Rise From Eight Hundred

No matter how the Japanese navy and army quarreled and blamed each other because they were hit by a club in the first encounter with the Chinese in the early morning of November 6, they still had to fight in Songjiang City, which was a must-go place.

As the biggest victim and the abuser of Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, the 114th Division, one of the miscellaneous troops in the Japanese Army, hurried on the road before finishing breakfast.

Yes, just like there are Type A and Type B divisions in China, the Japanese Army is the same. The 17 standing divisions are Type A divisions, that is, those with numbers below 20 are Type A, and those above 100 are Type B. In the later period of the war, there are even weaker Type C divisions.

However, it is by no means to say that Type B divisions are not good. The 114th Division is one of the stronger Type B divisions, and it has become one of the seven divisions that broke into Nanjing and committed heinous crimes in time and space.

It's just that this guy has too much bad luck. In the past, he only stayed in China for two years, and his division number was revoked because his division commander was killed.

And this time, the bad luck that originally came with it was obviously added because of the arrival of a little butterfly.

As soon as he came up, he was slapped and hit by a club by the Chinese.

The face of his division commander Shigeharu Suematsu has been ashen since he received the telegram of the reconnaissance squadron.

The 114th Division, which was used as the vanguard of the 10th Army, began to hit a wall after landing on the Jinshanwei beach.

In the landing battle on the morning of November 5, they killed nearly a thousand Chinese people and suffered nearly a thousand casualties. The one-to-one casualties seemed to be acceptable in the landing battle.

But in the afternoon, in a small offensive and defensive battle, with the help of naval guns and the artillery carried by the division itself, they actually suffered hundreds of casualties and were delayed for precious time.

His face was swollen.

However, when he was bored on the sea, Shigeharu Suematsu even thought about his wife staying alone in the empty room and making a fuss about him, but he never thought that his 400-man reconnaissance squadron would be completely destroyed.

The most outrageous thing is that those idiots died, but they didn't even send back a penny of reconnaissance report.

Are they just going to send their heads to the Chinese?

"Please lead the army to Songjiang immediately, the honor of the Imperial Army cannot be tarnished like this." The wording of Yanagawa Heisuke's call was not fierce, but his anger value, which had already risen to the maximum, was clearly visible on the paper.

How could Shigeharu Suematsu not be angry when he was reprimanded by a commander of the same rank?

The Chinese think that my 114th Division is easy to bully, right? Otherwise, why am I always the one who gets hurt?

After three consecutive setbacks, the once ambitious Lieutenant General of the Type B Division sat on his big blue horse and suddenly felt a sense of self-pity.

It was true that the headquarters formed the Tenth Army in North China, and drew out the Eighteenth Division, known as the "Double B of the Empire", and the Sixth Division, known as the "black skin, bright red blood". Then they felt that the troops were still not enough, so they took part of the 114th Division that had just entered North China. They also felt that the combat effectiveness of the 114th Division was a bit poor, so they specially equipped them with a detachment. In name, it was under the control of the 114th Division, but in fact, the Kunisaki Detachment with nearly 10,000 troops from the Fifth Division basically ignored him.

They were all powerful Type A divisions, and he was the only Type B division, and he was asked to play as a vanguard. This was using his 114th Division as cannon fodder.

Being despised by his colleagues and his subordinates not doing well, how could Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu and his nearly 10,000 troops not be angry!

The only target of anger was the Chinese.

Marching all the way.

By noon, the Chinese cavalry, 15 kilometers away from Songjiang City, saw the billowing smoke and dust stirred up by the Japanese vanguard through the telescope.

Murderous!

Shigeharu Suematsu, who had spent the lives of nearly 400 of his men to prove that the Chinese defenders in Songjiang were much more daring than he had imagined, had learned his lesson this time. The Chinese dared to send artillery out of the city to attack the gunboats in the river, so attacking the infantry was even easier.

The vanguard alone had more than half a cavalry regiment, an infantry battalion on motorcycles and trucks, and an engineering regiment, with a strength of more than 2,000 people, and the combat effectiveness was at least equivalent to that of a Chinese infantry brigade.

If the Chinese dared to repeat the same trick and attack this vanguard, then the Chinese had made a wrong idea. The total number of cavalry and infantry was more than 1,300 combat soldiers. Even if a Chinese infantry division came, they could hold off for a while. The main force of infantry following behind quickly followed up and could completely swallow it up.

Shigeharu Suematsu was right. The Chinese did not have the courage.

