Wusong Wharf.

At this time, the number of Japanese troops in this area was the largest. This area was also one of the last areas for the soldiers to attack, and the largest area left.

After the Japanese army broke through in Shanghai, they gathered in the Wusong Wharf. Ye Feng also learned about the tactical attempts of the Japanese and knew that some of the Japanese troops had gathered in this area, which was a dock. The purpose of the Japanese army was very obvious, and it was to retreat by boat here, and perhaps to retreat to the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Not far from Wusong Wharf, there is an extremely ordinary private house.

This civilian building in the form of a courtyard has walls, gates, courtyards, and houses, and three or four in and out. In the past, it might have been the house of a wealthy family. At this time, there were a large number of Japanese soldiers at the gate, and even fortifications were built and machine guns were erected. In the courtyard, many Japanese officers were busy.

If you look closely, you will find that these Japanese officers have bad looks. They either have tense faces or are gloomy. The entire compound is filled with a dull atmosphere.

In the courtyard, there was a long conference table in the hall of the house in the middle. On the head of the table, there was a Japanese general. On both sides of the long conference table, there were a large number of Japanese officers, all of them.

There were two Japanese lieutenant generals and five Japanese major generals. In addition, behind these Japanese lieutenant generals and major generals, there were several Japanese colonels standing. The lowest-level ones here were Japanese colonels, Japanese junior assistants, minor superiors and other officers were not qualified to hold a meeting here.

This is the temporary command of the Japanese army in Shanghai, which was formed here in a hurry three days ago. As street fighting became increasingly unfavorable to the Japanese, the Japanese side made plans, and a large number of middle and senior officers retreated here first.

Sitting at the top was the highest commander of the Japanese army in Shanghai. Commander of the 13th Army of the Central China Front Army, the first-class Japanese army general, Nishio Shousao, and the remaining Japanese lieutenant generals and major generals, including two division commanders of the Japanese army, several brigade commanders, and Japanese major general chiefs, a total of two lieutenant generals and five major generals.

The atmosphere in the entire conference room was very depressing. The senior Japanese generals seemed to have their parents dead, and their faces were gloomy and terrible. In this regard, these senior Japanese officers knew that their situation was over.

"Hisser Commander, we have fewer and fewer troops to break through successfully. There are almost no troops that have successfully arrived here this morning. The number of troops coming yesterday was less than one thousand." A Japanese major general lowered his head and whispered in grief.

Upon hearing this, Nishio Suzusaki sighed and knew that he had to retreat, so Nishio Suzusaki said in a deep voice: "How many people are we in Wusong Wharf, how are our ships ready?"

A fat Japanese major general immediately replied: "Commander, our number in Wusong Wharf is less than 20,000, and too many of our troops have not been able to retreat. There are even two major generals and several colonel-level officers have already fulfilled their loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor."

"In addition, after two days of preparation, we raised more than 100 ships in total. However, many of these ships are fishing boats without power, and there are not many transport ships with real mechanical power. However, we have two gunboats and five small gunboats."

In order to retreat from Wusong Wharf, the Japanese racked their brains to raise ships. The Japanese people's small fishing boats were snatched by the Japanese. Until now, they finally barely gathered the retreating ships.

Seeing that the ship was basically ready, Nishio Suzuo breathed a sigh of relief and immediately ordered: "After the meeting, we will start to make retreat preparations. After dark, we will board the ship to retreat. In addition, we should also prevent the aircraft bombing of the newly formed 6th Army. We must pay attention to protecting our ships before it is dark."

These ships are just the last lifeline of the Japanese. At present, the entire Wusong Wharf has been surrounded by soldiers of the newly formed 6th Army. There are already many soldiers in the outer area, and even many armored vehicles and tanks.

Once these ships are destroyed, the Japanese gathered in this area will have no chance of escaping and will eventually be wiped out by the soldiers.

Therefore, the Japanese took these ships very seriously and deployed all their air defense weapons in the dock area to prevent the bombing of soldiers' planes. In addition, they even dragged the small fishing boats to the shore and hid them temporarily.

The first Air Division's planes have been here, but the air defense firepower in the Wusong Wharf area is relatively fierce. After these planes arrive, they flew away and did not bomb the area again.

After the Japanese held a meeting, they immediately took action and even formulated a retreat plan. In the evening, many Japanese had already started boarding the ships, and the transport ships were quickly filled with Japanese. Many ordinary fishing boats were tied with ropes behind those transport ships with power devices.

Obviously, the Japanese wanted to drag these ordinary fishing boats behind these transport ships and escape together. There were even a lot of fishing boats tied behind the gunboats and gunboats.

