"Nani? Our field artillery unit was attacked by the Chinese with large-caliber mortars, and more than twenty field artillery pieces were lost?"
At the headquarters of the 16th Division, Nakajima Konso, who was holding a telescope to observe the battle ahead, suddenly heard the news from his subordinates and couldn't help being shocked.
A combat staff officer reported: "Yes, Your Excellency General, but our artillery response was not slow and has already eliminated the sneak attack of China's artillery. According to the observation post's report, all ten artillery pieces of the China Army have been eliminated by us!"
"Yo Xi!" Nakajima nodded, "Last time I heard that Hisao Tani's 6th Division was attacked by the Chinese with heavy artillery, and most of the artillery was lost. But I heard that they
We have wiped out all the Chinese artillery, so why is there a large-caliber mortar position popping up now? It’s incredible!”
Nakajima shook his head and expressed that he didn't understand this. However, his mood was quickly attracted by the battle ahead, and he ordered: "Come here, order the field artillery regiment to bombard the China Army's artillery positions again."
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"Hai!"
"Whoosh...boom..."
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A 75-mm artillery shell exploded on a machine gun position of a third company, blasting the shooting machine gun and the first and second machine gunners into the sky.
After losing a machine gun, the firepower on the position suddenly weakened, and the Japanese troops in front immediately took the opportunity to charge forward again.
Wang Dashan, who was commanding not far behind, shouted: "Prepare the machine gun team, go up immediately, and never let the Japanese troops come forward!"
"yes!"
Soon, another machine gun was immediately added, sweeping over the densely packed Japanese troops in front...
Although the Japanese attack was temporarily suppressed, Wang Dashan was not happy. This was already the third machine gun he had lost. All three machine guns were destroyed by Japanese artillery, not to mention other losses.
, the battle lasted for two hours, and his company had lost more than thirty people, and almost all of them were "masterpieces" of Japanese artillery fire.
After ringing the phone at the headquarters in the church, Wang Dashan begged Su Rui on the other end of the phone: "Sir, please give me some artillery support. The Japanese artillery fire was too fierce.
After two hours of fighting, one platoon of brothers in our company has been honored. If we don't think of a way, all of our company will be honored. What? The artillery fire will arrive soon? Okay, as long as there is artillery support, I have the confidence to hold the position.
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Su Rui, who put down the phone, frowned and dialed another phone, "Wang Dezi, have you set up the artillery position over there? What? Still need twenty minutes? No, I can only give you ten minutes, ten
You must let your artillery fire in a few minutes. But you have to remember it for me. Don’t forget the order you made before to ask for people but not the artillery. If the gunner suffers any losses, I will take it from you!"
"Snapped……"
Su Rui put down the phone and listened, sighing softly: "It seems that we have to prepare some artillery for Wang Dezi again. It's really nerve-wracking."
Suri's strategy is this. What he implements is a hit-and-run strategy. To put it bluntly, after firing a round of artillery, he will discard the artillery on the same spot and only transfer the personnel, so as to ensure the safety of the gunner to the greatest extent.
After all, Suri's artillery battery only has more than a hundred people. The loss of twelve 80 mortars and dozens of gunners in yesterday's artillery battle already made Suri feel distressed. You have to know the artillery these days.
However, it is a rare type of military force, which can be regarded as a special force. If it is lost, there will be no place to replace it.
Therefore, Su Rui's order to Wang Dezi was that it would be fine if the artillery was lost, but the gunners must be protected and must not be lost again. The same is true for artillery. After firing a round of artillery, the personnel must retreat immediately, and there should be no artillery.
Pay attention to it. This is what Suri said about asking people not to use artillery. That is to say, Suri has such a golden finger and does not have to worry about the loss of artillery. If it were a different person, he would never be able to play this style of play.
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Time passed little by little, and ten minutes later, another burst of dull gunfire sounded near the church, followed by waves of loud noises in the distance. The violent explosions shook the windows of the church uncontrollably.
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"Baga...are you saying that our field artillery regiment has lost more than 20 artillery pieces, and now there are only five artillery pieces left?"
