Chapter 478: Anti-aircraft artillery hits warships

Xu Shan's heart tightened, the commander-in-chief had a job assigned to him, and he listened carefully for fear of missing a word, "Xu Shan, Jiāo has given your air defense brigade a task to hit the Japanese warships with high shells, are you sure?" Tang Qiusheng asked, "Yes, yes, sure, please rest assured, the commander-in-chief will rest assured that the warship of the xiǎo devil will dig a few holes and sink it into the sea to feed the old turtle!" Xu Shan was busy and agreed, for fear that the commander-in-chief would regret it, and the task at hand flew again.

"Well, use all the artillery fire to suppress the fire of the Japanese ship guns and ensure that the artillery shells the Japanese troops on the beachhead normally!" Xu Shan put down the phone, his heart was full of anger, and immediately came to the head of the god, "Pass my order, the artillery aiming radar searches for the main target, each gun position immediately changes to armor-piercing shells, eight mén guns are a group of artillery, set artillery to bombard a Japanese warship, listen to me, pick up the big guy and fight, the plane in the sky can be beaten down, such a big guy, don't be ashamed!" ”

Xu Shan was bent on fighting, he did not think carefully about how powerful and effective he could play against the high-explosive armor-piercing shells produced by the Huangya Dòng Arsenal, at least, the facilities on the deck of the Japanese ships could not help but contain this kind of shells.

Due to the two correct orders of Xu Shan, the commander of the air defense brigade, the duel between the high guns and the warships and naval guns has undergone dramatic changes, which also created the first case in the history of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

The slender barrel of the high shè gun slowly pointed to the sea in the distance, the artillery radar turned on to search, and soon, all the artillery groups locked on the target, and the gun commanders listened calmly to the voice of the commander, "Put!" There was a crisp command in the headphones.

The high shè cannon pursued shè speed, and this step on the trigger was a group of eight shells whistling out of the chamber, eight mén guns, sixty-four shells, flying towards the Japanese warship that was in full swing and did not notice it at all.

In their opinion, this was a one-sided artillery battle, just dumping shells on the heads of the Chinese people, and the Japanese gunners were so busy that they simply stripped off their arms and stuffed shells into the barrels of the guns on a cold day.

At the moment when he was in a good mood, suddenly there was a muffled sound on the gun position, and then there was a violent explosion, which was terrible, the high shè shell penetrated the protective armor of the Japanese ship's gun emplacement, and directly drilled into it to explode, for a while, the fire on the Japanese ship was shining, thick smoke was everywhere, and the first round of shelling by the high shè gun, the target was the main battleships of the Fourth Fleet.

Before the Japanese sailors could figure out what was going on, the second round of shells fell on the warship, igniting a skyrocketing fire, and the captain of the Japanese ship was gone, this is not Wusongkou, where did the Chinese army get the long-range artillery? He couldn't think about it, and a succession of shells whistled down on the deck.

The Japanese sailors in charge of damage management desperately put out the fire with a faucet, a burst of shells flew, they were blown up into the air, and fell heavily into the sea, although the single high-shè shell, the explosion power is not as good as the large-caliber naval artillery shells, but it can be better than the shè speed, the ants bite the elephant to death, coupled with 100% accuracy, xiǎo delicate and delicate high-shè shells, all of which were borne by the huge hull of the Japanese ship.

Up to this point, the Japanese ships had not yet figured out which direction the shelling was coming from, and there was no target to fight back, although the high shells could not pose a fatal threat to the large tonnage of the Japanese main battleships, but the turrets on the deck were damaged, and the high shells easily penetrated the protective armor and exploded in the turrets one by one, and the Japanese gunners of the cào column guns suffered heavy casualties, and from time to time the gunners in the turrets died, and the naval guns were dumb.

A high shell, with miraculous accuracy, drilled through the barrel mouth of the Japanese ship's gun, and exploded in the barrel, which was a catastrophic coincidence, and detonated the shell that had not yet been fired in the barrel, and then, the violent explosion, and the shell in the turret was damaged, and the entire turret flew into the sky in the explosion, tearing the upper deck, transmitting the huge power to the bottom, causing the destruction of Yanzhòng.

The huge hull of the Japanese ship seemed to be slammed into the sea by an infinitely powerful giant hand in the air, and then, it rebounded, jumped high out of the water, and fell down heavily.

No matter how strong the thing is, it can't help such a toss, almost all the commanders of the Japanese ships looked at this behemoth in amazement, from breaking into two parts, spinning, and being swallowed by the sea in an instant, and their own warships were also full of fireworks, and the gun positions were heavily damaged, and they didn't know what new weapons the Chinese army was equipped with to deal with warships.

The Fourth Fleet of the Japanese Navy, a capital battleship, was sunk by a high shell of Xiǎoxiǎo, and if you say it, you won't believe it, but the truth is so boring, with the sinking of a battleship, as if ringing the death knell of the Fourth Fleet, Vice Admiral Yanagimoto, the commander of the fleet, could no longer care about it, and provided fire support to the land that was being ravaged by the Shina artillery, and hurriedly ordered all the warships to get out of the range of fire of the Shina artillery and withdraw to the open sea to standby.

