In the entire War of Resistance Against Japan, the Battle of Songhu can be called the largest and most tragic battle. In just three months, China has successively invested more than 700,000 troops in Shanghai, and one division after another has been thrown into the battlefield like numbers, some of them died in less than three hours, and some died in five hours after supporting 2 3. The entire battlefield is like a meat grinder and a bottomless pit, devouring the lives of Chinese soldiers.
In the past three months, the number of squadrons has reached more than 300,000, and an average of three days will be sacrificed to a division. What is really an inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood, that is the sadness of the broken mountains and rivers, and it is also an indescribable despair. But the Chinese did not give in to this, but united with a determination not seen in thousands of years, vowing to eliminate the Japanese invaders.
The first to arrive at the battlefield were the 87th Division and the 88th Division, which were built by German advisers and were the two best armies in China at that time. They are neatly dressed and well-trained, and they are equipped from head to toe with all the same German equipment, which can be called the elite of the elite.
In this famous historical photo**, a Chinese armored fighting vehicle is lonely along a narrow street towards the Japanese position, and its tragedy makes people cry. At this time, the squadron had 25 divisions and 190,000 troops in the Songhu battlefield. Many of the recruits who had arrived from all over the country were killed before they even knew their names. Although the equipment was far inferior to the Japanese army, they resisted the iron hooves of the invaders with their flesh and blood.
In early October, the Japanese army sent three more divisions to reinforce Shanghai, and the number of the previous two divisions had reached 100,000. At this time, most of China's elite ace divisions had died out after more than two months of bloody battles, and the only thing they could count on was the local armies of each province. In the past, these warlords occupied the mountains as kings, fighting openly and secretly, but in the face of national righteousness, they all put aside their past grievances and rushed to the aid of the stars and nights.
On October 15, Liao Lei led an army of thousands of miles and arrived in Shanghai from Guangxi. This is the strongest unit under Bai Chongxi, and it is called the Gangjun because of its courage to fight and fight. However, in the Great First Battle, due to the lack of effective cover and the excessive firepower of the Japanese army, the six divisions of the Gui army were all defeated after only one day.
In the Battle of Songhu, Guangxi sent a total of 1 million troops. At the same time, the Sichuan Army, the Gui Army, the Northwest Army, the Northeast Army, and other armies from other places also rushed to reinforce one after another. At this moment of national peril, no matter the north or south of heaven and earth, any faction or department regards death as home. They wore straw sandals and carried sabers, one after another, and used their flesh and blood to resist the artillery fire of the invaders.
In this battle, the Japanese army sent a total of 250,000 troops, and the number of dead and wounded reached more than 90,000. The squadron has invested more than 700,000 people, and the number of people is as high as more than 300,000, almost three lives for one. An inch of blood.