In the dark night, the Chinese defenders in Songjiang were sleeping collectively.
The Japanese army was intensifying its efforts.
It is not an easy task for an army of more than 100,000 people to move from a large transport ship to land.
In addition to people, there are also a large number of equipment, artillery, trucks, horses, etc. It is not a simple matter of winning a beach landing and completing it unimpeded.
It took almost an entire day for all three divisions and one detachment of the Japanese Tenth Army to assemble on the shore.
This kind of efficiency is actually fast enough. As long as it is daytime tomorrow, the entire army can march south to Songjiang and directly to the west of Shanghai, completing the strategy of completely defeating the Chinese army that has been demoralized.
But as the commander of the Japanese Tenth Army, Yanagawa Heisuke, who was standing in the only private house built in Jinshan County that did not collapse, was making a fuss.
In his imagination, at this time, an infantry brigade and a detachment of the 114th Division, which was the first to go ashore, should have arrived at the outskirts of Songjiang, which they must pass through. First, they can detect the movements of the Songjiang defenders for the main force, and second, they can find possible
The road around Songjiang.
Through the battles on the tidal flats and Jinshan County, the tenacious Chinese troops have made Yanagawa Heisuke realize that in order to prevent their main force from being annihilated, the Chinese top brass must issue a desperate order to the Chinese troops blocking the way of their army.
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If they were all the hard bones he encountered during the day, by the time he had gnawed them through one by one, the main Chinese force in western Shanghai might have fled long ago. Then what was the purpose of his Tenth Army coming here? Is it specifically here to scare the Chinese?
The base camp might be able to accept a tactical failure, but Yanagawa Heisuke would never accept it.
No one, including the Japanese army base camp, knew how ambitious the Japanese army lieutenant general commander was.
The strategy formulated by the Japanese army's base camp staff headquarters on the main island is to completely annihilate hundreds of thousands of Chinese elites in Songhu, and then stabilize the occupied areas before making new strategic deployments.
Although the Songhu Expeditionary Force Headquarters blew out the "bold words" of occupying the whole of China in March, not only did the Battle of Songhu shatter their claims in March, but in fact, the Japanese senior officials who were not fully prepared did not really think about it.
Their original strategy is to devour the elephant of China and digest it bit by bit.
However, the Japanese high-level officials ignored the ambitions of middle- and high-level generals like Yanagawa Heisuke who came from civilian backgrounds.
For a constitutional monarchy like Japan, if you want to have the right to speak in the top circles of society, becoming a general is just the starting point. Only by sealing borders and breaking up the soil, princes and nobles can you truly stand at the top of the pyramid.
How can an army general like Yanagawa Heisuke accept the almost conservative strategy of the base camp?
Therefore, in the past time and space, the Tenth Army brazenly "defeated the superior from below" and completely abandoned the strategic deployment of the base camp. Taking advantage of the opportunity to pursue the retreating Chinese army in the west of Shanghai, the entire army went straight to Jinling. After encountering a fierce counterattack and being damaged, it finally resulted in
During the massacre, the famous Butcher Sixth Division became a demonic existence with the tacit approval of Commander Yanagawa Heisuke.
The reason why Tang Dao stayed in Songjiang and refused to go to Baihe Port was not because he was worried that the 67th Army could not hold Songjiang, but because these demons Yanagawa Heisuke, Tani Hisao, and Ushijima Mitsuru had already set foot in southeastern China. That was the main reason.
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Tang Dao hopes to nip the devil in the bud. Although it is difficult, how will you know if you don't try?
Yanagawa Heisuke's idea of making great achievements and being promoted to the nobility came to nothing on the first day he landed in southeastern China.
It took the 114th Division and the Kunisaki Detachment a full afternoon to capture Songjiang. When the main force arrived and established a headquarters in the ruins of Jinshan County, the bastards stopped 40 kilometers away from Songjiang.
That's all. Marching at night is very risky, and even if they arrive near Songjiang, they still need to wait for the engineering troops. There is also a Huangpu River running between Jinshan and Songjiang. Although it is not very wide, don't worry about the bridge. It must have been bombed by the Chinese.
If it falls, if people and materials want to cross it, the engineering troops will have to build a pontoon bridge.
If the Chinese want to delay the advance of their army, they will inevitably deploy troops along the opposite bank of the Huangpu River to block it.
Soldiers are very fast. If he wants to realize his dream, he must conquer Songjiang as quickly as possible.
Therefore, he thought of asking the Navy for help, asking them to send light destroyers and gunboats to go south at night, so that they could not only detect the enemy's situation, but also use naval guns and machine guns to drive away the Chinese on the shore.
It must be said that Yanagawa Heisuke had a good idea and maximized the use of time. With the help of the navy, the forwards of the Tenth Army could cross the Huangpu River on the afternoon of the 6th and launch an attack on the small Songjiang River.
With better luck, Songjiang can be captured when the lanterns first come on, and the Huxi battlefield can be reached on the 8th at the latest, and the main Chinese force that has not had time to escape will be wiped out. As for the part that escaped, they can escape the Tenth Army.
