For this Japanese army major general with a depressed face, as if he had eaten several hot and swirling khaki-colored things, it was not that the world was really bad and it was over, but that he had to think carefully about what would happen next after this battle.
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In the early hours of this morning, the Chinese army mobilized an unknown number of troops, uniformly equipped with sustainable bursts of short-range firearms, and engaged thousands of imperial troops on the front line in the darkness. The battle lasted for more than an hour. In the end, he had to
Ordered to retreat.
But in the end, the six infantry squadrons on the front line and one infantry squadron in Cangcheng were able to withdraw to the main position. After counting, it turned out that only half of them were enough. In other words, there were 1,400 people in 7 infantry squadrons, which was quite a lot.
There are still 700 people in those terrible ruins. Either they have pledged their allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor, or they don't know where they are.
For this reason, he did not even dare to use the division's artillery group to launch artillery retaliation against the hateful Chinese who were hiding in those residential buildings and launched an attack. The result of this might be that many imperial warriors who were not dead but were still fighting would be killed.
He was really dead, as evidenced by the constant sound of gunshots and explosions in the ruins, although the sounds became increasingly rare and faint.
Sakai Tokutaro was not wrong about this. Although the Japanese army fired a retreat signal flare in the dark night and all the Japanese troops retreated crazily, there were still many Japanese infantry who had to fight because they got lost or were targeted by Chinese soldiers.
He hid in the house and lost the opportunity to retreat.
However, in the darkness of the morning light, what is going on with the fire that is constantly exposed in the telescope? The Chinese are burning their own houses? What kind of tricks are the Chinese playing? The thinking of the Japanese Army Major General is a little solid, and his brain is obviously not enough.
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Indeed, the Chinese soldiers started lighting fires to play with before dawn. However, they were forced to do so.
In fact, it cannot be said that the Japanese army was completely defeated this night. Even if they only managed to escape half of their troops, they also lost Cangcheng, which they had just captured and were still digging holes for people, and they were beaten up.
The lives of No. 70 and 80 Japanese infantrymen were lost in a single meal.
The Chinese army who used the cover of night to attack them actually had a hard time, and the war situation did not develop as they imagined. It was like a well-thought-out pot of fried rice with eggs but turned into a pot of rice with uncooked rice. Life was easy but something went wrong.
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Although the dark night has become the most powerful protection for the Chinese army, it has also become an obstacle for them to pursue the Japanese invaders. It is also the first time for the 43rd Army to fight in such an environment. They lack experience and do not dare to fire at will because they are afraid of accidentally shooting their comrades.
With guns, and the front being too long, less than 400 troops were simply not enough to hold the entire area. More than half of the Japanese troops eventually escaped.
To be honest, if you wait until dawn, regardless of the ferocious firepower of the pistol battalion's traps and shell guns, once the Japanese army discovers that the opponent's strength is only two infantry companies, plus they also have trenches, light and heavy machine guns and grenade launchers,
Once the shooting begins, let alone driving the Japanese troops away, it is still unknown whether they can escape.
But the key point is that the Japanese army did not know, including their major general commander, that they could not believe that the Chinese would dare to challenge their strength of more than an infantry brigade by sending so few people. They would rather believe that the Chinese were risking their lives.
It would be fine if all the Japanese escaped. The pistol battalion is equipped with either traps or shell guns. In terms of individual firepower, it is definitely superior. In addition, with the familiarity of the terrain, the Japanese troops will definitely be beaten when they shoot at the soldiers of the pistol battalion in residential buildings and alleys.
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However, at night when you couldn't see your fingers, do you really think that the two sides were fighting constantly? In fact, a lot of time was spent looking for the enemy and distinguishing between ourselves and the enemy, and then started fighting. Not many Japanese soldiers were killed directly.
It would be great to be able to kill two to three hundred soldiers after half a day. Of the approximately 700 Japanese troops who failed to return to their main formation, there were actually at least three to four hundred still hiding in the nooks and crannies of the ruins and residential buildings!
Don't think that after the main force of the Japanese army defeated these guys, they lost their ability to resist.
The Japanese infantry of the 6th Infantry Division, known within the Japanese army as "black skin and bright red blood", finally showed the demeanor of "the strongest division on the surface" on this extremely desperate night. They probably also knew that they were fighting in Jinshanwei.
When news of those events spread to Songjiang, giving up resistance meant death. The Japanese infantrymen who were stranded in the ruins and unable to escape were as stubborn as stones, resisting desperately.
If there is a small team, then they will use two or three houses as a position, relying on each other to support each other. If there is a light machine gun and a grenade, it will be even more incredible. There are no heavy weapons unless it is
They must pay a lot of casualties, otherwise it will be difficult to capture their position.
Even if there is not a small team, there are only five or six people or three or four people, then they will stick to the danger. The 38-meter firepower value of the Japanese infantry equipment is very poor, but the marksmanship of the Japanese infantry is indeed very accurate, especially in this kind of situation.
They were hiding in the darkness at close range and were being fired upon. If one of them fired a shot, they would be injured or killed.
Even if it's just one person, it's extremely troublesome. They hide in dark corners. Even if they kill a Chinese soldier, they still make money. Compared with the first two situations, the latter actually makes the Chinese grassroots commanders even more worried.
It's painful for them. When you rush in with several casualties in a row, you find that you can't even save your capital. It's really not worthwhile to exchange several for one.
In other words, after the main force of the Japanese army was beaten away, the small fish and shrimps left behind became a big trouble. Just like the previous time when the Japanese army had more soldiers and the security group had fewer soldiers, the one with more people and fewer people would naturally have the advantage. However,
If you want to kill others, you will have to be bitten with blood. This time, it will become a pistol camp and it will be difficult to handle.
Don't think that submachine guns and grenades are omnipotent. If someone hides in a house, bullets can't hit him, and grenades won't necessarily kill him. But if you want to rush in, you don't know that the Japanese in the corner can be killed with one shot.
One, if you want to reduce casualties, you have to use heavy weapons such as infantry artillery for attacking fortresses.
Obviously, this is impossible, let alone not, even if there is, it cannot be brought here. If the Japanese commander becomes angry and retaliates with artillery fire, wouldn't everyone be done with it?
But they were obviously not willing to let the Japanese go. The Pistol Battalion, which had been exhausted from fighting in the ruins, sent a signal soldier to pass the news back to the city. The Lieutenant General of the Army who had been waiting for the return of the Pistol Battalion at the 152nd Regiment Headquarters
His brows furrowed deeply.
As the supreme commander of Songjiang City, he knew what these Japanese soldiers scattered in residential buildings and ruins meant, that they were lurking time bombs. As long as he still wanted to fight the Japanese army on this battlefield, then
These time bombs must be eliminated, otherwise they will be a big disaster.
I looked at my watch and saw that it was almost dawn. As soon as it got dark, the Japanese army would definitely launch a massive attack. If these Japanese soldiers were not eliminated before dawn, then the battle tonight would be in vain. Killing so few Japanese soldiers would be nothing.
What he wants is this battlefield and time. If reinforcements cannot arrive, even if he abides by his oath and the entire 43rd Army dies here, he will become a sinner of the nation. China needs to retain enough vitality in the future.
During those days, he continued to fight against the Japanese invaders.
However, it is too difficult. It is not far from dawn, and even gods descending to earth cannot clear out the unknown number of ghosts hiding in the houses in such a short period of time.
"Burn them, burn them to death." Xie Guji said suddenly. "There are Molotov cocktails! If grenades can't kill them, then throw in Molotov cocktails. If one pot is not enough, then throw in ten pots, and set fire to all the houses where the little devils are hidden.
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"Captain Jie, this is a good idea! Burn Liang to death, let's see how he can hide." Wang Gongyu also slapped his hands violently. During the day, he saw the Japanese army doing the same thing, hiding the security regiment soldiers.
His house was set on fire and his soldiers were burned alive inside.
"The messenger pistol battalion, no, and the brothers of the Songjiang Security Group who are being repaired, all entered the battlefield, each carrying four Molotov cocktails, and fired all the houses that could not answer the password correctly. This time, I don't need to use his grain.
Hisao used incendiary bombs, I will do it myself." The Army Lieutenant General was also very decisive. When he saw that he could not fully realize his strategy, he would break the jar and everyone would suffer.
You can burn it, and so can I. It’s just that this time the Japanese are hiding.
In the end, those who entered the battlefield before dawn were not only the nearly 400 remnants of the Songjiang Security Regiment, but also an infantry company of the 152nd Regiment. In addition to the more than 300 people who had previously entered the battlefield, nearly 900 Chinese officers and soldiers began to set fire to the battlefield.
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It is said that it is easier to destroy than to build. It takes several months to build a house, but when it is destroyed, it is actually nothing more than three or four Molotov cocktails filled with gasoline and strong liquor.
The Chinese officers and soldiers who filled the battlefield often just shouted a few times into the house more than ten meters away. If there was no reply in Sichuan Province or Songjiang dialect, they would throw a few Molotov cocktails at them. When the houses began to burn violently, before dawn,
The darkness seemed to have become brighter, and the enemy and we could see each other clearly without even using passwords.
The Japanese army, who discovered that the Chinese were starting to set fire to their own doomsday, were naturally unwilling to sit back and wait for death. However, once they broke out of the house, their biggest support was gone. How could rifles alone be the opponents of submachine guns and shell guns? The 43rd Army Pistol Battalion is not like the Songjiang Security Group.
The local army is the guard battalion of Commander Guo Da. In critical situations, the 43rd Army headquarters relies on them for protection.
When daylight came, the Japanese scouts finally discovered that the Chinese had set fire to the house in order to encircle and annihilate those colleagues who stayed on the battlefield to resist. Tokutaro Sakai was so angry that he once again sent the main force to march into the fire scene in an attempt to rescue his remaining defeated soldiers.
Hundreds of houses were set on fire, and more than half of the Japanese soldiers were either burned to death or driven out of their houses and beaten to death.
In the exact words of Taro Taro, a Japanese soldier who participated in World War II and managed to escape disaster by hiding in a canal due to his background as a fisherman: The Chinese filled bottles with gasoline and set fire to houses, whether they were empty or had imperial warriors hiding there.
Yes, the terrible flames not only swallowed up the heroic resistance of the Imperial Warriors, but also left the Imperial Warriors with no way to escape. But the Imperial Warriors were extremely brave. I watched with my own eyes as Goto Socho's whole body was ignited and he rolled out in pain.
The house had been completely ignited, and Goto Sochang, who was covered in flames, still rushed towards the Chinese people with his rifle, until he was knocked to the ground by the terrifying density of bullets from the Chinese people...
As one of the thirty officers and soldiers who survived the battle, Hisao Tani, who was driven to the Matsue Saijo position, personally commended Taro Gyuudaro in front of the battle, and used his words to boost the morale of Tokutaro Sakai's subordinates who had suffered several blows.
However, Minotaur Taro, who died in the battle to capture Matsue Castle shortly afterwards, did not have the opportunity to tell his colleagues that these were not entirely his original words. His original words were: I also watched Goto Jiro hiding with my own eyes.
He was in the water tank but never came out again. Maeda Biewei cried and knelt down to the Chinese but was still shot mercilessly...