At eight o'clock in the morning, the third battalion finished breakfast and began a long wait. The first thing the Japanese showed up was still their reconnaissance plane. The bi-wing reconnaissance plane circled in a circle at low altitude, dropped two bombs like a show of force, and then turned around.
leave.
Then came the artillery bombardment, a heavy bombardment of Luodian. Thanks to the lessons learned yesterday, all battalions and companies were well prepared. After the first Japanese artillery shell fell, they immediately moved into bunkers. The Japanese bombing
The effect achieved was not very great, and there were only a dozen casualties in the third battalion.
The difference from yesterday was that after the artillery session, the Japanese did not attack. The third battalion was ready for battle, but the Japanese did not show up. From eight o'clock to eleven o'clock, no one appeared in front of the position.
Japanese
At 11:30, Yu Yang inspected the positions again, but still did not find the Japanese. It seemed that the Japanese had given up on Luodian. Only some traces of Japanese activities could be seen in some positions outside Luodian.
"Battal Commander, do you think the Japanese are still fighting? It's been so long and there's not even a single person left!" Liu Youcai asked curiously while eating.
"You are so anxious to fight. It's just a good idea if the Japanese don't come. Let the brothers have a good rest. We fought all night last night and didn't even have time to have a good rest! After dinner, except for the little Japanese attack, don't disturb me. I just happened to be fine.
Get some sleep!”
"Okay, battalion commander, you have a good rest. The whole battalion is counting on you. You can't lie down too tired. Battalion Commander eats a chicken drumstick!"
Liu Youcai always had a smile on his face. Yu Yang scolded him and kicked him, with the same expression on his face, as if there was no other expression.
After eating, Yu Yang once again set up his kennel in the headquarters, lay down and have a good rest. He was too tired and didn't sleep well. It happened that the Japanese were not coming today, so he had a good rest.
Next, Lu Xun once said that only when you have enough energy can you kill the Japanese better!
In the distance, at the Japanese beachhead, strong winds and heavy rains last night meant that the Third Division could only send less than half of its regiment ashore overnight. Around the beachhead, there were constant exchanges of fire with the Kuomintang troops. The 11th Division's
Some of them have already reached the Japanese beachhead not far away.
"Captain, are we going to capture Luodian today?" A combat staff member asked the commander in a low voice.
Captain Kawaami Mi of the Sixth Regiment of the Japanese Third Division shook his head: "We are currently under-strength. We lost half of the brigade last night. If we divide our forces today, there will be holes in our flanks. The Chinese army in front of us will
This is the main force of the Chinese, so we’d better be careful!”
"Hayi!"
The Japanese Sixth Regiment was one of the first twenty-four regiments awarded the flag by the Japanese. It is not well-known, but a former captain of this regiment is notorious in China. Okamura Neiji once won the title in 1927.
Served as co-captain of the 6th Regiment!
Now Kawami is a little agitated, the war is not going smoothly. According to the original plan, the Sixth Regiment should have invaded Shanghai by now, but now it is stuck at the beachhead and cannot advance or retreat.
Last night's heavy rain left the 18th, 34th and 68th regiments that originally came for support still floating on the sea. The 3rd and 2nd regiments that were previously separated were all maimed. Now Kawaami is in the hands of Mi.
The strength of the Chinese army is already stretched thin. If the Chinese army continues to attack by force, it may really be driven into the sea!
Currently attacking the Sixth Regiment were Wang Jingjiu's Ninth Group Army and Luo Zhuoying's newly formed Fifteenth Group Army. The two sides were less than one kilometer away from the landing point, but they were unable to break through the Japanese artillery blockade.
At the same time, the 98th Division is currently fighting a bloody battle with the Japanese at Shizikou. The Japanese have collapsed across the board and are holding on to the landing point, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements!
Kawami looked at the map and kept planning a counterattack in his mind. After drawing it over and over for a long time, he threw the pen aside. The number of troops was too small and there was no way to break through the Chinese army's defense.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Kawami finally received the good news that the 34th Regiment had successfully landed, along with a tank brigade of more than 40 tanks!
"The opportunity has come!" After Kawami heard the news, a smile finally appeared on his helpless face. The reinforcements he was waiting for finally arrived. Before, there was a lack of armor to tear apart the Chinese army's defense line. Now that the tanks are coming, Kawami believes
, it only takes two days to capture Shanghai!
After the 34th Regiment where the Japanese landed entered the beachhead position, they did not participate in the attack immediately. Instead, they were repairing. They spent a day floating on the sea last night, leaving the entire Japanese soldiers in the regiment in an extremely weak state.
Now is the last chance to drive the Japanese soldiers into the sea.
However, Chang Kaishen, who likes micro-management, did not seize this opportunity. He first asked Feng Yuxiang, the commander of the Third War Zone, to go to the Sixth War Zone, and he personally took charge as the commander of the Third War Zone. At the same time, he did not launch a large-scale attack on Chuanshakou.
The Japanese who landed instead gathered their forces to attack the Japanese who landed at Zhang Huabin and the Japanese troops entrenched near Wusongkou, missing their last chance.
The Japanese were quietly licking their wounds at Chuanshakou, retracting their fists, and preparing to strike hard. At this time, in the city of Shanghai, the Central Daily News was frantically promoting the attack of the 66th Regiment of the 11th Division.
Luodian’s results!
"Outside, outside, the Third Battalion of the Sixty-sixth Regiment of the 11th Division fought with the Japanese troops in Luodian for a whole day and night, killing and wounding more than a thousand Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese corpses piled up like mountains!"
"Outside of the line, out of line, the Sixty-sixth Regiment defeated the Japanese. The third battalion commander Yu Yang said that Japan will lose and China will win!"
Each little newsboy held newspapers in his hands and kept shuttling around the non-war zones in Shanghai, spreading the news of victory to every citizen still in Shanghai!
When a citizen bought a newspaper, a group of people immediately gathered around him. The person who bought the newspaper opened the newspaper and saw several photos of Japanese corpses piled up on the second page!
"Okay! Good kill!" People who were still a little skeptical immediately began to applaud and celebrate after seeing the photo. Compared with the previous battle report, this time the battle report was accompanied by a photo. Although it was not very clear, the photo
The total number of corpses among them was several hundred.
In addition, on the third page, there was a photo of two Japanese soldiers being captured. When the people gathered around saw it, they couldn't help but marvel. It was the first time they saw the Chinese army capture prisoners.
"Last night our reporter went to the Sixty-sixth Regiment in the suburbs of Shanghai for an interview... In this battle, three battalions killed and wounded Japanese soldiers... Japanese corpses piled up like mountains, and our army only had dozens of casualties..."
"Okay, good fight!"
"What a great fight, drive all these damn little devils out of China..."
After the person who knew the alphabet read out the content, there was a burst of cheers from the surroundings.
ps: Ah, I owe a lot, and I’m going to do ten more updates.
