The flames of the violent explosion light up the night sky! In the night, shells pierced the void like meteors, shooting towards the hill where the Kunisaki detachment was located.

Xu Wen stood on the Tiger tank, and through the scarlet fire that rose into the sky, he clearly saw that the Japanese troops on the hill, together with the improvised fortifications they hastily built, were blown apart.

The devils who were closer to the explosion point of the shells were directly reduced to ashes.

When the first wave of artillery fire from the Independent Brigade hit, Noboru Kunisaki and Masao Watanabe were directly shocked by the violent air wave generated by a shell from a 230mm naval gun that fell not far in front of them.

Noboru Kunisaki and Masao Watanabe were knocked unconscious on the spot, and several other lieutenants and guards were killed on the spot when they hit the stones.

When they woke up, they found that their positions had turned into a sea of fire.

Kunizaki got up in shock and anger, looked around at his own position full of flames and explosions, and roared in disbelief: "Yagaya Road! Where did the Chinese army get so much large-caliber heavy artillery? This is definitely not the power that a tank gun can have. ”

Masao Watanabe is also a person who has seen big scenes, so he nodded with the same anger: "What the general said is that judging from the power and scale of the explosion, many shells should have been fired by heavy artillery with a caliber of more than one hundred and fifty millimeters.

And it is impossible for the army to be equipped with heavy artillery of this caliber, and those who can be equipped with heavy artillery of this caliber are definitely naval warships with a displacement of thousands of tons! ”

"You're saying that part of the gunfire of the Shina people came from naval guns?" Kunisaki said in disbelief.

"Yes." As he spoke, Masao Watanabe suddenly pointed in the southeast direction and said, "General, you see, a considerable part of the artillery fire of the people of China came from the direction of the Yangtze River, which shows that our inference is correct, and only naval guns have such great power." ”

Kunizaki Noboru immediately turned his head to look, and his face changed miserably: "How can these damn Shina people have such a scale of naval warships overnight?" How will this battle be fought? ”

Watanabe Masao patiently soothed and persuaded him: "The general is angry, and now we can only do our best to hold on and ask for help from the friendly forces in Jiangnan." ”

Kunisaki was a little disheartened by the tragic scene around him, and said: "The firepower of the Shina people is so fierce, after the shelling of such a scale, how long can our defense line hold out in the face of their tank armored group?" ”

"General, it's man-made! We haven't reached the last step yet, for the sake of the Japanese Empire and His Majesty the Emperor, we must cheer up and continue to fight! ”

Hearing this, Noboru Kunisaki's eyes gradually regained his fighting spirit, and he immediately nodded solemnly and said: "Watanabe-kun is right, the imperial soldiers will never give up, for the sake of the Yamato nation, for the sake of His Majesty the Emperor, even if we fight to the last soldier, we must persevere."

Pass on my order, all troops are ready for the jade crushing operation, as long as they can contain the independent brigade of the Chinese army and buy time for the main force of the imperial army to capture Nanjing, even if the whole army dies in battle, it will not hesitate!

In addition, immediately report the situation on our side to General Yoshika Ryosuke, tell him that there is no need to divide troops to cross the river for reinforcements, and ask them to concentrate all their forces to continue to storm Nanjing and capture Nanjing as soon as possible!

The Kunisaki detachment will desperately drag Zhu Ziming's independent brigade in Jiangbei! ”

"Hay!"

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The Purple Mountain frontline battlefield, the former enemy headquarters of the Japanese army.

Because the remaining troops of the Independent Brigade rushed back and forth under the command of Zhou Weiguo, the frontal and roundabout attacks of the 18th Division and the 13th Division were all unsuccessful.

Therefore, at this time, Ryosuke Yoshika and others were having a headache for the war that could not be stale.

Suddenly, a communications staff officer looked panicked and broke into the tent of the command post where Ryosuke Yoshika and the others were located.

The commanders of several divisions led by Yoshika Ryosuke, the chief of staff saluted snappedly: "Generals, I have just received an urgent battle report from the Kunisaki detachment, and they have been bombarded by a large number of naval and army artillery fire from the Shina Army.

The losses are huge! The commander of the Kunisaki detachment believed that the Chinese army was about to launch a general attack on them, and he was determined to lead the whole detachment to fight the Chinese army to the end.

Please concentrate our forces as soon as possible and take Nanjing! The Kunisaki detachment will desperately drag the headquarters of Zhu Ziming, the independent brigade of the China Army.

In addition, the Shigeto detachment has lost contact, and Major General Kunisaki judged that it is very likely that it should be defeated by the independent brigade, or completely annihilated. ”

The sudden change frightened Ryosuke Yoshika and others.

Ryosuke Yoshika took the lead and stood up suddenly, and said with a shocked face: "What did you say?" The Shigedo detachment lost contact? And the Kunisaki detachment is being bombarded by naval artillery fire of the Shina Army?

How is this possible? The naval strength of the people of China has long been wiped out by the imperial navy and air force by virtue of their absolute superiority.

The few remaining ships were also forced to sink the Yangtze River in a self-destructive and self-sinking manner to block the waterway of the Yangtze River and block the advance of the Imperial Navy fleet along the Yangtze River.

Where did they get the naval warships to bombard the Kunisaki detachment??

There is also the Shigeto detachment, a dignified detachment, tens of thousands of troops, how could it be that without even a little news, it was wiped out by the whole army of the Zhina army? ”

The communication staff officer lowered his head and said: "Returning to the general, that's what the battle report of the Kunisaki detachment said, and the Shigeto detachment also tried to contact them many times, but they didn't get an answer, and they were indeed lost." ”

"Bagaya Road, what the hell is going on?" Ryosuke Yoshika looked incredulous and said very angrily.

Chief of Staff Tahisa Toshio hurriedly analyzed: "General, since we can't contact the Shigedo detachment, then it is very likely that something has really happened.

As for the naval strength of the Chinese people, it is not completely annihilated, and it is possible to survive some warships.

In addition, their submarines have always been active in the waters of the Yangtze River and the East China Sea, and the Izumo was destroyed by them in this way.

Moreover, yesterday in the vicinity of the waters of Jiangyin, several Imperial cruisers were also attacked by them, which were destroyed and sunk one after another.

Therefore, the China Navy still has the ability to carry out artillery bombardment on the Kunisaki detachment, after all, for them, there is the Kunisaki detachment and the Shigeto detachment in Jiangbei, which is completely like a fish in the throat and a mang in the back.

Even their most elite independent brigade has been pinned down and mobilized, so they are bound to concentrate their forces and prioritize their defeat in order to relieve their worries.