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Hangzhou's quick victory does not mean that it is stable. At this time, the Japanese army was gaining momentum, and the morale of the army was high, although there was a ban on killing in the base camp, it did not affect the morale of the soldiers.

When Nishio learned that Hangzhou's air defense had destroyed more than 40 fighters, he remembered the advance army in Heilongjiang.

He asked the Japanese army in Jiaxing to slow down and wait for the 118th Division to arrive and attack together. However, the navy's warships did not stop, and the fighters on the aircraft carrier received a telegram from Hangzhou's strict air defense, so they accepted the suggestion of Nishio Shouzo and did not take off, but the four light destroyers did not stop advancing.

AFTER THE JAPANESE ARMY OCCUPIED HANGZHOU, IT HAD ALREADY EXPLORED THE WATERWAY, LARGE WARSHIPS COULD REACH THE SECOND BEND OF THE QIANTANG RIVER, THERE WAS NO NEED TO WORRY ABOUT RUNNING AGROUND, AND THE 120MM NAVAL GUNS COULD EASILY BOMBARD HANGZHOU, AND THEY COULD HIT THE NORTH OF THE WEST LAKE AND ALONG THE LAOHE MOUNTAIN. And it was the Muzuki-class destroyers that had the conditions to get close to there. They could cross the sand kan of the Qiantang River into the sea and bombard Hangzhou.

On the riverside, the advance army, which was tidying up and building artillery positions, suddenly saw lights on the river.

"It's a battleship!!"

A fisherman-turned-warrior shouted.

With the shout, one by one the binoculars looked at the dark river, and then, the huge hull in the distance was revealed. Immediately afterward, lights appeared in the rear, and under the escort of several small gunboats, they drove along the proven waterway.

"Hurry! The cannon still has six kilometers to go!! ”

"Report to Command!!"

Seeing the lights on the river, all the busy soldiers shouted anxiously. It's a pity that they can only watch the battleships appear one by one. Artillery, five or six kilometers from the position of the position, is stepping up the construction of roads and bridges to allow the passage of trucks and artillery.

Zhao Liqiang at the moment when the battleship appeared. I got the report. He knew that the crisis that the captain said had really appeared. It is said that the water level of the Qiantang River is not high, and it is very dangerous for large ships to pass, especially the Shakan, but Dong Kuzhi said that the water level in this season is much higher than that of later generations. Moreover, it is recorded that the Japanese warships sailed to the vicinity of Hangzhou, so he made this judgment. Unexpectedly, the Japanese army moved so quickly, and after just clearing the defenders along the coast, they found out the passable waterway.

Do you know what if the Dao battleship is coming? Without long-range artillery, there is simply no power against war ships.

He copied the walkie-talkie and shouted, "Is the 75 gun in place?" ”

"Two kilometers to get to the intended location!"

Bangs, who was in charge of transporting the mountain cannon, shouted out of breath.

"Be quick! The enemy's battleships will be in place in half an hour in another hour! Be quick!! ”

Zhao Liqiang shouted. An order was then given to transport all armor-piercing, armor-piercing and white phosphorus shells from the Japanese ammunition depot to the river. Bombing unsinkable warships will also scare him to death.

The time is approaching the early hours of the morning, and everyone is desperate. They knew that a minute late would cause countless damage, and that an early repulsion of the gunboat could also minimize losses and withstand the enemy's counterattack. When the follow-up forces arrive, they can launch an attack on all fronts.

75 mountain robes there. The horse-drawn men pushed, and the soldiers were covered in mud one by one, desperately pushing the artillery to the predetermined position.

With a range of 6,000 meters, they could not hit the enemy ships at all if they were not close to the river, so they had no choice but to move forward with great strength on the tidal flats.

Opposite side. The cannon was surrounded by a crowd of people, roaring quietly, pushing the truck with their shoulders and hands, pushing the cannon weighing several tons. Proceed to the predetermined location.

While they were busy, the Japanese warships had already arrived at the predetermined position, and further on, it was estimated that either the riverbed was too narrow or the water level was too low, so they would not move forward anyway. The battleships lined up and stopped on the river, and the muzzles of the guns, slowly turning, pointed to the city of Hangzhou.

On the bank of the river, the naked eye could already see the lights on the warship, which made the soldiers even more anxious, pushing the mountain cannon with all their might, moving forward.

At this moment, there was a loud bang, and a fire rose on the surface of the river, and then, the whistling sound of cannonballs came, and the cannonballs whimpered and swept over the heads of the soldiers who were advancing forward in the darkness, and fell towards Laohe Mountain.

"Oh yes! Come on!! ”

"Work harder!!"

Hearing the sound of the cannon, the soldiers roared, pushed the cannon with all their might, squeezed all the potential of their bodies, and advanced firmly towards the position where the stone was paved.

