In 1937, after the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance, the Japanese army declared that it had occupied China for three months. The Chinese army decided to fight a major battle in Shanghai, and the world-famous Battle of Songhu broke out. The Shanghai Taxation Police Corps was ordered to join the battle and was responsible for the garrison of the positions of Yunzaohama and Suzhou Creek. Although the Taxation Police Corps is not a regular army, because of its well-equipped equipment and good personnel quality, its combat effectiveness is generally higher than that of the Elite of the Kuomintang. In the battle against the defense of Suzhou Creek, he repeatedly repelled the crazy attacks of the Japanese army.
On November 3, there was a morning fog on the Suzhou River, and the Japanese army took advantage of the morning fog to launch an attack, and with the support of artillery fire, it broke through many positions of the 5th Tax Police Regiment. Subsequently, rubber boats were used to connect the pontoon bridge and cross the south bank. Knowing that the Japanese army had crossed the Suzhou River, Chiang Kai-shek was anxious and directly ordered the commander-in-chief Huang Jie to destroy all the enemies on the south bank.
Huang Jie hurriedly rushed to the headquarters of the 2nd Detachment with his staff officer Li Zeyao to check the enemy situation. Sun Liren, the regimental commander of the 4th Regiment, also arrived with people. At this time, the 4th Regiment suffered heavy casualties, and the regimental commander Yau Zhiji was even more unfortunately killed, and his men were fighting to the death, because the Japanese firepower was too fierce, and the body of the regimental commander could not be transported for a while.
Knowing that the death of his regimental commander could not be safely transported back, Huang Jie was furious and issued an order to Sun Liren on the spot, immediately leading people to attack the land occupied by the Japanese army and take back the commander of the Qiu regiment, I will go to your command post to direct the battle, if I am killed, please also ask you to snatch my corpse back.
Sun Liren put his legs together, shouted yes, and then ordered the reserves to immediately launch a counterattack. At this time, the reserve team had already seen the red eyes, heard the attack order, and did not want to rush forward bravely, they had only one purpose, to eliminate all the little devils who had deceived too much, and not one was left. The Japanese army was in a hurry, and suddenly saw a group of troops rushing over with murderous spirits, and everyone was full of anger. Unable to resist for a moment, he quickly collapsed and left.
After a bloody battle, Huang Jie waited for good news, and Sun Liren, who was covered in blood, snatched back the blood-blurred Leader Qiu. In this battle, the Tax Police Corps fought very stubbornly, but the casualties were also very serious.
At this time, it was almost 3 months before the outbreak of the Battle of Shanghai, and the Taxation Police Corps fought a bloody battle for a month, and its own casualties were very large. Although the friendly and neighboring troops have been changing their defenses, the Taxation Police Corps has no order to wait for a change of defense, and can only hold hard.
On the evening of November 3, Hu Zongnan, as the top boss, was really embarrassed to let the Tax Police Corps hold up the defensive line any longer, so he sent a telegram to the 36th Division transferred from Xi'an to take over, and it must be handed over at 9 o'clock that night.
Sun Liren was finally able to catch his breath, he knew that this month's bloody battle, the death of his soldiers, the wounds of the wounds, could no longer withstand the blows of the Japanese army. Just as he was hoping for friendly troops to take over the defense, the cunning Japanese army took advantage of the darkness to occupy the small red house at the western end of the Zhoujia Bridge. Although the officers and men of the 1st Battalion fought bravely, the Japanese army was condescending and could not do anything for a while.
Later, the 36th Division saw this situation and refused to take the defense on the grounds that there were already enemy soldiers on the south bank. Although the officers and men of the 1st Battalion explained many times, the other side just did not listen, and insisted on taking over the defense area of the invincible soldiers.
Hearing the report, Sun Liren hated the Japanese troops entrenched in the Little Red Chamber. In the command post, he calmly docked with the defense representative and said that the 4th Regiment must completely annihilate the Japanese troops in the little red arm before sunset tomorrow, and then you will come to take over the defense.
Early the next morning, the 8th Army headquarters delivered the mines requested by Sun Liren. At this time, the Japanese army also began a new round of shelling, in preparation for the attack behind. Sun Liren was determined to use mines to blow up the Little Red Chamber and send these little devils to heaven. To be foolproof, he took a flashlight and checked the mines again.
Suddenly, a cannon came, and Sun Liren was unfortunately injured by shrapnel and became a bloody man for a while. Fortunately, he was wearing a steel helmet and had no head injuries.
Lying on a stretcher, Sun Liren ordered Zhang Zaiping, commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 4th Regiment, to act as regimental commander and take full responsibility for the operation of blowing up the Little Red Chamber. Not long after, Sun Liren heard a loud noise outside, and his tense heart relaxed a little, and the Tax Police Corps could finally take a break.
In the Songhu War, the prestige of the Taxation Police Corps was far and wide, which not only greatly increased Song Ziwen's face, but also impressed other Kuomintang troops. Because Sun Liren led the troops well, he became a famous anti-Japanese general who was vying for the various factions of the Kuomintang.