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Chapter 1448: An inch of mountains and rivers, an inch of blood

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At seven o'clock in the morning, not long after dawn, the earth was still blurry, and the 203mm fortress artillery group, which had been silent for four hours on the north shore of Hangzhou Bay, once again aimed at the line of the Jinhui River and launched a fierce artillery bombardment.

As soon as a huge shell fell, half of the six-meter-wide anti-tank trench collapsed, and by the time it received four or five rounds, the trench was basically blown flat.

Most of the mines planted by the Japanese army are old-fashioned trigger-type mines, which will automatically detonate when they encounter a slight external force, and this round of carpet-covered shelling not only blew up all kinds of barbed wire, but even the minefields carefully arranged by the Japanese army were almost completely lost.

The Japanese fortress group, which was about 500 meters away from anti-tank trenches, barbed wire, and minefields, also withstood severe tests.

It is true that the 203 caliber cannon armor-piercing shell cannot tear through the roof of the reinforced concrete fortress up to two meters and a half thick, but no matter how thick the skin is, it cannot withstand repeated bombardment!

At the beginning, the devils hiding in the fortress, still looking light and light, feeling the top of the thick fortress, hit by shells, trembling violently in the fortress, dust and slag flying, but unharmed, from time to time to tell a few jokes, ridiculing the Chinese shells, only suitable for itching.

However, soon the little devils stopped laughing. The Chinese fortress cannon, as if it didn't want money, continued to spit out 203mm caliber armor-piercing cannon shells at a rate of two minutes, and bombarded the fortress one after another, one, two, three......

Finally, after the thick turtle shell was subjected to more than ten or even more than twenty shells in a row, it was finally completely penetrated, and the large group of devils hiding in the fortress were all blown into powder.

The devils don't turn a blind eye, where is there such a bully? We just bombard a few shells in our wars, and the cost of such a large-caliber shell is hundreds of yen, so a waste is completely the behavior of a loser!

However, the commander they faced today was An Yi, in order to ensure that the troops were not threatened by the Japanese fire when crossing the river and reduce the casualties of the soldiers, An Yi made up his mind: no matter how big the cost was, all the fortresses placed by the Japanese army in the forward position must be knocked out first.

This artillery bombardment continued until noon, and almost all the fortress groups within a depth of 15 kilometers on the east bank of the Jinhui River were wiped out. In half a day, nearly 20,000 rounds of 203mm cannon armor-piercing shells were fired, costing as much as 3 million US dollars.

An Yi was unmoved, he completely regarded this attack on the strategic point of Pudong held by the Japanese army as a comprehensive assessment of the actual combat ability of all units of the An Jia Army, compared to the huge sacrifice of personnel, such a waste is still worth it.

Since the Japanese heavy cannon unit had not appeared, at half past twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the survey boat of the Funaqiao unit went down the Huangpu River and quickly entered the Jinhui River, where it measured the water speed, water depth, and river surface width at six locations. Immediately afterwards, the sappers, who had arrived in advance by forty-eight steamboats, quickly erected fixed steel bars and steel cables along the section of the river designated by the survey ship.

At the same time, the 1st Brigade and the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Engineer Division were quickly dispatched, and 200 heavy trucks carrying equipment for the boat bridge rushed towards the Jinhui River.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the convoy was divided into six routes and came to the Jinhui River, and according to the measurement results, the bridge construction work was carried out in batches.

As the cables were loosened, the prefabricated bridge fasteners quickly fell into the water, and under the towing of the on-board cables, the fasteners composed of four-section pontoon equipment automatically unfolded and floated on the water. The sight of dozens of cars pouring prefabricated firmware into the river at the same time is spectacular.

The boat bridge equipment is composed of a sealed steel box, with huge buoyancy, naturally drifting downstream along the river, but the steamboat that has been waiting for a long time is desperately resisting the equipment, a squad of sappers quickly rushed to the equipment, untied the cable connecting the heavy truck, and the four soldiers stood in the bow and the downstream direction of the current, holding a long pole, adjusting the course of the boat bridge equipment. At the same time, the other sappers, wearing thick gloves, vigorously pulled the equipment of the boat bridge and drove to the other side of the river along the steel cable that had just been erected at one meter and five places above the river.

After the equipment arrived on the other side of the river, the sappers on the shore immediately fixed the equipment with steel cables and land, and laid the lower bridge components, at this time the second boat bridge equipment quickly came up, using the concave and convex parts between the equipment, the two equipment were perfectly connected together, and the sappers who were quickly waiting for the battle, buckled with chains, and at the same time covered with a steel plate with a lock at the place where the two boats were connected. Of course, this alone could not guarantee that the two ships would not be disjointed and had to be consolidated, so the sappers, wearing inflatable vests with buoyancy, quickly jumped into the river and firmly fixed the equipment of the two pontoons with prefabricated materials.

