Before the news of rushing to the airport to check was returned, the battle here in Wuhu began.

At the same time, the attack on Changzhou also entered the countdown, Sun Tao's two divisions began to move forward, and the self-propelled amphibious artillery was only more than ten kilometers away from them, and the artillery could be in place when they arrived in Changzhou.

Wuhu, commanded by Yu Lei, the captain of the Huya Eighth Brigade, is also one of the six students that Dong Ku rescued in Harbin, he, like Zhao Liqiang, each took a Huya Brigade, and also served as the commander-in-chief of the recruit division.

After receiving Sun Tao's telegram, the Shanghai plane had taken off, the bombing had begun, and the moment he could move here, he looked at Lao Zhao inquiringly and said: "Boss, it has started, is it starting to attack here?" ”

Lao Zhao Zhilu said that this was Dong Ku to give him face, and Zhilu said that it was this young commander who took care of his emotions, so he smiled and said: "Commander Yu, I, Lao Zhao, am obeying orders today, everything is still up to you, don't scruple." ”

Yu Lei confirmed the command again, so he didn't talk nonsense, picked up the walkie-talkie and ordered: "Prepare for the attacking troops, close to the predetermined position, and prepare to attack!" After shouting, he picked up the phone in front of him and ordered: "The first and second artillery positions are ready, and in five minutes, the peripheral positions will be cleared by effective firing, and then extended, and the main positions will be shelled!" ”

Lao Zhao looked at the palm-sized intercom in Yu Lei's hand, and said with a smile: "I said why didn't I see a few phones in your headquarters, it turns out that there is such an advanced command method." ”

Yu Lei smiled and said: "Boss, this is the high-priced high-tech communication equipment purchased by the captain, if it weren't for your battery supply to keep up, the captain would have gotten you a batch a long time ago, for the time being, the boss can't use this walkie-talkie, the distance is also short, covering only five kilometers." It hasn't met the captain's requirements yet. ”

"Good stuff! Five kilometers is enough! ”

Lao Zhao took the walkie-talkie handed over by Guo Lei and looked at it over and over again, praised it, but didn't reach out and touch anywhere, so he returned it to him. This is the command center, he is an old soldier, look at it is already good. How dare you tinker with it?

At the front line, the troops began to quickly leave the lurking site and approach the outer positions of Wuhu. Lao Zhao's army also had advance soldiers with walkie-talkies, who conveyed the order, and the army then launched an encirclement of Wuhu.

The Japanese army had just received a report that a large group of Chinese troops were approaching, and their outfit was not a political axe army. Before the commander could give the order to fight, there was a sudden screech of cannonballs flying in the sky.

"Shelling! Find the opposing artillery positions and prepare for a counterattack! ”

The commander of the brigade, Qin Junjie, did not panic. Ordered loudly. He believed that under normal fighting conditions, the arrival of reinforcements holding out to Nanking would not be a problem at all.

But before his order was given, the earth shook violently, and then, at the same time as a loud bang, the swaying earth tossed him to the ground.

"How ......"

Before his words fell, there was a loud bang. The earth shook like chaff, and the sand fell overhead. The lights flickered and were extinguished.

"Illumination! Illuminating!!! Contact Frontier !! Qin Junjie lay on the ground and roared.

But his roar was not met with much response, and the earth shook wave after wave, continuously, and in the shaking, the light of the flashlight lit up, but no one could quickly run out of the headquarters. Find out what's going on. The phone, even if the shouting broke through the throat, there was no response on the other end, just kept whirring and shaking, and kept shouting in vain.

At this time. The outer positions had withered in a dozen loud noises. 150 caliber shells are no joke, and the effectiveness of 150 caliber shells is even more terrifying. With one shot, there will be no life within 100 meters, and the huge earthquake generated by ten cannons, even if it is underground, will also be shocked to death.

The smoke of gunpowder filled the big pit on the battlefield, and there were almost no screams and moans, some were just stumps and broken flesh everywhere, and the corpses everywhere were intact, but the corpses opened their mouths to spit out the lobes of their lungs. And the artillery fire, 30 guns in one position, firing and extending from 15 kilometers away, the shells fell on the main position of the Japanese army in the midst of a huge earthquake and between the ups and downs of the earth.

The loud roar shattered the illusions of the Japanese soldiers who were hiding in the trenches, thinking that they could avoid the shelling, and as the smoke rose, the Japanese soldiers fell silent.

Lao Zhao looked at the smoke rising from the Japanese position in the distance and sighed: "Dong Ku is right! War, the supply of fighting, the fight is money, the value of force, and the content of science and technology! Such a long-range artillery is still so powerful, as long as there is money, as soon as it is effective, the infantry will clean up the battlefield. ”

"Yes, boss, the captain often said that exchanging shells for the lives of Japanese soldiers is worth every shot, and we have long asked for accurate artillery fire, in order to effectively kill and kill at the same time, but also to save money, shells are too expensive."

Yu Lei looked at the extension of the artillery fire and agreed.

The artillery bombardment did not give the Japanese time to react at all, and the artillery positions in their rear did not know the position of the enemy's artillery in the tunnel, judging by experience, the artillery was ten kilometers away, and the landing point of the parabola made them look at the falling shells and be helpless. Their artillery was only 11 kilometers away at most, and there were only six of them, so they could not hit the opponent's artillery positions at all. If they knew that the artillery at this time was fired at a distance of about fifteen kilometers, they would have collapsed. They don't have 105 heavy cannons here, heavy guns with a range of twenty kilometers.

When the shell was about to fall at the city gate, Yu Lei picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted: "The frontal troops are ready in three minutes, and it's time to charge!" The other troops are strictly guarding against escaping, so don't run away! ”

After giving the order, he picked up the phone and ordered: "The shelling is corrected to the left and right, and it will stop after one round, and the time for the infantry to perform is up!" ”

At the same time as he gave the order, the Japanese positions had already begun to retreat, and the Japanese troops, who had not been stunned to death, staggered back and tried to escape back to the city. They can't resist such shelling, even if they are deserters, they don't have a psychological burden. There are not many people left in the position......

Just as they staggered forward, behind them, the sound of a charge horn sounded.

The troops, at the moment when the trumpet of the charge sounded, emerged from the grass, bushes, and woods, rushing forward like a tide, not fast, but never stopping, and rushing to the vicinity of the city gate at a distance of a thousand meters while the shells were still falling.

At this time, Qin Junjie had already realized that something was wrong, and the moment the lights were restored in the headquarters and the radio could work, he sent a telegram to Nanjing, requesting support, sending a telegram to Shanghai, requesting aircraft support.

It's a pity that he didn't know that the loud bang here had been discovered by Gu Zhutong's sentinels, and then, the news of the big battle here reached his ears.

This guy is going to start a war first when he arrives?

Gu Zhutong looked at the map and frowned slightly.

The previous ceasefire order made him very unhappy, and he was confident that he would be sure to capture Nanjing. Now, the army that Niangzi came over took the first step, and it was also an attack on Wuhu, which he had long taken a fancy to, although he was not happy, but he did not move, instantly captured the fighter, and ordered loudly: "The 46th Division and the 75th Division are now moving towards Wuhu, setting up an ambush in front of Dangtu County, blocking the possible reinforcements in Nanjing, and other troops are ready to attack, once the Japanese army in Nanjing moves, an hour later to attack!" ”

His judgment was very accurate, and fifteen minutes before the order was given, the sentinels observing the front came with the news that the Japanese troops had begun to move, the exact number of which was unknown.

Gu Zhutong looked at the current position of the two divisions, and knew that Lu Dao ordered first, when they arrived in Dangtu County, they would not only arrive first, but also have time to deploy defenses, and a siege and annihilation were indispensable.

At this time, the shelling here in Wuhu has stopped, the army is close to the rear of the position, in the opposite side of the heavy machine gun sounded at the moment, a grenade hail flew to the Japanese position, did not wait for the rear Japanese artillery to turn back to the muzzle, the roaring dense explosion, the team has been in the earth-shattering shout, into the most rearmost position, then, the dense gunfire burst out, the soldiers of the advance army quickly diverted along the fortifications that did not completely collapse. At the head of the tide, under the opening of the way with guns and grenades, they swarmed into the city and were unstoppable.

Lao Zhao saw the speed of the advance army's charge with his own eyes, and couldn't help but be stunned. Only then did I really understand the reason for the rapid speed of the advance army's attack on Harbin. If it were him, there would be no one or two days of stalemate, it would be difficult to break through the frontal position, and it would be difficult to rush into the city and start a street battle in just one hour.

Gun grenades are good!

I sighed in my heart. It's a pity that there is not much left in the hand. Imitation, he has not been able to make it until now, and he doesn't dare to be like the soldiers of the advance army, and he doesn't want money to go out.

Fighting, at this moment, it is only a matter of time before Wuhu is fully occupied, at most in an hour or two, the Japanese troops in the city, and the Japanese troops in the outer defensive positions on the opposite side will all be wiped out.

At the moment of the fierce battle here, a division of Nanjing's reinforcements had already been drawn, and on the road, trucks and motorcycles were rumbling towards Dangtu County, that is, Ma'anshan City in the future, and Gu Zhutong's two divisions were rushing for time. Although they didn't know that there was a big pocket in front of the road, and when they came out, there would be no return, but reinforcements to Wuhu were necessary. Now in any area that has been occupied, they will not give up. Besides, Wuhu was the only way for them to attack Wuhan, so how could they throw it away?

These battle reports had reached Shanghai, Nishio Shouzo had not been secretly attacked from the airfield, not a single plane could fly, a large number of aerial bombs had been removed from the ammunition depot, and there was not a single defender left, but no gunfire was heard, and not a single enemy corpse was found. When he saw Wuhu and Changzhou under attack, he immediately realized that the enemy was about to counterattack.

"Send a telegram to the headquarters and call for naval air support!!"

Nishio Shouzo came back to his senses, and he didn't care about Ushijima Sadao's request for help, so he calmly ordered.

It's a pity that what he doesn't know is that the huge fleet at this time disappeared into the vast sea, and he will not have a single plane to take off to reinforce him, unless the planes in Shandong can take off, and the few remaining planes in Hebei can take off, and he has no planes to support Shanghai. Moreover, the planes in Hebei and Shandong have already exceeded the combat radius, and they are beyond the reach of the whip. (To be continued......)