The gun barrel fell from an altitude of 30 meters and fell into the shell crater without any bias. After the mass of hundreds of kilograms, and the acceleration of gravity, it smashed the head of Kikumaru, who had no time to react, to the head of the seriously injured sergeant.
At the same time, half of his body was smashed into a pulp.
Kikumaru was seriously injured and no longer had to worry about his colleagues coming to collect his body parts, because there was no way to clean it up.
This is just a small microcosm of the entire battlefield.
However, this was also the terrible situation faced by the Japanese troops on the entire frontal battlefield. Dozens of light and heavy machine guns suppressed them to the ground, making it difficult to get up. There was no need to deliberately aim the dozens of mortars. Hundreds of Japanese troops
Distributed on this not-so-large position of only tens of thousands of square meters, every shell fired would more or less take away the lives of one or two Japanese soldiers.
As long as the Chinese defenders of Sihang Warehouse are given enough time, it is absolutely possible not to mention the total annihilation of these Japanese troops, but also to severely damage them.
The so-called feint attack by the Japanese troops on both wings had long been withdrawn. At the moment when more than a dozen mortars at Sihang Warehouse began roaring, the two infantry squadrons responsible for the feint attack on both wings barely waited for the command to withdraw their troops, as if they had met
Like wolves and rabbits, they burrowed into the building one after another and were no longer seen. They were not stupid. Anyone caught and blown up by the terrifyingly powerful mortars would be stupid. As a feint attack, it was better not to die stupidly.
Colonel Wakiitajiro felt pain not only in his balls this time, but also in his liver, kidneys, and internal organs. He didn’t expect that he had just drifted a little, and before he had drifted very high, he would be treated so mercilessly by the Chinese.
It was pressed to the mud. The weak cover of six infantry cannons and ten heavy machine guns was almost useless to the Chinese in the building. They unscrupulously exposed their sharpest fangs and bit the position.
The Imperial Army is helpless. If this continues, it won't be long before the three infantry squadrons that have just been replenished with new recruits can be reduced to one.
Finally, after watching helplessly the third tank being chased by two machine guns and driven out of the dilapidated building, like a bereaved dog, it even ran backwards towards the Chinese position with its weakest "buttocks",
Then, the Chinese machine guns ruthlessly broke through the tail armor, smashed the engine, and then became a torch on the battlefield. The four tank riders who jumped out of the vehicle were torn apart by several machine guns with crazy bullets near the tank.
After the fragments were broken, Wakiitajiro ordered with red eyes: "Order, cannon fire, order, mountain cannon cover the roof."
"Your Excellency, Captain..." Takeo Kitajima really wanted to stop this obviously crazy boss. Such an operation might send more imperial warriors to see Amaterasu.
Moreover, it is their own cannonball.
However, looking at the army commander with blood-red eyes, Takeo Kitajima swallowed the persuasion very rationally.
It later proved that this almost crazy order from the Japanese Army Colonel was actually the most correct decision that could be made at the time.
When the Japanese army's four mountain guns and two cannons suddenly roared and rained bullets on the Sihang Warehouse, the Chinese defenders, who also did not expect the Japanese army to be so crazy, had to suspend shooting and all fire points were temporarily hidden.
In addition to the fact that the wall can slightly block the terrifying shells of the 120 cannon, those sandbags that can withstand heavy machine gun bullets are not much stronger than paper in front of the cannon shells. Even if they just rub against one side, the terrifying shock wave of the cannon shells can easily
to destroy a firepower point.
The Chinese defenders stopped firing, so the Japanese infantry could naturally retreat. The one who ran back quickly was said to be faster.
Some people will say, isn’t the Japanese army’s tactics very good? Why not rush forward while your own artillery fire suppresses the opponent? Maybe you can break the position in one fell swoop! In this regard, the real battlefield can only tell you, you think too much
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The Japanese infantry retreated frantically not only because they were afraid of the machine guns that the Chinese defenders were likely to fire again, but because they were also afraid of dying under their own artillery shells.
Artillery shells don't have eyes. They don't have the ability to land all of them on the target of the Sixing Warehouse Building. In order to avoid accidentally hitting the concession, the cannon's muzzle is adjusted very low, including the direct-aiming cannon.
It is completely in a flat shooting state, which ensures that even if it misses the Sihang Warehouse, it will basically hit the land in front of the Sihang Warehouse.
It would have been nothing ten minutes ago, but now, the distance of 200 meters is full of Japanese infantry. If the cannon is slightly deflected, it will all hit our own people. This is no longer what we imagined, one
The cannon shell plunged hard into a raised ruin. The explosion from a distance directly exploded the ruins and formed a crater with a diameter of two meters.
At the same time, the lives of more than a dozen Japanese infantry were taken away. The Japanese troops within a radius of fifty meters were lifted high in such a terrible shock wave. It was not the free fall of seven or eight meters that killed them, but the
When the shock wave sent them high into the sky, their internal organs had been shattered, and even gods could not save them.
75mm mountain artillery shells also landed in the open space outside the warehouse and exploded into a sea of flames, taking away the lives of many Japanese infantry who could not escape.
However, generally speaking, the Japanese artillery was quite accurate. Most of the shells hit the target. In addition, the Japanese infantry escaped very quickly, and only fifty or sixty people were killed in their own artillery fire. However,
This time, the Japanese army suffered almost no injuries except for the dead.
