The Japanese have already pressed heavily on the front line of Mahuiling. The frontline troops have exchanged fire with the Japanese across the entire front. The guns are booming and the smoke is covering the sky. This Japanese attack is extremely determined.
The Japanese wanted to take over Wuhan with a thunderous force and force China to surrender. However, from the beginning of the battle, they encountered tenacious resistance from nearly a million Chinese troops on the northern and southern fronts.
Only in the area south of the Yangtze River, the 106th, 101st, 9th, 6th, and 27th divisions commanded by the commander of the 11th Army, Okamura Neiji, although they had large forces, were advancing slowly on all fronts.
Matsuura Junrokuro's 106th Division collapsed on the Nanxun Line and lost more than 8,000 people. The 101st Division has always been difficult to advance on the Dexing Highway. The 6th Brigade, which is affiliated with the 9th Division, has lost more than 8,000 troops in the Minshan area.
They were almost wiped out.
The unsatisfactory war not only made Commander Okamura Neiji increasingly irritable and impatient, but the questions from the base camp made Commander Okamura Neiji feel like he was being roasted on the fire. He knew that if the war situation on the front line
If there is no improvement, then his position as commander may come to an end.
The original intention of the base camp in formulating the Wuhan attack plan was to capture Wuhan with crushing force and force China to surrender, but now it has turned into a war of attrition and protracted war.
On the swampy battlefield, there are countless soldiers casualties every day, and the consumption of materials, weapons and ammunition is astronomical. With their local material reserves, if the war continues to reach a stalemate, the situation will worsen, which they do not want to see.
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"Each division should organize a powerful offensive to improve the current unfavorable situation..."
"If the situation cannot be opened up in mid-September, the commanders of each division should be responsible for this..."
Commander Okamura Neiji sent several harsh telegrams to the front divisions, and the division commanders also felt the commander's serious dissatisfaction.
Since their troops entered the Chinese battlefield, they have achieved almost crushing victory. They defeated the Chinese army in every battle and occupied most of China in a short period of time.
Now they encountered an unprecedented stubborn resistance, which made the proud and arrogant Japanese division commanders feel angry. Facing pressure from their commanders, they had no choice but to attack the Chinese army with all their might.
Okamura Neiji transferred the pressure to the division commanders on the front line, and the division commanders in turn transferred the pressure to the brigades and regiments. The pressure was pushed down layer by layer, so that every Japanese soldier felt the pressure.
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If they cannot defeat the Chinese army in front of them in a short time and change the current unfavorable situation, they may have no choice but to commit suicide by disembowelling themselves to apologize.
Faced with the dissatisfaction of the base camp, every regiment and brigade of the Japanese organized a jade-breaking death squad. They were shirtless and strapped with explosive packets and grenades, and launched waves of desperate attacks on the Chinese garrison positions.
Whether in the Tianjia Town Fortress, Ruiwu Road, or the Mahuiling area, the pressure on all Chinese garrison forces suddenly increased.
The brother troops on the front line suffered heavy casualties. Hundreds of wounded soldiers were snatched from the front line of fire every day. Those wounded soldiers were covered in blood, their faces were pale, and they were dying.
Many wounded soldiers had their arms and legs broken by the Japanese's heavy artillery bombardment. They were carried down and passed by the camp where the resting troops were stationed. Their cries of pain made the atmosphere of the troops training at the rear become tense.
Yang Ling's troops had just withdrawn from the Minshan front line and were resting and waiting in the Wushimen area, which was not far from the Mahuiling front line.
The tragic conditions on the front line also made them feel the pressure. They knew that once the front line troops could not bear it, they would have to attack immediately.
But now that the army is full of new recruits, can they bear it? The answer is of course no.
The Japanese have gone crazy now, not to mention that they are all field troops with combat experience. I am afraid that these new recruits will only be used as cannon fodder.
As the temporary commander of the regiment, Yang Ling naturally did not want these new recruits to sacrifice in vain. Although fighting requires death, on the battlefield of protecting the family and the country, the sacrifice must be worthwhile.
Those veteran officers who survived the death gate have seen too many brothers sacrificed at the gunpoint of the Japanese, and they do not want these new recruits to follow in the footsteps of those sacrificed brothers.
But I hope they can improve their strength as much as possible before going to the battlefield, and then survive on the battlefield.
In the village where Wushimen is temporarily stationed, the veterans are serious about their words. They train the new recruits with sullen faces and madness all day long, practicing shooting, assassination, and bombing.
These grassroots officers, composed of veterans, have seen too much bloodshed and sacrifice, and know that on the battlefield, any negligence or hesitation may lead to death, so they repeatedly train the new recruits without any fancy things.
I hope they will integrate every killing action into their bones and be able to react subconsciously when facing the Japanese instead of being killed by the Japanese slowly.
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"receive!"
The company and platoon officers shouted over and over with dark faces, their voices becoming hoarse.
The dirty recruits clutched their bayonet-mounted rifles tightly with their hands, following the slogans and constantly stabbing the scarecrow in front of them. They had practiced hundreds of times, and their hands were already sore.
"Didn't you eat? Try harder! If you were on the battlefield, you would have died!"
The veteran instructors shouted back and forth in the queue, correcting the new recruits' assassination movements.
"On a life-and-death battlefield, the enemy will not give you a chance to stab him a second time! You must be steady and ruthless! Kill the enemy with one strike, otherwise he will be killed by the enemy!"
The veteran instructors have all had the experience of hand-to-hand combat with the Japs no less than four or five times, and their ferocity and fierceness are still fresh in their memories.
Many of their brothers died under the Japs' swords because they hesitated a little or were not strong enough when stabbing. They did not want these recruits to also die under the Japs' bayonets. At this moment, they could not wait to leave everything to the recruits.
But the new recruits have never been on the battlefield, and they don't understand the good intentions of the veterans. When they first assassinated a hundred times, they still felt fresh, but when they assassinated two hundred times, their enthusiasm had disappeared without a trace.
What remains is boring.
However, the veteran instructors had no intention of stopping and asked them to practice repeatedly, hoping to carve every move into their bones.
"Harder! Harder! Are you deaf?!"
Seeing that the recruits began to slack off and did not train as hard as they did at the beginning, the veterans were very angry and angry. They rushed up and shouted: "Get over here, fifty push-ups! Now, go right away!"
The recruits had been tortured by the veterans' almost cruel training in the past few days. Their hearts were already filled with fire. Faced with the veterans' rough punishment methods, their dissatisfaction erupted, as unstoppable as a volcano.
"We go to the battlefield to fight the Japanese. We have guns and bullets. Why do we have to practice this useless bayonet every day! I won't practice anymore!"
A burly recruit did not accept the punishment as ordered by the veteran, but loudly shouted his dissatisfaction.
"Yes! We are soldiers to fight the Japanese! We are not here to be bullied by you all day long!"
The emotions of the recruits were detonated. They threw away their guns one after another and vented their emotions unscrupulously.
"We are going to fight the Japanese! We don't need this useless training!"