In the headquarters of the 16th Division, Nakajima was so surprised to hear that his field artillery regiment was almost completely wiped out by the Chinese artillery from the opposite side that he almost bit his tongue off.
"Impossible, where did these Chinese people get so many large-caliber artillery pieces? Do the field artillery regiments all have to do with nothing? Why can't they even deal with a few mobile artillery pieces in China? They should all be brought to court-martial!"
After roaring for a while, Nakajima Jinma no longer looked at the staff officer standing motionless in front of him, and finally had to order Tatsumi Kusaba (Commander of the 30th Infantry Brigade) in a ragged voice, at all costs, at full speed.
When attacking, we must capture the Chinese positions!"
"Hai!"
The Japanese army, which had lost almost all its artillery fire, went crazy. Under the orders of the officers, the Japanese soldiers made a forced charge. Under the cover of smoke bombs and grenade launchers, they rushed to a place less than 300 meters in front of the independent regiment's position.
Since the independent regiment's position was already full of craters like craters, they relied on the cover of the craters and under the command of the officers, the Japanese soldiers leapt forward one by one.
Chains of fire continued to flash overhead, which was machine gun fire from the National Army positions ahead. The National Army soldiers on the positions did not expect that the Japanese troops who had lost the cover of artillery fire would still be like this under such fierce light weapons fire.
crazy.
"Fight, fight quickly!"
Seeing that the Japanese troops were almost rushing in front of them, the officers almost went crazy, kicking and beating the soldiers in the trenches roughly and wildly.
A storm of bullets knocked down piles of Japanese soldiers in front of their positions. The light and heavy machine guns were already firing at full speed, and grenades fell one after another and exploded among the Japanese troops.
Although there were heavy casualties, groups of Japanese soldiers still shouted the slogan "Half a Moment!" and used grenades and light machine guns to forcibly clear the way. When they rushed to a hundred meters, the Japanese soldiers all raised their bayonets and charged forward arbitrarily.
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Seeing how crazy the Japanese army was, the soldiers of the three companies on the position were also a little shaken, and there were even signs of desertion on the position of the first company.
"Brothers, Commander Su said, those who advance will be rewarded, and those who retreat will be killed! As long as you can hold the position, each living brother and commander will be rewarded with twenty oceans, and the dead officer will send the ocean to your home. I will never break my promise!"
On the third company position where the battle was fiercest, Wang Dashan was holding an M1911A1 Browning pistol and loudly encouraging the period in a hoarse voice.
Even so, due to the crazy attack of the Japanese army, the third company has suffered half casualties, with less than 60 people alive, and there are still faint signs of collapse on the position.
"ah!"
Finally a soldier dropped his rifle and shouted loudly.
"I won't fight anymore, I want to go home!"
The soldier dropped his gun, turned around and ran back.
"You bastard, you dare to run away from the battlefield!"
Wang Dashan also got red-eyed, raised his gun and was about to execute him on the spot.
Suddenly, a "bang bang" gunshot sounded, and the deserter fell to the ground without saying a word.
Then, a voice sounded from behind.
"Hold it all to me, no one is allowed to retreat. Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed without mercy!"
When Wang Dashan took a look, it turned out that it was an emergency and Su Rui had rushed over. He kept firing forward with his submachine gun. Behind him were more than a hundred soldiers from the guard company.
"Sir, why are you here?" Wang Dashan was surprised when he saw Su Rui arriving.
"Nonsense, if I don't come here, can you hold your position?"
Suri cursed angrily and loudly while marveling at the madness of the Japanese army.
In the previous Battle of Songhu and the ensuing rout, the performance of the Chinese army had been poor until the start of the Battle of Nanjing. In addition, the individual combat capability of the Japanese army was far stronger than that of the Chinese soldiers. More importantly, the Japanese army occupied the camp at this time.
For most of Nanjing, eliminating the last Chinese defenders and letting the "Hinomaru" flag fly over the Chinese capital has become the only crazy idea of the Japanese officers and soldiers. Therefore, it is not surprising that the Japanese are crazy at this time.
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