Since the end of the Gulf War, Li Weidong has been paying attention to the war situation in the north. It has been more than a month since the Marco Polo Bridge Incident broke out, and the Japanese invading army launched a large-scale military attack on Shanghai.
However, due to the Japanese attack, Li Weidong had no time to pay attention to the distant war situation. He only sent a teaching group to guard the base and rushed to Shanghai via land for reinforcements. This was also a gesture to Chairman Chiang and proved that he was willing to accept the leadership of the Nanjing government.
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Li Weidong calculated that it had been going back and forth for more than ten days, and the teaching team should have arrived in Shanghai. The total number of teaching teams was 2,000 people. For the hundreds of thousands of troops invested by both sides, it might not even be possible.
None.
However, as the force under Li Weidong that guards the base, how could the teaching group not have two skills? The soldiers in the teaching group are all genetic soldiers, and they have undergone long-term training, and most of them are promoted genetic soldiers. Combat
With superb qualities, they are also Li Weidong's secret ace unit.
There is nothing Li Weidong can do if he only sends this small number of people. Even if he does not consider the defense of Hainan, he sends all his troops. But what will these two to thirty thousand people rely on for food along the way? Those "Tu emperors" from various places can make him so
Are there many people entering their defense area? Are you not afraid that you will occupy their home base?
According to intelligence information from the Military Intelligence Section, first, two Japanese Marine Corps officers and soldiers stationed in Shanghai drove into Hongqiao Airport for an armed provocation and were immediately shot dead by the defenders. Two days later, the Japanese army used this as an excuse to attack Shanghai.
Launched an attack.
After more than ten days of continuous attacks, the Nationalist Army stationed in Shanghai suffered heavy casualties, and both sides continued to send reinforcements to Shanghai. At that time, Li Weidong, who was far away in Hainan, received an order from the Central Military Commission, but after he agreed to assist a group of aircraft
Then he didn't say anything. The headquarters of the Ninth Army of the National Army stationed in Shanghai!
"Boom...!!" There was a slight earthquake on the ground. It was an artillery shell that exploded nearby, and a plume of dust fell on the map. The headquarters staff quickly brushed away the dust on the map with their hands.
"Military seat, the casualties of the frontline troops are very heavy, brothers can no longer hold on!" Commander Shen Guanghan of the 60th Division said to Army Commander Zhang Zhizhong.
"I know. Tell the brothers, hold on, the support troops will be here soon." Zhang Zhizhong comforted his men. He actually didn't know when the reinforcements would arrive. The superiors just kept telling them to hold on to Shanghai. He also knew
The consequences of the fall of Shanghai were so heavy that we could only bear the consequences.
However, the intensity of the Japanese attack and the support of naval warships caused heavy casualties to the Nationalist Army soldiers. In the past ten days, if the Nanjing government had not mobilized support from two nearby divisions to arrive, the defense line would have collapsed long ago.
.Now that the Japanese army on the opposite side has received support from the headquarters, the attack is even more frenzied.
The defensive position of Shen Guanghan and his 60th Division in front of him is the Yangtze River estuary area, located on the left side of the entire front. In recent days, the Japanese army has carried out landing operations at the Yangtze River estuary many times, attacking the left wing of the defenders of the 60th Division position, and was attacked by the defenders.
The army's tenacious resistance.
But in contrast, the Sixty Division suffered heavy losses, and most of the soldiers fought with injuries. The hospital was full of injured officers and soldiers, and Shen Guanghan's troops couldn't bear it anymore, so they came to the military headquarters to ask Zhang Zhizhong for reinforcements.
The war was raging, and Shanghai was in chaos. Those who could afford it had to flee with their families to other places, or hide in foreign rental housing. The remaining civilians could only hide at home and wait for the final outcome.
"Report to the military! A regiment of soldiers came outside. They said they were ordered to come to support the operation." Zhang Zhizhong was studying defensive strategies at the headquarters when he suddenly heard the report from his subordinates. He was suddenly puzzled. According to the situation of reinforcements in various places, it was impossible.
Arrive now!
"Bring their commander in quickly!" Zhang Zhizhong ordered. He sighed that just as he was about to doze off, someone sent pillows. With a group of soldiers, the frontline troops can reduce some pressure.
After a while, the guards brought in a young officer in his mid-twenties. The man had thick eyebrows and big eyes, a standard oriental face, and looked very smart. His face was stained by travel, and he had a lot of clothes on his body.
The dust covered by the military showed that they had traveled a long way to get here.
As soon as he entered the door and saw the general star epaulets on Zhang Zhizhong's shoulders, he immediately saluted: "The Hainan Teaching Group has been ordered to report and ask the general to issue combat orders!"
"Which army are you from? How many people are here in total?" Zhang Zhizhong asked. Since they are reinforcements, his army can also take a breather. If this continues, he doesn't know how the army can persist.
After questioning, Zhang Zhizhong understood where this teaching group came from. He had heard of the military coup in Hainan, which was actually caused by Liu Yongqi's excessive oppression. At that time, he did not care about the new man who came to power.
He was not interested in paying attention to a character in a remote and remote area.
Some time ago, he heard that the government had obtained a batch of aircraft from there, which really piqued his interest. But then he got into trouble with the Japanese, and the matter was forgotten, and he had no time to pay attention to it.
Hainan. What he didn't expect was that the Hainan military government actually sent troops here.
Although the number of troops in Hainan was small, mosquitoes were still meat no matter how small they were. Some were better than nothing. Zhang Zhizhong also arranged for a teaching regiment to be stationed in the Yangtze River Estuary area. The Second Regiment of the 60th Division there suffered too many casualties and could no longer hold on.
The position of the Second Regiment was covered by a burst of artillery fire, and the gunfire filled the air. When the Japanese artillery fire stopped, the commander of the Second Regiment, Wang Jingguo, crawled out of the trench, shook off the broken soil on his body, and carefully stuck out his head to look outside with his helmet on.
I saw Japanese soldiers wearing khaki military uniforms in the distance slowly approaching.
"Brothers! The Japs are coming! Fight!" Following the order of Wang Jingguo, the leader of the Second Regiment, a burst of chaotic gunfire rang out on the position. Among them were box artillery, made in Hanyang, and the mixed gunfire of Zhongzheng rifles. The only sound.
The two machine guns spit out bullets and fired bursts. Due to ammunition restrictions, the machine gunners did not dare to fire continuously.
Deadly bullets kept flying, and a large number of Japanese soldiers surged towards their position. The sparse line of fire could not stop the Japanese army, and soon the two sides of the soldiers entered hand-to-hand combat.
Fierce hand-to-hand combat broke out on the battlefield. The rifles and bayonets in the hands of the National Army soldiers were slightly shorter than the Type 38 rifles equipped by the Japanese army, so they were at a disadvantage when it came to bayonets. The difference in training levels made them fight with their lives.