The two platoons of the Wusong security team guarding the hill were also experienced veterans, and they wanted to take advantage of the Japanese retreat to fight a counterattack, but they were attacked by the Japanese army and lost more than a dozen brothers in vain.

By the time Xu 19 and the seals rushed to the foot of the hill in the face of the Japanese plane's dive strafing, Ohara Shigemi had already retreated to a safe distance with the seventy or eighty devil soldiers.

"Grandma is a bear, these little Dongying are running fast!" The seal spat out thick phlegm hatefully, shook the box cannon in his hand again, and yelled loudly, "Brothers, chase after Lao Tzu, even if you chase to the ends of the earth, you will kill all this little Japan, grandma is a bear, dare to go to the land of China to spread wild, and you are tired of crooking them!" ”

Ding of the Bailai Security Regiment up and down the mountain responded violently, raising his bayonet and about to chase after him.

"No, you can't chase!" Xu Shijiu looked up at the sky, and said, "The tide will rise in two hours at most, and as soon as the tide rises, the main force of the Japanese army in the open sea should land!" ”

Strictly speaking, the sea off Wusong is not considered a sea, at best it is the outlet of the Yangtze River, but the hydrogeography here has been undoubtedly with the sea, there are two tides rise and fall every day, from the calendar, the recent high tide at noon or midnight, and then at about six o'clock in the morning and evening, the seal has been rampant in the sea of Wusong for many years, this he naturally knows.

However, at this time, there was a large area of yellow and clear sea off Wusong, and I didn't see too many ships, where did the Japanese army come from? At the moment, he frowned and asked, "Captain Xu, how do you know that there is a main force of the Japanese army in the open sea?" ”

Xu Shijiu said: "Captain Hai, listen to me, let's hurry up and repair the fortifications!" ”

"Repairs?" The seal was amused when he heard this, and pointed to the traffic trenches, foxholes, and the only half-buried bunker dug everywhere in front of Fortress Hill and said, "Captain Xu, I know that your old 19th Route Army is very good at repairing fortifications, but I don't believe that you can still build stronger and more complete fortifications here." ”

Xu Shijiu shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Captain Hai, in fact, except for artillery fortifications, you don't need to build any infantry fortifications on the front at all, because no matter how strong the infantry fortifications are, they can't withstand the frontal shelling of the naval guns, and after the Japanese army lands, they will definitely not attack from the front, they will definitely attack from the flank." ”

The seal was stunned for a moment and asked, "What do you mean?" The fortifications were repaired in the wrong direction? ”

It seems that the Japanese army really did not attack from the front just now, but from the mountain on the flank, if it were not for the half-buried bunker as a defensive support, I am afraid that the two platoons on the mountain will not be able to hold out to their reinforcements, thinking of this, the seal slapped his forehead, and he was really not convinced, and the central army still knew how to fight.

"Captain Hai, I don't have time to talk to you, let's repair the fortifications quickly!" Xu Jiu shook his head and said urgently, "Remember, the fortifications must be built behind the side of the fortress mountain, especially the anti-artillery holes must be dug on the anticline that the naval guns can't hit, otherwise the little Japanese can kill us all with a salvo of naval guns." ”

"Wait, did you hear the dog?" The seal flew up and kicked on the buttocks of the elders of the 1st Company, and then scolded and said, "Hurry up and dig fortifications for Lao Tzu, don't forget the teachings of Captain Xu, the fortifications should be repaired on the side, especially the anti-artillery holes, you must dig on the anti-what surface, have you heard clearly?" ”

"Big brother, what are you kicking me for?" I rubbed my ass and muttered.

Soon, more than 200 remnants of the 61st Division plus more than 100 Wusong security teams began to rush to repair the fortifications, and the two Japanese bombers hovering in the sky ran out of ammunition after diving and strafing several times, and flew back to the "Kaga" aircraft carrier anchored in the open sea to replenish fuel and ammunition.

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Less than a kilometer away, Shigemi Ohara was holding a telescope to look out on Fortress Hill.

Seeing that the Chinese army was not building fortifications on the front of the sea off Wusong, but instead built the fortifications on the left and right sides of Fortress Hill and on the anticline, Ohara Shigemi's brows furrowed, he knew that he had met a real opponent this time, and the commander of the Chinese army on the opposite side obviously had a considerable understanding of the defense of heavy artillery.

Touching the eye-catching scar on his chin, a familiar face suddenly popped out of Ohara Shigemi's mind, five years ago it was also here, in this Fortress Mountain, he had fought to the death with a Chinese army, and the two sides even fought a tragic white-knuckle battle, and the scar on his chin was left by a veteran of the national army at that time.

However, the other party also failed to get a bargain from his subordinates, and at the same time that the opponent's bayonet cut his chin, his bayonet also pierced the opponent's right leg, if it wasn't for another assassination master, he would have been able to finish the veteran of the national army at that time, but when he thought of the assassination master, Ohara Shigemi shivered coldly.

Five years ago, the battle was extremely tragic, Ohara Shigemi still can't forget the tragic scene of corpses all over the field, this time, it seems that there will be another fierce battle, from the pocket of the jacket out of a photo, looking at the photo of the soft and lovely beloved wife, Ohara Shigemi's eyes suddenly showed a trace of sadness.

Five years ago, his beloved wife lost her father here.

Will she lose her beloved husband in this battle?

