Chapter 149: The Counterattack in the Battle of Shanghai (VI)

Like Tani Suo, Sakai Tokutaro finally believed that the Chinese national team focused on defense on the periphery, and the Central Army's 20th Independent Brigade had basically been defeated. Therefore, except for the remaining defeated generals of the Independent 20th Independent brigade, the only threatening thing was the 321st Brigade of the 107th Division of the 67th Army, which had not yet appeared.

Tokutaro Sakai led his troops to confront the Chinese national team in North China for many years and had fought with the 67th Army. He believed that he knew the Chinese national team very well. The Chinese national team, especially the Northeast Army, had simple equipment, except for the very few mortars. Therefore, Tokutaro Sakai set the two artillery brigades of the Takashiro Regiment and the Kawashima Regiment at a distance of about two thousand meters from the south gate of the Matsujiang River. This distance can best exert the firepower of the 92 infantry artillery. As for the bamboo forest less than two kilometers away from the highway, according to the information from the Navy Air Force during the morning air strike, there was no defense of the Hua national team, and Tokutaro Sakai did not believe that the Chinese national team would dare to ambush the city at this time. Maybe, once the Imperial Army's cannons fired, the Hua national team would flee.

When the 3.8 kilogram high-explosion bomb of the 92 Infantry Cannon exploded on the outer positions, scarlet fire balls rose into the air, and various debris flew in the air. After the shelling of the outer positions lasted for five minutes, the artillery fire extended directly to the city wall. Amid the sound of explosions, the entire city wall was trembling violently. Under the concentrated bombing, a period of blue brick wall that had been damaged in the air raid yesterday morning collapsed.

"Yoxi." Sakai Tokutaro, who had been closely observing the shelling effect, put down his telescope and waved his hand to order the infantry brigade of the Kawashima United, who was leading the battle.

"Battery Commander, fight back. The little Japanese artillery positions are set so close, so you can guarantee that one strike is accurate." Yu Feng, the company commander of the First Company of the Artillery Battalion, ran to the battalion commander Li Weishan and asked.

After Yu Feng returned to the team after recovering from his injury, he worked as an artillery officer in the brigade headquarters for a few days. When he learned that the twelve Krupp 753 artillery pieces were transferred and he wanted to form artillery soldiers, he said that he would go back to the army no matter what. He even sent a telegram to ask the cousin Yu Zhantang, who was far away in Ningbo, to plead with Shen Xiuwen. Shen Xiuwen was so entangled by him that he was indeed an artillery talent, so he had to agree to let him go to the artillery battalion to be a captain company commander.

Li Weishan was holding a telescope in his left hand and was observing the specific location of the two artillery groups of Neon Army, while his other sleeve was empty. When he was in Luodian, everyone thought he was killed, but later the Sixty-Seventh Division dug him out of the pile of dead people. Although his life was guaranteed, he lost one of his right arm.

According to regulations, Li Weishan should be demobilized or engaged in other civilian jobs as disabled soldiers, but when he recovered from the hospital, he was unexpectedly appointed as the battalion commander of the artillery battalion that had been vacant.

"Stop talking nonsense, when will the artillery be fired and wait for the orders of the brigade?" Li Weishan glared at Yu Feng, then stuffed the telescope into Yu Feng's hand: "You have this free time to show me carefully. Once the order is completed, you must make me a starting hit."

Yu Feng took the telescope helplessly, opened his mouth, and finally said nothing.

"Kill and give it to you." After receiving the order from Tokutaro Sakai, Kawashima drew his command knife and ordered his only complete brigade to expand the scattered line and pounce towards the south gate.

In the command center of the supplementary regiment located in a corner of the city wall, Chen Xiuwen put down the telescope in his hand and turned to Zhu Zhiyong and ordered: "According to the original plan, the troops will enter the position."

Zhu Zhiyong quickly picked up the phone: "The first battalion brought the bench into the anti-tank trench, and the heavy machine gun company entered the individual bunker."

The anti-tank trench was three meters wide and one meter eight deep. Before the war, Chen Xiuwen specially asked the first battalion of the supplementary regiment to collect a small stool in the city. This move was learned by Chen Xiuwen from a movie "The Story of the Army" that he watched later in his childhood.

After receiving the order, the first battalion of soldiers hiding in the anti-cannon hole of the third trench, each holding a small bench and quickly entered the first anti-tank trench through the traffic trench. He stood on the small bench and raised his gun to aim at the Neon Army approaching the position.

In view of the lessons learned when attacking the Mishidu position, the Japanese were very careful at first. When they entered the position of 300 meters, they pulled the scattered line very wide and moved forward with their waists. There was still no movement on the Chinese army's positions in 250 meters, 200 meters, and 150 meters. The Japanese began to speed up and rushed up towards the front position. The Japanese behind even straightened their waists and shook their feet and ran up.

When the Japanese entered a range of 100 meters away from the anti-tank trench, the first battalion commander yelled: "Fight." The 38th large cover in his hand opened fire first, rushed to the front of a sergeant, and squirted out a dazzling blood arrow, and fell to the ground.

More than 400 38 large covers, eighteen tilted light machine guns fired one after another, and bullets roared into the formation of the Japanese attack. The supplementary regiment was the Japanese army regiment. When the gunshots, the chargers heard the familiar 38 large cover and the tilted light machine gun, and did not react for a moment. The hidden movement was half a beat slower and more than 100 people were knocked down instantly. Moreover, the strong penetration power of the 38 rifle made many bullets penetrate the bodies of the two Japanese in a row.

More than 400 rifles and eighteen crooked light machine guns were not enough to stop a large group of Japanese devils.

"Cover firepower, kill and give it to you." The captain of the Neon Army waved his command knife and ordered the infantry of the four squadrons to speed up and attack forward, and at the same time ordered the machine gun squadron and grenade launcher to cover.

The twelve Type 92 heavy machine guns and a grenade launcher of equivalent number immediately suppressed the blocking forces in the anti-tank trench. The heavy machine gun quickly suppressed the firepower of the light machine gun. Hesitant that the anti-tank trench was very wide, and the grenades of the grenade launcher could easily be shot into the trench. The splashed prefabricated shrapnel caused great casualties to the first battalion.

At this time, he was suppressed by firepower and could not effectively organize defense, causing the Japanese who rushed to the front to enter the area fifty meters in front of the trench.

"Everyone has it, drop bombs and prepare to retreat." As the first battalion commander roared, officers at all levels issued orders to their subordinates, nearly 300 grenades were thrown at the Japanese rushing up at the same time.

"Boom boom boom boom." A series of explosions, shrapnel splashing everywhere instantly knocked down dozens of Japanese soldiers rushing in front, and several of them were even blown away directly. The Japanese soldiers following behind quickly lay down and hide.

It was precisely because of this time difference that the officers and soldiers of the first battalion quickly picked up the small stool, helped the injured brothers up, and quickly retreated to the second trench with the dead brothers. At the same time, the explosion of the grenade was also ordered. The disguise in front of the shooting holes of more than a dozen individual bunkers placed between the first and second trenches was pushed away from it, and the black muzzles of the eighteen Type 92 heavy machine guns were aimed at the rushing Japanese.

"Roar up, the Chinese army can't stand it anymore, so rush forward." The Japanese officers waved their commanding swords and desperately urged the soldiers to rush forward.

Under the urging of the officer and Chief Cao, the Neon Army soldiers got up from the ground and rushed towards the first trench while stepping on their companions' bodies.

When they rushed to the first trench, they were stunned. The Chinese army that had defended just now had already retreated, and the anti-tank trench more than three meters wide could not jump over. The soldiers rushing in the front could only jump into the trench. But when they jumped in, they found that they could not climb out at all. The Japanese rushing up from behind couldn't help but hesitate whether they should jump down.

Just as they were hesitating, the eighteen Type 92 heavy machine guns in the castle opened fire. The eighteen fires swept towards the Japanese squeezing like a gust of wind. The distance was less than thirty meters, and the Japanese fell down one by one like ripe wheat. At this time, the first battalion of soldiers retreating to the second trench also began to fire. The Japanese had no choice but to jump into the first trench.

Some of the Japanese who jumped into the trench wanted to rush into the second trench through the traffic trench, but what was waiting for them was the black machine gun muzzle. Some of them knocked grenades to hit the machine gun bunker, but before they could hit a few, what was waiting for them was the rainy grenades. The first anti-tank trench and the second trench were only 40 meters apart. The soldiers of the first battalion could easily throw the grenades into the anti-tank trench. After a series of explosions, there was no movement in the anti-tank trench.

"Retreat, order to retreat quickly." Sakai Tokutaro looked at everything in front of him in a daze. A brigade had almost one-third of it fell down at this time. He immediately roared in anger.

The retreating signal flare was shooting rapidly into the air, drawing a beautiful arc in the air and slowly falling down. Less than seven hundred people could be retreated, more than four hundred Japanese lying down from the front of the first trench and in the ditch, and dozens of wounded soldiers who were abandoned by their companions and howling in despair.

"No, I ordered the first battalion and the firepower company to quickly retreat to the anti-aircraft cave, and the Japanese are about to bombard the enemy again." Shen Xiuwen, who was holding a telescope to watch the killing of innocent people, did not expect the Japanese to retreat so quickly, and immediately reacted and quickly ordered.

Zhu Zhiyong had just issued a retreat order to the first battalion, and the sound of shells roaring by in the sky was already heard. The first, second and two individual bunkers that had just been exposed before were suddenly exposed. In the series of "rumbling" explosions, the individual bunkers were blown into the sky one by one, and several firepower teams with a slightly more than half a beat were instantly buried inside.

"Damn it, tigers don't show their power, you think I'm a sick cat." Shen Xiuwen cursed, picked up the phone, and shouted loudly: "Li Weishan, destroy the Japanese artillery position immediately." At the same time, he did not forget to instruct: "Remember, once it is destroyed, it will be transferred immediately."

After all, there is also a Japanese heavy artillery corps on the other side of Mishidu. Although the range of the Qiwu Mountain cannon may not be higher, the range of the Type 91 105 howitzer can easily directly shell the Songjiang County town with a range of nearly ten kilometers.

"Yes." Li Weishan had been waiting for this moment. After putting down the phone, he shouted at Yu Feng who was still looking at him with anticipation, "Look at you, your brother-in-law ordered the Japanese artillery position to be destroyed immediately."

Since the relationship between Yu Feng and Shen Xiuwen was exposed, what Yu Feng was most annoying was that he called him his brother-in-law in the voyage. He was about to retort, but when he thought something was wrong, he rushed towards the artillery position.

"Issue No. 1 to 6, Target No. 1, Target No. 1, Target No. 1, firing."

The artillery soldiers had already made preparations. According to Yu Feng's calculations, Zhu Yuan had already locked the Japanese artillery group. After hearing the order, the ammunition hand immediately loaded the bullets and pulled the cannon rope amid Yu Feng's roar.

While twelve grenades were roaring towards the Japanese artillery position, Sakai Tokutaro, who was observing the shelling effect, had not had time to react when he heard a series of explosions coming from his artillery position.

The position of the 13th Regiment's artillery brigade was accurately hit, six 75mm shells exploded in the center of the position, and four 92 infantry cannons instantly turned into parts in the rising fireball. Before the dozen artillery soldiers in the explosion center could scream, they were directly bombarded into pieces of flesh and blood.

The sharp shrapnel shot around the position, screaming everywhere, and the unprepared artillery suffered heavy losses. The positions were covered with half of their heads, and everything was directly two, or the corpses of the blood gourd were hit by several shrapnel.

The shells shot at the artillery position of the Forty-Fifteenth Regiment were slightly off, but the huge air waves overturned the artillery captain who was commanding the artillery to the ground. The captain who quickly got up from the ground saw a sea of ​​fire on the artillery position of the Thirteenth Regiment not far away. He immediately reacted and shouted hysterically: "Stop shooting, retreat. Retreat immediately."

But it was too late. Yu Feng, who was observing the shelling effect in the telescope, immediately issued a second order while the first round of shells landed: "Architecture No. 1 to 6, three rapid fires. Architecture No. 7 to 12 extended a secret position, one shot, one shot."

While the artillery position of the Thirteenth Regiment was trapped in a sea of ​​fire, six grenades accurately hit the artillery position of the Forty-five Regiment, which was about to transfer, and at the same time detonated the shells of the 70-mm 92 infantry cannon piled up with fuses.

During the violent death, a 92 infantry cannon was thrown into the air by the air waves. The barrels, bases, and wheels scattered in the air splashed and smashed towards the artillerymen who were crying and running around.

"It's over, the artillery is over." Seeing all this in front of him, Tokutaro Sakai muttered to himself with a pale face. He never expected that he would hide a heavy artillery unit, which was definitely no less than one artillery battalion from the number of artillery shells just now.

"Is there a Chinese army's German division reinforced Songe? It's impossible, it's absolutely impossible?" Sakai Tokutaro roared into the command center, picked up the phone and shouted loudly: "Hurry up and answer the division commander for me."

At this time, Li Weishan saw in the telescope that the two artillery positions of the Japanese had fallen into a sea of ​​fire, so he quickly ordered the artillery to stop and quickly move to the pre-set position of Xiguan.

"Boy, you're doing a good job. I want to ask your brother-in-law for you." Li Weishan patted Yu Feng's shoulder heavily and said happily with a big mouth.

Yu Feng stood upright and saluted Li Weishan with a stern face, and said loudly: "Report to the battalion commander, there are only commanders in the army, no brother-in-law, I hope the battalion commander will respect himself."
Chapter completed!