At noon on December 15, 1937, at the Jiangmen Pier
A group of more than 100 heavily armed soldiers wearing German military uniforms came to the riverside. Among them were hundreds of civilians and some wounded.
Unlike in history, where most of the retreating soldiers and civilians were drowned and beaten to death, at this time most of the hundreds of thousands of people on the riverside have withdrawn, and the remaining thousands of soldiers and civilians are waiting for ships to pick them up.
.Seeing this well-equipped army approaching, the soldiers and civilians on the riverside showed surprise.
At this time, a general walked over to the team and asked loudly: "Which group are you from? Are you also going to cross the river?"
A captain officer at the head of the team came out and said loudly: "Sir, we are from the 36th Division Independent Regiment. We have been ordered by Commander Su to escort the civilians and the wounded across the river. I wonder if the commander can tell us when we will be able to cross the river."
Is there a boat coming to pick us up?"
At this time, the general had already walked up to the front and asked the captain sternly: "Are you from the independent regiment of the 36th Division? Why didn't I know there was an independent regiment?"
This captain was Wu Chengfeng, who was ordered by Su Rui to escort the wounded people across the river. He said with a slightly proud look: "Sir, the designation of the independent regiment was just issued by the Ministry of Military Affairs. You have been here these days.
It's normal not to know anything on the riverside. You'll find out after you cross the river and ask the officials."
The lieutenant general asked with some confusion: "What else is there? What is the name of your regiment leader?"
Wu Chengfeng raised his head and said: "Sir, our regiment leader is Su Rui, the former deputy director of the Logistics Department of the 163rd Regiment."
"What? Is it Suri and his independence...?" The lieutenant general's eyes widened, as if he heard something incredible, "Aren't you an independent battalion? How come you were upgraded to an independent regiment in just a few days?
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"This also happened today." Wu Chengfeng said: "I just received an order from the Chongqing Military and Political Department this morning. Our independent battalion was upgraded to an independent regiment, and Commander Su was promoted to colonel."
The lieutenant general who came was Xiao Shanling, the mayor of Nanjing and commander of the military police. Since he insisted on being the last to evacuate, the 36th Division had already withdrawn to the other side of the river this morning, but he still stayed with some guards.
Lijiangbian was responsible for organizing the people to evacuate.
Fortunately, Xiaoshan ordered the organization to be effective, and the remaining thousands of people did not lose control. However, due to the constant rampage and firing of Japanese patrol boats on the river, the risk of crossing the river was also very high. So far, there is no such thing.
How many ships are willing to come to pick up people again?
Seeing Wu Chengfeng and the hundreds of civilians and wounded behind him, Xiao Shanling frowned. He asked Wu Chengfeng: "Captain, because the density of Japanese patrol boats patrolling the river is increasing, our boats are also patrolling the river.
Are you armed, so it is very dangerous to cross the river now, are you carrying heavy weapons?"
Wu Chengfeng thought for a moment and replied: "Sir, we still have six machine guns and four large-caliber heavy machine guns here. Is that okay?"
Xiao Shanling sighed, "Okay, there may be a ship coming to pick up people in a while. Can you put all the heavy machine guns on the ship and cover the ship as it crosses the river?"
Wu Chengfeng nodded: "No problem, everything will be subject to the commander's arrangements!"
As he was talking, the shadow of a ship appeared on the river. When it got closer, it was discovered that it was a small steamer with a displacement of about thirty or forty tons.
When the small steamer docked at the pier, the people who had been waiting on the riverside became excited and swarmed toward the ship. No matter how many crew members on the ship and dozens of soldiers on the pier tried to dissuade them, it was in vain.
Seeing this situation, Wu Chengfeng frowned. At this time, Xiao Shanling took out his pistol and fired several shots into the sky.
"Bang bang bang..."
Loud gunshots rang out, and the chaotic crowd realized that there were dozens of eager soldiers standing around. The guns in their hands could kill people. They saw the angry-looking Xiao Shanling and a row of people standing around him.
Soldiers, under the threat of black guns, thousands of people on the dock slowly became quiet.
Seeing that everyone was quiet, Xiaoshan Lingcai said angrily: "Let's all line up to grab whatever we want. Following my order, the elderly, women, children and the wounded will get on the boat first, while the men and young adults will wait for the next batch. Now one by one
Come!"
Under the command of Xiao Shanling, everyone on the dock separated the elderly, women and children, and the wounded were helped onto the ship one by one.
