Chapter 238: The Battle of Crossing the River
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The Yangtze River is dangerous, and Madang is a fortress.
Madang is one of the most important fortresses on the Yangtze River in the Yanhuang Continent, it is located in Pengze County, Jiangxi, and the small lonely mountain in the river is far away, forming a horn trend. The sandy beach in the river divides the Yangtze River into two, the left waterway is narrow and silted up, and the right waterway flows through the foot of Madang Mountain, which is the main channel. This is the narrowest place in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, less than 500 meters wide, the water flow is turbulent, the situation is dangerous, forming a key pass of the moat that is not open for thousands of people, it is the place where the soldiers of all dynasties must fight, and it is also one of the suspicious places where the high-level of the Japanese army thinks that the Red Party army, which lacks enough ships, is most likely to carry out forced crossing.
The little devil attacked the fortress for several days, and the soldiers were lost. If it weren't for the fact that Li Yunheng, commander of the Mahu District Fortress Command Headquarters and commander of the 16th Army of the Bald Party, who was in charge of the defense from Madang to Hukou at that time, was happy to make great achievements and curry favor with his superiors, and engaged in a two-week so-called "Anti-Japanese Military and Political University" that evacuated the regimental and company-level army commanders of Madang Fortress in the form of military orders on the day of the graduation ceremony, causing the defenders to be leaderless, and there were traitors who reported the success, resulting in the successful sneak attack of the Japanese invaders, the time of the outbreak of the Wuhan Campaign and the final result need to be said.
At this time, the entire Madang Fortress was built by the devil as "impregnable": the first-class fort was set on the highest top of Madang Mountain. The fort covers an area of more than 300 square meters. There is a brick and stone arched air-raid shelter, 3 meters high, 4 meters wide, 50 meters deep, the top of the cave is built into five layers and there is an iron plate in the middle, and the sealed soil is up to 2 meters thick. The entrance of the cave is connected from north to south, and there is a 200-square-meter fort at the entrance of the north cave; The second-level fort is located on the mountainside between the first- and third-class forts. It is a series of circular earthen platforms with a height of 3 meters and a diameter of 5 meters made of concrete; The third-level fort is located at the head of Madang Rock, and the cliff under the head of the rock is called emergency with the first-level fort on the top of the mountain. The area of the battery is 60 square meters, and the arched anti-aircraft shelter made of concrete and steel is 3.5 meters high, 6 meters wide and 45 meters deep.
The Japanese army deployed three 150mm heavy guns and several guns of 100mm or more to deter suspicious landing sites in the vicinity.
At half past five o'clock in the morning of January 1, 1944, most of the Japanese defenders of Madang Fortress were still asleep, except for those who were on duty at night. Because last night's cooking class prepared a sumptuous "Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner," and the fortress officer Jun Cao was also extremely generous and humane in allowing the officers and soldiers at the bottom to drink some sake appropriately, so at this time there was still a lot of snoring in the barracks.
Directly above the fortress, Wang Fan pursed his lips and smiled after seeing these scenes through the 4D map function of the plane ring, and then directly released the aerial bombs in the ring to rain "dumpling rain". In order to achieve the maximum and optimal bombing effect in the shortest possible time, in order to save time to rush to the next Japanese military river defense fortress, Wang Fan also used the function of the ring to insert the empty space, and directly put a time bomb in the ammunition depot of Madang Fortress, and only a few minutes later, the entire Madang Fortress was blown up from the inside out: the dark red bombing bombing was overflowing, the screams suddenly stopped, the masonry fragments and artillery parts that collapsed everywhere, and the air defense bunkers that collapsed and collapsed one after another, everything marked the entire Madang Fortress, Finished!
Almost at the same time, the artillery positions set up earlier by the Yanhuanghong Party north of the Yangtze River also sounded a "triumphant song" to welcome the New Year.
