Suddenly, a cannonball exploded on the deck, and the boatswain village was blown up, and he was inexplicably lifted up by a puffy cloud, as if he was going to take a tour of the air. The body is full of pain, it seems to be painful, and I can't tell where it hurts, numbness, the feeling of peeling off the skin, very uncomfortable.

Xiao Mu subconsciously shrunk into a ball, as if his whole body had become a very small piece, and then shrunk into a small soul. This soul, like the white clouds in the sky, gradually, gradually, drifted farther and farther away......

Witnessing the bombing of minesweepers No. 01 and No. 02 slowly sinking to the bottom, Eiji Kondo was literally angry and couldn't help but scold: "What's going on!" The Chinese Air Force bullied us, even this small mortar came to bully our big Imperial Japanese Army. There are no cannons to bully us, do you? All the artillery, towards this mortar, bombarded-"

As a result, all the artillery on all the Japanese ships bombarded the artillery company swimming forward. The company that only swam forward was wrapped in a thick cloud of fire and smoke.

Although he had been mentally prepared for a long time, he still caused the company to suffer huge losses, with nearly half of the casualties and more than a dozen mortars being blown away.

After 5 minutes of bombardment against the mortar company swimming forward, Eiji Kondo relieved his hatred and said, "Yo Xi, let this little mortar taste our cannon!" Well, don't fight, our shells still have to deal with the Chinese artillery in the town of the dock, and don't consume too many of our shells for this small mortar position. ”

As a result, the Japanese artillery group stopped sweeping the artillery fire of the previous company.

Hideo Ono also said to Hideji Kondo: "Your Excellency, Commander, let's concentrate on attacking Dock Town, as long as Dock Town is taken, Takeshi Town will be easy to handle." ”

Kondo felt that at this moment, because the minesweepers had swept down a clearing, it was closer to the dock town, which was more conducive to the artillery attack, so he ordered: "Towards the dock town, the attack is advancing-"

At this time, in the headquarters of Wharf Town, Zhang Weihan, Han Xing, Liu Zhiyuan, Wang Yifei, etc., had already seen the shape of the artillery battle between the two sides clearly.

Han Xing said heavily: "It seems that the mortar battalion swimming forward will suffer heavy losses. ”

Zhang Weihan lowered his head, sighed and said: "How can there be immortals in a war, and how can there be no losses, no matter what you say, the mortar battalion swimming forward still sank two minesweepers, which can be regarded as playing a great role." Now, their minesweeping speed is much slower. ”

Liu Zhiyuan knew it in his heart and said: "With the shrewdness of swimming forward, he has a way, and he will not be bombed by a little devil." ”

The devil's Yang Zijiang fleet fired at the dock town again, and at this time, the cannons of Wuxue Town on the opposite side also fired at the Yang Zijiang fleet.

Hou Dashan visually measured the distance, and also shouted happily: "Okay! Our cannons can also hit the little devils, so let the little devils also taste the taste of our shells! You're busy, I'm going to command. With that, he hurried out of the headquarters and ran towards his artillery team.

After a while, the FH18105 mm caliber fortress guns hidden behind the knife-like fortifications also roared towards the Yang Zijiang fleet, and they and the Wuxue Town artillery on the opposite side formed a situation of flanking the Japanese Yang Zijiang fleet from the north and south.

The howitzer shell weighs 14.97 kg, has a maximum rate of fire of 7 rounds / min, a muzzle velocity of 469 m / s, and a maximum range of 10,671 m, or 10 km. The fort of Wharf Town and the fort of Wuxue Town cooperated very well, so that the Japanese warships avoided the south side, but could not avoid the north side, and the powerful cannonballs surrounded the Japanese fleet in a huge column of water.

Suddenly, a shell hit the port side of the flagship "Toba", and the glass of the command compartment was blown up at once, and the glass shards grazed Eiji Kondo's head and passed. And Hideo Ohno, the chief of staff, was not so lucky, he was injured on the head again, half of his ear was gone, and blood was dripping down.

The health soldier rushed over, and after simply wrapping up Hideo Ohno, he was anxious to pull Hideo Ohno down to rest. But Hideo Ohno shouted hoarsely: "I won't go down, I want to be with His Excellency the Commander, I want to be with His Excellency the Commander." ”

After Eiji Kondo waved his hand, Hideo Ohno was still pulled away by the health soldiers, although he was reluctant to do so.

Although Eiji Kondo was not injured, he was not lightly frightened, especially the second injury of the chief of staff, which did once again attack Eiji Kondo's mental endurance.

As soon as the port side was shot, half of the ship was flattened by this powerful shell, and the operation was not sensitive, if such a shell were to come again, perhaps the "Toba" would be scrapped.

At this time, the sky was already a little dark, and after a day of fierce fighting, Kondo Eiji felt physically and mentally exhausted, dizzy, and the loss of most of the capital ships was as if he had pulled one knife after another in his heart. The Third Fleet was not easy to build, how much money was spent, and how many years it took to build the 11th Fleet of the Third Fleet, that is, the Yang Zijiang Fleet.

Since the day it was built, it has indeed been a great achievement, destroying countless Russian and Chinese ships. I didn't expect today's battle to be so tragic and so wolf-bèi.

