Yanagawa Heisuke's choice was exactly the choice of the Tenth Army in time and space.
The Sixth Division stormed Songjiang, and after conquering Songjiang, it advanced to the southwest of Shanghai, cooperating with the Shanghai dispatched troops located in the Shanghai urban area and facing the main Chinese force in west Shanghai to annihilate the main force of the Chinese army, while the 18th Division landed on the other side of Jinshanwei.
While rushing towards the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway, we also marched towards Suzhou.
Although it is suspected of "subduing the superior", it has to be said that Yanagawa Heisuke's move hit the Chinese army's vital points hard. At that time, the hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops in Shanghai were mainly located in the west of Shanghai, which was the future
In Jiading District and Qingpu District, they have two options for retreating. One is to retreat to Hangzhou via the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway and to Wuhu via Guangde. Where is the national defense line waiting for them?
The choice of most Chinese troops is to withdraw to the direction of Kunshan and Suzhou, where there are the Wu-Fu Line and the Xicheng Line.
In doing so, the Tenth Army almost blocked the retreat routes of the Chinese main force in both directions. How could the Chinese army located in the west of Shanghai not panic? With an army of nearly 700,000 people, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas are originally Jiangnan water towns.
There are many waterways, but there is only one road leading to Kunshan.
Just thinking about it, you know what the consequences would be if hundreds of thousands of people crowded onto a highway.
In fact, in addition to the army, there are also refugees.
As a little butterfly, the reason why Liu Lang had to bite the bullet and lead the elites he had carefully built for several years to Songjiang, a place where he must die, even though he knew he would survive a narrow escape, was because he knew that if Songjiang could not stop the Japanese invaders,
The hundreds of thousands of troops who received the news of Songjiang's fall would panic and retreat again just like in the past.
Songhu suffered more than 300,000 casualties, which was an extremely rare battle-level casualty in the entire history of China. In fact, the bloody battle on the Songhu frontline in March had only more than 100,000 people. However, this great rout suddenly increased the casualties to 3
One hundred thousand, two hundred thousand people were left on this route of retreat, including wounded soldiers who had been abandoned by soldiers who had lost their fighting spirit.
In the battle report records, there was little mention of the existence of refugees. But Liu Lang knew that there were not only refugees, but many more. He remembered clearly that when he was the chief designer of the nominal military factory, he once represented the factory.
I went to express condolences to a retired veteran cadre who participated in the Songhu Battle and later joined the Red Army. He was almost 100 years old, but his eyes still shined when he talked about that thrilling battle.
But when he talked about the final retreat, his already dry eye sockets were filled with tears. Those were tears from a centenarian man that Liu Lang would never forget in his life. The old man had spent 100% of the time on this planet.
It was a long time that none of the ninety-nine point five human beings could live through. He had experienced the most brutal battles and the greatest Patriotic War in the history of the Chinese nation. He could have been indifferent, but he mentioned that eighty years ago
During that battle, he still burst into tears.
The old man said that when his comrades died under Japanese artillery fire, he was no longer as sad as he imagined. Soldiers died on the battlefield, which is the destination of soldiers. But he can never forget one thing, that was on the way to the great retreat.
, on the way to Kunshan.
"There was just such a road, and at least more than 300,000 troops and refugees were crowded on this road, flowing forward like a tide. At dawn, a Japanese military plane flew over us and bombed us indiscriminately. A Japanese military plane not far from me
The pregnant woman was carrying a child on her back, holding a child in her arms, and carrying a load with a child on one end, running forward with great difficulty.
A plane swooped down towards her and a bunch of people around her. I quickly shouted to her to get down quickly. Before I finished speaking, a bomb exploded next to her. She and her four children were all killed, and her abdomen
After being blown open, the fetus in her abdomen was still squirming, and blood was flowing all over the floor. I tried my best to help her seal the wound, hoping that both she and her baby would survive, but in just one minute, she died.
Already.
She was not mine, but I burst into tears. Even when my comrade died, I never cried so sadly. Because I thought about my mother and sister, would they be like this woman?
Were they killed by the Japanese so easily? From that time on, I was never afraid of fighting. I would move forward bravely in every battle. I was too afraid that my mother and sister would also want to be blown up by the Japanese like this. But I was afraid.
The strange thing is that I survived until the war and still live to this day."
The 100-year-old veteran's story was very calm, but Liu Lang could read his grief and even shame from 80 years ago from the tears in his dry eye sockets.
Women and children were bombed to death right in front of his eyes. That was a shame that no soldier would ever forget. Those were the people they swore to protect when they picked up their guns!
The little butterfly may have forgotten many things, but the tears in the eye sockets of the centenarian veteran have already flowed into his heart. He can't do anything for him, but he can help him safeguard the honor of the soldiers and lead his troops to fight to the death.
Death is the simplest way to maintain military honor.
