Wakibajiro, who was a little distracted, did not underestimate the Chinese defenders in terms of tactics.
After being beaten for two consecutive days and still looking down on your opponent, that's what only a fool would do.
The two 120-meter heavy artillery fired more than 120 shells, bombarding the entire front of the Sihang Warehouse into a mess. There was even a wall that was completely shattered after five consecutive frontal hits, revealing the dilapidated houses inside.
Of course, the Japanese artillerymen were still very restrained and did not go so far as to bombard targets above the fourth floor, which would easily miss the target. Despite Jiro Wakiba's somewhat hysterical orders for heavy artillery to bombard the concession, he was still afraid of making a mistake.
When bombing the concession, the impact point of the cannon was always kept on the first and second floors of the Sihang Warehouse, so as to ensure that the shells did not fly to the concession. However, Wakibajiro may also have ambitions to blow up its foundation and cause the warehouse building to collapse.
But this is obviously impossible. Although the Sihang Warehouse is not the frame structure of the future, it is impossible to even think about destroying a few walls to collapse a bank vault with an extremely strong structure. Unless it is
It is still possible to break all dozens of load-bearing beams and columns.
The Japanese army's infantry and artillery coordination was top-notch in this era. It was not until the Japanese infantry advanced to 300 meters under the cover of the last four tanks of the 36th Infantry Regiment that the two cannons stopped shelling in order to avoid accidentally injuring friendly troops.
It was the 57mm tank guns of four 89 tanks and the last six infantry guns and twelve heavy machine guns of the Wakiba Jiro mobilization regiment that continued to suppress fire on the front of the building.
Grenades are naturally indispensable. The Japanese army actually gathered more than 20 grenades 450 meters away to suppress fire on the roof of the building. The ten mortars exposed by the Chinese defenders were too powerful. If
Putting it on the roof of a building to bombard infantry is a complete nightmare for infantry.
It can be said that this is the strongest strength that Jiro Wakiba can bring out. If placed on a field battlefield, this intensity of firepower would have no problem against an ordinary Chinese infantry brigade, or even a miscellaneous division.
He has a lot of heavy firepower now.
However, what is in the Sihang Warehouse Building is not an ordinary infantry brigade or a miscellaneous division, but an infantry battalion of China's most elite German weapons division. To be more precise, it is at least doubled with heavy firepower.
Infantry battalion.
After the Japanese cannons stopped firing, and following the order from Lei Xiong, who was in charge of the front defense of the building, the six machine guns were moved to the window sandbag fortifications on the third and fourth floors by six machine gun shooter teams, a total of twelve heavy machine guns
Twenty light machine guns were densely distributed on the first and second floors, and the two infantry platoons were all equipped with submachine guns.
Of course, the most terrifying thing was the fourteen mortars. They were all placed on the front of the building. The mortar crews removed the sandbags blocking the windows to expose enough shooting angles for the mortars.
Even if it is not placed on the roof of the building, the wide windows can provide the mortar with a firing angle from 300 meters to 1800 meters.
Xie Jinyuan, who had expected that a retreat was inevitable, used all his resources this time, concentrating 80% of the heavy firepower of the machine gun company on the front of the building, and also deployed five infantry companies from each of the two flanks.
The light machine gun team arrived at the front. Even though the infantry was only an infantry company, the number of troops was not large. But in terms of firepower, just the front of the building was almost as good as an infantry regiment of a German weapons division. It even had mortars.
Much stronger.
Wakiitajiro, it would be really strange if he didn't cry after being beaten this time.
When the Japanese troops arrived about 230 meters away from the warehouse, they had not even waited for a single shot from the Chinese. The Japanese troops with high morale became a little uneasy. Although the 120 cannons were powerful, they also knew that shelling alone was not enough.
Let the group of Chinese people on the opposite side, who are as stubborn as stones, surrender. Why don't Mao and the others still shoot and let them move forward? Is there any conspiracy?
Not to mention the group of infantry who have stretched the skirmish line to at least ten meters, even the tank crews are afraid. Could it be that the Chinese's terrible machine guns were destroyed by the cannons of the great artillery of the empire?
Wakitajiro's little heart was slightly heavy as it almost floated to the top of his head. He had already made a move, but why was the Mochina silent? Of course his little heart was a little tight. This time, he concentrated a full 600
Infantry and four tanks, that's one-third of his current strength! If something goes wrong again, this colonel will no longer be able to serve.
Even at this moment when the two Japanese military officers were suffocating, the Japanese army commander still had a little regret in his heart. What could he do? Why not just wait for the success of the strategy? Tomorrow, we can occupy the Chinese position without a fight.
Already.
There is a saying among Chinese people: There is a way to win without a move. It does not mean that you can win the fight wherever you stand and let others beat you. It means that your opponent will jump up and down in front of you and keep testing, but you are the hand.
