As soon as the mortar gunners heard the battalion commander's order to shell the pontoon bridges, they already had a plan in their hearts, and hurriedly under the shouting order of a gun commander, the first 60 mortar shells rushed out with a "poof" and flew away with a roar towards the pontoon bridges made of small boats on the river The "booming" explosions sounded one after another in the river, and the shells fell between the water and the pontoon, rushing up one after another high columns of water, and a dozen or so little devils who were crossing the pontoon bridge were immediately blown into the water by the shells, and drank the water deeply, these little devils did not seem to be able to swim like this, and struggled desperately in the water for a while, and then sank down to feed the fish.
The artillery commander saw that the accuracy of the first wave of bombardment was not high, and all the shells hit the water next to the pontoon, and hurriedly adjusted the shooting angle and direction, so the second wave of mortar shells whistled and fired again, this time the hit was accurate, most of the shells fell on the pontoon bridges built by small boats, and the fragments of those small boats flew around, and the pontoon bridge collapsed suddenly, and many devils fell into the water, struggling desperately, but they were soon killed by the cannonballs that were driven into the water, and the corpses floated on the water.
Swim downstream to the east with the current.
The little devils on the other side of the river saw that their retreating troops crossing the river were blocked by the reinforcements of the New Fourth Army, and a large number of devil soldiers died in the river, and they were furious, and hurriedly ordered the artillery units of these devil brigades and regiments behind them to return fire at the mortars of the New Fourth Army.
Scattered pieces of flesh and blood were scattered on the position, those precious mortars were also scattered, and screw parts were everywhere, which made the commander of the pioneer battalion feel distressed, and ordered all the brothers on the position to open fire to prevent the little devils from forcibly crossing the pontoon bridge and crossing the river.
The sound of guns and cannons in the pioneer battalion by the river reached Lao Xu and them, listening to the sound of those shells whistling and exploding, the artillery expert of the independent brigade Artillery battalion commander Lao Zhang couldn't hold back, since Xiao Tianming and Liu Haozi's puppet army division defected to the Jiangbei New Fourth Army, Ma Xu transferred the artillery of the puppet army division on the spot, and formed an artillery battalion with Lao Zhang's artillery company, with Lao Zhang as the battalion commander, as the only artillery unit in the Jiangbei New Fourth Army with more than 30 guns, Ma Xu just wanted Lao Zhang, as an iron fist of the Independent Brigade, ready to attack the most needed fire support on the front line at any time, knock out the enemy's artillery fire, and support the brothers of the Independent Brigade in their operations.
At this moment, Lao Zhang heard the rumbling of the cannon in front of him, and his heart suddenly itched, and he ran up and asked Lao Xu: "Deputy brigade commander, you heard that the front is all a pot of porridge, and the devil's cannons are numerous and fierce, I am afraid that the pioneer battalion and Commander Ge will not be able to withstand them, I see that our artillery battalion hurried up and found Yamada's artillery to beat it up, so that it can also reduce the pressure on the brothers who resisted the devil's attack."
As soon as Lao Xu heard Lao Zhang's expert advice, he felt that it made sense, so he nodded and said to him: "Lao Zhang, you are right, so let's do it, don't transfer all your artillery brothers, leave a part, and all the rest attack, rush to the river, suppress the devil's artillery fire, support Lao Ge and the pioneer battalion, and by the way, find the devil's artillery position, and destroy them in one fell swoop, do you have the confidence to complete this task?"
As soon as Lao Zhang heard that Lao Xu agreed to his request, he immediately patted his chest and promised: "Deputy brigade commander, don't worry, I, Lao Zhang, am not bragging, we were not afraid of devil artillery when we only had an artillery company before, but now there are more artillery, there are many more artillery brothers, and you can also be afraid of the artillery of the little devil, you can rest assured, if you can't complete this task, you can twist my head off and kick it as a ball, if my Lao Zhang blinks his eyes, he will be a bad seed."
Lao Xu heard that Lao Zhang patted his chest again, and felt that these old brothers brought out by Ma Xu were all so bullish, Liu Fatzi is also this virtue, and he swore to pat his chest at every turn, to be honest, although these old brothers who followed Ma Xu all the way from Shanghai Luodian were almost temperamental, but they were all characters with two brushes, especially the artillery expert Lao Zhang in front of him, if he hadn't been poor with the New Fourth Army and didn't have artillery to let him play, if this guy went to the Kuomintang army, it is estimated that he would have been promoted to artillery commander now.
That is, relying on the old-fashioned mortars in the hands of their artillery company, Lao Zhang and they also eliminated a lot of devils and traitors.
"Lao Zhang, you are joking, how dare I move my head, so let's go, you hurry up, do your best, and strive to find the artillery position of the Yamada Brigade and destroy it in one fell swoop, if you can't find the devil's artillery position, then use your artillery fire to suppress the devil's artillery fire, and provide artillery support for our large army to attack and Lao Ge's counterattack, how about it" Lao Xu was still quite polite to Lao Zhang and his old brothers, and tried to use a consultative tone when giving orders, This point is that the strong head Liu Fatzi is also very convinced, willing to obey Lao Xu's command, Lao Zhang's temper is better than Liu Fatzi, and he is naturally more willing to obey Lao Xu's dispatch.
Lao Zhang hurriedly left an artillery company to follow Lao Xu's large army, and he took two artillery companies, more than 20 artillery pieces of various sizes and hurried towards the riverside where fierce gunfire sounded.
The Yamada Devil has already withdrawn southward, and one of our reinforcements has arrived on the other side of the river and is attacking the Yamada Devil's river-crossing force."
The scout looked excited and reported to Lao Ge, for so many days, what they had been looking forward to was that there were reinforcements from the New Fourth Army coming over, and now they were finally looking forward to it, can they not be excited and excited Lao Ge heard that the reinforcements had finally arrived, happily slapped his thigh, and shouted to his brothers: "Okay, I said, the little devils who attacked in front seem to be powerless, it turns out that they are ready to run south, and order the brothers on the position, except for the brothers who left a company to continue to hold their positions, all the rest of the brothers rushed out of the trench with me." , kill it, and block the Yamada devil on the bank of the river."
Lao Ge was the first to rush out of the trench, and the brothers in the trench saw that the regiment commander was the first to rush out, so they rushed out of the trench, and the wounded brothers who could not move and the brothers who stayed behind in the trench position continued to shoot at the attacking devils with the fortifications.
These little devils who attacked from the opposite side were dumbfounded when they saw Lao Ge and them rushing out of the trenches, they were originally serving as feints, what is called a feint, that is, before escaping and retreating, in order not to cause the enemies behind to catch up and pick up their buttocks, and make a pretentious attack, so when this feint devil officer Sato saw Lao Ge rushing out of the trench with more than 300 brothers, shouting and rushing towards them, he felt that something was wrong, and a thought immediately flashed in his mind: "If you don't run again, you won't be able to go back" The devil officer ordered the whole line to retreat, and the little devil soldiers under his command hurriedly threw off their legs and fled to the back, this run, they were found by Lao Ge, who was caught up, and the chase was even more urgent, more than 300 brothers shouted the slogan of killing devils and rushed towards these escaped little devils, these little devils ran away quite quickly, and soon ran to the river, Yamada saw that Sato, who was in charge of the feint mission, ran back, and was so angry that he stepped forward and slapped Sato is two big slaps: "Why did you want you to feint, and you took the lead in running back." , let me go back and resist those people."
Sato, who received two big slaps, was beaten to the point that his eyes were full of stars, and he was dizzy, and when he saw Yamada staring at him with blood-red eyes, he yelled at him, and pressed the command knife on his waist tightly with one hand, as if he was going to chop himself alive, he thought that if he didn't go back, the commander of the Yamada Brigade had to chop himself alive, and hurriedly turned around and shouted at the ghost soldiers under his command who were retreating: "Go back quickly and continue to attack the position of the Chinese people" Those little devils who ran back were willing to go back to death at this moment, so they took Sato's order as the wind in their ears, and continued to retreat towards the river bank without looking back, Sato's little devils were anxious, and hurriedly took out the Wang Ba box on his waist, and fired a few shots at the few little devils who fled at the front, killing two fleeing devils on the spot, and barely suppressed the little devils' escape formation.
Of course, the old Ge who rushed over was not polite to them, and when they stepped forward, a rain of bullets splashed over, killing a lot of little devils who tried to rush over, Sato saw that the front was the New Fourth Army team chasing over, and these New Fourth Army were extremely powerful, and they moved forward bravely, and they were a little timid in their hearts, but thinking about the murderous gaze of the little devil Yamada, the little devil Sato had no choice but to meet him, raised the Oriental knife in his hand, and shouted to the devils under him: "Imperial warriors, The time has come to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor and the Japanese Empire, and to rush forward and fight with these Shina people and the New Fourth Army."
Most of these devils under Sato are veterans, and the most active ones who escaped just now were also those devil recruits who had just added to the Yamada Brigade, and they were shot and suppressed by Sato, and these devil veterans immediately became arrogant and arrogant again, shouting the slogan of "victory" one after another, and howling at Lao Ge with the 38 big cover and the Oriental sword t1706231537: