Chapter 145: The Counterattack in the Battle of Shanghai (II)

In the conference room of the 20th Independent Brigade, when Huang Qixiang told Chen Xiuwen's plan, Wu Keren looked at the young colonel sitting opposite him in surprise. If Huang Qixiang hadn't said this plan, he really thought that Chen Xiuwen was crazy about gaining and losing his mind, and actually wanted to encircle nearly 10,000 neon army and annihilate it.

Guo Rudong even opened his mouth into an O-shaped shape. He had a better understanding of this. As one of the five best-achieving troops on the battlefield in the Songhu battlefield, his 26th Division of the 43rd Army destroyed more than 2,000 Neon Army, but he was almost wiped out. Now there are only about 500 soldiers leaving Sichuan, with the casualties ratio of almost one to five.

"Brother Shen, I know that you can fight the 20th Independent Brigade, but after all, you are sure of 10,000 Japanese devils?" Guo Rudong said worriedly.

"Yes, if you can't gather the devils and instead lead the wolf into the house," Wu Keren immediately continued Guo Rudong's words. Halfway through speaking, he looked at Huang Qixiang sitting in the middle, his eyes full of surprise and distrust of Chen Xiuwen.

Huang Qixiang frowned and was about to speak. At this time, Chen Xiuwen rushed in front of him and said, "As long as the Sixty-Seventh Army can block the enemy in the west, our Independent Twenty Brigade will guarantee that it will not lead the wolf into the house, but will close the door and fight the dog."

"Young man, you're too impulsive. Don't think you'll forget it after winning a few battles." Wu Keren said with disdain when Chen Xiuwen jumped out.

The 20th Independent Brigade is currently recognized as the best military record on the Songhu battlefield and the most Japanese troops eliminated. However, because the 20th Independent Brigade is a young force, the brigade commander Chen Xiuwen is a younger generation for most people, so people rarely mention it for face. However, when he heard Wu Keren say this, Huang Qixiang and Guo Rudong couldn't help but shake their heads secretly at the same time.

"Captain Wu, our Independent 20th Brigade won several battles. This was not fought by me, Chen Xiuwen, but by all the brothers of my Independent 20th Brigade with my life. I did not forget that, but had enough confidence in my Independent 20th Brigade 12,000 brothers. As long as the command was properly, our brothers would not be worse than those of Japanese. At the beginning of the Battle of Songhu, when the Independent 20th Brigade was not yet established, we, as the Third Shanghai Security Regiment, had vigorously selected two brigades of Japanese devils; when we captured Hongkou Park and Huishan Wharf, our Independent 20th Brigade had a regiment plus a battalion of troops, wiped out nearly 4,000 enemies entrenched in Hongkou Park and Huishan Wharf; in the Luodian Battle, my Independent 20th Brigade carried the attack of the 11th Division of the Neon Army with two regiments for two days and two nights, wiped out the 43rd Regiment and damaged two more corpses. We don't know whether we can reach the eyes of Commander Wu."

Chen Xiuwen looked at Wu Keren and said with a smile. After he finished counting the results of the 20th Independent Brigade, he pointed to the sound of gunfires from outside the window and said with a straight face: "Now, the 40th and 42nd Regiments of our Independent Brigade are independently resisting several times the enemy troops in Mishidu and Litahui, but so far, I have not received a call for help. It is precisely with such a force that I can be arrogant in front of Commander Wu."

Wu Keren was sarcastically stolen by Chen Xiuwen, and his face suddenly turned pale, but he had no way to refute it. Moreover, what Chen Xiuwen said was secretly surprised. According to the achievements Chen Xiuwen had just mentioned, the 20th Independent Brigade has wiped out nearly 10,000 Neon Army since the war in Shanghai started. Although he had seen the 20th Independent Brigade in the newspapers before, in his opinion, this was just a self-promotion of the Central Army, and he did not believe that a small independent brigade could achieve such a record.

At the same time, he was also surprised by the strength of the 20th Independent Brigade. Unexpectedly, the number of independent brigades in Chen Xiuwen actually exceeded that of one of his divisions, which was no longer comparable to the number of German and equipment divisions of the Central Army.

"Captain Wu, the 20th Independent Brigade is currently the best-performing force on the battlefield in the Songhu battlefield. Even Chairman Jiang personally commended it." Seeing that the atmosphere suddenly became very stiff, Guo Rudong hurriedly smiled and smoothed the situation.

Huang Qixiang was initially surprised by Chen Xiuwen's sudden attack on Wu Keren, but at this time he looked at Wu Keren and Shen Xiuwen with interest and did not speak out.

