Chapter 606: The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in Shanghai and the War of Resistance in Songhu

The regimental headquarters of the 6th Regiment of the 155th Brigade was also in a hurry at this time, the telephones were ringing everywhere, and it was only known that there were battles on almost all the east-west roads, but no one knew how many troops the Japanese had invested, and they could not tell where the focus of the Japanese attack was.

The 2nd Battalion fought fiercely with the Japanese, not only on the Tiantongan Road, but also on the Yokohama Road in the south and the Tohoxing Road in the south.

But further south, the 1st Battalion Defense Area was also full of gunfire. Sanyili, Qiujiang Road, Laojizi Road, these east-west roads are all in the defense area of the 1st Battalion, and there are also battles at these intersections.

The attacks launched by the Japanese on the barricades at various intersections almost completely coincided in time. Obviously, the Japanese army had made careful arrangements in advance. And all the intersections were attacked almost at the same time, which is equivalent to Zhang Junsong's problem, he has reserves, but he can't use it, before judging the direction of the Japanese army's main attack, he put into the reserves early, once he throws in the wrong direction, he has no chance to turn around.

Zhang Junsong could only wait nervously at this time, waiting for accurate news from the front.

Zhang Junsong knew that his son of a bitch's opponent at this time was not the supreme commander of the Japanese Army in Shanghai, Shiozawa Koichi, Shiozawa was only the commander-in-chief. The specific commander of this ground offensive must have been the commander of the Japanese Marine Corps, named Samejima Gushige.

The commander of the Shanghai Marine Corps of the Japanese Navy, Sameshima Gudaisa, has always been very unconvinced by the results of the army's rapid advance in Manchuria, and he is not the only one in the navy who has this feeling, and the navy is not convinced from top to bottom. Now, the ghost sent the gods, and this good errand to punish the man actually fell into his own hands, Sharkhima Guzhong was very excited, and he desperately wanted to show his hand to the army group of mountain monkeys.

Since the army was in Manchuria, they were able to defeat hundreds of thousands of Northeast Army with 10,000 men. So in Shanghai, the 2,000 elite marines of the Navy and thousands of armed expatriates can't clean up this bit of Chinese in front of them?

Shark Island looked at the capital in his hand, and he was as strong as a cow.

The Japanese Marine Corps was in Shanghai at this time, with a total of three brigades and less than 2,000 men.

However, before the war, although Sameshima was full of confidence, Shiozawa Koichi also cheered up the Marines before the war, and said wildly, "You can occupy the whole of Shanghai in four hours", but Shiozawa Koichi still felt that the troops were not enough, and he sent some sailors from various warships to fight ashore.

For example, the destroyer Tsukiwa organized a squad of marines.

Don't think sailors don't know how to fight on land. In the training of Japanese sailor recruits, they must first conduct land combat training, and only after mastering basic skills will they go on board for training.

Therefore, with the addition of this group of sailors who can fight land battles, the number of marines in the hands of Sameshima Guzhong has reached 2,700, not to mention more than 4,000 armed expatriates.

However, the opponent of Shark Island is serious, the regular army of the 6th Regiment of the 156th Brigade of the 19th Route Army has only 1,069 people, and even if the 156th Brigade joins all the 5th Regiment of the reserve, the strength is only about 2,700 people.

The equipment is already much stronger than the opponent, and the number of people is still more than the opponent, so it can't defeat the Chinese? Sameshima Guzhong really doesn't believe it.

Because the strength and firepower were stronger than the other side, Shark Island's heavy offensive organization seemed very casual, and he only served as the first wave of troops to advance to the squadron area west of the North Sichuan Road.

The 6th and 7th squadrons of the 3rd Brigade were used as reserves on the North Sichuan Road.

The 4th and 5th squadrons of the 2nd Brigade were responsible for staying in the rear area east and north of the North Sichuan Road, and the two squadrons each dedicated a squadron to run to the densely populated area of Japanese factories in the east to cooperate with the ashore sailors of the 1st Mine Combat Team as a garrison. …,

The sailors composed of the two ships Oi and Azhai served as the defense of the public concession south of the old target road (now Wujin Road).

The remaining 3rd Squadron of the 1st Brigade was sent to the Toyota Yarn Factory in Huxi (today's Wanhangdu Road, Shanghai) to serve as a guard. To read the latest chapters of this book, please go to Baidu search: Novel Network

The field artillery squadron of the Marine Corps set up artillery positions at the shooting range in Hongkou Park (now Lu Xun Park) in the north.

