Chapter 56: Dogfight (7)
"Ignore these Japanese prisoners of war, do you think they still have a chance to go home? Since they can't, they can't leak the secrets of our rockets. "The ground crews assigned to work on aircraft carriers did not deliberately conceal the process www.biquge.info of replenishing the fighters with air-to-ground rockets, even though their work sites were only a few dozen meters away from the Japanese prisoners of war who were locked in iron cages.
Most of McHausen's sailors are from the United States and Australia, but the fighters on the aircraft carrier are from the umbrella, if it is the American and Australian soldiers who have a deep hatred with the Japanese army, they may look at the rice field Fukuyama angrily, but the ground crew of the umbrella is not like that, because the umbrella people are used to the Japanese army is their defeated general. was ignored by a group of ground crews, and Inada Fukuyama, who could understand English, didn't know whether to be happy or sad, and his dignified Imperial Rear Admiral was actually ignored by a group of ground crews.
McHausen had already ignored that there was a Japanese lieutenant general among the prisoners of war, and at this moment McHausen was listening to the report of his officers, and he wanted to disperse his sailors to the captured Japanese warships in the shortest possible time, at least to ensure that these Japanese warships could safely enter Hangzhou Bay and anchor. McHausen had already received a telegram from Hangzhou Bay, and although he did not know how the Japanese troops in Hangzhou Bay were killed, McHausen knew that the matter must have something to do with his boss.
Before McHausen had left the Malay Sea with the makeshift fleet, Zhuo Fei, who had already returned to Chongqing, gave instructions to the parachute troops who had quietly moved to the Nanchang area, asking them to continue moving in the direction of Jingdezhen with the cooperation of the local national army. In fact, when Merkel commanded a group of fighters to attack the Japanese South China Sea Fleet, the parachute troops that had gone north had already converged with the local garrison and appeared in the vicinity of Jixi Town.
The attack on the Japanese base in Hangzhou Bay and the destruction of the Zhoushan radar station were the signals to the parachute troops, so McHausen received a telegram that Hangzhou Bay had been recaptured from the Japanese army after receiving the South China Sea Fleet. The gunfire had not stopped, and the Hangzhou Bay was full of gunsmoke, and the helicopters that had been transferred to cooperate in the operation had no time to rest at all, either using rapid-fire machine guns to cooperate in the operation, or transporting the wounded soldiers to the first aid station in the rear.
Relying on the strong firepower of the helicopters, 100 scouts and three local guerrilla forces stubbornly resisted the three-hour attack of more than 1,000 Japanese troops, and it was not until a large number of reinforcements arrived that the battle in Hangzhou Bay gradually weakened. "We won." The moment the fleet appeared on the sea, the scouts, who had not dared to relax their vigilance, finally cheered, and with the combined help of naval guns and helicopters, they were no longer afraid of any Japanese attack.
Like Zhuo Fei, Chiang Kai-shek also issued instructions to the Nationalist troops deployed in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, asking them to unconditionally cooperate with the umbrella troops in combat, and to transfer elite troops to move closer to Shanghai. No one would think that this was another battle of Songhu with heavy casualties, because of the performance of the New Army troops in the northeast, the people gradually regained confidence in the national army, coupled with the government's deliberate guidance and propaganda, at least the national soldiers who were transferred north were no longer afraid and hesitant.
"Nani? The South China Sea Fleet lost contact? Hangzhou Bay has been lost? The Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai were immediately dumbfounded when they received an urgent telegram from the Japanese army in Hangzhou, Hangzhou Bay is not a place that can be easily obtained, but why was Hangzhou Bay taken back by the people of China overnight? In desperation, the Japanese army mobilized heavy troops in an attempt to recapture Hangzhou Bay, and the military commanders and the underground party of the Chinese Communist Party, which had already entered Shanghai in accordance with the order, were also ready to cooperate in the operation.
The Japanese army now used fighter planes to bomb Hangzhou Bay, which was full of fireworks, and then the ground troops launched an attack, and when the Japanese command learned that a fleet was approaching Hangzhou Bay, their ground forces had already launched an attack and could not retreat. "Guys, it's time for us to play, give them some color." A large number of screeching warplanes swooped down from the clouds, and Merkel, who had been looking for an opportunity, appeared over the Japanese airfield with his fighter plane formation.
The Japanese fighters that had just returned from Hangzhou Bay were still busy refueling and replenishing ammunition, and the sound of bombers diving was already heard in mid-air, and improved low-altitude explosive bombs with fixed cross-wings were thrown from the belly of the bombers. "Boom" and "Boom" The air-explosive bombs that fell almost vertically because of the fixed cross-wings exploded one after another, and the Japanese officers and soldiers who were directly exposed to the field or inside the buildings were actually within the coverage range of the air-explosive bombs.
The improved air-explosive bomb is actually a large shock bomb, and after the tail is equipped with a fixed cross-wing, the air-explosive bomb thrown from the belly of the bomber can better explode at the expected position, while the improved air-explosive bomb is several times more powerful than the old model. More than 100 improved air-explosive bombs exploded over the Japanese airfield, but all the Japanese officers and men who were within the coverage of the air-explosive bombs were tossing back and forth on the ground with painful expressions, but none of them could stand up or regain their senses normally.
Merkel, who originally wanted to kill, was also dumbfounded, and the Japanese airfield was already like a shelled egg, and it seemed that there was no need to continue to waste ammunition. "Cloudburst bombs, throw cloudburst bombs to destroy this place." Merkel was still thinking about whether to contact the helicopter unit to take over the place, but an order came from the communication channel, and Merkel had to follow the order to order the bombers to drop cloudburst bombs on the Japanese airfield.
"Boom" and "Boom" The two huge mushroom clouds slowly rose, and the Japanese soldiers who rushed to the rescue airport were dumbfounded, and dispersed with high-temperature fireworks and dust, and the Japanese airfield had completely changed. No one in Shanghai knew that the Nationalist army would attack Shanghai today, and neither did the Japanese puppet army deployed on the outskirts of Shanghai, because the troops attacking Shanghai did not take the land route at all, but divided into two routes, all the way by sea and directly attacked the Shanghai wharf. All the way directly into the city by helicopter.
Thirty helicopters could drop a company of soldiers and ammunition equipment into downtown Shanghai at a time, and the forward troops, armed with semi-automatic rifles and individual rocket launchers, were far from being able to cope with the Japanese troops with bolt-action rifles. Urban warfare is different from field warfare, and the umbrella forward troops, which are equipped with a large number of new weapons and equipment, are no strangers to urban warfare, especially the 30 helicopters that are still continuously transporting troops, ammunition and equipment to urban areas.
Semi-automatic rifles, plug-in improvised body armor, heavy-barreled sniper rifles, individual bazookas, steel urban combat shields, and Browning large-caliber heavy machine guns were thrown into the urban area of Shanghai by helicopter units, and the soldiers of the forward troops were already armed to the extreme, while the Japanese troops who were fighting against them were still the same old way. The city of Shanghai was completely drowned out by the sound of boiling gunfire, and most of the Shanghainese hid in their homes and were nervous, and only a few Shanghainese cowered in street corners or high places, cautiously watching the battle.
To the surprise of all Shanghainese who watched the war, the umbrella forward troops who were dropped into the city by helicopters did not fight to the death with the Japanese army, but chose to take the Japanese into the city to fight. But in this way, the casualties of the Japanese army are constantly increasing, and the area controlled by the umbrella forward troops is constantly increasing. By lunchtime, the area controlled by the Umbrella Forward Force had expanded to one-fifth of the city, and the Japanese in Shanghai had already suffered more than 3,000 casualties.
The Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai were already exhausted, and their casualties were not only from the guerrilla fighting in the city, but also from the naval artillery bombardment from the docks. Two hours later, the landing ship that had been cruising in the dock area finally had a chance to dock, and a large number of South Asian servant soldiers poured onto the dock and launched an attack on the city. "No rules is our greatest advantage, we have no rules, the Japanese army can only follow our rhythm and fight with us, our purpose is to maximize the killing and injury of the Japanese army's vital forces, melee is naturally the best way to deal with it."
Zhuo Fei, who was far away in Chongqing, gave such an explanation, which made the bigwigs of the Ministry of Military Affairs speechless, but they could not refute the explanation given by Zhuo Fei. At present, the Japanese army in Shanghai has lost its superiority at sea, and the aviation unit has been killed by the parachute flying team, and it seems that it is not bad to engage in a melee with the Japanese army, and it is not their soldiers who die anyway. The Japanese cabinet, which learned of the sudden attack on Shanghai by the Chinese army, could not help but be shocked, and in any case, they did not want to lose Shanghai.
However, the actual situation at present was that the defenders of Shanghai were already facing the situation of being surrounded by regiments, and the imperial forces deployed on the outskirts of Shanghai were also attacked. The Japanese cabinet immediately sent a secret order to Shanghai, asking the Japanese consul in Shanghai to instigate the board of directors of the concession to protest against the Chinese troops entering the city, in an attempt to buy time for the Japanese army in Shanghai.
"Tell them that this is a war zone, and if you don't want to die, get out of here immediately." The soldiers of the umbrella forward unit did not accept this at all, and besides, most of them operated in urban areas on the scale of a company, and the supreme commander was only a company commander, and the promises made by a company commander seemed to be unbelievable to the Japanese army. The foreigners' attempt to interfere with the attack was reported to Zhuo Fei at the level of the situation, and Zhuo Fei immediately responded, and several members of the board of directors of the concession who came from here to protect the umbrella forward troops were immediately detained, and despite the protests of these members of the board of directors of the concession, the umbrella forward troops entered the Shanghai concession by the trend, and their military action did not weaken at all.