There is no need to wait until daylight for another battle.
Since Tang Dao has estimated that the Japanese army must have deployed light and heavy machine gun firepower points on one of the left and right sides of the Suzhou River Bridge waiting for the warehouse defenders who were ordered to evacuate, he first took a look to see if this was the case.
Tang Dao and Leng Feng each led two people to sneak out of the warehouse at night, sneaking out for more than 100 meters in the darkness, and then fired three illumination bombs toward the front of the Japanese position 200 meters away, which was completely shrouded in darkness on the left and right wings.
When the flare slowly fell from high in the sky, illuminating the darkness more than 200 meters in front of the Sihang Warehouse, the Army Lieutenant Colonel standing behind the observation hole on the left wing of the warehouse took a deep breath. He was really shocked and angry.
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Tang Dao's guess was correct. In the field of view of the telescope, there were many Japanese troops 300 meters away, most of which were not in the trenches directly facing the warehouse.
The Japanese troops evaded in a panic, which showed that they were ill-prepared for the flares that suddenly landed in front of their positions, but this was not the most important thing.
The important thing is that the Army Lieutenant Colonel saw the machine guns that they had no time to move away. In the afterglow of the flares, he just glanced at several Type 92 heavy machine guns set up in simple field fortifications by the river with cold muzzle commands.
People's scalp is numb.
This kind of heavy firepower, the Japanese army used to only place it in semi-permanent fortifications 500 meters away, but now it moved it to the front line position. Its purpose is self-evident.
They were afraid that the long range of one mile was not accurate enough, but they were not afraid that the bullets would fall into the concession, but they were afraid that the Chinese soldiers retreating from the Suzhou River bridge more than 300 meters away would run too far!
In addition to several simple fortifications, there are more Japanese light machine gun duos hiding behind low walls. Although they are quite agile in hiding with their light machine guns, the condescending army lieutenant colonel can clearly see them.
Looking at the figure of the Japanese army trying to evade in the distance, the Army Lieutenant Colonel had already concluded that as long as he was actually ordered to lead the entire army to the concession from the Suzhou River Bridge, which was only 30 meters away from the warehouse, the Japanese army would set up light and heavy firepower points 300 meters away regardless of the danger.
Will fire with full force.
Of course, if the warehouse defenders are evacuating, for example, waiting for heavy weapons and equipment to be transported away first, the so-called half-crossing attack will be caught off guard. The remaining soldiers can only become the targets of massacre. China has almost no power to fight back. The Japanese army
Heavy machine guns are naturally not dangerous.
This plan of the Japanese army was so sinister and sinister that the Army Lieutenant Colonel who figured it out had a cold sweat on his forehead.
Yes, in the past time and space, Wakibajiro did this. However, he was not as smart as the Army Lieutenant Colonel thought. He also knew how to attack halfway across the bridge. Instead, he just used light and heavy machine guns to block the bridge while the defenders were evacuating.
noodle.
The defenders naturally fought back. In panic, the concession quickly communicated with the Japanese army's top brass, eventually forcing the Japanese to give up. However, in just ten minutes of exchange of fire, the Chinese defenders who stepped onto the bridge still suffered more than 20 casualties. The company and battalion commander
Yang Ruifu was also seriously injured in this battle.
In this era, a certain Japanese army commander was in a much worse situation than before. Three nearly full infantry brigades were cut in half. Whoever was spared would go crazy!
Gritting his back molars, he took advantage of the darkness to adjust six heavy machine guns and twelve light machine guns in one go. He built a machine gun position on the front line and lurked on the left wing of the warehouse, waiting for the warehouse defenders to take the bait and kill the man in one fell swoop.
Kill the Chinese army that had brought him endless humiliation.
This intensity of firepower is absolutely astonishing compared to the Suzhou River Bridge, which is only a few dozen meters long.
As long as you set foot on that bridge, there is almost no chance of leaving alive.
Even, in addition to light and heavy machine guns, the Japanese commander who was eager to avenge his shame also prepared nearly 20 grenade launchers, which were intended to attack the 30-meter road from Sihang Warehouse to Suzhou River Bridge with covering firepower.
That is to say, the infantry artillery is not easy to control. If it fails, it will blast into the concession. Otherwise, Wakibajiro will definitely send the infantry artillery to attack.
Jiro Wakiba had no intention of letting a Chinese soldier enter the concession, even though he had planned to force the concession to confine the Chinese soldiers who entered the concession.
It can be seen how much he hates this garrison.
A man can't wait ten years to take revenge. He has to take revenge that night. The Japanese commander was very calculated.
That is, how full the imagination is, how skinny the reality is.
The Japanese colonel sitting in the headquarters of Yin Tengzhong's Second Battalion had been waiting with big eyes since 10 o'clock. After waiting for two hours, his eyes were almost green, and he did not wait for any movement at the warehouse.
, but instead waited for the sudden flare from the Chinese.
All his heavy machine gun positions were exposed to the light of illumination bombs.
"Baga! Not good!" The bright green eyes of the Japanese commander suddenly shrank.
The balls shrink faster.
The heavy machine gun position was exposed like this. If it had been left in the past, it would not be terrible, but if it appeared like this in front of the Chinese with a large number of mortars, it seems that it would not be a good thing.
It can only be said that the Japanese colonel was indeed a battle-hardened army commander, and his predictions were very accurate.
It's true that he hates his crow's mouth a little bit.
"Order the searchlights to start, search the front of the position and the river, and find the Chinese! Heavy machine guns, go first..." Jiro Wakiba had not finished his order.
In the Sihang Warehouse building 300 meters away, an army lieutenant colonel with a cold sweat on his forehead gave an order, "Fire!"
In the fortifications on the roof of the warehouse, the last five mortars in the warehouse were already stationed when Tang Dao and others left the warehouse.
Each gun carried 6 shells. The order given by the Army Lieutenant Colonel to Lei Xiong was that once the order to fire was given, all the shells must be fired within 30 seconds, otherwise the Japanese mountain artillery retaliatory bombardment would come.
They also had no more than 20 seconds to calibrate the scale of the Japanese machine gun positions revealed under the flares.
All tactical actions are measured in seconds.
It can be said that you are dancing on the tip of death's sword.
War, while pushing people into the abyss, is also constantly shaping people. Those who cannot make themselves stronger will be eliminated.
The artillerymen who had danced on the tip of death's sword countless times and finally survived, under the huge threat, their hand speed was so dazzling that even Tang Dao, a strong man who had been single for two lifetimes, could only marvel.
At least, he is not as good as them when it comes to playing with cannons.
As a result, the artillerymen became the gods of death first, for the Japanese soldiers in the Japanese light and heavy machine gun positions who were completely exposed to the light of the illumination bombs.
The Japanese army only deployed machine gun positions on the left wing. The moment they discovered the Japanese machine gun positions, all mortar muzzles turned to the left wing.
The reason is very simple. If you want to block the bridge without letting bullets fall into the concession, you can only shoot directly from the front. This kind of shooting is destined to not allow for a double attack.
The Type 92 heavy machine gun has a range of up to 1,000 meters, and even stray bullets that lose their straight trajectory are extremely lethal.
If two heavy machine gun positions facing each other fired like this, the Japanese on both sides could kill themselves without the Chinese firing. Not only would the 36th Infantry Regiment become the history of the Sino-Japanese War,
The biggest joke, maybe the short-legged people can become one of the funniest jokes in the history of written records on earth.
And because they had to shoot at the Suzhou River bridge deck and the bullets could not be shot into the Western Concession, the Japanese heavy machine gunners also racked their brains.
In order to ensure direct shooting, all heavy machine guns are mainly placed not far from the river.
There was originally a small alley, but now it has been almost destroyed by artillery fire, leaving only some low walls and piles of rubble.
All the fortifications were built with sandbags that the Japanese machine gunners and ammunition carriers laboriously carried from afar.
Those sandbag fortifications that are not too thin may be able to block a heavy machine gun, but for mortar shells falling from the sky, it is really...
Just like a woman who is only wearing a hair but is still very sexy, she encounters a group of evil men with tattoos of a green dragon on the left and a white tiger on the right. Before her elder brother comes to help with a big stick, the evil men start a wave of "quickly"
", accurate, ruthless" is released.
30 shells, shot empty in one go.
The Chinese villains didn't even have time to see how pitiful they were being beaten by their little Japanese soldier. A group of them swarmed up and ran away carrying tens of kilograms of 'weapons'.
In fact, they can't see it either.
Tang Dao, Li Jijin and Yang Xiaoshan turned around and ran away immediately after firing the flares. Didn't they run away and wait to be attacked by the Japanese?
The illumination time of the illumination bomb was only 30 seconds. After 30 seconds, everything was covered in darkness again, except for the firelight from the exploding mortar shells.
So sad! The Japanese commander looked at the bright flames flickering in the distance and felt sad.
