Chapter 1376 The defense can also take the initiative to attack
More than 40 carefully selected elite Japanese infantrymen who were willing to put their lives and deaths in order to serve the Empire and the Emperor set off a "thunder-shaking" fireworks in front of the Sihang Warehouse building. The two Japanese commanders felt as if they were mourning their concubines.
He ordered four tanks deployed 800 meters away to hide behind bunkers and launched a retaliatory shelling of the Sihang Warehouse under the illumination of several searchlights.
Only a distance of 800 meters can ensure that they will not be counterattacked by the Chinese's terrifying machine guns, and even if it is a retaliatory bombardment, the Japanese tank crews are very cautious, although the Sixings Warehouse's 60-meter-long building and more than 20-meter-high building are enough
It was guaranteed that the tank crew would not be stupid enough to miss the target, but as long as a shell missed the building and hit the concession, the tank crew and the commanders, Colonel Jiro Wakiba and Lieutenant Colonel Takeo Kitajima, would have to go to court-martial collectively.
Of course, this was just to vent the resentment in the hearts of the Japanese soldiers. In fact, it was of little use to the Chinese defenders. The defenders did not even bother to fight back. They just waited for a long time to see that the Japanese were still harassing people for no reason.
Meng set up a machine gun and fired two shells at the searchlight 400 meters away, knocking out several large light bulbs. The Sihang Warehouse fell into darkness again, and the Japanese tanks took the initiative to stop this meaningless bombardment.
However, this night was not the end of Wakitajiro silently reciting "Haga!" thousands of times in his heart.
From the time the Japanese army dispatched a suicide squad to the Sihang Warehouse at 1 a.m. to the time when all the Japanese searchlights were knocked out and the Japanese tanks stopped shelling, only 40 minutes had passed. Throughout the entire World War II, whether on the Chinese battlefield or in
In the Pacific battlefield, the Japanese army was actually not good at night fighting.
Especially on the Chinese battlefield, the Japanese army has become accustomed to the battle mode of using artillery to blast the machine gun, and then the machine gun to sweep the infantry. If the infantry cannot advance, they will continue to bombard with artillery. A considerable part of their strong combat effectiveness is based on their equipment advantages.
For example, in the Battle of Songhu, if the Japanese army had not participated in the battle with more than 30 battleships, huge naval guns, and complete control of the air, they would have been helpless against the hundreds of thousands of national troops on the Songhu front line.
Even so, the Japanese army had suffered more than 30,000 casualties before November. For a time, they did not even prepare enough urns to transport ashes, and had to urgently transport them from the mainland.
Seeing that the clever plan that had taken the whole afternoon and half the night was just a fireworks display in front of the Chinese people, not to mention the low morale of the ordinary Japanese soldiers, even the junior officers like Jiro Wakiita were dejected and had no choice but to call it quits.
Stop fighting.
Sleep is the best healing medicine, doesn’t it say it in the books? Tomorrow will be better. What if after a good sleep, the Chinese people are not so stubborn and sneak away under the cover of night?
Not to mention that only the Chinese have the spirit of Ah Q. The Japanese, who were severely beaten several times, are actually not weak in this regard. They did not even set up searchlights, but built field trenches and erected them six or seven hundred meters away from the Chinese building.
Barbed wire and bonfires were set up to surround the building on three sides. The entire Sihang Warehouse was surrounded by darkness. If Xie Jinyuan really wanted to retreat, it would not be difficult to take advantage of the night and cross the Suzhou River opposite the Sihang Warehouse.
The bridge can be withdrawn to the concession.
Of course, the premise is that the government must negotiate with the concession before accepting them.
However, judging from the fact that the Japanese army did not completely block the retreat of the Sihang Warehouse defenders, Jiro Wakiba, who was almost crying after being beaten, said: Okay, you have beaten me like this, what else do you want? You got an advantage.
Just leave as soon as possible! I mean.
After all, Yang Huimin, the famous Girl Scout, swam across the Suzhou River and arrived at the north of Sihang Warehouse, carrying the blue sky and white sun flag, as she had in time and space, and was successfully taken into the warehouse by ropes by the defenders.
When this brave woman was received by Xie Jinyuan, she also asked for the list of all the defenders, hoping that the names of the defenders would be announced to the whole country. She believed that everyone here was a warrior of the country and a hero of the people.
Just like in the past, Xie Jinyuan told a lie that was not too big or too small. The total number of people under his command including Chen Yunfa, which was only 430, was multiplied by 2 to 860.
That's the strength of 6 infantry companies
Of course, Xie Jinyuan said this because he did not want to disappoint this brave girl. Songhu's hundreds of thousands of soldiers were able to hold on to the last position in Shanghai's urban area with only half an infantry battalion. It would be a joke to say so;
Secondly, I did not want the headquarters to find out and blame the officers of the 88th Division. You must know that the military order arriving at the division headquarters was to leave a regiment of 542. In order to leave some seeds for this main group, several generals took great risks.
Only after taking great risks did he agree to Xie Jinyuan's request, and he personally led the first battalion of the main force to garrison the Sihang Warehouse; thirdly, it was to confuse the Japanese army.
It is estimated that when the Japanese army hears that six infantry companies of elite Chinese troops are hidden in this strong fortress at dawn tomorrow, their balls will become swollen.
Yang Huimin excitedly took Yun Biao, deputy commander of the regiment, to sneak out of Sihang Warehouse again and swam back to the concession along the Suzhou River using the virtual list of "Eight Hundred Warriors" created by the original 542 regiment list. However, Chen Yunfa, Zeng Shui and others also quietly sneaked out of Sihang.
The warehouse blended into the darkness.
