In mid-September, in view of the increasing number of Central Army's German-Armed Divisions, local divisions and even security groups entering Shanghai, in order to facilitate effective command, Chairman Jiang issued an order to reorganize the battle sequence, and organized more than 50 national military advisors entering the battlefield of Songhu into three strategic military groups, left-wing, central and right-wing, and each performs its duties.

Among them, the right-wing army with Zhang Fakui as commander-in-chief was responsible for the defense of Pudong, Hangzhou Bay, especially Ningbo, and the Central Army with Zhu Shaoliang as commander-in-chief was responsible for restraining the 3rd Japanese Division landed from Zhang Huabin. Only the left-wing army with Chen Cheng as commander-in-chief was responsible for attacking the 11th Japanese Division landed from Sichuan Shakou and Shizilin.

Among the three strategic armies, only the left-wing army took the offensive. In order to make the fist beaten enough lethality, Chairman Jiang organized 26 of the more than 50 German armed divisions invested in the battlefield of Songhu into the left-wing army. Among them, the 15th Army, with Luo Zhuoying as the commander-in-chief, concentrated 18 German armed divisions!

The tactical concept proposed by Farkenhausen was good, which was to concentrate absolute superior forces, first deal with the 11th Japanese Division landed in Chuanshakou and Lionlin, and then concentrate the two strategic armies of the left wing and the central government to crush the 3rd Japanese Division landed in Zhang Huabin, Wusong Fortress and Qiujiang Wharf with thunder.

However, the old German obviously did not take Japan's naval aviation and army aviation into consideration, or he estimated the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Air Force over the high ground, believing that the Chinese Air Force could not suppress the Japanese army's land aviation and HNA, it could withstand at least for a period of time. However, the fact is that within two weeks of the Battle of Songhu, the Chinese Air Force planes were basically not visible over the Songhu battlefield.

The soldiers of the Chinese Air Force fought extremely bravely. They often flew the soon-to-be-crashed fighter jets to hit the Japanese Navy's warships and even the Japanese Navy Special Forces Corps Command stationed in Shanghai. They have done their best. Unfortunately, the National Government has no aviation industry and cannot provide them with a steady stream of aircraft.

Without the protection of the Air Force, the terrain of the Songhu area was extremely unfavorable, and the result can be imagined.

Although Chen Cheng's left-wing strategic army group concentrated 26 of the most elite German divisions and almost all artillery units, it was impossible to achieve a substantial breakthrough under the fierce bombing of the Japanese aviation army. After half a month of attack, more than 50,000 casualties, the front line only advanced less than two kilometers!

Farkenhausen even underestimated the Japanese government's determination to win the Battle of Songhu and its ability to mobilize wars. By late September, the second batch of three armies mobilized by the Japanese government, two heavy artillery brigades, the Chongteng Detachment stationed in Taiwan, and three mixed brigades of the puppet Manchukuo Army arrived at the battlefield of Songhu one after another. All of these troops were put into the left-wing battlefield.

On September 22, the 9th Division of the Japanese Army and the 101st Division were the first to enter the battlefield and launched a fierce attack on Luodian. Luo Zhuoying's 18th Army and Ye Zhao's 66th Army did not know that the Japanese reinforcements had arrived, and they still launched an attack like they did a few days ago, but ended up crashing into the arms of the 9th and 101st Divisions of the Japanese Army.

At this time, the firepower gap between the two armies of China and Japan became increasingly disparate. Under the bombing of Japanese aviation, the artillery of the Kuomintang was basically destroyed, while the Japanese army added two new heavy artillery brigades. The brave soldiers of the Kuomintang could only launch tragic and desperate charges again and again under the Japanese artillery fire, and then fell on the battlefield in batches.

The fierce battle was in the early morning of the 24th. Nearly 20,000 officers and soldiers of the 159th Division, which was responsible for the main attack, were all killed. Chairman Jiang was really beaten and it was so painful that he quickly bypassed the commander of the Third War Zone and gave Chen Cheng a direct order, ordering the left-wing army group to retreat west of the Shanghai-Taiwan Highway and turn from attack to defense.

