Rise From Eight Hundred

In addition to water, there is also mud in the moat.

Silt!

Desilting the moat is definitely a major project, especially for Songjiang City, which is extremely dependent on the water system. Desilting is not only labor-intensive and costly, but more importantly, it will interrupt the transportation of goods in and out of the city. There are only two or three recorded desilting in modern history.

The accumulated silt has caused Wang Gongyu, who has been in office for four or five years, a headache. He just couldn't make up his mind to close the waterway and thoroughly desilt the moat until the war came.

Facts have proved that Wang Gongyu should thank his "lazy politics".

The water in the moat that has been filled with a lot of water is not deep. The deepest part is only up to the thigh of a person, and the shallowest part can even submerge the knee of a person. Otherwise, the Japanese infantry would not jump into the moat without even waiting for the engineers.

But once they went down, they found that the silt was more than one foot deep, and the originally small amount of water suddenly reached the waist of a person. This is extremely deadly for the Japanese army, which originally had the characteristic of short legs.

The mud won't kill people, but this is a battlefield! Movement in the water is not that agile, and with such a layer of mud, if the Chinese open fire at this time, can they still survive?

However, there is an old Chinese saying: I'm here!

Yes! It's already come to this point, only 30 meters away from the Chinese wall, and we can see that we can break into the Chinese position and establish an unprecedented feat with a little more effort...

More importantly, the division commander is still watching us from behind!

Sometimes, chicken soup full of positive energy is really a deadly poison. Just like the Japanese army now, they have to bite the bullet and finish this bowl of thick chicken soup even though their feet and hearts are weak at the same time.

The Chinese are so lazy that they don't even clean the mud. You know, if these fertile river muds are made into farmland, how much food can be produced! Damn it! Damn it! Shenwu Xi Dalang, who came from a farming family, has actually been thinking all kinds of MMP in his heart.

He cursed in his heart, not knowing whether he was cursing the Chinese across the river or his own future.

Anyway, the Japanese major, who was struggling to move forward in the riverbed, felt guilty. His scalp was almost as hard as the Type 90 steel helmet.

But the Chinese were very considerate. At this time, there were only a few heavy machine guns firing desperately.

The heavy machine guns were all in the fortress, with limited firing angles. The Japanese infantry had already avoided the attack range of these heavy machine guns 300 meters away, and the 6 infantry guns mobilized by the regiment also bombarded these exposed fire points.

Even if the 70-caliber infantry gun could not penetrate the thick city wall to destroy those heavy machine guns, it could still suppress them.

The thick smoke and flying shrapnel made the Chinese heavy machine guns almost ineffective.

Looking at the hundreds of meters of the battle line, apart from the figures of a large number of Japanese infantry struggling to move on the riverbed, there were not many lying in the water.

Have the Chinese been almost wiped out by the heavy artillery of the empire, and now only a few are still lingering in the ruins?

The confused Japanese major could only think of this slightly weird phenomenon in the best way.

In fact, the Chinese defenders in Dongcheng did suffer heavy losses in the bombardment of the Japanese heavy artillery. The fortifications on the city wall that cost a lot of manpower and material resources were almost destroyed by 80%, and the most fatal thing was that the trenches near the city wall were destroyed by heavy artillery for a long time.

The terrible 240MM heavy artillery cut the troop transport trench of more than 400 meters into at least three sections, of which more than 50 meters collapsed directly, completely losing its protective function for the infantry.

This resulted in the main force of the infantry of the 643rd Regiment of the 67th Army in the air-raid shelter of Dongcheng District staying 200 meters away from the city wall when the Japanese artillery fire began to extend, watching the artillery fire raging, but unable to rush into the death zone constructed by the artillery fire and enter the main position of the city wall.

This resulted in no infantry support reaching the city wall from the main position of the city wall until the Japanese army jumped into the moat.

From the actual battle situation, so far, all of Tani Hisao's tactics have been successful.

At this time, the original six firepower points on the position of Dongcheng were directly destroyed by the Japanese heavy artillery, and two of them disappeared directly, leaving only four firepower points alive.

However, it is fortunate for the Chinese front-line defenders that all four firepower points are heavy firepower points, three 37mm rapid-fire guns, two Oerlikon machine guns and four heavy machine guns are still alive, which means that 70% of the heavy firepower is still retained.

However, heavy firepower such as rapid-fire guns and Oerlikon machine guns were originally used to attack Japanese tanks. It is a waste to use them to attack Japanese infantry. Moreover, the Japanese infantry is very cunning. The first wave of more than 300 people spread out on a battle line of 800 meters, with a large spacing. Even if they were fired with machine guns, the effect would definitely not be good.

