Chapter 198: Crossing the River in the South (2)

There are more than 300 large and small boats on the bank of the Anqing River, and the large ships can carry 1,200 people, while the small boats can only hold 30 or 40 people.

Fortunately, Snow Fox did not have any heavy weapons such as cannons, even heavy machine guns, most of the heavy weapons of the 36th Division were left to the troops of the 48th Army, and the ammunition was also minimized, each soldier had 50 rifle bullets, 100 pistol bullets, * 4, 200 machine gun bullets, and 200 rifle ammunition in the 36th Division.

In the Anqing Water Port, the directly subordinate regiment and the sixth regiment Chen Dong had already left in advance, and some sailing boats dragged the things they had prepared to cross the river and go to the direction of Wangjiang, while the other team had already sailed to the center of the river, and they were to meet the Japanese 3rd Fleet in Wangjiang and cover the boats on the surface of the Yangtze River to cross the river.

After dark, when it was determined that the Japanese army could no longer take off planes, the ships on the Yangtze River surged, and more than 300 large and small ships went down the river together and plunged diagonally into Yinhui on the other side of the river, which was the preliminarily determined landing site. The Japanese army had only one brigade there, while two wings of the entire division were in Wangjiang, and the auxiliary wing of the division headquarters and one infantry wing were defending this section of the river bank in Chizhou.

The 22nd Division is a three-in-one division with a reserve of police, which has been stationed in the Nanjing area with only more than 16,000 troops. This time, the six generals of the hata Shunliu really had no troops to send, and the activities of the New Fourth Army around Nanjing were rampant, occupying the areas of Maoshan and Jurong, and wantonly attacking the Japanese army's logistics supply lines.

In the area from Shaoxing in Shanghai to Hangzhou, a large number of Kuomintang guerrillas remained, and their guerrilla forces posed a greater threat to the imperial army, and the Chinese troops in Huangshan County and Guangde also used Tianmu Mountain as their base and continued to attack, so that the Central China Dispatch Army was really unable to draw troops. The 22nd Division had to be deployed on the riverside, and the snow fox, which had no navy, wanted to cross the Yangtze River and faced the navy on the Yangtze River.

Lieutenant General Shiqiao, commander of the 22nd Division, deployed two wings at Wangjiang, leaving one wing and other troops in Chizhou.

Lieutenant General Shiqiao did not arrange a small force along the river to defend, that would be useless to the snow fox, once they landed on the shore, a small number of troops were not opponents at all, it was impossible for the snow fox to secretly infiltrate and cross the river, there was the Yangtze River fleet that could be found at any time, once they knew where they crossed the river, it was reasonable to concentrate heavy troops to block the attack. Besides, whether they can break through the naval blockade and land on the river bank is not known, it is possible that they will all sink into the river to feed the fish.

Thinking of the proud place, Shiqiao laughed once, he really couldn't understand, why did Snow Fox take the risk of crossing the river from such a good place in Jiangbei, is it easy to fight the imperial army in Jiangnan?

"Report" Chief of Staff Hideo Baba said: "I received a telegram from the Yangtze River Fleet that the Snow Fox has boarded the ship and set off, and the landing site is still uncertain, and the fleet has been dispatched to intercept it. ”

"Yo Sai" Shiqiao once said: "Jiang'an sent an observation post, found the landing site of the river crossing and quickly reported, ordered the third major general of Sakurai Province to stand by, and the Chizhou 85th Wing was also ready for battle. ”

"Hi," Hideo Baba replied. Indeed, sailing ships are different from motor boats, it is impossible to cross in a straight line, they must be diagonally borrowing the flow speed of the river to cross the river downstream, so the landing site will never be Wangjiang, it can only be around Chizhou, Tongling is also impossible, so the river sailing time is too long, it will be sunk by the naval fleet, and the landing site is only that far away, so Shiqiao is very relieved at one time. I prepared three wings of more than 10,000 people from the west, and the snow fox only had a total of 20,000 people, can I go ashore at once? They did not seize the beachhead, could not expand the landing grounds, could not go ashore with heavy weapons, and were not opponents at all. If it takes a long time, it will be the end of being sunk by the navy on the Yangtze River. If it was so easy to cross the river and fight, the imperial army would have crossed the river to wipe out the Chinese army a long time ago, why did it take more than four months to capture Wuhan? It seems that Xue Ru is nothing more than that.

