The Japanese troops outside the city were in a panic, scrutinizing and scrutinizing, and searching and searching.
After much thought, Tokutaro Sakai blocked the news that Hisao Tani had died in battle, and did not even disclose it to the headquarters of the Tenth Army, because there were more than 5,000 of his subordinates in the city. If the news were leaked, what would happen if the morale of the military was fluctuated?
Tokutaro Sakai cannot imagine the loss.
As for Hisao Tani, who was said to be completely cold, after a symbolic examination by the military doctor, he was covered with a white cloth and placed in a corner of the headquarters.
No one took a second look.
This is a human being. No matter how prominent you were during your lifetime, with a heavy military order in your hand, you can make the world look down upon you. But when you become a cold corpse, your final destination is nothing more than a white cloth covering your face.
On the battlefield, the dead can only become the past tense, while the living will always only care about the future of the living.
The fighting in the city did not stop just because the Butcher was over. In the intertwined battlefield, even if the Japanese army wanted to withdraw, it would not be so easy.
Sakai Tokutaro, who was cautious by nature, did not dare to issue a retreat order easily. The boss was killed by a sniper. If he failed again, I am afraid that getting rid of Major General Xiaoxing would be the best destination.
No matter how hard you bite the bullet, you have to do it!
Lieutenant General Wu in the Songjiang Command finally used one of his trump cards, and the guard battalion, which had been repaired for a whole day, entered the battlefield from the flank of Xicheng District.
The security battalion is different from the two infantry regiments of the 67th Army. It not only has an infantry company with appropriate firepower, but also a guard company that is better at close combat. At the same time, it has former Songjiang security regiment veterans who are familiar with the terrain of Songjiang. These are two-eyed
A black Japanese army is an overwhelming advantage.
But the most troublesome thing for the Japanese army is not the Chinese infantry newly added to the battlefield. No matter how powerful the shell guns and submachine guns are, they cannot be said to be invincible. The defense line they spent an afternoon consolidating also has grenades and light machine guns, and is composed of houses.
The cross firepower is enough to scare away any powerful enemy.
However, this new army that suddenly entered the battlefield also had a terrifying heavy fire support force.
Heavy machine guns and machine guns don't matter. No matter how ferocious the firepower of these two guns is, how can they demolish houses? The grenadiers and infantry guns equipped by the Japanese army are also not vegetarian. If they fire back with one shot, no matter how solid the brick wall is, they will be destroyed.
It's a big hole, an excellent weapon for dealing with heavy firepower.
But a Chinese army with only a few hundred people is actually equipped with 6 mortars. This thing is simply an artifact for street fighting. It is obviously separated by a block, and there are barriers and fire points in the middle, but the elevation angle is as high as 85 degrees.
The mortar completely ignores these obstacles and can accurately hit the top of the person's head with the shell.
This can cost people their lives.
The house where you could avoid bullets has become the most dangerous place. As long as the infantrymen who rush into the neighborhood find a firepower point, they often use only one tactic. The firepower attracts the attention of the opponent, and then sends people to notify the fire support troops in the rear.
After five minutes, three or four shells will hit.
Even if the firepower point was not blown into parts all over the ground, the collapsed houses and the ignited fires would definitely force the Japanese troops with light and heavy firepower out of the houses, and then they would be greeted by a barrage of bullets.
The Japanese flank with more than 1,500 troops was beaten back by the Chinese with hundreds of troops. In just one hour, the entire front line recovered more than 500 meters to the east.
This made the captain of the 13th Infantry Colonel Regiment, who was in charge of commanding the front line, very angry. He even ordered his 4th Infantry Battalion Captain Shoji Kawabe to organize an infantry squadron of nearly 200 people to enter the rear of the Chinese front line through the gaps in the battlefield.
In an attempt to annihilate this Chinese fire support force that dared to move heavy firepower such as mortars to the front line.
Penetrating the enemy on the battlefield to strike at important enemy departments is the most commonly used tactic in Japanese land warfare.
In the past time and space, during the Zaoyi Battle on the Jianghan Plain, the Japanese army used this bold interlude tactic and blocked the retreat of the famous general commander with the strength of an infantry squadron.
The star will thus fall.
But this time, the Japanese army obviously had a wrong idea.
When Tang Dao planned the battle plan for the whole battalion to participate in street fighting, he specifically focused on preventing the Japanese troops from using gaps in the battlefield to penetrate into the rear. Especially when the fire support company went to the battlefield, the battalion guard squad and the guard company platoon were the least defensive.
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The person responsible for guarding the safety of the fire support company was Zhao Daqiang, who was the platoon leader of the security company at the time. Zhao Daqiang, who was the personal guard of the 26th Division Lieutenant General and Division Commander, was most comfortable with defensive guards.
He expanded his guard post by a full 150 meters, which meant that unless the Japanese army could accurately know the location of the mortars and throw grenades at them from 150 meters away, he would be able to counterattack one step ahead of the enemy.
He was very smart and did not fire a warning shot first. Instead, after dozens of Japanese soldiers sneaked into the defense area under the cover of night, he threw out a bundle of cluster bombs with four grenades tied to him.
More than 10 Japanese soldiers were killed and injured by the sudden cluster bombs in the dark ruins. A platoon of guards who were already on high alert quickly mobilized their troops to block this side after hearing the violent explosion.
The Japanese infantry, no longer hiding their cover, failed to catch up with the slithering guard sentry, and soon encountered an oncoming attack from the guard platoon.
The Japanese commanders knew that they were not here to tangle with the infantry, but to destroy the Chinese heavy fire support troops. Especially if they confronted the Chinese behind the Chinese defense line, they would undoubtedly be courting death. Waiting for the Chinese frontline infantry to return,
They will completely become turtles in a urn.
It's just that although they have the advantage in strength, the hail of bullets caused by their opponents' shell guns and submachine guns makes it difficult for them to move forward, even though they clearly know that the Chinese fire support troops are nearby.
‘Dong dong!’ The muffled sound will never exceed 100 meters.
But this hundred meters is the insurmountable distance for them.
Especially when the fire support company vented all its anger on them.
A flare was rising in the sky above them. The Japanese army could no longer hide their figures. Two machine guns hidden in the attic opened fire at the Japanese army in the alleyway without restraint. This was a disaster for the Japanese army with a large number of troops.
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An anti-aircraft gun that can penetrate 15mm steel plates at a distance of 500 meters is terrible when fired flatly. Some unlucky people have experienced it firsthand during the Battle of Sihang Warehouse.
The brick walls used in ordinary residential buildings have no defense against anti-aircraft guns. Their only function is to block the sight of the Japanese army, which is similar to self-consolation like covering one's ears and stealing the bell from being hit by machine guns.
The reason why machine guns did not perform well in street fighting was just because they were concerned about the Japanese infantry artillery, but it did not mean that they would shrink back when facing a group of light infantry equipped with grenades at most.
It’s not that the Japanese grenadiers never made counterattacks, but the machine gun fortifications were specially designed to be anti-grenade. Sandbags were piled around to prevent shrapnel from splashing. The ceiling was also specially supported with thick logs, unless grenades were thrown directly.
Directly above the fortifications, the machine guns may be able to do some damage.
But obviously, the mortars that had been waiting for a long time were waiting for the grenade launchers that were the biggest threat to appear. The artillery observation posts left at high places kept reporting the location of the grenade launchers.
The 6.5-kilogram heavy shells of six Type 82 mortars are much more powerful than grenades the size of Japanese melon grenades. One shot can even destroy a house.
Mortars hit miniature 'mortars'. An infantry squadron lost five of the six grenade launchers in less than five minutes. The last one was saved because the grenadier soldier hid it because of cowardice.
There was no attack, so it was not discovered by the Chinese.
But, even if you keep the grenade that you don’t dare to attack, can you use it as a fire stick?
After the grenadiers were completely eliminated, the nightmare of the Japanese infantry came.
Six heavy machine guns with basically no fortifications also appeared on stage. Guided by the rising light of flares, they poured bullets towards the Japanese troops hiding in Tibet.
A Japanese infantry squadron with skilled tactics was defeated by a guard platoon of no more than 40 people.
It's not that the guard platoon is awesome, but that the Chinese crush them in terms of heavy firepower, just like they have always crushed the Chinese with sharp artillery.
This is the most frightening situation when attacking fire support troops. Once blocked by the opponent's security forces, those artillery pieces that were originally defenseless in front of the infantry can make the attackers taste the bitter wine brewed by themselves.
The battle lasted only ten minutes. Seeing that nothing could be done, the Japanese captain ordered a retreat.
This was originally an extremely quick response for the proud Japanese Army, but unfortunately, it was still too late.
An infantry platoon sent back from the front line by Zhuang Shisan blocked their way. Qian Dazhu's 2nd platoon surrounded them from the right wing, plus Zhao Daqiang's guard platoon pushed up from the rear, plus reinforcements from the rear.
The 20-person security squad at the battalion headquarters, with a total strength of nearly 200 Chinese infantrymen, launched a round of siege around the remaining Japanese troops who only had one light machine gun as a firepower point.
The scene happened again in the afternoon.
However, this time it was not the Japanese troops who were encircling and suppressing the Chinese soldiers who were resisting in the houses, but the Chinese who were encircling and suppressing the Japanese invaders who were hiding in the houses and resisting.
Hand grenades, mortars and even Molotov cocktails were used. Almost no Japanese army could escape such an attack.
The houses that were lit into piles of bonfires illuminated the night sky, saving flares, but making it harder for the Japanese soldiers in their khaki military uniforms, which looked like prairie dogs on the prairie, to hide.
But when Shoji saw the fire flashing in the distance by the river in the distance, he knew that his insertion tactic had failed and he had lost an infantry squadron in vain.
The sound of gunshots and explosions was still ringing out continuously, and for the first time, the Japanese Major's mind was filled with the shadow of the 6th Infantry Battalion, which he said was too stupid to be spared.
Could it be that this is the future of his 4th Infantry Group?
