Chapter 184: The Great Retreat of the Japanese Army from Shanghai (1)
The Japanese base camp has already ordered Matsui Ishine to withdraw from Shanghai as planned, and with the current conditions, he can only use the waterway. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoConsidering that the waterway is basically blocked by Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi with mines, it is not suitable for large ships.
Therefore, the Japanese army retreated to the next best, regardless of whether it was a large ship or a small boat, a wooden ship or an iron ship, as long as it was something that could carry people on the water, they would find a way to concentrate it, and if it was not enough, they would do everything they could to build it.
The Japanese troops in the front were desperately resisting the attack of the Chinese army, while the Japanese troops in the rear, even some of the lightly wounded, moved and built all kinds of ships day and night, and it is said that in the places they occupied, they picked up all the wood that could be seen, and even some of the rotten wood in the ruins caused by the war was not spared.
Finally, after a few days and the efforts of more than 100,000 people, the Japanese army got thousands of ships of various sizes. Of course, these ships, almost all of which are small boats, and most of them carry more than a dozen people. Due to the payment of the waterway, the Japanese army felt that such small boats were more practical, but the number was still not enough.
However, there was no way to do this, and the Japanese army's policy was to retreat step by step in batches. First use these small boats to send personnel to the open sea, and then go up to the big ships in the open sea, and when these personnel get on the big boats, the small boats will return to pick up the next group of personnel, and so on, just like ants moving, little by little hundreds of thousands of troops will be withdrawn from Shanghai.
When the Japanese army's plan was not fully announced, seeing the actions of the Japanese army, Wei Qidong knew their policy.
"The little devil wants to stage the Dunkirk retreat in advance." Even Tang Xinyi saw the purpose of the Japanese army.
Of course, at this time, it was very early for the Dunkirk evacuation, and because the arrival of Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi had changed a lot of circumstances, I don't know if this incident will happen in the future.
However, the current activities of the Japanese army are very similar to the situation of the Dunkirk retreat, but there are many different situations. For example, in Dunkirk, the Germans did not blockade the port with mines, so it also gave the British an opportunity to take advantage of it. In addition, the distance from Dunkirk to the British mainland is much closer, and the British use not only more ships than the Japanese, but also larger, and the carrying capacity will be much stronger.
Wei Qidong immediately asked the Chinese Air Force to keep an eye on the retreat of the Japanese army at sea, and he and Tang Xinyi were also stepping up time preparations, so naturally they would not let the little devil withdraw with peace of mind.
On December 10, the first retreat of the Japanese army had been arranged, due to the roundabout attack of the Chinese army during this time, most of the coastline of Shanghai was controlled by the Chinese army, and the coast that was not occupied by the Chinese army was also blocked by Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi with mines.
Therefore, after careful consideration, the Japanese army decided to choose the route of the first retreat to enter the Yangtze River through the Huangpu River, and then enter the sea. However, the Yangtze River channel has also been completely blocked by Wei Qidong with mines.
Slow, step-by-step demining, is obviously unrealistic, and for this reason, the crazy Japanese used death squads again. The Japanese death squads can have some immobility with the Chinese army's death squads, and often, their death squads are not death squads, but death squads. This time, they are still using death squads, that is, sending soldiers one by one to blow up mines directly.
Of course, it is also the Japanese who know that they have poor anti-mine capabilities, after all, they have always paid little attention to defense, and they are very disdainful of mines as a means of defense, so they are not good at the means of mine clearance. In addition, the time is urgent, and there is no condition for them to slowly use minesweepers and the like to clear mines, and human demining devices are still the most effective.
However, the Japanese did not know that Wei Qidong was strong because of the cheap mines, and in order to make it more difficult for the Japanese, he used several kinds of mines, including anchor mines, magnetic mines, pressure mines, etc., all of which were underwater mines.
The Japanese put death squads at the forefront, usually by a person in a small boat or a small bamboo raft rushing forward, in an attempt to detonate the mine directly. If there was no detonation, the Japanese ships following behind thought that there was no problem with the route, marked it, and the ships lined up.
But is that really possible? Pressure mines need to be triggered when the pressure reaches a certain level, and the effect of a small boat for one person and a group of people on a larger boat is naturally different. A thin boat used to be fine, but a larger boat packed with people just passed.
The sound of "boom ......" explosions continued, and this kind of mine could sink even warships of several hundred or several thousand tons, not to mention these small motor boats or wooden ships, some of which were directly overturned by the powerful impact force, and even if the Japanese troops were not killed on the spot, the earthquake was shaken out of the direction and fell into the water for a while before sinking.
Some of the daredevils who didn't have anything to do in front of them were still a little unclear when they saw the successive explosions behind them.
There was a special person in charge of the retreat, and Matsui Ishine handed over this matter to the state soldiers who had nothing to do, and at this time, the state soldiers stood by the river and watched the retreat process with binoculars. However, unexpectedly, the death squad didn't seem to be of much use.
"Wei Qidong, Tang Xinyi, it's really hateful, it's very hateful." The anger of the state soldiers was that the two of them united with the Chinese army to beat his 13th Division into a high paraplegic, and now, if he wants to retreat, he will set up such a big obstacle, it is simply not to give him any way to survive the state soldiers.
When the news was fed back to Matsui Shigen, he could only sigh, he knew that Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi would not easily make them feel better.
"There's no time, just let the fleet rush ......" Matsui Ishine ordered with a cold face.
The state soldiers understood, and immediately planned the fleet again, lined up first, the first ship in the front accelerated to sprint to detect mines, and the ship behind first opened the distance from the front ship and slowly followed.
If the first ship does not hit the mine, the next ship follows, and if the first ship succeeds in mine detection and explodes, the second ship continues to do the same.
It turns out that although this method is very earthy and cruel, it still has a good effect, and only crazy Japanese people can use such a method, and normal countries cannot do this.
In the sky, there have always been reconnaissance planes of the Chinese Air Force paying attention to the retreat of the Japanese army, and the specific news was also fed back to Wei Qidong for the first time.
It's just that I'm afraid the Japanese don't know that Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi have secretly left Shanghai and come to Nantong, Jiangsu, where they are waiting for the rabbit.