They actually lost their top commander just one minute after the battle started.
Tetsujiro Kanzaki was naturally very angry when he found out that he had gone to the wrong place, especially among the shells that kept falling from the Chinese. He only saw the extremely heroic Imperial Japanese Army either lying in the sand and burying their heads like ostriches or panicking.
He stood up and tried to hide in the river but was shot down by Chinese machine guns. The Japanese commander became even more angry.
The mind of the brave Japanese colonel was filled with anger, and he made an extremely heroic move. He pulled out his command sword and stood up. He strode forward and waved the command sword: "Baga! Kill the chicken for me!"
What he meant was to insist on fighting the Chinese, and the mountain artillery and infantry artillery placed behind him on the other side of the river would soon fire to suppress the hateful Chinese. It must be said that at that moment, the Japanese colonel standing in the hail of artillery fire and bullets was like a god of war.
It gave great courage to the nearly a thousand Japanese troops on the sandbank.
Their gunfire continued, knocking down the reeds, shrubs and cotton stalks in front of the trenches.
If two gangs of street gangsters were fighting with watermelon knives at this time, the Japanese colonel's behavior would naturally be very pretentious, but in this era of two armies facing off against hot weapons with rifles and machine guns, the goal of such an obvious pretense is
, that was really too much of a pretense. Especially when he was wearing very obvious white gloves.
The young soldier who had been trained by his veteran squad leader was actually very scared. Even though the bullets fired blindly by the Japanese were still far away from him, the surrounding land made a popping sound from the bullets, which almost scared him to the point of peeing.
However, after pulling the bolt of the gun and firing three rounds of bullets, the young soldier gradually calmed down. The young soldier who once again pulled the bolt of the gun and jumped to his fighting position from the trench where he was hiding did not explain it to his veteran squad leader this time.
He kept his head down and fired the bullet, but raised his head to look for the target more than 300 meters away.
To be honest, the distance of more than 300 meters is already beyond the shooting range of the Sichuan Army soldiers. If they can hit the target at 100 meters away, they are all sharpshooters in the Sichuan Army, let alone shooting when the sight is not good. At this time, the infantry
Shooting is purely based on probability. If you hit something, you hit it. If you don't hit it, that's normal.
The veterans understand this very well and keep their heads down and shoot. Basically, they are keeping themselves alive while shooting a few more bullets to increase the probability of hitting the Japanese army. Including the light and heavy machine gun shooters of the 152nd Regiment who were sweating from the fight.
Regardless of how well they fought, the extra bullets they fired would increase the probability of hitting the Japanese. The Japanese targets lying more than 300 meters away were pitifully small. Who can guarantee that you can hit them by aiming for half a day? Is there such a thing?
For the sake of effort, it is better to shoot a few more bullets out.
But recruits who have only been on the battlefield a few times don’t know that. After getting rid of the fear of death, they will impose confidence in themselves and think that they can target and kill the enemy. This is why the mortality rate of recruits is much higher than that of veterans.
One of the reasons. Before the real difference between life and death, a veteran will never raise his head high and spend at least ten seconds aiming at an enemy. That will undoubtedly shoot his life into the enemy's bullet.
Send up.
Of course, it's another thing when the enemy rushes within the 150-meter shooting range. If you don't kill the enemy as soon as possible, you can only die. If you are still hiding at that time, you are not a veteran but a greedy person.
People who are afraid of death.
The young soldier had good eyesight. When he raised his head, he happened to see the Japanese commander who was pointing his command sword at this direction and giving orders. Although the distance of more than 300 meters made it difficult for him to see the rank of this Japanese soldier, instinctively, this was a very good target.
.The soldiers aimed their sights at the Japanese "God of War" who was showing off under artillery fire.
Holding his Springfield rifle firmly, and with unparalleled confidence, the young soldier fired.
God will always favor those guys who have made efforts. Even if his self-confidence is a bit blind, aiming and shooting are completely different concepts. Even if he thinks he is holding the gun firmly, he is actually pulling the trigger and shooting.
At that moment, the young soldier couldn't help but feel his hands tremble slightly. He couldn't help but regret his incompetence after shooting. He was still scared when a machine gun bullet hit the soil more than ten meters in front of him.
Maybe, if this young soldier who was new to the battlefield was given 10,000 rounds of bullets on the shooting range, he would not want to hit the bullseye 350 meters away. But this time, as his gun went off, the man wearing white gloves and holding a command knife
The Japanese commander fell to the ground.
"He's a bastard, he's a hot pot, I've hit him." The young soldier, who was still regretful, almost started dancing.
"You little melon, lie down for me! Get away from me if you want to die!" The veteran squad leader beside him angrily slapped the head of the excited recruit into the trench.
As for the Japanese colonel who was killed by a Chinese soldier who had obviously missed the target, he was lying quietly on the sandbank. No Chinese soldier glanced over there. Likewise, no one took this man seriously.
The death of the Japanese colonel was recorded in the merit book of the young soldier.
Only the post-war Japanese military battle report briefly described the death of this brave Japanese colonel: Colonel Tetsujiro Kanzaki was penetrated by a bullet from the front of his nose. The terrible bullet shattered his nose bones and then spun at high speed into his brain, where it was shattered again.
Before the doctor arrived, His Excellency Tetsujiro Kanzaki's body stopped shaking. He must have been enveloped by the glory of Amaterasu!
The young soldier, who had no idea that he had accidentally made a great contribution, followed the example of his veteran squad leader in the following battle, hiding his body and trying his best to shoot bullets in the direction of the sandbank.
The infantry artillery, mountain artillery and more than a dozen heavy machine guns deployed by the Japanese army on the other side of the river also roared. Although the distance was more than 700 meters, the artillery fire consisting of eight cannons was also terrifying, and the infantry battalions facing the sandbank were blasted.
The heavy and light firepower points and the infantry were so heavy that they could not raise their heads.
But this was not of much help to the thousands of Japanese troops who were still located on the sandbank in the center of the river. At this time, the most damaging thing to them was no longer the bullets fired by light and heavy machine guns and rifles, but artillery shells.
In addition to the 11 mortars, four Type 41 mountain guns located in Cangcheng City, 6 kilometers away, also began test firing after receiving the news. 7,000 meters is already their ultimate range, and Shazhou is located exactly within this range.
The power of 75mm mountain artillery is much greater than that of mortars. With one shot, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers died. In order to reduce the density, the Japanese army had to crawl towards the center of the sandbank, even though they knew that it would undoubtedly be very difficult to quench their thirst by drinking poison.
It is possible that he will still die, but if everyone is gathered together and is bombarded, he will undoubtedly die faster. There is still a big difference between dying early and dying late for people who are in despair.
And why no one got on the folding boat that was still docked on the shore to escape? Firstly, it was because after several rounds of wild bombings from the Chinese mountain artillery and mortars, half of the folding boat was blown up on the spot; secondly, it was not just the front.
The Chinese were firing with heavy machine guns, and I don't know how many heavy machine guns on both sides were shooting at the sandbar. They might have died faster if they got on the folding boat; of course, the most important thing is that they did not receive the military order to retreat.
Tetsujiro Kanzaki, who did not wear a helmet and had the courage to sit on the front line personally, proved to both China and Japan that it was extremely important for a commander to rush to the front line to command operations with his bravery.
A stupid thing.
Of course, the top commander chooses to charge forward with the officers and soldiers, which can greatly improve morale, but this cannot prevent if an accident occurs and the top commander dies in battle, the entire combat force will fall into a panic without command. Even if the Japanese army is extremely well-trained
, after confirming that his top commander, Colonel Tetsujiro Kanzaki, was killed in action, he quickly followed wartime regulations and was replaced by Lieutenant Colonel Nagasawa Utoshi, deputy captain of the 47th Infantry Regiment and captain of the 1st Infantry Battalion, but that was already ten minutes later.
Something happened.
Ten minutes is already a bit too long for a battlefield where the situation is changing rapidly, not to mention the Japanese troops of four infantry squadrons and two squadrons of engineers on the sandbank who are suffering doubly every second!
Without a military order from the superior officer to retreat, the Japanese troops at the bottom who strictly abide by military regulations rarely retreat, even if they are suppressed miserably. This is especially true for the strongest division on the surface, the 6th Division from Kumamoto, which has always claimed to be brave and tough.
To the soldiers of the regiment.
Therefore, for more than ten minutes, they have been lying on the sandbank to compete with the artillery shells dropped indiscriminately by the Chinese army. They have the tough-minded spirit of the future heroes of the Republic lying in the grass and fighting against incendiary bombs.
It was not until Japanese Lieutenant Colonel Nagasawa Uto officially took over the command that the Japanese troops on the sandbank received a retreat message from the river bank position behind them. But at this time, thousands of Japanese troops were ravaged by artillery fire.
Again.
The 152nd Regiment had no idea how many Japanese soldiers they had killed in the 10-minute battle. They only knew that the corpses of Japanese soldiers were scattered across the sandbank. Because they had to deal with the subsequent battles, they did not have the opportunity to go to the sandbank to count them. They did not even
We know how many Japanese troops were swallowed up by the roaring Huangpu River because after the Japanese commander gave the order to retreat, they jumped into the river in a panic and tried to swim back to their own positions.
Perhaps only the Japanese army themselves know this. The war report of the Tenth Army after the war described the losses caused by the 47th Infantry Regiment’s wrong choice of landing site: The 47th Infantry Regiment, including Colonel Tetsujiro Kanzaki, the commander of the 1st Infantry Regiment,
The brigade landed 809 people, 380 were killed, 190 were wounded and missing.
130 people.
After all, the headquarters of the Tenth Army did not record the personnel losses of the two accompanying engineer squadrons except for the 1st Infantry Battalion of the 47th Infantry Regiment in order to cover themselves up. But even so, the 1st Infantry Battalion alone had more than 100 casualties.
There are more than 500 people, and the so-called missing people naturally fell into the river and drowned. The Huangpu River is not the small rivers on the Japanese islands. In such a cold late autumn, not to mention the rapid river water, even the rapidly dropping body temperature can
It kills people who are very good at water.
The forwards of the Sixth Division paid a sufficient price for their arrogance. One of their captains was killed on the spot. By the way, he took hundreds of Imperial Japanese warriors with him to have tea with Amaterasu.
Less than one-tenth of the thousands of Japanese troops who landed in the first echelon returned to the riverbank position intact.