At about six o'clock in the afternoon, the sky finally darkened. The sound of nature is small
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The Japanese warships outside Wusong Port finally stopped, and the Japanese planes hovering in the sky also returned one after another. The Baoshan battlefield, which 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 away all the wounded and returned to the camp headquarters, he found Wu Liang frowning and staring at the map, 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 consciousness, but also has extremely rich combat experience.
Li Yu asked: "Old Wu, why don't you eat?"
"Can't eat." 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. In just one day, they had already suffered more than 100 casualties!
If this rate 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, but the combat effectiveness of the Third Company is not much better than that of the First Company, and the First Company can only If we can hold on for two days, the three consecutive days can only last two days at most. In other words, in four days, the Baoshan South Gate position will be lost!
Four days was less than the ten days required by Xu Rui, but it was still more than half short of it!
Looking at the map, Wu Liang was so worried that his head dropped. How could he still have the appetite to eat
"Old Li, this battle is not easy to fight." 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? 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 and will definitely be more brutal tomorrow, so it is completely foreseeable. Tomorrow's situation 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 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? If we work together, 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 anxiously, "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 devils search 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 judgment was not wrong. The defeat on the first day really angered the Japs, especially the commander of the 25th Infantry Regiment, Adachi Kantoshi and the deputy commander of Nagano Ryuta. These two old Japs were angry. Unable to even eat, he ran to the division headquarters of the 7th Division overnight 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 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.
In the end, Noboru Kunizaki also kept 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 made an agreement with Nagano Ryuta. If He died in the battle, and Nagano Ryuta continued to lead the death squads in a desperate charge until they captured the position!
There was nothing to say all night, but as soon as the sky 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 troops under the Third Aviation Regiment Four bomber squadrons and more than forty bombers flew over Baoshan County. Immediately, 2kg-level aerial bombs fell like raindrops. The entire Baoshan City, together with the defensive positions outside the south gate, was instantly blown into a sea of flames.
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 of Baoshan County and the defensive positions outside the south gate! The bombing this time was even more exaggerated than yesterday. Yesterday, the bombing lasted for two hours and fired tens of thousands of artillery shells. Today, the bombing lasted for more than three hours, and more than 5,000 artillery shells with a caliber of 3oomm or more were fired. All the artillery shells add up to more than 50,000!
In the words of Deputy Takeshi Toyoda, commander of the Japanese Navy’s Fourth Fleet, their Fourth Fleet has almost burned out all the artillery shells in its inventory! Of course, these words are just an exaggeration by Toyota's deputy military officer, but they are enough to prove how hard the Japanese navy worked during the two consecutive days of bombardment!
The Navy is really bleeding a lot! After all, these artillery shells were bought by the Navy. After they are fired, they have to be replenished with the funds of the Navy Department. The Army will not give them half a cent!
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Under the indiscriminate bombing of the Japanese aviation 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 fighters of the second battalion, who were trapped in hell, were gritting their teeth and holding on for dear life.
Facing the rain of flying shrapnel and the raging flames of hell, the only thing the commanders and soldiers of the Second Battalion could rely on was 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 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 aircraft, tanks and even warships all have to hunker down!
Because of this, Japan was forced to take risks and start 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 glimmer of hope.
Therefore, the Chinese can confidently say that China is the main force that really drags Japan to death! The Americans just completed the final blow, and it wasn't 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 his feet was also trembling violently.
Li Yingqing couldn't help but think that as long as one artillery shell fell, the few 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, not a single one of the dozen commandos in the shelter could survive, including him.