In order to use the bald head's birthday as an opportunity to organize an event to celebrate his birthday, Mrs. Song personally took the initiative and held a press conference, asking people from all walks of life and the general public to carry out "offering their aircraft to celebrate his birthday" on the occasion of the bald head's 50th birthday.
As soon as the news came out, the provincial presidents of various provinces urged the people to take money from their pockets in order to flatter the bald man.
According to statistics, all walks of life in Shanghai alone have donated more than 8 million yuan.
There are countless people from all walks of life who are generous and generous, and there are countless public donation activities in various forms and under various names. The patriotic enthusiasm of the people is extremely valuable. They see Japanese military planes swarming like crows and frequently dropping bombs above their heads.
, thinking that if our country does not have airplanes and a strong air force, it will become a subjugated slave.
The Japanese's bombs are like the best mobilization, they donate generously and contribute money to buy the bombs.
The workers strived to buy more 'worker's aircraft', the businessmen strived to buy more 'merchant's aircraft', and the women's forces strived to buy more 'women's aircraft'. Even the students were mobilized and donated the pocket money given by their parents.
When I get out, I also want to buy a few 'student numbers'.
There are more "reporter accounts", "artist accounts", and "farmer accounts" that mobilize countless reporters to write articles day and night, artists perform charity performances non-stop, and farmers sell their few grains and donate a share to the government.
Patriotism.
Mrs. Song also thought about the "tricycle number", so the tricycle drivers saved up the money for each trip and handed it over.
Some are afraid that it is not enough, so they have to wait for the fundraiser for a whole day, and they have to make a few more trips to try to buy more tricycles.
A sum of money was delivered to Mrs. Song like a stream of money, which made her happy. She immediately discussed with Zhou Zhirou and sent people to order 200 aircraft abroad.
But by this time, it was already too late. The coastline and aviation routes from North China to East China and South China had been blocked by the Japanese army, and the import and export channels were blocked. Wherever there was, there was no place where the purchased aircraft could be transported back.
, cannot be shipped back at all.
How can the huge sums of money donated by the people be turned into airplanes? How to explain to the people? Mrs. Song had no idea for a while.
This little difficulty naturally cannot trouble Mrs. Song.
Within a few days, groups of airplanes performed over major cities. The citizens looked up and shouted with joy: "Look, everyone, the money we donated has turned into airplanes!"
"Look, it's a plane. There are so many planes."
People pointed at the planes in the sky and shouted.
They rushed to the street, raised their heads, looked at the planes in the sky, and counted each one in detail.
This plane is the "Worker" and that plane is the "Doctor".
A few days later, the planes "Hao Farmer", "Middle School Student" and "Honor" also appeared in the sky. Pedestrians on the street stopped to watch, applauding excitedly, with tears in their eyes. The plane they donated money to buy was really
Coming.
One after another, beautifully painted planes flew over Jinling.
People rushed to tell each other and cheered loudly.
On the street, children chased the direction of the plane, laughing and shouting.
Porters pulling tricycles, workers in factories, doctors in hospitals, teachers, reporters, and people from all walks of life stopped what they were doing and stopped where they could see the sky and hear the roar of fighter jet engines.
, that is a Chinese aircraft.
A sense of pride arises spontaneously.
Unfortunately, Mrs. Song deceived them.
It was not until the late 1990s in the 20th century that an insider wrote an article exposing the inside story.
In order to get away with it, Mrs. Song ordered those who were flying on the plane to paint a layer of paint and spray-paint letters on them. Today they would write "Farmer Number" and "Student Number", and tomorrow they would change it to "Worker Number" and "Doctor Number".
The article said that only one old Fiat fuselage had five Chinese characters painted on it: 'worker number', 'middle school student number', 'teacher number', 'doctor number', and 'tricycle number'.
Mrs. Song used old airplanes, repainted them, and spray-painted them with words, deceiving the enthusiasm of patriotic people from all walks of life.
The subsequent Songhu Battle was like a quagmire. The Chinese air force only stepped onto the battlefield at the beginning of the Songhu Battle. Since then, it has never set foot on the battlefield again. In the Songhu Battle, the Japanese army has always occupied the land, sea and air.
Advantages.
The only advantage of the national army is that it can fight on its own territory and has abundant troops.
But the Songhu battlefield was a huge meat grinder, crushing the troops who were fearless in death one after another. In three days, the casualties exceeded 15,000 people. In one week, the casualties reached terrifying levels.
