The armored detachment quickly broke through the three barricades of Jining Road, Huimin Road, and Yulin Road, and faced the largest enemy position on this road, the Qiqihar Road garrison on Pingliang Road, and the 88mm anti-aircraft guns completely destroyed and scattered the Japanese in only two minutes. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Whether it is a tank, a motorized infantry battalion, or a soldier of the 522nd Regiment, there has never been a miracle of advancing two kilometers in the core of the Japanese defense in less than an hour. And Lieutenant General Wang Jingjiu, who was in the hidden observation post outside the concession, immediately gave Du Yuming a punch after answering the phone, and scolded: "You ten thousand knives chop!" Why didn't you come up to fight earlier, do you know how many brothers I've died in the past few days?! ”

"Me!" After being scolded for playing well, Du Yuming's face was full of astonishment, but when he saw the rest of the 87th Division again, his expression was gloomy, and he couldn't say anything to refute it.

"Immediately send troops to fill it in! Fill it in! Wang Jingjiu immediately ordered, "Don't be idle on the side of the Gongda Yarn Factory, immediately do a diversion attack, immediately do a diversion attack, and immediately do a diversion attack to prevent the Japanese from reinforcing it." After talking about the arrangements of the troops, he said: "Call the headquarters immediately and report that our army has broken into the US concession, occupied Pingliang Road, and will soon occupy Huishan Wharf!" Occupy Huishan Pier soon! ”

Wang Jingjiu jumped excitedly, he gave Du Yuming another punch after giving the order, and scolded happily before leaving the hidden observation post. His report was quickly transferred to the headquarters of the 9th Army: the headquarters of the Guyiyuan in Nanxiang. The staff officers received the call in disbelief - after five days of fighting, they only occupied some of the outside positions, and as soon as the armored regiment went up, it was about to hit the Huishan wharf, is it possible?! However, it was expected that the front line would not dare to lie about such news, so he still hung up the phone and immediately reported it to the commander, Lieutenant General Zhang Zhizhong.

"Hit Pingliang Road?!" Like a circle of staff officers, Zhang Zhizhong was also skeptical of this news, and subconsciously, he thought it was too unlikely.

"How did they fight?" Chief of Staff Xu Quan was also incredulous, is the tank so powerful?

"Report!" The staff officers outside came in again, "The Japanese Navy Command and the Gongda Yarn Mill have sent reinforcements to our army's attack area. ”

This news was finally somewhat reassuring, and the chief of the Operations Division, Lieutenant Colonel Shi Shuo, immediately said: "Commander, it is estimated that the armored regiment has really hurt the Japanese, and we should immediately order the whole line to launch an attack to support the armored regiment in the operation." ”

"Yes, the 88th Division should be mobilized immediately." Fang Chuanjin and Shen Yuncun also said.

The news was confirmed, and Zhang Zhizhong patted his head: "If only they had chosen Baoding Road at the beginning." If you hit Pingliang Road, it will already be Huishan Wharf. ”

The area that the armored regiment broke into was between Xuchang Road and Qiqihar, and if it continued to fight like this, it could reach the Huangpu River, but the problem was that the Huishan Wharf was on the west side of Xuchang Road. To occupy Huishan Wharf, they had to turn right, that is, walk 1.5 kilometers west along Pingliang Road to reach Huishan Wharf. The headquarters did not know how the armored regiment was chosen before the attack, but now that it had entered the army, it could only make a mistake - first cut off the east-west connection of the Japanese army on Xuchang Road and Qiqihar Road, which could be regarded as one of the completed battle attempts; At the same time, it was only right to order the armored regiment to attack westward immediately and hit Huishan Wharf along Pingliang Road.

"Then immediately give the order and let the 88th Division launch a diversionary attack! In addition, the armored regiment was ordered not to attack further south, but to turn right immediately and attack Huishan Wharf west along Pingliang Road. Zhang Zhizhong finally gave the order, his voice was hoarse, and his face was full of joy -- Chang Kaishen's phone call from the Nanjing Supreme Command was getting more urgent every day, and he finally had an explanation for taking the Huishan wharf.

"Put!!" On Qiqihar Road, Lieutenant Colonel Lin Zehuan, commander of the antiaircraft artillery battalion, had gone crazy. Seeing the Japanese barricades along the road being bombarded and smashed by the 88 anti-aircraft guns, his body burst out with indescribable excitement, and he even felt that he was not fighting, but raping Japanese women--the thick and straight barrels of the 88 anti-aircraft guns were his yang. Gu, and the Japanese barricades along the street are the yin of Japanese women. Dao, now, Yang. Moving forward with the Japanese being been. on the ground.

As soon as the anti-aircraft guns shouted to stop, the Vickers tanks, which had temporarily taken refuge in the civilian houses in front, rushed over, and the machine guns opened fire with a '......bang, bang', and the wounded Japanese soldiers and Japanese expatriates who had fled were all bloodied. The Motoroccan infantry followed closely behind to replenish their guns and make a fortune -- the watches in the hands of the Japanese volunteers were the first to be snatched and put into the pockets of the soldiers. Major Zheng Shaoyu, the commander of the tank company in charge of the battle in this street and alley, did not blame this, it was the soldier's trophy, and he even wanted to shout that there were countless Western watches at the Huishan wharf.

The closer you get to the Huangpu River, the denser the streets become, and the houses gradually become taller, and this is the residential area behind the wharf along the river, mostly two-story brick and stone buildings. In the past, it may have been inhabited by mill workers and dock coolies, but now it is a ruin, with only a few broken shop signs half-buried in the masonry.

'Salted pork and vegetable rice bone broth ......' although the word 'bone' is gone, but a discerning person can know what it is at a glance;

'Tiger Label Jack-of-all-trades, cool ......' is another signboard that is broken in two;

'White cat flower cloth, Xinfeng textile printing and dyeing ......', a fashionable woman wearing a printed dress and perming her hair sits on a chair, but half of her face is missing.

Amid the roar of the tank engine, the team slowly moved forward, and the infantry followed behind the tank with their bodies bent, some of them actually smiling. Major Zheng Shaoyu, who leaned out of the tank, only felt uneasy, he had already seen that the barricades in front of him were empty, where did the Japanese go? Although he was amazed by the lethality of the horizontal bombardment of the 88 anti-aircraft guns, he really didn't dare to think that it would hit Pingliang Road so smoothly.

Sure enough, while he was scrutinizing, someone behind him shouted, 'Small-heart!' Before he could finish speaking, machine-gun bullets whipped like whips on tanks and roads, followed by the sound of anti-aircraft guns. The Japanese had already moved their guns to the roof, and they hurriedly fired two shots before they urgently moved - their own mortars had already moved to a three-story roof on Qiqihar Road, which was condescending and could control the entire battlefield.

The sound of gunfire, grenades, shell explosions, and the sound of 47mm tank guns firing ......, these sounds are extremely dense and noisy, but no matter how dense and mixed these sounds are, they can't hide the sound of the 88 anti-aircraft guns firing behind them: 'Bang-boom!' As soon as the shells came out at a distance of several hundred meters, the seemingly sturdy brick house was immediately blown open a large hole, and several Japanese steel helmets were blown up, and then fell into the broken bricks with a clattering sound. Three artillery shots were fired in succession, and the Moroccan infantry, which had been prepared for a long time, immediately rushed in and strafed, while the Japanese fire on the other side of the street was suppressed by tank guns and tank machine guns.

For Zheng Shaoyu, this style of play was dangerous - he occasionally poked his head out to observe, and several times he felt the wind brought up by the 88mm shells passing by his side, and at the same time, his ears were ringing after whistling, but this was the only way to advance quickly. Now, for example, in less than ten minutes, the Japanese army's temporarily organized defensive line has been blown down.

'Onboard!!' After the fire points on both sides were blown up, they were stunned earlier, and the Japanese who came back to their senses grabbed the cluster grenades and rushed forward, but before the tank machine guns could fire, the motorcycle infantry following the tank knocked down the two Japanese soldiers. The grenade was dead but still smoking, and with a 'bang', Zheng Shaoyu only felt a rain of flesh and blood.

"Report, the brigade commander ordered to turn west!" The herald on a two-wheeled motorcycle, who rode a Chun Dap (BMW), ran to the front, saluted Zheng Shaoyu, and then loudly conveyed Du Yuming's order.

Stabbing the Japanese army through its weak spots, and then making a detour in the depths, is a typical method of armored warfare. A few hundred meters ahead is the Huangpu River, and it is indeed time to turn around.

"Reverse, go west, target Dalian Road!" Zheng Shaoyu ordered. At the same time, other detachments that had also received Du Yuming's orders began to turn westward. Originally, the attack from west to east was Xuchang Road, Weituma Road, Jiangpu Road, and Qiqihar Road, but now as soon as they turned around and attacked westward, the offensive routes of the four detachments from north to south were Huoshan Road, Huimin Road, Yulin Road, and Pingliang Road. The offensive line from north to south immediately changed to east to west.

This shift was somewhat difficult for the Japanese to adapt to, because their barricades were aimed at the north, but now the enemy was attacking from the east. Captain Saburo Kikuta, the leader of the 11th Squadron of the Japanese Navy stationed in this area, immediately became confused, and in addition to continuing to call for reinforcements, the rest of the matter was to draw his command knife and fill himself in the barricade. But this was completely futile, and with the roar of the 88 anti-aircraft guns, Captain Kikuta saw Amaterasu four hours earlier than the original history.

"Brothers! Work hard and take Huishan Wharf! "The Dalian Road was already in sight, and the enemy army had no large-scale resistance, Major Zheng Shaoyu stood up straight and shouted above the tank. But tragedy always strikes suddenly, 'Puff puff puff... When the ......', after a burst of machine-gun fire from the air, he fell onto the tank. At this moment, a Type 94 bomber was passing over Pingliang Road, the plane was pulled very low, and the machine gun was like the needle of a sewing machine, nailing the eye of the needle evenly on the ground like cloth.

"Hidden!" After the plane passed by, someone shouted loudly. The infantry immediately flashed into the houses on both sides of the street, and the tanks and anti-aircraft guns immediately took refuge in both directions. However, the planes had already seen clearly the offensive pattern of the armored troops on the ground in the air, and after the bombers pulled up, they swooped down at a wide angle -- the Japanese pilots saw the 88 antiaircraft guns, which were flaunting their might and defeating their own side one after another, and before they swooped to the lowest point, the bombs under the belly of the plane flew in.

"Lie down!" Lieutenant Colonel Lin Zehuan, who felt that the target of the plane was an anti-aircraft gun, shouted, but he didn't dodge - he couldn't bear this gun!

'Boom! 'Thirty kilograms of bombs exploded in the vicinity of anti-aircraft guns. Even though the cannon body blocked part of the shrapnel, Lin Zehuan's left arm was still cut off, and the blood flowed profusely.

The overhead planes were still raging, and after the bombers dropped their bombs, a Type 95 fighter attacked again, spitting out a chain of fire that hit the dead or undead country on the ground. On the soldiers, there was a dull sound. Guo Dingyuan, deputy of the antiaircraft artillery battalion, saw the battalion commander who had died of blood only after the Japanese plane dropped the bomb for the second time, his mouth was wide open, his eyes were wide open, and one hand was still on the tire of the antiaircraft gun.

"Battalion commander!" Major Guo Dingyuan shouted, and crawled over only to find that the battalion commander had already lost his breath. Seemingly knowing what the battalion commander was going to do in the end, Guo Dingyuan shouted, "Quick! Fast! Push the cannon under the tree, push it under the tree! ”

There are a few street trees near the intersection of Pingliang Road and Dalian Road, and there may be a glimmer of life when the anti-aircraft guns are pushed under the trees when there is nowhere to hide. As soon as the major shouted, the gunners rushed out, but the planes overhead arrived, and these people retreated back into the civilian houses.

"!" Guo Dingyuan was so angry that his lungs were about to explode, he took out his gun and shot him twice in the house. Just as he was about to curse again, another Type 94 dive bomber dived overhead, this time it was not a 30-kilogram bomb, and the prepared Japanese plane dropped a 250-kilogram bomb. With the sharp roar of the bomb, after the 'boom', Guo Dingyuan suddenly felt that his body was light, and then flew up leisurely.

"Kotei, Japanese planes have been dispatched!" At the front-line observation post, Hou Teng's face turned black after answering the phone, "Both 88 guns were blown up!" The tank lost four ......"

"Where's Lin Zehuan?" Hearing that all the 88 guns were blown up, Du Yuming, who was sitting on fire, stood up like his buttocks were on fire, he waved his hand and shouted: "How did he promise me in the first place, he said ......"

The power of the 88 guns was so powerful, Du Yuming was still thinking about where to get a few more, but after fighting for a long time, these two guns were damaged by Japanese planes. He was angry, very angry!

"Battalion Commander Lin died for the protection of the artillery!" Hou Teng's whisper made Du Yuming swallow the rest of the words. He asked again: "What about Guo Dingyuan?" ”

"Deputy Guo Ying was also martyred!" Hou Teng said. Company Commander Zheng also ....... We have no air supremacy, and the armored forces are at the mercy of others. The Japanese dive bombers bombed with great accuracy, and the troops should have withdrawn immediately. ”

Lieutenant General Wang Jingjiu heard that the armored regiment had reached Pingliang Road, and immediately left in a hurry, and he wanted to command the whole division to take the Huishan Wharf in one go. At this moment, there were only officers of the armored regiment and the commander of the 522nd regiment, Colonel Yi Anhua, at the command post, and this soldier with a full body of civility immediately said when he heard this: "Brigade Commander Du should withdraw the armored regiment first." As soon as Dalian Road is passed, it is Huishan Wharf, and the rest will be handed over to our infantry. ”

"Can the infantry do it?" Du Yuming looked at him with some gratitude.

"The armored forces fought for a few kilometers, and the infantry only needed to fight for a few hundred meters, and they would definitely be able to do it!" Yi Anhua lifted his glasses and smiled. Of course, this is a polite comforting word, the intersection of Pingliang Road and Dalian Road is less than 500 meters away from Huishan Wharf, and these 500 meters may not be better than the previous five kilometers.

"Okay!" Du Yuming nodded immediately. "I'll leave you two companies with mortars." In his excitement, Du Yuming also paid off -- he regretted that the 120mm mortars ordered by France would not arrive until next month.