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Chapter 298: The Japanese Attack Xiaguan at Night
298 The Japanese attacked Xiaguan at night
Wow!
In the dark night, the cold river water laps against the shore.
Several Kuomintang soldiers stood on the shore, shivering in the cold wind, even though they had a fire.
After all, it is already winter.
The nighttime temperature in Jinling can drop to minus ten degrees Celsius.
It's cloudy tonight and the wind is blowing coldly.
"Damn it, I'm freezing to death."
At the Xiaguan Ferry, a military policeman on duty walked back and forth with his arms folded to provide heat to his body.
“Stop complaining and just hold on for another hour.
It will be the third shift's turn to replace us."
The gendarme next to them leaned against a big tree and comforted his companion.
While the two were talking, they did not notice that something unusual was happening on the river not far away.
Two hours ago, just as Sun Mingxu's 209th Division was heading downstream by boat.
In the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in Jinling, there was also a group of Japanese soldiers riding on a raft, floating downstream under the cover of night.
It was not discovered by the Kuomintang troops defending the southern part of the city and drifted all the way to the Xiaguan Ferry.
At this time, they were approaching the Xiaguan Ferry.
Lieutenant General Sotake Yamamuro, commander of the Japanese 11th Division, actually had the same idea as Ye Qingshan.
This old Japanese was also looking for a dark and windy night to launch a sneak attack on the Xiaguan Ferry.
In fact, they attacked by land during the day.
They encountered stubborn resistance from the Nationalist defensive forces and made little progress.
So, the old Japanese wanted to find another way and go down by water.
In the past two days, the Japanese 11th Division secretly built a raft in the south of the city.
Just for tonight's sneak attack.
The Japs were looking for a boat.
But unfortunately, the ships around Nanjing had been requisitioned by the National Army long before the Japanese arrived.
The Japs couldn't find any boats, so they had to build rafts themselves.
Originally, this was to prevent the Japanese from launching a surprise attack from the river.
Ye Qingshan formed a patrol team with two torpedo boats and several small gunboats borrowed from Chen Cheng.
It has been patrolling the waters upstream of Xiaguan Ferry.
But unfortunately, tonight Ye Qingshan transferred this patrol boat team to protect the 209th Division fleet.
After daybreak, the patrol boat team can return.
But as luck would have it, at this time of night, the Japanese troops that were attacking the Xiaguan ferry also came down the Yangtze River.
"Oh, the Chinese patrol boat didn't show up.
The Chinese were careless.
God bless the Empire! "
The captain of the 11th Division of the Japanese army had made preparations to avoid the Kuomintang patrol boats tonight.
As a result, we never saw the patrol boats of the Kuomintang army along the way.
The Japanese captain thought that the Nationalist army was careless and gave up patrolling the river.
"Major, look ahead, there should be light.
It should be the Chinese’s Xiaguan ferry.”
On a raft, a Japanese soldier pointed to the right bank and spoke to the Japanese major.
"Yoshi, it should be."
After seeing this, the Japanese lieutenant colonel laughed grimly.
The Japanese lieutenant immediately gave the order: "The raft will quietly approach the shore."
Soon, many of the Japanese rafts accelerated towards the Xiaguan ferry.
“Get your explosives ready.
This time, we must completely destroy the Chinese ferry.
Especially the boats in the ferry, leave no one behind, blow them all up."
The Japanese major had a ferocious expression and gave orders.
When the Japanese rafts rushed into the Xiaguan ferry, the Kuomintang soldiers on the shore finally noticed that something was wrong.
"what?"
The National Army military policeman standing guard on the shore raised his gun and walked towards the river vigilantly.
He seemed to have seen some movement in the water just now.
When he got closer, he saw a lot of Japanese rafts rushing towards him.
There were many Japanese soldiers standing on each raft.
"Devil!"
boom!
The Kuomintang military police's face changed drastically and he shouted loudly.
But the next second, a bullet came and hit him in the chest.
Countless Japanese rafts docked and rushed into the Xiaguan ferry.
Fortunately, the sudden gunshots alarmed the Kuomintang military police on other sentries.
Boom!
After a while, fierce gunfire and explosions were heard from the Xiaguan Ferry.
"what happened?"
Luo Hu, the commander of the gendarmerie battalion, rushed out of the house and looked at the ferry not far away where flames and violent explosions were heard.
His face suddenly changed.
"Damn it, the Japs' sneak attack.
Quick, gather the men.
Follow me and kill him."
At this time, more than a thousand Japanese soldiers had already landed and could not be stopped by the military police sentries.
A large group of Japanese soldiers have already rushed into the Xiaguan ferry.
However, when the Japanese captain, a major, led his men to attack the Xiaguan ferry.
Looking at the empty ferry, I was suddenly confused.
The grim smile on his face mostly disappeared, revealing a confused expression.
"Baga, where's the Chinese ferry?"
The Japanese captain roared.
The first target of their sneak attack tonight is the large and small ships in the hands of the national army.
As long as these ships were blown up, Ye Qingshan would no longer be able to transport supplies from the other side every day.
As for bombing the Xiaguan ferry, it was a secondary goal.
Even if the ferry was blown up, the National Army could still repair it urgently.
But what if those ships were blown up?
It would be difficult for the national army to gather together in a short period of time with so many ships coming.
But the current situation seems to be different from what the Japanese expected.
"Major, have we been fooled?
The Chinese deliberately set a trap for us to fall into!"
A Japanese officer nearby looked frightened and shouted to the Japanese captain.
"Kill!"
Just at this moment, the roars of the Kuomintang military police who were rushing over were heard all around.
"Baga, the cunning Chinese actually guessed our plan."
The Japanese lieutenant colonel also believed what his subordinates said.
But now that they are here, they have to achieve some results no matter what.
Otherwise he would have to escape in disgrace, and the Japanese major was unwilling to accept that.
Moreover, this Japanese major is also a ruthless person.
Originally, when he carried out this operation tonight, he had already made up his mind to die.
At this moment, he was even more determined and shouted to the other devils: "First Squadron, Second Squadron, stop the Chinese.
The third squadron arranged explosives.
We must blow up this ferry tonight."
The Japanese major roared fiercely.
He had no other choice. If he couldn't bomb the main target ferry, he could just blow up the ferry crossing.
Boom boom!
Soon, a loud explosion was heard at the Xiaguan Ferry.
Luo Hu, who led his troops to attack, was furious when he saw the destroyed ferry.
"Little devil, I'll fuck your grandma!
Brothers, follow me.
We can’t let the Japs blow up the ferry!”
Luo Hu became anxious.
At the beginning, Ye Qingshan trusted Deputy Commander Xiao, so he sent troops to garrison Xiaguan under the command of Xiao Shan.
Instead of sending his own troops.
As a subordinate trusted by Xiaoshan Ling, Luo Hu naturally took on this important task.
But now, he had allowed the Japanese to sneak into the ferry and they were wreaking havoc.
In addition to anger, Luo Hu also felt ashamed.
He felt that he had let down Xiao Shanling's trust. He knew too well the importance of Xiaguan Ferry to the Jinling National Army at that time.
Luo Hu led his men in a desperate charge, trying to break through the blockade of two Japanese squadrons outside.