The Thirteenth Army went crazy, and tens of thousands of troops from three divisions launched a fierce attack on Wusongkou at the same time, although there were huge artillery on the Wusongkou Fort, after all, it still could not resist so many Kuomintang troops from all directions to attack Wusongkou, and until dawn, the planes of the Kuomintang army flew in, and the batteries were bombarded indiscriminately, and the large-caliber cannons that had just been captured were immediately blown apart, and the ammunition depot behind the fort was also hit by the bombs dropped by the planes.
Covering the sky over the entire battery, fortunately, Vice Captain Li and they had previously snatched out a batch of weapons, ammunition and explosives bags from the ammunition depot, otherwise it would have been blown up by the enemy's planes like this, it was a pity, the materials in the ammunition depot were piled up, at least one regiment could be equipped.
More than 300 brothers of the Marine Corps faced the all-out onslaught of the 13th Army like crazy, and the peripheral positions were lost a lot, and the casualties of the brothers increased sharply.
Vice Captain Chen saw that the situation was not good, and he had to ask for help from above, and the Marine brothers he brought with him might not be able to withstand the enemy's counterattack even if they were exhausted, and if Wusongkou fell into the hands of the enemy again, then Deputy Commander Li, who came later, and their large troops would suffer, and before they landed ashore, they would have to be driven into the sea by the 13th Army.
When Deputy Commander Li and the others received the telegram from Deputy Captain Chen asking for help, they were already about to rush to the edge of Wusongkou, and when Huang Shuisheng saw this, he hurriedly said nothing, and ordered gunboats, armed fishing boats, and other ships with shallow drafts to speed up and catch up with the landing, and first go up a group of troops to reinforce Deputy Captain Chen, and they resisted the enemy's frantic counterattack Lao Li ordered his Jiang defense ships to swing along the Wusongkou position, and use the ship's large and small naval guns to support Deputy Captain Chen, who was desperately resisting the onslaught of the 13th Army on the edge of the fort There was a thunderous artillery sound on the river, and the shells fell into the 13th Army that was charging like rain, and the Kuomintang soldiers were staggered, and the ghosts cried wolf, and the Xiong army commander was stunned, he never thought that the opposite side of the Wusongkou Fort had such fierce artillery support, and from the direction from which the shells came from, it was from the Yangtze River estuary that it was called, and it was troublesome now, it seems that there are also warships, and the air force planes must be dispatched to deal with them Commander Xiong hurriedly radioed to the air force, asking for reinforcements to come quickly and bombard the ships on the Yangtze River Soon, a fleet of 20 or so bombers immediately took off from the airfield near Shanghai and rushed over; Lao Li had suffered a big loss from plane bombing before, so naturally he did not dare to take air defense lightly, and the enemy's planes were discovered by his radar soldiers from a long distance, and the radar soldiers reported: "More than 20 planes flew from the southeast, all of them were bombers, and there were no fighter escorts, and the target course was exactly here in Wusongkou." ” "Haha, it's just in time, Lao Tzu was about to report the revenge of being bombed by them last time, and he was almost going to be blown up and fed to the fish, so he immediately telegraphed Deputy Captain Chen on the battery, and asked him to also get the anti-aircraft guns in the battery, let's have a joint air defense by sea and land, and beat down those planes that show off their might" Deputy Commander Li was full of confidence this time, on the large and small river defense ships under his command, all the places where machine guns could be placed were installed by him for air defense, and with the help of Lao Liao of Jiangyin Fort, the anti-aircraft guns on the batteries were removed, At first glance, Deputy Commander Li's river defense ships were transformed into air defense ships full of air defense weapons by him, how powerful are the enemy's bombers, if you want to break through the firepower network of so many air defense weapons, it is estimated that it is enough, the most important thing is that the command of these air defense weapons is Lao Liao of Jiangyin Fort, he is an old naval artilleryman, commanding the artillery array is a trivial matter, a drizzly matter, Lao Li invited Lao Liao to the fleet this time, is to let him be responsible for the fleet air defense and naval artillery fire command, The officers and soldiers of the 13th Kuomintang Army who were bombed around the opposite fort should consider themselves unlucky, you have met a master like Lao Liao, your suffering is still behind, don't worry, take your time Huang Shuisheng and the others hurriedly landed on the shore, and Deputy Captain Li, who had been reinforced by the naval guns of the Jiangfang Fleet, and their Marine brothers immediately became excited, and shouted and cheered each other up: "Brothers, support for a while, and our reinforcements will be."
It's coming."
With the support of the naval artillery fire of the Jiangfang fleet, Vice Captain Li's marine corps fought impressively, repelled several fierce attacks of the 13th Army that were about to rush in, and kept the position of the Wusongkou battery, but its own casualties were also very large, and less than 100 of the more than 300 marines were left so far, and most of them were still scarred.