"Captain Wu, I still say the same thing. If your 67th Army can block the enemy in the west, our Independent Twenty Brigade can severely damage the Japanese who were put in." Chen Xiuwen ignored Guo Rudong's smooth situation, but stared at Wu Keren and continued.

Wu Keren's face suddenly turned red, and he widened his eyes and said loudly: "A regiment of your Independent 20th Brigade can block the enemy in the west for a day and a night. Can our 67th Army not stop it?"

"Jingshan, you can't be careless." At this time, Huang Qixiang said: "If the 6th Division is unable to conquer Songjiang for a long time, or is surrounded, the 18th Division on the southern line is very likely to advance east along the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway after capturing Fengjing. Your 67th Army not only needs to block the offensive troops on the flank of the 6th Division, but also needs to block the reinforcements of the 18th Division. Whether this strategy can severely damage part 6th Division depends largely on how much time your 67th Army can gain for the Independent Twentyth Brigade. In addition, you must send a unit to replace the Mishidu defense line to maintain at least one day to facilitate the Independent Twentyth Brigade to deploy."

Wu Keren stood up suddenly and shouted: "Please rest assured, Chief Huang, although our 67th Army is not good, it is not vague to fight the Japanese. Our troops will definitely block the enemy in the west and defend the Mishidu defense line for one day to win time for the 20th Independent Brigade." After saying that, he looked at Chen Xiuwen with dissatisfaction.

Chen Xiuwen also stood up at this time, saluted Wu Keren, and said sincerely: "Captain Wu, please be more merciless if there was an offense just now. Today, our army can block the attack of the Neon Army. To a large extent, due to the underestimation of the Neon Army and insufficient preparations, the attack of the Neon Army will inevitably become more fierce tomorrow. We must also ask Commander Wu to pay more attention."

At first, Wu Keren was a little dissatisfied, but after listening to Chen Xiuwen's words, a hint of solemnity appeared on his face, nodded and replied to Chen Xiuwen, "Thanks to Commander Chen for his reminder, I am also looking forward to the news of the victory of the 20th Independent Brigade."

Huang Qixiang only showed a smile on his face at this time and formally issued an order that the Sixty-Seventh Army was responsible for defending the peripheral positions. In addition to defending the Mishidu position for one day, the Western Front position must be kept for three days. As the 20th Independent Brigade, as a garrison in the county, it also carried out an active attack mission. The 43rd Army was the reserve team.

At the end of the meeting, gunfire from Mishidu and Litahui gradually became sparse. At the same time, Chen Xiuwen also received reports from Teng Donglin and Zhang Zhengjie that the Japanese had stopped attacking and the defense lines of Mishidu and Litahui were safe and sound. Only then did everyone's hearts completely let go.

At less than five o'clock in the morning, the 107th Division and 108th Division, under the 67th Army, arrived in Songjiang in time. According to the prior subordinates, the 108th Division stationed at Li Tahui and the 319th Brigade of the 107th Division defended the Mishidu defense line.

Although the retreating Forty and Forty-two Regiments were quite casualties, they were not injured. Chen Xiuwen immediately convened a military meeting to announce the combat plan to lure the enemy into depth and then encircle and annihilate it. After several battles with the Neon Army, the officers of the Independent 20th Brigade, who had a strong psychological advantage, all the officers of the Independent 20th Brigade were glowing.

The 39th Regiment drove out of the city and was hidden in Huayang Town in the east of the county; the 40th Regiment and the 42nd Regiment, which had just been withdrawn from the front line, were hidden in the Okuraqiao area in Xiguan; the artillery camp position was set at Guputang on the west side of the county town, mainly because if the Sixty-Seventh Army could not stop it, the artillery fire could be taken into account both east and west. There is a vast bamboo forest in the southeast corner of the county town, and there is a drop of nearly ten meters from the county town, so the fire camp position is arranged here In the bamboo forest, the high-level dual-purpose m2 Browning heavy machine gun can not only effectively defend air, but also provide powerful firepower assistance to the defense positions outside the county. The m2 with a range of up to six or seven kilometers can cover the front of the entire county town. The supplementary regiment set up defenses on the outer positions on the front of the county town. In the county town, there are special agent battalions, guard battalions, sergeant battalions and other brigade troops led by Chen Xiuwen as the last defensive force in the county town.

Mishidu is seven kilometers away from Songjiang County. The distance between Okura Bridge in the west of the county and Huayang Town in the east is less than ten kilometers. In other words, the Independent Brigade has arranged a pocket array for the Japanese within a range of less than 70 square kilometers, attracting the Japanese who crossed the river to the city of Songjiang, and even to the city. Then, three Arc regiments on the periphery launched a sudden attack on the Neon Army entering the pocket.

Just as the 20th Independent Brigade was in full swing, the 6th Division on the other side of Mishidu received news that eight latest Type 97 heavy bombers on the Longxiang aircraft carrier took off and reinforcements under the escort of six Nakajima fighters, they could not wait to launch artillery bombardment at the frontier positions of Mishidu after receiving the news of eight latest Type 97 heavy bombers on the Longxiang aircraft carrier.

As Colonel Kawaguchi, the captain of the 6th Division's heavy artillery wing, pulled out his command knife: "The attack begins."

Twenty-four Qiwushan cannons and six 105mm heavy howitzers, which had been loaded on the heavy artillery position, highlighted the flames of the howlings of Sichuankou.

After grenades that rushed out of the cannon chamber nearly 200 meters per second, they drew brilliant bullet marks on the Huangpu River, they rushed towards Mishidu's defensive position with a strange cry.

Thirty grenades did not require test firing at all, and they landed accurately on the frontier positions that had been blown up last night. Amid the continuous rumbling explosions, scarlet fireballs rose one after another, and countless sharp shrapnel flew around and covered the entire position.

As Colonel Kawaguchi waved the signal flag himself, a roar of grenades roared from the heavy artillery position and shot into the air. The dark red ballistic meteors in the sky rushed towards the frontier position of Mishido, which was filled with gunpowder.

The soldiers of the vanguard regiment of the 319th Brigade of the 107th Division of the 67th Army, which had just taken over the defense from the 40th Regiment of the 20th Independent Brigade, were still staying in the artillery holes of the second-line position, leaving only a small number of observation posts on the front line. They had already experienced the power of the Neon Army artillery fire when they arrived earlier last night.

"The brigade, last night, the Japanese continued to shell out frontier positions and forced their way with a brigade of troops, but they were forced to be defeated by the 40th Regiment of the Independent 20th Brigade. It would be hard to say if it were us." After witnessing the tragic battle last night, the commander of the vanguard still said to the brigade commander Wu Qian who had just arrived with lingering fear.

"What is hard to say? If it were us, we must keep it. If it were the same, we must be able to protect it. If the military commander is strict, we must hold the position for twenty-four hours." Wu Qian glared at the commander of the vanguard and scolded him sternly.

However, Wu Qian, who saw the fierce artillery attack of the Japanese, couldn't help but talk at this time. Such artillery fire was as the commander of the avant-garde said, could not stand it. Moreover, during the Great Wall War, Wu Qian fought with the 6th Division. He knew very well what kind of combat effectiveness this most elite Japanese army unit had.

Five minutes later, artillery fire began to extend to the second-line position, and at this time, a group of small black dots appeared in the southeast direction, quickly approaching the battlefield filled with smoke. The Japanese artillery fire not only aimed at continuing to destroy Mishidu's defensive position, but also pointed out the target for the bombing of the First Navy Air Force that came to assist in the war.

Wu Qian, who had already received a warning from the commander before, quickly ordered loudly: "Divine air strikes, be careful of concealment."

The deafening roar was getting closer and closer, and the soldiers of the 6th Division on the other side suddenly burst into cheers. Tani Shouo, who was tired, also walked out of his tent and waved to the fighter planes in the sky. His gloomy face finally showed a smile. At the same time, he ordered Kawashima, who had failed to successfully cross the force several times yesterday: "Order the troops to be prepared and cross the force immediately after the air strike."

"Hay." Kawashima also swept away the bad luck of yesterday and received the order excitedly.

"It is about to enter the war zone, and all aircraft are ready for combat." Oda Yokoji Nakasa, the captain of the Third Battalion of the First Navy Air Force, who was carrying out today's air strike mission, issued an order through the airborne radio.

"Hay." An excited howling suddenly came from Oda's radio headphones.

Today, the Neon Army has controlled the absolute air supremacy on the Songhu battlefield, and the Chinese national team has very few air defense weapons. Carrying out air strike missions is undoubtedly an exciting trip for these proud naval pilots.

Oda smiled slightly, and he turned his eyes to Songjiang County not far away. There are two air raid missions today. In addition to bombing the defensive positions of the Chinese army, another one is to bomb Songjiang County to deter the Chinese defenders.
Chapter completed!