Chapter 47: Turning to Hongkou (5)
In addition, Chiaki Shigeto asked the navy for tactical guidance, and the two Japanese light cruisers "Longtian" and "Onifu" docked on the Zhoujiazui River each raised two hot air balloons, intending to use their lookout posts to find the position of the Chinese artillery. At the same time, the only early warning patrol plane on board the "Ghost Fury" also rose into the air and flew towards the Chinese position. Unexpectedly, the plane had just flown over the front line of the military road, and was immediately shot down by the dumb command of the air defense force, and at the same time, the hot air balloon over the Japanese ship was shot down.
The Japanese warships were unable to obtain accurate coordinates and could only shell aimlessly to the west.
However, at this time, Bai Fei commanded the troops to be deployed in the west of the military road, and there were some bunkers and permanent solids here after being occupied by the Japanese army in advance, due to the rush of time, they had not been destroyed by the Japanese army, Bai Fei planned to use it, so that a company of some people with Gatling and other heavy fire machine guns entered the control, but before the troops were settled, the shells of the Japanese ships came over, and the 14cm single-company artillery shells were huge, and a shell happened to hit the side of the crowd where the Protector Army was located, and suddenly more than 20 Protector Army soldiers were blown to pieces, Flesh and blood flying.
Bai Fei, who was close at hand, saw this scene, and his eyes immediately turned blood-red. After commanding the troops to enter the bunker, Bai Fei immediately called Wang Weiguo and Li Hu to him and said, "The biggest threat to us now is the Japanese gunboats parked in the Huangpu River, so I plan to take people to blow them up." Do you have any comments? โ
Wang Weiguo frowned and said, "Tuanzuo, how are you going to blow it up?" โ
Bai Fei pointed to the RPG in the hand of a soldier and said, "Just use this." โ
Wang Weiguo said suspiciously: "Is this okay?" โ
Bai Fei said: "One may not work, but if multiple attack together, I believe it will definitely be possible." โ
The armor-piercing high-explosive shell of the RPG-7 can penetrate 60-70mm thick armor steel plates head-on, while the maximum thickness of the hull steel plates of the Japanese aircraft carriers during World War II was only 50-70mm, so Bai Fei believes that as long as the RPG-7 hits head-on at an appropriate distance, even the aircraft carrier will be punched a big hole.
"But the only problem now is the distance, the RPG attack range is only 1000 meters at most, but I am not sure whether it will cause armor-piercing damage to enemy ships at a distance of 1000 meters. For the sake of safety, the launch had to be carried out within 500 meters of the Japanese ships. โ
Wang Weiguo said: "Then we must rush to the river, and it is best to land on Zhoujiazui Island in the center of the river and then launch." However, now that the area east of the military industrial road is in the hands of the Japanese army, if we force our way through this area, it is very likely that we will suffer heavy losses. โ
Bai Fei also frowned a little when he heard this, this is indeed a problem, how can he pass through the enemy-occupied area?
Just when he was racking his brains to think of a way, suddenly Xu Changsheng came with news that the Japanese army was crossing the Qiu River to the north, and it seemed that they were planning to retreat.
It turned out that since Chiaki Shigeto saw the planes and hot air balloons on the warship being shot down one after another, he immediately understood in his heart that his strategy of leaving the artillery and part of the troops on the front line of Yinhang Road to attract the attention of the anti-Japanese protector army had failed. He understood that since the other party had already chased him, his attempt to attack Gongda Yarn Factory and other places, and to open up land access with the marines in Hongkou Yangpu and other places could no longer be realized. He took advantage of the fact that the Chinese army was still west of the military road, and sent Li Chunshan's department to feign resistance in the east of the road, and he himself immediately led the troops to retreat, but before he crossed the Qiu River, he was already discovered by the 3rd Company of the Protector Army arranged here by Bai Fei.
