After returning to the north bank of the Huangpu River, Bai Fei immediately counted the losses, regrettably, although he had been extremely careful, but last night, especially during the day today, a series of battles still brought nearly 40 casualties to the Protector Army. Among them, the first battalion suffered the largest casualties, reaching 27 people.

To calm the emotions of the injured people, Bai Fei immediately sent someone to send them to the rear.

Li Hu asked, "Tuanzuo, do you want to blow up the bridge now?" He was talking about the bridge connecting the two sides of the Huangpu River, which had been loaded with explosives.

Bai Fei thought for a while and said: "If we keep this bridge, we still need to send people to defend it, blow it up, it's a hundred." ”

With a loud bang, the bridge was immediately blown apart, and the wreckage fell into the river and was washed away without a trace.

Knowing that the bridge across the river was bombed, Kunisaki Noboru ignored it, apparently this was already expected by him. He immediately mobilized artillery units to the south coast of the Yangtze River, and at the same time ordered the engineering units to collect ships.

Half an hour later, the Japanese army collected more than 200 large and small boats, and then gathered all of them in the tributary opposite Mishidu.

The shells suddenly smashed like hailstones in front of and behind the positions of the Protector Army, and Bai Fei immediately ordered everyone to enter the anti-artillery hole to take refuge.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Japanese troops crossing the river immediately rowed their boats and advanced towards the south bank, and in an instant, the river near the left side of Mishidu was densely covered with boats. Bai Fei stood at the forward command post, saw this scene with a telescope, and immediately connected to the artillery battalion behind the position, and said, "Battalion Commander Wu, it's up to you now." ”

Wu Dazhong said honestly and unceremoniously: "Tuanzuo, although we are not sure that we will hit the Japanese artillery position with one hit, we are still sure of the little devils in the river. ”

Bai Fei hung up the phone and waited for another half minute, at this time the devil's vanguard was already approaching the location of Jiangxin. Suddenly, a burst of shells whistling across the air, and more than 20 150mm grenades smashed into the Huangpu River in front of Mishidu.

Most of the boats collected by the Japanese army to cross the river were used by farmers, the largest was no more than 10 meters, and most of them were wooden, how could they withstand the bombardment of artillery shells? Immediately, a number of ships were blown up, and the rest of the shells fell into the river, blowing up a column of water dozens of meters high, and the huge waves set off by the shock wave caused some ships to be overturned, and there were a lot of Japanese soldiers who fell into the water for a while, and those soldiers who could not swim were only submerged in the water in an instant, and some of the devils who could swim only held on for a while, and soon they were also dragged down by the heavy equipment on their bodies, and they sank into the water without physical strength and disappeared.

Kunizaki Noboru, who was observing the situation on a high ground on the south bank of the Pujiang River, saw that the troops crossing the river had suffered great losses from artillery attacks, so he immediately called the artillery commander to him and said sternly: "Immediately allocate a brigade of artillery to destroy the artillery positions of the Chinese army, otherwise our plan to cross the river will be in vain!" ”

"Hey!" The commander of the artillery wing did not dare to slack off and immediately ran to make arrangements.

However, at this time, the Japanese army's river-crossing troops were damaged by almost a quarter of the Protector Army's artillery fire. Kunizaki Noboru saw the tragic situation in the river through the telescope, and his scalp couldn't help but tingle for a while, he understood that it was already difficult to ride a tiger at the moment, and there was no other way than to move forward bravely, if the army was withdrawn, the loss might be greater, and he only hoped that Amaterasu could bless the warriors in the river, and they could land through the artillery fire as soon as possible.

Kunizaki Noboru was hanging in the air, thinking about gains and losses, and suddenly heard the staff officer shouting from the side: "Your Excellency the detachment leader, look over there..."

Kunizaki Noboru looked in the direction of his finger and saw that on the west side of Mishidu, about 30 ships had approached the north shore, only forty or fifty meters away from the shore, and this place was already in the blind spot covered by the Chinese army's artillery fire, and it only took three or two minutes for the soldiers on the ship to successfully land.

Kunisaki Noboru was immediately in a state of shock, staring at the dozens of ships with his glasses unblinking, and secretly cheering for them in his heart: Come on! As long as the landing is successful, I will definitely take the lead for you! Come on!

Kunisaki believed that as long as the troops crossing the river succeeded in seizing the beach, their plan to cross the river would be half successful, and then, with the assistance of artillery fire, they would certainly be able to expand the results step by step and eventually occupy the north bank of the Huangpu River.

However, just when Kunisaki Noboru was dreaming, on a flat high ground on the north bank of the river, Xu Changsheng, who was dodging the shells in the fortifications, pushed open a shooting hole camouflaged with water weeds, he looked out, and ordered: "The Japanese ships are already very close, immediately prepare bazookas to send them back to their hometown." ”

"Yes, Camp!"

Soon, the camouflage on the firing ports of the permanent fortifications on the shore was pushed away one by one. Noboru Kunisaki, who was observing the situation, saw that there was a movement on the opposite shore, and immediately adjusted the focus of the telescope, and looked carefully over there, only to see that the highland, which was still a field of water and grass before, suddenly appeared a row of black holes, which looked like a bunker fortification.

Kunizaki Deng's heart suddenly tightened, and he was about to speak, when a high-explosive grenade had been shot out of the pillboxes on the north side of the riverbank, and in an instant, the Japanese ships that were already approaching the shore outside the north meter were accurately hit one by one, and the huge explosion blew up the dozens of ships with people and boats, and after a few people fell into the water, they were quickly submerged by the river and disappeared.

Seeing that the landing was about to be successful, but he suffered such a devastating blow, Kunizaki Noboru clenched his fists angrily and smashed a punch on one of the attendants beside him, who was inexplicably beaten but did not dare to show the slightest dissatisfaction.

But I heard Kunizaki Noboru shouting: "Bagayanu, how did the artillery wing do it, why didn't you destroy the artillery of the Chinese army?" ”

The deputy commander of the artillery wing immediately stepped forward and said: "Your Excellency Detachment Commander, the enemy's artillery position is far away from us, and we need time to lift the observation balloon into the air, only in this way can we get accurate strike data and destroy the artillery in China in one fell swoop." In addition, we are running out of shells. ”

As he spoke, he saw a huge hot air balloon rising in the open space on the side of the artillery position, and when it rose to a height of about 90 meters, a missile suddenly came from Jiangbei, hitting the hot air balloon, and the violent explosion not only destroyed the hot air balloon, but also several Japanese soldiers who were responsible for observing the measurement data were also lifted out of the hanging basket by the huge shock wave, fell directly from mid-air, and fell to the ground into a puddle of flesh.

In the Jiangbei command post, Bai Fei gave a thumbs up to the mute and his subordinates, and praised: "It's very good that you can pay attention to the movement in the air at any time." Keep up the good work, and I'll leave it to you in the air. ”

The dumb man and the others immediately straightened their backs and went out to continue to observe the enemy situation in the air.

However, compared to the joy of the air defense forces of the Protector Army, the head of the Japanese Kunisaki detachment, Noboru Kunisaki, is now as sad as a mourner. After learning that the Chinese army was equipped with anti-aircraft weapons, Noboru Kunisaki's heart sank to the bottom.