Yes, it was not that Lu Sanjiang, a new sergeant, was possessed by a spirit, and his marksmanship became so accurate that he killed the major general chief of staff of the 10th Army with one shot from his horse a mile away.
It’s about people falling off their horses themselves.
Or to be more precise, it was the war horse that took the initiative to throw the Japanese Army Major General off his horse.
Hold a gun in one hand and a telescope in the other, Lu Sanjiang simulated the shot in his mind and fired it, but it didn't hit any target at all.
However, even such an unconscious shot quietly conforms to the so-called "do nothing and follow the heart" of Chinese Taoism.
The accuracy is many times higher than his actual marksmanship. Even Niu Er, who is said to have shooting talent, would not be able to shoot more accurately than his shot here.
With no scope and an effective range of only 400 meters, a Liao-made Thirteen Cavalry Rifle hit the road 600 meters away.
Yes, although no one or horse was hit, the bullet hit the road more than two meters away from Tanabe Moritake's side.
Normally speaking, a horse that has been trained to adapt to the battlefield will not be frightened to the point of falling off the knight even if a cannonball explodes nearby, and will never be frightened by a small rifle bullet.
However, Arima is so unlucky.
A small pebble stirred up by the bullet hitting the ground almost hit the horse's eye, directly blinding it. Who wouldn't go crazy instead?
Even if the war horse is blind, it can still keep calm and continue fighting!
Horses are unlucky, but Tanabe Moritake on horseback has more unlucky attributes.
Since it was still a little dark, the horses were not running at full strength and their speed was not very fast. A fall that would break a leg or an arm would be considered serious.
But Tanabe Moritake, who was still thinking about how to obtain the command of the Sixth Division on horseback, was not at all prepared.
Yes, if Hisao Tani of the Sixth Division is finished, someone will naturally need to take his place.
Promoting from within the Sixth Division is originally the most normal operation. Both major general brigade commanders have this qualification. However, this kind of head-scratching operation of choosing one from the other is likely to cause dissatisfaction with the other person. North China Dispatch
The army headquarters and army base camp also had to consider carefully.
But now is a battlefield, and there is not so much time for the big guys to fight each other for this position. Then, as the major general chief of staff of the Tenth Army, Tanabe Moritake has the possibility of sudden emergence, and the possibility is as high as 8%.
ten.
When he thought that he might become an important general in charge of an army of more than 20,000 people, and no longer had to suffer from the humiliation of being a mouthpiece for others, Tanabe Moritake's heart was filled with excitement.
With all the images in his mind of a bunch of major generals and major generals groveling around him, would he have thought that on a battlefield dominated by a hundred thousand troops, there would be someone so bold as to shoot bullets at him?
So, it is bad for the Japanese army major general who dreams of dreams.
When others fell, they broke their arms and legs, but he broke his neck in one fell swoop.
What makes the Japanese cavalry miserable is that the Major General's broken neck has no gun holes at all. They can't judge the direction of the enemy based on the ballistic trajectory, and they can't even pursue him.
In such a wilderness, let alone their twenty-odd cavalry, even if there were ten times more, they could only stare.
In the end, the person who replaced Yanagawa Heisuke and went to the Sixth Division to investigate the cause of Hisao Tani's death also became a corpse.
Because of a little-known Chinese cavalry!
Tanabe Moritake, who had not yet arrived at the Sixth Division Field Hospital, breathed his last in the bumpy road.
Sakai Tokutaro and Ushijima Mitsuru, who were waiting in the rear, looked at the corpse and could only be dumbstruck.
Has Amaterasu fallen in love with the Tenth Army?
The two of them each made a decision in their hearts. From now on, they would stay far away from the front line. No matter how depressed they were, they would rarely leave the headquarters.
After all, life is important.
The lieutenant generals are all dead, and if a major general dies again, the psychological impact will not be that great.
It’s just that for Tokutaro Sakai, even greater bad news is yet to come.
Although the furious Yanagawa Heisuke sent a telegram to Ushijima Mitsuru and Suematsu Shigeharu to each dispatch an infantry brigade to support the 11th Infantry Brigade that had entered Tojo, the coordination of the troop deployment also took time.
Coupled with the accidental attack and death of Moritake Tanabe, Tokutaro Sakai lost two of his most precious hours.
Seven o'clock in the morning.
The Chinese army, which had already been assembled, resolutely launched a counterattack against more than 4,000 Japanese infantry in Dongcheng District.
This time, we are not fighting against a large number of enemies.
Although there are only more than 2,000 people left in the 322nd Infantry Brigade, these 2,000 people are all veterans who have been through a day of street fighting. Those who are not suitable for the battlefield have been eliminated. Only the strong can survive on such a battlefield.
More than 2,000 people from an infantry regiment transferred from Beicheng have not been involved in the battle. Seeing their comrades killing corpses in the fields and suffering heavy casualties, they have long been exhausted, like tigers descending from the mountain.
Not to mention the garrison battalion, which has already gone through several battles, and with the return of Tang Dao, the No. 700 man with a backbone is definitely the strongest soldier on this battlefield in terms of combat experience and morale.
The security battalion of the special task force directly under the 67th Army Headquarters has always been the trump card that Lieutenant General Wu holds tightly. Yesterday, even the guard camp was released but not the guard camp, which shows how much he values his trump card.
There are not many people in the guard camp, only three guard companies with 500 people, but they are all equipped with short guns, either submachine guns or shell guns. Their field combat capabilities may be slightly inferior, but when it comes to close combat defense, Tang Dao's guard camp can only handle it.
back.
This kind of shooting, with a maximum distance of only 50 meters, is simply a stage set up for them.
Although Lao Wang's two infantry companies of the 43rd Army fought bloody battles for a day, only more than a hundred people were left. However, the more than a hundred people who crawled out from the dead in Dachang Town were praised as "the most powerful soldiers" after the war.
There is no one unit that performed the best in this counterattack.
The fear of death among the Sichuan children had disappeared long ago in Dachang Town due to the deaths of their comrades in battle.
The purpose of them continuing to go to the battlefield is not to live, but to die!
Died like your comrades who died in battle!
Having fulfilled the righteousness of brother and brother.
It is also to comfort my parents, Sichuan baby, and will not embarrass the elders in my hometown.
"The national crisis is at hand, and the Japanese invaders are ferocious. Every man has his share in the rise and fall of the country. I wanted to serve, but I was too old. Fortunately, I have a son, so I volunteered for it. I was given a flag and carried it with me at all times. Wipe the blood when you are injured, and wrap yourself up after death. Go forward bravely, don't
Forgot your duty!”
When the Sichuan Army took the oath to leave Sichuan, the flag with the word "death" written by an old father as a gift to his son was the military flag of the "Straw Shoe Army".
As soon as the army goes out to march, its father sends a flag with the word "death" to it. It is not surprising what kind of results it achieves.
The strength of the Chinese army that went into battle in Dongcheng did not actually occupy an overwhelming advantage. It was about 6,000 troops.
This is the last force that the Songjiang garrison can muster.
But this is also the essence of the Songjiang garrison.
The two commanders of Songjiang Command have staked everything.
Facing the frantic attack by the Chinese army with chants of "Hisao Tani is dead! Kingoro Hashimoto is dead!" the morale of the 4,000 Japanese troops fell to the bottom.
They don't know whether the division commander is dead or not, but they know that the frontline commander was changed before dawn. The captain of the 23rd Infantry Regiment's Major Regiment is now the top commander in the city, and the 13th Infantry Regiment's Qiao
Colonel Honkingoro disappeared.
Thinking of the shelling that occurred in the direction of the headquarters at dawn, anyone with a bright mind will know that the Chinese may not be lying.
When one side has high morale and the other side has low morale, the situation on the battlefield can be imagined.
Two Japanese infantry brigades deployed by Yanagawa Heisuke's order actually entered the battlefield, but they entered too late. The Japanese defense line shrank too much in the early stage. As a result, in addition to increasing their strength and maintaining the defense line from being breached, they had no strategy.
Depth has been completely lost.
The Japanese troops in the two southwest cities were attacking furiously, trying to open a breakthrough or help the east city to share the pressure. Even the Japanese troops in the north city no longer lurked. Two infantry brigades built field positions one thousand meters away, ready to launch an attack.
Japanese heavy artillery and bomber formations even launched attacks on the two southwest cities at the risk of accidentally hitting friendly forces in the city.
But the Songjiang defenders crushed their ambitions with an equally determined counterattack.
Both sides suffered heavy casualties, even worse than yesterday.
This fierce battle lasted from 7 a.m. to the afternoon.
In the end, both warring parties almost lost command of their troops.
The brigade commander cannot find the regiment commander, the regiment commander cannot find the battalion commander, the battalion commander cannot find the company commander, and the company commander cannot find the platoon commander.
China and Japan have me among you, and you among me.
The officers and soldiers on both sides stared with blood-red eyes. As long as the uniforms were of different colors, kill them!
This is a great counterattack.
A classic defensive counterattack that can be written into military history.
But it is destined to be a brutal counterattack.
It is said that after the war, the top commanders of both sides were filled with tears when they took the casualty report.
This chapter has been completed!