As for whether the entire war will be won or not, that has already been determined, and Liu Lang is not worried at all. The terrible wheel of history will crush the culprits who started the war to pieces, and those who committed numerous crimes will be
Hanged on the gallows.
Liu Lang has never been a big shot since he came to this era. He is just a representative of the little people. He is struggling in this era for the survival of the little people. Since the Japanese devils will not let the big guys live, then let's die together!
At the moment when Yanagawa Heisuke made this tactical plan, Liu Lang was leading thousands of independent regiments and rushing towards Songjiang on the road where the troops had not yet broken up. He was here to attend the appointment of death, even though he knew that he was just a
Just a moth flying towards the fire.
However, when the number of moths reaches a certain level, the blazing bonfire will be extinguished! The 67th Army in Wuxi also has 30,000 moths rushing towards the big fire in Songjiang on the road.
Of course, whether the fire used the moths as fuel, or whether the moths used the corpses to extinguish the fire, this is something that neither China nor Japan can predict. Both sides of the battle have revealed their trump cards, and the Japanese army’s trump card is now obvious
Just an advantage.
Yanagawa Heisuke's tactical plan was extremely fatal to the Chinese army in Songhu, and it also laid the foundation for his rapid rise in time and space. But if he is said to be a military master, that is not necessarily true.
Not to mention he is just a lieutenant general, but looking at the whole of Japan, can he be called a military master?
In World War II, the Japanese army was recognized as "first-rate in tactics but poor in strategy." In July 1937, they thought that if they provoked the "Marco Bridge Incident", China would still endure humiliation and give in as before. Little did they know that after the "Xi'an Incident", China would resolutely
Anti-Japanese has become the mainstream view recognized throughout China. With the raging anti-Japanese sentiment throughout China, how could the "Marco Bridge Incident" end like it did in the past? After the conflict in North China expanded comprehensively, the original strategic direction of the Japanese army was
From north to south, such a flat terrain from high to low can better utilize the mechanized advantages of the Japanese army. However, with the outbreak of the "August 13th Incident", the focus of operations shifted to East China, and the direction of the strategic offensive was changed to along the Yangtze River from east to west.
To the west, the rolling hills and criss-crossing water networks in this area greatly restricted the mechanization advantage of the Japanese army, and thus fell into the quagmire of a protracted war. It can be said that the Japanese army did not have a clear grand strategy from the beginning, and was completely reckless.
It slips wherever it steps on the watermelon rind, and is even led by China's strategy.
If I had to pick out one frog from the toads to put some kudos on the Japanese, then there would be one, and that one was a bit playful.
In fact, there were two differences of opinion at the top of the Japanese military at that time: one advocated using the "Marco Bridge Incident" and the "August 13 Incident" to comprehensively expand the war of aggression against China and completely conquer China; the other believed that Japan's real enemy was
The Soviet Union and the United States should not expand the scale of the war in China and waste precious war resources. Instead, they should solve the problem on the spot as much as possible and accumulate national strength to go to war with the Soviet Union and the United States in the future.
The former opinion was undoubtedly the mainstream among the Japanese army at that time. Most of the top Japanese generals such as Army Minister Gen Sugiyama, Army Deputy Secretary Yoshijiro Umezu, Chief of Staff Prince Kanin Miyazahito, Deputy Chief of Staff Shun Tada and others held this view.
The latter opinion was only held by a few people including Kanji Ishihara, Chief of Operations of the General Staff Headquarters.
Ishihara Kanji was the culprit who planned the "September 18th Incident", but he was a pragmatist who was very familiar with the international situation, and he was one of the few people in the Japanese army with a strategic mind. He believed that Japan should make every effort to develop "Manchuria" and try its best to
Digest and absorb the resources of "Manchuria" and enhance Japan's comprehensive national strength. Therefore, he was opposed to provoking the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and the Songhu Incident, and he did not agree to expand the war with China. He advocated withdrawing all troops from North China to inside and outside Shanhaiguan.
, and then Prime Minister Konoe will hold negotiations with China to resolve the dispute. It should be said that Ishihara Kanji's suggestion is very insidious. As a result, China will be far away from taking back Northeast China. However, his opinion was not accepted, so that day
As the army continued to send more troops to North China and Shanghai, and the scale of the war gradually expanded, he believed that the senior leadership of the Japanese army lacked strategic foresight, which pushed Japan into a dangerous abyss, so he resigned angrily in September.
Undoubtedly, this rare "little frog" in the toad heap was still very sober. Afterwards, the direction of the Sino-Japanese War was similar to what he imagined. Japan invested nearly 2 million elite troops in China. The entire war lasted for eight years.
420,000 people died, and an unimaginable amount of supplies were consumed. Even if the American cowboys had not completely defeated the Japanese in the Pacific battlefield, Japan would have been sucked dry by China bit by bit. In the later stages of the war, let alone the Chinese-occupied areas
The Japanese army's canned beef became canned fish, and Japan's fanatical citizens were already eating it.