Yes, excluding the weakening of combat power caused by the indescribable and almost bizarre contradictions between the Japanese navy and army.
In fact, it is sacrifice and courage that dominate this bloody battlefield.
Naturally, the artillery of the 6th Division is not without. As the Japanese general commander complained, they have artillery, but it is definitely not heavy artillery. The Japanese general commander just wanted to protect the important artillery of the 114th Division under his command.
Find a reasonable excuse to kill and hurt, and take the opportunity to throw a shit basin at the navy's grandsons.
The Chinese were able to use "heavy artillery" to bombard our landing troops because your navy dispatched too few carrier-based aircraft. Not only the navy's Sun Tzu would use delaying tactics like delaying to deal with the country army, but the country army actually has the ability to frame the blame.
Not too small either.
What is the artillery support of the 6th Division?
In the 4th year of the Republic of China, the government established the Army Reorganization Office in Wuchang. Its artillery reorganization department unified the original artillery within its jurisdiction and the artillery imported in recent years into a reserve artillery force. But what was the result?
There are only 567 artillery pieces that can be used in field battles, of which 110 are too old and have been eliminated, leaving 456 pieces available. The combat troops include 1 mountain gun, 5 field guns, howitzers and 456 artillery pieces. This is the Central Government Office.
It is the entire property of the army.
Some people may not quite understand the meaning of 456 artillery pieces. If you compare the artillery equipment of a Japanese infantry division, you will know that a Japanese packhorse division is actually a mountain division, similar to the 8th Independent Regiment that it once faced.
Divisions, each packhorse division is equipped with an artillery regiment with 6 75mm Type 41 mountain guns, and each infantry regiment has 4 75mm Type 41 mountain cannons. The 70mm infantry guns are not counted. A packhorse division
It has 5 75mm mountain guns.
And a draft horse division, like the 0th Division, is even more terrifying. Its artillery wing is equipped with 6 75mm field guns and 1 105 howitzer, plus four directly under the four infantry wings.
There are 64 Menshan artillery pieces with a caliber of 75 mm or above. The Japanese army has 17 permanent divisions of this level.
This does not include those artillery brigades that formed an army alone. The 11 Japanese divisions that participated in the battle in Songhu were equipped with hundreds of artillery pieces. The number was much higher than that of the Central Army, the strongest force in China.
All artillery. In China, except for the old man in Shanxi who is still fighting against the Japanese Northern Expeditionary Force, which is equipped with hundreds of mountain guns with a caliber of 75 mm or above, the other warlords have very few artillery, almost negligible, with only 81 mm.
Mortars, even if they are well equipped.
The Chinese army's light weapons are not inferior to those of the Japanese invaders, but in terms of heavy weapons, they are far inferior. This is the main reason why one Japanese army division can often fight against 7 or even 8 infantry divisions of the Chinese army.
But it would not be wrong to say that the artillery of the Chinese army is completely rubbish. After all, the bald leader has some foresight. He must have been dumbfounded when the data from the Equipment Arrangement Office were reported. As a national leader, he has more than 400 artillery pieces under his command.
Even though he was going to compete with the eager Japanese, he was still a little behind compared to the old man from Shanxi who was working hard in farming in Jin Province and quietly accumulating cannons.
Smashing pots and selling iron, drinking porridge and turning into underpants, you also have to engage in cannons, right?
Since that time and the Third Reich were in the honeymoon period, the Third Reich needed China's precious mineral resources, and China needed heavy artillery, so the two sides naturally hit it off.
The government spent huge sums of money and even used mine mortgage loans to introduce the sFH-18 150mm howitzer manufactured by the Third Reich. This gun was burly, weighed 10 tons, and required special internal combustion vehicles to tow it. However, the maximum range of this gun exceeded
15 kilometers, and it has armor-piercing bombs, anti-explosive bombs, incendiary bombs, and smoke bombs. It is completely "crushing" against Japanese army artillery. It is also the only heavy equipment of Chinese artillery that can defeat Japanese artillery.
Of course, the Japanese Army also has its own heavy artillery. It is not the heavy naval gun on the ships of the navy. It is just because of limited funds and the inherent characteristics of its own nation. Their heavy artillery is also designed by artillery designers based on the national characteristics.
And out.
They use the Taisho 4-year-old 150mm field howitzer. The 4-year-old 150 heavy artillery produced by the Osaka Artillery Factory highlights the characteristics of "light and small" under the requirements of saving money and being suitable for the transport of mules and horses by the Japanese field troops.
Each structural component must be lightweight, weighing less than three tons, and can be pulled by mules and horses after disassembly.
Of course, the point of heavy artillery is not the word "heavy", but this thing is a bit similar to the cars of the future. Japanese cars are very economical and fuel-efficient, but they become very unstable at high speeds. If they hit it, they will probably fall apart like paper. Safety
In terms of performance, it is much worse than the heavier European and American cars. The same goes for this heavy gun. The gun does not have strong penetrating power and basically uses anti-personnel explosive shells. As the saying goes, "you get what you pay for", because of its small size
At its limit, the four-year-old with a very short barrel only has a range of 8,800 meters, which is not even as good as the range of the 105 howitzer.
In the words of Japanese artillery designers, the Chinese don’t even have guns above 75 mm. The Imperial Japanese Army is still afraid of their balls. Why is the range shorter?