A piece of equipment, completely stretched, four meters in length and width, 100 meters of river surface, with 25 equipment to perfectly achieve the connection between the two banks, the whole time is less than an hour.

As six steel pontoon bridges appeared on the Jinhui River out of thin air, the officers and men of the 66th Regiment of the 87th Brigade and the 88th Brigade of the 30th Division of the 26th Army divided into six routes and quickly crossed the Jinhui River and slaughtered the Japanese army's deep position in Pudong.

Along the way, the assault troops advanced violently and unimpeded, and the army of the North Road was killed until Xiasha Town, the army of the Middle Road was killed to Xuanqiao Town, and the army of the South Road was killed to Fengcheng Town, only to encounter resistance from the Japanese army.

After all, the farther the artillery coverage, the more difficult the accuracy becomes, and some places inevitably suffer a few more shots, and some places suffer a few fewer shots, for example, the 264th Regiment of the 88th Brigade is now facing the Japanese army in the front-line position of Fengcheng Town.

The Japanese army's five large fortress groups in a line used the firing holes of their carefully constructed fortresses to constantly fire fiercely at the 264th Regiment with machine guns and cannons hidden in the fortress, while the bazookas held by the infantry for attacking the forts were somewhat powerless against the Japanese fortresses.

This was mainly due to the fact that the Japanese fortress walls were too thick, and the range of the bazooka was not as good as that of the opponent at a range of more than 300 meters, which brought a lot of casualties to the troops. An Yi, who received an urgent report from the front, immediately instructed Ye Cheng and the Zhang Cunpu Tank Regiment of the 103rd Division of the New Second Army to dispatch urgently to give the most powerful support to the front line.

The 1st Tank Regiment under the command of Zhang Cunpu was divided into six routes and quickly crossed the Jinhui River.

When tanks and armored vehicles crossed the river one after another, the officers and men of the engineering unit crouched on both sides of the equipment, vigilantly paying attention to the connection of the equipment, and responding to all kinds of possible dangers at any time. Fortunately, from beginning to end, the pontoon bridge is like a perfect whole, and there are no problems.

The troops composed of tanks and armored vehicles drove straight along the way, and one of the battalions soon came to a distance of about 1,000 meters in front of the Fengcheng position, and the officers and men of the 264th Regiment let out loud cheers, apparently full of confidence in the arrival of friendly mechanized troops.

The first battalion had two tank companies, one infantry company, and one machine gun company, and each tank company had ten tanks. Major An Yixian, the first battalion, ordered all units to stop, and the first company sent two tanks to test the strength of the Japanese artillery fire.

Although the thickness of the front armor and side armor of the J1 tank reached 43.8 mm, and the anti-aircraft guns of the 37 War did not hinder it at all, they did not dare to guarantee whether the Japanese army was equipped with heavy firepower such as the German 88 series anti-aircraft guns, and the anti-aircraft guns with a caliber of more than 70mm were enough to tear the armor of the J1 tank, and if they encountered a cannon with a caliber of more than 50mm equipped with armor-piercing shells, the J1 tank would also be quite troublesome.

In order to avoid unnecessary losses, it is still very necessary to test the firepower of the Japanese army.

After the two tanks successively climbed over several anti-tank trenches that were flattened by heavy artillery, they were already able to see the Japanese fortress of about 400 meters, and this distance was fired directly by 50mmKWK39L/60 smoothbore guns, and the effect was good, so they chose to stop, intending to rely on their own firepower, aiming at the Japanese fortress shooting hole, and carrying out accurate point fire, breaking through the weakest link of the Japanese army, and hitting the opponent.

However, before the two tanks could be launched, the Japanese artillery had already launched an attack first, and a 75mm grenade accurately hit the tank on the right, and shrapnel flew everywhere, which made Major An Yixian, a battalion holding a telescope in the rear, worried.

The tank on the left didn't know what was going on with his comrades, and in a fit of rage, he opened fire directly, and the shells flew out smoothly, hitting the muzzle of the fortress that spewed out the tongue of fire, and a puff of smoke floated up, and it suddenly fell silent.

At this time, the tank on the left passed through the lookout to observe the situation of his comrades, only to see that the tank on the right was unscathed after receiving a 75 mm grenade fired directly by the Japanese, and opened fire after a slight adjustment, and the shell hit a shooting hole again, and a burst of fire came, and there was a violent explosion, it seemed that the blind cat touched the dead mouse and detonated the ammunition stored in the fortress by the devil.

After realizing that the Japanese artillery fire did not pose any threat to them, the two tanks immediately put up gear and roared forward.

About a platoon of infantry of the 264th Regiment followed closely behind the tanks, paying attention to the coordination of infantry and tanks to prevent the suicide attacks of the Japanese infantry.

