After dinner, Du Yuming, who was in Jiangwan, was patrolling the armored regiment. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoYesterday afternoon, the withdrawal of the armored regiment was extremely timely, and after the 522nd regiment went up, it was thundered -- the Japanese gunboats on the Huangpu River began to open fire, and the 150mm shells were used to control the country. The army flew into the sky, and it was only less than 500 meters from Pingliang Road to Huishan Wharf, but these 500 meters were like five kilometers, and they couldn't get through.

In the armored camp, mechanics, commanders, and drivers were overhauling the tanks - these tanks were so old that the motorcycle hour (in Li Kongrong's words) had already arrived, and although only four were lost in the attack, six broke down on the road. The tank crew overhauled the tank, but the infantry and gunners were singing in unison, singing the song that has been popular all over the country in the past two months:

There is a river in the far east,

Its name will be the Yangtze River;

There is a river to the east of the rumors

Its name is the Yellow River.

Although I have never seen the beauty of the Yangtze River,

In my dreams, I often swim in the water of the Yangtze River;

I have never heard of the Yellow River,

Surging in dreams......

"What kind of song is this?" Du Yuming, who was drilling under the tank, touched a handful of sweat, and it was okay not to wipe it, but the oil on his hands was stained on his face, and half of his face was black.

"Guangting," Hou Teng looked at him and wanted to laugh, but he still replied, "The new song called "Descendants of the Dragon", which came out the month before last, became very popular as soon as it came out. The insiders even went to the queue to buy records, but they didn't buy them, so they could only learn on the radio. ”

"That's good," Du Yuming took the towel handed by the orderly, and he, a person who couldn't understand the rhythm, thought it was good after listening to a few words, so he said: "It's not a beautiful sound, and it tastes better than the songs of the Three People's Principles." ”

After finishing speaking, he felt that it was inappropriate to say this, the song of the Three People's Principles is the national anthem, and a folk song was actually said by him to be better than the national anthem, and the proper politics were incorrect. Hou Teng didn't notice the prefect's arrogance, he smiled and said: "Speaking of which, there is another funny thing, Brother Yuanliang saw that the girl in the photo was beautiful, so he sent someone to the concession to invite this singing Xu Peipei, I don't want to see anyone...... Hehe......"

"What, isn't it ugly?" Du Yuming frowned, he knew what virtues his old classmate Sun Yuanliang had, but he didn't know his son Qin Han.

"No, this Xu Peipei is married to a wife and pregnant with a child; What's even more unexpected is that she is still a member of the church, and Yuanliang's soldiers are arrogant everywhere, but they don't dare to speak out about the Shangyang pastor in the church, and the priest also said that he and the chairman and the chairman's wife are parishioners. Hou Teng was still laughing, "His adjutant will only come back to his life." ”

Of course, Du Yuming could not have imagined that this Xu Peipei was Li Kongrong's wife, and he did not want to care about Sun Yuanliang's search for flowers and willows, and was about to explain to Hou Teng to urge all battalions to sum up yesterday's combat experience when a group of people walked in at the gate -- it was the commander, Lieutenant General Zhang Zhizhong, who came in person.

"Sir, why are you here?" Looking at Zhang Zhizhong who suddenly appeared, Du Yuming was very surprised. "It's dangerous here!"

"Huh, dangerous? As a soldier, why are you afraid of danger?! Zhang Zhizhong was very unimpressed. After he finished speaking, he said: "Guangting, tonight the 36th Division and the 98th Division will launch another attack on Huishan Wharf, and your armored regiment will be dispatched." ”

Du Yuming graduated from the first phase of Huangpu, and Zhang Zhizhong only started to enter the school in the third phase, so the two cannot be said to be a teacher-student relationship, but Du Yuming's two downfalls were re-established because of Zhang Zhizhong's promotion - when Chang Kaishen established the second teaching instructor, if Zhang Zhizhong, who was the division commander, had not appointed him as the commander of the 6th Regiment, he would not have been able to win the appreciation of the second division commander Xu Yaoting, and it would have been impossible for him to become the chief officer of the armored force. Although the armored regiment was sent to Shanghai to fight, the military order did not specify that the armored troops were under the command of the 9th Army, and it was only to assist the 9th Army in combat. Now that Zhang Zhizhong wants the armored regiment to attack again, Du Yuming's expression can't help but stiffen.

"Why, I was scared yesterday?" Of course, Zhang Zhizhong knew what Du Yuming was thinking, but he deliberately didn't say it.

"Report sir, no!" knew that Zhang Zhizhong's order was difficult for him to do, but Du Yuming had to follow his train of thought and answer.

"That's right. Soldiers are born to defend their families and the country, how can they be afraid?! Tonight, the 36th Division will launch another attack on Huishan Wharf, and you, the armored regiment, must go there. Zhang Zhizhong finally said what he meant.

