The artillery captain also showed the abnormal situation hidden in the river fog, and when he looked closely, it was clearly a heavily armed battleship, and he suddenly realized that the warship that he had been hit by was very likely to be the escaped Third Fleet flagship Izumo armored cruiser

Until several fires flashed in the river mist, and then the sound of breaking through the sky sounded, and then accurately fell on the southern battery, after the explosion and the huge earthquake, everyone carefully observed the battle damage, fortunately, the cannon was intact, and there were no casualties, but the heart of the artillery captain was as heavy as lead, and most of the first guns in the naval battle were fired to calibrate the impact point, and the salvo calibrated by the opponent was so accurate, which shows that the sailors are well trained, and this is definitely a difficult guy

Based on his knowledge of the Izumo, this class of armored cruisers only had two twin four-inch guns that could cause substantial damage to the battery, and the naval guns of this caliber fired an average of one shell every two minutes, while the fortress guns of the Wusong Fort were relatively backward, although the caliber reached eight inches, but it was an old-fashioned rack that could only shoot a shell in an average of five to six minutes, and it would take time to turn to the adjustment of the shooting, and the adjustment of the old gun carriages would take at least ten minutes, so theoretically, even if it started now, it would take a quarter of an hour before it could be fired

By that time, the Izumo's two twin four-inch guns had fired at least seven salvos, totaling twenty-eight shells, and the south battery, which was closest to the Izumo, was in danger of facing a devastating blow

What's even worse is that the combat power of the cruiser Myoko lying in the nest is still not weak, and it has become a corner with the Izumo, forming a flank attack on both sides of the Wusong Battery, and suddenly the advantage of the Chinese defenders is gone, and even falls into an extremely dangerous situation

Yu Sanhe was also aware of the change in the situation of the fort, but he reacted very quickly and immediately came up with a countermeasure

"Let the artillery company aim at the Japanese ship in the river fog and hit me hard"

The artillery captain woke up like a dream in an instant, and gave a series of orders to the flag soldiers

"The north and south batteries concentrate their firepower to sink the Myoko ......"

"South Battery, please ask if you want to return fire on the Japanese ships that appear on the right side of the fortress"

The flag soldier asked hurriedly, and he didn't even bother to interrupt the commander's order, which was a violation of military law

The artillery captain didn't care about dwelling on this kind of detail, and waved his hand categorically:

"Order the South Battery to ignore the Izumo and concentrate fire on the Myoko with the North Battery"

The artillery captain was originally only the commander of the North Battery, but because the commander of the South Battery was Deng Zhenquan's brother-in-law, he was a tiger on weekdays, and after Sanhe took over the fortress, he would arrest one of them, and the South Battery was led by him, but he also took a great risk for this order, and the South Battery felt that he was discriminated against because of Deng Zhenquan's brother-in-law, and now in the face of the Japanese ship attack, he was ordered to not fight back, and the dissatisfaction will definitely gather and increase, if the battle is won, it will be enough, once he loses, he will first become the target of the resentful public and be attacked

The salvo of the north and south batteries was once again empty, and everyone's hearts hung tightly, if this continued, the fort of the fortress would be flanked by the two Japanese ships left and right, and it would be eaten away little by little

The flag soldier leaned into the bunker from the observation point and shouted excitedly: "Hit, hit, hit"

Yu Sanhe said angrily: "What the hell is going on, where did you hit?"

"The artillery brothers of the Ninth Regiment hit the Izumo"

The flag soldier was scolded and said aggrievedly

Everyone suddenly turned out to be the infantry's howitzer hit the enemy ship, Yu Sanhe hurriedly picked up the telescope to observe the battle situation, only to see that the Izumo hull has been billowing smoke, the specific results of the battle can not be judged for a while, but it is this hit that greatly boosted the morale of everyone in the fortress, the south battery braved the Izumo artillery fire and the north battery carried out a salvo on the Myoko, the god of luck finally began to favor the fortress defenders, an eight-inch cannon shell smashed through the front splint of the Myoko, and a series of through several layers of cabins under the deck, until the bottom of the explosion was not exploded, the bottom of the ship was blown out of a large hole, the sea water surged in, the Japanese sailors had to close the water compartment, but the entire hull was also due toDue to the depth of the bow of the ship, the main gun in front of the bow could no longer be fired due to the angle

Myoko was not alone, but also a four-inch cannon shell hit the twin four-inch gun turret at the stern of the ship, Myoko because it was a treaty-class cruiser, so the tonnage control was extremely strict, so the sacrifice was made in the turret protection, so this four-inch gun shell easily tore the turret armor for only thirty seconds, due to the shell detonation, the entire turret was lifted up by a strong impact force, and the Myoko was completely destroyed by a salvo, and the combat effectiveness of the large-caliber naval guns was completely destroyed, and the remaining small-caliber secondary guns were no longer to worry about

The morale of the Chinese defenders of the fortress was once again high, and the Myoko threat was gone, and the remaining time was left to fight the Izumo with all their might

Suddenly there was a roar in the sky, and the soldiers looked up, and their faces couldn't help but change greatly, only to see three planes from far and near, and the heavy under the wings was clearly full of bombs

Wu Xiaoliang was on his way to Changshu at this time, a few hours ago, he had just been appointed by Jiang Zhongzheng as the commander of the Beijing-Shanghai garrison, in charge of the defense of Nanjing and Shanghai, the shape of Qiyakou was very unoptimistic, Song Xilian's teaching corps was defeated by the Japanese army Deng 6 unit in only half a day, and the first line of defense was ordered to organize the first line of defense in Changshu was the 11th Division, which had just withdrawn from Hubei, and the commander of the 11th Division was even more famous, that is, the core figure of the civil engineering department of the Kuomintang, Jiang Zhongzheng's favorite general Chen Cheng

The second line of defense is located on the Jiangyin line, and the defense of the First Army, which has just been withdrawn from Hubei by He Yingqin's old foundation, is also defended by Liu Zhi, and this army is definitely a giant in the entire sequence of the National Revolutionary Army, under normal circumstances, an army has two divisions and one or two independent brigades, and the troops implement the two-two system, that is, one division, two brigades, one brigade and two regiments, and the First Army, because it is the absolute lineage of Jiang Zhongzheng, actually organized nine divisions, in the first disarmament and downsizing, the First Army still retains three divisions, and the rest of the troops are reorganized into the 32nd Army and the Ninth Army

The most important thing is that the First Army implements the three-three system, that is, one division, three brigades, one brigade and three regiments, so the strength of the First Army is the highest in the country, and Chiang Zhongzheng placed it on the Jiangyin line, which not only reassuringly handed over the Nanjing gateway to his descendants, but also gave it high hopes, hoping that they can achieve fruitful results in the war against Japan

Wu Xiaoliang's Second Army and the 57th Division were obviously not among the troops to be trusted, so they were sent to the front line

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