readx;? The Chinese army did not have enough time to build fortifications along the beach and river, which stretched from Chuanshakou in the north to Qiujiang Passenger Terminal in the east. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Although the info is not very strong, it can be regarded as having some confidence to resist the Japanese landing. Not every position can reach the point of metamorphosis like the Wusongkou Fort position of the independent battalion.

The first is that the Wusongkou Fort has a number of permanent fortifications left over from the original, which can be used directly after being sorted out and repaired, and the second is that no one has as strong firepower as the independent battalion. However, the troops that arrived in Shanghai in the early stage were all the elite of the Central Army, and they were all-German armor divisions, but they were only equipped with squad light machine guns, and a company had only one heavy machine gun, and the artillery company could only be equipped with regimental units, and only a few 60 mortars.

There will be a few 75 mountain guns and a few howitzers at the division level, and they are very precious and will not be used easily, and the artillery has not fired a few live ammunition, so there is no talk of tactics and accuracy. As for the chariots, there were not many chariots in the entire Central Army, and the chariots put into Shanghai this time were also quite limited, and when they were still attacking, due to the lack of training in infantry and chariot fighting, these chariots were basically destroyed by the Japanese army.

On the morning of 23 August, on the sea five nautical miles in front of the Kawashakou position, the Japanese battleships Haruna and Izumo, five heavy cruisers Nachi, Myoko, Aoba, Takao, and Maya, four light cruisers Tatsuda, Kinu, Naka, and Yura, three aircraft carriers, Hosho, Kaga, and Ryusho, as well as more than 20 destroyers and about a dozen small gunboats, including Fengfeng, Shimafu, and Nadakaze, were concentrated.

The warships were blackened across the sea, and behind them were six large troop carriers. Standing on the flagship aircraft carrier Fengxiang, Matsui Ishine and some officers were using binoculars to gauge the situation on the front line of Chuanshakou at the same time. When they saw through their binoculars that the Chinese army had been prepared and had set up fortifications on the beachhead, they immediately ordered the artillery to start bombarding the fortifications set up by the Chinese army on the beachhead.

With Matsui Shigen's order, the rumbling cannon sound on the sea was like a thunderstorm, and with the sound of cannonballs, a black and crushed cannonball rushed like a locust to the Chuansha port fortifications that the Chinese army had just built on the seaside. Guarding Chuanshakou was the 87th Division, while a battalion of the 521st Regiment was in the fortifications. Regiment commander Chen Yiding was in a semi-underground bunker, using a telescope to observe the group of Japanese warships on the sea.

At this time, the sound of the guns on the Japanese warship and the black shells that flew over entered Chen Yiding's ears and eyes. Although the 521st Regiment had been shelled, the 8-centimeter and 10-centimeter guns on the small gunboats were far from being comparable to the 35.6-centimeter and 20.3-centimeter guns on battleships and heavy cruisers.

After these shells landed on the ground with a characteristic screeching sound, the huge explosions, shock waves, and scattered shrapnel were all things that the Chinese soldiers had never experienced and thought about. The shells fell on the fortifications, and the hastily built fortifications were reimbursed along with the defenders in the fortifications. Even if the shells that fell near the fortifications, shrapnel could not hurt anyone, but its huge shock wave also made the inexperienced Chinese soldiers hiding in the fortifications have blood flowing from their facial features, and there are not a few who died due to the shock.

After half an hour of artillery fire, Matsui Ishone saw in the telescope that the ground fortifications were almost destroyed, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Roar! Now we can land." The officers around him hurriedly ran to convey the order to land. After the order was delivered, small landing craft were lowered on the large troop carriers, and groups of Japanese soldiers boarded the small boats and headed for the shore.

When Chen Yiding walked out of the bunker with his adjutant to inspect his men again, Chen Yiding was saddened to find that the Japanese army had only shelled for half an hour, and there were less than 150 soldiers left in a battalion of the fortifications that could fight, and the remaining more than 200 soldiers were either buried in the ruined fortifications or were shocked to death in the fortifications.

There was a squad of twelve fighters in the fortifications of a machine-gun bunker, and only one soldier survived, and this soldier also had blood flowing from his ears, and he could no longer hear any sound. Even with such large casualties, the soldiers who could fight were lying on their stomachs in the guns of the fortifications that had not been destroyed, or in the trenches, and some soldiers simply set up their weapons in the craters. Even the deaf soldier threw himself on the light machine gun.

The Japanese landing craft approached the shore, and from the landing craft rushed down groups of Japanese soldiers, wading knee-deep water, and launched a charge on the beach. Chen Yiding gave an order, and in the hands of the Chinese soldiers guarding the shore, all kinds of weapons sent out revenge bullets, and the Japanese soldiers who hit them screamed and fell into the sea. The Japanese soldiers who were not hit hurriedly fell into the sea and crawled to the beach.

The first to land was the Japanese 3rd Division, a permanent elite division of the Japanese army, with many Nagoya soldiers and strong individual tactical skills. This time it was a brigade of the 6th Wing of the 5th Infantry Brigade Regiment. Caught off guard, only about two dozen Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded in the blows of the Chinese defenders. After being attacked, the Japanese soldiers returned fire while lying in the sea, and the soldiers who did not get off the boat set up machine guns in the bow of the ship and fired back.

The marksmanship of the Japanese soldiers was indeed good, and in this case, their return fire also caused the soldiers of the 521st Regiment to continue to be injured and killed. The battalion commander of the defenders, anxious, mobilized several machine guns and tried their best to suppress the Japanese machine guns, while the fighters attacked the Japanese soldiers who were crawling forward in the sea. There were soldiers on both sides who were killed or wounded in the confrontation, and for a time the two sides were deadlocked, and it was difficult for the Japanese troops to land, and it was difficult for the defenders to destroy the Japanese troops in large numbers.

At the time of the stalemate between the two sides, the second group of Japanese landing craft approached the shore, and this time not only Japanese soldiers but also several combat vehicles disembarked from the landing craft. When these chariots approached the beach and bombarded the defenders with chariot guns, the scales of victory were tilted in favor of the Japanese. Although Chen Yiding was unwilling, his entire battalion made the first attack of the Japanese army completely lost, but the gap in strength made him reluctantly withdraw the remaining soldiers to the second line of defense.

Just as the Japanese army proudly opened the way with their chariots and the infantry followed and rushed to the beachhead, the only few 105 howitzers of the 87th Division opened fire. The flying shells directly destroyed a combat vehicle, and the Japanese army fell in several explosions. It's just that a few cannons can't stop the footsteps of the Japanese brigade from landing, and the rest of the chariots and Japanese troops still poured onto the beach like a tide.

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