Sihang Warehouse is the main defense, and the 36th Regiment is the main attack, but it has never been said that the strategic initiative must be in the hands of the attacker, and Chen Yunfa's special operations team is the sharpest arrow shot by Sihang Warehouse in the dark.
Once it was ejected, the Japanese soldiers shed tears of pain.
It was the darkest time before dawn. After being beaten for a day, their morale was extremely low. Not to mention that they had been struggling for most of the night. The Japanese soldiers had already fallen asleep. Even the sentries were still standing in front of a warm bonfire.
Want to sleep.
Because of the threat of mortars, the poor Japanese soldiers now don't even dare to light bonfires. They mainly light them behind the ruined walls, and they must also pay attention to the firelight so that it is not discovered by the Chinese in the building. Even the purpose of the bonfire is not to
It was used to keep warm, but mainly to provide light for the sentries to be alert. If the Chinese saw them and threw a bunch of mortar shells around the campfire, it would be an ugly death.
Even the stupidest Japanese soldiers quietly hid thirty or forty meters away, wrapped in simple raincloths, and fell asleep in the cold trenches. It was better to be colder than to be killed by shells falling from the sky in their sleep.
The Japanese army was actually very vigilant. They set up special barbed wire fences and warning bells more than 40 meters in front of the trenches, and sent two sentries every 40 meters. As for Wakibajiro, he really had no
Look down on the Chinese.
It may be difficult for the 36th Infantry Regiment, which still has nearly 1,800 troops, to attack the Sihang Warehouse, which is armed to the teeth, but if anyone wants to stroke his tiger's beard and attack them at night, they will have to pay a huge price. With their current strength,
Not to mention that there are no more than a thousand defenders in the Sihang Warehouse. Even if there are 3,000 people from the National Army's standard regiment, they are fully capable of defeating them.
With such great strength, he can still be so cautious. It can be said that Wakiitajiro is a fully qualified Captain of the Osaka Alliance.
However, he did not expect that the Chinese did not send out large-scale troops for a sneak attack, but instead sent special forces whose combat power was ahead of all soldiers of this era. This kind of training of using darkness to sneak attack on the enemy was not known to the special forces as early as the Guangyuan period.
How many times has Langtanza been forced to come?
First, they were sneak-attacked by Lang Tuanzuo who often stayed up late at night and came to have fun with them from time to time. Either the scary Demon King Liu put a wriggling maggot on someone's shoes, or someone's pillow was quietly covered with maggots mixed with dust.
Baba covers up the smell. Anyway, when you wake up in the morning and turn your head or put your feet in your shoes, the nausea will be gone.
However, nausea alone is not the end of a successful sneak attack by Langdanza. A small team will be punished by squeezing the toilet for a week for the entire special operations team.
Anyway, if you don't want to work, you have to be on guard at all times from the unscheduled sneak attacks of the Bull Demon King, the most terrifying individual soldier of the Independent Regiment. When one day finally comes, these special forces can't wait to sleep with their eyes open and are on alert all the time.
It was their turn to sneak attack other infantry battalions.
According to Lang Tuanzao's disgusting method of opening the door to nausea ----- the nausea is so great, the special forces have a successful sneak attack, and everyone is given a meal, while the entire infantry battalion cannot eat meat for five days. Of course the special forces
There are also times when you miss, and of course the two parties will not fight for their lives if caught, but a good beating is unavoidable.
The special forces are not gods. They can't beat four punches with both hands. Hundreds of young men coaxed their eyes and breathed heavily before clenching their fists. Even a soldier like Chen Yunfa had to kneel down. I guess it was just like the Bull Demon King yelling "
"I am the leader" might work better, but that's not certain.
During a date with Lieutenant Colonel Ji, Liu Tuanzuo was in the mood and started bragging about going to the special operations brigade to cause some trouble for them. Zeng Shui, who was looking for a comet girl but was disappointed that he didn't see her, overheard him. That's not all.
Jogging all the way back to report the news?
Good guy, the entire special operations team, numbering over 60 people, was hiding in bed with their eyes open, waiting for a certain group to fall into the trap. They knew that the Bull Demon King's hearing and sense of danger were too strong, and they would be killed by the Bull Demon King if they were not careful.
He ran away. As expected, Lang Pang was not a god either. Under the joint attack of the special forces, he suffered an unprecedented defeat. While he was entangled by a team of seven special forces, the remaining fifty or so bravely surrounded him.
Langdanzao, who couldn't do anything and couldn't get away, could only helplessly yell "I am Liu Lang". However, it was not easy to catch the biggest mastermind who liked to play "Xiang". The special forces still swarmed up and fought in a melee for more than a minute.
Then they all retreated.
The next day, Lang Tuanzuo's face was not dark, but the circles under his eyes were. The man who was known as one of the top five melee fighters in the independent group punched him with a punch that was only two hundred kilograms strong...
Anyway, for a full year, the infantry and the special forces competed with each other in various ways to steal and defend in order to eat meat. However, during this competition, both sides made qualitative improvements in sneak attacks and counter-sneak attacks at night.
In the end, by applying this experience to actual combat in Northeast China, the special forces achieved great success. During the day, they may just be more accurate with their marksmanship, better at fighting, carry more stuff on their backs, and run faster than ordinary soldiers.
They are elite warriors. But at night, they are outright gods of death.
With more than three years of special training and more than two years of actual combat experience, even if they were placed 80 years in the future, they would still be considered the most elite special warriors.
They will use the cover of night to approach you quietly, and at the moment of your negligence, they can send you to the Lord of Hell.
This level of vigilance by the Japanese army was too scumbag for them.