Chapter 436: Purging the Remnants of the Enemy

The unshakable solid Japanese firepower point was finally blasted out of a gap by Chang Feng Chuang's use of anti-tank guns, and the way of peeling off the cocoon chōu silk and attacking one point to blast out a gap, probably Wang Xu, who invented it, never dreamed that this gun could also be used in this way, as concocted, and blasted open three Japanese firepower points, and then, Chang Feng mobilized all mortars and Type 92 infantry guns to concentrate artillery along the gap.

This is a bit similar to the pipe surge of the 10,000-mile causeway, indicating that the turbulent jī flow cannot be seen, but at the bottom of the embankment, quietly expanding the impact range, and reaching a certain critical point, the seemingly solid embankment will eventually collapse.

The seemingly impregnable Japanese stronghold was finally chiseled through the strongest section, and as the area of the shelling became larger and larger, a wide passage was punched out, and the troops rushed through the billowing smoke and rushed into the Japanese Hongkou stronghold, where a battalion commander rushed to the front, wielding a bright machete in his hand.

The troops attacked the strong stronghold of the Japanese army in Hongkou, Chang Feng breathed a sigh of relief, his expression became calm, there was no suspense, the rest of the battle was much easier, the role of anti-tank guns in overcoming strong fortifications, Chang Feng, who was more good at using his brains, left a distinct impression, in the future, similar battles, can not be avoided, how to avoid large casualties in the troops, he began to think seriously.

After the war, based on the example of the Battle of Hongkou in the Songhu Battlefield, he established the Yì Special Equipment Research Institute to develop a straight heavy weapon that was easy to carry by individual soldiers and could be equipped with infantry platoons, which was used to destroy the strong fortresses of the Japanese army, especially the dead corners that could not be covered by heavy artillery.

Chang Feng's construction caused Tang Qiuli to attach great importance to it, and he thought of the recoilless guns and bazookas of later generations, which were sharp weapons for the targeted removal of the defenders' strong strongholds, which gave birth to the standard direct-aim weapon rocket launcher that was later equipped with the platoon level of the troops belonging to the independent division.

The Xiǎo detachment of the Independent Division used this kind of bazooka to turn one artillery tower after another into a living coffin to bury the Japanese garrison, and once set a record of clearing more than 1,000 Japanese artillery towers overnight, which made the Japanese very troubled and had to retreat to the central cities along the railway, and gave up the vast countryside to the troops of the Eighth Route Army, who were good at guerrilla warfare.

After the troops entered Hongkou, the Japanese marines fell into a húnluàn, under the command of the Japanese commander, the Japanese soldiers held the three eight guns of the bayonets, howling and rushing towards the soldiers, the soldiers of the independent division, white-knuckle combat training, that is not a key subject, so, although carrying a machete behind him, he didn't bother to use it, the submachine gun was raised, and the soldiers of a squad formed a battle formation, and there was a burst of madness, and the corpses of the Japanese soldiers were covered with layers on the ground.

The remaining Japanese soldiers saw that the situation was not good, the conscience of the Chinese was greatly broken, those who fought bayonets could not do it, and the work of shooting went into the fortifications one after another, but all the firing points were shè holes open to the outside, and there was no place to shè to hit inside, and the soldiers were happy and hid in the turtle shell?

Three or four grenades were bundled together, and a grenade exploded, taking advantage of the fact that the smoke did not dissipate, and then threw the cluster grenade in, there was a muffled sound here, where there was a burst of fire, the Japanese Marine Corps base in Hongkou, hún clay fragments can be that luàn flying, and the Japanese army was huddled together, which brought great convenience to the troops to concentrate and eliminate them, and the hearts of the soldiers, not to mention how comfortable, finally came out to hold this bird breath in their hearts.

After more than a dozen hours of fighting, nearly 20,000 Japanese troops, only more than 1,000 of them, retreated into a solid basement and resisted stubbornly, refusing to surrender their guns, and the rest were wiped out on the spot.

The big mén in this basement, I don't know what material it is made of, is unusually strong, and more than 20 grenades were used in a row, but they didn't blow up a little crack, but were wounded by bullets that didn't know where to come from, and more than 20 fighters were injured.

The commander of the first battalion led the remaining more than 200 soldiers to rush to the front, chasing the ass beating of the Japanese army, watching them retreat into the basement, and the wounded soldiers, six or seven of them were his subordinates.

He led the soldiers to run over, ho the pungent smell of gasoline, so that he could hang on his heels, this thing is a good thing, and instructed the soldiers, opened the lid of fifty or sixty barrels of gasoline, and rolled them all down the slope to the basement of the big mén, and the gurgling gasoline flowed down the mén crack into the basement, and I could faintly hear the panicked shouts in Japanese from inside the basement.

A grenade was thrown, and immediately, with a "boom", the raging fire burned, and a terrible scream suddenly sounded in the basement, the commander of the first battalion silently took off his military hat, and the remaining soldiers of the first battalion also took off their military hats, and the more than 600 comrades-in-arms and brothers who died in battle, I use the lives of more than a thousand devils to pay tribute to you, and I hope that your heroic souls can see this

At 0:30 a.m. on 19 August, the Hongkou base of the Japanese Navy Marine Corps stationed in Shanghai was captured by the Sulu Mobile Corps, and more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers, none of whom survived, and from 28 January 1931, the Japanese Marine Corps, which had been entrenched here for six years, disappeared into ashes and became the dregs of history.

Chang Feng completed the task half a month earlier than the time set by Tang Qiusheng, and he immediately gathered his troops, an infantry brigade attacked and advanced along Hongkou, to the mouth of the Chuansha River and the Lion Forest, and an infantry brigade set out from Hongkou to attack and advance to the area of Wusong, along the way to eliminate the remnants of the enemy who dared to resist, and after entering the designated place, he built fortifications on the spot to counterattack the Shanghai dispatch troops of Matsui Shigen, who came from the Japanese mainland and were preparing to land in this direction.

Chang Feng personally led the artillery brigade and anti-tank gun detachment to reinforce the Ninth Army, in the direction of Yangshupu, the sound of gunfire was still fierce, when Chang Feng led the troops to arrive, General Zhang Zhizhong was in a rage towards the three divisions, using more than 50,000 jīng sharp**, and it was impossible to attack Yangshupu, which was held by more than 8,000 Japanese marines, and the troops suffered more than 5,000 casualties.

The Ninth Army had the same problem as Changfeng, Yangshupu was the location of the Japanese Marine Corps Headquarters in Shanghai, and after more than six years of painstaking operation, it was already a strong combat fortress, with thick hún concrete steel fortifications, which were said to be able to withstand a direct hit of more than 500 pounds of aerial bombs.

The Ninth Army, although it was the old man's descendant unit, and the Jīng Rui in the Central Army, could not compare to the perverted Tang Qiuli, who equipped the Sulu Mobile Corps with powerful artillery fire, and in the field units under the independent division, the proportion of artillery far exceeded that of any squadron at that time.

When General Zhang Zhizhong saw the young Colonel Chang Feng walk into the headquarters, he knew that the hard bone in Hongkou had been gnawed down by this young man's command of more than 30,000 troops, and the anger on his face was even stronger, originally General Zhang had to take on the heavy task of attacking Hongkou out of good intentions, where there were more than 20,000 Japanese troops, and in the direction of Yangshupu, there were only more than 8,000 Japanese troops.

Besides, the first battle of Songhu was fought against the troops of Vice Chairman Tang, and it was not good to let people's troops gnaw hard bones, and the casualties were too great, and it was not good to meet in the future, but it was politely rejected by this chief of staff, and the troops had already been deployed, so it was not good to temporarily change the main target, for fear of causing húnluàn, this is Chang Feng's original words.

General Zhang Zhizhong had the mentality of a competitive battle, fighting Yangshupu, your troops of Vice Chairman Tang can fight, and our Central Army troops are not eating dry food, who knows, at the beginning of the attack, the Japanese troops guarding used light and heavy machine gun bullets like a torrential rain and locust-like shells to weave a net of death on the road of the troops' charge, and the three regiments participating in the attack suffered most of the casualties and had to be withdrawn, and the corpses of the officers and men of the Central Army paved the road for the attack.

Zhang Zhizhong was shocked, and hurriedly transferred up the artillery regiment, a fierce artillery bombardment, more than 1,000 shells, according to reason, the small Yangshupu should also be flattened, and attacked again, the density of the Japanese army's firepower did not weaken in the slightest, the shelling had no effect, and the Japanese army's fortifications were as indestructible as copper cast iron.

The artillery bombardment, this time more than 2,000 shells were fired, and the troops' attack was fought back, and so on several times, the artillery regiment's shells were almost exhausted, and the Japanese stronghold was not shaken, but the troops fell a large number of casualties, and finally, organized a death squad of more than 1,000 people, each of whom had five cluster grenades, even if it was a pile of people, to blow up this turtle shell.

The rain of bullets of the Japanese army was impenetrable, and the death squad had no survivors, the nearest was only more than 80 meters away from the periphery of the Japanese stronghold, and it became a death zone in such a short distance.

He had to give the order to suspend the attack, the gunfire in the direction of Hongkou had gradually subsided, the Ninth Group Army, it was helpless, how could it not make Zhang Zhizhong annoyed, if it was possible, he wanted to personally lead the charge of the team, several division commanders were also anxious to turn around, and the fortifications that could not be blown up by artillery shells were still encountered for the first time, they were all veterans of the battlefield, and they knew very well in their hearts that this situation would not be able to capture even if more than 50,000 people of the Ninth Army were filled in.

Chang Feng saw the atmosphere in Zhang Zhizhong's headquarters, and understood what was going on, the result of the Ninth Army, from the experience of his own troops, it can be inferred that soldiers have a competitive heart, especially a famous general like Zhang Zhizhong, 50,000 against 8,000, unable to attack for a long time, with a lot of casualties, in front of the juniors, of course, his face can't be hung up, Chang Feng's face is as usual, and there is no sè of smugness at all.

It was only a solemn report that Chang Feng, chief of staff of the Tenth Group Army, was ordered by the commander General Tang Qiusheng to be dispatched by General Zhang.

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