Therefore, for the first time in a large-scale battle, the Imperial Japanese Army used the Taisho 4 150 field howitzer in actual combat. It was directly blinded by heavy artillery bombardment. In several tug-of-wars in Hongkou and Luodian, the Japanese Navy Shanghai
The Special Marine Artillery and the 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment of the Army Shanghai Dispatch Force were defeated by the 10th Artillery Regiment one after another. The only regret was that the Chinese army equipped with too few heavy artillery. The Japanese army was defeated except for 150 heavy artillery, but it had air superiority.
and sea control, the number of 150 howitzers was also much higher than that of the Chinese. In the end, relying on aircraft air strikes and wolf pack tactics of roaming gun positions, as well as numerical superiority, they finally seized the initiative on the battlefield.
However, after nearly three months of bloody battles in Songhu, the Chinese artillery also suffered heavy losses. Only two artillery brigades and four artillery regiments were left. However, the western front line of Shanghai wanted to block the attack of hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops.
Dozens of 150-meter heavy artillery are indispensable. It is impossible to transfer the Jinshan Guard from the front line to the Jinshan Guard, which is not yet a threat. No one, including the bald principal, would issue such a ridiculous order.
But in the past time and space, there was a mountain artillery company of the 10th Artillery Regiment stationed at Jinshan Guard. There was one mountain gun in each battalion and four in each company. It was these four Bofors mountain guns plus the original attachment of the 6th Division Headquarters.
A total of 6 Japanese-style 41-type mountain guns and a total of 10 75mm mountain guns formed all the heavy firepower support for the Jinshan Guards on the entire tidal flat.
Although the Bofors Mountain Artillery has few guns, its range is longer, up to 9 kilometers, and its accuracy is high enough. It has become the absolute backbone of the artillery support force. Moreover, the artillerymen who fought in the early Songhu War have long learned to be smart.
It never takes more than 10 minutes to fire artillery in one place. Each cannon fires more than a dozen shells at the target area that has been determined in advance. The cannon is then dismantled and carried by packhorses, and then the position is changed. The woods and empty houses become
Their best cover.
The Japanese navy carrier-based aircraft, which couldn't find any targets in the sky patrol, didn't have much patience to search for these flexible Chinese artillery pieces at low altitudes. If they couldn't find them, they dropped the bombs they carried on the Chinese army's forward positions. Anyway, there were bloody people on the beach.
It's not the noble Imperial Navy but the Red Deer Army.
Therefore, these Chinese mountain artillery, which are not large in number and have a small caliber, shed a lot of blood for the Japanese landing troops.
However, only ten mountain cannons were not enough to prevent tens of thousands of crazy Japanese troops from landing. The troops that really blocked the Japanese troops on the tidal flats and made it difficult for them to move forward were the Hunanese gangsters who regarded death as home.
If the infantry company on one position is completely destroyed, then move up to another infantry company, and then move up again.
Dai Flemere was only 500 meters away. He could only see the tenacious survival of the Chinese people on the opposite side under the terrible artillery fire, as if they were endless.
As he recounted in his memoirs: The Japanese artillery fire was fierce and the landing equipment was very advanced, but they were still blocked on the wide tidal flat and shed their blood. The Chinese blocked them on the tidal flat.
Then they used artillery with a relatively small caliber to carry out shelling, and the Japanese suffered heavy casualties. I was very puzzled by the construction of the Chinese position. I clearly saw that the Chinese position on the opposite side had become a pile under the bombardment of the terrifying 00mm naval gun.
In the ruins, even 500 meters away, hiding in a temporary field fortification, I could feel the terrible vibrations of the ground. I can guarantee that no living thing could survive such a terrible bombardment.
But I found that I was wrong. The Chinese were so tenacious that they were still alive. When the Japanese cheered and prepared to attack and break through the terrible beach position after their own artillery fire stopped, the sound of Chinese machine guns and rifles started again.
When the sound was heard, they were like the grass that had just experienced the cold winter and ushered in the spring. They showed their heads extremely tenaciously and used bullets to tell the Japanese that this was China and this was their home.
And this was repeated as many as five times in a day-long battle. Not to mention, it made me numb. Even the Japanese commanders were numb. They became cautious from then on, even to the point where
The Chinese never showed up again. It took them at least thirty minutes to rush into the already deserted Chinese position. However, they were only 500 meters away from the Chinese position that was full of bomb craters.
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Yes, this honest war correspondent of the Third Reich faithfully recorded everything he saw, and he was not stingy in his praise of the tenacious Chinese soldiers, even if he wrote down what he saw in the Eastern land.
At the time of the war memoirs, China was on the side of the Allies and he was on the side of the Third Reich, and the two sides were in hostile camps.
But he didn't know that his conclusion was wrong. The Chinese soldiers were actually not as tenacious as he thought, and the positions he wanted to see were just temporary field fortifications that were destroyed by large-caliber artillery shells. To that extent,
In the face of artillery bombardment, no matter how stubborn a soldier is, he will die. This cannot be determined by a strong spirit and will.
However, Chinese soldiers are not afraid of death.
The "little grass" that war reporters see constantly emerging is actually just one reserve team after another charging into position without flinching. The "little grass" in front of them has actually long since disappeared.
After one day of fighting, the number of Chinese soldiers had been reduced from four infantry regiments to one. Two infantry regiments had almost all casualties, and the remaining two had suffered more than half of their battle losses.
If we have to say that those soldiers who survive tenaciously on the battlefield are "little grass", then they are actually synonymous with the entire defenders of Jinshan Guard.
Several years later, when I read this article describing the Battle of Jinshanwei, the Hunan Army general burst into tears.
A man doesn’t shed tears easily, but he hasn’t reached the sad point... (To be continued)