Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 195

Chapter 195 The bad news finally arrives

According to frontline telegrams.

Just the number of Japanese troops who laid down their landing ships and established positions on the beach exceeded 5,000, and there were even more giant transport ships staying at sea in the distance.

However, due to poor transmission of military orders, the troops ordered to garrison the Jinshanwei seaside that day only had two pitiful artillery batteries and a security regiment of soldiers.

Not to mention the generals, even a random orderly in the headquarters will know that Jinshan Guard cannot hold it anymore.

The army generals who hurriedly walked into the headquarters had frost on their faces.

The Japanese troops once again landed at Jinshanwei, which not only meant the complete defeat of the Songhu Battle. Although the Japanese troops on the flanks and rear flanks had not yet revealed their ferocity, they already felt a chill.

The Japanese want to attack from both front and back and make dumplings for the hundreds of thousands of soldiers on the Western Front. They really have a big appetite.

However, they also have to admit that the more than 200,000 Japanese troops in front of them are already overwhelming. If two or three more divisions suddenly come from the flanks, the current balance of power that they have worked hard to maintain will be completely broken.

The oath of China's top figure who flew to the front line a few days ago to inspire all the soldiers to resist the enemy is still ringing in my ears, but in the face of the current reality of the Japanese troops landing at Jinshanwei, it seems extremely ridiculous.

The entire army retreated immediately, before the Japanese army needed time to deploy its troops from the sea to the western left wing of Shanghai. The Chinese army generals who walked into the theater headquarters were extremely rare and did not quarrel. They made this suggestion almost unanimously.

Even before entering the conference room, some people had already ordered their adjutants to bring their own warrants to notify their subordinates, collect supplies, and prepare to retreat.

There is only one road from Huxi to Jinling, and all five or six million troops are crowded on it. There will be Japanese bombings overhead. These generals know better than anyone how miserable it will be.

But no one wants to be the last one, this is also human nature.

The headquarters in Jinling was also brightly lit, but it was surprisingly quiet.

Several big shots who could dazzle half of China by stomping their feet stood dumbly in front of a large map of the Songhu War Zone.

Compared to the panic of the frontline generals, these people who are deeper into the city are obviously more calm.

It's just that their mood is far worse than the seemingly calm surface.

For soldiers, a defeat on the front line means losing a life, but for them, at least half of their wealth, which they have spent half their life in, is lost.

For this Songhu Battle, the Guangdong Army, the Yunnan Army, the Hunan Army, the Sichuan Army, the Guangxi Army, and the Central Army. Except for northern China, which started the war early, almost all provinces in eastern and southern China have come out with their best troops. Several big bosses are boiling with public opinion. Next, didn't that one grit his molars and take out his trump card?

It's not that they are all heroes. The key is that they dare to hide it at this juncture. The big brother who takes the lead will give you a big hat of "incompetent in the war of resistance and fear of fighting" to arouse public anger. No matter how big it is, I can't bear it!

But if these trump cards that they gritted their teeth to bring out are wiped out in one battle, how can they be the boss in their own territory?

If it weren't for the fact that the leading brother also invested in this battle the most elite members of the Central Army under his command, from the teaching corps to the three divisions of the Imperial Guard to more than a dozen reorganized divisions, they would probably have jumped up and cursed.

Even so, the atmosphere in the conference room was almost frozen, and the school official who was responsible for recording the meeting did not even dare to breathe.

The leader also had a solemn expression on his face and stared at the map for a long time without speaking.

At this time, he could no longer care about the heartache, but finally realized that he was wrong and had made a huge mistake.

The Japanese have not paid any attention to the International Joint Conference on which they have placed all their hopes. The weakness they have shown at the Joint Conference in the past few days is just to delay time and is a typical strategic deception.

Yes, contrary to the thunderous reaction of the Chinese military, the headquarters of the Japanese Songhu Expeditionary Army in downtown Songhu was filled with joy after receiving the news that the Tenth Army had begun landing.

The Chinese were not only strategically deceived by the base camp's diplomatic weakness, but were also outright deceived tactically.

