At one o'clock in the morning that night, the main force of the New Fourth Division finally arrived, along with the artillery regiment of the New Second Division. {We don't write novels, we're just web text porters-↖,

In order to deal with the Japanese naval guns, Jiang Haoran took great pains, worried that the firepower of an artillery regiment was not strong enough, so he deliberately transferred the artillery regiment of the new Second Division.

The standard configuration of the artillery regiment of the 40th Group Army was 12 mountain guns and 12 field guns, 12 100-mm cannons, and 12 105 howitzers. This configuration, not to mention the Japanese army, was a cut above the German army in the same period.

Therefore, the victory of the 40th Group Army did not entirely depend on the courage of the soldiers, the excellent tactics of the commanders, and the solidity of the guys in the hands, which was the key and the magic weapon for victory.

The two artillery regiments, with nearly 100 large-caliber artillery guns, swung in front of their positions, and the battle came out before the momentum was fought, and the soldiers' confidence was sufficient.

Yuan Dong, the commander of the New Fourth Division, was not in a hurry to attack as soon as he arrived outside Jiujiang City, but first learned about the offensive situation of the troops in front of him and had a general understanding of the Japanese military points in the city, and then ordered the artillery regiment to set up artillery fire, ignore 3721 for now, and blow it up for an hour.

The artillery fire from this side began to bombard, and the Japanese naval guns turned to the side with the intention of striking their artillery positions, and the twenty-four cannons in ambush suddenly opened fire. For a time, artillery shells rained down on the river, and the Japanese lost a number of warships before they could turn their guns.

Immediately, the 24 105 howitzers on the artillery positions also concentrated their fire on the remnants of the naval ships, and the two intersecting artillery positions hit the Japanese ships so that they lost their armor and abandoned their armor, and the ships that had escaped by luck did not dare to turn back, and fled at full speed in the direction of Wuhan.

Of course, the Japanese naval guns were not vegetarians, and although they fought back in a hurry, they also brought great losses to Yuan Dong's artillery regiment, especially the cannon positions in ambush, which lost nearly half. Although the caliber of the Japanese army's inland river guns is not as good as **, the emphasis is that it is mobile and quite flexible, and once the artillery is fired intensively, the strike strength of the fixed position on the shore is also quite terrifying.

Fortunately, the first artillery fire is not only large in caliber, but also in large quantity, forty-eight cannons fired a salvo, the shells shot can be described as dense as rain, the entire river was blown up to the sky, the shells of the fire and the fire caused by the hit ship, simply burned half of the sky red, the scene is spectacular.

After packing up the naval ships, Yuan Dongcai put the target in Jiujiang City, and all the guns were aimed at Jiujiang City to bombard, and the brigade artillery battalion and regimental artillery company were not idle, and one or two hundred cannons bombarded for nearly an hour before it ended. These guys are now rich and willing to squander, in fact, this is also in line with Jiang Haoran's combat style, veterans are the greatest wealth of the army, and everything else is fart. Therefore, these guys would rather consume a large number of shells, first completely destroy the enemy's military points, and even the will to fight, and then let the soldiers charge, so as to minimize the casualties of the soldiers.

An hour of artillery bombardment made the entire Jiujiang City already blazing and filled with gunsmoke. Not to mention the military points, the entire city wall is broken and ruined, and more houses have been razed to the ground.

During the whole artillery attack, the Japanese army also organized artillery fire to return fire, but basically did not fire a few cannons, it will be covered by the first artillery fire, the high position of the Lushan Mountains outside the city, the artillery observer can easily see all the fire points in the city, at night, the flame of the artillery fire is particularly conspicuous, there is simply nothing to hide, a concentrated salvo is enough to make the enemy's artillery position ash annihilation.

But the nightmare of the Japanese army did not end there, as soon as the artillery attack stopped, more than a dozen Tiger tanks rumbled into the city along the collapsed city wall, followed by more than 20,000 wolf-like soldiers, one by one with hideous faces and rushed forward. In less than half an hour, more than 20,000 soldiers poured into the city, and the fierce gunfire and explosions advanced from the south of the city all the way to the north, farther and farther.

Just when the Jiujiang City was turned upside down, about ten miles away from Jiujiang City, in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, more than 100 fishing boats were launched in the night, and countless black shadows were gathered, stepping out of a snow-white splash in the waters of the river, as the black shadows boarded the fishing boats, both sides of the fishing boats began to row out two snow-white waves, and the fishing boats shot away to the other side of the Yangtze River like arrows from the string.

Of course, they were the New Fourth Army led by Wang Shanhu, and the troops that crossed the river this time were all elite and strong generals selected from the most elite second detachment of the New Fourth Army, with a total of 2,000 people, and the leader of the team was the famous General Su.

It was precisely because the Japanese army in Jiujiang suffered an unprecedented attack that the Japanese army supported Jiujiang with all the forces it could mobilize, even the patrol boats on the river, which gave the New Fourth Army an absolutely safe and covert opportunity to cross the river.

Despite the all-out efforts of the Japanese army, Jiujiang was still lost, not because the Japanese army was incompetent, but because it was too strong.

When the news of the new Fourth Division's comprehensive occupation of Jiujiang reached the headquarters of the 40th Group Army, it was already past eight o'clock the next morning.

There was a jubilant sound in the command headquarters, and the staff officers and generals with red eyes and black circles smiled one by one, and the fatigue of two consecutive nights of sleepless was swept away at this moment.

Everyone was so excited that they couldn't speak, but Jiang Haoran was very calm, although his face was also full of smiles, but his eyes were a little confused, as if he was thinking far away.

Leng Rushuang on the side looked at Jiang Haoran and couldn't help but shake his head secretly, only to say that Jiang Haoran was worried about the casualties of the troops, so he lightly touched Jiang Haoran's arm, and said with a wry smile: "Boss, don't worry, the new second division only has less than 3,000 casualties against a full division of the Japanese army, and the new fourth division is facing a ragtag army composed of Japanese puppets, and the casualties will never be greater than those of the new second division." ”

"Oh" Jiang Haoran seemed to be suddenly startled, looked at Leng Rushuang and was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Do you think I am still the same person who lacked everything before, after so many battles, my heart has long been as hard as iron and stone, besides, in such a big battle, the casualties have already been vaccinated in my heart." ”

"Oh, I see." Cold as frost as a sudden realization.

Jiang Haoran couldn't help but wonder, he was indeed thinking about things, but what he was thinking about was whether the New Fourth Army had taken this opportunity to cross the Yangtze River, it can be said that everything was arranged by him, the New Fourth Army went straight to Pengze and Hukou, and the New Fourth Division ran long distances and stormed Jiujiang overnight. A large part of the reason for this is the preparation for the Eighth Route Army to take Lu'an as scheduled. Although Leng Rushuang is smart, it is impossible to even see this, "What do you know, do you really think you are a roundworm in my stomach?" ”