#Today in History# At 23:30 on January 28, 1932, 2,300 Japanese Marines, under the cover of ironclad vehicles, raided Shanghai Zhabei in three ways and captured Tiantongan Station and Shanghai North Railway Station. The Japanese army threatened to "occupy Shanghai in 4 hours". Under the command of Commander-in-Chief Jiang Guangnai, Commander Cai Tingkai, and Chief of Staff Huang Qiang, the 19th Route Army rose up to resist, and the "1.28" Songhu War of Resistance officially broke out...
It is understood that the commander of the Beijing-Shanghai garrison at that time was Chen Mingshu, and the 3 divisions of the 19th Route Army, which were responsible for the garrison tasks in the Shanghai-Nanjing area, totaled more than 30,000 people, the 60th and 61st divisions were stationed in Suzhou and Nanjing, and the 2 brigades of the 78th Division were stationed in Shanghai. The first to enter the battle were the two regiments of Weng Zhaoyuan and Zhang Junsong, the old department when Huang Qiang was the head of the Guangdong Security Department. At dawn on the 29th, Japanese aircraft went out to assist in the battle, and indiscriminately bombed in the area around Zhabei and Nanshi, and the war gradually expanded. At that time, the disparity in weapons and equipment between the enemy and us was huge, the sky was heavy snow, and it was extremely cold, and the soldiers of the Nineteenth Route Army, with the blood of defending their homeland and defending the country, wore straw shoes, wore straw hats, wore thin clothes, and went into battle shirtless. Huang Hanting, led by Zhou Gangru and Heyuan Ping's disciples, was also ordered to lead his troops to the front line on the 29th, killing the enemy in the area of Dachang and Yanmao Bay, and dealing a heavy blow to the Japanese army. Subsequently, the Fifth Army in central Zhang Zhi also participated in the battle, and Song Ziwen also ordered the 3rd Taxation Police Regiment stationed in Zhabei and the 2nd Taxation Police Regiment stationed in Nanxiang to participate in the battle at the first time, following the command of the 19th Route Army.
In the absence of ammunition replenishment, the officers and men of the Nineteenth Route Army swore to resist to the death, and launched a 33-day death-defying struggle with the well-equipped and several times their own Japanese army, and with the tenacious will not to be afraid of sacrifice and resist to the end, they forced the Japanese commander Sanyi to increase the number of troops several times, and the loss of more than 10,000 troops was broken, thus breaking the myth of the invincibility of the Japanese army. It has inspired the spirit of unity and resistance of the people of the whole country! This was also the heaviest blow suffered by the Japanese army invading China after the "918 Incident." #Shanghai Headline# #河源头条 #