"Report to the commander, the 88 guns in the regiment are broken, and the other guns can't hit the Japanese barricades." Du Yuming had a bitter look on his face, and then he pointed to the tanks that were being repaired inside, and said: "Of the sixteen tanks, only five are fine, and the others are all being repaired." ”

"Nonsense, you're not a tank over there?" Du Yuming was talking about the 1st Tank Battalion, but Zhang Zhizhong was now pointing to the 2nd Tank Battalion -- this was the Vickers amphibious tank, weighing only 3.1 tons, and its firepower was simply tragic: there was only one 7.9mm machine gun, which was worse than the German No. 1 tank, and there were at least two machine guns.

"Report sir, this ......" Du Yuming had a headache when he looked at this pile of iron guys, and he said: "This tank doesn't even have a single gun, only a machine gun, which is not as good as an armored car." ”

"That's not going to work!" Zhang Zhizhong shook his head vigorously, "As long as I can move, I have to go to the battlefield." Fu said with his hands behind his back and said very seriously: "If your tank doesn't attack, Hugh will come to see me!" ”

Zhang Zhizhong left after speaking, and the order to attack was handed over to Du Yuming by his adjutant. Looking at the order, Du Yuming wanted to cry without tears, and several other people also looked at each other. Tanks don't even have guns, what kind of tanks are they, and the only use of going to them is to boost the morale of the soldiers, but the problem is that the order of the Supreme Command is to ask the armored regiment to retreat.

"Don't think about it, let's get ready." Du Yuming looked at the officers at all levels who were extremely sorry and gave the order to attack.

'Boom... Boom......', 'Da-da... Da da da......', 'Bang... Bang... Bang......, the tank rumbled forward under the moonlit night, even if it was masked by the sound of engines and tracks, the commander of the 2nd Battalion, Major Guo Hengjian, could still hear the bombardment of the Japanese naval guns on the front line, the sound of the Makqin machine gun, and the ...... of the fire of the medium rifle. The sounds are so chaotic, and the colors on the battlefield at night are extremely brilliant: there is the fire of the explosion of the shells, the fire chain of the machine gun spitting out, the fire of the fire after the shelling.

The tracks were moving forward on the uneven road, and the soldiers of the 36th Division who were resting in the ruins on both sides of the road stood up straight, Guo Hengjian couldn't see their faces clearly at night, but just by their waving posture and their expressions from left to right, he could guess that they were saying, 'Our tanks are coming!' Our tanks are up!! ’

"Is it Camp Commander Zheng?" In the dark, several people walked up and said in the face of an officer.

"No, Camp Commander Zheng is martyred!" Guo Hengjian's answer stunned the other party, obviously they got the wrong person. "I'm Guo Hengjian, the commander of the 2nd battalion, what can the commander tell me."

"Battalion Commander Guo, I am Colonel Hu Jiaji, the commander of the 216th Regiment!" The officer said. Before he finished speaking, Guo Hengjian raised his hand and saluted, Hu Jiaji is the fifth phase of Huangpu, he is the tenth phase of Huangpu, and this Hu Jiaji dares to fight and has a good reputation. Hu Jiaji asked about the situation of the armored regiment at the division headquarters, he didn't remember the others, he only remembered Huangpu Sheng, at this time he saw Guo Hengjian saluting, he also solemnly returned the salute, and then said: "How many tanks does Battalion Commander Guo have this time?" ”

"Report to Regiment Commander Hu, there are fourteen vehicles," Guo Hengjian replied, "There are only seven cannons." ”

"Cannons?" Hu Jiaji didn't know why, in his concept, tanks all had artillery, and as soon as the tank guns bombarded, the barricades and ironclad vehicles of the Japanese invaders were all blown up.

"Yes. There were only seven tanks left in the 1st Battalion that could move, and street battles had to be carried out in groups of twos and twos, so there were seven non-artillery vehicles. Guo Hengjian said.

"What kind of weapons do you have?" Yesterday, the armored regiment became famous in a battle, and even the headmaster was alarmed. But it is said that most of the results of the battle were fired by the 88 anti-aircraft guns, and these two cannons were dragged out of the Jiangyin fortress by Du Guangting, and I really don't know which master I was instructed by. Hu Jiaji's heart was hot when he thought of the 88 cannon, and with that thing, he could drive the Japanese from the Yangtze River in minutes.

"It was blown up by a devil plane." Guo Hengjian said with regret, "The transfer has not yet arrived." ”

"Don't you, mother!" Hu Jiaji scolded, but after a while, he controlled his emotions and said, "Let's go to the headquarters first,"

The temporary headquarters of the 216th Regiment is located on Tianbao Road on the edge of the concession, and the Pingliang Road of Dalian Road is still controlled by the 522nd Regiment of the 87th Division, but they can no longer be moved by the Japanese bombardment for a day, so the army headquarters transferred the 36th Division of the New Force Army, but they did not take over the position of the 522nd Regiment of the 87th Division, but opened another front, that is, from the north-west of Huishan Wharf (Dalian Road Pingliang Road is northeast of Huishan Wharf) to attack. Hu Jiaji's specific plan was to fight along the north-south Zhaofeng Road (now Gaoyang Road) to the riverside, which was the shortest route for the attack.

In this way, it will pass through six intersections: Yuezhou Road, Zhoujiazui Road, East Youheng Road (now East Yuhang Road), Tangshan Road, Dongxi Huade Road (now East Changye Road), and East Broadway Road (now East Daming Road). The advance distance is about one point and one kilometer. With the experience of the 522nd Regiment, Guo Hengjian did not dare to underestimate this point of one kilometer, especially when the Japanese naval guns were on the Huangpu River, the closer to the wharf, the more difficult it was to fight.

Moreover, this time the armored regiment sent seven groups, even if two groups were responsible for one street, there must be at least three streets, and under his concern and suggestion that 'the tank would be damaged will block the road', the offensive axis was added to the offensive axis (now Dangui Road). The remaining tank groups were responsible for the horizontal line advance and detours, which was tantamount to playing hide and seek against the Japanese barricades from the rear.

The command post rested for two hours, and the guns and artillery were noisy outside, and Guo Hengjian wanted to sleep but couldn't sleep, and when he finally had the feeling of sleepiness, the time was again at the time of the attack -- the attack time was set at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, and the 1st Battalion of the 216th Regiment was the main attacker.

After 20 minutes of artillery preparation for the division, the 50-year-old Vickers tank tracks finally advanced, and the moon on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month was half-covered by clouds, and the figure could barely be seen dozens of meters away. Guo Hengjian, who was in the smoke of gunpowder, spat out the car - he finally remembered that today was half of July, a very unlucky day, and it was evening.

"Dangdangdang......" Dense machine gun bullets hit the tank hull, Guo Hengjian, who was half-exposed, immediately saw the position of the machine gun clearly, and he said loudly: "Eleven o'clock direction, eleven o'clock direction......" In fact, he didn't shout The gunner in the car also saw the direction of the machine gun, and the whip-like fire chain in the dark night was too revealing the target.

"Okay!" The loaded gunner shouted, the driver immediately paused for a short time, and taking advantage of the rare moment of stability of the tank, the aimed gunner shouted "let go" again, so, "bang...", the tank was immediately filled with fire. The pungent smoke after the burning of the medicine. The Vickers tank had only three people, except for the driver, the gunner and loader were together, and it was the task of the commander to observe the effect of the shelling. At this time, Guo Hengjian found that the cannon was crooked, and he was about to kick the runner to let him fire another shot, when there was a sound of 'binding', the tracks of the tank were knocked out, and the tracks were scattered in all directions, which was the Japanese army's anti-aircraft artillery firing.

"Battle defense artillery, war defense artillery!" Guo Hengjian, who was about to be frightened out of the cannon as soon as he came up, immediately shouted, but in a hurry, he did not clearly explain the position of the enemy artillery, and although the three-ton tank behind him saw the direction of fire clearly, he could only use the pitiful 7.9mm machine gun to suppress the shooting -- the street fighting tanks were grouped in pairs and covered each other is a summary of experience, and now the armored detachment violates this regulation and naturally suffers losses.

Of course, the 7.9mm machine gun could not suppress the Japanese anti-aircraft guns with shields, and the mortars of the armored regiment could not hit this angle, so the second Japanese artillery arrived as scheduled after an interval of ten seconds. After the sound of 'boom', it was 'boom!' again. 'Loud bang - the unprotected ammunition in the Vickers tank was detonated, the turret was immediately lifted off, and the car was on fire. The Moroccan infantry, who was closely following behind, was unexpectedly stained with gasoline from the explosion, and his body was also on fire. The fire was the target, and in the darkness bullets were fired, and the two soldiers who ran out of the cover of the tank body were quickly killed.

Everyone was stunned! The soldiers of the 216th Regiment did not expect that the incomparably strong iron tank would be so unbeaten, and it exploded on its own after being hit by two shots; And although the soldiers of the armored regiment had long known that the tank would be martyred, the battle had just begun, and the battalion commander was martyred.

The attack stalled for a while, and the news reached the back, and Du Yuming and Hu Jiaji both rushed over. After the emergency coordination, Zhao Huzhen, the commander of the 3rd battalion, took over from Major Guo Hengjian to lead the team to attack, and the tank crew was all adjusted, and the remaining six six-ton tanks were organized into three groups, which were still based on Zhaofeng Road and Youyou Escape Road as the offensive direction.

It took about 20 minutes for the armored detachment to adjust, and Hu Jiaji over there jumped straight to his feet in a hurry, which meant that the previous artillery preparations were all in vain, and the alert Japanese had already entered the position and waited for the battle. However, Du Yuming is a first-term student, he is only a fifth-term student, and he can only hold this dissatisfaction in his heart.

From Yuezhou Road to Dongyouheng Road, the No. 53 and No. 56 tank crews led by Major Zhao Huzhen eliminated three Japanese 37 anti-aircraft artillery positions, and when the last anti-aircraft artillery position also exploded like fireworks, the morale of the troops was high again.