Rise From Eight Hundred

The corporal fell asleep again in extreme exhaustion.

Tan Tai Ming Yue sent out her battlefield news overnight, telling about the unknown battlefield that broke out at the forefront of Jinshanwei.

Although that place had actually been marked with a big cross on the map by the bigwigs.

The defenders there had been abandoned since the military order was issued.

All they did was to stop the Japanese army for an hour or a quarter of an hour.

Including Songjiang, the so-called three-day and night time limit was actually just a scale that the bigwigs casually drew on the timeline they could accept. As for whether the defenders had been annihilated before three days and nights, that was beyond their control.

Their only hope was that these abandoned sons would play some role and make them get their money back as much as possible.

The hundreds of thousands of troops who were retreating frantically were the power for them to maintain their authority.

However, no one expected that even the abandoned sons had their own stubbornness.

The Jinshanwei defenders, who had only two thousand people, delayed the Japanese Tenth Army for twelve hours.

When the Songjiang Command passed this information to the brightly lit war zone command, the generals with sullen faces all breathed a sigh of relief.

The main force of the Japanese Tenth Army was still in the Jinshanwei area, and the 67th Army and the 43rd Army made a guarantee that they would hold on until the night of the 9th.

With this calculation, there were still 96 hours left.

And through the battle situation in Jinshanwei, the combat power of the Japanese Tenth Army was not as strong as imagined. 2,000 people resisted for 12 hours. The 67th Army, the 43rd Army and the Songjiang Security Corps had more than 30,000 people. It was not impossible to delay for two or three days.

Thinking of this, it seemed that we were going to do it again.

Military orders were issued overnight, strictly stipulating the retreat time of various front-line units. Although it was not enough to re-energize the army whose morale had been weakened, it was much better than the previous panic of rushing onto the road regardless of anything and even facing the machine guns of the war zone law enforcement forces.

The army commanders and division commanders knew that if the road was blocked, everyone would be completely doomed. However, in a crisis, no one wanted to be the last one to go. Now that they had almost one more day, they felt much more at ease.

The wounded soldiers who were originally ready to be abandoned on the roadside were carried up by many battalions and regiments.

It can be said that although the battle report sent by Qiang Sanwa, a corporal who almost ran to death, could not save the crisis, it saved the lives of at least more than 50,000 wounded soldiers. His real great contribution was no less than that of his regiment commander and nearly a thousand comrades who died in Jinshan County.

After the Songjiang Command sent a telegram to the theater command, under the command and coordination of two lieutenant generals and the staff headed by Tang Dao, they used this rare twelve hours to redeploy the combat plan.

At Tang Dao's suggestion, the first order was sent to the cavalry units. They needed to return to Songjiang City and carry a temporary artillery battalion composed of large-caliber mortars, 37mm rapid-fire guns, 20mm machine guns and gunners, and find a suitable ambush site along both sides of the Huangpu River.

Their target is the Japanese fleet that will surely go south along the Huangpu River overnight.

The naval guns of the ships are powerful, but they need sufficient firing angles and ranges, and the mortars are curved guns, hiding behind the hills, so it is not too easy to shoot them.

Although the mortars have low armor-piercing power and cannot blow up light destroyers with thick armor, they can still beat them up. If they encounter small gunboats, rapid-fire guns and machine guns are the most suitable to deal with them.

If they dare to let the infantry land, six cavalry companies approaching the strength of a reinforced infantry battalion will definitely make the Japanese army fall hard.

Even if the Japanese infantry is beyond imagination, the cavalry will take the artillery and run away.

In short, the strategy of Tang Dao's suggestion is to make you suffer, and you have to pay a price for every step forward.

Moreover, using ground artillery to attack ships in the river is not unique to Tang Dao. The troops that were about to cross the river in the past did so, and even knocked down the medium-sized destroyers of the British Empire with a tonnage of more than 3,000 tons.

Although the two lieutenant generals had some doubts about Tang Dao's risky active attack, they were finally persuaded by Tang Dao.

