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August 6, fine

The bombing had just ended, and the nasty buzz had finally left.

Hitoshi Yamada and Osa crawled out of their underground bunkers, staring blankly at the black dots that were fading into the sky in the distance. He was covered in filthy muddy water.

After the air raid, the Japanese positions were littered with burning flames and screaming wounded soldiers. Even though the sea breeze was constantly washing, the stench of human flesh burned by gasoline wafted in the air, but it still could not be blown away.

Seven days after landing on the Pudong beachhead in Shanghai, his troops were still firmly blocked by the Red Army within about 10 kilometers of the coastline, and it was difficult to advance an inch.

Although the naval guns supported in the rear could fight farther, it was difficult for his troops to penetrate farther distances. Because if you advance some distance, you will be bombarded by the 150-mm guns that the Red Army has placed outside the range of the naval guns.

Seven days after the landing in Pudong, the military has mobilized more than 15,000 troops to go ashore. Then the battlefield here was like a terrible quagmire, and it fell with a splash of mud, and then sank with a thud, and nothing came out.

A total of more than 15,000 troops were sent to the Pudong beachhead, but Yamada Hitokazu still had only 5,000 people in command. As for the 10,000 people, they were either corpses or wounded. Not here anyway.

The planes of the Red Army in the sky were very ferocious, and gasoline incendiary bombs were thrown incessantly every day, and during this journey, we also know how many Japanese soldiers were burned to death and burned by these murderous gasoline flames. The few vegetation forests in Pudong were all burned to the ground, turning them into patches of charred black land. As far as the eye can see, it is all black and a large plain, and the view is so good that you can see it for more than ten miles.

Long before the Japanese troops landed, the military organized personnel to urgently clear the small woods within 20 kilometers of the coastal area of Pudong, and deliberately left the part 10 kilometers by the sea to facilitate the movement of a small group of infiltration troops. But in the bombing of these days. The woods were burned to the ground.

There is no obstruction of the view from the woods. After all the qiē were burned to the ground, Yamada Hitokazu sadly discovered that the Pudong area was really a terrible battlefield, except for a few small hills. It can almost be described as "three feet high".

Air Force and artillery. They all like to brush up their achievements on such a flat battlefield.

Pudong Linjiang. The groundwater is so abundant that when you dig three feet into the ground, water quickly comes out of the ground. Even digging holes in the ground, digging bunkers, and trenches became extremely troublesome here. Groundwater is too abundant. Turned trenches and bomb shelters into muddy puddles.

In order to avoid the air raid, the soldiers of the landing force had to dig a hole in the ground, and during the air raid, they plunged into the dirty and smelly muddy puddle to take refuge, and the effect was quite good. However, the consequence of this has made the hygienic conditions of front-line soldiers worse, increasing their fatigue and making them more prone to wound infections and diseases.

HNA's support? This has long been an unrealistic fantasy, and since 1 August, not a single fighter plane of our own side has appeared in the sky in Pudong. Some only have "flies" painted with red five-pointed stars on their wings, harassing their heads day and night.

After seven days of being bombed, Yamada Hitokazu and the first two groups of troops who came ashore were no longer too afraid of the gasoline burning bows dropped by those planes (because they were used to it), and whenever the air raid sirens sounded, they plunged into the underground bomb shelters like muddy puddles to take refuge, and then they gambled on their luck. The only problem is that these gasoline burning bows are very efficient at burning the supplies that are brought ashore when they are not burning people.

Hitokazu Yamada looked in the distance, dozens of soldiers like him, covered in mud and water, who had come out of their holes, and now shovels, canvases and other tools, loaded earth to extinguish the food supplies that had been ignited by the gasoline burning bow in the air raid, in order to salvage these precious materials before they were burned by the flames.

"Air strike!"

Just then, another siren sounded. The soldiers who had been desperately fighting the fire before threw down their tools and drilled into the air-raid shelter again with Hitokazu Yamada.

This time, it was the plane that landed the most feared by the Japanese army, with two engines HS129 - the plower.

This murderous German plane has a maximum of 12 machine guns installed on its fuselage, and it uses ferocious 13-millimeter caliber bullets. They had thick armor on their fuselages, and they were not afraid of rifle fire from the ground infantry, and even dared to fire at anti-aircraft machine guns.

