The total annihilation of the sortie squadron prompted Chiaki Shigeto to make a wrong judgment. 【Reading.com】

Chiaki Shigeto instinctively believed that it was impossible to expel the squadron from the urban area by relying on the infantry alone, and that it was necessary to use artillery and aviation to blow up the entire urban area into a sea of fire, giving the squadron great damage and deterrence, so that it was possible to expel them from the urban area and then encircle and annihilate them in the field.

Chiaki Shigeto immediately ordered the artillery to begin the second round of larger-scale artillery preparations, and at the same time sent an urgent telegram for help to the Central China Command for help, requesting tactical guidance from the aviation regiment.

Moments later, rows of shells whistled and rained down towards the city.

In the next moment, huge clouds of smoke and dust burst out of the city.

About half an hour after the bombardment, six Devil 96 dive bombers flew over Nantong and first dropped 12 heavy bombs, and in an instant, more than a dozen huge mushroom clouds appeared in the ruins of the urban area.

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"Boom" was accompanied by a deafening roar, and the entire bomb shelter instantly trembled violently, and the guy was like a big earthquake, and a large amount of sand fell from the roof of the cave, and several cracks were cracked in the originally intact cave wall.

Li Yi looked up at the top of the cave and said, "I lost it, it won't collapse."

If the shelter had collapsed, all the brothers in their camp would have been buried alive.

The veteran ignored it, and continued to close his eyes and lean against the cave wall to recuperate.

When the devils started the second round of shelling, the officers and men of the ** battalion quickly withdrew to the air-raid shelter, however, this wave of shelling by the devils was more fierce than the previous one, and it was not over for half an hour.

The difference between artillery shells and aerial bombs can still be distinguished by veterans.

Because the effect of a 75-caliber shell and a 500-pound or even 1000-pound bomb when it explodes, it is completely incomparable, for example, the explosion just now is obviously a 500-pound bomb, such a heavy bomb, one can easily destroy a racetrack, killing all creatures within the explosion range.

The explosion point is far away, otherwise the bomb shelter may really be blown up.

But even so, the veteran is not too worried, in the final analysis, the little devil is an island country, lack of resources, their heavy bombs will not be too many, throw a few is almost the same, besides, life and death depend on life and wealth in the sky, if you really want to die, how can it be a death, if you don't die, how can you not die easily.

After another ten minutes, the bombardment of the devils finally ended.

The veteran stood up, patted the dust off his helmet and body, and then turned back to the more than 200 remnants who were squatting on the ground behind him and smiled coldly, and said in a cruel voice: "Brothers, it's time to work."

After speaking, the veteran turned around and left with the 38 big cover.

Outside the entrance of the cave, there was a thick smoke and dust, and the figure of the veteran who was not upright quickly got into the smoke and disappeared, and then, more than 200 remnants of the ** battalion got up one after another, or held a 38-type rifle, or held a crooked handle, or carried a pheasant's neck, and surged out of the hole.

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The clock went back half an hour ago.

After several hours of rapid marching, Xu Rui and his party finally arrived in Fushan Town at more than three o'clock in the afternoon.

Because Fushan Town is a wharf on the Yangtze River waterway, and it is also the starting point of the Wufu line of national defense fortifications, it was bombed by the Japanese naval aviation and army artillery, and the whole town was bombed to the ground, and it was almost impossible to find a single intact building, and the entire wharf was completely destroyed.

But the most pitiful are the people of Fukuyama Town.

Except for those who abandoned their homes and businesses and fled to the mainland, all those who stayed and did not leave were poisoned by devils

When Xu Rui and the others walked on the Fushan Wharf, they could still see that the river beach was full of corpses that had not been washed away by the river, and these corpses had been soaked in the river and their whole bodies were swollen, including old people, women and children, and even babies in swaddling clothes.

Looking at this extremely miserable scene, Junko Kokahara couldn't help but shed tears.

Hei Qi, Li Hai, Cui Jiu and the members of the Einsatzgruppen were all so angry that their faces turned pale.

"These brutes." Xu Rui said coldly, "One day, we will kill them all."

"Camp, you listen" Hei Qi suddenly pointed at Jiangbei and shouted, "There is a cannon sound, it seems to be a devil"

Xu Rui immediately raised the telescope, aimed at the north bank of the Yangtze River and began to adjust the focus, after a while, the field of view of the telescope began to become clearer, only to see that Nantong City, which is separated from the Fushan River, has been blown into a sea of fire by devils, because it is too far away, the explosion sound is not violent, but from the continuous flashing firelight, Xu Rui can imagine the tragic extent of the shelling.

"It must be our ** battalion." Lehi shouted, "Our ** battalion has fought with the little devils"

Jiang Nan, Cui Jiu, and the six members of the Einsatzgruppen looked at each other, and the ** battalion seemed to be in a bad situation.

