At about six o'clock in the afternoon, the sky finally darkened.
The Japanese warships outside Wusong Port finally stopped, and the Japanese planes hovering in the sky also returned one after another. The Baoshan battlefield that had been boiling all day finally fell silent. Under the cover of night, the transport team and stretcher team from Wusong Town were finally able to enter Baoshan.
city, transporting various military supplies and transporting the wounded to various hospitals in the city for placement.
When Li Yu sent all the wounded away and returned to the camp headquarters, he found that Wu Liang was frowning and looking at the map in a daze, but the rice bowl on the table was motionless.
Li Yu is the instructor of the Second Battalion. He is an old Red Army veteran who has participated in the revolution since the Jinggangshan period. He not only has high political awareness, but also has extremely rich combat experience.
Li Yu asked: "Old Wu, why don't you eat?"
"I can't eat it." Wu Liang shook his head and said, "I have no appetite."
Wu Liang really had no appetite. Although Baoshan County was defended today, especially the weak point of the Sitang River Bridge position at the south gate, it did not fall into the hands of the Japanese. However, the casualties paid by the Second Battalion were extremely heavy.
The third company as a reserve suffered less casualties, and the second company suffered less casualties, but the first company was almost crippled!
There were more than 400 officers and soldiers in the company, and in just one day, they had already suffered more than 100 casualties!
If this speed is followed, the First Company can only hold on to the south gate position for two days at most. After two days, Wu Liang can only let Yue Zhensheng's Third Company take the lead. However, the combat effectiveness of the Third Company is not much better than that of the First Company. The First Company can only hold on for two days.
If you can hold on for two days, the three consecutive days can only last for two days at most. In other words, after four days, the Baoshan South Gate position will be lost!
Four days are far from the ten days required by Xu Rui, but it’s still more than half short of it!
Looking at the map, Wu Liang was so worried that his hair fell out. How could he still have the appetite to eat?
"Old Li, this battle is not going to be easy." Wu Liang said with a sad face, "I praised Haikou to the regiment leader, saying that I would defend Baoshan County for ten days no matter what. What if it is less than ten days?
The time has been lost in the sky, and even under the Nine Springs, I still have no face to see my old brother, what do you think of this matter?"
Li Yu said: "Old Wu, this is just the first day, and I have made you worry like this. Tomorrow the situation will only be more difficult. Will you survive?" After saying that, Li Yu pushed his rice bowl in front of Wu Liang.
He pushed and said, "Listen to me, you have to eat. Only when you are full can you have the strength to fight with the Japanese, right?"
Wu Liang thought it right and immediately picked up his rice bowl and started eating.
Wu Liang said while eating: "Old Li, what you said just now is right. This is only the first day. The little devil suffered a loss in today's attack. Tomorrow he will be even more ferocious, so it is completely foreseeable.
The situation tomorrow will definitely be more difficult than today, but as long as we survive tomorrow, it will be easier in the next few days."
After a pause at this point, Wu Liang continued: "However, it will not be easy to survive tomorrow."
"It's really not easy." Lin Yu took out his dry tobacco pipe and filled a bag of old cigarettes. After lighting it, he took a few puffs, then squinted his eyes and said slowly, "But as the old saying goes, the solution is always more difficult than the difficulty.
, right? Let’s work together and we can always come up with a good idea. I don’t believe that a living person can be choked to death by urine.”
"I like to hear this." Wu Liang nodded and said, "There will definitely be a way!"
Lin Yu said: "Today's results have proved that simply fighting hard may not work."
"Yes." Wu Liang said with deep understanding, "If we fight hard, we might lose everything in one day."
Lin Yu suddenly sighed, and said with some regret: "What a pity, this is the seaside, not in a mountainous area. If this were in a mountainous area, we could dig a few tunnels, hide the troops in the tunnels, and wait for the Japanese to pass by.
Lead the troops to fight out of the tunnel and regain the position, so that we can survive at least one day!"
"Tunnel?" Wu Liang's eyes lit up and he said in a deep voice, "There is no tunnel, but there is a swamp!"
"Swamp?" Lin Yu's eyes lit up and he said urgently, "Old Wu, you mean..."
Wu Liang nodded and asked in a deep voice: "Old Lin, do you think this method of mine will work?"
"This, I really can't say!" Lin Yu shook his head and said, "What if the Japs start searching the swamp..."
"Even if this is the case, the result will not be worse than now!" Wu Liang put down his job, slapped his thigh and said, "That's it! Leave this latent mission to the Third Company!"
At that moment, Wu Liang asked the guards to call the third company commander Yue Zhensheng.
After a while, Yue Zhensheng left the camp headquarters with a solemn expression.
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Wu Liang and Lin Yu's judgments were not wrong. The defeat on the first day really angered the Japanese, especially the commander of the 25th Infantry Regiment, Adachi Kantoshi and the deputy commander, Nagano Ryuta. These two old Japanese were angered.
Unable to even eat, he ran to the division headquarters of the 7th Division all night and issued a military order to Kunisaki Noboru.
Adachi Kantoshi said that if he could not win the position tomorrow, he would commit hara-kiri to express his gratitude to His Majesty the Emperor!
