Chapter 241: Barrage and Purgatory
The battle in Jinling City has entered the stage of stalemate.
This was intolerable to the Japanese army.
Obviously a brilliant and magnificent march, how did it suddenly become a pot of raw rice?
The Japanese were furious.
The command is trying to find ways to spy on the intelligence of the Chinese army, and it is stepping up the offensive.
In the afternoon, the Japanese attacked.
This time, the deployment was changed.
The Japanese army washed the ground with artillery fire and sent troops on the other hand, and implemented brutal infantry and artillery coordination tactics, and the infantry almost stepped on the large pit of artillery shells to advance forward, without giving the Chinese army any time to react.
The Japanese attacked simultaneously at several locations.
In addition to the necessary vigilance personnel, all the troops entering the city were thrown into battle, and they also urgently summoned the troops outside the city to stop pursuing the troops and retreating personnel of the Chinese breakthrough, shrink the outer defense line, and rush to Jinling City for urgent assistance.
The personnel of the Chinese army in the city, under the leadership of various officers, fought to the death.
It's a full-fledged battle!
It was a spectacular battle.
The Japanese army frantically attacked for more than three hours, and only made partial progress, and the main positions were still in the hands of the Chinese army.
The Japanese army consumed a large number of artillery shells, and the air units that came to bomb urgently flew more than 200 sorties, consuming most of the artillery shells and aerial bombs gathered in the Songhu area.
This day was the craziest day of the Japanese attack.
The Japanese dispatched a naval fleet, the famous Third Fleet, three battleships, five cruisers, more than 30 gunboats of various kinds, and more than 10 destroyers, lined up in a line to the north of Jinling City, and fired blindly at the positions of the Chinese troops.
This is a very superb tactic, according to the map operation, the Japanese army calculated to shoot Zhuyuan, and fired fiercely on the surface of the Yangtze River, forming a spectacular barrage.
Most of the Japanese artillery shells accurately hit the positions of the Chinese army, for example, the north and south of Hon Hai Road, the warehouse area, the military grain city, the Kaimen building area, and so on.
On a battleship, there are dozens of giant cannons, including eight 460 mm caliber heavy guns, which is a terrifying existence!
A cannonball, almost half a ton in weight, under this kind of shell, no ordinary tunnel can resist it!
Boom, boom, the pit will all collapse!
The Chinese soldiers and civilians in the tunnel were all buried alive.
Some people, who were stoned to death on the spot, are still relatively warm.
Those who are buried and cannot die for the time being will suffer truly cruel mental torture and physical pain!
There are many people, not killed by fragments, but by the explosion waves and shock waves of enemy shells!
The Japanese battleship, which was also one of the largest battleships in the world at that time, was the symbol of the Japanese navy.
On that day, during the shelling, the Japanese naval officers and men themselves were so excited that they cried.
It's too powerful.
The Imperial Navy is too strong!
No one can resist this.
Ah, it feels so good.
Previously, in the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army used the large-caliber giant artillery of the naval fleet and the aircraft on the aircraft carrier to carry out a brutal attack on the positions held by the Chinese army, forming a real massacre!
The sky is shattering, like a speeding train roaring and crashing into the enemy!
In a sea of fire, the positions of the Chinese army collapsed, the casualties of officers and soldiers were unbearable, and the corpses were scattered and broken, fragmented, and all kinds of fragments!
Now, in Jinling City, it is the same scene again.
"Victory, victory, victory!"
"Onboard, onboard, onboard!"
The officers and men of the Japanese Navy sang and danced to celebrate the victory.
The Japanese carried out three rounds of bombardment, allowing the infantry on the front line to observe the effect and then make corrections.
The artillery and infantry of the Japanese army, very well coordinated and trained, are not bragging!
Therefore, the artillery bombardment of the Japanese naval warships had an astonishing effect, and a large number of Chinese troops' position areas, such as residential buildings and commercial buildings, were all blown into ruins.
This is not an ordinary ruin, this is a ruin of total destruction, it is impossible to raze to the ground, but the houses and streets, all unrecognizable, have become patches of soft sand dune-like landforms!
The wood, furniture, and all kinds of utensils in the house were all burned in the flames, and the smoke was filled, and the black smoke burned on the ground, all the way up to a height of several hundred meters, forming brown clouds!
In the sky, a cold wind blew, and a large amount of black smoke fell down, but it was filled with the disgusting smell of burnt corpses.
On this day, the Japanese naval fleet ran out of all the shells!
There is not a single shot left.
The heavy 460-mm cannon was so huge that it was very cumbersome to fire, and the officers and soldiers were exhausted, and more than a dozen soldiers were so exhausted that they collapsed and died on the spot!
"Quick, launch, launch!" All the officers were urging the officers and men to work hard.
The Japanese gunboats even approached the shore to shoot.
They weighed only fifty or sixty tons, and a short-barreled cannon in front, but they were very dexterous and hardworking.
At the same time, the artillery units of the Japanese army units also poured all their strength into firing, and all the shells they had were put into the battlefield.
On this day, at the urging of the headquarters, the Japanese navy and army, under the city of Jinling, made the strongest sound!
The Japanese air force also brought its combat effectiveness to the limit.
"No man's land must be created!"
"Blow up the enemy and burn the enemy without a single left!"
Japanese planes dropped a large number of aerial bombs and incendiary bombs onto the positions of the Chinese army, and a large number of houses and positions were bombed into purgatory on earth.
Those incendiary bombs can burn and absorb the surrounding air, so that the nearby Chinese soldiers and civilians can suffocate to death.
After every full-scale bombardment by the Japanese, infantry would rush forward.
The Japanese army dispatched all more than 40,000 troops, plus troops who quickly rushed to the city to reinforce them, and besieged the Chinese army separately.
On the position, the Japanese army bombed strategically, and in the second stage, the barrage advanced, and the infantry moved forward with the landing point of the shells, and every time they took a step forward, they had to carefully search for the troops on the surrounding Chinese positions, even if they were corpses, and they had to be mended with bayonets.
Some trenches, individual pits, and tunnels were carefully searched by the Japanese army.
All corpses, as long as they are formed, are to be killed.
The Japanese attack was recorded in detail by the reporters accompanying the army, and was made into various photographic photographs, as well as a large number of precious videos.
The filming crew proudly said in it: "The martial power of the empire is more powerful than the Battle of Songhu!" This is a wonder of the world, an empire, protected by the gods, incomparable. ”
All the Japanese soldiers were even more proud and full of confidence!
In order to ensure victory, the Japanese army deployed more fleets to transport ammunition from China to Songhu and the mouth of the Yangtze River. The Japanese army has already clamored that they will do their best in Jinling City!
"The elite of the Chinese army has been captured, the imperial army, and the annihilation of it."
A large number of journalists have urgently sent telegrams to the country, boasting of brilliant achievements.
The Japanese troops on the periphery, more than 100,000 people, also urgently moved here, lest they miss the great journey of destroying the main force of the Chinese army.
It's a pity that they all misunderstood a truth!
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