Chapter 477: Hangzhou Bay (2)

The first batch of Japanese troops, because of the rout of the Eighth Army, landed and occupied the beachhead, the Japanese ships had stopped shelling, and the second batch of landing troops also began to advance towards the shore, Yanagawa Heisuke's face became more and more peaceful, as if everything was in his expectation, he wanted to tell the excited and forgetful officers around him, what is the demeanor of a general?

In order to boost morale and to take the lead, he insisted on following the second batch of landing troops to the land of China despite the best efforts of the officers, and said that this was his life's wish, and on the landing craft he was riding, Yanagawa Heisuke ordered a military flag to be raised, and he wanted to tell the imperial warriors around him that your commander was by your side and charged with you.

The Japanese military flag was raised, the blood-red ointment yào was around, and sixteen lines of miserable white light were released, there was no wind and no làng, and the military flag was wilted and stuck to the flagpole, even if the galloping landing craft, it was difficult to let this military flag flutter, Yanagawa Heisuke, who was in a very good mood, did not notice these at all, his mind had already flown to a larger battlefield, where there were more Chinese troops, waiting for him and his tenth army to eliminate, and he did not think at all that this was the countdown to the last moment of his life.

The defense line of the Sulu Mobile Corps, the soldiers looked anxiously at the Japanese soldiers who were getting closer and closer, in front of them were the soldiers of the Eighth Army who were like ducks and panicked, and behind them were the Japanese soldiers who were chasing with all their might, and the fierce flames were in full swing.

If the whole line suddenly opened fire, with the equipment of the troops, let these Japanese all lie on the beach, and the back will not be cheap, but the soldiers of the Eighth Army who broke and fled have become the best cover for the Japanese army, if they shoot, they will be the first to fall, what can be done?

Moreover, many of these deserters also broke into the minefield and were blown up, and the routs behind them, stepping on the blood of their comrades, desperately continued to wade through the mines, and the soldiers could not believe it.

There was no time to ask for instructions, in the blink of an eye, the Japanese soldiers had rushed to a distance of less than 1,200 meters from the position, which was the best shè distance for light and heavy machine guns, and the soldiers who held the guns tightly, their palms were soaked with sweat, and their anxious hearts jumped straight up, and the muzzles of the guns swung back and forth with the crazy figures of the Japanese soldiers, but they did not dare to pull the trigger.

The regiment commander who came to the forward position couldn't hold his breath, he couldn't watch the rout rush out of the position, let the Japanese devils in, and fight a ròu battle with his own troops, right? If that's the case, it's really hard to say whether the position can be held, as soon as he gritted his teeth and raised his arm, he was about to give the order to strike.

Suddenly, his arm was pulled, and he was annoyed, and he didn't look at what was the bone? As soon as he turned around, he saw that it was the brigade commander Zhu Zhanying, and swallowed back the foul words that came to his mouth, Zhu Zhanying's heart was also anxious, but he couldn't give the order to shoot at his compatriots, looking at the rout and Japanese soldiers who were getting closer and closer, the beads of sweat on his forehead couldn't help but roll down.

Damn, this gang of stragglers, net help, he suddenly ordered to the regiment commander: "Pass the order, the soldiers at the front shout together, Chinese, lie down!" Fast! ”

At first, the rout of the Eighth Army didn't understand what it meant, and was still running dizzily, and the footsteps of the Japanese army behind were getting closer and closer, and when they saw the rows of black dòngdòng guns on the position, some veterans understood that this was telling us to lie down and hit the Japanese soldiers chasing us behind.

Seeing the Chinese soldiers who were running and suddenly crawling down, the Japanese soldiers chasing after them burst into laughter, "The Chinese man, the sick man of East Asia's work!" The one who fights can't do it, and the one who escapes xiǎoxiǎo does! Before the laughter fell, in the mist opposite, there was a sudden loud noise like a wind, and the deafening sound of gunfire, like a storm rising from the flat ground, and a dense rain of bullets, suddenly came out of the fog and briskly drilled into the bodies of Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese soldiers who were rushing forward were like hitting their heads on an iron plate, and their bodies were carried back by the high-speed rotating bullets, and a rain of blood rushed into the misty sky.

The defensive positions of the Sulu Mobile Corps opened fire on all fronts, and as soon as the battle began, it entered a white heat, with more than 70,000 Japanese troops, like rows of unwillingly unstoppable sea làng, fierce impact on the defensive positions, but what they encountered was a rain of bullets flying in the sky, and the powerful firepower of the independent division showed incomparable power, and the uninterrupted shè attacks of automatic weapons, on the flat, unobstructed beach, so that the Japanese soldiers had no power to fight back.

In the first round of strikes, more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers fell on the beach of Hangzhou Bay, and after suffering a sudden and ferocious blow, the remaining Japanese troops, under the command of the commander, retreated to the original position of the Eighth Army.

