There are thirteen outer bunkers of Wusong Fortress, which are distributed in a fan shape in the southwest of Fortress Mountain. They can use Fortress Mountain as a barrier to block the bombardment of Japanese warships coming from the sea outside Wusong. Of course, the Japanese warships are not a bit weak either.
There is no other way. If they can drive the warship to land or sail the warship into the Huangpu River, they can still use the direct fire of the large-caliber naval gun on the warship to easily destroy these bunkers.
However, it is a pity that the Japanese warships cannot reach land or enter the Huangpu River.
Therefore, the task of clearing out the bunkers and destroying the Wusong Fortress can only be left to the Japanese infantry.
The status of Wusong Fortress is so important. It is not only the key to Shanghai. In a sense, it can even be said to directly determine the outcome of the third Songhu Battle! Therefore, Xu Rui will have the strongest combat effectiveness among the eight main battalions.
The first battalion was transferred over and Shi Changqing, a tiger general, was responsible for guarding the Wusong Fortress.
Shi Changqing divided the work among his three companies. The first company guarded the thirteen outer bunkers in squad units, the second company guarded the main bunker of Wusong Fortress, and the third company served as a reserve team, nestled in the large underground shelter of Wusong Fortress.
Be ready to counterattack at any time, or go forward to replace a company.
Therefore, Wang Jiageng's company was responsible for guarding the outer group of bunkers.
Although he is the company commander, Wang Jiageng did not hide in the No. 1 bunker, which is the innermost and safest. Instead, he personally led the guard squad and was responsible for the defense of the No. 13 bunker. The No. 13 bunker was at the top of the entire fortification.
The periphery is easily exposed to concentrated fire from Japanese artillery, and can be said to be the most dangerous link in the entire fortification chain.
Wang Jiageng sat against the wall, looking quietly at the smoke-filled sky outside through the lookout hole. The gunfire was ringing outside, but it could not stop him from missing his relatives infinitely. Although they had only been apart for three days, Wang Jiageng had already begun to miss his family.
I miss my wife, I miss my wife’s warm body, I miss my wife’s soft and moist lips...and their children.
Wang Jiageng clearly remembered his wife's reluctant and sad eyes when he walked him out of the alley before he left, and then watched him walk away. Recalling his wife's infinitely sad and reluctant eyes, he felt in his heart
He couldn't help but feel pain. He knew what his wife was worried about. If he left, he might never come back again!
Oh, that's not right, he can still go back, but when he goes back and returns to his wife and children again, he may have changed from a living life to a box of cold ashes.
Two lines of clear tears quietly slid down Wang Jiageng's cheeks.
Being ruthless does not necessarily mean you are a hero. How can you not be a husband if you have a pity? Who dares to say that only the ruthless man is a real man and a real man? Who dares to say that a man who is full of longing and nostalgia for his relatives is not a man and a real man? Quite the opposite.
, only a man who is full of longing and attachment for his loved ones is a real man!
However, Wang Jiageng never wanted to be a real man or a hero!
If given the choice, Wang Jiageng really doesn't want to put on the military uniform again and return to the army. How much he wants to be with his wife and children all the time. How much he wants to return to that warm little nest after work every day.
Seeing his wife's smiling face and his son's cute little face, he wanted to grow up with his son.
But, he couldn't! The cruel reality deprived him of this most basic right as a husband and a father! The Japs came in. If he didn't put on the military uniform again, if he didn't return to the army, he would pick up a gun and fight with the Japs.
If he fights for his life, not only his small family cannot be saved, but also thousands of families in China.
So Wang Jiageng had no choice but to put on the military uniform and pick up weapons again.
Wang Jiageng was thinking about his wife and children when a voice suddenly sounded: "Company commander, the little devil is coming up!"
Hearing this voice, Wang Jiageng finally came back to his senses from the endless longing for his wife and children. Then he turned around and pretended to wipe his face, wiping away the tears on his cheeks without leaving a trace. When he turned around again, his face was
His expression has returned to his usual cold and perseverance, and he has returned to what a Chinese soldier should look like.
Wang Jiageng strode to the shooting hole on the front of the bunker and looked out through the splayed shooting hole. Sure enough, he saw about a squadron of Japanese soldiers, guided by four Type 95 light tanks, divided into four lines.
The column rushed towards Wusong Fortress. It could be seen that the little devil was very arrogant.
But this is normal. One guy dispatched four Type 95 light tanks! How could he not be arrogant?
However, the little devil soon had to cry. Wang Jiageng smiled ferociously, turned his head and shouted loudly: "Bazooka!"
Guard squad leader Yi Feng immediately strode over with a rocket launcher on his shoulder and said to Wang Jiageng: "Company Commander, do you really need to take action in person for such a trivial matter? Let me do it!"
"Okay." Wang Jiageng said happily, "You come."
