Since the Anti-Japanese War, the country. The army has been beaten and retreated, Shanghai can still support it for the time being, and the five and a half divisions of the Japanese army have been tired and have lost their positive and enterprising fighting spirit, but the Shanxi campaign has failed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoOn the 26th of last month, Niangzi Pass was lost, opening the eastern gate for the Japanese army to break into the Shanxi Basin; On the 2nd of this month, the Japanese army occupied Shouyang; On the 4th, that is, yesterday, the Japanese army broke through the Shiling Pass, forced towards Yuci, and then threatened Taiyuan, and on the same day, the Shanxi Provincial Government evacuated Taiyuan.

Judging from the overall situation, Taiyuan cannot be defended. If Taiyuan is lost, public opinion will definitely be greatly shaken, and the morale of the defenders on the Shanghai battlefield will also be affected, but fortunately, the Japanese army of Jinshanwei has already entered the Gu, and if Jinshanwei can annihilate one or two divisions of the Japanese army, it will not be a problem for me to rise and fall, and it will not be a problem to hold Shanghai. If Shanghai can hold on, it will take advantage of the prestige of a great victory to put pressure on the Japanese government at the Nine-Power Pact Conference being held in Brussels, and at the same time make some small concessions and promises on its own, and perhaps an armistice can be achieved between China and Japan.

However, it is also possible that the situation will backfire - the Japanese army, angered by the defeat of Jinshanwei, will mobilize a larger force to attack China. This is a very possible thing from the perspective of Japan's national character. Country. The army is defeated, and Japan will not cease the war; Country. The army won a great victory, but Japan was unwilling to stop the war, and only by putting it in a dilemma and suffering some small losses could it have the possibility of an armistice.

In Nanjing, Chang Kaishen thought about the above issues for a night, and he didn't sleep at all that night. At six o'clock in the morning, he finally called the Jinshan headquarters and demanded that they immediately open fire in order to drive out the Japanese landing force, so as not to make the Japanese angry with the heavy losses, but also to contain their landing and defend Shanghai. However, in the process of transferring the phone, Chang Kaishen changed his mind again and let the navy fire at the fog, and he was very unwilling to let the Japanese go. I wanted to call the front line again after half an hour, but I didn't want to fall asleep accidentally, but Qian Dajun and others didn't dare to wake him up, so they slept for nearly two hours, and by this time, the situation was irreparable.

"Take the phone to the front-line battery, and the chairman must listen to the sound of the artillery!" Zhang Fakui put down the phone and said to the staff officer that he only hoped that the Standing Committee would hang up after listening to the sound of the artillery, and that he would go up to the roof to watch the navy fight.

The call was quickly received from Battery No. 1, and the target of the shelling was no longer the transports on the east side, which after all, there were only sixteen transports, and now it was aimed at the regiment of transports on the west side, where there were forty-six transports, and the six 140mm guns of Battery No. 2 alone could not completely destroy these ships. Under the rapid fire, the nine gun chambers were full of gunsmoke and dust, and although there were electric lights inside, it was still impossible to see people. Colonel Ouyang Ji, who received a call from the headquarters, made a radical call, and the chairman was on the phone, this is worth it!

"I'm the chairman......" Chang Kaishen's voice was in the microphone, majestic and a little anxious.

"Yes, the humble position is Ouyang Ji, the commander of the No. 1 battery, please give the chairman a lecture." Colonel Ouyang Ji shouted loudly amid the rumbling cannons.

As long as Chang Kaishen listened to the sound of the cannon, at this time, there was a rhythmic salvo of 'boom-boom-......boom' from the microphone, which was like a war drum, which made him recover a little vitality from his mental malaise.

"Did you hit the Wako?" After listening quietly for a while, Chang Kaishen suddenly asked.

"Report to the chairman, we have sunk sixteen Japanese transport ships and killed countless Japanese pirates!" Colonel Ouyang Ji said with his chest straight, he felt that it was extremely honorable to be able to report the results directly to the chairman.

"Excellent! I am very gratified that the officers and men of the Navy bravely fought against the Japanese and went to the national disaster together. Jinshan Weigu had the Qi family army to resist the Japanese, and now there is a navy to annihilate the enemy, it is really the immortal ...... of the Chinese heroic spirit, I hope your department will make persistent efforts to defend the ......" In the rumbling cannon, Chang Kaishen was a little excited on the phone, but before he finished speaking, there was a loud bang, the sand and stones above the command post rained down, the electric lights were also turned off, and the voice in the microphone was actually broken.

"Communication company, check the line!" Sure that the phone was really broken, Colonel Ouyang Ji shouted.

"Sir, it's an eight-inch cannon with a foot handle." Captain Han Tingfeng, the gunner, reported. The shot just now hit the command post, but fortunately, the command post was sturdy, and the shell only damaged the corner of the concrete.

"Immediately ask the command post to shell the Ashigara!" Colonel Ouyang Ji shouted angrily, he has been fighting transport ships, and the Japanese have killed a lot, but how can it be interesting to fight Japanese warships, and these transport ships don't even know their names.

Ouyang Ji felt that it was boring to fight the transport ship, but the two batteries fired six salvos in one minute, and a total of 90 shells were projected, and the total weight of these shells was 3.6 tons, 3.6 tons in one minute, and 36 tons in ten minutes. The 16 merchant ships on the east side were sunk by the No. 1 battery within five minutes, and when he saw the ship on the west side trying to escape, Chen Jiliang immediately ordered the No. 1 battery to hit the transport ship on the west side. In the raining shells, the transport ships on the west side were silent one after another, and the Japanese soldiers who had not yet landed were all floating on the sea. The 12th Sentai Rush Island and the twelve sea sweepers could not be saved at all, and the shells said that they were hitting the transport ship, and the sea sweepers could not be missed as long as they entered this area. In just a few minutes, two sea-sweeping boats were hit by guns, one wounded and one sunk.

The sinking of the sea sweeper caused the 1st Mine Combat Team in charge of the east side to send the 2nd Destroyer Team to blow snow, white snow, and first snow, and the 9th Destroyer Team to rescue the soldiers who fell into the water; There were only sixteen transport ships on the east side, and the engineer units, artillery units, and troops directly under the army on the west side made the sea even more full of heads, and the 6th, 10th, and 11th destroyers of the three destroyers came to the rescue, leaving only four cruisers, Ashigara, Tenryu, Tatsuda, and Kiso, to bombard and suppress the No. 2 battery.

A human tragedy was being staged on the sea, and the Japanese troops who had come ashore looked back and were all stunned. After three minutes of shock, Noboru Kunizaki and Toshio Tani came to their senses, pointed their sabers at the No. 2 battery, which was constantly firing artillery, and demanded that the troops immediately occupy it to save the lives of the Japanese troops at sea.

There was no artillery preparation, no machine gun cover, and the Japanese rushed straight and straight. The first round of attack was repulsed by the 62nd Division's 367th Zhang Yunyi Regiment - this was actually due to the improper coordination of the Japanese army's land, sea and air forces, at this time the destroyers on the sea were rescuing the soldiers who had fallen into the water, and the cruisers were shelling the No. 2 battery, and there was no land attack at all; The head plane has been flying for more than two hours since the morning, not to mention that there is no fuel, even if it has run out of fuel and ammunition, it is returning to the aircraft carrier to prepare to load and refuel, and the follow-up plane has not yet arrived.

Fortunately, in addition to more than 20 heavy machine guns, the 367th Regiment was also equipped with ten 20mm anti-aircraft machine guns.

"Yaga!!" On the south side of the Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway, on the back side of Haiyue'an, the commander of the 6th Division, Gu Shoufu, had broken his glasses, lost the brilliance of talking and laughing with his subordinates in the past, and half of his face was full of yellow sand blood - this was the blood that exploded on his face after the former adjutant Pinggang Li Zhongzuo was hit by the defenders' mortars. His whole body was twitching at the moment, and his fingers pointed to the transport ships that were constantly sinking on the sea, and the imperial soldiers who were struggling in the sea, and he couldn't say anything except scolding 'Baga'.

In front of him, the captain of the 13th Wing, who was covered in blood and had a crippled leg, was also in great pain, his side only had light firepower and grenadiers, and even heavy machine guns and mortars were short of ammunition, while the Chinese army had strong firepower and extremely strong fortifications, and a roof was added above the trench, and there was no obstacle in the south of the Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway, and the firing boundary was open, and it was impossible to occupy the second trench by **** charge alone.

"Your Excellency, you should let ......" Okamoto Hoyuki wanted to say that he should let the naval artillery support, but when he saw a sword light, he broke off with a shout, and then he felt that the world was spinning and he didn't know anything.

Okamoto Yasuyuki's head was slashed by Tani Shofu, and dark red blood pillars spurted out of the broken neck that never fell, splashing everyone. Without even looking at the corpse, Gu Shoufu stared at Major General Tokutaro Sakai, the commander of the 11th Brigade, and said in a dumb voice: "Sakai-kun, you go and take down the fort!" ”

"Hey!" The Kunisaki detachment had already gone to attack the Acropolis of Jinshan, and it was impossible to retreat and capture the battery, and now only the 13th and 47th wings, which had gone ashore, to capture the battery could save the fate of half of the division and even the entire 10th Army at sea. And the speed of occupation must be fast, with the speed of sinking the eastern ship regiment in five minutes of the Zhina battery, not twenty minutes, the western ship regiment will also be sunk by them. What's more, the ship sank when it sank, but the area where it fell into the water was too close to the coast, and its own destroyer sea-sweeping boat had to brave the fire of the Chinese artillery to rescue the soldiers who fell into the water, and if the Chinese battery was not occupied as soon as possible, the entire army would be shattered here.