After receiving the report of the patrol boats on the river, the commander of the 3rd Fleet, Suzuki Yasumasa, did not dare to slack off, and he immediately ordered the entire fleet to start the ships, and more than 50 large and small ships left the river bank and drove down the river with a murderous spirit. The distance of this section of the Yangtze River is not wide, it is the dry season in winter, the river surface is very narrow, if it is slow, these ships may cross the Yangtze River and dock, after all, the tonnage of the Japanese ships is large, they cannot be too close to the shallow water area, they must be stopped in the deep water area.

This is a mobile ship with steam and fuel oil, of course, the speed is very fast, but they have not left the river port for a long time, and the patrol boat in front of them sent a signal to pay attention to the wooden rafts on the river and tell the ships to be careful.

Suzuki Yasuma's judgment, sure enough, Xue Ru has an arrangement, but can this kind of wooden platoon floating on the Yangtze River block small patrol boats and small steamers, and can it block destroyers and gunboats? Immediately order the small ships to go back, and the large-tonnage ships in front, and crash directly into the wooden platoon, how can they resist the impact of ships of several hundred tons, such tactics are too useless.

The Shirayukimaru and several gunboats were currently rushing forward with their searchlights on, but there were more and more wooden rows on the river. More than a dozen large ships, led by the light destroyer Shirayuki Maru, began to ram into the wooden platoons that were floating on the surface of the river and moving slowly.

They are very large, almost connected by logs, if such a big guy crashes into a small boat, it can really be knocked over, but it doesn't matter, they have no power, the river is not a river, the flow speed is slow, although the wooden raft does not move, the speed of the boat is not too fast, there is no impact force at all, but pushes away.

On the bank of the river, with the reflection of the river surface, Ouyang Sari stood on a raft, watched the Japanese ships crash into the raft, and said happily: "Stupid, I don't want to think about it, the fuck Lao Tzu is still worried about him firing the cannon." He raised his hand and shouted, "One, two, three, burst." ”

With a bang, a large wooden raft crashed into the Shirayuki Maru, causing a violent explosion.

How could it be just a wooden platoon, Xue Ru is not stupid, the Japanese ship is made of steel, how can a wooden platoon crash it? If it is possible at high speed, it is impossible for the flow rate of the Yangtze River to have an effect, so under the water of each wooden row is a cannonball, which is a heavy artillery of the captured Japanese army*. Of course, the warhead is in front, and as soon as the platoon hits the ship, the firing pin fuse will make the shell explode.

This is a 150 caliber shell, and the explosion power is not small, it was originally captured, Ouyang wanted to use it for the Japanese army, but such a big cannon, the snow fox did not have a towed car, and it was not easy to move, and it may also be used as a target for the Japanese aircraft, so these shells were left, and now he finally played a role.

The Shirayuki Maru is only less than 1,000 tons, and the armor is not thick, and I didn't expect these wooden platoons to explode, and it is not a shell.

In fact, this kind of infantry shells have been mainly lethal, and the armor-piercing ability is limited, but the 150 caliber ones are no longer used to kill and injure infantry, but are used to destroy fortifications, each shell is hundreds of catties, and the explosive power of two or three shells is hit by a ship, which directly blows up the White Snow Pill into a big hole, and the river water rushes in. It was only a few minutes before the Snow White Pill was facing the sky.

Suzuki Yasuma was furious: "Yaga" but no matter how he scolded, he couldn't save his ship, so he had to order to abandon the ship and transfer to another ship. This time, the Japanese ships were all scared, and they didn't know which of the wooden rafts floating on the river had *, and they were busy for a long time, and Suzuki Yasumasa watched his destroyer's butt getting higher and higher and sinking to the bottom of the river.

After boarding a gunboat, he finally understood, and ordered large and small ships to fire their guns together, blowing up these wooden rafts in the middle of the river.

At this time, the Yangtze River was full of excitement, no matter how big the Japanese ships were, as long as there were all the guns fired, the wooden platoons were blown up to the point of sawdust, constantly scattered, and drifted downstream. Everyone understands that these wooden platoons can cross the Yangtze River, because there are sinking river stones below, that is, they are dragged by stones, so they are across the river, and if they are not blown up, the fleet will not dare to go over at all, who knows if there is still *.

The Japanese army was like setting off fireworks, and it was also like a drill, and they were very happy, and they were relieved to see many wooden platoons explode. Such a blockade is simply impossible to stop the imperial fleet, and looking at the vanished wooden platoon, Suzuki Yasumasa breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the fleet to advance.

Watching the Japanese soldiers go downstream, Ouyang Sari, who was hiding in a sailboat on the river, said to Chen Dong beside him: "Hey, Lao Chen, how about it, Miss is so powerful, every time it counts into the devil's heart." ”

Chen Le said: "That's, how else is it a fox spirit?" The devil and the young lady fight, that is, looking for death. ”

Ouyang asked incomprehensibly: "Then you say, why did Miss go to Jiangnan, there are more devils in the north." ”

Chen Dong glared at him: ", how do I know?" You know, I'm a vixen too. ”

"Haha" Ouyang Sari said: "Just you fox, I look at the bear is almost the same." ”

Chen Le punched him hard: "Nonsense, I'm a bear, you piggy, take a look, the devil is coming." ”

The two of them stopped laughing and stared at the river. The two of them kept struggling in their hearts: "It's fast, it's fast, it's explosive." Sure enough, with the voices of two people, there was an explosion on the river, this is the explosion of *, the power is even greater, Jiang Xin is mine, it is too hateful. This is arranged at a great cost, plus the Shenjiang rope, and the * is arranged behind the wooden row.

People are like this, and after the obstacles on the surface are removed, it is difficult to think that there are more sinister dangers ahead. Suzuki Yasuma was like this, he hurried over to block the snow fox fleet crossing the river, thinking that it would be okay if the wooden platoon was blown up, but who knew that it was just a few miles away from the wooden platoon and was arranged under the river*.

This is the Wuhan direction of the Jiangfang arrangement*, Xue Ru asked for a part, she is not a passive defense, she must lure the devil to crash into it by herself, blocked by the wooden platoon for a while, the flagship Shirayuki Maru sank, making Suzuki Anchang dizzy, as soon as he saw the wooden platoon explode, he immediately led the fleet down into the * area.

The front was a dark river, and they couldn't clear the mines, so they were so frightened that they hurriedly reversed, and the ship retreated, at least the back was safe, Ouyang Sari said: "Quickly put the raft." ”

Immediately from the bank of the Yangtze River, there are many small boats, dragging the wooden raft to the center of the river, as soon as entering the river, the small boat immediately cut the rope, there are people on each wooden row, see how to adjust the position, the big iron chain with a sledgehammer to connect the wooden raft together, jump into the water, board the boat and leave.

Four or five large wooden platoons connected together rushed towards the Japanese fleet downstream, the river was very dark, not close, and could not be seen at all, and this was what Ouyang Sari and Zhang Jiu had been preparing for more than ten days. This time, Chen Dong's 6th Regiment was added, and the river was full of large wooden platoons, and they rushed along the river towards the Japanese fleet stopped on the river.