However, the deaths of the 159th Division and the 160th Division were not without cost. The two divisions attacked fiercely for two days and two nights without cost, poured cold water on the 9th and 101st Divisions of the Japanese army that had just been put on the battlefield. These two divisions were considered relatively capable field divisions among the Japanese army. As a result, they won a terrible victory in the first battle, and there were indeed quite a lot of casualties.

How miserable is the Japanese army? A squadron leader of the 9th Division refused to charge because the squadron was too heavy for casualties. The squadron leader slapped him several times in the face. As a result, the squadron leader was furious and gathered several veterans of the squadron to kill the squadron. This was the only mutiny of the Japanese army during the Battle of Shanghai.

When the commander of the Shanghai Condemnation Army, Matsui Ishien, saw that this was not possible. He immediately turned the main attack from Luodian to the big field. The purpose of course was to avoid the real and attack the virtual, and to try to seek breakthroughs from the gap between the left-wing army group of the National Army and the Central Army group, and then deviate and intercept the national army's retreat. These are all old routines left.

On October 15, the Japanese army broke through the defense line of the scattered shore and the big field was in a hurry.

At this time, most of the more than 50 German-armed divisions who had previously been put into the battlefield of Songhu were exhausted, and basically no troops were drawn from each front. Seeing that the battle situation was about to get out of control, the old Japanese devils of Matsui were about to work, and the Gui army that drove from Guangxi from thousands of miles away arrived.

The first batch of Gui army to arrive at the Songhu battlefield had four divisions, mainly Liao Lei's 21st Army.

Liao Lei's 21st Army is the trump card of the Guangxi clan, with Zhou Zuhuang's Seventh Army and Wei Yunsong's 48th Army. Each army has three divisions under its jurisdiction, equipped with some French ordnances, and has extremely strong combat effectiveness.

There were two different opinions on how to use Liao Lei's 21st Army at that time. One opinion was that the 21st Army should be put into the Liuhe battlefield, and attacked Chuanshakou and Lion Forest from the flanks, and threatened the Japanese army behind them. The other opinion was that the 21st Army should be put into the field and the Japanese army's sharp edge.

The Kuomintang army was in a weak position, so it was the right choice to avoid the weak points of the Japanese army's fierce attack. However, Chairman Jiang took another step here and actually threw the 21st Army into the field to strike the Japanese army head-on. What's even more tragic is that from senior generals to ordinary soldiers, the Gui army regarded the Japanese army as local troops during the warlords' melee.

The 48th Army, who was responsible for the main attack, organized more than 10,000 suicide squadrons, lined up and shouted slogans to move forward. The remaining more than 20,000 officers and soldiers also launched on the battlefield in dense formations. As a result, two heavy artillery brigades of the Japanese army, three field artillery corps and Japanese warships anchored on the Yangtze River, opened fire in full swing, and nearly a hundred fighter bombers bombed indiscriminately. The soldiers of the Gui army were cut down like wheat in summer. In less than three days, most of the more than 30,000 officers and soldiers in the army died in battle, and six of the brigade commanders were killed. After the battle, Bai Chongxi was so sad that his lips were trembling, and he couldn't eat for several days.

After the failure of this counterattack, the Kuomintang army no longer had the spirit of counterattack and had no ability.

In late October, the field fell and the battle situation became increasingly unfavorable. At this time, Zhu Shaoliang's Central Army Group had retreated to the south of the Suzhou River. Only one battalion of the 88th Division was left in Suzhou Hebei, and it was still resisting desperately in the Sihang Warehouse. This was the 1st Battalion of the 524th Regiment. The heroic spirit of the 800 heroes guarding the Sihang alone inspired countless overseas Chinese.

Chen Cheng's left-wing army also retreated to Jiading and Nanxiang.

If the Japanese army continued to detour west along the north bank of the Suzhou River, they could easily split the connection between the left-wing army and the Central Army, and then defeat them one by one. Fortunately, the five Japanese divisions, the Chongteng Detachment, and the three brigades of the puppet Manchukuo Army that had been successively invested in the battlefield of Songhu were already exhausted from the veterans and could no longer attack.

At this moment, Ishihara Kanir, who was far away in Tokyo, finally tore off his non-expanding disguise, revealing his sharp fangs, and drew out the 6th Division, the Kuozaki Detachment, the 18th Division from Manchuria, and urgently mobilized the 114th Division from the country to form the 10th Army to prepare to land in Hangzhou Bay and intercept the national army's retreat.

However, the top leaders of any country are not short of bureaucrats who are in corpse and are not short of bureaucrats. Ishihara Kanir's good intentions have not been understood by these bureaucrats. Seeing that Ishihara Kanir's strategy of "gradually increasing troops and luring and annihilated the main force of the national army in the Songhu area" was about to succeed, the old Japanese were forced to resign by those bureaucrats who are in corpse and have made a strategic mistake of gradually increasing troops, so that the Japanese army failed to quickly resolve the Shanghai Incident, which had an adverse international impact.

Of course, although Ishihara Kanir resigned, the 10th Army was still compiled according to his vision.

The agents of the National Government were very powerful this time. Whether it was a spy lurking in Tokyo or a operative from the Blue-Clothing Society Technical Department, they had already noticed the abnormal movements of the Japanese army and judged that the Japanese army was about to increase their troops again. However, they did not know how much troops the Japanese army would invest this time, and they could not know the specific landing location of the Japanese army.

However, the senior officials of the State Government generally believe that the Japanese army would land along the Yangtze River north of the Liuhe River. Five years ago, the Japanese army did this during the 128th Shanghai War of Resistance Against Japan. This time, it would be no exception. Chairman Jiang urgently transferred Shangguan Yunxiang's 11th Army and Zhang Jin's 12th Army into Liu Xing's River Defense Army Group to strengthen defense along the river.

The Battle of Shanghai has reached this point. Even Farkenhausen, a stubborn German old man, had to admit that it was impossible for the national army to defend Shanghai. The most correct choice at this time should be to leave five to ten miscellaneous divisions to break the rear, and then decisively retreat all German divisions to four national defense lines fortification.

Chairman Jiang also recognized this and issued an order to retreat to the troops.

To make a bold assumption, if the main force of the national army on the Songhu battlefield retreated to Wu Fu, Xicheng, Jiazha and Haijia as planned to defend the four four defense lines by risk, then the course of the War of Resistance would be completely different. With Japan's limited national strength, it might not be able to enter Wuhan, and even Nanjing might not be able to fight.

Since the Battle of Shanghai, the number of casualties of the National Army has exceeded 200,000. Due to the shortage of drugs and the shortage of medical personnel, at least 100,000 of the 200,000 soldiers have sacrificed their precious lives. The casualties of the National Army are so great, but it should be pointed out that at least more than half of the backbone veterans of the 59 German armed divisions have retained at least half of the backbone veterans.

If these backbone veterans can be given a week to half a month rest time to restore their physical strength, they will be able to recover soon and then replenish the appropriate number of strong men. With the strong national defense fortifications, they will fight a few battles with the Japanese army in less than half a year, and these German divisions will be fully restored to their combat effectiveness.

If this is the case, the process of the War of Resistance will be completely rewritten.

But unfortunately, there is no such thing as history, Chairman Jiang has made trouble again at this deadly critical moment!

Just the day after the withdrawal order was issued, when the troops of the National Army on the battlefield of Songhu were preparing to retreat one after another, Chairman Chiang suddenly convened an emergency meeting and said at the meeting that the Nine-Nation Convention was meeting. If the National Army could defend Shanghai for one to two weeks, the Nine-Nation Convention might come forward to sanction Japan.
Chapter completed!