Chapter 244: Ningbo Port

West of Ningbo, Hongqiao Town.

It is less than 20 kilometers away from the city of Ningbo, the town has been recovered a day ago, and now, there are many soldiers in the town, and the joint command is set up here in the northwest of the town.

The divisional headquarters of the mechanized infantry division, the 3rd infantry division, and the 5th infantry division were temporarily merged together, worked together, and unified command, and became a temporary joint command headquarters.

At the gate of the small courtyard of the joint command headquarters, several off-road vehicles were parked, and several special combat personnel wearing camouflage combat uniforms and carrying Thomson submachine guns were in the car.

The whole battle was almost coming to an end, and some of the Japanese troops in the area north of Hangzhou were withdrawn, and some of the remaining Japanese troops also began to take a defensive position, and did not take the initiative to attack the new 6th Army.

Since Okamura Ningji no longer took the initiative to attack the north of Hangzhou, Ye Feng did not order the troops to attack, and also adopted a defensive posture, fighting for several days in a row, the soldiers were also relatively tired, and the ammunition consumption was not small, and the soldiers in the north of Hangzhou needed to rest and replenish ammunition.

The battle in the north gradually stopped, and Ye Feng's main energy was put on the Ningbo area, with Ningbo City as the center, and there were also the 18th Division and the 29th Division in this area, these two divisions suffered a lot of losses, and the number was about 20,000 or 30,000 people.

Ye Fen came in person, and the three division commanders first reported to Ye Feng the battle situation in Ningbo, Ye Feng listened carefully and patiently to the reports of the three division commanders, and then, Ye Feng personally issued an attack order to the 18th Division. The 29th Division launched an active attack.

Along with Ye Feng, there were not only Zhao Long and more than a dozen special combat team members, but also a tank regiment of the armored division. Hundreds of M4 Sherman tanks, twenty or thirty armored vehicles.

The first to attack was this tank regiment, and Ye Feng first broke through from the west of Ningbo and attacked the city of Hangzhou. Behind the tank regiment, there were fighters from an infantry regiment of the 3rd Infantry Division who followed.

The little devils in the Ningbo area could not resist the sharp offensive of the tank regiment at all, and the tank regiment and the infantry regiment of the 3rd Infantry Division took the lead in attacking the urban area of Ningbo from the west.

The next day. The mechanized infantry regiment, the main force of the 3rd Infantry Division, and the 5th Infantry Division also attacked the urban area of Ningbo one after another. In these battles that invaded the city of Ningbo, the soldiers annihilated thousands of little devils.

A large number of troops entered the city one after another, street battles began, and the whole city of Ningbo was full of gunfire. The fighters were superior in numbers. The armament also had an absolute advantage, and there were so many armored vehicles and tanks that the 18th Division, which was defending the street fighting in the city, suffered many casualties.

After two days of street fighting, about 10,000 remnants of the devils in Ningbo City began to retreat and retreated to Ningbo Port.

In order to meet the retreat. Okamura Ninji prepared a large number of transport ships early and secretly departed from Shanghai and arrived at Ningbo Port overnight. Prepare to meet the retreat of more than 10,000 little devils in Ningbo.

The whole operation is very secret, and the Ningbo port is under the control of the little devils, and these transport ships have secretly arrived in the Ningbo area, it stands to reason that Ye Feng will definitely not know the way.

As soon as these ships arrived in the Ningbo area, Okamura Ningji ordered the little devils in Ningbo City to retreat alternately, preparing to start boarding the ships in the afternoon, and retreat from the sea towards the Shanghai area as soon as it was dark.

A few days ago, the "Kaga" aircraft carrier and the battleship "Fuso" were blown and sunk, so that Okamura Ninji deeply understood the power of the new 6th Army aircraft, and in order to be safe, Okamura Ninji could only order the little devils to retreat after dark.

Ningbo Port.

In order to meet the evacuation of tens of thousands of little devils, Okamura Ninji collected a large number of ships in a short period of time, and all kinds of ships came in handy.

Near the wharf, the little devils built a lot of temporary fortifications, erected machine guns, and even mortar positions to protect the entire dock and harbor area, making it convenient for the little devils who boarded the ship to retreat.

Some of the little devils have retreated here, some have already boarded the ship, and a large number of little devils are still breaking through the city and retreating to this area.

Of course, Ye Feng knew that the little devils were ready to retreat from here by boat, and Okamura Ningji's entire plan had no secrets to Ye Feng, in order to prevent the little devils from retreating, Ye Feng had a variety of methods, he could send planes to bomb on a large scale and blow up all these ships, or he could concentrate a large number of heavy artillery, choose an area to build an artillery position, and use the heavy artillery group to smash all the little devils in them, along with those ships.

Ye Feng did not adopt these methods, but adopted the method of ground attack, sending a regiment of mechanized infantry divisions and a regiment of infantry to attack directly from the ground.

Ye Feng wanted to not damage Ningbo Port to the greatest extent (Ningbo has many seaports, you can understand the general name of the largest seaport), Ye Feng is anxious to use this seaport, once the damage is serious, it will take a lot of time to rebuild.

More than 100 armored vehicles of the first mechanized infantry regiment of the division, divided into three routes, quietly appeared in the sight of the little devils, and when they saw so many armored vehicles coming, the little devils who were responsible for the defense of Ningbo Port jumped for a while.

With more than 100 armored vehicles, plus a large number of soldiers who followed up, the little devils must have been scared a lot, and there were only more than 1,000 little devils in charge of the defense of this area, and in addition, on the dock, some of the little devils who had already boarded the ship, and the total number was only two or three thousand.

In front of Ningbo Port, on the road leading to the wharf, dozens of armored vehicles drove over, and the few armored vehicles driving in the front saw the fortifications built by the little devils in front of them and the machine guns erected, and immediately began to shoot.

Several Browning heavy machine guns, several light machine guns, opened fire one after another.

The firepower of these armored vehicles is very fierce, it is almost like a few moving fortresses, and the ferocious fire kills a lot of little devils not far away.

A few little devils had just fired a few shots with a Type 92 heavy machine gun, and they were killed immediately, and one of the little devils was shot in the head, and Bai Huahua's brains flew to the ground.

These armored vehicles rushed all the way along the road into the huge port of Ningbo, and a large number of soldiers who followed behind also rushed into it with weapons under the cover of armored vehicles.

Not only the front, but also a large number of armored vehicles on both sides of Ningbo Port, a large number of soldiers, everyone opened fire while rushing forward.

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The second more.

There are too many things today, and my head is a mess, and I write this little bit intermittently, and it feels bad, sorry. (To be continued......)