Chapter 354: Cut off the little devil's retreat
The three colonel commanders in charge of the command in this area immediately discussed countermeasures, and soon, a new battle plan came out, and one of them, a burly middle-aged colonel, shouted loudly.
"Concentrate all the mortars in the vicinity for me, bombard the wreckage on the road fiercely, bombard the little devils who resist, and give me a hard !!"
With the order, in a short time, the soldiers set up a large number of mortars, a dozen 81-mm mortars, more than twenty 60-mm mortars, although these mortars are not concentrated in one place, two or three here, five or six there, but they are not very far apart, and everyone's goal is the same.
After these mortars were set up, it was not long before a dense whistling sound came to mind, and a large number of shells flew towards the target, exploding violently on the road ahead, in the fortified area of the little devils in front, and very densely.
It is very terrifying that so many mortar salvos are fired, the rate of fire of mortars is much faster than that of howitzers, and the shells fired by the shelling of dozens of mortars are simply overwhelming.
The road not far away was full of explosions, dense and full of gunsmoke.
The wreckage of those Douding tanks, the wreckage of the two armored vehicles, were torn apart under such a dense explosion, and they were scattered in all directions, and the wreckage that was blown up even flew far away with the explosion.
Slightly further back from the wreckage, the little devils built a large number of fortifications, and as these mortars extended the shelling, these fortifications were completely covered by explosions, and the whole area was filled with gunsmoke.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
In the dense explosion, many little devils were directly blown away. With the explosion of the air waves, even some crooked machine guns and Type 92 machine guns that had been set up were blown away.
"Boom" with a violent explosion. Several little devils hiding behind a fortification were blown away, and one of them was blown out of the fortification, like a broken sack, thrown several meters away.
There was a violent explosion of "boom", and a Type 92 heavy machine gun was blown up crookedly, and several little devils were directly killed, and they fell to the ground covered in blood.
There was a loud "boom". A devil Shaozuo, who was hiding behind a sandbag, was blown to shreds, and his body was tattered and covered in blood. The command knife in his hand flew out of the distance.
The explosion was very dense and violent!
Seeing that their mortars had achieved a very good shelling effect, the three colonels in charge of the command looked at each other and laughed happily. Such shelling continues. It won't be long before this place will be blown up, and tanks and armored vehicles will be almost accessible again.
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The battle around the wharf of Wusong Port is very fierce, the sound of guns and cannons rumbles, a large number of little devils on the Wusong wharf are still boarding, more than an hour after dark, thousands of little devils have finished boarding, some transport ships began to whistle, ready to leave the wharf.
A transport ship with a displacement of about two or three thousand tons. The whistle began to blow and slowly left the docks. Behind the transport ship is a thick rope that pulls several large and small fishing boats.
These fishing boats are twenty or thirty meters long, and the small ones may only be more than ten meters long, and such fishing boats are also full of little devils, and these fishing boats begin to slowly leave the dock under the traction of this transport boat, this transport ship is in front, and these fishing boats are towed in the back, forming a long line.
As the first steamer left the dock and headed out for the distant water, the ships behind began to leave the dock one after another.
None of these ships were packed with little devils.
On the water in the distance of the Wusong Port Wharf, one by one periscopes were deep in the water, and none of the little devils noticed the abnormality of the water surface in this area.
It's night now, the area around the wharf of Wusong Port is brightly lit, the water surface near the wharf is brightly illuminated, the water surface is also sparkling a little farther away, and the light on the water surface is dimmed a little farther away, a hundred meters, two hundred meters, or even farther away.
This periscope is at least a few hundred meters away from the Wusong Wharf, and the little devils can't find these periscopes on the dark water.
This is the U-shaped submarine group of the new 6th Army, and more than 20 U-shaped submarines have been active in the waters around the wharf of Wusong Port for a short time, and the soldiers in the submarines can basically see clearly through the periscopes the situation in the area around the wharf.
As a ship full of little devils began to leave the dock, the warriors knew that they were ready for battle, and this time the soldiers were tasked with sinking the ships of these little devils and completely cutting off the back path of the little devils' retreat.
As long as these ships are destroyed, the little devils in this area who want to escape by boat through Wusong Wharf will have nowhere to escape, and the final fate is to be wiped out by the soldiers.
On the Wusong wharf, a Japanese lieutenant general, two major generals, and several officers at the level of devil Dazuo and Zhongzuo watched their soldiers slowly leave the dock, and couldn't help but quietly breathe a sigh of relief.
These Japanese officers knew that the pressure on their periphery was already very great, and a large number of troops of the newly formed 6th Army had been steadily advancing, and although a large number of little devils were resisting to the death, this was only slowing down the speed of the soldiers' advance.
"Your Excellency, Division Commander, we have finally begun to retreat successfully with thousands of warriors!" A devil major general with a big belly straddling a command knife couldn't help but say.
Lieutenant General Devil nodded, and then said, "If everything goes well, transport a few batches back and forth, and all our personnel and equipment will be completely evacuated." ”
It doesn't take much time to get to the north bank of the Yangtze River from here, and if it goes well before dawn, these ships can make a few round-trips, and nearly 20,000 Japanese troops can barely finish transporting them.
"Your Excellency Division Commander, we are the second batch of evacuees, and we will arrive on the north bank of the Yangtze River in a few hours." The other devil major general's face was slightly relaxed.
Compared with this devil major general, this devil lieutenant general's mood is not easy at all, the battle of Shanghai, the Japanese army suffered a heavy defeat, three divisions, a mixed brigade, plus a large number of auxiliary troops, a large number of garrison troops, and tens of thousands of puppet troops with the cooperation, the last was almost completely annihilated, and the remnants of less than 20,000 people could only retreat from here in disgrace.
However, the U-boat lurking under the surface of the water in the distance obviously did not want the little devil to retreat, even if it was a gray retreat, it was okay to go, but he left his life first.
A U-boat began to aim at the target and fired a torpedo, which flew out of the torpedo tube, drawing a long trajectory under the surface of the water and heading directly for a relatively large transport ship.
This is a relatively large tonnage transport ship, the displacement may be two or three thousand tons, it may be larger, it may also be one of the largest transport ships in Wusong Port, this transport ship is full of little devils, at least a thousand people, these little devils did not find their end at all, no one found the torpedo that went straight to the past.
On the transport ship, a large number of little devils saw that the steamer had left the wharf, and the wharf of Wusong Port was gradually moving away, and these little devils couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, as did many middle and low-ranking officers on the ship.
Many middle- and low-level officers breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and silently thought in their hearts that they were finally safe, finally left Shanghai, and finally freed themselves from the nightmare.
Being able to leave Shanghai is a relief for many devils, the fierce street fighting in the past few days has lingering palpitations for these devils, the fierceness of the soldiers of the new 6th Army, and the advanced weapons and equipment, all of which have left a great shadow in the hearts of these little devils.
Many little devils are dead and escaped, and they retreated to this area after paying a great price, and many little devils think that it is really a kind of luck to be able to successfully catch these retreating ships.
The little devils were unaware, and the dim light provided good cover for this torpedo, as well as for these submarines.
The torpedo coming at high speed was getting closer and closer to the transport, and it was already very close, and it was about to hit the transport, and someone noticed the anomaly.
A devil Shaozuo, who was quietly relieved by leaning on the railing of the steamer, happened to accidentally see this torpedo that was close at hand, and suddenly, his pupils narrowed sharply, his heartbeat almost stopped, and an earth-shattering explosion sounded, this Shaozuo knew everything, and his whole soul seemed to be torn apart by a huge force.
"Boom !!"
Truly earth-shattering!! (To be continued......)