August 23, 1937.

Shanghai.

Wusongkou.

As soon as the sky in the east was slightly brighter, the entire Wusongkou appeared gray, damp, and the dew-like air was filled with the smell of gunpowder and blood.

There were gunfires not far away, accompanied by fire.

The water surface of Wusongkou is very quiet, no different from the past.

At 1:30 a.m., he arrived at Wusongkou. Major General Yi Anhua, the commander of the 259th Brigade of the 87th Division, ordered more than 100 soldiers to build fortifications and dig foxholes to prevent enemy ships from being bombarded.

Release a squad's outpost and immediately alert you if you find that the Japanese landing troops appear.

All the remaining soldiers were sleeping on the spot two hundred meters away from the position and seized the time to rest.

This time, the task of sniping the enemy in Wusongkou fell on the shoulders of General Yi Anhua and the 2,000 soldiers he led.

The commander Wang Jingjiu gave him was to hold on for three hours at all costs and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

During this period, soldiers from the 88th Division and the 20th Independent Brigade of the 87th Division attacked the Japanese army for several days and were very tired.

Many soldiers slept soundly as soon as they lay down on the ground.

Some soldiers sat back to back on the ground and fell asleep with guns in their arms.

Some soldiers were holding guns and lying on the wet ground. They fell asleep as soon as they closed their eyes.

Some soldiers were holding dry buns in their hands, and then fell asleep as they chewed them.

They're too tired

In the past ten days, in order to encircle and annihilate the Japanese Marines stationed in Shanghai, the Chinese army has fought hard to attack. However, the defensive position built by the Japanese army with steel concrete is too strong. The Chinese army is at a loss when there is heavy weapons. Many shells fall on the Japanese defensive fortress and can only make a small hole, which cannot be destroyed at all.

The soldiers took turns to build fortifications.

Due to the emergency of the march, the defensive artillery was not carried, and the soldiers could only dig trenches, arrange trenches, and dig foxholes to fight against the Japanese army with advanced weapons and armed to the teeth.

In order to fight this sniper, the Chinese army brought enough light weapons, and more than a dozen engineers buried mines in the must-pass landing of the Japanese army.

More than a dozen engineers were buried in landmines 500 meters in front of the position.

Knowing that the 2,000 people he led would fight against the masses with the weak and fight against the strong, General Yi Anhua used all the available tasks. Their mission was to block and delay the enemy's landing, so when they arrived, they brought a large number of landmines, all arranged on the shore where the Japanese army landed.

Ten minutes ago, the outpost sent out came back to report that the Japanese vanguard troops would reach the beach in another 20 minutes.

General Yi Anhua ordered to wake up the sleeping soldiers, all of them scattered, hide 200 meters away from the frontier position, ready to fight at any time!

Withdraw all the soldiers who buried the mines.

Five minutes later.

Sudden!

"boom!"

A fire rose from the water about five kilometers off the shore and rushed straight to Wusongkou Wharf. Then the explosion was shocking, and countless fires hit Wusongkou Wharf from the water that was far away.

"The Japanese warships opened fire!"

A scout shouted loudly. As soon as he finished speaking, a shell landed on the Chinese army's position. The soil suddenly flew up, and a large pit more than one meter deep and two meters wide appeared on the ground, with pungent smoke.

Ship-based artillery shells fell one after another on the positions of the Chinese army, destroying some newly built simple fortifications.

Brigade Commander Major General Yi Anhua shouted: "Leave the reconnaissance squad and blasting platoon to monitor the enemy, and everyone else retreated 100 meters and was ready to fight at any time!"

Immediately, the soldiers hugged and retreated 100 meters.

A squad of scouts left on the position to hide in the fox pit, continuing to observe the enemy's movements, the range, method, firepower arrangement and configuration, and report to the command center at any time.

General Yi Anhua's temporary command center is stationed 100 meters away from the forefront position.

A platoon of blasting soldiers left on the position hides in a fox pit to prepare for war. After the enemy stops artillery attack, they will then dispatch infantry attacks. The soldiers of the blasting platoon can use their superb bomb dropping skills to temporarily block the enemy's progress and allow soldiers hundreds of meters away from the position to enter the position.

After more than ten days of fierce fighting, the soldiers had changed from the state of lying on the ground and not daring to move when they first heard the explosion of shells. They did not know the explosion of shells. Now, the soldiers have become accustomed to the explosion of shells. After these days of life and death, they have long understood that shells do not have eyes, and God knows who will fall to. Instead of being frightened and wanting to find a safe place on the position, it is better to lie in the same place and wait for fate to come.

There is no safe place on the position.

On the position where Liantian artillery fire blindly smashed, there were no enemies of thousands of people, only living and dead.

The shells fell down, damn it, I can't hide even if I want to, and I can't survive.

It's not something you can dodge just by trying to avoid shells.

If the Japanese shells fell by the side, who died, there was no room for negotiation with the shells.

Whether you are a general or a soldier, an elderly person or a child, you are equal in front of shells and bullets.

Even if you are not bombarded by the shrapnel of the shell, just the shock wave generated when the shell explodes can shake people within three meters around you.

Many soldiers on the battlefield did not have any external injuries, but died of bleeding from seven orifices. They were all shocked to death by shells.

Ten minutes later, accompanied by fierce shelling suppressed the defensive positions of the Chinese army, the Japanese began to land.

The Japanese landing tools were very advanced. A layer of steel protective shield was arched on the bow of the small landing ship. The soldiers hid behind the shield. As long as they were not hit by shells, ordinary machine guns and rifles could not do anything to them.

The Japanese rush to the beach.

Chinese people defend the beach.

Since the beach defense troops marched immediately after being urgently mobilized, they did not bring heavy weapons. The most lethal were howitzers and heavy machine guns, but these pose little threat to the Japanese landing ships.

On the water, the Japanese landed boats were densely packed. Under the cover of artillery fire, they were unobstructed and did not encounter any resistance. When they landed on the boat, they arrived at the shore.

The Japanese vanguard troops, carrying weapons, jumped into the water and waded to attack the shore. When they arrived at the shore, they immediately set up crane guns and howitzers to bombard China's positions.

The Japanese army, known as the world's number one army, had rich experience in the battlefield. Their commanders knew that under the fierce artillery fire of the fleet, the Chinese beach defense forces would definitely not be able to enter the position, and could only lie around the position, waiting for the artillery fire to stop before entering the position immediately.

This is what the Japanese commander wants. He uses the powerful artillery fire of the fleet to suppress the Chinese army and let the vanguard troops landing on the empire reach the Chinese defensive positions infinitely. At that time, the Chinese army's warehouses will promote entry into the position and will not be able to carry out lethal defenses against the imperial vanguard troops, and the two sides will enter a melee. In this way, the subsequent landing troops can climb to the beach without any obstacles.

This is the tactics of the Japanese army.

Japan is worthy of being the world's number one army. They fight in an orderly and unified manner. As soon as the soldiers jumped off the landing craft, they immediately dispersed to prevent the Chinese army's artillery and used individual soldiers as combat units to advance to the shore in an orderly manner.

Just as the Japanese vanguard troops jumped off the landing craft and began to rush to the beach, the Japanese surface ships were still suppressing artillery fire from Chinese positions on the opposite shore.

The Japanese soldiers who had already landed were in camp step by step and moved forward step by step. Every time they pushed forward for more than ten or dozens of meters, they would immediately build simple fortifications on the spot, and then arrange various heavy machine guns, light machine guns and mortars. After the firepower on the ship stopped suppressing, they would cover the landing soldiers to attack the Chinese positions.

The Japanese vanguard troops were very experienced. After they boarded the beach, they could see at a glance that somewhere on the beach had mines buried by Chinese engineers. Then, under the cover of several soldiers, the engineers began to clear mines.

