In the concession, when all the Chinese in the areas that had not been conquered celebrated their victory, they joined the army, causing a frenzy again.

Japan, on the other hand, has already felt the crisis, and the momentum of this attack is too violent, and if they do not deploy it quickly, they may lose the results they have achieved in China. China's anti-Japanese upsurge and morale have been greatly improved, and it will be a very big obstacle to their aggressive plans.

But at present, there is no other way than to defend various key points, and then to increase the number of troops in Shanghai. The mysteriously missing fleet has greatly reduced the strength of their navy, and although it has not yet collapsed, if the other party uses the disappeared fleet to deal with the naval ships they are going to reinforce, they really don't have much chance of winning.

In a festive atmosphere, the remnants of Shanghai's sweeping work are being carried out in an orderly manner. The Japanese army was mostly composed of brigades, and at least dozens of people, scattered everywhere, and the gunfire never stopped, but the battle was one-sided.

The soldiers of the advance army who pursued them were all ordered, even if they were a dozen Japanese soldiers, as long as they were stubbornly resistant, they should be greeted with guns and grenades, and a large number of guns and grenades were about to arrive in Shanghai, which was enough for them to squander.

Compared with here, the big battle that broke out in the direction of Danyang is not yet known to the outside world.

Sun Tao was only less than 20 kilometers away from Danyang, Xujiatun, Duzhuang, and Jiangjiazhuang, in a triangular formation to build an artillery position against Danyang, and when Yu Lei's troops were chasing the 16th Division, they launched an artillery bombardment of Danyang.

At this time, in addition to the British consulate there, Danyang had an international security area that was not disturbed by the Japanese army, Danyang was basically an empty city, and only the Japanese army lived in the city. In addition, the oil depot and ammunition depot were blown up by the advance army before, and Danyang was also dilapidated at this time.

The Japanese army also had a newly formed division and two brigades stationed here, Zhenjiang, which at this time was the strength of two divisions. The total number of troops is still considerable.

The positions are even more staggered, with machine guns, mortars, and grenadiers in the trenches waiting for them. The depth of the position, hundreds of mountain guns and field guns. Howitzers of 105 and 120 caliber positions were placed in several positions, ready to be strictly defended.

Just when the Japanese thought that even if the advance army attacked sharply, it would be difficult to break through this defense line two or three kilometers deep, a scream came to their ears, and then, a black shadow flew rapidly in the sky.

"Shelling! Get into position!! ”

The Japanese took it for granted that the order was given, and then, the Japanese troops on the position did not panic and rushed into the ear piercings and bunkers to avoid the shelling.

Before they could squat down. There was a loud bang, the earth shook violently, and the Japanese soldiers in the distance immediately rolled into a ball, dizzy and dizzy, and their ears were buzzing. In the earthquake, the Japanese soldiers in the vicinity spurted out a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of lung lobes, and the people collapsed limply in the hole.

Violent explosions followed, followed by loud bangs. The effectiveness of the five-door group caused a mushroom cloud to rise from the forward positions of the Japanese army. In the smoke of gunpowder, there was no miserable cry of the Japanese army on the position. Those Japanese soldiers who were stunned and dizzy. In the ensuing shelling, nothing happened, and even shouting was saved.

In the distance, high-powered telescopes directed the location of the shelling, constantly reporting the coordinates with walkie-talkies. Cannonballs, like eyes. Accurately fall on the vacant spots of the artillery shelling of the position, fill the density of the shelling.

The ground shook violently, causing the Japanese troops in the distance to be terrified, and several artillery pieces with a range of about 15 kilometers roared, firing back in the direction where the shells were flying. Trying to knock out the opposing artillery positions.

"Cover the shot! Quick action!! ”

On the position, the Japanese soldiers kept shouting, reloading the shells as fast as they could, and blindly firing in the direction where the shells were flying.

Hearing the screeching of shells overhead, several reconnaissance teams shook their heads and laughed. They knew very well that except for the 105 cannon heavy artillery that the Japanese army could hit at a range of 20 kilometers, these howitzers could only sigh with admiration, and there was no possibility of even a ripple, and they were at least five kilometers away from the position.

“420…… 343, a nest of snakes and rats! ”

One of the observers smiled evilly and then reported the coordinates, but did not give the location of the opposing artillery position.

The other observers tacitly agreed to steadily extend the artillery they were responsible for, and simply ignored the roaring Japanese shelling.

The continuous violent explosions made the Danyang defenders frightened, and the telephones in one position after another could not be connected, so that the generals of the defenders knew that this shelling was difficult for them to resist. At the moment when the opponent's artillery shells were still flying after four consecutive rounds of counterattacks, they all knew how the previous divisions and regiments were gone.

The opponent's artillery is too powerful! There is no need for infantry to strangle at all, just constant bombardment is enough to blow them all up.

Although the forward position did not know the situation of the road, and the liaison personnel who sent it did not return, they clearly realized that there might be no one on the position.

Several generals met to study it, and then reported the situation to Tiangu, the commander of the advance team on the right wing of the defenders in Yangzhou, and reported the situation in detail.

