9.87 Zhang Guangfu's stage

Zhang Guangfu, commander of the 47th Independent Brigade of the 25th Group Army, stood in the headquarters of the Madao Fortress and observed his defense area with a telescope. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Several peripheral defense support points of the info Madao Fortress were finally connected into a line, and the land defense system was basically formed.

Bao Changyi, the new commander of the garrison of the fortress, was very pragmatic, and he knew that the marines under his command were far inferior to the regular army in this kind of positional defensive warfare, so he simply handed over the command of the land defense of the main position of the fortress and the infantry regiment drawn from the 16th Army to Zhang Guangfu, and he took the marines to concentrate on the operation of the third-level battery.

This time, the navy and the army finally had no barriers, and the garrison of the horse was finally gradually put on track.

In recent days, the bombing of the Madao Fortress and its surrounding positions and wharves by Japanese planes has noticeably intensified. Even the four words "mainstay" engraved on the rock of Matao Jitou and written by Mr. Sun Yat-sen in 1912 when he visited Matao were also destroyed in frequent bombings.

The large sun emblem on the fuselage of the Japanese plane, which swept over the garrison area like a marquee, reflected the scorching sun, which made Zhang Guangfu feel that the flames of war were about to burn in front of him.

The shape of the horse ridge mountain is like a galloping horse, the horizontal pillow of the Yangtze River, the rock head is 90 degrees wall in the middle of the river, and the cotton spring sandbar in the center of the river is confronted, the river surface is divided into two here, the left waterway is narrow, silted up and impassable. The right waterway flows through the Madaiji Mountain, is the main channel, here is the narrowest place in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the width is less than 500 meters, the water flow is turbulent, the situation is dangerous, and the moat is to pass the gate and the moat that is not opened.

As early as the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, Lin Qirong, a famous general of the Taiping Army, led heavy troops to guard the Madao Fort and defend Hukou, Madao, Xiangkou and other places. For many years after that, the Madao Fort was a battleground for soldiers.

In 1927, the Military and Political Department of the Nanjing Government strengthened the Madao Fort again, built the three-level Suojiang Fort in turn, added a masonry tunnel bunker and garrison position, and upgraded the Madao Fort to a national defense fortress.

The first-class fort is located on the highest top of Madang Mountain. The area of the fort is 200 square meters. The bricks and stones are built into an arched air-raid shelter, which is 3 meters high, 3.5 meters wide, 30 meters deep, and the top of the cave is built into fifty percent, and the sealed soil is 1.5 meters thick. The entrance of the cave is connected from north to south, and there is a 100-square-meter fort at the entrance of the north cave.

The secondary battery is located on the mountainside between the first and third levels. It is a circular earthen platform made of rocks with a height of 2 meters and a diameter of 4 meters. Behind the earth platform is a pit about 50 meters long, in the shape of "〈", the ground and the wall of the pit are paved by large pieces of bluestone, and the dome of the hole is made of green bricks to form an arch type, and the middle is equipped with a ventilation hole with exquisite design and hidden opening, and the mixture of rice pulp, lime and tung oil is used to paste between the green bricks.

The 90-millimeter mountain guns that Huang Haoran gave to Bao Changyi were placed in these tunnels, and once the enemy ships in the river attacked, they could launch artillery bombardment; If the enemy returns fire, the cannon can also be dragged back into the hole to hide.

The third-level fort is located at the head of Madang Rock, and the cliff under the head of the rock, and the first-level fort calls for emergency. The area of the fort is 30 square meters, the brick arched anti-aircraft shelter is 3.5 meters high, 4 meters wide, 35 meters deep, the cave door is open to the southeast and northwest, and there is a training ground of 600 square meters. In addition, there is a heavy machine gun position, which is mainly used to flank the main position, in case the Japanese army forcibly lands and attacks the battery along the river, and Bao Changyi's fortress headquarters and the brigade headquarters of the 47th Independent Brigade are located in the permanent fortifications behind the third-level battery.

After the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Military Commission of the Wuhan Government set up the Yangtze River Blocking Committee to prevent the Japanese army from advancing westward and to ensure the safety of Jiujiang and Wuhan. Around the blocking line, there are 30 artificial reefs and more than 1,600 mines. In addition, fortifications such as fortifications, pillboxes, and trenches were set up at the dangerous places of the peaks on both sides of the strait, and heavy troops were deployed for defense at the same time.

At present, the Chinese army in the Madao garrison area is mainly composed of three forces.

Among them, the strength of the defense of the fortress included Zhang Guangfu's independent 47th Brigade, Bao Changyi's 2nd Marine Corps, a regiment of the 167th Division of the 16th Army, a battalion of the 26th Division of the 43rd Army, the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the garrison, and one each of the 8th, 41st, and 42nd Artillery Regiments;

The Yellow Mountain, Xiangshan, Zangshan Rock, Xiayuban, Huanglishu, and Malukou in the lower reaches of Madang were garrisoned by the 53rd Division and the 167th Division of the 16th Army.

In addition, the 21st and 27th Group Armies and the 23rd Group Army were guarded by the Tang Dynasty in Huaining in the north of the Yangtze River and the east in the south of the Yangtze River in order to respond at any time.

If you look at it on paper alone, if you add up tens of thousands of defenders, blocking lines, mines, reefs, third-level batteries and defensive positions on the shore, the fortress can indeed be called a natural danger.

But is that really the case? Zhang Guangfu clearly remembered what his commander Huang Haoran said to him before leaving the fortress:

"In war, no matter how good the natural danger is, no matter how strong the fortress, it will have a fatal weakness. If you want to defend the fortress, you need allies willing to help you defend your back! ”

After Huang Haoran left the fortress, Zhang Guangfu immediately took his brigade officers to walk around the garrison area of Ma Dao, and he found that as Huang Haoran said, the biggest danger that Ma Dao Fortress would face came from behind the fortress!

The terrain around the fortress can be said to be quite extreme, and the steepness on the riverside side corresponds to the danger in other directions! The fortress is connected to the land on three sides by gentle hills and lakes and marshes. In the event of a war, with the strong intervention of the superior naval and air forces of the Japanese army, as long as the Chinese army appears in these flat and open areas, it will definitely be bombarded indiscriminately by Japanese planes and Japanese naval guns!

Even if the defenders are resolute in fighting, it is very difficult for the Chinese army, which is not strong in combat effectiveness and poorly equipped, to rely on these small hill bags to fight against the Japanese troops who came ashore!

Fortunately, the commander disposed of Li Yunheng in time, reorganized the defensive positions in the garrison area of the fortress, increased the troops, and allocated a large amount of military supplies, so that the Chinese defenders of the fortress had a chance to fight with the Japanese!

On the third day after Huang Haoran left the fortress, the logistics department of the 25th Army sent 100 Makqin heavy machine guns and 50 82-mm mortars to Zhang Guangfu's independent 47th brigade. These things are a weapon for defensive warfare! Especially the 100 Maxim heavy machine guns, you must know that in the midst of a strong fortress fortification, a Maxim heavy machine gun is a wall of fire! This bulky but reliable burst firearm is simply made for defensive warfare!

With the support of these "hard goods", coupled with such a good partner as Bao Changyi standing beside him, Zhang Guangfu felt the opportunity to make meritorious contributions! In order to live up to the commander's expectations of him, Zhang Guangfu decided to bleed the devil in Madao! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) )