As the war continued to worsen and break out, the entrances and exits to the foreign public concessions and the Zhabei area were blocked by foreign patrols using iron gates.

Everywhere is guarded by foreign merchants from all over the world. Although the roads and lights in the far reaches of Zhabei are still supplying electricity normally, there is no one on the road, as if it is an uninhabited area, which makes people feel a little bit.

Shocked. At the same time, residents in Wusong, Zhabei and Jiangwan areas all led their travelers towards the concession area to relocate and flee. All cars and rickshaws were rented out by these people.

However, Japanese intelligence officers were also mixed in, as well as various traffic arteries and public places to spy on information.

At this time, many shops in the public concession were no longer open and had their doors closed. Many foreign trams had also stopped operating, and new instructions were being issued at the automobile factory.

Only two or three trams were left to maintain normal operation in the safe area.

As for the various foreign powers, whether it is Britain, the United States, France, the German army and other foreign countries, they quickly dispatched warships to transport reinforcements to Songhu to prepare for the Japanese invasion and deployment, and to protect the interests of the foreign concessions, and

The safety of foreign residents living in foreign concessions.

The British and American Marine Corps also dispatched a large number of reinforcements from Hong Kong Island and the Philippines respectively to the foreign concessions to garrison them.

The International Business Group in the public concession, and the Belarusian business group in the French Concession, also deployed troops and generals to guard various intersections on the border of the concession. All foreign police and Chinese police forces in the concession, as well as patrol officers, were also dispatched to maintain the traffic.

Security within the concession to prevent civil unrest.

At the same time, all river and sea ships in Songhu have all left the port terminals. In short, since the outbreak of the war, as long as all domestic shipping companies, whether state-owned, civil aviation, or regular shipping companies of major routes

All routes have been strictly ordered to stop shipping.

In addition to the prohibition of entry and exit of maritime routes, even trains and trains on the Beijing-Shanghai Railway line are prohibited from suspending service.

The three major newspapers in Songhu (Declaration), (News) and (Times) are also constantly reporting on the latest news about this Songhu Battle.

In particular, the reports on the battle between the 88th Division, the 87th Division and the 36th Division of the National Army, these three elite ace troops, and the Japanese Marine Corps were like snowflakes, and they were constantly reported.

In addition to the reports from these newspapers, there are many foreign newspapers, large, medium and small, all carrying out uproarious reports, and there are also countless people buying newspapers to learn about the latest war situation.

Because these are things that all big cities in China and all foreign concessions are paying attention to and are concerned about.

Therefore, the latest battle news reported by these newspapers was sold out at once, and the sales volume was unprecedentedly huge.

The night when the Battle of Songhu began, it was a sleepless night for everyone in Songhu.

Even for President Chang Kaishen, he stayed up all night. In his small red western-style house with flowers and trees, in a brightly lit room, he kept receiving telegrams from the front line.

Urgent telegrams are coming from the front line day and night. The beginning of each telegram is either "Urgent" in big letters, or it is marked with a super big "Urgent" character.

And every night, Chairman Chang and Minister He He would summon all the chiefs, directors, department directors, directors, as well as officers of the combat committee, staff officers and other important personnel.

Get up and have a meeting.

They will first listen to the latest battle reports from the front line, and then discuss various strategic deployments and various ways to deal with the Japanese counterattack.

But it was because of their hesitation that General Zhang received "no attack" orders one after another within two days of the war.

As a result, the combat deployments that General Zhang and his elite troops had painstakingly laid out for several months were all disrupted.

It also prevented them from sweeping all the Japanese Marines from Hongkou into the Huangpu River to feed the fish during the best fighting period, allowing them to rout back to the Japanese homeland with their tail between their legs and end this battle.

Instead, the Japanese army used cunning negotiation and delaying techniques, which gave Huaguotong's Matsui Iwane the opportunity to lead the reinforcements of the Japanese dispatched army to Songhu and conduct operations to support the Japanese marines.

Thus completely reversing the Japanese army's combat disadvantage in Songhu,

After the Japanese army approved the dispatch of reinforcements to support the operation,

Under the command of Matsui Iwane, the 5th and 6th divisions led by Hisao Tani also began emergency mobilization. They set off from Kure Port in Hiroshima to Fushan. The large transport fleet cut through the waves and braved the wind and waves to transport these elite Japanese troops from Kyushu.

, the Kagoshima and Nagasaki sea areas, passed through some straits of the Korean islands they occupied, and after arriving at Jinshan,

They immediately used trains to transport them to Pyongyang, Andong, Shenyang, and Shanhaiguan, until they reached the Pingjin area occupied by them, and then transferred them to Songhu to participate in the battle.

The Japanese 10th Division, under the personal command of Lieutenant General Isotani Rensuke, conducted a landing operation in the Tanggu area of ​​Songhu, successfully completed the landing, and defeated General Song's troops who stood on that side, and immediately followed the

The Jinpu Railway went south to Songhu to participate in the battle.

The Japanese troops led by Matsui Iwane personally were the Japanese 3rd Division and set off early to support the Songhu battle. This was a situation that did not exist in the original time and space.

At this time, the Japanese troops gathered in Songhu will continue to follow the combat deployment of the Japanese base camp, and will gradually add more Japanese reinforcements, and will form four armies and 18 Japanese divisions.

It also has 4 mixed brigades, 3 tank squadrons, 16 flying squadrons, a combined fleet, 3 assisting combat fleets, and 15 battleship squadrons.

The Japanese air force is expected to have 24 squadrons and more than 1,500 aircraft.

On the naval side, there are almost 300 warships.

These military expenditures also exceeded almost 1.1 billion yen.

But even so, the Japanese army, which has revealed its corruption and ambition, is also preparing to carry out a comprehensive aggressive operation like an ant eating an elephant.

It's just that Commander Matsui Iwane never thought that the Japanese 3rd Division, the surprise force he personally led, would be bombed one after another by Liu Feiyang's flying troops during the landing operation, and they still suffered a lot of casualties.

Japanese soldiers,
Chapter completed!