When everyone was more than half aboard, Xiao Shanling said to Wu Chengfeng: "Captain, now you can let your wounded and four heavy machine guns be carried on board. Your task is to protect this small boat and not let it be
The Japanese patrol boat was sunk, do you understand?"
Wu Chengfeng nodded, and then ordered the wounded and four M2 heavy machine guns that had been prepared to board the ship. Soon the small steamer drove past the other side of the river, braving the black smoke of Tutu.
But misfortunes never come singly. When the small steamer arrived in the middle of the river, two Japanese patrol boats shot out from the side and fired at the small steamer.
The water depth of the Yangtze River in Nanjing is not deep enough for large warships to sail in. If you insist on sailing in, it is not impossible, but you must be prepared to be stranded. Therefore, the warships that can come in on the river are patrols of small tonnage of about dozens of tons.
boat.
Since it is a patrol boat, it is only equipped with some weapons such as machine guns, and there are no such things as naval guns.
But even so, in these days, these Japanese patrol boats that popped up also caused heavy casualties to the defeated national troops and the people crossing the river. The dead bodies and some fragments of wooden boats that kept emerging on the riverside were the most serious.
Good incriminating evidence.
Although the Japanese patrol boat had just seen the small steamer crossing the river to pick up people, they did not intercept them, but deliberately let them pass, and only suddenly came out after the small steamer was full of people.
, planning to sink both the people and the boat in the middle of the river, which shows the viciousness of the Japanese.
However, this time they were destined to be surprised. Huaxia Huoluan, who had been refusing to fight back or scold him these past few days, suddenly got angry.
When the Japanese patrol boats began to fire at the small steamer as unscrupulously as usual, the small steamer counterattacked unexpectedly, and several fire chains suddenly fired at the Japanese patrol boat from the small steamer.
The armor-piercing bullets made of steel cores also fired mercilessly on the Japanese patrol boats. The powerful armor-piercing bullets cut several unprepared Japanese soldiers into pieces.
"No, the Chinese have large-caliber machine guns on their boats!"
The unprepared Japanese patrol boats were in chaos. The two patrol boats were "Takayama Maru" class shallow-water patrol boats manufactured by the Japanese army in the 1930s. Their weapons were equipped with only two heavy machine guns of 7.7 mm caliber.
Although the firepower of these two machine guns is simply too weak for a ship, but these days they have been dealing with unarmed civilians and defeated troops who abandoned their armor. The machine guns on the ship are naturally
Nothing goes wrong.
But today, they encountered a tough situation. As soon as they opened fire, the counterattack from the opposite side came.
"No, the Chinese put weapons on the boat!"
The Japanese captain on a patrol boat immediately shouted: "Everyone is looking for cover to avoid, and the ship will evade immediately!"
In the view of the Japanese captain, the outer shell of the patrol boat might be able to block a machine gun bullet. But unfortunately, the Chinese army on the opposite side uses armor-piercing bullets specifically designed to hit armor. If it were really the armor-piercing bullets on warships,
The attack was naturally like mosquitoes biting the steel plate, but they forgot that they were only on a thin-skinned patrol boat, and the armor-piercing bullets still penetrated the thin iron sheet mercilessly, leaving the entire ship riddled with holes.
The Japanese army, who had become accustomed to being arrogant these days, could not help but howl in front of the hot bullet rain. Although the patrol boat was also equipped with two 7.7-caliber Type III light machine guns, the most important functions of these two machine guns were
It is anti-aircraft, so their gun mounts must be built very high to ensure that they can rotate 360 degrees and shoot into the air, and there are no bulletproof steel plates around them.
But today, it was this kind of shooting that ruined their lives. The armor-piercing bullets fired from the small steamer on the opposite side easily tore the Japanese shooter who was operating the machine gun upright into pieces together with the loader next to him.
Under the fire of four M2 heavy machine guns, the two Japanese patrol boats that rushed over were like drunken drunkards, spinning on the river surface, and finally drifting into the distance with black smoke.
Under the protection of four heavy machine guns, the small steamer finally panted and landed on the other side of the river...
PS: Thank you to Long Shao LL1, Kong Ming Xiaoxi, and Reader 001 for their tips. Thank you! Also, this book will be on the shelves on Children’s Day, so A Ding needs to save some manuscripts.
, so starting from tomorrow, Ading’s daily update will only be one chapter, please forgive me.