[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 175: Play a big one again (ask for subscription!) ）

Ma Zheng wants to play a big game this time, and the capture of the warship is only one of the links, of course, it is also the most important part.

In fact, the Japanese army has hundreds of ships of various types on the water surface of the Yangtze River, but the real main force is the dozen light cruisers and large gunboats of the 11th Fleet, and the rest are only some torpedo boats and troop carriers, and even some are armed merchant ships, which do not have much combat effectiveness at all.

Now that the main force of the 11th Sentai has been completely annihilated, then the Japanese army will not have a decent navy in the waters of the Yangtze River. Even if the Japanese army could mobilize ships through other fleets, it would not be possible to do it in a day or two, so Ma Zheng decided to use these Japanese warships to play a good show with the Japanese army.

In the Flying Dragon Combat Command Room, Ma Zheng looked at the trophy presented by Tie Niu with a calm face-the general's knife of Mataro Tanimoto.

After a long time, Ma Zheng asked in a deep voice: "Have the casualties of the troops been counted?" ”

"It's out!"

"How much?"

"126 people!" Tie Niu said in a deep voice.

Ma Zheng's heart suddenly twitched, 126 people, this is not an ordinary soldier, but a special combat team member he has carefully cultivated, and the entire Duqi Division has a full 300 people, and nearly half of them have been lost at once.

"Commander, in fact, the combat attrition is not very serious, half of them are drowned in the bottom of this river! Although we were trained to swim, we were still northerners by nature, and it was okay to swim for a while, but after a long time, we couldn't hold on, so forty or fifty brothers were suffocated to death under the water. "Iron Bull Road.

Ma Zheng nodded and said: "They died well, with only 300 people, they captured almost half of the main battleships of the Japanese Third Fleet, and you made history." It also works a miracle! ”

Tie Niu sighed and said: "I have carried out so many tasks before, and the brothers have lost one or two at most, and most of the time they have completed the task easily without casualties. I didn't expect that this battle would lose half of my brothers, which is really unacceptable. ”

"Iron Bull, don't be sad! War is so cruel. None of us could be killed by bullets from nowhere in the next second, but the brothers just went to find the way for us first, and soon we will follow! Ma Zheng said.

"Yes, Commander!"

Then Ma Zheng looked at Hu Yanbing and asked, "Veteran, how is the performance of these warships?" ”

Hu Yanbing immediately said: "Report to the commander, it's okay, although there are more old-fashioned ships, at least they are much stronger than the warships of our Third Fleet!" However, in the Japanese fleet, it can barely be regarded as a second-rate ship. Still can't compete with the rest of the Japanese fleet! ”

"If the Japanese send a fleet to attack us, how long will they be able to hold out?" Ma Zheng asked again.

"This commander can rest assured, if the little devil sends a warship, he doesn't dare to say anything else, and it will be no problem to keep the fleet. This is not an open sea, and no matter how powerful and advanced the Japanese warships are, they can't enter the Yangtze River, so even if they can have warships to reinforce them, their performance is similar to that of this guy in our hands! Huyanbing said.

"Good. However, it is a pity that we have relatively few soldiers and cannot fully exploit the performance of these warships. Otherwise, I wouldn't mind taking you on a trip to Nanjing! Ma Zheng said.

Hu Yanbing's eyes lit up, and he immediately said: "Commander, it's actually not as serious as you think. My brothers have been at sea for at least seven or eight years, and they are familiar with warships and naval warfare. As long as you take a part of the brothers who are familiar with the nature of the water and do not seasickness from the army to replenish the ship, I think the fleet will be able to restore at least half of its combat effectiveness. ”

"Really?" Ma Zheng asked in surprise.

"Of course it's true!" Huyan soldier said.

"Okay, I'll have someone add to you right away!" Ma Zheng said loudly.

Soon 700 soldiers who did not get seasick and were familiar with the nature of the water were assembled. Then according to the orders of Huyanbing, they dispersed to the ships, and then the fleet began to set sail, heading for Jiujiang, which was not far away.

