Chapter 51: The Beach (3)
4.51 Beach (Wed)
After only ten minutes, the naval commander's answer shattered Katamura's dream. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
There are not enough landing ships! The boats transporting the 12th Wing remained on the beachhead, and the Japanese in the water were now able to hide from the bullets flying in the sky under the cover of landing craft and wooden boats.
Half of the strength of the 23rd Wing of Anda had not yet had time to go ashore, and the ships behind blocked the way of the ships that had unloaded the soldiers in front, and for a while, the 11th Division could not get enough transport.
At 7 o'clock in the morning, according to the arrangement of Senior General Matsui Ishone, the advance troops of the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Division would forcibly land at the railway ferry terminal and Zhanghuabang, about 15 kilometers south of Wusong Town, under the escort, guidance, and vigorous cover of destroyers.
Even the ships needed for the landing in Zhanghuabang were going to use the landing craft that were recovered after the landing at Chuanshakou, and now, it seems that it is difficult to count on them!
Chief of Staff Katamura felt that his eyes were dark, and he was a little afraid to imagine what the enraged Matsui Ishinedai would do.
"In any case, the landing ship must be recovered!"
Chief of Staff Katamura gritted his teeth and made a decision!
The navy, which received the order, began to urge the remnants of the 12th Wing on the landing craft to speed up, but there were flying bullets everywhere in front of them, where did they want these Japanese soldiers to go?
Under the hail of bullets, the last brigade of the 12th Wing--- Yasuda's brigade, was thrown into the sea like ducks, and the ships transporting them began to turn around and return home.
Some Japanese soldiers shot at their own transport ships in the seawater, and some Japanese soldiers were thrown into the deep sea water and drowned, and the navy and the army struggling in the sea water in a chaotic manner, at this moment, the contradictions between the Japanese arms reached a flashpoint.
The generals of the 11th Division collectively protested to the division commander, Lieutenant General Yamamuro Munetake, thinking that the navy was helping the Chinese army to massacre the warriors of the Yamato nation, and these bastards should be sent to the military court.
Katamura's tactics to deal with the crisis were correct, but the methods were a little too cruel, Lieutenant General Yamamuro knew what these few means of transport meant to tens of thousands of Japanese troops on the sea, and if these ships were lost at Chuanshakou, then the invincible Japanese Army would only have to walk from the bottom of the sea to the land of Shanghai!
This is obviously impossible to do!
Therefore, for the cold-blooded behavior of Katamura Shihachi Daisa, the head of the Yamamuro Sect chose to acquiesce, but the officers under his command could not accept the fact that the army was abandoned by the navy in the sea, after all, they came to Shanghai with the title of saving the fate of the defeat of the marines.
Now the patient actually killed the doctor, which made the 11th Division unacceptable no matter what!
The brawl in the cabin was fruitless, the killing on the coast continued, and without the cover of steel, the 12th Wing was completely exposed to the fire of the 99th Division.
The Maruyama Brigade tried several times, but they were crushed into the shell craters on the beach due to their severe lack of weapons and equipment.
The creation of a large number of craters was the only thing that satisfied the Navy in the night.
The craters formed by these explosions became the favorite of the Japanese officers and soldiers, and these places became their temporary bunkers, often crammed into the crater created by a 203 mm shell, and five or six Japanese soldiers, or even more.
After paying the price of more than half of the casualties, the Funakoshi Brigade also climbed to the coast, and Maruyama Nakasa saw the Funakoshi Shaosa like a soup chicken, and the two captains were busy counting the remaining troops in their hands as soon as they met.
As a result, there were less than 800 Japanese troops on the beachhead, which means that there were at least 1,200 corpses of Japanese soldiers floating in this blood-stained red water, not counting the losses of Yasuda's brigade and direct subordinate troops.
This beach is simply a monster that devours the flesh and blood of the Japanese army, and the hands of Funakoshi Shaoza, a Japanese martial arts master, are constantly shaking, I don't know if it is cold or fear......
Maruyama Nakasa is not good at directly breaking the cowardice of the ship, and at this time infighting is the most useless thing.
Maruyama Nakasa motioned to Funakoshi Shaozo to raise the telescope on his chest, then pointed in the direction and said, "Funakoshi-kun, I went to the beachhead some time before you, although the Chinese army pressed us to the death, but we are not without gain." You see, this depression in the front left is a dead end of the Chinese army's machine gun fire, as long as we take advantage of the intermittent shelling of the naval guns, we can rush over, so that we can go around the back of these pillboxes, and then, yours this... This one of mine..."
Funakoshi Shaosa looked at it three times before he observed the weak point of the firepower that Maruyama Nakasa said, the sea water wet his binoculars, and Funakoshi Shaozo couldn't find a dry cloth up and down, and finally, it was a page of codepaper handed by the communications soldier to solve the problem.
Funakoshi Shaosa was very skeptical of Maruyama Nakasa's statement, why hadn't the Maruyama Brigade launched a surprise attack on this depression for so long? Could it be that the Chinese will really leave such a good breakthrough for themselves?
"We should ask His Excellency the Wing Captain what he means, what do you say, Maruyama-kun."
Funakoshi Shaozo was about to push the six-two-five, and Maruyama Nakasa looked at his colleague with some helplessness.
"Funagoshi-kun! Trust me! My brigade really doesn't have enough firepower to attack, so I have to borrow the strength of your brigade, the mortars of the Chinese army are very powerful, and my subordinates are now left with the last crooked handle, without grenadiers and heavy machine guns, I can't do anything! ”
"But..."Funakoshi Shaosa came to his senses, looked at the soldiers of the Maruyama Brigade in the crater, and knew that Maruyama Nakasa was not lying.
With just a casual glance, Funakoshi saw several soldiers with bayonets, and they didn't even have guns......
"If you must ask the commander of the Anda wing, in fact, he is not far from us, the wing headquarters is now pressed by the Chinese heavy machine guns on the beachhead behind our side, you can send a orderly!"
"Maruyama-kun, no need, for the honor of the team, in order to get Anda Dazuo out of trouble, I am willing to cooperate!"
It took more than ten minutes for Funakoshi and Maruyama Nakasa to gather about 200 Japanese soldiers, and they were going to launch a strong attack!
Of course, the price paid for this kind of assembly in the case of guns and bullets is also very great, at least a small team of devils died on the way to assemble.
"Kill, give! ......." Maruyama Nakasa screamed and waved his command knife, and Funakoshi Shaosa rushed out with this wave of Japanese troops.
Can't wait, the mortars of the Chinese army have begun to adjust their firing Zhuyuan, and more than 200 devils have gathered together and have become the priority targets of the Chinese artillery!
Maruyama Nakasa's judgment was correct, due to the rush of time, there were still many deficiencies in the defensive line on the coast, and the devils who were beaten by the head have begun to wake up, and the weaknesses of the 99th Division have been exposed!
The Makqin in the bunkers on both sides shot desperately, but there was always something that could not be taken care of, and he was rushed by these devils!
Before Maruyama Nakasa could shout excitedly, he saw the Japanese troops who had just poured into the depression retreating one after another!
What the hell is going on!
Maruyama Nakasa's throat made the sound of someone gagging his asshole.......
Before rushing into the depression, the Japanese troops led by Funakoshi Shaoza were very happy, they thought they had found the key to open the gate, but they were beaten by a rain of bullets as soon as they jumped down.
The crisp sound was completely different from the heavy firing sound of the Maxim, it was a Czech light machine gun!
Funakoshi Shaosa now hates Maruyama Nakasa, indeed, this area is an area where the number of Makqin is insufficient, but the Chinese still have a lot of Czech!
The blocking troops of the 99th Division on the beachhead were each equipped with 9 Czech light machine guns, although the range and power of the Czech ones were much worse than those of the Makqin, but the light machine guns were flexible and convenient to use, and they also became the best choice to make up for the gap in firepower between the pillboxes!
There are at least more than 10 Czechs blocking this depression, and the Japanese army is facing another disaster!
Now lying on the ground, the boat is getting to know why these Czechs didn't make any noise before.
That's because the range of the Czech style is insufficient, and now, Funakoshi Shaozo jumped into the shooting range of the 99th Division with 200 targets, and the machine gunners who had been holding back for a long time were overjoyed!
The 20-round magazine capacity of the Czech style is not a problem at all now, and the machine gunners who have been dormant for a long time have filled the entire box of magazines, which is enough for each of the devils under the Bunkoshi to get a magazine!
Retreat and can't retreat, advance and can't advance, the angry boat Yue Shaozuo lay on the ground and roared:
"Despicable Maruyama! Baga !! ”
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