Chapter Ninety-Nine: Crossing the River
"Of course we have to evacuate this place." A voice suddenly joined in, and everyone turned to see a young man dressed strangely dressed and with an even more strange-looking rifle hanging from his chest. "Lao Yan, it's time to retreat, the defenders of several other gates in the city have already worshiped and withdrawn, if you don't leave, you can only be eaten by the Japanese army in the end." Lu Yuan nodded at Yan Zhengqing, the latter's face became ugly because of this, he didn't expect that the situation in the city had changed so severely.
"Who wouldn't say big things, but what about the credentials?" "Like, why should we believe you?" The officers of the 74th Army immediately began to make noise.
"Why?" The old cannon snorted coldly, and shouted murderously at the other party, "It's up to our commander to take our group of soldiers and ambush and kill more than 5,000 little devils in two ambushes." After that, the old cannon glared at the platoon commander who screamed the most fiercely at the other party and said, "Can you change it?" If it weren't for the timely support of you, you would have died a long time ago! The platoon commander immediately lowered his head, and the officers next to him also looked ashamed, Although the old artillery's words were arrogant, what they said was the truth, if they hadn't appeared in time and turned the tide, with the situation at that time, they would indeed have been completely annihilated by the Japanese army.
"I am Lu Yuan, you can believe it, and you can believe it if you don't believe it. Now the Japanese army will not attack again for the time being. Everyone hurriedly retreated with the wounded and us, with your current physical strength, it is difficult to withstand the continuous attacks of the Japanese army. ”
"Retreat, you can still withdraw there" Yan Zhengqing, whose face was as dead as ashes, smiled bitterly.
"At the Xiaguan Wharf, there are boats on the riverside, and the Rujiangmen is still in our hands. Our men are now gathering the stragglers of the national army in the city, and we will withdraw across the river before dark. The Japanese warships were still demining, and they could not reach the Shimonoseki pier before dark. Lu Yuan tried to continue to persuade Yan Zhengqing and the others to evacuate with him, but Yan Zhengqing's heart was already cold, and in the end, the old cannon ignored the angry eyes of the officers of the 74th Army and directly knocked Yan Zhengqing unconscious, so he forcibly escorted Yan Zhengqing and them all the way to Xiaguan Wharf.
There was jubilation on the river beaches and wharves, and the defeated soldiers of the Nationalist army who had survived the battle vied with each other, jumping, shouting, laughing, roaring, and venting their emotions in all their hearts, and the soldiers were so excited that they exchanged tears, frantically shouting the names or nicknames of people they knew. Lu Yuan, who saw all this from afar, did not stop it, and it was also appropriate to let the defeated soldiers vent after the battle. After these defeated soldiers have wailed, their morale will be restored, and their confidence will be greatly boosted.
Lu Yuan knew that these defeated soldiers who had experienced the hard battle of Nanjing would become veterans and would release the power that made the Japanese army tremble on the battlefield of resistance against Japan. However, Lu Yuan did not join the carnival of the rout. He was listening to Sun Zhi's report on the Rujiangmen position, "We have also sent more than ten small forces to collect the routs in the city, plus the sir, we have sent more than 40,000 soldiers and more than 100,000 refugees across the river, and now there are less than 10,000 soldiers left on the dock." All boats and rafts are only to go back and forth; You can cross the river in two times. The intact light and heavy machine guns have been loaded onto the ship, but unfortunately there is no way to take those vehicles away."
Lu Yuan looked at the vehicles parked by the river along Sun Zhi's realization, and then thought for a while before he spoke, "Then take all the fuel away, the vehicles will burn, in short, it must not be left to the Japanese." ”
Due to the addition of Lu Yuan's butterfly, the little wings fanned casually, and the defense of Nanjing completely changed. The Japanese army paid the price of nearly 30,000 casualties, especially the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, which paid nearly 6,000 casualties, and even almost had the shame of two infantry wings being completely annihilated at the same time. What the Japanese army got was just an empty Nanjing, and the people in Nanjing were almost looted by Lu Yuan, and there were only a few thousand people left in the city, including spies, traitors and other figures.
The Japanese army, which also consumed too much physical strength, has now become a strong bow and crossbow, and many Japanese troops have long been out of provisions, and the Japanese Central China Front Headquarters had to mobilize troops from other places to support the attack troops in Nanjing, and the Japanese army occupied Nanjing a full day later than in history. But this is only the beginning, and it is far from the end, Lu Yuan has already left a big gift to the Japanese army in Nanjing City, an unexpected gift to the Japanese army.
"Devil's airboat!" "Devil's plane!" There was a sudden panic on the dock, all kinds of screams everywhere, some people were calling everyone to prepare for battle, and all kinds of noisy voices came one after another. The devil motorboat appeared far away on the river, and at this time, two boats on the dock had just untied their cables. "Quick, light the tires in the cauldron, call the flotilla back, pull our anti-aircraft machine guns to the boat, each batch of ships crossing the river must have anti-aircraft machine guns on the ship to protect them, and all the machine guns are all anti-aircraft" Lu Yuan gave a series of orders.
