Rise From Eight Hundred

The Sihangying has left!

The large construction site in Songjiang is still working late into the night.

Those who are tired lie down by the campfire and smoke a cigarette for a few minutes, and then get up and work again when they have recovered some strength.

Everyone in Songjiang City is squeezing out the last bit of their physical strength for their future, because they still want to go home. Although the chance is slim, why not fight for it! If you miss tonight, I am afraid you will not even be qualified to fight.

The entire Songjiang City is like an armed fortress, which is built up visibly.

The firepower structure planned by Tang Dao is gradually taking shape.

Countless trenches connect the houses in the blocks and extend to various parts of the city wall.

The six large air-raid shelters are like a big spider. The seven or eight trenches extending from the air-raid shelters are like long spider legs, winding and extending to various parts of the city. The six infantry regiments of the 67th Army will use these six large air-raid shelters as garrison holes and command centers to establish their own defense zones.

The other two infantry regiments acted as supplementary regiments. If the front-line infantry regiment suffered too many casualties, they would take over and at least give the front-line infantry regiment a break.

Six firing points were dug in each wall, with steel plates and logs as support inside, with an infantry gun or rapid-fire gun as the main firepower, and two heavy machine guns as the secondary firepower.

Above each firing point, that is, on the battlements of the city wall, there were also reinforced sandbag fortifications as infantry bunkers, enough for two infantry squads to enter. In order to prevent the city wall from being bombarded by the Japanese invaders and causing too much loss to the infantry, a communication trench was built behind each infantry bunker. Only when the Japanese army stopped bombarding the infantry and started attacking, the infantry would climb the city wall from the communication trench.

Although there were as many as six infantry regiments defending the four walls, in fact, the internal firing points of the city wall plus the positions above the city wall only deployed six infantry companies at a time.

A defensive war is a war of attrition.

What was consumed was not only weapons and ammunition, but also human lives.

Tang Dao's conclusion is cruel, but it is a proof of the final results of several large-scale urban defense battles in World War II.

A few years later, the famous Battle of Mogle, which broke out on the land of the red polar bear, involved more than 2 million troops on both sides, with more than one million deaths and tens of thousands of casualties a day, and these were just soldiers.

Of the 850,000 residents who failed to evacuate the city, only 1,500 were left after the war.

Compared with the battlefield where the hairs on the backs of the heads of the soldiers stand up, the city attack and defense wars in which China and Japan now invest only a few hundred thousand troops are simply a child's play.

However, consuming supplies, consuming lives, and consuming all the courage you can think of are the essence of urban defense battles.

The infantry regiments of the 67th Army are all standard regiments, with each regiment having a strength of 2,500 people. Six infantry regiments have more than 15,000 people. Using the coldest formula of human life, it is enough to consume 15 rounds.

If the exchange ratio between the attackers and the defenders is 1:2, if the Japanese army wants to consume all these more than 10,000 people, I am afraid that they will have to pay a reorganized division to accompany them. It depends on which one of the 6th Division and the 18th Division, which has the title of "Empire Double B", has the courage to do so.

As for the scum of the 114th Division, Tang Dao did not count them at all. What is there to pay attention to about a division commander who only dared to bring an infantry brigade here?

In addition to the infantry, the most important thing is of course the artillery that poses the greatest threat to the Japanese army.

The 26th Division contributed its last four infantry guns, which were filled into the firepower points inside the city wall by Lieutenant General Wu without hesitation, while the two mountain guns that were regarded as treasures were not valued much.

The reason is that the 67th Army does not lack mountain guns. The proud and raised muzzles of 48 guns in three mountain artillery battalions and one field artillery battalion made General Guo's eyes green, and he almost envied them.

Naturally, they handed over the two mountain guns to the Sihangying Camp. The "tycoon" 67th Army didn't need them, but that didn't mean the 43rd Army, which had been suffering all the time, didn't want them. Otherwise, they would be the treasures of the 43rd Army when it was rebuilt.

Both heavy mortar battalions were placed around the air-raid shelters not far from the city wall. Once they encountered Japanese heavy artillery and air threats, the artillerymen could still carry these not-too-heavy artillery to avoid them.

But mountain guns and field guns couldn't do that. Without fortifications, once the Japanese reconnaissance plane detected their positions, they would be dead.

Because the depth of Songjiang was so large, where could the mountain guns and field guns be transferred? Since they couldn't run far, they could only resist.

Use more solid fortifications.

In such a short time, it was naturally impossible to build that kind of reinforced concrete permanent fortifications, but semi-permanent ones should be okay.

48 guns from three mountain artillery battalions and one field artillery battalion were placed in semi-permanent fortifications made of logs and sandbags. The fortifications were not only half-sunken, but also camouflaged on the top. For this purpose, manpower and material resources were spent to build a spire similar to a roof.

That was all to avoid being detected by Japanese planes.

More important than camouflage, of course, the fortifications themselves had to be strong enough.

The main material that could be used as a roof beam was cut as the top of the fortification, and then covered with one meter thick sand and two layers of sandbags. It can basically withstand the bombardment of 75-caliber mountain artillery. Even if it is a 150-caliber heavy artillery, as long as it is not hit head-on, this kind of fortification to protect the artillery will not be completely destroyed.

In order to avoid the terrible explosion caused by the shells being hit, there will be a small basement of 3 meters deep near the fortifications. It is called a basement, but it is actually a simple cave. Because of the tight time, they naturally don’t care about the appearance. They dug a cave deep underground, supported by wooden pillars taken down from the house, and then dug an inclined slope to the ground to facilitate the gunners to move the shells.

And this kind of special fortification for artillery has a firing port with an area of ​​more than 2 square meters on all sides, which basically ensures that the indirect-fire howitzer can project shells to most areas outside Songjiang City.

These are all built according to the design drawings of the fortifications of Tang Dao. From the beginning, Tang Dao did not intend to let these artillery and Japanese artillery fire against each other. They have only one target, the Japanese infantry within five kilometers of the city.

That means, I don’t care how you hit me, anyway, I only fight infantry.

That's because, although the Liao-made 13th field gun and mountain gun equipped by the 67th Army are basically based on the Krupp 75mm caliber gun, and their range and power are no worse than the Japanese-equipped Type 41 mountain gun, as the attacking party, the more mobile and flexible Japanese artillery can move positions at any time, and at this time there is no anti-artillery radar that can calculate the Japanese artillery position based on the trajectory.

If there are advanced wireless equipment, Tang Dao can go back to his old specialty of special forces, go to lurk outside the city, find the artillery position, and report the target coordinates to his own artillery remotely.

But unfortunately, there is no such equipment. The longest-range communication equipment currently equipped by China and Japan is the heavy field radio.

No matter how powerful Tang Dao is, it is impossible to carry such a big guy around!

Instead of wasting ammunition to try your luck and suppress the Japanese artillery, it is better to kill a large number of Japanese infantry.

The three artillery battalions were located in three directions, which basically ensured that at least twelve guns could kill Japanese infantry in any direction of the four city walls.

As a cannon, the field artillery naturally mainly targets farther areas, such as armored targets.

In order to ensure that the four artillery battalions could fire at the designated targets in time, Tang Dao even placed the artillery observers on the city wall. For this purpose, he spent a lot of manpower to dig artillery observation posts above the city wall, and even buried several telephone lines and telephones for each observation post.

Once the telephone line was broken by artillery fire, not only would the signalmen be responsible for maintenance, but the uncommon flag signals would also be used.

For this reason, the four artillery battalions borrowed almost all the telescopes of the infantry battalions except the chief officers. They needed to obtain the artillery coordinates as quickly as possible.

These were just blueprints and a pile of ruins drawn on the drawings before the 30,000 troops of the 67th Army came, but after five or six hours of labor by tens of thousands of people, they gradually began to take shape.

The civilians may not understand it very well, but the officers and soldiers of the 67th Army and the 43rd Army have experienced wars, so they naturally know how powerful these fortifications are.

Based on this, the Japanese want to break in, but they can't think about it without losing tens of thousands of lives. Even if they enter the city, there are more brutal street fighting waiting for them.

According to the plan, each regiment, battalion, company, and even squad has its own defense area, just like a residential building. You have conquered the living room, but there will still be resistance in the bedroom and the backyard.

According to the deputy director Tang of the General Staff, every inch of land in Songjiang City will become a position.

It's so cruel.

This is the first thought that flashed in the minds of every battalion and regiment commander who got their respective defense area planning maps.

They have no doubt that when the wounded Japanese army breaks through the city wall with joy and breaks in, they will find in despair that what awaits them is not the delicious fruits of victory, but the real battle has just begun.

They just knocked on the door of a big mill.

The big millstone that has already begun to turn, driven by the officers and soldiers of both sides, can only grind the flesh and blood of the soldiers of both sides...

Ps: It's a little late, because today is the Hubei high school entrance examination, and Fengyue just came back from the exam. Ahem, I came back to accompany my little girl who just finished the Chinese exam. I hope everything goes well for her next exam.