By the time the Japanese discovered that the wooden platoon had rushed down from above, it was already too late, and it was too late to open fire. Yasumasa Suzuki remembered the exploding wooden platoon and shouted, "Fire, fire." "The Japanese did not dare to rush forward, if they rushed forward, the motor boat was faster than the wooden platoon, but in front was the * area, and the Yangtze River fleet was equal to being surrounded. Many boats immediately turned around and tried to blow up these wooden rows with shells, but the first row exploded, and the wooden rows were very close, and the wood collided with the Japanese ships, and the big ships were fine, but those small patrol boats were knocked around, and the shells were not possible.

Boom, boom, the sound of the explosion finally came, this is a wooden platoon connected together, the Japanese army can't avoid it at all, there are shells on it, large and small shells are tied to it, and some wooden platoons are loaded with *, although this kind of * is not harmful to the steel warships of the Japanese army, but the sound is amazing.

The 3rd Squadron was in a state of annihilation, constantly being bombed and sunk, attacking with wooden platoons, and inflicting heavy losses on the naval fleet without a single soldier seeing it. Suzuki Yasumasa was already terrified to the extreme, the name of the snow fox is really well deserved, if she is there, how can the Imperial Japanese Army win?

It was only at this time that Suzuki Yasumasa remembered that he was no longer able to prevent the snow fox from crossing the river, and said to the deputy officer beside him: "Send a telegram to the 22nd Division to inform them to defend the east bank, and the snow fox has already crossed the river." ”

Suzuki Yasumasa guessed correctly, indeed, the large fleet on the riverside moved, was discovered by the Japanese patrol boats, reported to the fleet commander, Suzuki Yasuma ordered to set sail to block the attack, and at the same time notify the Japanese army. However, he suffered heavy losses and was unable to cope, and he had long forgotten to inform the 22nd Division. Besides, he didn't get close at all, and he didn't know where the snow fox landed was.

Chizhou Shiqiao was also at a loss after receiving a telegram once, and the naval fleet couldn't stop the snow fox, so didn't it know where to land? Two or three hundred miles on the bank of the Yangtze River, from Chizhou to Wangjiang, the river bank is nearly 200 kilometers long, where to defend? Can't you separate a division and regiment, can you stop the attack of the snow fox like that?

Just when he was so angry that he scolded the stupid pig stupid pig of the navy, the staff officer ran over: "Report, the 3rd Brigade Captain Tadayoshi Oshima reports that the snow fox landed in Yinhui, they can't resist it, and they ask for reinforcements." ”

Shiqiao once finally knew where the snow fox had landed, and immediately ordered the 85th Wing to reinforce Yinhui, and at the same time telegraphed to order Sakurai to lead two wings to Yinhui as well, and he wanted to concentrate the three wings to drive the snow fox who had just landed on the shore and had not yet gained a firm foothold down from the Yangtze River.

The distance of this section of the river is only more than ten kilometers wide, and if you cross the river in a straight line, it will only take more than an hour.

However, the snow fox crossed the river diagonally, and it was a sailboat, and the manpower speed was of course slow, and it took more than two hours to cross the Yangtze River. Listening to the sound of explosions in the distance, a Japanese ship on the river could not be seen, and more than 300 ships of the Snow Fox were on the river bank. Chen Ruihe and they didn't know that the light destroyer, the largest battleship of the Japanese army, was also sunk.

Guarding the riverbank is the Japanese 3rd Brigade of more than 1,000 people, when the outpost found the attack, a Japanese brigade immediately entered the riverbank position, but the first regiment has been under the leadership of Qiao Han to wade ashore and launch an attack on the Japanese army.

In the middle of the front was the 1st regiment, on the flanks 212, on the other side - the 213th regiment, and the three regiments landed almost in no particular order and immediately attacked.

The night was the same for everyone, the Japanese army did not receive a report, and relied too much on the navy, so the defense was not tight, and the snow fox's boats, except for the large ships, the small boats almost ran aground directly on the river bank, and the soldiers jumped down and attacked the shore.

