"Tick Tick ......"

A loud trumpet sounded.

Mo Mingqi, deputy commander of the 1st Regiment, jumped out of the trench and rushed towards the Japanese army with more than 400 officers and men of the mixed battalion who had survived, followed by the main force of the 1st Brigade led by Fan Daoquan, the commander of the 2nd Regiment. Further on, the three regiments of the supplementary brigade attached to the northern front flocked to the sea pond like a tide.

The Japanese light machine gun positions were wiped out under the bombardment of flying thunder guns, and the heavy machine gun positions on the other side of the Shanghai pond became the key area for mortars, and the Japanese heavy machine gunners were cleared out in less than a minute after the barrage was covered.

The 1,000 or 2,000 remaining devils who were dizzy and dizzy on the west bank of Shanghai's pond and in the river were suppressed to the point that they had no power to fight back in the face of the dense firepower composed of more than 300 submachine guns and light machine guns that were used as arrows

More than 100 officers and soldiers who followed the arrow had their backpacks filled with Japanese-made melon grenades.

Melon grenade, formerly known as the Type 97 grenade, is a grenade that the Japanese Army began to use 16 years ago, and it was completely standardized this year, and it was the main grenade of the Japanese army until the end of the Pacific War. Most of these melon grenades were captured during the Shanghai operation, and some of them were trophies from the last time when the 150th Wing of the Japanese Army was destroyed and the 66th Wing was defeated, and now all of them are used on the Japanese army.

More than a hundred smoke-emitting grenades stagnated in their hands for a moment, and then they were thrown out of the hall fiercely, and those devil soldiers who had come to their senses and were ready to resist were torn apart in the explosion of the grenades that rained down

The entire shock formation of the 1st Brigade was like the kind of huge bulldozer used to build roads and reservoirs in later generations, and the officers and men of the New 2nd Division in the charge quickly advanced with extremely fierce firepower, and all the devil soldiers who tried to resist stubbornly swept away a large area and turned into bloody corpses.

The remnants of the devil soldiers were severely damaged physically and mentally, and after witnessing their companions turn into convulsive blood gourds, they finally fell into a breakdown and turned around and ran away in desperation.

The devil soldiers, shrouded in fear, simply panicked and completely blocked the firing range of the heavy machine gun positions in the rear of the Japanese army.

"Rush, get close to the enemy, don't let their light and heavy machine guns take advantage of them," Mo Mingqi rushed forward, shouting with all his strength.

The Japanese army fully learned the lesson of the collapse of the 66th Wing, and the defensive line was clearly divided and a complete machine-gun position was built. In the current situation, only by trying to entangle with the rout of the Japanese army can we avoid the threat of direct fire from the devil's machine gun fire.

Several Type 97 medium tanks, which were lucky enough to evade the fire of the 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns because of the problem of firing angles, were surrounded by the rout and retreated, and the officers and men of the first brigade in the attack were mixed with many bazooka fighters, and they opened fire on the Japanese tanks, and under the destruction of the rockets, the Japanese tanks quickly caught fire and burned, and the tankmen in the carriages were knocked to the ground by the dense bullets as soon as they got out of the turret.

A large number of routs were chased and killed by the Chinese officers and soldiers who were clinging to them, and they fell to the ground one by one

The commander of the 102nd Wing, Kotaro Chiba, and the commander of the 66th Wing, Saburo Izawa, who was assigned to the northern front to make meritorious contributions, were shocked by the scene in front of them.

Gathering two main wings, an engineer wing, and a baggage wing to attack a line of defense that was riddled with holes, with the help of naval guns and aircraft, he was chased and beaten by the Chinese troops after a hard day, especially Izawa Saburo, and the tragic scene in front of him instantly reminded him of the great damage caused to the 66th Wing and himself by the surprise attack of the Chinese army a few days ago

"Bagaya Road"

Chiba Kotaro was embarrassed and threw a punch against the wall of the headquarters, and the pain from his fist made him wake up - if this disorderly rout was not stopped, then the 102nd Wing would probably follow in the footsteps of the 66th Wing and return with a crushing defeat.

Thinking of this, Chiba Kotaro asked Saburo Izawa for advice: "Izawa-kun, what do you think we should do now?" ”

Saburo Izawa said decisively: "There can be no soft-heartedness, all firepower should be ordered to fire indiscriminately"

"But ......"

The chief of staff of the wing, Nasuga Kazusa, who was pale with fright, took a deep breath and explained: "At this time, our people have not retreated, and if we shoot indiscriminately, all the sacrifices in front of us will be ours...... Almost all the reserves of this attack have been pressed, and now there are less than two brigades on the position, and if we kill our own men with our own hands, even if we keep our positions, the foundation of the existence of all our wings will be destroyed."

"Leaving them alive will only bring more shame, even if there are only two brigades, we can hold our positions and wait for the reinforcements to arrive to shoot for me, if you hear it, shoot immediately," Chiba Kotaro yelled with a twisted face.

Seeing that the chief of staff, Nasukaichi, still refused to give the order, Chiba Kotaro, who fell into a frenzy, ran to the machine gun position and forced the order to be carried out. Under the pressure of Chiba Kotaro himself, the devil's machine gunner and grenadier opened fire with a reluctant face.

"Da-da-"

In the extremely fast fire of six Type 92 heavy machine guns and more than a dozen crooked light machine guns, the furious bullets with dark red bullet marks swept towards the Japanese troops who were fleeing in confusion like a raging storm.

"Bang bang—"

Type 89 grenadiers were fired one after another, and 50-millimeter grenades let out a terrible scream and pounced on the surging crowd.

Under the indiscriminate blow of the devil's powerful firepower, the flow of people was emptied one by one, of course, the devils and a small number of puppet army routs in front accounted for the vast majority, and the fireballs that burst open, mixed with stumps, broken arms and various weapons that have become parts, rose into the air, and scattered them around one after another.

Mo Mingqi's face changed drastically.

According to the plan, the order of the heavy artillery battalions was the main artillery position of the Japanese army (the position of the 13th Wing of the Independent Field Heavy Artillery, mainly equipped with 150-mm howitzers), the position of the remaining two brigades of the 0th Wing of the Artillery of the auxiliary artillery position, which was mainly equipped with 75-mm field guns), and the 75-mm field artillery of the 3rd Artillery Battalion was to deal with the infantry artillery positions assigned to the major units of the Japanese army, and was temporarily unable to deal with the heavy machine gun positions and grenadier positions of the Japanese army.

Mo Mingqi did not expect that the Japanese would shoot indiscriminately, and in this case, the counterattacking troops would not be able to get close to the Japanese defense line at all.

"Brothers, avenge the teacher, kill"

Mo Mingqi's eyes were blood-red, he roared angrily, and continued to charge forward. The soldiers of the 1st Brigade, who had already killed the red-eyed soldiers, shouted loudly and stepped on the flesh and blood all over the ground to carry out a stubborn assault.

At this time, Luo Yuming, the commander of the first brigade commanding the operation in the rear, saw the problem, and immediately ordered the machine gun battalion directly under the brigade to move all the mortars forward, and after entering the firing range, he went all out to suppress the Japanese army, and then quickly came to the telephone and picked up the microphone and dialed the artillery regiment headquarters: "I am Luo Yuming, and the third artillery battalion will now immediately divide half of its firepower to cover the Japanese defense line, and the light and heavy machine gun positions and grenadier positions of the Japanese army must be destroyed."

The person who answered the phone was Luo Changling, the commander of the artillery regiment, who seemed a little hesitant: "Plan the ...... according to the plan."

"Don't give me any plans"

Luo Yuming roared angrily: "The life and death of the division commander is uncertain, we must ask the little devil to pay for the blood debt, if we can't completely annihilate the Japanese army in front of us, wait for the follow-up reinforcements of the Japanese army, our sacrifice will be worthless, and the division commander will ...... Follow orders, I'll take care of things that go wrong."

"Okay, I'll obey the order," Luo Changling replied in a somewhat choked voice.

