Rise From Eight Hundred

"Boom! Boom!"

The rising fireballs seemed to scare the moon and it went into the dark clouds.

But the ground was brighter than ever before.

The shit-yellow uniforms of the Japanese army looked helpless in the artillery fire.

Hide?

Where to hide?

Lie down on the spot. The 22-kilogram big guy will hit you, with a killing radius of more than ten meters. You will be easily killed if you lie on the ground.

In addition, the frightened 94 armored vehicles will also become a huge threat to the Japanese infantry.

That broken thing can block heavy machine guns, but in front of such a large-caliber mortar, if it is hit head-on, it will still be a small slag.

Once they run without caring, everyone lying in front of them will become their little meat pads.

Hide in the room? If you are not killed by the explosion, you may be crushed to death by the collapsed wood and bricks.

Without trenches and anti-gun holes, even the most well-trained soldiers can only become a group of panicked chickens in the face of the mortar.

Running is their only choice.

No matter where you run, just leave this area.

Under the huge threat of more than a dozen fireballs, 600 Japanese infantrymen threw away the bodies they had already carried and ran around regardless of anything. Some fled to the main camp, some did the opposite and fled to the direction of Songjiang City, and some fled deeper into the residential areas.

And 15 150-caliber mortars, at the request of Tang Dao, each gun fired 10 rounds at a high speed.

After 150 rounds of shells were fired, they quickly carried the guns and ran away.

Shigeharu Suematsu

Those who ran back and luckily avoided the shells were naturally lucky, but there were no more than half of them.

The Japanese squadron leader who ran all the way back to his own position counted and found that there were only about 300 Japanese infantrymen who were sweating profusely.

What about the other 300? Were they all killed by the Chinese mortars? That hit rate is too high!

Of course not. In a panic, some of them ran to the area where the Songjiang Security Corps was hiding. When they saw another Japanese army coming, the security corps soldiers who didn't know the situation thought that the Japanese were coming to attack.

If they didn't kill them, they would be killed. The security corps soldiers, who had only one way left, launched the attack without hesitation.

There was another round of lively shooting.

The other wave ran towards Cangcheng. The Tang Dao who had been paying close attention to this place was also very timid. They immediately ordered all the light and heavy firepower points on the wall facing the residential area to open fire together.

Even if they couldn't kill people because of the layers of residential houses, they would still scare you half to death.

When the Japanese main camp saw it, they were like, Baka! The Chinese didn't want to live anymore. They dared to take the initiative to shoot. The grenade launchers and infantry guns also fired.

This was the result of Suematsu Shigeharu's restraint. Otherwise, if he ordered the artillery regiment to fire, not only would Cangcheng be engulfed in flames again, but the residential areas around Cangcheng would also be the same. The main reason was that he knew that the reason why the Chinese opened fire was that there must be their own people around. The 105 howitzer was sharp, and it was not possible to kill a few Chinese hiding in the fortifications, but to blow up their own people.

Tang Dao certainly knew that the Japanese army had some concerns, otherwise they would not have mobilized light and heavy machine guns to the fortifications on the wall.

From Cangcheng to the densely packed residential areas, from just after dark to eleven or twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, the gunfire outside Songjiang City never stopped, and the two Chinese Army Lieutenant Generals who personally went to the observation post on the Songjiang City Wall to watch the battle were stunned.

They imagined that the battlefield would be extremely fierce, but the battle outside the city lasted until almost the second half of the night, and they didn't even have time to breathe, which was beyond their imagination.

Little did they know that Suematsu Shigeharu, whose eyes were full of bloodshot, said that he didn't want to cause such an outcome.

He was in charge of the battlefield before 9 o'clock in the evening, but after that, he just wanted to send people to collect the bodies, but he didn't know that the Chinese would still be relentless.

It was not until midnight that the gunfire really stopped.

On the Japanese side, many people returned under the cover of night, but it seemed that only more than 400 people could finally return to the main camp, which also meant that one more infantry squadron would have to be lost in the search.

Moreover, the bodies were still thrown in the "dark block".

This is the name currently given by the Japanese infantry to the residential area that has swallowed up hundreds of their people. It seems that there is some hatred, but perhaps, more fear.

In their opinion, the guy who let the infantry enter such an unknown environment to fight on such a night must be a fool.

Of course, this kind of thing can only be thought about in the heart, even the colonel commander dare not say it out loud.

Because the fool is still roaring.

"Asshole! Idiot! All the Chinese are dead!"

In the 114th Division Field Command, 1,800 meters away from Matsue Castle, Suematsu Shigeharu paced back and forth like a trapped beast, cursing non-stop.

There was no one else in the command except his chief of staff, Colonel Saburo Isoda.

The two infantry regiment commanders, the artillery regiment commander, the engineer regiment commander, the logistics regiment commander, the cavalry regiment commander, and a group of colonels and lieutenant colonels were originally summoned to attend a military meeting. After learning the final battle situation on the front line, they were collectively driven out to the cold wilderness by the furious lieutenant general to blow the wind.

In many divisions of the Japanese army, the chief of staff is like a mascot. His opinions are basically dispensable and he only needs to take care of the baggage and logistics. However, in the 114th Division, it is a little special because Isoda Saburo was originally a direct subordinate of Doi-maru. After he was transferred to the 14th Division, he was also placed in the supplementary division that originally belonged to the 14th Division, that is, the newly established special division 114th Division as the chief of staff.

With such a relationship, as someone who wants to cling to Doi-maru's thigh, Suematsu Shigeharu will never ruthlessly crush his chief of staff like other division commanders. Besides, this guy has worked in the intelligence department and is extremely good at analysis. Sometimes the suggestions he puts forward are reasonable, so he also has the trust of Suematsu Shigeharu.

Just like now, Suematsu Shigeharu has been stimulated by repeated failures like a wild donkey that has taken aphrodisiacs, and Isoda Saburo can still stay in the division headquarters, instead of standing in the cold wilderness like others.

"Mr. Division Commander! Temporary defeat doesn't mean anything, and I think that defeat before the war comes will do more good than harm to our division." Isoda Saburo suddenly did the opposite to comfort his furious division commander.

"Mr. Isoda, what do you mean by this?" Suematsu Shigeharu stopped and looked at the chief of staff, who was usually in the same boat with him, with a cold look.

Failure can be more beneficial than harmful? This is only Isoda Saburo. If it were someone else, he would have slapped him in the face. This is pointing at a bald donkey and scolding a bald donkey!

"As the vanguard of the 10th Army, my division landed on the beach to Jinshan County and then to Songjiang City. We will fight and win every battle. Even if we occasionally fail, I think Commander Yanagawa Heisuke will not blame us too much." Isoda Saburo is indeed a former intelligence worker. He is much better at lying than Suematsu Shigeharu.

From noon to late at night, a series of failures from his mouth became occasional failures.

However, Shigeharu Suematsu's face was much better, and he signaled the shameless chief of staff to continue.

Otherwise, he really couldn't find a reason to sleep.

"I remember when the North China Expeditionary Army Headquarters transferred my 114th Division to southeast China, because my division only had one brigade of soldiers, they specially transferred a part of the troops from the 5th Division to form a detachment and put it under the command of my division. Why haven't I seen the detachment commander, Major General Kunisaki, come to the division headquarters to report to you, the division commander, for a long time!" Isoda Saburo, who helped Shigeharu Suematsu calm down his anger, suddenly changed the subject and mentioned the Kunisaki detachment.

"Kunisaki, that bastard, relied on the relationship with Itagaki Seishirō, and only maintained superficial courtesy to the division headquarters. In fact, he didn't obey the division headquarters' dispatch at all. Isoda-kun, you know it, so why mention it again." Hearing his subordinates mention this, Shigeharu Suematsu was obviously a little unhappy.

The Kunisaki Detachment was drawn from the Fifth Division. Although it is called a detachment, it is actually a mixed brigade with more complete combat functions. It is based on an infantry brigade, equipped with auxiliary arms such as cavalry, artillery, engineering, and logistics, and becomes an independent combat unit smaller than a division. Its strength is equivalent to that of a regular infantry division in China.

The Fifth Brigade is a Type A permanent division, which is much higher in specifications than the 114th Division, a special division. It is normal for them to look down on the 114th Division. On the surface, they maintain courtesy because Shigeharu Suematsu is a lieutenant general of the army. The Major General Kunisaki, the detachment commander, does not even look at the Colonel Chief of Staff Saburo Isoda.

"Since the Expeditionary Army Command has assigned them to the command of my division, they should obey the military order." Saburo Isoda flashed a cold light in his eyes.

"For example, our army has been fighting continuously and needs to rest. As a subordinate of our 114th Division, shouldn't their Kunisaki Detachment contribute?"

"This" Shigeharu Suematsu was stunned for a moment, and then a smile flashed across his cold face.

Damn, those who come from intelligence backgrounds are so insidious!

But I like it.