Although Tiangu has the Matsui Division, a division that has done many evils and experienced many battles, and two newly formed divisions, he did not dare to be careless, and after receiving a report on the situation in Danyang, he first sent a telegram to Nakajima Imago of the 16th Division, asking him to divert and go directly to Zhenjiang, relying on the Zhenjiang fortress to organize resistance, and the other two divisions rushed to Danyang to support the defenders of Danyang.

Before he could give an order to the Danyang defenders, Nakajima's message from Imago Nakajima returned.

When he saw that Nakajima Imasato's army was constantly bombarded by enemy artillery fire, and had been taken straight to Zhenjiang, he was shocked, and hurriedly rushed to Zhenjiang from Yangzhou with a boat, and once there was a change, he could quickly evacuate, while giving an order to the Danyang defenders to let the Danyang defenders give up the forward position, and the rear team accelerated the withdrawal, leaving two artillery positions, and continued to shell the distance to buy time for the retreating army.

When he learned that Nakajima's three divisions were being driven away by artillery fire, he was very worried that once the enemy forces chasing Nakajima Imago quickly advanced and cut off Danyang's retreat to Zhenjiang, then none of Danyang's troops would be able to withdraw back.

Sun Tao's forward scouts failed to see the evacuation of the army after the smoke was filled, and the artillery fire was still working on the position, hundreds of meters, a distance of several hundred meters approaching Danyang, and the army had been deployed, slowly encircling Danyang.

In order to prevent the enemy who withdrew from Nanjing from reinforcing Danyang, and then let the interspersed troops suffer from the enemy, Sun Tao carried out Dong Ku's order to defeat rather than annihilate.

The fierce artillery fire made the retreating Japanese troops in Danyang very fast, and a lot of baggage could not be taken away, and they were thrown in the barracks, and many that needed to be disassembled, such as anti-aircraft guns, cannons, anti-aircraft machine guns, etc., were thrown on the position, only carrying valuable materials and guns and ammunition, and quickly evacuated.

Yu Lei's place, the troops slowly followed, strangled the small units that were separated from the army by avoiding artillery fire along the way, cleaned up the battlefield, and steadily advanced in the direction of the Japanese army's withdrawal. The artillery, moving forward in echelons in groups, was more than ten kilometers away from the Japanese army, and was constantly driven away by artillery fire, but he left a lot of baggage and Japanese troops.

And Nakajima Imago had no intention of turning back to meet the enemy at all, and in the constant artillery bombardment behind him, he accelerated his speed and retreated towards Zhenjiang, and it turned into a rout just one step away.

It had been nearly half an hour since the Japanese troops in Danyang retreated, and the scouts who had bypassed the rear of Danyang only discovered it. They were ordered to inspect the enemy's position behind Danyang, but they found that the Japanese artillery fire had not stopped, but there was no one.

"What? Ran away? ”

Sun Tao was very surprised by this news, the Japanese army has always been known for its strong combat style, and if they did not surrender, the Japanese army who fought to the death actually left a false illusion and fled, which was a bit of a surprise to him.

"Speed up and catch up, quickly enter Danyang!"

He decisively gave the order to stop the shelling and chase the fleeing enemy.

At the same time, he gave Yu Lei an order to give up the artillery bombardment, chase the enemy, let the Japanese army crowd in Zhenjiang, shell Zhenjiang, shell the river, and keep as many Japanese troops as possible.

Yu Lei received the order and ordered to advance quickly and catch up with the Japanese army more than ten kilometers away.

At the moment when Nakajima arrived in Zhenjiang first, a brigade of the 37th Division remained 15 kilometers away from Zhenjiang to block the enemy. He didn't plan to hold on to Zhenjiang, he knew very well that Zhenjiang couldn't stop the enemy's artillery fire, and when he arrived in Yangzhou, he blocked the river, and the enemy's artillery couldn't be transported across the river, so they could gain a firm foothold and plan again.

When Yu Lei accelerated the pursuit, Sun Tao's army was less than 20 kilometers away from the position of the shelling, after learning that the Japanese army had run, dozens of trucks in the lead rushed to Danyang along the road, and at the stall where the Japanese army in a brigade was still busy firing artillery, rushed into the artillery position, and ended the battle in just ten minutes. Compare and shoot shells into the retreating Japanese army.

The rest of the people quickly searched for dismantling anti-aircraft machine guns, modifying elevation angles, and lifting them onto trucks.

The shells exploded in the crowd of retreating Japanese troops, and in the midst of a puff of smoke and flames, the Japanese troops flew all over the sky.

As soon as the shells fell, they retreated, and immediately turned into a rout, and no one cared about any order anymore, and the speed of fleeing to Zhenjiang was accelerated.

Originally, it was not far from Zhenjiang, but in the midst of the crowds, the order began to be chaotic. The front thought that the pursuers had arrived, and the back ran forward lifelessly, causing the scattered retreat route to turn into a rout of thousands of meters. In the fields and on the ditches, the Japanese troops everywhere were running lightly, and they could no longer be restrained in the rumbling cannons behind them. Those heavy machine guns, mortars, 92 infantry guns were left unattended, and they were thrown all over the ground.

Fleeing, at the moment when the first one started to run, and the commander couldn't suppress it, it was difficult to control it again.

At this time, Nakajima had already boarded the boat to cross the river and left the riverbank. The brigade of men and horses crowded Zhenjiang, and once the enemy bombarded it, then their losses would be great. (To be continued......)