Putting down the microphone, Luo Yuming returned to the lookout, only to see that the Japanese army was attacking the entangled Chinese and Japanese officers and soldiers with fierce firepower, and the supplementary brigade was still about 500 meters away from the front at this time. Luo Yuming turned around and instructed: "Immediately guide the artillery to carry out covered shelling"

With the data transmitted back by the artillery observers accompanying the infantry attack in the front, the upper half of the artillery of the 3rd Artillery Battalion's position began to turn its muzzles and aim at the Japanese defense line west of Guangchen Town.

Under the blow of both Chinese and Japanese firepower, most of the Japanese soldiers in the middle fell in a pool of blood, and just when Chiba Kotaro showed a cruel smile at the corner of his mouth and raised his command knife to meet the Chinese army, six 75-mm grenades accurately exploded on the Japanese heavy machine gun position.

In the brilliant fireball that burst out, the head of Kotaro Chiba with a hideous smile on his face flew into the air, and when he stared at his body in disbelief and saw that his body was no longer body, the corner of his eye caught another wave of dark red bullet marks that were passing by like a meteor catching the moon.

After five successive rounds of explosions, the mortars of the machine gun company of the mixed battalion were also put into battle, and after another two minutes, the mortar group under the direct jurisdiction of the brigade headquarters began to fully cover the Japanese positions and rear.

Under the precise cover of six 75-mm field guns of the 3rd Artillery Battalion and more than 50 mortars of the 2nd Brigade, the mixed brigade finally broke through the Japanese defense line with the routed troops.

The first to collapse was the soldiers of the 66th Wing of the Japanese Army, who had already been defeated once before, and now the nightmare resurfaced in their hearts, and finally ignored it and ran away again.

The rout was followed by the soldiers of the Engineer and Baggage Wings, who were not regular infantry companies in the first place, where had they seen such bloody battles? Now they don't have any other ideas than to run or run.

Originally, the 102nd Wing had the strongest combat effectiveness, but the wing commander Kotaro Chiba was cut into ashes in the fierce artillery fire, and the more than 400 devil soldiers who were still alive also fled desperately.

At this time, an unexpected scene on the battlefield occurred.

Previously, the puppet army suffered huge casualties, and many light and serious wounded were driven to Guangchen Town to guard.

According to Chiba Kotaro's idea, after the war, he found a reason to destroy all these puppet armies, so as not to waste precious medicines. I don't know who spread this matter, the bloody and tearful puppet army is very afraid, and now seeing the defeat of the devil, the anger accumulated in his heart finally broke out, and Yu Crisp dropped the caregiver around him, and suddenly turned back.

Almost everyone was wounded by the puppet army with guns, rushed to the entrance of the town, aimed at the retreating Japanese army is a burst of crazy shooting, the 66th wing captain Izawa Saburo who was wrapped in the rout was shot in the chest, and fell to the ground, before his consciousness disappeared, he did not believe that the puppet army dared to resist.

Seeing this scene, the other Japanese soldiers were stunned and just wanted to lie down and shoot, but the submachine gun shots of the officers and men of the New Second Division, who were later in pursuit, rang out, mixed with the rifles of the puppet army in front of them, as well as the shells of the mortars that kept falling, and the Japanese soldiers fell one by one.

At the same time, the officers and men of the 4th Regiment and the 5th Regiment of the Supplementary Brigade on the battlefield on the southern front also joined the fury of revenge, and they used grenades, submachine guns, and light machine gun bullets to break up the puppet troops in front and fled.

The officers and men of the two regiments were imposing, and they did not even look at the puppet troops who had surrendered, but directly leaped over, and in a formidable charging formation, they cut into the Japanese positions at once, swept wildly with bullets in the distance, and directly used sapper shovels against bayonets in the near area, fighting desperately.

In the face of such a crazy opponent, the 115th Wing, which had already suffered heavy losses, collapsed, and one by one the devils who were heartbroken turned around and fled, and Yazaki Setsuzo, who was pressing the formation behind, gasped, I really couldn't believe that there were such desperate soldiers and such a fierce army in the Chinese army.

