Jinshanwei was not captured as easily as the Japanese thought.
The performance of the 62nd Division even exceeded the expectations of the Chinese high command. From the moment they learned that the Japanese troops had begun to land at Jinshanwei, the senior generals gathered at the Military Committee had actually regarded the defenders of Jinshanwei as abandoned sons.
No matter how tenacious those "little grass" in the eyes of the Third Reich war correspondents were, in fact, in the eyes of the big shots, they were destined to be sacrificed. All their sacrifices were just to buy another half a day for the 42nd Army that had already entered Songjiang County.
That’s all.
This is not that the big shots are cold, but that only by giving up can you gain something. Compared with the hundreds of thousands of elites surrounded by the Japanese army, not to mention the 10,000 defenders of Jinshan Guards, the 42nd Army in Songjiang County and even the 42nd Army in Songjiang are rushing to rescue Songjiang.
The 67th Army, the Independent Regiment, and the 23rd Army Guard Regiment total more than 40,000 troops. They are chess pieces that can be discarded from the moment the military order is issued.
As for this, except for the officers and soldiers at the bottom, the officers in charge of divisions, brigades and even regiments actually know this. If they had been in that position, they might have made the same choice, and tens of thousands of people would have died.
, hundreds of thousands of lives, this multiple-choice question couldn't be simpler.
Big men, learn to put aside personal feelings and make the most reasonable choice. But war is not an exam, nor is it a game of chess. If you lose, you can do it again, and the chess pieces will still be the original ones. And those little people on the battlefield
, are alive, they have flesh and blood, thoughts, emotions and concerns.
They can choose to retreat when they find that they have been abandoned by the big shots at the top or have completed their combat missions. Even if they become deserters, it is still the choice of the little people.
No one wants to die. They lie down on the cold muddy ground in the south of the Yangtze River and die. They also want to see their parents again, look at the blue sky again, and smell the rape blossoms in their hometown.
However, there was no way for the Japanese to survive! Groups of khaki-colored Japanese devils fell down under artillery fire and machine gun fire, but it seemed that they could not be killed no matter what. The Japanese devils who were still like ants continued to stream in the soldiers' field of vision.
They got on the landing craft from the big ship and sailed towards the shore.
From early morning to dusk, one reserve team after another was thrown into the battlefield by the expressionless Hunan Army generals. The little people's fear of death from the beginning has turned into numbness. After the bodies of many comrades were torn to pieces by Japanese artillery fire,
.Death is no longer a fear on this terrible battlefield.
Whether the Japanese soldiers died or themselves died, it was already a common thing.
Although Hunan is still far away from Songhu, if Songhu is lost, there is still Nanjing, if Nanjing is lost, there is Xuzhou, if Xuzhou is lost, there is Wuhan, and after Wuhan is Changsha. The Hunanese people walked all the way from Changsha to Songhu
, they are no longer just country kids with dark eyes. They have traveled half of China and thousands of miles.
However, these rural children who have not studied much still feel a deep fear. If so many Japanese invaders enter China, will China still have a way to survive? Even if their homes are far away from here, their tanks and artillery are still firing.
You have to get over it! Especially after seeing so many fellow villagers die like this, the eyes of the Hunanese who grew up eating chili are all red.
By the afternoon, the Japanese landing operations still made little progress. Perhaps because Matsui Iwane severely complained to the navy's grandsons at the base camp, the frequency of Japanese navy aircraft dispatches increased significantly.
There were almost no interruptions of Japanese bombers over the entire Jinshanwei. The few artillerymen had to fire in the shortest possible time and then find bunkers to evacuate. In order to annihilate the lingering Chinese artillery, the Japanese navy carrier aircraft even carried out attacks on villages.
Fortunately, the residents within a radius of twenty miles fled their homes long before the war started. Those who were unwilling to leave were basically forced to leave by the officers and soldiers of the 62nd Division with guns.