But thinking that reinforcements would arrive immediately, and the guns of the Jiang defense ships on the river were constantly bombarding the enemy's position, these wounded Marine brothers were full of confidence and stubbornly resisted the crazy fierce attack of the 13th Army on the opposite side.
A large number of bombers appeared over the mouth of the Yangtze River, and those pilots looked at the river defense fleet that was lined up on the river, thinking that this time they had encountered a soft persimmon, isn't this the river defense fleet that had just surrendered, why didn't they blow you up last time, and now they actually ran to Wusongkou to find us trouble, and they really killed themselves The bombers immediately scattered in all directions, and in groups of four planes, they swooped down on Lao Li's river defense fleet from four directions, in an attempt to blow up and sink all these surrendered "rebel ships" in one fell swoop, so as to set an example Lao Li on the river was waiting for this opportunity, and as soon as he saw the enemy planes swooping down in one fell swoop, he immediately ordered the antiaircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns on his warships to open fire together, intercept those bombers, and beat them down from the sky For a time, on the river outside Wusongkou, antiaircraft artillery shells exploded one after another around the Kuomintang bombers that were swooping over, and the machine gun bullets continued to hit like a storm, and the thick smoke barrier produced by the explosion of the smoke bombs immediately covered the river defense ships on the river and the fishing boats next to them, and the Kuomintang pilots who swooped down were not dumbfoundedThey could only desperately maneuver left and right to avoid the bullets and shells fired from below, and the bombing target was already compared to the smoke, so they could not aim correctly, so they had to raise the nose of the aircraft, hover over the clouds for a circle, and then look for an opportunity to dive and drop the bomb.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Deputy Commander Li ordered the anti-aircraft weapons to suspend firing and continue to fire smoke bombs into the air, while at the same time, the river defense ships quickly dispersed, and the rest of the gunboats and fishing boats all landed ashore to launch a general attack on the enemy at the Wusongkou Fort The brothers of the naval division soon landed ashore, and immediately joined the battle group, originally the thirteenth army's attack on the battery was already the end of the crossbow, you think about it, on the way to the charge, constantly encountered the naval artillery bombardment on the river, the casualties were heavy, three or four times in a row, all were blown up on the road, so you can still fart, those teams in the front retreated, even the thirteenth army's supervision team behind could not stop their retreat, just when Commander Xiong planned to let the team rest for a while, reorganize the attackSuddenly, a large number of troops have rushed up on the tidal flats along the coast of Wusongkou, looking at the scale, there must be a division or so, Commander Xiong's tanks and armored vehicles have been bombarded by the naval artillery just now, they have been blown up to pieces, the assault force has been lost, and there is no fortification such as Wusongkou Fort, the team is all deployed in the open area, in the face of a communist division that has just landed on the shore, Commander Xiong really does not have the confidence and courage to drive them into the sea, and it is so difficult to deal with so many on the fort.
Not to mention the main forces that have just come ashore There was a burst of screams after being shot in the group of bombers in the sky, and the wings of the two American-made B17 bombers were hit by anti-aircraft shells, and immediately a raging fire broke out, the engines lost power, and the planes swayed like a big kite that suddenly broke the line and pierced towards the 13th Army's position in front of the battery.
The Kuomintang officers and soldiers below saw that the bomber was about to fall towards their side, and they were so frightened that they screamed and scattered in all directions, and the staggering and falling bomber screamed and rushed into the position in front of the battery, killing many soldiers who had no time to dodge on the spot, and the wreckage of the bomber was scattered all over the ground, and there were burning parts everywhere.
The two bombers were shot down, and the commander Xiong on the ground had no confidence to attack, and the bomber group in the air saw that the situation was not good, so they hurriedly turned around and ran towards the open sea, this time the fleet was so powerful, the anti-aircraft artillery fire was so intensive, it was like a goddess scattering flowers, the sky was full of explosive anti-aircraft shells and flying guns, or it was important to save their planes and lives, the infantry brothers below, you only have to ask for more blessings for yourself, we can't control it, we have to run away As soon as the Kuomintang bomber group ran away, the soldiers of the 13th Army retreated backwards like a tide, and Commander Xiong saw that the general trend had gone and could not be recovered, so it was difficult for him to explain to Commander Tang if he was defeated and retreated, so it was better to commit suicide on the battlefield.
Just as he took out his pistol and was about to put it on fire to his head, several of his lieutenants hurriedly knocked out the pistol and shouted to him: "Junzao, run, stay in Qingshan without worrying about no firewood, you are Commander Tang's old subordinate, you have been following him for more than 30 years, he will not miss the old feelings" t1706231537: