readx;? Early in the morning of 24 September, 10 kilometers outside the Wusongkou Fort position, black Japanese warships covered the sea. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info Soon after, two Japanese battleships, the Nagato and Haruna, first launched an artillery bombardment of the battery positions at Wusongkou, and then several heavy cruisers joined in. The explosion of large-caliber heavy artillery shells on the fort position at Wusongkou continued, and the flames and gunpowder smoke also rose.

In the fort position, Wei Erxi commanded three 150 heavy guns and began to counterattack. The three 150 heavy guns were alone in the face of dozens of large-caliber naval guns, and even so, the Japanese army had the precedent of the sinking of the Izumo, and they did not dare to ignore the return fire of these heavy guns. Therefore, the Japanese warships did not stay in place, but shelled as they went.

Japanese warships with preparation were not very easy to hit, and it didn't matter if such big guys as battleships and heavy cruisers were hit by a heavy artillery shell by chance. After an hour of artillery battle, the Japanese saw that a few heavy guns on the battery did not pose much threat to their own warships, and they became emboldened, not only the battleships and heavy cruisers were attacking, but even the light cruisers and destroyers also relied on their flexibility to approach the coastline and shoot at close range.

The behavior of the Japanese army immediately angered Wei Erxi in the fort. Wei Erxi ordered the three heavy guns to abandon the firing with the Japanese heavy ships, and instead turned their guns to the approaching Japanese light cruiser Nake. Although the shells of the 150 heavy guns caused limited damage to battleships and heavy cruisers, they could still cause relatively serious damage to light cruisers with only more than 4,000 tons.

The Japanese light patrol Naka, unaware that the target of the three heavy guns had been changed to themselves, although the Nako was also constantly moving, but when it fired, there was always a pause. The artillery inside the battery seized this brief opportunity, and when the Nako stopped firing, the three heavy guns also fired counter-shells at the Nako. Two of the three shells hit the Nako, one hit the side of the ship, blasting a large hole in the deck of the ship, and destroying a 14-centimeter single gun.

Another cannonball, however, pierced through the armor of the tower and exploded inside it. This shell knocked half of the Naka's conning tower away, and the Japanese commanders in the conning tower suffered heavy casualties. After several rounds of shelling, the Nako sank in the sea when the ship's ammunition depot was detonated.

The sinking of the Nako made the small Japanese ships close to the coast nervous and retreated into the distance, and several large ships increased the frequency of artillery firing. Two hours later, more than 20 Japanese bombers also dispatched and dropped heavy aerial bombs on the Wusongkou fort position. At 2 p.m., the Japanese light cruiser Naka was sunk, and the heavy cruisers Myoko and Takao were slightly damaged.

The five large forts and more than 10 small forts within 200 meters of the sea on the Wusongkou fort were all destroyed, and the three 150 heavy guns and 146 officers and men of one artillery company were all martyred. Vice Admiral Hasegawa Kiyoshi, commander of the Japanese Third Fleet, also breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the seaside batteries and heavy artillery of the defenders of Shina had been cleared, and reported the news to Admiral Matsui Ishine.

General Matsui Ishone was pleasantly surprised when he received the report from Lieutenant General Hasegawa Kiyoshi, and then ordered the 11th Division, which had almost rested, to prepare to attack the position of the Kuruguchi battery of the defenders of China. After receiving the order, Lieutenant General Yamamuro Munetake, commander of the 11th Division of the Japanese Army, sent the 22nd Infantry Brigade, which had suffered little losses, as the main force, to prepare for an attack on the Wusongkou battery position of the defenders of China.

At this time, there were still more than 600 officers and men left in the 1st Battalion of the 546th Regiment, which had been reorganized from the original independent battalion, on the position of the Wujingkou Fort. The battalion commander Xiao Yuanxin has already joined the **, and one-third of the officers and soldiers of the first battalion are ** people, with Wang Haitao's tolerance in front, Wei Erxi also acquiesced to this. On the morning of the 25th, the Japanese warships again used naval guns to bombard the position of the Wusongkou Fort for an hour, during which the bombers also came to bomb again.

After the shelling stopped, the observation post came to report that a brigade of Japanese infantry was preparing to attack the position. Without saying a word, the battalion commander Xiao Yuanxin rushed to a ruined position with more than 100 soldiers from a company. No sooner had the soldiers of the company found a position on the ruins and set up light and heavy firepower than a large group of Japanese soldiers attacked under the cover of heavy machine guns and infantry guns.

As the officers and men of the former independent battalion who first entered the battlefield, after more than a month of fighting, they were all experienced veterans. No matter how happy the Japanese guns were, the infantry did not enter within 200 meters, and no one moved. And when the Japanese army entered within 200 meters, with the battalion commander Xiao Yuanxin's order: "Fight!"

The unprepared Japanese soldiers were knocked down in the open ground one after another, and the Japanese soldiers who were not hit were all lying on the ground and returned fire with the guns in their hands. However, the battalion and the company not only had fierce firepower, but also the marksmanship of the fighters was also insignificant, and light machine guns and heavy machine guns played with point fire, not to mention rifles and submachine guns. After several of the Japanese grenadiers were named, the Japanese captain saw that the casualties were too great, so he ordered a retreat, and the Japanese attack retreated after leaving nearly 200 corpses.

Xiao Yuanxin saw that the Japanese army had retreated, and after leaving a few observation posts on the position, he withdrew with a company of soldiers. In this battle, only two soldiers were killed, and more than a dozen were wounded. Twenty minutes later, the Japanese artillery bombardment began again, and this time the shelling advanced several hundred meters into the depth of the Wusongkou position, and the officers and men of the first battalion, who had been prepared for a long time, had already entered the anti-artillery hole repaired underground.

In a whole day, the Japanese army launched six attacks, all of which were beaten back by Xiao Yuanxin with a company of soldiers, and the Japanese army left nearly a thousand corpses, and more than half of the battalions and companies were killed and wounded. At night, Wei Erxi led the soldiers to repair the fortifications that had been destroyed during the day, and cleared out several half-collapsed forts, which were used as fixed fire points for heavy machine guns, and heavy machine guns were erected.

On the day of the 25th, not only the Wusongkou Fort position was plunged into a fierce battle, but the Japanese 101st Division, 13th Division, and 3rd Division all launched a large-scale all-out attack on the position of the new 90th Division. Lieutenant General Ogisu, commander of the 13th Division, sent troops to attack two more times, but when there was still no comparison, he desperately used 150 heavy howitzers to attack.

The power of the 150 heavy howitzer was indeed different from that of the 75 infantry guns, and in just one hour of shelling, it basically destroyed all the fortifications built by the Chinese defenders on the west side of the bridge. After the shelling, a brigade of infantry of the 13th Division, under the cover of grenadiers and mortars, attacked west of the bridge. Tang Yishu, commander of the second battalion, immediately commanded the remaining more than 100 soldiers of the first company of the second battalion to enter the position.

However, there were only bomb craters and destroyed bunkers on the position, and the soldiers of the first company relied on the craters and blown up bunkers to block the Japanese attack. When the Japanese retreated, there were only about 40 soldiers left in the second battalion and the first company who could continue to fight. Tang Yishu asked the first company to retire and recuperate, and sent the soldiers of the second company. When it was almost dark, the fifth attack of the Japanese army made the remaining officers and soldiers of the second battalion and the second company fight with the Japanese army, and the Japanese army finally captured the position west of the bridge by virtue of its large numbers, and all the officers and men of the second battalion and the second company were martyred.

In the evening, Tang Weimin, the commander of the 543rd Regiment, learned that the 2nd Battalion had lost the position west of the bridge of the Chenxiang Arch Bridge, and found the 2nd Battalion Commander Tang Yishu, and after inquiry, he learned that the Japanese army used heavy artillery at all costs, first destroyed the fortifications in the west of the bridge, and then used the advantage of strength to forcibly capture the position in the west of the bridge, and the 2nd Battalion had suffered heavy casualties, and the 2nd Company fought with the Japanese army to the last man, and all of them were martyred.

Tang Weimin immediately reported the situation to the deputy division commander Zhao Zhongwu and asked for a counterattack overnight to recapture the position west of the bridge. After thinking about it, Zhao Zhongwu agreed to Tang Weimin's request, and asked Tang Weimin to use the artillery fire of the second battalion to blockade the bridge deck and prevent the Japanese army from reinforcing the west of the bridge. To this end, Zhao Zhongwu also sent Wu Conglong's third battalion as reinforcements.

At twelve o'clock in the evening, Tang Weimin came to the command post of the second battalion with a company drawn from the third battalion. This company and the third company of the second battalion together have a total of 370 officers and men, and the submachine guns of the whole battalion are concentrated in the hands of these 370 soldiers, and the 20 or so light and heavy mortars belonging to the second battalion are also ready to be fired. A platoon of soldiers of the regiment's reconnaissance company who accompanied Tang Weimin also took the initiative to ask for help, asking to go and touch the Japanese sentry post first to open the way for the troops' attack.

At two o'clock in the evening, the fighters of the reconnaissance platoon set off first, and half an hour later, the fighters of the two companies also set off. Under the leadership of Tang Yishu, the commander of the second battalion, the soldiers of the second company met the soldiers of the reconnaissance platoon when they touched the Japanese army camp, and the soldiers of the reconnaissance platoon reported that a Japanese brigade was stationed in this camp, and the light and dark posts had been cleared, and the platoon commander and other soldiers touched the side of the Japanese brigade headquarters, and as soon as the battle began, he would terminate the headquarters of this brigade.

Tang Yishu listened to the report of the soldiers of the reconnaissance platoon, and immediately led the soldiers of the two companies to launch a combat formation and attack the Japanese camp. The fighters divided into battle groups and quietly touched the tents of the Japanese soldiers, and almost at the same time the explosion of grenades was heard in more than a dozen tents. Now the whole camp exploded, and the Japanese soldiers rushed out of their tents in disheveled clothes, and in the darkness they could only distinguish friend from foe by some firelight.

And a dozen fighters of the reconnaissance platoon, led by the platoon commander, heard the explosion of a grenade and launched an attack on the Japanese brigade headquarters. Two light machine guns and more than a dozen submachine guns fired at the tent at the same time, and after hearing a ghost crying wolf howling in the tent, there was no movement. The rest of the reconnaissance platoon was either on guard around the perimeter or attacked several tents next to the headquarters at the same time.