Chapter 188: The Great Retreat of the Japanese Army from Shanghai (5)
The flotilla was dispatched, but the state soldiers kept in touch with the first fleet. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info and the Japanese base camp, in order to ensure the success of the operation, but also has been paying attention to the situation of the Hasegawa Kiyoshi fleet, has been maintaining communication.
But suddenly, the state soldiers directly lost contact with the fleet he sent, and the Japanese base camp only received some intermittent and panicked information, just clearly knowing that it had been bombed by the Chinese Air Force before, and then Hasegawa Kiyoshi also took the initiative to contact the Japanese base camp to say that the loss was not large, so they didn't take it too seriously.
"The content of the message contains Wei Qidong's ......" The correspondent of the Japanese military headquarters in Tokyo seems to have heard a vague message with Wei Qidong.
A cadre of military bigwigs, his face suddenly changed, and I am afraid that the only people who can suddenly cause this situation are Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi.
"Didn't Hasegawa Kiyoshi say that they were at least seventy kilometers away from the coast of Shanghai? Why was it still attacked? Could it be that Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi used new methods again? Umezu Mijiro snarled and asked.
"Immediately step up the verification, I don't believe that the entire fleet has been wiped out......" Navy Minister Mitsumasa Yonechi was also very anxious, after all, this also had a lot to do with his navy.
Nagano immediately ordered the ship closest to the area of the accident to come and inspect it, and at the same time kept in constant contact with the fleet by radio.
After the state soldiers learned through the Central China Front Command that even the Japanese base camp had lost contact with the fleet, their faces suddenly changed and they felt bad. However, he was not allowed to wait long, because he had been sending follow-up ships to continue the retreat, so there were ships arriving at the confluence area without stopping.
When a slightly larger Japanese ship carrying a radio arrived in that area, they were immediately stunned by the tragic situation in front of them, and some of the ships that arrived before them were wandering in a daze, seeing the people who had fallen into the water and not dying, and went to rescue them by the way.
After the brief news that "the fleet has been attacked and has been completely annihilated...... after the short news reached the side of the Central China Front, Matsui Ishine seemed to have lost all his strength at once, and he suddenly sat down in his seat, and his whole person was lying on his back.
"Bastard Wei Qidong, you can't die well......" After a long time, Matsui Shigen cursed loudly, his life can be said to have been destroyed by Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi in Shanghai.
However, the fact has been created that unless the operation is abandoned, the Japanese army can only slowly accept the fate of being completely encircled and suppressed. Although the Japanese put a lot of effort into this retreat and are now suffering heavy losses, they are not without opportunities. The only thing the Japanese were thankful for was that they didn't throw all the ships into it at once.
"The operation continues, more than 100 kilometers away from all the coastlines of China...... "The Japanese are afraid, they are really afraid, and they really can't deal with Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi with common sense, although the meeting point they chose this time is based on the coastline of Shanghai, but it is actually about 60 kilometers away from the coastline of Jiangsu.
However, even so, I didn't expect that Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi would move their positions so quickly, and the distance of the attack would be so far. Now, the Japanese army no longer dares to guarantee that the maximum range of the Tornado rocket artillery is not 60 kilometers, so it is okay to simply hide 100 kilometers away at once. If even this can be beaten, it is really the fate of the Central China Front.
In order to make the Central China Front hold out longer, the Japanese base camp was prepared to take some risks to airdrop supplies to the Japanese army in Shanghai. However, in order to reduce the losses, the Japanese army chose to do it at night, so that it could basically avoid the Chinese air force and only need to face Wei Qidong's one variable.
The Japanese army knew that Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi were usually only piloting one plane, so all the planes that the Japanese army planned to send were scattered as much as possible, and the time was also staggered, so that even if they encountered Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi, they would not be served in one pot.
It can be said that Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi have forced the Japanese army to this step.
Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi did not know about the Japanese army's plan, so they first drove the minelaying submarine again and set off along the river to replenish the mines destroyed by the Japanese army. The shipbuilding speed of the Japanese army was naturally not comparable to the speed of Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi's mine-laying, and in less than two days, the state soldiers discovered that the safe passage that had been detected before was no longer completely safe.
"Bagayaru...... I'm going to cut your corpses to pieces...... "I don't know that it was Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi who did it, that is to say, he is going to start opening a new channel again.
Anyway, they had to try with their lives, and the cruel Japanese simply put the wounded into death squads, and then let them drive boats to explore mines. Even, some Japanese staff officers thought about whether the use of corpses could also achieve such an effect? So, they will also load some ships with corpses, and then a daredevils will control the ships to detect mines, which is really useful.
Therefore, some retreating Japanese troops often see that there are special corpse fishing boats, which are constantly salvaging corpses on the river. When the corpse of a ship is almost loaded, a death squad member boards the ship and steers the ship to detect mines.
This method does have a certain effect, because of this, many corpses have even been used repeatedly, when Wei Qidong learned about this situation through the reconnaissance of the air force, he also had to admire the intelligence and cruelty of the Japanese army.
"Little devil's method is effective for the anchor mines and pressure mines we have arranged, in this way, the mines we have laid will be much less lethal, so it seems that the gains outweigh ......the losses," Tang Xinyi sighed.
"Actually, it is still necessary to continue laying mines, so that the little devils will have to spend a lot of energy to clear the mines, and at the same time they can also destroy their ships. On the other hand, the mines we laid forced the little devils to open up waterways, and in order to reduce losses, the little devils only opened up a few safe waterways at most. And the ships that rush out of these channels will be more concentrated, and when they enter the sea, it will be much easier for us to attack with tornadoes. Wei Qidong analyzed in detail.
Tang Xinyi's eyes lit up when she heard it, and she immediately understood the meaning, if the two of them stopped laying mines, the mines blocking the mouth of the Yangtze River would be slowly cleared by the little devils. At that time, the little devil will be able to sail unimpeded. If the channel is wide, the fleet of the little devils will inevitably be scattered, which is not conducive to concentrated strikes. Therefore, it is still necessary to continue to lay mines, but fortunately, the cost of mines is cheap, and the mines used by two people are not high-end goods, so these losses can still be afforded.
In this way, the two sides fought with wits like this, and the little devils kept using all kinds of cruel grenades to clear mines during the day. In the evening, Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi were quickly filled.
"There was news from Nanjing, and last night, the air force of a little devil airdropped supplies to the Japanese army in Shanghai. If you don't guess wrong, the little devil should use a transport plane converted from a Type 96 long-range bomber......" After receiving the news from Nanjing, Tang Xinyi presented it to Wei Qidong for inspection as soon as possible.
"It looks like we're going to quickly set up a surveillance radar station." Wei Qidong nodded and said.
Quickly, the two acted immediately, and it didn't take long to build the radar station.