Chapter 222 The Artillery Battle of Yanziji in the Battle of Nanjing (Part 2)
Chapter 222: The Battle of Swallow Rock Artillery Battle (Part 2)
For a moment, guns rumbling on the river surface of Yanziji! The caliberated artillery on the Japanese destroyers were aimless and desperately fighting back. The naval observers in the Naval Observatory on the riverside quickly corrected the projection secrets and data of the artillery. Every time the Japanese destroyer was hit by a large-caliber grenade and fired, they would cheer. If they were hit by the armor-piercing projectiles of the 88-mm anti-aircraft gun, they would stare at the position where the Japanese ship was hit.
Suddenly, the new high-speed destroyer Takasugi, with a standard displacement of 1,900 tons, was hit by an armor-piercing bomb fired by a 280-mm Krupp coastal defense heavy artillery. The entire battleship bounced up from the water surface several feet and then fell back to the water surface. It immediately twisted and lost its power. The Nanchuan and others who followed closely behind were forced to slow down one after another. The Japanese ships that were slowing down or even about to stop would obviously become fixed shooting targets for Chinese artillery.
As the heavy artillery landed closer and closer, Yoshida Yukihiro stared at his red eyes and howled: "The torpedo on the bow of the ship is ready, first, second, third, and fourth!"
The deputy captain and the first mate, standing beside Yoshida Yoshida, looked pale and used the latest high-explosive torpedo made by the Empire to break the latest destroyer of the Empire? In particular, there were at least 200 officers and soldiers on the ship. The gunman of the Nankawa hesitated after completing the filling. After repeatedly determining the captain's order, the gunman fired four torpedoes one after another after a gloomy sigh.
With a distance of three hundred yards, after the earth-shaking violent explosion, the Takasugi broke into two pieces and sank into the river. Yoshida Yoshida wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said with gratitude: "Thanks to the Nanchuan retained the torpedo tube, otherwise if the Takasugi blocked the channel, we might be wiped out today."
Faced with the good fortune of the fleet commander and captain Major General Yoshida Yoshida, the deputy captain Kuroin and the first deputy Hashimoto were also full of bitterness. Lightning strikes his new warships? How should we report this report?
The fierce artillery battle did not last long. Simply put, the *** people were always in an absolutely passive way. It was simply a tribute to the *** people. There were only nineteen Japanese ships surviving through the Yanziji Fortress, including the Japanese flagship Nanchuan, which survived through Yanziji Fortress. Among them, the Liefeng had basically lost its power and needed to be dragged. The other seven destroyers were all sunk except the Akikatsushi beached, and the sunken Japanese ships blocked most of the main channel.
The surviving Japanese ships were all filled with thick smoke. The fires on several ships had not been extinguished. The losses of personnel and ships made Yoshida Yukihiko suddenly feel sad from the bottom of his heart. It can be said that the main force of the destroyer of the entire Chinese dispatched fleet was completely destroyed in this battle. Almost all ships needed to return to the *** for overhaul.
Yoshida Yuki looked at the double-equipped front main gun that was tilted and deformed on the front deck of the flagship Nankawa, as if it had been opened by a can bottle opener. The entire turret twisted and cracked a two-meter-long hole. The steel plate was seriously deformed, and several incomplete corpses were scattered on the side.
In the fierce and extremely fierce battle, Yoshida Yoshida had only one idea at that time, that is, the farther away from the hell where the shells flew across the planet, the better.
The disastrous defeat of the supportive fleet of Xiaguan made Asakagumi Kuchihiko stunned? When did the *** people secretly build Yanziji into a large fortress under the noses of the Great Imperial Army? And they also deployed 280 mm caliber heavy artillery?
In fact, Kuhihiko Asakamura had no idea that since Zhang Xuewu took over the position of Nanjing garrison commander, he began to quickly forcibly move the people in Nanjing, and strictly rank and review the population leaving the city to Wuhan. All the merchants who traveled to and from the Japanese-occupied area were detained. A large number of spies were discovered. For those traitors who covered the Japanese, Zhang Xuewu basically gave them quick and severe punishments to the local expiration, and did not tolerate the traitors.
Therefore, the Japanese army's intelligence in Nanjing was basically zero. With the cooperation of various Chinese Air Force departments, especially the BF-109f fighter brigade of the Rehe Air Force, the Japanese reconnaissance aircraft did not dare to appear around Nanjing City. Once discovered, the performance of the Zhongdao two-seater reconnaissance aircraft would not escape the fate of being shot down. At the beginning, the *** was still very persistent. When all seventeen Zhongdao reconnaissance aircraft of a squadron were shot down and made two ace pilots of the BF-109f brigade, the *** became cautious. Without the escort of the fighter, the reconnaissance aircraft would definitely not conduct reconnaissance in a single aircraft or a two-aircraft formation.
The naval aviation forces, which suffered huge losses in the logistics, came up with a skilled trick, which was to use previous reconnaissance photos to remake, which not only completed the tasks assigned above, but also looked at them safely. Yoshida Yukihiro became an innocent victim of these aerial photos.
