Rise From Eight Hundred

In fact, the Japanese troops in the checkpoint had made sufficient preparations after receiving the call.

Not only were there field fortifications, but there were also positions in the dilapidated buildings and houses around the checkpoint.

But they did not expect that the Chinese were so unethical. They would carry a machine gun with them even when they were running away. They threw shells and grenades at them like they were free, and the bullets were used to cover the attack in a prodigal way.

The residential buildings in Songhu are typical Jiangnan residential buildings, with walls made of blue bricks. Not to mention the machine guns with terrible penetration power, even the rifle bullets of the Type 38 rifle can penetrate them.

These simple fortifications were really weak in the face of such firepower.

All the infantry were suppressed and dared not raise their heads. The only two grenade launcher teams were brave enough, but after firing several grenades in a row, the Chinese mortars began to fight back.

Using a 50mm grenade launcher to shoot at someone else's 82mm mortar? Don't be kidding! What's more, they have countless grenade launchers as accomplices!

When more than a dozen shells and grenades exploded around the grenade throwers, the Japanese grenade throwers completely stopped.

And as the two heavy machine gun fortifications and the shooters hiding behind them were swept into a pile of fragments by machine guns, the end of the Japanese army also came.

The two infantry squads that bypassed the two sides of the road successfully approached the Japanese infantry positions, and more than a dozen grenades swirled in the air and fell on the heads of the Japanese infantry hiding in the simple positions.

The Japanese infantry, who were already small in number, were very frustrated.

Lying down, being blown up by grenades, and not lying down to fight back, being swept by the opponent's machine guns, no matter which choice was a death.

At this moment, they finally realized the helplessness of their opponents in the two months of fighting.

It's not that their opponents don't know how to use tactics and can only defend in the trenches, but that their firepower is suppressed and they can only fall into a passive position, just like them now.

In fact, not only the light and heavy firepower was suppressed, but also the firepower configuration of the two infantry squads that came around made the Japanese soldiers who had endured three waves of grenade bombings in a row despair.

A single-shot rifle was directly shot into a dog by a submachine gun with a 32-round magazine at a distance of 30 meters.

The whole battle ended in less than three minutes. Only a few Japanese soldiers took the lead in slipping away and fled into the depths of the ruins under the cover of night.

Ordered two infantry squads to clean up the battlefield in one or two minutes, and moved away the barbed wire and barbed wire. Tang Dao still personally served as the driver of the first car to turn the front of the car over and enter the cleared road.

However, there was a small accident, which made the convoy stay in place for at least five minutes, and then the convoy continued to run wildly along the road.

2,000 meters away, in a complete field command post.

Yoshizumi Ryosuke, the commander of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army, was staring at the field map on the wall and thinking hard. The faint sound of artillery from a distance made his brows frown involuntarily.

After walking out of the command center and determining the direction of the artillery sound, he found that he was behind the army's position, and his face became even uglier.

"Go, check, that's the station of that regiment." He waved his hand and asked the staff of the division headquarters who followed behind to check.

"It seems to be the 36th Infantry Regiment over there." The captain staff had a good memory.

"36th Regiment?" The Japanese Army Lieutenant General was slightly stunned. It was a very familiar organization, but it definitely shouldn't be under his command.

"It belongs to the 3rd Division. It was unlucky to capture the Sihang Warehouse a few days ago." The captain staff reminded in a low voice.

"It turned out to be that bunch of idiots." Yoshizumi Ryosuke suddenly realized and remembered the group of unlucky people who had been sent to the Kunshan front and left behind by the 3rd Division and were directly under the Expeditionary Force Command.

"Then ask their current regiment commander what happened in their defense zone and why there are still artillery sounds."

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Not long after, the captain staff brought the answer Yoshizumi Ryosuke wanted.

The acting commander of the 36th Infantry Regiment, Toyoda Hide, called back: We found more than 100 remnants of the Sihang Warehouse defenders. They attacked the baggage squad of the 16th Division and seized ten vehicles, and fled to the front line in the west of Shanghai. Our No. 7 post is fighting with them. Our Infantry Regiment has gathered its forces and will annihilate them.

