The tactical qualities of the Weiyuan Brigade were indeed not hyped. The combat teams alternately covered and retreated one after another, and soon withdrew from the main position. The two platoons of the Wusong Security Team guarding the mountain were also experienced veterans. They wanted to fight back while the Japanese army retreated, but were attacked by the Japanese army with fire, and lost more than a dozen brothers in vain.

When Xu Shijiu and the leopards rushed to the foot of the hill in the dive of Japanese planes, Ohara Shigemi had already retreated to a safe distance with the Japanese soldiers No. 70 or 80.

"Grandma, these little Japanese are running fast!" The leopard spitted thick phlegm, then squirted the box cannon in his hand, and shouted loudly, "Brothers, I will chase you, even if you chase it to the ends of the world, you will kill all this group of little Japanese. Grandma, you dare to go to China to play wild, and you will be tired of living!"

Ding of the No. 15-layer security team on the mountain responded bang, picking up the bayonet and chasing it.

"No, you can't chase!" Xu Shijiu looked up at the sky and said, "The tide will rise in at most two hours. Once the tide rises, the main Japanese army outside the sea should land!"

Strictly speaking, the sea outside Wusong is not considered a sea, at best, just the exit of the Yangtze River, but the hydrological geography here is undoubtedly related to the sea. There are two tides rising every day. Calculately, the tide is rising at noon or midnight recently, and then the tide is receding around six o'clock in the morning and evening. The slivers are rampant in the sea outside Wusong for many years. He naturally knows this.

However, at this time, there was a large area of ​​Huang Chengcheng outside the sea of ​​Wusong, and there were not many ships. Where did the Japanese army come from? He frowned and asked, "Captain Xu, how did you know that there is a main force of the Japanese army outside the sea?"

Xu Shijiu said: "Captain Hai, listen to me, let's hurry up and repair the fortifications!"

"Repairing fortifications?" The leopard was amused when he heard this. He pointed to the traffic trenches, fox pits and the only semi-buried bunker on the front of Fortress Mountain and said, "Captain Xu, I know that your 19th Route Army's fortifications are very good, but I don't believe you can build more solid and more complete fortifications here."

Xu Shijiu shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Captain Hai, in fact, there is no need for you to repair any infantry fortifications on the front except for artillery fortifications, because no matter how strong infantry fortifications are, they cannot withstand the frontal shelling of naval guns. Moreover, after the Japanese army landed, they will definitely not launch a frontal attack. They will definitely attack from the side and backwards."

The leopard was stunned and asked, "What does it mean? The fortifications were repaired in the wrong direction?"

It seemed that the Japanese army did not attack from the front just now, but from the mountain on the flank. If it weren't for the semi-buried bunker as a defense support, I was afraid that the two platoons on the mountain would not be able to support them. Thinking of this, the leopard patted his forehead and thought it was really impossible to be unwilling to accept it. In terms of war, the Central Army still understands it.

"Captain Hai, I don't have time to talk to you, so repair the fortifications!" Xu Shijiu shook his head and said anxiously, "Remember, the fortifications must be repaired behind the Fortress Mountain, especially the anti-aircraft holes must be dug on the back slope that cannot be hit by a naval gun, otherwise the little Japanese cannon can kill us all with a volley of naval guns."

"Wait, do you hear that?" The leopard kicked the elder of the 1st company and then cursed, "Hurry up and dig fortifications for me, remember Captain Xu's teachings. Fortifications must be repaired on the side, especially the anti-cannon hole, and must be dug on the reverse side. Have you heard it clearly?"

"Brother, why are you kicking me?" The old man rubbed his butt and mumbled.

Soon, more than 200 remaining soldiers of the 61st Division, plus the Bailai Wusong Security Team, began to rush for construction every second. After diving and firing back and forth, the two Japanese bombers hovered in the sky were exhausted. They flapped their wings and flew back to the Kaga aircraft carrier berthed outside the sea to replenish fuel ammunition.

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Less than a thousand meters away, Ohara Takami was looking at the Fortress Mountain with a telescope.

Seeing that the Chinese army was not building fortifications on the front of the sea outside Wusong, but instead built the fortifications on the left and right sides of Fortress Mountain and the back slope, Ohara Shigemi frowned. He knew that he had met a real opponent this time, and the commander of the Chinese army opposite obviously had a considerable understanding of the defense of heavy artillery.

After touching the eye-catching scar on his chin, a familiar face suddenly popped up in Ohara Shigemi's mind. He was here five years ago, and on this Fortress Mountain, he had fought a desperate battle with a Chinese army. In the end, both sides even had a fierce hand-to-hand battle. The scar on his chin was left by a veteran of the National Army at that time.

However, the other party could not get any advantage from him. While the other party's bayonet cut his chin, his bayonet also pierced the other party's right leg. If another assassination master had not come, he would have been able to defeat the veteran of the national army at that time. However, when he thought of the assassination master, Ohara Shigemi suddenly shuddered.

The battle five years ago was extremely fierce, and Ohara Shigemi still cannot forget the tragic phenomenon of corpses everywhere. This time, it seems that there must be another fierce battle. I took out a photo from my shirt pocket and looked at my sweet and charming wife in the photo. A faint sadness suddenly appeared in Ohara Shigemi's eyes.

