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Six nights. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 In the 15 minutes of continuous artillery bombardment, the officers and men of the two divisions of the 19th Route Army were defenseless and suffered heavy casualties, so they had to abandon the positions of the target road, Qiujiang Road, and Hengchuan Road, which the Japanese had crossed the border to build roads in the northern area of the public concession on the North Sichuan Road for several years, and retreated to the second line of defense along the railway.

The underground headquarters of the 19th Route Army was full of bells and busy, and General An Yi and Cai Tingcuo, who rushed from the enemy command post in front of the northeast, were puzzled after checking the latest situation, they didn't know where the enemy had come from so many artillery, and the number of Japanese troops on the three attack lines was also higher than the generals expected

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Cai Tingcuo immediately thought of the 11th Division and the 9th Division that the enemy had already driven out of the mainland, but An Yi knew that these two divisions were still in the waters of Dalian and Qingdao and had not yet arrived, and he didn't know where the Japanese army suddenly appeared out of thin air.

"Could it be that Kurume is a mixed brigade?" Ou Shounian asked.

"Three hours ago, the main force of the Jiumiliu Division was still on the front line of Yangshupu, and it was impossible for a large-scale movement to Zhabei without being observed by me at many points."

Ye Cheng shook his head and vetoed Ou Shounian's speculation, then pointed to the Japanese concession and asked in a low voice: "There has been no sign of an increase in troops in the Japanese concession in the past two days, could it be that the Japanese army has concealed the eyes and ears of all of us and sent in batches of 6 Japanese reinforcements anchored at sea?" ”

"Report: The 6th Squadron of the Japanese Navy has about two brigades and launched a fierce attack on our Jiangwan position!" The operational staff officer came in a hurry.

"Report: The enemy troops on the front line of the North Station and Tiantongan are rushing forward fearlessly, almost stepping on the explosion point of the enemy's artillery and rushing to our position, and hand-to-hand combat has already occurred in the position of the 78th Division

"Report: Enemy artillery fire covers the positions of our 60th Division

Cai Tingcuo no longer hesitated, and immediately ordered Ou Shounian to command the 156th Brigade of the reserve to enter the battle, and ordered the newly formed independent brigade to immediately rush to Jiangwan to block the enemy's attack.

An Yi looked down at the map again. Ye Cheng also leaned in the dagger to bury his head in watching, and after a while, Ye Cheng stretched out his finger and slid from Jiangwan to Liu Xing, and then from Liu Xing to Wu Hong, the two suddenly raised their heads and exclaimed in unison, Ye Cheng turned around and ran, accompanied by two guards, and returned to the former enemy headquarters.

Cai Tingcuo looked at An Yi who was looking at the map again in surprise: "What's the matter, brother, what's the matter?"

An Yi raised his head and pointed at Wu Hong: "After nearly three hours of fighting, the Kurume Brigade, which is the absolute main force of the enemy, has not made any moves, don't you think it's strange?"

From Jiangwan to Zhabei and then to the forward position west of the concession, the battle has been so fierce, but there is no movement in the direction of Wuhong, and not a single regiment of Liu Xing of your department has encountered the enemy, there is only one explanation for this. That is, the main force of the Kurume Division has already pounced on Wu Hong! This desperate and desperate style of play almost deceived us. If my estimation is correct, the sound of the enemy's fleet's dense large-caliber artillery shelling will soon be heard from the direction of Wu Hong

The generals suddenly realized, Cai Tingcuo thought about it slightly, and immediately ordered two regiments of the 61st Division to reinforce Liu Xing, so as to prevent the main force of the Japanese army from breaking through the front line from this direction, tearing open the gap, and giving the friendly 44th Division on the northern flank the greatest response and cover.

The chief of staff of the 19th Route Army approached Cai Tingcuo and asked whether he ordered all the divisions under his command to launch a fierce counterattack? An Yi also echoed this opinion. It was believed that the enemy army was purely attacking from the east to the west, and the number of people participating in the attack would not exceed 7,000, so he took this opportunity to fight back and would definitely be able to repel the enemy.

Cai Tingcuo and the generals urgently discussed. Soon a consensus was reached, and no longer had any hesitation, and immediately ordered the divisions to counterattack with all their might.

An Yi used the telephone to transfer his own guard regiment to serve as the strategic reserve of the 61st Division, and urgently ordered a brigade of Yin Jinan's 16th Division to slowly approach the 44th Division, and another brigade to quietly march to the riverbank, guarding the left flank of the 44th Division, and preparing to reinforce the 44th Division at any time.

The sound of Jiangwan and Zhabei artillery in the south is loud, the flames are everywhere, but the direction of Wuhongkou is silent, the cold wind is biting, the sound of the whistling north wind slapping the river waves on the shore is clearly heard, from the Baodong Pavilion on the northwest side of the fort to the west bank of the Hongpu River, there are 17 observation posts that stretch for four kilometers in a zigzag stretch, and within 500 meters behind the observation posts, there are more than 8,500 officers and soldiers of the two brigades of the 44th Division hidden.

