These underground party comrades lurking around Tang Enbo played a role at a critical moment, transmitting important information such as the enemy's troop movements to the headquarters of the East China Field Army, and providing great help to Commander Li's command decision-making, so that the PLA conquered Shanghai City and eliminated Tang Enbo's troops with a lot of worry and effort, and at the same time reduced the casualties of the East China PLA troops.
For these comrades who are fighting in the heart of the enemy, they hang their heads on the waistband of their trousers every day, and the pressure can be imagined, Tang Enbo, this guy is famous for turning his face and not recognizing people, not long ago he betrayed his mentor Chen Yi, and he can betray the mentor who takes care of him and cultivates vigorously, and who else he dare not do Commander Li hurriedly gave this important situation to Zhou Wu, asking him to take countermeasures as soon as possible and strive to capture Wusongkou before the assistant of the 13th Army rushed to Wusongkou, otherwise once the enemy at Wusongkou received reinforcements, then Zhou Wu's siege troops would fall into a move, and most of Tang Enbo's troops would be able to run away from the sea, which would be a great danger to the East China Liberation Army.
Zhou Wu received a telegram from Commander Li, and arrived that the situation was a little serious, and the enemy probably sensed that we were going to block their sea retreat, so the 13th Army, the main force sent out to guard Shanghai, rushed to reinforce Wusongkou, and Huang Shuisheng and their naval division fought a naval battle, but to deal with the elite Kuomintang troops like the 13th Army, first of all, they suffered in terms of quantity, the 13th Army had nearly 40,000 people, equipped with tank regiments and artillery regiments, all of which were equipped with American weapons and equipment, and were the only elite guards left in Lao Jiang's hands to save his life.
Huang Shuisheng's naval division has a total of less than 10,000 people, and the weapons and equipment are not comparable, one is in the sky and the other is underground, which is far behind, and the 13th Army can also be supported by the aircraft of the nearby Kuomintang Air Force.
Zhou Wu immediately ordered the fat man who was repairing and training to take the first division team to move in the direction of Chongming Island in a fishing boat, to contain the 13th Army on the flank, and to reinforce Huang Shuisheng They conquered Wusongkou, and at the same time, depending on the situation, they could first capture Chongming Island and Changxing Island, forming a horn trend against Wusongkou, on the tidal flats facing the mouth of the Yangtze River on Chongming Island, the Kuomintang army built a large number of reinforced concrete river defense fortifications, and the fat man's first division could use these river defense fortifications to intercept the Kuomintang naval warships on the Yangtze River, and at the same time it could also use Chongming Island as a base, Attack at any time and block the mouth of the Yangtze River with Huang Shuisheng and their water warfare divisions, and completely block the escape of Tang Enbo's troops by sea The fat man immediately took the first division to take a fishing boat from the coast of Taicang, after the battle of crossing the river, the local people's support to join the army reached a climax, fishing boats and small sampans have everything, how many or how much, the chief of staff who is busy with the military work, Xu Xu, who is busy with the military work, does not touch the ground, and is very happy.
With the strong support of the common people, the logistics of the fat man's first division is naturally not a problem, when they drove the fishing boats along the Yangtze River estuary towards Wusongkou in the south, the foreign warships that usually run rampant in the Yangtze River estuary, and come and go freely are gone, perhaps those foreign devils have suffered a lot from the last naval battle, and now they dare not come here to provoke again, and the Yangtze River surface is suddenly much cleaner.
After Huang Shuisheng received Zhou Wu's order for him to quickly conquer Wusongkou, he hurriedly found Deputy Commander Li and said to him: "Lao Li, the army commander wants us to capture Wusongkou as soon as possible, the Thirteenth Army of the Kuomintang is rushing from Pudong to Wusongkou for reinforcements, we have to capture it before they rush to Wusongkou, otherwise it will not be easy to fight, the Thirteenth Army is a life-saving force in the hands of Lao Jiang, the combat effectiveness is good, the number of people is several times more than ours, we have to speed up the sailing." ” When Deputy Commander Li heard this, he hurriedly suggested to the fat man: "Lao Liu, I think so, an advance team composed of fast-paced river defense ships and gunboats will catch up first, and as soon as they arrive at Wusongkou, they will immediately launch an attack there, and our large army will follow closely behind, let the advance team feint to attack the Wusongkou fort and try to attract the attention of the defenders, and our large army will be divided into three ways to choose the weak point of the defenders to land ashore, and we should be able to capture Wusongkou quickly, besides, I have stayed at the Wusongkou dock for some time.
I don't dare to say everything about the terrain there, but I have some understanding, it is the middle of the month, it is the season of high tide in Wusongkou tidal flat, so it is more conducive to our beach landing. ” Huang Shuisheng nodded hurriedly: "Lao Li, you are right, you have more experience than me in naval warfare, and you know better than me about the terrain and tidal laws of Wusongkou, so you will command the battle to capture Wusongkou this time, and I will be your deputy to assist you in commanding." ” Huang Shuisheng is very good, he is different from the fat man, the fat man wants him to take the lead in everything, he can't listen to other people's opinions, he thinks he is very awesome, in addition to Zhou Wu's words in the whole army, he can listen to the others, including Niu Political Commissar and Lao Xu Chief of Staff and Ge Sanmin, the fat man is not very buying, when the chief of staff of Lao Ding was in the past, the fat man was still relatively modest, after Lao Ding's sacrifice, the fat man became more and more confident, his eyes were up to the sky, but no wonder he was proud, this fat man had excellent luck in the war, When he was almost defeated, those brothers who were similar to him in terms of seniority and position could only brag with this fat man at this time, and people were indeed qualified to brag.
Huang Shuisheng is very modest and serious, he doesn't understand it, he knows that he is a bandit in Gaoyou Lake, he wants to be cultured or uneducated, he has no qualifications, when the fat man was the commander of the independent brigade, he Huang Shuisheng was still a small platoon commander, and this navy is a brand new business, just the communications, formation, command, piloting, damage control and other things of those warships, he has to let him learn for a few years, Deputy Commander Li is an old sailor from the Guangdong Army, and he once followed the father of the country and Lao Jiang on the sea.
Naturally, he knows the key points of these naval battles well, and he must learn from him in this regard, and he must not be false at all.
Hearing that Huang Shuisheng took the initiative to give up command during the war, Deputy Commander Li was very surprised, thinking that Huang Shuisheng was just talking, but he never thought that Huang Shuisheng was really here, and ordered all the regiment commanders under his command to listen to Deputy Commander Li's orders.
Lao Li was surprised and delighted, surprised that Huang Shuisheng looked down on him so much, he had just defected from the Kuomintang Navy, but Huang Shuisheng was relieved to give him this command, indicating that he must have obtained the approval of Zhou Wu above, otherwise with the authority of a division commander, it would be impossible to transfer this wartime command, and he was happy that he was still able to command a complete fleet here in the Communist Army, charging into battle, and making meritorious contributions, since he took the river defense fleet to the People's Liberation Army, The old enemy Chief Lin ran away, and the foreign devil warship also fled, and most of the evil anger that had been hidden in his heart for decades came out, so he was not happy The target of this battle is the Wusongkou Fort that he is very familiar with, as long as there are no major mistakes, he should be able to capture the Wusongkou Fort smoothly.
Therefore, Deputy Commander Li ordered the Jiang defense ships and gunboats to form an advance team, led by a capable captain under his command, to sail to Wusongkou at the best speed, and asked them not to stop and rest after arriving at Wusongkou, but to immediately launch an attack on the Wusongkou Fort, and the advance team led a group of more than 200 marines to land ashore before the fleet launched an attack on Wusongkou, to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, harass the enemy, and destroy the enemy's battery, so as to provide cover for the advance team to feint on the Wusongkou Fort.
When Lao Li was in the Kuomintang Navy, he saw that the United States and other advanced Western powers had marines, and they were amphibious, so he thought that his own river defense fleet would also have one, so he selected some people with good physique and ability from his sailors to form a marine corps of two or three hundred people.
Now it's time for them to come out and see what the training has been like in the past two or three years The Marine Corps was led by a deputy captain surnamed Chen, following the advance team's actions, the speed of the river defense ships and gunboats was fast, and they rushed to the sea area outside Wusongkou in a hurry, Vice Captain Chen immediately took the Marine brothers to land on a small boat, and the place they chose was a tidal flat in the northwest of Wusongkou Fort, at this time it was at the time of the high tide at night, and the boat easily went ashore with the help of the tide, and the Kuomintang army had no defensive forces here, and Tang Enbo had a total of only a few troops on such a long bank at the mouth of the Yangtze River.
It was impossible for him to fortify everywhere along the Yangtze River estuary to resist possible attacks from the sea, and besides, the conceited Commander Tang did not believe that the Turks were capable of carrying out landing operations, so except for an infantry regiment around the Wusongkou Fort to protect the fort, he did not arrange a single soldier on the other tidal flats, and did not even set up a mine trap obstacle that made a appearance, which just helped the Marine brothers a lot, and all of them in a group of more than 200 people successfully landed ashore.
All landed and landed smoothly.
Naturally, the scout brothers went around scouting and searching for the enemy's situation, and Vice Captain Chen ordered the brothers to rest on the spot for a while, and wait for the scout to come back to make a decision.
Soon, the scout brothers returned, and they reported: "No enemy positions and teams have been found around, the Wusongkou battery is more than ten miles away from here, and there is a national regiment stationed on the periphery, the fort is well guarded, there are obstacles such as mines and traps, there are twelve large-caliber giant cannons on the battery, the ammunition depot is behind the battery, and there is a reinforced company guarding it. ” t1706231537: