Chapter 148: The Counterattack in the Battle of Shanghai (V)

At 11 o'clock in the evening, Chen Xiuwen, accompanied by Qiao Zhen, Chen Zuizui and the commander of the supplementary regiment, boarded the fortifications of the supplementary regiment in the south of the city.

Since the Neon Army landed in Hangzhou Bay, the south of the city and Xiguan have been the defense focus of the 20th Independent Brigade. Especially after the day and night reinforcement of nearly 2,000 officers and soldiers of the supplementary regiment in the south of the city, there is a group of fortifications with a depth of 200 meters outside the south of the city, consisting of three arc-shaped trenches, the first of which is a standard anti-tank trenches, with gullies crisscrossing between the trenches, and dozens of individual castles shrouded their real positions in the shooting world.

The entire south of the city was also converted into a huge bunker group. All simple shacks made of soil and reeds were pushed out. The doors and windows of the buildings facing the street were all built with bricks. There were dense shooting holes on the walls on all sides, and all the houses had been opened. In particular, Songjiang County Middle School, the tallest building in the south of the city, was built into a huge fortress. In front of the three-story teaching building, all the shooting boundaries had been cleared, and nearly half of the entire replenishment group's firepower was hidden on it, which could completely cover the entire Nancheng.

Such defensive fortifications are more than a little better than the fortifications built in Luodian two months ago, and fully implementing his intentions, Chen Xiuwen couldn't help but feel full of confidence. Standing on the South Gate Tower, the Mishidu's position in the distance was still the sound of gunfire and cannons shook the sky, and the firelight illuminated the entire night sky.

Qiao Zhen raised his wrist and looked at his watch: "In another half an hour, the 319th Brigade will retreat."

Chen Xiuwen nodded and sighed softly, "It's hard for them." Before, Chen Zui's intelligence just brought the reconnaissance team. A brigade of the 18th Division of the Neon Army that occupied Fengjing in the evening was already heading towards Songjiang along the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway, and would be able to meet with the 6th Division, which was blocked by the 67th Army in Litahui early tomorrow morning.

"Time is tight!" Chen Xiuwen sighed secretly.

"Please rest assured that our supplementary regiment will swear to drag the Japanese under the city to the death." Zhu Zhiyong, the leader of the supplementary regiment, said nervously.

Zhu Zhiyong is the only confidant of Chen Xiuwen in the system who was not from Huangpu, and he is not a confidant of Chen Xiuwen like Chen Zui. His supplementary regiment was adapted from the Songjiang Security Corps and had never fought with the Neon Army face to face. Among the four regiments of the 20th Independent Brigade, Chen Xiuwen was the most worried about the supplementary regiment, so he left the Sergeant Battalion and the Special Battalion in the city to support the supplementary regiment.

"Well, it's not bad. The morale is like a rainbow, and the morale of the army is available." Chen Xiuwen smiled slightly, patted Zhu Zhiyong on the shoulder and said, "It depends on your replenishment team later. Tell brothers, don't be nervous, the more afraid the Japanese will be, the more arrogant you are, but as long as you fight, the more afraid the Japanese will be."

"Yes, the traveler." Zhu Zhiyong quickly responded, and at the same time felt very disgusted by his nervousness just now.

As time goes by, the Neon Army's attacks are getting stronger and stronger. The shells plowed the frontier positions over and over again, and the soil was completely dyed black and red by blood. I grabbed a handful of soil at will, and one or two shrapnels could always be found inside.

After a round of artillery fire, under the cover of heavy machine guns and grenade launchers, the Neon Army successfully crossed again. A suicide squad consisting of sergeants and subordinate officers broke through the frontier positions and started hand-to-hand combat with the defenders. The two sides fought in the trenches, bayonets, steel helmets, stones, engineer shovels, buttstocks, wooden sticks, teeth, and everything that could be used as weapons were used.

In the fierce battle, the Chinese soldiers were suffering huge casualties. However, these soldiers who had already killed red-eyed still rushed towards the Neon Army regardless of everything. Some of them were stabbed by the Neon Army and grabbed the bayonets in the body and used their lives to win opportunities for their companions.

"The time is almost over. You and your brothers retreat first. I will take the guard battalion to cover it." The military guard battalion commander pulled Wu Qian, who was already hanging on his head, said.

"Brother, I, Wu Qian, am so grateful to you for your brothers to come for reinforcements. However, my 319th Brigade has not yet died, so there is no reason to let you cover it. You will retreat with the brothers in the guard camp first, and I will cover you myself." Wu Qian checked the flower mechanism in his hands, as if he was going to fight in person.

The guard battalion commander was an old subordinate who had been following Wu Keren for many years, and before he came out, the chief of staff specifically told him to ensure the safety of Brigade Commander Wu no matter what. He quickly blocked Wu Qian's face and shouted: "Brigade Commander Wu, you must retreat first, I will cover it."

Wu Qian stared with his red eyes and cried, "The nearly 3,000 brothers of our 319th Brigade are already lying here. Now I only care about running for my own life. What kind of face will I have to go down to see these brothers in the future." As he said that, Wu Qian pointed the gun in his hand at the guard battalion commander and shouted loudly: "Get out of here, I am the supreme commander here. If I don't let go, I will kill you first." At the same time, he ordered the commander of the 620 Regiment beside him: "Captain He, take the first battalion and the brothers of the guard battalion first, and the brothers of the second battalion, and I will go first."

Before Wu Qian finished shouting, his eyes suddenly became dark and he fainted. Commander He held the fallen Wu Qian and whispered: "I'm sorry, the brigade." After that, he handed Wu Qian over to the guard battalion commander: "Brother, our brigade will ask you. You and the brigade first. I'll take the brigade to cover."

After saying that, before waiting for the guard battalion commander to speak, he picked up a Czech style, jumped into the trench, raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers from the Second Battalion, follow me."

Tanisuo held the telescope and saw the military flag erecting on the front line of Yoshido on the other side. He couldn't help but scream: "Breakthrough, this time I finally broke through."

The ferry troops rushed into the frontier positions several times today, but were each attacked by the tenacious Chinese army. This time, the military flag was finally raised on the frontier positions. As the subsequent landing troops rushed into the frontier positions, the Mishidu positions, which blocked the 6th Division's road to advance for two days, were finally broken through after more than a thousand soldiers were killed or injured.

As soon as the gunshots on the Yoshido position stopped, Tanisuo could not wait for the engineers to set up the pontoon bridge, accompanied by Tokutaro Sakai, he took a rubber boat to cross the Huangpu River and boarded the frontier position of Yoshido.

On the frontier positions where corpses were intertwined, the blue uniforms and scattered Liao thirteen-style rifles were on the dead soldiers. Gu Suofu was very shocked. How could the Northeast Army, which was vulnerable in his eyes, exploded with such combat effectiveness?

Next to the body of a colonel officer with a big knife in his hand and wide eyes, there were the bodies of several Neon soldiers lying.

Colonel Kawashima, who personally led his troops to cross the Huangpu River, pointed at the colonel's body with respect and introduced to Tani Shouo and Tokutaro Sakai: "This is a colonel commander of the Northeast China Army."

Gu Shoufu nodded, then bowed respectfully to Captain He's body, saying, "He is a warrior among the Chinese soldiers, and he is buried with a grand ceremony."

"Hay." A group of senior officers from the 6th Division surrounded him and bowed to express their respect for the warriors.

Seven kilometers north is Songjiang County. According to Niujima Manta's report, his troops were blocked by a whole division of the 108th Division of the 67th Army in Litahui. In other words, the ones defending the county are now a brigade of the 107th Division and the remaining troops of the Independent 20th Brigade. As long as they break through the natural danger of the Huangpu River, Tani Suo and Tokutaro Sakai believe that it is no problem to capture Songjiang County, and they can even occupy the county before the reinforcements of the 18th Division arrive.

"Sakai Kun, please." Tanisuo bowed solemnly to Tokutaro Sakai.

Tokutaro Sakai hurriedly replied: "Please rest assured, the division commander, Huyi will definitely trample on the Songjiang Prefecture and resolutely defend the honor of the Kumamoto Division."

The Engineering Corps was busy setting up a pontoon bridge. The heavy artillery brigade needed to cross the river through the pontoon bridge. Tokutaro Sakai couldn't wait to lead the 13th Regiment belonging to the 11th Brigade who crossed the river through boats and rubber boats, and an infantry brigade of Colonel Kawashima's 45th Regiment. Nearly 6,000 artillery brigades rushed straight to Songjiang Prefecture.

At one o'clock in the morning, the soldiers of the 67th Army who retreated from Mishidu finally arrived outside the city. Rather than retreating, they were retreating, most of them were ragged wounded soldiers, supporting each other and running towards the city gate. The desperate retreat of nearly seven kilometers had almost consumed all their energy.

"Don't shoot, don't shoot. We are from the Sixty-Seventh Army. Our Brigade Commander Wu is injured." He carried several soldiers, carrying Wu Qian who was knocked out, and ran at the front of the team, the battalion commander of the guard battalion who was waving his hands and shouting.

"Old Zhu, send troops to respond." Shen Xiuwen, who was standing at the frontier command of the supplementary regiment, saw this scene and hurriedly ordered Zhu Zhiyong.

Although a brigade of the Sixty-Seventh Army could not be compared with Shen Xiuwen's Independent Twenty-Twenty-State Brigade, there were at least 4,000 people, but Shen Xiuwen saw that only three or four hundred remaining soldiers retreated into the city.

"No wonder Wu Keren took the initiative to ask for help. It seems that their pressure is not too great." Shen Xiuwen shook his head and sighed in a low voice.

At this time, Zhu Zhiyong walked in with a major officer covered in blood.

"Report to Chief Shen, please allow us to stay and fight together." The major officer said to Shen Xiuwen with a crying voice.

Shen Xiuwen looked at the major officer carefully and couldn't help but say: "Aren't you the guard battalion commander of Commander Wu? Why are you here too?"

"Report to Chief Shen, the Japanese attack on Mi Shidu was too fierce. Brigade Commander Wu and the 319th Brigade were too serious and they asked for help several times. However, our military officers refused to send troops to reinforce him because of the defense on the Western Front. Later, there was no way, so they sent our guard battalion up and stayed until midnight. Chief Shen, let us stay. Look at one brigade of our 319th Brigade plus a total of 4,000 brothers in our guard battalion, and now there are only so many left. We want to avenge the dead brothers, Commander Chen and Commander He." The guard battalion commander cried.

Shen Xiuwen's eyes were wet, and he couldn't help feeling ashamed. He wanted the defensive forces of the Sixty-Seventh Army to consume more of the Neon Army's vitality. Unexpectedly, the battle situation was so fierce. At the same time, he was full of respect for Wu Keren. This seemingly arrogant commander Wu actually took the overall situation into consideration.

"No, your duty is to protect the safety of Commander Wu and lead the brothers back quickly." Chen Xiuwen still flatly rejected the request of the guard battalion commander. As he said, he glanced at the guard battalion commander with a sad face and said firmly: "Your mission has been completed. Don't worry, the revenge of the brothers of the 319th Brigade, our Independent 20th Brigade will definitely make the Japanese pay blood debts."

At half past one, the Thirteenth Regiment and the Forty-Fifteen Regiment led by Sakai arrived outside Songe Castle. Sakai Tokutaro used a telescope to observe Songe Castle three kilometers away. Although it was dark, he could still see the defensive positions outside the city with the moonlight.

Seeing that the Chinese army did not flee because of the fall of Yoshido, Tokutaro Sakai was a little disappointed.

"The Chinese army has set up defensive positions outside the county town and ordered the artillery to prepare for artillery fire first." Sakai looked at the two corps captains beside him while ordering.

"Brigate Commander, please allow me to lead the infantry to attack the Chinese position after the artillery fire was prepared." Kawashima said in the lead.

After two days of attacking in Mishidu, the two brigades of the Kawashima Regiment were basically disabled, and there was only such a complete infantry brigade left. Moreover, he worked hard to capture Mishidu. At this time, Kawashima didn't want the 13th Regiment to pick the ripe peaches in Songjiang County.

The Thirteenth Regiment had been on the wall for nearly a day and a night. As early as when the Kawashima Regiment could not capture the Kawashima for a long time, the 13th Regiment Regiment Commander Gao Chengshou asked the brigade commander and division commander several times, but he did not get approval. After finally coming to Songjiang City, how could Kawashima take the offensive mission? He hurriedly ran out and said, "Brig Commander, Kawashima's troops worked hard for days, so let Huzhi lead the troops to take the lead."

The 13th Regiment is the main force of the 6th Division, and all the soldiers are from Kumamoto, which is better than the 45th Regiment composed of Kagoshima.

Although Takashima United is his direct subordinate, considering that Kawashima United did work hard and make great contributions in conquering Mishido, Sakai finally handed over the offensive task to Kawashima and encouraged him: "Kan Kawashima, I hope you can continue to work hard and put the military flag on the city tower at the south gate of Songjiang."

"Hayi." Kawashima, who had seized the lead, immediately received the order as if he was injected with chicken blood.

After two rounds of test fires, the 24 92 infantry artillery artillery of the two artillery brigades belonging to the Gaocheng Regiment and the Kawashima Regiment belonged to two artillery groups opened fire at the defensive positions outside Songjiang at the same time.

Before the first round of shells could land, the Neon Army artillery, who had tacitly cooperated with the tacit neon army artillery, had completed a series of actions of pulling the bolts, retracting the shells, plugging the shells, closing the bolts, and pulling the bolts.
Chapter completed!