Previously, the Songjiang Security Group fought smoothly in the ruins, delaying more than 1,000 Japanese troops for more than five hours at the cost of more than 500 casualties, and killing more than 700 Japanese troops, which gave the Songjiang City defenders great confidence.
The Songjiang Security Regiment is just a security force, and there is a big gap in combat power with regular armies like the 43rd Army. They can do it, but I can do it better, not to mention that more firepower points and more troops have been deployed in the city.
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But after four hours of fighting, the officers and soldiers from the 43rd Army Headquarters to the regiments, battalions and companies to the lowest level discovered that they were obviously still optimistic.
The Japanese soldiers of the Sixth Division not only have high technical and tactical qualities as a group or as individual soldiers, but also have a tenacious will to fight. They are also good at learning. After the first day of what can be considered a small-scale street battle, they are not familiar with the battlefield.
He had a strong sense of precaution against being shot in various ways. Even if a rough inspection revealed that there was no one in the house, he would still throw a few grenades into hidden places, which resulted in the casualties of many lurking soldiers.
Moreover, after all, their familiarity with the defense area is not as high as that of the local snakes of the Songjiang Security Group. The soldiers of the Songjiang Security Group can run around in an alley that is only one meter wide without getting lost, and can even easily get into a house.
Another house, but they couldn't. Many people were blocked in a house by the Japanese army after firing several shots and injuring the Japanese soldiers. They could not escape. They were eventually shelled to death by the Japanese combat artillery and infantry artillery.
Taking Xicheng District as the main direction of the Japanese attack, in the four-hour battle, more than a thousand Japanese soldiers were killed and injured. At the same time, more than 500 people were killed and more than 700 were injured. It was almost a 1:1 battle with the Japanese army.
loss ratio.
Even though the Xie Guji Group had a slight advantage over Sakai Tokutaro, the leader Xie Guji's face was much more solemn than Sakai Tokutaro's. This was because he did not have the strength in his hands.
Sakai Tokutaro of the five infantry brigades. After two consecutive days of fighting, his 152nd regiment of more than 1,500 people, plus the 1,100 people of the Matsue Security Regiment and Lei Xiong's 80-man infantry company, totaled more than 2,700 people. Even after the battle damage, the number of soldiers was more than 2,700.
In addition, Xicheng District's strength has been reduced sharply to just over a thousand soldiers, even with the slightly injured soldiers who cannot leave the firing line.
In these terrible four hours, he would have become a polished commander earlier than Sakai Tokutaro, and the Japanese army had already reached a position only 300 meters away from his regiment headquarters building. If the Japanese army advanced another 200 meters, he, the regiment commander, would have to personally
Carrying a pistol and fighting against the Japanese.
It can be said that the four-hour fierce battle in Songjiang City made both warring parties, from the top commander to the frontline commander to the lowest level officers and soldiers, heartbroken.
If it had been any other time, the two sides might have taken a step back from each other, like two fierce beasts fighting each other. They could lick their own wounds and regain their strength while looking for their opponent's weaknesses with cold eyes, waiting for the next battle to kill them.
One hit kill.
But here, one side has no choice but to retreat, and if it retreats, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of the entire army will die, while the other side has no choice but to advance. If it does not advance, it will suffer more than five or six thousand casualties.
In vain, the honor of the entire "Strongest Division on Earth" will be thrown into the roaring Huangpu River, and even the honor of the entire Imperial Army will be trampled on by the Chinese people they look down upon.
The commanders of both sides were like two gamblers who put their lives and property on the gambling table. With red eyes, they continued to invest their troops, and poured their reserves into the bloody battlefield.
Army Lieutenant General Hisao Tani, like Hisao Tani, chose to persevere, regardless of casualties. Hisao Tani had the 114th Division and the 18th Division as reinforcements, and he also had two equally determined friendly forces coming towards Matsue. No big deal, everyone should come together
Finished in Songjiang City.
Both sides have a common meaning of, "Come on, stud! Whoever doesn't stud will be the grandson!"
The first battle was like this. The Army Lieutenant General didn't think about how long he could hold on in Songjiang City. He only knew that every time his three infantry regiment commanders on the front cried and begged him three times, he would send in an infantry company for reinforcements.
Go to support. Although there is still an infantry regiment stationed in Beicheng and there is no fighting, he does not dare to mobilize it easily. The Japanese army is currently surrounding Sanque, but the Japanese army still has at least one infantry brigade reserve outside the city. In case Hisao Tani chooses
How about using the north gate as a breakthrough?
The Army Lieutenant General can only move his reserve force, which is also the last maneuverable force of the 43rd Army.
After replenishing the 152nd Regiment with more than 300 troops in the past two days, he, the highest commander of Songjiang City, also has a guard battalion directly under the army, a supply camp directly under the army, and two supply battalions for the two brigades under the 26th Division, including the military headquarters and the division.
The total reserve force of more than 1,600 people, including civilian officers, is no more than ten infantry companies. In addition, there are more than 4,000 local young men in Songjiang.
The reason why the 43rd Army has as many as three supply battalions is, to put it bluntly, it is just the infantry regiment that was cut out according to the establishment of the B-type finishing division last year. Fortunately, the Army Lieutenant General had his own Xiao Jiujiu to ambush, otherwise he would have
The strength of the 43rd Army is even more pitiful. Where can we find an army with only 4 infantry regiments?
However, there are only a few people in the reserve team. If the reserve team is exhausted, it will completely enter the final battle mode. No matter you are the army commander or the chief of staff, you will have to carry a pistol and go into battle.
When the battle was heating up, the lieutenant general of the army ordered that 4,000 young men be organized into 7 teams of 600 people each. Except for 3 teams that were left behind at the military headquarters to serve as the general reserve team, the two southeastern cities each supported one team.
, the Japanese army invested heavily in attacking the Xicheng direction to reinforce 2 teams.
The young and strong, before today, were still civilians. They had to experience the battlefield. If they did not experience the battlefield, no matter how large the number was, they would only become lambs to be slaughtered. In Songjiang City at this time, there was no distinction between soldiers and civilians, only the Japanese.
The difference with the Chinese is that only the victors can live.
For these civilians with no war experience, despite the shortage of troops, the infantry commanders still maintained enough rationality. Although they were physically strong and could not even fire a gun, they went to the battlefield instead of becoming elite soldiers to stop the Japanese attack.
The greatest possibility is that it will become a living target that consumes Japanese ammunition.
They first became stretcher bearers and learned to drag out wounded soldiers from all corners of the battlefield under the hail of bullets and deliver them to underground pipelines for treatment. The bodies of the soldiers were also among them. Experiencing the battlefield and seeing the cruelty of bloody flesh and blood was what they needed to do before going to the battlefield.
First lesson learned.
The more cruel it is, the faster it must grow. Those who cannot grow or do not grow fast enough can only be eliminated.
Being eliminated on the battlefield can only lead to death.
Even so, in the direction of Xicheng, for the first time on the battlefield, the mortality rate of young men who entered such a terrible battlefield was still extremely terrifying. In three hours, just the stretcher bearers who rescued the wounded and snatched out the bodies of our own soldiers fought.
More than 200 people died, accounting for more than 17% of the young men who entered the battlefield.
Among them, more than 20 people were shot by the battlefield law enforcement team because they were afraid of fighting and did not hesitate to fight. Extraordinary methods are used in extraordinary times. The thunderbolt method to break the foundation and the cruel battlefield are the best lessons. It only takes a few hours.
, the young men quickly completed the transformation from civilians to warriors. They no longer vomited when faced with hideous wounds, and they no longer just held their heads and hid in the face of bullets that they didn’t know were coming from which direction.
Crying in despair in the ruins.
Fear and crying will not help you improve your scores. What will allow you to graduate from the battlefield school with high scores is courage and the courage to face hell.
Just like what Xie Guji said in front of more than a thousand young men: We, the men from Sichuan Province, have traveled thousands of miles to come here and risk their lives to protect our country. Even if we die, our bones will be buried in a foreign land and we will not be able to return home. This place belongs to you Songjiang people.
Family, what reason do you have for hiding behind foreigners and not moving forward? What's the point of being afraid of death! When the bombs come down, you will be reduced to ashes, and you don't know how to feel! Are you a man? You are a man.
, just leave it to me, if you want to be a coward, you don’t need to be killed by the Japanese, I will help you first.
The Japanese and Chinese, whether they are soldiers or civilians, are growing rapidly on the battlefield like a flesh-and-blood grinding mill.
At this time, there is no big reason anymore. The ultimate goal of everyone who joins this hellish battlefield is just to survive.
The only way to survive is to kill the enemy.
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It was almost dusk. From the time when the Japanese troops broke through the city wall at noon, the fighting in the city had lasted for six full hours.
"Bang, bang, bang" the sound of gunfire in the ruins of the city never stopped, and from time to time there were also explosions and machine gun fire.
However, this did not affect the pair of bright eyes staring at his crosshairs.
In his crosshairs, there was a Japanese soldier 60 meters away who was carefully leading a group of soldiers at the corner of the street.