Zhou Wu put down his binoculars and connected the phone call of Zhang Ercheng of the howitzer battalion, telling him to be ready to enter the firing position at any time and shell the Japanese army according to the plan formulated before, striving to eliminate as many devils as possible at the lowest cost.
Gradually, the shelling of the little devils began to stop, and a scarlet plaster flag appeared in Zhou Wu's field of vision, and it seemed that the Japanese army was about to charge on a large scale.
Zhou Wu called the fat man again: "You wait a while and fire at both sides of the devil, don't hit the middle, and try to compress the devil's activity space."
The howitzer fired a hurried fire, blowing him up all over the place. ” "Yes, Luzao, damn it, the bang just now made my head buzz, wait a minute, let Lao Zhang be polite, and smash these turtle sons for me."
The fat man said scoldingly.
There were about a thousand people of the devil under the cover of artillery fire to a place about three hundred meters away from the position, and suddenly increased their speed, almost running towards the fat man.
At this moment, all kinds of light and heavy weapons on the position were fired together, which was mixed with the low roar of small steel cannons.
This is the small steel cannon of the devil captured by the fat man, and now it is just right to take it out and treat him in the way of others.
Under the blows of twelve heavy machine guns and more than twenty Czech light machine guns, as well as countless medium rifles and four 82 mortars, the devils gradually moved closer to the middle direction of the weaker firepower.
But these devils were very cunning, and after being hit by heavy fire, they all lay on the ground and did not move.
Zhou Wu was shocked when he saw it, and immediately asked the fat man to hide in the bunker to prevent the devil from shelling.
Sure enough, after a while, the devil's shells exploded on the position.
The fat man scolded the little devil on the phone as a turtle with a shrunken head.
After scolding for a while, the devil's shelling stopped, and the fat man thought that he might have been too anxious just now, and he had fought early, and it was better to fire fifty meters away when he got closer.
At that time, the devil's cannon will definitely not dare to fight, but Lao Zhang has to take it easy, don't blow him and his brothers.
The cannon stopped, the devil jumped up from the ground again, shouted and screamed and rushed to the position, the distance was getting closer and closer, almost a hundred meters, the fat man concentrated the heavy fire on both sides and snorted fiercely.
The devils fell down one after another like mowing grass, Zhou Wu thought to himself that it was almost too late to fire any more cannons, so he immediately ordered Zhang Ercheng to fire.
At this time, the devil was less than fifty meters away from the position Lao Zhang was not in a hurry after the order, accurately calculated the distance and the speed of the little devil, and issued a series of instructions.
Just listen to an earth-shattering roar, the 100mm howitzer spews out angry flames, and the shells fly towards the devil with the scream of death.
A huge cloud of smoke rose more than ten meters in front of the fat man's position, and all kinds of broken limbs of the devil fell to the ground like a torrential rain.
Then there was another volley, and the explosion covered the formation of the devil's charge.
Zhou Wu couldn't see the situation on the battlefield clearly, and only heard the fat man shouting on the phone: "This dead old Zhang, the first call was too hanging, and a wave of anger turned me over, damn it, I didn't even do the test shot, if it was a little worse, I would burp, brigade commander, you have to criticize Lao Zhang." ” Zhou Wu admired Zhang Ercheng's boldness and meticulousness, and the little devil had already rushed to a place about 20 meters away from the position.
If the test firing had been carried out according to the usual training, maybe the little devils would have jumped into the trenches and fought with the fat men and them by now.
The timing and accuracy of this artillery bombardment are really amazing, it seems that Zhang Ercheng was really wronged by him when he was not the commander of the artillery battalion before.
The devils who were charging frantically were obviously blown up by Zhang Ercheng's shells, and the offensive formation immediately collapsed and scattered backwards.
But no matter how they dodged, they could not escape from the range of the shelling.
At the same time, the fat man concentrated his fire on the front and hammered the devil, and the little devil was like a rat getting angry at both ends in the bellows.
Enter, the fire of the fat man in front is too fierce. retreated, and the road behind was almost blocked by Zhang Ercheng's cannonballs.
The warships of the devils on the river are in a hurry, and it is difficult to grasp the accuracy of shelling at such a long distance, and it is difficult to bomb their own people.
The devil's plane was also in a rut, the two sides were too close, and if an aerial bomb fell, the devil would definitely die more than the national army, so he could only helplessly circle the position twice, which could be regarded as a spiritual encouragement to the devils on the ground.
After a fierce shelling by Lao Zhang, more than 1,000 devils who rushed up died in death, and those who were not dead were lying on the ground humming and chirping.
Seeing this situation through the telescope, Zhou Wu immediately ordered the second regiment, which was on standby at the brigade headquarters as a mobile unit, to immediately enter the forward position as quickly as possible, replace the fat man, and let them come down to rest.
Zhou Wu plans to take turns to take turns in the three regiments in his hand to fight a wheel battle with the devil, anyway, Luodian is not a big place, and it is not good to crowd it out with more people.
Defending in echelons can echo each other and fully maintain the combat effectiveness of the soldiers.
In this way, Zhou Wu's independent brigade and the devil engaged in a wheel war, and more than 20,000 people from a division of the little devil took turns to launch a brigade charge, but they could not succeed.
Sometimes, the devils rushed more than ten times a day, but the position of the Independent Brigade was still standing, and the red flag of the blue sky and white sun, which had been riddled with bullets, was still flying over Luodian.
However, the continuous attacks of the devils also caused the casualties of the troops to increase day by day, and Zhou Wu saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart.
But he couldn't help it, the Japanese army had an absolute advantage in weapons and air supremacy, and sea supremacy.
The incessant shelling of naval artillery and the incessant bombardment of aircraft reduced their 6,000-strong men to less than 4,000.
By the eighth day, it was already mid-September 1937.
The devils continued to increase their troops in Shanghai, and more and more warships gathered at the mouth of the Yangtze River.
Now from Luchao Port in the south to Baoshan Port in the north, the devils have implemented multi-point landings on the entire coastline of Shanghai, and attacked on all fronts, only the devils near Hangzhou in the south have not moved for the time being.
Similarly, the Nationalist Army continued to increase its troops, and by mid-September, the strength of the Nationalist Army in the Shanghai Theater had reached more than 700,000.
The devils took advantage of the gap between the troops of the national army to adopt a strategy of rapid detour, division and encirclement, and annihilated the national army one by one, and the situation on the Songhu battlefield was precarious.
As for Luodian, which is geographically important, because it holds the main road from Shanghai to Changshu and Zhenjiang, the national army has long built strong fortifications between the two places.
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The defense line took five years to build, and there were countless light and dark pillboxes inside, and each important pass was equipped with German Krupp fortress guns, which was used by Lao Chiang to defend Nanjing.
Therefore, General Matsui, the supreme commander of the Japanese Songhu Theater, repeatedly sent additional troops to Luodian, hoping to conquer Luodian, go south to encircle the main force of the Nationalist army, and go north to occupy the Hindenburg defense line and threaten Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist Government.
Zhou Wu's Independent Brigade and the 29th Division on the eastern flank were under pressure unprecedented since the start of the war.
However, the 29th Division was even worse than the Independent Brigade, with 12,000 men in an integrated division, and by the eighth day of the battle, less than 5,000 remained, and more than 20 officers below the brigade commander were killed.
In some regiments, even all company and battalion commanders were killed, and most of the positions were lost.
Of course, Zhou Wu also fought quite hard, and he was attacked by Japanese troops from both the north and the east at the same time.
And according to the reconnaissance report of the special service battalion, there are things in the newly landed troops of the devils that they have not seen before. t1706231537: