Huang Shuisheng received Zhou Wu's reply, and immediately discussed with Lao Chen: "Division Commander Chen, I think so, I will take my team to the port wharf of Yancheng Port to block the landing of the Kuomintang naval team, and you will bring the independent division to lure the enemy from the southern front to the Dahe Village area, and we will meet in the Dahe Village area." ” Lao Chen hurriedly nodded: "Yes, Lao Zhou's plan is good, so that we can not only block the enemy in Yancheng, but also bring in the enemy, ambush the enemy on the north bank of the Waste Yellow River, as long as we can lure those enemies in, we will have half the chance of success this time." ” After the two finished speaking, they immediately took action, Huang Shuisheng withdrew from Yancheng with his subordinates, and arranged half of his troops on the tidal flats around the port, and the other half of the men and horses were divided into multiple small detachments of about 20 people, and they were ambushed in the reeds on the side of the tidal flats.
Huang Shuisheng personally took the four converted gunboats into the battle, and drove the four gunboats to the river at the mouth of the sea in advance to camouflage, so that once the enemy marines landed ashore, they could quickly attack and annihilate all those enemies on the muddy and difficult mudflats.
Before Huang Shuisheng could rush to the mouth of the sea with his gunboat, he received a telegram from the brothers who were lying in ambush in front of him: "Six large and small warships of the enemy have been anchored in the open sea, and they are using small boats to transport the enemy's infantry to land."
Huang Shuisheng hurriedly ordered those brothers: "Then why are you waiting for me to enter the firing range and fight me to the death?"
After Huang Shuisheng issued this order to open fire, he thought about it and felt that if he fired now, would it alarm the Kuomintang warships docked in the open sea and the enemy would definitely seize the wharf this time, and landing on the tidal flat was estimated to be only a part of his troops, and capturing the wharf was the enemy's ultimate goal, because only by seizing the wharf could they unload a large number of soldiers and equipment Thinking of this, Huang Shuisheng hurriedly ordered his subordinates by radio again: "Don't fire at the enemy who landed from the tidal flat for the time being, let them go, and the brothers in the reeds will pay attention to the direction of the dock, and if they find a small boat approaching, they will attack immediately."
Huang Shuisheng immediately urged the four modified gunboats to speed up and catch up, and the engineer who drove the ship heard the order, so he increased his horsepower, and the gunboat roared, like a wild horse that had escaped from the reins, rushing towards the mouth of Yancheng Port, and Huang Shuisheng on the ship was anxious, and according to intelligence, the enemy's naval ships had already laid down their small boats in the waters off Yancheng Port and transported infantry to the port to land, and once the fight started, those Kuomintang Navy warships anchored in the open sea would definitely use large-caliber naval guns to bombard the tidal flats and port wharves.
In this way, the brothers of the second regiment who were ambushed around the reeds of the tidal flats would be bombarded by naval guns, and the casualties were immeasurable, and only by using the gunboat fire to attract the artillery fire of the enemy ships could it be possible to avoid this situation and reduce the casualties of the brothers.
The enemy's warships in the open sea opened fire, and the large-caliber naval artillery shells whistled through the air on the sea, smashed on the tidal flats, and exploded violently, shrapnel mixed with mud blocks rushed high into the sky, and many craters as large as small round tables appeared on the tidal flats, and a few shells fell on the reeds where the brothers of the second regiment were ambushed, and suddenly a raging fire broke out, and seeing that it was about to burn the brothers, the commander of the second regiment hurriedly ordered his brothers: "Attack immediately" Hundreds of light and fast boats rushed out of the reeds like arrows from the string, and sailed towards the Kuomintang Navy warships anchored in the open sea, and the enemy sailors found these small boats sailing out of the reeds, so they hurriedly turned their guns and fired at the brothers of the second regiment, and the shells fell next to the boats, blowing up and forth a high column of water, shaking the boats of the brothers of the second regiment up and down, and a few of them were directly overturned by the air waves of the shell explosion, and the brothers on the boat fell into the sea, but these were for the "white stripes in the waves" of the second regiment, It was nothing at all, and hurriedly swam in the water towards the enemy warship.
As soon as the Kuomintang sailors on the foreign navy saw that the naval guns could not stop the brisk boats rushing up, they shouted and shouted, and hurriedly called the small-caliber anti-aircraft guns on the warships to fire at the boats, and the small-caliber anti-aircraft guns fired at the boats at an extremely fast rate, as if they were hitting heavy machine guns, and the shells flew towards the boats with "whoosh" and splashed up walls of water in the middle of the fleet, and several small boats on which the brothers of the second regiment were riding were hit by shells, and suddenly burst into flames, and several brothers who were already on fire on their bodies hurriedly jumped into the sea.
The fire was extinguished by the sea, and the wounded brothers did not retreat, but still gritted their teeth and swam towards the enemy warship.
