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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 689 Wubao Ferry

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    Chapter 689 Wubao Ferry

    Okamura Neiji gathered 100,000 troops, divided them into two places, and personally commanded one group of 60,000 people. They set out from Taiyuan and approached the east bank of the Yellow River from Liulin, Shanxi. Opposite was the Wubao Ferry, and the other line was from Fengling to the west.  Crossing the Yellow River and capturing Xi'an, the route was different. From Taiyuan to southern Shanxi, it took more than ten days to travel. Okamura Ningji couldn't wait for the two places to launch attacks at the same time. His intention was to attack Liulin to attract Tang Qiuli's river defense.  The main force of the army is here to create favorable conditions for the troops in the direction of Fenglingdu.  {}

    When he arrived at the bank of the Yellow River, he also saw the surging water and counted the troops. He was shocked. Along the way from Taiyuan to Liulin, he was constantly harassed by small groups of troops of the *** Division. The main force did not stop and continued to divide its troops to pursue and suppress them.  He spread his troops like sheep dung all the way to Luliang Mountain, and actually used more than 10,000 men. The number of troops he could use to attack Wubao Ferry was only more than 50,000 men.

    He thought about it again and again, thinking that this was Tang Qiuli's strategy to induce him to divide his troops to reduce the frontal pressure on Wubao Ferry. He contacted the scattered troops and got basically the same reply. He fought fiercely with the scattered armed forces of the ** division in the Luliang Mountains.  Unable to escape for a while, after annihilating the Chinese armed forces, he returned to the team as soon as possible.

    This is indeed the case. Tang Qiuli ordered the troops that went deep behind enemy lines to delay and disperse the Japanese troops. More than twenty companies were all in the Luliang Mountains, dealing with Japanese troops whose strength was more than twice his own. They had to fight countless encounters every day.  More than 5,000 troops fought against more than 10,000 Japanese troops, and they were behind the enemy's rear. The Japanese army could mobilize nearby troops to support them at any time. One can imagine the pressure faced by the ** division troops. They were sluggish, tired, and scattered.  The mission of the troops was completed, but it also brought difficulties and dangers to themselves.

    Okamura Neji's mood relaxed. The more Tang Qiuli did this, the more it showed that he had no troops to defend the river. Through the telescope, there were no obvious fortifications or various kinds of defenses in Wu Fort on the other side of the river.  Various firepower points such as bunkers were as calm as usual as if they had not seen the soldiers pressing down on the opposite side. Neji Okamura was a little confused. If he saw the strict barriers on the other side, he would feel like he was facing a formidable enemy. It was normal. In this case,  He was somewhat confused, but he never believed that there was no defensive force at Wubao Ferry.

    Okamura Neiji sneered. It was still Tang Qiuli's trick, and he was trying to make things mysterious. Then he would use cannons to let the Chinese people understand what the invincible Imperial Japanese Army was. He ordered the artillery to immediately bombard Wubao on the other side, destroying all the people.  Destroy all sighted and suspicious targets to create a landing site for the troops crossing the river.

    Two field artillery regiments, hundreds of artillery pieces, shelled simultaneously. The roaring metal projectiles tore through the air, carrying a piercing scream, crossing the wide river and landing at Wubao Ferry. The fire was shining, the gunpowder smoke was filled, and the huge  Pillars of smoke billowed up, and the few buildings turned into ruins. The ground trembled, and the deafening explosions echoed in the open fields. Fort Wu was enveloped in a sea of ??fire and gunpowder smoke.

    The violent artillery fire stopped for more than an hour, and Okamura Neiji was very satisfied with the effect of the artillery fire. He saw with his own eyes that as soon as the artillery fire stopped, countless Chinese people panicked and ran back, even in areas that had not been bombarded.  , some people tried their best to run away. Their clothes were very messy. They were not regular troops at all. This was what Tang Qiuli called the river defense troops. They were a group of armed civilians from Dingbian who were inspired by him.  The sarcasm became even stronger.

    Two regiments of Japanese troops, as the first wave of cross-river attack troops, rode in assault boats and rubber boats and dropped dumplings to the shore. The river became lively, and the powered assault boats soon moved to the center of the river.  , followed by hundreds of rubber boats, Okamura Neiji suddenly became nervous. The troops crossing the river were the most vulnerable to attack. When the assault boats arrived at the shore, Japanese soldiers had already begun to board the west bank, and there was only extremely weak sporadic firepower to fight back.  .

    There was no threat to the Japanese soldiers who landed on the beach. The Japanese soldiers established a stable landing point on the west bank. Light and heavy machine guns, mortars and Type 38 rifles began to suppress fire. Then, Japanese soldiers in rubber boats also boarded.  On the West Bank, more than 5,000 Japanese soldiers swarmed onto the West Bank like sheep and began to develop in depth. The gunshots of resistance disappeared. The Japanese soldiers pursued them and soon disappeared behind the slopes of the West Bank.

    Okamura Neiji nodded with great satisfaction: "Yo Xi" ordered the second echelon to start crossing the river. This time, he used the strength of four regiments. Preliminary calculations showed that the strength of the two waves of landing troops has reached  With about 15,000 people, they can completely control the landing point and expand the results. Although the fighting situation of the first wave of landing troops cannot be seen, judging from the sound of gunfire, the fighting is not very fierce. This shows that Tang Qiuli  The so-called river defense troops have extremely weak combat effectiveness.

    The second wave of river-crossing troops, consisting of more than 10,000 Japanese troops in four regiments, has arrived in the middle of the river. Okamura Neji walked down the hill. He was preparing to follow the third wave of river-crossing troops across the Yellow River.It was customary for the generals of the Japanese Empire to visit the front line in person. Suddenly, a loud thunderous noise sounded in the sky, and a piercing scream came closer and closer. In an instant, black shells fell in groups on the river.  Falling into the queue of Japanese assault boats and rubber dinghies crossing the river, a column of water rose into the sky.

    Okamura Neiji's face suddenly turned extremely pale. His first reaction was that he had been fooled. Artillery shells fell like raindrops on the heads of the Japanese troops crossing the river. With such dense artillery fire, at least four artillerymen  The regiment was firing a volley, which Okamura Neji rarely saw. He blew up a wall of water columns on the water. He saw with his own eyes that the outstanding people of the Japanese Empire, the brave soldiers under his command, were helpless.  are struggling in vain.

    The shells fell, and the Japanese assault boats and rubber boats were like paper toys, being overturned by the huge gun rising from the sky. The soldiers who fell into the water only had time to stretch out their hands in vain, and were whirlpooled.  The rolling water of the Yellow River swallowed up the assault boats and rubber boats that were directly hit by the shells. They immediately exploded into pieces, mixed with the corpses of the soldiers. They were first thrown high with the water column, and then fell heavily to the river, rolled over, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.  not see.

    Okamura Neji watched helplessly as the soldiers were swallowed up by the river in front of his eyes, but he could do nothing. He murmured to himself, "Massacre, this is a massacre." His eyes seemed to be dull, the corners of his mouth twitched violently, and his heart tightened, accompanied by needles.  Feeling the sharp pain, he suddenly shouted frantically: "Artillery fire back immediately." A mouthful of scarlet blood suddenly sprayed into the air, and he fell on his back. Before losing consciousness, he only heard the panicked shouts of his subordinates, and then,  His vision went dark, and he fell into boundless darkness.

    The Japanese artillery began a frenzied bombardment. This time, the other side was no longer silent. The Japanese artillery fired a single shell and attracted countless counterattacks. Okamura Neji did not see that his artillery position had been bombarded by volleys of shells.  Shrouded in the flames of the explosion, the intensity of the ** division's artillery fire was beyond his imagination. His own artillery was completely suppressed and was unable to provide fire cover for the unlucky soldiers on the river.

    Okamura Neiji hasn't seen yet. On the other side where the gunfire has disappeared, behind the hillside, the gunfire has become fiercer. There are also the short "dong dong" sounds made by countless mortars firing. What happened there?  All the sober Japanese generals did not know that they were busy treating the unconscious commander. However, this was also lucky for Okamura Neiji. Otherwise, he would have seen his carefully planned crossing of the river to the west to attack Shaanxi.  The plan failed from the beginning, and countless soldiers were unlucky, and they might vomit blood and die.

    The red sun sets in the west, the fighting has stopped, and the endless rolling water of the Yellow River has taken away all the sins. As long as the smoke of gunpowder that cannot be blown away by the spring breeze is still faintly diffused in the air, Okamura Neji slowly opened his eyes,  Tiredly, he asked the Chief of Staff who was waiting beside him: "Nishio-kun, what are the casualties of the troops?" Chief of Staff Nishio lowered his head deeply, as if he did not dare to look at the commander's expectant eyes. Okamura Neji's heart sank suddenly, and he  There was no good news in Nishio's expression. He asked, but Nishio still didn't answer.

    Okamura Neiji suddenly raised his voice and asked: "Nishio-kun, I want to know the real situation." The vicious voice was sinister and ferocious, with a hint of madness and despair of losing money in gambling. Nishio's body trembled and he replied in a low voice: "Commander  Your Excellency, only more than 4,000 of our second wave of troops crossing the river were able to return, and the rest were in pieces. Half of the artillery regiment lost its combat effectiveness." Xiwei's voice seemed to come from an ethereal place, clear but indistinct.  True.

    Okamura Neiji closed his eyes in pain. He believed that Nishio was telling the truth. Everything he saw before he fell into coma gave him a premonition, but he was unwilling to accept it. He opened his eyes suddenly and asked eagerly: "  What is the situation of the two regiments that have successfully crossed the river?" Nishio seemed to be reluctant to attack the already frustrated commander again, but he had to answer, "Your Excellency, Commander, after the shelling of the Chinese army started, it seems that the west bank has been attacked.  A fierce battle lasted for about four hours, and both the Nomura and Oshima regiments lost contact with the headquarters, and no scattered soldiers returned."

    Nishio did not say the second half of the sentence, but Okamura Neiji knew better than Nishio that the two regiments must have been in danger, and they were all broken into pieces. In just one day after the war started, he lost more than 10,000 soldiers.  , half of the regiment's artillery, such losses were all caused by that Chinese devil Tang Qiuli.

    Okamura Neiji felt that his chest was congested, and he couldn't take a breath. The veins on his forehead jumped from the suffocation, and he said bitterly: "Tang Qiuli." His throat felt sweet, and there was a mouthful of blood.  When it spurted out, Nishio was stunned, and then he jumped up and shouted to the military doctor. This was the second time that the commander had vomited blood. Okamura Neji heard Nishio's changed tone, clenched his fists, and then again  Passed out.

    (To be continued)
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