After receiving Zhou Wu's order to urgently reinforce Deputy Commander Li's river defense fleet, Huang Shuisheng hurriedly brought a number of small gunboats and armed sailboats to set off first, and the large troops of the naval division followed closely with Liao Taichang of the Jiangyin Fort, and he knew that Deputy Commander Li sent a telegram to Zhou Wu asking for reinforcements, and he must have been in big trouble, otherwise with the river defense ships that Deputy Commander Li had at hand, there should be no problem in encountering ordinary ships.
So he ordered the gunboats and armed sailboats to rush to the southeast at full speed Huang Shuisheng is an expert in water warfare, although he has never fought the enemy like this on the sea, but they often compete with the little devils on Gaoyou Lake and Hongze Lake in the same scene, but there are not so many planes in the air.
When the lookout brothers in front reported to him that a group of enemy planes were besieging a group of ships in the southeast sky, Huang Shuisheng immediately felt that it was time for their fleet to arrive, and Lao Li and the others were still stubbornly resisting, and they finally did not disgrace the PLA naval troops, and it was quite remarkable to be able to support so many enemy planes under the siege and bombing for such a long time.
Lao Li is a man, admire Huang Shuisheng immediately caught up with the gunboats in front of him, and used the machine guns on the ships to attract the attention of the enemy planes and divert them away to relieve Lao Li's pressure.
Sure enough, when the enemy planes in mid-air discovered that there were a large number of gunboats and armed fishing boats coming from the northwest direction, they quickly raised their fuselages and rose into the air, and the machine guns on the gunboats desperately fired a dense rain of bullets at the bombers, although they could not cause a fatal threat to the bombers for a while, but those Kuomintang bombers were still afraid that they would encounter the siege of the small gunboats below and suffer losses.
As a result, under the orders of the air force officer leading the unit, the enemy plane quickly turned around, and after making a few turns in mid-air, it shook its tail and headed back to the southeast, leaving behind the four river defense ships that were still burning on the sea.
When Huang Shuisheng arrived with the gunboat, the enemy plane had already returned home, Deputy Commander Li saw Huang Shuisheng and hurriedly said to him: "Commander Huang, this time my brother and I were unlucky, I ran into the enemy plane, and I was almost blown to the bottom of the sea by them, fortunately, you arrived in time, otherwise our river defense fleet would have been out of play, fortunately, in addition to the loss of a few ships, the main ships are still there, and the three transport ships full of gold are still there, which is a great luck in misfortune."
Huang Shuisheng shook his head and said to Lao Li: "You have done your best, this is not to blame you, in front of the plane, even the largest warship is powerless, a few years ago in the Battle of Okinawa, the biggest Yamato of the little devil was still not bombed and sunk by the Yankees' plane, I estimate, if we want to not suffer losses at sea in the future, we have to develop aircraft and build an air force, the era of strong ships and artillery is estimated to be no, and it will be the world of aircraft in the future."
Although Huang Shuisheng's education is not so high, he is very keenly aware that naval warfare is definitely not enough to rely on strong ships and artillery, and if he wants not to suffer losses, he must develop the air force, although at this time he still carried most of the small gunboats and armed fishing boats that roamed around the inland rivers, and he was still far from the strong ships and artillery.
Subsequently, Lao Liao of Jiangyin Fort arrived with a gunboat and turned with Deputy Commander Li, Lao Liao saw the embarrassed appearance of Lao Li's fleet, and hurriedly said to Lao Li: "I'm sorry Lao Li, I came late to blame brother, I never thought you would be so miserable." ” Huang Shuisheng said to Lao Liao angrily: "It's useless for you to come earlier, relying on your small gunboats to block the siege of a large number of American-made bombers, or hurry back to the Jiangyin Fort, rearrange those anti-aircraft fire, and do a good job of retaliating against the Kuomintang planes to be more practical, this time the enemy planes failed to blow up and sink the three transport ships, they must be unwilling, it is estimated that they have to come again, the Jiangyin Fort is there, and they can't run, it is better to be more careful."
When Director Liao heard this, he hurriedly nodded yes, this Huang Shuisheng's words made some sense, and he couldn't help but listen to them, plus he had been temporarily arranged by Zhou Wu in Huang Shuisheng's water battle division at this time, and the Jiangyin Fort was also the defense area of Huang Shuisheng's water battle division, so he naturally had to follow the instructions of the leader.
After explaining these things, Huang Shuisheng left some boats to escort Lao Li and Lao Liao to continue to return to Jiangyin, and he continued to go south along the coastline with a large army, preparing to choose fighters to land ashore in the direction of Wusongkou in Jiading in the south, and cooperate with the fat men who were already attacking Jiading Zhou Wu, who received the news that there was no major problem with the transport ship and the Jiangfang fleet, was very happy, and immediately sent a telegram to commend the Jiangfang fleet, encouraging them to continue their efforts and not to slacken, because the Kuomintang planes were estimated to come again, and after returning to Jiangyin, they must pay attention to air defense at all times.
