Returning to the garrison from the field army headquarters, Zhou Wu immediately brought the fat men under him and said to them: "Brothers, the superiors have asked us to suspend the attack on Greater Shanghai, rest and replenish on the spot, seize the time to rest, and the training must not be relaxed, when to launch a general offensive to listen to the orders from above."
A few days ago, his first division repeatedly attacked the opposite position, and suffered many casualties, and the morale of the troops was not high, and now it is just taking advantage of this opportunity to take a good rest and recuperate to intensify the training of attacking fortified positions, sum up the lessons of these battles, and prepare for the general offensive in the future.
"Don't think about the good thing of resting, we have a new mission, but this time it's not infantry, but an aquatic water division, the headquarters has assigned the uprising of the river defense fleet to our command, of course, the Jiangyin battery is also under the command of our army, now we have a fleet of steel warships, although the tonnage is not so large, but it is more advanced than small gunboats and armed fishing boats, aquatic, you come to serve as the commander of this fleet, Deputy Commander Li is your deputy to assist you in commanding, how about there is no difficulty" Zhou Wu said to Huang Shuisheng with a smile.
Huang Shuisheng heard that he was going to command the Jiangfang fleet, and he felt a little unable to react for a while, thinking that he was originally a small platoon commander, following Zhou Wu all the way, and now he is mixed with the commander of the fleet, although the scale of this fleet is not large, there are few steel-armored warships, but with the foundation, there will be development, and after the liberation of the whole of China, he will definitely be in the navy, thanks to his previous experience as a water bandit in Gaoyou Lake, otherwise how could he be mixed to this point "Commander, there is no difficulty, in the past, when we only had broken fishing boats, we still fought with the enemy on the water, and now we have advanced steel-armored warships, and I am afraid that those enemies will come" Huang Shuisheng is full of confidence, and he has steel-armored warships at hand, plus those battle-hardened "white stripes in the waves" of his water warfare division, it is not a problem to deal with the Kuomintang Navy, thinking that in Gaoyou Lake and Hongze Lake, the well-equipped devil water combat troops were not still defeated under them, is it difficult for these Kuomintang navies to worship the Yankees as masters, The ability has grown "These days, your naval division has been continuously operating along the coast of the Yangtze River estuary, continuous combat, whether the soldiers' physical strength can support morale, how well is there logistics support, material supply, ammunition, etc., how the sea combat is different from the land, the requirements for logistics and ammunition supply are very high, you must take into account all aspects of things before you act, otherwise once you get to the sea, then you will shout that the sky should not be, and the ground is not working, and Wusongkou is the enemy's sea artery in and out of Shanghai, and it must be blocked in order to encircle and annihilate the enemy, Otherwise, even if we surround Tang Enbo's team from the land direction, we will not be able to encircle them, they have a sea route to escape by boat, so the first task of your naval division this time is to conquer Wusongkou as soon as possible, block the coast of the Yangtze River estuary, and strictly prevent a large number of enemies from escaping from the sea" Zhou Wu assigned a combat mission to Huang Shuisheng, and Huang Shuisheng hurriedly took out a small notebook to write it down, for so many years, he knew that his culture was not high, so he relied on self-study to learn culture, and gradually developed a good habit of taking notes, In this way, when you go back, you can take it out and take a look, and you will understand what the combat mission is this time, otherwise if you can't remember the mission, and you will lose everything in the fight, then you will definitely not be able to fight a good battle.
Huang Shuisheng returned to his station, here is the dock near Taicang, there are dense armed fishing boats and small gunboats moored around the dock, these are the belongings of his water warfare division, Deputy Commander Li's river defense fleet and Lao Liao's small fleet composed of gunboats in the Jiangyin Fort are rushing here day and night, Jiangyin is more than 100 nautical miles away from Taicang, the fleet can arrive in ten hours at full speed, Huang Shuisheng has asked his brothers to load ammunition and supplies on the fishing boats, and wait for Deputy Commander Li's river defense fleet to arrive, Immediately pull anchor and set sail for the mouth of the Yangtze River to the south.
In the afternoon, Huang Shuisheng suddenly received a telegram from Zhou Wu, saying that according to the latest intelligence, the Second Fleet of the Kuomintang Army was advancing in the direction of Taicang, and the specific purpose of the enemy's fleet was unknown, then the river defense fleet immediately plugged in from the flank of the enemy fleet, lazily cut them off, divided the encirclement, and annihilated the enemy ships Zhou Wu used his usual tactics of flanking and outflanking on land this time and dividing, encircling and annihilating them at sea, and he believed that naval warfare and land warfare must have the same effect, and the tactics that have been tried and tested repeatedly in land warfare can also be used at sea, but naval warfare emphasizes coordination and cooperation between ships, as well as the equipment and use of firepower is also quite crucial, and these tactical problems should not be any problem for Huang Shuisheng, who has been fighting on the surface for a long time, and Deputy Commander Li, an old navy who has rebelled and defected.
