Chapter 79 Devils Crossing the River
Everything is ready.
While ordering the Japanese commander, the baggage soldiers and engineers to build a floating bridge, the rest of the soldiers were ordered to cross the river first with fishing boats and rubber boats to seize the opposite mudflat positions to ensure that the baggage soldiers and engineers could build bridges smoothly without being attacked by the other side.
"The warriors of the empire, cross the river immediately and seize the position on the opposite side! Kill the chicken and give it to me!"
After receiving the order, more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers acted as the vanguard. They carried weapons, jumped onto the ships on the shore and quickly crossed the river.
The 6th Division's Japanese made sufficient landing preparations before crossing the river to fight.
Nearly a hundred ships were filled with Japanese soldiers. The Japanese built sandbags on the bow of the ship to resist the attack of bullets on the opposite side. At the same time, there was a light and heavy machine gun on the sandbags.
Except for the rubber boats brought by the Japanese, the other civilian wooden boats were all fishing boats plundered by the Japanese in the local area.
After all, the Japanese ships have only limited limits, so it is impossible to load all the large troops at once. They can only allow the vanguard to cross the river and establish positions, and then cover the follow-up troops to continue crossing the river.
Yang Jing's attention has been on the Japanese attacking positions on the south bank of the Huangpu River. When he saw the Japanese starting to cross the river, he immediately ordered: "The Japanese starting to cross the river. The machine gun team, open fire on me immediately!
Remember, don’t fight in love; after fighting a wave, no matter what the enemy’s casualties are, immediately transfer the position and hide in safe fortifications!”
After receiving the order, the main shooters who had been impatient on the machine gun position pulled the trigger one after another.
"Da da da da!"
"Da da da da!"
On the frontier positions of the Huben Camp, more than a dozen heavy machine guns were fully fired. As the main shooter's arms swung, the dense rain of bullets suddenly formed a huge firepower net, covering the river near Songjiang Wharf.
"Bang bang bang!" A dense rain of bullets roared, some hitting the river surface, and splashing water suddenly splashed.
Some bullets also hit the hull and the bow, or hit the Japanese on the boat.
"Ah, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."
The Japanese who were shot screamed, fell into the river in groups of three or three, or were tilted to the edge of the ship.
"Baga! Machine gun suppress, counterattack, counterattack quickly!"
When the Japanese heard the commander's order, they bent down and dodged the bullets with their heads down. The machine gunners at the bow of the ship opened fire and suppressed the firepower points of the Huben Camp machine gun on the other side.
"Da da da da!"
"Bang, bang bang bang!"
Countless bullets flew back and forth.
The Japanese were sitting on the boat, and the ship was swaying and could not aim at shooting at all, which greatly reduced the accuracy of shooting.
In addition, the defending machine gun points are thousands of meters away from the shore.
Therefore, the bullets shot by the Japanese are no different from stray bullets. They are difficult to hit, and even difficult to hit the defending firepower points.
The Japanese rifle soldiers were wasting bullets completely and their range was not so far.
Of course, the powerful firepower of the Huben Camp did not scare away the Japanese. They were still forcing the Huangpu River to cross the Huangpu River at all costs. Because they knew that as long as they went ashore, the defenders on the opposite side would be slaughtered by them!
However, they underestimated the firepower of the defenders.
More than a dozen machine gunners controlled the machine gun and shot for a long time to attack the Japanese fleet on the river. The bullets easily destroyed the Japanese wooden boats and rubber boats. The Japanese who crossed the river made a mess.
"Baga! No, the boat leaks, block it quickly, hurry, hurry up!..."
The ship is basically made of wood or rubber, and is easily penetrated by overwhelming machine gun bullets, leaving bullet holes.
The river water kept pouring in through the bullet holes, and the water quickly filled the cabin. As sandbags were stacked on the bow, the ship sinked more quickly, and many ships even lost their balance and overturned.
While he was sick and wanted his life, the machine gunners of Huben Camp took advantage of the chaos of the Japanese crossing the river, and the bullets kept calling him over.
"Da da da da!"
"Da da da da!"
The Japanese were rushing around on the boat, their bodies swaying, and they could only become living targets.
"Ah, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."
The Japanese soldiers who were shot screamed, blood splattered on their bodies, and a group of Japanese soldiers "punched, plopped" into the cold river water one after another.
"Yafenfen, save me, help me, help me, help me!"
Some Japanese devils who were not shot or were slightly injured fell into the water and shouted desperately.
Japanese artillery positions.
The Japanese artillery soldiers were ready to fight for firepower to support the crossing of the river at any time.
Seeing that the crossing river troops were blocked by the opponent's fire, Sadao Oshima, the captain of the 6th Japanese Artillery Regiment, drew out his command knife from his waist, waved forward, and said at the top of his lungs: "Architecture Regiment, open fire for me and suppress the enemy's machine gun fire!"
The Japanese in the Artillery Regiment immediately adjusted the firing angle at the fastest speed and fired continuously.
"Bang!"
"Bangbangbangbangbangbang!"
18 75mm caliber field guns that were set up in advance and 6 105mm caliber howitzers were fired, and they shot shells toward the defending machine gun positions like raindrops.
However, after the long-prepared Hub Camp machine gunners, they retreated into the fortifications in the rear according to the order of battalion commander Yang Jing. Therefore, although the Japanese artillery fire was fierce, there were no casualties caused by the defenders.
"Damn, do you think you are the only ones who have artillery?"
At the frontier position of Huben Camp, Yang Jing raised his mouth and grabbed the phone. After answering, he shouted at the microphone: "Rache your ears and start fire immediately. Some artillery fire will counter the Japanese artillery positions and machine gun positions.
Another part of the Japanese who bombarded me the ferry generals and bombed them all to the Huangpu River to feed the fish!"
"yes!"
At the artillery position of Huben Camp, the commander of the artillery company raked his ears and suddenly put down the phone and began to issue orders.
"Line, second row, bomb the artillery positions and machine gun positions for me to bomb the Japanese!"
"Three rows, four rows, bomb the Japanese who crossed the river for me!"
"Quick! Quick!"
There are four platoons in the artillery company, each with 10 field guns and infantry guns with a caliber of more than 75mm.
In order to prevent the attack from Japanese firepower, four platoons were deployed to four different places respectively.
As the messenger conveyed the order to rake the company commander's ears, 40 artillery fired all out and began to counter the Japanese.
"Bang!"
"Bangbangbangbangbangbang!"
The shells dragged the line of fire and flew out from the artillery positions behind the defenders one after another.
The first thing that was hit by artillery fire was the Japanese artillery position more than 500 meters behind the river bank.
Tani Shoufu thought that the opposing defenders did not have the strength or courage to compete with his 6th Division. He even believed that after seeing the mighty and majesty of the Imperial Army, the other party could not have the desire to resist at all, and at least he was scared and fled.
In the worst case, they will kneel down and surrender directly.
So he directly deployed the artillery positions in a place with a wide view.
Without any obstruction in front, it is easy to launch artillery fire on the defending positions across the river, but at the same time it also exposes itself completely to the view of the Hu Ben Camp.
Finally, Tani Suo paid the price for his arrogance...
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Chapter completed!