There are thirteen outer bunkers of Wusong Fortress, which are distributed in a fan shape to 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 immune to them at all. There is no other way. If they can drive the warship to land, or drive 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. Sound of nature novel
However, it is a pity that the Japanese warships cannot reach the mainland, nor can they enter the Huangpu River.
Therefore, the task of clearing 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 transferred the first battalion, the most powerful among the eight main battalions, and asked Shi Changqing, a tiger general, to be responsible for guarding 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 innermost and safest Bunker No. 1. Instead, he personally led the guard squad and was responsible for the defense of Bunker No. 13. Bunker No. 13 was at the top of the entire fortifications. The periphery is easily vulnerable 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, quietly looking at the smoke-filled sky outside through the lookout hole. The gunfire was blazing 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's warm body, my 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.
A ruthless person may not be a true hero. How can a pity for a child not be a husband? Who dares to say that only the ruthless man is a real man? Who dares to say that a man who is full of longing and attachment for his relatives is not a man? On the contrary, 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 can't! The cruel reality deprived him of this most basic right as a husband and a father! The Japs have invaded. If he doesn't put his uniform back on, if he doesn't return to the army, pick up a gun and fight the Japs, not only will his small family not be able to save it, but so will 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 filled with tears. His expression has returned to his usual cold and perseverance, and has returned to what a Chinese person 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 can you 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 and said to Wang Jiageng: "Company Commander, do you need to do this in person for such a trivial matter? Let me do it!"
"Okay." Wang Jiageng said happily, "Come on."
At this time, the 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. When the enemy gets closer, the effect of concentrating the fire will be better.
Wang Jiageng called three more guards and asked them to notify 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 not allowed to fire first. 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 bombard and pass through the 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 dead silence on the garrison position, and there was no response. 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!
The boom-boom-boom explosion sounded almost simultaneously, and a huge plume of smoke and dust instantly rose from the front wall of Bunker No. 13.
There are also broken 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. This can effectively resolve the kinetic energy of the shell explosion and 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, eighty meters. Meters, fifty meters, after entering 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, squeezed the trigger hard. Hearing a click, the tail of the rocket launcher spurted out a stream of flames, and then the rocket launcher roared out from the muzzle, almost instantly. It hit the Type 95 light tank fifty meters ahead.
Yifeng aimed at the location of the fuel tank at the rear side of the car body.
So, there was a bang, first a violent explosion, and then a raging fire swallowed the tank completely.
Almost at the same time, the rocket launchers in the other three bunkers 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 four tanks of the Little Devil simultaneously turned into burning balls of fire, and then more than 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 the little ones crazily. The devil's life! The poor little devil fell down piece by piece like weeds that had been cut down.
In front of properly designed and well-equipped fortifications, infantry is really powerless!
Just say that during the Normandy invasion, a German bunker on the coast could kill a coalition division! Even a machine gunner can kill more than two thousand coalition infantry with just one heavy machine gun! There was also the battle of Songshan Fortress. More than 150,000 troops were killed. With the air support of the Flying Tigers, they attacked for more than three months, but they still couldn't take the Songshan Fortress with only half of the regiment. In the end, they finally relied on blasting to win. 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!