The quality of the Japanese army is absolutely first-class.

Just as the Japanese vanguard rushed to the beach in an orderly manner.

Sudden.

At 10 and 3 o'clock on both sides of the Chinese defensive position, two Chinese fighter jets appeared, successfully avoiding the artillery fire of the Japanese bombardment of the defensive position from a height of one thousand meters and dived towards the landing Japanese vanguard troops.

Such high-speed aircraft are beyond the reach of Japanese light machine guns, rifles and howitzers.

The sudden appearance of Chinese fighter jets caught the Japanese vanguard troops a little unaware of it, and they all lay on the wet shore soil. Some raised their light machine guns and fired into the air.

"boom……"

In panic and panic, many Japanese soldiers touched the mines laid by Chinese engineers on the shore. Suddenly, the broken limbs and broken arms flew across the place where the mine exploded.

Under the impact of the Hawke 2 fighter jet, the Japanese beach rushing troops became more and more panic, and more soldiers touched the mines. The explosion accompanied by screams exploded the limbs and internal organs and scattered on the beach and water, and blood stained the water red.

Before taking off, all the Hawk 2 aircraft could be removed and as much ammunition as possible was brought as much as possible. The mechanic installed two more machine guns on both sides of the wings.

All you need is the firepower.

There are both advantages and disadvantages in modifying machine guns on the wings. The advantage is to enhance firepower. The disadvantage is that two additional machine guns on the wings will cause the fuselage to be unstable when the fighter flies quickly.

The emergence of two Chinese Air Force Hawk 2 fighter jets immediately disrupted the artillery fire of Japanese surface ships attacking Chinese positions.

Two Hawk 2s launched a dive-down advantageous attack on the Japanese troops who were landing and already landing from the left and right sides, and threatened the landing warships full of Japanese soldiers at any time.

The two Japanese ships immediately sounded the alarm, and many carrier-based artillery fire attacking China's defensive positions immediately stopped attacking, adjusted the gun heads, and prepared to intercept the incoming Chinese fighter jets.

There are hundreds of Japanese soldiers on each landing ship. Once a Chinese fighter jet breaks in, a shell comes down, countless Japanese soldiers on the landing ship will be killed or injured.

The two fighter jets started attacking from both sides of the landing Japanese army and did not attack the ships on the water for the time being. They used the maximum firepower to attack the landing Japanese army with the strategy of besieging Wei to rescue Zhao. This gave General Yi Anhua's defensive troops time, quickly entered the position, and quickly completed the defense formation.

The Chinese Air Force appeared too timely.

Just when the Japanese beach rushing troops were about to break into China's defensive positions just now, General Yi Anhua was preparing to order the troops to risk their lives to enter the position, fortunately, Chinese fighter jets appeared in time and provided strong assistance to suppress the Japanese vanguard troops.

The Chinese army quickly entered the position, set up machine guns, assembled howitzers, filled the positions with grenades, and installed bayonets by the way...

"Swish swish swish swish..."

The red flames spit out from the machine guns of the two Hawk fighter jets, which looked particularly dazzling in the gray sky.

Today, the airborne bullets of the two Hawk 2 fighters have been changed from the loading modes of the previous four armor-piercing bombs and one tracer.

All the machine guns fired were tracer bullets, which looked very cruel, which enhanced the deterrence against enemy soldiers.

Under the fierce attack of two Air Force fighter jets, China's defensive positions were built again and began to launch a fierce attack on the Japanese army on the stall.

Just after the construction of China's defensive positions was completed, two Hawk 2 fighters rushed towards the Japanese ships in a low-altitude posture, and they wanted to kick off the anti-aircraft artillery fire of the Japanese fleet.

Dozens of Japanese warships opened fire almost at the same time, organizing a powerful fleet defense firepower network, and biting two Hawk2s that were attacking at low altitudes like a meteor shower in the dark sky.
To be continued...