On the way to the front, Major General Tokutaro Sakai pondered the importance of capturing the Shina Battery, and the face of Major General Minami Kyushu, nicknamed 'Black Bear', was full of anger and fearlessness. He came directly to the headquarters of the 13th Wing without cover, a crater blown up by a 127mm naval gun, "Now I directly command the 13th Wing and the 47th Wing!" How long will it take to launch an immediate attack? He asked.

"Your Excellency, the soldiers are scattered after landing, and it will take at least five minutes to assemble the soldiers!" The captain of the first brigade was killed just now, and the captain of the second brigade, who had just participated in the attack, Masato Okayama, replied.

"No, it can be done in three minutes!" Tokutaro Sakai took a drink, and then asked, "Where is the 47th Wing?" ”

"Your Excellency, the Tanigawa Wing is on the beach." Toshio Arima, the adjutant of Hoyuki Osa Okamoto, who was beheaded, replied.

"Send someone to tell Tanigawa immediately, and let all the soldiers of the 47th Wing rush here!" Tokutaro Sakai said. "Five minutes later, our army will launch a decisive assault on the batteries of the Chinese army to save the fate of the entire Liuchuan army."

"Hey!" The 47th Wing may not be able to catch up in five minutes, but the current situation can only be achieved by capturing the China Fort.

The 11th Brigade was ready to fight to the death, but the soldiers of the 367th Regiment in the second trench north of the Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway were retreating cautiously. It's not that they don't want to fight, it's that the division commander Tao Liu personally came to the front line on his feet. It was about to withdraw before, but the Japanese army just organized a **** offensive, and if it withdrew, the Japanese would definitely chase and beat their butts, so the whole regiment gritted its teeth and withstood this wave of offensive before starting to retreat.

The No. 2 battery is 2.3 kilometers from the coast and 1.3 kilometers from the Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway, the second trench is under the roadbed on the north side of the Shanghai-Hangzhou Kilometer, and the third trench is 700 meters north of the highway. This is the core of the defense, there is not only barbed wire in front of the trench, but also a mine array, and the defenders carefully enter the trench, waiting for the naval artillery to hit the Oriental soldiers.

"Remove the cannon suit!" Inside the No. 3 battery, Colonel Lin Jinghuan, the captain of the Haichen, was giving orders. It has been fifteen minutes since the artillery was fired at the front battery, and all the officers and men in the battery could not wait. In fact, the 24 105mm Krupp rapid-fire guns of the No. 3 battery could barely hit the transport ship regiment, but the command just refused to let the artillery open, probably because it was worried that the No. 3 and No. 4 batteries were not as simple as the two batteries on the front line, not to mention the sixteen-inch shells, I am afraid that even the eight-inch shells could not resist, and its defense could only be against the air. Now the Japanese troops who had come ashore began to storm the front-line batteries, and the command ordered the batteries to prepare for cannoning.

The camouflaged cannon suit faded, and the grandeur of the Lord of War was fully revealed. The 24 barrels were all raised, and the gun chief, Captain Cen Shixuan, said 'open the cannon', and a 105mm shell fired from the base gun fell in the Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway, blowing up dust and making the hands and feet of the Japanese who were preparing to attack weak - there were not only two batteries in China!

"The war is at the last moment, and I am on the front line, praying for the victory of the imperial kingdom and the peace of the country. At present, I will make a desperate bet and break my bones to repay the emperor's kindness, and I would like to lead the soldiers and shout long live the emperor, so as to make this eternal trick. Major General Tokutaro Sakai was not afraid of enemy artillery, and lectured at the soldiers standing in front of him on the Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway on his back. After he finished saying Wen Zou Zou's mobilization words, he raised his hands vigorously and shouted: "Onboard!" Onboard! Onboard!! ”

The brigade commander personally mobilized and led the assault, and the soldiers were naturally full of morale, and they shouted extremely loudly. Suddenly, seeing that the fire had arrived, Sakai Tokutaro waved his hand to silence the soldiers, he drew his command knife and shouted loudly again: "Gentlemen, farewell!" That's what we want to say, the battlefield is where our bones are buried!

He no longer looked at the hellish sea with the smoke and fireworks, and no longer listened to the howls of his own soldiers from the explosion of the transport ship, but just pointed his command knife at the Zhina battery in front of him, which was firing a salvo, and shouted with all his strength: "Now, start the assault!" Kill the !! ”

"Kill the !! in a hurry" More than 3,000 soldiers of the 11th Brigade rushed to the Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway without any artillery cover, and rushed to the Zhina Fort, where they had annihilated their entire army. (To be continued.) )