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Chapter 1388 Sleepless Night

On the Huangpu River, there was a burst of artillery fire, and the Second Brigade of the Anjia Army Air Force was bombarding the Japanese warships on the river. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info However, the high-altitude bombers could not bomb the battleship accurately, and if they flew at low altitudes, it was too dangerous, and the Japanese army arranged a large number of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns in the concession area and on both sides of the Huangpu River, coupled with the anti-aircraft guns equipped by the cruiser itself, the dense bullet rain formed a barrage of death, which had led to a new Twin-engine bomber produced in Syria and two "Vulture I dive bombers" copied from the German JU87 Stuka bomber.

The fierce naval and air battles have been fighting from the morning to the present, after suffering losses one after another, this time the third fleet of the Navy broke out, under the intensive bombardment of bullets, it only lost one gunboat and one destroyer, I have to say that this is a miracle, the direct consequence is that the Japanese naval guns still threaten the attacking squadron.

An Yi saw Zhang Zhi*** moving the tank unit from the telescope, and his face couldn't help but change greatly. But he didn't dissuade Zhang Zhizhong through the radio carried by the guards, first, he didn't know if he could get in touch, and second, Zhang Zhizhong was a stubborn person, and since he had already made a decision, it was not up to him as a student to stop it.

An Yi could only pray silently in his heart that this group of heroic soldiers was safe and sound.

I was really worried about what was coming, and the guns on the Japanese positions rang out.

The Japanese army was placed in the defensive line of the Tiantongan railway station, separated by an open road, and there was a large open space outside the wall. As soon as the tanks of the squadron appeared, the Japanese army began to fire fiercely with all kinds of light and heavy weapons. The Japanese infantry's Type 38 rifles, with no missing bullets, constantly changed their shooting targets, light and heavy machine guns "clicked" and strafed, and tongues of fire were sprayed everywhere in trenches, buildings, basement windows, and fortifications made of sandbags. Flying locust-like bullets weave into a brutal and tight network of fire, stretching the claws of death from all directions to the attacking team.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the surging cheers in the area of Zhabei Huajie were inaudible, replaced by the whistling of bullets and the pain of the wounded, and the officers and men of the 88th Division, who were lucky not to be injured, could only lie on the ground under the dense rain of bullets, or hide in the porches on both sides of the street, and "crackle" and fired back.

When a soldier is faced with hot bullets, all of them seem to have eyes, burrow into the chest of his partner, and on the door of his head, splash terrifying blood, see his usual friend lying on his back, his eyes are angry, and he feels a particle bullet flying by, hitting the hard granite wall, splashing a string of sparks, or burrowing into the dry soil, raising a cloud of choking smoke, can he still muster the courage to continue to stand up the flesh and blood that is not strong, to compete with the bullets of the Japanese army?

What is particularly unbearable is that when the first batch of soldiers of the 88th Division were beaten by the Japanese crossfire, the Japanese battleships on the Huangpu River once again joined the attack sequence, and the naval guns did not need to aim at all, but only shelled according to the coordinate code in their heads, and the large-caliber shells whistled one after another, and the huge sound of the shell explosion echoed everywhere in the air.

As a result, the attacking ranks inevitably became disorganized, and the officers and men took refuge and retreated in all directions.

Since the 88th had never received training in infantry and tank cooperative operations before, he did not know how to use tanks to follow up and cover each other, and he also lacked the basic knowledge of infantry and tank coordination, so it didn't take long for the tank to be "rolling" forward, and there was no figure in the front and rear that could cover the tank's advance.

An Yi saw that the infantry and the tanks were disconnected, and the infantry had to crawl on the ground or hide in the corner in order to avoid unnecessary sacrifices, while the tank troops went deep alone, rumbling towards the Japanese position, and could suffer a painful blow from the Japanese army at any time, what a tragic scene?

Just when An Yi was looking at it with a telescope, a large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery shell with a sharp whistle flew over, directly hitting a moving Type I tank, "boom" A ball of flames rose up, and most of the turret of the tank was immediately lifted off, and the layer of armor that was not strong was instantly torn up by the cannon shell that fired directly, and a raging fire ignited at the fuel tank.

Immediately afterwards, a horde of cannon shells whistled in, forming a terrifying network of fire around the Type I tank, and the tank formation was suddenly disrupted, and several tanks tried to retreat, but were hit by the shells and burned. In desperation, the remaining tanks bravely returned fire and rushed through the open space at full speed to force the Japanese positions to avoid artillery fire.

This entanglement tactic of putting the enemy to death and then revitalizing immediately had an immediate effect, and the Japanese artillery bombardment suddenly slowed down, and the tank group of the squadron temporarily escaped the blow.

An Yi breathed a sigh of relief, but before he could applaud the tact of the tank commander, several groups of heavily armed demomen jumped on the Japanese position at the same time, holding blasting canisters in their hands and strapped with explosives, or using the corners of the wall, or using the cover of broken fortifications, jumping in ambush and moving towards the Chinese tanks vigilantly and flexibly.

This was undoubtedly a thrilling and dangerous moment, because the tanks had blind spots for observation and shooting, and according to the principle of infantry coordination, only infantry fire on the side of the wing could effectively eliminate the Japanese demomen. However, at this time, the infantry of the 88th Division was all blocked by artillery fire at the end of the road in the distance, and they could only lie on the ground, watching their comrades fall into the encirclement, watching the Japanese demomen seem to be doing beautiful maneuvers, attacking the tanks one after another, and pounced again and again on the tanks painted with the blue sky and white sun emblem on the walls, unable to do anything.

So, in this desperately suffocating tense atmosphere, bursts of loud and sharp explosions came, and thick smoke, as if a magician was performing a large-scale magic show, rose into the air, and the catastrophe that the Chinese tank forces could not escape finally came.