Less than half an hour after the fleet set sail, there was a piercing siren in front, and Ma Zheng, who was sitting in the command room, immediately asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Hu Yanbing immediately said: "Commander." It's the devil's troop carriers, six in all, less than three nautical miles away from us! ”

"Troop carriers? That should be reinforcements from the 6th Division, can you sink it? Ma Zheng immediately asked.

"Yes! The firepower of the troop carrier is so weak that it can sink even by ramming! Huyanbing said.

"Well, sink them all for me, and not a single one will be left!" Ma Zheng said.

"Yes!"

On the Feihong troop transport, Hasegawa Masaken Daisa of the 47th Wing of the Sixth Division looked depressed, originally the headquarters had just been stationed in Huangmei, and he had not even had time to rest and replenish before receiving an order to cross the river to the south.

You must know that in the past three days, they fought very hard, in the process of capturing Huangmei, they were stubbornly blocked by Li Pinxian's Fourth Corps, and in the fierce battle of 3 days and 3 nights, they were counterattacked more than 290 times.

After this fierce battle, large and small forest belts in the mountains west of Taihu Lake caught fire. In areas where fighting is fierce, bullet marks can be seen everywhere on the walls of villages and on the trunks of trees in wooded areas. It was the growing season, but after the fierce fighting, many villages collapsed, turning the forest area full of green branches into a scorched yellow.

Originally, according to the previous order from the division headquarters, Hasegawa Masaken's 47th Infantry Wing and the attached artillery division would rest on the spot for a week after capturing Huangmei before continuing to advance, who would have thought that such an order would be suddenly received.

But the military order is like a mountain, and since the order has been issued, it must be carried out no matter how unwilling it is. Therefore, the headquarters of the 47th Wing immediately assembled, and then went all the way south to the port of Ertaokou, preparing to meet the naval troop transports that came to meet them.

But what Hasegawa Masaken didn't expect was that the road was not smooth, and the headquarters was constantly blocked by the Chinese defenders. Although the 4th Corps did not know what the specific goals of the 47th Wing were, what kind of tasks and missions they shouldered, they knew that as long as they were held back, it would be victory.

Anyway, the plan of the defenders is not to fight hard with them, but to break the traffic along the line, and if there is a suitable place, they will fight a blocking battle. As a result, the 47th Wing, which was 50 kilometers away, walked intermittently for nearly a day, 15 hours later than the expected arrival time.

It was these 15 hours that gave Ma Zheng's troops an opportunity to take advantage of, if the Japanese troop carriers were next to the 11th Squadron at that time, the battle situation would not have been like this. At that time, even if Ma Zheng wanted to do something against the Japanese fleet, he had to find a way to transfer those troop carriers, which took a lot of effort.

Fortunately, after a hard march, the 47th Wing finally joined up with the troop transport ship that had been waiting for a long time at Ertaokou, and then the headquarters immediately boarded the ship and headed straight for the battlefield.

It was also to blame them for their bad luck, originally two torpedo boats of the 11th Squadron escaped, but one of them ran aground on the reef on the way too quickly. The other ship felt that it was more important to spread the news to Jiujiang first, so he went straight to Jiujiang on the other side of the river first, and did not go to Ertaokou to inform the troop carrier and Hasegawa's department, so the 47th Wing, which was beaten by the Chinese defenders and then pitted by pig-like teammates, plunged into the arms of Ma Zheng's department.

Different from Hasegawa Masano's depression, An Teng Shaosa, who was in charge of transporting the 47th Wing, had strong doubts in addition to being depressed. When Hu Yanbing discovered the Japanese troop carrier, An Teng Shaozuo on the ship also discovered the 11th team controlled by Hu Yanbing and others.

According to the predetermined battle plan, the main ships of the 11th Sentai will arrive in advance in front of the river beach position garrisoned by the defenders of China to carry out artillery bombardment, and then wait for them to transport the army to arrive before they will land on the beach.

An Teng Shaozuo immediately asked his subordinates to contact them with the flag, but An Teng Shaozuo was horrified to find that all the warships on the river were actually in battle formation, and they all aimed their guns at their troop carriers, is this to launch an artillery bombardment on them? (To be continued.) )