Sure enough, when Huang Shuisheng received this order from Zhou Wu, he immediately understood Zhou Wu's intentions, and he immediately ordered the fleet to set sail quickly, divided into three teams, with gunboats as the head, and armed fishing boats followed up, forming a triangular offensive formation on the river, and rushing towards the second fleet of the Kuomintang Navy on the opposite side.
Similarly, after receiving Zhou Wu's order, Deputy Commander Li, who was sailing halfway, also immediately comprehended Zhou Wu's tactical intentions, knowing that this time Zhou Wu was going to put the Second Fleet of the Kuomintang Navy to death, he said to the officers next to him and Lao Liao, who was following the action: "The commander seems to be not only a master of land warfare, it turns out that he has also studied naval warfare, such a tactical purpose is obvious, you can advance or retreat, once you can't outflank it, you can quickly round with Commander Huang and their fleet, hit the weak point of the second fleet, Relying on the numerical superiority of the number of ships, it is possible to beat up one or two lone enemy warships, and also to repel the enemy fleet. ” Lao Liao smiled and said to Deputy Commander Li: "Of course, people became famous during the Anti-Japanese War, known as the "devil buster" in Jiangbei, in the battle of Songhu Luodian, at that time, Commander Ma, who was the commander of the independent brigade of the 79th Army, repeatedly repelled the charge of the devil division, held the position for more than a month, and finally when the whole line retreated in the direction of Nanjing, only their independent brigade still maintained the unit structure and retreated.
I think our old enemy, Chief Lin of the Second Fleet of the Kuomintang Navy, will suffer a big loss this time."
In order to defend against the Kuomintang planes, Deputy Commander Li and Lao Liao dismantled some antiaircraft guns from the Jiangyin Fort, and installed them on the warships for air defense, and the ammunition was naturally sufficient.
Deputy Commander Li also freed up the heavy machine guns in the old Liao battery, pressed them on the warship, and assisted the anti-aircraft artillery air defense, which was terrible, the deck and the side of the Jiang defense ship were pressed by Deputy Commander Li and Lao Liao every four meters to press an air defense heavy machine gun, and there was an anti-aircraft gun in the middle, and there were all kinds of anti-aircraft guns, and there were several countries in the production area alone, and there were more models, fortunately, there was still some ammunition in the ammunition depot of Lao Liao's battery, otherwise where to find so many kinds of ammunition Huang Shuisheng's sailors did not have such powerful equipment as Deputy Commander Li's broken fishing boats and small gunboats, but the fishing boats had the fighting style of fishing boats, and Huang Shuisheng was already familiar with the wolf pack tactics of fishing boats, and he successfully used them in actual combat last time, and forced the foreign devil fleet to flee in a hurry, and even the bombers besieging the old Li Jiangfang fleet fled, it seems that this wolf pack tactics are still quite effective, no matter what tactical methods are used, it is a good tactic to win, no matter what naval warfare theory he has, Most of the officers of the Kuomintang Navy have stayed in the ocean, and they have been trained by the Yankee Navy, but they have not yet been defeated by the Tubaozi fleet When Huang Shuisheng's fleet sailed more than 30 nautical miles away from Taicang and sailed to the river near Chongming Island, Chief Lin of the Second Fleet, who rushed to the opposite side, received a report from the communications corps: "A fleet of ships was found eight nautical miles ahead, and there were quite a few of them, and the radar analysis was that it was a fishing boat. ” As soon as he heard that a large number of fishing boats had been discovered, he immediately judged: The one in front must be the fleet, and now at this time, where will so many fishing boats appear in the waters where the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are fighting As soon as he received the information that Huang Shuisheng's fishing fleet was coming, he immediately ordered the fleet to disperse, and the destroyers on both sides drove at full speed to meet the front, while his own flagships and cruisers and other large warships slowed down, so that an inverted triangle formation was slowly formed, which happened to be in line with Huang Shuisheng's positive triangle formation.
Then the destroyers on the flanks quickly maneuvered up, surrounded the armed fishing boats, and then surrounded and annihilated them With a loud "boom," the 240-millimeter guns on the heavy cruiser, the flagship of the Second Fleet, opened fire and bombarded first, and immediately afterward, other cruisers around the area also opened fire on Huang Shuisheng's armed fishing boat on the opposite side. t1706231537: