Rise From Eight Hundred

"Yes! The Japanese are waiting in front!" Tang Dao looked at the dark night sky and sighed slightly.

Including Lei Xiong, everyone's heart suddenly sank.

Tang Dao confirmed the worst outcome they imagined.

"But, who said we were going to run along the Shanghai-West Highway?" Looking at the group of officers with stern expressions, Tang Dao smiled faintly.

He reached out and took out a pen and paper, and drew a few strokes in the light of the flashlight, "Since the Japanese won't let us return directly to our army's main line, then let's go here."

"Where is that?" Everyone looked at the terrain map drawn by Tang Dao and couldn't help but take a breath.

Although the Tang Dao was drawn in a sloppy manner, it could basically show the current position map of the Chinese and Japanese armies stretching for tens of kilometers in the west of Shanghai.

Where they are now, the straight-line distance from returning to their own position is only three kilometers at most. They seem to be very close. If they go straight, it is the simplest and most direct escape route.

But everyone knows that this simplest route is also the most difficult. The Japanese troops on the position only need to block them for 15 minutes before the pursuers behind them can catch up, making it difficult for everyone to escape.

The route drawn by Tang Dao did not go straight, but turned left. Not only could they not escape to the main army formation that was just around the corner, but they were heading south of Songhu.

To the south, the lieutenant colonel of the army had already informed everyone in the telegram before, but without the main force of the army, any Japanese infantry brigade would be able to chase everyone away like a dog.

"Songjiang!" Tang Dao's eyes were like daggers. "The route and response instructions previously given to us by the regimental commander are no longer usable due to changes in the battle situation. We have to leave through another breach."

He drew a circle heavily on the hand-drawn map, "This is where we must arrive today."

He turned to look at his signal soldier: "Erya, call the regimental commander and ask him to help me tell the defenders here to respond and tell them that we have captured two Type 41 mountain cannons and multiple Type 92 heavy machine guns from the Japanese invaders. If they can successfully pick us up, these things will be theirs.”

"Sir, how did you know there were our people there?" Leng Feng was dumbfounded.

"Then we have to wait until we break through first!" Tang Dao strode towards the lead car and said the next sentence. "If you don't run away, Lao Leng, you won't have a chance to know the answer."

"Run, you would be a fool if you didn't run!" Leng Feng turned around and jumped into his car.

Of course, the people present would not know that even though the stretch of tens of kilometers from Jiading to Kunshan is the key area for the confrontation between hundreds of thousands of troops from China and Japan, in a few hours, the little-known Songjiang town located south of Songhu would appear. will become the focus of the Chinese and Japanese militaries.

Because, on the Jinshanwei sea, which is only fifty kilometers away from Songjiang City, the Japanese army's huge transport fleet has anchored and is preparing to land. What is about to land is the Japanese Tenth Army with a total strength of 70,000 transferred from North China.

That would be the last straw for the Huxi side to decide whether to retreat or hold on to hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops.

Once the Tenth Army passes through Songjiang City, this fierce left hook will directly cut off the retreat of these hundreds of thousands of troops.

By then, disaster will strike.

The hundreds of thousands of troops fleeing in panic will lose their unified command, and the swarming troops will completely block the narrow road. In order to escape from this battlefield that is about to swallow everyone, those elites will abandon all their heavy equipment and will Abandoning the seriously wounded, it completely turned into a rout.

Everyone knows that the Chinese army suffered nearly 300,000 casualties in the Battle of Songhu. In fact, at least half of the casualties occurred not during the battle in the urban area, but after the retreat that began on November 5.

Wounded soldiers were abandoned on the roadside for dozens of miles, crying loudly. They served the country, but because of their superiors' stupid orders, they eventually became abandoned. It was a scene that the whole of China could not bear to look back on.

The current direction of Songjiang, because of the Japanese base camp's tactics, did not send a large army to threaten them. Instead, it became the most likely escape route for Tang Dao and a group of his subordinates. Even in the next few days, it will become a dead end.

However, regardless of whether it was a passive choice or not, Songjiang was also a must-go place for Tang Dao.

China is a very peculiar nation. No matter that era, no matter how bad the situation is, whether the fire of the entire nation is swaying, there will always be brave people who stand up.

This is the case for the Battle of Songjiang, which will soon leave its name in the entire history of the Patriotic War.

A Northeastern Army will defend this small town, with more than 30,000 troops, fighting fiercely against two divisions of the Japanese army. In the end, six generals, eight colonels, and one-third of the entire army were lost in battle. The second price was to buy hundreds of thousands of troops three days and nights to retreat.

Tang Dao may not have the ability to change the situation of the fierce battle between nearly 100,000 troops on both sides, but he still has the opportunity to change the tragic ending of some people.

That general should not have received the treatment he deserved after dying heroically in battle.

Moreover, there are several Japanese names that are detestable, including Hisao Tani, Mitsuru Ushijima, and Yanagawa Heisuke. They are all active participants and promoters of the massacre.

For Tang Dao, if someone wants to become a butcher, then kill the butcher first.

About one kilometer away from the Japanese front-line position, Tang Dao led the convoy to turn to the left, passing by the Japanese position that was already close at hand.

A Japanese major who was personally stationed one kilometer away saw the headlights getting further and further away from him, and he almost spat out a mouthful of blood.

Isn't this the famous Sihangying of the Chinese army? Why aren't they as brave and fearless as imagined? Their ability to take advantage of opportunities is quite impressive.

From the direction of the car lights, he could of course tell where the Chinese were going, heading south to Songjiang.

Was that really a Chinese army that had been fighting in Zhabei for almost a week? If it weren't for the facts, the Japanese major would have found it hard to believe.

If they were not extremely familiar with the positions, force distribution, and even roads of both sides, they would never have made such a choice.

A week ago, both China and Japan concentrated almost all their main forces in the west of Shanghai, and the Songjiang area on the side of the west of Shanghai had become a no-man's land before that.

Of course, both China and Japan are not stupid. As long as one side makes any unusual moves on this important flank, they will immediately deploy troops there.

However, the Chinese side did not realize that the appetite of the Japanese headquarters was beyond imagination. They did not transfer troops from the Songhu Expeditionary Force, but had decided a month ago to swallow up the hundreds of thousands of Chinese elites who gradually withdrew from the city and concentrated in the west of Shanghai. They directly transferred three divisions from North China, and now they have stopped on the sea surface of Jinshanwei. The plan was half successful.

However, no matter how much the Japanese major vomited blood, he could not do anything about the convoy that suddenly changed direction and did not fight him.

Compared with the current Western countries, the mechanization level of the Japanese army is still the distance from the earth to Mars. In addition to the baggage troops that need to transport supplies, the infantry can only be equipped with a few horses for senior officers to travel.

How do you let him chase? Just rely on two short legs?

Perhaps only the 36th Infantry Regiment that arrived ten minutes later is qualified.

These unlucky guys are now fully mechanized, with motorcycles leading the way and two Type 94 armored vehicles in the back.

Just looking at the equipment, they are the elite among the elite.

Hearing that the Chinese had slipped south, Toyota Hide naturally gritted his teeth and gave the order to continue the pursuit.

This is no longer a question of merit or not. From the moment Colonel Nakagawa Hiroshi began to intervene, Toyota Hide knew that if he could not kill this wave of Chinese, his bad luck would make him cry.

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PS: It was a little stronger at night. I slept for most of the day and got up groggily from the bed. I barely revised and updated two chapters. If there are any that are not revised too well, please forgive me. This afternoon, I recommended it to Sanjiang. If you haven't invested yet, hurry up and invest.