The Japanese army's disastrous defeat of the Chinese fleet to destroy the detachment team shocked the entire *** Navy. The warships and artillery have always been the absolute advantage of warships. How could they suffer such a big loss this time? After investigation by the Navy Department, they were surprised to find that the Yanziji Fortress Fortress was in such an extremely dangerous position, and it was a big opportunity for a man to be in a passable position.
It can be said that the failure of China to send a fleet cast a shadow on the upcoming Nanjing General Attack. Moreover, according to the intelligence provided by the North China Front Army, the Rehe Legion covered a large number of Soviet-made deportation aircraft passing through Jinan and Xuzhou to Nanjing. The subsequent intelligence showed that the batch of deportation aircraft was likely to exceed 150.
One hundred and fifty expelling aircraft will definitely have a profound and huge impact on the comparison of enemy and us in the air above Nanjing. Asakusa Hatohiko was frowning, Zhang Xuewu met with the liaison deputy of the Soviet military advisory group in the headquarters.
Zhang Xuewu remembers that Zhukov, a famous World War II general in history, also served as a member of the Soviet advisory group in China during the Battle of Wuhan, but this Serlogsev never heard of it. He is probably not an ordinary person to be a liaison officer in the advisory group. As the name suggests, the liaison officer must choose a quick-minded person. Generally speaking, his job is to fight for front-end stations, run errands, etc., and he usually chooses a young and capable captain or major.
When he saw this Serrogsif, Zhang Xuewu realized that everything he had thought was a big mistake. Serrogsif turned out to be a major general of the Soviet Air Force? He looked like he was about fifty years old. His face was full of vicissitudes and wrinkles, his big red rosacea, his standard head shape of the "local support center" and his big belly looked like he was shaking when he walked.
However, what surprised Zhang Xuewu was that the Serrogsiv spoke fluent Chinese. Serrogsiv smiled very sophisticatedly and sophisticatedly: "Comrade Zhang, your behavior of fighting against the invaders in Rehe has been highly recognized by Comrade Stalin, the commander of the Supreme Soviet. He believes that your enthusiasm for love for the motherland is no less than that of the great Soviet people's love for the Soviets. Please allow me to bring you the kind greetings of Comrade Stalin, the commander of the Supreme Soviet."
Zhang Xuewu looked at Xie Luogesif with a smile on his face. To be honest, what Zhang Xuewu disliked the most was the existence of these so-called "China Master"! Whether it is Seishiro Itagaki, Kenji Doihara, or the current Xie Luogesif, these people only have national interests in their eyes. In the face of national interests, all commitments and treaties are nothing more than empty text.
The first two are demons who planned to invade and actively carried out the invasion of China and incite wars, while the latter, Serogesev, was a vicious bear with bad intentions. Although China and the Soviet Union are close friends and comrades-in-arms, the Soviet Union not only borrowed loans to the Chinese government at extremely low interest rates, but also provided the weapons and equipment that China urgently needed, but after the signing of the Soviet-Japan Treaty of Non-Aggression in 1940, the Soviet Union, a friend of the Chinese people, also joined the comprehensive victory of China.
After the war, millions of Soviet troops invaded Northeast China, the Soviet army's public plundering was to repay the 300 million US dollars of loans it had loaned to China. Later generations of Soviet troops plundered and destroyed precious metals, machinery and equipment, resources, etc. from the Northeast, and the recorded value was about 12.8 billion US dollars.
The Soviet aid to China was a huge threat from the Kwantung Army. Therefore, once the Japanese army determined the policy of moving south rather than going north, the Soviet Union's seemingly generous aid would be cut off at any time. Compared with seizing China's fire weapons and lending them to the United States, Britain, France and other countries that bought scrap steel, aviation engines, cars, oil, rubber, etc. to make bomb weapons, there was really no bastard behavior, only more bastard behavior.
Zhang Xuewu held Serrogsiv's fat hands with a smile and said, "Please allow me to express my highest respect to the great Comrade Stalin. The Soviet people are good friends of the Chinese people, Comrade Lenin and Comrade Stalin are all close friends of the Chinese people who are great and full of words."
In fact, Zhang Xuewu had already scolded Serogesev several times in his heart. I need you, Stalin, to praise you, if you, Stalin, don’t praise you, I can’t fight against the Japanese invaders? And I love China, China is China, the Soviet Union is the Soviet Union, what does my patriotism have to do with you?
However, Zhang Xuewu must now remind the official next to him with righteous words: "I just said that the Soviet people are good friends of the Chinese people, Comrade Lenin and Comrade Stalin are all great and close friends of the Chinese people."
Although Shelogsev is known as a Chinese master and can speak fluent Chinese, in the eyes of many foreigners, Chinese is undoubtedly the most complex language in the world. With just one word I, there are eleven ways of calling me in Chinese, some people, some people, and so on.
Chapter completed!