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The old lady's uncle exerted his strength with both hands to lift a stone weighing a hundred pounds, but suddenly his right leg fell to the ground weakly, and the stone fell upside down, almost hitting someone, but fortunately, Xu Shijiu next to him quickly blocked it with a sapper shovel.

Xu Shijiu picked up the old lady and said with concern: "Uncle old lady, you have bad legs and feet, rest." ”

The old lady's uncle shook his head self-deprecatingly, beat his leg and said: "This leg has pierced the bayonet of Little Japan five years ago, and it is becoming more and more useless, and now I can't even carry a hundred catties, alas, I think that during the Northern Expedition, I could carry a stone mill of four hundred catties alone, it seems that I am old, useless, useless......"

"How so?" Xu Shijiu easily picked up the hundred-pound stone and put it on the top of the fortification, and said, "Uncle Mother, you have nothing to tell those recruits your battle story, and then teach your combat experience, this is more effective than repairing more fortifications, aren't they all brought out by you like this?" ”

"And you." The old lady's uncle lit the dry tobacco pipe, took a beautiful breath, and looked at Xu Shijiu with Cangsang's eyes, "Although Han Ting and they are also smart, they don't have the spirituality of Han Wazi. ”

Xu Nineteen hesitated for a moment, but still said: "Old lady, the staff will send the collected remnants here later, you can go back to the division headquarters with him, tomorrow morning the little rabbit cubs of the Nineteenth Brigade should rush to Wusong, and if you have time, help me pick up the eggs of those recruits, and let them know what it means to be a soldier to fight." ”

The old lady's eyes froze, and he said in a low voice: "Why, this time the artillery can't hold Taiwan?" ”

"How so." Xu Shijiu looked at the old lady calmly and said with a smile, "Five years ago, one of our battalions guarded the artillery Taiwan, and in the face of an entire infantry wing of the Japanese army, didn't Zuihou also defend it?" This time, I estimate that there will be only one infantry brigade at most, a thousand men, and it will take two days for the small Japanese troops to arrive, to say the least. ”

"You kid, I don't know you yet?" The old lady shook his head and said, "I know what you pee on as soon as you pout your ass, I tell you, I want to break my old man apart, no way, we have been separated once five years ago, this time, even if we die, we have to die together." ”

I don't know weishenme, Xu Shijiu's nose suddenly became a little sour, but he forced a sour smile and said, "What do you keep talking about?" What did he say back then? I'm a cat, I have nine lives, and I can kill my Xu Han's soul in the little Japan, and he hasn't been born in his mother's womb yet. ”

"yes, I almost forgot that you still have the nickname of the Nine Lives Cat." There was a faint smile in the eyes of the old lady's uncle Cangsang, "In the battle of Temple Alley back then, you led the guard company to the back, and you survived such a dangerous pass, it was really difficult for Little Japan to kill you." ”

"So you don't have anything to worry about." Xu Nineteen smiled, "You can rest assured to go back to the town and help me pick up the eggs of the recruits of the Nineteenth Brigade, but now that it is wartime, we have no time to train them slowly, the sooner they can adapt to the war, the more chance they will have to survive from the battlefield." ”

"Okay." The old lady happily agreed.

Xu 19 turned his back and went to continue repairing the fortifications, but his face that was still smiling was suddenly covered with a thick haze, Xu 19 had an innate instinct, he had a keen intuition like an almost beast about danger, for example, this time, his intuition told him that defending Taiwan would definitely be a life of death.

Xu Shijiu's intuition was right, when he took the remnants of the 61st Division to repair the fortifications on Fortress Mountain, the old devil Matsui Ishine had just quarreled with the Minister of the Navy, Mitsumasa Yonechi, and Mitsumasa Yonechi complained to the commander of the 3rd Fleet, Hasegawa Kiyoshi, Hasegawa Kiyoshi felt that he had no face, so he transferred more than a dozen warships to cooperate with the Ohara Brigade to land on the beach.

At this time, more than a dozen warships of the Third Fleet, including the flagship cruiser "Izumo" and the aircraft carrier "Kaga," were lined up off the coast of Wusong, and more than a dozen landing craft loaded with nearly 1,000 infantry of the Ohara Brigade were also ready to go.

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The first to discover the Japanese navy's build-up off the coast of Wusong was the 8th Army in Pudong.

After the Battle of Songhu began, Chairman Chiang organized the various units of the Nationalist Army gathered in Shanghai into two group armies, in addition to Zhang Zhizhong's 9th Group Army, there was also Zhang Fakui's 8th Group Army, the 9th Group Army was responsible for encircling and annihilating the Japanese troops in Hongkou and Yangshupu districts, and Zhang Fakui's 8th Group Army was responsible for guarding the Pudong area.

However, although the 8th Group Army was nominally a group army, in fact it had only one infantry division and an artillery brigade, and this independent artillery brigade was still just an empty shelf, and only one battalion of the second regiment of the second artillery brigade actually entered Pudong to participate in the battle, and the rest of the artillery battalions had already been dismantled into artillery companies and distributed to various divisions.

Chairman Chiang studied artillery when he was studying in the Japanese Army, but he really didn't know anything about the use of artillery, but anyone with a little military knowledge knew that artillery had to be used intensively, but Chairman Chiang had to do the opposite, dismantling and using a few artillery brigades and artillery regiments, which were already small.

It must be pointed out that the use of artillery separately was also a major reason why the Nationalist army failed to quickly encircle and annihilate the Japanese army in Shanghai in the first phase of the offensive operation of the Battle of Songhu.