In such an offensive deployment, all directions are the focus, and all directions are not the focus. Because Yujima Guzhong did not think at all that there would be Chinese who would be able to block his marines in that direction.

It's just that Shark Island's heavy deployment of light enemies just confused Zhang Junsong.

Shark Island has a good deck of cards in his hand, but whether it is a straight or a pair is the level of the player. And is the deck of cards of Shark Island well arranged? Just know when you fight.

As soon as the battle began, battle reports from all directions quickly came.

After only a while, Zhang Junsong's sweat came down, and the beginning of the battle was not very good.

It was expected that the first-line police collapsed, but when the forward troops of the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 6th Regiment collided with the Japanese marines, the first barricade fortifications at several intersections were still not held and were quickly overwhelmed by the Japanese army, which was completely unexpected by Zhang Junsong.

Is it poor fortifications? Whether it is Chinese or Japanese, they are building barricades with sandbags, pulling some barbed wire, everyone's fortifications are half a pound and eight taels, and there seems to be no problem with the fortifications.

Is it because the soldiers are not motivated enough? On the contrary, in the battle with the Japanese Oriental ghosts, the soldiers of the 6th Regiment were very desperate, and hand-to-hand combat broke out at several street corners.

But in this way, the troops still can't parry, what's going on?

Soon Zhang Junsong knew the truth of the matter, the soldiers of the 19th Route Army encountered an opponent who had never competed - armored vehicles.

The magic weapon that the Japanese took out was called the Vickers M-25 wheeled armored car, which was a pure British original import. Every attacking Japanese Marines used this armored vehicle to open the way in front.

The 19th Route Army fought a lot of civil wars, but they were all fought with people, not with armored vehicles. Now a tin monster came up coldly, looking like a big beetle, the bullet hit it, but seeing the sparks popping up, the big beetle still rushed up, and the most terrifying thing was that this big beetle also had two heavy machine guns, strafing back and forth, so that the soldiers of the 19th Route Army couldn't raise their heads.

Seeing that the Chinese were helpless, these big beetles simply kept bullying and blocking in front of the barricades that the Chinese were holding, and as soon as you looked up, the machine guns beckoned to this side. Seeing that the guns were not in a rut, the soldiers of the sixth regiment began to throw grenades, but the grenade bounced off the big beetle, and the fragments of the explosion bounced back, and the soldiers of the six regiments on the side of the barricade fortifications were injured.

The fire of the 1st and 2nd battalions was completely suppressed by the fire of the armored vehicles, and the Japanese marines behind the armored vehicles took the opportunity to rush up and break through the barricades. In this way, not long after the start of the fighting, the first barricades at each street intersection were seized by the Japanese army one after another. The soldiers of the 6th Regiment suffered heavy casualties.

The first battle is unfavorable!

In the face of a monster that seems to be impossible to parry, at this time, as long as the defender loses his fighting spirit and turns to run away, the entire battle line will be shaken, and the fear of defeat will collapse the whole army.

When tanks first entered the battlefield, the role of British tanks was not really how many Germans were killed with tanks, but the appearance of tanks made the defending Germans lose the courage to resist, and the battle line collapsed and was defeated by the British army. The breakthrough depends on armored vehicles, but the results are still up to the follow-up infantry.

At this time, what you fight is fighting spirit.

But the 6th Regiment, a combination of defeated soldiers and new recruits, did not lose its fighting spirit at all.

In the face of armored vehicles, the retreating Chinese soldiers still stubbornly resisted, constantly using their imagination to test various ways to fight armored vehicles. At this time, what is needed most is time to breathe, time to figure out a way. …,

And at this time, the big beetle gave the Chinese time.

Every time, it was clear that the Japanese had taken the barricades, but the big beetle just didn't go forward, and waited there honestly. What are you waiting for? Wait for the Japanese marines to remove the sandbags from the barricades one by one to make a way for armored vehicles to walk!

It turns out that this armored car weighs only 2.5 tons, which is not much heavier than today's Audi, and it has no ability to crash through the barricades by itself. Besides, this wheeled armored vehicle does not have tracks, and it has no ability to climb slopes and cross obstacles, so it can only honestly wait to remove all the obstacles in front of it.

Soon, Zhang Junsong, who was so anxious, waited for good news.