In the sky are Japanese planes, getting closer and closer; The planes swooped down and strafed the crowd on the ground, leaving corpses on the long and wide riverbank. At the command to "hit" the old artillery, all the machine guns on the river bank opened fire on the enemy planes in the sky. According to Lu Yuan's instructions, most of the machine guns obtained from General Gao Qi's arsenal were arranged on the docks and river banks, and there were no less than 100 of them, and the Japanese planes did not expect that the Chinese army could still have such powerful anti-aircraft firepower.
The unsuspecting Japanese planes got into the firepower network formed by the intensive fire of nearly 100 machine guns, and three planes in a company were hit and exploded, and the remaining Japanese planes hurriedly and desperately pulled up the nose, but it was too late. A total of 7 Japanese planes came, all of which were hit by machine guns and exploded, and the soldiers and refugees on the dock had forgotten their current situation and shouted loudly.
In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, only a small number of Chinese troops would shoot in the air when they were attacked by air, and most of the troops silently withstood the air attack without firing a shot, only knowing that they were desperately looking for objects that could cover and desperately fleeing. This will be done, the tires in the cauldron by the river have been burned, and the thick smoke in the sky has covered this section of the river. The Japanese planes that came again could not see anything, so they had to find a place, hurriedly dropped a few bombs, and returned very helplessly.
"Open the boat" Lu Yuan took people on board, and the boat carrying anti-aircraft machine guns walked on the outermost side, protected the other ships inside, and quickly sailed towards the opposite shore. "Boom" "Boom" The Japanese gunboat opened fire, hitting the river and overturning several rafts tied to the back of the boat. The Japanese gunboats on the river swept away the refugees who swam across the river alone with a log. They used their boats to overturn the improvised rafts and knock them apart. In the rolling waves of the motorboat, the refugees who fell into the water struggled hopelessly. They struggle in the waves, in the cold, on the line of death, just for the hope of life.
Lu Yuan, whose eyes were already red, grabbed the anti-aircraft machine gun that had been flattened in his hand, and shouted wildly, "Lean in, let the little devil see how powerful we are" As soon as the words fell, Lu Yuan had already pulled the trigger. The anti-aircraft machine gun suddenly began to roar, and the bullets with a caliber of 13.2 mm that could penetrate light tanks and armored vehicles, with Lu Yuan's madness, with his hatred, and with his thick killing intent, turned into an angry fire dragon and slammed into the Japanese gunboats.
The muzzle of the twin anti-aircraft machine gun suddenly sprayed out two fire dragons more than a foot long, and for a while, Lu Yuan's body trembled desperately and irresistibly, in the face of such a pure heavy machine gun, the Japanese gunboats in the distance were like paper paste. The Japanese gunboat was less than 400 meters in front of Lu Yuan, and the Japanese soldiers on the gunboat were swept away by the flames sprayed by the anti-aircraft machine guns before they could figure out what was going on. People who have never seen anti-aircraft machine gun flat fire can never imagine what terrible consequences a 13.2 mm caliber bullet will cause when it hits the body at a distance of only 400 meters! To put it simply, it's a matter of breaking it!
Several fire dragons formed by four anti-aircraft machine guns engulfed the Japanese gunboats, and a scream of ghosts and wolves immediately sounded on the Japanese gunboats, and patches of crimson blood mist rose and fell on the gunboats. The two Japanese gunboats were blown up one after another, and it looked like fireworks set off during the festival, which was extremely beautiful, glamorous, and miserable. "Catch up" Lu Yuan pointed ahead, and farther away there were two Japanese gunboats that were parked in place for some reason. When the anti-aircraft machine gun personally controlled by Lu Yuan fired another fine strafing at the river, there was no longer a single Japanese gunboat in sight on the entire river, and the river was full of broken hulls and red, white, sticky, greasy and bloody corpses of the human army.
Lu Yuan's pale face just wanted to get off the anti-aircraft machine gun, but he opened his mouth and spurted out a mouthful of blood. The soldier next to him turned red at first glance. "Lift the chief down" I couldn't hear who was shouting, everyone just lifted Lu Yuan up, and then gently put him down on Class A, about to pick up his clothes and look for wounds. "Oops, hey, you foodies, you are so tightly surrounded, do you want to suffocate the chief to death? Get out of the way, get out of the way. The commander's body has not yet grown, which is to let the anti-aircraft machine gun be injured" The old cannon who rushed to hear the news squeezed inside, chasing the group of soldiers.
After spitting out a mouthful of blood, Lu Yuan's face turned better, and he held Lao Cannon's arm and stood up hard. "Old artillery, inform the people of the boat, except for clothes and money, everything else is gone, and you must speed up and cross the river." Lu Yuan said faintly. "Send someone to take a motorboat to Pukou to see if there is still a boat. Needless to say, just grab it, I can't care so much now, as long as it's a boat, I'll get it all back, and I'm running out of time. ”