Looking into my sleeves...
Opponent, you are so panicked! What are you hiding in your sleeve? You don’t have a knife hidden in your sleeve! What about the melee fight you agreed on? You must abide by the rules!
However, they were all wrong. The Chinese defenders' Mao Xian conspiracy had no real plan.
However, they also need to prepare! Do you think the Japanese cannons are useless? If there were still people hiding in the room whose walls were blown down by them, they would have been torn to pieces by the terrible shock wave. Except for a few observation posts
, all people and equipment were ordered to hide further inside the building. It was not until the cannons stopped firing that they re-entered the first row of rooms carrying heavy equipment.
The Japanese army is preparing to attack, but they have nothing to say, they just defend. There is no way to win without any tricks, just fight hard. This time, Xie Jinyuan's order is, there is no need to save ammunition, just shoot as much as you have, even if it is empty.
No matter what.
If the Japanese army and the Chinese defenders were two dueling martial arts masters, then when the Japanese tank entered the 200-meter range, the Japanese army, a martial arts master, seemed to see a sword explosion in front of their eyes, so bright that it could almost blind people.
Gorgeous, this was the only adjective that came to Captain Yamajiki's mind at that time.
It was as brilliant as fireworks that suddenly exploded all over the sky in the dark night, burning the eyes of Colonel Itajiro who was still behind the telescope in the command post 800 meters away.
At that moment, six machine guns, twelve heavy machine guns, twenty light machine guns and more than 70 submachine guns started shooting wildly in front of the building. The flames from the muzzles of the guns flashed like a stick from a distance.
A torch is generally dazzling.
The flames from the muzzle were only dazzling, but both Wakiitajiro and the Japanese army knew that the bullets spit out by this terrible eye-burning flame were deadly.
That was really life-threatening. Yamaji Kiichi was sure that he had never encountered such a density of bullet fire, not even in the brutal landing battle. On a battlefield that was only 200 meters wide, the Chinese
They even frantically concentrated dozens of machine guns.
No, there are still an unknown number of mortars.
Yamajiki, who was extremely agile, dived into the ruins next to him and saw smoke rising from countless windows. Mortar shells visible to the naked eye hit the target 450 meters away at a speed of 200 meters per second.
The position where the grenadier soldiers were hiding.
The 81mm mortar shell weighs just over 3 kilograms. Regardless of the weight of the projectile itself, there is not much explosive.
The killing radius of 1 meter is simply incomparable.
When a mortar explodes, it never shakes the ground, and the sound is just "咻儿~~~~pop~~~~", which is typical battalion firepower.
However, when fourteen mortars fire at the same time, the bombing is still limited to a position of several hundred meters in radius?
That was terrible. In less than a minute, fourteen mortars poured more than 200 shells at the Japanese grenadier position. The thick smoke made the already stunned Wakiba Jiro and the front line try to hide themselves.
Captain Yamajiki, who wanted to burrow his head into the soil like an ostrich, understood that the grenadiers were doomed.
No one can survive such a terrible bombardment.
Wakiitajiro almost burst into tears.
23 grenades! Each infantry squadron only has 6 grenades. The grenadiers have suffered particularly heavy losses in the past two days. This time, he mobilized almost all the infantry squadrons to collect 23 grenades. Actually, there are only eight.
It doesn’t even last a minute and it’s over?
Not only did the Chinese have plenty of cannons, but they also had more special ones...
Not only are there more cannons, there are also more heavy machine guns.
"Baga! The entire army retreats." Looking at the terrifying firepower in the building that burned his eyes, Jiro Wakita did not persist this time and immediately issued the order to withdraw the troops.
Now it seems that it is better to sit back and wait for the occupation tomorrow! Today, let that person go! Jiro Wakibata, whose eyes were almost watering, was quite strong in his heart, and he quickly found a reason to comfort himself. If his heart was not strong, he would have been destroyed by China a long time ago.
He was so shocked that he committed suicide by caesarean section.
It can be said that the Japanese army commander has learned nothing in the past few days, but his psychology has been tempered and he can definitely withstand any blow.
But, who said that on the battlefield, people can come and leave as they please?
After the fourteen mortars attacked the Japanese grenade positions, they did not launch an attack on the concealed heavy machine gun positions and infantry artillery positions. Instead, some of them launched artillery attacks on the following wave of infantry.
It directly blew up an entire infantry squadron. Even if you wanted to run, you had to crawl back a little bit.
Wakiitajiro's heart skipped a beat. What were the Chinese trying to do? Use mortars to blow up the infantry? Why were at least six mortars not firing?
Soon, the six mortars that had been moved to the roof by the mortar team opened fire again, which relieved the Japanese Army Colonel's doubts.
Climbing in the ruins, you may be able to avoid the terrifying light and heavy machine gun bullets, but you absolutely cannot avoid the bombardment of mortar shells falling from the sky.