Hearing the shells flying, Zhao Liqiang shouted in the walkie-talkie: "All units pay attention, pay attention to the shelling, don't run around at will!" ”

In the shouting, the cannonballs fell from far and near, and landed at the foot of Laohe Mountain.

As the shells fell, the reconnaissance plane, which had already been hovering in the nearby air, lowered its altitude to observe the point of impact, and then, in less than two minutes, the surface of the river flashed again, and the rumbling and dull sound of artillery reached the river bank, and the shells whistled and flew towards Laohe Mountain.

There, there is a key defense, and it is also where the barracks are located, and the Japanese bombardment there is actually a temptation, and when the anti-aircraft artillery is transferred, they will bombard this side to clear the obstacles for the incoming attacking troops.

But the fall of the cannonball was also lethal enough, and with a loud bang, the cannonball landed near the city gate, and then several houses were ignited, and in the firelight, the surrounding scenery was immediately visible.

"Target confirmed, 663...... 193……”

The report of the reconnaissance plane followed.

Zhao Liqiang listened to the reconnaissance plane in the sky, and his teeth itched with hatred, but he didn't dare to drive the anti-aircraft artillery there, it would all be blown up.

"Evacuate the positions there!!"

He reluctantly ordered. Anyway, the direction of the real defense is this side, not Lao Heshan.

As the Japanese reconnaissance plane confirmed the target, the tom tom sound of the four battleships sounded, and in the whimper, the four 120 guns of each battleship spewed fire one after another, and the shells flew over the heads of the soldiers who were urgently supporting the guns, flew towards Laohe Mountain, and landed outside the city.

The loud roar sounded continuously, and the fire from the violent explosion illuminated the city, and then, more than a dozen houses were ignited, and the fire, in the smoke of gunpowder, slowly burned more and more, and there was a tendency to spread.

"The three regiments of the new third division are responsible for fighting fires! Don't let the fire spread!! ”

Seeing the firelight, Zhao Liqiang roared.

He pinched the walkie-talkie, his eyes fixed on the direction where the artillery shells were flying, waiting for the artillery to counterattack there. Otherwise, this beautiful city will be destroyed. Their losses will also be enormous.

After the reconnaissance plane pointed out the direction, the naval guns began a non-stop bombardment, and one shell after another fell near the fire, and the huge shock wave destroyed one building after another, destroying everything there, and the fire was even more raging. Illuminated half of Hangzhou.

In just ten minutes, the urban area near Laohe Mountain was bombarded with destruction, and dozens of shells fell there, not only destroying buildings, but also the soldiers fighting the fire.

"Hurry!!"

The 75 mountain guns of one door went up to the position paved with rough stones, and with an anxious shout, the bracket was quickly opened, and Zhu Yuan began to calibrate, and one by one the armor-piercing shells had been stuffed into the chamber of the gun. Wait until you have enough ten cannons before firing.

At the moment when each gun of the ship fired four shells, all the mountain guns of the first group were in place, and with a sound of preparation, the commander of the artillery company, who had been waiting for a long time, shouted: "Open the cannon!" ”

The Japanese warship, which was bombarding the warship, suddenly saw a flash of fire on the river bank a few kilometers away, and was puzzled when the sound of shells flying came to his ears.

"There are artillery positions on the riverbank!!"

"Turn the muzzle!!"

The captains of all the warships roared.

In the midst of their roar, there was a loud bang, and the surface of the river shook violently. The battleship that followed was lifted several meters by the waves, and then fell. A wave of water more than ten meters high was set off.

As the waves rolled, two fires flashed on the battleship. The roaring explosion swept away several Japanese soldiers who were busy on the battleship, and with a scream, they fell into the river.

"Report the losses and destroy the positions there!"

In the violent shaking, the captain of the Japanese ship, Ishii Maru, calmly ordered.

He had heard it. The caliber of the cannon is less than a hundred. Artillery of such caliber is simply an itch for a battleship.

Sure enough, reports of damage to the battleship arrived. One shell hit the right side of the ship, and one fell on the deck. There was only a crater blown out of the side of the ship, revealing a hole in diameter of more than 20 centimeters. Nothing affects. The piercing deck on the deck caused damage to the crew lounge on the first floor, which killed four people, and did not even cause a fire.

"Armor-piercing bullets!"

Ishiimaru was taken aback. Although armor-piercing shells are not enough to sink a battleship, they can be just as fatal if they penetrate and land in the ammunition bay or engine room. And the enemy's artillery bombardment is very weird, with a loud bang, the shells fall at the same time, although it is impossible to sink the battleship, but the huge wave is very likely to push the battleship out of the channel and run aground, and by that time, no matter how strong the battleship is, it will be bombarded into scrap metal.

