4.27 Siege (2)

After moving to the artillery observation post in the Japanese fortifications with the 1st Company of Special Agents to check the effect of the test shot, he called the artillery regiment by radio to report the results, and Commander Shi immediately began to adjust the shooting according to the feedback results;

"Add one to the ruler, three rapid shots from the right two guns! Put! ”

This time, the three mountain artillery shells fired by the artillery regiment hit the building of the headquarters of the Japanese Marine Corps, and although the damage caused by the explosion was not very satisfactory, the momentum was very amazing!

After Captain Shi got the report of the hit, he crossed his waist and shouted loudly:

"The ruler remains the same, the whole regiment fires a salvo, one base for each gun! Put! ”

Explosions and smoke soon enveloped the Japanese command building......

Looking at Zheng Huan's subordinates who were fighting shirtless in the heavy rain, Captain Shi couldn't help but take off his clothes and join the gunners' queue!

The artillery of the 99th Division has not been fought happily a few times since it arrived in Shanghai, the Japanese planes and naval guns forced the Shi Jincai Artillery Regiment to move its position as soon as it fired a few cannons, and the artillery of the 99th Division was very precious, and the commander of the 99th Division had to camouflage and hide the artillery during the day, and only opened fire at night or as a last resort, it was such a careful use, the artillery of the artillery regiment still lost nearly one percent these days, and the distressed Commander Shi couldn't sleep all night!

Now that there is a typhoon to help, the devil's plane does not dare to go to the sky, and the fleet is far away from Shanghai, and the artillery regiment will not take this opportunity to make a good noise?

If it weren't for Deputy Division Commander Wang, the chief housekeeper of the 99th Division, who called him to save some shells and set the number of shells for shooting, Regiment Commander Shi couldn't wait until the typhoon left!

Of course, if Captain Shi really does this, don't say Wang Huanzhi, even the master will not let him go!

The shells of this period are very expensive!

The 99th Division's inventory of artillery shells is now basically one less shot, and the arsenal in Nanjing simply does not have the ability to produce enough shells for the Chinese army......

There are rumors among the officers and men of various units in Shanghai that the stocks of artillery shells in the warehouses of the Ministry of National Defense have begun to bottom out. Nanjing has been preparing for several years, and now it can't withstand the consumption of a few days! The officials of the Ministry of Defense have probably spent their energy on the belly of the prostitute, and they have not done anything at all these years!

The reason why the rumor is called a rumor is naturally because it has an exaggerated element in it, and the artillery shells in the inventory of the Nanjing Ministry of Defense are far from bottoming out; on the contrary, in the ammunition depot in Jinling, ammunition of various calibers is piled up, and the real headache of the Ministry of Defense now is how to transport these military supplies to the Songhu front. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

During the day of the 14th, the Japanese bombed Nanjing Road in Shanghai, killing and wounding 1,694 people, including 15 foreigners, although the Chinese Air Force also had the glorious record of shooting down 6 enemy planes and damaging the flagship of the Japanese Third Fleet, the "Izumo", in the air battle of Hangzhou, with 0 damage, but also caused the tragedy of our Air Force bombs falling into the world by mistake and suffering 2021 casualties.

In fact, the Chinese Air Force has some advantages over the Japanese Air Force in the number of fighters in some parts of Songhu, but due to its overly rigid command and conservative tactics, and despite the courage of the flying generals to regard death as their home, the air supremacy of Shanghai and even the whole of East China is still in the hands of the Japanese for most of the time.

The Japanese even had extra planes dispatched to chase after the Chinese army's military columns and bomb them, and now the Ministry of National Defense had to put machine guns on the roofs of the train cars used to transport supplies and troops, and even so, in the past few days, several military trains were blown up by Japanese planes, and the losses were heavy, and the most fatal thing was that the ensuing railway traffic was interrupted, and there were not enough military trucks in Nanjing, and the supply of military materials in Songhu began to become more and more tense day by day!

Without logistics, the morale of the army was naturally affected, and the soldiers could fight with the devils hungry, but they couldn't attack the Japanese defense line with rifles without bullets, right?

As a result, out of serious dissatisfaction with the logistics of the Ministry of National Defense, various rumors began to spread within the Chinese army, and the bottom of the artillery shell inventory was one of these series of stories.

Seeing that the fighting in Shanghai had not stopped, the authorities of Britain, the United States, and France united on the 14th to set up a Concession Defense Committee and transferred troops from Hong Kong and Saigon to Shanghai.

The whimsy of the highest authorities to "raze and raze" seems to have become feasible again!

Only Huang Haoran clearly knows that these hopes are just a soap bubble, and the time of existence will be very short!

Therefore, he wanted to use every opportunity he could to strike at the Japanese army in Shanghai and cheer up the Chinese army in Songhu!

The appearance of the artillery of the 99th Division made Major General Okawa's already not very good mood in the past few days to the bottom again.

Without the support of naval artillery and air force, the pitiful few artillery pieces of the Japanese marines were completely incapable of launching a counterattack against the artillery fire of the 99th Division.

At this time, Hino Nakasa, who was in charge of the outer defense of the Marine Corps Headquarters, brought even worse news to Major General Okawa, a powerful force of the 99th Division had infiltrated the core position of the Marine Corps, and this small unit was less than fifty meters away from the Major General's closest distance!

Moreover, the firepower of this small force is very fierce, and the Japanese army led by Hino Nakasa cannot squeeze out the opponent, but the position occupied by the opponent is getting larger and larger!

In fact, Hino Nakasa has not yet discovered the seriousness of the problem, the actual location of the 1st Company of the 99th Division at the moment is attached to the main building of the Marine Corps Headquarters, and the distance from the ground to the surface is only 3-4 meters at most!

Major General Okawa is keenly aware of the connection between the existence of this small unit and the artillery bombardment launched by the 99th Division now, and Huang Haoran's 99th Division must have greater moves in the future!

Since Huang Haoran launched an attack on such a typhoon night, this attack will never scratch the Marines like this!

About ten minutes later, Hino Nakasa's phone came in again, and Hino, an Osaka man, shouted in a panic on the phone:

"Your Excellency, General! Chinese! There are Chinese everywhere! It's the 99th Division! We have been attacked, the line has been breached! Request Operational Guidance! ”

"Hino, this rice bucket!" Major General Okawa was so angry that he slammed the telephone receiver on the table, and he roared: "Before the start of the war, he swore that the fortifications on the periphery of the headquarters were impregnable, and he said that he would make the Chinese army bleed in front of his defense line!" But now it's been less than 1 day since the firefight, and he asked for reinforcements! Not only did Hino not destroy the living force of the Chinese army, but now he is going to be eaten by the 99th Division of the Chinese army, who is the bear of the empire, everyone can see it clearly! ”

Chief of Staff Nakasa, who was standing opposite Major General Okawa, was pale and trembling slightly.

"Kokurihara Nakasa, you are here to sit, I will immediately lead the reserve team to launch a counterattack, the reputation of the empire can only be maintained by true warriors!"

Major General Okawa strode towards the door, and Chief of Staff Kokurihara immediately signaled the guards to block the general's way.

|“ Yaga! What are you trying to do? Want to disobey military orders! “

Major General Okawa pulled out the southern pistol at his waist, and Chief of Staff Kokuriba dodged and grabbed the right hand of the major general who was about to shoot.

"General!" Chief of Staff Kokurihara said: "Don't forget your responsibilities! Hino, that bastard, let me clean him up! Your Excellency the General is still here to sit down! ”

It took a long time for Major General Okawa to calm down his agitated emotions, and he shook the shoulders of Chief of Staff Kokurihara vigorously, saying:

"Kokurihara! You've got to hack this bastard with your own hands! He must not be allowed to seppuku! He doesn't deserve... He doesn't deserve it! ”

Chief of Staff Kokurihara agreed to the general's request and disappeared into the depths of the corridor with his guards......

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