Just when the devil of Ushijima thought that he was going to die, suddenly there was a sharp whistling sound overhead, and then a huge fire burst out from the high place on the river bank, and the thick smoke quickly dispersed in all directions, and the explosion shook the heavens and the earth, and the "boom" sounded non-stop!

"It's our naval guns! Sir, our warship came to our rescue! "The officers under the Ushijima devil almost cried, these shells are very powerful, at least more than 200 millimeters in caliber, and the troops of the China Army on the opposite side definitely don't have them, then only the naval guns on the big warships of their own Third Fleet hit them!

The devils who thought they were going to be finished and desperate all howled excitedly, and the artillery fire of the Third Fleet on the river came, which means that the commander above has discovered the situation here and came to the rescue!

The devils of Ushijima were dragged by a group of devil officers and rushed towards the commanding heights in front, and Li Dagang, who was originally here to block the devils, immediately withdrew because they were suddenly bombarded by the devil's naval guns.

So these devils successfully rushed to the commanding heights, and finally picked up a life, the Ushijima devils, like other subordinate devils, were wet like a chicken in soup, trembling and climbed onto the river beach, and found that the Chinese troops blocking them had already withdrawn, so angry that they stomped their feet and scolded: "Gather troops and pursue them!" ”

"Your Excellency Dazuo, don't chase it yet, it's important to gather the troops!" The devils under his command have a refreshing brain, at this time, the troops under him are soaked in the tide, there are countless drowned, and there are many people killed by the guns and shells fired from the opposite side.

"Boom" a cannonball smashed, and exploded not far from the Ushijima devils, the tsunami-like shock wave almost wanted to re-lift the Ushijima devils into the river, but the devils around him stopped him, Ushijima looked at the yellow rushing tide, and shouted at his subordinates: "Quick!" Send a report to the fleet, stop firing, if we continue to fight, we will blow ourselves up! ”

"Your Excellency! The radio was lost in the water, and the phone was gone! The devil officer under his command cursed and reported.

"Yaga! Set fire to the smoke and instruct the fleet! "The Ushijima devil is quite clever at this point, and he knows how to set off fireworks to instruct the fleet not to open fire.

A group of devils hurriedly rushed to the nearby woods, cut some branches and weeds, and set fire to the fire, and suddenly several streams of fire and smoke rose, and the commander of the devil fleet on the river found these fires, and he also saw that it was Ushijima who sent him a signal again, indicating that they were already there, and if they fired again, they would hit their own people, so he ordered his subordinates to stop the shelling immediately.

The devil of Ushijima, who suffered from this catastrophe, was furious, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to count the losses, and soon the statistical results were reported, and he almost fainted when he saw it, and the whole wing of 3,000 people, now standing on the river bank survived only 800, and the battle loss rate was sixty percent, that is to say, the wing he led was almost disabled, and at this time, if the Chinese army on the opposite side took advantage of the situation to rush over again, and lost weapons and ammunition, Ushijima, who had not much food, could hold out for as long as he had no bottom in his heart.

Ushijima was in a hurry, fearing that the Chinese army on the opposite side would rush over, so he hurriedly asked his subordinates to quickly cut down trees and tie up wooden platoons to contact the fleet on the river, so that the fleet could send marines to come up to support and deliver the necessary supplies and ammunition.

But at this time, the navy and army inside the devil shouldered, and the fleet commander refused Ushijima's request on the grounds that he had not received this support order, Ushijima had no choice but to borrow a radio from the fleet, and reported the situation encountered here to Gu Shoufu in detail, and asked Gu Shoufu to order the fleet to immediately assist him in landing ashore and launch an attack on the opposite Shina Army troops to avenge the flooding!

At this moment, Gu Shoufu is no longer the commander-in-chief of the Central China Dispatch Army, he is just an ordinary division commander below, he understands his words, Hasegawa of the Third Fleet will not listen, and it is difficult to say whether that Matsushima can listen to him, hey, this has to go to the Nakajima again, that's it, since the will of heaven is so, it is not good to go out of the division, then withdraw it, otherwise the lone army will appear on the opposite bank of the river, be detected by the commander of the opposite China Army, and surround and eat, but it will be too late!

Gu Shoufu ordered Ushijima: "Immediately take the ships of the fleet and retreat, don't delay at Pukou!" ”

Originally, Gu Shoufu's order was quite reliable, he understood that the purpose of his dispatch of the Ushijima Wing this time was to surprise the 79th Army's flank on the Pukou side, but now it has become like this, it has been introduced into the tidal area by others, and the losses have been heavy, and the need for a surprise attack has been lost. Especially when they have all lost all their weapons and ammunition, this group of remnants has almost no combat effectiveness.

But the Ushijima devil was unwilling to withdraw like this, it was too faceless, and he would definitely be ridiculed by other colleagues in the army in the future, and withdrawing would mean a complete failure, and if he wanted to make a comeback in the future, it would be almost impossible in the Japanese army, so his brain was hot, and he decided to make a desperate bet, determined to take his men to the Pukou Fort!

This time he really let him be blinded, there are not many firepower points and fortress guns on the side of the Pukou Fort, this situation has been known to the scouts under his command, the Niudao Devil according to this analysis, the Chinese army that blocked himself at the commanding heights just now is not the main force, but the blocking force after the break, if it weren't for the sudden tide that surged over, his wing would definitely not be so miserable, thinking about this, the Niudao Devil went crazy, howling and ordering his subordinates to prepare a little, and immediately rushed to the Pukou Fort!

On a fortification in front of the fort, Li Dagang and his brothers stayed in the abandoned fortifications and waited for the devils to come up.

In this case, Li Dagang decided to strike another blow to the devils here, and he asked his sappers to lay mines and dig traps near the fortifications to delay and kill the devil soldiers who rushed up! Buy some time for the evacuation of the big forces behind!