Chapter 177: Republic of China: Starting from the First Class of Whampoa Chapter 177 The Dirty Skull

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Protagonist:

Lv Muzhi

The remnants of the Tianya Brigade left at Huishan Wharf were in a miserable state at this moment.

M2 Heavy Machine Gun bullets easily penetrated the flimsy cover, reducing the devils behind to pieces;

20mm shells exploded wherever there were more people; this thing not only had penetration damage but also some splash damage, with every explosion bringing a small patch of blood and gore.

Firepower suppression from the heights on the side, the Youth Army main force pressing step by step on the front, the hesitant naval fleet, and the 101st Division and 11th Division that delayed advancing to support—many factors stacked up, and even an immortal couldn't save the Tianya Brigade!

Of course, actually the 101st Division and 11th Division were attacking Hongkou at this moment, wanting to support the Tianya Brigade's operations at Huishan Wharf, only the 101st Division and 11th Division were blocked around Hongkou by a brigade led by Qiu Qingquan plus Guangxi Army brothers from the Twenty-First Group Army, unable to advance a single step, only able to watch helplessly as the Tianya Brigade was tormented by Chu Yunfei......

Jiangwan Town, every time Eleventh Division Commander Yamamuro Sōbu received a frontline battle report, his heart would be tugged: the two regiments inside the Tianya Brigade were half the strength of his Eleventh Division!

101st Division Commander Ito Masanishi also frowned; if the Tianya Brigade had trouble, it was the Eleventh Division's trouble, and if the Eleventh Division had trouble, his own 101st Division would probably be dragged down too!

To support the Tianya Brigade's battle at Huishan Wharf, the two men scraped together their forces, scraping out five infantry regiments to launch an advance attack on the Hongkou area, but unexpectedly Qiu Qingquan there stood immovable as a mountain, and the five infantry regiments made no progress.

"It has absolutely no effect! The Twenty-First Group Army's combat power is also quite formidable; we simply cannot retake Hongkou!" Ito Masanishi said vexedly.

But Eleventh Division Commander Yamamuro Sōbu did not respond, his eyes remaining on the Huishan Wharf area on the map: "My Tianya Brigade...... is finished, in the end still unable to do anything!"

Around Huishan Wharf, Yamamuro Sōbu's self-assessment was quite accurate.

The Tianya Brigade was finished; originally Yamamuro Sōbu's expectation for the Tianya Brigade was to coordinate with the main forces of the two divisions, one on the side and one on the front, launching a pincer attack on Hongkou.

But this clever plan was directly smashed by Lv Muzhi!

Lv Muzhi first used tank units to take out the heavy artillery the devils relied on, then coordinated with Zhang Fakui across the Huangpu River, using artillery to sandwich the Tianya Brigade at Huishan Wharf; finally, he borrowed the strength of the Twenty-First Group Army's Guangxi Army to station heavy troops at Hongkou, preventing the 101st Division and 11th Division from advancing a single step, only able to watch helplessly as the Tianya Brigade was reduced to powder.

Hand-to-hand combat had already begun around Huishan Wharf; facing the Youth Army's step-by-step pressure, some devils began jumping out of cover to attempt banzai charges.

For the white blade battles actively initiated by the little devils, the Youth Army's principle was always not to accept them, but to respond with bullets.

However, the battlefield situation was complex, and small-scale white blade battles were still unavoidable; the bayonets in the hands of the Youth Army soldiers would teach the little devils to become human again.

Chu Yunfei looked at the time in the command post; it was already six in the morning. In Shanghai in October, at this time usually the horizon would be like burning fire, and the sun should have risen, but today it was pitch black.

"Report to Commander Lv, my troops have severely damaged the enemy Tianya Brigade and are cleaning up the remnants!" Chu Yunfei received Lv Muzhi's telephone call.

Lv Muzhi responded: "Very good. According to meteorological observations, a heavy rain is coming soon. The enemy's main force has already been blocked by Qiu Qingquan around Hongkou. Taking advantage of this autumn rain, you must devour the Tianya Brigade as much as possible; annihilate the enemy completely!"

"Yes!"

With Lv Muzhi's approval, Chu Yunfei felt more assured. Back in August, he had killed quite a few devil naval infantry on this riverbank, and today in October he would annihilate an entire devil army brigade.

With a clatter, a torrential rain began outside the command post, accompanied by gusts of autumn wind. Seeing this scene, Chu Yunfei wanted to recite a poem: "......"

"Report to Brigade Commander, most of Huishan Wharf has been controlled by our army, and there are still many enemy soldiers jumping into the water!" a staff officer came to report.

Chu Yunfei immediately lost the thought of reciting poetry, put on a raincoat, and sat on the jeep outside the command post: "Go, Huishan Wharf!"

Huishan Wharf, rain poured down, the autumn wind blew the Huangpu River into surging waves, and the water surface floated with one devil head after another.

The little devils jumping into the water swam in the water, wanting to escape the battlefield, but the Youth Army soldiers on the shore would not watch the little devils swim away easily; they practiced target shooting on the shore one after another.

The little devils swimming in the water, those with bad luck, soon floated face up, drifting downstream with the waves. If all went well, they would drift to the Yangtze River Estuary and finally flow into the sea, and there was also a possibility they would drift to the bottom of the Idiot Navy's warships.

Chu Yunfei, wearing a wet and shiny raincoat, walked into Huishan Wharf surrounded by guards, with undisguised joy on his face.

Chu Yunfei saw from afar that hundreds of Japanese wounded soldiers were squatting on the wharf, and the Huangpu River was full of devils, some alive and some dead.

A regimental commander ran to Chu Yunfei's front, and Chu Yunfei asked: "Why is this river water full of devils?"

"Report to Regimental Commander, we charged too fiercely, and the little devils were forced to jump into the river one after another. Just from what we saw, at least over a thousand devils jumped into the Huangpu River. Some swam to the Pudong area on the opposite bank, and some drifted downstream."

Chu Yunfei heard this: "Have the soldiers pursue along the Huangpu River downstream for five kilometers. Don't let the little devils swim away easily!"

"Yes!"

Chu Yunfei asked again: "What's going on with these prisoners? Didn't I say not to take prisoners?"

The regimental commander coughed: "You came a bit early; I haven't dealt with them yet. These wounded soldiers were previously injured by artillery shells, and the devil medical soldiers threw them in a corner...... Brigade Commander, look, I also captured a devil general officer's sword!"

The regimental commander handed Major General Tianya's general officer's sword to Chu Yunfei.

Chu Yunfei drew the military sword halfway, and heavy rain dripped onto the blade of the general officer's sword. He said: "Any devil who rashly intrudes into Xia Guo must have their dirty heads chopped off!"

That day, two thousand corpses floated on the Huangpu River, and besides that, several hundred devil heads drifted downstream.