The combat preparation time obtained by the 604th Regiment was still too short. Only the first and second of the expected three trenches fully met the combat requirements of the cadet army, and the third trench was only half completed. Fortunately, Tiangu The artillery units of the detachment and Kunisaki's detachment have been destroyed, and there are not many armored units left. When the Japanese army can be visually observed, Wang Changyun believes that with the sharp weapons in their hands, let alone holding the position, they can defeat this It is also possible to completely annihilate the Japanese army. Of course, to really achieve this step, we need a prerequisite, that is, these Japanese soldiers will not run away.
"Team leader, the Japs are only one mile away from us." Xiao Min, the commander of the reconnaissance company responsible for detecting the enemy's situation, ran out of breath and reported to Wang Changyun,
Wang Changyun nodded, picked up the phone, and called Wang Fei, the commander of the first battalion.
"I am Wang Changyun. The little Japs are coming up. Wang Fei, my request for your battalion is to hold on for three hours. Do you have the confidence?"
Wang Fei was one of the few relatively normal officers in the 604th Regiment. Hearing this, he replied calmly: "I promise to complete the mission."
"It's not a guarantee, it's a must. Within three hours, I won't support you one soldier at a time."
"yes."
After the combat mission was issued, Wang Changyun sat down in the headquarters and began to clean and maintain his guns.
Xiao Min followed and said a little anxiously: "Regiment, let the battalion fight for three hours. There are more than 3,000 Japs, four tanks, and six armored vehicles."
"Why, you're worried that one battalion can't handle it."
Xiao Min scratched his head and said: "That's not true. One squad has four machine guns and one mortar. This kind of firepower, let alone more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers, is 30,000. As long as there are enough bullets, I believe a battalion can withstand it." , I am not willing to let a battalion eat alone..."
Wang Changyun laughed loudly, stretched out his hand and gave his buttocks a hard blow, and said: "Don't worry, there will be wars. Don't the little devils also have the 18th Division, which has more than 20,000 troops? Hehe, if the commander expected Not bad, the 18th Division will definitely attack Xiuqiao. At that time, the question is not whether we will fight, but whether we can withstand it. There are more than 20,000 people."
The sudden artillery attack launched by the Xuebing Army was too violent. With just one round of shelling, almost one-third of the more than 5,000 people in the Kunisaki detachment were killed. Then, under the pursuit of two regiments of the Xuebing Army, another About five hundred people were lost. Of course, these blows to the Japanese army could still be withstood. What almost killed the Kunisaki detachment was that Kunizaki Nobori died in the first wave of artillery fire. If Naojiro Amaya had not been in Kunisaki The officers and soldiers of the detachment still had a little prestige in their minds, but it seems that this team has collapsed.
According to Ouyang Yun's instructions, the two pursuing regiments did not follow very closely, so the Japanese army was able to integrate the team while escaping. As a result, the Japanese army looked less and less like an escape, and more like an orderly retreat. And like this The result was that the Japanese army took away almost all the wounded, which naturally increased the burden on the Japanese army.
Turning his attention to the main forces of the 5th Xuexi Division and the 60th Division, Ouyang Yun was directing the reporters accompanying the newspaper to take photos of Li Hanhun. Li Hanhun was holding a Japanese command knife in his hand and stepped on a Japanese soldier with his right foot. The officer's corpse showed a high-spirited look,
Ouyang Yun was not doing his job again, and this time his inspiration also came from the Japanese military telegram that Ge Yunfei cracked. It was from this telegram that Naojiro Amaya sent to the dispatched army headquarters. Ouyang Yun learned that the previous artillery attack actually killed Kunizaki. The leader of the detachment, Noboru Kunisaki, was a major general. He was also the first Japanese general-level figure killed by the Chinese since the Battle of Nanjing. It was rare, but it had to be taken advantage of. Hence, the scene above happened. ,,Take a photo of the great hero Li Hanhun stepping on the corpse of the Japanese major general. This will not only boost morale, but also promote the achievements of the Xuebing Army. It is a great thing to kill two birds with one stone.
Almost at the same time, when Ouyang Yun was feeling inexplicably excited about Kunizaki Noboru's death, in Shanghai, in the headquarters of Japan's Shanghai Expeditionary Force, Matsui Iwane was scolding a group of staff officers for this matter. Undoubtedly, a brigade commander The death of a high-ranking general will definitely have a negative impact on the old Japanese, but what he cannot accept is that the person who inflicted such a heavy blow on him turned out to be the student army that severely defeated the Third Fleet at Jiangyin Fortress a few days ago.
"Ba Ge, why can't we grasp the marching route of the student army? We have many reconnaissance planes. Why."
"Ba Ge, when planning the march route, didn't you consider the Chinese army that may be encountered along the way? The student army will be the biggest resistance to the advancement of the imperial army. I have emphasized this point many times, why can't you still get it? of attention..."
The original plan of the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters was to capture Nanjing within half a month, and then use Nanjing as the center to advance directly towards the interior of China. Among them, the most important route was to launch simultaneous attacks on Fujian and Guangdong provinces from Taiwan and Zhejiang. The offensive must nip the Xuebing Army in the bud. However, based on the current situation, it may be possible to capture Nanjing within half a month, but it is a bit powerless to carry out the next step, because the battle line Although the advance is rapid, the casualties of the troops are also huge. Not to mention other aspects, but in the Jiangnan area, the Kunisaki detachment and Tiangu detachment, which are the main forces, have been disabled. Can the 18th Division be able to transfer the students? The defeat of the army is still unknown.
Matsui Iwane was venting his thunderous fury in Shanghai. Northwest of Xiaxiu Bridge in the suburbs of Zhenjiang, the mixed troops of the Amaya and Kunizaki detachments also formally joined forces with the 604th Regiment of the Xuebing Army.
Because there were two regiments of cadet troops behind him, when he discovered that Shimohide Bridge had indeed been occupied, Amaya Naojiro did not dare to order all the troops to attack. Instead, he ordered the subordinates of the 41st Regiment of the Kunisaki Detachment to maintain a relatively small organization. The complete First Battalion, with the cooperation of four tanks, launched a tentative attack on the 604th Regiment's position.
In the first trench of the 604th regiment's position, Wang Fei, who was fully camouflaged, put down his telescope, grabbed a Browning pistol and waved it fiercely: "Hit." He pulled the trigger and fired the first shot.
"Crack." "Tat-tat-tat." Immediately, gunshots rang out like a storm, which was also mixed with the unique dull and loud gunshots of anti-tank guns.
The Japanese attacking force only had one tank and half a squadron of Japanese soldiers. As soon as the gunfire rang out in the Xuebing Army, except for the more than 20 Japanese soldiers who were knocked down, the other small Japanese soldiers immediately retreated like a tide.
"Fake attack." Wang Fei put down his gun angrily, fell down, and picked up the telescope again.
The first battalion was responsible for the first round of defensive tasks. The first company commander Yu Xiaoshan also put down his gun in frustration at this time and shouted to everyone: "Okay, stop, the little devil is testing." But he was about sixty meters away. In a vertical traffic trench on the left and right, Gu Shenggu, the commander of the second company who was taking orders, heard the sudden sound of gunfire suddenly become louder and louder. He couldn't help laughing and said to the company commander Zhang Jian beside him: "Ha, little devil. It must be a feint attack, hehe, Yu Xiaoshan must be very disappointed, well, it seems that we can't win the second battle, and this battle will definitely not be intense."
Zhang Jian smiled and said nothing, and just when Gu Shenggu was feeling good about himself, suddenly, there was a "clang" sound in the air, followed by the "clang" sound of a mortar shell tearing through the air. He immediately shouted: "The ball is really attacking this time. Oh, grandma, Yu Xiaoshan has made a lot of money this time."
As mentioned before, Wang Fei is one of the few relatively normal officers in the 604th Regiment. The reason why I say this is because under the influence of Wang Changyun, almost all the middle and low-level officers in the 604th Regiment are war mad. He is a madman who goes to the battlefield and never spares his life for pleasure.
As Gu Shenggu expected, when the Japs started firing grenades, Yu Xiaoshan, the commander of the first company, flushed with excitement. He waved his shell gun and shouted: "Brothers, this time it's serious. Cheer up for me." "Boom." Before he could finish his words, a grenade accidentally hit the mound in front of him, and then stirred up a large amount of soil, almost burying him alive. , and his morale-boosting words were naturally interrupted.
With the help of the orderlies, he emerged from the mud in disgrace. The first thing he did when he came out was to curse: "Ignore your mother, dare to cheat on me, brothers, please listen to me, keep the Japanese closer and then beat them." .”
The guard reminded from the side: "The battalion commander is in command."
"Oh." Yu Xiaoshan looked at Wang Fei not far away, and saw him smiling at him, and then said: "You can take command, I will go to the headquarters soon."
"Okay." Yu Xiaoshan grinned, then kicked the guard and said, "You bastard, why didn't you remind me earlier." Then, he slightly probed his head and found that the fastest charging Japanese were no longer close to his defense line. One hundred and fifty meters away, the tank at the front had already started firing. He was shocked and immediately shouted to the left: "Fat Jiang, hurry up, knock out that tank." Then he looked behind him and cursed. : "Damn, where are our mortars?"
Jiang Fatty was the leader of the anti-tank team. There were twenty people in their team, equipped with five anti-tank guns and a combat anti-tank gun. Hearing this, he muttered: "I have already started fighting, waiting for you Give the order and all the Japs’ tanks are coming.”
Yu Xiaoshan glanced over there and immediately knew that what he just said was redundant, because along the slope, the anti-tank artillery had been pushed up. At this time, three soldiers were loading the artillery shells neatly.
In this round of the Japanese attack, the squadron that had just feigned an attack was dispatched. The difference was that behind the Japanese of this squadron, a squadron of mortars were wreaking havoc one after another. Obviously, after losing the pure artillery unit, , Naojiro Amaya can only rely on these mortars to provide fire support to the attacking troops,