The Japanese army was very dishonorable, and a large number of troops could not be deployed at the Zhenjiang fortress now, so the troops withdrawn from Nanjing began to cross the river after arriving in Zhenjiang.

The river was full of boats, and the steamers were moving rapidly and suddenly. The barge pulled the truckload of supplies and nervously transported them to the other side.

All the surrounding boats, large and small, were captured and joined the ranks of crossing the river, so that the crowded Japanese troops like sardines on the shore quickly decreased.

Yu Lei's pursuit was very fast, they advanced lightly, Yu Lei except for sending a reconnaissance team to radiate more than ten kilometers to avoid the Japanese army from setting up a situation to surround them, the army has not stopped.

Chased to the vicinity of the dam mouth of Wuzhou Mountain, the vanguard was blocked by the Japanese army.

"How many troops?"

Yu Lei asked while arranging for someone to contact all the scouts who detoured Wuzhou Mountain and searched for signs of ambush by the Japanese army along the way.

"Report to the division commander, according to the report of the vanguard team, at least the brigade and regimental level troops, the position stretches for kilometers. Six or seven heights were occupied, low-lying flat areas were blocked. ”

"Brigade level?"

Yu Lei spread out the map, looked at the location of Babazikou, stretched out his hand and said: "The enemy wants to retreat on all fronts and cross the river!" ”

"Crossing the river?" The staff officer was surprised.

The Japanese army is gathered, and it stands to reason that a decisive battle should be held here, how can they cross the river?

Yu Lei pointed to the map and said: "If there is a battle, I will not choose here, here is a mountainous area on one side, but the plain on the other side is next to the river, and the troops cannot be deployed." Their intention is very simple, it is to stop us from advancing and buy time to cross the river! ”

"Oh......"

Several commanders saw the location of the map, and then they suddenly realized. Indeed, the front is not suitable for a big battle, but it is suitable for blocking.

Yu Lei looked at the map carefully, looked up and shouted, "Pass my order." The artillery regiment of the 8th Division bypassed the mouth of the dam, advanced along the river, arrived at this position, observed the advance of the hand, opened fire at the fastest speed, and disrupted the steps of the Japanese army crossing the river. If you can't keep people, you have to leave things! ”

"The order, the army pressed, took the dam mouth as quickly as possible, set up artillery on the spot, and directly bombarded the river surface of Zhenjiang, and the rest of the work was handed over to the commander."

"Yes!"

The commanders and fighters shouted orders and quickly conveyed orders.

An artillery regiment broke away from the large forces, diagonally. Go straight to the river.

Several squads marched lightly and rushed towards Zhenjiang to make eyes for the cannons.

The army, without stopping, rushed towards the mouth of the dam with thirty pieces of artillery erected.

At the mouth of the dam, there was a burst of gunfire at this time, and several hilltop positions. Mortars continued to rain down shells, and light and heavy machine guns clattered. In the sniping of the soldiers here, there is no stop.

Cross-fire blocked all paths, and the only way to move forward was to take these hills. And the Japanese army was cunning enough, these hills could support each other, and if they wanted to take one position, they would have to bear the pressure of four or five positions. Obviously not easy. In addition, the gang also hides several firepower points, and if they want to destroy the exposed firepower points, the others will deal a devastating blow to the attacking troops.

The army continued to gather amid the sound of gunfire and explosions. The mouth of the dam was blocked, and then the shells from the rear tore through the air and hit the hills.

Rumble!

The hill shook violently, and the firelight flickered, and the gunfire above suddenly stopped. Shells fell on several hills in succession, and although they did not cover the entire mountain, the violent concussion and rising smoke made the Japanese troops on the hill temporarily lose the ability to shoot.

Near the point of the explosion, there was no one in sight, smoke was rising from the five craters, and the surrounding low trees were uprooted and stirred into debris.

At the foot of the mountain, the soldiers who had just been bullied by the mortar would be powerful, and the stunned Japanese soldiers next to them became their targets, and in the dense and accurate shooting of the poof, the Japanese soldiers who were not bombed fell down one after another, and the position was soon full of corpses.

"Mortars!! Fire!! ”

One of the young ministers shook his dazed head and yelled.

But what answered him was not a command, but a howl of fear that flew again.

"Ahh

This Shao Zuo stared at the rapidly flying cannonballs in the trenches, his heart was broken, and in the frightened screams, the cannonballs fell, and then, he didn't even have any bones left, he was directly torn apart by the scorching air waves, and became a molecule.

In the second round of artillery bombardment, the troops under the mountain quietly rushed to the top of the mountain, and before the dust had all fallen, the crowd of people poured up the mountain, and then, the sound of gunfire rang out, and then the sapper shovels were waved, and the blood was splashed, and a one-sided slaughter began.

The Japanese army was just shocked by the cannon and was not awake, subconsciously fighting, instinctively raising the gun, but no, the eyes are still looking at things, where can they block the sharp shovel head that is rushing in? Screams came and went, and one by one the Japanese soldiers were cleaved in the trenches.

More and more soldiers of the advance army poured up the hills, and the shelling did not kill too many Japanese troops, but the remaining Japanese troops were annihilated in the wave of waving sapper shovels in just a few minutes.

From the beginning of the shelling to the end of the battle, it took less than ten minutes before and after the battle to end it, and the battle ended smoothly.

"Quick! The artillery was transported through the mouth of the dam and a position was built!! ”

Yu Lei shouted.

Here, from the preparation to the completion of the attack, more than half an hour before and after, another artillery regiment was already in the rapid advance of trucks, and it was only less than three kilometers away from the river bank. Ahead, even the sheep intestine trail was gone, and as a last resort, the truck stopped on the spot and began to build a position.

Here, it is less than 15 kilometers away from Zhenjiang and less than 20 kilometers away from the big ferry port on the river, which is suitable for blocking the ferry, but it cannot cover all the river.

The position, which was steadily carried out in the rapid busyness of the sappers. Here, it is dirt and the work of tamping and paving the rubble is not done, and the violent vibration of the cannon will sink the gun wheel, causing the cannon to tilt or overturn. Therefore, it is not necessary to be sloppy in building a position.

Everyone was busy, and one by one the cannons were pushed to the improvised positions, and one by one the positions were formed in the busy figures like ants.

The cannon, with a rough collation began, pointed in the expected direction, and the shells, box by box, were removed from the truck and placed behind the cannon. Several platoons were scattered around, defending the artillery positions, and waiting for the observer to return the coordinates.

Yu Lei's side also hurriedly pushed forward, crossed the mouth of the dam, arrived at a relatively flat mountain, and began to put up artillery on the spot.

At this time, most of the Japanese troops had completed the crossing of the river, and most of the troops arriving in Nanjing had already completed the crossing of the river, and after receiving the troops blocking the rear and exchanging fire with the enemy, the troops withdrew faster. The Japanese troops in the direction of Danyang poured into Zhenjiang like a rout, and the orderly retreat just now was immediately panicked, and the baggage was thrown on the dock and the riverside, and people crowded into the boat like crazy and fled for their lives to the opposite bank.

The defenders of Zhenjiang also joined the retreat, and hundreds of cannons, aimed at distant targets, began to bombard, buying time for the retreat.

At this time, the Japanese army was not without the strength to fight, but the artillery bombardment of the advance army made them completely frightened, once the opponent's artillery entered the firing range, they were all gone.

Tiangu, who had already decided to abandon Zhenjiang at this time, did not have a trace of defeat for retreating. He believed that Shanghai was lost and Nanjing was lost, and only by holding the Yangtze River could we stabilize our position, keep the connection with Terauchi Shouichi in the direction of Xuzhou, and avoid the army being surrounded by a flank.

At this time, Sun Tao's army had already entered Danyang, and he didn't care about too meticulous cleaning, leaving one brigade to clean up the Danyang battlefield, and the others hurried to Zhenjiang.

The anti-aircraft machine gun had already installed ten trucks by this time, and one anti-aircraft machine gun was on each truck. They only found a small amount of ammunition in Danyang, and there were too many installations, and there was not enough ammunition supply.

Trucks, as pioneers at this time, steadily rushed to Zhenjiang with a fleet of trucks. Artillery, too, followed the trucks, and as soon as they reached range, they would stay and let the convoy move on.

Several motorcycles suddenly smoked, pulling groups of observers to rush to the front first, so as to point out the direction of the artillery as soon as possible.

In Zhenjiang, in the panic of the Japanese army, the speed of retreat increased sharply, although the artillery on their side roared. But they all knew that it was only thirteen or fourteen kilometers long, and it couldn't stop the opponent's artillery.

Half an hour later, when most of the troops had crossed the river and there was less than one division left, the sky suddenly sounded with a terrifying sound, and then, black dots appeared in the sky and fell quickly towards the river.

"Hurry up!"

"Hurry up and drop!!"

In the sound of shells flying, the Japanese army was even more panicked, the boats on the river advanced at the fastest speed, and the Japanese troops on the river bank swarmed up, no longer caring about it, as if as long as they got on the boat, they could live.

One by one, at the moment when the ship was offshore, they threw themselves into the river, desperately holding the side of the ship, trying to leave as soon as possible.

Rumble!

As they struggled to flee for their lives, the shells fell with a bang, and mud rose from the waterfront of the riverbank. The violent concussion caused some of the small boats, which were already seriously far away, to rock, and to set off waves and capsize the river.

"Help me!"

"Please, pull me up!!"

With the fall of the Japanese troops on the river, the miserable wails and cries for help resounded in the sky, making those ships that did not dock row forward more desperately, so that those Japanese soldiers who were in a hurry to leave no longer had any scruples, and the Japanese soldiers in the water swam to the nearest boats, holding the side of the ship, trying to get on the boat, and the Japanese soldiers on the boat smashed the hand on the side of the ship with the butt of their guns, in order to make the ship go faster, and their ugly faces were exposed.

The moment the chaos appeared, a roaring shelling rang out continuously, and one shell after another fell on the riverside, extending in the direction of the pier, and falling into the river.

The violent explosion hastened the panic, and before several small boats could leave the riverbank, they overloaded and capsized, and the river was immediately filled with human heads...... (To be continued......)