Jiro Wakiita is indeed a top student from the Kyoto Army Academy.
After adopting Yin Teng Zhonger's strategy of "snatching the enemy away from the enemy", he was still cautious enough. In order to prevent his opponent from being fooled, he did not hesitate to use the "strong wall" strategy at great expense.
However, this was also because, as Tang Dao had guessed, the original battle of the Little Sihang Warehouse was no longer just a battlefield for an infantry regiment.
Worried about the protests from the Western world that would cause disaster to Yuchi, not only the Songhu Dispatch Army Headquarters noticed this place, but even the Japanese Army Base Camp called specifically to inquire about the situation of the war.
How dare you be sloppy at the headquarters of the Japanese Third Division? Although this battlefield is so big, even an infantry regiment is already too crowded and there is no need to add more troops, but the needs mentioned by Wakiitajiro are all met.
Yes.
For example, coordinating the navy to send fighter planes was the result of a personal request from the general and division commander.
Otherwise, do you think that the Japanese Navy, which often talks about the Army's Malu, would take a small army commander like Wakiitajiro seriously? It's pretty much the same.
Naturally, it is normal for Wakibajiro to request the division's engineer wing to bring various materials to help.
Facing the attention of the whole world, the Chinese certainly want to make a gesture of fighting to the death to encourage all Chinese soldiers and civilians, but the Japanese are not willing to become a backdrop.
It can be said that as the supreme commander of the Japanese army in the Battle of Shihang Warehouse, His Excellency Colonel Wakiitajiro, he has exploded his own small universe and used 120% of his strength, and he is almost bald.
There are more than ten semi-permanent fortifications being built on the frontal battlefield, and there are five or six on each wing. It is like a chain that is taking shape, and is about to completely lock the big monster of Sihang Warehouse that breaks out from time to time.
For the warehouse defenders, it is also very helpless. They should continue to use mortars to attack these fortifications that are taking shape! The price/performance ratio is too low.
Breaking through the sky and killing and injuring the Japanese engineers who were working on the project did not cause any serious damage to the strength of the Japanese army, but it did consume our own ammunition reserves, which were not very large.
In doing so, Wakiitajiro probably had an eye on the Chinese defenders.
Even if you have a lot of ammunition reserves, they are not infinite after all. If you have the ability, use your ammunition reserves in exchange for engineers.
Anyway, war needs cannon fodder.
"The war will really begin when the Japanese are serious." The Imperial Brigadier General sighed slightly, put down his telescope, and uttered a famous phrase that would be world-famous in the future.
"I don't deny the excellence of the Chinese, but in war, there is no reward for second place."
But it seems that the sun never sets on the Brigadier General when he talked about this sentence he once said in his twilight years, and he still responded confidently to those who had ridiculed him on this matter:
"I am at least one of the first people to admit that the Chinese are excellent, but some so-called gentlemen still can't believe that the giant dragon has opened its eyes and woke up..."
Yes, this small-scale battlefield at the edge of the concession changed many arrogant Westerners' views on China's inevitable defeat, not just the Brigadier General of the Empire on whom the Sun Never Sets.
Even now he is at a stage where he is not optimistic about Chinese soldiers.
Facing the "chain" being formed by the Japanese army, the warehouse defenders did not have a very effective method.
Tang Dao and Niu Er held rifles equipped with scopes, but they were able to defeat the Japanese engineers. After killing seven or eight Japanese engineers in succession, they attracted the elite marksmen sent by the Japanese army to shoot at each other.
For more than an hour, the battlefield belonged to Chinese and Japanese snipers.
"Bang! Bang!" The gunshots that erupted from time to time prevented the battlefield from falling into silence, thus reminding people that the war was still going on.
However, the Japanese army obviously had a natural lack of understanding of their opponent's shooting range. They probably never dreamed that they were facing a single-soldier king from the future.
Tang Dao is very powerful in sniping. Not to mention them now, even in the future, Japanese special forces will also be crushed.
The official rifle imitated from the 1924 Mauser has a pretty good effective range and is not inferior to the 38 Gai that the Japanese army is proud of. The sight modified from the expensive German-made quadruple telescope has raised the Tang Dao's strength to its peak.
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The seemingly insurmountable distance of more than 500 meters turned out to be an indescribable pain for Japanese precision shooters.
Except for the Japanese soldiers who were beaten to their hearts' content, no one knew the specific results of Tang Dao's battle.
Even the Japanese army themselves put this battle report into a confidential box and did not make it public.
Because it is no longer a matter of shame, but fear. They are afraid that when the results of the victory are announced, no one will have the courage to challenge the unknown Chinese shooter on the opposite side, or how many of them are there?
The first, second, and third floors of the warehouse...the Chinese shooters' fighting positions cover almost all positions on the front of the building. The ghostly position changes make it difficult to tell how many opponents there are.
However, they would rather believe that there is only one such terrifying marksman.
Its shooting accuracy is truly terrifying and unbelievable.
During the period of more than an hour when the fortifications were completely built, thirteen Japanese precision shooters died.
Eleven people were killed by Tang Dao's gun, and two were killed by Niu Er.
However, in this one-man duel mode, even if Tang Dao and his younger brother crush the Japanese elite into dust again, it will not have an impact on the entire battle situation.
Just as he watched with his own eyes the thirteen elite shooters carefully selected from his 36th Infantry Regiment, all turned into corpses in more than an hour, Wakiitajiro smiled instead of being angry.
"Why are you laughing, Osaka-dono?" Toyoda Hide replied, knowing current affairs well.
Although he felt deep in his heart that his direct superiors were either stunned or turned into idiots because of their anger. Otherwise, how many of them were ridiculous? Four of the corpses were from his 1st Infantry Battalion.
Veterans who are over 20 years old feel very distressed.
"I laugh at the short-sightedness of the Chinese people who would put such an elite to death. If our unit has such an elite and uses this as a model or instructor to train an elite team, it will become a terrible force on the battlefield.
the power of?"
Wakiitajiro had a smile on his face, but a frightening cold light flashed in his eyes.
"Fortunately! The Chinese have no chance to correct their mistakes. No matter how terrible this person's shooting skills are, he will definitely die here.
Pass my military orders to the left and right wings, and deploy cold gunners and light machine guns on the banks of the Suzhou River. All Chinese who attempt to cross the Suzhou River will be shot to death, and no one will be allowed to escape.
The fortifications are almost completed! The whole army is ready to attack!"
"Hi!" All the officers in the Japanese military headquarters bowed their heads in unison.
However, this time, the Japanese colonel mistakenly blamed the boss who ordered to guard the Sihang Warehouse. Although the military commanding ability was slightly poor, he was by no means weak enough to be looked down upon by a mere colonel-level officer.
If the 524th Regiment had sharpshooters like the Tang Dao who could kill the enemy more than 500 meters away earlier, it would most likely be replaced by another infantry battalion here.
Who doesn't know how to protect their own special arms? Just like the 18th Army, which has already sent troops to the north to fight against the Japanese army, the artillerymen can eat half a bun more.
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Finally, as all the Japanese army's fortifications were completed, the Japanese army's military operations began accordingly.
This time, it was still the Japanese troops on both wings who took action first.
The Japanese troops who learned well first used a large number of grenades to block the rooftop of the Sihang Warehouse, and then concentrated at least 8 Type 92 heavy machine guns on each side. They tried their best to suppress firepower at the shooting holes on the side walls of the Sihang Warehouse, surrounding the warehouse.
The barricades surrounded by walls were filled with smoke from grenade blasts.
At the same time, they also used smoke bombs, but instead of hitting the Sihang Warehouse, they used them between their position and the Sihang Warehouse. Then more than a dozen demolition teams rushed up with explosive packages.
Through the shooting holes, human figures were visible in the smoke of gunpowder and smoke bombs, making it difficult to see clearly the movements of the Japanese troops.
Although they knew that the Japanese army was just a test and had not officially entered the offensive stage, their aggressive momentum had already put pressure on the Chinese soldiers and civilians inside and outside the building.
