Chapter 1184: Battle of Shanghai (continued)

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Shanghai is the largest metropolis in the East and has attracted worldwide attention.

In order to whitewash the peace, the Japanese army could not fortify everywhere like other cities. On the contrary, it is necessary to try to maintain Shanghai's false prosperity, so that foreign journalists can be merciful and write more about the achievements of the Japanese in developing Shanghai's economy, and less about the ugly faces of the Japanese soldiers who killed people and set fires. In addition, Shanghai is the base camp of the Japanese army in Central China, far away from the war, and what the little devil never forgets is how to destroy the main force of the squadron and force Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government to surrender, and he never imagined that the squadron could still attack and occupy Shanghai. Therefore, the defense of the Japanese army in Shanghai was not as tight as in other places, just like the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway, where a Japanese artillery tower or pillbox could only be seen at a distance of several miles on weekdays, which was very different from the situation of dense strongholds, heavy guards, and auxiliary blockades on Jinpu Road, Pinghan Road, Tongpu Road, and Shitai Road in North China.

When Zhao Dahe commanded two light tank battalions to rush to Tiantongan Station, it was already in chaos. A train parked at the station was starting urgently, rumbling towards the North Station. The Japanese troops, who had just arrived here to strengthen the garrison, were busy occupying their positions, and the sound of the commander's orders and the running of the soldiers became a chorus.

The lights at Tenton-an Station are still bright. Take a clear picture of the station and the surrounding targets.

As soon as he saw that the Eighth Route Army was a large-scale convoy surging towards Tiantongan Station, the reinforced devil captain was stunned and couldn't accept the facts in front of him. Stacks of shouts "Kill, give!" Kill give! "I even forgot to pull the electric switch to turn off the lights at Tentongan Station.

The devil's light and heavy machine guns, Type 92 infantry guns, grenadiers, and rifles all opened fire, and the shells exploded on the offensive route of the tanks of the Eighth Route Army, and the bullets made the tank armor thump.

If the devil knew that the Eighth Route Army was attacking with tanks, maybe it would be equipped with anti-aircraft guns here. Blocking the tanks of the Eighth Route Army. Shanghai is the base camp of the Japanese army, and the arsenal has all the equipment, although the Shanghai garrison is not equipped with anti-aircraft guns, but if it is attacked by tanks, the little devils can quickly take out the anti-aircraft guns from the warehouse. Equip the troops.

The funniest thing is that the Eighth Route Army often used the 92 infantry guns horizontally to attack Japanese strongholds and Japanese tanks, armored vehicles, and cars. Their infantry drill code does not have such instructions for the use of infantry guns.

Zhao Dahe wanted the speed of attack, and he didn't pay attention to the devil's interceptive firepower at all, but just ordered all battalions, companies and platoons to speed up the attack through the vehicle-mounted radio and destroy the Japanese infantry artillery positions with tank guns. Cover the Japanese with vehicle-mounted machine-gun fire.

A platoon of three tanks. Eleven tanks in a company, two battalions combined, and counting Zhao Dahe's command vehicles, that is 70 tanks. The tank guns of 70 tanks opened fire, that is, 70 guns, which is equivalent to the artillery wings equipped with two three-unit divisions of the Japanese army. Such fire was directed against four Type 92 infantry guns and grenadiers of an infantry brigade of the Japanese army. To be honest, it's too much of a bully.

The unlucky little devil has just arrived at Tiantongan Station. There was no time to dig even an anti-tank trench. This place is also a flat river, suitable for tank mobile combat. There are no other benefits of light tanks produced by little devils. Fast speed is unparalleled in this day and age. The tanks of the Eighth Route Army were intercepted by the fire of the Japanese infantry brigade, and under the desperate gaze of the little devils, they rumbled and crushed up.

The tank group rushed to the Japanese infantry position, and the scene was extremely cruel. Under the light of the tank headlights, the devil soldiers swayed like frightened rabbits, swayed under the vehicle-mounted machine gun fire of the Eighth Route Army, and were crushed into dust like ants under the tank tracks.

The captain of the devil's brigade forgot to even report to the garrison headquarters and the headquarters of the 13th Army, and watched as his troops were divided by the swarming tanks of the Eighth Route Army, and torn apart by the machine-gun fire of armored vehicles and cars that followed closely behind the tanks. In the end, the captain of the devil brigade, who was completely desperate, actually held a war knife and led the remnants of the little devils around him to launch a counterattack on the tank group of the Eighth Route Army. That's two more than two!

With such a powerful firepower, let alone a devil infantry brigade, it is a wing, and if there is no strong position at all, there is only a dead end. To put it bluntly, in this era, infantry did not have a very good way to deal with tanks, except for anti-tank mines, anti-tank guns, rocket launchers, and anti-tank trenches. Bombing with explosive packs, cluster grenades and throwing Molotov cocktails takes time and doesn't work well. This group of unlucky little devils received an order only to strengthen the garrison of the Tiantongan Station of the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway and ensure the safety of the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway.

After solving the Japanese army at Tiantongan Station and cutting off the Shanghai-Nanjing line, Zhao Dahe did not stop for a moment, and led two armored battalions straight to Shanghai North Railway Station, which was the key target.

After Hu Laohu, commander of the cavalry column, and Bao Wen, political commissar, led the troops into the Wusong River by boat, the troops landed one after another. The first thing to control was the bridge on the Wusong River, and then it was quickly interspersed with regiments as a unit, blocking the retreat of the Japanese troops in Yangpu and Jiangwan, and controlling the Japanese airfields in Hongkou and Jiangwan.

