Chapter 139: The Battle of Songjiang Defence (IV)

It was dawn, and a white mist floated on the surface of Mishidu, the upper reaches of the Huangpu River. In the hazy, several figures of moving figures appeared in Chen Xiuwen's telescope.

"The Japanese are so fast, the vanguard has arrived." Chen Xiuwen, who was standing in the frontier command center of the 40th Regiment, was watching the situation on the other side with a telescope, and Teng Donglin, the deputy brigade commander and commander of the 40th Regiment.

"I have pulled all the boats on the other side. Even if the Japanese arrive on the other side, they will be able to make trouble." Teng Donglin said with a smile.

In fact, although Teng Donglin smiled relaxed on the surface, he had actually been holding his breath in his heart. The last time the 20th Independent Brigade was promoted to fight, his 40th Regiment stayed in Songjiang for the last time. The only battalion sent out fought a battle to capture Huishan Wharf and quickly retreated to Songjiang for rest. Compared with the 38th and the 42nd Regiment that merged later, his 40th Regiment's record was really unreasonable.

Although Chen Xiuwen treated the following three A-type regiments equally in terms of weapons and equipment and organization expansion, and his 40th regiment still maintained the original horse of the Jiaxing Security Regiment. This should have been a blessing for Teng Donglin. After all, he was not a deputy brigade commander and still firmly held his old troops in his hands. But Teng Donglin was not happy. He knew that Chen Xiuwen was due to his qualifications in the third phase of Huangpu and intended to take care of himself. For Teng Donglin, who was straightforward, he always felt that compared with the other two regiments, there was always something between his 40th regiment and Shen Xiuwen.

This time, he finally had the opportunity to defend the front of Songjiang's periphery. Teng Donglin had already agreed with the old brothers below that as long as the Japanese attacked, their 40th regiment must fight a beautiful battle for the brigade to see. Their 40th regiment, like the 38th and 42nd regiments, are all good.

"Don't you worry about the voyage. Didn't Chief Huang ask us to guard for one day? With the natural danger of the Huangpu River and the brothers' solid fortifications for a week. I promise to hand over the South Bank position to them when the reinforcements arrive." Teng Donglin said with his chest patted.

"You can't be careless. The vanguard troops on the opposite side are the 6th Division, and they are the most elite troops of the Japanese Army. They and the 2nd Division are equivalent to the 87th and 88th Divisions of our country, but they are absolutely elite." Chen Xiuwen shook his head and said.

"Haha, even if they are elite, they can't even pass by the river today. It's also a big blame for their bad luck. They are not other troops, but our Independent Twenty Brigade." Teng Donglin said with a smile.

Chen Xiuwen looked at Teng Donglin, who had turned his head and was watching the enemy situation on the other side with a telescope. To be honest, letting Teng Donglin, who was much older than him, and who was once the current commander of the 74th Army, be his deputy brigade commander, was indeed a little worried. Therefore, he could scold Cheng Dean and Zhang Zhengjie for the other two regiment commanders, but he was always polite to this big brother.

However, Teng Donglin's unintentional words just now made Chen Xiuwen very happy. Our Independent Twenty Brigade shows that Teng Donglin has a sense of belonging to his army and has long regarded himself as one of them.

On the small high ground next to a bamboo forest on the other side, there were also a group of people holding telescopes to observe the situation on the other side.

"His division commander, the search team reported that the ships on the north bank were dragged to the south bank by the Chinese army, and the terrain on the south bank had obvious traces of fortification construction. It seems that the Chinese army has prepared a long time ago." Colonel Fujita, the commander of the 45th Regiment, put down the telescope in his hand and said respectfully to Tani Shouo beside him.

"Although the Chinese army was prepared, there was only one brigade of the Chinese army in the Songjiang area. I am sure that the opposite defensive force would not exceed one regiment. I ordered the artillery brigade to prepare for artillery fire for ten minutes, destroy the fortifications on the other side, and then force the Huangpu River to cross the Huangpu River. In an hour, I hope to stand on the other side and command you to march towards Songjiang County." Although the overnight marching made the eyes of Tani Shouo, who had been in his fifties, was covered with blood in his eyes, but he seemed quite excited.

"Hay." Fujita seemed very careful because the division commander personally led the team. Since the division commander personally issued the order, he was also very excited to accept the order.

"Sun-Sun-Sun" bursts of sharp whistling sounds passed by the river, and three-point 8 kilograms of high explosive bombs continued to fall on all the fortifications on the south bank. For a moment, the entire Mishidu exploded and smoke filled the sky.

The command headquarters of the 40th Regiment is located behind the river embankment between Mishidu and Desheng Port. In front is a thick river embankment, surrounded by thick large stones, with logs, steel plates and sandbags on it, the bottom of the observation hole and the level of the river embankment. Hiding in such a bunker, there is no problem with the 72mm shells of the 92 Infantry Cannon bombs exploded.

"The Japanese will explode endlessly. Fry it, fry it. As long as you are not in the river, it will be fine until tomorrow." Teng Donglin patted the soil that fell on his body on the top of the cover and spat and cursed.

Shen Xiuwen was still watching the situation on the other side. Since the river embankment on the north bank was relatively high, he could not see how many Japanese were behind the river embankment waiting to cross the Huangpu River. The artillery position was set behind a bamboo forest about one kilometer away from the embankment. He could only see the smoke of gunpowder when the artillery shells were fired, but he could not see the specific situation of the artillery position. It seemed that the commander of the Neon Army opposite was obviously very experienced.

After ten minutes of artillery attack, the areas with fortifications on the south bank were already in chaos. After seeing all this from the telescope, Colonel Fujita was very satisfied with the performance of the artillery brigade. The division commander had just spoken and ordered him to command with full authority, and the division commander was just observing. Being lucky enough to show his skills in front of the division commander is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Colonel Fujita.

"Prepare the smoke bomb, order the first brigade to prepare for forced crusades, and attack immediately with the smoke." Fujita waved his hand and issued an order.

The shelling stopped, but there was still no movement on the other side.

"Host, what is the Japanese singing about?" Teng Donglin also asked in surprise.

"Brother Changqing, this is the position of your Forty Regiment. No matter how you attack me, I just need to hold on to the position and intercept the Japanese on the north bank of the Huangpu River."

Shen Xiuwen, the four commanders under his command, Cheng Dean and Zhang Zhengjie, were very familiar with Shen Xiuwen. Teng Donglin and Zhu Zhiyong, the newly incorporated into the 20th Independent Brigade, had not seen the performance of Shen Xiuwen. Today, he took the opportunity to inspect the abilities of this senior in the third phase of Huangpu.

"Yes." Teng Donglin quickly stood attentively to Chen Xiuwen. Of course, he was very eager to see Chen Xiuwen not interfere with his command. At the same time, he also understood that there were voyages here to examine his meaning, but Teng Donglin wanted to have such an opportunity.

"Order the first battalion, no fire is allowed without my order. I will stay in the anti-cannon hole for me." Teng Donglin immediately issued the first order to the first battalion in the first defensive position.

Hearing Teng Donglin's order, Chen Xiuwen couldn't help but nodded. He knew that Teng Donglin was very experienced. The artillery fire stopped and the enemy could not easily enter the position without seeing the enemy appear. When he was in Luodian, he had been fooled by such a fool, but the second battalion of the 38th Regiment suffered heavy losses due to the second round of artillery fire of the Japanese.

Sure enough, within a few minutes, the artillery positions of the Neon Army on the other side sounded again, but the falling shells did not explode, but quickly emitted thick smoke with a hissing sound.

"Poison gas bomb?" These three words flashed in Chen Xiuwen's mind. It was really that the Neon Army was too notorious in World War II and used chemical weapons at any time. There were quite a few Chinese soldiers who died under the poison gas of the Japanese. Some time ago, when they were competing for Luodian, the 67th Division had been attacked by the Japanese poison gas bombs, causing Luodian to fall.

"Fortunately, it's a smoke bomb." Teng Donglin next to him said with relief at the thick white smoke.

After several rounds of smoke bombs, the entire southern bank was suddenly shrouded in thick smoke, and a thick smoke wall formed on the south side of the river surface, with visibility less than five meters.

"The Japanese are going to cross the river and order the first battalion to enter the position immediately. The same sentence is still the case, no one is allowed to open fire without my order." Teng Donglin decisively issued the second order.

The Neon Army was preparing to cross the river at this time, and the tools for crossing the river were nothing more than the rubber boats of the engineers. Moreover, the river surface here was three or four hundred meters long. Before the Japanese rubber boat could reach the middle of the river, the smoke might be dissipated.

Chen Xiuwen highly praised Teng Donglin's rich experience and judging the situation. No wonder Yu Jishi also valued him very much.

