The Japanese invaders used the blow-up of the South Manchuria Railway as an excuse to order troops to march to China's Northeast Military Region and took the initiative to provoke artillery fire, which triggered the 918 incident. The outbreak of war directly destroyed the original peaceful environment, causing a large number of families to be displaced and live a life of seclusion. Hundreds of people could not stand such an encounter, and the whole country triggered a frenzy of throwing themselves into the anti-Japanese revolution.
The Battle of Songhu was an extremely tragic war in which both the Chinese and Japanese armies devoted great efforts. According to the records of relevant departments, the number of people sacrificed in this war in our country was as high as 190,000, and it was also because of the investment in this campaign that Chiang Kai-shek spent a huge amount of effort and even lost his family.
The Japanese army was arrogantly stationed in Shanghai, and in consideration of maintaining the territorial security of our country, these Japanese troops were driven out of Shanghai. Therefore, our army ordered the elite and excellent troops to pull out of Shanghai and engage in a fierce life-and-death battle with the Japanese army. However, the hard gap in equipment strength is an unbridgeable chasm. Therefore, our army can only rely on the favorable terrain to fight guerrilla warfare with the Japanese army, and wants to drive out the Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai to ensure the safety of our army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai.
Chiang Kai-shek also couldn't bear to look at it, called to issue a statement on the crusade against the Japanese army, and then ordered countless units with excellent combat skills to go to the Battle of Songhu. After a short three-day confrontation, our side sacrificed many heroic soldiers in this war, of course, the Japanese army also suffered losses in different aspects, and some of the Japanese troops were transferred to the British concession, hindered by the British concession, and it was not easy for us to directly attack. As a result, the pace of the attack became slow, and it became very difficult to eliminate all the Japanese troops.
After a period of stalemate, the Japanese support forces also arrived in Shanghai, and intended to land in Shanghai. The Japanese used heavy weapons such as aircraft and tanks to cover the front, and then successfully arrived in Shanghai. Enemy reinforcements put our army on the inferior side. However, our ancestors also fearlessly fought against the Japanese army, and in a month's time, each battlefield did not get a bargain, and the Japanese army only pushed the offensive line by one kilometer under the huge advantage.
The war had reached such a critical moment that the Japanese army relied on a steady stream of support troops, as well as the hard power of aircraft artillery and other equipment to launch a fierce artillery cover against our army, watching the strong attack of the Japanese army, the Ninety-eighth Division defending Shanghai was forced to abandon its position and withdraw to a safe place to fight the Japanese army again.
The Japanese military top brass continued to spend huge sums of money on the battlefield, with the determination to take Shanghai. Chiang Kai-shek, however, could not resist the pressure of patriotic and other people at home and decided to order his troops to participate in the Battle of Shanghai. For the Battle of Songhu, Chiang Kai-shek sent several of his own henchmen and generals, which also shows Chiang Kai-shek's view of the Battle of Songhu.
The seriousness of the situation made Chiang Kai-shek recognize the legitimate status of the Communist Party of China, but in the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army continued to increase its military strength, and our army suffered heavy losses in the face of the gap in hard power, and the Chinese Navy was the most tragic, and there was almost no ability to fight again. Due to the loss of naval strength, it also cut down the overall strength of our army, and our army entered a state of forced defense.
As the Japanese army in Shanghai became more and more powerful, our army finally failed to resist, and the Japanese army also successfully reached Shanghai. In the Battle of Songhu, Chiang Kai-shek ordered his troops to hold their positions, and finally missed the opportunity to withdraw, causing huge losses to the troops. Although he could not resist the pace of Japanese aggression, Chiang Kai-shek also gave the Japanese army a powerful blow at great cost.
With the occupation of Shanghai by the Japanese army, the defeat of the Battle of Songhu was also announced. However, on the battlefield of the Battle of Songhu, our ancestors defended the dignity of the motherland with their own blood. Today we live in peace, and we must not forget the martyrs who died in the war to defend our country.