These fishing boats were also crowded with Japanese devils. On the originally small fishing boats, there were at least dozens of Japanese devils, and there were even hundreds of Japanese devils on the slightly larger fishing boats.

Even though the Japanese raised hundreds of ships of all sizes, nearly 20,000 Japanese, plus weapons and equipment, as well as some necessary supplies and things, they had to transport them back and forth at least several trips. Even if Wusong Wharf was not very far from the north bank of the Yangtze River, the Japanese had to complete the transfer of so many personnel and materials in one night, so when the sky was dark, the Japanese began to board the ship and retreat.

After the sky gradually darkened, Wusong Wharf was brightly lit and noisy. A large number of small Japanese were boarding the ships, and the transport ships and fishing boats were crowded with Japanese devils, looking messy.

There were still some Japanese soldiers resisting outside Wusong Wharf.

The Japanese devils have formulated a retreat plan. Some of the Japanese devils have retreated first, and some of the Japanese devils are still resisting outside Wusong Wharf to win time for the retreat of their remaining troops. With so many Japanese devils, even if everything goes well, it will probably not be possible to retreat until dawn tomorrow.

The battles were fierce outside Wusong Wharf, with gunfire rumbling. With the fortifications built in advance, the Japanese resisted stubbornly.

A main road to Wusong Wharf is one of the main battlefields of the battle. The road has been severely damaged, and there are large pits that have been bombed out everywhere. The Japanese built a large number of fortifications on the side near Wusong Wharf. A large number of Japanese were equipped with machine guns and even some war defense artillery.

On the wide road, an m3 half-track armored vehicle had been destroyed, emitting black smoke. This armored vehicle was destroyed by a war defense artillery by the Japanese.

Before Nishio Suzuo ordered the Japanese to retreat here, many heavy equipment had already reached here, including a large number of anti-aircraft weapons, even anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns, as well as many war defense guns, as well as some small Japanese tanks and armored vehicles.

The three colonel commanders of a newly formed 6th Army were commanding the battle in this area. The soldiers fighting in this area had reached nearly 10,000, and they had almost completed the encirclement of Wusong Wharf. The number of soldiers was still increasing, and they began to attack the Wusong Wharf from all directions.

The three colonel commanders were watching the fighters in front from afar. Seeing that one of his armored vehicles was destroyed by the Japanese war defense cannons, one of the colonels immediately shouted loudly: "Retreat the armored vehicles first and press the tank up!"

Three m4 Sherman tanks began to drive slowly along the main road, preparing to lead the soldiers to launch another attack, several Japanese Douding tanks and two armored vehicles also appeared in the sight of the soldiers.

These little Japanese tanks were coming towards us, and seemed to be unafraid of the warriors' tanks.

The three colonel commanders who were commanding the battle in this area saw this scene and were puzzled, full of doubts, thinking to themselves, what are the Japanese preparing to do, and several small Douding tanks dare to come up.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

As soon as several tanks on both sides were close, an artillery battle began. An m4 tank fired the gun first, and shot a small Japanese Douding tank more than 100 meters away. It directly destroyed the small tank with one shot.

The small tank that was shot was blowing was filled with thick smoke, and a big hole appeared on the front of the tank, which looked rather miserable. The power of the main gun of the m4 tank was fully reflected in such a short distance.

As the m4 tank fired, the two sides started shelling each other. However, the main gun of the Japanese Todin tank was only 37 mm in diameter and could not penetrate the front armor of the m4 tank at all. A few minutes later, the battle result came out. Zero to six, the Japanese four Todin tanks and two armored vehicles were all destroyed and turned into piles of scrap iron on the road.

This originally spacious main road soon had piles of wreckage of tanks and armored vehicles. The wreckage was filled with black smoke, and two even burned wildly. The distance between each pile was very close. Obviously, the Japanese devils deliberately moved their tanks and armored vehicles so close. Once they were destroyed, the wreckage was naturally next to each other, completely blocking the road.

Seeing this, the three colonel commanders looked at each other and suddenly realized.

The Japanese sent out their small tanks and armored vehicles not to attack everyone's tanks, but to deliberately come out to die. The purpose was to completely block the road to Wusong Wharf and prevent the soldiers' chariots from rushing into the Wusong Wharf.

Now, these small tanks and armored vehicles have turned into smoked scrap iron. The piles of scrap iron are still relatively dense, which basically blocks the road. If the soldiers' tanks and armored vehicles are going to pass, it will take a lot of effort.

The Japanese had only one purpose for this, that is, to slow down the pace of the soldiers' attacks and win time for their retreat.

"Damn the Japanese, so sinister!"

One of the colonel commanders waved his fists hard and said fiercely, obviously very angry at the Japanese's trick.
Chapter completed!