In the division headquarters 3.2 kilometers west of the fort, Gu Changfeng, who had received urgent reports from all sides, issued three orders in succession, ordering Fang Buqing, commander of the 131st Brigade, to resist a little and immediately retreat two kilometers to the defensive position on the east bank of the Nongqian River to Chenjiaxiang as quickly as possible; Fu Guanjie was ordered to lead the 132nd Brigade to lie dormant, wait for the enemy's main forces to pursue the 131st Brigade, and then attack the south with unshakable determination to cut off the enemy's retreat. and the 131st Brigade to encircle and annihilate the enemy army; Order one three. The brigade immediately moved eastward in concealment, as close as possible to the Hongbin line where the Japanese army was attacking, and then continued to lurk and wait

Fifteen minutes later, a huge explosion suddenly sounded in the direction of Zhenbei and Wuhong Fort, and the Japanese 14 warships were already quietly in place, and all the naval guns simultaneously launched a long and fierce shelling of Wuhong Fort and Baoshan Town.

The thick supporting logs of the sturdy underground bunker shook violently and "creaked", and the seven-meter-thick layer of soil above his head was still trembling under the cover of two layers of steel plates and three layers of logs, and pieces of mud and dust flew down through the gaps in the logs, making Gu Changfeng and the generals disgraced. I couldn't hear the shouting clearly, and the map on the table was covered in dust and couldn't be viewed.

After half an hour of intensive bombardment, only one of the seven telephone lines connecting the various departments on the front line was connected, and without waiting for Gu Changfeng and other commanders to give orders, the chief of the communications section personally led the communications company to the front line to repair the lines, and the staff officers lifted the rain cloth above the radio station. Continuing to make radio contact with various units, Deputy Division Commander Yan Yaohuan had already rushed to No. 13 when the sound of artillery had subsided slightly. In the brigade supervising the battle, Chief of Staff Liang Zhenyu swept away the dust on the map, re-laid it on the table, and while listening to the information on the staff officers under his command, he used a red and blue marker pen to mark the latest situation of the enemy and us.

"Report to the division, it has been confirmed that it is the Kurume brigade, but fortunately, the division seat ordered in time, one three. No sooner had the brigade left the east and north edges of the town than enemy shells fired from the river leveled the entire lurking position. Liang Zhenyu wiped away his sweat and reported loudly, the expression on his face showed that he was still afraid.

Gu Changfeng nodded and shouted loudly: "Qi Xiuping,"

"Here!"

"You and An Jin each led two detachments to go out immediately, from one to three. The flanks of the brigade are engaged in long-range precision strikes against the enemy, and remember, no matter what the situation is, your special forces are not allowed to participate in close combat and hand-to-hand combat." Gu Changfeng ordered coldly.

"Yes.

Yan Yaoyan arrived at the right time, and the entrance of the drill class was short. Without saying a word, he immediately crouched on the map with a dusty face.

At the Hongpu River position, the two brigades of the Kurume Brigade, with the help of artillery fire, broke through the defense line of a brigade of the "Supplementary Division of the 19th Route Army" in one fell swoop. Through the three bridges that the defenders had no time to blow up, and the two pontoon bridges that had been erected urgently, the troops divided into three routes and launched a fierce attack on the defenders who fled in panic.

Major General Kumaya Shimoto, the brigade commander in the forward command headquarters, received the good news and was very satisfied. Before, it was not unreasonable for the Navy to replace Rear Admiral Shiozawa with Vice Admiral Nomura, not only the difference in rank, but also the difference in vision and experience, at least Rear Admiral Shimoto felt comfortable in his heart as a matter of course, otherwise it would be absolutely difficult for Shimoto to accept it as a rear admiral to command him as a rear admiral of the 6th Army, and Nomura was smarter than Shiozawa, when the ship was still at sea, he had already made strategic judgments and plans, Nomura said very clearly to Shimoto, if you want to fight in Shanghai, It also had to rely on the powerful 6th Army and the follow-up 9th Division and 11th Division, so at the moment it could only take a defensive position, and then attack with all its might after the reinforcements arrived, so as to complete the battle.

Xia Yuan appreciated Nomura's point of view, but he also felt that he was despised from Nomura's words, and his Kurume mixed brigade did not seem to be looked down upon by Nomura, so Xia Yuan told Nomura very unceremoniously that his brigade could win a groundbreaking victory as soon as it arrived, and the 19th Route Army, a ragtag army of the squadron, was not worth the high esteem of the soldiers of the Xia Yuan Brigade at all.

Nomura seems to have thought twice before giving Xia Yuan an important task: to take down Wu Hong.

Originally, Xia Yuan accepted this task very happily, but Nomura added: "The Wuhong Fort has been reduced to a waste under the repeated bombardment of many warships of our heroic navy, and even if there are many enemy defenders, there will not be many enemy defenders, and a brigade will definitely solve the problem." Xia Yuan wanted to refute when he was angry, but Nomura immediately added that as long as he conquered Wu Hong's fortress. Not only can the ships come and go to Japan no longer have to be afraid, but also can establish a good boarding point for the reinforcement troops, and the south of the fort is the Wuhong station, which is the last railway station point of the Honghu Railway near the Yangtze River, and as soon as the army arrives, it can be transported to the downtown area of Shanghai through the railway line.

So, Xia Yuan led his Kurume mixed brigade and entered the Huangpu River and Yangshujie from the mouth of the Yangtze River in a cruiser under the escort of the navy. After recuperating and recuperating, he suddenly struck a thunderbolt, all the way under the cover and transportation of warships. easily boarded the 6 Huabin Railway Wharf, and then launched a fierce charge towards the Wuhong Fort; After the friendly forces in Zhabei and Jiangwan mobilized the main forces of the 19th Route Army, they crossed the Hongpu River with indomitable spirit, and with great determination and firepower superiority, they broke the enemy's defense line in one fell swoop, smoothly opened the battle situation, and achieved excellent results in terms of punishment, which made the brigade commander Xia Yuan and the generals around him extremely proud.

Xia Yuan saw that the defenders who had fled to the east bank of the Langqian River to the line from Chenjia Lane were so vulnerable. Resolutely ordered the 4th Brigade of the 2nd Wing participating in the attack to turn around to the north and flank the remnants of the enemy who were unable to resist on both sides with the 1st Wing attacking Wuhong Fort! In the eyes of Xia Yuan and the generals, there was no suspense in the battle situation on the left, and an infantry brigade plus several auxiliary squadrons such as artillery, cavalry, and machine guns could achieve a decisive victory.

The enemy's Second Wing suffered casualties exponentially under the stubborn resistance of the officers and men of the 131st Brigade. The pursuit had to be stopped, and at this moment suddenly an order came from the brigade commander, and the 4th Brigade immediately broke away from the battlefield and attacked north.

At this moment, the officers and men of the 131st Brigade of the 44th Division completed the construction of their positions and preparations for firing, and the 24 81st artillery guns roared in unison.

In his eyes, a regiment of the squadron would not have more than 24 light and heavy machine guns, but now the firepower of the defenders' positions has far exceeded his troops, especially the dense mortar run with strong lethality, and the losses brought to his troops have increased rapidly.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the wing commander repeatedly reported to the headquarters urgently, and sent people to call back the Fourth Brigade that had left the battlefield and went north to besiege Wuhong Fort. As soon as he put down the phone, there was a fierce exchange of fire and the explosion of grenades from the north. The experienced Wing Commander knew immediately from the sound that his Fourth Brigade had encountered a sudden enemy force, and it was the most difficult night melee combat.

In the trench on the western section of the shallow bridge, Fang Buqing, commander of the 131st Brigade, heard the earth-shattering sound coming from the north, and his spirit was greatly lifted, he jumped out of the trench and pulled out his signal gun, and fired a red signal flare into the sky, taking advantage of the firepower and forcing the enemy to retreat step by step.

As the red signal flares rushed into the sky one after another, the three-kilometer radius of the position was illuminated in blood red, and the soldiers with the same red eyes rushed into the defeated Japanese troops on the whole line, using light machine guns, machine guns, rifles, bayonets and sapper shovels to carry out merciless killing.

The well-trained Japanese army was at a critical juncture. Automatically formed a defensive group, trying to use sharp bayonets and hand-to-hand combat to contend with the opponent, but the officers and men of the 131st Brigade did not eat this set at all, and all used bullets to greet the Japanese troops in the face, down to the squad leader level imitation Colt pistol at this time to play a huge role, the Japanese army often hurriedly formed a formation to show the bayonet and lay the corpse on the spot, and the soldiers who did not have a pistol rushed up to stab with bayonets and smashed with the butts of their guns.

More than 4,000 officers and men of the 132nd Brigade under the command of brigade commander Fu Guanjie launched a fierce attack with the enemy troops encountered halfway, and the officers and men of the 264th Regiment ignored it under the leadership of the deputy brigade commander, opened the road with more than 20 light machine guns, bravely attacked, and plunged directly into the back of the enemy. At dawn, only more than 300 people broke out of the encirclement and jumped into the icy Hongpu River to escape.

In the firelight, whistles rang out, and passwords sounded. The officers and men of the 44th Division lifted up the corpses and wounded of their brothers, picked up all the weapons they could see on the ground, and quickly retreated westward.

Brigade commander Fu Guanjie concentrated the troops of a regiment under the urgent report of the communicator, did not care to wipe away the blood and smoke on his face, pulled out his hot gun and roared, and took the lead in running towards the northern battery, which was still fighting fiercely.