Although I can't see anything clearly, I can still hear the sound of going into the water from the other side in the smoke. As the river wind blows, the thick smoke on the river gradually dissipates, and the dense rubber boats on the river begin to appear.

"Just, these rubber boats want to cross the Huangpu River." Teng Donglin snorted coldly and explained to Chen Xiuwen: "Hikata, don't you see that the width of this meter ferry is only more than 300 meters, but the water here is deep and rushing, so it is still very difficult for the Japanese to cross the river with a rubber boat."

Chen Xiuwen nodded. Teng Donglin's two orders just now had made him completely relieved. He pointed to the nearly hundreds of rubber boats that were rowing towards the south bank on the river, and smiled easily: "I guess there are two squadrons of Japanese devils, how can Brother Chang Qing deal with it?"

Teng Donglin smiled sly and said, "Host, please see. I'll let you see the good show of the Japanese ditches."

"Get dumplings?" Chen Xiuwen was stunned.

"Don't the Japanese get into the river and make dumplings?" Teng Donglin explained with a smile. As he said, he picked up the phone and ordered Dong Tie, the first battalion commander on the front line, and said, "Dong Tie? Tell brothers, don't worry, wait until the Japanese pass the river and open fire."

After putting down the phone, Teng Donglin smiled and said to Chen Xiuwen: "Host, let me keep it a secret first, and the good show will be staged soon."

"Yoxi." Seeing that the first batch of two squadrons were almost approaching the center of the river, and the south bank was still quiet and there was no movement. Colonel Fujita felt a small group of Rendanhus, who were cut in the middle and upper body, and a smile appeared on his face. It must have been the shelling just now, either all the Chinese troops on the other side of the shore, or they had fled. Fujita, who had been confronting the Chinese national team in the Rehe area for five years, knew the combat effectiveness of the Chinese national team. How could their backward weapons be the opponent of the well-equipped Imperial Army?

Suddenly, with a gunshot on the other side, the smile on Fujita's face froze. The Chinese army was not eliminated or fled, and they still insisted on the position. Fortunately, listening to the gunshots, the Hua defense troops on the other side had only one battalion at most, and they did not hear the sound of heavy machine guns, all of which were light weapons.

"Pull the machine gun squadron up, and the grenade launcher directly to the embankment to cover the crossings." Seeing that the soldiers who had already rushed to the middle of the river were not shot and transferred into the river, they were swept away by the surging river water, Fujita was anxious. He was killed in this way and had no ashes, so he quickly ordered firepower to suppress it.

Twelve Type 92 heavy machine guns lined up on the embankment, and the machine gunners squatted on the slope of the embankment, and twelve orange-red fires swept towards the opposite shore positions. At the same time, more than a dozen grenade launchers ran directly to the embankment and knelt down on one leg on the embankment, firing grenades at the opposite shore defensive position that was almost the limit of the grenade launcher.

In an instant, the firepower on the defense position of the South Bank was suppressed by grenades fired by heavy machine guns and grenade launchers, and the gunshots gradually dropped.

"Be good, I'll send a machine gun squadron to order the mortar company to knock out the Japanese firepower point for me. Tell Dong Tie to let the brothers on the position rest first, and we should use our secret weapons to let the Japanese lay dumplings." Seeing the Japanese's grenade launcher and heavy machine gun appear, Teng Donglin immediately slapped excitedly and retreated the order.

Chen Xiuwen was also very interested in Teng Donglin's so-called secret weapon. Six flames suddenly emerged from the middle of the dam near the river on the south bank, heading straight for the Japanese who were about to approach the south bank forcing their dams. Some of these six fire points were inside the dam, only one meter higher than the level. All the Japanese rubber boats on the entire river were within the control range of these six fire points. Teng Donglin asked Chen Xiuwen to watch a good show. As Teng Donglin said just now, the Japanese on the rubber boat fell into the water like dumplings, and rushed to the front. More than a dozen rubber boats closest to the fire point were directly penetrated by dense bullets, and the people and boats sank into the river.

At the same time, the six eighty-second mortars of the regiment-owned mortar company set up behind the embankment began to speak.

"Dongdongdongdong" The various shootings on the other side have been marked long ago, and there is no need to test the shooting. Six mortar shells ran accurately towards the heavy machine gun positions and grenade launchers positions on the levee of the north bank.
Chapter completed!