Yanagawa Heisuke, who was on the landing craft, learned that the landing force of the first bōth was advancing to attack in depth, when it suddenly encountered a fierce resistance and suffered heavy casualties, and the Shina army did not know the fierce firepower from there, he couldn't help but be stunned, wasn't it chasing the Shina rout? Why did you encounter stubborn resistance again, where did this blocking force come from?

He picked up the binoculars and observed the beach, but unfortunately, the fog had not completely dissipated, and his eyes were full of fog, except for a burst of dense gunfire, he could not see anything, since he had successfully landed, even if there was an iron wall in front of him, he had to penetrate it, and with 170,000 sharp imperial soldiers, no matter how tenacious the army on the opposite side, he would also be defeated, "The second batch of landing troops, advance according to the original plan, the first batch of landing troops, consolidate the existing beachhead!" Yanagawa Heisuke gave the order quietly.

The Japanese troops occupying the almost ruins of the Eighth Army's fortifications had just taken a breath, and what had just happened turned their blood into a cold sweat, and more than 10,000 compatriots were lying there in the blink of an eye, becoming cold corpses, huge fear, devouring the fierceness in their hearts, seeing their companions' bodies being beaten into funnels, blood splashed all over their bodies, and the opposite side of the Chinese army did not see what it looked like.

There was a sudden piercing scream in the air, and the faces of experienced Japanese veterans turned white, this was the sound of countless shells about to fall overhead, and they immediately shouted hysterically: "Shelling!" The people of China shelled, hidden! "The three artillery brigades Qi shè, the original fortifications of the Eighth Army, were immediately covered by dense artillery fire and became the graves where the Japanese troops were buried.

The shelling of the people of China is indiscriminate and full coverage, and the explosion point of the shells is like to turn over the beach, and the smoke of gunpowder disperses into the fog, and the surrounding scenery is invisible, only the deafening explosion sound, ruthlessly pursuing the lives of the Japanese soldiers.

The sound of intensive artillery bombardment made Yanagawa Heisuke finally understand that the blocking force he encountered was not the Shina army that fled just now, but a force equipped with jīng liang, and listening to the dense sound of artillery, the landing force of the first bō times, without the fire of heavy artillery to cover and suppress the fire of the defenders, I am afraid that there will be more than one bad luck, and his heart is worried for the first time.

It's just that all the artillery of the Second Wing of Independent Mountain Artillery and the Sixth Brigade of Field Heavy Artillery are still on the transport ship, and there is no way to arrange them on the beachhead in the shortest possible time, so they can only let the naval guns of the Fourth Fleet provide fire support and cover the second batch of landing troops, and he shouted angrily: "Baga! Why didn't the naval guns of the Navy fire yet? At this time, Yanagawa Heisuke lost his composure and self-confidence, and the head-on blow of the Sulu Mobile Corps beat Yanagawa to the ground.

The large-caliber naval guns on the Japanese warships roared angrily, the target was the artillery position of the troops, compared with the artillery of the army, the naval guns undoubtedly had an absolute advantage, that was the big guy who fought the warship, shè Cheng Yuan, the power was great, this time, the artillery of the Sulu mobile regiment suffered a loss, dozens of mén artillery were blown up, and hundreds of soldiers were killed and wounded.

The pressure of the artillery position made Tang Qiusheng also anxious, if he could not suppress the fire of the Japanese naval guns, the forward positions would inevitably suffer serious losses, and the casualties of the soldiers would increase sharply, what should I do?

He suddenly thought of those high-flying guns of the air defense brigade, which can hit *flying* planes, but shè can't get close, but he doesn't know how powerful it is? He ordered Xu Shan, commander of the air defense brigade, to immediately aim at the Japanese ships for artillery bombardment, suppress the Japanese ships' artillery fire, and cover the artillery shelling of the Japanese troops that landed.

The front was full of fighting, and the officers and men of the air defense brigade were jumping straight to their feet in a hurry, and the first to discover the Japanese was our Li Shuangxi. The calls of each regiment to ask for war were called to the brigade headquarters one after another, and Xu Shan was about to be driven crazy by these regiment commanders who were seeking to fight.

What kind of work do you do I know in my heart that the high shè cannon is against the planes in the sky, and he doesn't need himself in the battle at this time, but the front line is like a burst of guns, straight into his ears, the more anxious he is, the bigger the movement, he is anxious, scolding and scolding in his mouth, scolding the Japanese, scolding the Japanese plane, scolding this ghost weather, so that so many high shè cannons are idle.

The staff officers in the brigade headquarters, watching the brigade commander turning back and forth like grinding, cursing the sky and the earth in their mouths, couldn't help but laugh secretly, can the Japanese planes come in this weather? The brigade commander is stunned if he wants to fight, we are professional soldiers, we do our own line, it's useless to be anxious, but we all hold back, knowing that the brigade commander is on fire at this moment, so I don't want to mess with him!

Xu Shan was anxious in his heart, the phone rang crisply, the staff officer signaled, it was the commander-in-chief looking for you, Xu Shan rushed to the telephone, and the commander-in-chief Tang Qiusheng's steady and slightly anxious voice came.

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