Five years ago, his beloved wife lost her father here.

Will she lose her beloved husband in this battle?

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The old uncle exerted his hands and wanted to lift a stone weighing about 100 pounds, but suddenly his right leg softened and fell to the ground. The stone turned over and almost hit the person. Fortunately, Xu Shijiu next to him quickly blocked it with a engineer shovel.

Xu Shijiu helped his uncle up and said with concern: "Uncle, you have bad legs and feet, just rest."

The old uncle shook his head mockingly and said, "Since I pierced the bayonet of Japan five years ago, it has become more and more useless. Now I can't even carry a hundred pounds. Oh, I remember that during the Northern Expedition, I could carry a four hundred pounds of stone mill by myself. It seems that I am old, useless, and useless..."

"How could it be?" Xu Shijiu easily picked up the stone worth about 100 pounds and placed it on the fortification, and said, "Uncle, you have nothing to do to tell the new recruits about your battle stories, and then teach your combat experience. This is more effective than repairing fortifications. Don't you bring them like this?"

"And you." The uncle lit the tobacco pipe, took a beautiful breath, and looked at Xu Shijiu with a look of ambiguous eyes, "Although Han Ting and others are smart, they are not as smart as Han Wa."

Xu Shijiu hesitated for a moment and said, "Uncle, the participants will send the collected remaining soldiers here later. You can go back to the division headquarters with him. The little bastards of the 19th Brigade will arrive in Wusong tomorrow morning. If you have time, please help me clean up the new recruits and let them know what it means to join the army and fight."

The old uncle's eyes froze and whispered: "Why, this time I can't defend Taiwan?"

"How could it be?" Xu Shijiu looked at his uncle calmly and said with a smile, "Five years ago, we were guarding Taiwan. Facing the entire Japanese infantry corps, we finally defended it? This time I guess there is only one infantry brigade, a thousand men. The large Japanese troops will not arrive in at least two days."

"You boy, I don't know you yet?" The uncle shook his head and said, "I will know what you pee when you stick out your butt. I tell you that I want to help me get rid of it. No way, we two have separated once five years ago. This time, even if we die, we two have to die together."

For some reason, Xu Shijiu's nose suddenly felt a little sore, but he suppressed the soreness and smiled, "What are you saying? What did he say back then? I am a cat, and I have nine lives. I can kill my Xu Hanhun. He has not yet been born from my mother's womb."

"That's right, I almost forgot that you have the nickname of Nine Life Cat." A faint smile appeared in the old uncle Cangsang's eyes. "In the battle of Temple Lane, you led the guard company to intersperse behind you. You survived such a dangerous barrier. It would be very difficult for Japan to kill you."

"So you always have nothing to worry about." Xu Shijiu smiled, "Don't worry, go back to the town and help me clean up the new recruits from the 19th Brigade. Now it's time for war, and we don't have time to train them slowly. The sooner they can adapt to the war, the more chance they will have to survive from the battlefield."

"Okay." The uncle agreed happily.

Xu Shijiu turned his back and continued to repair the fortifications, but his face, which was originally smiling, suddenly became covered with a thick layer of haze. Xu Shijiu had an innate instinct. He had a keen intuition about danger, almost like a beast. For example, this time, his intuition told him that guarding artillery in Taiwan would definitely be a life-threatening death.

Xu Shijiu's intuition was correct. When he brought the remaining soldiers of the 61st Division to repair fortifications on Fortress Hill, the old Japanese in Matsui Ishione had just had a fight with Navy Minister Minamasa Minamasa. Minamasa Minamasa blamed Hasegawa Keiya again for complaining. Hasegawa Keiya felt embarrassed, so he transferred more than a dozen warships to cooperate with Ohara Brigade to land on the beach.

At this time, more than a dozen warships of the 3rd Fleet, including the flagship "Izumo" cruiser and the "Kaga" aircraft carrier, were lined up outside Wusong, and more than a dozen landing craft loaded with nearly 1,000 infantry soldiers of the Weiyuan Brigade were ready to go. They just waited for the high tide at noon and were about to land on the beach in Taiwan.

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The first thing to discover that the Japanese Navy gathered outside Wusong was the 8th Army in Pudong.

After the Battle of Songhu started, Chairman Jiang organized the various troops of the National Army gathered in Shanghai into two armies. In addition to Zhang Zhizhong's 9th Army, there was also Zhang Fakui's 8th Army. The 9th Army was responsible for encircling and annihilation of the Japanese army in Hongkou and Yangshupu and Zhang Fakui's 8th Army was responsible for the vigilance of the Pudong area.

However, although the 8th Army was nominally a group army, it actually had only one infantry division and one artillery brigade. Moreover, the 2nd Independent Artillery Brigade was just an empty frame. In fact, the 1st Battalion of the Second Regiment of the Second Artillery Brigade entered Pudong to participate in the war. The other several artillery battalions had long been dismantled into artillery companies and allocated to each division.

Chairman Jiang learned artillery when he was studying in Japan, but he really knew nothing about the use of artillery. Anyone with some military knowledge knew that artillery must be used in a concentrated manner, but Chairman Jiang insisted on doing the opposite and dismantled the few artillery brigades and artillery regiments that were originally not many.
Chapter completed!