The final troops stationed in the neighborhood were those belonging to the 114th Division.
When Hisao Tani's 6th Division violently attacked Dongcheng, the 114th Division and the Kunisaki Detachment were fighting each other not over who could be stationed in the neighborhood first, but a phenomenon that rarely occurred in the history of the Japanese Army. Neither side actually wanted to invest troops in the area.
The ruins of the enemy-free neighborhood.
It was not that the heavy losses in the day's battle made them lose their determination to win. The powerful Tenth Army was not so weak.
Both the proud Kunizaki and the gloomy Suematsu Shigeharu thought it was not a good idea to enter that area at night.
If the Chinese pour artillery fire into an area that they can detect by standing on the wall, it will be a waste of lives of imperial soldiers.
However, if there is no garrison and the Chinese run in in the dark, tomorrow's attack on the West City wall will not be launched smoothly. Will there be another street fight in the streets? Thinking of this, both of their heads hurt.
That could only be a 'dead Taoist friend but not a poor Taoist'. Both of them wanted to give this 'honor' to the other party. After all, they couldn't make a decision after polite pushback. In the end, it was Yanagawa Heisuke who gave the order. The Kunizaki detachment had been fighting fiercely for most of the day.
The task of repairing and guarding the ruins of the neighborhood at night is completed by the 114th Division.
The arrogant Yanagawa Heisuke was so stupid, but the slander could not change the fact. Suematsu Shigeharu, who was 'bullied', could only grit his back teeth and accepted the order. An infantry brigade under his command with nearly a thousand people entered the neighborhood.
garrison, and nearly 200 engineers went into repair fortifications to prepare for tomorrow's decisive battle.
The 114th Division was attacked by the Chinese at night that day, and an army major was lost as a result. People must not be tripped in the same pit. In order to prevent another night attack, the stationed infantry brigade specially applied for a searchlight unit and went into the night.
Then he opened it and illuminated the city wall opposite the block brightly. He also laid out barbed wire fences and barbed wires in some important lanes facing the city wall. It couldn't be said to be careless.
But the neighborhood and Matsue City are closely connected, and the two have never been separated. This is the territory of the Songjiang people, not the Japanese. Even if the nearly one kilometer front is illuminated by searchlights, the locals of Matsue can find other paths to enter the neighborhood.
Probably a quarter of the 600 men who were heavily armed and full of murderous intent were officers and soldiers of the original Songjiang Security Regiment. Almost every infantry squad had three or four people, which was enough to ensure that the security battalion would not get lost in the dark and complicated alleyways.
According to the pre-planning, the four infantry companies even went all the way around to the side and rear of the block.
The searchlight unit, which was the safest at the rear, first became the front line. The not-so-many guard posts were immediately sieved by the violent firing of submachine guns and shell guns.
In the dark night, the world became dominated by the Chinese elite with guides.
This time, it is not the Songjiang security group that only relies on blood and courage, but the elites from various Songjiang troops poached by Tang Dao. Whether it is marksmanship, willpower or tactical execution, they are among the best in the entire Songjiang army.
The Japanese army was basically fooled.
In this kind of street fighting, what the Chinese are most powerful about is not only the submachine gun but also the shell gun with a dozen rounds of bullets.
But a continuous stream of grenades.
They even suspected that the Chinese came here carrying a box of grenades each.
Through a brick wall that cannot be penetrated by bullets, people yelled several times and got no response, so they just threw two grenades at them, which was almost killing people.
It is not safe to hide in a barricade made of sandbags. The Chinese can go up to the two-story building that has not been bombed and throw grenades wherever they want. This will cause the light and heavy machine guns to not dare to fire at will, even if they cannot find the target.
, if you shoot at will, you will be targeted by countless grenades.
The flares that were constantly fired into the sky were ineffective. The short stay in the air was not enough for the Japanese army to find the Chinese hiding in the ruins. Moreover, they also used the captured searchlights to shine on the Japanese hiding area, and it was so dark that they could not see.
With five fingers, only he was exposed to the searchlight, and it felt like he was naked in the ice and snow.
The Japanese troops were completely stunned by the constant attacks from grenades everywhere. They entered the ruins and houses in small groups. It was safer to hide.
As everyone knows, you will die faster that way.
Unfamiliar with the terrain, they can only scurry around in the houses like headless flies. The one-meter-long Sanba Gai is even more cumbersome. If they are not careful, they will get stuck in the narrow alleys and house doors, especially for them.
No matter how careful you are about your cowhide boots with iron nails embedded in the soles, the sound of heavy footsteps is so obvious. These are the distinguishing features of being swept away by submachine guns and shell guns at any time.
What's even more terrible is that in the dark night, the two teams met unexpectedly. Even the Japanese soldiers themselves did not know whether they were friends or foes a few meters away, but the Chinese people cursed angrily and fired quickly in less than two seconds. They fired first.
The one with the gun will naturally have the upper hand.
The Japanese army never understood until their death how the Chinese could tell the difference between the enemy and ourselves in such a short period of time. Even if it was a password, they had to wait for someone else to reply with the password!
They don’t know that for Chinese people who have a lot of curse words and slang, once they turn on the scolding mode and curse for ten minutes without using the same words, those words don’t even need to pass through the brain, so what kind of reaction is needed?
Suematsu Shigeharu, who was awakened by the sound of blazing gunfire and grenade explosions, almost spat out a mouthful of blood as he looked at the white light rising from the street.
Baga! Come again?
Apart from night attacks, he couldn't think of any other method. The Chinese actually chose to leave the solid barriers and rush into their own positions for two consecutive nights. This courage and courage even made him feel, as an opponent, Taibaga's
That’s awesome!
In addition to admiration, the Japanese Army Lieutenant General's mood at this moment is probably the same as His Excellency Lieutenant General Hisao Tani a few hours ago. The only difference is that he took adequate precautions, but he was still attacked by a group of crazy Chinese people.
It was plotted.
The routine is still the same routine, but the routine is so painful that it hurts the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys.
What made Suematsu Shigeji even more paralyzed was that the message sent by the infantry brigade field radio station in the neighborhood was nothing but a request for help, and could not give the specific strength of the enemy's troops at all.
He now needs to make a decision: should he continue to invest the main force of infantry into the neighborhood to encircle and annihilate the daring Chinese? Or should he use artillery fire to provide fire support to the neighborhood?
Obviously, both choices are wrong.
In the pitch-black night, he had no idea how many troops the opponent had. Rushing in troops might lead to greater losses.
It was even more stupid to order the artillery to fire. Soldiers from both sides were fighting each other, and a burst of artillery fire could envelope an entire infantry brigade.
As long as he dares to do this, even if he is a lieutenant general, he will still be nailed to the pillar of shame in the history of the Imperial Army.
When did the dignified Imperial Japanese soldiers fall to the point of exchanging their lives with the Chinese?
As the gunfire intensified, the request for support from the front became more and more urgent. Although it was painful, Suematsu Shigeharu finally had to issue a military order for the entire army to retreat.
Since he does not dare to play with the Chinese in this dark night, he cannot continue to waste time with the Chinese in this dark night. The earlier he retreats, the smaller the loss will be.
This is actually one of the reasons why Tang Dao dared to launch his army into the neighborhood again.
The Japanese army is now the attacker, and they have an overall advantage in terms of strength and equipment. Human psychology is so strange. The more you have, the less you dare to lose it. If you have nothing, you will let it go.
Just like more than ten years later, in the ice and snow, China stood up on the ruins. When everyone thought they would not send troops, they sent troops.
The courage of the soldiers is worth bragging about, but the words spoken by the great leader are even more shocking: In the Patriotic War, we lost tens of millions of soldiers and civilians, and all industry. Apart from the land under our feet, what else can we lose?
of?
The same goes for Songjiang. Apart from this city that is about to be bombed into ruins, what else can’t be lost?
But the Japanese cannot do that. They are still dreaming of conquering Songjiang at a small cost, so as to reach the west of Shanghai and completely annihilate hundreds of thousands of Chinese elites.
If you think too much, you will naturally be timid.
The victory of this night attack battle is not so much the victory of Tang Dao's adoption of the excellent commander's tactics of breaking the "forces will not be used again" rule, but rather the victory of the psychological competition between the two sides.
At least at this moment, Tang Dao is the winner.
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