Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 188

Chapter 188 Turning south

"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 determined 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 devil 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.

Going 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 a dog.

“Songjiang!” Tang Dao's eyes were like daggers. "The route and response instructions previously given to us by the regimental commander are no longer usable due to changes in the battle situation. We have to leave through another breach."

He drew circles on the hand-drawn map, "Here 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.

"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 will become the focus of the Chinese and Japanese militaries.

Because, on the sea of Jinshanwei, which is only fifty kilometers away from Songjiang City, the Japanese army's huge transport fleet has anchored and is preparing to land. What is about to land is the Japanese Tenth Army with a total strength of 70,000 transferred from North China.

That will be the last straw for the hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops in Shanghai who are struggling to retreat or hold on.

Once the Tenth Army passes through Songjiang City, this fierce left hook will directly cut off the retreat of this army of hundreds of thousands.

At that time, 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 were abandoned on the roadside for dozens of miles, wailing loudly. They served the country, but because of their superiors' stupid orders again and again, they eventually became abandoned. This is a scene that the whole of China cannot 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 a group of his subordinates. Even in the next few days, it will become a dead end.

It's just that, regardless of whether it is a passive choice or not, Songjiang is also a must-go 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. Such is the case with the Battle of Songjiang, which is about to 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 divisions of the Japanese army. In the end, six generals, eight colonels, and one-third of the entire army were lost in battle. The second price was to buy 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 Japanese names that are detestable, including Hisao Tani, Mitsuru Ushijima, and Yanagawa Heisuke. They are all active participants and promoters of the massacre.

As far as Tang Dao is concerned, if someone wants to become a butcher, then the butcher should be slaughtered 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 farther and farther away from him, and he almost spat out a mouthful of blood.

Didn't you say that this is the world-famous Si Xing Battalion of the Chinese army? Why isn't he as brave as he imagined? The ability to oil the soles of the feet at every opportunity is pretty awesome.

By the direction in which his 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 would be really hard for the Japanese major to believe it unless the facts were before his eyes.

If he were not extremely familiar with the positions of both sides, the distribution of troops and even the roads, he would never have made such a choice.

China and Japan had concentrated almost all their main 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, neither China nor Japan is stupid. As long as one party makes any changes to this important flank, it will immediately mobilize troops there.

It's just that the Chinese didn't realize that the Japanese base camp's appetite was beyond imagination. Instead of dispatching troops from Songhu, they made up their 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 surface of Jinshan Guard. The plan was half successful.

It's just that no matter how much the Japanese major vomits blood, he can't do anything about suddenly changing direction and not following 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 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 front and two Type 94 armored vehicles behind them.

Just looking at the equipment, they 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.

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 the revision is not too good, please forgive me. I recommended Shang Sanjiang this afternoon. If you haven't invested yet, go and invest quickly.

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