Because almost all the wounded were sent to see Amaterasu by their own artillery before they had time to evacuate.
Even the last remaining 89 tank was the same. They shamelessly hid on the first floor of that relatively solid building and were unable to get out. Finally, when their own artillery fire began to suppress it, they ran out excitedly and started using their
A small 57mm cannon fired at the building, which was also a way to express the resentment that had been held in for a long time.
Compared to the infantry who run very fast with oil on their soles, the artillery fire in the sky is not scary to the armored soldiers. The armor of more than 12 mm gives the remaining tank drivers the confidence that as long as they are not hit head-on by 75mm mountain cannon shells, they will be fine.
.And the chance of a small howitzer shell hitting the target will never exceed your chance of shooting into the sky and knocking down a person 1,500 meters away.
However, these four unlucky guys obviously forgot that they also had two more terrifying heavy cannons roaring. The 120 cannon with its barrel almost straight at 3,500 meters away was actually an enlarged version of the machine gun, and its ballistic trajectory was almost flat.
The straight, thick warhead carries a muzzle velocity of 800 meters/second and generates huge kinetic energy, destroying everything in the straight line.
However, these four unlucky guys were so excited that they drove a tank right on this trajectory. So, just after they fired two rounds to show the bravery of the Imperial Japanese Armored Forces, a sudden cannon shell hit them hard.
It crashed into the side and rear of the tank.
When hit by a 20mm cannon, the 89 tank's armor was penetrated and a large hole appeared. But what if it was hit by a 120mm cannon? What would happen?
The four unlucky guys told everyone with reality that they were really vulnerable.
When the cannon was originally designed, it was used to destroy solid fortifications and armored targets. The 120mm cannon, let alone the 12mm armor, could be equipped with an armor-piercing warhead with tungsten steel within a distance of 1,000 meters. It would be the future tiger of the Third Reich.
The 100mm frontal armor of the Japanese tank can also be penetrated with one hit.
Although the two 120mm cannons of the Japanese army are now 3,000 meters away in order to prevent sneak attacks by the Chinese defenders' mortars, it is more difficult to penetrate this scum tank with a mere 12 mm thick armor than a bullet penetrating a white sheet.
Paper is easier.
After the artillery shell penetrated the tank armor, it exploded inside the tank. The entire turret was blown away more than ten meters, and then the terrible ammunition exploded. The entire tank was almost split in half with one cannon, and it became the brightest thing on the battlefield.
candle.
Although the fierce artillery fire accidentally injured many of our own troops, after the investigation of the battle by the Ninth Division, it was tragically discovered that if Colonel Jiro Wakiita had not given such a decisive order, their casualties in this battle would have been doubled.
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However, even so, the 36th Infantry Regiment killed as many as 146 soldiers and the last four tanks of the tank squadron in this anticlimactic attack. The tank squadron assigned to them by the division only had 2 Xiaodings left.
, and the person with the highest military rank is only Commander Cao. The 89 tank of the tank squadron is worthy of the name of the iron coffin. As long as it is hit, almost none of the crew members inside can escape successfully, and all of them die in battle.
There are still more than 40 people missing. They were either blown into ashes by artillery shells, or were left on the battlefield before retreating to their own positions. If nothing else happens, it can basically be determined that they were killed in action.
After this battle, Wakiitajiro became completely honest.
The concessions expressed their wishes through the Japanese Army Shanghai Dispatch Force Headquarters. They would definitely persuade the Chinese troops to withdraw from the Sihang Warehouse that night, but the Japanese troops were not allowed to attack or use heavy artillery.
Wakibajiro, who was no longer in a mood, accepted the proposal of the Westerners he hated so much without any hesitation. At the moment when he withdrew his troops, he had already decided to follow the previous strategy and send away the "gods of plague" on the opposite side.
At least don't compete with them in Sihang Warehouse. Those "plague gods" have directly killed one of his infantry brigade in these four days of fighting. If they continue like this, he will probably become the laughing stock of the entire Ninth Division.
Already.
Throughout the afternoon, there was no more cannon fire in the Sihang Warehouse. Only sporadic gunfire rang out occasionally on the battlefield.
Just because the Japanese don't want to fight doesn't mean that the Chinese defenders have also stopped fighting. Their battle is not over yet! As long as there are still little Japs.
The Chinese infantry led by Zeng Shui hid behind the shooting holes and sandbags. In the ruins of the hunt, more than two dozen Japanese infantrymen had not had time to escape, either because they were injured or because they were frightened by the gunfire.
Deep in the ruins, I waited until the gunfire died down before trying to run away, but I was targeted by Chinese gunmen again.
Once, a group of infantrymen led by Shui were like hunters who had broken into a hunting ground. They waited patiently for these frightened prey to reveal themselves, and then shot them one by one until nightfall.
In the end, only three of them escaped back to their own position under the cover of darkness, and the rest were mercilessly shot to death in the ruins.
Colonel Wakiitajiro's judgment was very accurate. He was basically judged to have been killed in action, and he only missed three places.
As night fell, the Japanese army breathed a sigh of relief, but the Chinese defenders at Sihang Warehouse welcomed their immediate superiors.
The major general chief of staff of the 88th Division took advantage of the darkness and, escorted by two guards, swam across the Suzhou River in person and came to the warehouse.