy company will retreat behind the hall." Qiao Zhen said coldly without leaving the telescope.

"Retreat?" Peng Hui couldn't help but question. When he saw Qiao Zhen turn his cold eyes, he quickly responded loudly: "Yes."

The gunfire on both sides of the highway finally stopped. When it was confirmed that the ambush had retreated, Yoshikawa Tokuro and Masano Ichiken crawled out of the ditch. The mud and faces that were blackened by gun smoke made Yoshikawa Tokuro, who was usually very particular about image, look extremely embarrassed.

"Yoshikawa, the one who ambushed us just now was the Third Shanghai Security Regiment." Masaino Ichiken said gasping.

"Na Ni? Shanghai Security Third Regiment, is their firepower stronger than that of the German Machinery? Not only are they equipped with a large number of automatic weapons, but they also have heavy machine guns of such a large caliber?" Yoshikawa Toro stared at Masao Ichiken with wide eyes.

Masaino Ichiken glanced at the road lying full of corpses and gritted his teeth and said, "That's right, when they were retreating just now, I found that they were wearing yellow military uniforms of the security regiment."

"Baguya Road." Yoshikawa Toro pulled out his command knife and cut off a small tree on the side of the road, shouting: "Contact Commander Maeda immediately, I want reinforcements."

At this time, Yoshikawa Toyoro had already realized that his intelligence staff and security forces had already become in danger.

In the living room on the first floor of Nanjing, Huangpu Road, Qilu. At this time, Zhang Zhizhong had received a second telegram from his security headquarters. As he expected, the situation had further deteriorated. According to Chen Xiuwen's telegram, the Marine Corps stationed in Shanghai had officially started war with the Third Security Regiment.

"Chairman, why not let the 88th Division, which is closest to Shanghai, go up first. After all, the Neon Army has 3,000 people in Shanghai. I am worried that the Third Security Regiment will not be able to stand it for long." Zhang Zhizhong said anxiously.

From the 128th Shanghai War to the Great Wall War, several battles with the Neon Army, the casualties ratio between the country and the Neon Army were more than 1 to 5. During the 128th Incident, the two divisions of the 19th Route Army did not resist the attack of the 3,000 Japanese Marines, not to mention that there is only one regiment now. Even though this security regiment has changed its regular army and is equipped with a reinforced regiment according to the configuration and equipment of the German Armed Division Infantry Regiment, it is a fantasy to Zhang Zhizhong to block the same number of Neon Army.

"We cannot increase troops." Foreign Minister Wang Chonghui, who was standing by, said before Chiang Kai-shek said: "This time it was the Japanese who were provoking him, and we can completely resolve it through diplomatic channels. Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Italy and other countries have huge interests in Shanghai, and they will definitely mediate. If we send troops, we will violate the original "Shanghu Armistice Agreement", so that we will be very passive when mediating negotiations in the future."

"Minister Wang, it is not the time to mediate or not. Now it is the time to not mediate if we do not increase our troops, the mobile force I have placed in Shanghai will be eaten." Zhang Zhizhong said bluntly.
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