Due to the existence of the "Sparrow" military reconnaissance satellite intelligence system, the Japanese army painstakingly calculated and set up dozens of large and small support artillery positions, all of which were clearly seen by the Red Party. In addition to some fortress-style positions where the turtle shell was too thick and the shelling effect was unsatisfactory, and Wang Fan was needed to help sweep it away, most of the open-air artillery positions of the Japanese were all within the range of the 155mm cannon of the Yanhuanghong Party, not to mention that in order to reduce casualties, Wang Fan also brought a large number of 203mm heavy guns used by the later P Army.
Meilong in Anhui Province, because it is not far from Shanghai and Nanjing, is one of the key river defense positions set up by the Japanese invaders.
At this time, not far from the opposite bank, more than 300 155mm heavy guns were slowly raising their muzzles, and more than 100 40-barrel rocket launchers were distributed in turn. The Red Party soldiers, who were quick with their hands and feet, carefully removed the protective sleeve of the gun chamber, shook the metal runner, corrected the angle of the firing, and then loaded the shells and waited for the order.
"Fire!" With an order and the small red flags in the hands of the grassroots commanders, they fell one after another. More than 100 40-barrel rocket launchers and more than 300 155mm heavy guns fired one after another.
"Whoosh!" The unique sound of the rocket launcher was instantly transmitted throughout the audience. When it was launched, the bright fire at the tail was like the most beautiful fireworks in the world, and it instantly illuminated half of the sky north of the Yangtze River.
"What beautiful fireworks!" On the dirt slope in the distance, He Bingyan, a one-armed general, admired the beauty of the steel of modern weapons while holding a telescope in one hand and looking at the other side of the Yangtze River.
He Bingyan, nicknamed "He Xiaolong", joined the army for the first time at the age of 16, and dared to rush into the enemy line alone with a kitchen knife in his hand, slashing left and right, and killing several people in a row. Later, when he participated in the Long March, he had to amputate his right arm because he was wounded six times in a row (without anesthetic). After arriving in northern Shaanxi, he also had brilliant military achievements and outstanding achievements, because he died at the age of 47, so his reputation was not obvious in later generations, but he was a general after the founding of the country. Because He Bingyan was in his prime in 1943, had a good view of the overall situation, and had flexible tactics, he was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the artillery bombardment of the Yangtze River Campaign. Meilong in Anhui Province is already adjacent to Nanjing and Shanghai, and is the breakthrough point for the liberation of major strategic cities south of the Yangtze River, so He Bingyan specially came here to watch the effect of the shelling.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
As orange-red flames and smoke appeared from the muzzles of one cannon after another, a concerto of more than 300 heavy guns began. The cannon rumbled, the earth trembled, and the deafening sound drowned out all sounds for a moment, and the shellers could only learn the latest orders from their superiors through the flag-bearers not far away.
"Lao He, it's enjoyable!" Tao Yong, who came to the vicinity of the position with the one-armed general He Bingyan, shouted loudly.
"Hehe, if we had these guys back then, let me say that the Long March was over, the Central Soviet Region would not have lost it. And I was sure that I would fight directly from the Central Soviet District to Nanjing and Shanghai, as well as to Chiang's hometown. He Bingyan's chin was raised, and he answered angrily.
"Hehe, you're beautiful! Lao Jiang couldn't afford and couldn't build these guys at that time, let alone us. By the way, how long is the 'artillery preparation' program going on? ”
"1 hour, because we are very clear about the distribution of the battle defense of the little devil troops, plus they have not built, too many reinforced concrete fortifications, so 1 hour should be enough."
"Yes! Twenty years in Hedong, twenty years in Hexi, the Central Soviet Region (parts of Fujian, Jiangxi and Guangdong), from where we were driven out, and now we are back! Tao Yong, one of the "Three Tiger Generals" under He Long, looked at the black smoke rising from time to time on the other side of the Yangtze River, and muttered to himself.
