The Chinese army marched towards the battlefield under the cover of its own artillery fire, but the Japanese army was stunned by the sudden artillery fire on the battlefield.
It was definitely a heavy artillery they had never seen before, even more terrifying than their 150-meter howitzer.
Unlike howitzers and cannons, rocket artillery itself is not used to destroy fortifications, and it is not even accurate enough. For example, a rocket launcher battery of six rocket launchers is specifically designed to bombard the 105 howitzers of the Japanese Sixth Artillery Regiment. That was this time
The top priority of the artillery attack was that if those 12 heavy artillery were allowed to escape, our losses would be at least doubled or even several times greater.
The special forces had already reported the coordinates and directions of the Sixth Artillery Regiment before the war. In order to ensure accurate signal transmission, they even brought a small field radio to report. The coordinates would never be wrong. The Sixth Artillery Regiment couldn't escape either.
Even if the cannon body weighs 1,800 kilograms and wants to run, it must have enough vehicles and horses to pull it, especially in the not-so-solid fields of Jiangnan.
However, in the first round of rocket launchers, at least three-quarters of the shells landed outside the Japanese artillery positions. They failed to fire the Japanese artillery and almost missed the independent regiment hiding in the artillery hole 800 meters away.
The special forces' faces were covered in blood.
Rockets have never relied on precision to win, but on the explosion range. A gun has 12 tubes, and a salvo of 6 guns equals 72 rockets. An 18-kilogram rocket can kill a radius of nearly 20 meters.
The area covers an area of more than 1,000 square meters. If compared with the size of a basketball court, it is as big as three basketball courts.
With 72 rockets, the damage range is more than 80,000 square meters, which is equivalent to 200 basketball courts or 11 standard football fields.
But if one salvo is not enough, what about two, three or even more?
This time the Independent Regiment came to Songjiang, it can be said that they brought almost all their wealth, including all the ammunition storage of rockets that were not fired in the Jindong battlefield. Almost all the troops participating in the battle in Jindong received awards for meritorious service, but only one
There was no one unit, that is, the two rocket launcher batteries of the artillery battalion. In order to maintain confidentiality, they did not even mention firing the artillery, but they did not even take off the artillery jacket. During the entire Shandong War, they just watched the show with the artillery.
This time, they were entrusted with important tasks. From the Japanese artillery to the infantry, they were all assigned to carry out the first wave of attacks. They were not even fighting hard!
In fact, by the third round of rocket launches, the Japanese Sixth Artillery Regiment was basically blown away. The devastating carpet bombing of the rockets left each gun 40 meters apart.
The procedure became a joke. The entire 105 howitzer and the remaining 10 or so field guns were all enveloped in the flames of rocket bombs that continued to hit and explode, until finally a terrible ammunition explosion occurred, and the entire Sixth Artillery Regiment was finished.
From people to cannons.
The power of the rocket explosion is not enough to destroy the giant steel cannon, but it is no problem at all to blow it up and damage it. However, the fragile human body can basically only become ashes in such a flame.
There are several types of rockets used by the Independent Regiment, including incendiary bombs mixed with rubber pellets and white phosphorus, a large number of steel ball bombs soaked in excrement water, and high-explosive bombs with a large amount of explosives. No matter which type, they are useless to the Japanese army
To the infantry, they are all scythes wielded wildly by the god of death.
No matter whether you are hiding in a trench or not, if you are exposed to the small flames emitted by the incendiary bombs, you will be burned alive or hit by steel balls with the speed of bullets. The result will not be much better. If you encounter high explosive
Well, congratulations to you, you can directly be used as fertilizer on the land of Jiangnan.
It was a distance of five kilometers from the beginning of the "Armored Flood" of the Independent Regiment to the forefront of the Japanese position. During this five-kilometer march, the four artillery companies of the Independent Regiment and the Guard Regiment fired almost 7% of their rocket stock.
10. All positions marked with coordinates by the Japanese army were subject to at least three rounds of shelling.
All the positions were burning, as bright as day, and the khaki figures of the Japanese troops were clearly visible. After the signal flares on the cars at the front were fired to stop the shelling and for the entire army to charge, the tanks and cars roared forward, breaking through the Japanese deployments.
The barbed wire fence. The soldiers in the truck fired wildly into the trenches, killing all the Japanese soldiers visible in sight, and then continued to move forward without stopping at all.
If the general who invented blitzkrieg in the Third Reich came here, he would be surprised to find that this is a replica of his tactical theory: using armored clusters as a three-in-one assault method of firepower, mobility and protection, focusing on a certain point on the enemy's defense line to break through
, after success, it will develop rapidly into the depth of the enemy, making it impossible for the enemy to reorganize and regroup to build a defense line again.
Liu Lang used the Independence Regiment and the 23rd Group Army Guard Regiment as arrowheads for the entire army, and rushed forward crazily along the east-west direction of the Japanese position. They did not need to occupy the position, they only needed to tear a large hole in the position, and the following two
An infantry division subsequently followed up, constantly dropping entire battalions and regiments based on the strength of the Japanese army to divide and surround the remaining Japanese forces, preventing them from forming a large-scale troop concentration, let alone forming a frontal defense.
In fact, from the very beginning of the battle, the Sixth Division was leaderless. Their supreme commander was shot dead by a Chinese gunman ambushing in the dark before the battle even started. For five minutes, when the various units
When it began to be bombarded by Chinese artillery, the Sixth Division headquarters did not respond effectively. It was not until Major General Tokutaro Sakai took over the highest command of the Sixth Division that effective improvements were made. But by that time, it was no longer helpful. The Chinese
The shells flew over the heads of each position as if they had eyes, almost plowing the ground and wreaking havoc on the soldiers hiding in the trenches.
The calls made by various ministries to the division headquarters all contained the same content, with heavy casualties. The lack of battle experience of Major General Tokutaro Sakai, who was born in Army University, once again became the main reason for the complete defeat of the Sixth Division. If, after receiving the call, the Chinese on the front line had already begun
After the large-scale attack and the news that the shelling had stopped, he could quickly order all the ministries to move closer to his brigade and regiment headquarters in Songjiang West City, and gather enough troops to carry out defensive operations relying on field trenches and unexploded residential buildings outside Songjiang West City.
They would encounter the predicament of the Japanese army in the previous two days and be forced to abandon the tactics of armored advance and engage in arduous street fighting with the Japanese army.
Regardless of how heavy the casualties would be, at least it was certain that the Sixth Division could hold on until the main force of the Tenth Army returned. This is the last way out for the Sixth Division that military historians from various countries will recognize when discussing this battle in the future.
Unfortunately, they were not Tokutaro Sakai, and they were not on the battlefield. There was no way of knowing that Liu Lang would use the Third Reich's combat methods that would sting the entire Europe in the future to carry out an overwhelming breakthrough tactic against the Sixth Division's defense line.
As Tokutaro Sakai's children and grandchildren said: Hindsight can tell everyone.
As for the "Short Leg Valley", an army lieutenant general who was humiliated and killed by his opponent using a "decapitation" operation before the war began. He is destined to be placed on the pillar of shame in history. Even worse than those who died in the Battle of the Great Wall.
Nishi Yiichi, Kawagishi Bunzaburo whose body was put on the headlines of the newspapers during the Battle of Jindong is even more humiliated. Those two, after all, jumped a few times and fought with the "Beast Colonel". Those like this one didn't even have a military order.
When he made a mistake, a small soldier was sent to kill him with one shot.
A lieutenant general who brought humiliation to the Imperial Japanese Army, naturally, there is much less space to discuss him. On the Chinese side, a guy who was killed at the beginning of the war has no value in discussing at all, so we might as well just discuss him
Ignored, it is like dust, the dust of history.
On the Chinese army's side, the artillery fire was so fierce that it could melt the earth. The unheard-of tactics combined with the army's unrivaled will were like a sharp knife cutting through butter, tearing all the Japanese defense lines to pieces; on the Japanese army's side,
The commander reacted slowly, lost the support of heavy artillery firepower, and was at a complete disadvantage in terms of military strength. He could only rely on the soldiers' stubborn fighting will for support, but it was only support.
Defeat is decided.
The sound of gunfire started with an explosion on the Huangpu River, and continued throughout the night from the Huangpu River to the wild fields outside Songjiang City, and from the wild fields to the inside of Songjiang City, in this land south of the Yangtze River.
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Until early morning.
It was daybreak, but gunpowder smoke was still floating on this land. Gunpowder smoke, burning wood, and other unspeakable smells filled the entire battlefield and lingered for a long time.
After fighting all night, Chinese soldiers wearing blue military uniforms walked out of the trenches and out of the fields. They almost all had the same characteristics. Their faces were almost all blackened by gunpowder smoke, and their eyes were almost all red. Everyone on this kind of battlefield
You have to keep your eyes wide open for a moment, otherwise you will be killed by enemies hiding in the darkness at any time. Stare all night, and no matter who you are, your eyes will probably turn into rabbit eyes.
They looked at each other, holding the guns in their hands, until they found that the entire wilderness was covered with dark blue military uniforms, then they each put down their guns blankly.
"Sir, have we won?" A soldier asked blankly to an unknown officer beside him.
Although he has no military rank, he is holding a box gun in his hand, which is the symbol of an officer.
"Yes, brother, we won." A difficult smile appeared on the officer's dark face.
The soldier didn't see it. In the officer's sleeve who answered his question, one of his right hands had been severed at the wrist. It was caused by a Japanese grenade. Although there was still some flesh attached, it was too difficult to continue fighting, so the officer could only pull it off.
He hastily bandaged his useless palm and continued fighting. Now, the palm is still hidden in his arms.
Your hair and skin are given to you by your parents and cannot be thrown away at will!
"We won, we won!"
"We killed the Japs!"
"Victory, we have won!"
As the soldier who got the accurate answer shouted, the surrounding soldiers raised their guns and cheered for victory on this battlefield.
The wilderness is full of blue, with mountains roaring and tsunami roaring.
However, the officer fell. He fell amidst the roar of the mountains and the tsunami.
The bandage was powerless to stop the massive blood loss caused by the ruptured artery, but he was able to persist until early morning and to victory. This Chinese soldier was already a miracle in the history of medicine.
"Sir!" The cheering soldiers panicked and picked up the young officer who fell on his back.
"Victory, we are victorious, our Northeast Army is not a coward!" The young officer tried his best to open his eyes and look at the sky, trying to roar out the grievances in his heart.
Little did he know that the sound was like a mosquito or fly.