Tada Jun was furious at the headquarters. The old Japanese was angry for a reason. He spent more than half a month digging more than 100 kilometers of blockade ditches and mobilized six divisions of heavy troops. It seemed that Shanghai was surrounded by iron.
It was like a barrel, but when the Songhu Independent Regiment really launched a breakout battle, it broke through the blockade in the blink of an eye!
During this battle, the Japanese defense line was simply like paper.
The defense line, which was heavily garrisoned by six divisions, collapsed with just one push!
Maybe the real situation is not like this, but at least it seems like this. Such a result deeply stung Tada Shun's nerves and made him completely unable to accept it.
It's ridiculous that the operational staff of the General Staff also vowed that the Songhu Independent Regiment would be completely annihilated in this battle.
"Trash, stupid pigs, a bunch of stupid pigs, all pigs are smarter than you!" Shun Tada pointed at the noses of more than a dozen combat staff officers and scolded them bloody. Even the chief of staff, Takazo Iinuma, was scolded.
Even if he was spared, he would still be scolded bloody, but even so, Iinuma Takazo could only grit his teeth and endure it.
Needless to say, the staff performance in this battle was indeed poor. Not only did the design of the blockade contain major loopholes, but there was also a serious misjudgment of the Songhu Independent Regiment's attack capabilities, especially the failure to take into account the threat of the opponent's artillery group!
Speaking of this, Takazo Iinuma couldn't help but want to slap himself in the face. How could he forget this factor?
You must know that in the previous Second Battle of Songhu and the Third Battle of Songhu, the Songhu Independent Regiment used artillery groups more than once, and also caused great damage to the 12th Army. Logically speaking,
It is said that the General Staff should not ignore such factors, but the cruel reality is that they just ignored it.
In other words, it's not that they ignored it, but that they made a mistake in their judgment.
Before this, the Japanese army had been speculating on how many artillery battalions the Songhu Independent Regiment was equipped with. Apart from anything else, the Japanese army did not believe Xu Rui’s public claim of thirty-six artillery battalions. The Songhu Independent Regiment
There is only one regiment, and it is equipped with one artillery battalion. How can there be thirty-six artillery battalions?
However, in the Second Battle of Songhu and the Third Battle of Songhu, it is an indisputable fact that the Songhu Independent Regiment rained down artillery fire on the Japanese positions. Therefore, the Japanese army boldly speculated that the opponent should have used something similar to Dameishan.
Simple artillery such as the "heartless cannon" encountered in mopping up battles.
Simple artillery is highly lethal and highly mobile!
The memory left by the heartless cannon to the Japanese is very profound.
However, the heartless artillery has a fatal flaw compared to conventional artillery, that is, the range is only 500 meters! Therefore, when calculating the artillery combat effectiveness of the Songhu Independent Regiment, the staff of the Twelfth Army used 500 meters.
As for the element of range, if the opponent's artillery group really only has a range of 500 meters, it will not be enough to pose a threat to the Japanese reinforcement channel.
As a result, in actual combat, it was discovered that the firing range of the Songhu Independent Regiment's artillery group was much longer than 500 meters!
It was precisely because of this omission that the irreversible result was achieved and the Songhu Independent Regiment easily broke through.
Iinuma Takazo paused and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, everything was caused by our misjudgment of the range of the Songhu Independent Regiment's artillery group. However, I have issued an order to the Sixth Division to let them regardless.
How do we try to capture an artillery piece from the Songhu Independent Regiment? I believe the answer will be revealed soon."
"It's too late, it's useless." Jun Tada sighed and sat back in his chair slumped, "It's useless, the Songhu Independent Regiment has already broken through, Xu Rui and his Langya Brigade have also escaped, you
What's the use of investigating the truth behind the artillery? Can we get Xu Rui and his Wolf Fang Brigade back to Shanghai?"
"This..." Takanazou Iinuma was speechless after hearing this.
However, at this moment, a communications staff officer hurriedly walked in.
"Your Excellency, Commander!" the communications staff immediately reported, "I just received an emergency report from the Sixth Division. It seems that the Langya Brigade of the Songhu Independent Regiment is back!"
"Nani? The Wolf Fang Brigade is back again?"
Tada Shun turned around in shock, his face full of disbelief.
Iinuma Takazo also had a look of disbelief on his face and questioned: "How do you know it's a wolf fang?"
"Hai!" the communications staff replied after a pause, "The telegram from the Sixth Division said that just when their attack force was about to complete the encirclement of the artillery position of the Songhu Independent Regiment, a small unit suddenly appeared. This small unit suddenly appeared.
Although the number of troops is small, the firepower is very fierce, especially the machine guns they use are Gatling miniguns."
"Gatling?" Takazo Iinuma lost his voice, "In the Songhu Independent Regiment, it is true that only the Wolf Fang Brigade is equipped with this kind of clumsy but extremely brutal machine gun with extremely powerful firepower. So is it really the Wolf Fang Brigade?"
Jun Tada's heart skipped a beat and he asked urgently: "Where is Xu Rui? Has Xu Rui come back?"
