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In the sky three to four hundred meters above the river, dozens of Japanese planes circled at low altitude, like eagles foraging for food, fiercely swooping down on their targets on the ground.

Dark clouds overhead.

After the Japanese Botian detachment occupied Anqing, it rested for three days, collected a large number of civilian ships and barges for transportation, handed over the city to the garrison troops who rushed behind, and under the cover of the 11th Naval Brigade, nearly 15,000 elite divisions pounced on the forward position of the Chinese J pair that had been operating for half a year and cost countless dollars, and had been designed by German military advisers to defend Wuhan's forward position - Jiangfang Madang Fortress.

The next target of the Hatian detachment was Hukou, but in order to take Hukou, it was necessary to cross the Madang Fortress, and there was no second way.

Madang fortress is located in the northeast of Pengze, Jiangxi, only eighty miles away from Jiujiang, is the throat of the Yangtze River leading to Jiangxi, Hubei, a sandbar in the center of the river, divides the river into two pieces, the waterway in the north has long been silted up, the waterway in the south is very narrow, and the water flow is turbulent, the shore is Madang Rock, although this rock is only more than 100 meters high, but the situation is abrupt and steep, it is an excellent natural fortress.

In order to intercept the Japanese army from going upstream, the government has long set up a Yangtze River Blocking Committee, which is specifically responsible for the implementation of anti-enemy projects in various fortresses.

The blockage of Madang was different from other forts, which were filled with stones in boats, then driven to the designed position and scuttled.

On the Madang side, a barrage was built directly into the river, leaving a gap for a boat to pass just near the south bank.

At the bottom of the blocking line is a large net made of lead wires, stuffed with branches and stones, stirred with cement and solidified, and then sunk to the bottom of the river.

In order to avoid the impact of the rapids, they are pulled by fixed iron anchors in the upper reaches and stopped by wooden piles driven into the bottom of the river in the downstream, and in the middle are sailing ships and barges, in which sharp boulders and iron anchors are pushed, which are also solidified with cement to make artificial reefs like shark teeth.

After the completion of the blocking line hidden in the river, it was about two feet below the water surface, and at this time, during the flood period of the Yangtze River, the water surface rose, and the reef reached 5 feet from the water surface, so a layer of overall construction was carried out, and a layer of rocks was added to the upstream of the reef. (The above is written in the information, not plagiarized by Xiaofeng)

In the end, this is the most powerful, that is, three mine lines are arranged on the water, and more than 1,000 mines are hidden underwater, as long as the enemy's ships pass by here, as long as they come across, they will definitely blow up to pieces.

There were also artillery batteries and machine-gun emplacements to control the river at the dangerous peaks on the banks of both banks, and such a defensive line was not insolid, but it was also completed under the supervision of the Germans, and the quality was a hundred times stronger than those defense fortifications on the outskirts of Nanjing.

This may be Du Guangting's confidence that Madang Fortress can hold on for at least three months.

If you only clear mines, the Japanese army may not be able to do it even if you are busy for a month, not to mention, you have just finished clearing the front foot, and I will make up for you with the back foot.

This is an unsolvable proposition.

The scorching sun was in the sky, but suddenly dark clouds covered the sky, covering the sky and the sun, and the sky and the earth suddenly became dark.

In the silent upstream, there are black and shiny balls floating in the shadows, like the pearls of the sea left by the Emperor of Heaven in the world.

Drifting thunder, like a black pearl sprinkled all over the Yangtze River, shoulders the heavy responsibility of guarding the door.

More than a dozen Japanese naval minesweepers lined up in a line, and each of them was connected with a finger-thick steel cable, drawing a line of water on the river.

Boom Boom Boom ......

There was a loud bang that shattered the heavens and the earth, columns of water rushed into the sky, the mud and sand at the bottom of the river were tumbling up, and the frightened fish, which seemed to have no power to resist the power of the great shore invented by man.

can only go with the flow and let others bully.