The Huangpu River is less than ten kilometers away from Songjiang. Most of Songjiang City is within the range of large-caliber naval guns equipped by Japanese warships. If that cannon is fired, the fortifications built in more than ten hours will have no ability to resist.

If a shell hits, it is very likely that an infantry platoon will be finished.

Instead of waiting to be bombarded by Japanese warships, it is better to follow Tang Dao's idea and take a chance. Before the main force of the Japanese army arrives, it will hit the ships that go south along the Huangpu River.

Tang Dao's combat plan is code-named "Big Stick".

If this blow is successful, the Japanese warships will naturally not dare to act recklessly, and the threat to Songjiang will be reduced accordingly.

If it fails, the worst result is that six cavalry companies and some artillery will suffer heavy losses. More than 30,000 people have put their lives on the line, so why are they afraid of this?

This is because the two men have already taken the risk of their lives. If the two armies are evenly matched, the two lieutenant generals will never make such a risky move.

They are soldiers, not gamblers, and they will never easily bet on turning a bicycle into a motorcycle.

Fortunately, Tang Dao convinced them, and he was relieved.

In the past, the Huangpu River was not peaceful and allowed the Japanese light destroyers to wreak havoc.

China’s limited air force was deployed in this battle, dropping bombs and severely damaging a warship, but there were dozens of Japanese naval fighter planes coming from dozens of kilometers away, and the Chinese air force suffered another heavy blow.

In the Battle of Songhu, China’s 700,000 elite army fought bravely and tenaciously, but among all the participating troops, they were not the bravest group.

The bravest group was also the weakest.

Chinese Air Force.

China was the first branch of the military to withdraw from the war.

With 300 to 2,000, the lagging Hawk III against the Japanese obviously leading Type 96 fighter planes, in less than a month and a half, the Chinese war eagles were almost no longer seen in the sky over Songhu.

It was not a retreat, but almost a complete annihilation.

Those soldiers from famous families used their heroic deeds of shedding blood in the sky to make the school motto of Hangzhou Miqiao Aviation School difficult: Our bodies, planes and bombs should perish together with the enemy’s warships and positions.

Perhaps, it is the most unique school in the world. Its motto is to teach their students to die. Is there another school like this in the world?

No, there has never been one in human history.

But it really exists, in the most exciting and greatest era in China. The students of that school did not live up to the teachings of their alma mater.

During the entire Patriotic War, a total of 4,321 air force soldiers died in the sky, and as many as 1,700 of them came from that school.

Their graduation photo will always stand in front of the school motto monument that told them to die. Then they set out on the journey without hesitation, embarking on the road that they can never return.

Those who can control the aircraft must have received higher education. They could have relied on their good family background and their good talents to do a job that would never be too tiring, but those people still chose to become the soldiers with the highest death rate.

They died, but Tang Dao remembered them.

He did not want these remaining flames to come to Songjiang to die. Their airport had been moved 300 kilometers away, but Songjiang was less than 100 kilometers away from the Japanese aircraft carrier parked on the sea.

So, he had to kill those guys who were rampant in the river first.

In addition to sending the most mobile cavalry to fight the ambush of the Japanese light ships, the two lieutenant generals also issued a military order for the entire army to rest for four hours.

Since Tang Dao led the team to arrive, they have already started to build fortifications. It has been 16 hours now, but many soldiers have rested for less than two hours. The 67th Army has been working after the entire army arrived after a 10-hour rapid march.

The human body has its limits.

More than a hundred people have fainted on the construction site.

With these precious twelve hours, they can finally let their soldiers rest for a while.

After the military order was issued, Songjiang fell into silence in less than five minutes. Except for the snoring of some people who were exhausted, everyone from generals to soldiers fell asleep.

They slept in a relatively dry corner of the construction site, fully clothed. The night temperature in the southeast in late autumn had dropped to 7 or 8 degrees, which was already considered cold. So you stayed next to me, I stayed next to you, and we cuddled together to fall asleep.

No one wasted time. Four hours later, it would be morning. They would get up again to complete the unfinished works and wait for the arrival of the Japanese army.

Reporter Tan Tai Ming Yue had told everyone on the radio half an hour ago: "Jinshan County has fallen. When the night came."