An urgent pursuit?
But Yanagawa Heisuke obviously overestimated his own reputation, and the commander of the naval fleet responsible for transporting them arrogantly rejected his request.
There were only a few words in the reply to him from a vice admiral of the same rank: "Our military mission has been completed!"
The meaning is obvious: I am only responsible for transporting you from North China to Southeast China, but you dare to command me. Who are you?
Yanagawa Heisuke thought with his buttocks and could imagine how contemptuously the Vice Admiral with a mustache threw his telegram into the trash can. If it weren't for the fact that the telegrams between the two parties would be recorded, it would have been so bad.
The words "Army Malu" will also be added.
It would be strange for the dignified commander of an army not to be furious.
Within fifty meters of the Tenth Army's temporary headquarters, which had at least two sides of ventilation, the roar of the Japanese Lieutenant General Commander of the Tenth Army could be heard: "Navy, Malus!"
Ma Lu translated into Chinese means idiot plus fool. Basically, it is the daily name used by the Japanese navy and army for each other.
All I can say is that the Japanese's vocabulary for swearing is really poor, and the two armies only used one word over and over again when swearing at each other. If you leave China alone, each province can do a half-hour curse without repeating the same thing.
Didn't Japan invade China to learn from this? At least, in the future, they will add "Yalu" after Baga!
But the dignified Lieutenant General Commander could only curse. He was still a figure in the army, but in the eyes of the Imperial Japanese Navy, he was just a Malus.
The Japanese navy and army definitely don't dislike each other just on paper. The grievances between them will definitely subvert anyone's imagination.
The most famous pig teammate in World War II, I guess many people can blurt it out. That may also be the thing that the mustachioed head of state regrets most in his life. What kind of friends can he find? Isn't it good to be proud and lonely? He has not touched the god-like opponent.
Although he had teammates who were like pigs, he encountered a lot of problems.
Compared with the famous pig teammates who couldn't pry open the shell boxes during the war, Japan is actually not the most pig, but in Japan, there are pig teammates in each country, which makes the mustachioed head of state very depressed.
The two sides thought that the only ones who could meet pig teammates were Japan's navy and army. There was no third party, perhaps because Japan did not have an air force. Just the navy and army, the two pig teammates, were enough for the big shots in Japan.
I have a headache.
No matter how weird it is, it doesn't matter that after the Battle of Midway, the top brass of the Japanese Army who received the news of the Imperial Navy's defeat celebrated with a drink.
In order to compete with the Imperial Navy's awesome "Zero" fighter, the Japanese Army purchased the Daimler-Benz DB 601 engine patent used in the BF109 fighter from the Germans and used it in the Army Aviation fighter.
The arrogant Imperial Navy was also very interested in this engine, but it couldn't bear to ask the Army for it, so it bought the patent itself...
The Germans who made two money: Are the Japanese stupid?
No, anything that can be solved with money is nothing.
The reason why the two sides were fighting each other was that the Imperial Navy had a large amount of steel resources in Japan at that time, so it could build aircraft carriers and even two Yamato-class battleships, but it could not provide it to the humble Army, so the Army tanks could not even guarantee the iron sheets.
A large number of bean tanks turned out.
Don't blame the Japanese Army's top brass for being too pushy, just blame the Navy and Maldives for being too overbearing.
Then, the Japanese Army took control of most of the oil fields in Southeast Asia (because it was the Japanese Army who logged in, whoever grabbed it first would get it), but the Army's fuel consumption was not high, but it just refused to give it to the Navy and Land.
The consequences were that in the Battle of Mariana and the Battle of Leyte, the navy clearly had fleets nearby that could support it, but because it ran out of oil, it could only watch its ships and aircraft being sunk...
People who see these allusions may just want to shout ‘f*ck!’, but for the Japanese navy and army, it is just a common occurrence.
Yanagawa Heisuke's request was rejected without mercy by the Vice Admiral of the Navy. It was just a routine operation.
Fortunately, for his dream, Yanagawa Heisuke, a lieutenant general with a commoner background, did not have the so-called arrogant temperament of aristocrats.
After scolding him angrily, he finally bent down on his knees and sent another "deep love and loyalty" message to the Vice Admiral. In fact, it was just a telegram to express his submission. It meant that you, the Navy Master, are the main attacker, and my younger brother is the main attacker.
Auxiliary, it is unreasonable for the Imperial Navy's main attack force not to send warships!
For the sake of the softness of the army and the mainland, the naval fleet symbolically dispatched three gunboats, carrying two infantry squadrons of the Japanese 114th Division at the estuary, and headed south along the Huangpu River to Songjiang overnight.
It's not that Yanagawa Heisuke is a cheap guy, the artillery rapid response unit that Tang Dao put so much effort into building will have to work half the night in vain.
The big stick plan almost ran aground.
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I recommend a book by a military author, "My Division Commander Feng Tiankui". It is a very good anti-Japanese war novel with 2 million words. If you like it, you can read it.
