readx;? The defenders were in full swing on the position, and the light and heavy machine guns became crossfire to block the bridge, and the recruits used Japanese rifles to aim at the Japanese soldiers, but the accuracy was a little worse, while the semi-automatic rifles in the hands of the veterans were very accurate, and almost every shot could knock down a Japanese soldier. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info And the submachine gun is also firing three shots. The sharpshooters among several veterans used the Mauser sniper rifles in their hands to call out the grenadiers and commanders in the Japanese army in a hurry.

A large group of Japanese troops encountered the resistance of the defenders on the bridge deck, and after killing and wounding many people, they all lay on the bridge deck and fired at the defenders with their weapons. The pride of the Japanese army in the 6th Division is capital, and the marksmanship is incomparable to that of the recruits of the 1st battalion, and the recruits of the 1st battalion will be shot and fall as long as their bodies are slightly inattentive and raised. After firing for about ten minutes, Tang Yishu asked the mortars to shell the Japanese soldiers lying on the bridge deck, which made the Japanese soldiers in this brigade retreat after nearly half of the soldiers were killed.

The powerful firepower on the defenders' positions also surprised the Japanese generals who were watching the battle, and even the Sixth Division itself could not reach such a large number of heavy firepower, let alone appear in the Chinese army, which had always been regarded as weak? After gasping for a sigh of relief, Tani Shoufu said to the chief of staff, Shimono Ichihuo Dazuo: "Why does the Chinese army have so many heavy weapons? Look at their equipment, they even surpass our Imperial Japanese Army. ”

Shimono Ichihuo Dazuo smiled bitterly and said, "Your Excellency the division commander, I think we have met the ace troops in the Chinese army. When Gu Shoufu heard Shimono Ichihuo Dazuo say this, the arrogance in his heart rose again, and he said: "Even if it is the trump card, I will also make him surrender to the feet of our Sixth Division!" Order to concentrate all artillery and bombard the position of the defenders of China again, and then continue the attack by the infantry, and must take the position of the China Army north of the bridge. ”

Therefore, the Japanese army gathered all the existing mountain artillery and infantry artillery together, retreated 2,000 meters, set up artillery positions, and bombarded the defenders' positions indiscriminately. After the bombing, send the infantry to attack. Due to the rudimentary fortifications, the soldiers on the position continued to die under the Japanese artillery fire, and after repelling the three Japanese attacks at noon, the soldiers of the first battalion had suffered more than half of the casualties.

Fortunately, the remaining soldiers matured rapidly in the battle, the threat of Japanese artillery fire became smaller and smaller, and the number of soldiers sacrificed became smaller and smaller, and the Japanese attack became more fierce in the afternoon, but they were all blocked on the bridge by the soldiers of the first battalion. In the evening, Gu Shoufu reluctantly camped in Qiaonan to rest, and the Japanese army's field hospital was also full of wounded soldiers.

On this day, not only was the No. 30 bridge in a fierce battle, but also the victory port was also a fierce battle, and after the 545th Regiment was fought in Luodian, the commander of the first battalion, Zhao Fei, was promoted to the commander of the regiment, and 2,000 recruits were replenished. These recruits began their training when they were in Yangxing, and they were trained for a longer time than the recruits who were only replenished in Songjiang, and they also experienced some small-scale battles, so their combat effectiveness was also better.

The 36th Brigade of the Japanese Army, under the leadership of Brigade Commander Major General Ushijima Mitsuru, immediately gathered many wooden boats and fishing boats, plus the rubber boats of its own engineering wing, which allowed a large group of soldiers to cross the river at a time. Rear Admiral Ushijima stood on the high ground on the south bank of the Huangpu River and observed the port of victory in the north of the river with a telescope for a long time, and then made a decision in his heart.

Ushijima saw that there were defenders in the north of the river to set up defenses, but it seemed that the number was not large, in Ushijima Man's opinion, it would be good if these defenders could have a few light machine guns, at most there would be one or two heavy machine guns, and the threat to the troops crossing the river would not be too great. So Ushijima had his troops pile sandbags on the bow of the boat, set up heavy machine guns, and then have a brigade of the 45th Wing prepare to cross the river.

Before crossing the river, Ushijima concentrated all the artillery that could reach the other side of the river with all the artillery of the brigade and regiment, and established an artillery position on the south bank of the river to support the soldiers' crossing of the river. The width of the Huangpu River here is only about 500 meters, not to mention mountain artillery and infantry artillery, even mortars can easily cross the river, and some mortars were set up on larger wooden boats by the Japanese army, and there were only 20 mountain guns and infantry guns on the artillery positions in the south of the Yangtze River.

After the Japanese army built an artillery position, it opened artillery fire on the victorious port in the north of the river, and at the same time, the large and small ships in the south of the river headed towards the north of the river. When the 545th Regiment was in Luodian, the infantry was exhausted, and only one heavy firepower battalion remained without much loss, so after the reconstruction, the most effective ones were still these veterans of the heavy firepower battalion. The heavy firepower battalion originally had 10 82 mortars and 20 60 mortars, and 10 120 heavy mortars were strengthened, which greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the heavy firepower battalion.