Thirty thousand of them were almost dead, the bones were piled up layer by layer, and the wounded were constantly retreating.
November is getting closer and closer, and the autumn wind in Shanghai is getting colder. The hanging wind seems to be carrying sharp blades, blowing people's faces, causing pain.
The Japanese corpse collection team was surrounded by Xia Yuan and suffered heavy casualties. After a round of pursuit, they suddenly discovered that during the pursuit, the casualties were the highest.
After one round of attack, a Japanese squadron suffered a quarter of its casualties. In other words, they suffered more than fifty casualties in one round of attack.
The Japanese army underestimated the combat capabilities of this lone Chinese man. Later, this incident was reported, which quickly aroused the vigilance of the 3rd Division.
The 3rd Division was founded in 1888. Its predecessor was the Nagoya Town Station established in 1873. Because it was organized in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, it was also called the Nagoya Division and belonged to the A-type division. The division
After its establishment, it successively participated in all major wars related to China in Japan's modern history. It was also a Class A division that was located in China from the beginning of the war to the surrender.
The division surrendered in Zhenjiang in 1945.
In 1937, the division commander was Lieutenant General Susumu Fujita, and the chief of staff was Colonel Toshio.
Just as the 3rd Division was marching steadily toward the field, news that the rear corpse collection team was attacked by unknown Chinese was also reported to the regiment. Subsequently, the incident was recorded by the regiment commander and sent to the division headquarters.
At first, this was an inconspicuous document. When the National Army counterattacked, many National Army soldiers died. There are no detailed statistics. What is certain is that the National Army's one-day attack killed more than 20,000 people and left corpses everywhere.
Fleeing soldiers were everywhere like defeated, bereaved dogs. During this period, they chased and killed many of them, but there were always some who pretended to be dead and slipped through the net.
Generally, when collecting corpses, the rear corpse collection team will encounter some national soldiers who are pretending to be dead, and conflicts will break out. This is normal.
Therefore, Lieutenant General Fujita Susumu, commander of the 3rd Division, ignored it at first. Compared with the casualties of the corpse collection team, their focus at this moment was entirely on the battle in the direction of the attack.
Attacking the big field is of great importance and directly determines the victory of the Songhu battlefield.
Not only the national army knew the importance of the field, but the Japanese army also knew it. Therefore, capturing the field was the most important thing for the Japanese army at the moment. The corpse collection team in the rear was attacked by unknown Chinese people, and was reported by Fujita Shinaka.
will be taken into consideration.
However, a new piece of information was soon submitted from a subordinate unit, which attracted Susumu Fujita's attention.
This information is from newspapers published in several important cities in China such as the Shanghai Concession and Jinling.
'The God of War regains his reputation, Yang Xing fights against the Japanese army!'
‘In the Battle of Hazaobang, the God of War single-handedly tore apart the defense of the Japanese 3rd Division.’
‘The strongest war god in the national army participating in the war!’
‘Songhu God of War, exalt the prestige of our country!’
Different newspapers were delivered to Lieutenant General Fujita Shin's desk one after another. The huge fonts made his eyes hurt. He didn't pay attention to it at first, until he saw the contents of the newspapers clearly and then picked up the information submitted by the regiment. Fujita suddenly
Realizing that this soldier, who was boasted by the newspapers as a god of war, was probably the one encountered by the corpse collection team.
Several days have passed since the battle of Hazaobang. From the first day, the national army's counterattack force was defeated, to the pursuit from the rear and the attack on the battlefield.
They did not receive the message from the name of the God of War.
If you recall carefully, on the night of the 21st, when the National Army attacked the Japanese defense line, the Hujiazhuang defense line that was first torn apart was the 7th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Division. In fact, they had already received information about the National Army's counterattack.
, adjustments had been made long ago, but unexpectedly, the battle lasted for more than two hours, and the Hujiazhuang defense line was still torn open.
Taking into account the entire Japanese defense line, most of them persisted for several hours and were only torn apart by the National Army. Only the Hujiazhuang position was not only torn apart by the National Army from the forward position, but also destroyed the headquarters of the 7th Infantry Regiment.
Captain Kanazawa was killed by the Chinese.
Moreover, as the war progressed, the intersecting troops of the national army once hit the Japanese army's abdomen, like a pair of scissors, cutting off the entire Japanese army from top to bottom.
In the following hours of fighting, the 7th Infantry Regiment found it difficult to maintain its formation and had to abandon its position and evacuate from Hujiazhuang.
The national army immediately occupied Hujiazhuang.
