The entire sortie squadron was wiped out, prompting Chiaki Shigeto to make a wrong judgment.
Shigeto Chiaki instinctively believed that it was no longer possible to drive the squadron out of the city with an infantry attack alone. Artillery and aviation must be used to blow the entire city into a sea of fire, causing great damage and shock to the squadron. Only then could it be possible to drive the squadron out of the city.
They were expelled from the city and then surrounded and annihilated in the wild.
Shigeto Chiaki immediately ordered the artillery to start preparations for a second, larger-scale artillery fire. At the same time, he sent an emergency rescue telegram to the Condemnation Army Headquarters in Central China, requesting tactical guidance from the aviation regiment.
A moment later, rows of shells roared and rained down towards the city.
The next moment, huge clouds of smoke suddenly burst out from the urban area.
About half an hour after the bombardment, six Japanese Type 96 dive bombers flew over Nantong and dropped twelve heavy bombs. In an instant, more than a dozen huge mushroom clouds appeared among the ruins of the urban area. After the bombs were dropped,
, twelve Japanese bombers swooped down again with ear-piercing screams, and carried out aimless and crazy strafing at the urban ruins.
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"Boom, boom" was accompanied by a deafening roar, and the entire air raid shelter instantly shook violently. It was as if a big earthquake had occurred. A large amount of sand fell from the top of the cave, and
, a few small cracks opened on the originally intact cave wall.
Li Yi looked up at the roof of the cave and said, "If I throw it away, it won't collapse."
If this air-raid shelter collapsed, all the brothers in their battalion would be buried alive.
The veteran paid no attention to it and continued to lean against the cave wall to rest his mind with his eyes closed.
When the Japanese began the second round of shelling, the battalion officers and soldiers quickly withdrew to the air raid shelters. However, this wave of Japanese shelling was more violent than the previous one, and it lasted for half an hour and was not over yet. Not only that, half an hour later,
, there were even bombers flying over Nantong and dropping aerial bombs on the city.
Veterans can still tell the difference between artillery shells and aircraft bombs.
Because the effects of the explosion of a 75-caliber artillery shell and a 500-pound or even 1,000-pound aerial bomb are completely incomparable. For example, the explosion just now was obviously a 500-pound heavy aerial bomb. Such a heavy aerial bomb would
It can easily destroy a racecourse with just one blast, killing all creatures within the explosion range.
That is to say, the explosion points must be far away, otherwise the air raid shelter may really be blown down.
But even so, the veterans are not too worried. After all, the Japs are just an island country with few resources. They don’t have too many heavy bombs. Just throw a few. Besides, life and death depend on wealth and wealth.
In heaven, if you really want to die, you will die anyway; if you are not going to die, you will not die easily in battle.
After another ten minutes, the Japanese bombing finally ended.
The veteran stood up, wiped off the dust on his helmet and body, then turned around and smiled coldly at the more than 200 remnant soldiers squatting on the ground behind him, and said in a ferocious voice: "Brothers, it's time to get to work."
After finishing speaking, the veteran turned around and left with the 38 dumplings in hand.
Outside the entrance of the cave, there was thick gunpowder smoke and dust. The veteran's shaky figure quickly got into the gunpowder smoke and disappeared. Then, more than two hundred remaining soldiers of the battalion stood up one after another, either holding Type 38 rifles or holding arms.
Holding a crooked handle or lifting the pheasant's neck, it surges out of the hole.
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Set the time back half an hour ago.
After several hours of rapid march, Xu Rui and his party finally arrived at Fushan Town at around three o'clock in the afternoon.
Because Fushan Town is a wharf on the Yangtze River waterway, and it is also the starting point of the Wu-Fu Line of national defense fortifications, it was heavily bombed by Japanese naval aviation and army artillery. The entire town was so devastated that it was almost impossible to find it.
One intact building was found, but the entire dock was completely destroyed.
But the most pitiful people are the people of Fushan Town.
Except for those who left their homes and property and fled to the mainland, all those who stayed behind were murdered by the Japanese.
When Xu Rui and others walked onto the Fushan Pier, they could still see corpses lying on the river beach that had not been washed away by the river. These corpses had been soaked in the river and were swollen. Among them were old people, women and children, and even some
Qi Yuli's baby, the little devil's bestiality is simply outrageous.
Seeing these extremely miserable scenes, Junko Okahara couldn't help but shed tears.
Hei Qi, Li Hai, Cui Jiu and the members of the Rangers were all so angry that their faces were livid.
"These beasts." Xu Rui said coldly, "One day, we will kill them all."
"Listen to the camp," Hei Qi suddenly pointed at Jiangbei and shouted, "There are gunshots, it seems to be Japanese soldiers."
Xu Rui immediately raised the telescope, pointed it at the north bank of the Yangtze River and began to adjust the focus. After a while, the field of view of the telescope began to become clearer. He saw that Nantong City, across the river from Fushan, had been blown into a sea of fire by the Japanese. Due to the distance,
It was too far away, so the explosion was not violent, but from the continuous flashes of fire, Xu Rui could imagine the brutality of the shelling.
"It must be our camp." Li Hai shouted, "Our camp has started fighting with the little devil."
Jiangnan, Cui Jiu, and the six members of the Rangers looked at each other, and the battalion seemed to be in a bad situation.
