"Yes! The Japanese are waiting in front!" Tang Dao looked at the dark night sky and sighed slightly.
Including Lei Xiong, everyone's heart suddenly sank.
Tang Dao confirmed the worst outcome they imagined.
"But who said we were going to run along the Shanghai-West Highway?" Looking at the group of officers with stern expressions, Tang Dao smiled faintly.
He reached out and took out a pen and paper, and drew a few strokes in the light of the flashlight, "Since the Japanese won't let us return directly to our army's main line, then let's go here."
"Where is that?" Everyone looked at the terrain map drawn by Tang Dao and couldn't help but take a breath.
Although the Tang Dao is drawn in a sloppy manner, it can basically show the current position map of the Chinese and Japanese armies stretching for tens of kilometers in the west of Shanghai.
Where they are now, the straight-line distance from returning to their own position is only three kilometers at most. They seem to be very close. If they go straight, it is the simplest and most direct escape route.
But everyone knows that this simplest route is also the most difficult. The Japanese troops on the position only need to block them for 15 minutes before the pursuers behind them can catch up, making it difficult for everyone to escape.
The route drawn by Tang Dao did not go straight, but turned left. Not only could they not escape to the main army formation that was just around the corner, but they were heading south of Songhu.
Heading south, the lieutenant colonel of the army had already informed everyone in the telegram before, but without the main force of the army, any Japanese infantry brigade would be able to chase everyone away like dogs.
"Songjiang!" Tang Dao's eyes were like knives. "The route and response instructions previously sent to us by the regiment commander are no longer usable due to changes in the battle situation. We have to find another breakthrough to leave."
He repeatedly drew a circle on the hand-drawn map, "This is where we must arrive today."
He turned to look at his signal soldier: "Erya, call the regimental commander and ask him to help me tell the defenders here to respond and tell them that we have captured two Type 41 mountain cannons and multiple Type 92 heavy machine guns from the Japanese invaders.
If they can successfully pick us up, these things will be theirs."
"Sir, how did you know there were our people there?" Leng Feng was dumbfounded.
"Then we have to wait until we break through first!" Tang Dao strode towards the lead car and said the next sentence. "If you don't run away, Lao Leng, you won't have a chance to know the answer."
"Run, you would be a fool if you didn't run!" Leng Feng turned around and jumped into his car.
Of course, the people present would not know that even though the stretch of tens of kilometers from Jiading to Kunshan is the key area for the confrontation between hundreds of thousands of troops from China and Japan, in a few hours, the little-known Songjiang town located south of Songhu would...
It will become the focus of the Chinese and Japanese militaries.
Because, on the Jinshanwei sea, which is only fifty kilometers away from Songjiang City, the Japanese army's huge transport fleet has anchored and is preparing to land, and what is about to land is the Japanese Tenth Army with a total strength of 70,000 transferred from North China.
That would be the last straw for the Huxi side, which was struggling with whether to retreat or hold on to the hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops.
Once the Tenth Army passes through Songjiang City, this fierce left hook will directly cut off the retreat of these hundreds of thousands of troops.
By then, disaster will come.
The hundreds of thousands of troops fleeing in panic will lose their unified command, and the swarming troops will completely block the narrow road. In order to escape from this battlefield that is about to swallow everyone, those elites will abandon all their heavy equipment and will
Abandoning the seriously wounded, it completely turned into a rout.
Everyone knows that the Chinese army suffered nearly 300,000 casualties in the Battle of Songhu. In fact, at least half of the casualties occurred not during the battle in the urban area, but after the retreat that began on November 5.
The wounded soldiers who were abandoned on the roadside stretched for dozens of miles, wailing loudly. They served the country, but because of their superiors' stupid orders again and again, they eventually became abandoned. It was a scene that the whole of China could not bear to look back on.
