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The fragments of the boat drifting along the current and the half-dead Japanese sailors soaked in the water brought a series of bad news to Arima Masafumi Daisa: first, the fog on the river surface has become so thick that the minesweeping operation cannot be carried out, and secondly, the Chinese army has also released a batch of drifting mines, and now these dangerous things are floating around the Japanese warship, and the thin minesweeper will definitely be blown in two as long as it hits it!

"Order the ships to turn on the lights! Shine on the river around the warship! Turn on the engine and reverse at low speed! ”

Arima Masa's decision was fast enough, but it still fell behind the drifting thunder released by the defenders of Ma Yuan!

"Boom!"

This loud noise came from the starboard side of the "Shenshu Maru" ship, and Arima Masamune quickly turned his head to look into the thick fog, and saw that a flame was gradually getting bigger! The minesweeper brought by Arima Masato Osaku to carry out the minesweeping mission lost one in this way. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Bastard! Bastard! Release the lifeboat! Reversing! Let's get out of this damn place! ”

The angry Arima Masamumi Osa kept shouting at the Japanese sailors on the "Shenzhou Maru", as if this was the only way to eliminate the tension in his heart! Such a river surface is so dangerous that Arima Masafumi Daisa decided to immediately terminate this minesweeping operation!

"Commander! Look! There is a fire on the river! It must have been a Japanese warship that caught our drifting mine! Yes! Another one! One more in the group! Commander, shouldn't our artillery have opened fire as well? ”

Being tossed in the minefield by the Japanese minesweepers, the Chinese fortress artillerymen on the shore could no longer bear it, and the commanders of the batteries called Bao Changyi one after another to ask for battle. By this time, the situation on the river had changed, and one of the Japanese minesweepers hit by a drifting mine was seriously on fire and burned like a torch! All the nearby Japanese warships that were originally hidden in the fog were revealed! Of course, Bao Changyi will not miss this good opportunity!

"The armoured artillery position fires first! And then there are the 90 mountain guns of the secondary battery! Wherever there is the sound of mine explosions or the sound of engines, hit me wherever I want! Remember! Our goal is not to sink the Japanese ships, as long as we can interfere with the Japanese minesweeping operations! Take care of yourself! ”

After receiving Bao Changyi's order, the eight 88-mm armor guns equipped with the Madao Fortress immediately let out an angry roar, shooting 88-mm caliber shells from the river.

Also because of the dense fog, none of the fortress artillerymen had the luxury of directly hitting the Japanese ships, after all, fighting in extremely low visibility conditions, the accuracy of shooting could not be guaranteed at all.

Like the armor guns used in Jiangyin Fortress, these armor guns in Madao Fortress are also 88 mm caliber high-level dual-purpose semi-automatic guns imported from Germany, with four mounted on the first-level fort and four mounted on the third-level fort. The firing height is 6000 meters when firing high and 14000 meters when firing horizontally.

Originally, China purchased only 20 of these 88-mm anti-aircraft guns from Germany, and installed 8 at Jiangyin Fortress, 8 at Jiangning Fortress, and 4 at Baihu Mountain on the outskirts of Wuhan. The batch of "armor guns" equipped with the fortress is the harvest of the previous Chinese delegation visiting Europe.

Because Huang Haoran kept reminding Jiang Baili that China should adopt the same "more and quicker" strategy as it did with the Soviet Union, Jiang Baili has been urging the German government to deliver military aid to China after successfully gaining the temporary trust of Goering and Hitler.

In order to reduce the number of shipments and send as much aid as possible back to China provided by the Germans, in an extremely limited time, Jiang Baili could only pick the weapons that the Germans were willing to give to the unit price and high, so this 88mm anti-aircraft gun became a good choice!

Jiang Baili brought back a total of 24 such anti-aircraft guns from Berlin, as well as a complete set of observation and communication equipment, and these 8 guns equipped with the fortress were the first batch to be transported.

"Fight back! Order the gunners to return fire! Hit all the shells on the shore! ”

Compared to the Chinese artillery inside the fortress, the Japanese gunners on the minesweepers were much more relaxed. After all, the entire river bank is the defense area of the Chinese army, they only need to fire in the same direction, anyway, in the end the shells will always fall on the land of the Chinese army!

In this way, the Japanese minesweeper brigade fought and retreated, and after half an hour finally escaped from the range of the artillery of the Madao fortress.

In this engagement, the Japanese lost a total of two minesweepers and a gunboat, and more than 100 men were killed and wounded, while the defenders of Madao were unscathed except for one artilleryman who twisted his foot while carrying a shell, due to their geographical position and strong fortress.

When Bao Changyi issued a ceasefire order, I don't know who took the lead in shouting: "We beat the little devil away!" Then the entire fortress was drowned in the excited shouts of the officers and soldiers, who had been bullied by the little devils' aircraft and artillery in recent days, and now they finally had a bad breath!

As the commanders of the fortress, Bao Changyi and Zhang Guangfu did not have time to enjoy the pleasure of this small victory. They unanimously chose to turn a deaf ear to the cheers echoing in their ears, and picked up binoculars to carefully inspect the surface of the river where the exchange of fire with the Japanese warship had just occurred.

With the end of a chaotic battle, the time has come to 7:53, and it will not be long before the fog on the river will dissipate, and the fortress will be exposed to the joint offensive of the Japanese navy and air force, and the fierce battle has just begun.

Sure enough, as Bao Changyi and Zhang Guangfu expected, when the dense fog cleared, the Japanese army immediately changed their tactics and changed from covert minesweeping to forcible minesweeping, in order to open the channel as soon as possible. The 11th Squadron even sent several large ships and dozens of small boats of various types to approach the river a few kilometers away from the artillery position of the Madao Fortress, suppressing the artillery fire of the fortress with naval guns, and covering the minesweepers and boats to continue to clear mines. The air constantly swept through the shells fired by the Chinese and Japanese gunners, and the friction between the warheads and the air made a sharp whistling sound, bringing death to the other side.

The small-caliber artillery and machine guns on the Japanese warships kept firing at the river, which was using fire to clear mines, and the mines hit by the shells continued to explode, and the shells of various calibers fired into the river by the artillery of the Madao Fortress made a splash, and the entire section of the river was like boiling water in a boiling pot, crackling and horning.

Bombers and attack planes of the 2nd Combined Combat Squadron of the Japanese Naval Air Force also appeared in the clear sky, and the Japanese bombarded the infantry and artillery positions of the fortress almost non-stop that morning. The falling bombs obscured the sky and the sun, like hailstones.

At noon, Zhang Guangfu and Bao Changyi jointly sent a telegram to Huang Haoran, reporting on the situation of the Japanese army's offensive at Mayuan.

The Battle of Wuhan has officially begun! (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!) (To be continued.) )