"We have to cross the river immediately." Xu Rui put down the telescope and told Hei Qi and Li Hai, "Quickly find a boat."
Hei Qi and Li Hai took one person each and immediately separated to find the ship. However, Xu Rui once again raised the telescope and paid close attention to Jiangbei through the telescope's field of vision.
Jiang Nan hesitated for a long time, and finally stepped forward to persuade: "Sir Xu, the current situation of the battle in Jiangbei is unknown, and we don't know the current situation of the camp. Therefore, I suggest that you postpone crossing the river until the battle situation in Jiangbei is clear, or
There is new news coming from Shanghai, it won’t be too late for us to cross the river again.”
"Shut up," Xu Rui yelled rudely, "Just stay where you can."
Because he was anxious, Xu Rui no longer cared about other people's feelings, even if Jiang Nan was a girl.
Jiang Nan's little mouth immediately pursed, thinking bitterly in his heart that if a dog bites Lu Dongbin, it doesn't know a good heart.
However, when she saw Cui Jiu trying to argue with Xu Rui, Jiang Nan immediately stopped Cui Jiu because she could understand Xu Rui's mood at the moment.
Time passed slowly in suffocating waiting.
Half an hour later, the faint roar of fighter planes suddenly sounded over Fushan. When everyone looked up anxiously, they saw two planes emerging from the clouds and roaring towards Jiangbei. The two fighter planes had plaster patterns painted on their wings.
, there are two aerial bombs hanging under the belly of the aircraft, which are obviously the Japanese bombers.
Although it was a bomber rather than a reconnaissance aircraft, Xu Rui still ordered it to be concealed.
A dozen people had just concealed themselves into the woods when several Japanese bombers appeared in the clouds. Without exception, these bombers all roared away towards the north bank of the Yangtze River.
"Even Japanese planes have been dispatched." Cui Jiu said in a deep voice, "It seems that the battle in Jiangbei is quite fierce."
As soon as Cui Jiu finished speaking, huge mushroom clouds appeared in Jiangbei, across the river from Fushan.
It was almost half a minute before a deafening explosion came from the north of the Yangtze River. Even across the Yangtze River and several kilometers away, the explosion was so loud that it is completely conceivable that the person at the center of the explosion
Nantong, what kind of scene would it be like? Thinking of this, Jiangnan's pretty face turned pale.
Cui Jiu secretly admired him. The little devil had created such a huge formation, which showed how difficult the temporary 79th Division Battalion was. However, the battalion had more than 200 remnants in total. It could push the little devil to another point.
It was a large-scale shelling and bombers were dispatched to bomb indiscriminately, so it was not in vain.
However, Cui Jiu felt that the camp might be doomed this time.
When the battle reached this point, Nantong was bombed into a sea of fire. Even a mouse would be hard-pressed to survive. What’s more, Cui Jiu, the more than 200 generals of the battalion, wanted to go over and tell Xu Rui that the battalion was definitely over.
, we still don’t have to go to Jiangbei, but looking at Xu Rui’s face, Cui Jiu still didn’t dare to make a mistake after all.
After a few minutes, Li Hai, who was looking for a boat, came back.
"We found the boat at the camp, we found the boat." Li Hai said excitedly, "We first found the road sign left by the veteran outside the dock, and then followed the road sign to find a reed marsh. Sure enough, the veteran was in the reed marsh.
There are a few boats hidden in it, let’s cross the river quickly, the veterans probably won’t last long.”
"Let's go." After Xu Rui said this, he turned around and walked forward.
After a while, the group of people arrived at the reed marsh.
At this time, Hei Qi had already brought Xiao Mao with him, and Ah Fu rowed two small boats out of the reed swamps. Although the boats were small, they were enough for a group of people to cross the river.
It's a pity that the more anxious you are, the more God will work against you.
The two boats had just entered the fork of the river, and before they turned into the Yangtze River, a long "ang" whistle came from the river in the distance. When everyone looked up anxiously, they saw something unknown on the vast river in front of them.
At that time, there were a few more black spots, and these black spots were still spewing black smoke into the sky.
"The gunboat," Cui Jiu shouted, "it's the little devil's gunboat."
"Fuck you!" Xu Rui immediately cursed and shouted, "Go back and hide."
On the vast river, it is impossible for two small fishing boats to compete with the Japanese gunboats, because the Japanese gunboats are equipped with 75-caliber rapid-fire cannons. With just one shot, they can blow up Xu Rui's small boat.
Turning into ashes, even though Xu Rui was the strongest soldier, he was still killed to pieces.
I had no choice but to quickly hide in the reed swamp.
This hiding lasted another two hours. The two Japanese gunboats swam on the Fushan section of the river for more than two hours before finally continuing to sail downstream amidst the long sound of the whistle.
By this time, it was getting dark.
Although the Japanese gunboat had not gone far, Xu Rui couldn't wait any longer. Xu Rui, Cui Jiu, Li Hai and Hei Qiu struggled to paddle, and the two small boats slid out like arrows.
The reeds then followed the fork of the river into the Yangtze River, and then split the waves and sailed straight to the north bank of the Yangtze River. On the north bank, the sound of gunfire and artillery continued.
