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The center of gravity of the entire third theater is tilted towards urban Shanghai, and it is naturally unable to deal with suburban areas such as Baoshan County.
After receiving a call from Jiang Fangjun, Zhang Zhizhong thought for a while and decided to dispatch troops from the urban area to reinforce the troops in Sichuan Shakou and Shizilin.
Zhang Zhizhong first set his sights on the 36th Division, which had just made great achievements. Logically speaking, the 36th Division had just captured the enemy's Marine Special Marine Command, so it would not be a problem to draw out a brigade of troops.
But when he thought that the 106th Brigade was still fighting in the Jiangwan area and defending the positions of Fudan University and Jiangwan Town, Zhang Zhizhong hesitated. The 108th Brigade had captured the enemy headquarters, but the casualties should not be small.
Therefore, Zhang Zhizhong set his sights on the 87th Division and the 98th Division - the 87th Division was still fighting fiercely, and the only one left was the 98th Division.
"Immediately send a telegram to Commander Xia of the 98th Division to lead his troops north to reinforce Liu Heding's Jiang Defense Army!" Zhang Zhizhong said to the adjutant beside him.
"Yes, Junzuo!" the adjutant responded, and then went to convey Zhang Zhizhong's order.
Before the adjutant could take a few steps away, he was stopped by Zhang Zhizhong: "Wait a minute, by the way, I sent a telegram to Luo Zhuoying, commander of the 18th Army, to order the 11th Division to drive to Luodian immediately after arriving in Shanghai!"
"yes!"
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Luodian Town is located in the north of Shanghai and southwest of Baoshan County. It is the northern gate of Shanghai and its status is not unimportant.
If Luodian can be defended, the troops fighting in the city of Shanghai will not be in danger of having their flanks exposed; on the contrary, if Luodian falls into enemy hands, Shanghai will be in danger.
Anyone with some military knowledge would be aware of the importance of Luodian. As the education director of Huangpu, how could Zhang Zhizhong not see the importance of Luodian?
Why let the 11th Division go to Shuluo Shop? The reason is that the Eleventh Division is Chen Cheng's trump card in the civil engineering department, and it is safer to have it in his hand.
After a while, the adjutant came back and reported: "Sir, Commander Xia Chuzhong of the 98th Division called back and said he would lead his troops north immediately!"
Zhang Zhizhong nodded and said: "Yes, I understand. You should go to bed early. There will be combat missions tomorrow morning!"
"Yes." The adjutant didn't ask any more questions. He knew what to ask and what not to ask.
Zhang Zhizhong rubbed his red eyes, his expression full of exhaustion. He had not been able to rest well for several days in a row. As the actual frontline commander, he was under a lot of pressure.
Soon, the 11th Division, which had just arrived in Shanghai, headed for Luodian, and the 98th Division also headed north.
However, Zhang Zhizhong was still worried about the situation in the north, so he transferred a brigade from the 87th Division to follow the 98th Division northward. This brigade was Liu Anqi's 261st Brigade.
At the same time, Zhang Zhizhong ordered the establishment of the Songhu Former Enemy Command, with Wang Jingjiu, commander of the 87th Division, as the former enemy commander. The 36th Division and the 87th Division (except the 261st Brigade) fought on the front battlefields of Hongkou and Yangshupu. ), the Eighty-Eighth Division, the 20th Independent Brigade, the General Security Corps, and the Second Regiment of the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps are under his command.
At one time, Wang Jingjiu had nearly 50,000 troops under his command!
At this time, the sky has already revealed a hint of fish belly white, and it is about to dawn.
Gunshots rang through Sichuan Shakou, Shizilin, and Hongkou, Yangshupu and other places where fierce fighting was still taking place.
Since the mission of the 36th Division is to continue to attack the stubborn enemies in Yangshupu and Jiangwan Town, while holding on to the existing positions to prevent the enemy from counterattacking and taking them away, the officers and soldiers of the 108th Brigade got a rare rest.
As for the combat missions in Jiangwan Town and Yangshupu, that is a matter for the 106th Brigade. The mission assigned by the division headquarters to the 108th Brigade has been completed.
On this day, Zhang Tianhai also got up early because the first battalion's additional troops would be arriving soon.
It has to be said that the replenishment of troops on the Songhu battlefield is quite fast, and most of them are veterans who have been on the battlefield. This has to start with the structure of the German weapon division.
As we all know, in addition to the four main regiments of the German Armsmen, there are also two supplementary regiments.
Different from the main group, the supplementary group is equipped with equipment that was replaced by the previous German weapon masters. Although it is less than the main group, it is at least fully equipped. The point is, most of them have been on the battlefield. veteran.
Supplementary regiment, supplementary regiment, as the name suggests, means that if the main regiment suffers casualties during the battle, the supplementary regiment will make up for it.
Without this supplementary regiment system, it would not be that easy for these three German weapon masters to fight on the Songhu battlefield for three months, right?
The additional troops arrived at seven o'clock in the morning, and Zhang Tianhai immediately organized the additional troops into the first battalion.
It doesn't take much time to recruit additional soldiers into the first battalion, probably less than half an hour. After all, the replacements are veterans who have received formal training, not new recruits.
After organizing the troops, the soldiers of the first battalion started breakfast.
Just at breakfast, Zhang Tianhai and others received an uninvited guest, no, to be precise, a group of uninvited guests.
The leader was wearing a dark Chinese tunic suit. He had a thin face and was about fifty years old. He had a shaved head and looked quite energetic.
Behind him were a group of well-dressed bodyguards, who looked like they were no ordinary people, either political or business people.
Most of the bodyguards had pistols on their waists, which were German Mauser military pistols.
All this means that the identity of the visitor is not simple, just based on the fact that the bodyguard is equipped with a gun.
It's just that these bodyguards all look arrogant and don't look like good people.
"Wei He, go and ask who they are." Zhang Tianhai ordered the guards around him.
"Yes." Wei He responded and stepped forward to ask.
Not long after, Wei He came back and said that those people were representatives of the Shanghai business community and came to send some condolences to the frontline soldiers.
"Oh? Are you here to express condolences to us? Then we have to go and meet this business tycoon." Zhang Tianhai said with a smile, and then walked forward.
Before Zhang Tianhai could reach the business tycoon, the tycoon greeted him with a smile: "You must be the chief here, right?"
To be honest, Zhang Tianhai didn't have a good impression of this tycoon who didn't look like a good person, and was even wary of him.
After all, in Shanghai at this time, in addition to the soldiers of the Anti-Japanese War, there was also an organization that was hated by all Chinese people, and that was an organization composed of traitors.
Yes, while the people in Shanghai actively supported the frontline soldiers in fighting, many traitors also appeared to set fires or take the opportunity to cause chaos.
Of course, the wariness was hidden deep in his heart. At this time, Zhang Tianhai was not dumbfounded because he didn't understand anything. He said with a smile: "Yes, I am Zhang Tianhai, the battalion commander here."
"Haha, Battalion Commander Zhang is really young and promising! Are you an officer and soldier of the 36th Division fighting here?" The tycoon also smiled and was polite.
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ps: update sent. There will be another chapter in a moment.
