Facing the dilapidated Chinese position that was once again trembling under artillery fire, the Sixth Division not only showed its sharpest sword.
The 13th Infantry Regiment even set up its headquarters only 600 meters away from Songjiang City, which is within the range that heavy machine guns can easily shoot.
Six of the 10 infantry guns belonging to the regiment were within 500 meters of the field fortifications. Although this distance was within the range of the Chinese mortars, a precise strike against the fortifications at the head of the city was almost impossible.
Guaranteed accuracy of 2 meters, a posture of using artillery to fight bayonets.
This shows the determination of the Sixth Division to finish the battle in one battle.
Of course, this may be more directly related to Hisao Tani’s arrival at the brigade headquarters 1,000 meters away.
The division commander is already 1,000 meters away. How can you, a captain of the Colonel-General, stay further back?
But no matter what, the highly hierarchical Japanese army was ready to take over the Songjiang outer city wall position with the strongest attitude.
As the leader of the sharpest sword drawn by Hisao Tani, that is, the major captain of the 6th Infantry Battalion of the 13th Infantry Regiment, Kambuto Yutahiro is making the final mobilization for his subordinates.
“Gentlemen, the division commander is watching us from behind. I hope you will live up to the reputation of our 13th Infantry Regiment and fight the enemy bravely!
Your Excellency the Division Commander also promised that the Empire will not be stingy with rewards for the first infantry squadron to plant our flag on the Songjiang City Wall. At the same time, the wealth in the city will be shared by all the kings." To the four who are about to go into battle.
The eyes of Shenwuxi Dahao, who mobilized more than 600 Japanese infantrymen in the infantry squadron, showed cruelty. "Tonight is a grand festival for all the officers and soldiers of our Sixth Division."
The Japanese Army Major, who had a pretty good-sounding surname but a bad name, was not only good at talking about it. While motivating his subordinates, he also practiced it himself.
With cold eyes, he looked at the city wall hundreds of meters away that was once again filled with smoke. The Japanese major took off his military uniform jacket, threw off the white gloves of his pretense kit, and only wore a white shirt, with a white cloth strip wrapped around his head, looking like a dead father.
Dressed up like that, he pulled out his command knife and roared, "Kill the cock!"
“Onboard!”
“Long live the Empire!”
Like their commander, countless Japanese soldiers with their heads wrapped in white cloths who planned to pay tribute to their fathers in advance shouted slogans and surged towards the broken city wall 400 meters away.
Behind them and on both sides, in the carefully constructed field fortifications of the Japanese army, more than 30 heavy machine guns roared. They were the heavy machine gun squadrons of the 13th Infantry Regiment, which assembled three infantry brigades under its command.
In fact, even the Japanese army themselves probably rarely used heavy machine gun clusters of this size to carry out covering fire.
The noise caused by the simultaneous firing of dozens of machine guns made the Japanese colonel in the command post 200 meters away couldn't help but frown. As the top commander on the front line, he couldn't wear earplugs like the Japanese shooters.
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The bullets from the heavy machine gun with the muzzle raised hit the city wall like raindrops. The blue bricks were peeled off by the gunfire, exposing a large amount of loess layer. Dust instantly flew everywhere on the wall, and then merged with the smoke stirred up by the Japanese artillery fire that had just raged.
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The artillery fire of the Japanese 75mm mountain field artillery and 105mm howitzers has begun to extend inward with the infantry's attack.
After the Battle of Cangcheng, the Japanese army also learned lessons and gained experience. The Chinese often left a small number of troops on the position, with the main force staying in the bomb shelter behind the position, waiting for their own infantry to attack before re-entering the position.
Knowing this, the Japanese also adjusted their tactics and extended their artillery fire. They did not directly bombard the position to be attacked, but attacked the rear of the Chinese position. This could not only prevent the main Chinese troops from entering the position, but perhaps also use this to attack the Chinese.
Massive killing.
This move is indeed very poisonous.
It is a pity that the American cowboys more than ten years later are much smarter than them. This tactic has long been worn out, and the Chinese soldiers who have also absorbed experience and lessons have long come up with countermeasures.
From the very beginning, Tang Dao ordered trenches to be dug from the air raid shelters to the main city wall positions. The 2-meter-deep trenches were either to prepare for street fighting or to prevent the Japanese from playing this trick.
The 75-caliber mountain artillery may be used to hit temporary fortifications, but for this kind of trench, unless the artillery shell can be accurately sent to the inside of the trench that is no more than 1.5 meters wide, there will be almost no damage to the soldiers passing through the trench.
