Chapter 438: Matsui from afar

The front of Changfeng's troops is the most suitable area for landing, where the beach is flat and the sand is hard, even when retreating, the infantry wade through waist-deep seawater, impact a distance of more than 1,000 meters, you can land on land, if you catch up with the cháo, the assault boat can reach the coast, which is difficult to defend and easy to attack.

General Zhang Zhizhong took a large group of staff officers to inspect the defensive position, and happened to come to the defensive area of the Tenth Army, and saw many soldiers, busy working on the flat beach.

He was curious, and went over to see what was going on, the soldiers were busy burying pieces of pegboards in the sand, which seemed to be sparse, but they were scattered, this was not an ordinary pegboard, the nails were extremely thin, but the steel was very good, sharp and abnormal, shining with cold light, and when you stepped on it, no matter how hard the sole of the shoe was, it could pierce it, and it came out through the instep, and the tip of the nail still flashed with a dark blue light.

In the gap between the nail plate array, there are barbed wire, however, this barbed wire is not bad, too short, normal soldiers, a jump, can easily step over, the nail board is in the back, buried mines, this mine is also different from the Central Army's standard mines, not to mention, the surface of the mine, but also inlaid with soybean grains of large xiǎo steel balls.

The way the soldiers bury mines is also special, disorderly and luàn, some mines are above, and a few grenades are added, and some mines are hung with a few grenades, General Zhang is more and more confused, he looks for Chang Feng, asks what is the end, is covered with water, is burying mines with the soldiers Chang Feng, then I know that General Zhang has come to his position, hurriedly ran over.

Looking at General Zhang Zhizhong's suspicious gaze, he explained that this is the short barbed wire fence that our division commander specially ordered me to customize in order to deal with the Japanese troops who landed, so that the Japanese soldiers could jump up.

These mines, our independent division arsenal specially developed, called jump-type anti-infantry mines, not only the broken mine body can kill the Japanese army, the outside of the steel ball, can increase the radius of killing, and, after the mine is triggered, will be a special device to bounce into the air about two meters, explode in mid-air, each mine has a killing radius of about six meters, if the Japanese army steps on it, it has to leave a big tuǐ without losing their lives, and also, the way of burying is called a trick mine, stepping on it, the mine behind it explodes.

General Zhang sighed greatly, this Vice Chairman of the Tang People's Congress is really full of wisdom, and even the weapons used are incredible, no wonder this chief of staff dares to use two brigades to defend the front of the Central Army that can only be defended by two divisions of the Central Army

General Zhang left, sighed as he walked, and then sent his chief of staff to discuss with Chang Feng, if the anti-infantry mines specially made by the independent division were redundant, could he support the surrounding friendly forces, and asked to send troops to assist in laying mines.

Of course, Chang Feng will not object, as long as he can drive the Japanese army back to the sea and take out his family resources, everyone is on one front after all, the left and right flanks are broken through by the Japanese army, and he can only retreat, and everyone suffers, so he took out all the mines in the stockpile, and sent troops to help bury them according to the different locations.

On the evening of 22 August, the Chinese defenders, who were stationed at the mouth of the Chuansha River, Shishilin, and Wusong, where the Japanese army was preparing to land at the landing site, had already completed their defensive deployments, and all kinds of fortifications and facilities had been basically completed.

The Wusongkou Fort, which was next to it, and the defending air defense brigade regiment, received an order from Chief of Staff Chang Feng that the Japanese ships would never be allowed to approach the landing site, so that they would not be able to provide strong fire support for the Japanese landing force, and Chang Feng's intention was to let the Japanese troops from the sea, without artillery support, attack the beachhead with pure infantry, and in order to ensure that the Wusongkou Fort would not be captured by the Japanese army, he arranged for a reinforced regiment to serve as the flank guard of the fort.

On August 23rd, the sun rose as usual, like a light fog like smoke, shrouded the quiet sea surface of Hangzhou Bay, every qiē was so peaceful, the chirping of seabirds, crisp to wake up the morning, behind this quiet, but lurking bloody murder, 200,000 beasts armed to the teeth, are murderous, vicious pounced, rudely shattering the calm morning of Hangzhou Bay.

The fleet transporting the Japanese dispatch force to Shanghai had sailed into the vicinity of the mouth of the Yangtze River, and the misty Changshan Island and Chongming Island were already looming, and Matsui Shigen looked around at the hundreds of ships and warships around him, and he was advancing in the wind as if he had entered a no-man's land, and a sense of pride arose spontaneously, and he was deeply proud of the strong force of the Great Japanese Emperor.

Previously, Matsui was in the manor under Mount Fuji, leisurely enjoying the retirement life, fighting for the empire for half his life, winning countless honors, the military rank has reached the army general, yes, to the end, in the Japanese military circles, did not exceed his military rank, with glory, glory to return to his hometown, to be idle clouds and wild cranes, it is also quite comfortable.

