Chapter 56: Turning to Hongkou (14)
To the east of the Bazi Bridge and south of Huayuan Road to Yujingpu, the Japanese army laid a semicircular defensive line here, and about 900 Japanese troops were stationed here. Although the number is small, the Japanese army has built a total of 6 pillboxes on this semicircular defense line, all of which are made of cement, and the bunkers are only about a few tens to 100 meters apart. In order to cope with each other, the Japanese army razed a large area of houses and buildings east of the bridge to the ground, so that the view was very wide. In addition, the Japanese army also had 7 tanks and 6 Type 90 75mm field guns to assist in the defense, which can be described as impregnable.
The 88th Division had exchanged fire with the Japanese army many times in the area of Bazi Bridge before, but repeatedly returned in vain. The reason for this is that the Japanese tanks and artillery are not a problem, but these pillboxes are a headache. At the beginning of the war in Shanghai, the Japanese army was small, and in order to hold out until the reinforcements of the large army arrived, they built a lot of pillboxes in the occupied area, and when they were built, they paid great attention to their solidity and made very solid materials. The 88th Division had previously conducted experiments in the offensive, using a Krupp 75mm mountain gun to shoot at a pillbox and firing three shots in a row, but it was still unable to destroy it.
After Bai Fei heard about these situations, for the sake of insurance, he sent 14 RPGs to the 6 Japanese pillboxes in the Bazi Bridge, with an average of more than 2 pillboxes, in order to make up another shot immediately in case it can't be broken at the first time, so as not to miss the opportunity and cause other unnecessary losses.
At 10 o'clock in the evening, several signal flares suddenly rose from the direction of Huangxing Road, Fudan University, and Guangling Road, and at the same time, the officers and men of the 88th Division, who had been waiting for a long time at the Bazi Bridge, also shot signal flares into the air. All of a sudden, guns rang out from all sides, and the sound of charging and shouting to kill shook the sky. The Tax Police Regiment, the 36th, 87th, and 88th Divisions launched an attack on the Japanese troops entrenched in Yangpu, Hongkou, from four directions.
After the battle began, Zhu Chi led the 262nd Brigade to immediately attack the Japanese positions east of Yujingpu. At the same time, six RPG-7 armor-piercing shells hit six pillboxes entrenched inside and outside the Japanese defense line under the operation of the soldiers of the Protector Army, and the Japanese fortress that was extremely strong in the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the 88th Division was immediately hit by rockets through the concrete wall, and the body of the projectile shot straight into it, followed by an explosion, and the Japanese troops in the fortress were suddenly blown apart.
After Bai Fei knew the situation, he knew how much he was caring, he used to think how strong these bunkers were, how thick the concrete was, but now it doesn't look like it's more than one meter, if it really exceeds 1 meter, it's really hard to say if it can be broken down and destroyed with one shot.
Due to the good secrecy work, tonight's attack caught the defending Japanese quite a little unprepared, and the most fatal thing was that the pillbox defense line that they relied on as the Great Wall was blown up in an instant as soon as the battle began, and this huge change made the Japanese defenders a little confused.
Under the cover of night, the Chinese soldiers in front of the Japanese position shouted like a tsunami, and the momentum was very terrifying. The Japanese commander was anxious and immediately ordered the defenders on the position to launch a counterattack, and at the same time ordered the chariots accompanying him to immediately dispatch in an attempt to use tanks against the Chinese army.
Unexpectedly, less than 50 meters after the seven tanks drove out of the Japanese position, five of them were hit with rockets by the soldiers of the Protector Army who assisted the 88th Division in the attack, and the five tanks were instantly turned into coffins. As soon as the remaining two tanks saw that the opponent's firepower was so fierce, they immediately turned around and planned to retreat, but in a hurry, they did not know the direction, and accidentally fell under a high hill on the side of the road.
At this time, the Japanese artillery also rang out, and one after another shells fell into the officers and men of the 88th Division who were charging, causing 100 casualties in an instant. Because it was night, the line of sight was not good, and the artillerymen could only shoot by feeling. And because the Japanese artillery was small, the firing coverage was also very limited.
Therefore, Zhu Chi immediately made a decision, commanded the troops to disperse from the artillery position left and right, and the charging crowd immediately dispersed to both sides like a stream of water split from the middle, and after avoiding the Japanese artillery area, he continued to charge at the Japanese position from both flanks. In this way, on the one hand, they could avoid direct shelling, and on the other hand, when the Japanese artillery reacted, they did not dare to adjust the artillery elements indiscriminately, otherwise the shells would probably fall on their own heads.
