Journal No. 4 (14th Week): The Battle of Shanghai

The year was 1937. The Sino-Japanese war was in its second month. The victorious Japanese Imperial Army had captured Beijing, and had planned their next target: Shanghai. Day and night, the Japanese war planes bombed Shanghai and razed it into a sea of fire. Japanese warships came near to the coast and started shelling, adding havoc to the city already ruined by air raids. The Chinese government wanted to repulse the Japanese attack, but this was a mammoth task, considering the fact that the Chinese army was poorly equipped. After intensive shelling by the navy, the Japanese troop landed in Shanghai and advanced rapidly through the Chinese defence lines. A company of Chinese soldiers were down to only hand grenades, but they decided to fight to the end. When the Japanese soldiers crossed the trenches where they laid, they leaped from their supine position and hurled grenades at the Japanese soldiers. Eventually, after fierce bayonet fighting, they sacrificed their lives for the nation.