Yes, people who don’t know the history of Songjiang city may think that this must be a small place when they hear this inconspicuous name. Even Tang Dao, a little butterfly from the future, subconsciously thinks of this place.
It became a small town.
But if you know, the history of the ancient city of Songjiang can even be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period. In the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, it was called Songjiang Prefecture and administered Songhu County.
To put it bluntly, in history, Songhu, a metropolis that only emerged in modern times, was just a small county under Songjiang City, and Songjiang was the boss of this city with a radius of hundreds of miles.
Songjiang Castle is not only not small, but also quite big.
Especially when Wang Gongyu came over with the map of Songjiang City, Tang Dao felt even more painful.
Just looking at the Zhongshan Road that runs from east to west in Songjiang City, that is, after Mr. Sun visited Songjiang in the first year of the Republic of China, the people of Songjiang renamed the "Ten Mile Long Street" that runs through the east and west gates of the ancient city to commemorate the Zhongshan Road.
Songjiang Castle is at least more than 2,000 meters from east to west.
Looking at the north and south gates, the distance between them is probably more than 1,000 meters. If you calculate this, the city wall surrounding Songjiang alone is 6,000 meters long.
That means that just the four walls need to be defended by two infantry regiments.
Of course, City University also has the advantages of City University, which means greater strategic depth, and it can be dragged into street fighting when necessary.
When facing Songjiang, the Japanese army must fight no matter how difficult it is.
If this city is not captured, the road that goes around the city is less than three or four kilometers away from the small town. All the Japanese troops and baggage will be within the attack range of Songjiang City artillery. Unless the Japanese abandon their heavy equipment and travel lightly,
Otherwise, if the Japanese army wants to attack the left wing of the army, it must first conquer Songjiang.
"Captain Wang, Commander Tang, should we go up to the city wall and take a look?" Wang Gongyu looked at Tang Dao and Lao Wang, who were frowning, and felt uneasy in his heart.
He is the commander of the security group, but he usually only goes by one name, and basically focuses on administrative affairs. Military affairs are naturally far behind. Seeing Tang Dao and Lao Wang, the two regular army battalion-level officers, frowned.
, I naturally murmured in my heart.
Of all the people present, I am afraid that this person least wanted Songjiang to fall.
After all, this is his hometown.
"Let's go up to the city wall and have a look." Lao Wang is also an extremely pragmatic person. He has no right to speak unless he conducts on-the-spot surveys. It is not his personality to just look at maps and talk about military affairs. At that moment, accompanied by Wang Gongyu, he took the lead to walk up the city wall.
Tang Dao, Lei Xiong, and Lao Wang's two infantry major battalion commanders all followed.
Although I was eager to put in the defense as soon as possible, the city wall was indeed long enough. Even if a group of people patrolled at a brisk pace, it would take a full hour and a half, making the usually pampered inspectors sweat profusely.
However, at this critical moment, the high commissioner did not complain or complain about being tired. He even refused the help of the guards and gritted his teeth and trotted all the way to follow Tang Dao and others. This made Lao Wang even more impressed by him, and naturally he said so in his words.
Much more respect than before, not just his rank of major general.
Songjiang Castle has lived up to its status in history. The city walls may not be as tall and majestic as some military fortresses in the north, but they are still five or six meters high.
After countless years of baptism, the bricks on many sections of the city wall have disappeared, leaving only a section of mounds. Even the inner city wall is no longer vertical, but has slopes. People can completely
Running up the city wall, the exposed wall was covered with trees and weeds.
This embarrassed Wang Gongyu, the chief military and political officer of Songjiang. This was probably the first time in his life that he had to walk through the entire wall of Songjiang City.
However, Tang Dao, Lao Wang and others did not care. The defensive capabilities of the mounds and bluestone brick walls were actually about the same in the face of thermal weapons. As long as there was vertical height, it was not easy for the Japanese to climb up and they were thick enough to withstand bullets.
Just cannonballs.
The defensive power of the city wall is slightly weak, but what is rare is that there is a moat outside the city wall.
There is no shortage of water in the Jiangnan water town. Songjiang is close to the Huangpu River and used to be a famous cargo transshipment area in the Jiangnan area. The moat has several functions. It can not only protect the city but also serve as a waterway for cargo ships to transport goods.
