Japanese, the bombardment has begun.
As the whistle of cannonballs rang out, the soldiers on the lookout post on the other wall of Cangcheng immediately chose to hide their bodies deeply in the simple fortification that was their only escape.
The 67th Army had several battles with the Japanese in North China and suffered heavy losses. They then replenished the rear and headed for the Songhu battlefield. However, the replenishment was not strong men, but its own heavy supplies of troops.
This is also the experience that the Northeast Army learned from the Japanese. Although the baggage soldiers are less experienced as second-line soldiers than the front-line veterans, they have been trained in the army and have seen the battlefield, which can ensure that the combat effectiveness of the front-line troops will not be weakened too much.
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The farmer who was holding a hoe one day was given a gun and went to the battlefield the next day. What would the combat effectiveness be like? Facts have proved that the fruit army that will recruit a large number of strong men in the future is an extremely wrong choice.
Therefore, even though they were just small transport soldiers, the few soldiers of the 67th Army who unfortunately became observation posts still quickly retracted their bodies into the fortifications, and their movements were much more agile than the two signal soldiers next to the young deputy squad leader.
In fact, not to mention the two signal soldiers who were stunned by the sharp roar of the shells, even the young deputy squad leader did not immediately make tactical moves to avoid the shells.
Moreover, he also leaned out of the fortifications and looked as far away as possible.
Even though the two signal soldiers behind him were pulling him, "Deputy squad leader, the Japanese artillery shells are coming."
"Be alarmed, the Japs are just testing fire right now." The young 'veteran' looked into the distance while listening carefully to the howling of the shells getting closer and closer.
He was still muttering to himself: "Damn it, this is not a mountain cannon, it seems to be a 105 howitzer!"
As if to prove the accuracy of his judgment, two seconds later, a cloud of smoke and dust exploded from the field about 300 meters away from the south gate of Cangcheng!
Under the guidance of the veteran squad leader, the young deputy squad leader, who had been on the Dachang Town position for three days and nights, learned to identify the sound of artillery shells and also learned to determine the general direction of the Japanese artillery group's attack based on the location of the shelling.
Commander Tang Dao's judgment was very accurate. The first Japanese artillery shell landed 300 meters away from the side of Cangcheng. This proved that the main target of the Japanese bombardment would be Cangcheng.
In the light of the cold sunset, the rising thick smoke is like a dark cloud rising from the ground, rushing up to an altitude of more than ten meters, and can be clearly seen without a telescope.
That, as the young 'veteran' judged, was definitely not caused by some 75-caliber mountain cannon.
If he had a telescope, he could clearly see that the crater blasted out in the field was enough to fit into a small car, and it was indeed from the terrifying 105 howitzer.
Six kilometers away, beyond the sight of the young deputy squad leader, the 114th Division Artillery Regiment, which had just crossed the pontoon bridge on the Huangpu River, had already eagerly selected its position.
The position was in a hilly area 300 meters away from where the corpses of Fujiwara's entire cavalry squadron were found. Not only did the woods and hills provide sufficient protection for the artillery, but more importantly, the livid-faced Suematsu Shigeharu needed to avenge his shame.
Those who fall down will get up there. The sharp artillery under his command will become a meeting gift given to the Chinese by the Japanese Army Lieutenant General.
Suematsu Shigeharu is qualified to speak like this.
Although it is one of the 8 newly established ad hoc divisions and has been weakened in many aspects and is not as good as the 17 permanent divisions, it cannot be said that the ad hoc divisions are not good.
In fact, as the supplementary divisions of the 17 permanent divisions, the equipment of the 17 supplementary divisions numbered after 100 will never be inferior, and some are even better than the permanent divisions.
This is determined by the extremely special organization method of the Japanese Army. For example, the 101st Division corresponds to the 1st Guards Division. If the 1st Division is severely depleted of personnel, it will directly replenish personnel and personnel from the 101st Division.
equipment.
The reason why the Itagaki Division, the main force of the Western Front of the North China Expeditionary Army, which is furiously attacking Shanxi, can reach more than 50,000 troops is actually the result of the direct merger of the Fifth Division and its supplementary division into one.
To put it bluntly, the Chinese Army learned from Europe in its organizational structure. It uses an infantry division of more than 10,000 people as the basic combat unit. Two or three become an infantry corps with a strength of 40,000 to 50,000 to control a larger combat area.
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The Japanese Army can use an A-type division and supplementary divisions to form a more powerful combat unit. Most of the time, it can only retain one division headquarters and a simple command structure, making military orders smoother.