The house was blown up. Although the casualties were not too great and the equipment was not lost much, the artillery was firmly suppressed. Even if they wanted to continue the bombardment despite the threat from the sky, they couldn't.
In the eyes of Chinese commanders, artillery is always more important than human life. This is a very sad thing, but it is accepted by all Chinese soldiers.
Because China is poor! If the cannons are gone, they will be gone in the future, and more people will have to die in battle.
As for the most forward position, it was plowed repeatedly with naval guns by more than a dozen escorting transport ships, cruisers and destroyers. By the time the third and fourth waves of reserves rushed into the position, there was actually no position left.
Except for the big craters.
The war correspondent of the Third Reich even saw an extremely "crazy" thing done by the Chinese soldiers through his telescope, although he did not record it in detail in his memoirs due to humanitarian reasons. The Chinese soldiers destroyed all the sandbags and faced them.
When charging against the Japanese, they even chose to build a fortification with the bodies of their colleagues who died in battle, and placed heavy machine guns and light machine guns inside to shoot at the enemy.
(Note: This is not a fabrication by the author. In fact, during the Battle of Songhu Luodian, which was a battlefield where the 26th Division of the Sichuan Army and the Japanese army repeatedly saw each other, the Sichuan Army, which had lost its fortifications, used the remains of their comrades to build fortifications and fired at the Japanese invaders.
We retreated from the Japanese army several times, killing and injuring a large number of Japanese invaders. It was the most heroic scene in the history of China, and it truly reflected the solemn oath of the Chinese soldiers to defend China with our own flesh and blood. The 26th Division was the only one in the entire division who could walk out of the battlefield standing.
There were only 600 troops left, and the battle damage rate reached more than 90%. In the subsequent Battle of Songjiang, they were ordered to support Songjiang and were only able to send 127 troops, but they still rushed to the battlefield. Please pay tribute to them.)
Yes, the war correspondent of the Third Reich only saw the blood of Chinese soldiers spraying on his own position among the blood and flesh of his comrades, but he did not know that in China, where the dead are the continuation of the spirit of the great tradition, his comrades are dead.
The pain in the hearts of the Chinese soldiers who built their bodies into fortifications. Their comrades have sacrificed their lives, but they still have to use their bones to block the bullets of the Japanese invaders, and they still have to do their part for this country and the nation.
It can be said that the Chinese soldiers who chose to do this almost all shot at the Japanese invaders with tears in their eyes until they fell down and became part of the fortifications.
The Chinese soldiers on the battlefield fought bravely with blood and tears, and the Chinese commander in the telescope also had tears streaming down his face.
The battle reached dusk, and the time limit set by the military committee to stop the enemy had been reached. He could already choose to retreat without worrying about disobeying military orders. What's more, the soldiers who were constantly losing battles in the front were all his soldiers from Hunan Province. He led the army
When setting off from Changsha, he promised the farewell folks that he would take their fathers, sons and husbands home.
But now, he has made a mistake. At least 60% of his troops fell on the frontline, and they are no longer qualified to enter the field hospital. If he chooses to retreat now, except for those who suffered heavy losses in the landing operation,
In addition to the fact that the Japanese army would gnash their teeth and chase after them in a hurry that might cause greater losses, this famous Hunan Army general thought further.
In Songjiang, fifty kilometers away, the 42nd Army is doing its best to build a position. However, what they have to resist is far more Japanese invaders than they face. Yes, the Japanese troops who can go down to the beach are
There will be no more than two infantry regiments at most, but what Songjiang faces may be...
One division, two divisions, or even three divisions? Thinking of that consequence, the scalps of the Hunan Army generals couldn't help but feel numb. There is no doubt that the 42nd Army of the Sichuan Army has built much more complete fortifications than what he has here.
, but the pressure encountered was much higher.