Soon after, dozens of B-24 double-tail bombers, escorted by nearly 100 P-47 "Thunderbolt" fighters, flew to the high altitude of Shanghai. However, the fuselage of this batch of fighters is different from the blue five-star pattern of the horizontal bar of the Stars and Stripes Air Force, but under the wings and sides of each fuselage, a large five-pointed star with yellow edges on a red background is painted on the side of the fuselage, which is clearly visible in the sky.
"Buzz~~~" The terrible air defense sirens sounded in the streets and alleys of Shanghai, and the pedestrians and vehicles on the road immediately scattered and fled, as if the end of the world was coming.
"Everyone, pay attention, our goal this time is to bomb the Japanese transport ships and warships in the port of Shanghai, don't drop bombs in the city and accidentally bomb the people, do you understand?" Zhang Xisan, the captain of the bomber detachment, instructed over the radio.
"A squadron received, understood!"
"Second Squadron received!"
"The third squadron understands!"
In Shanghai, Deyu Silver Building, the shopkeeper Liu Ning climbed on the roof neatly, and in the hidden corner next to the chimney, he looked at the sky with a pergola. I saw planes flying to downtown Shanghai one after another.
"Hey, hey, it's coming, it's finally here, hahaha~~" Liu Ningyi's expression was a little crazy, and he said to himself a little crazy.
This is not that he is really crazy or has a hidden mental illness, but the result of long-term mental depression in his living environment. Since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, Liu Ningyi has become the shopkeeper of Yinlou Lu, and has been lurking in Shanghai for a long time, collecting intelligence information and preparing for the establishment of the Jiangsu Provincial Branch of the Yanhuanghong Party. For 6 years, during the day, he was a shopkeeper who was kind and wealthy, busy with business, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and in the dead of night at night, he repeatedly reminded himself in his brain not to get lost in the wine and meat pools and forests of Shanghai. Due to the long-term switching of the two roles, coupled with the continuous self-subconscious hypnosis in order to prevent exposure (for example, when you call the shopkeeper Lu, you have to respond immediately, and when you call your real name, you have to show no awareness), so over the years, Liu Ningyi's spirit has been under high pressure for a long time, and it is inevitable that he will be a little depressed, and even a little schizophrenic. This time, I finally saw the army of the political party to which I belonged fighting, and the depression of many years was swept away in an instant, and there were even some Meng Lang remains.
The Yangtze River, more than 1,000 miles on the river.
Each missile boat is equipped with one 40mm twin-mounted automatic naval gun, two 12.7mm heavy machine guns (with steel guards), and four "upstream" anti-ship missiles, which are enough for hundreds of gunboats and dozens of frigates entrenched in the Yangtze River to meet their Amaterasu.
"Lijian No. 2 and No. 3, please note that you and the target are still 33 kilometers away, and you can discover, aim, and launch missiles after turning two river bends." The communicator on the missile boat carried the latest enemy intelligence sent by the navy's top brass.
"Roger, the Sword 2 has entered the first level of alert, the missile safety and the main gun safety have been opened, and it is ready to fight at any time." Captain Liu Shichang replied in a calm voice.
"Sword No. 3 has been received, and it has entered the attack state!"
Because the upper echelons have "accurate" information on the location of enemy ships, each missile boat of the Yanhuanghong Party is not aimlessly searching, but quietly touching the unwitting prey like a hunting dog.
Ten minutes later.
"The target was discovered, 2 Japanese frigates, 4 gunboats, radar irradiation began, priority setting, and frigates were the first priority. The radar is locked, the countdown to the missile launch, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, launch! Captain Liu Shichang commanded in an orderly manner in accordance with the earlier training essentials.
"Launch!" A few seconds later, similar white smoke came out of the Sharp Sword No. 3 missile boat, and a total of eight missiles flew towards their chosen targets. Just a dozen seconds later, the Japanese frigate squad was shot in a sea of fire and quickly sank to the bottom of the river.
"Start the engine, the left and right heavy machine guns are in place, the main guns are ready to shoot, search for devil survivors, remember, don't take prisoners today!"