The water systems in the city and outside the city are connected by four water gates, and the moat that surrounds the city is connected to the Huangpu River several kilometers away. If you want to cut off the water in the moat, unless the Japanese army spends huge manpower and material resources to build it upstream.
Dam, but if you have that time, let alone attack the left wing of the Chinese army, the day lily will be cold.
They must and can only cross the moat channel, which is 30 meters wide at its widest point, and break through the Songjiang city wall in order to achieve their strategy. Otherwise, the Japanese base camp's tactical intention of consuming huge manpower and material resources to mobilize troops from the north will all come to nothing.
This circle of moat will become the key to the defense of Songjiang City.
To this end, Tang Dao personally went down to the moat to test the depth of the moat.
Perhaps it is only responsible for the shipping of small cargo ships. The river is not deep, that is, the depth is the height of an ordinary Chinese person.
However, the depth of about 1.65 meters is just enough for most short-legged people to submerge their heads.
There are many small boats parked in the moat. They were originally fishing boats that could go fishing in the Huangpu River along the waterway in the early morning, but now it is obviously impossible. Even the smoke that should have been rising has disappeared.
Songjiang City itself is not small, and the population living in the entire city is even larger, more than doubling the entire city's outward expansion.
Looking around, along the paths on both sides of the moat, there are densely packed houses.
Especially Zhongshan Road, known as Zhongshan Road, which passes through the East and West Gates, is lined with residential buildings on both sides, with alleys no more than one meter wide criss-crossing the streets, with houses next to each other in an endless row.
The walled inner city is like a big fruit core, and the outer pulp is seven or eight miles long at most, or three or four miles at least.
To attack the city below, the Japanese first had to pass through the intricate alleys.
Tang Dao's eyes narrowed. It seemed that these could be used.
What the soldiers saw was actually the panic of the people inside and outside the city.
Although the Songjiang County administrative agency has not yet issued a warning of the imminent Japanese attack, the gathering of heavily armed security groups and the arrival of Tang Dao and others have already made the people who were already on tenterhooks because of the Songhu Battle instinctively feel the danger.
Many people have already begun to pack up their belongings and plan to stay away from the city as soon as there is confirmed news.
This is actually a very correct choice. If you stay in the city, you will either die from the raging artillery fire or become the target of wild beasts that invade the city to vent their anger.
Tang Dao knew better than anyone in this era the virtues of these beasts in the Japanese Tenth Army. It was precisely because of them that the massacre that shocked China and the world was finally caused.
Songjiang must not be the first.
"Commissioner Wang, Commander Guo hasn't come yet, but there are some things that must be done in advance." Tang Dao said with great seriousness.
"Commander Tang, tell me."
"First, Songjiang County must immediately notify all Songjiang residents that due to the incoming Japanese army, they must take their valuable belongings and leave Songjiang City before sunset today. It is also recommended that they not go towards Kunshan and first hide in relatives' homes in the countryside.
It will only take two or three months, and then we can return home after the war has stabilized.
Second, I hope Songjiang County can recruit 5,000 young men to help our army build fortifications from noon to tomorrow morning."
"Okay!" Wang Gongyu agreed without hesitation.
As soon as he stepped off the city wall, the inspector of the Third Administrative Region of Jiangsu and Zhejiang took a big seal and promulgated the highest administrative order of the Songjiang region.
All people in Songjiang City, regardless of dignitaries or traffickers, all left the city. In order to speed up the process, everyone could only leave with a certain amount of money and food.
The security team may be unsatisfactory in fighting, but they are definitely good at dealing with the common people. Within half an hour, the small town of Songjiang, which was only restless at first, was already crying loudly.
No one wants to leave their home, let alone those valuable belongings that are not allowed to be taken away. Especially for those wealthy families, this is simply their rebellion. Some people even organize family armed forces to resist.
In troubled times, heavy codes are used. At this time, the Songjiang County Magistrate showed a ruthlessness that was different from his gentle appearance, and directly issued an order. Anyone who refused to obey the order could be shot on the spot.
As the brutal gunfire rang out, seeing that the security team no longer acted like they usually just collected money, but instead showed their sharp fangs, the wealthy people who took the lead in making trouble suddenly became more honest.
Not counting this, Tang Dao had previously proposed to recruit five thousand young men, and this man was also trying his best to complete it.
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