Yes, although the lieutenant general division commander was killed, there was still a major general brigade commander in charge, and the panicked Japanese army quickly calmed down.
An infantry squad surrounded the entire headquarters, and Tokutaro Sakai, who hid in the trenches, personally interrogated the staff officers at the headquarters. Everyone must accurately recall records of what they were doing during a certain period of time.
Obviously, that's wasted effort.
But for the cautious Army Major General, that is more important than the extremely fierce battlefield in the city. If he doesn't do this, he, the Army Major General, will come to an end.
The other three infantry squads of 150 Japanese troops rushed into the wide wilderness in front of them in small units with murderous intent.
According to the ballistic analysis of Hisao Tani who was shot in the forehead facing Matsue Castle, the gunman who killed him must be lurking in the wilderness up to a kilometer wide.
As for how the gunman lurked among them without being discovered, the Japanese are not stupid either, and they quickly figured out the reason.
The only corpses were the hundreds of corpses left on the front line during the early morning siege.
The gunman must be among them, and every corpse is a key suspect.
The distance cannot be too far, otherwise, no one in this world can accurately hit the forehead with an ordinary 38-type rifle from a long distance.
Knowing that there are sharpshooters in the East City, almost no one in the Pig Nose Team can survive. Even those who survive are seriously wounded soldiers who are still struggling to survive in the field hospital. How can they think of reporting to their superiors that there is a terrible person in Songjiang City?
sharpshooter?
In fact, even if it is reported, it will not cause much repercussions. On such a battlefield where tens of thousands of people are invested by both sides, what can a sharpshooter, let alone a sharpshooter, do?
When a large army fights, it depends on the whole body and the team! What matters is who of the two sides can withstand greater casualties. What is tested is the tenacity of the entire officers and soldiers. The one who can persevere to the end despite huge battle losses is the final winner.
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No one, not even a general, can change the entire war situation by himself.
Yes, the Japanese army has a very strong point of view. The little butterfly from the future can't do the same. He can't change the situation of the war, but he can make the battlefield look like it shouldn't be.
The Songjiang defenders still suffered heavy casualties this time, but before that, the Japanese Tenth Army, which had held their heads high, was also beaten to a pulp.
The Tenth Army, which had aircraft and artillery and a strength far exceeding that of the Songjiang defenders, did not have an overwhelming advantage this time, but was forced to engage in a meat grinder-style urban offensive and defensive battle.
The Japanese army did not try to send troops to march towards Kunshan from the road that had been destroyed by explosives a few kilometers away from Songjiang City when the fighting between the two sides was the most intense.
However, the cavalry troops who had set eyes on the Japanese army quickly reported the Japanese army's intention to Songjiang. The 75 mountain artillery with a range of up to 6,000 meters used a row of shells to blast a Japanese army's baggage squadron into bloody flesh on the ground.
This completely extinguished the Tenth Army's intention to march south to Kunshan without confronting Songjiang head-on.
As long as they want to seize the flank and rear flank of the Chinese army in western Shanghai, they must break open the hard nut of Songjiang.
It was the Japanese army's conventional judgment on the gunmen that rushed to the wilderness to search and focused on the area 200 meters away from the headquarters. This was Tang Dao's only chance of survival.
Because it's getting dark.
Otherwise, even if Tang Dao had three heads and six arms, it would not be able to compete with more than a hundred fully armed Japanese troops in such a wilderness with almost no cover.
In fact, there were not many Japanese soldiers who discovered Tang Dao. After Tang Dao fired, a Japanese soldier looked at Tang Dao's direction in horror.
Because it was really too close. He could even see Tang Dao's serious gaze towards him.
That was the Japanese signal corpsman who had just delivered a message from the captain of the frontline colonel to the headquarters.
The conscientious signal soldier returned to the team immediately after the report. In Hisao Tani's vision of the beautiful land in front of him, perhaps there should be the back of this rushing Japanese signal soldier.
Look, how strong the Imperial Signal Corps is! This may be one of the reasons why the Japanese Army Lieutenant General is so heroic.
Unfortunately, the signal soldier was too strong. In just two minutes, he ran 400 meters and was only 10 meters away from where Tang Dao was lurking.
So, the moment Tang Dao fired, he turned his head and looked at the hideous corpse lying in the crater.
He seemed to still remember that when he passed by here ten minutes ago, the 'dead body' exuded a strong stench. If it weren't for late autumn, he believed that it must be crawling with mosquitoes and flies. For this reason, he looked to the side in disgust.
Detoured a few meters.
But now, the 'corpse' not only fired forward, but also looked directly at him.
Is the 'corpse' dead or alive? What did he want to do when he fired? Who is he? All questions came to the mind of the stunned Japanese signal soldier, and he didn't even have time to think that it was a Chinese problem.
Then, he won't have to work so hard.
A 38-style bayonet broke through the void and appeared in front of his eyes. The excellent steel made the tip of the knife break through the hard skull easily.
It was as if the 38-type bayonet was born on the forehead. The nearly 40 centimeter blade penetrated the signal soldier's head for at least 15 centimeters. The cold blade cut off the nerves and disturbed the brain, and at the same time pierced the brain stem into strings.
The signal soldier turned over and fell, but he did not die immediately. There was a creepy "gurgling" sound in his throat, and his hands and feet were stretched and trembling slightly, like a frog with its head cut off and skinned, until dozens of seconds later.
, everything returned to silence.
But no one saw all this.
The attention of everyone at the headquarters was attracted by the Army Lieutenant General who suddenly had an eye on his forehead. No one knew that there was a signal corpsman who was martyred 400 meters away.
Tang Dao was like a big gecko that found food, crawling close to the ground toward the dead Japanese signal soldiers.
His stinking disguise, stained with blood and guts, needed a new successor, and this corpse was a perfect fit.
Tang Dao, who put on the clothes of a signal soldier, didn't act stupidly and thought he was a signal soldier and ran towards the city. Not to mention that the height of the signal soldier would never exceed 1.6 meters, and his navel was exposed because of the ill-fitting clothes. As long as he wasn't a fool, he would look at him at first glance.
There will be problems. The Japanese troops over there who have swarmed into the wilderness will never let go of any living thing in the wilderness.
All Tang Dao needs is time.
Placing the 38 rifle next to the camouflaged corpse lying in the crater, Tang Dao and its slow speed left the area.
Twenty minutes later, the Japanese troops who had searched all areas within a distance of 200 meters, no matter how unbelievable they were, could only expand the search area to the moat.
In the dim light of night, the crawling 'corpse' with a 38 rifle caught the attention of the Japanese search team. Five or six Japanese soldiers approached the corpse cautiously, and first fired two shots at the leg of the corpse to confirm that it was dead.
It is disrespectful to the remains of colleagues, but this is how to ensure your own safety.
Then, a soldier boldly used a bayonet to open up the corpse that was full of strong corpse odor and had internal organ fragments that should have died in the morning's shelling.
Several other Japanese soldiers were all lying on the ground.
Although it is a wrong target, every corpse must be checked for death orders from the squadron leader. What if the enemy is hidden under the corpses?
The reason for being so cautious was that the lurking gunman was too cunning and cruel. He even used the grenades hanging on the corpses on the battlefield to make bombs. The number of the search team that was attacked was reduced by more than ten people.
Otherwise, the search speed would not be so slow.
However, no matter how cunning the fox is, he can only despair in front of the big net woven by the hunters. The battlefield is wide enough, but the distance between the nine teams will never exceed a hundred meters. It will be like a comb combing the battlefield, never
Maybe someone could slip through the cracks.
What's more, several consecutive man-made bombs proved that the enemy was in an area about 300 meters away from the headquarters. Although the distance was still a bit far, it was in line with the norm. At least four teams were focused on searching in that area.
The corpse was still a corpse, and nothing happened. Several Japanese soldiers left cursing and went to the next search location.
The thick stench made them ignore the hardness of the corpse. Bayonets cannot replace human hands.
A few minutes later, a tall body emerged from the soft soil of the unnoticed bomb crater. He quickly took off the smelly military uniform on the body and put it on again, and stuffed the body into the hole where he was hiding.
It was a simple single-soldier bunker that Tang Dao spent half an afternoon digging. The excess soil was evenly spread at the bottom of the crater. If there was no cover of the night, and the Japanese army would not focus all their attention on the corpses huffing in blood,
If so, they might find something unusual.
But there is no if, they are not detectives investigating the crime scene, and their superiors did not give them enough time.
The several booby traps more than 100 meters away are naturally the masterpieces of Tang Dao. They don't have to be too lethal, but they are enough to guide the searching Japanese troops in the wrong direction.
The Japanese soldiers, who searched back and forth at least three times, never dreamed that the target they had been searching for for two hours was the body that turned their stomachs and was lying on its back facing the night sky.
No one wants to use a ruler to measure the length of a corpse that exudes a strong stench.