The overall situation has gone, and Shigeharu Suematsu, who was standing on the northern hill of Qiuwei Village and observing the battle situation, looked at the approaching Chinese army from the lens, put down the binoculars weakly, and silently lowered his head to look at the saber at his waist, and now it was time for him to disembowelment to thank His Majesty the Emperor.

Yanagawa Heisuke, who received an urgent report from the front, his eyes were red, and he shouted loudly to Rear Admiral Shimomura Shosuke, the commander of the task force: "Shimomura-kun, I order you to fire immediately now, you must stop the attack of the Shina army, you must stop"

"It's impossible"

Rear Admiral Shimomura glared back at Yanagawa Heisuke angrily, and said coldly: "Yanagawa-kun, for the sake of your army, for the sake of your lost wing flag, the battleships "Hiei" and "Kirishima" had four 35U mm main guns and eight 15mm secondary guns blown up, and the main guns and secondary guns on the light and heavy cruisers and destroyers belonging to the fleet were also seriously damaged, and a total of more than 400 brave sailors and soldiers died in your stupid command."

"Now all the cannons are cooling, if you fire rashly regardless of reality, the main guns of all the battleships in my fleet will be destroyed by you, destroy in this damn and meaningless battle, admit the reality, Yanagawa-kun, your army is defeated, don't drag our navy to be unlucky with you"

Hearing the harsh conclusion that the 114th Division had been defeated on all fronts, Yanagawa Heisuke fell into a frenzy: "Your navy provoked the battle of Songhu, but now you want to escape from the system, you-"

"Don't threaten me with this old tune, I and my fleet have done enough for Yanagawa Jun, for the sake of victory, my marines were transferred to join the Suematsu Division to fight, nearly half of the main guns of the fleet battleships were damaged or blown up, and the sacrifice of sailors who are difficult to train is also extremely huge, I can't let my fleet pay for the mistakes of your army"

After saying the last sentence, Shimomura Masassuke walked out of the headquarters without looking back.

The air-raid shelter in the forward command post of Fuzhen Temple of the New Second Division was built by the engineer regiment directly under the division when it was building this reinforced concrete bungalow, and the entrance to the hole was under the bookcase in the corner of the house.

The Pinghu area is at a very low altitude, and the water level is shallow due to its proximity to the East Lake, and at this time the air raid shelter more than five meters deep has accumulated water half a person high.

Wu Ming's lower body was immersed in water, and in autumn and winter, the water seeping out of the ground was cold to the bone, which made Wu Ming a little unbearable.

On the recessed pit wall, a kerosene lamp glowed like a fire, dispelling the darkness.

Hearing the sound of heavy artillery bombardment outside, Wu Mingyu simply picked up a wooden bench and put it on the only table inside, and then climbed up agilely, pressing his head tightly against the pit wall to listen to the movement, but unfortunately there was no sound.

Wu Mingyu sat on the stool crisply, and cursed secretly in his heart: This battle is getting more and more evil, when did the Japanese become so cunning?

The Japanese army's tactics and battlefield layout are completely different from the stupidity and rigidity seen in movies and television in the previous life, from sending a small force to carry out decapitation tactics, to luring the snake out of the hole and using the fleet's heavy artillery to cover its own headquarters, and finally the Japanese planes have to make up for several rounds of bombs and then conduct low-altitude reconnaissance, which is more difficult than a cunning fox.

In order to prevent Wu Ming from making another mistake, Zhang Ying waved his hand, took the staff officers of the three combat sections and six guards, and surrounded Wu Ming on the wooden table against the wall, and definitely did not let Wu Ming take a step beyond the thunder pool.

With the help of the faint light, Wu Ming saw that he was imprisoned, and he was a little speechless for a while.

At the beginning, Dai Ziran and Qian Zhisheng suggested that he evacuate the division headquarters to temporarily avoid the attack of the Japanese Yoshino Brigade, but Wu Ming did not agree, on the one hand, rashly moving the command post would distract the soldiers, and on the other hand, the situation of the Japanese army was unknown, and it was very likely that he would fall into the trap of the Japanese army if he fled rashly.