Due to the successive losses of the Japanese pillboxes and tanks, and the inability of the artillery to strike accurately in the dark, they could only rely on the defenders on the position to block the soldiers of the 262nd Brigade in the charge. In the darkness, the bullets fired by the light and heavy machine guns of the Japanese army were as impenetrable as raindrops, and the tongues of fire that continued to be poured out from the muzzles were like bright lights, which were extremely eye-catching.
This undoubtedly gave very good guidance to the soldiers of the Protector Army, who set up RPGs to bombard the Japanese fire points, and the last of the Japanese army's reliance also disappeared under the blow of rocket artillery.
At this time, the Japanese troops on the position no longer had decent firepower output, lacked cluster killing capabilities, and could not resist the collective charge of the 262 Brigade at all. Soon, the Japanese front was breached, and in addition to some of the Japanese soldiers in the trenches who were killed as trapped beasts, more than 200 people fled in the direction of Hongkou Park at night.
Sun Yuanliang, who was on the west side of the Bazi Bridge, was very happy when he heard that the Japanese position on the first line of Huayuan Road had been taken, and immediately pulled Bai Fei to check. Bai Fei looked at his watch, the time was just ten twenty, and the whole battle lasted about 20 minutes.
The two came to the position, and Bai Fei was relieved after learning that there were no casualties among the Protectors.
Zhu Chi came up and reported to Sun Yuanliang: "Report to the division, I am fortunate to not be dishonored, I have taken the Japanese position on the front line of Huayuan Road, our army suffered more than 200 casualties in this battle, annihilated more than 600 Japanese troops, captured two tanks, 4 75mm guns, and the remaining two were blown up by the Japanese army..."
"Good!" Sun Yuanliang was overjoyed, turned his head to Bai Fei and said: "I just said that with Brother Bai's help, we will definitely be invincible, at such a small price, so quickly to take the Japanese position, and there can be such a capture, this is unimaginable..."
A brigade of a few thousand people won a Japanese army of less than a thousand, what is there to boast about?
Bai Fei couldn't help but complain in his heart, opened his mouth and said, "Brother Sun, now is not the time to say these words, let's hurry up and push south." ”
"Yes, yes, yes!" Sun Yuanliang immediately said to Zhu Equator: "Brigade Commander Zhu, immediately lead the troops to continue south, and at the same time meet the brothers on the west side of the river to cross the river, we must join forces as soon as possible, and strive to reach the North Sichuan Road before dawn and surround the headquarters of the Japanese Marine Corps." ”
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Seeing that everyone is discussing the value of the silver dollar, the following is an excerpt from the online analysis of some information:
According to the data, at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, five silver yuan (also known as silver dollars, that is, the current ocean) could buy a large buffalo, and one silver yuan could buy a load of rice; In the late Republic of China, a silver dollar was a load of grain. One silver dollar is equal to 0.80 to 0.90 taels of silver, and if this price is equivalent to the current physical price, the value of one tael of silver should be more than 100 yuan, and about 250 yuan in the early Republic of China. A silver dollar can be regarded as one or two silver because of its "fire consumption" - this was the rule of the banking bureau at that time. Of course, the salary level at that time can also be used as part of the evidence: for example, in the early days of the Republic of China, when Mr. Lu Xun was a professor at Beijing Normal University, his monthly salary was 300 oceans, which is equivalent to at least 30,000 yuan now; The average worker's salary was 5~10 oceans at that time; General Cai Yi (Governor of Yunnan with a monthly salary of 65 oceans); Mao Zedong is a librarian at Peking University, with a monthly salary of 5 oceans (and possibly other living benefits). In the Song Dynasty, the monthly salary of the small prison (cell officer) was 2 taels of silver (the salary was very low, but there was "food delivery", so there were many people who were willing to be such small officials); Some other high-ranking officials were paid in grain; It can be seen that the purchasing power of one tael of silver at that time was about 100 yuan or more than 100 yuan now, and it was generally difficult to exceed 200 yuan.
According to the compromise calculation of the above algorithm, the value of a piece of ocean in the early Republic of China was similar to today's 250 yuan, while the middle and late period was only worth 100 yuan today.
100*1500=150000
At that time, there were rich people in Shanghai, and it was not a problem to build a villa and spend two or three hundred thousand oceans at will. Is it really outrageous to receive a pension of 15-200,000 yuan after a person sacrifices?