Rise From Eight Hundred

Facing the Chinese ruined positions that were trembling in the artillery fire again, the Sixth Division not only showed its sharpest sword.

Its 13th Infantry Regiment even set up its headquarters only 600 meters away from Songjiang City, which was within the range of heavy machine guns.

Six of the 10 infantry guns belonging to the regiment were close to the field fortifications of only 500 meters. Although this distance was within the range of the Chinese mortars, the precise strikes on the fortifications on the top of the city could almost guarantee an accuracy of 2 meters, as if they were going to fight with artillery and bayonets.

The Sixth Division's determination to complete the attack in one battle can be seen from this.

Of course, this may also have a more direct relationship with Tani Hisao's arrival at the brigade headquarters 1,000 meters away.

The division commander was 1,000 meters away, and you, a colonel regiment commander, could be further behind?

But no matter what, the hierarchical Japanese army was ready to take down the outer wall positions of Songjiang with the toughest attitude.

As the leader of the sharpest sword that Tani Hisao showed, that is, the major captain of the 6th Infantry Battalion of the 13th Infantry Regiment, Shenwu Yu Dalang is making the final mobilization for his subordinates.

"Gentlemen, the division commander is watching us from behind us. I hope you will live up to the reputation of our 13th Infantry Regiment and fight bravely!

The division commander also promised that the empire will not be stingy in rewarding the first infantry squadron to plant our army's flag on the Songjiang city wall. At the same time, the wealth in the city will be shared by you." Shenwu Yu Dalang, who was mobilizing more than 600 Japanese infantrymen in four infantry squadrons who were about to go into battle, showed cruelty in his eyes. "Tonight is a grand festival for all officers and soldiers of my 6th Division."

The Japanese major, who has a surname that sounds good but a very silly name, is not only good at talking, but also encourages his subordinates while practicing it himself.

Looking at the city wall hundreds of meters away, which was once again filled with gunpowder, with a cold look, the Japanese major took off his military uniform, threw away his pretentious white gloves, and wore only a white shirt, with a white cloth wrapped around his head, dressed like his father had died, drew his command knife, and roared "Kill the chickens!"

"Get on board!"

"Long live the empire!"

Like their commander, countless Japanese soldiers with white cloth wrapped around their heads, intending to wear mourning for their fathers in advance, shouted slogans and rushed towards the broken city wall 400 meters away like a tide.

Behind them and on both wings, more than 30 heavy machine guns roared in the field fortifications carefully built by the Japanese army. That was the heavy machine gun squadron of the 13th Infantry Regiment, which gathered three infantry battalions under its command.

In fact, even the Japanese army itself should rarely use such a large-scale heavy machine gun cluster for cover shooting.

The noise caused by dozens of machine guns firing at the same time made the Japanese colonel in the command post 200 meters away frown. As the highest commander on the front line, he couldn't wear earplugs like the Japanese shooters.

The heavy machine gun bullets raised the muzzle and hit the city wall like raindrops. The blue bricks were peeled off by the artillery fire, revealing a large amount of loess. The wall was instantly splashed with dust, and then merged with the gunpowder smoke stirred up by the Japanese artillery fire that had just raged.

The artillery fire of the Japanese 75 mountain guns and 105 howitzers had begun to extend inward with the infantry's attack.

After the Battle of Cangcheng, the Japanese army also learned lessons and gained experience. The Chinese often leave a small number of troops on the position, and their main forces stay in the bullet shelter behind the position, waiting for their own infantry to attack and then re-enter the position.

The Japanese, who knew this, also adjusted their tactics and extended their artillery fire. Instead of directly bombarding the positions to be attacked, they attacked the rear of the Chinese positions. This could not only prevent the main Chinese forces from entering the positions, but also perhaps use this to inflict heavy casualties on the Chinese.

This move was indeed very poisonous.

Unfortunately, the American cowboys more than a decade later were much smarter than them. This tactic had long been overused, and the Chinese soldiers, who had also learned from experience and lessons, had long come up with a way to deal with it.

From the very beginning, Tang Dao ordered trenches to be dug from the air-raid shelter to the main position of the city wall. The 2-meter-deep trenches were not for preparing for street fighting, but to prevent the Japanese from playing this trick.

The 75-caliber mountain artillery may be used to attack temporary fortifications, but for this kind of trench, unless the shells can be accurately sent to the inside of the trenches that are only 1.5 meters wide, otherwise, there is almost no damage to the soldiers passing through the trenches.

Even if a shell really falls into the trench like an eye, the 'z'-shaped trenches dug by Tang Dao with huge manpower can minimize the casualties caused by the surging air waves.

The curved trench corners are enough to weaken the strength of the air wave, and there will not be the tragedy of half an infantry company being swept away by a shell in many straight trenches on the Songhu battlefield.

The Japanese infantry was running wildly, and the artillery fire continued to extend backwards, but the Japanese army's attack on the city wall fortifications was not small.

In addition to the rain of bullets from heavy machine guns, there were also grenade launchers. It is unknown how many grenade launchers began to test the city wall. Anyway, the top of the city wall continued to explode with clouds of smoke.

From the beginning of the battle, the Japanese army was uncharacteristically, and did not even mean to test the firepower point. It was to launch a crazy attack on the 800-meter-wide city wall fortifications of Songjiang East City with firepower crushing.

If it were not for the main designer of the fortifications, Tang Dao, who hollowed out the city wall from the beginning and placed the firepower point inside the city wall, the firepower point placed on the top of the city would have suffered heavy losses in this wave of attacks even if it was not ravaged by Japanese artillery fire.

But even so, the soldiers hiding in the firing points inside the city wall couldn't help but lower their heads.

The Japanese army's covering firepower was really too exaggerated. How big was the shooting hole? But there were still bullets shot through the shooting hole. It was not about how accurate the Japanese heavy machine gunners were. It was completely a matter of probability.

The more than 600 or 700 Japanese soldiers in the attack were in a scattered formation, not in a swarm as imagined.

The four infantry squadrons were divided into two waves, two infantry squadrons in front and two infantry squadrons in the back, with a distance of nearly 100 meters in between.

The horizontal distance between each soldier was at least more than 3 meters, so as to avoid being swept by the Chinese firepower point machine gun and causing mass casualties.

Or, it was the 150-caliber mortar in the city that made the Japanese army have to be afraid. A shell dropped from that thing is also a nightmare-level existence that can sweep a radius of more than ten meters.

In terms of the power against infantry, the 70-caliber infantry gun, the main equipment of the Japanese infantry battalion, was not even qualified to carry the shoes of the 150-caliber mortar.

From 1,000 meters away, the 6th Infantry Battalion, divided into two waves, may have a somewhat chaotic formation, but it is advancing at a very fast speed. It took only four or five minutes to attack the moat.

The speed of advancement on the battlefield is a manifestation of firm will.

Even Tanabe Shigetake, who kept a distance from the tough Tani Hisao, had to sigh in his heart. Lieutenant General Tani Hisao had the confidence to be tough because he had such a strong subordinate, even though the Chinese in the city wall fortifications had not made any decent counterattacks.

After all, not everyone can run like a group of horny male rabbits under the rain of bullets that is about to be fired.

How awesome are the horny male rabbits?

When Tanabe Shigetake saw the major battalion commander waving his command knife and jumping into the cold moat first through the high-powered telescope, the major general chief of staff of the 10th Army had an urge to be a rabbit for once.

Really, the imperial warriors are so powerful. With such a strong army, what can weak China use to resist them?

Fortunately, the Japanese major general with a rational brain instantly annihilated this kind of middle school boy-like impulse.

Let's leave the bravery to those warriors who need to prove themselves! As a general, he just needs to watch.

In the late autumn of November, facing the moat more than 30 meters wide, facing the bullets that the hidden enemy could shoot at any time, led by a major, the "black skin and bright red blood" jumped into the river without hesitation and headed towards the target. What kind of iron will is this?

Will as strong as fine steel

This is the definition given by Tanabe Moritake after the performance of the imperial warriors of the 6th Division that he saw through the high-power telescope.

That is, fine steel has weight.

When going down the river, even if you can swim, no one wants to carry too much weight.

The full armor itself is already very heavy, but as a result, the Japanese major general 1,000 meters away gave them a will as strong as fine steel.

Steel peat! If the Japanese infantrymen who stepped into the moat water that could submerge their knees knew that someone cursed them like this, they would definitely slap them in the face.

Yes, although the heavy artillery had blasted the river bank in many places, the moat water that was originally nearly two meters deep had already become shallow, and only shallow water that could be seen at a glance remained.

Otherwise, the Kumamoto men who were surrounded by mountains on three sides and were not familiar with water would never be so stupid as to follow their captain into the water.

However, it was not the water that made the Japanese infantrymen's steel-like will collapse.