Weng Zhaoyuan called and told him that the men of the Fourth Route Army deployed behind the second barricade had a way to deal with the Japanese armored vehicles. Moreover, Zhang Junsong was also told that the Fourth Route Army provided two ways to solve the Japanese armored vehicles, one was to blow up the armored car chassis with a grenade, which was unarmoured. The other is heavy machine gun concentrated fire.

There was a solution to the armored car, which made Zhang Junsong very excited, and immediately ordered the staff officer to inform the first and second battalions.

Soon, the Japanese armored vehicles that crossed the barricades were attacked by swarms of grenades.

Although the 19th Route Army was equipped with wooden-handled grenades that had a long throw distance, they did not roll well after landing, and they could not be thrown under the armored car like bowling unless they were at close range.

However, bowling around the armored car was also not so easy, and the armored car was followed by Japanese marines following the charge. If you focus on bowling, the Japanese will beat you into a sieve.

However, the Fourth Route Army provided some grenades, and although the throwing distance of the grenades was shorter than that of the wooden-handled grenades, the rolling performance was very good, and whenever there was an opportunity to throw a grenade on the front of the armored vehicle, the grenades would roll forward for a certain distance.

"Boom", a grenade exploded under the armored car, and the Japanese armored car jumped violently, and then stopped in place and black smoke rose. Several grenades and grenades rolled under the immobile armored car, and several explosions in succession caused scarlet flames to burst out of the Japanese armored car.

These grenades were not in large quantities, and they were only distributed to the first battalion, and the second battalion were all grenades with wooden handles, and it was not easy to throw the grenades under the armored vehicles, and it took more than a dozen casualties to blow up an armored vehicle.

However, don't worry, there is a second way to "kill insects".

Not only can the grenade not blow up the armored car, the shrapnel will also hurt people when it rebounds, but this shrapnel is not long-eyed, and it is impossible to distinguish between the Chinese and the Japanese, who follows and who is unlucky. In the beginning, the Japanese army followed closely behind the armored vehicles, usually 10 people behind each vehicle, and the infantry team was 20 meters behind. But when the battle started, not to mention the grenades, even the bullets hit the armored car would bounce, and some Japanese soldiers who followed the armored car were injured in such a daze, it was like a rebound ball from a billiard.

The shrapnel of grenades flying at the armored vehicle was so that the Japanese did not dare to follow too closely, and as soon as the distance between the Japanese army and the armored vehicle was widened, this opportunity came.

Instead of leaning behind the barricades to shoot as they did at the beginning, some Chinese soldiers rushed out and hid on the side of the street, waiting for the armored vehicles to pass by, and while the Japanese soldiers had not yet followed, they violently sniped at the following Japanese marines, separating the armored vehicles from the infantry. A lone armored car is easy to be "bowling" by its companions.

When I put down an armored car and went up to take a look, everyone found that not to look at this armored car looked like bullets could not be penetrated by bullets bouncing everywhere, but in fact, when I went in and took a closer look, I found that there were still a few bullets that pierced the armor. It turned out that this Vickers Beetle looked mighty, but in fact the skin was very thin, and the armor was only 5.5 mm.

The Japanese have a statistic that a Vickers armored car has received five or six hundred bullets, and as long as the angle of penetration is just right, a few bullets still penetrate. Although the penetration rate is very low, only about one or two percent. But it's better than not being able to hit a single shot. …,

So, the third method of insecticide came into play, and it quickly spread in the sixth regiment, with intensive firepower, extensive planting, and firm no doubt.

The heavy machine gun is a sharp weapon against the Vickers armored car, and interestingly, the 19th Route Army is also equipped with the Vickers heavy machine gun, which is really called the spear of the son and the shield of the attacker.

How many were broken by the Chinese? It's nothing. The Japanese felt that these armored vehicles had increased the attack power of the Marine Corps a lot, and the effect was very worthwhile compared to the losses. In particular, the Japanese Navy has always had the upper hand in the competition for military spending and resources between the domestic and army forces, so the Marine Corps is equipped with many of these armored vehicles.

However, for the Chinese, it also makes great sense to lay down a few Beetles. Because the Chinese soldiers knew that as long as they worked hard enough, even if the losses were greater, this Beetle was not indestructible.

Therefore, the Japanese marines, relying on the cover of armored vehicles, continued to stubbornly push forward, while the Chinese, who had gained confidence, also resisted desperately.

After losing two armored vehicles, the Japanese army was much more cautious, and the Japanese grenadiers began to concentrate on suppressing the heavy machine guns of the first battalion. The grenadiers of the Japanese army were very accurate, and it was obvious that they were definitely well trained, and the heavy machine gun fire points of the first battalion were constantly removed. Without the threat of machine guns, the Japanese also followed the cover of armored vehicles, regardless of the threat of shrapnel and stray bullets that bounced off the armor of the armored vehicles.

Under the desperate cover of the Japanese troops, the third armored vehicle finally approached the second barricade.

In front of the barricades, two heavy machine guns on Japanese armored vehicles were frantically spraying a dense rain of bullets, so that a battalion could not raise its head at all, let alone throw grenades accurately. Against the backdrop of the campfires on both sides of the street, the hideous faces of the Japanese soldiers were clearly visible, and as long as the Japanese troops moved forward, they would throw grenades behind the barricades.

At this moment, on the wall of a private house more than 20 meters behind the barricade, several wall tiles suddenly fell down, revealing a black hole, and then a muzzle much thicker than the 7.7mm Vix's heavy machine gun protruded from it, and the muzzle turned slightly to aim at the Japanese armored vehicle that was firing wildly, spraying a long series of scarlet flames.

"Bang Bang Bang" is like a wet cowhide on a drum, and the dull sound made by someone who is constantly piercing with a sharp blade comes from the Japanese armored car, and more than a dozen black holes appear in an instant on the turret of the Japanese Vix's armored car that is frantically spraying bullet rain, and with the appearance of these black holes, the two heavy machine guns on the armored car suddenly became dumb. As the black holes in the armored car continued to increase, the armored car burst into flames, which was the fuel tank of the armored vehicle was ignited.

The large-caliber machine gun that can easily penetrate the armor of Japanese armored vehicles at close range is the 13.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun produced in Taiyuan. An anti-aircraft machine gun of this caliber, not to mention penetrating a few millimeters of armor at a distance of several tens of meters, is easy to penetrate even more than 10 millimeters of homogeneous armor, which has already been tested in Taiyuan.

Moreover, this kind of anti-aircraft machine gun not only has strong firepower, but also uses a chain of bullets to feed ammunition, the fire lasts for a long time, and the firing range is long, which can not only be used for air defense, but also as a ground fire support and suppression of the opponent's firepower, and it is also a sharp weapon.

Because the general-purpose machine gun of the Fourth Route Army has not yet been finalized, as a transition, now the troops in North Mongolia have begun to be massively equipped with such anti-aircraft machine guns. The battalion that came to Shanghai this time was not equipped with heavy machine guns, but all of them used these anti-aircraft machine guns instead of heavy machine guns.

At the same time as the anti-aircraft machine guns rang out, the sound of 38 guns rang out on the roofs of the houses around the barricades and from the windows of several buildings. It's just that the guns are almost invisible, and the guns are not dense, on the contrary, they appear unhurried, not like shooting on the battlefield, but like shooting on the range. …,

The officers and men of the 19th Route Army, who had already been stunned by the powerful machine guns of the Fourth Route Army, were shocked by an even more unbelievable scene.

With the sound of monotonous gunshots, one by one the Japanese troops dozens of meters away kept falling to the ground, stopping on the street at this time, they would definitely die, and the current criminal method is to rush into the barricades and start a melee with the Chinese. The Japanese squadron leader was red-eyed, shouting loudly at the soldiers to charge, and he himself strode towards the barricade with a snowy sword.

As soon as a gunshot rang out, half of the head of the Japanese squadron leader had already flown to the side, and the Japanese squadron leader, under the effect of inertia, rushed forward a few more steps before falling to the ground.

In less than half a minute, dozens of fierce Japanese soldiers could no longer get up.

Also shocked were the Japanese soldiers, this urging gunfire completely broke the nerves of the Japanese army, and no longer cared about the spirit of bushido, the rest of the Japanese soldiers ran back.

But the gunfire did not stop, it was still ringing one by one, and the Japanese soldiers who were constantly running were beaten to the ground.

The officers and men of the 19th Route Army also recovered their strength at this time, and the commander of the first company stood up excitedly, grabbed a rifle with a bayonet, and shouted: "Brothers, the brothers of the Fourth Route Army are all good, rush!" Kill the little devil with me! ”

In the process of blocking the Japanese army on two barricades, the first company suffered heavy casualties, and only more than 70 people remained in one company, at this time, seeing the Japanese fleeing in confusion, their spirits were greatly lifted, and they drove the Japanese troops out of the street all the way, until they were blocked by Japanese reinforcements on Zhabei Road, and then happily retreated to the first barricade.

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