Chapter 270: The Battle of Shanghai (8)

This time, 45 Type 90 biplane single-seat carrier-based fighters took off from the aircraft carrier Kaga, and he was Japan's first carrier-based fighter to imitate the United States in 1930, but the maximum speed was only 293 kilometers per hour.

The 45 carrier-based fighters that came over this time were all of the Kaga's air combat aircraft, and only about 30 attack planes remained. The Japanese are also going to take a desperate gamble.

The pilots of the 15 th Air Regiment met them without fear, and as soon as the air battle began, the pilots of the 15 th Air Force Regiment taught the Japanese pilots a lesson. Tell them that the era of biplane aircraft is outdated, whether it is the top speed, firepower or the protective armor of the aircraft, the Type 90 aircraft has been completely outdated, under the full force of the 15th Flying Regiment, the Type 90 aircraft fell down like dumplings.

In less than half an hour, the forty-five Type 90 planes that rushed to reinforce were lost, and only two lucky planes escaped. And the fact that none of the planes of the 15th Regiment was lost was an astonishing achievement, so that the Westerners watching the battle on the ground were amazed, did the Japanese line up to send them to their deaths this time?

The pilots who had won a big battle also flew around Baoshan County triumphantly, and by the way, they also made a few dives to sweep shè at the Japanese ground troops who were constantly attacking. The 77 fighters equipped with 12.7 mm machine guns beat the Japanese troops in front of the position, which also greatly shocked the morale of the soldiers who were still fighting bravely on the position.

At this time, Lieutenant General Luo Zhuoying, commander of the 18th Army, who was commanding operations in the command post, saw through the telescope that the Japanese army's fierce ground attack was disintegrated by Chahar's planes after a few sweeps back and forth, and couldn't help but sigh to Chen Cheng beside him: "It's still Chahar's plane, this person and people really can't compare." We fought hard for a long time, and sacrificed so many brothers to barely drive the devils out of their positions, and their planes swept back and forth to break up the enemy's attack. ”

Chen Cheng nodded: "Who said it wasn't!" But they are not the chairman's people after all, this time they were arranged to Luodian, I wanted to explore their strength, but I didn't expect them to beat the Japanese so badly. It can be seen that their military strength is very powerful. ”

"I hope we won't have a day when we will meet each other in the future!" After Luo Zhuoying finished speaking, he raised the telescope again and said no more.

Chen Cheng was stunned and shook his head helplessly!

This one-sided battle and the crushing defeat of the Japanese naval aviation caused the navy to lose face in front of the army.

The distraught commander of the Third Fleet, Yoshizaburo Nomoto, sent a telegram to the mainland asking for reinforcements, and at the same time ordered the fleet to retreat 100 nautical miles to avoid being attacked by Huaxia planes in the current shortage of carrier-based aircraft.

In this way, the Japanese Navy temporarily withdrew from the battle, without the support of naval guns and aircraft, and the remaining Japanese Army was dumbfounded, temporarily stopped the offensive, and switched to local defense. This time he was so angry that under the strict orders of the chairman, he actually launched a counteroffensive.

This result surprised the Western, who had been watching the excitement from the sidelines, and did not make it to this battle. Originally, it was struggling to support, but now it has launched a counteroffensive with swagger.

On 6 September, under the strict orders of the chairman of the National People's Committee, Chen Cheng and Zhang Zhizhong ordered their troops to begin recovering Baoshan County.

"Chief Chen, why don't you let us go to the 102nd Division in the battle to recover Baoshan, you must know that the combat effectiveness of our 102nd Division is not blown!" In the headquarters of the 15th Group Army, Hu Lian said loudly to Chen Cheng, the commander of the Group Army.

Chen Cheng smiled bitterly and said, "Don't you want you to go up, but the chairman of the committee has named it, especially the Central Army." In order to face in front of the world, what can I do? ’

"Bo yù, in the battle the day before yesterday, your 102nd Division fought very well, and you are also very tired. This battle will rest first, and you will be able to fight it. ”

After listening to Chen Cheng's words, Hu Lian's heart was half cold, and he felt that the chairman of the committee was afraid that we would steal the credit. It wasn't the first day that Hu Lian, who was mixed in the team, thought of the reason as soon as he thought about it, and secretly laughed in his heart that he had forgotten all these mén ways in less than two years after he arrived in Chahar, and even came to ask such a naïve question, it seemed that he had indeed forgotten the 'tradition'.

Hu Lian, who figured this out, didn't talk nonsense, turned around and went back to his division.

The battle to attack Baoshan began, but the chairman forgot that although the Japanese navy temporarily withdrew from the battle, the Japanese army was not vegetarian, and usually hid in the trenches, and Matsui Ishine had to work hard to eat them, but once out of the trenches, then in the flat Baoshan battlefield, the Japanese artillery could exert its power to the maximum, and in the face of the Japanese artillery, they suffered great losses, but the results were very xiǎo. Fighting until the afternoon, the three divisions that launched the attack were almost half wiped out by the Japanese artillery and combat vehicles.

In the end, the chairman of the committee had no choice but to make a personal phone call to Su Tong, and only then did he let the bomber group of the Fourth Air Division at Wuxi Airport take off to support the Baoshan battlefield.

Under the cover of the planes, the troops finally withdrew, and the last count of the number of troops of nearly 50,000 troops in the first three divisions was withdrawn, and less than 30,000 people were withdrawn. This result finally made the chairman understand that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese Army, even without the support of their navy, was not comparable to what it is today.

"Niang Xipi, Chen Cixiu is incompetent, Zhang Wenbai is a waste! I can't even beat a single Xiǎoxiǎo Baoshan, what a bunch of waste! ”

The chairman of the committee who was furious was so angry in the office that he had already released Baoshan's big words to the media, but now he was kicked out, isn't this a slap in the face of our chairman?

But after all, the chairman of the committee is the chairman of the committee, he thought about it, and an idea came up again, yes, since it doesn't work, isn't there still a 102nd division? Just let them go, anyway, the 102nd Division now belongs to the battle sequence. So a bolt of lightning flew out of the leader's mansion and headed for Shanghai.

"What, now let's play the main attack?" Hu Lian, who was standing in the command headquarters, couldn't cry or laugh with the microphone on the phone, this face was turning too fast, right? In the morning, let us rest on the spot, and we must not act rashly, and in the afternoon, we will be allowed to attack the main attack, and the chairman's cheekiness is too much, right?

However, a military order is a military order, and since it has been assigned to the 15th Group Army, it must be dispatched by others. In desperation, Hu Lian had no choice but to obey, and Hu Lian ordered the next 02nd Division to start acting again.

At 4:37 p.m. on September 7, the 26th year of the Republic of China

On the artillery positions of the 4th Artillery Division

Radio silence was broken in an instant!

The radio station staff quickly pressed the switch, and Wang Qinglong's order came from the radio. The radioman immediately turned to the company commander.

"Sir! Fire! ”

The company commander immediately turned around, raised his arm, and raised the red flag in his hand. When the members of the artillery crew saw the triangular xiǎo red flag raised in the commander's hand, the god jīng was shocked.

With a sinister smile on his face, the company commander waved his arm downward violently, and at the same time issued a loud command from his throat.

"Fire!"

The battle to regain Baoshan County began in earnest.

A howitzer with a caliber of more than 200 mén and a caliber of more than 155 millimeters simultaneously fired hundreds of howitzer shells of nearly 100 kilograms out of the barrel, and the grenade with an initial velocity of more than 700 meters accurately ordered the Japanese defensive position on the Baoshan defense line after flying for about 20 seconds.

The 155-caliber artillery shells carried nearly 10 kilograms of fierce xìng bombing yào exploded a dazzling fireworks at the moment they touched the ground, blasting everything around them into dust and throwing them into the air, the fragments of the shells mixed with a large amount of gravel, bricks and tiles flew at a high speed of kilometers to the surroundings, and the air of the entire Baoshan defense line was completely shrouded in steel fragments and gravel with scorching temperatures, and with its flying there were also the officers and soldiers of the 101st Division of the Japanese Army who were caught off guard.

The observers at the artillery observation post in front could almost clearly see the corpses torn to pieces by the shells, and even occasionally the hideous-looking severed heads that still maintained their terrified faces as they flew into the sky, although this was only a hallucination in their minds.

The gunners of the Fourth Artillery Division were getting more and more energetic at this time, trying their best to beat them out of the best score, and at this time they completely entered the state, and the two did not use the pincers to pincer the bullets, instead of throwing off their arms without Gu Tuoli, and desperately rushed towards the artillery position, in order to fight for the most artillery shells in the shortest possible time.

Amid the shrill roar of long-range heavy artillery, the 203 mm howitzer also joined the stirring chorus with its roar. The shells smashed large craters on the ground of the Baoshan defense line, and the soil or broken bricks and tiles fell like raindrops after being blown up into the sky, and the next shell was blown up before they touched the ground.

At the same time, on the hidden artillery positions of the Japanese army behind the Baoshan defensive line, the Japanese gunners who had survived the first round of shelling were almost immediately-for-tat and began to carry out counter-artillery fire.

At this time, the Japanese artillery behind the Baoshan defense line was not ordinary Japanese artillery, but part of the 3rd Heavy Artillery Brigade specially transferred from China.

When they began to build defensive positions, they set up well-concealed gun emplacements on the positions at Baoshan, which were well camouflaged to protect the artillery from enemy fire, and this caution and Xiǎo heart saved the artillery of the heavy artillery brigade.

"Fight back, hurry up and fight back!" The Japanese commander, reacting from the shelling, hastened to order the troops to start firing back!