Rise From Eight Hundred

In the dark night, the Chinese defenders in Songjiang were all asleep.

The Japanese army was preparing for battle.

It was not an easy task for an army of more than 100,000 people to get from a large transport ship to land.

In addition to people, there were also a large number of equipment, such as cannons, trucks, horses, etc., which could not be completed smoothly with a simple victory in a beach landing.

It took almost a whole day for the three divisions and a detachment of the Japanese Tenth Army to assemble on the shore.

Such efficiency was actually fast enough. As long as tomorrow daytime, the entire army could go south to Songjiang and head straight to the west of Shanghai to complete the strategy of completely defeating the already demoralized Chinese army.

But as the commander of the Japanese Tenth Army, Yanagawa Heisuke, who was standing in the only house in Jinshan County that had not collapsed, was furious.

In his imagination, at this time, an infantry brigade and a detachment of the 114th Division that first landed should have arrived at the outskirts of Songjiang, a must-pass place. First, they can scout the movements of the Songjiang defenders for the main force, and second, they can find a way to bypass Songjiang.

Through the battles on the beach and Jinshan County, the tenacious Chinese soldiers have made Yanagawa Heisuke realize that in order to prevent his main force from falling into a catastrophe, the Chinese high-level officials must have issued a death order to the Chinese troops blocking the way of his army.

If they were all hard bones encountered during the day, by the time he had gnawed them one by one, the main force of the Chinese in the west of Shanghai might have fled long ago, so what was the use of his 10th Army coming here? Was it specifically to scare the Chinese?

Tactical failures may be acceptable to the headquarters, but Yanagawa Heisuke will never accept it.

No one knows, including the Japanese headquarters, how ambitious this Japanese Army Lieutenant General Commander is.

The strategy formulated by the Japanese Army's headquarters on the main island was to completely annihilate the hundreds of thousands of elite Chinese troops in Songhu, and then stabilize the occupied areas before making new strategic deployments.

Although the Songhu Expeditionary Force Command boasted the "bold words" of occupying all of China in March, it was not only the Songhu Battle that shattered their boasts in March, but the Japanese high-level officials who were not fully prepared did not really want to swallow up the Chinese elephant in one bite. Their original strategy was to swallow up and digest it bit by bit.

However, the Japanese high-level officials ignored the ambitions of middle and senior generals like Yanagawa Heisuke who came from civilian backgrounds.

For a constitutional monarchy like Japan, if you want to have a say in the top circles of society, being a general of an army is just the starting point. Only by enfeoffment and becoming a noble can you truly stand at the top of the pyramid.

How can the headquarters' almost conservative strategy be accepted by army generals like Yanagawa Heisuke?

Therefore, in the past, the Tenth Army brazenly "overcame the superiors with the inferiors", completely abandoned the strategic deployment of the headquarters, and took the opportunity to pursue the retreating Chinese troops in the west of Shanghai. The whole army went straight to Nanjing, encountered a fierce counterattack and was injured, and finally caused a massacre. The famous butcher Sixth Division became a demon-like existence with the tacit consent of the commander Yanagawa Heisuke.

The reason why Tang Dao stayed in Songjiang and insisted on not going to Baihe Port was not because he was worried that the 67th Army could not defend Songjiang, but because Yanagawa Heisuke, Tani Hisao, and Ushijima Mitsuru had already set foot in southeast China. That was the main reason.

Tang Dao hoped to kill the demon in its infancy. Although it is difficult, how can you know if you don't try?

Yanagawa Heisuke, who wanted to make great contributions and advance to the nobility, had his idea shattered on the first day of landing in southeast China.

It took the 114th Division and Kunisaki Detachment a whole afternoon to capture Songjiang. When his main force arrived and established a command post in the ruined Jinshan County, the bastards stopped 40 kilometers away from Songjiang.

That was fine. Marching at night was very risky, and even if they arrived near Songjiang, they would have to wait for the engineering troops. There was also a Huangpu River between Jinshan and Songjiang. Although it was not wide, there was no doubt that the bridge had been blown up by the Chinese. If personnel and materials wanted to cross it, the engineering troops had to build a pontoon bridge.

And the Chinese wanted to delay the advance of his army, so they would inevitably deploy troops on the opposite bank of the Huangpu River to block it.

Speed ​​is the essence of war. If he wanted to fulfill his dream, he had to capture Songjiang as quickly as possible.

So, he thought of asking the navy for help and asked them to send light destroyers and gunboats to go south at night, so that they could not only scout the enemy situation, but also use ship guns and machine guns to drive away the Chinese on the shore.

It must be said that Yanagawa Heisuke had a good idea, making the most of time. With the help of the navy, the vanguard of the 10th Army could cross the Huangpu River in the afternoon of the 6th and launch an attack on the small Songjiang.

If they were lucky, they could capture Songjiang when the lights came on, and reach the battlefield in the west of Shanghai on the 8th at the latest, and wipe out the main Chinese forces that had not yet escaped. As for the part that escaped, could they escape the pursuit of the 10th Army?

But Yanagawa Heisuke obviously overestimated his face, and the commander of the naval fleet responsible for transporting them arrogantly rejected his request.

The reply from the vice admiral of the same rank to him only had a few words: "Our army's mission has been completed!"

The meaning couldn't be more obvious: I am only responsible for transporting you from North China to Southeast China, and you dare to command me, who do you think you are?

Yanagawa Heisuke could imagine how the navy vice admiral with a tuft of mustache threw his telegram into the trash can with contempt. If it weren't for the fact that the telegrams between the two sides would be recorded, he might have added the words "Army Malu".

It would be strange if the commander of a dignified army didn't fly into a rage.

The roar of the lieutenant general commander of the Japanese Tenth Army almost resounded within 50 meters of the temporary command post of the Tenth Army, which was at least open on two sides: Navy Malu!

Malu translated into Chinese means idiot plus fool. It is basically the daily name of the Japanese navy and army to each other.

It can only be said that the Japanese curse words are too poor, and the two armies only use the same word over and over again. If it were in China, the local cursing in various provinces could last for half an hour without repeating.

Japan invaded China, didn't they want to learn this! At least, in the future, they added "Ya Lu" after Baga!

But the commander-in-chief, a lieutenant general, could only curse. He was still a figure in the army, but in the eyes of the Imperial Japanese Navy, he was just a millipede.

The Japanese navy and army were definitely not just talking about their dislike for each other on paper. The grudges between them absolutely subverted anyone's imagination.

The most famous pig teammate in World War II, I guess many people can blurt out, and that may be the most regretful thing for the little mustache leader in his life. What friends are there? Isn't it good to be proud and lonely? He didn't encounter a god-like opponent, but he encountered a basket of pig-like teammates.

Compared with the famous pig teammates who couldn't pry open the shell box during the war, Japan was not the most pig, but Japan had its own pig teammates, which made the little mustache leader very depressed.

The two sides thought that they had encountered pig teammates, naturally, they could only be the Japanese navy and army, and there was no third person, perhaps because Japan had no air force. The two pig teammates of the navy and the army alone were enough to give the bigwigs in Japan a headache.

If you want to say how bizarre it is, the high-ranking Japanese army officials who received the news of the defeat of the Imperial Navy after the Battle of Midway held a banquet to celebrate.

In order to counter the Imperial Navy's awesome "Zero" fighter, the Japanese Army purchased the patent of the Daimler-Benz DB 601 engine used on the BF109 fighter from the Germans and used it on the Army Aviation fighter.

The arrogant Imperial Navy was also very interested in this engine, but it was too embarrassed to ask the Army for it, so it also bought the patent...

The Germans who made two fortunes: Are the Japanese stupid?

No, things that can be solved with money are not a big deal.

The reason for the fight between the two sides was that the Imperial Navy had a large amount of steel resources in Japan at the time, so it could build aircraft carriers and even two Yamato-class battleships, but it just didn't give them to the humble Army, resulting in the Army tanks not even being able to guarantee iron sheets, and a large number of small tanks appeared.

Don't blame the Japanese Army high-ranking officials for being too stingy, just blame the Navy Malu for being too domineering.

Then, the Japanese Army controlled most of the oil fields in Southeast Asia (because it was the Japanese Army that landed, whoever got it first would own it), but the Army's oil consumption was not high, but it just kept it to itself and didn't give it to the Navy.

The bad result was that in the Battle of the Marianas and the Battle of Leyte, the Navy had fleets nearby to support it, but because it had no oil, it could only watch its ships and planes being sunk...

People who see these allusions may just want to shout "Fuck!", but for the Japanese Navy and Army, it's just a common occurrence.

It was just a routine operation that Yanagawa Heisuke's request was rejected without mercy by the Navy Vice Admiral.

Fortunately, for the sake of his dream, Yanagawa Heisuke, a civilian-born Vice Admiral, did not have the so-called arrogant temperament of the aristocracy.

After cursing, he finally knelt down and sent another "deep love and loyalty" to the vice admiral. In fact, it was just a telegram to show his submission. It meant that you, the navy uncle, are the main attacker, and I am the auxiliary. As the main attacker, it is unreasonable for the imperial navy brother not to send warships!

The navy fleet symbolically sent three gunboats to the estuary carrying two infantry squadrons of the Japanese 114th Division, and went south along the Huangpu River to Songjiang overnight.

If Yanagawa Heisuke was not a cheap bone, the artillery rapid response team that Tang Dao spent a lot of effort to build would have worked in vain for half a night.

The Big Stick Plan was almost stranded.

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Recommend a book by a military author, "My Division Commander Feng Tiankui", a very good fan-made anti-Japanese war novel, with 2 million words. Book friends who like it can go and have a look.