The current direction of Songjiang, because of the tactics of the Japanese base camp, did not send a large army to threaten, but instead became the most likely escape route for Tang Dao and his gang. Even in the next few days, it will become a dead end.
However, regardless of whether it is a passive choice or not, Songjiang is also a must-visit place for Tang Dao.
China is a very peculiar nation. No matter that era, no matter how bad the situation is, whether the fire of the entire nation is swaying, there will always be brave people who stand up.
This is the case for the Battle of Songjiang, which will soon leave its name in the entire history of the Patriotic War.
A Northeastern Army will defend this small town, with more than 30,000 troops, fighting fiercely against two Japanese divisions. In the end, six generals, eight colonels and one-third of the entire army were killed in the battle.
Second, at the cost of buying hundreds of thousands of troops three days and nights to retreat.
Tang Dao may not have the ability to change the situation of the fierce battle between nearly 100,000 troops on both sides, but he still has the opportunity to change the tragic ending of some people.
That general should not have received the treatment he deserved after dying heroically in battle.
Moreover, there are several detestable Japanese names there, Hisao Tani, Mitsuru Ushijima, and Heisuke Yanagawa. They were all active participants and promoters of the massacre.
For Tang Dao, if someone wants to become a butcher, then kill the butcher first.
About one kilometer away from the Japanese front-line position, Tang Dao led the convoy to turn to the left, passing by the Japanese position that was already close at hand.
A Japanese major who was personally stationed one kilometer away saw the headlights getting further and further away from him, and he almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
Isn’t it said that this is the world-famous Four Elements Battalion of the Chinese Army? Why is it not as brave and fearless as imagined? The ability to find every opportunity to rub oil on the soles of the feet is quite awesome.
From the direction in which the headlights were moving, he could certainly tell where the group of Chinese were planning to go, which was south to Songjiang.
Is that really a Chinese army that fought in Zhabei for almost a week? It is really hard for the Japanese major to believe it unless the facts are before his eyes.
If we were not extremely familiar with the positions of both sides, the distribution of troops, and even the roads, we would never have made such a choice.
China and Japan had concentrated almost all their major forces in the west of Shanghai a week ago, and the Songjiang area on the west side of Shanghai had become a two-way zone before that.
Of course, both China and Japan are not stupid. As long as one party makes any changes to this important flank, they will immediately mobilize their troops there.
It's just that the Chinese side didn't realize that the Japanese base camp's appetite was beyond imagination. Instead of dispatching troops from Songhu, it made up its mind as early as a month ago to gradually withdraw from the urban area and concentrate them in western Shanghai.
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese elites were swallowed up in one gulp, and three divisions were transferred directly from North China. At this moment, they were already staying on the sea of Jinshanwei. The plan was half successful.
However, no matter how much the Japanese Major vomited blood, there was nothing he could do about the sudden change of direction and not follow his hard-steel convoy.
Compared with today's Western countries, the degree of mechanization of the Japanese army is still a distance from the earth to Mars. In addition to the baggage troops that need to transport supplies, the infantry can only be equipped with a few horses for senior officers to travel.
How do you want him to chase you? Just rely on his two short legs?
Perhaps only the 36th Infantry Regiment, which will arrive in ten minutes, is eligible.
This group of unlucky guys are now fully mechanized, with a motorcycle in the front and two Type 94 armored vehicles behind them.
Just looking at the equipment, he can be called the elite among the elite.
Hearing that the Chinese had slipped away to the south, Toyoda naturally gritted his teeth and gave the order to continue the pursuit.
This is no longer a matter of meritorious service or not. The moment Hirasa Nakagawa started to intervene, Toyoda Hide knew that if he could not kill this wave of Chinese, his unlucky attributes would make him cry.
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PS: I felt a little stronger at night. After sleeping for most of the day, I woke up groggily from bed. I reluctantly revised and updated two chapters. If there are any mistakes that are not revised too well, please forgive me. I recommend Shang Sanjiang this afternoon. If you still