One day, a telegram from the military department recalled him to the army and put on the long-lost military uniform, Matsui Ishine was full of emotion, thinking that he would spend the rest of his life peacefully, and there would be no chance to fight for the Japanese Empire.

His housekeeper is very strange, the master's current state, where is he like an old man in his fifties, his face is full of red light, his eyes are blazing, and his strength is unusually abundant, last night's nvshì complained this morning, the old guy tossed her all night last night, her double rǔ was red and swollen, and the pain was unbearable like tearing underneath, so he almost swallowed her in his stomach, and Mr. Matsui was not so rough in his usual life. And in less than five minutes of support, he was defeated, and Nòng had to feel empty in his heart.

As early as the end of the last century, in Lushun, northeast China, Japan and Russia fought for control of the Liaodong Peninsula on Chinese soil.

He ordered the soldiers, tied up the hundreds of Russian prisoners he caught, and then poured gasoline on them and lit them, watching the Russians howl in pain in the flames, he pressed the captured Russian NV soldiers, in front of the soldiers**, the more terrible the screams of the burned Russian prisoners, the stronger his **.

The fate of the captured Russian NV soldiers was even worse, they were killed by hundreds of Japanese soldiers every day, and finally died, two blonde and blue-eyed beauties, who were presented to their superiors by Matsui, whose rank was promoted more than a year earlier than others, and thus rose to prominence, and the murderous, cruel and fierce Matsui made many military exploits, and finally reached the peak of the military, and then retired with honor.

Matsui, standing on the bridge of the flagship, looking at the calm Hangzhou Bay, was puzzled by the defeat of Hasegawa Kiyoshi's Third Fleet of the Navy, Wusongkou, and the loss of 300,000 troops by Kiyoshi Kazuki in North China, as for Itagaki Seishiro in his eyes, he was just a reckless junior, and the giant with clay feet who had been weak for a hundred years would fall to the ground with a slight push, from the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle to the present, Japan's requirements for Shina have all been met, and this time, it is no exception.

He said to the Minister of War Binshan Yuan at the base camp: "Give me five divisions, I can take Nanjing, Wuhan, and half of the rivers and mountains south of the Yangtze River in China." Now, the base camp has given him far more than five divisions and regiments, and it has made him full of confidence that he will fight in China in this life, gallop across the country, and be brilliant again for the rest of his life

Therefore, when he said goodbye to the emperor, he quoted a poem by Cao Cào, "Lao Ji Fu Fang, aiming for a thousand miles", in order to show Emperor Hirohito his heart and conquer China for the emperor, which was his wish.

The captain came to report, the front is Wusongkou, there is a long-range fire strike of the shore defense battery of the Chinese army, the escort warship, it is impossible to get close to the landing field, the channel outside the mouth of the Yangtze River, the draft of the large warship is too deep, it cannot pass Guò, and it will not be able to provide fire support for the landing of the army, please forgive your Excellency the commander, Matsui smiled slightly, this situation, he had expected it a long time ago.

Moreover, his landing force is not ready to go through the waters around Changxing Island and Waigaoqiao, that is to send the landing craft under the muzzle of the Chinese army, how can the old Jiān giant Matsui do such a stupid thing, his landing force, take the waters between Changxing Island and Chongming Island, bypass the fort of Wusongkou, so that the large-caliber coastal defense artillery of the Chinese defenders will be ineffective, and it can also achieve a surprise effect, like a divine soldier descending from the sky, and the Chinese defenders will be caught off guard.

The Japanese fleet stopped, countless landing craft were put on the sea like dumplings, and the Japanese soldiers boarded the boats one after another, and more than 38,000 people from a division of the vanguard unit set off first, and galloped along the outer channel to the predetermined landing site in the direction of Wusong, and the follow-up troops continued to wait for the boats.

Matsui was conceited and arrogant to such an extent that the troops of a division preparing for the first landing did not carry a single heavy artillery piece or support fire to follow the landing, and mortars and heavy machine guns turned out to be the main support and suppressive firepower, in his opinion, the infantry landing was more of a formal offensive, and the Chinese defenders, who had won the first battle in Shanghai, would not have expected a large number of Japanese troops to suddenly land here.

He knew too well those high-ranking officers of the Chinese army, and after the victory, he got carried away, and was busy asking for merit and rewards, throwing away the troops, and going away, it was reasonable to be lax in his defense, not to mention, the combat effectiveness and weapons and equipment of the Chinese army could not match the Japanese army at all, and the soldiers' will to fight was even more incomparable.

Seeing the sudden arrival, the bayonets flashing, the large Japanese Imperial Army troops all over the beach, turning around and running, is an inevitable reaction, it is estimated that there are very few who can shoot, the next task of the Shanghai dispatch army is to pursue the rout of the army, accept the city, establish a new order, and put the sun flag all along the Yangtze River.

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