One Type I tank had just been paralyzed on the ground, and the other was then violently blazing, and when the last tank braved the raging fire and rushed into the Japanese line, it was confronted with a flat-fire cannon shell, and finally rolled on its side in the Japanese trench.

The driver of the tank, trying to struggle to escape from the wrecked compartment, had just pushed open the roof and rushed out, and was immediately hit by a dense volley of machine-gun bullets, covered in holes, and hung limply upside down on the turret, like a piece of charred wood.

An Yi's eyes were full of tears, and he watched the proud tank unit of the squadron annihilated, but he couldn't do anything, who can understand this pain?

What An Yi didn't know was that in the offensive launched on the whole front, there were two other tank companies that suffered the same fate. In just over an hour, the squadron lost fifty-eight tanks.

In the headquarters of the 88th Division, Zhang Zhizhong witnessed the entire battle process through the telescope, and at this time, he remembered An Yi's warning and the tank company commander's worry, and couldn't help but pause his chest, extremely annoyed, but there is no regret medicine to take in the world, and it is already too late.

After a battle, it was almost dark, An Yi was in an extremely heavy mood, he didn't even pat the dust on his body when he stood up, turned around and went downstairs, and the guards hurriedly got up to follow.

Walking beside An Yi, Shen Fengdao and Lin Yaodong's faces were extremely ugly, at this time, they were suddenly worried, what would An Jiajun do if he faced such a situation?

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An Yi's departure did not bring a trace of waves, because at this time, the entire battlefield had become a mess.

At the moment of nightfall, on the small loading and unloading dock of Fuxin Flour Mill on the north bank of Suzhou Creek, a small steamer, loaded with mines and explosives, quickly approached the "Izumo" heavy cruiser docked at the Huishan Wharf of the Navy and was turning its guns and shelling the squadron fiercely.

Unfortunately, due to being so nervous, the demoman completely forgot the repeated instructions of Zhang Baiting, chief of staff of the 88th Division, and Xie Jinyuan, chief of staff of the 262nd Brigade, before departure, and the small steamer began to be launched at a distance of more than 700 meters from the "Izumo" (it was supposed to be 300 meters), but only set off a torrential roar on the Huishan pier, and the heavy cruiser "Izumo" tossed for a while in a huge shock, and was unharmed. Although nearly half of the Huishan pier and the equipment on the pier were blown up, as long as the "Izumo" was fine, it was a great victory for the Japanese army, and the three demomen on the small steamer died heroically in the dense bullet rain of the Japanese army.

The fire at Huishan Wharf burned for more than two hours before it was extinguished.

At the same time, in order to contain the strength of the Japanese army, so that it could not counter-outflank the prominent parts of the entire front and encircle and annihilate them, all divisions of the Ninth Army organized assault teams to launch high-intensity strikes against the Japanese army's in-depth defense line.

Among them, the assault team of the 87th Division consisted of two infantry battalions, an engineer demolition team, a 37th anti-aircraft artillery company, and a communications squad, led by Chen Yiding, commander of the 521st Regiment, and launched a fierce attack on the Japanese defense line with two days of dry rations. The anti-artillery and engineer demolition brigade of the 37th War exerted great might, and the explosives and artillery fire successively destroyed more than 10 light and dark bunkers on the Japanese defense line, and the Japanese machine guns were all dumb, and the Japanese troops who were cowering in the strong fortifications were so frightened that they did not dare to stretch their heads.

From north to south, the assault team swept through thousands of troops and attacked the Huangpu River in one go.

On the eve of dawn, the commandos finished their dry rations and began to attack the new target, only to find that the anti-aircraft guns and explosives bags of the 37th Battle could not bombard the solid site of the Japanese army poured by reinforced concrete. In particular, the Gongda Yarn Factory did not work after several shots, but brought more than 30 casualties, so Chen Yiding immediately sent back this information to the division headquarters and quickly organized the team to retreat.

The Central Chemical Corps, which was assigned to Song Xilian's 36th Division and equipped with projectile guns, played an important role in the overnight raid on the headquarters of the Marine Corps.

The projectile cannon was invented by the Frenchman Levins, it has no gun mount, only a round base, when firing, more than half of the gun body is buried in the fortification, the gun and the gun are connected with wires, the target orientation is calculated, and the button is opened, and 12 guns can be fired at the same time.

Under the leadership of Captain Li Rentao, the 268-strong team quickly advanced to the forward position of the 36th Division, and a walled garden house in the north of Hongkou Park became the launch position. After reconnaissance, it was determined that the firing elements were ready, and the chemical corps immediately built fortifications and placed artillery positions.

After the preparations were completed, after receiving the order from Song Xilian to cooperate with the attack of the brothers' troops, the projectile began to ignite, and in the first firing, the dragon-like shell did not hit the target. Corrected the distance and bearing, and then pressed the button, and in the rumbling cannon, yellow phosphorus incendiary bombs and explosive bombs flew over more than three hundred meters in the air, accurately penetrating the fourth layer of the wall of the *** Marine Corps.

Captain Li Rentao saw from the observation mirror that there was a red light and thick smoke billowing on the Japanese position, and immediately shouted loudly: "Good! Put it again! Put it again! ”

Three consecutive launches, all 36 projectiles were dumped in the Japanese headquarters.

Taking advantage of the Japanese firepower being suppressed, the squadron launched a brave charge, although due to the fierce counterattack of the Japanese 22nd Brigade reinforcements, in the end in vain, but effectively contained the Japanese troops, so that the first day of the battle for the defensive line was consolidated.

On the night of the seventeenth, Shanghai City had no sleep all night!