With the coming of darkness, the sound of gunfire on the battlefield became much sparser.
The night when it is impossible to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy gives the warring parties a short rest. During the day, the bloody fight between you and me has actually exhausted the physical strength of both warring parties. The battlefield that suddenly becomes fierce at dusk is just
It was the exhausted soldiers who vented their last wave of madness before dark.
Not only the Chinese soldiers are suffering from the pain of losing their comrades, but the Japanese are also finding it difficult to accept their return home with the wooden boxes of their comrades hanging around their necks.
But as night falls, the faces of the enemy on the opposite side become increasingly blurred and disappear, and the combat motivation that has always been supported by hatred and anger is slowly disappearing. The commanders of both sides have a tacit understanding and each fire flares to let the soldiers attack.
Retreat within an area that is completely controlled by your side.
Except for unwillingly carrying out an hour-long round of bombing with 75-caliber mountain artillery hundreds of meters outside the area under their control to express their depression, the Japanese army did not make any big moves. They seemed to know that it was just
It's just a futile effort.
Heavy artillery with a caliber of more than 100 is just a deaf ear to the current intertwined battlefield - it is a decoration. The impact point error of more than 300 meters can send both warring parties into the sky at the same time, unless the Japanese commander has enough
Courage evacuated everyone and vacated the block that he had occupied all day long.
But that was something even the ruthless Hisao Tani was unwilling to do. Throughout the day, he spent more than half of the infantry regiment's casualties in the three cities of east, west and south to occupy such a small area. Does it mean that he will have to spend so many casualties tomorrow?
Reoccupy it again? How many times can the Sixth Division withstand such a struggle?
However, the Japanese army did not rest much in the first half of the night. Instead, they were busy setting up barbed wire fences and barricades in the neighborhoods they controlled. Last night, the Chinese concentrated a surprise attack with submachine guns and other short-range firearms that was far beyond their imagination and hit them painfully.
A heartfelt lesson is not far away.
People cannot fall in the same place. The Japanese commander is not stupid enough yet.
The Chinese defenders did not make any major moves. The chief officers of each infantry company in each defense area took advantage of the temporary truce between the two sides as night fell to count casualties, not to know how many people had died, but to know whether they were still alive or still alive.
How many people are fighting?
After most of the bloody and cruel battle during the day, when death became a norm and life became a luxury, everyone understood that grief could no longer save themselves. The only ones who could save themselves were their comrades who were still alive.
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As long as you are still alive, you can shoot a bullet at the enemy, even just one!
The infantry regiment commanders almost gritted their teeth and clenched their fists as they looked at the casualties that the battalion commanders were summarizing to themselves with dark faces.
The casualties were too great, far beyond their imagination.
I thought that I was more familiar with this city than the Japanese army. I had prepared various firepower points in advance, and there was an underground tunnel that the Japanese army didn't know about as an auxiliary. It could not only transport supplies and troops, but also carry out troops that the Japanese army could not imagine.
Delivery, thinking about it, should take a lot of advantage in this kind of battle that weakens the heavy firepower of the Japanese army to the extreme!
However, more than seven hours of bloody battle actually reduced the number of each department by more than one-third, and in the end, the number of victims far exceeded the wounded. That was because as the battle progressed, the battlefields of both sides were already crisscrossed, and you
With me and you in me, the stretcher bearers could not enter the battlefield at all. Many seriously wounded people had no chance to wait for treatment, so they breathed their last in the ruins. The lightly wounded people were not allowed to withdraw from the firing line according to combat regulations.
The battlefield situation forces everyone to continue fighting, even if he only has one arm left, as long as he can still shoot until he is killed.
In fact, the number of infantry company commanders who had the opportunity to summarize battle reports to their battalion commanders on this night was only about half of the number before the war. Many of them were represented by deputy company commanders or platoon commander-level officers, and some even
The infantry company is already its third acting company commander.
As the most basic commanders, they are not qualified to sit in the rear and play with formations. Not only do they have to harden their hearts and command the infantry squad or infantry platoon to do almost anything with the Japanese invaders around a building.
In a "meaningless" war of attrition, a five-man team would need one infantry squad, or two infantry squads if it failed. At the same time, they would have to take the lead and fight on the front line carrying submachine guns or pistols.
The general is the courage of the soldiers. The morale of front-line soldiers falls and improves often because of one person at the grassroots level. If they are cowardly, the whole company will be cowardly. If they are brave, the whole company will be fearless.
This is helpless, but it is a fact that commanders at all levels cannot change. Many battlefield defeats often start not from the battalion commander but from the company commander.
The same is true for the Japanese army. An infantry squadron captain-level commander loses all courage, which often leads to an infantry squadron losing all fighting spirit. Therefore, the Japanese army has particularly high requirements for officers of this level, and the punishments are also very severe, ranging from a slap in the face to a big ear.
Let you plead guilty and perform meritorious service, or at worst, directly order him to have a disembowelment to apologize to the emperor. This is one of the reasons why the Japanese squadron commander-level officers are so stubborn. Even if they stay on the battlefield and die in battle, it is still much better than going back and cutting their belly with a knife.
No? It hurts! Usually, the intestines bleed all over the floor, and it takes several hours before it is over. Those with more tenacious vitality can even last for two or three hours.
For such an extremely cruel battlefield, human nerves are like a stretched string. When the pressure exceeds the pressure value it bears, there will always be a day when it breaks. China on the battlefield
Not only did the army keep making mistakes, resulting in increased losses, but it also became unable to withstand the ferocious Japanese offensive, causing the defenders to withdraw from their positions in panic.
Xie Guji, who left the headquarters and went to the front line to supervise the battle in person, held a pistol in the afternoon and wanted to execute on the spot a lieutenant company commander who had retreated from the front line with no more than 40 remaining soldiers.
The lieutenant company commander, with one arm hanging and a bandage on his head, cried bitterly. The reason why he retreated was not to save his own life, but because the losses were too heavy.
In the block defended by the infantry company he led, the Japanese army actually concentrated an infantry squadron, three tanks, two infantry guns and a 37mm rapid-fire gun. In 3 hours, he had just completed a full complement of troops before the war.
The 130-man infantry company could not even gather an infantry platoon until the end of the fight. If the fight continued, the entire company would have to explain where it was.
However, in Xie Guji's view, this is not the reason why the infantry company lost its position before receiving the order to retreat. From his perspective as the top commander on the front line, if everyone can voluntarily evacuate the position due to the heavy losses of the unit,
, then he, as the regiment commander, can also withdraw to the division and military headquarters. After two or three days of bloody battles with the Japanese army, his 152nd regiment, with a full complement of more than 1,500 men, has been replenished twice, and its strength is still sharply reduced to
Below 1000.
A will that is stronger than fine steel is what soldiers on both sides need most from commanders to soldiers when the battle situation is stalemate. A soldier needs to face death tenaciously. Even if his comrades around him fall one by one, he must stick to his own
In the battle position, he fired the bullets in his gun at the enemy, and even if he fell next to his fallen comrades in the next second, the psychological pressure on the commander may be greater. What he saw was not one soldier after another.
Instead, he would die in hundreds or even thousands, and he still had to harden his heart and send groups of soldiers into the battlefield to meet death.
No one dared to intercede for the crying infantry company commander. Losing the position without a retreat order was a capital offense on the battlefield. Fortunately, the infantry company commander was smart enough.
"Your Majesty, I know that not having an order to withdraw is a capital crime, but please don't waste bullets. Even if you are going to die, you should die on the battlefield, consuming the enemy's ammunition. Please reward me for serving in the army for many years.
, give me another chance." The lieutenant infantry company commander held Xie Guji's pistol with his only strong arm, and begged as he spoke about the last conversation with Xie Guji in his life.
After speaking, he turned around and left, returning to the battlefield with the more than 40 remaining soldiers he had just brought back from the battlefield. The infantry company retook the block with the reinforcements of another infantry company and five mortars. By nightfall,
, there are only 8 people left in this infantry company, and the person with the highest military rank is sergeant and deputy squad leader.
This infantry company, from the lieutenant company commander to the second lieutenant platoon leader and then to the sergeant squad leader, all died in the line of duty, becoming the infantry company with the heaviest casualties in the entire 152nd regiment during the day.
And almost no one noticed that Xie Guji was holding a pistol and staring at the retreating figure of the lieutenant's infantry company, with tears quietly shining in his eyes.
That was his clan brother, the clan brother who didn't call out "big brother" when he was about to execute him on the spot with military law. A clan brother who was asked by his father to take good care of him was just driven away by him at gunpoint.
He entered the battlefield, and Xie Guji knew that he would never come back alive. Only life could wash away the shame of retreating without military orders.
The defenders of the 43rd Army participating in this battle undoubtedly made various mistakes on the battlefield, but because of the determined will of the commanders at all levels, the morale of the soldiers was extremely high, even during the day they exceeded
One-third of his comrades fell in the rubble.
Even at night, the number of Chinese soldiers hiding in the darkness in the neighborhood reached a quarter of their strength, and the rest were basically withdrawn to the underground tunnels for repairs.
Combat is a long process, and it is actually not a good idea to keep soldiers on the battlefield without sleep.
They all need to have a good meal, then spread their straw mats in the pipe and have a good sleep. Although there are no warm beddings here, at least they don't have to worry about bullets fired in the dark, they can only nourish their essence.
After accumulating strength, you can fight against the more crazy Japanese invaders.