If in a certain war, the two sides have a huge difference in strength, and more wins than less, it is definitely a high probability event.
However, if you can win more with less, you will definitely be famous in history and become a classic battle.
But a battle of great historical significance, with more to lose less, and can also have great historical significance,
It is rare in our history, after all, it is not a particularly glorious thing.
However, the battle we are going to talk about today is definitely one of the classic battles.
This battle, although it ended in the defeat of the Nationalist army, but it defeated the strategic intention of the Japanese army, the central breakthrough, and the quick decision.
Crushed their dreams of destroying China in 3 months.
It was a historical turning point in China's transition from a partial war of resistance to an all-round war of resistance.
This battle was the Battle of Songhu.
The reason why it is called a battle, but not a battle, it must be a particularly large scale.
From God's point of view, throughout the entire period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Battle of Songhu can be called one of the largest and most tragic battles.
In just three months, china and Japan have invested a total of 1 million troops in Shanghai.
The Japanese army invested nearly 300,000 people and claimed to occupy Shanghai within 1 month! I have to say that at that time, the Japanese army was really arrogant, and I didn't know where the confidence came from!
Perhaps they also think that the National Government will continue to use the policy of non-resistance! But they were really wrong this time, the rabbit was anxious to bite,
What's more, since the September 18 incident, we have endured for too long, and I believe that all the Chinese at that time wanted to fight with them.
The soldiers who had waited so long finally lit the flame in their hearts on August 13, 1937, at 3 p.m.
At that time, the Nationalist government successively mobilized a total of more than 700,000 troops, more than twice as many as the Japanese army, which was enough to see the determination of the Nationalist government to launch the Battle of Songhu!
The war begins!
The first Japanese soldier appeared, a naval lieutenant named Ōyama, who can call this name, that IQ is definitely not ordinary, and you can taste it!
This brother, who had to break into Shanghai Hongqiao Airport, happened to meet another brave man, a young man of the Independent Brigade of the Regular Army, whose specific name is unknown!
Just as the so-called newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, a husband and wife should be closed. This young man killed this Japanese brave man on the spot!
Although this bullet was too good, the Japanese army absolutely could not give up.
Zhang Zhizhong, then commander of the Ninth Army, was well aware of this truth.
Zhang Zhizhong this person may not have heard of, but I believe that the film founding ceremony, everyone should have seen,
In it, Chiang Kai-shek's famous line: Wen Bai is incompetent, loses power and humiliates the country, and it is Zhang Zhizhong who is talking about it.
Because in 49 years, he failed to negotiate with the Chinese Communists on behalf of the Kuomintang, accepted the persuasion of Premier Zhou, and stayed in Beiping at that time.
At this time, Zhang Zhi was bitter in his heart, although he wanted to duel with the Japanese army, but at this time, he only had a few divisions in his hands, which was impossible to defeat the Japanese army, so it depended on how determined Chiang Kai-shek was to fight this battle.
Sure enough, at noon on August 13, 1937, the German mechanic division of the Central Army, under the leadership of Sun Yuanliang, quickly joined the battlefield.
This is the trump card of the National Government, the ace of the Central Army, but this Sun Yuanliang Division Commander, here I have to mention it, this famous Ace Division Commander because of his fast running,
In each major battle, there are figures of escape, interested students, you can check it out for yourself. His son is the famous actor Qin Han.
After the German Mechanic Division of the Central Army joined, it immediately launched an all-round battle with the Japanese army.
First of all, the air force, although the combat aircraft are not as good as the other side, but still successfully bombed, the Japanese Shanghai Command,
And emerged, like Gao Zhihang, Yan Haiwen, these combat heroes, single-handedly shot down a number of Japanese fighters,
Although he was eventually martyred, he showed his fighting spirit in a tough way that Chinese.
Within a year of the start of the war, the first elite of the Chinese Air Force were all martyred.
They stained the Songhu battlefield red with blood, and also aroused everyone's fighting spirit.
After the outbreak of air combat, land warfare was also carried out one after another, although the German mechanic division was well armed, but after all, there was only one division, and the gap between the equipment of other units and the Japanese army was indeed very large.
Although the tanks transported by the Japanese army were not thick at that time, they were still monster-like in the face of the chinese soldiers whose weapons and equipment were pitifully poor.
On the other hand, at that time, the overall quality of combat soldiers, the tactical system of combat command, and the cooperation of multi-service modern warfare were still very large.
So the ending can be imagined. Battlefields like Baoshan, Luodian, Dachang, Yangxing, Wusong, Chuansha and other battlefields are staged fierce battles every day.
In the face of the gap in all aspects, such a huge Japanese army, the Chinese soldiers can only use their flesh and blood to resist to the death. But it could not affect the outcome of the entire battle.
Under such a disadvantage, Chiang Kai-shek issued a retreat order on November 9. However, the soldiers at that time retreated in an orderly manner.
Many of the enthusiastic soldiers died on the way to the rout and retreat, either by the strafing of the Japanese aircraft or by the internecine killing of their own troops.
In this way, the three-month Battle of Songhu ended and Shanghai fell.
On November 11, Yu Hongjun, then mayor of Shanghai, read out a letter to the citizens of Shanghai.
On November 12, the Nationalist government issued a letter to the Compatriots in Shanghai.
In this battle, more than 60,000 Japanese casualties were inflicted by the Chinese army, destroying and injuring more than 200 aircraft and more than 20 ships.
However, the Chinese army, with backward weapons, most of them can only stick to the front, coupled with improper command, heavy casualties, about 300,000 soldiers, sacrificed their precious lives.
More than half of the regimental-level cadres of the Chinese army lost, resulting in a fault in the middle and lower levels of the Chinese army, resulting in a decline in the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army in the follow-up.
At this time, after the Japanese army entered Shanghai, the next plan was to attack Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist government at that time. If Nanjing can be successfully taken, then we can wait for Chinese to surrender.
However, a week later, on November 20, the Nationalist government officially announced the relocation of the capital to Chongqing. This was not a simple escape, but a declaration of war on the Japanese.
Even if we lost miserably in the three-month Battle of Songhu, we Chinese never surrender. Resolutely do not surrender!
Defend our country even at great cost, even if we fight to the death, we will never compromise and be afraid!!