Shelling of Wusongkou (1)

On the Wusong wharf, groups of Kuomintang soldiers were on guard. After a while, more than a dozen heavy trucks drove over, and in an instant, a group of gendarmes jumped out of the cars, and after confirming that the environment was under strict vigilance, they dragged down one black box after another from the car, and were pushed by the gendarmes with trolleys to the warship that was waiting on the dock! An officer dressed in a Kuomintang lieutenant general's uniform let out a long breath as he watched the boxes being safely transported onto the warship! "You stay and continue to supervise the transportation of the remaining materials, I will personally escort the ship, and tomorrow morning you must transport all the remaining materials to the dock to wait for loading!" The officer said: "This is the foundation on which we will survive in the future, and it is the capital of the party-state in order to make a comeback, and we must not allow any mistakes!" "Yes!" A group of officers in the back immediately replied.

"Have all the supplies been shipped?" Towne asked. "Most of them have already been shipped, and now there is the last batch being packed and sorted out, and it will be shipped away tomorrow morning!" A man in a tunic said. "Order the 60th Army to reinforce Wu Song, be sure to ensure that Wu Song is not lost, and besides, aren't there still a few gunboats on Wu Song's mouth? Let them hit me with all the shells on the communist positions in Wusong! Towne said. Commander, the Sixty and Sixty Corps are the general reserve in the south, and if they are brought up, then the south will be in danger! The staff officer reminded. Didn't you hear the order? The 60th Army was transferred to defend Wusong! Town's eyes widened! Be! Commander! "The staff officer didn't dare to say anything more, and hurriedly went down to convey the order!" The president wants to know, how many days can you stay in Shanghai? Zhongnanfu asked. Please tell President Jiang that Tang Enbo knows how important the matter is, and will definitely do his best to meet the president's requirements, and I will personally escort the last batch of supplies to the recovery! Towne said.

"The artillery is a little more fierce, tell the third regiment, the seventh regiment and the sixth regiment, after the shelling, launch an attack, and you must break through the defense line in front of you!" Song Shilun was already desperate, as the commander of the column, he had already been on the front line to direct the battle, and he had organized the troops to attack since the night before, and had been attacking for 18 hours in a row, but there was little progress. The two flanks of Wusong were the key areas defended by the Kuomintang army, with many pillboxes, trenches, tank support, and artillery cover, and the casualties of the troops were not small, but they were still stubbornly attacking. "Let the third artillery send a regiment of artillery over, follow the attacking troops to cooperate with the demolition team, and uproot the enemy's pillboxes one by one!" Song Shilun then issued a second order. "Tell the artillery column, give me a hard suppression of the enemy's artillery fire, and shoot all the shells for me, damn it! Lao Tzu can't do it! Song Shilun looked at the position of the Kuomintang army in front of him and slammed his hat on the ground! After the shelling stopped, the regiments began to attack, and the follow-up artillery also began to play a role, Song Shilun watched the pillboxes being blown up to the sky one by one, and also saw his soldiers fall in batches!

"Reinforcements have arrived!" Liu Xiaoshan looked at the groups of PLA soldiers who drove behind him and shouted excitedly. "Hello, I am Guo Shanyuan, the commander of the Sixth Division, and I was ordered to come to assist you in attacking Wusong, although you are the brigade commander and I am the division commander, but when I came, the commander said, let me completely obey the command of Division Commander Liu Hai, and Division Commander Liu Hai asked me to obey your orders, so now I ask Brigade Commander Liu to issue a combat mission!" A middle-aged officer with thick eyebrows and big eyes said. "The division commander is polite, how dare I command you, now we are going to attack Wusong in front of us, it is the most heavily defended area in the whole of Shanghai, we must take it before twelve o'clock tomorrow night!" Bangs said, "In the next attack, I want you to be the main attacker!" Attack the positions to the south, and I will attack the positions to the north with my men! You're a little tired from running here, so after half an hour of rest, we'll attack! "Okay, I'll go down now and arrange the task of preparing for the attack!" After Guo Shanyuan finished speaking, he immediately ran out. "Correspondent, run to inform Commander Wu of the artillery regiment to come to me, I have something to discuss with him!" Liu Xiaoshan said.

"Liu Xiaoshan, what are you asking me to do!" Wu Fatzi hurriedly ran to Liu Xiaoshan's position! "Wu Fatzi, look at that terrace over there, it is the commanding heights of Wusong, as long as you can put the cannon there, you can hit the entire Wusong, and you can even hit the Wusong wharf, do you dare to go?" Liu Xiaoshan said and handed the telescope to Wu Fatzi! "This place is good, there is no problem with putting ten cannons, if I can put my cannons there, I promise that the entire Kuomintang in Wusong will not be able to raise its head!" Wu Fatzi said after observing for a long time. "But it is the center of the enemy's position, and there are enemy pillboxes and firepower everywhere, if you go, can you guarantee that you will not be assaulted?" Liu Xiaoshan said. "It doesn't matter, I have artillery at a distance, and my guard company at a distance, as long as you can attack effectively, and arrange my firepower there, Wusong's Kuomintang won't be able to hold much time at all! But as far as I can see, there are no less than a hundred bunkers and firing points between here and that platform, and you have to open a passage before I can get there. Wu Fatzi said. You don't have to worry about this, I'll guarantee the passage, you go back and bring the cannon now, and I'll open the passage for you! Liu Xiaoshan said.

"Take out all the mortars and the rest of the bazooka and use them, organize the demomen and machine gunners to form a capable demolition team, step by step, not a single pillbox can be left, and ensure that the artillery can reach the platform safely!" Liu Xiaoshan arranged for his subordinates. "I understand the brigade commander, if you want to say that we don't have the ability to capture Wusong, if you want to say that there are more than 100 pillboxes, if you can't take them within three hours, you will shoot me!" "Good! I'll arrange firepower to take care of your offense! Liu Xiaoshan said. Ten minutes later, Liu Xiaoshan called an artillery battalion from the ghost artillery, and then set up artillery fire on the starting position to support the attack on the platform! The offensive began, Guo Shanyuan in the south attacked very fiercely, one by one the demolition team took advantage of the cover of artillery fire, one by one to uproot the pillboxes, and each fire support group also cooperated with the demolition group very tacitly!

Liu Xiaoshan's assault team was also very tenacious, and more than half of the casualties had been lost, but the attack did not stop at all, and the ghost artillery also began to shoot in person, and the accurate artillery fire and the attack of the demolition team gradually played an effective role, and the progress was very fast! Just when Liu Xiaoshan thought that he would be able to attack the platform immediately, a force rushed out of the opponent's pillbox and started a counter-assault! "Ghost artillery, you must repel the opponent's counter-assault, otherwise the assault force will be in vain!" Liu Xiaoshan shouted anxiously. "Good! Rest assured! "The ghost artillery then did a good job of dividing its artillery, more than a dozen guns began to bombard, one by one the shells followed the opponent's assault line to attack, and the assault team that rushed out almost stepped on the shells to attack, and before they could rush out of the two hundred meters, more than half of the casualties were blown up, and the result was that they quickly retreated." It's a good fight! After the ghost cannon finished speaking, he turned his head to his mortar team and said, "I see that giant pillbox, behind that pillbox is the assembly point of the enemy's counterattacking force, concentrate artillery fire on me!" After the ghost cannon finished speaking, the mortar group quickly prepared for the attack, and one by one* slashed through the pillboxes and hit the heads of the counterattacking troops who were resting, and they were killed and wounded for a while!

"The enemy's counterattack was repulsed, go on the offensive!" Liu Xiaoshan gave an order, and the troops once again went on the offensive. There were many pillboxes and trenches around the mesa, and from time to time the attacking troops were killed by hidden points of fire and enemy machine-gun fire. However, the rest of the soldiers continued to rush forward without fear, and some members of the demolition team had their legs all broken, and they still dragged their bags under the enemy's pillbox, and died together with the enemy's pillbox! The assault on the platform lasted two and a half hours, with one regiment commander killed, more than 95 percent of the attacking troops, and only six men left to occupy the platform. "Fat Wu, you give me a good fight, almost all of my regiment died here, if you can't give full play to the role of your large-caliber heavy artillery, I will use your head to pour my brother!" Liu Xiaoshan gritted his teeth and said. "Don't worry, if such a good terrain can't play a key role, then I, the commander of the artillery regiment, don't have to do it! Brethren, the cannon is in front, hit me hard! Wu Fatzi said. In Shanghai at this time, the 26th Army of the East China Field Army occupied Kunshan and Anting, and the 33rd Army assembled in Changshu as the reserve of the Corps; The 9th Corps attacked and advanced from the east of the Huangpu River to Wusongkou, the 20th Corps of the Corps must conquer Pinghu and Jinshanwei and open the way to Pudong, the 30th and 31st Corps advanced to the Gaoqiao area of Pudong, and coordinated with Liuhai's division to attack Wusongkou, and Song Shilun's troops also opened the defense of both flanks of Wusongkou and waited to attack the urban area.

"Report, Kunshan, Anting, Pudong Gaoqiao have all been lost, and the communist army is already planning to attack the urban area!" The staff officer reported to Towneberg. "Has the ship arrived?" Tang Enbo continued. "It's coming soon!" The staff officer said. "It's all ready to be shipped!" The staff officer said. "Very good, wait a minute, you inform the deputy commander, I have been ordered by President Jiang to personally escort the last batch of important materials to the handover site, and he will be responsible for the command of the next battle, and when I complete the escort task, I will come back immediately to take over the command, but during this period, the communist army cannot be allowed to take a step forward, behind them is the urban area, the big Shanghai!" After Tang Enbo finished speaking, he put on his military hat and followed the tunic to the dock that was already heavily guarded. "Load, load immediately, there can be no delay, hurry up!" Tang Enbo said. When he got on the boat, he felt a sense of melancholy, because this was the last time he was here, and he would go to Taiwan next, and he might never come