The Japanese have taken over Shangai, the 400 remnants of the German-trained 88th Division holed themselves on a large warehouse next to the river. In the other side of the river, is the bustling foreign concessions in Shanghai, which means>The Japanese can't use chemical attacks, since they could hit the westerners and trigger an war (this was in 1937)>If the Chinese prove their valour to the westerners, this would increase Chinese sympathy to the West, meaning more aid to the Chiang government, plus each day the Japanese are attacking Shangai it's another day to regroupThe people on the other side of the river kept warning the defenders of what the Japanese outside were trying to doAfter a few days of defending the warehouse, they even hoisted the ROC flag ontop the warehouse, the Japanese tried to shoot it down with planes but got beaten back>Eventually they retreat to the concessions under heavy Japanese fire
>>62895108Is the Sino-Jap war the Russo-Ukraine war of their time? Like Japan probably thought it was going to be a 2 week thing and shit lasted some 8 years
>>62895138>In less than two weeks the Kwantung Army, which was the primary Japanese fighting force,[182][183] consisting of over a million men but lacking in adequate armour, artillery, or air support, had been destroyed by the Soviets.
>>62895108>88thnice
>>62895108There's a movie about it, The Eight Hundred, it's great.
>>62895108https://youtu.be/ZQ3bhRO3GIo?si=vZFE751YS6YI5cBY
>>62895143the good jap units were all dead in the pacific or slaughtering chinks>>62895138I can't find any information that they expected it to be a kick the door in situation. Probably thought it'd go a bit faster but they weren't that delusional.
>>62895108The Apr 5th Thunder Runs are pretty meme.>Send huge armored column directly into enemy territory for luls>Get out scott free, enemy was barely paying attention>Two days later enemies are crawling all over those same roads>I'll do it again.jpg>Get into a fight that lasts literally 20 hours or some shit>Secure objective, kill like 10x your amount of casualties>War ends shortly afterSometimes the greatest attribute of a commander is knowing when to full send
>>62895108La Fiere is so obscure, it doesn't have a Wikipedia article.https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/airborne-at-la-fiere-slugfest-in-normandy/
