Rise From Eight Hundred

Yes, just as Sakai Tokutaro said, the Chinese also have artillery.

Although, it is not a heavy artillery.

75 mountain artillery, field artillery, 150 mortar, 82 mortar, it is still the same in the battle of infantry division level, but if it is placed in a war of 100,000 people, it will appear very weak.

It is not as destructive as the heavy artillery of 200 caliber or above of the Japanese heavy artillery brigade, but it can also make the area within 50 meters inside and outside the city wall and the earth tremble together.

Facing the roar of the god of war, the Japanese army that broke into the inner area of ​​the city wall was also terrified.

The Chinese are going to death in the barrage more than 100 meters away from here, and they will also have the opportunity to reincarnate in this barrage created by the Chinese.

This round of artillery coverage was awakened by the message of Tang Dao's "Open the door to welcome thieves". The major general brigade commander called the Songjiang Command Headquarters and requested to coordinate the artillery of the entire army to bombard the temporarily abandoned city wall fortifications like the last time in Cangcheng.

Although Songjiang City is now surrounded on three sides, the west and south cities have not yet entered the decisive battle stage. Unlike Dongcheng, after a round of heavy artillery bombardment, the Japanese army also mobilized more than one artillery regiment to play a trick of "encircling the point and attacking the reinforcements".

Songjiang Command agreed to Dongcheng's request and coordinated the mountain artillery battalions of the 107th and 108th Divisions, and the heavy mortar battalions cooperated with the three artillery battalions directly under the 67th Army Headquarters. A total of 7 artillery battalions pointed their guns directly at the 1,000-meter wall of Dongcheng.

That's not all. The 16 mortars of the two infantry regiments in Dongcheng District also quietly prepared shells and adjusted the coordinates.

The intensity of the artillery fire can almost be said to be all that Songjiang City has, which is even more terrifying than Cangcheng in the morning.

This is actually a disguised way to tell the Japanese army that before I have used up all my artillery, even if I throw it to you, you'd better not come in. If you come in, you will become "shit"!

Having artillery is so arrogant.

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The sharpshooter who stayed in the area away from the first line of the city wall was naturally Tang Dao. He knew that the Japanese commander was not a fool. With the battle in Cangcheng in the morning, they would naturally guard against Chinese artillery.

Sure enough, the Japanese army that had already arrived under the city wall was extremely cautious. They only sent a small infantry squad of dozens of people to rush to the top of the city. Before the tanks arrived, their main infantry did not dare to rashly enter the city wall, which had little value for fortification.

But Tang Dao knew that this group of Japanese troops from North China were very arrogant. The previous small setbacks did not make them have much awe for this battlefield except for making them angry.

Because the rapid progress on the battlefield in North China has made them have an illusion that they are the best in the world and the Chinese are just chickens and pottery dogs.

In this regard, not only ordinary Japanese infantry, but also the top leaders of the Tenth Army considered how long it would take to crush the small city in front of them, and never thought of conquering it at a high cost and looking for another way.

Victory will constantly boost morale and bring confidence, but it may also become poison.

The proud Imperial Japanese Army would naturally not be frightened by a Chinese soldier's "mantis arm trying to stop a chariot". If one infantry squad is not enough, then more people will be deployed.

Hundreds of Japanese soldiers bravely broke into the city wall, and countless bullets and grenades flew towards Tang Dao, beating him into a mess. He almost struggled in various craters.

That was probably Tang Dao's most embarrassing moment on the battlefield. He was really running for his life. There was no counterattack at all. He just ran away and left alive.

But this did not damage Mo Songzi's worship of his idol while hiding in the trench.

Lieutenant Colonel Tang's idol posture had been reshaped as early as when the signalman ran breathlessly to inform the soldiers on the front line of the city wall to retreat for the time being.

Then, almost two hundred meters away from them, Tang Dao shot the Japanese soldiers to death, and finally "hooked up" more than four hundred Japanese soldiers to rush into the position.

What's more terrifying is that facing the shooting of five or six light machine guns and hundreds of rifles, the Tang Dao still survived incredibly tenaciously until the sharp whistling of the shells that cut through the sky shocked the whole audience.

The light of the idol shone throughout the audience.

The sergeant who clenched his fists tightly almost shouted: I will be your die-hard fan in the future.

The once arrogant rain of bullets, in the face of the blazing artillery fire, was just a group of little girls with big sticks meeting a bandit with a big knife and a tuft of heart hair. There was no comparison.

When the shells kept rising, the whole earth seemed to be shaking.

The Japanese infantry standing under the city wall who had just found a temporary shelter could only look at the smoke gradually engulfing themselves with despair, because they had nowhere to escape. The only way to survive in the artillery fire was to crawl on the ground and then take out the name of Amaterasu and recite it silently.

At this point, the difference in traditional cultural background came out. When the Chinese soldiers prayed for blessings, they could at least name 20 gods, unlike the Japanese, who only mentioned the same few.

