Chapter 121: Raiders in Southern Jiangsu (2)
Wan Zixiong's 3rd Brigade was divided into a battalion of infantry to storm Suzhou. 9 heavy machine guns, 9 infantry guns with light machine guns, grenadiers, meteor flying mines, javelin flying thunder hit the devil Suzhou defenders only had the ability to parry and had no power to fight back, several tanks and armored vehicles were hit by heavy shotguns and armor-piercing flying mines, and could only act as mobile fire points behind the city fortifications, and did not dare to attack; The other two battalions of the 3rd Brigade attacked Qingpu under the cover of heavy mortars and automatic guns of the mobile battalion; The firepower brigade supported Li Jiakui's Suhu brigade on the front line of Taicang and Kunshan in the attack.
Wan Zixiong saw that the tanks and armored vehicles of the devils in Suzhou were exposed, so he transferred the special battalion and assigned them to various infantry companies, preparing to rob the tanks and armored vehicles of the devils.
A group of "devils" poured out from behind the positions of the first battalion and one company, and soon "killed" the heavy machine guns and infantry guns of the first company, and the positions of the first company were "in chaos", but the Wumu army quickly organized a "counterattack" to surround this group of "devils".
Seeing that the firepower of a company in Suzhou City had been greatly reduced, the devils in Suzhou City took advantage of the situation to rush out 2 tanks and cover a squad of devils to launch a counter-charge, intending to rescue the "besieged" reinforcements.
As soon as the devils broke into the position of the Wumu army, 9 heavy shotguns bombarded the tanks in a round, and other light and heavy weapons opened fire together, beating the devil's infantry squad back to Suzhou City, and completely capturing 2 tanks.
The same scene was staged in five Wumu Army positions, capturing 6 tanks, 3 armored vehicles, and killing and wounding more than 40 devil infantrymen. The devils in Suzhou City no longer dare to attack.
Sawada Shigeru deployed two wings on the front line of Taicang, Kunshan, and Qingpu to resist the attack of Wanzixiong with naval guns and marines on the Yangtze River, and at the same time freed up another wing to attack Jiaxing, and at the same time ordered the 116th Division of Zhejiang to attack Wuxing and Jiaxing at the same time.
Jing Yukun was attacked from both sides, but he was not in a hurry, and deployed two infantry brigades in Jinshanwei to prevent the devil navy from launching a sneak attack from Jinshanwei again, and an infantry brigade plus a firepower brigade resisted the two-sided attack in Jiaxing.
In addition to sending infantry, tanks and planes attacked all the fronts, in an attempt to inflict a large number of casualties on the troops of the Wumu Army and crush the offensive pattern of the Wumu Army. Sawada Shigeru believed that blind defense was simply a shame for the imperial army, and at the same time, it was difficult to solve the siege of Shanghai through passive defense, so he ordered the two wings of the 116th Division to focus on attacking Wuxing, and after succeeding, they attacked the West Mountain of the old nest of the Wumu army.
Defending Wuxing were Niu Daojia's armored brigade and Xiang Qingyun's Changxing garrison battalion. In the face of the attack of the two wings of the 116th Division of the Devils, Niu Daojia actually launched an attack first, 11 tanks, 5 armored vehicles, and 18 anti-aircraft guns bombarded the heads and heads of the devils who came from the Deqing Mountains, and then detoured eastward from the mountains, and then poked the devils on the east plain of Wuxing in the back fiercely, and calmly returned to Wuxing.
Sawada Shigeru found the armored forces of the Wu Mu Army, mobilized planes to bomb Wuxing, and at the same time ordered the 116th Division of the Devils to storm Wuxing. Niu Daojia lost two more tanks and four anti-aircraft guns.
Zhao Dahu hurriedly ordered Wu Mujun to teach the brigade to reinforce Wuxing, and the more than 2,000 people in the teaching brigade did not have heavy weapons, but urgently equipped a large number of meteor flying thunder and javelin flying thunder to go to Wuxing; Niu Daojia's armored brigade received the teaching brigade overnight and entered Wuxing City, and then broke through and withdrew to Changxing.
Wuxing is an important support point for the southern front of the Wumu Army, and of course it will not be easily taken down by the devils. Zhao Dahu sent all the special operations brigades and Wei Wenyang's troops to attack the flank of the 116th Devil's Division: they introduced the devil's baggage troops into an ambush circle, encircled, attacked, and plundered; Use meteor flying thunder, mountain artillery, and infantry artillery to hit the artillery positions behind the devils; Use mines and flooding to prevent the contact and cooperation of the various departments of the devil......
Jing Yukun deployed the fire brigade in the northeast direction of Shanghai, counterattacked the invading enemy with 36 75mm mountain field guns, supplemented by anti-tank battalion anti-aircraft artillery attacks, and an infantry battalion then covered up and killed, and actually launched a counter-attack, and the two brigades of the devil's field artillery wing counterattacked with 24 field guns, and at the same time, an infantry wing went all out to attack and surround Jing Yukun's assault troops. Jing Yukun's fire brigade and an infantry battalion, with a total of more than 3,000 people, equipped with 36 75mm mountain artillery, 18 anti-aircraft guns, 9 infantry guns, and 9 heavy machine guns; The devils have 24 105mm mountain artillery, 12 infantry guns, 12 heavy machine guns, 12 aircraft, 6 tanks assisted, a total of more than 5,000 people, Wu Mu Army is slightly inferior in numbers and heavy equipment, but the infantry is equipped with all kinds of light firepower such as strange light and a large number of various flying thunders to make up for the lack of numbers and heavy firepower, and the devils in the direction of Shanghai are on a par.
The southern front of Jing Yukun's department was also under a lot of pressure, with more than 3,000 people from two infantry battalions and one mobile battalion dealing with the attack of a wing of devils plus 10 planes and 16 tanks.
Jing Yukun personally commanded the battle on the southern front, using the automatic guns and anti-aircraft machine guns of the mobile battalion to defend the aircraft, and using armor-piercing flying mines to resist the devil's tanks, and at the same time casting a large number of smoke screens to cover the sight of the devil's planes and tanks, misleading the bombing of the devil's planes with mirrors, and using a large number of meteor flying mines, javelin flying mines, and heavy mortars to cooperate with the infantry to block the attack, and retreating one by one to consume the devil's offensive momentum.
Just when the battle around Shanghai entered a white heat, Zhao Dahu sent surprise troops in a timely manner: the armored brigade and the heavy artillery brigade launched a fierce attack on the two wings of Wuxing devils who had lost the cover of their planes overnight, and the devils were defeated overnight, and the 116th division of the devils was defeated and retreated to Hangzhou.
Duanmu Changyan would not let his special operations veterans be used as infantry, and more than 50 trucks of a special operations battalion carrying a special operations battalion wearing devil military uniforms swaggered towards Hangzhou's Jianqiao Airport, and 12 antiaircraft machine guns were clearly displayed on the trucks, and they were in the posture of air defense reinforcements at the airport.
The special operations battalion stopped at a stronghold guarded by a devil squadron on the periphery, and ordered the devils to give up the stronghold to build an air defense position.
The devil found out that Wu Mujun had infiltrated and immediately organized a counterattack, but it was too late. When the trucks approached the airfield, the antiaircraft machine guns switched to using tracer bullets to strafe the planes on the tarmac.
As soon as the special operations battalion succeeded, it immediately gathered its troops around the stronghold, forcibly broke through with the remaining 40 trucks, and 12 anti-aircraft machine guns were on guard on all sides of the convoy, coupled with meteor flying thunder, it was unstoppable behind the empty devils, and soon rushed out more than 10 kilometers and returned to the front of the Wu Mu army, and the Jianqiao airfield no longer posed a threat to the Wu Mu army.
Jing Yukun had no threat from the south and went all out to attack Shanghai.
Wu Zhen led the cavalry brigade to bypass Hangzhou with the cooperation of Wei Wenyang's troops and launched an attack on Shaoxing and Ningbo.
Sawada Shigeru was a little dizzy, and he didn't know where the main direction of Wu Mujun's attack was.
At this time, the baggage brigades of the Guangde and Yixing garrison brigades of the Wu Mu Army and the joint logistics column of the field army, along with Wu Zhen's cavalry brigade, Wei Wenyang's Suzhou-Hangzhou brigade, and the militia units under the Suzhou-Hangzhou brigade, wantonly plundered and purchased grain in the outlying countryside of Shaoxing and Ningbo.
The grain just collected by the devil's baggage troops in Hangzhou, Shaoxing, and Ningbo was swept away by the Wu Mu army, and the common people also collected the "grain chips" of the Wu Mu army and handed over the grain to the Wu Mu army.
Sawada Shigeru learned that Wu Mu's army was grabbing grain in northern Zhejiang, and hurriedly mobilized troops to counterattack, but unfortunately he was one step late. Wu Zhen and Wei Wenyang commanded the troops to cover the planned withdrawal of the grain transportation team to the defense area, and obtained more than 40 million catties of grain, more than 3,000 tons of steel rails, and more than 3,000 tons of sea salt.
Most of the grain looted from the Japanese-occupied areas was first transported to the occupied areas of Wei Wenyang's troops, and Wei Wenyang's troops were responsible for organizing, keeping, and transporting them, while Ke Hua and Wu Zhen led the heavy artillery brigade, the cavalry brigade, and Niu Daojia's armored brigade to rely on the north bank of the Qiantang River to send reinforcements to the south to cover Jing Yukun's third infantry column to attack Shanghai.
Sawada Shigeru hurriedly dispatched troops to relieve the siege of Shanghai, and Gu Zhutong took the opportunity to send troops to rob the grain in eastern Zhejiang, causing Sawada Shigeru to be unable to do anything.
Taking advantage of the chaos in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang, Zhao Dahu sent the last infantry column ---- Liu Qinghe's second infantry column.
Liu Qinghe's troops set out from the garrison of Lishui, and after passing through Xuancheng, the troops were deployed, and the three infantry brigades attacked Wuhu, Nanling, Fanchang, and Tongling, and advanced all the way to the west: the first brigade attacked Wuhu, Fanchang, and Nanling 3 counties; The second brigade and the firepower brigade crossed the battle line and went straight to Tongling, and after succeeding, they continued to advance towards Chizhou; The third brigade passed through the hills and shallow mountains north of Huangshan and interspersed with Anqing.
Seeing that the Wumu Army was fighting on many fronts, Shunroku Hatatake was also judging the combat intentions of the Wumu Army: whether it wanted to develop southward and join the Third Theater of the Chinese Army, or did it want to take Shanghai and establish a foothold on the eastern coast, or did it want to attack and occupy the lower reaches of the Yangtze River along the Yangtze River to encircle the Eleventh Army? The Wumu Army on the southern front has retreated, and it is unlikely that it will join the third theater of operations of the China Army, and the focus should be on controlling the lower reaches of the Yangtze River! So Toshiroku Hata sent his Nanjing troops to the west to attack Liu Qinghe's second infantry column.
As soon as Nanjing's devil troops were dispatched, the troops of Wumu Army and the New Fourth Army in Jurong, Maoshan, Lishui, Gaochun, and Dangtu in the south of the Yangtze River, and the troops of Quanjiao, Hanshan, Chaoxian, and Wuwei in the north of the Yangtze River were all involved, ambushing, blocking, harassing, and sabotaging...... Each showed his magical powers, and he became a mess in the east of Wuhu.
Liu Qinghe relied on his strong firepower and mobility to quickly attack the city of Chizhou, and after a fierce artillery bombardment, he turned around and attacked northeast along the bank of the Yangtze River, and attacked Tongling again.
Shunroku Hata fainted again, not knowing what Wu Mujun wanted.
Liu Qinghe completely took Tongling this time, then crossed the Yangtze River to the north, jumped to the territory of Wuwei, attacked along the north bank of the Yangtze River in the direction of Nanjing, and engaged the troops in the direction of Nanjing. For a time, the Central Army, the New Fourth Army, and local armed forces all joined in, and they grabbed grain while fighting in a scuffle.
Liu Qinghe relied on the strong firepower, put the 36 mountain artillery and 18 anti-aircraft guns of the fire brigade in front of the attack, and the three infantry brigades were divided into three ways to cover and kill, and the devil troops in Jiangbei were scattered, and soon hit the outside of Nanjing, but they continued to attack and advance in the northeast direction without stopping, and went straight to ** and Yizheng.
Shunroku Hata was puzzled by the actions of Liu Qinghe's troops: What does it mean that this army has attacked several cities but has not conquered them, and has only blindly fought on the streets, and has only swept through Nanjing, moving 600 kilometers in more than ten days?
At this time, there had been fierce fighting on the outskirts of Shanghai for more than 20 days. Wan Zixiong's attack on the front line of Taicang and Kunshan could not be attacked for a long time, but Wan Zixiong held on to the two infantry brigades, so he used an infantry brigade, a firepower brigade and Li Jiakui's guerrilla brigade to fight with the devils; Jing Yukun, with the cooperation of the special forces column, attacked from Jiaxing and Jinshanwei, opened up the first line of Songjiang and Qingpu, joined up with Wan Zixiong's troops, and surrounded the downtown area of Shanghai. At the same time, the grain was harvested in the north and transported to the base area of the Lijia Kuibu, and the southern part was transported back to Xishan through Taihu Lake.
The devil has its own strengths, and Sawada Shigeru increased two divisions to Shanghai through the navy to launch a fierce counterattack against the Wu Mu army, which greatly increased the pressure on Wan Zixiong and Jing Yukun.
More than 20 motorized speedboats of Li Jinglong's sailor brigade were like fish in water on the sea for more than 10 days. During the day, he hid the motorized speedboat in a small port, waiting for the opportunity to give a sneak attack and ambush to the devil's warships and gunboats, captured 7 small ships, 4 transport ships, damaged 9 destroyers and frigates, and lost 7 motorized speedboats; At night, Li Jinglong was the devil of the sea, using a fake lighthouse to lure the devil to reinforce the 39 ships that ran aground and ran aground.
Zhao Dahu also adjusted his deployment according to the battle situation: Jing Yukun's troops blocked and delayed the devil's attack on the line from Dianshan Lake to Jinshanwei in the southeast of Wujiang; Wan Zixiong's troops and Li Jiakui's troops retreated to Changshu and Jiangyin in echelons, and Li Jinglong's sailors' brigade withdrew to the Zhoushan Islands and continued to conduct maritime guerrilla warfare.
Zhao Dahu ordered Wan Zixiong to retreat in a very timely manner, the devil used the navy to transport a division from the Yangtze River almost cut off the retreat of the Wan Zixiong department, was blocked by the Wan Zixiong department in the Changshu line, here is Wan Zixiong, Li Jiakui's base, hundreds of infantry artillery, mortars bombarded the Yangtze River bank, and thousands of meteor thunderbolts flew out from the river bank, motorized speedboats, the devil was killed and wounded, but seeing that the siege of Shanghai had been lifted, and the combat target was reached, he broke away from the battle and stuck to the defense area; Wan Zixiong took the opportunity to destroy roads, lay mines, and establish a quarantine zone with the devils.
Jing Yukun understood that the combat objective had been achieved, and he also laid interdiction measures in the interdiction area: flooding roads, laying bamboo sticks and mine arrays, covering the joint logistics column behind to transport grain and other war booty, and dismantling the railway.
A few days later, Jing Yukun's troops withdrew to the safety zone on the south bank of Taihu near Wuxing and Wujiang, while Wan Zixiong's troops first crossed the Yangtze River from Jiangyin to the north of Jiangyin, and then most of them also crossed the Yangtze River to the north of the Yangtze River to join Liu Qinghe's troops.
So far, the Wumu Army has mobilized 5 columns of the entire field army, 3 brigades of the guerrilla army, a teaching brigade, and 1 garrison battalion, with more than 90,000 troops participating in the battle, more than 2,400 killed, more than 3,800 seriously wounded, and more than 8,000 lightly wounded, and a large number of weapons, equipment, materials and ammunition have been lost. It defeated 5 wings of devils, killed and wounded more than 20,000 devils, destroyed 7 devil ships, 17 gunboats, 14 airplanes, 11 tanks, 7 armored vehicles, 31 artillery pieces of 75mm or more, seized 110 million catties of grain, 10,000 tons of steel rails, more than 4,000 tons of coal, more than 7,000 tons of oil, and more than 5,000 tons of sea salt; 3 locomotives, 131 carriages, 9 small ships, 4 tanks, 17 artillery pieces of 75mm or more, and a number of other light and heavy weapons and ammunition.
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