Captain Toyokawa Saburo said proudly.

Squadron Captain Hamada Yuji who was beside it quickly flattered him: "Captain, you still have the foresight.

All this was arranged yesterday, leaving the heavy artillery of the national army to blow up the lonely place."

"Hahaha!" Captain Toyokawa Saburo heard this and took great advantage of it, bursting into laughter.

Its laughter had the sound of exploding artillery shells as the background sound, which was very harsh.

When the 16th Artillery Regiment started bombing, Battalion Commander Zhang Zhongxian and the entire battalion had already set off.

The mission of his battalion was to take the enemy's retreat. Before setting off, Wei Mingyang whispered a few instructions to him.

The fourth battalion had the heaviest task this time. They had to cut off the retreat of three infantry brigades.

This was an official mission. Wei Mingyang stopped Battalion Commander Zhang Zhongxian and whispered something else:

Not only must we block the way for the Japanese to escape back to the Yang family's house, we must also be prepared to rush out the Japanese from the Yang family's house.

They also want to block the team coming to rescue these Japanese.

Unknown devils are unpredictable.

Wei Mingyang asked Battalion Commander Zhang to leave some troops at all times to deal with possible unexpected situations.

Battalion Commander Zhang repeatedly agreed: This kind of thing is always a clever plan, as long as you are prepared in your heart.

He won't be afraid anymore if the Japanese send reinforcements from the Yang family's house!

The artillery bombardment will eventually stop.

When the artillery bombardment stopped, three battalions of national troops rushed straight up from the front.

This time the tank was at the forefront.

The tanks captured from the Japanese were seven tanks clearing the way in front of each battalion.

The whole battalion and every company followed behind the tank.

The soldiers of Wei Mingyang's regiment are not soldiers of other troops in the national army.

From the first day, the soldiers of the special operations mixed regiment have become much more mature than other units of the national army in cooperative infantry and tank operations.

The Chairman of the Generalissimo ordered the two original "Dragon" and "Tiger" tank companies of the National Army to be transferred in. The reason is:

When two tank companies, Dragon and Tiger, were transferred from Nanjing to Shanghai to participate in the war.

Two companies of tanks charged in front, while the National Army infantry waited behind the defense line to watch.

They kept seeing the tanks disappearing, but no one paid attention to them, as if the life and death of these tanks had nothing to do with the infantry.

Two tank companies, with a total of twelve tanks, rampaged all the way and destroyed twenty-eight Japanese tanks.

We rushed to the front of the Japanese headquarters and waited for a full two hours, but no infantrymen had followed up.

The commander of the Dragon Company tank couldn't help but step out of the tank and wanted to see what was going on with the infantry.

As a result, he was shot in the head by a Japanese sniper.

Twelve tanks were parked at the forefront of the battlefield, and were destroyed by the enemy's emergency anti-tank artillery and naval artillery on the Huangpu River. No one survived.

This is the first battle of the National Army tank team.

After this battle, the Chinese army had a biased understanding of tanks, thinking that they were nothing more than that.

Wei Mingyang had always been afraid that the tank would be hit by Japanese anti-aircraft artillery, so he was reluctant to put it to use.

It was always used only once at a critical moment, which also gave the Nanjing Military Commission an illusion: Commander Wei rarely used tanks, which proved that they were indeed useless.

At this time, they did not know the true purpose of the tank.

Wei Mingyang doesn't have time to modify the tank now, so he can only use it like this.

Today, all three battalions sent seven tanks to the front to charge, withstanding the enemy's firepower.

The few detachments of the Second Infantry Brigade that remained on the defense line warned the Japanese brigade hiding in the rear, asking them to quickly come up to defend.

He also fired his machine gun at the approaching tanks.

There are also machine guns on the tanks, which fire as they continue to move forward.

This caused a headache for the Japanese who were sticking to the defense line: Captain Eguchi looked at the tanks that were getting closer and closer.

It was full of despair: the machine gun bullets hitting the tank had no other effect except the sound of "ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding".

But if the bullets from the machine gun on the tank hit them, they would really die.

This is really difficult for the devils.

Fortunately, the brigade leader kept his word. After receiving the warning, the entire brigade of Japanese soldiers quickly charged into the trenches.

There were more guns shooting at the tanks, and the bullets were denser.

But the effect is still the same.

Captain Oda Yongxiang looked at the tank that had rushed two hundred meters in front of the defense line, his eyes were red: "Captain Fukuyama! Send someone out immediately to blow up the tank!"

They don't have anti-tank guns, and all the weapons in the entire brigade can't break through the tanks' defenses, so they can only send people up with explosive packs.

"Hai!" Squadron Leader Fukuyama Kawae agreed.

Immediately ordered: "Team Karasawa! Immediately organize seven demolition teams to go up and blow up all those tanks!"

"Hai!" Captain Tang Zejiang agreed and made arrangements immediately.

Seven demolition teams were quickly formed, with three Japs in each team. They carried explosive bags, jumped out of the trench, and quickly rushed towards the tank a hundred meters away.

As soon as these Japanese soldiers jumped out of the trench, they were seen by the soldiers following the tanks.

These soldiers have been trotting behind the tank, and their mission is to clear out such demolitions.

In an instant, a dense hail of bullets and bullets were directed at the twenty-one Japanese demolitionists.

Domoto Kaito rushed to the front with the explosive pack in hand. As soon as it broke out of the defense line less than twenty meters, it was hit in the thigh by a bullet.

It had to stop on the spot. Now it could not advance or retreat, so it could only hand over the explosive package to Sergeant Ryota Nakama who rushed up from behind and continue.

When one Japs fell, another Japs took over. Each team prepared three Japs to deal with this situation.

Nakama Ryota continued to rush towards the tank with the explosive pack in his arms, but Domoto Kaito was embarrassed: it could not advance or retreat now.

All we can do is crawl on the spot and wait for good news to come from the front.

At this time, the machine gunner on the tank also saw Japanese troops rushing over.

The machine gun immediately opened fire violently at the Japs. Nakama Ryota and the others were charging with explosive packets in their arms, so they could have caught him unawares.

Once they are truly discovered, it is their time to die.

The 3721 demolition crews sent out by Squadron Leader Fukuyama Kawae died one after another on the road.

Even if one of them dies, the other will continue on.

But after all, their relay was not as fast and rough as the firing of machine gun bullets.

The seven tanks continued to advance and stopped thirty meters away from the front of the Japanese trench, firing continuously with machine guns.

The fighting made the Japanese in the trenches scurry away, but the Second Infantry Battalion suffered very few casualties during the artillery bombardment.

In the tank charge, casualties increased greatly.

Especially their machine gunners and heavy machine gunners were all dead and no one survived.

Not a single machine gun in the entire brigade was firing anymore.

Fortunately, the entire brigade of Japanese soldiers had already retreated from the trenches.

When faced with strafing fire from tanks and completely unable to resist, there is no need to give orders from Oda Yusho's brigade.

The soldiers in each squadron had spontaneously fled back.

They have experience in retreating. When escaping, they just need to run the same way they came.

Although they were escaping, these Japanese soldiers still maintained their organizational structure and did not run around like a broken army.

This actually made several squadron leaders feel better: as long as they ran five hundred meters like this, they could gather the team and fight again.

The Japs of the Second Infantry Brigade fled, and no one paid attention to the machine guns and heavy machine guns.

Even the rifles in the hands of these soldiers were thrown away because they were in the way.

The Fourth Infantry Brigade suffered even smaller losses during the artillery bombardment of the National Army.

Even among the twenty sentries posted outside, fourteen were lucky enough to survive.

The entire artillery bombardment by the National Army only killed six Japanese soldiers of the Fourth Infantry Brigade.

This kind of anti-gunnery effect made Captain Toyokawa Saburo very satisfied.

As soon as the artillery bombardment stopped, Captain Toyokawa Saburo immediately ordered the Japanese to quickly enter the position.

Their fortress is in the trench. Entering the position actually means letting the soldiers spread out, which is easy.

There are still shooting holes inside the fort, and heavy machine guns and machine guns are all protected inside.
To be continued...