If there is a more special battle situation, like the current Tenth Army, which is composed of two Class A divisions and one ad hoc division, it is a temporary wartime establishment and can be disbanded at any time when its combat missions and combat objectives are achieved.
As a supplementary division of the 14th Division, the 114th Division became one of the eight ad hoc divisions before the war. Naturally, it followed in the footsteps of the 14th Division. Although the 14th Division did not declare it clearly
, whose current division commander became famous in this war.
Kenji Doihara, who presided over intelligence work at the Japanese Army Headquarters, was the third-generation Japanese spy chief who engaged in espionage activities in China after Nobuzumi Aoki and Rihachiro Banishi. He was the man behind the establishment of the puppet Manchukuo and the planning of North China's autonomy.
Known as "Thomas Edward Lawrence of the East".
After the war began, Kenji Doihara served as the commander of the Japanese 14th Division. In the future, he participated in the Battle of Lanfeng and was promoted to commander of the Seventh Front Army, Director of Education, and Commander of the First General Army.
Such a person not only has great influence in the Japanese Army Headquarters, but also has a very high status in the entire Japanese military circle. This is not what the 6th Division Commander Hisao Tani and the 18th Division Commander Ushijima Mitsuru want to do.
Relying on expanding territory can prove that one's own army lieutenant general can't compare.
Otherwise, how could the Fujiwara family, which has a voice in Japanese politics, let the family's most promising direct line member go to the 114th Division for training? This is also a small idea to win over Madoka Doi.
It’s just that Japan’s top spy chief may not have expected that the adulterer ** had just taken a passionate little bath, and the little lotus had just revealed her sharp horns. She hadn’t even started to get to the point yet. The adulterer was left outside the door to help ** take care of the child.
My younger brother accidentally killed someone else's child by playing with it.
Of course, how the adulterers will fight in the future is another matter. The current 114th Division benefits from Tufeiyuan's power, and its artillery regiment's equipment is still very impressive.
The Japanese artillery regiment is generally composed of 3,000 people and is divided into 3 artillery brigades. Each artillery regiment is equipped with 12 artillery pieces, most of which are 75-caliber mountain guns or field guns. The artillery regiments of ordinary permanent divisions are equipped with 4 to
Six 105 field guns are pretty awesome.
However, the 114th Division, as a special division, has 12 Type 91 105 howitzers in its artillery wing that were put into service by the Japanese Army in 1935.
Of course, this is not its own establishment, but before arriving in the southeast, Suematsu Shigeharu felt that he was too weak to lead an infantry brigade, so he asked his boss Dohi Madoka for support. Dohi Madoka used his influence to send troops from North China
A 105 howitzer battalion borrowed from the dispatch army was added to him.
With this trump card, Suematsu Shigeharu suddenly felt that he was capable again. Otherwise, he would not have driven an infantry brigade to attack Matsue where an infantry corps was stationed in a rage.
That’s because Suematsu Shigeharu has enough confidence.
This artillery introduced from France has a weight of 1750 kg and is pulled by horses. Type 91 grenade (projectile weight 16 kg, charge 2.52 kg, killing radius 31 meters), Type 91 pointed projectile (projectile weight 15.7 kg, charge
2.27 kg, killing radius 28 meters).
As for the armor-piercing capability of another type of ammunition, armor-piercing projectiles, does China have tanks? Japanese weapons experts actually don’t pay much attention to this technology. Most of their artillery carries grenades that can kill infantry.
The 12 105 howitzers, according to the coordinates sent back by the artillery observers who were advancing with the vanguard, had already raised their muzzles. Accompanying these 12 big killers, there were 12 75 mountain guns and 12 75 field guns, a total of 12 105 howitzers.
36 artillery pieces.
In addition, the six 127-mm naval guns of the Fubuki-class destroyer located on the Huangpu River also aimed their guns at Songjiang City 10 kilometers away.
Although the Japanese naval fleet still staying on the surface of Jinshanwei did not admit that it had been beaten by Chinese artillery, it felt deeply humiliated in its heart. Otherwise, how could it send a light destroyer at the risk of running aground?
Where are the horses and horses covering the army?
They must also show some shame to the audacious Chinese Songjiang defenders.
Regarding the "generousness" of the navy fools, Suematsu Shigeharu naturally had the mentality of a scumbag who did not take the initiative, refused, and was irresponsible. He pretended not to know and allowed the division staff to send the coordinates sent from the front to the destroyer.
The muzzles of the 42 artillery pieces in the distant space were spewing out blazing flames one after another under the stiff-faced observation of the young deputy squad leader.
This chapter has been completed!