"Yo Xi! Inform the navy that it can be launched!" I saw the officers and soldiers of the 36th Division sneering in the distance with telescopes in their hands as they rushed into the Huishan Pier.

"Hai!!" the adjutant on the side responded loudly, and then he saw him pick up the phone, shake it and say a few words. The captain of the company held the binoculars coldly and looked at the Huishan Pier, breathing heavily.

The officers and soldiers of the 36th Division looked gruff.

On the harbor, Japanese warships slowly turned their guns one after another! At a few street corners, Japanese tanks "Kerala..." turned their tracks and headed towards here!

Even the planes on the four Japanese aircraft carriers kept buzzing! The officers and soldiers of the 36th Division at the Huishan Pier had no idea that they were already in crisis, but they were cleaning up for themselves.

They cheered when they saw the Japanese troops at Huishan Pier!

At the same time, most of the officers and soldiers, under the command of their respective commanders, began to build their own positions based on the Japanese positions to prevent the Japanese counterattack.

At this moment, the sound of "boom, boom, boom..." came from far away on the sea! Everyone suddenly felt chills, but saw the battalion commander who was directing the operation let out a shrill roar!

"Lie down!!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom..." Suddenly, the explosion shook the ground! It was as if the whole earth was boiling, and the crazy explosion shook the entire Huishan Pier!

The lying down soldiers of the 36th Division were bombarded by the Japanese army without any fortification protection! There were no screams, because the sound of artillery and explosions had covered everything up.

There was no wailing, because all the sounds were covered up. It was a hellish scene! Corpses were strewn across the field, and limbs were all over the ground... Bodies with blown-off hands and mutilated feet were hanging from the eaves, on dead branches and on the ground...

The armor of the Vickers light tank, as thin as cicada wings, was simply vulnerable to this kind of bombardment! Those tank soldiers who risked their lives to reach Huishan Pier were buried on the battlefield before they could rejoice...

"Boom! Boom! Boom..." But the Vickers light tank was torn into parts by the gunfire while it was turning and dodging with difficulty. The soldiers driving the tank could not even restore the intact corpses.

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If this battle can be described in two words, then there is only one word - massacre! Massacre without the ability to resist!

"Buzz buzz..." At this time, bursts of roars came from the sky. Unfortunately, the 36th Division troops on the ground had been bombarded by artillery fire and no one noticed the situation in the sky.

"Chirp, chirp, chirp... Boom! Boom! Boom..." The bomb was thrown from the plane. The troops of the 36th Division who were being bombarded on the ground tragically continued this situation of being beaten and unable to fight back...

But those Japanese fighter planes still did not let go of the soldiers of the 36th Division. After throwing their bombs, they swooped down towards the pier. The aircraft's machine guns fired at the troops below! They were not killed in the shelling and bombing.

The soldiers were torn into pieces of flesh and blood with no ability to fight back...

The bombardment of naval guns, bombing and strafing by aircraft directly destroyed the attack capability of the troops who invaded Huishan Pier! At this time, the Japanese ground troops attacked!

But they saw the Japanese troops rushing towards this place from both ends of Broadway Road. Light and heavy machine guns, grenade launchers and mortars were directed at the 36th Division troops at Huishan Pier. It was a burst of "burst, burst...boom! boom..."

sweep!

At this time, the two battalions that had lost their tanks and most of their troops were no longer able to continue fighting. The remaining battalion commander looked at the men who were fighting with him, and they turned into corpses and mutilated bodies lying on the ground.

With tears streaming down her face, she yelled as loud as she could: "Withdraw!!"

With the remaining soldiers, they withdrew from Huishan Pier in tears...

In this battle, all the support tanks of the 36th Division were destroyed. Only dozens of people from the three attacking battalions returned, and they were forced to withdraw to Tangshan Road...

When the 36th Division was forced to leave Huishan Pier, Major General Cai Bingyan, commander of the 201st Brigade of the 67th Division of the 18th Army, hid behind a low wall outside Luodian Town to observe the enemy's situation.

In his telescope, a figure that disappeared and appeared was quietly moving towards his left-wing position under the cover of morning fog. He knew that the Japanese troops on the opposite side had begun to move.

In late August, the first batch of Japanese reinforcements landed in Wusongkou, Shizilin and Chuanshakou areas. The leading 3,000 troops from the 11th Division once entered Luodian.

Subsequently, the 18th Army was ordered to arrive and Cai Pingyan took the lead in the charge. Thousands of soldiers counterattacked more than 3,000 people of the Japanese 11th Division. The Japanese army suffered casualties and a brigade of troops finally withdrew from Luodian. The 201st Brigade recaptured Luodian.

The brigade was ordered to build positions and defend on the spot.

"It looks like it's coming with a menacing force... Do you want the front of the hotel to be strengthened?!" the chief of staff put down the telescope and said to Cai Bingyan. The latter shook his head and said solemnly.

"When the Japanese enter the ambush circle, follow my orders and fire...we must capture a few alive!"

Cai Pingyan graduated from the first class of Huangpu and the first class of the special class of the Army University. Like all the powerful Huangpu young men in Nanjing, Cai Pingyan followed the principal Chiang Zhongzheng in the Northern Expedition and conquered the country at the age of less than thirty-five.

The high position of major general and brigade commander.

But Cai Pingyan, like all Huangpu students, wanted to compete on the anti-Japanese battlefield with the National Defense Forces of the three northeastern provinces, which had made other countries dare not take a peek and made the Japanese troops shrink back in the fortifications!

Face-to-face fighting is impossible. At least for the time being, Cai Pingyan still wants to outdo the National Defense Forces in fighting the enemy!

In previous wars with the Japanese army, although the Japanese army fought resolutely, the National Defense Forces still captured more than 200 Japanese soldiers. On the other hand, in Nanjing, the results so far since the beginning of the war are not as magnificent as those of the National Defense Forces.

Moreover, there were not a single Japanese prisoner. This made Cai Pingyan and others feel shameless, so Cai Pingyan gritted his teeth and planned to capture a few Japanese prisoners! Your National Defense Force is powerful, and it is not bad to capture the Japanese prisoners of our Huangpu!

You can still catch it!

Watching the figure swaying in the dark night, Cai Bingyan slowly moved towards the position and sneered, nodding to the chief of staff beside him. "Pah!" As a signal flare was launched into the sky, the fierce sound of gunfire immediately broke the silence of dawn!

"Boom! Boom! Boom..." The sound of gunfire suddenly broke the tranquility, and the attacking Japanese troops were suddenly exposed to the firepower of the 201st Brigade!

As a direct line unit of Chiang Kai-shek, the firepower configuration and the quality of the soldiers are naturally not comparable to other units! Not only are they equipped with a large number of light and heavy machine gun firepower, but they are also supported by brigade artillery.

In just a few clicks, the Japanese army was defeated and retreated. Cai Pingyan picked up the binoculars and frowned, feeling a little strange. To his surprise, the resistance of the Japanese army was very slight.

It was just a burst of artillery fire and light and heavy machine gun fire. They retreated. This was really unlike the behavior of the main force of the Japanese army.

Little did he know that this was just a probing attack by the Japanese army. The purpose was to test out the firepower points, artillery positions and other positions he had set up, so as to guide his own naval guns for bombardment!

At this time, the sky was already twilight, and artillery observation balloons were raised from the Japanese army's positions. Two very slow naval observation aircraft flew over Luodian in a swaggering manner, conducting unscrupulous low-altitude observations of the Chinese Army's positions.

A quarter of an hour later, the Japanese warships anchored on the Yangtze River began to shell wildly!

At this time, the Japanese fleet gathered at the mouth of the Yangtze River, with more than 130 warships and more than 4,000 naval guns! Its artillery coverage was enough to cover most of Shanghai.

The Japanese army is not like the Nanjing government who lack artillery and have little understanding of artillery operations. The Japanese army, which had participated in World War I and even fought against the Soviet Union and studied with Germany, has a deep understanding of the role of artillery in war!

The typical tactics of the Japanese army are artillery fire coverage, followed by aircraft bombing and then infantry attack with tank cover. If there are no tanks and armored vehicles, then the fire coverage of light and heavy machine guns becomes the key point of the tactics.

The team's assault is carried out in groups of three! Launch a strong attack on the position, use a grenade to open a gap in the position at about 200 meters, and then start a hand-to-hand battle with the most red sprint!

But before that, the Japanese army had to use feint troops to test the position with fire. This squadron of more than 100 people was actually largely a result of the Japanese army's luck.

If there are not many defenders, these more than a hundred people are enough to capture the position. If there are too many defenders, more than one hundred people are enough to test out the defenders' firepower arrangement.

Luodian is located in a low-lying area of ​​​​the river network. Only shallow trenches can be dug here, and deep defense fortifications cannot be built. What's more important is that Nanjing's troops have no ideological preparation and experience in building deep fortifications!

They were not the National Defense Forces. Under the strong demands of the massacred troops and the harsh facts of previous wars, they spontaneously learned the fortification construction skills of concealment, artillery protection, and traffic trenches that were used in later generations of troops.

In Nanjing, the ones they dealt with the most were local warlords and red troops. Even the former Fengtian troops, which had the most artillery, did not have the luxury of artillery attacks like the Japanese!

"Boom!" The Japanese warship began to test fire under the guidance of the aircraft. The first large-caliber shell was like a stupid black crow, screaming and passing over the town, landing behind the vault of a small church outside the town and exploding.

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This blow was so terrible that the roof of the chapel was immediately overturned by the scorching violent air waves! A shell crater with a diameter of more than ten meters was left on the soft ground, and broken rubble was flying everywhere!

"Boom! Boom! Boom..." Then, the Japanese artillery fire finally began to focus on the bombardment! Under the guidance of the aircraft, the Japanese artillery fire hit the simple positions dug by the 201st Brigade with great accuracy!

Countless limbs were blown up, and the mounds raised by the air wave rolled up the corpses and flew in the air...

The 201st Brigade, who had never experienced such crazy bombardment, was panicked. They made the worst decision: hiding in a nearby courtyard or attic to avoid the bombardment...
Chapter completed!