At the moment when the Kuomintang warships on the sea were hurriedly dealing with the rushing light boats, the four modified gunboats led by Huang Shuisheng finally arrived at the mouth of Yancheng Port, and Huang Shuisheng saw that the enemy warships in front of him were blocking the rushing boats with naval guns, and hurriedly ordered the 75 mountain guns on the gunboats to immediately fire back "Boom" A burst of bombardment sounded, the hull of the gunboat suddenly retreated backwards, and the shells then roared out of the barrels, rushing towards the enemy warships in the open sea with a scorching tail flame, and another "boom" sound sounded, and the mountain artillery shells exploded on the water next to the enemy warships, and the white water columns rose into the sky, so frightened that the commander of the enemy's naval fleet shouted to his sailors: "Where did the shells come from?"
"Report to the chief, it's a shell from a few gunboats on the other side of the sea," the sailors of the Kuomintang naval fleet reported to the commander.
"Ah, could it be that the buns and gunboats turned their muzzles, bombarded the sea, and sank those gunboats" The commander of the enemy's naval fleet once again ordered the naval guns to turn to bombardment, and the shells smashed towards the mouth of the sea one after another, and exploded around Huang Shuisheng's gunboats, and the columns of water rose one after another, almost shrouding the gunboats in a water curtain, and the brothers on the gunboats bombarding the enemy's warships suddenly lost their targets, and asked Huang Shuisheng in a loud voice: "Division commander, what should I do if the shelling loses its target?"
When Huang Shuisheng heard this, he shouted to his brothers: "What can I do, increase the horsepower and rush up towards the enemy warship, and fight with them in close combat with bayonets."
Huang Shuisheng had already noticed that the roar of the engine of the Kuomintang plane had been heard in the southeast sky, and at this time, only by boldly rushing up to the enemy warship and cooperating with the brisk boat on which the brothers of the Second Regiment were riding, could it be possible to turn the tide of the battle and block the enemy's beach-grabbing landing The gunboat was at full throttle, the engine roared, and billowing black smoke came out from behind, like four frightened bison, rushing towards the enemy ships in the open sea, and at this moment the enemy planes flying from the southeast flew over the port of Yancheng, and were diving towards the tidal flats, dropping aerial bombs, and the huge aerial bombs smashed down, blowing up thick flames and smoke, the explosions came one after another, the shock waves shook the mountains, and the tidal flats were full of huge craters, and after the enemy planes dropped the bombs, they shook their butts and returned home.
At this time, the landed boats leaned to the shore of the tidal flats, and a large number of American-armed Kuomintang marines poured up towards the tidal flats, and swarms rushed towards Yancheng Harbor like locusts in the great drought season.
When the commander of the 2nd Regiment saw that a large number of Kuomintang infantry had rushed up, he shouted: "Brothers, give me a hard blow and drive the enemy into the sea."
The mortar suddenly emitted a continuous "tom" bombardment sound, and the shells whistled through the air and flew towards the Kuomintang marines who rushed up to the landing, and exploded in their formation, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the enemy who was hit by intensive fire immediately prostrated on the ground and hurriedly used the radio telegraph to ask for help from the warships behind: "We have encountered blockade in our landing, and we ask for reinforcements from naval artillery fire."
At this moment, those enemy warships on the open sea were busy dealing with the four gunboats of Huang Shuisheng who rushed out of the sea, and drove to the sea, these four gunboats converted from small steamers were like fish into the sea, and immediately launched a rush, only to see Huang Shuisheng's signal flag waving, the four gunboats lined up along the opposite side of the biggest enemy destroyer, the two 75 mountain guns on the ship all turned to aim at the enemy ship, Huang Shuisheng's firing flag suddenly waved downward, and the eight 75 mountain guns on the four gunboats immediately opened fire and bombarded.
For a time, the cannon roared, the smoke dispersed, and the shells exploded around the enemy ships one after another, and the rushing water columns shrouded the enemy ships almost entirely in the water curtain, so angry that the commander of the Kuomintang naval fleet desperately shouted to his subordinates: "Quickly fire a salvo of naval guns, sink the gunboats" A row of large-caliber naval artillery shells smashed, and the powerful shock wave generated by the explosion set off huge waves several meters high, and the waves suddenly hit Huang Shuisheng's gunboat, almost overturning the gunboat, Huang Shuisheng stumbled on the deck, fell to the ground, and was held by the palm brothers next to him, and asked him: "Division commander, how are you hurt?"
Huang Shuisheng hurriedly got up, his body was already wet with the splash of the huge waves, his head was broken when he fell to the ground just now, blood flowed down his cheeks, he stared at his eyes, and shouted to his subordinates almost in a roaring tone: "All the firepower is fired, rush forward with full power" The gunboat immediately started to rush quickly towards the enemy warship, the enemy's artillery fire continued to explode on the water around the gunboat, and the huge waves that set off several times almost overturned Huang Shuisheng's gunboat, Huang Shuisheng ordered his subordinates to move in a serpentine shape with the flag, turning back and forth to avoid the incoming artillery fire, and soon, the four gunboats rushed to a kilometer away from the enemy's largest warship, and the enemy's naval guns were unable to fire at Huang Shuisheng due to the limitation of the firing angle.
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