Moreover, as a senior general, he knew that the military order of the Songjiang garrison leader was to hold off the enemy for three days and nights in Songjiang and wait for reinforcements to arrive. Perhaps, at this time of life and death, it no longer mattered whether the military order was military or not. It was nothing more than obeying the general.
Even when the soldiers lost their lives on the battlefield, Songjiang was more important to the Songhu army that had begun its retreat than their lives.
The entire 42nd Army was destroyed, but more than ten thousand people died. But if Songjiang is lost, it will be extremely difficult for anyone in the hundreds of thousands of Songhu troops to escape from the encirclement. If hundreds of thousands of China's most elite troops are lost, then in a short period of time China will
It would be difficult to organize so many troops to stop the Japanese invaders from moving south.
By that time, even if he returns to his hometown with the remaining soldiers, what will happen? His hometown has been trampled by the iron hoofs of the Japanese invaders, and his home is no longer there. Where will the relatives who are waiting for his son, husband, and father be?
Gritting his teeth, with red eyes, the Hunan Army general slapped his pistol on the stone table of the headquarters and ordered the front line: Continue to block the enemy until 12 o'clock in the night. Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed! Those who say retreat will be killed! Anyone who fails to fight and loses his position will be killed.
kill!
The "Three Kill Order" made the Chinese soldiers tenaciously defend their positions in impossible adversities time and time again. They used their comrades to build fortresses. They used themselves as movable explosive bags, tied their bodies full of grenades, and hid in the mud.
In the fields, when the tanks that the Japanese army worked so hard to transport from the big ships staggered to the front of the battlefield, those "living" explosive packets would turn the tanks into a pile of "steaming" scrap metal.
Looking down from the Japanese navy's carrier-based aircraft that skimmed the tidal flats and fired fiercely at low altitude with belly machine guns on the Chinese positions, the piles of black and "steaming" scrap iron at the front of the Chinese positions looked like lumps...
....
That was what a Japanese navy carrier-based aircraft lieutenant who returned to the aircraft carrier personally described to his captain. However, this time, there was no traditional mockery of the navy towards the army soldiers, only a cautious look on his face.
The Chinese obviously did not have any heavy weapons that could destroy armor, and the only threatening mountain artillery was suppressed by their colleagues who were constantly patrolling the sky in the countryside. They rarely launched attacks on the beach positions.
However, there were at least twenty armored vehicles destroyed in his field of vision.
The Japanese navy lieutenant only saw the results and felt horrified and cautious, but he did not know that behind every armored vehicle destroyed, more than ten or even twenty Chinese soldiers died in the battle.
Although the Japanese army's infantry-tank cooperation is very poor, it does not mean that you can rush towards the tank without any scruples with the explosive package and send it into the sky. First, someone must attract the firepower of the armored vehicle and the attention of the accompanying Japanese infantry, hiding in the mud
Only the soldiers in the field have a chance to die together with the armored vehicles.
The Japanese army was not good at night fighting, but it did not mean that they did not dare to fight at night. The bloody and painful Japanese army also fired real fire. The flares fired regardless of the cost illuminated the Chinese position into a white field. The battle lasted from dusk until late at night.
Until the early morning when the Hunan Army general ordered to hold on until dawn, while the Japanese troops were licking their wounds, the Chinese defenders shrank their troops and slowly retreated, leaving behind an infantry battalion responsible for blocking the enemy and covering the retreat of the main force until dawn.
No one was seen returning to the team.
The general of the Hunan Army who was waiting more than 20 miles away had his black hair turning into frost overnight.
Where did the main force come from? After one infantry division guarded the position for a day and night, the two half-broken infantry regiments together were only one regiment's strength. The main force was lost at Jinshan Guard.
Although no one in the last infantry battalion could retreat, they kept the Japanese soldiers on the beach for half the night. According to what fishermen hiding in the woods by the sea later described, the gunfire from the Chinese position continued until early morning, and the Japanese invaders
Dozens of fighter planes and more than a dozen ships and cannons all launched attacks before it came to a complete stop.