Chapter 455: Danyang is in danger
The Matsushima devil immediately sent a telegram to the captain of the destroyer on the side of the Jiangyin Battery, asking him why he was shelling? But he didn't get any reply, at this moment, Han Fei and the others and those devil captives had all evacuated the destroyer, and were sitting on the gunboat and the motorboat heading towards the fort.
And the improvised timers on the explosives and grenades that the special forces brothers had placed in the destroyer's ammunition depot and engine room were "ticking" and would explode immediately within a few minutes, tearing the devil destroyer into several sections, sinking to the bottom of the river, blocking the channel.
As soon as the Matsushima devil saw that the destroyer on the other side of the fort did not reply, his suspicion became even heavier, and he hurriedly ordered the water reconnaissance plane on the flagship to take off immediately and go to the Jiangyin fort to see what happened to that destroyer. Why didn't you even reply to the telegram?
The reconnaissance plane on the Devil's heavy cruiser was hurriedly hoisted by the Devil's sailors to the river to glide and take off, and when it flew over the battery, it found that four bombers from the aircraft carrier had flown from the southeast.
At the moment when these devil planes greeted each other, suddenly a red light burst out on the river, and then a ball of water rushed straight up, and the explosives and grenades on the devil destroyer that hit the river exploded, which immediately caused the ammunition in the ammunition depot on the destroyer to explode, and for a time all kinds of ammunition exploded one after another, just like the fireworks set off in the festival, blooming in mid-air, which was quite beautiful.
The devil destroyer was blown into several sections in an instant, and the bow and stern immediately warped, and soon sank to the bottom of the river, but the high mast and chimney were unconvinced on the surface of the river, and the fire was still raging, and the continuous violent explosions set off columns of water and huge waves, making the Yangtze River, which was already turbulent, roar even more.
The devil reconnaissance plane discovered the explosion below, and the devil pilot saw at a glance that the sinking ship was the destroyer of the fleet stationed in the battery, so he hurriedly reported the situation to Matsushima.
As soon as the Matsushima devil heard that the destroyer had been blown up and sunk on the river on the other side of the fort, he was so angry that he shouted "wow-la-la", and the Shina army repeatedly robbed his warship, and even sank his warship to the bottom of the river to block the channel, and the channel blockage caused by the wreck of the "Shibuya" in front of him was not over, and now another destroyer was blown up and sunk on the river across the fort, which made Matsushima almost go crazy, and after jumping to his feet and scolding for a while, he ordered the flagship and several other devil cruisers to immediately fire at the vicinity of the fort!
After a while, the overwhelming artillery fire roared in, Han Fei, who had just landed on the shore, heard this, and felt that something was wrong, and the naval guns of the devil's fleet retaliated, so he hurriedly ordered Zhao Yongfu on the fort with a radio: "Retreat immediately!" ”
Zhao Yongfu was waiting for Han Fei's retreat order, and immediately led the team to retreat towards Jiangyin City, and when he counted the number of people, he found that Haizi and the brothers who climbed up from the side wall of the fort were gone?
Zhao Yongfu wanted to look for it again, but then several naval artillery shells exploded on the river, and Li Dagang urged: "Don't worry about Haizi, they must go after the little devil who escaped, retreat quickly, otherwise we will be surrounded by devil shells!" ”
Li Dagang's guess was not wrong at all, Haizi and his brothers with a platoon of brothers and "tigers" were chasing after the devil on the middle island, this was Han Fei's order, chasing the devil on the middle island, the purpose was to be able to cover himself and his troops to calmly evacuate in the direction of Zhenjiang!
The devils on Nakajima found that there were Chinese soldiers chasing after them, and they ran faster, running wildly with tanks and armored vehicles, and met those devil troops under them on the way, so they regained their courage and gritted their teeth and ordered those devil artillery to bombard the Chinese soldiers and batteries that caught up with large-caliber howitzers!
Rows of shells roared over, Haizi and the "Tiger" saw this, and felt that they couldn't catch up anymore, otherwise they would definitely be killed here by the devil's shells, and the little devils seemed to be crazy, and they actually used heavy artillery to stop them!
Haizi they immediately retreated, in the west of Jiangyin to find the withdrawn Han Fei them, the team converged in one place, copy the path to Zhenjiang direction to return, calm down in the island devil found that the Chinese soldiers have already withdrawn, angry and scolded, he ignored the persuasion of his chief of staff and officers, insisted on ordering the devil brigade in the Danyang area to immediately launch a fierce attack on the Danyang and Tangshan line, take Danyang City, and surround Nanjing Purple Mountain!
The Devil Brigade immediately began to launch a fierce attack on the Chinese army positions on the front line of Danyang and Tangshan, and the two brigades led by Division Commander Hu had just dug improvised fortifications, and they were immediately bombarded by the Devil Brigade's crazy shelling, and the tide of devils rushed in, and the two fortifications in front were suddenly crushed, and the advance team of the Devil Brigade was about more than 1,000 devils who had approached Danyang City, and their mortars could hit the buildings in Danyang City!
Division Commander Hu was stationed in the command post in the north of Danyang City, the telephone was ringing constantly, the staff officers were constantly running in and out, the staff officers guarding the telephone were shouting at the top of their voices, and the news that the position had been lost, the troops of the entire company and the main battalion had been wiped out, and the news that the devil troops were about to approach Danyang City.
Division Commander Hu's face was gloomy, he understood that this time the devil brigade did catch him a little off guard, the devil's troops were fierce, the attack was rapid, and the tactics were strange, as long as the defenders on the forward position were conquered by the devils, the entire defense line would immediately collapse, and to retake the position, it would have to pay several times the price of casualties, plus the artillery and machine gun fire were inferior to the devil troops, and the brothers on the forward positions fought very hard, and there was a whole battalion on some positions, and hundreds of brothers were all killed, Although tragic and courageous, the position was still lost, and the devils who occupied the position did not continue to stay, but immediately launched a crazy attack on the second line of defense of the defenders, and as one of the positions was broken by the devils, the second line of defense immediately collapsed!
Division Commander Hu felt that if this continued, not only would it be difficult to protect the front line of Danyang and Tangshan, but his two brigades would also be eaten by the devils in one bite, and at this time he realized the power of the elite field division of the little devils! Han Fei and the Independent Division must come to reinforce immediately!
Division Commander Hu immediately sent a telegram to Division Commander Xu in Zhenjiang, asking him to rush to Danyang with the brigade in Zhenjiang City to reinforce him, and asked Division Commander Xu to order Han Fei to bring a reinforced regiment to attack the flank of the Devil Brigade!