It's not that they were afraid of the 114th Division. Even in a field battle, the well-equipped 67th Army was not afraid to fight this Type B Division.

Unfortunately, the 114th Division was just the vanguard. There were two main divisions of the Japanese Army in the rear, so they really couldn't defeat it.

Therefore, the 114th Division had a smooth journey. Even when the Engineer Regiment began to build a floating bridge on the selected river bank under the cover of cavalry and infantry, there was no attack on both sides of the Huangpu River.

This made the Japanese lieutenant general, who had a psychological feeling of being beaten, a little scared.

What conspiracy are the Chinese brewing again?

The terrible inertial thinking made the Japanese lieutenant general like a child who was used to being beaten. Suddenly one day he was treated with warmth. The psychological feeling he had was definitely not touched, but suspicion.

Shigeharu Suematsu, who was still more than ten kilometers away, ordered his cavalry regiment to search along the south bank of the Huangpu River and search on the north bank through the preliminarily built floating bridge to prevent the main force from being attacked by the daring Chinese artillery when crossing the river.

The principle of attacking halfway across the river was more or less understood by the Japanese Army Lieutenant General.

What is the type of person who is looking for trouble?

Shigeharu Suematsu was one of them.

The Chinese cavalry who originally stayed in the distance only closely monitored the movements of the Japanese army and reported the time and location of the Japanese army's arrival to the headquarters through the field radio they carried. They had no intention of fighting the Japanese army.

The Japanese army that was marching towards Songjiang was divided into three sections: front, middle and back. The leading ones were cavalry, trucks and motorcycles, with a force close to that of an infantry regiment. No matter how tough the cavalry were, they would not touch such a tough guy.

The situation in the middle was even more fierce. Despite the fact that there was a river between them, the Chinese cavalrymen hiding in the woods did not dare to breathe. There were more than 5,000 infantrymen in the formation. Even if they did not send out any troops, they could just use a few infantry guns to bombard them and make them doubt their lives.

The rear road was protected by artillery, baggage soldiers and accompanying infantry battalions, so the cavalrymen could only watch.

But what were the Japanese doing at this moment?

They actually sent a cavalry squadron to cross the Huangpu River and head towards Songjiang.

"Brother, what are the Japanese trying to do?" The obviously younger of the two cavalrymen who were responsible for reconnaissance in this area asked the old soldier with a face full of stubble and chewing grass roots in confusion.

"What do you want to do? They were stunned by our artillery in the morning, so they came to find our artillery! In order to prevent us from hitting them again when the main force crosses the river." The old soldier answered casually, but with admiration on his face. "That Deputy Director Tang is really amazing. The Japanese actually chose the place where we brothers were staying as the landing point."

Because they were afraid of being exposed by Japanese fighter planes, the main force of the cavalry hid far away from the bank of the Huangpu River. They only left cavalry similar to observation posts about one kilometer near the river bank, two in a group, and one cavalry could return first to report any situation.

Before Tang Dao led the artillery battalion back to Songjiang City, he deliberately drew a place on the map, saying that the possibility of the Japanese crossing the river here was extremely high.

Gong Shaoxun, the commander of the cavalry battalion directly under the military headquarters, was somewhat unconvinced. He still followed his own ideas and left nearly ten groups of observation posts along the Huangpu River. Naturally, the cavalry would support their boss more.

But now it seems that Deputy Director Tang was right again. The Japanese army really chose to land here.

But fortunately, Tang Dao's command in the morning battle wiped out the Japanese landing troops and crippled three gunboats. Gong Shaoxun, who was not convinced, still left two cavalry companies in this area as a key area and personally took charge.

"Then, brother, what should we do now?" The young soldier obviously didn't have time to admire Deputy Director Tang. He cared more about the present.

More than 100 Japanese cavalrymen had crossed the river and began to form a team.

If they approached and found the two of them, they would definitely die.

The war horses used by the Japanese were all tall and big horses that were improved by crossbreeding. They were much faster in short-distance sprints than the short-legged Mongolian horses they were equipped with.

"Nonsense, get on the horse and run!" The old soldier spit out the grass roots in his mouth, pulled his little brother and turned around to run wildly, riding on the war horse tied more than 20 meters away.

Urging the war horse, running wildly backwards regardless of anything, it was quite like fleeing in a panic.

However, even his little brother didn't see it. The old soldier's eyes flashed with brilliance as he turned his back to the Huangpu River.

The Japanese cavalry was just a cavalry squadron, not that scary.