Before he could finish his thoughts, the fire on the riverbank flashed again.

Rumble!

There was another loud bang, and the battleship was raised again, allowing the small gunboat next to it to avoid it urgently, lest it be affected.

This time, two shells landed on the side of the ship, and there was no major damage.

"Destroy the artillery positions!!"

Ishii Maru ordered loudly.

On the bank of the river, ten 75 mountain guns roared continuously.

"Quick! Cannonball!!! ”

"Sink the shit!!"

With a roar, the third round of potentiary shooting erupted again.

The riverbank and the battleship erupted in flames almost simultaneously.

Shells staggered through the air.

Rumble!

The river shook again, lifting the battleship. At the same time, four shells fell one after another around the artillery positions.

Although the violent explosion did not hit the position, the shock wave easily overturned the mountain artillery, blowing the soldiers squatting on the ground to the ground like a leather ball, rolling out more than ten meters in a row, and then stopped.

The rubble on the ground was even more raindrop-like, hitting the tumbling soldiers, and with just one blow, the ten mountain artillery positions were gone.

"Quick!! Pick up the cannon!! ”

The soldiers in the distance, with their ears buzzing, roared wildly and pounced on the artillery positions against the falling rocks.

It's a pity, how can they move as fast as a cannonball?

After the naval guns that had already been test-fired approached the position at the point of impact, four battleships and several small gunboats opened fire at the same time, and in the firelight, the shells tore through the night and fell on the position.

The roaring explosion tore everything around it, and hundreds of people, along with ten mountain guns, and dozens of boxes of shells turned into smoke and dust. The violent explosion destroyed all objects within 100 meters, and the shock wave caused the soldiers on another position 300 meters away to become rolling gourds in the air as the debris and mud flew up from the sky.

Seeing the flickering firelight of the nearby position, everyone knew in their ears that there would be no more living people there.

"Grass mud horse!!"

"I'll grass your grandma!!"

On this soon-to-be-completed position, the soldiers roared frantically, their eyes instantly blood-red, where was there still the slightest smell of recruits?

In the rain of falling gravel, they struggled to get up, did not bother to wipe the blood stains on their faces, quickly put the last few guns on the ground, and in the smoke of gunpowder, in the rolling heat wave, under the roar, they fired shells at the Japanese warships on the river.

On the battleship, Ishii Maru turned his gaze back with contempt, and was just about to give the order to turn the muzzle of the gun and bombard Hangzhou, when suddenly, in the corner of his eye, he saw the fire on the river bank again.

And artillery?

As soon as his thoughts fell, there was a loud bang, and the battleship was raised again, and in the firelight, a fire broke out on the foredeck of the battleship, and thick smoke rose from the tower.

A white phosphorus cannonball landed on the deck, and the flames immediately rose. Another one hit the ship's tower, shattering all the glass with a violent explosion, overturning Ishii Maru, killing the helmsman and the two sadakus.

The other warships were surprised to see that there was still fire and artillery bombardment on the riverbank, and the guns that had not been turned turned were aimed there again, and the bombardment began again in the flash of fire from the guns on the shore.

The artillery battle on this side made the soldiers on the other emergency artillery position tremble, and they roared one after another, and put the last few guns on them, and the shells were fired out of the chamber in anger during the test firing of the battleship.

As soon as the test firing ended, Ishii Maru, supported by a large sa, struggled to stand up, wiped the blood that flowed into his eyes, and at the moment when the battleship's guns sounded, he shouted: "Cover all the river banks!" ”

Before his shouts fell, the booming explosions rang out one after another. The battleship was raised again, and he fell back before he could stand on his feet.

The shells from the two positions hit the battleship four times, but the caliber was too small, even the armor-piercing shells could not hit the battleship's vital point, and could not bring fatal damage to the battleship, plus the battleship had begun to move, and they wanted to rely on 75 guns to not be able to sink a battleship for a while and a half.

"Quick! Don't let it run!! ”

On the position, the soldiers roared regardless of it, and the shells were discharged again in the flash of fire from the battleships on the river.

Two loud bangs exploded next to the moving battleship, and the violent explosion set off waves more than ten meters high, pushing the battleship to shake. The battleship lost control of the huge impulse, drifted away from the channel with the surging waves, and then, at the moment when the fire flashed on the river bank, the bow suddenly rose in the shaking, and the battleship stopped moving.

"Not good! The battleship ran aground!! ”

"Reverse!!"

At the moment when the battleship did not move, the Japanese shouted in panic.

But the bow of the battleship had sunk deep into the mud, so that the battleship began to tilt slowly, and it was obviously impossible to figure it out without external force.

On the bank of the river, all three artillery positions were destroyed, and the positions were empty. Large pits slowly ooze water and melt into the flowing plasma, making the oozing water even more turbid...... (To be continued......)