"This..." the communications staff officer shook his head and said, "it wasn't mentioned in the telegram."
After Iinuma Takazo was stunned for a moment, he suddenly burst into laughter.
Tada Shun said somewhat unhappy: "Iinuma-kun, why are you laughing?"
Iinuma Takazo laughed and said, "Your Excellency, Commander, it's like this. I wonder if you have ever heard of the discipline of the Songhu Independent Regiment?"
"Discipline?" Tada Shun said blankly, "What discipline?"
Iinuma Takazo coughed and said, "That's it. When the Songhu Independent Regiment first formed the army, Xu Rui gave a warning to the entire regiment's officers and soldiers: No matter what the circumstances, never do anything.
Abandon a comrade! No matter how difficult it is, no matter how desperate, never give up your belief in victory!"
After a pause, Iinuma Takazo added: "To sum it up in six words, don't give up, don't give up!"
"Don't abandon, don't give up?" Shun Tada frowned and said, "What does this have to do with the war at hand?"
"It does matter." Takazo Iinuma said cheerfully, "Your Excellency, Commander, Xu Rui, as the leader of the Songhu Independent Regiment, naturally has to adhere to his creed. So, do you think he can abandon his subordinates and escape?"
"Sodais." Jun Tada's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said in a deep voice, "You mean Xu Rui is back?"
"Hai, he must come back!" Takazo Iinuma paused and said, "Otherwise, the training he instilled in the entire regiment will become a joke, and he will no longer have any prestige in the minds of the entire regiment.
Got it!"
"Yo Xi!" Tada Jun was overjoyed when he heard this. He thought that if the Songhu Independent Regiment broke through, Xu Rui and the Langya Brigade would also break out. In this case, Tada Jun's future would be over. Not only
The base camp will not spare him, and His Majesty the Emperor will not spare him. But now, things have unexpectedly turned around.
This is really a mountain with no way out, and a village with a bright future, hahaha.
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At this time, there was deathly silence in downtown Shanghai.
With the evacuation of three million refugees and more than 10,000 Western expatriates, the huge Shanghai immediately became an empty city. There was not a single pedestrian on the street. All the shops on the street were closed and locked. People were coming and going.
The dock was silent, and even the dust floating in the air disappeared.
A wild cat raised by someone unknown suddenly jumped out of the window of a shop on the street and was about to chase a mouse that came out of the gutter. At this time, there was a sudden rumble in the distance. The wild cat was stunned for a moment.
Then he turned around and went back into the window, and the mouse that came to the ground looking for food disappeared.
Soon, a huge motorcade drove down the street and stopped in front of the Broadway Building.
This convoy consisted of at least more than a hundred trucks, and it turned out to be the artillery truck of the rocket launcher battalion.
The door of one of the trucks opened, and a figure jumped out. It was Xu Rui. Xu Rui jumped out of the car, turned to Bi Xiansheng, who got out of the other truck, and said: "Old Bi, dismantle the gun truck immediately!"
"Yes!" Bi Xiansheng agreed and immediately directed the convoy to enter the building one by one.
The first floor of the main building and the auxiliary building of the Broadway Building has been opened up and turned into a large garage. After the convoy entered the garage of the Broadway Building, Bi Xiancheng immediately led the officers and soldiers of the artillery battalion to start dismantling the artillery truck. To be more specific, he fired the connecting rocket
The tube was disassembled from the truck's hinge, the rocket launch tube was removed, and then destroyed separately.
In this way, even if the Japanese are lucky enough to find the launch tubes from the ruins, they will not associate these single launch tubes with the rocket launchers installed on the trucks. In this way, the secret of the rocket launchers can be temporarily preserved! Xu Rui cannot be careless.
, Little Japan’s industrial manufacturing capabilities are much stronger than China’s. Once the little Japanese knows the secret of the rocket launcher, the consequences will be disastrous.
This is also one of the reasons why Xu Rui brought Langya back. The secret of the rocket launcher is really closely related!
Of course, only God knows whether the secret of the rocket launcher can be kept in the end. After all, just now, the little devil's infantry had already rushed to the launch range of the rocket launcher. Although by that time, the rocket launcher had stopped firing and the fire rack had been retracted.
It got up, but the Japs could still see the truck parked on the road.
Now, I just hope that the little devils still can't think outside the box and still habitually regard the trucks they see as artillery tractors. In this case, the secret of the rocket launcher can be kept!
The rocket launcher battalion stayed in the Broadway Building, racing against time to dismantle the rocket launchers. Xu Rui and Leng Tiefeng did not stop, but changed to another truck and drove straight into the public concession and arrived in front of the Chinachem Hotel on the Bund.
With the evacuation of foreigners, the Chinachem Hotel has become deserted, looking like a ghost building.
Xu Rui and Leng Tiefeng went to the rooftop of the Chinachem Hotel, and through the long-tube telescope installed on the rooftop, they searched from the nearest place to the distance, but found that the Japanese did not follow up!