A battleship (also known as a combat ship, a capital ship, or a battleship) is a kind of high-tonnage naval combat ship with the attack power of large-caliber artillery and the protection of heavy armor as the main demand. It has always been one of the main ships of the major sea powers, so it was once called the capital ship in the past.

In the middle and end of the Second World War, the strategic position of battleships was replaced by aircraft carriers and ballistic missile submarines, and they were no longer the main force in the fleet.

"Fuso" was the first battleship of the Fuso class, and the second was "Yamashiro". The construction of the battleship "Fuso" began in March 1912, and it was the eighth battleship of the Japanese Navy. Part of the Eighth Fleet's plan, it was the battleship with the largest displacement in the world at that time. The Fuso-class hull refers to the Kongo-class battlecruiser improvement, with a design speed of 22 knots.

Displacement of the battleship "Fuso": 30600 tons (normal), standard displacement after modification: 34700 tons; Armament: 12 twin 356 mm/45 caliber main guns, 16 152 mm secondary guns, 4 76 mm anti-aircraft guns, 3 carrier aircraft.

In order to support the Japanese forces in the Ningbo area, little Japan actually dispatched the aircraft carrier "Kaga" and the battleship "Fuso".

That night, Ye Feng summoned Guo Weiquan, Chu Tianyuan and several other high-ranking members of the new 6th Army to formulate an operational plan to deal with this large fleet of small Japan, for this fleet, Ye Feng attached great importance to it, and this was also the first time that the new 6th Army fought with the small Japanese navy.

Probably having learned that one of their large fleets would arrive tomorrow, the Japanese troops in the Ningbo area relaxed the pace of their attack. Almost the whole night was on the defensive, and did not take the initiative to attack.

Once the small Japanese fleet reached Ningbo, the 18th Division in the Ningbo area. The 29th Division will receive air support, and the aircraft carrier "Kaga" has dozens of aircraft, including fighters, bombers, and so on.

In addition, there is this fleet in Ningbo, and the reinforcements of small Japan can reach Ningbo by sea, and the arrival of this fleet. The Japanese army in Ningbo was full of hope.

The battle north of Hangzhou was still fierce, and the Japanese troops from Wuxi, Jiaxing, Suzhou, and Shanghai attacked Hangzhou. The intensity of the attack was intensified, especially when the planes of the new 6th Army could not take off at night, and launched attacks on the defensive positions of the fighters.

More than 20 kilometers southwest of Jiaxing, there is a blocking position of the First Infantry Division. Lined up. The soldiers built a lot of fortifications, cut off the main road from Jiaxing to Hangzhou, and even the distant railway, to prevent Jiaxing's Botian detachment from attacking Hangzhou.

The road and the railway were not far apart, less than a kilometer apart, and on the few low, gentle hills in the area, the soldiers of the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division built a large number of fortifications.

The terrain throughout this area is very gentle, making it very unsuitable for defense. There was no dangerous terrain to defend, and these hills, which were no more than twenty or thirty meters high, became the support points for the entire defensive position of the soldiers. In the mountains, the fighters dug trenches, built fortifications, and erected a lot of machine guns.

The battle had been going on for more than two days, and the Hatada detachment had launched at least a dozen large and small attacks, each of which had been repelled by the fighters, but since tonight, the attacks of these little devils seem to have become more frequent and larger.

After two days of fighting, the soldiers were very tired, more than an hour ago, the soldiers repelled another attack by the Hatian detachment, and now, most of the soldiers were holding their weapons, leaning in the trenches to rest, and even, some of the fighters fell asleep and snored.

The entire position stretched two or three kilometers wide, except for a faint fire, the whole position was quiet, and only a small number of soldiers were on guard to prevent the little devils from attacking again.

Opposite the soldiers' position, hundreds of meters away, several officers of the Hatian detachment were together, the highest rank was a big one, and the devil Dazuo was discussing the attack plan with several devil officers.

"Your Excellency Dazuo, the firepower of the Chinese army positions on the opposite side is too fierce, and every time we attack, we are repulsed." A devil Shaozuo said indignantly.

A devil captain next to him also echoed: "Yes, Your Excellency Dazuo, we don't have the weapons to suppress firepower, and our mountain artillery squad is gone, so it's difficult for our infantry to rush forward." ”

The devil Dazuo had a dark face and said slowly: "Ladies and gentlemen, Your Excellency Ha Tian has sent an order, ordering us to take the position of the Chinese army tonight, in order to cooperate with our attack, Your Excellency Ha Tian has allocated ten armored vehicles to cooperate with our attack. ”

"Your Excellency Dazuo, with the cooperation of ten armored vehicles, we will definitely be able to take the position of the Chinese army on the opposite side." A devil Shaozuo was full of confidence, and immediately shouted.

Half an hour later, sure enough, ten armored vehicles came, and when they saw these armored vehicles, these devil officers all showed joy, and the face of the devil Dazuo also turned from cloudy to sunny, and one of the devil Shaozuo even screamed excitedly as if he had been beaten with chicken blood.

The devil Dazuo patted the devil Shaozuo who was screaming with excitement and said, "Takeda-kun, the next attack will be handed over to you." ”

"Hey! Your Excellency Dazuo, rest assured, I will definitely take the position of the Chinese army on the opposite side. ”

After some preparations, a devil reinforced the brigade, led by these ten armored vehicles, slowly advanced forward and began to attack.

The position of the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division.

The soldiers who were on guard seemed to hear the movement, and even saw the lights of the armored vehicles in the distance, and saw that there seemed to be a lot of little devils, and these fighters shouted one after another: "Brothers, prepare for battle, the little devils are coming up again." ”

These warriors shouted, those who were resting, and even the soldiers who were snoring, were full of energy, holding their weapons, staring carefully ahead, and in the dark, there were many little devils.

On one of the mounds of the defensive position of the Second Infantry Regiment, the temporary headquarters of the Second Regiment was set up on this mound, and the commander of the Second Regiment immediately opened his eyes when he heard the shouts of the soldiers on the forward position, and saw that there were many vague figures of little devils in front of him, and there seemed to be some vehicles moving with the attacking devil figures.

It may be the armored car of the little devil, the second regiment commander thought to himself, so he immediately shouted loudly: "Fire the flare!" ”

A few flares soon rose into the sky, illuminating a large area in front of him, and the commander of the second regiment saw clearly that there was a large area of small devils in front of him, in a scattered attack formation, at least thousands, and in front of these little devils, there were about ten small Japanese armored vehicles.

"Fire, give me !!"

Seeing that these little devils were less than two hundred meters away from their forward positions, the commander of the second regiment immediately shouted and gave the order to open fire.

The fighters' machine guns opened fire first, and the second regiment was armed with a large number of light and heavy machine guns, 12.7 mm Browning heavy machine guns, 7.92 mm light machine guns, which were fired at the little devils not far away.

The second regiment is a 3+1 formation, a total of more than 3,000 people, each infantry battalion consists of three infantry companies plus a machine gun company, the machine gun company has 8 7.92 mm heavy machine guns, 3 12.7 mm heavy machine guns and 6 81mm mortars.

Each infantry company has 3 infantry platoons and 1 machine gun platoon, with a total of 193 personnel. The gun platoon has two 7.92 mm light machine guns, three 60 mortars and one 12.7 mm heavy machine gun.

The units directly under the regiment include: regimental artillery company (105 howitzer × 6), anti-tank company (57 anti-aircraft artillery × 12 plus a mine-laying platoon), logistics company, guard company, etc.

In the small mounds that served as fire support points, the soldiers built a lot of machine gun positions and deployed a large number of light and heavy machine guns, which were fired at the little devils, and the gunfire was very dense and violent.

A large number of machine-gun bullets made the ten armored vehicles of the little devils clang, and sparks flew up. In the trenches, some fighters with Garand rifles and Thomson submachine guns also aimed at the imps.

The devil Shaozuo, who led the attack, saw the soldiers firing, immediately drew his command knife, and shouted with all his might: "Kill and give!! ”

The devil was less than two hundred meters away from the forward position of the fighters, such a short distance, the devil Shaozo thought that as long as he braved the flying bullets to charge, he would soon be able to rush to the position of the fighters, and in addition, there were ten armored vehicles to lead.

Seeing his Shao Zuo shouting, these devils were also fearless of death, and rushed forward while shooting under the dense firepower of the soldiers.

A group of little devils fell, and immediately rushed up again, although a large number of corpses of little devils appeared on the ground, but the team of devils charging was getting closer and closer to the soldiers' positions.

Two hundred meters, one hundred meters, eighty meters, fifty meters......

These ten armored vehicles also rushed to the front, only fifty or sixty meters away from the forward positions of the fighters.

The surfaces of these armored vehicles were all potholes, apparently hit by 12.7 mm heavy machine guns, and the frontal armor of two or three armored vehicles was almost pierced by the heavy machine guns of the fighters.

Seeing that they would soon be able to rush to the positions of the fighters, these armored vehicles did not care at all about the dense bullets, and under the fire of machine gun bullets, they increased the throttle and rushed forward while firing.

The entire attacking team of little devils also almost fell into madness, a large number of little devils used the cover of these armored vehicles to quickly approach the forward positions of the fighters, and seeing that the positions of the fighters were in front of them, these little devils screamed and rushed with weapons.

The little devils who charged were simply one after the other, and they didn't care about the huge casualties at all.

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Today's three watches, the first one is sent. (To be continued......)