Chapter 480: Bloody Shanghai

Nakajima Imago who ran to the landing craft let out a long breath, listening to the sound of gunfire on the road of attack just now, and there was an indescribable bitterness in his heart, and the result was beyond his expectations, this unit that suddenly appeared, the ferocity of firepower, and the skillful use of tactics, were completely different from the army he was familiar with.

Does not establish a blocking position on the beachhead, but adopt the method of ambushing in the middle of the road, show that its landing plan has long been in the hands of the Chinese army? This was a question he couldn't understand, Nakajima didn't think that the retreat order he gave was cowardice, and in that case, even if the entire division was filled in, it would be useless.

Even if the blocking Chinese army is finally eliminated, how many troops will the 16th Division have left, and will it still be able to complete the task of cutting off the Beijing-Shanghai railway and highway and cutting off the retreat of the Chinese defenders in the Songhu area, which is waiting for the base camp? The answer is definitely not, what should be the next step? When heavy weapons come ashore and fight again with the blocking Chinese army, is it certain that the blocking Chinese army will be defeated or annihilated? Nakajima Imago is not sure of victory.

Soon after, he received a report from the base camp that the main force of the Tenth Army, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, commander of the Tenth Army, was unfortunately hit by enemy artillery fire when he was on the front line to direct the operation, and he was loyal to His Majesty the Emperor.

At the same time, in view of the unfavorable situation in the battle situation, the failure of the landing plan in Hangzhou Bay, the 16th Division must not go deep alone, ordered to retreat to the sea, waiting for the next order, Nakajima now Chaowu's forehead cold sweat down, he was shocked and secretly rejoiced, fortunately saw the opportunity early, did not blindly attack the blocking position of the Chinese army, otherwise whether he could come back, is still unknown, because Nakajima's knowledge of the times, among the Japanese troops attacking the Songhu area from three routes, the 16th Division in a single direction suffered the lightest losses.

Compared with the 16th Division of Nakajima, the Shanghai Dispatch Army, with Masao Ishihara, the former deputy chief of staff of the base camp, as its commander, faced a much more tragic experience, although Masao Ishihara had been mentally prepared for a long time.

Zhang Zhizhong, commander of the Songhu garrison, did a solid job in preparing for war, and built three solid lines of defense in the landing area chosen by the Japanese army for the first time.

It is only those senior officials in Nanjing that they have such naïve thoughts, Zhang Zhizhong, who fought for 13 days in the first Songhu Battle and the Japanese bloody battle, did not believe that the Japanese had the goodwill of the armistice, coupled with a long talk with Tang Qiuli, he realized the wolf ambition of the Japanese.

The secret fort on Changxing Island was completed before the end of October, and the installation of 18 large-caliber coastal defense guns was completed, but out of secrecy requirements, no live ammunition test was carried out, and together with the Wusongkou fortress fort, it constituted two iron bolts to contain the main channel of the Yangtze River estuary.

As soon as Ishihara Masao's Shanghai Dispatch Force began to attack, it fell into an ominous bloody storm, first detouring the landing force of the waterway between Changxing Island and Chongming Island, which was blown up all over the sky by mines, crying for his father and mother, and the division commander in charge of the command reported in a panic that the troops might be attacked by the submarine of the Shina Navy, because the explosion point was below the waterline of the landing craft.

Ishihara, of course, doesn't believe his nonsense, the Shina submarine? What kind of joke, it is true that the troops were attacked, just listening to the continuous explosions, you can also imagine what happened to the troops, he had to order to abandon the order to detour the outer channel of the Yangtze River estuary, and join himself to attack the landing sites in Wusong, Chuansha River Estuary, and Lion Forest with all his might.

As soon as the Japanese troops entered the main channel of the Yangtze River estuary, the landing craft were bombarded and sunk by the coastal defense guns from Changxing Island and Wusongkou Fort.

Unfortunately, the gunboats, which were much larger than the landing craft targets, became the main targets of the batteries, and the five gunboats were blown up and sunk into the water of the main channel of the Yangtze River estuary, and it was also thanks to these gunboats that attracted the fire of the coastal defense guns on both sides, and the Shanghai Dispatch Army under the command of Masao Ishihara was able to have more than half of the landing craft to the beach at the landing site.

At this moment, Ishihara's remaining troops were only more than 80,000 people, and the rest were floating on the sea, and the Japanese troops who were still wading and landing were knocked down in the sea by the dense rain of bullets from the beachhead, and floated to the depths of the sea with the sea.

The Japanese army landed on the beachhead and could no longer arch, Zhang Zhizhong did not intend to let them go, the artillery unit of the Central Army, which had already calibrated the coordinates in advance, covered the Japanese landing area with volcanic eruption-like artillery fire, Ishihara did not know the situation of the other two landing troops for the time being, however, he felt that he had attracted all the firepower of the Chinese defenders, so Yanagawa Heisuke and Nakajima Imago should be very smooth, right?

