This sentence was just a shock to the generals of the 67th Army. If the generals of the Sixth Division heard it, it would be a big joke.
Although Hisao Tani was arrogant, his IQ was absolutely online. After he used the night to draw out 80% of the nearly 5,000 troops in the city, he would not have used the infantry brigade of the 114th Division as the reserve for the entire division outside the city.
The regiment is only infantry, and he can still use more than 7,000 troops.
Moreover, the Japanese army has always been in the habit of building field fortifications wherever they are. A Japanese army with complete field fortifications can even dare to fight fiercely with an enemy whose strength is several times greater than its own. This is without the support of heavy artillery.
The Japanese army's self-confidence is not just words. In fact, they also have this strength. In the past time and space, the Yamazaki brigade that went deep alone relied on fortifications to withstand a full strength of the future general of the red army with only 600 troops.
The infantry brigade's violent attack ended up with heavy losses, but it was not completely wiped out. This became an everlasting sorrow in the heart of the top commander of the red army with a violent personality.
What's more, they now have more than half of the artillery regiment supporting the rear. Although the 75 field artillery suffered heavy losses in the day's offensive and defensive battle, the 12 105 howitzers have not been used. These 12 howitzers alone can kill an infantryman.
The division was blown to pieces.
According to Hisao Tani's idea, if it had not been nightfall, he would have used heavy artillery to cause trouble for the Chinese reinforcements first, so as to vent his anger after being so suffocated in the city during the day. Street fighting is not what the Japanese Army is good at, but in field battles,
The Japanese Army really has no one to fear.
Hisao Tani might have thought that he might be attacked by Chinese reinforcements at night, but he never thought that a Chinese general would openly stand in front of the military map and say boldly: "Tonight will be the time when the Sixth Division will be destroyed."
Fatty Liu is no longer scary, but completely crazy.
"You may already think I'm crazy!" Liu Lang's eyes slid across the faces of the generals of the 67th Army, his expressions indifferent.
"But, you are wrong. I have never been so clear-headed. Even in the Battle of the Great Wall, I decided to leave Luowenyu and lead the Great Wall Regiment to pursue the 8th Division. Even in the east of Shanxi, I will fight with the 17th Division and the 129th Division.
, the troops of the 3rd Army have never been so clear-headed as they divided, surrounded and completely annihilated the Japanese 20th Division."
Liu Lang's words shocked these lieutenant generals and major generals. They then remembered that the person in front of them who said this was almost a big joke was a person who had personally defeated a Japanese division and participated in the total annihilation of a Japanese division. Looking at the whole country
Of the entire army, he and the Independent Regiment were probably the only ones who participated in two such battles in a row.
"The 26th Division of the 43rd Army has done everything they can. With one division but no more than 10,000 people, they fought bloody battles with the Japanese invaders in Songjiang for three days and nights. They are good. Now, it is our turn...
..." Liu Lang didn't have many heroic words, and directly told the battle plan he had planned for a long time in front of all the generals.
Except for a few generals at the temporary headquarters of the 67th Army, no one knows how Liu Lang persuaded them to participate in this huge gamble. Yes, it was a huge gamble. Originally, he was just a general who was ordered to defend Songjiang City as reinforcements.
They never expected that they would participate in an unprecedented counterattack against a Japanese division as soon as they arrived on the battlefield, even though they had been extremely weak after fighting hard for three days and nights.
In the words of the then commander of the 108th Division, Jin Kuibi, after the war: "Using the entire army at night to launch an assault on the Japanese aggressors' well-established positions, Fatty Liu was definitely crazy, but he didn't expect that the military commander would also go crazy too.
We division commanders and brigade commanders can only go crazy together. At least, I didn’t expect to survive. However, no matter how this battle is fought, before coming to Songjiang, from the military seat down, our 67th Army has already
I am fully prepared to sacrifice Chengren."
Yes, what Liu Lang was able to impress the generals of the 67th Army in the end was not how perfect his combat plan was, but the stakes involved. Although the 6th Division is suffering heavy losses now, it cannot swallow the 43rd Army, let alone the 43rd Army.
The 67th Army and the Independent Regiment, but the 6th Division was just part of the Japanese 10th Army that landed from Jinshanwei. When they learned that 30,000 reinforcements were coming from Songjiang City, it was impossible for the 6th Division to conquer Songjiang. The Japanese army became furious.
Will the main force of the Tenth Army also engage in outflanking? Of course not.
The 30,000-strong army behind them is like a thorn in the back. Just like a person will never easily point his butt at an opponent with ill intentions, he will be kicked at any time.
However, if the main force of the Tenth Army returns and cooperates with its naval and air strength, the strategic goal of the 43rd Army plus the 67th Army and the Independent Regiment may be achieved to defend Songjiang and prevent the Japanese Tenth Army from outflanking Songhu's hundreds of thousands of troops. However,
The three armies that were completely trapped in a dead end were also completely destroyed.
The military order given by the Third War Zone to the 43rd Army to resist the Japanese invaders for 3 days and nights has actually been fulfilled. The roundabout and outflanking strategy of the Japanese 10th Army Songhu Army has long been bankrupt. Defending Songjiang will definitely end in death. Turning defense into offense will be a disaster at best.
die.
The multiple-choice question Liu Lang gave had only two answers. One was hopeless, and the other was a one-in-a-ten thousand chance. Anyone else would choose the second answer.
As for the third way - to run away, none of the generals here have thought about it. If they run away, the reputation of the Northeastern Army will be completely ruined.
For the Northeast Army system, which had already been in turmoil because of the young commander's confinement, it was completely destroyed. The consequences were even more serious than death.
If you have no choice, you can only go crazy.
Not crazy, not live!
The battle started around 11 o'clock in the night.
However, the first shot on the Songjiang battlefield was fired not in the plains surrounding Songjiang City, but on the Huangpu River.
If the Japanese Army encountered the stubborn resistance of the Chinese Army on the land battlefield and suffered heavy casualties, and the Japanese Naval Aviation was also badly beaten, then the Japanese Naval Ships had a smooth sailing in the Battle of Songhu and became the most leisurely force.
Except for some losses caused by bombers of the Chinese Air Force in the early stages of the war, they had never encountered a strong resistance on the water. The weakest Chinese navy's most powerful resistance was to scuttle its main ships on the main channels of the Yangtze River.
Prevent large Japanese Navy ships from entering the inland river. In the occasional sneak attack, gunboats and torpedo boats were used to harass the ships.
The two Japanese light destroyers on the Huangpu River did not take any precautions against possible threats from the river. In fact, if someone could sneak within 30 meters of the two destroyers, they could be heard drinking and laughing on the deck or in the cabin.
sound.
You know, the treatment is much better than that of an Army bumpkin. The Japanese Navy's lunch is even envied by the Japanese Army generals. Having sake and beef is really nothing to senior Japanese Navy officers.
But the unsuspecting Japanese navy did not know that in the thick darkness of the night, more than five "water ghosts" wearing water jackets were approaching them in the roaring Huangpu River.
They are from the Marine Company of the Independent Regiment.
The Marine Company of the Independent Regiment, which went down the Yangtze River, had already entered Taihu Lake through the rich water system in the south of the Yangtze River, then took a detour into the Huangpu River and found a place to hide in a reed marsh 20 kilometers away from Songjiang.
The goal of the four gunboats with a crew of 45 people was to kill the two Japanese light destroyers on the Huangpu River and the three pontoon bridges previously built by the Sixth Division on the Huangpu River. It not only cut off all the Sixth Division's escape routes
, and even more to get rid of the threat of having two terrifying 140mm naval guns.
Although the gunboat has six 20mm twin-mounted machine guns and two Storm rocket launchers, it is undoubtedly difficult for a small gunboat with a total tonnage of less than 100 tons and a destroyer with 140 naval guns as the main gun and a tonnage of more than 1,000 tons to engage in artillery fire.
Seeking death.
If you want to win, you can only rely on surprise. As early as 5,000 meters away from the Japanese ship, two groups of gunboats divided into two directions and approached the Japanese ship. They dropped more than 20 "water ghosts". Those were either on the turbulent Jialing River.
The excellent sailors who have been trained are either island natives who have been trained on the rough sea.
Each of them had an explosive bag wrapped tightly in a tarpaulin tied to their body. Their duty was to adhere the explosive bag to the pontoon and the side of the ship.
The problem of explosives blowing up pontoons is not a big problem, but it is probably just a fantasy to blow up a steel-framed ship with only eight kilograms of explosives.
In fact, the explosive packets carried by the five "water ghosts" who each sneaked towards the Japanese light destroyer were all specially prepared explosive packets, just like incendiary bombs. They mainly played a burning role after the explosion, just like
Candles lit in the dark night pointed the way for the bombardment.
The Japanese army's lack of vigilance allowed them to succeed. More than seven explosive packets exploded in the dark night. However, the wind and waves on the river were unexpectedly strong. The incendiary bombs developed by the independent regiment were not very powerful on land, but they could not be used on land.
Under the baptism of wind and waves, it only burned weakly for no more than 10 seconds and then went out.
That was not enough for the gunners on the gunboat to lock the target based on the extremely weak firelight. Fortunately, soon, seven or eight red flares were fired above the Japanese light ships, clearly showing the direction of the Japanese ships.
On the gunboat that had stalled 2,000 meters away.
Captain Comet closed her eyes in pain. She understood that this was the last option. Firing the flare would not only reveal the location of the Japanese warships, but also the position of the sailors in the water. The terrifying heavy machine guns equipped on the Japanese warships would cut them off.
All escape routes.
"Boom, boom, boom!" Explosions also sounded on the pontoon.
"All gunfire on the ship, according to the direction indicated by the signal flare, open fire with all your strength! Start the engine and charge towards the enemy ship. If there is no order to retreat, anyone who leaves the battlefield without authorization will be killed!" Comet picked up the intercom and issued an order to open fire to the four gunboats under his command.
.
The four ships were like moths flying into the flames, their engines roaring crazily, and all the machine guns and rocket launchers on the ships fired at full strength, rushing towards the two panicked but far stronger Japanese destroyers.
On the shore, an army lieutenant who was responsible for providing fire coordinates to the artillery battalion of the Independent Regiment and sneaking into the battlefield outside the city was alerted by the movement in the river. He suddenly turned back and looked at the dark river surface.
The familiar 20mm machine cannon, the familiar rocket launcher, and the familiar person fired the first shot on the final battlefield of the Battle of Songjiang right on the river.
The army lieutenant, who had never been frightened when faced with 300 Japanese invaders by himself, felt his heart suddenly rise to his throat.
If there is someone more important than your life in this world, it is the person you love deeply!