Two J1 tanks, fortifications composed of five bunkers, more than ten cannons on both sides plus two general-purpose machine guns of the tank fought together, all trying to suppress the opponent, which made the infantry of the Anjia Army who covered the tank breakthrough feel extremely uncomfortable: the Japanese army's small and medium-caliber howitzers basically do not pose any threat to the J1 tank, and the howitzer is different from the cannon, it is not suitable for direct fire, ten shells, it is difficult to have a hit, even if it hits by luck, it can be regarded as a big explosion of character, but unfortunately it does not cause any damage to the tank, On the contrary, the infantry hiding behind the tank was covered by a rain of shells and shells, and the damage was not small.

However, it is not only the infantry soldiers of the An Family Army who are complaining, but also the devils in the fortress group.

The devils suddenly found that the Type 92 curved infantry gun, Meiji Type 94 75mm mountain gun, Meiji 38 Type 105mm field gun, Type 94 37mm rapid-fire gun, and Taisho 11 Type 37mm flat-fire infantry sniper were unable to deal with the new tanks of the Anjia Army.

Seeing this, An Yi immediately ordered the remaining eight tanks of the tank company to join the attack, and at the same time, he asked the 264th Regiment to send infantry to coordinate the operation through the walkie-talkie.

Eight tanks quickly caught up with the two tanks in front of them and joined together in suppressing the fire of the Japanese fortress.

However, after more than ten minutes of fierce fighting, the weakness of this J1 tank was also fully demonstrated - although the thick armor was not afraid of the artillery bombardment of the devils, the armor-piercing shells fired by the 50mm KWK39L/60 smoothbore gun could not penetrate the protective wall of the reinforced concrete of the Japanese army with a thickness of up to two meters.

The five fortress groups of the Japanese army, with the largest one in the middle, are divided into two layers, and a total of eight shooting holes are arranged, two of which are directly hit, and it is pitch black, but there are still six shooting holes that are constantly spitting out tongues of fire to suppress the tailgating of the infantry of the Anjia Army.

The thick walls, which I don't know how many shells they withstood under bombardment, did not penetrate the Japanese defenses except for the large holes left on the exterior of the fortress.

In desperation, all the J1 tanks stared at the firing holes of the Japanese fortress and bombarded them, although several shells could only hit one shot, but it was much more effective than hitting the walls of the fortress.

The tank crews of the An Family Army have already made up their minds, and the purpose of this battle is to cover the friendly infantry rushing forward, so that the infantry can deal with the devils in the fortress.

However, everyone underestimated the difficulties encountered by the Japanese army.

The bombardment of warplanes that lasted all night, as well as the artillery coverage this morning, coupled with the shelling of the tanks in front, were not without the slightest effect.

After continuous saturation shelling and aerial bombardment, the semi-permanent fortifications in the open air around the fortress were basically cleared, even the devils hiding in the fortress were killed and injured by the terrible shrapnel fired everywhere in all directions, and now under the suppression of the continuous and dense artillery fire of the tanks and the general-purpose machine guns, it is impossible to break through at all, not to mention the already weakened nerves of the devils, I was still suffering from the heavy frustration of being killed and wounded after being hit by shells in the shooting hole.

Although the two-meter-thick reinforced concrete ramparts can effectively block the armor-piercing shells fired by the 50mmKWK39L/60 smoothbore gun, they can't stop the steel torrent rolling from the tanks.

A tank rushed to a distance of about fifty meters from the central pillbox, and the gunner again stuffed an armor-piercing high-explosive shell into the chamber, and the barrel was aimed directly at the opponent's cannon launchport, through which the gunner could even clearly see the sweaty devil artillery in the fortress.

"Boom-"

The body of the tank shook suddenly, and I saw smoke at the muzzle of the Japanese fortress, and there was a faint fire in the middle. It turned out that the shell directly passed through the narrow space with a diameter of less than half a meter through the muzzle of the gun, fired into the inside of the fortress, and suddenly exploded, and the screams of the Japanese soldiers came and went, and it was estimated that there were heavy casualties.

At this time, the infantry in the back had approached the fortress, and the end of the devil was finally coming, and the bold and careful bazooka hand aimed at the shooting hole of the Japanese fortress at close range, and accurately fired one rocket after another into the fortress, and violent explosions came and went. The fighters on the demolition mission rushed to the rear of the Japanese fortress and used high-energy explosives packs and cluster grenades to send the devils inside to meet their Amaterasu.

After an hour of hard fighting, at the cost of 85 soldiers killed, the 264th Regiment and the 1st Tank Company finally succeeded in taking this fortified area, and the number of Japanese soldiers killed in the battle far exceeded imagination.

Due to the continuous shelling and bombardment, many Japanese troops in the fortress were blown to pieces, the specific number of people can not be counted, but just to be able to piece together a human figure, as high as 1,226 people, in addition to blood and minced flesh everywhere, it is difficult to imagine the Japanese army in what environment to insist on resistance, but as an aggressor, this is also the price they should pay!