With this breath in support, Ishihara ordered the troops, dig field fortifications on the spot, stick to the landing point, and wait for the rendezvous with the 10th Army that landed in Hangzhou Bay, braving dense artillery fire, the Japanese soldiers began to dig the fortifications, the speed was extremely fast, the sand was fine, soft like a lover's hand, but they couldn't bear the shells.

Ishihara gritted his teeth and endured, his troops, facing the threat of fierce shelling by the Chinese defenders, many soldiers were buried alive in the beach fortifications they dug, but the hateful thing is that there are four wings of heavy artillery, that is, they can't establish an artillery position, so that the soldiers with rifles can attack, and the squadron defending relying on the reinforced clay fortifications is tantamount to suicide, Ishihara didn't think about it.

His only thought was to persevere, and persist until the Tenth Army appeared behind the defenders of China, at that time, it was time for the Shanghai Dispatch Army to take revenge, time seemed to freeze, and the news that the Tenth Army and the Sixteenth Division had successfully arrived in Shanghai was delayed, and what was waiting for them was getting heavier and heavier casualties.

Masao Ishihara really can't stand it, his brave soldiers, all the time are killed by the damned Shina people, how long will he hold on? Did all the firepower of the defenders of China fall on their heads? At this moment, even if he wanted to retreat, he would have to pay a great price, and he had no choice but to get through the base camp and ask the navy to send planes to bomb the positions of the defenders in Shanghai and China to reduce the pressure on the Shanghai dispatch army.

At the same time, I hope that the base camp will urge the 10th Army and the 16th Division to speed up the pace of attacking Shanghai, my troops are suffering from the endless artillery fire of the people of China all the time, when I received Ishihara's telegram, the Japanese base camp was in a gloomy fog, three ways to attack the troops, two roads have been beaten to the head and blood, and the main attack force of the 10th Army is even more miserable, even the commander has been killed, and the command is still carried out, and the 10th Army is now leaderless.

The only Shanghai dispatch army that was still on land was suppressed on the beach by the firepower of the Chinese troops, unable to move, this kind of erosive situation was something that these senior generals in the base camp never expected, and the only thing they could do now was to send planes to support Ishihara Masao.

The Japanese planes on the aircraft carriers of the Third and Fourth Fleets of the Japanese Navy, which received the order, were loaded with bombs and rushed to Shanghai with murderous spirit.

In the first Songhu Campaign, when the troops were attacked by the Japanese air force and suffered losses, Zhang Zhizhong paid special attention to strengthening the air defense forces, and on the basis of the original four air defense regiments, he did everything possible to increase the air defense firepower of the three air defense regiments, so as to protect the sky in the area defended by the Central Army like an iron bucket.

The Japanese bomber group did not take advantage of the positions outside Shanghai, and the sky in the Jiāo war area on both sides was full of smoke clouds formed after the explosion of deadly high shells, shrapnel whistling, and from time to time Japanese bombers wailed, one fell into the sea, and the aerial bombs in the plane exploded, creating a conflicting column of water on the surface of the sea.

With the cover of anti-aircraft weapons, the pressure of the Central Army on the Japanese landing force was unabated, and Ishihara was almost desperate, he was now in a dilemma. Unable to attack, the Chinese defenders relied on complete fortifications to build an iron wall and withdraw? If you can't withdraw, you will be counterattacked by the squadron and driven into the sea to feed the sharks.

The Japanese bomber group could not take advantage of the Jiāo battle area, and the commander who led the team was extremely angry, so many bombs, they couldn't be brought back to the aircraft carrier, right? He gave the order to bomb the downtown area of Shanghai.

Hundreds of Japanese bombers and escort fighters, like ominous crows, viciously pounced on the downtown area of Shanghai.

All the anti-aircraft artillery fire is concentrated in the outer positions of Shanghai, and the air defense forces in the urban area are almost blank, and Shanghai, for these robbers from the air, is an undefended city, like a beautiful luǒ body and young nv, facing a group of hungry and thirsty strong men, without the ability to resist.

The whistling bombs fell from the sky and fell on the heads of innocent civilians, and the areas around Jiading and Baoshan were bombed indiscriminately by Japanese bombers, high-rise buildings collapsed, private houses caught fire, and the blood of innocent citizens flew sideways in the bombs of the Japanese.

The Japanese fighter pilots were even more frenzied, sweeping the streets of the city at an ultra-low altitude, frantically sweeping the citizens who were scattering and fleeing, the nose of the plane sprayed shè flames, like the devil's cruel smile, and innocent lives were brutally taken away, and the Japanese pilots got great pleasure in this wanton killing, and swooped down again and again, like the Grim Reaper spreading its wings.

Whether it was a car or a running pedestrian, all the moving targets on the ground did not escape the clutches of the beastly Japanese pilots, and they did not even see any moving targets, as long as they wanted to, they could shoot at any target that was willing to open fire.

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