Adachi Kantoshi was so determined that as the division commander, Kunisaki Noboru could not object and immediately nodded and agreed that the 25th Infantry Regiment would still be the main attack force the next day. In addition, Kunisaki Noboru also assured Adachi Kantoshi that he would definitely
Contact the Navy and Aviation Corps to provide sufficient fire support to the 25th Infantry Regiment.
Finally, Kunizaki Noboru stayed with Adachi Kantoshi and Nagano Ryuta to have dinner at his division headquarters.
After drinking and eating, Noboru Kunizaki sent a car to take Adachi Kantoshi and Nagano Ryuta back to the station. Once they returned to the station, Adachi Kantoshi and Nagano Ryuta began to form a death squad. Adachi Kantoshi also agreed with Nagano Ryuta that if
He died in battle, and Nagano Ryuta continued to lead the death squads in a desperate charge until the position was captured!
There was nothing to say all night, but as soon as it got light the next day, a dark group of aircraft appeared in the western sky.
Kunizaki Noboru really did not break his promise. He actually sent a telegram to the Twelfth Army Headquarters, and the commander of the Twelfth Army, Seishiro Itagaki, issued an order to the aviation corps directly under the Central China Dispatch Army. At dawn, the subordinates of the 3rd Aviation Regiment
More than forty bombers from four bomber squadrons flew over Baoshan County. Immediately, 20Kg-level aerial bombs fell like raindrops. The entire Baoshan City, together with the defensive position outside the south gate, was instantly blown into a sea of flames.
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This was not over yet. Half an hour later, the hot air balloon of the Balloon Brigade took off, and then guided the naval gun group at Wusongkou to launch a devastating bombing on Baoshan County and the defensive positions outside the South Gate! This bombing was more
It was even more exaggerated yesterday. Yesterday, we bombed for two hours and fired tens of thousands of artillery shells. Today we bombed for more than three hours. We fired more than 5,000 rounds of artillery shells with a caliber of 300mm or more. All the artillery shells were added.
Get up, there are more than 50,000 rounds!
In the words of Deputy Takeru Toyoda, commander of the Japanese Navy’s Fourth Fleet, their Fourth Fleet has almost exhausted all the artillery shells in its inventory! Of course, these words are just an exaggeration by Deputy Takeshi Toyoda, but they are enough to prove that the Japanese Navy has continued to
How hard they worked during the two days of bombardment!
The Navy is really hemorrhaging money! After all, these artillery shells were bought by the Navy. After they are fired, they have to use the funds of the Navy Department to replenish them. The Army will not give them half a cent!
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Under the indiscriminate bombing of the Japanese aviation force and navy, Baoshan County and the defensive positions outside the south gate have been completely blown into a burning hell. There are flying logs and sand everywhere, and there are roaring and sputtering bombs everywhere.
Shell fragments, broken limbs and remains flying everywhere, and huge craters everywhere...
The commanders and soldiers of the second battalion, who were trapped in hell, were gritting their teeth and holding on for dear life.
Facing the flying shrapnel and steel rain, and the raging flames of hell, the only thing the commanders and soldiers of the second battalion can rely on is their steely will and their flesh and blood!
This is really unfair, this has never been a fair contest, but our ancestors relied on their flesh and blood and steely will to defeat the invading little devils!
What makes people angry is that even today, there is still a very ridiculous saying circulating in the market. It is believed that after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese army transferred a large number of combat troops to the Pacific battlefield and were wiped out by the US military. This led to the Japanese
The final defeat is simply nonsense. The fact is exactly the opposite!
The fact is that before the outbreak of the Pacific War, little Japan was already deeply mired in the Chinese battlefield. There was an extreme shortage of various war resources, especially the shortage of crude oil, which had seriously affected the operation of the military machine. If it could not be improved as soon as possible,
In this situation, it won't be long before Japan's planes, tanks and even warships are all forced to hunker down!
It is precisely because of this that Japan was forced to take the risk and launch the Pacific War, sweeping across Southeast Asia!
Because the international situation at that time was already very clear, it was inevitable that the U.S. government would intervene in World War II, and it would definitely stand on the opposite side of Japan. Therefore, instead of delaying it any longer and waiting for Japan's war resources to be completely exhausted, it would be better to start a war with the United States.
Let's go to war with the United States while there is still a chance of survival.
Therefore, the Chinese can confidently say that China is the main force that really drags Japan to death! The Americans only completed the final blow, and it was not done beautifully!
Let’s get back to the subject. At this moment, the Japanese navy’s indiscriminate bombing has not ended. The commanders and fighters of the second battalion are still suffering in hell. A row of party representatives Li Yingqing looked through the logs on the top of the underground bunker.
Looking up from the gap, I saw that the entire sky was red, with flames rolling past from time to time.
The ground beneath my feet was also trembling violently.
Li Yingqing couldn't help but think that as long as one artillery shell fell, the logs on the top of the underground shelter would not be able to withstand the bombardment of large-caliber artillery shells. At that time, the entire underground shelter would instantly become
Hell, including him, not a single one of the dozen commandos in the shelter could survive.