Obviously, Amaterasu was not effective at this time. The figures of the Japanese infantry kept jumping high with the rising smoke, and then fell down with a "heart-wrenching" sound.

At this time, the Japanese soldiers standing on the top of the city may be the luckiest. At least, they have a place to hide.

Not the ruined fortifications on the top of the city, but under the city wall with their backs to them. Unless the Chinese artillery fire can completely blow down this section of the ancient city wall, otherwise, as long as they avoid the falling bricks and stones, they have a great chance of escaping.

For example, the Pig Nose Squad, who had been suppressed by Tang Dao and one gunman, was originally humiliated, but now they were surprised to find that they could at least run.

Faced with the overwhelming artillery fire, the soldiers of the Pig Nose Squad turned around and jumped off the city wall without hesitation.

However, the wall of Songjiang City is six meters high! In the future, it is close to the height of a three-story building. If it is muddy below, it is estimated that they will only break their legs and arms, but the ground below the city wall is hardened.

What's more terrible is that the Japanese infantrymen who jumped down are still fully armed, and the weight on their bodies is definitely more than 10 kilograms.

The Japanese army is absolutely stubborn in escaping. You can escape if you want to. If you don't have time to throw away the things on your body, you have to throw away the Type 38 rifle with a bayonet in your hand first!

No, they don't. Even if they react enough to jump down the wall, they still hold the gun weighing several kilograms firmly in their hands, for fear that they will be punished by their superiors if they lose their weapons.

However, those who are qualified to be punished must first be alive.

The Japanese infantrymen who had nowhere to escape could only watch themselves become flying men in the air, and those who took the initiative to jump under the city wall with natural geographical advantages were not much better.

If the posture of "jumping off the building" is chosen well, landing on the legs will basically end up with short legs and broken legs. If the posture is not chosen well and the upper body lands on the ground, then basically they will fall to the ground without a sound, and whether they live or die depends on whether their Amaterasu has finished her tea.

But the most tragic thing is definitely not this group of people who are not really elite at first glance.

What is a real elite? They have a good physique and good psychological quality. Facing a height of six meters, they are not panicked at all. When they land, they immediately choose to roll to relieve the terrible impact...

In normal times, there is certainly nothing wrong with such a choice, and the big guys who see it will applaud them with pride. Look! This is the strength of the warriors of my Great Japanese Army.

But now, not only are they still holding their spears tightly in their hands, but there are also two or three hundred infantrymen from the 4th Infantry Battalion who have just crossed the river standing under the wall!

Seeing a "human meat ball" waving a bayonet with a cold glow rushing towards them, who would not reach out to block it with a gun!

But is there a fixed trajectory for rolling? Of course not.

The consequences of blocking with a knife are obvious, and it is easy to poke the "little meat ball".

The saying "I would rather die than die with my friends" is actually just the instinct of human nature, so those who can protect their comrades and sacrifice themselves will be called heroes. Those who overcome human instincts, that is, those who defeat themselves, are heroes.

But this group of Japanese obviously do not have this qualification.

The elite who jumped off the wall and escaped the artillery fire died under the bayonets of their own people in the end. It sounds ridiculous, but it really happened on the battlefield at this moment.

At least four Japanese soldiers "bumped" into their own bayonets. The excellent steel quality of the Type 38 bayonet, combined with the huge momentum, made it easy for the bayonet to penetrate the body and bones.

Such a shameful battle report would naturally not appear in the records of the Sixth Division. The Sixth Infantry Battalion was almost wiped out, and naturally no one investigated the matter.

If it weren't for the fact that a few members of the Pig Nose Squad survived the war and wrote down this tragic detail in their memoirs, these might have been lost in the long river of time!

The Sixth Infantry Battalion became the biggest victim of the "open door to thieves" on the East City Defense Line. In the end, no more than 50 people were able to return to their own positions alive.

The former darling was completely abandoned by the furious Tani Hisao. More than 30 seriously injured soldiers died in painful wails due to the inaction of medical staff. Those who survived can be called the Republic of China version of Xiaoqiang.

No one could get the honor of apologizing to His Majesty the Emperor, because all the officers above the second lieutenant level who had command swords in the 6th Infantry Battalion stayed on the defense line of the Chinese defenders.

The more cautious 4th Infantry Battalion did not end up well either. The mountain artillery and field artillery naturally could not turn and hit them, but the Chinese had a large number of mortars, which were curved artillery with an elevation angle of 85 degrees.

After more than a dozen shells fell from the sky, the Japanese army realized that hiding under the city wall was not safe, so they began to retreat frantically, and the river channel built by the Japanese engineers was already within the artillery's artillery coordinates.

The Japanese army, who had no choice but to stay away from the channel but were trapped in the quagmire, could only struggle for their lives in the flying shrapnel.

That was also a retreat road full of blood.

Tani Hisao, who watched all this from a distance, had a grim look in his eyes!