When Bai Fei heard the news, he was really mixed with joy, the joy was that the Japanese army was retreating, so the defense of the riverside line was bound to be much weaker, which was undoubtedly good news for Bai Fei, who wanted to rush to the riverside to deal with the Japanese ships; But at the same time, he was worried about Xu Changsheng's 3rd Company, although he had previously arranged for the 3rd Company to go to the area of Xiangyin Road to set up defenses to cut off the rear route of the Japanese army, but now that the Japanese army has retreated, coupled with the help of the gunboats in the middle of the river, it may be difficult for the 3rd Company to block the Japanese attack.
So he immediately contacted Liu Yaohuan, the head of the 3rd Regiment of the Shanghai Tax Police Regiment, explained the situation, and asked for assistance in the attack. After Liu Yaohuan learned of the situation, he immediately allocated more than 3,000 people (each regiment of the tax police regiment is over-allocated, because it is the descendant of the God of Wealth and Song, so the firepower allocation and personnel quality of all parties are the best, more than 5,000 people in each regiment. Led by the battalion commander Tian Zhongda, braving the artillery fire of enemy ships, he crossed the military road and launched an attack on the Japanese puppet army position by the river.
After the battle began, Bai Fei immediately asked Wang Weiguo to lead the 1st Company to support Xu Changsheng, and he himself took the rest of the people to cross the Military Industry Road along the Kongjiang Road, and then took the Hai'an Road to the riverside, intending to go to Zhoujiazui Island in the center of the river through the stone bridge here. Along the way, Bai Fei and the others were like no one, and Li Chunshanbu, who was defending on the east side of the military road, knew that after being abandoned by Shigedo Chiaki, he became unmotivated, and before the Chinese army approached, he had already lost his weapons and scattered as birds and beasts, during which people kept kneeling and begging.
But these Bai Fei didn't have time to pay attention to it, and only handed it over to the tax police officers. When they came to the river, a string of machine-gun bullets suddenly shot from the other end of the stone bridge on Zhoujiazui Island. Several Protector soldiers were unable to dodge and were killed 4 and wounded 3.
The white hair was furious, and immediately let people set up dozens of RPGs to carry out a round of bombardment within a hundred meters of the opposite side of the bridge, and the special combat team took the opportunity to quickly rush over under the cover of artillery fire, and after a burst of gunfire, the battle ended quickly.
The white hair crossed the stone bridge and found that there were 100 corpses of Japanese soldiers here at the bridgehead. Subsequently, special operators came to report that explosives and detonation tools had been found under the stone bridge. It seems that the devil wanted to blow up the stone bridge, but it was destroyed before he could do so.
Li Hu came up and asked, "Tuanzao, just now I saw a little devil fleeing towards the south of the island, do you want us to chase after it?" โ
Bai Fei waved his hand and refused: "No, they are not our main target, it is important to get down to business." You send some people to guard here, and don't remove the explosives under the bridge, and then blow up the bridge when we come back." โ
Li Hu immediately sent 30 people to guard the bridgehead, and the rest of the people, led by Bai Fei, quickly moved towards the riverside on the east side of the island.
Zhoujiazui, the island in the middle of the river, was still called Zhoujiazui Island at this time, and after the surrender of Japan, this island was renamed Fuxing Island. This island is very small, the whole is crescent-shaped, and the width is only four or five hundred meters, so Bai Fei and the others quickly passed through the island.
At this time, it is the turn of autumn and winter, and there are still many dense aquatic plants growing along the river on the island. Bai Fei led people to hide, through the aquatic plants, only to see 200 meters away in the heart of the Huangpu River, two ships lined up vertically, one of which had the word "Ryuda" written on the hull, and the other "้ฌผใฎanger ใ".
Li Hu, who was beside him, asked Bai Fei in a low voice: "Tuanzao, why did the Japanese devils give their warships such a name?" Kameda? It doesn't sound like it's a bit imposing, but it looks very obscene. โ
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