My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

At the same time, he contacted General Zhang Yezhong in the city by radio and asked him to do his best to stop the enemy and create a better output environment for the troops outside the city.

Upon learning that the Japanese pirates had been defeated, Zhang Yezhong immediately led his entire army out, fighting to the death on the enemy's way into the city and destroying some buildings to block the enemy's retreat.

However, they were only a remnant army, and were extremely short of weapons and ammunition. Although this slowed down the enemy's march, it ultimately failed to stop them.

However, it was precisely because of their obstruction that the Anmin Army was able to follow behind and greatly inflict heavy casualties on the Japanese pirates.

At the same time, because of the pursuit of the Anmin Army, the Japanese pirates were unable to capture several important positions guarded by Zhang Yezhong in a short period of time.

These include the Sihang Warehouse and Hongqiao Airport.

When Jiang Li saw that the Japanese pirates had been defeated, he ordered his troops to pursue the enemy while expanding the results of the battle, and divided his troops to capture several important places around Shanghai.

Among them is Luodian. Luodian is the intersection and hub of several roads leading to Baoshan, downtown Shanghai, Jiading and Songshan. Its geographical location makes it a battleground.

In other words, once Luodian is under control, it will certainly greatly speed up the mobilization of troops and logistical transportation. Therefore, during this pursuit, Jiang Li sent a large number of troops to capture this place in preparation for the subsequent protracted war.

There is also Baoshan City. Although Baoshan County is only ten miles in radius, it is close to the Yangtze River on the east and north. Ten miles to the south is the Wusong Fort, and ten miles to the west is the Lion Grove Fortress. It is located in a dangerous location.

If the Japanese pirates want to continue advancing towards Luodian and Yuepu and expand their control over the Shanghai area, they must occupy Baoshan. At that time, they can use the terrain to fight a defensive battle with the enemy.

Unfortunately, the remaining hundreds of thousands of enemies saw that the situation was not good and went straight into the center of Shanghai. This made Jiang Li a little hesitant and he did not dare to use planes and artillery to bombard the area. He could only slowly engage in street fighting with the enemy.

As for the most critical Jinshanwei, Jiang Li didn't even take a look at it, because Jinshanwei is located in Hangzhou Bay in the south of Shanghai.

The coastline is straight and the water depth near the shore is more than 40 meters. It is the best landing point for this battle. The Japanese pirates' navy has already deployed heavy troops there. If they divide their troops, they can bypass the Japanese pirates in front.

By then, we will inevitably be surrounded by the Japanese pirate army, and we will probably have to cut off one of our own arms to temporarily stabilize the situation.

When the army was fighting the enemy in the streets, Jiang Li successfully met Zhang Yezhong. When they met, Zhang Yezhong naturally expressed his gratitude.

Jiang Li didn't care either and Bai Shou said that it should be so. Then the two of them talked about family and country, and then an awkward atmosphere filled the scene.

I don’t know what to say after that. After all, they are all local warlords, and the reason they were able to gather together this time was because of the sudden appearance of the Japanese pirates.

If not for this, they would probably have become enemies again. After all, based on Jiang Li's policies, Zhang Yezhong was also among those to be liquidated, so he did not have a particularly good impression of Jiang Li.

But at this time, Jiang Li helped him with all his strength, and he was very grateful after all, it was a life-saving grace.

As time went by, Jiang Li also figured out the key, so he immediately asked about the casualties of Zhang Yezhong's troops. When he learned that their casualties reached two-thirds and their ammunition had been completely lost, he was so shocked that he was speechless.

You have to know that the casualties of the modern American army account for less than 30% of the army, so they can surrender directly, and they can surrender directly even if they have no ammunition.

Zhang Yezhong's troops had suffered 60% to 70% casualties and were almost out of ammunition, but they had not collapsed yet. This shows that this was an army with an extremely determined will.

However, Jiang Li was thinking wrongly. Although the fighting spirit of Zhang Yezhong's troops was very firm, it was far from reaching this level.

All this was because after the Japanese pirates occupied Beijing, they simply killed all 80,000 resisting troops, and even spared the surrendered prisoners. This frightened Zhang Yezhong and his subordinates into fighting to the death.

Later they learned that reinforcements were arriving outside, which is why they were able to hold on until now.

But Jiang Li did not ask the reason, and Zhang Yezhong naturally could not explain it himself. So they just acquiesced and it became a famous story in the world.

After being shocked, Jiang Li immediately came to his senses. He knew what Zhang Yezhong was lacking, so he waved his hand and provided a large amount of medicines, weapons and ammunition to his troops.

He also requested them to give up the territory they currently occupied so that he could recuperate in the city.

Now that he had gained the Sihang Warehouse, Hongqiao Airport, and some industrial zones, Jiang Li was confident of fighting the Japanese pirates for a long time.

After seeing Zhang Yezhong off, he immediately summoned all the senior officers in the army, listened to their reports on the casualties of the battle, and discussed subsequent battles with them.

Jiang Li was shocked to hear this. It turned out that the battle had lasted less than a month, but his side had suffered 120,000 casualties.

Among them, the number of deaths and serious injuries reached 80,000, which is really a heavy loss of life.

In addition, our side also lost one plane, damaged three, four tanks, hundreds of artillery pieces, more than 300 heavy machine guns, 800 light machine guns, and 50,000 rifles.

Almost for every two wounded soldiers, one had a damaged gun, which shows how fierce the enemy's artillery fire was and how brutal the battle was.

After reading his own casualty report, he couldn't wait to read the enemy's casualty report.

But when he saw this, his brows furrowed, because he saw at a glance that more than 41,300 Japanese pirates were killed in this battle.

In addition, 50,000 puppet soldiers who surrendered to the Japanese pirates were killed, and another 80,000 puppet soldiers and more than 4,000 wounded Japanese pirates were captured.

He knew that the surprise attack on the Japanese pirates' airport had killed thousands of them, and now there were only 40,000 of them. That was to say, they had fought for so long, but only killed 30,000 people. This was just a small advantage gained with human lives.

He couldn't bear to watch any more after seeing this, but in order to better understand the outcome of the battle, he forced himself to continue watching.

In this battle, four enemy fighters, 38 bombers, 80 tanks, 120 armored vehicles, 260 cannons, 320 heavy machine guns, 600 light machine guns, and 8,700 rifles were destroyed.

He frowned when he saw this, but the following content made his expression slightly better.

Because what is recorded next is the captured items. In this battle, a total of eight tanks, fifteen armored vehicles, eighty-seven cannons, fifty-eight heavy machine guns, five hundred and forty light machine guns, and eighty-four thousand rifles of various types were captured.

In addition to these, Jiang Li also obtained seven aircraft engines, twenty-three tank engines, forty-one armored vehicle engines, and a large number of aircraft, tank and armored vehicle wreckages.