readx;? At 6 a.m. on 18 August, the heavy artillery regiment of the independent battalion, led by the reconnaissance platoon and the guard battalion on full alert, arrived at the cargo terminal in Longzhou County. Two 2,000-ton cargo ships were already waiting on the dock of the Pen, Fun and Pavilion www.biquge.info. The trucks were driven directly onto the ship along the iron plate passage, while the artillery needed to be hoisted with the only large gantry crane before they could be boarded. As for the ammunition, it can only be carried or picked up by manpower in boxes and boxes on the ship.

Although Wang Haitao was very anxious, he was helpless in the face of the only industrial level in this era. According to the expectation, the whole group will be on the ship, and it will take two days at the earliest. In addition, it will take seven days to walk on the road, which means that Wang Haitao will be able to go ashore in Jiading on August 27, and after the arrival of a regiment, it will be very good to arrive at the battlefield within September 1 or 2.

At this time, Song Xilian's 36th Division in Shanghai, as the first support army, had arrived in Shanghai and was subordinate to the Ninth Group Army. In order to hold the Huishan wharf, the Japanese army organized 2,000 Japanese troops from warships to reinforce the original 1,000 Japanese troops on the Huishan wharf. Song Xilian's 36th Division, as a cutting-edge division that had just arrived on the battlefield, was arranged by Zhang Zhizhong to attack Huishan Wharf, the last stronghold of the Japanese army.

The 87th and 88th Divisions, which had lost more than half of them, as well as the original supplementary brigade and independent battalions that had been renumbered the 20th Brigade, were all arranged to establish anti-landing positions on the seaside from Shishilin to Chuanshakou to Baoshan to Wusongkou Fort to Zhanghuabin. The independent battalion was arranged to be stationed at the Wusongkou Fort. At this time, all the cannons on Wusongkou had been dismantled, leaving only the fortifications.

After Wei Erxi saw the situation of the Wusongkou Fort, he immediately made use of these old fortifications, first reinforced them, and then first selected the four Gao Pinger twin-mounted machine guns and placed them in the fort. To say that these forts were originally built to resist the bombardment of large-caliber naval guns, Wei Erxi dug a communication ditch between the fort and the fort.

These ditches are not too deep, because after digging a meter, water will come out of the ditch, and the warriors need to bend down to move through the ditches. However, the top of the communication ditch was covered with steel plates and cement, and as long as it was not directly hit by large-caliber naval guns, there would be no problem.

And the four Gaoping dual-purpose twin machine guns formed a crossfire, because of the range, these four heavy machine guns could block the sea surface of 300 meters. It is believed that with its caliber of 14.5, ordinary landing craft will not be able to resist its blows. As for armored vehicles and tank vehicles, Wei Erxi simply drove them into large fortresses and used them as fixed points of fire.

It's just that dozens of mortars can't be put into the fortress, because the mortars are curved guns, and in the face of large-caliber naval guns, the mortar positions placed in the open air have no chance of surviving except for being quickly destroyed. Therefore, Wei Erxi put this reinforced mortar company in Yang Xing behind him and used it to build a second line of defense. At the same time, Yang Xing also had all the cars and a baggage company.

Wei Erxi took out half of the 86 light and heavy machine guns in the whole battalion, and used various small forts to build a firepower attack surface with no dead ends on the beachhead. Wei Erxi believed that as long as there were half of the machine guns, it would be impossible for the Japanese army to land on the beachhead here. In order to prevent the Japanese army from encircling the Wusongkou Fort after landing from the second flank, Wei Erxi also organized soldiers to build a large depth fortification on both sides of the fort.

The surface water is too shallow to dig deep trenches, so build a wall on the ground with sandbags, open firing holes, and mount light machine guns. Heavy machine guns, on the other hand, built bunkers out of cement to ensure that enemy shelling could not be destroyed. In addition to these, Wei Erxi buried all the mines brought by Wang Haitao on the beachhead, and also buried countless triangular nails in the sand on the beachhead.

After completing these preparations, Wei Erxi, who was still unsatisfied, pulled up rows of barbed wire on the beach. All this made Zhang Zhizhong, who came to inspect the inspection, feel numb in his scalp for a while. With a veteran general like Zhang Zhizhong, he doesn't know what method to use to overcome this almost perverted defense. It was as if after trying the Gao Ping Er's two-in-one machine gun, Zhang Zhizhong and several generals accompanying him showed a wolf-like gaze in their eyes.

The gaze of these generals made Wei Erxi's heart shiver, and in desperation, Wei Erxi could only send one heavy machine gun and two light machine guns by himself, which could be regarded as an explanation. The fortifications have been completed, all that remains is to reserve ammunition, and in the previous battles, a lot of ammunition for heavy weapons was consumed, and a third of the ammunition for the twin Gaoping II machine guns was consumed.

Now Wei Erxi can't replenish these ammunition, so he can only tell the shooter to pay attention to saving ammunition. Light and heavy machine guns consume only about a quarter of their ammunition. It should be noted that there are only more than 200 rounds of shells left in the tank guns, and once they are finished, these two tanks will only be available with vehicle-mounted machine guns, and their power will be reduced a lot.

As for the heavy machine gun on the combat vehicle, the ammunition consumption is not much, whether it is an armored vehicle or a tank vehicle, the 12 mm high-level machine gun on the vehicle is second only to the power of the twin-mounted high-level two-purpose machine gun. After all the preparations were completed, it was August 22. Wei Erxi stood on the high place of the fort, looking at the calm and wide sea in front of him, silently tasting the last calm before the war.

At the same time, the Japanese fleet had reached a distance of one hundred and twenty nautical miles from Shanghai. Matsui Ishone had the fleet concentrate here in preparation for the start of the landing operation against Shanghai on the second day. At the pre-war meeting, Matsui ordered all the naval guns to assist the landing force and deal a devastating blow to all Chinese troops and fortifications that tried to prevent the landing of the Imperial Japanese Army.

Unlike history, it was only after the partial landing of the Japanese army that the Chinese army got the news and carried out anti-landing attack operations. At this time, the newly formed 15th Group Army also rushed to Shanghai under the command of General Luo Zhuoying. General Zhang Yezhong suddenly had four elite divisions fully manned. At the same time, the 87th Army also established relatively intact beachheads at Chuanshakou and Shishilin, and was also prepared to guard against the shelling of Japanese large-caliber naval artillery.

As soon as the 15 th Group Army arrived, General Zhang Zhizhong first replaced the 36 th Division, which had suffered heavy casualties, with the 11 th Division, and took the Huishan Wharf occupied by the Japanese army in one go, and only nearly 1,000 Japanese troops fled to the sea by boat, and the remaining nearly 2,000 Japanese troops were all wiped out at the Huishan Wharf. At this point, all the Japanese troops on the Shanghai border had been driven out of Shanghai.

Zhang Yezhong also ordered the 98th Division to defend the Yuepu and Baoshan lines. The 87th and 88th Divisions defended Chuanshakou and Lion Forest. The 67th Division deployed along the Huangpu River, defending the line from Wusong to Qiujiang Wharf. The 14th Division and the 36th Division, which had been retired, were the reserves, one division was stationed in Luodian, and the other division was stationed in Liuhang and Dachang.

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