In the past seven days, relying on a batch of small special landing craft supported by British aid, Yamada Hitokazu's landing force has finally obtained a batch of anti-aircraft weapons and artillery with great difficulty, but just like the troops in his hands are constantly being replenished and at the same time being constantly reduced, these modest anti-aircraft weapons and artillery are also constantly reducing losses in the opponent's constant air raids every day, and they have never been able to form an effective large-scale cluster.

In this intervention operation, the Japanese Army lacked special landing craft that could transport heavy equipment, but the British brought a batch to Shanghai. On the first day of the landing battle, the British used all this equipment on Zhoushan Island. Since Zhoushan Island was lightly acquired, it was later handed over to the Japanese, who were in dire need. However, due to the loss of air supremacy, the Japanese Navy can only replenish the personnel and equipment of the landing force at night. However, every time they brought personnel ashore, they had to be harassed by the Red Army's night bombers, and in the past three days, the landing force also lost a lot of personnel and equipment at sea.

Twelve HS129s flew in from the west, and Hitokazu Yamada's position circled unhurriedly, looking for ground targets worthy of attack and strafing. The war lasted for seven days, and both sides summed up the most effective response plan according to the tactics of the other side.

After the planes in front of them carried out air raids mainly on burning bows, the HS129 plough machine flew over to strafe and sweep the field, and sweeping people was one of the purposes. The Japanese troops on the ground did not dare to come out to extinguish the fire, and could only watch the burning materials burn out. In addition, another task of HS129 is to destroy the anti-aircraft artillery that may be stored on the ground. Equipped with a large number of ground weapons, the HS129 fighter plane was not afraid to fire at the Japanese backward anti-aircraft machine guns, and even if it was wounded in a ground attack, it was an airfield more than 10 kilometers away, and as long as the plane held out for a few minutes and struggled to fly back, it could immediately land and be maintained.

After a few days of firefighting and the loss of a small number of anti-aircraft weapons, Hitokazu Yamada now has only a few anti-aircraft machine guns in his hands, and he no longer wants to shoot at this kind of aircraft that is "as hard as cement." Because they are extremely difficult to knock down. It has been four days since the two sides met. The Japanese air defense forces only had two victories in damaging such aircraft, and it is not known whether they fell or not as for the long black smoke that they flew away to the west. But the price paid was very heavy, and once the air defense warfare was exposed, which was inferior in numbers. Immediately suffered from the focus of other aircraft to be knocked out.

Ultimately. Or that reason: the Pudong area of Pingchuan. There is no danger to defend to the extreme, and it is really the worst battlefield for the weak side. Looking down from the sky, Hitoshi Yamada and all the troops were almost clearly placed on the ground. There is nowhere to hide, no danger to guard.

In the past seven days, Yamada Hitokazu didn't want to expand the scope of his landing field, but he couldn't do it at all.

Just yesterday, he gritted his teeth, and finally accumulated more than 8,000 troops in his hands, relying on the cover of naval artillery, desperately assaulting in the direction of the Huangpu River. However, as soon as his troops moved, a bunch of planes flew in the sky, bombing and strafing in the sky, and in this uncovered and unsheltered battlefield, the infantry advancing in groups on the ground were simply the belly of a fish that had no resistance to be slaughtered.

In the area of more than 10 kilometers near the direction of the Huangpu River, the Red Army cleaned up the trees that were shading, and the daytime sortie was simply a suicide, and his troops would be immediately attacked by air raids as soon as they appeared. At that time, Hitokazu Yamada chose to go out late at night, but it still didn't work. The Pudong area was too small, and within a dozen kilometers east of the Huangpu River was the Red Army's control area, where countless observation posts and fire guidance were secretly laid in ambush. As soon as his troops were assembled and dispatched, they were immediately detected by their opponents, and then under the guidance of ground flares, they still attracted countless planes to bomb them.

Although the effect of night bombardment was not as good as that of daytime, it was also within the range of the Red Army's heavy artillery here. The elite assault troops led by Hitokazu Yamada were crushed on the road by the opponent's air force and heavy artillery before they even touched the edge of the Huangpu River.

As a result of the battle, his troops had grown from 8,000 to 5,000 now—and that was after receiving new reinforcements last night.