On the other hand, Wu Ming set up a total of eight division headquarters on the line from Zhapu to Pinghu, and still let the Japanese army accurately find out where he was located, which shows that the Japanese army came prepared, how could Wu Ming dare to get out of the well-protected house and let himself be placed in the open area of the plain?

Later, the Japanese naval guns calibrated and fired, Wu Ming felt that something was wrong at the first time, and it was too late to rush to the anti-artillery holes in the backyard to dodge, but he knew that all the headquarters had dug air-raid shelters, so he immediately rushed to the bookcase and moved the bookcase, and then asked all the personnel of the division headquarters to retreat.

When everyone withdrew into the anti-artillery hole together, the Japanese follow-up artillery group really arrived as scheduled.

The ten-minute bombardment almost made Wu Ming doubt whether this anti-artillery hole could withstand continuous destruction. Fortunately, the one-meter-thick steel baffle was not covered, and although several shells hit it directly, they were blocked.

At this time, twenty minutes have passed since the bombing of Japanese naval guns and aircraft, no matter what, it should be safe on top, right? Wu Ming coughed lightly and said to the officers and soldiers besieging him around him:

"Okay, okay, it's been so long since the Japanese bombing ended, we have to go back to the ground now, I guess the battlefield should be at its most intense now, I don't feel at ease if I don't see it with my own eyes."

Zhang Ying led the people not to give an inch, and stubbornly pushed back: "Division, the situation above is unknown now, although the bombing of Japanese naval guns and aircraft has passed, the Japanese planes are still hovering in the sky. Director Dai has already gone up to check, if it is confirmed that it is safe, he will naturally come down to pick us up, you have to go out now, please shoot us one by one, we would rather be shot by you than take half a step back"

After speaking, Zhang Ying and the three staff officers and six guards behind him held hands and formed a human wall to firmly surround Wu Ming. Now there is danger in the vicinity of the command post, and none of them dares to take risks easily. Wu Ming scolded them, but he refused to let the division be in danger again.

"You, you—"

Wu Ming was angry, but there was nothing he could do with these loyal subordinates. Dai Ziran handed over his safety to them, and this move was to be loyal to his duty and responsible for him, the division commander, and the entire new second division.

"Squeak—"

The thick steel plate on the top of the air-raid shelter shrank to the side, and Dai Ziran appeared at the entrance of the cave, climbed down the ladder from above, and splashed when he landed.

Before he could stand firmly, Dai Ziran said to Wu Ming: "Master, you can go up now...... After the bombing by the Japanese heavy artillery and planes, the reconnaissance planes circled in the sky for 20 minutes, and the Japanese surprise attack group, seeing that the bombing effect was very good, turned around and headed north, preparing to bypass our defensive line and attack the back of our army's position on the northern front, but it was on top of the four regiments of the militia regiment coming from the north, and now the enemy and us are fiercely exchanging fire two kilometers to the northwest. ”

"Hmm"

Wu Ming nodded, and then glared at Zhang Ying angrily: "Okay, it's time to let me go now, right?" ”

"Okay" Zhang Ying grinned, her smile was extremely bright, and she didn't mean to be ashamed at all.

Zhang Ying let go of her hand, turned around and made way with the staff officers and guards behind her: "Master, please"

Wu Ming glared at Zhang Ying fiercely again, touched his faintly painful buttocks, and snorted lightly: "Zhang Ying, you kid dares to kick Lao Tzu's ass, and turn back to you to settle accounts"

When Zhang Ying heard this, her face turned a little bitter, and her nose, eyes and eyebrows were squeezed together.

In fact, this is not to blame Zhang Ying, before the Japanese heavy artillery bombardment came, Wu Ming first let the rest of the division retreat first, considering the urgency of time, Zhang Ying, who couldn't wait, raised his foot and kicked Wu Ming down at once, and the guards inside did not catch it, and Wu Ming's head suddenly plunged into the muddy water.

Until now, Wu Ming's nose and mouth still have a lot of mud and sand and stones, and his usually majestic image was suddenly embarrassed and disgraced.