The Republic of Heroes

The people in the bunker had gotten used to the loud noise of the naval guns and the tremors of the ground, and they would no longer be nervous about the Japanese shelling, but this time the shelling seemed to take a lot longer than before.Yu Sanhe felt strange. In his understanding, the Japanese army's tactics were the most rigid and rarely fluctuated, but this time the shelling exceeded the previous half an hour. It was definitely not a coincidence.Maybe it was a precursor to another Japanese landing raid.

Thinking of this, I immediately grabbed the phone on the table, shook it violently, and said in a hurry: "Notify the northern and southern beaches, and immediately enter a state of first-level combat readiness. The Japanese army may sneak attack tonight."

A surprised and nervous voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Tuan Zuo, just received the notification that the Japanese army has launched a surprise attack."

Sure enough, Yu Sanhe hung up the phone with a heavy heart, stared at the map of the fortress on the table in a daze, and within half a minute, he turned his head and asked the adjutant, "Has the fifth army returned our telegram for help?"

The adjutant's eyes were full of sadness, "I haven't returned, I'm afraid the situation over there is not good..."

Yu Sanhe pressed his hands on the table, trembling because he tried his best to restrain his anger, Zhang Wenbaiming, my Ninth Regiment is guarding the Wusong Fortress.Let’s not talk about the distance, but just say that the immediate vicinity has also contained a large part of the devils for his Songhu defense line. If the Wusong fortress falls, the first unlucky one will be his Fifth Army. With his majestic National Revolutionary Army Can't the general of the army see the key to this?

"Tuan Zuo, Commander Wu's telegram!"

Yu Sanhe was very surprised. They seized Wusong Fortress originally on a temporary basis, and defending the fortress was not seen in the original battle plan. Becoming an abandoned child, although it is difficult for the supervisor to accept, is the path he personally chose.

"Read!"

"The Wusong Fortress is one of the most important and indispensable points in the Beijing-Shanghai battlefield. We must defend it so that the Japanese army will not attack Nanjing and Shanghai with all our strength... I will call the Fifth Army to send reinforcements to help you defend the fortress..."

Yu Sanhe did not expect that the telegram from the newly established Beijing-Shanghai Garrison Commander was actually an order.He felt a tinge of excitement. His sacrificed commander in Wusong Fortress knew about it, and the commander recognized that his actions were a crucial and indispensable part of the entire campaign. Will there be a reversal ending?

Thinking of this question, he changed from affirmation to hesitation. Can the mere 2000 members of the Ninth Regiment plus the less than one regiment of defenders in the original fortress be able to hold this place?Only one day into the battle, he wiped out the most elite battalion. His ninth regiment is covered in iron and can crush a few nails. How can it withstand such intense consumption?But then I changed my mind, the commander trusted us, the citizens were watching the battlefield in Shanghai, Zhang Zhizhong kept his strength and hid in the defense line, our Shandong army is not a coward, we must not let the little devils take advantage of it, even if the entire regiment is wiped out. how?Is it a scar as big as a bowl not long after the head fell off? Another hero after 20 years!

Determined, he came to the front of the bunker to observe the enemy's situation on the river, but the fog in the river was much heavier than in the daytime, and even the flames of warships firing in the fog were faintly visible.

Yu Sanhe didn't know that on the river facing him at this moment, a huge steel ship with a displacement of more than [-] tons was staring at him.

Due to the stalemate in the war in Shanghai, Lieutenant General Kenkichi Ueda, the commander of the Ninth Division of the Songhu Battlefield Commander, was lackluster in his command, which led to the corruption of the Shanghai war. Instead, a strategic breakthrough was made at Qiyakou. The first line of defense in China has already Destroyed, the capital Nanjing is looming in sight.

In order to speed up the victory of the Nanjing-Shanghai campaign, the cabinet that has fully turned to the military sent General Shirakawa Yoshinori, Minister of the Army, to replace Kenkichi Ueda to command the entire Nanjing-Shanghai battle.

As soon as he arrived in Shanghai, he encountered the battle of the Wusong Fortress, so Shirakawa Yoshizawa took the battleship Nagato and drove directly to the Wusong River Estuary. The fog and the river gradually shallowed, so he had to stop three nautical miles away from the cruisers of the Third Fleet. Observe the battlefield from a distance.

Bai Chuanyi immediately summoned Lieutenant General Yoshisaburo Nomura, commander of the Third Fleet, and asked him about the specific situation of the battle at Wusongkou Fortress.

Murano Yoshisaburo boarded the battleship Nagato with extremely ashamed and complicated emotions. At first, he only planned to use the marines belonging to the Third Fleet to solve the fortress. Coupled with the cover of naval artillery, the whole battle was expected to end after dark. will end.

Indeed, the battle was reversed after the Notoro aircraft carrier and cruisers such as Hirado and Fushimi arrived. The Chinese fortress was almost unable to fight back, and even the two eight-inch guns on the fort were completely destroyed.But the problem arose during the ensuing landing battle. He never dreamed that more than half of the thousands of Marines would lose more than half of them after an hour of landing battle. The battle was far more tragic than expected.

Yoshisaburo Nomura suddenly realized that he needed the cooperation of the army no matter what.So he immediately called Lieutenant General Kenkichi Ueda, the commander of Songhu, to send reinforcements. Ueda was also unambiguous, and immediately transferred the No. 20 Fourth Brigade to come to support by warships. The Wusong Fortress was not knocked down either.

The summoning order was issued after the midnight raid. Although Nomura is a navy, and the navy and the army are naturally opposed, he has no aura in front of Admiral Shirakawa. He wanted to show his position, and he completely surrendered with a white flag.

"Nomura-kun, give your troops two hours. If you still can't fight, you can retreat immediately." Bai Chuanyi raised his wrist to check the time, and continued: "At a quarter past three, the Nagato will face the Fortress of China. Go for the bombardment!"

"Roms!"

Yoshisaburo Nomura was shocked. The cannons of the Nagato were far beyond those of the Izumo. It had four double-mounted 20-inch naval guns, which meant that it could fire eight cannons weighing hundreds of kilograms in one salvo. shells.With such terrifying firepower, it would not be an exaggeration to raze the entire Wusong Fortress to the ground.It seems that the Wusong Fort is about to fall tonight, and the battle has nothing to do with his fleet. Presumably, the infantry of the No. 13th Fourth Brigade can gather on the ruins of the fortress before dawn, and then go straight to the side of Zhang Zhizhong's Fifth Army. In the rear, the No.[-] Division, which had just been added to the Shanghai battlefield, flanked back and forth.

The more Lieutenant General Nomura thought about it, the more excited he became. Bai Chuan was worthy of being a general of the Imperial Army. He had just arrived at Wusongkou.

However, General Bai Chuan asked something that made him inexplicable.

"Nomura-kun, do you want to know what it's like for General Shina to lose his temper?"