In eight large-scale battles in two consecutive days, the Japanese army paid a heavy price of more than 1,700 killed and more than 2,500 injured on the main battlefield in Shanghai. All forward positions were lost and they had to retreat once again.
The Japanese Concession; the garrison in the Yangtze River Basin was killed and captured more than 420 Marine Corps officers and soldiers by the suddenly rising Chinese army. Seven warships were sunk, five were captured, six warships were damaged, and the Japanese who fled eastward were wounded.
The warships are still attacked from time to time by the Chinese army along the river, and four of them have not escaped so far. The casualties on the attacked naval ships are still not included in the statistics; two bombers were shot down by the Chinese army, which was considered to have no air defense capabilities before the war, and the pilots
Four of the soldiers and technicians were killed and two injured. Countries around the world reported a lot of news about the Japanese army's setback. Chinese people in Shanghai, Nanjing and other places excitedly took to the streets to celebrate, and the impact was hard to estimate.
The huge losses of the Japanese army caused an uproar in Japan. The military generals were shocked and furious. The Japanese people who had been confident that the Japanese army would soon occupy Shanghai were panicked. Anti-war voices began to spread.
The Japanese government and opposition parties, who were extremely dissatisfied with the military, began to have sharp divisions and conflicts.
Bonfires were shining brightly in the Japanese camp in Yangshupu, and mourning was everywhere. The solemn atmosphere made more than 2,000 Japanese officers and soldiers breathe quickly and their mouths went dry.
The chief of staff of the Marine Corps stationed in Shanghai, Colonel Yoshino Kuzo, was wearing a white kimono and a white ribbon on his head, facing northwest, kneeling beside a bonfire. This man's wrong tactics and rash command led to his officers and soldiers being defeated several times, and he was
The person directly responsible for the bombing of the Hongkou military camp and the death of two famous Japanese journalists on the front line slowly raised his saber and stabbed it into his belly. His ferocious face twisted sharply, and his internal organs suddenly "cracked" when he pulled it sideways.
As the water flowed out, the samurai who protected Yoshino waved his long sword and suddenly fell down. The disembowelment victim who had been twitching for a long time was finally freed.
Japanese commander Koichi Shiozawa and others watched all this from a distance, with the sadness of a dead rabbit in his eyes. He shook his head and sighed, turned around and walked to the dock, and soon held the final meeting in the warship conference room.
After the meeting, Koichi Shiozawa was relieved of his position as commander, and he will be replaced by Kichisaburo Nomura, commander of the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet, who has just arrived with his troops.
In the small conference room, the air was solemn and the atmosphere was depressing. Yuki Shiozawa bowed deeply and apologized quietly to seven civil and military officials including Murakami, Tanaka, and Ishikawa. The seven people also bowed back in unison with sad and indignant expressions on their faces.
After delivering a brief farewell speech, Shiozawa Koichi asked everyone to sit down, walked to Ishikawa Koichi and bowed deeply again: "Ishikawa-kun, I regret not taking your advice, which resulted in this shameful failure.
The huge losses brought humiliation to the heroic Imperial Japanese Army."
"General, there is no need to blame yourself so much. We did not expect that the Chinese army's will to resist would be so tenacious, nor did we expect that the enemy's methods would be so despicable and decisive. I feel deeply guilty and angry." Ishikawa bent down and almost said
Squeeze out this sentence word for word.
"General, Ishikawa-kun, our intelligence department also has an unshirkable responsibility." Tanaka Takayoshi stood up in pain and bowed his head deeply. The other officers also quickly stood up and bowed their heads deeply.
Murakami Aomatsu stood up with a long sigh: "General, everyone, although this is a profound lesson, it can never stop the determination and pace of the Japanese Empire to occupy China. Please forgive me."
Yuki Shiozawa bowed deeply to Murakami: "Mr. Murakami, I have something to ask of you at the end of the day. Please do it for me!"
"General, please speak." Murakami returned the greeting.
Shiozawa Koichi slowly glanced at Ishikawa Koichi: "Please Murakami-kun recommend to the new commander Ishikawa-kun who is talented and extremely loyal to the Empire of Japan. Ishikawa-kun has rich combat experience and a deep understanding of the Chinese army, especially the
Your keen sense of battlefield situations is unparalleled. Please do not let Ishikawa-kun take any responsibilities that do not belong to him, and create opportunities so that Ishikawa-kun has room to display his talents."
Murakami looked at the uneasy Ishikawa Koichi and admired the royal officer's lack of arrogance and conscientiousness. He nodded and told Shiozawa Koichi that he understood.
Zhenru Town, 19th Route Army Headquarters.
Cai Tingkai slapped the message on the table and shouted angrily: "What does it mean to be 'persevering and taking the overall situation into consideration'? This is the attitude of the Central Military Commission? Our territory and people have been ravaged to this extent, why are the top brass of our military still like this?"
Feeling lucky and stubborn? Even if the ammunition supplies that were originally promised to be replenished are not available, why are the reinforcements of the 87th and 88th divisions that were halfway out ordered to return to their bases? Even the independent division was ordered to hide in Jiangbei and stop.
After all the actions, didn't they see that the Japanese two aircraft carriers, twelve warships with powerful firepower had arrived, and thousands of marines and Kurume brigade were coming ashore? Do they still have to wait for the enemy to gather their forces and launch another large-scale attack?
In a large-scale attack, they will not feel comfortable until the more than 30,000 soldiers of our 19th Route Army and the two main divisions of the 24th Army who participated in the war in secret have been killed..."
"Xianchu, don't talk like that!" Jiang Guangding interrupted Cai Tingkai's complaints, turned to An Yi and Ye Cheng and shook his head, looking extremely helpless.
An Yi analyzed patiently with a livid face: "It is probably another despicable conspiracy of the Japanese. They have been defeated again and again in the past few days. The Japanese need time to adjust their plans. Moreover, reinforcements have recently arrived and they are exhausted. They just need to move the light and heavy weapons carried on the ship.
It would take half a day to a day, so they once again used the good offices of Britain and the United States to gain valuable time and repeated their old tricks. However, our central government is extremely contradictory. On the one hand, it praises the various departments of our 19th Route Army and highly
They called for resistance to the end. On the one hand, they once again accepted the deception of the Japanese and pinned all their hopes on negotiations, believing that their so-called peace could be achieved without arduous, unrelenting resistance and desperate determination.
As long as you think about it, you will understand that He Jingzhi's two inappropriate orders and Mr. Huang Yong's sudden visit to try to comfort us and persuade us to temporarily stop all military operations actually represent the opinions of the central government and Chairman Chiang. Otherwise, we will definitely
Not so.
To be honest, at 9:10 p.m., I also received two secret messages from the General Staff Headquarters and the Commission, which also ordered our department to suspend all military operations. I even received a request from the central government for An Yi to return the captured Japanese troops.
All ships, information on releasing their prisoners.
Regarding this, I am as sad as you all, and feel that the reason why we are being bullied is because there are too many soft bones in the temple. I even suddenly remembered this somewhat inappropriate saying: Poor people must be hateful!"
Everyone did not expect that An Yi would say such self-pitying, even a bit vicious words, and everyone felt depressed and sighed secretly.
Cai Tingkai came to An Yi in a few steps, pulled up a stool and sat down, asking in a low voice: "Brother An, is there no solution?"
An Yi smiled bitterly and said: "Yes, and it is being done, but I can't guarantee that it will be effective. I can only put pressure on the bosses of the Central Military Commission in Nanjing and strengthen their determination to resist the war through insinuations, urging those few people to withdraw from the compromise. Everyone.
Seniors and colleagues, I think not only our colleagues in Nanjing should work hard, but we should also build momentum and strive to take the initiative instead of passively waiting. The specific idea is..."
At 11:30 in the middle of the night, Nanjing Central Army School.
During the time of Yu Ji, more than 20 Huangpu generals, including Sun Yuanliang and Guan Zhenglin, all wore military uniforms and stood sternly outside the home of He Yingqin, the Minister of Military and Political Affairs. They handed over to the panicked He Yingqin a letter of support for the officers of the 19th Route Army.
He wrote a petition to fight to the end, and expressed his request one by one to lead his troops to the Songhu battlefield to fight to the death against the brutal Japanese aggressors.
He Yingqin was not mentally prepared at all. Under the indignant questioning of the generals, he was at a loss for words. If Zhang Zhizhong had not come quickly to relieve the siege and comfort him, he would probably have caused thousands of patriotic soldiers in the entire military academy to take action. Even so, it still alarmed all walks of life in the military.
and the upper echelons of Nanjing, word quickly spread, causing a huge negative impact on the Central Military Commission and He Yingqin himself.
At nine o'clock in the morning the next day, the 19th Route Army headquarters held a press conference. Jiang Guangding, Cai Tingkai and the generals of each division expressed their firm determination to resist Japan to Chinese and foreign reporters and the people across the country.
During the interview Q&A, Cai Tingkai cleverly revealed He Yingqin's order not to resist, which caused an uproar among more than a hundred reporters and more than 300 representatives from all walks of life in Shanghai. The crowd at the venue was excited and accusations continued. University representatives even called He Yingqin angrily.
Weakheads and those who harm the country.
An Yi sat aside and said nothing. This young general, whose identity was disclosed as the former enemy chief of staff of the 19th Route Army Headquarters, was naturally the target of pursuit by Chinese and foreign reporters and representatives from all walks of life.
Over the years, An Yi has been deeply loved by the press and all walks of life across the country with his distinctive personality and humorous language style. Coupled with An Yi's tough attitude towards the Japanese army in the past few days, the various departments under his command have achieved great results in the battle against Japan.
The impressive achievements deeply inspired the military and civilians across the country, so reporters and representatives from all walks of life put questions to him.
As the former enemy chief of staff of the 19th Route Army, An Yi nominally accepted the leadership of the two generals Jiang Guangding and Cai Tingkai. Therefore, he was very clever and low-key. He always let the two generals Jiang and Cai answer questions asked by reporters, and talked with the two generals.
On issues that had nothing to do with the generals, he also carefully expressed his opinions after consulting the two people's opinions, leaving the reporters who were interviewing unfinished but unable to do anything about it.
Reporters from Shenbao saw that the familiar An Yi was so abnormal. After much deliberation, he finally took the opportunity to ask An Yi loudly: "Can the order of General He Yingqin, the Minister of Military and Political Affairs, about 'waiting patiently and taking into account the overall situation' be understood as an order from the Chinese military?"
A unanimous attitude? Can it be regarded as the end of the Chinese army’s war of resistance?”
An Yi was startled: "Lao Zhou, don't be alarmist..."
An Yi's reaction and the casualness of calling reporters directly for Lao Zhou caused a burst of laughter at the scene, but An Yi said seriously: "Just now, Commander-in-Chief Chiang and Commander Cai made it very clear that our officers and men of the 19th Route Army will never take a step back.
, let alone outside rumors that we will retreat 30 kilometers as requested by the Japanese, unless the Japanese army steps over our corpses!"
"good!"
Everyone cheered loudly.
An Yi continued: "As for the meaning of General He Yingqin's order, I couldn't understand it for a while. I guess General He was far-sighted and had no deep meaning. But I, An Yi, can't retreat. Many of An Yi's properties are right under the eyes of the Japanese army.
Bottom, General He Yingqin is different. His hometown is in Guizhou, which is far away from Ninghu. I guess he is not in a hurry..."
Everyone was stunned, and then bursts of applause broke out. Jiang Guangding, Cai Tingkai and others looked at An Yi and kept laughing, thinking that this guy was so vindictive that He Yingqin might become the target of public criticism.