One by one, the Japanese ships urgently reversed, with thick smoke all over their bodies, and fled to the sea off Hangzhou Bay as fast as possible, fortunately, except for the turrets on the deck, which were broken into copper and iron, the main parts were not badly damaged, which did not hinder the retreat.

At the position of the air defense brigade, on the artillery aiming radar screen, the red dots representing the Japanese ships became more and more xiǎo, and the fighters who were in high spirits had no choice but to stop, "The devil warship has been repulsed!" A burst of cheers resounded through the position, Xu Shan grabbed the phone and reported the good news to the commander-in-chief, he didn't know that he had sunk a main battleship of the Fourth Fleet of the Japanese Navy.

Without the suppression of the naval artillery fire on the Japanese ships, waiting for the first bō to land on the Japanese army, it was an extremely tragic end, the three artillery brigades of the Sulu Mobile Corps, all the artillery on the position of the former Eighth Army, repeatedly ploughed back and forth, and the bloody corpses of the Japanese soldiers covered the beach.

The fierce artillery fire like a volcanic eruption completely destroyed the Japanese army's will to fight, and the commander still wanted to charge desperately, but the dense artillery fire of the people of China blew up so that the Japanese army could not even do the minimum assembly, and more than 70,000 soldiers of the two divisions fell under the shelling, and more than 40,000 people, from Caojing Town, Quangong Pavilion to Jinsi Niang Bridge, all the Japanese landing sites were covered with the corpses of Japanese soldiers.

Yanagawa Heisuke's 1st Bō Landing Force had less than 20,000 men left, most of whom were killed or wounded by artillery fire from the Independent Division.

When the battle was more than two Xiǎo, the Japanese troops who landed were repulsed and suffered heavy casualties, Tang Qiusheng's troops, the casualties were mainly concentrated in the artillery units, and they were all wounded by the Japanese ship guns, and the infantry in the front-line positions did not wait for the Japanese charge at all, and the casualties were extremely minor.

The sunlight dispelled the fog, the vision was restored, and the scene of the Jinshanwei landing site was unobstructed, Yanagawa Heisuke put down the binoculars weakly, he couldn't bear to see the yellow corpses of soldiers on the beach, only this qiē, it was unacceptable to him, he didn't understand, the landing battle prepared by Jīng's heart was extremely smooth at the beginning, but it was like this in the end.

He did not dare to let the landing force of the second bōth carry out a forced landing, which could only be a live target for the artillery of China, and if the threat of the artillery of China was not solved, there was nothing to talk about, and he vented his anger on the commander of the Fourth Fleet, Liu Shimo, if it were not for the navy retreating from the formation and the landing force losing artillery cover, how could there be such a large casualty?

The observer of the 1st Artillery Brigade saw a relatively large landing craft with a conspicuous Japanese flag on a relatively large landing craft from the artillery team's mirror, which was particularly eye-catching.

Regardless of whether it is or not, him first, immediately report the direction and coordinates, on the artillery position, more than a dozen mén large-caliber guns, slowly turning the muzzle, the shells whistling across the sea, accurately hitting the target, that landing craft, in an instant, turned into steel fragments flying in the sky, even a few wisps of fireworks seem so thin, this is a dozen large-caliber shells, directly hit, xiǎoxiǎo's landing craft, like jī eggs were hit by a boulder, shattered bones.

Everyone in the Sulu Mobile Corps did not know that on that landing craft, the main force of the Japanese landing in Hangzhou Bay, the temporary headquarters of the Tenth Army, the commander Yanagawa Heisuke and his main staff, all died here, not even a single residue could be found, and perhaps Yanagawa himself would never have thought that his life would end in such a way.

The commander of the Japanese Navy's Fourth Fleet, Yanagishimo, who was rebuking each other with Yanagawa Heisuke, was so startled that he jumped up at the sound of a violent explosion coming from the earphones, and his ears were so deafening that he cursed viciously, but he could no longer hear an echo.

Tang Qiusheng, who was in control of the entire Jinshanwei battlefield, found that the Japanese army seemed to be very panicked, and not only did not follow up the landing force, but there were signs of retreat, although he did not know what the reason was, a favorable situation could appear, and the opportunity must not be missed, so he immediately ordered the forward troops, with the strength of two brigades, to carry out a counter-assault on the remnants of the Japanese army cowering on the beachhead, even if they could not be completely annihilated, they must be driven out of the sea.

After all, the Japanese army still had a relatively fine tradition, and did not take care of running for their lives, and about 3,000 Japanese soldiers, under the command of a large sa, set up a blocking position on the spot to cover most of the Japanese troops to board the landing craft and flee for their lives in the open sea.

The Japanese soldiers, who were determined to die, burst out with amazing combat effectiveness, and there was even a brigade of soldiers, tǐng with bright bayonets, shouting slogans, rushing towards the troops, there was no short-handed ròu fighting, the troops of the independent division, always emphasized the superiority of firepower, and the Suomi submachine gun roared, and rows of Japanese soldiers were knocked down.

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