Chapter 116: Hongkou Park
readx;? Wei Erxi's independent battalion took only one hour and forty-five minutes, and at the cost of one dead and several wounded, took the Dagong Yarn Factory guarded by the Japanese army. After the report was www.biquge.info delivered to General Zhang Yezhong's desk, General Zhang Zhizhong read the report at a glance and ten lines, and couldn't help but get up and shout: "Good job!" and then walked back and forth in the office with this telegram.
At this time, the Japanese army used the gunboats on the river to bombard the positions of the Chinese defenders in the area of the Bazi Bridge, and the defenders suffered heavy casualties under the bombardment of large-caliber naval guns, and the Bazi Bridge was soon occupied by the Japanese again. And the remaining key points were all captured by the Chinese army after paying huge casualties. At this time, Wei Erxi's independent battalion captured the Dagong Yarn Factory so easily, how could it not be applauded by General Zhang Yezhong.
Wei Erxi, who was repairing the fortifications of the Dagong Yarn Factory, waited for a personal order from General Zhang Zhizhong of the Ninth Army Headquarters to hand over the position of the Dagong Yarn Factory to the 523rd Regiment, and the independent battalion immediately rushed to the Shanghai Patriotic Girls' School to join up with the supplementary brigade of the 2nd Division already there, and jointly attacked Hongkou Park and the Japanese headquarters.
Wei Erxi, who received the order, immediately handled the handover with the 523rd Regiment that rushed over, and handed over all the captured Japanese weapons to the 523rd Regiment, and then the whole battalion rushed to the Shanghai Patriotic Girls' School.
An hour and a half later, Wei Erxi's independent battalion marched into the Shanghai Patriotic Women's Bridge, and Du Haifeng's second regiment was waiting for the arrival of the independent battalion in the girls' school. Du Haifeng's second regiment originally had 1,460 soldiers, and it could be regarded as the main force of the three-battalion system, but just the battle for a Shanghai patriotic girls' school caused this regiment to lose nearly one battalion. And there are only 120 ghost soldiers and more than 100 self-defense troops in the patriotic girls' school.
Du Haifeng was very happy to see Wei Erxi, and pulled Wei Erxi into the office of the regiment headquarters. On the desk in the office of the regiment headquarters, there is a map marked with the situation in Hongkou Park in front. Hongkou Park is very close to the Japanese headquarters, and it can be reached in about ten minutes by foot. Therefore, the Japanese army arranged a squadron of troops in Hongkou Park, and various open fire points and bunkers abounded.
The 2nd Regiment tried to attack, but before it could get within 100 meters of Hongkou Park, it paid a platoon casualties. Therefore, Du Haifeng could only hope that the chariots of the independent battalion could successfully break through the devil's defense. Wei Erxi listened carefully to Du Haifeng's introduction and looked at the shape of Hongkou Park on the map. I was thinking about how to attack in order to minimize the casualties.
In the end, Wei Erxi decided to divide the independent battalion into two parts and launch an attack on Hongkou Park from two directions to distract the defending Japanese troops. After thinking of the method, Wei Erxi returned to the unit, divided the four combat companies of the battalion into two teams, the assault team and the demolition team were also divided into two parts, and the artillery companies were not separated, and an artillery position was established in the girls' school to support the battle on both sides at any time.
Du Haifeng also concentrated the soldiers who could still fight in the whole regiment into two battalions, which were also divided into two and attacked with the independent battalion. After separation, the first and second companies of the independent battalion came to the starting position in front of the gate of Hongkou Park with a tank car, an armored car, and two cars carrying the second Gaoping machine gun, and behind them were the first battalion of the second regiment.
The 3rd and 4th companies also came to the side gate of Hongkou Park with a tank car, an armored car, and two other cars carrying the second Gaoping machine gun, and behind them were the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment. It was jointly commanded by Chen Xiubing, the commander of the third company, and the deputy of the second regiment. The remaining one company and some of the soldiers of the 2nd Regiment were accompanied by a truck carrying the 2nd Gaoping heavy machine gun as a general reserve, ready to support where support was needed.
At the gate of Hongkou Park, there is the first line of defense built by the Japanese army, which consists of bunker fire points, sandbag fortresses and trenches, and the machine gun ports on the fire points are facing the direction of Wei Erxi's attack. Wei Erxi stood on the starting position and observed the situation of the Japanese army with a telescope. The bunker here is the same as the bunker at the entrance of the Dagong Yarn Factory, and it seems that the eighty-two recoilless cannon will be used.
And the devils in the trenches and sandbag fortresses are about to use mortars. After seeing it clearly, Wei Erxi ordered the mortars of the artillery company not to fire first, but to concentrate the twelve mortars of the first and second companies at the firing points in the Japanese trenches and sandbag fortresses. After Wei Erxi pushed and conceded with Du Haifeng, at Du Haifeng's insistence, he took the command.
Wei Erxi asked two 82 recoilless guns to use armor-piercing grenades and fire directly at the Japanese bunker. With the firing of two 82 recoilless guns, two armor-piercing grenades fired directly through the bunker 200 meters away and exploded inside the bunker. The two bunkers were opened with skylights at once. At this time, both the Japanese positions and the positions of the national army began to fire, and the independent battalion had a clear advantage in firepower, with machine guns used by the squad, heavy machine guns in the platoon, and heavy fire platoons in the company, plus 12 mortars, firing at the same time, forming a metal storm on the Japanese position.
Under such circumstances, the Japanese army still fought back at the risk of death in the trenches, and it has to be said that the Japanese devil's Type 38 rifle was very accurate at a distance of 200 meters, and the soldiers of the independent battalion were often suddenly hit by bullets fired from the opposite side. And the snipers and sharpshooters in the squad platoon of the independent battalion also shot one at a time, and there were no missed shots.
After firing at each other for five minutes, the sound of shells was heard in the air, and Wei Erxi just shouted: "Attention, shelling!" The other side's shells had already exploded on their own position, and more than a dozen shells killed and injured many soldiers on the position, and a heavy machine gun was blown up. After judging the trajectory of the enemy's artillery shells, Wei Erxi took the walkie-talkie and reported the location of the enemy's artillery position to the artillery company.
The thirty mortars of the artillery battery, after receiving the order, roared at the same time, and the vengeful shells swept through the sky and flew towards the enemy's artillery positions. A few dozen seconds later, the roar of a shell explosion sounded somewhere in Hongkou Park. The cannonballs that flew from the devil's side also disappeared. At this time, Wei Erxi ordered the commando team to assault, and the tanks and armored vehicles rushed to the devil's position side by side, and behind the battlecar were the soldiers of a company and two platoons of coordinated protection.
Tanks and armored vehicles rushed forward as they fired at the devils with their vehicle-mounted machine guns, and tank guns fired at the sandbag fortifications. How could the sandbag fortress withstand the bombardment of tank artillery, but with just a few shots, the three sandbag forts were destroyed, and the Japanese troops inside also got on the earthen planes. The soldiers behind the car used submachine guns to knock down the devils who dared to launch human bombs at the chariot.
The distance of 200 meters is a matter of a few minutes for a tank, and the opponent's light and heavy firepower hits the body of the tank, not to mention the tank, and even the armored vehicle only brings a "clanging bell" sound. When the chariot rushed to a distance of only forty or fifty meters from the devil's trench, a grenade flew out of the devil's trench. The grenade exploded on the left and right of the chariot, but it still did no damage to the chariot, but the shrapnel flew indiscriminately and caused death and injury to the soldiers who followed behind the chariot.
In the same way, the soldier behind the chariot also took out a wooden handle grenade from his body, and after pulling the string, dozens of grenades flew into the devil's trench together, and this round of grenades made the devil in the trench suffer heavy casualties, and the grenade explosion was accompanied by the devil's terrible howl before he died. The chariot came to a halt after rushing through the trench, and the warriors rushed into the devil's trench.
The submachine guns in the hands of the soldiers who rushed into the trench kept ringing, taking away the lives of the devils who still wanted to resist. Ten minutes later, the gunfire in the trench stopped, and more than 50 people from the devil's squad were wiped out in the trench, and none of them survived.
This book was first published from, the first time to see the genuine content!