As for the land battle that Hitokazu Yamada wants to fight the most, he has also been fighting extremely depressed in the past few days. He also wanted to pretend to attack and bring the main infantry of the Red Army into the range of naval guns and annihilate them in large numbers, but the opponent was just not fooled. During ground contact warfare, they always sent small infiltration units of a dozen to a few dozen people into the Japanese defense line to conduct infiltration operations. In the face of these small groups of elite troops, the warships cruising on the sea are like cannons beating flies, and it is absolutely impossible to carry out special artillery bombardment against such a small group of infiltration troops -- because the life of the barrels of naval guns is limited. Only two or three hundred rounds of life. It is impossible to waste on a dozen infantrymen.

The infiltration units of the Red Army were all elite soldiers, with good weapons, fierce firepower, and rich combat experience. Their combat skills were to introduce the tactics of the special forces proposed by Lin Han and combine them with the tactics of the German storm commandos, and they took the road of small, skillful, fast, smart, and fierce. Even more outrageous, if necessary, these units could even call nearby air force support directly via guò radio. Yamada Hitoshi and the landing force have always suffered a big loss in the confrontation with these small commandos.

As for the Red Army snipers lurking everywhere on the Pudong battlefield, the endless cold guns and cold artillery tactics, it is tears when I think of it, and all kinds of means come down, and the high-spirited Yamada Hitoshi and Osa now just want to leave the terrible quagmire of Pudong as much as possible.

"What a rotten battle! Those people in China are right, the Kwantung Army does not enter the customs, does not open up a battlefield in Shandong, and vainly wants to attack and conquer South China from the Yangtze River Delta with a few landing troops, which is simply a suicidal stupidity. ”

Hitokazu Yamada was angry and aggrieved. His troops, which had a large number of artillery and tanks, could not be transported ashore because of transportation, and could only rely on infantry with small arms to serve the defeat of their opponents on this wrong battlefield.

"The person who makes this kind of decision is simply a national thief!"

If it were possible, Hitokazu Yamada would love to return to Tokyo, draw his saber, and "condemn" all the top brass of the military department who made this stupid decision. What a stupid strategic decision! Without a stable shore-based air base, the delusional attempt to launch a landing war was nothing short of a frenzied act of suicide.

After 1 August, the commander of the Pudong front in Shanghai, in addition to Hitokazu Yamada, his superiors repeatedly proposed to temporarily kill the Pudong beach, but this request was mercilessly rejected by the upper echelons of the military department.

Another fiasco in the waters off the coast of Shanghai has pushed the navy to the point of extreme wolf bèi. Now the seriously injured Chicheng is secretly sailing back to Kure Port in Japan for repairs with a hole wound on its body. In order to keep it secret, he had to sneak into the harbor in the middle of the night, and the scene was like being a thief.

For the second fiasco of the Navy, the Japanese military carried out measures of strict secrecy between the civilian and lower ranks. Although the Red Army claimed that it had sunk the Kaga, the Japanese official refused to admit it, and the statement was that the Red Army was bragging. The Japanese authorities, who have suffered from the lax nature of public opinion propaganda and control, have now tightened their press control and temporarily blocked the news of the sinking of the Kaga from the people.

While the navy is overwhelmed by successive defeats in the war in China, the pressure on the army is no small either. The responsibility for the first intervention can be completely shifted to the navy, but the war in Pudong is not good, although it is also because of the incompetence of the naval aviation, but the people will not care about it.

They only knew that during the First Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army fled from Korea to Liaodong with hundreds of people chasing tens of thousands of Qing people from Beiyang, and they only knew that during the Northeast Incident, more than 10,000 Kwantung troops chased 200,000 Northeast Army to run "miracles."

Japan's too many and too easy victories over China in the past have now become a heavy burden on the Japanese Army. The people not only want to see Japan win the war against China, but also want to see an "easy" victory.

Turning, retreating, fleeing, defeating, these are all intolerable. The Japanese government has brainwashed the people into fanatical "lovers" of war of aggression with militarist ideology, but in the same way, the brainwashed people have also used their war fanaticism to push the government away, and finally formed a vicious circle of becoming more and more crazy and irrational.

The landing force in Pudong, Shanghai, cannot be withdrawn! The Imperial Army of the Great Japanese Empire had to maintain its existence here.

This was the embarrassing situation faced by the Japanese landing force on the beach in Pudong: it could not advance, and it was not allowed to retreat, so it could only be trapped in a small piece of territory every day to let the opponent's air force and small commandos brush up their experience. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to M. to read. (To be continued......)