After Gao Xiangfa accepted the order, he immediately took his two battalions of 1,800 people and set off first with Lao Cheng's armored detachment.
According to Zhou Wu's arrangement, Gao Xiangfa led Lao Cheng's tanks and chariots to quickly assault in front of the Japanese position, and waited for the infantry behind to arrive, concentrating on tearing a hole.
Subsequently, Zhou Wu led the first battalion and Gao Xiangfa's second and third battalions to attack and harass the devils, and once they found that a large army of devils came up, they quickly evacuated to the position of the national army to join Ding Ning.
It's best if the devils don't chase after them, if they chase them directly, the anti-tank trenches, pits, and obstacles that Ding Ning prepared for them in front of the position happen to come in handy.
These things definitely work better at night than during the day.
Ding Ning was busy returning to the position to arrange, and now that they had their own tanks, Ding Ning had to arrange for someone to make a special passage in front of the position for their tanks to come and go freely.
Otherwise, the devil's tank didn't get into the pit, but put his own tank into it, which would make people laugh out of their big teeth.
Zhou Wu's first battalion was an hour later than Gao Xiangfa's move, and after Gao Xiangfa led the second and third battalions to set off, Zhou Wu suddenly felt that there was nothing to do, and this bit of sleep was not enough, so he simply led people to march slowly towards the devil's position.
First, it can allow everyone to enter the battle state early, and second, it can be adjusted at any time according to the situation of Gao Xiangfa's actions in front.
If the situation allows, Zhou Wu will attack quickly and decisively, not giving the little devil a chance to breathe.
Tonight we have to toss these guys well, so that they will not be able to launch a new large-scale attack tomorrow.
In the past two days, Matsui Ishone, the supreme commander of the Japanese Army's dispatch force in Shanghai, was in a good mood, and because of the lobbying of his classmates at the army headquarters and the strong support of his cousin, Prince Kaninnomiya, the Japanese government's stance began to change, and it was decided to send six more divisions to Shanghai.
These six divisions were respectively drawn from the Kwantung Army and the North China Dispatch Army, and they were to use four divisions to land in Hangzhou Bay, seize Jinshan and Jiaxing, Zhejiang, and then attack Jurong and Jiangning along the west bank of Taihu Lake.
In addition, two divisions were used to cooperate with the troops landing at Baimaokou in Taicang, and quickly seized the defense fortifications on the front line of Changshu and Jiangyin, and strived to firmly encircle and annihilate the 700,000 Chinese troops in Shanghai.
Matsui was now worried that the Chinese army would perceive his strategic intentions and quickly shrink their forces and move to the fortifications from Changshu to Jiangyin.
In this way, their six new divisions are of little significance.
At present, Matsui is still facing a nasty positional assault, not a battle of encirclement and annihilation.
If so many Chinese troops had been ruthless and had resisted with strong fortifications, then he boasted to the army headquarters that as long as he gave him five or six more divisions, he would be able to conquer Nanjing.
If this becomes true, it is estimated that waiting for Matsui is not just as simple as being relieved of his position, he will have to take responsibility for what he has said, and the only way to take responsibility is to cut himself out and thank the emperor, there is no other way.
In the past few days, Matsui has been paying close attention to the movements of the national army, but fortunately, he has a wide range of intelligence sources, there are many traitors in Shanghai, and there are also many spies planted in the top echelons of the national army.
So he basically knows what happened to the national army.
Including the news that the order to retreat had been issued from above, and it was changed to continue to hold the position in less than a day.
At present, the morale of the troops within the Nationalist army is unstable and demoralized, and some units have begun to flee in the direction of Zhenjiang and Nanjing.
Matsui knew all of this, and it seemed that his big words to the army headquarters were about to come true.
He will also be the first Imperial soldier to capture the enemy capital, what a thing to brag about.
Thinking of this, Matsui Ishone seemed to have felt the envious gaze cast at him by the officers of the main battle faction in the country, and the scene when His Majesty the Emperor personally awarded him the Imperial Medal.
The army on the opposite side is crumbling and disintegrating step by step, and as long as it makes more efforts, the Imperial Japanese Army will be able to capture Shanghai and encircle and annihilate 700,000 national troops.
At that time, the elite of the Chinese army was lost, the vitality was greatly damaged, and the remaining miscellaneous troops were simply unable to resist the powerful offensive of their imperial army, and the occupation of all of China was just around the corner.
The more Matsui thought about it, the more beautiful it became, he hummed a hometown song, and took his staff officer to the Yangtze River to catch fish leisurely.
The opposite of Matsui's leisurely is Nagashu Takeshi, who is slowly moving towards the devil's position at this time, worried along the way.
