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The four hundred and sixtieth chapters are like a broken bamboo

Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, the 10th Japanese Army, divided the planned landing location from east to west into three areas: A, B and C.

On November 5, in Area A, east and west areas of Kingsoft Acropolis, Area B was not blocked by any decent blockade, and the Japanese army landed ashore. In Area C, six ships from the Second Fleet carried part of the 18th Division of the left detachment, which was subjected to strong resistance.

At 8 a.m. that day, the 124th Regiment of the 18th Division, the left detachment of the 10th Army landing troops of the Japanese Army landing troops landed near Quangongting, and was stubbornly blocked by a unit of the 63rd Division of the Chinese Army. The Kuomintang army had a slight advantage in confrontation with the Japanese army in landing and anti-landing battles, and continued until the afternoon of the same day that the heavy artillery fire support of the Japanese naval warship was slowly broken. The Japanese army slowly gained a foothold on the beach and then seized the position of the National Army. It was not until 6 p.m. that the Japanese army began to search and advance in the depth direction of Xincang Town. At this point, the Japanese army broke through the coastal defense position of the Chinese army in Hangzhou Bay.

On the morning of November 5, Zhang Yipu, the second operation team of the Military Control Commission Shanghai Station, and four of them set off from Shanghai South City and crossed the Huangpu River all the way south. Before they could reach Jinshanwei, they caught up with the refugee tide and were soon obscured by the refugee tide.

Hearing the sound of cannons in the distance and seeing the refugee in front of him, Zhang Yipu stopped the car and sighed with caress.

The Kuomintang did not receive information in advance when the Japanese army landed in Jinshanwei. Because the situation was unclear, the upper class of the Third War Zone did not pay enough attention to it. After 7 o'clock that night, Gu Zhutong, deputy commander of the Third War Zone, sent a secret telegram to Chairman Jiang, Nanjing and Minister of Military Affairs, He Yingqin to report the situation of the day. He only reported the enemy situation in the final report of the enemy situation in the last message, roughly mentioned that "the enemy was on the landing from the Jinshanwei area to attempt to echo the main force of the enemy along the Suzhou River and the Shanghai-Hangzhou Line to cut off the traffic between our army and Shanghai."

Nanjing. Chairman Chiang Kai-shek suddenly frowned when he saw the secret telegram from the Third War Zone, and his inner shock was endless. At this moment, this excellent military strategist first realized that the Chinese army was about to face an enemy from both sides and would even fall into the dilemma of being surrounded by powerful enemies.

Without accurate intelligence support, the Third War Zone only made a partially unfavorable judgment against the right-wing combat troops in its headquarters. This kind of strategic prediction mistake was first strategically defeated by the opponent, which meant the beginning of a failure.

Faced with an extremely complex and dangerous report on the enemy situation, Chairman Chiang Kai-shek immediately called the third theater headquarters and ordered Gu Zhutong to answer the phone immediately. At this time, Gu Zhutong was in Wuxian near Suzhou. Facing Chairman Chiang's questioning, he was vague about the Japanese army's landing operations in the Jinshanwei area.

Upon hearing the other party's answer, Chairman Jiang was anxious and ordered the Third War Zone to quickly find out the situation before reporting.

The battlefield on the northern front of the Anti-Japanese War was not optimistic. Song Zheyuan's troops controlled Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan and refused to retreat to the northwest. At this critical moment, the battlefield on the eastern front of Shanghai was facing major changes. The worst thing was that the Japanese army landed in Jinshanwei. The battle had started for more than ten hours, but the situation in the third war zone was still unclear.

At this time, the situation is unclear, which means that the blind chess is just like the next game, while the opponent Japanese army is in the next game.

That night, Gu Zhutong and Nanjing had more than 20 phone calls. After receiving supplementary reports from the Third War Zone again and again, Chairman Jiang basically understood the battle situation in the Jinshanwei direction. What he did not expect was that because of the weak coastal defense, the Japanese army was already out of power, and Jinshan County was lost, and the Japanese army's troops had arrived at Tinglin Town and Songyin Town.

Chairman Jiang thought of Chen Cheng, and he solicited Chen Cheng's opinions on the phone. Chen Cheng believed that he should retreat quickly and adjust the front line, but Chairman Jiang still decided to let the army on the front line hold on for another three days.

Chairman Jiang still had high hopes for mediation and suppression of the international conference, but he did not expect his decision, because he was looking forward to the results of the international conference, which would cost the lives of many national military officers and soldiers, and what kind of variables would bring to the next anti-Japanese war.

This variable is like a blind chess that is unpredictable in victory or defeat. The lives of many soldiers of the national army and the fate of the Chinese are determined by this chess game.

On the phone with Chairman Jiang, he arranged the work at hand. Thinking of Chairman Jiang's insistence, Chen Cheng, the commander-in-chief of the enemy in the third war zone, was uneasy and wrote the diary of the day with concern: "After learning that the enemy landed today, he decided to deal with it on the left (notes written vertically, from Ke to left): 1. The 26th Division opened Songjiang from Qingpu to guard the Huangpu River; 2. The 61st Division headed to Minhang, and each of the above divisions had only more than 100 troops; 3. The 107th Division and the 108th Division went from Baihegang to Jinshan County through Qingpu, and Songyin advanced; 4. The 7th Division

The 9th Division got off from Fengjing, Jiaxing, occupied the national defense fortifications, and sent a powerful force to occupy Jinshan County first; the 5th Division turned to the enemy landing in Chanjing and Jinshanzui to attack; the 6th Division divided the 63rd Division into the national defense line fortifications, and the main force attacked the enemy side along the coast. All the above units were under the command of Huang (Qixiang) as the commander-in-chief of the landing enemy this time and led the overall situation: First, the troops (combat force) were too poor; second, the activities of the enemy planes caused all our troops to lose contact; third, Liu Jianxu failed to order the 79th Division to occupy Jinshan County as required."

Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, commander of the 10th Army of the Japanese Army, was formerly the commander of the Taiwan garrison. He participated in the Russo-Japanese War and used roundabout tactics. After the 10th Army landed, it did not adopt the conventional tactics of the Shanghai Ishione Shanghai dispatched troops to push and fight hard.

On the morning of November 6, the vanguard of the 10th Japanese Army arrived near Mishidu, and at dusk, forcing the Huangpu River. After repelling a few Chinese defenders, they advanced towards Songjiang. The left detachment of the 18th Division advanced to Guangchen Town and fought with the 62nd Division and part of the 63rd Division.

On the evening of the 6th, Huang Qixiang, the acting commander of the Ninth Army, rushed to Songjiang and immediately ordered the 61st Division to occupy positions along the Huangpu River on the east and west lines of Minhang, ordered the 107th Division of the 67th Army to defend the positions between Desheng Port and Xijiabang, ordered the 26th Division to do its best to annihilate the enemies who had fled from Mishidu North, and then defend the positions between Desheng Port and Sunjiajiao, and ordered the 79th Division's arrival troops to immediately fly to Longfu and attack the enemies in Jinshan County.

On the morning of the 7th, the 62nd Division conquered Tinglin Town and was blocked from attacking Ye Xie Town. Part 79th Division failed to attack Jinshan County and retreated to Xingta Town south of Fengjing Town.

Huang Qixiang, the acting commander of the Ninth Army, received reports from various departments. In order to avoid the 62nd Division on the south bank of the Huangpu River, the 79th Division and the 45th Independent Brigade defeated each of the enemies, they immediately ordered the above-mentioned units to retreat to the north bank of the Huangpu River at night that day and gather near Minhang. In addition, the 108th Division was ordered to go to Litahui Town, southwest of Songjiang to block the Japanese army. The fierce battle was fought until noon on the 7th, and the enemy reinforced, and the battle was in critical condition.

After the Japanese army successfully landed in Hangzhou Bay, in order to unified command, on November 7, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters issued Order No. 138 of the "Standard Order", temporarily forming the "Central China Front Army" with Matsui Ishione as the commander (also also the commander of the Shanghai Expeditionary Army). The combat mission of "to slander the enemy's fighting will, gain the main purpose of ending the war, cooperate with the navy, and eliminate the enemy near Shanghai", and stipulated that the combat area was east of the front line from Suzhou to Jiaxing.

On the 7th, the 13th Regiment of the 6th Division launched a fierce battle with the 107th Division of the National Army in the north of the Huangpu River. After several tug-of-wars, the two sides formed a confrontation. However, a squadron of the Japanese army controlled the Jiyang-Gansu Railway Bridge west of Songjiang and cut off the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway. All units of the 18th Division, including the left detachment, basically confronted the National Army on the spot.

On November 8, the main force of the 10th Japanese Army crossed the Huangpu River in Desheng Port, Mishidu and other places. The 114th Division and the army's direct troops began to land and concentrate on Kingsoft.

After receiving reports on the battle situation of each unit, Gu Zhutong, deputy commander of the 3rd War Zone, frowned. He knew that the battle situation in the Suzhou River was getting more and more difficult, while the Japanese army was in a state of unstoppable force in the Songjiang River. The two Japanese troops were about to close together. The battle situation in the Shanghai Shanghai was in danger. He thought that the Chinese army would never sit and wait for the siege. He immediately followed the established policy of the National Army Command, and then moved the existing international positions to Wuxian and Fushan line, accumulate strength, and then counterattack. The "3rd War Zone Operation Plan" was immediately issued. The main purpose of the plan was: the war zone should first transfer to the existing positions in Ping (Hu), Jia (Shan), Wu (County) Fu (Shan), and reject the enemy. When the subsequent corps arrived, they would then transfer the offensive on the left bank of the Qiantang River with Guangde as the center.
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