I. As the night passed, Ye Qing was awakened by the rumbling of Japanese cannons.
The sky had yet to brighten up when the 6th division began their bombardment. They began to bombard the 69th army's position on the north bank of Huangpu River.
Even though the 6th division was lightly equipped and didn't carry any large caliber cannons, the mountain cannon troops that came with the division still had an absolute advantage over the 69th division.
On the other hand, although the 69th Army also had some cannons, their firepower was completely different from the Japanese.
The artillery of the 69th Army was unable to retaliate against the Japanese's bombardment. They could only wait for the Japanese to cross the river and launch a counterattack with the mortars.
Ye Qing, who was in the foxhole, could basically see the Japanese's movements through the map. As the artillery began, the Japanese infantry also began to prepare ships on the bank of the river. They would set off to cross the river at any time and capture Song Jiang.
Moreover, the sky was already bright. The Japanese fleet in Hangzhou Bay could also take off their aircraft to support ground operations.
Fortunately, the Japanese had not completely taken over Shanghai yet. There was no ground airport for the Japanese to use. Otherwise, this battle would be even more difficult to fight.
He turned on the electronic warfare system and began to decipher the Japanese's messages. Most of them were about the 6th Division, the 18th Division, and the Kunizaki Tendo Division. The 6th Division's ammunition depot had been destroyed, and the remaining weapons and ammunition could barely be used for two days.
If they could not get supplies, even if they could capture Song Jiang, they would not have the ability to cut off the national army's retreat.
At present, the 18th division was trying to capture the Shanghai-Hangzhou railway on the other side. The latest order received by the Guoqi Deng detachment was to assist the 6th division in the battle against Song Jiang.
They had the weapons and ammunition that the Kunizaki Battalion carried, but it was barely enough for the 6th division and the Kunizaki Battalion to fight for three days.
Ye Qing scanned through his personal space for the loot from the night before. There was a small mountain of weapons and ammunition, boxes of artillery shells, light and heavy machine guns, mortars, and a dozen infantry cannons.
At this moment, he was considering how to hand these weapons over to the 69th Army.
In this battle in history, the 69th Army was directly crippled. After the war, the troops were withdrawn, and the Japanese controlled Song Jiang and the Shanghai-Hangzhou railway. They attacked the originally orderly retreat of the national army, causing a large number of the national army to be in chaos.
Therefore, Ye Qing needed the 69th Army to guard Song Jiang and let more elite troops of the national army withdraw from this battlefield.
With the commotion last night, the 6th division would definitely seal off the entire area. As such, Ye Qing did not take the risk of crossing the river to look for the 69th division. During the day when the Japanese attacked, the entire river was filled with them, so there was no way to cross the river.
Ye Qing could only suppress this thought and see if there was a chance tonight.
After checking the map and making sure that no Japanese were near him, Ye Qing left the foxhole in his ghillie suit and placed a booby trap under the cover of the foxhole.
Hiding in the forest beside the hill, the smart glasses caught the shells that flew across the air and began to calculate the trajectories. After determining the approximate location of the Japanese artillery position, Ye Qing slowly moved toward the Japanese artillery position under the cover of the map.
An hour later, the sun rose, and the Japanese aircraft also appeared. After dropping a few bombs, they began to return.
With the camouflage of the ghillie suit, Ye Qing could see the Japanese artillery position on the map after he dodged a Japanese patrol.
Rows of red dots, as well as the distance and value calculated by the smart glasses through the Japanese artillery's trajectory, were eight. It was close.
However, Ye Qing did not continue to approach the Japanese's artillery position. Instead, he continued to bypass the Japanese's artillery position and moved towards the Japanese's artillery position behind them.
This was because there was at least a large group of soldiers protecting the area. It was impossible for them to approach silently.
There was a small hill behind the Japanese artillery position, about a kilometer away from the artillery position. Ye Qing had passed by there yesterday.
After circling around, they did not encounter any more Japanese patrols. Ye Qing sped up a lot. After more than 20 minutes, the Japanese artillery had not stopped, and Ye Qing had already arrived at the top of the mountain more than 900 meters behind the Japanese artillery position.
The mountain top was just enough to control the area where the Japanese artillery was located. Moreover, the Japanese would also defend this area.
Looking at the mountain cannons in the distance, there were even heavy mountain cannons with a caliber of more than 100 millimeters. Ye Qing licked his lips and took out the MK19 grenade launcher that had dropped from his personal space last night.
The grenade launcher was fixed on the tripod, and the grenade launcher was set up on the hill like a heavy machine gun. Ye Qing took out two boxes of high-explosive grenades.
The 40mm high-explosive grenades in the box were all fixed to the ammunition chain. The shooting mode was the same as that of a heavy machine gun, but the bullets were replaced by grenades.
The appearance of the MK19 grenade launcher replaced the modern six-barrel grenade launcher of the US military as a replacement for the 12.7mm caliber machine gun or as an additional firepower option.
The effective range was 1,500 meters, and the longest range was 2,000 meters. The firing rate was 350 rounds per minute. Once it was fired at full speed, it would be a complete coverage.
Looking at the Japanese artillery position more than 900 meters away, Ye Qing's eyes gradually became ferocious.
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