Rise From Eight Hundred

Regarding the appointment of the commander of the Tangdao Inspectorate and the deputy director of the General Staff, he had no objection and agreed.

However, he refused to form the Inspectorate with the Four-Line Battalion as the core, and directly requested that the two infantry companies of the 43rd Army plus a company drawn from his 67th Army Guard Battalion be used as the Inspectorate.

The two lieutenant generals of the 43rd Army were deeply moved. They knew that this was a special care from him, and he wanted to leave as many seeds as possible for his 43rd Army, just like the reason why they wanted the Four-Line Battalion to be the Inspectorate during the day.

The role of the Inspectorate is naturally to supervise the battle. There is no need to rush to the front line. Even if the whole army is annihilated in the end, the Inspectorate is basically the last batch of people to die, and the possibility of survival is far greater than that of the front-line officers and soldiers.

However, although they were moved, since the 43rd Army dared to come and fight, why should they let the 67th Army go and hide behind them as auxiliary? It is unreasonable.

Guo and Liu looked at each other. As the boss of the 43rd Army, Lieutenant General Guo was about to speak.

"Brother Guo, Brother Liu, there is no need to say more. Our 67th Army has just rushed to the southeast from the battlefield in North China, and we have encountered the old rival of the Sixth Division. It seems that it is God's will. Our 67th Army must compete with them again." Lieutenant General Wu waved his hand rather domineeringly, his eyes shining.

"What's more, the shame of six years can only be washed away by the blood of our Northeast Army, so that some people know that our 67th Army came to Songjiang not because we don't know the reason, but because this is a national war!"

The faces of the generals who were qualified to participate in the meeting were all horrified. On the one hand, it was because what this person said was a bit too much. Once it reached that person's ears, with that person's deep thoughts, not to mention the person who spoke in person, even those present would be remembered by him.

Wang Gongyu's face was even uglier, and he almost cried. He didn't expect that this general who came with 30,000 troops would drag him into the pit before the battle even started. How unlucky he must be!

Of course, the meaning of this statement is even more obvious from the side. The 67th Army came here to die. I am not afraid of death, so who am I afraid of offending? I dare to scold the king of heaven.

Tang Dao has seen once again the minds and means of the big guys who can have a place in this turbulent era. There is really no simple person.

Lieutenant General Wu said this, not only for the sake of momentary pleasure, but also to set the tone for the battle of Songjiang.

That is to tell everyone here that the 67th Army represents the Northeast Army in front of them. Even if they fight to the last man, they must complete the military order. By the way, it also tells Guo and Liu that he has the final say here, and the 43rd Army and the Security Corps are all auxiliary.

Without some skills, how can he become the pillar of the Northeast Army after the imprisoned Xiao Zhang and the second-in-command of the Northeast Army, General Wang, who was attacked and sacrificed?

Next, it is to determine the final battle plan.

Tang Dao and the two lieutenant generals spent an afternoon walking around Songjiang City and the Huangpu River bank more than ten kilometers away from the city. The three racked their brains and came up with a brand new plan.

After the Japanese army occupied Jinshanwei and marched towards Songjiang, they had to pass through the surging Huangpu River.

Originally, the two lieutenant generals insisted on pushing the position to the bank of the Huangpu River, so that they could set up defenses layer by layer, deepen the depth of defense, and delay the Japanese army's advance, so that the Japanese invaders would not cross the river without pressure and directly attack Songjiang City.

From the perspective of defensive warfare, such a design is of course no problem. In fact, they did so in the past. The 67th Army did not put all its troops in the city, but sent two to three regiments to find a suitable location outside the city to contain the main force of the Japanese army, so that the Japanese army could not attack Songjiang City with all their strength. In the end, although the Songjiang defenders suffered huge casualties, they still completed the military order to block the Japanese army for three days and nights.

But doing so would undoubtedly put the Chinese soldiers on the bank of the Huangpu River in the torment of the Japanese artillery fire. With only 12 hours of preparation time at most, it was impossible to complete the anti-artillery fortifications that could defend against 120-caliber artillery.

That almost meant that delaying the Japanese army for a few hours would cost the lives of thousands of soldiers. This was also the case in the past. Even the two major generals and brigadiers of the 67th Army who were sitting next to Tang Dao at this moment were killed outside the city.

Although from the final result, the strategic goal of blocking for three days and nights was achieved, the price paid was too heavy after all.

Especially for Tang Dao, a little butterfly from the future, he knew better what kind of pain the crippled 67th Army would suffer. The sacrificed lieutenant general not only had no honor or pension, but was falsely accused of surrendering to the enemy. The 67th Army was cancelled and reduced to an infantry division, which made everyone who knew this history indignant and regretful.

Therefore, Tang Dao firmly opposed this defense plan of exchanging life for time.

His suggestion was very simple. The whole army should abandon the periphery, retreat to the city, and fight an early version of the Hengyang Defense War.

As long as the Japanese Tenth Army is brave enough, they can come and bite. Songjiang, with more than 30,000 troops, is not just a hard bone that can break people's teeth, but a beast that can bite back at any time.

The Battle of Hengyang, which took place a few years in the future, was fought in this way, and 100,000 Japanese soldiers cried, so that in the end, the Japanese generals personally came out to persuade them to surrender, and swore in the name of their emperor that they would never abuse prisoners of war, and even allowed senior officers defending the city to leave with the wounded.

Just ask the Chinese people not to defend it, and symbolically hand over the ruined Hengyang City to them.

It's not that the Japanese didn't want to kill the defenders to avenge their hatred, but they really couldn't fight anymore. The casualties of the 100,000 Japanese troops far exceeded the Chinese troops defending the city.

In a month and a half of fighting, the Chinese side had 17,000 people, more than 16,000 dead and wounded, and only 1,000 people remained, but the Japanese army had 110,000, but 20,000 were killed and more than 50,000 were injured. If the battle continues, the several divisions under the Japanese 11th Army can be reduced to one division.

The general commander who is fully qualified to be the commander of the front army turned into a lieutenant general division commander, which is much more unlucky than Jiro Wakiban in the Battle of Sihang Warehouse.

Songjiang now has more than 30,000 people, and if he saves some ammunition and food, it is enough to hold him for a month. If the 10th Army also wants to fight into the 10th Division, it can try it.

Moreover, Tang Dao is very sure that Yanagawa Heisuke will not have so much time, and there is a high probability that he will admit defeat and change his route, but by that time, the hundreds of thousands of troops in Shanghai West have basically withdrawn.

"You idiot, it doesn't matter if you want to spend all the capital of my 43rd Army in Songjiang, anyway, I only have so many people, but what about the 67th Army? Do you think they will think the same? Do you believe that they will shoot you first?" Lieutenant General Guo, who was standing by the Huangpu River, stared at Tang Dao for a long time before cursing.

"Since you dare to come here, you won't be afraid of this. I believe in the 67th Army." Tang Dao acted like a fool at that time.

Obviously, the fool was right.

At the beginning of the combat meeting, the fierce commander of the 67th Army, the first commander of the Songjiang front, had already set the tone.

This man agreed to Tang Dao's combat plan almost without hesitation.

That is to say, knowing that this extremely decisive combat plan that buried everyone half in the ground was actually from Tang Dao's hand, he was a little surprised, but soon relieved.

It seems not surprising that the lieutenant colonel battalion commander who dared to fight the Japanese army, which was ten times larger than his own, in the Sihang Warehouse, put himself in a desperate situation again.

Of course, the subsequent defense zone planning is not something that Tang Dao can decide, as several generals are veterans.

In addition to the four city walls, the urban area with the most densely populated residential areas outside the east gate is also a key defense area. Unless the Japanese army has enough artillery shells to raze the residential area of ​​several square kilometers to the ground, they will have to send infantry to occupy it bit by bit.

That is an excellent battlefield for street fighting.

There is also Cangcheng, located 800 meters west of the city, which is also a position with an extremely important geographical location. If the Japanese army wants to attack that wall, it will be subjected to cross-attacks from the city wall and Cangcheng.

However, both positions are located outside the city, and the attacks and casualties they suffer must be very heavy.

But obviously, for these leading generals, as long as they can strike the enemy to the maximum extent, the number of casualties is no longer within their key consideration.

After the defense zone is demarcated, the next step is to assign combat tasks. Because the Songjiang Security Corps is familiar with the residential area in the east of the city, that place has become their battlefield.

This time, Commissioner Wang, who was easily frightened, probably lay down completely and accepted the military order calmly.

Liu Yuqing originally planned to fight for the defense zone of Cangcheng, which was a life-and-death defense zone, but was rejected again. However, this time it was not because the big man from the Northeast wanted to take care of the Sichuan Army, which had few people, but because he was completely shocked after hearing about the current firepower configuration of the 43rd Army.

A firepower support company actually had two mountain cannons, four infantry cannons and eight heavy machine guns, and four mortars.

Wouldn't it be good to put such awesome firepower in the main urban area to fight the Japanese? After all, this is the main battlefield.

It didn't matter that the 43rd Army didn't get the position it wanted to show off its blood and courage. Seeing that the defense zone had been divided, not to mention that the second-line positions in the city had been divided, even the garrisons of the troops to supplement the first line had been decided, and the combat meeting was about to conclude, but the famous Siyingying was not even mentioned by the big boss.

Tang Dao sat upright, without saying a word.