The Japanese minesweepers were carrying out minesweeping operations, but as long as they entered the minefield, they would be shelled by the Chinese troops on both sides of the strait, and although the guns on the Japanese ships had a long range, the shore artillery positions were very cleverly designed, and considering the Japanese naval artillery attacks, the Japanese naval artillery attacks did not have much effect.

Only by bombarding the position of our Madang fortress from the air, for a time a column of water tens of meters high continued to rise on the river.

On the deck of the Ewha Ship, a Japanese minesweeper command ship less than 100 meters away from the minesweeper, Captain Okamoto Eihei was being interviewed by Yuzaburo Wakatsuki, a reporter from the Yomiuri Shimbun, and Hisao Shimotsu, a reporter from the Alliance News Agency.

"Okamoto-kun, your troops have made great contributions to the capture of Anqing, how do you feel about this battle?" Shimotsu asked.

"It is the duty of the soldiers of our kingdom to fight for the sake of peace in East Asia, and the headquarters will resolutely complete the combat mission," Okamoto said with a burning look in his eyes.

"Okamoto-kun......" Another reporter Ruoyue was about to ask a question, when he suddenly saw that the other party's expression was a little abnormal, and quickly turned his head to look ahead.

On the surface of the water, a black creature suddenly appeared, the size of a calf......

"Danger, turn the rudder, turn the ru......dder," Okamoto cried out in horror, his throat trembling, and the helmsman in the cockpit hurriedly struck the rudder to the left, and the bow of the ship turned sharply sideways, but the huge water surge caused the big guy to quickly slam into the ship's waist.

Rumble!

The sound of explosions resounded across the river, and hundreds of ships, large and small, like beans in a dustpan, were all shaken.

The minesweeper, which was working intensely, suddenly felt a strong shaking sensation coming from the rear, and couldn't help but turn around.

A sight they will never forget.

The command ship Ewha was blown into two pieces by waist height, and instantly sank to the bottom of the river, forming a whirlpool with a radius of hundreds of meters, as if a funnel suddenly appeared on the river, and the panicked flute sounded as soon as it was taught, and the soldiers who fell into the water scrambled to swim out to escape from this life-devouring funnel.

The shipwreck stirred up a column of water that soared into the sky, like a liquid mushroom cloud created after a nuclear explosion, which was spectacular.

After the waves calmed down, a huge blank appeared there, and three ambulance boats rushed over, and there the blind searched there, and there were no living or dead, not even blood stains were seen, not even relics!

A warship and its full load of more than 100 Japanese naval officers and sailors disappeared without a trace under the eyes and nose.

The flagship of the 1st dispatch fleet, the Atakaku.

Rear Admiral Jiro Asami and Vice Admiral Shigeichi Habata of the 11th Sentai stood on the command platform, lowered their binoculars, and bowed their heads in silence to the waters where the Ewha sank.

"Your Excellency Commander, the front is eastward, right?" Hatada asked, pointing to the navigation map on the command platform.

"That's right, Hata-kun." Asami looked at the river bank with a gloomy face and said, "However, there are at least 5 nautical miles"

Asami's predecessor Kondo was killed by a cannon by the "Cold Yama" at the Nanjing entry ceremony, he was still a naval officer at the time, and Kondo was by his side when he died, and he will never forget that tragic scene in his life.

He didn't want to be killed himself.

At this moment, the air defense siren suddenly sounded, and a red flare pierced the sky.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack ......" The sailors on the ship cried wolf one by one.

Flags, flutes, horns, and people roaring......

In the southwest sky, more than a dozen small black dots faintly appeared, and the roar of Shen Lei Office came from far and near, and in a blink of an eye, it came to the sky over the Yangtze River.

The Chinese Air Force came, although they were a little late today......

The Japanese attacked the blocked position at Madang Fortress for two days and suffered heavy casualties, and in order to open up the Madang Pass, the Japanese and Japanese naval ships were fiercely attacked by artillery on both sides of the strait, and the minesweepers of the minesweeping force would be overturned by the artillery fire of the Chinese defenders as soon as they approached the minelaying waters.