"We've got to cross the river right now." Xu Rui put down the binoculars and told Hei Qi and Li Hai, "Go find the boat quickly"

Hei Qi and Li Hai each took one person and immediately went separately to find a boat, but Xu Rui once again raised the telescope and closely watched Jiangbei through the telescope's field of vision.

Jiang Nan hesitated for a while, and finally stepped forward to persuade: "Chief Xu, the current situation in Jiangbei is unknown, and I don't know what the situation of the ** battalion is now, so I suggest that you postpone crossing the river, and wait until the battle situation in Jiangbei is clear, or there is new news from Shanghai, and we will not be too late to cross the river."

"Shut up," Xu Rui yelled unceremoniously, "Stay where it's cool." ”

Because of his anxious mood, Xu Rui no longer cares about other people's feelings, even though Jiangnan is a girl.

Jiang Nan's small mouth immediately pouted, and he thought hatefully in his heart, the dog bites Lu Dongbin, and he doesn't know the hearts of good people.

However, when she saw that Cui Jiu wanted to come forward and reason with Xu Rui, Jiang Nan immediately stopped Cui Jiu, because she could understand Xu Rui's mood at the moment.

Time passes slowly in a suffocating wait.

Half an hour later, there was a faint roar of fighter planes in the sky over Fushan, and when everyone looked up urgently, they saw two planes coming out of the clouds and roaring towards Jiangbei, the two fighters were coated with plaster patterns under their wings, and two aerial bombs were hanging under the belly, which were obviously bombers of little devils.

Although it was a bomber, not a reconnaissance plane, Xu Rui still ordered concealment.

A dozen people had just hidden into the woods, and several devil bombers appeared in the clouds in succession, and all of these bombers roared towards the north bank of the Yangtze River without exception.

"Even the devil planes have been dispatched." Cui Jiu said in a deep voice, "It seems that the battle in Jiangbei is quite fierce. ”

Cui Jiu's words fell, and huge mushroom clouds rose up in Jiangbei, which was separated from Fushan by a river.

It was almost half a minute before a deafening explosion came from Jiangbei, even across the Yangtze River, a distance of several thousand meters, the explosion was so loud, it is completely conceivable that Nantong, which is at the center of the explosion, should be what kind of scene it should be Thinking of this, Jiangnan's pretty face became pale.

Cui Jiu secretly admired in his heart, the little devil made such a big battle, which shows how difficult the ** battalion of the provisional 79th Division is, but the ** battalion also has a total of more than 200 remnants, and it is not in vain to be able to force the little devil to another large-scale artillery bombardment, and it is also a bomber to bomb indiscriminately.

However, Cui Jiu felt that the ** camp might be over this time.

When the battle came to this, Nantong was blown into a sea of fire, even if a mouse was afraid, it would be difficult to survive, not to mention that Cui Jiu, the more than 200 soldiers of the ** battalion, wanted to go over and say to Xu Rui, the ** battalion must be over, we still don't have to go to Jiangbei, but looking at Xu Rui's face, Cui Jiu still didn't dare to make a mistake after all.

After a few more minutes, Lehi, who had gone looking for the boat, returned.

"Camp, find the boat, find the boat." Li Hai said excitedly, "We first found the road sign left by the veteran outside the dock, and then followed the road sign to find a piece of reeds, the old soldier really hid a few boats in the reeds, let's hurry up and cross the river, the veterans estimate that they will not last long." ”

"Let's go," Xu Rui turned around and walked forward after speaking.

A moment later, the group came to the reeds.

At this time, Hei Qi had already taken Xiao Mao and Ah Fu to row out the two small boats from the reeds, although the boat was small, it was enough for a group of people to cross the river.

It's a pity that the more anxious you are, the more God will do against you.

The two small boats had just sailed into the fork of the river, and before they turned into the Yangtze River, there was a long whistle of "ang" on the river in the distance, and when everyone looked up urgently, they saw that there were a few more black spots on the vast river in front of them, and these black spots were still spitting black smoke into the sky.

"Gunboat" Cui Jiu shouted, "It's a gunboat of a little devil"

"" Xu Rui immediately cursed and shouted, "Go back, hide"

On the vast and vast river, it is impossible for two small fishing boats to compete with the devil gunboat no matter what, because the devil gunboat is equipped with a 75 caliber rapid-fire gun, and only one shot can blow up Xu Rui's boat to ashes, even if Xu Rui is the strongest soldier, he was still bombarded into slag.

I had no choice but to quickly hide back in the reeds.

This evasion lasted another two hours, and the two devil gunboats cruised on the surface of the Fushan section of the river for more than two hours before finally continuing to sail downstream with a long whistle.

By this time, it was already dark.

Although the devil's gunboat has not gone far, Xu Rui can't wait, Xu Rui, Cui Jiu, Li Hai and Hei Qisi struggled to swing, and the two small boats slid out of the reeds like arrows off the string, and then entered the Yangtze River along the fork of the small river, and then split the waves and sailed straight to the north bank of the Yangtze River