readx;? After General Zhang Zhizhong received Du Haifeng's report again, he was also surprised, if according to Du Haifeng's report, this independent battalion could be used as a regiment to strengthen firepower. At this time www.biquge.info the troops of the 87th and 88th Divisions were moving to Shanghai, and they were going to Shanghai themselves. The attack on the Japanese was also scheduled for August 14.

After arriving in Shanghai, he must go and check the independent battalion to which the so-called Fourth Army belongs. General Zhang Zhizhong thought so and did so. After arriving in Shanghai on 12 August, General Zhang Zhizhong arrived at the barracks at Hongkou Airport with Wang Jingjiu, commander of the 87th Division, and Yang Wenjin, deputy commander of the Supplementary Brigade of the Second Division.

When General Zhang Zhizhong entered the barracks, he saw trucks, two armored vehicles, and two tank vehicles parked at the entrance of the barracks. From General Zhang Zhizhong's eyes, he immediately saw that these tanks were far more advanced and more powerful than the tanks equipped with his own troops, just like the two-pack Gaoping dual-purpose machine guns installed on the trucks. Although General Zhang Zhizhong could not name him, his power could be seen from the caliber of more than 10 millimeters and the bullet as thick as a finger on the bullet belt.

Three minutes after Wei Erxi's independent battalion heard the whistle for an emergency assembly, 1,212 officers and men of the battalion stood on the playground in front of the barracks. Du Haifeng's second regiment also gathered on the playground. However, both in terms of the speed of the assembly and the spirit, they were compared by the independent battalion. General Zhang Zhizhong couldn't help nodding secretly when he saw the scene in front of him.

When General Zhang Zhizhong's eyes turned to the equipment of the independent battalion, he couldn't help but glance at them with Division Commander Wang Jingjiu and Deputy Brigade Commander Yang Wenjin, and they all showed surprised expressions in their eyes. General Zhang Zhizhong walked up to Wei Erxi and asked, "Who is your brigade commander? Why do you have so many heavy weapons in one battalion?"

Wei Erxi replied later: "Report to the commander, the commander of our independent brigade is named Wang Haitao, and our weapons are all bought back from Germany by our brigade commander, it is nothing here, our independent brigade has its own tank company and its own heavy artillery regiment. ”

General Zhang Zhizhong narrowed his eyes and asked, "How many tanks does your tank company have, and how many heavy artillery does the heavy artillery regiment have?"

Wei Erxi replied: "Report to the commander, our tank company has eight heavy armored vehicles, forty light armored vehicles, and the heavy artillery regiment has one hundred and thirty 75-mm infantry guns, seventy 105 howitzers, and thirty 150 heavy guns. ”

Zhang Zhizhong was only taken aback, and Division Commander Wang Jingjiu had already exclaimed: "Obediently, those heavy artillery can have more guns than one of our artillery divisions." ”

General Zhang Zhizhong did not ask again, but walked to the ranks of soldiers, asked for a semi-automatic rifle in the hands of a soldier, and after playing for a while, asked the soldier to come out of the ranks, pointed to a target, and asked the soldier to shoot with live ammunition. When General Zhang Zhizhong saw that this soldier had fired ten shots in a row, and his marksmanship was accurate, they once again showed surprised eyes.

After the inspection, in General Zhang Zhizhong's mind, the Independent Brigade of the Fourth Group Army and the brigade commander Wang Haitao left a deep impression on him.

At 3 p.m. on 13 August, when the 523rd Regiment of the 87th Division was moving towards the Japanese Marine Command, it encountered the Japanese at the Bazi Bridge, and a fierce battle ensued between the two sides. On 14 August, the Japanese side fought fiercely for a day, and the Chinese army, after paying huge casualties, occupied several strategic points such as the Bazi Bridge and the Baoshan Bridge, but there was not much to do in the face of the Japanese army occupying strong fortifications.

And Wei Erxi and Du Haifeng were both anxiously waiting for the order to attack in the barracks. On 15 August, the Japanese side announced the establishment of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, with Commander General Matsui Ishine leading two divisions to Shanghai for reinforcements. At this time, the order for Wei Erxi's independent battalion to attack finally came down, and General Zhang Zhizhong personally ordered Wei Erxi's independent battalion to take over the headquarters of the 521st Regiment of the 87th Division to attack Dagong Yarn Factory.

Wei Erxi received the order and immediately led the independent battalion to run to the position of the 521st Regiment outside the Dagong Yarn Factory. Chen Yiding, the commander of the 521st Regiment, said when he handed over positions with Wei Erxi: "Brother, the fortifications of Little Japan are too fucking strong, our regiment can't gnaw on these fortifications at all, and it's up to you, brothers, below." ”

Wei Erxi said: "Commander Chen, you can rest assured that you will leave it to us, no matter how strong the fortification, we will gnaw it down." After saying that, he ordered the mortar company to set up a mortar position, and at the same time two tanks were also on standby to attack.

Two hundred meters away from the position, two Japanese bunkers at the entrance of the Dagong Yarn Factory were constantly spitting out machine gun flames. Wei Erxi observed these two bunkers, and paid for the fact that he might not be able to destroy them with the 82 mortar, so he ordered to try it with the second Gao Ping and the second machine gun first. A second-purpose machine gun mounted on the truck leveled the muzzle, and as the shooter pressed the trigger, a fire dragon swooped down on the bunker 200 meters away.

The 14.5 caliber heavy machine gun is different from the ordinary heavy machine gun, it is simply a small-caliber rapid-fire gun. The bullet hit the bunker, and the bunker was immediately knocked down by pieces of cement. One magazine was fired in less than a minute, the machine guns in both bunkers were stopped, and the bunkers were also densely packed with craters. The power of this machine gun made the head of Chen Yiding, who had not yet left, and the soldiers of the 521st Regiment all have shocked expressions on their faces.

Wei Erxi saw that the effect of the two-in-two heavy machine guns was not good, so he simply asked the soldiers to set up the eighty-two recoilless guns and use armor-piercing grenades. With the sound of two cannons, a puff of smoke rose from the two bunkers, and when the smoke cleared, the two bunkers had been blown open a big hole, and the Japanese soldiers in the bunkers were faintly visible from the hole entrance. In this way, Commander Chen, it took them half a day, killing and wounding more than one platoon, and the two bunkers that had not been taken down were taken down without effort in Wei Erxi's hands.

After taking the bunker, they were confronted with the many fortifications set up by the Japanese devils at the gate of the Dagong Yarn Factory and a ring of walls. When the Japanese devils were dazed by the shells, the two tanks and two armored vehicles of the assault team, under the cover of the two platoons of soldiers of the first company, broke through to the Dagong Yarn Factory.

The strength of the Japanese devils in the Dagong Yarn Factory was a small team plus dozens of so-called self-defense troops composed of retired soldiers from the Japanese merchant group, and the heavy weapons were a few light machine guns, two heavy machine guns and a few grenadiers. The heavy machine gun went with ten devils in the bunker to meet Aunt Amaterasu, and the Japanese devils with only a few light machine guns were helpless against the tank.

Several grenadiers inflicted some casualties on the attacking troops, but as soon as the grenades were fired, the tank's 85 mm tank guns and 12.7 mm heavy machine guns were fired back. When the tanks stormed into the Dagong Yarn Factory, using the 82mm tank guns on the trucks, they continued to destroy one fortification after another of the Japanese army, and the Japanese could no longer rely on these fortifications to inflict damage on the attacking Chinese troops.

At this time, the few remaining soldiers of the Japanese army and some self-defense troops formed the last death squad, and launched a suicidal charge against the commando of the independent battalion with grenades. In the face of the shouting self-defense forces, armed with grenades, and carrying out suicide attacks, the tank began to strafe with the three light and heavy machine guns on the vehicle, and the takedown of the Dagong Yarn Factory was a foregone conclusion. During the entire attack, which lasted one hour and forty-five minutes, one soldier was killed, two were seriously wounded, and four were lightly wounded.

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