At first, they thought the battle at Hujiazhuang was just an accident.
Now seeing the Chinese newspaper, the division commander suddenly realized that the loss of Hujiazhuang did not seem to be an accident.
It's not that the soldiers of the 7th Infantry Regiment neglected their duties, nor that they didn't fight bravely enough.
But the Chinese people are too powerful.
"It's incredible. Can anyone really win a battle with the power of one person?"
Fujita Susumu, graduated from the 16th class of the Army Sergeant School on October 24, 1904. In the same period, there were notorious Japanese generals such as Okamura Neji, Doihara Kenji, Itagaki Seishiro, Ando Rikichi, and the Army Infantry on November 1
Appointed as second lieutenant.
Later, he studied in France and Chile, and took office as the military attache of the Chilean Legation on April 20, 1921. He did not return to China until December 28, 1922. After returning to China, he served as the captain of the regiment, and later successively served as the infantryman of the Japanese Army.
School instructor, captain of the 15th Army Regiment, and chief of staff of the 19th North Korean Division.
On December 7, 1932, he was promoted to the commander of the Army Major General's 32nd Brigade. On March 5, 1934, he was attached to the Army Ordnance Factory. On April 21 of the same year, he became Japan's first mechanized force. He was the leader of the independent mixed 1st Brigade of the Kwantung Army.
He served as commander and became the principal of the Army Infantry School on March 7, 1936. He was promoted to Army Lieutenant General on August 1, and on August 2, 1937, he succeeded Masaki Ito as the commander of the Third Division and participated in the Battle of Songhu.
Susumu Fujita's resume and experience can be said to be smooth sailing. His study abroad and work experience have broadened his horizons.
The European powers were undoubtedly the most developed regions at that time, with rapid technological development, powerful military power, advanced ideas, and countless people studying abroad.
Therefore, Fujita Susumu is very clear about war.
The Japanese army was well-trained, and most of the Chinese army were poor farmers.
The Japanese army's weapons and equipment are superior to those of the Chinese army, and they have artillery of various calibers, tanks of various types, a maritime fleet, and air fighter formations.
At the same time, the Japanese military level during this period was extremely powerful and its national power was strong.
On the other hand, China is a backward agricultural country with internal divisions, warlords fighting for years, and constant internal strife. It seems that Jinling is the number one government today, but in fact many local armies cannot deal with Jinling.
Because of this, taking advantage of China's domestic disintegration and attacking China, there is a high probability that China will be defeated.
The most critical point is that the combat capability of their soldiers far exceeds that of the Chinese, and exceeds it by more than one and a half points.
From mid-August to the present, the casualty ratio between China and Japan has remained above 7:1.
Therefore, Susumu Fujita was very optimistic about his own soldiers, but he was not optimistic about the Chinese people at all.
He also knew very well that war was never a war of one person, but a war of a unit, a comprehensive and coordinated war. If the Japanese army wanted to attack China, it would need several divisions to launch attacks from all aspects.
The maritime fleet blockaded China's ports and important river basins.
The Air Force blocked China's aviation routes.
The 11th Division attacked Luodian and went straight to Jiading and the Beijing-Shanghai Railway to cut off China's blood vessels.
The third division attacked from Wusong, went straight to Yanghang, occupied Rozaobang, and cut off the connection between the national troops from Luodian to Dachang.
All offensive forces have their own tasks.
Susumu Fujita knows that any war is never a separate show.
However, someone turned a war into his own performance show. This made Susumu Fujita feel quite incredible, "With his own power, he tore apart the defenders' defense line. How did he do it?"
He has been in the army for more than thirty years and has encountered countless wars, large and small. This is the first time that the lieutenant general began to have doubts.
There really is someone who can single-handedly tear apart a team's defense.
If that's the case, then this guy whom the Chinese call the 'God of War' is quite terrifying.
Of course, he was more suspicious in his heart.
Fujita opened the regiment and sent it up. Regarding the casualties of the corpse collection team, from the time when they discovered that the Chinese were shooting at them and started to fight back, the casualties have reached more than 100 people.
The corpse collection team made two general attacks, and each time the casualties were about a small team. The combat capability of this Chinese man exceeded that of any Chinese they encountered. The people of the corpse collection team immediately felt that this lone Chinese man
It's definitely not simple and should be reported immediately.
If this was not reported, it would not matter. Once reported, the entire division headquarters of the 3rd Division was directly shocked.
If this person is really the God of War published in the newspaper, then there will be a big problem.