Half an hour later, a telegram from Jun Nakamura arrived at the 12th Army Headquarters in Nanjing. 』
The telegram said this. Jiangwan Town was attacked by a patrol battalion last night. The patrol battalion adopted an attack strategy of attacking from the east and attacking from the west. It first used the main force to attack the outskirts of Jiangwan Town to attract the attention of the defenders, and then sent out a small group of elite troops. The troops carried out an attack on Jiangwan Airport.
After the airport was raided, the garrison immediately called for help from the Nakamura Agency.
After receiving the call for help, Toshi Nakamura quickly led the military police to rush to the rescue.
However, they did not expect that the patrol battalion was implementing a serial plan. After Nakamura Shun led the gendarmerie to leave the Nakamura Agency, another small elite unit of the patrol battalion attacked the Nakamura Agency. At this time, Broadway Building and No. 76 were outside. The gendarmerie of the Nakamura Agency was transferred to the airport again, leaving only a small number of staff at the Nakamura Agency.
As a result, the Nakamura Agency was destroyed by the patrol camp, the remaining personnel were collectively shattered, and a large amount of materials were destroyed. The puppy Shiro who happened to be interrogating the prisoners in the dungeon at the time was also shattered on the spot.
However, the good news is that when the fighting was at its fiercest, the first batch of six transport planes landed at Jiangwan Airport. An infantry squadron that got off the transport plane quickly jumped into the battle. With the addition of this infantry squadron, Jiangwan quickly turned the corner. After the patrol battalion realized that the sneak attack had failed, they immediately withdrew from the battle.
"Your Excellency Colonel, are you going to send more people to Jiangwan?" the adjutant asked.
"No, forget it." Aoki Shigesheng shook his head and said helplessly, "There's no time."
There is really no time, because the 20th Division has boarded the transport ship from Incheon Port and is heading to Shanghai. According to normal speed, it can reach the sea outside Wusong before noon tomorrow, so Aoki Shigemako has to go to Suzhou, Kunshan, and Taicang. Make preparations. Let’s not talk about anything else. The rations to supply the 20th Division must be prepared first.
The 20th Division only received people and weapons and ammunition, and the rest of the military supplies had to be provided by the garrison.
The 20th Division is a full-strength division with more than 25,000 troops. It is not a small number of people to eat and chew every day. However, all the supplies in Shanghai were stored in the urban area, and the urban area was lost. Later, these supplies were either destroyed or fell into the hands of the patrol battalion, so Aoki Shigemai had to seize the time to collect and transport them.
This work was extremely arduous, so Aoki Shigemai really couldn't care less about investigating the Broadway Building.
Moreover, Aoki Shigemai is a typical large infantry advocate. The 25,000-strong army of the 20th Division will soon arrive in Shanghai. In a few days, the 7th Division will also arrive in Shanghai soon. Faced with With such a huge and heavily armed group, even if there are problems with Liang Wuyi's Broadway Building, what can it do
Facing an army of over 50,000 people, what can a few hundred people in the Broadway Building accomplish
At worst, they will be arrested when the time comes, or we can just find an excuse to kill him!
Aoki Shigemai really has no time or energy to care about such trivial matters.
At that moment, Aoki Shigemako ordered the adjutant: "Onigashima-kun, prepare the car immediately, let's go to Suzhou first!"
"Hai!" Adjutant Onigashima paused, then hurriedly walked out of the headquarters and prepared his car.
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When Aoki Shigemagi hurried to Suzhou, Xu Rui also summoned the chief officers of the Songhu Military Division for a meeting.
While Jiangwan was in a mess, Xu Rui sneaked back to the Broadway Building with the sweet potato. Anyway, the whole Jiangwan was in a mess at this time. As long as Nakamura Shun didn't look for him, no one would find that Liang Wuyi was not on the battlefield. As for Nakamura Shun, he would never look for him at this time.
As soon as he returned to Broadway Building, Xu Rui immediately convened a meeting with the top brass of the military division.
At this time, Leng Tiefeng had not returned from his trip. In addition to himself, there were five other people present at the meeting: Xie Yuan, Yang Rui, Wang Husheng, Jiang Nan and Liu Mei. They were also the core leadership of the Songhu Military Division, including the commander, political commissar, Two deputy commanders, the director of the Political Department and the deputy director of the Political Department.
"Let me report some good news to everyone first." Xu Rui said, "The 20th Division of the Little Devils has boarded the ship from Incheon Port and will arrive at the sea outside Wusong at noon tomorrow at the latest. In other words, tomorrow afternoon, the Little Devils The vanguard of the 20th Division is very likely to appear in Jiangwan."
When Xie Yuan and Yang Rui heard this, their hearts sank.
Isn't the Japanese's revenge coming too soon
Wang Husheng said angrily: "Old Xu, what kind of damn good news is this?"
"Why isn't this good news?" Xu Rui said with a smile, "The little devil has brought us meat and vegetables again."
"Meat and vegetables?" Xie Yuan said, "The commander is a little too complacent. This is a permanent division in the true sense! It is not the same thing as the Ninth Division."
Next to them, Yang Rui, Liu Mei and Jiang Nan also nodded in agreement.
The 20th Division was indeed different from the 9th Division that they had just annihilated. The 9th Division had been severely damaged twice on the battlefield in Central China. Until it was annihilated, its soldiers and technical equipment had not been fully replenished. It's even worse. As for combat effectiveness, it's even worse than a mixed brigade.
If not for this, the patrol battalion would not have won so easily!
However, this 20th Division did not suffer heavy losses on the Chinese battlefield. Not only did it retain a large number of veterans with combat experience, but its technical equipment was intact, it also severely damaged the Central Army and Shanxi-Sui Army in the North China battlefield. They have a strong psychological advantage against the Chinese ** team, which is undoubtedly an extremely difficult opponent.
"What about the permanent division?" Xu Rui said suddenly, "Isn't the 10th Division a permanent division? Isn't the Sixth Division a permanent division? Wasn't it still destroyed by us in the end?" Xu Rui paused for a moment, Rui continued, "What's more, it's better to only come with the 20th Division than with the 20th Division and the 7th Division, right?"
"I'm afraid there's not much difference." Yang Rui shook his head and said, "The left and right are retreating into the city to fight in the streets."
"Old Yang, what you said is wrong. The difference is huge." Xu Rui shook his head, thinking in his mind that compared with the commanders of the Dameishan Division, commanders like Xie Yuan and Yang Rui who came from the National Army The Communist Party members were much more pessimistic, because the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Songhu left a deep impression on them. Although they had just wiped out the Japanese 9th Division, a single victory was not enough to reverse their consistent impression of the Japanese.
Therefore, they will always unconsciously overestimate the Japanese and underestimate themselves.
In contrast, the commanders of the Dameishan Military Division are much more confident. Young officers like Tiegang, He Shuya, Huang Shouxin, and Mei Jiuling dare to think of a rout battle with twice the strength of the Japanese. In the eyes of an officer from the National Army, he dared to think of swallowing up the invading Japanese. This was simply unimaginable in the eyes of an officer who came from the National Army.
In short, in the final analysis, Xie Yuan and Yang Rui still win fewer battles. When they win more battles, they will gradually change their original ideas and become as confident as He Shuya and the others!
But now, Xu Rui must give them confidence.
Xu Rui said: "With the current strength of our Songhu Military Division, if the Japs call in two divisions at once, then we really have no choice at all. We can only retreat into the city and follow The Japs started street fighting, hoping to wear down the Japs little by little through brutal street fighting, and then look for opportunities to counterattack."
Yang Rui said: "The little devil only comes to one division, isn't it like this?"
Xie Yuan also said: "Can we still eat the 20th Division?"
"Why not?" Xu Rui said coldly, "Why not eat the 20th Division?"
"What?" Xie Yuanqi said dumbfounded, "Commander, do you really want to eat the 20th Division?"
Yang Rui also lost his voice and said: "Eat the 20th Division before the 7th Division arrives? Commander, how dare you think!"
"Why don't I dare to think?" Xu Rui said hesitantly, "If you dare to think, you will dare to do it. Only if you dare to do it, you will have a chance to win! If we don't even dare to think, what else can we do?"
Xie Yuan frowned and said, "But there are some things that you can't just think about."
"It's not clear here, let's go to the war room." After Xu Rui said that, he turned and left.
After walking into the war room, Xu Rui pointed at the map and said to everyone: "According to the intelligence, the 20th Division of the Little Devils will seize the beach from the Lion Forest area, and then along the Songhu battle line, the 11th The division's route advanced southward to Jiangwan, and finally used Jiangwan as a strategic fulcrum to gradually encroach on Zhabei, Hongkou, Yangshu, and even the concession."
Wang Husheng said: "It is not difficult to understand why the Japanese want to defend Jiangwan, because if they hold Jiangwan, there will be a smooth road from Shizilin Deng6 to Jiangwan, but if Jiangwan is lost, Baoshan and Jiading will also With the fall, the 20th Division will have to go through the same old path as the 11th Division after landing on the 6th."
Xie Yuan said: "The reason why the Japanese base camp temporarily changed its deployment and urgently mobilized the 20th Division to come to Shanghai is probably for this reason, because if the 7th Division arrived in Shanghai together, Jiangwan would have been lost long ago. , at that time the Japanese army could only push southward little by little from the Lion Forest."
In the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese 11th Division advanced southward from Lion Grove, and it was really bloody and tearful step by step.
The bloody battle in Luodian was a bloody battle. The path forward of the Japanese 11th Division was almost paved with corpses.
Xu Rui sneered: "The memories of Lion Forest, Luodian and Dachang will definitely not be so good for the Japanese. That's why the Japanese base camp would rather risk being defeated by each one than to defend Jiangwan to the death."
Xie Yuan said: "The problem is that we do not have the ability to defeat them individually."
Xu Rui said: "You are wrong, we really have the ability to defeat them!"
Xie Yuan said: "Commander, I would like to ask, how do you defeat each one?"
Xu Rui said: "Empty words are unconvincing. Let's have a war game. You two, Lao Xie and Lao Yang, will be aggrieved and make a guest appearance as the 20th Division."
"No problem." Xie Yuan and Yang Rui agreed happily.