Is it really shameless to see the Japanese fathers, shameless to confess to His Majesty the Emperor?

Rear Admiral Ichiki, the captain of the "Toba", came over at this time and said cautiously to Eiji Kondo: "Your Excellency Commander, it's getting late, the artillery can't see clearly, and we can't wait long within the range of the enemy's artillery." Besides, when it gets dark, our ships are extremely vulnerable to Chinese torpedo boats. Let's go back and rest, tomorrow when it's dawn, and it's not too late to fight them again. ”

Kondo Eiji thought about it, but there was no other way, staying here was very passive, and it was very likely that he would be attacked by the Chinese Navy and Army again. After thinking about it, I had to put a stomach full of grievances in my stomach first, and then go back and find a way.

The Third Fleet had to reverse one by one, then turn around and retreat downstream.

Here, there was a jubilation on the battlefield of Docktown, and the silent soldiers jumped up and shouted, "Go back to your hometown!" "The Japanese have defeated -- the Japanese have defeated -- " "Those who have the ability to fight again will come back, how can they get out." "It's so exciting, it's so exciting."

Some Chinese soldiers, following the example of the Japanese loudspeakers, shouted loudly: "Japanese soldiers, your resistance is useless, so you should surrender, as long as you surrender, we Chinese soldiers and civilians will protect your lives and safety, and we will never embarrass you." If you don't surrender, we'll fire again until you surrender. ”

On September 14, the crushing defeat of the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet made Vice Admiral Okamura Ninji of the 11th Army very angry.

In June 1938, Okamura Ninji, then the commander of the 2nd Division, received an order from the military headquarters to form the 11th Army and served as the commander of the army, responsible for attacking the Wuhan area.

The Botian detachment formed by the Taiwan brigade first captured Anqing, and then broke through the Madang fortress with the cooperation of the navy and air force, defeated more than a dozen miscellaneous divisions along the way, occupied Jiujiang, and completed the prelude to the war. On August 1, Okamura Ninji officially gave the order to attack. At that time, he had 3 divisions and a brigade in his hands, and 2 divisions were being reinforced. He was determined to defend with the Botian detachment, attack Wuhan along the north bank of the Yangtze River with the 6th Division, concentrate 2 divisions along the Nanxun line to capture Nanchang, and then march west to Yueyang to cut off the 27 armies surrounding Chen Cheng's 6th Theater.

However, the defeat of the navy was also a great disadvantage to his army offensive.

In view of this, Okamura Ninji was in a hurry, and he ordered the Japanese troops on the north bank of the Yangtze River to immediately attack on all fronts and attack Tianjia Town in two ways.

Among them, the Japanese army on the eastern route had to capture Wuxue in a short period of time, because according to intelligence, there was only one regiment of the national army in the Wuxue area.

Under Okamura Ninji's strict order, on September 15, more than 20 warships of the Japanese Navy's 3rd Fleet, covering more than 500 marines, forcibly landed at Panjiawan, Zhongmiao, and Glass Nunnery east of Wuxue.

For the Japanese landing operation, the 337th Regiment of the 57th Division of the defending 2nd Army had already anticipated. They built a line of strong fortifications on this line, armed with light and heavy machine guns and mortars.

Due to the fact that the Japanese army was light on the enemy, they did not have naval artillery fire to bombard the positions of the Nationalist troops for a long time in advance, so they made a hasty landing.

As a result, as soon as the Japanese marines landed, they immediately encountered heavy light and heavy machine gun fire and were unable to advance at all. At this time, the Japanese naval artillery fire was not convenient for large-scale shelling due to the fear of accidental injury, and the Japanese troops who finally landed left a pile of corpses and the wolf bèi withdrew.

On September 16, the 4th Special Marine Corps of the Japanese Navy and Army Corps Wu Zhenshoufu, under the cover of ship-borne heavy artillery, forcibly landed east of Wuxue.

The number of Japanese landings was too large, in the thousands. The 337th Regiment of the 57th Division was stationed on this line with only a few hundred officers and soldiers, and it was really unable to effectively repel this Japanese army, and finally was forced to abandon the peripheral positions, and the whole army retreated to the core position of Wuxue.

The Japanese followed and pursued, and then killed Wuxue.

The 337th Regiment of the 57th Division did not show weakness in the face of several times the number of Japanese troops, and they struggled to resist with the help of city fortifications. Helplessly, Wuxue was almost bombarded to the ground in the artillery fire in the past two days, and the remaining city fortifications were only a handful. A Japanese army simply rushed into the city from the bombed city wall, and the 337th Regiment immediately organized death squads to engage in fierce street battles with the Japanese army.

After several hours of brutal street fighting, the Japanese troops who rushed into Wuxue could not withstand the desperate hand-to-hand combat of the 337th Regiment of the 57th Division, and the whole army collapsed and withdrew from Wuxue.

However, the follow-up troops of the Japanese army continued to arrive, and at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, a group of more than 1,000 Japanese troops reinforced outside Wuxue City, and then continued to rush into Wuxue City.

The 337th Regiment simply abandoned the city defense and directly blocked the Japanese army with street fighting. In the small city of Wuxue County, the two armies fought bloodily all night, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties, and the 337th Regiment was almost exhausted.

The 337th Regiment originally wanted to defend the Wuxue and fight to the last soldier.