As soon as the regiment commander Zhao Fei arrived at the port of victory, he used the houses and some facilities in the port to build a defensive position, and the mortars of the heavy fire battalion were placed on the three cargo yards. Now seeing that the Japanese troops on the other side of the river had launched an artillery bombardment on their own defensive line, they ordered the use of 10 120 heavy mortars to knock out the Japanese artillery positions, and Zhu Yingsheng, the battalion commander of the heavy fire battalion who received the order, personally took aim.

Since the 120 heavy mortar was handed over to the troops for use for the first time, Zhu Yingsheng was not very sure, so he had to shoot a shell first for correction, and this test projectile hit a little far and exploded behind the Japanese artillery position, although it startled the Japanese army, but he didn't care too much, but the artillery commander ordered to find out the location of this gun of the Chinese army and destroy it.

But after a while, there was a scream of shells in the air, and the whistling of ten heavy shells made the Japanese artillery panic, and before the Japanese artillery could react, the shells whistled and fell on the Japanese artillery positions. Ten heavy shells completely covered the entire artillery position, so that the Japanese artillery position completely lost its combat effectiveness, and this was not over, and then two rounds of shells exploded on the Japanese artillery position, which made the Japanese army's twenty artillery guns and more than 100 artillery pieces finished together.

Ushijima was stunned to see that his artillery position was completely destroyed in a few minutes, and shouted: "Yaga!" Before he could curse, the warships that walked to the center of the river also encountered the blocking fire of the shells flying from the north of the river at the same time. After Zhao Fei saw that the Japanese artillery positions in the south of the Yangtze River had been hit, he ordered all the mortars to intercept and shoot at the Japanese troop carriers on the river.

The flying shells landed on the river, blowing up a column of water that soared into the sky, and as soon as it happened to fall on the ship, the ship was destroyed, and almost none of the Japanese troops on board survived. In addition, several heavy machine guns hidden in the north of the bridge also began to wield, and the bullets of the heavy machine guns could easily penetrate the wooden boats, let alone those small rubber boats.

When the Japanese army received the order to withdraw to the south bank, there were not even one-third of the ships and Japanese troops who could return to the south bank safely, and the rest were buried in the Huangpu River, which was also dyed red for a large part, and the floating corpses of the Japanese soldiers could be seen everywhere on the river. The failure of this river crossing made Ushijima full of anger and helplessness at the same time, the firepower of the Shina army on the opposite side was too strong, not only there were many artillery, but also many light and heavy machine guns were unbelievable.

Now that the artillery is gone, and only a third of the ships remain, how to cross the river in the face of such a firepower of the defenders of China, it becomes a problem. Ushijima had no choice but to come to see the division commander in person, Lieutenant General Gu Toshio, to report the situation and ask for help. When Ushijima saw Tani Shofu, he learned that the battle to seize the bridge under the personal command of Lieutenant General Tani Shofu today was also unsuccessful, but was destroyed by the Chinese army and the 6th Wing of the Wild Mountain Artillery.

Lieutenant General Tani had to telegraph the commander of the 10th Army, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, requesting air support. Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke did not blame Tani Shoufu too much, but not only promised tomorrow's air support, but also sent the Kunisaki detachment to support the 6th Division tomorrow. Tani Toshio, who had the support of Commander Yanagawa Heisuke, told the two brigade commanders to go back and prepare to cross the Huangpu River tomorrow with air support.

Early the next morning, dozens of Japanese bombers flew from the sea in the direction of Songjiang County, and these planes not only bombed the north bank of the Huangpu River, but also more than a dozen planes flew all the way to Songjiang County, intending to bomb Songjiang County. However, as soon as the dozen or so planes approached the county seat of Songjiang and swooped towards the city, ten tongues of fire suddenly appeared on the city's head, and the bullets from the heavy machine guns of Gaoping Shuanglian were like whips towards the Japanese planes rushing over.

Caught off guard, the pilots of the Japanese planes tried to lift the planes again, but it was too late, but in an instant, the seven planes were blown into a fireball by the volley of heavy machine gun bullets, and two of the other three planes were seriously injured, and after flying for a while in black smoke, they fell to the ground and exploded, and only one lucky one was slightly injured and staggered away. The Japanese planes that bombed the north bank of the Huangpu River, after dropping all their bombs, flew away to the sea, leaving behind bomb craters and ruins on the north bank.

During the bombing, although the defenders on the north shore were prepared, the defenders who could only be passively bombed were killed by as many as 100 under the bombardment of the planes, and many soldiers were wounded. At this time, the Japanese army launched an attack at the 30th bridge and the second place of the victory port. The 544th Regiment withdrew the 1st Battalion with considerable casualties and let the 2nd Battalion go up, while the 545th Regiment suffered relatively light casualties, and Zhao Fei asked the 1st Battalion to continue to use fortifications to block the Japanese troops crossing the river with light and heavy machine guns and mortars.

The battle lasted another day, and although the Japanese carried out many air raids, the 6th Division still failed to cross the Huangpu River, but suffered losses on both battlefields

Soldiers. On the third day, the Japanese army used small gunboats to sail into the Huangpu River to assist, and under such circumstances, on the night of the third day, Wang Haitao asked the 544th Regiment and the 545th Regiment to withdraw to Songjiang County to rest and recuperate, leaving only the 547th Regiment to continue to block the Japanese army at the Dazhangjing River Mishi Ferry, which was five miles away from Songjiang County.