The only heavy machine gun that could suppress the infantry was also ineffective due to the range of fire and the suppression of the Japanese infantry artillery.

The defenders who lacked sufficient manpower could only watch the Japanese infantry rush from hundreds of meters away to the nearby moat, then jump into the moat and attack the position.

Mo Songzi, who had already achieved a victory, had red eyes and was about to pull the trigger to shoot at the Japanese in the river to empty his last two magazines.

100 rounds of artillery shells were the daily ammunition reserves of each Oerlikon machine gun. The 67th Army, which came from afar, had limited ammunition reserves and could not be squandered by the shooters.

It took 60 rounds of artillery shells to shoot down a country bumpkin balloon. It was purely under great psychological pressure. Mo Songzi did it with the idea of ​​taking someone with him even if he died. Now he regretted it.

If he had known earlier, he would have kept more to fight these crazy infantry.

But the next moment, Mo Songzi was stunned and even forgot to pull the trigger.

What did he see?

1000 meters away, the Japanese major general who was sighing at the Sixth Division was also stunned.

There were no residential houses outside Dongcheng District, and there was a wilderness outside the city wall. The location chosen by the Sixth Division's front-line command was also good enough to allow the bosses to have a nearly complete view of the battlefield.

Ever since hearing the name of the heroic major, Shenwu Xi Dalang, Tanabe Shengwu, who has a bit of literary and artistic atmosphere in his bones, has paid attention to the Japanese major who led the charge. Except for the fact that the name is a bit low, this surname is really nice!

Until the major led the way and jumped into the cold moat, the Japanese major named Shenwu Xi did not disappoint him.

However, when they reached the center of the riverbed, Shenwu Xi disappeared, and the LOW-bi Dalang was gone.

Because a certain major disappeared directly from the river surface, leaving only a string of bubbles.

Water escape belonging to ninja? Tanabe Shigetake, who had been chasing the Japanese major, was stunned.

Water escape ball.

The next moment, the Japanese major's little hand rose from the water and waved desperately, and the command knife disappeared. Tanabe Shigetake understood it immediately.

This bastard is drowning!

In fact, strictly speaking, it is not drowning, but entering the swamp by mistake.

The silt in the center of the river is actually one meter deep, up to the waist of a person. It is nothing in normal times. The water depth can reach nearly two meters. People go into the river and swim. Who is still stepping on the silt underwater?

But now, the water depth will never exceed one meter. The Japanese naturally wade forward instinctively. Who has nothing to do with dog paddling in waist-deep water?

In addition, the Japanese army was fully armed. Even if the Japanese major had a 14-inch Nambu rifle and a command knife, the military boots that were soaked in water alone probably weighed seven or eight kilograms. They were well-nourished, so the whole body must weigh 150 to 160 kilograms.

With a heavy body and a will as strong as steel, the soft mud must be stepped on to the bottom!

Of course, the more important thing is that the legs are short.

The average height is only close to 1.6 meters, which is not enough to show up in such a "swamp".

Shenwu Xi Dalang, who stepped into the one-meter-deep mud, was directly submerged by less than one meter of water. He was able to quickly throw away the command knife and wave his hands for help. That was because he was extremely quick-witted, so as not to scratch his subordinates who came to rescue him with the command knife.

Perhaps, he was also afraid that no one would come to rescue him while he was waving the knife!

However, he was not the only one who had such an experience.

The major was so brave, how could a younger brother retreat? At least 70 or 80 people were the first to enter the center of the moat.

Kumamoto Prefecture is mostly mountainous, but Japan Island is so small that it is naturally close to the sea, and there are many people who can swim. But being trapped in the mud has nothing to do with whether one is good at swimming or not.

So, while many people went to rescue the major who needed to take medicine, more people bravely moved forward to rescue their drowning companions.

A drowning person must hold on to a straw, not to mention a person, and when he is drinking water to the point of being dizzy, who cares who comes to save him? Even if it is his own father, he must hold on to it.

Yes, hold on to him to death!

There was chaos on the river.

Those who rescued and those who were rescued gulped down the water together, as if they would not be the most handsome boy in the Sixth Division if they did not drink the Songjiang moat dry to pave the way for the great victory.

At this moment, the anxious Chinese side and the ambitious Japanese side were collectively shocked by the extremely poor performance of the Japanese infantry in the moat.

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