"Haha, it turns out that it is the victim of the 36th Infantry Regiment!" Yoshizumi Ryosuke smiled after reading Toyoda Hide's call.

Although the Sihang Warehouse defenders made a lot of noise a few days ago, that was just influence. In terms of their combat effectiveness, how could they be in the eyes of a Japanese regular division commander who was in charge of nearly 30,000 troops?

Let alone the more than 100 remnants in Toyoda Hide's reply, even the entire 524th Regiment with more than 2,000 people may not be worthy of the attention of this lieutenant general of the Japanese Empire.

"That's it! Although the subordinates of that idiot Fujita Shin have inherited some of his style, they still have some of the bravery of the Imperial Army. They know how to be brave after knowing shame. Let them deal with it themselves." Yoshizumi Ryosuke waved his hand and no longer paid attention to the gunfire that startled him.

"Oh, by the way! Tell them back that if they can completely wipe out the remnant of the Chinese army, I will say a few good words for them to General Matsui Iwane. If they need any help, let them contact Nakagawa-kun."

Obviously, Yoshizumi Ryosuke was in a good mood at the moment, and he wanted to send warmth to the 36th Infantry Regiment, a bunch of unlucky guys who were not loved by their grandmothers, uncles, and even their parents.

When Toyota Hide received this telegram from the 9th Division Headquarters, he held back his tears, which was considered very restrained.

But this Japanese Army Lieutenant General didn't know that his telegram could be regarded as pushing a group of unlucky guys into the abyss again.

Originally, after the battle of Sihang Warehouse, the 36th Infantry Regiment, excluding the wounded, including the artillery squadron, the baggage squadron, and the squadron directly under the regiment, had only more than 900 people, which could barely make up the organization of an infantry battalion.

There were nearly 400 people assigned to the 8 checkpoints, and there were only more than 500 people left in the garrison. After receiving a call back from the 9th Division Headquarters, Toyota Hideichi was excited. Except for leaving two small teams to stay in the garrison, the remaining more than 400 people all took up their guns and went to settle accounts with the enemy.

You have a fortress, I can't beat you, now it's a field battle, I can't beat you? Besides, I still have several times your strength now.

Maybe Toyota Hide is not the only one who thinks so, the hodgepodge Japanese infantry organized into two infantry squadrons probably think so.

The 9th Division was very helpful. Not only did they help verbally, but they also dispatched 15 trucks from the division's baggage company not far from them. Toyota Hide drove all the three-wheeled motorcycles in the camp, and the huge convoy set off in a mighty manner.

But no one thought that the 36th Infantry Regiment would first become an infantry battalion and then an infantry company.

That was definitely one of the most tragic infantry regiments in the history of the Japanese Army.

The reason why I say one of them is that the war has only started for three months, and there is still a long time to come. China, which has been beaten, is not so easy to mess with.

Toyota Hide worked very hard. It only took fifteen minutes from gathering troops to setting off, but he was still late.

When he arrived at the No. 7 checkpoint in a mighty manner, there was only a pile of corpses waiting for him.

However, the blood flowing all over the ground and still steaming reminded him frantically that the Chinese had not run far, and he was still okay and could catch up.

"Go after them with all your strength, notify the No. 8 checkpoint again, and stop them at all costs." Toyota Hide gritted his teeth and ordered.

The blood debt has increased again!

However, this Japanese Army leader with the rank of major has overestimated his soldiers who have been discouraged.

But to be honest, although the scum of the 36th Infantry Regiment has been beaten into pigs in the Sihang Warehouse, the combat effectiveness is two levels lower than before, but the arrogance formed by the continuous victory of the Chinese army for a long time is not so easy to be eliminated.

You can see the formation of Major Toyota Hide with 400 people rushing to kill. The 36th Infantry Regiment is currently very weak, but it is not so weak that it dares not even fight.

But Toyota Hide's high hopes for the No. 8 checkpoint still let him down.

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