Rise From Eight Hundred

The two lieutenant generals knew that Tang Dao must not cheat on this matter.

It was a serious matter, and the damage to reputation was only secondary. The key was whether they could seize the opportunity to adjust tactics after the Sixth Division lost its backbone because of the killing of Tani Hisao.

The military order concerned the lives of thousands of people, so they had to be careful and cautious.

"Haha! I believe in you, Tang Dao, and my entire Songjiang army will fight with you!" Lieutenant General Wu laughed loudly, pacing back and forth in the command center with his hands behind his back. His steps suddenly stopped, and he looked at his deputy with a different look:

"Brother Guo, Tani Hisao is dead, but the Japanese troops on the front line are not panicked at all. It can be seen that the front-line command covered up his death, and the Japanese troops on the front line did not know. We may take this opportunity to give the Japanese a hard time. How about it?"

"I agree! Commander-in-chief, you decide!" Lieutenant General Guo smiled slightly.

"Order, the 319th Brigade in Beicheng, transfer the 638th Regiment to Dongcheng, the 67th Army's direct special forces regiment transfers the guard battalion to Dongcheng, and the 322nd Brigade originally in Dongcheng, the Songjiang Command's direct guard battalion, under the command of the 108th Division, the entire army launched an attack on the Japanese invaders in Dongcheng District at 7 am. There is no order to retreat, the entire army from generals down is only allowed to advance and not retreat, and the invading enemy must be completely wiped out." Lieutenant General Wu's eyes were firm, and his low roar spread throughout the entire command.

"Also, a general order to the entire Songjiang army, the commander of the Japanese 6th Division, Lieutenant General Tani Hisao, has been killed in front of our Songjiang army!"

This is a major counterattack. Although it will not go out of the city and fight tens of thousands of people in the field, it also mobilized all the troops that can be mobilized in Songjiang, and even played the last card in the hand of the Songjiang Command. It can be seen that the Army Lieutenant General is determined to fight this battle.

Giving up the fortifications and letting the Japanese army into the city for a fierce battle was to treat the Japanese army as human shields and to open the door to thieves out of helplessness; but this is a different time. Now that the Japanese Sixth Division has lost its supreme commander, all the Japanese troops entering Songjiang City have also lost a colonel regiment commander. If they don't close the door and fight the dog, they will lose this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

This is the choice that the commander has to make, whether to fight to death or retreat, when to fight and when to retreat, each choice requires unparalleled wisdom and courage.

Because the mistakes he made need to pay with his life, thousands of lives.

Just like Lieutenant General Wu, who has put all his life on the gambling table, if he makes a wrong decision, the Japanese army continues to put troops into the city, and even finds that the troops in the city are mobilized, threatening the tens of thousands of Japanese troops in the north city no longer play the game of siege and siege, and launch an attack at the beginning, then Songjiang City may not even be able to maintain the previous balance.

Songjiang City was broken, and the Songjiang defenders, which had been reduced to more than 20,000, were completely wiped out, although before that, they had completed the military order issued by the theater command to stop the enemy for three days and nights.

No wonder the lieutenant general started with the entire Songjiang army fighting with Tang Dao. If the news sent back by Tang Dao was wrong, everyone here would have to accompany him to the guillotine.

However, both commanders chose to trust Tang Dao unconditionally.

What kind of trust is this?

Tang Dao, who stood up straight, was also full of passion at this moment.

And Tan Tai Mingyue, who stood up after recording the military order, looked at the three soldiers in front of her, and her blood surged to tears.

The two uncle-level soldiers and the young and handsome soldier who was like a sharp saber, in this small command center, bloomed their own light.

The light of heroes.

They and the officers and soldiers who were still enduring the cold of late autumn and crouching in the ruins holding steel guns on the front line were the most handsome men in China in this era.

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The Chinese command made an important counterattack plan, while the Japanese army made things worse.

When Sakai Tokutaro saw the pale corpse of his number one general who had been bled out, his face was not much better than the corpse.

This was not the pain of an old grudge and a new one, but he knew that the 4,000 men still in Matsue Castle were in an extremely dangerous situation.

After losing Tani Hisao, as the commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade, he was unable to deploy the rest of the division's troops to support the soldiers in the city. The commander of the 13th Infantry Brigade, Mitsuru Ushijima, had always been at odds with him under Tani Hisao's intentional or unintentional checks and balances of military power. Not to mention him, even the current chief of staff Colonel Shimotsuke Ichikawa, the nominal commander of the 6th Division, did not look at him straight.

If the Chinese were to go all out to siege the 4,000 infantrymen who had already entered the city, they would suffer heavy losses.

This meant that the news of the death of Hisao Tani had to be reported to the higher authorities.

His 11th Infantry Brigade needed reinforcements, and only the 10th Army Commander Yanagawa Heisuke could do it.

The dawn of November 9 was absolutely dark and cold for the 10th Army Commander Yanagawa Heisuke of the Japanese Army.

He may have become the first army commander in the history of the Japanese Army to lose his top general before entering a decisive battle.

"Lieutenant General Tani Hisao died?" Yanagawa Heisuke, who had just been woken up from the simple camp bed and had not had time to rub his sleepy eyes, looked at his major general chief of staff with eyes as wide as two small lanterns.

If there were no lights in the field tent, Tanabe Shigetake would have thought that there was a tiger squatting opposite him.

The kind with green eyes that could eat people.

Although it was difficult, Tanabe Shigetake, who had left the Sixth Division's front-line headquarters in the afternoon, could only nod honestly.

The telegram was signed by the Sixth Division's Colonel Chief of Staff and two Major Generals of the Brigade. No one dared to falsify it, unless the Chinese cracked the communication code.

But that was even more impossible.

"Order Sakai Tokutaro and Ushijima Mitsuru to the headquarters!" Yanagawa Heisuke was stunned for a long time before he recovered his breath, and gritted his teeth and ordered: "I want to personally ask them the truth about the death of Lieutenant General Tani Hisao."

"No, the battle on the front line is urgent. Order the escort squadron to prepare horses, and I will go to the Sixth Division headquarters in person." The commander of the Japanese Tenth Army changed his mind in an instant and turned to get his command knife and firearms.

He still didn't want to believe the authenticity of this news. Only when he saw Tani Hisao's body, he was willing to believe this fact.

"Commander, the Tenth Army still needs you to command, so why not, let me go on your behalf." Tanabe Shigetake faithfully played the role of chief of staff.

Even though he didn't want to ride a horse more than ten kilometers away in the dark.

But this is what he should do. He should do the hard work and the honorary commander should bear it. Who makes him the second person in name!

Without this awareness, the second person is likely to become the most marginal person, and he can't even mobilize the baggage regiment.

"Okay! After you arrive, Shengwujun, order the Sixth Division Headquarters to strictly block the news. It must not be leaked before the end of the Songjiang Battle. After investigating the truth, secretly bring the body of Lieutenant General Tani Hisao back to the headquarters!" Yanagawa Heisuke, who suppressed his anger, thought for a few seconds and made a reasonable decision.

But no one expected that this decision would have a series of chain reactions for the Japanese Tenth Army.

Yanagawa Heisuke, the culprit of the massacre, certainly escaped with his life by chance, but he pushed the 4,000 infantrymen of the 11th Infantry Brigade into the abyss.

The commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade, Major General Tokutaro Sakai, who had anticipated the danger at the headquarters only 600 meters away from Songjiang City, lost two extremely important hours to change the fate of his subordinates.

Between the Huangpu River and Songjiang, there is a wilderness covering an area of ​​dozens of square kilometers.

There are hills and wilderness, with excellent visibility, but it is easy to hide because of the dense trees and grass.

The Chinese also have cavalry, lurking on both sides of the Huangpu River.

The Japanese cavalry, who had suffered heavy losses in the cavalry battle, are now very cautious. During the daytime search, at least one cavalry squad must go out together, and there is no longer a situation where a cavalry group of three or five horses searched everywhere.

In this way, the area that can be searched is naturally limited.

Although there are tens of thousands of Japanese troops stationed here, there has never been a lack of Chinese cavalry in the wilderness.

In the bushes on a hill about 600 meters away from the main road from the Huangpu River to Songjiang City, Lv Sanjiang, who was lying on his stomach and almost asleep, was one of them.

As one of the cavalrymen who lured the Japanese cavalry into the ambush position, Lv Sanjiang, who was originally only a corporal, has been promoted to a sergeant.

His veteran brother was directly promoted to a cavalry second lieutenant, but his rank was raised and he still had to do the work he should do.

The new cavalry second lieutenant and the sergeant are still old partners. After nightfall, they entered the wilderness from the Huangpu River to Songjiang City to observe whether the Japanese army had any troop movements.

All night, the main roads were quiet.

Until the sky was slightly bright, you don’t need to listen to the sound, you can vaguely see the dark figure just by visual inspection.

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