As soon as Zhu Xia and the uncle left, a group of black ships appeared on the ocean outside Wusongkou.

"Look, little Japanese gunboats!" The remaining soldiers of the 61st Division who were repairing fortifications on Fortress Hill and the members of the Wusong Security Team stopped their work. It was afternoon, the wind was sunny and the vision was quite wide. More than a dozen large warships and dozens of small gunboats lined up, and the sun flags on the ship were fluttering in the wind, which was easy to recognize.

The remaining soldiers of the 61st Division and the Wusong Security Team were unaware of it. Xu Shijiu even stood up on his back. He shouted at the top of his throat: "Anti-cannons, anti-cannons, little Japan is about to start shelling, little Japan is about to start shelling..."

Before he finished speaking, white mist rose from the warships lined up on the ocean.

Then, a short and sharp roar came from the sky. The Wusong Security Team members had never participated in the 128th Shanghai War, so they didn't think it was too terrible, but the remaining soldiers of the 61st Division changed their faces in an instant. They knew very well that if the roar was long and slow, the landing point would be far away. If the roar was short and sharp, the landing point would be nearby!

The next moment, the remaining soldiers of the 61st Division, who were gathered on the top of the mountain to watch the fun, turned over and fell down one after another, and each fisted his chest to press on the ground. The remaining members of the Wusong Security Team of No. 10 were a little stunned. Several large-caliber high-explosion bombs had already landed on the top of Fortress Mountain, and then there was a violent explosion.

Several huge mushroom clouds instantly rose from the top of the mountain.

After the violent explosion, the dozen security team members who were still stunned just now had disappeared without a trace. The twenty remaining soldiers of the 61st Division who had fallen down in time were unable to escape the bad luck. The dozen remaining soldiers at the center of the explosion were torn apart, and most of the remaining soldiers dozens of meters away from the explosion site were also shocked to death on the spot.

Only a few remaining soldiers who were farthest from the explosion site escaped the death disaster. Before the smoke of gunpowder was gone, they jumped up from the ground and rolled and scrambled down the back slope of Fortress Mountain.

After several test shots, one after another was overwhelming cluster shelling.

After a few minutes of shelling, more than ten bombers roared and circled a large circle over the artillery Taiwan, and then dived down to the back slope of the Fortress Mountain in a group. The little Japanese are not fools, and the naval guns cannot hit the back slope, but they also have powerful naval aviation forces. The next moment, two heavy bombs roared down from the sky.

In an instant, the Fortress Mountain, which was less than fifty meters high, became an isolated island in the storm and hurricane waves.

Old Zhao hugged his knees with his hands and squatted in the anti-cannon hole with a cold expression. The Japanese large-caliber naval guns and heavy bombs blew the entire gun Taiwan to the ground. From time to time, heavy bombs fell into the trenches. Accompanied by the rolling smoke and mud and sand, the entire trench was blown away in mid-air. The anti-cannon holes dug on both sides of the trench and the soldiers in the hole were also blown away in the air in an instant, and were torn into countless pieces by violent air waves.

How can temporary excavation fortifications block the bombing of heavy aviation bombs? Fortunately, Japanese bombers can only carry out regional bombing. As long as they do not hit the "Dayun", the bombs will be directly thrown on the top of the anti-aircraft cave, or simply thrown into the trench where they are hiding, the Chinese military officers and soldiers hiding in the anti-aircraft cave can still ensure safety.

The air was filled with the strong smell of gunpowder and the burnt smell of the human body.

Lao Zhao took out a photo from his pocket and looked at the photo. The photo was a group photo. A young woman with a bun in a floral cloth embroidered jacket held a seven or eight-year-old girl and smiled sweetly at the camera. Looking at the innocent smile of the little girl, Lao Zhao finally showed a smile on her cold face.

Lao Zhao was a veteran and even participated in the Northern Expedition, but he was Wu Peifu's soldier at that time.

The bombing of the Japanese artillery on Taiwan lasted for an hour, and the elevation of Fortress Mountain was at least two meters lowered. The entire artillery Taiwan and the artillery Mountain were plowed over and over again by artillery fire. Almost all the fortifications repaired before were reimbursed, and only the back slope of the mountain avoided the naval guns, some of the fortifications were retained.

Feeling the explosion began to become sparse, Xu Shijiu came out of the anti-aircraft hole. Although the thick smoke choked his eyes and his throat was dry, he still bit his back alive and shouted loudly: "The artillery quickly enter the artillery position, the infantry speeded up the restoration of fortifications, the Japanese are about to log in, they are going to log in..."

The remaining soldiers of the 61st Division and the Wusong Security Team were like ants who came out of the nest to find food, and gradually emerged from the anti-aircraft holes on the backscene. Some artillery soldiers flew over the ridge and rushed to the artillery position on the front of the mountain. Most of the infantry picked up engineer shovels and raced against time to repair the infantry fortifications destroyed by Japanese artillery fire.

Xu Shijiu rolled and climbed up to the top of the mountain, raised his telescope and looked out, and saw dozens of gunboats and steamers full of live guns and guns, dragging white waves on the ocean surface and quickly approaching the mudflat on the left side of the Fortress Mountain. On that mudflat, the Japanese army that had previously failed to attack Wu Song had established a guiding position.

At this moment, if the national army had several large-caliber flat-fire cannons, the Japanese army would definitely suffer a great loss.

Even if there are no large-caliber flat-fire cannons, even if there are a few small-caliber flat-fire cannons, it is enough to destroy the Japanese landing craft.

Unfortunately, there are only four old artillery positions on Fortress Mountain, which not only has a slow fire rate and poor accuracy, but can only pose a small threat to the Japanese army who are rushing to land on the beach.

However, after waiting for a long time, the four old flat-fire cannons on the front of Fortress Mountain never heard of noise. Xu Shijiu put down his telescope and said to the leopard lying beside him: "Captain Hai, why is your cannon still not moving?"

The leopard was also confused and scratched his head and said, "I'm wondering, why haven't you beat me?"

"Look!" Xu Shijiu jumped up from the ground, climbed over the ridge and headed straight for the cannon position on the front of the mountain.

When Xu Shijiu and the leopard arrived at the cannon position on the mountainside, they found that the second company commander was sweating profusely to break down a shell. Seeing Xu Shijiu and the leopard, the second company commander quickly stood up to meet him and said with a sad face: "Captain, it's really evil. This shell doesn't sound, it's like this for more than a dozen consecutive rounds!"

"How could it be?" The leopard stared at the bull's eyes and shouted in disbelief, "This batch of shells is imported from Minister Kong bought from Italy last year. The instant fuse, how could it be a squib?!"

"Captain, it's such a squint, it won't sound!" The 2nd Company Commander was also anxious.

Xu Shijiu took the shells from the second company commander and saw that his face turned dark at that time. It was true that this was an Italian product, but it was a product produced more than 50 years ago. It had passed the scrapping period. The Italians did not make a fake one, and the production date was still marked. I just didn't know what Minister Kong Da did to eat. How dare he buy such scrapped shells back?

The sterns there tried several times, but all of them were squibs, but they didn't fire.

"Grandma, these black-hearted corrupt officials!" The leopard threw the shells in his hand to the ground, and then jumped and cursed, "I put my head on my belt to fight against Japan and kill Xiaodong. But these corrupt officials bought a pile of scrap iron to fool us. What a bullshit leader, what a bullshit minister of finance?"

Xu Shijiu patted the leopard on the shoulder and advised: "Captain Hai, think about it. We are not for the bullshit leaders, nor for these corrupt officials who only know how to fill their pockets. We are fighting for millions of unarmed old, young, women and children. Who makes us soldiers?"

"Grandma, I still think it's not worth it," the leopard said hatefully, "Even if we take off our skin and don't act like this shit security team, we can still fight against Japan, kill the Japanese, and fight for the elderly, young, women and children! We don't have to be angry with the bullshit leaders and corrupt officials!"

"That's right, our Wusong security team has not paid any salary for half a year!" The second company commander was also angry.

"Then you have to finish this battle, right? You, the captain of the sea, wouldn't you want to escape at the last minute?" Xu Shijiu smiled and turned around and left.

"Who wants to escape in the last battle?" The leopard's eyes showed fierce light, pulled out the box cannon and shot two shots at the sky, and said in a murderous manner, "Whoever dares to escape in the last battle, I will kill anyone. Brothers, follow me and kill Xiao Ying! After killing Xiao Ying, we will go back to the Yangtze River waterway and no longer be furious from these corrupt officials!"

When Xu Shijiu and the leopard arrived at the left wing position of Fortress Mountain, the first batch of Japanese troops and equipment had already arrived.

Ohara Shigemi has also changed back to the military uniform of the new Grand Secretary. He watched teams of fully armed special forces soldiers jump off the landing craft and wade on the water. He looked at the 92 infantry cannons, a thrust 92 heavy machine guns and a series of combat vehicles and armored cars. Ohara Shigemi's confidence also rose rapidly with the tide.

Before all the troops were deployed, Ohara Shigemi couldn't wait to launch a tentative attack on Fort Mount.

About three squads of infantry set up a wavy straggler line, held a bayonet cover, and hugged the National Army position on the left wing of Fortress Mountain. On both sides of the straggler were two fire support groups, each group was equipped with two grenade cans and a crooked light machine gun.

This is almost the standard firepower configuration of a Japanese squad and also the standard process of Japanese offensive.

Xu Shijiu opened the nose of the box cannon, pointed it diagonally in front of the gun, and then turned his head to instruct the veterans beside him: "Send the order, I won't open fire, no one is allowed to open fire!"

"There is an order from the camp. No one is allowed to shoot if he doesn't shoot."

"There is an order from the camp. No one is allowed to shoot if he doesn't shoot."

"There is an order from the camp. No one is allowed to shoot if he doesn't shoot."

Xu Shijiu's order was quickly passed on, and the veterans of the Bailai National Army guarding the left wing position let go of the index finger of the right hand that was holding the trigger. Before leaving, Zhu Xia personally announced the appointment order, and temporarily appointed Xu Shijiu as the battalion commander of the 61st Division. All officers and soldiers in Taiwan were organized into the independent battalion.
Chapter completed!