The Eighth Route Army slaughtered Shanghai in a big way, and it was possible to keep it secret when marching on the sea, but it was impossible to keep it secret after entering the Huangpu River. Especially in Shanghai, there are many high-rise buildings, and any building can be an unusually strong fortress. Therefore, when formulating the battle plan, the task of the cavalry was very clear, undertaking the task of encircling in a roundabout way. Take control of the airfield and eliminate the Japanese forces who are launching a counterattack against the landing troops. As for the battle for urban fortifications, that is the task of a column of main forces.

Originally. Liu Yimin could completely encircle the Japanese 13th Army Headquarters and the puppet Shanghai Municipal Government at Wujiaochang in Jiangwan without attacking them, or slow down the pace of attack, attract the main force of the 13th Army to come to help, and implement the tactics of encirclement and reinforcement that our army is accustomed to. But. Liu Yimin's purpose was to transport away the military supplies stored by the Japanese army in Shanghai, so he had to move them quickly, and after a long time, he would wait for the main force of the naval fleet reinforced by the Japanese army to rush back and blockade the mouth of the Yangtze River. Then even a motorboat would not want to return to Shandong. Therefore, the Eighth Route Army's battle plan was to solve the Japanese army in Shanghai overnight, mobilize and requisition all the steamers and motor ships in Shanghai, and carry supplies overnight.

It was precisely because of this battle plan that Liu Yimin used the first column and the cavalry column with the strongest mobility ability.

The cavalry of the Eighth Route Army galloped across the northeast land of Shanghai!

At this time, Sawada Shigeru finally woke up from his dream and knew that the Eighth Route Army had invested enough money in this sneak attack on Shanghai, and even the war horses had been transported. Go without saying. The tanks, armored vehicles, cars, and artillery of the legendary Liu Yimin were all transported.

Shigeru Sawada, who woke up, ordered to report to the dispatch army and the base camp that the cavalry group of the Eighth Route Army had been discovered in the Yangpu and Jiangwan areas, and the defenders were surrounded in a roundabout way, requesting urgent tactical guidance. At the same time, Sawada Shigeru ordered the Shanghai garrison and the Marine Corps to dispatch all the combat vehicles and armored vehicles that could be dispatched. The covering troops surrounded and annihilated the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army.

In Sawada Shigeru's mind, chariots and armored vehicles are the natural enemies of cavalry. As long as combat vehicles and armored vehicles are dispatched. The cavalry of the Eighth Route Army, which has a larger target, will be strewn with corpses all over the field.

Song Xing, the former commander of the First Cavalry Regiment of the Cavalry Brigade, and Kang Wei, the political commissar, are now the commanders and political commissars of the First Cavalry Brigade. Say it's a brigade, but in fact the troops haven't expanded much. Each of the three regiments had only 1,200 cavalry, and the whole brigade had less than 4,000 men, which was only equivalent to the first regiment of one column and one brigade. There is no way, the cavalry is too precious, it is not easy to train, and it is even more difficult to replenish the war horses.

However, after the cavalry brigade was upgraded to a cavalry column, the firepower was greatly strengthened. In particular, during the current attack on Shanghai, Liu Yimin equipped the 1st Column and the Cavalry Column with all the 1 August automatic rifles, rocket launchers, rocket launchers, and gun grenades produced by the logistics base in the recent period, and in addition to the extraordinarily strengthened antiaircraft artillery battalion of the Cavalry Column Artillery Regiment, the firepower of the entire cavalry column was far higher than that of the ace main infantry columns such as the Second and Third Columns.

The task of the 1st Cavalry Brigade was to encircle the Japanese troops in Wujiaochang in Jiangwan in a roundabout way, so that they could not break through and escape, and wait for the main force to arrive and annihilate them completely.

After completing the roundabout task, Song Xing ordered the troops to dismount and hide the horses, and the troops took regiments and battalions as units to build a defensive line in the northeast of Wujiaochang to prevent the Japanese counter-assault.

Three anti-aircraft guns were erected and used horizontally, with the muzzles pointed in the direction of the Pentagon. The field artillery of the 1st Battalion of the Column Artillery Regiment under the command of the 1st Cavalry Brigade also established a position, and the muzzles of the guns were raised high, also pointing in the direction of the Pentagon. Single-barrel rocket launchers specially equipped for special forces and cavalry were also erected, and the muzzles of the guns were still pointed in the direction of the Pentagon.

The cavalry sappers are busy laying electric explosives, ready to surprise the little devils!

As soon as the artillery position was established here and the torches were extinguished, the Japanese army really launched a counter-assault. This time, the Japanese army was ruthless, dispatching 12 tanks and 40 armored vehicles to cover the infantry, which looked black in the night, and killed the defense line of the 1st Cavalry Brigade.

The lights of tanks and armored vehicles illuminate the field brightly!

As soon as Song Xing saw it, he immediately said to Kangwei: "Political commissar, immediately report to the commander that the main force of the Japanese army is in Pentagon, and request rapid reinforcements from the armored regiment and a column!" At the same time, report to Commander Hu that the Japanese army is equipped with a large number of tanks and armored vehicles, please beware of all troops! ”

After speaking, Song Xing ordered the artillery to open fire and bombard the Japanese attack formation!

The twelve field guns of the first battalion of the artillery regiment of the cavalry column opened fire, this is a heavy artillery, which is much more powerful than the infantry guns used by the Japanese army to bombard the tanks of the Eighth Route Army at Tiantongan Station!

The cannonballs swept across the night sky, and the long wings of light were like the traces of a meteor, so beautiful that people couldn't grasp it!

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