The soldiers of the Potian detachment could only watch from afar as if they were watching an open-air movie, and their minesweepers were busy working under the fire of the Chinese J pair.

According to incomplete statistics, within two days, the Japanese battleship "Magpie" was hit by a bullet and caught fire, the gunboat "Ewha Blossom" was hit by a mine and sank, and three motorboats were buried in the Yangtze River.

The war drums of Madang Fortress thundered, and Leng Feng personally led a group of young staff officers and officers under his command to embark on the journey to inspect the defense area.

It is impossible to grasp the situation on the front line while sitting at home, so before formulating a counterattack plan, she must first understand the personnel and training of the various units under her command, and the important thing is to have a thorough understanding of the combat effectiveness of each unit.

Leng Feng's first stop was the 8th Army, and the first to inspect was the 40th Division stationed in Yuncheng and Caozhou.

This division is mainly composed of officers and men of the Sichuan Army Corps and part of the tax police corps, and according to the scale of the reorganization of the A division, the full strength of the division is 12,000 people, but in fact it is less than 10,000, the division commander is Wang Zhizhong, the former commander of the 122nd Division of the Sichuan Army, and the deputy division commander is Luo Lirong, the commander of the original 40th Division.

Wang Zhizhong also served as the deputy commander of the 8th Army, and he was familiar with Leng Feng for a long time, and the two sides had a close cooperative relationship.

Moreover, after this reorganization, this Sichuan army unit was basically separated, and Wang Zhizhong and these remaining Sichuan army officers could be regarded as collectively joining the faction that depended on the central government.

Leng Feng's biggest concern was that it would be difficult for two troops with different styles to blend together, after all, their previous training and education were completely different.

The original old 40th Division was more influenced by the American-style army, while the Sichuan army was more traditional, and it was very likely that the two troops would fight if they were put together directly.

Luo Yufeng's solution was to organize the remaining Sichuan officers and soldiers into a brigade, and the tax police corps into a brigade.

Then, by exchanging officers, one-third of the junior officers were replaced, and then one-third of the middle-level officers were replaced.

In this way, the two teams miraculously ran in very well.

When Leng Feng went down to the grassroots level, he did not listen to reports, did not give instructions, did not engage in specialization, did not interfere with the life, study and training of the grassroots units, only listened and watched, and also held forums for officers and men at the grassroots level, and did not allow senior officers of the units to which he belonged to participate.

The purpose is to understand and grasp the real situation of the thinking, life, and battle of the officers and men on the front line.

Along the way, Leng Feng not only cared about the problems of the troops, but also paid great attention to the problems of people's livelihood, basically stopping and stopping, every time he went to a village or town, he had to stop, take a walk, take a look, and ask questions.

If you want to be a good home in northern Henan, it is not enough to be able to command wars, and it is not enough to have a heart for the benefit of the people, you must understand the actual situation and know the actual needs of the people.

"Junza, this is today's battle report, which was just sent from Hankou."

"What's new?" Leng Feng is breaking garlic and eating fried noodles.

"The Japanese attack on Madang was once again frustrated, and today it probably lost another minesweeper, more than a dozen sailors died, and our air force dispatched four SB-2 bombers to bomb the Japanese warships, and the results were as follows......

"Zhang Zhongling of the New 39th Brigade reported that today a Japanese army was ambushed by a Japanese grain collection team in Zhengguantun near Wucheng......"

"When will Li Yunxun's 'Anti-Japanese Military and Political University' hold a graduation ceremony?" Leng Feng asked.

"I don't think I've heard of this."

"Let the inspectorate inquire with the military command, and say that I asked." Leng Feng commanded.

"Yes." Guo Weiquan didn't know why Leng Feng was suddenly interested in this.

But since the chief has commanded it, he has to do it, and it is not a big deal.