Even if a shell does fall into the trench with eyes, the 'z'-shaped trench dug by Tang Dao with huge manpower can minimize the damage caused by the turbulent air waves.
The curved trench edges are enough to weaken the intensity of the air waves, and there will be no tragedy like the many straight trenches on the Songhu battlefield where half an infantry company was swept away by a dropped artillery shell.
The Japanese infantry was running wildly, and the artillery fire continued to extend backwards, but the Japanese army's attack on the city wall fortifications was not small.
In addition to the rain of bullets poured from the heavy machine guns, there were also grenade launchers. I don’t know how many grenade launchers began to test-fire at the city wall. Anyway, clouds of smoke continued to explode from the top of the city wall.
From the beginning of the battle, the Japanese army was uncharacteristically uncharacteristic. They did not even intend to test the firepower point, but launched a mad attack on the 800-meter-wide wall fortifications of Songjiang East City with crushing firepower.
If Tang Dao, the main designer of the fortifications, had not hollowed out the city wall from the beginning and placed the firepower point inside the city wall, the firepower point placed on the top of the city would have been hit by this wave of attacks even if it had not been ravaged by Japanese artillery fire.
lost heavily.
Even so, the soldiers hiding in the firepower points inside the city wall lowered their heads involuntarily.
The covering firepower of the Japanese army is really too exaggerated. How big is the shooting hole? But there are still bullets fired through the shooting hole. That does not mean how accurate the Japanese heavy machine gunners are. It is completely a matter of probability.
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The more than 600 to 700 Japanese troops in the attack were in a scattered formation, not a swarm as imagined.
The four infantry squadrons were divided into two waves, with two infantry squadrons in front and two infantry squadrons in the rear, with nearly a hundred meters between them.
The lateral distance between each soldier must be at least 3 meters, so as to avoid being hit by Chinese machine guns and causing mass casualties.
Or maybe it was the 150-meter large-caliber mortars in the city that made the Japanese army have to be wary. When a shell fell from that thing, it was also a nightmare-level existence that could sweep across a radius of more than ten meters.
purely in terms of its power against infantry, the 70-caliber infantry artillery battery equipped as the main force of the Japanese infantry brigade is not qualified to support 150 mortars.
From a distance of 1,000 meters, the 6th Infantry Brigade, which was divided into two waves, seemed to have a somewhat chaotic formation, but it was moving extremely fast. It only took four or five minutes for the attack to reach the moat.
The speed of advancement on the battlefield is a manifestation of firm will.
Even Tanabe Moritake, who stayed away from the tough Hisao Tani, had to sigh in his heart. Lieutenant General Hisao Tani had the confidence to be tough, because he had such a strong subordinate, even though there are currently no decent Chinese in the city wall fortifications.
counterattack.
After all, not everyone can run like a bunch of springing male rabbits against the incoming hail of bullets.
How awesome are the male rabbits in their spring?
When Tanabe Moritake saw the major captain through the high-power telescope, waving the command knife and jumping into the cold moat first, the major general and chief of staff of the Tenth Army had a passionate urge to be a rabbit.
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Really, the imperial warriors are so mighty, with such a strong army, what can the weak China do to resist them?
Fortunately, the Japanese major general with a rational mind instantly annihilated this kind of impulse like a middle school boy.
Leave bravery to those warriors who need to prove themselves! As a general, he can just take a look.
In the late autumn of November, facing a moat more than 30 meters wide, and facing bullets that could be fired at any time by the enemy who had always been hiding, the "black skinned and bright red blood" people, led by a major, did not hesitate.
What kind of iron will does it take to jump into the river and head towards the goal?
The will is as strong as steel
This is the definition Tanabe Moritake gave after describing the performance of the Imperial Warriors of the Sixth Division he saw through a high-powered telescope.
That is, fine steel has weight.
When going down the river, no one wants to carry too much weight, even if they can swim.
The armor itself was already very heavy, but as a result, the Japanese major general 1,000 meters away gave them a willpower as strong as fine steel.
Stainless steel and peat! If the Japanese infantrymen who stepped into the water of the moat that could flood their knees knew that someone was cursing them like this, they would definitely be a big mouth in return.
Yes, although heavy artillery blasted the river embankments in many places, the water in the moat that was originally almost two meters deep has long since become shallow, and only the shallow water at the bottom that can be seen at a glance remains.
Otherwise, surrounded by mountains on three sides and not many Kumamoto men who are familiar with the nature of water, they would never be so foolish as to follow their captain into the water.
However, it was not water that made the Japanese infantrymen’s steely will collapse.
This chapter has been completed!