At this time, the gunpowder smoke that had filled the position had gradually dispersed, and the Japanese tanks and the Japanese infantry following the tanks were clearly visible. Seeing the Japanese approaching within two hundred meters, Wang Jiageng was not in a hurry to give the order to fire.
The closer the enemy gets, the more effective the fire will be.
Wang Jiageng called three more guards and asked them to inform the three bunkers behind him respectively, and ordered each bunker that no one was allowed to fire first before bunker No. 13 opened fire. In addition, bunker No. 12 and bunker No. 10 were ordered to fire.
The rocket teams in Bunker No. 1 and Bunker No. 10 assigned shooting targets to avoid hitting too hard.
The three guards immediately rushed out of the back entrance passage of the bunker, jumped down the steps, and then ran separately through the traffic trench to their respective target bunkers. Originally, Xu Rui wanted to build Wusong Fortress into another Songshan Fortress.
Each bunker has underground passages connected to the main body of Fortress Mountain, thus forming a completely closed underground transportation network.
However, due to too little time, they eventually changed to open communication trenches, but it was enough. Anyway, the Japs rarely used the communication trenches when they bombarded them. When the Japs began to engage in infantry attacks, the Japs would no longer conduct shelling and would use open trenches.
There is no danger in the traffic trench and it can be passed safely.
Wang Jiageng's order was quickly issued to the other three bunkers.
After a while, the little devil entered within a hundred meters.
There was still silence on the garrison position, and there was no reaction. However, the Japanese tanks responsible for guiding the infantry could not hold back and opened fire first. With four loud bangs, the main guns of the four Type 95 light tanks
The muzzle of the cannon ejected four balls of flame at the same time, and then, the four shells hit the No. 13 bunker at the front almost instantly!
Boom boom boom explosions sounded almost simultaneously, and huge clouds of smoke and dust instantly rose from the front wall of Bunker No. 13.
There are also pieces of grass and sawdust sputtering everywhere. This is the masterpiece of Wang Zhenghao, a doctor of civil engineering. He suggested that the officers and soldiers of the Songhu Independent Regiment cover the outside of the bunker with logs and straw mats, which can effectively reduce the kinetic energy of the shell explosion.
It is possible to protect the main building of the bunker and extend its service life.
Four Japanese tanks fired continuously, and in an instant, the outermost bunkers of Wusong Fortress were beaten into smoke and dust. The scene looked very spectacular, but the actual effect, only God knows.
After firing more than a dozen shells, the Japanese tank finally stopped shooting, waited for a moment, and then once again led more than a hundred Japanese infantry towards the No. 13 bunker. The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, one hundred meters, eight meters.
Ten meters, fifty meters, after reaching the distance of fifty meters, the Japanese hiding behind the tank also started to fire.
This was the moment he had been waiting for. Wang Jiageng smiled ferociously and shouted: "Madman, open fire!"
"Okay!" Yi Feng, the guard squad leader, pulled the trigger hard. Hearing a squeaking sound, the tail of the rocket launcher spurted out a stream of flames, and then a rocket launcher roared out from the muzzle, almost
It instantly hit the Type 95 light tank fifty meters ahead.
Yifeng aimed at the position of the fuel tank at the rear side of the car body.
Then, there was a loud bang, first a violent explosion, and then a raging fire swallowed the tank completely.
Almost at the same time, the other three rocket launchers in the bunker also opened fire at the same time. At a distance of fifty to one hundred meters, it was very difficult to miss a large target like a tank! In an instant, the little devil's
The four tanks turned into a burning ball of fire at the same time, and then a dozen bunkers opened fire at the same time.
In an instant, intensive machine gun fire intertwined into a fire net with no blind spots, shrouding more than a hundred Japanese who launched the attack. The little Japanese originally thought that the tanks could provide cover, but at such a close distance.
In terms of distance, a tank with a width of less than two meters cannot form a blind spot for shooting.
"Da da da da..." The roar of the Browning heavy machine gun rang out, and the dazzling tongues of flames were like long whips in the hands of the god of death, constantly sweeping over and over the battlefield, harvesting crazily.
The little devil's life! The poor little devil is like weeds that have been cut down, falling piece by piece.
In front of properly designed and well-equipped fortifications, infantry is really powerless!
Just talking about the Normandy landing, a German bunker on the coast can kill a coalition division! Even a machine gunner can kill more than 2,000 coalition infantry with just a heavy machine gun! There is also the battle of Songshan Fortress, which lasted for more than 15 years.
The Wan Guojun, with the air support of the Flying Tigers, stormed for more than three months, but still could not capture the Songshan Fortress with only half a regiment. In the end, they finally managed to capture it by blasting, but tens of thousands of people died!
In Wusong Fortress, the little devil had a taste of this despair in advance.
In just a moment, the four Type 95 light tanks and a squadron of Japanese infantry that went into the attack were easily killed by the defenders' rocket launchers and heavy machine guns!