Zhou Wu was worried about the fate of the 7,000 brothers of the Independent Brigade, and he was seriously thinking about how to hold out for a day in the face of a large-scale attack by the devils.
If the 11th Division fails to seize the defense fortifications in Changshu in time the day after tomorrow, then everyone in the Independent Brigade will be in danger of never recovering.
In the face of more than ten times the elite Japanese army, relying on their strength alone, they may not even be able to break through.
Zhou Wu thought in his heart that he would be loyal to the country and kill himself, but he had no regrets.
It was originally the duty of a soldier to die on the battlefield, and the horse leather shroud was the highest honor for a soldier, and he was just worried about his parents, wives and children in Nanjing, what would happen to them in the future Then, Zhou Wu thought of the wounded who retreated in advance of the Independent Brigade, if the 11th Division could not seize the fortifications of Changshu and let the little devils take the lead, then the fate that awaited them would be equally tragic, even worse than death.
Fortunately, their side has enough weapons and ammunition, and the more than 7,000 people are elites who crawled out of the pile of dead people, and no matter how bad they are, they can resist the devils for a few days.
Like Ge Sanmin, they are different, most of them are lightly and seriously wounded, there is only one guard platoon and a convoy of non-combatants, and the rest are all doctors and nurses of the health company.
Zhou Wu suddenly regretted a little, thinking that they might be attacked by the devil's advance team, that kind of tragic situation could only silently pray in his heart that they could reach Changshu safely.
On the other side, Gao Xiangfa, who was in charge of taking the lead, was running out of breath behind the tank and chariot with more than 1,800 brothers, out of breath.
When he first set off, Lao Cheng warmly invited Gao Xiangfa to sit in the chariot with him, but was politely declined by Gao Xiangfa.
Moreover, the reason for his refusal almost made Lao Cheng angry: "This iron lump is so small, I am such a tall man to sit in it, you are not afraid of being crowded, I would rather run with my brothers than sit on this thing." ” Lao Cheng shook his head again and again, he had no choice if he didn't sit, so he had to order the tank and combat vehicles to slow down as much as possible, otherwise the infantry behind would definitely not be able to catch up.
In case they are discovered by the little devil's scouts, they will not be able to eat and walk away.
As a result, the march of the whole team was much slower, and the infantry behind was almost prostrated in order to catch up with the tanks.
But the tanks in front always felt like snails crawling on these infantry.
The contradiction soon arose, and the infantry desperately begged the tanks and fighting vehicles to slow down, and those tanks were already driving slowly enough, and when they heard the infantry shouting, they also quarreled.
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When Gao Xiangfa heard it, it was bad, this was just halfway through, but he didn't expect his own people to pinch it first.
He hurriedly ran to the front to find Lao Cheng and asked him to quickly think of a way to ensure that the infantry and tanks arrived safely at the devil's position at the same time.
Lao Cheng thought to himself that this is easy to do, anyway, everyone has a radio, the infantry is one step ahead, and when they are almost at the devil's position, they will use radio contact, and the tank detachment is expected to arrive within twenty minutes.
Lao Cheng repeatedly told Gao Xiangfa that before their tanks and combat vehicles arrived, they must not act rashly, and they could send a few people with good skills to touch the situation of the devil.
After the tank and combat vehicle arrive, according to the specific situation, choose to attack the weakest place of the devils and catch them by surprise.
As soon as the battle started here, contact the battalion behind.
They are responsible for fishing in troubled waters inside, and Zhou Wu is responsible for fanning the flames outside, in short, if you want to disturb the little devils, tonight's task will be completed.
After listening to this, Gao Xiangfa nodded again and again.
This Lao Cheng really has a set, it seems that he has been wronged to be a company commander, with his theoretical level, it is more than enough to be a regiment commander.
After this battle, he was going to talk to Zhou Wu, so let someone be a battalion commander or something, don't bury the talent.
The two discussed, all the tanks and tanks stopped, and the infantry continued to march forward.
Lao Cheng reported what had just happened to Zhou Wu.
Zhou Wu felt that Lao Cheng had handled this matter very well, and immediately praised him a few words, and ordered Gao Xiangfa through the radio, asking them to move forward as quickly as possible, and strive to reach the devil's position within an hour.
If it drags on for a long time, it will be detrimental to their actions at night, and at the same time it will increase casualties.
He told Lao Gao that in addition to weapons and ammunition, everything else that could be thrown away should be thrown away, and he would move forward lightly and quickly, even if someone ran to his death, the Independent Brigade also recognized the martyrs for them.
Anyway, it's just a sentence, at all costs, be sure to rush to the devil's position before 11 o'clock in the evening.
After receiving this order, Gao Xiangfa immediately asked the brothers to throw away the bottles and cans on their bodies, and all of them ran forward lightly, arriving at the predetermined place within an hour. t1706231537: