Chiang Kai-shek saw that the People's Liberation Army had wiped out more than 400,000 main forces of the Japanese army from July 7 to July 24 in just 17 days...

Therefore, this time, he believed that he should be sure to use 350,000 regular troops, 50,000 local troops, and nearly 400,000 troops to encircle and annihilate 110,000 Japanese troops.

Even if the combat power of one's own troops is slightly worse than that of the People's Liberation Army, it should be able to wipe out the Japanese army in Shanghai within 20 days. At most, the number of casualties is a little larger. At that time, the number of casualties between the People's Liberation Army and the Japanese army was almost one-on-one. Then no matter how much casualties the Central Army were, it should be within 200,000. If 200,000 Central Army casualties could be exchanged for victory in the Battle of Shanghai, it would definitely be worth it.

First, we can successfully obtain support from the Soviet Union. Now, the ** and the Soviet Union are gradually drifting away. If we establish a close connection with the Soviet Union, we may really be able to eliminate who will be eliminated in the future.

Secondly, if we can completely wipe out the Japanese army in Shanghai, we can definitely rise to a level that is almost the same as ** in the prestige of the people. After all, after wipe out the Japanese army in North China, we did not immediately go out of seclusion, which hurt many people who hope to recover the hearts of the people in the Northeast as soon as possible.

Moreover, since the beginning of the war, Chiang Kai-shek continued to mobilize troops from Fujian, Zhejiang and northern Jiangsu, hoping to make a desperate attempt with the Japanese army in Shanghai. It is expected that by around August 20, the Kuomintang will invest more than 450,000 regular troops in Shanghai, accounting for almost two-thirds of the Kuomintang's current total strength.

If the Japanese army wants to reinforce the Shanghai area, it will not be completed until at least the end of August. Moreover, the Soviet Union also agreed to cooperate with the Kuomintang army to launch a relatively large offensive against the Japanese army on the northern battlefield, which was used to restrain the Japanese army's efforts to reinforce East China.

With such a thorough and complete plan, Chiang Kai-shek agreed to the suggestion of the Soviet Stalin envoy and made up his mind to fight the Japanese army in the Songhu area. On September 8, an attack on the Japanese army in Shanghai was suddenly launched.

However, the development of the battle situation was very unsatisfactory.

From the night of July 8th to today's 18th, the entire battle has been launched for ten days, and the breakthrough of the three Central Army troops that will attack the Japanese military camp in Shanghai is very unsatisfactory.

The battle lasted for ten days, but not only did it fail to annihilate the Japanese troops stationed in several barracks, but instead they were counterattacked by the Japanese army and controlled the entire territory of Shanghai.

Faced with such a result, how could Chiang Kai-shek not be so depressed?

But no matter how depressed it is, it is useless. The battle has to be fought. Chiang Kai-shek was stunned for a while in the office, and then decided to rush to the Military Commission to discuss the next phase of the Battle of Shanghai.

Just when Chiang Kai-shek rushed to the Military Commission to recruit personnel to discuss the next phase of the plan, an extremely fierce Sino-Japanese War was taking place on the land of Songhu.

Before the outbreak of the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army in Shanghai was mainly entrenched in the Japanese Concession in Hongkou, as well as strongholds such as Yangshupu and Wusongkou in Pudong, and the scope was much larger than that in the later periods of Xunhuaizhou.

The army mobilized by the Kuomintang this time can also be said to be a strong general. From the second half of 1936, Chiang Kai-shek faced the reality and comprehensively reorganized the Central Army into 50 divisions and more than 600,000 people, each division full of more than 12,000 people.

After more than a year of reorganization, all of these fifty divisions have now implemented German equipment, and at the same time, they have also imported a considerable number of heavy artillery and armored combat vehicles. However, despite this, Chiang Kai-shek's army was equipped with heavy equipment like the Standard Division of the German Army. Whether it was heavy weapons and equipment of tanks, heavy artillery and heavy machine guns, or individual equipment, the Kuomintang was not equipped in place at the time because the Kuomintang had insufficient funds at that time.

In addition, over the past year, the Kuomintang army has lacked practical exercises, and most troops commanders have not yet recovered from the failure of fighting with the People's Liberation Army. Therefore, the current combat power of the Kuomintang army is far less powerful than what the Kuomintang bosses such as Chiang Kai-shek thinks.

However, the attitude of the Kuomintang army was very firm in fighting Japan.

This time, Chiang Kai-shek will encircle and annihilate the Japanese army in Shanghai to form the General Command of the Battle of Shanghai. Chiang Kai-shek himself served as the commander-in-chief and appointed Gu Zhutong as the deputy commander-in-chief.

At the same time, the Japanese troops attacking Shanghai will be divided into three parts.

Part of them is the Ninth Army, the Tenth Army and the Eleventh Army, which were originally stationed in Shanghai, and the Nine Reorganized Divisions have a total of more than 11,000 people, forming the Central Army, with Zhu Shaoliang as the commander-in-chief of the Central Army. The Japanese army entrenched in Hongqiao area

The Second Army, the Third Army and the Fifth Army mobilized from northern Jiangsu and Anhui, were about 110,000 people, forming the Left-wing Army, with Chen Cheng as the commander-in-chief.

The Eighth Army, the Thirteenth Army and the Fourteenth Army mobilized from Zhejiang and Fujian, formed the Right-wing Army, with Zhang Fakui as commander-in-chief.

The generals of the three armies first launched a fierce attack on the Japanese army entrenched in the Hongkou Japanese Concession by Zhang Zhi, the central unit of the Ninth Army, which was originally stationed in Shanghai.

Unfortunately, the Japanese army had been on guard against each other. First, the Kuomintang's continuous military transfer had already made the Japanese army notice. Second, the Japanese spies lurking in the Kuomintang army also submitted the rough information of the Kuomintang army's plan to the Shanghai Battle of the Shanghai to the hands of the Japanese Shanghai Expeditionary Army. General Matsui Ishione, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Expeditionary Army.

Ironically, although the arrival of Xunhuaizhou brought about many changes in the world and the forces participating in the Battle of Songhu also changed greatly, the main commanders of both sides did not change greatly.

Starting from the evening of the 8th, the Kuomintang army began to attack the Japanese positions in Shanghai. On September 9, all the only 100 aircraft of the Kuomintang Air Force were dispatched. In Shanghai, more than 200 fighters of the Japanese Navy Air Force had fought a life-and-death battle with the Japanese Army Aviation.

Although the soldiers of the Kuomintang army were very brave and tenacious in fighting and their weapons and equipment were greatly strengthened, the combat power of the Kuomintang army is actually relatively low compared to the elite Japanese divisions.

This is the first time that the Kuomintang army has carried out three-dimensional combat modes such as infantry and artillery coordination, infantry and armored forces coordination, and air-ground coordination. Since training in this area is scarce in normal times, by the beginning of the war, all the situations of insufficient preparation and low training level in the Kuomintang army will be reflected.

In the first ten days of the war, the air force of the Kuomintang army was almost completely lost. The armored troops and armored troops had no strong firepower protection, lacked the experience of cooperating with infantry, and even lacked the powerful combat power of an invincible monster like the Chinese tank of the People's Liberation Army.

Therefore, a few days before the attack, nearly 100 advanced armored combat vehicles of the Kuomintang army that were deployed on the battlefield in Songhu were consumed and lost. All the Japanese warships and guns were destroyed, and all the armored troops were wiped out, and all the soldiers were killed in their country.

The casualties of the entire Kuomintang army were even more severe. In just ten days of the battle, nearly 70,000 Kuomintang troops who were invested in the Battle of Shanghai had already suffered nearly 70,000 casualties. On the worst days, the casualties reached almost 10,000 in one day.

The most unfortunate thing is that the progress made by the Kuomintang army after paying such a price of casualties is minimal.

However, the Central Army once captured part of the Japanese Marine Corps' territory in Hongkou area, but was immediately taken back by the Japanese brave counterattack. There were repeated battles on multiple positions, and corpses were piled up in front of the positions.

The Battle of Songhu has only been ten days since the Kuomintang army's offensive has become very tired.

The battle gradually entered a stalemate. The heavy artillery of the Japanese warships and heavy artillery anchored at the Yangtze River and Wusongkou could directly reinforce the Japanese warriors in the coastal areas, which also caused considerable losses to the Kuomintang army.

On September 20, the attacks of Song Xilian's 36th Division, Wang Jingjiu's 87th Division, Sun Yuanliang's 88th Division and Xia Chuzhong's 98th Division were all blocked.

At this time, the battle situation was in a stalemate. The Japanese army retreated to the stronghold and fought stubbornly while waiting for reinforcements. The Chinese team did their best but could not make much progress, and the troops suffered serious casualties.

Faced with such a passive situation, Chiang Kai-shek, on the one hand, also stepped up the attack on the Japanese army in Wusongkou from the Jiading area.

On the other hand, more than 120,000 people, the most elite First Army, Fourth Army and Sixth Army, stationed in Nanjing and Anhui, were urgently transferred to Shanghai to participate in the war.

Similarly, starting from September 23, the two vanguards of the Japanese divisions that reinforced Shanghai were landing in the Lion Forest, Chuanshakou, Zhang Huabang and other aspects under the cover of sea and air firepower, and the battle situation suddenly became tight.

After the Chinese and Japanese capitals increased their troops, the fierce battle between the two sides in Shanghai became more intense. Starting from September 25, the 3rd and 11th Divisions of the Japanese army landed at the Wusongkou Railway Terminal, Lion Forest and Chuanshakou under the cover of dense firepower of naval guns, attacked our positions in Baoshan, Yuepu, Luodian, and Qizaobang.

Zhang Zhizhong sent Wang Jingjiu to be the commander of the front enemy in Songhu, commanding the troops under the Ninth Army to fight against the landing of the Japanese army.

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