The fat man's first division encountered a hard stubble when attacking the Kuomintang pillbox fortifications here in Jiading, and its forward commando two battalions fought for a long time, and finally took down three pillboxes, losing almost one battalion of troops, and broke into it to see, the enemy guarding the three pillboxes was only more than 100 people in total, and now, the fat man was on fire, and scolded the regimental battalion commanders under his command for being useless, the number was five or six times more than the enemy, and he fought for half a day, lost a battalion, and even knocked out the pillbox fortification position guarded by only one company of the enemy, How the hell did this broken battle go?
After the fat man finished scolding, he immediately called someone to call the head of the forward regiment, and scolded him fiercely: "You are also a veteran, why do you make a mistake today, the two battalions of thousands of people fought for half a day, lost half of them, and only captured the three pillboxes defended by more than 100 people, and if this continues, our division will all press up, and we will not be able to capture Jiading for half a month, how can I explain to the commander of the army with such a way of fighting" The fat man made a tiger face, crossed his hands on his waist, pointed to the nose of the regiment commander under him and scolded.
The regiment commander was not convinced, and muttered: "We didn't expect the enemy's pillbox fortifications to be so strong, we thought that after crossing the Yangtze River, the elite troops of the Kuomintang army had been almost wiped out by us, and the rest were some miscellaneous rabble local troops, and the morale was not high.
"This is the result of your underestimation of the enemy, paralyzed carelessness, thinking that the Kuomintang army was almost wiped out by us north of the Yangtze River, so they were fluttering, thinking that they were great, such a mentality to fight, the loss is light, and it is already good not to lose a small life, and I found that you misunderstood the order above, the above means not to use heavy artillery bombardment on targets in the city, so as not to cause casualties among innocent civilians, but against those pillbox fortifications on the outskirts of Shanghai, we still can't be polite, Give me a slam to the death, like a, show me the guts, I'll give you another chance, if you can't take the enemy position in front of you before dark, you yourself should understand what to do" The fat man gave a death order to the forward regiment commander under him, asking him to take the enemy position before dark.
At this moment, a sharp whistling sound of a cannonball piercing the air came, followed by a series of violent explosions, the shock wave shook so that the houses here kept trembling, the plaster on the roof fell straight down, and the military maps and telegrams on the table were full of plaster, the fat man was very calm, as if he was fine, but the staff officers next to him were nervous, and hurriedly persuaded: "Division commander, that is when the enemy's warships on the mouth of the Yangtze River are bombarding, and the forward troops are attacking the enemy's position, It also encountered bombardment from enemy naval artillery, suffered heavy losses, and could not advance. ” When the fat man heard this, he stared at the group leader with small eyes and yelled, "Why didn't you tell me about this situation earlier?"
"It's useless to say it, this time I must take down the enemy's position, division commander, you wait" The regiment commander hurriedly turned around and ran out, he had no way to retreat, only to bet on the remaining strength of your two battalions in his hands to fight again, he knew the damage caused by the enemy's naval artillery to his attacking team, but what can be done about this Our PLA does not have warships and aircraft to fight against the enemy's warships, and it is not his style to complain and complain.
Today, since we have reached this point, even if we have exhausted our troops, we must also take the enemy's position, otherwise how will we mix in the team in the future On the Yangtze River, the naval guns of the Kuomintang warships began to shell the PLA positions again, and the cannonballs roared straight to the position, fortunately, the PLA soldiers had already dug anti-artillery holes and hid inside to avoid the artillery, but there were still some soldiers who did not have time to dodge, and were hit by the shells, so that the corpses could not be found, the artillery rumbled, the earth kept trembling, and the fat man's house as a command headquarters was also trembling and beating with the frequency of the shelling, and the guards around him were afraid that something would happen, so they hurriedly did not say a word.
Set up the fat man and went to the cover to avoid the shelling, the fat man scolded: "Put me down, Lao Tzu is not at that time, he will go" But the guards ignored the fat man's shouts, stood up and ran, knowing that they ran to the outside fortification cover department before letting him go, and said to the fat man: "Commander, you can scold if you want, but we must ensure your safety, otherwise it will be our dereliction of duty." ” As soon as the fat man heard this, he couldn't scold, after all, the guard brothers were also well-intentioned, just now there was a cannonball smashed next to the house, if he hadn't been pulled out by the guard brothers, I'm afraid it would have been a lottery at this time. t1706231537: