At eight o'clock in the morning, Fujiki's flotilla slowly headed towards the shore of Xia Yucun, and the soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 69th Regiment guarding the lake saw that the devils were beginning to approach the shore, and immediately stared at the flotilla that was getting closer and closer. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, because the second and third battalions had all withdrawn to Yujiashan, the commander of the first battalion, Hong Lin, adjusted the troops, with the first company guarding the forward position by the lake, the second company on the main position behind, and the third company guarding the flank.

It's just that taking into account the threat of artillery fire from the devils, all machine gun crews are ready in advance for timely transfer.

In order to inflict heavy damage on the devils, a company placed a grenadier squad behind the forward position.

The 60 mortar squad in the battalion was arranged in a hidden position behind the main position.

The Japanese flotilla reached the edge of the range of infantry artillery and immediately stopped. Through the binoculars, Hong Lin could clearly see that the devils were preparing for the landing, and the machine guns and infantry guns on the steamboat all showed hideous faces.

Fortunately, I knocked out the devil's mountain cannon, otherwise my pressure would be much greater.

Hong Lin knew that the next battle would definitely be a vicious battle, but fortunately, the regiment commander had delegated the power of the camera retreat to himself, and thinking of this, he couldn't help but take a deep breath.

At this time, the roar of an airplane suddenly sounded in the eastern sky, Hong Lin turned his head and looked through the binoculars, and saw four black iron birds appear in the sky above the lake in the distance.

The devil really sent planes to help in the war.

"Pass the order, don't shoot without my order." Hong Lin's worried eyes were retracted from the sky, and he commanded the deputy battalion commander on the side in a deep voice.

The commanders of the three companies of the first battalion received an order for the soldiers to remain quietly in the trenches.

The devil's plane arrived in a blink of an eye, roaring and began to dive, and then the black iron eggs were thrown towards Xia Yu Village, and as the explosion sounded, the houses in the village were blown up, and broken wooden blocks and masonry flew everywhere, and then some houses collapsed in the dust and mist.

After a while, the village began to burst into flames, and when the warriors saw this, their eyes immediately flashed with hatred.

Hong Lin saw that the devil's plane bombed the village first, and he couldn't help but secretly scream a fluke. Fortunately, the people in the village have been evacuated in advance under the organization and mobilization of local cadres, otherwise in this round of bombing by the devils, I don't know how many villagers would have died.

At the same time, he was also glad that he listened to the advice of the regiment commander Geng Zhiguo and did not deploy troops in the village.

Fujiki saw that Xia Yucun had been bombed devastating by the air force, and a grim smile appeared on his face, and then with a wave of his hand, the fleet began to pounce on the shore.

After the devil's plane bombed the village, they began to search along the lake, but found that although there were trenches dug by the New Fourth Army below, no shadow of the New Fourth Army was found.

On the hill south of Xia Yu Village, there were only scattered positions, and no New Fourth Army was found to be active on the positions.

Could it be that the New Fourth Army has already evacuated Xia Yucun? The devil pilot felt a little strange, but since he had reached the sky above Xia Yu Village, he had to express it anyway, so the four planes circled for a while and then began to dive again, ravaging the blocking positions on the lake and the fortifications on the hill with machine guns and bombs.

Hong Lin still sweated in his heart when he saw the devil's plane start bombing the position, although the soldiers all hid in the air-raid shelter in the trench according to his instructions, but how many soldiers would die in the devil's bombing and strafing, he had no bottom in his heart.

The bombing of the position near the lake by the devil's plane finally ended after 15 minutes, and its pilot, seeing the smoke rising from below, immediately said a word of satisfaction Yo Xi, and then contacted Fujiki to report the bombing situation, and left in a big way.

Fujiki saw that Xia Yucun was bombed everywhere, but he did not find a shadow of the New Fourth Army, and began to suspect that the New Fourth Army had left. So he ordered the fleet to approach carefully towards the shore.

The three steamboats at the head approached the bombed-out dock, and because the improvised dock had been destroyed, the soldiers had to jump from the bow to the river beach on the shore, and some of them were stuck in the mud and hobbled forward.

Hong Lin saw that there were more than 100 devils in the first batch to go ashore, and other steamboats also began to dock, and the devils' planes had already left, so he immediately ordered a series of fire.

The commander of the first company was lying in the trench at the time, watching the devil jump off the boat, staring at it with a pair of eyes, just waiting for the battalion commander to give an order.

The bombing and strafing of the devil's plane just now, the anti-artillery hole where several fighters in the second platoon of the first company were unfortunately hit by shells, and suddenly collapsed, burying those soldiers alive, and when the plane left, the nearby fighters ran over to dig up the soil, and these five fighters had already died.

Thinking of the sacrifice of their comrades-in-arms, the soldiers of the whole company were full of hatred for the devils.

Seeing the devil in front of him cautiously rushing towards his forward position from the lake, the commander of the first company whispered: "Pass the order and prepare for battle." As he spoke, he opened the head of the barge gun in his hand, calculating in his heart the distance between the devil and his forward position.

When the devil walked to only fifty meters away from his forward position, Hong Lin suddenly shouted a hit, and the soldier hiding in the trench immediately turned around and lay on the trench, the gun in his hand continued to fire at the devil, and at the same time, the camouflaged heavy machine gun also took off the camouflage at this time, and happily splashed bullets at the devil in front of him.

The devils who rushed ashore first were still very cautious at first, paying full attention to the New Fourth Army blocking the shore with all their might, but they rushed through the most difficult distance, and they did not see the bullets of the New Fourth Army flying, their vigilance began to decrease, their waists began to straighten, and their formations became denser.

Who knew that at this moment, a company suddenly opened fire, the bullets shot out like a rain curtain, the devil who ran in front was hit by the bullet, screaming and falling backwards, the devil in the back heard the gunfire in front of him, and hurriedly looked for cover, but unfortunately in front of the position of the company was an open field, and it was also the landing site that the devil first chose, a distance of one hundred and fifty meters, there was no cover at all, unless he lay down on the spot.

The commander of the first company saw that the devils in front were overturned, and the devils in the back lay down on the spot, fired at their positions, sneered, and ordered the grenadiers in the company to start bombarding.

At this time, the heavy machine guns arranged on the forward positions roared dullly, knocked over all the devils who were standing, and immediately retreated back along the communication trench in accordance with the predetermined plan.

The devils lying on the ground were bombed wildly by the grenadiers, and they immediately complained bitterly, and many devils were directly blown up, and their stumps flew in the air.

At the same time as the company opened fire, the 60 mortars arranged in the back, seeing that the steamboat close to the shore of the devil was just within its strike range, immediately under the order of the battalion commander, fired with all their strength towards the lake.

With the sound of all the sounds, the cannonballs suddenly flew out from behind the hill and smashed towards the area at the dock, where the devils were about to get off the boat and land, when they heard the sound of cannonballs whistling in the sky, they couldn't help but panic, and some of the devils jumped into the lake desperately and rushed to the shore.

In the blink of an eye, the cannonballs flew and fell into the lake, blowing up the water columns one by one, blowing up the nearby devils directly, and some shells fell directly onto the steamboat, blowing up a ball of fire, and those devils who were crowded on the bow of the boat and preparing to land had to jump into the lake when they saw this.

After a while, the steamboats were blown up and burst into flames.

Fortunately, the first battalion used all 60 mortars this time, and the range and power were too far behind those of the 82 mortars and infantry guns, which only blew holes in the deck of the steamboat and blew up the supplies on board, but failed to sink the steamboat.

When Hong Lin saw that the four steamboats on the lake had been blown up and burst into flames, he shouted twice and ordered the mortar company to retreat quickly.

There are also a few infantry guns on the devil's steamboat, once the devil turns the muzzle, he can use the infantry cannon to easily kill his own mortar, Hong Lin doesn't want this bit of money in his battalion to be lost by the devil in a blink of an eye.

Sure enough, less than five minutes after the mortar company withdrew, the devil's infantry artillery came and blew up the artillery position just now into dirt pits.

When the commander of the first company saw the devil lying on the ground and shooting at him, he took it as soon as he saw it, and ordered the soldiers to quickly withdraw to the rear along the communication trench, carrying the wounded and sacrificed comrades.

Anyway, the round of raid just now, at least sixty devils were killed, which was not a small victory, according to Deputy Brigade Commander Shi's instructions, they just blocked for a while and retreated, and there was no need to use devils to fight hard.

After bombing the back of the hill with artillery fire for a while, the devils on the steamboat turned the muzzle of the cannon and began to bombard the forward position where the first company was located.

The devils who were suppressed on the ground by a company saw that the position of the New Fourth Army was bombarded by their own artillery fire, and immediately cheered in their hearts, and the commander waited until the shelling was over, waved his command knife, and rushed to the front desperately with those devils and the devils who then rushed ashore.

Who knew that on the way to charge, they were not attacked by the New Fourth Army at all, and the sudden tranquility made the devils feel uneasy, and after they cautiously rushed to the position, they saw that there were countless New Fourth Army positions just now that they were empty, and only then did they determine that the New Fourth Army had withdrawn.

Fujiki was relieved to learn that the soldiers of the two squadrons had successfully landed.

In this damn summer fishing village, he not only lost a third of the steamboats, but also nearly five hundred imperial soldiers, so to speak, the two brigades under his command have lost one-fifth.

Fortunately, Fujiki finally succeeded in landing the landing, and Fujiki ordered the first two squadrons to advance forward and occupy the hill behind Xia Yucun, while the rest of the troops accelerated the landing.

Liu Chuan, the deputy commander of the Japanese army, received the order of the wing commander and immediately took the remaining soldiers of the two squadrons to rush to the small hill behind Xia Yucun on the left and right.

Behind them, the devils who came ashore began to set up defenses in Xia Yu Village, and at the same time, with the engineering squadron that came from the troops, they were busy repairing the improvised dock.

In order for the ship's supplies to land smoothly, it is necessary for the steamboat to dock to facilitate it. (To be continued.) )