Landing at Jinshanwei is actually an adventure at the base camp. The wide tidal flats of Jinshanwei are not suitable for large-scale landing battles. The shore with insufficient water depth makes it impossible for large ships to approach the shore. The 2,000-ton destroyer can only park on the water three kilometers away from the sea.

If you cannot quickly deploy troops and build positions on the beach that put pressure on the defenders, it is very likely that a large-scale landing battle will turn into a suicide battle. The defenders with fortifications could easily use machine guns to shoot down the infantry walking heavily on the tidal flats.

Therefore, starting from October, the Songhu dispatched troops deliberately ignored the Songjiang area, directed all attacks to the west of Songhu, and suppressed the main Chinese force that had gradually withdrawn from the urban area in the western area of Shanghai.

Even, no reconnaissance planes were sent to investigate the Jinshanwei area, but some intelligence personnel who had lived in China for a long time were sent to investigate.

Now it seems that they succeeded.

The Chinese ignored this coastline, which was originally unsuitable for large-scale landings, and the number of troops stationed there would never exceed one battalion.

Possibly, due to the terrain, they can only use refueling tactics to invest troops, which will cost a lot of casualties, but it is almost certain that this landing battle will be successful.

For General Matsui Iwane, the commander of the Songhu Expeditionary Force, the number of casualties is not important. What is important is that the success of the Jinshanwei landing battle can wipe out hundreds of thousands of China's most elite troops in one battle.

That was no longer a battle-level victory, but almost a strategic victory that determined the national war between the two countries.

Does China, a giant that has been weakened to the extreme, still have the chance to train such an elite army of hundreds of thousands? Obviously, the Imperial Japanese Army, which has invested half a million troops on the northern and southeastern fronts, will not give them this opportunity again.

The opportunity to expand territory and make achievements is right in front of you. Why can't this Japanese army general smile?

This morning is undoubtedly a torment for China and Japan, who have very different mentality.

One side has to make a decision whether to fight or retreat. The other side hopes that the left hook he quietly throws will knock out the opponent in one blow, and then slaughter him wantonly.

Only the little butterfly Tang Dao knew that China finally decided to retreat, and Japan almost succeeded.

In fact, regardless of success or failure here, their goal was achieved in the end.

　　Although the hundreds of thousands of Chinese elites who participated in this battle were not exhausted in Songhu, under the foolish manipulation of some upper-level figures, the last drop of blood was finally squeezed out in the Battle of Jinling one month later.

It's just that Matsui Iwane's ambition has still not been realized. If there are no elites, then the second-line soldiers will be sent. If the second-line soldiers are gone, then the strong men will be sent.

China has been defeated repeatedly in battles, but it has been defeated repeatedly. A China that does not surrender is invincible.

Of course that is still a matter of the future. What Tang Dao has to face now is the choice of whether to follow the 26th Division south to Songjiang.

'The Songhu Theater Command ordered that the 26th Division of the 43rd Army immediately stationed in Songjiang County and defended it for three days and nights! Anyone who refuses to give up will be killed! ' The military order from the theater headquarters is on the extremely simple desk in front of Lieutenant General Guo, commander of the 43rd Army.

The joy of learning that the commander of the Si Xing Battalion, who was famous throughout the army, turned out to be his subordinate, and that Tang Dao presented him with a cart of canned beef, was long gone.

Zhongjiang Guo moved away from the telegraph order and turned his gaze to Tang Dao standing in front of him, his brows furrowed.

He was not waiting for Tang Dao to lead the Sixings Battalion with only a hundred people to follow him south to Songjiang. Instead, he was trying to persuade Tang Dao to leave.

“Commander Tang, you and the Sixing Battalion go! From here go to Baihe Port and leave through the bridge. I leave the more than 200 wounded soldiers of our 43rd Army to you.” Lieutenant General Guo sighed.

The Japanese army is about to attack more than 50,000 people, but he only has 700. He can calculate the outcome with his toes.

The 26th Division is already destined to die, so why put this hundred iron-blooded troops to death again? Thinking about it, this should be the simplest idea of the Army Lieutenant General at the moment.

(End of this chapter)

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