The river water is cold in winter, but no one can feel it at this time, the beach landing is the most dangerous, Xue Ru does not dare to use heavy weapons, that is, the snow fox has no experience in beach landing at all.

At this time, there is no formation, with the military flag moving, the army has no formation, no number, has the smallest squad as a unit, as long as it goes ashore to attack, Qiao Han knows that the landing ground is the life of the snow fox, if the situation cannot be opened at the first time, once the Japanese reinforcements arrive, the snow fox will be forced back to the river to feed the fish.

With the accurate shooting of the Snow Fox and the huge number of light machine guns, the bullets were like a storm, and the Japanese army only had a brigade of about 1,000 men, but it was facing an increasing number of three regiments. No matter how few, the three regiments are more than 4,000 people, Gu Baoyu, the commander of the 212th regiment, and Pan Yongsheng, the commander of the 213th regiment, they know that if they can't fight in order to completely enter the snow fox, they will definitely be looked down upon in this army that can fight habitually, and they will have no status.

Anyone who understands a little bit knows why Xue Ru got eight regiments out, that is, he is preparing to expand the army. In fact, it should be the establishment of two divisions, if you want to rise to the brigade commander and division commander, you have to perform well, I didn't see Li Zhipeng a brigade commander and a more become a division commander, if the snow fox expands, this time to return to Ji'an is to rest.

Every officer has his own little abacus, what does a strong army look at? It depends on the war, so the two regiment commanders are more fierce than Qiao Han. The German armament division was equipped with a large number of *, and the firepower was even more powerful, but it was just a charge, and the Japanese 5th Brigade did not block it, and was crushed by three regiments, and if it wasn't for Oshima Shaosa's quick withdrawal, it might have been surrounded by three regiments.

He led the resistance and asked for reinforcements, but it was too late. Snow Foxes did not have any heavy weapons at all, and they did not have any baggage, ammunition was carried with them, not even horses, and the troops that landed on the shore were considered to have landed, not at all to expand the landing ground, but to attack forward. The troops behind also began to land, just when the troops on both sides of the Japanese army were still more than ten miles, the snow fox had already boarded the river bank at the fastest speed, leaving the river, and those big boats dragged the stranded boats back to Jiangbei.

In Ouyang Sari, who was in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, they had already taken a boat across the river after putting down the last row of rafts. The devils didn't dare to advance because of *, what were they afraid of, there were no Japanese warships in the shallow water area on the bank of the river, so they couldn't come over in that place.

Looking at the devils who were still fighting with the wooden platoon in the distance, Ouyang Sari, Chen Dong and Zhang Jiu laughed, ordered the soldiers to paddle with wooden planks, and the boat rode the wind and waves towards Yin Hui. When they arrived, there were only those who stayed on the bank to meet them.

The forces of the two regiments came ashore at speed and inserted themselves in the direction of Xiuning. It was Liu Jianxu's troops of the Tenth Army, and they were under the command of the Third Theater of Operations. Of course, Xue Ru has her reasons for such an arrangement, after crossing the river, she should go to Nanchang first, Nanchang is still in the hands of the national army at this time, and then go to Ji'an from Nanchang. Because Xue Ru is going to Ruijin, whether she is going to school or not, others don't know.

In addition to Xiao Yong knowing that Xue Ru planned to go to Myanmar, Li Wenxiu also knew a little. Everyone in Snow Fox knows that Xue Ru went to Ruijin to enter the Whampoa Military Academy, which makes many people envious. With Xue Ru's level, there is no need to study at all, but it is gilded, and Huangpu graduated, but he is a student of Chairman Jiang, and he will soar in the future, which is unlimited. Besides, there have been no female students in Huangpu, which shows that the chairman of the committee is very important. Many people are optimistic about Xue Ru's future, otherwise how could Chen Ruihe be so obedient, he is a real major general.

However, none of this prevented Xue Ru from cleaning up the 22nd Division's Shiqiao Lieutenant General once.