Rise From Eight Hundred

Japanese Army Lieutenant General is angry!

furious!

Hisao Tani had imagined that he might have to pay a huge price to break through the Matsue City Wall today.

But when the price came, he was extremely embarrassed.

Of course, the Chinese's move of "voluntarily giving up the position and covering it with artillery fire" was far beyond his expectation.

It's not that the tricks are too new, but they are very old-fashioned.

Similar tactics were used by the Chinese in the Battle of Cangcheng a few hours ago.

When their own position is occupied, they cover it with their own artillery fire. There are even their own soldiers on that position, reducing themselves and the enemy to ashes. It is cruel, but extremely effective.

This almost cruel tactic made the Kunisaki detachment dare not station large-scale troops in Cangcheng where troops could be stationed. Putting an infantry squadron was already the limit.

They would rather garrison troops in the ruins of neighborhoods that were more vulnerable to attack than place soldiers in positions with incomplete city walls.

The Tenth Army Headquarters even sent the battle reports from Xicheng to the Sixth Division and the Eighteenth Division at noon, hoping that they would better understand the enemies they were facing through these battle reports.

It is precisely because of his understanding that Hisao Tani was not as anxious as his subordinate Major General Tokutaro Sakai about the Chinese shelling their abandoned positions with artillery fire again.

He judged that the Chinese commanders who had already demonstrated certain command skills in the city would not use similar tactics again, especially after the imperial infantry on the front line showed sufficient vigilance. Large ammunition inventory.

On this point, Hisao Tani's judgment was correct. Although the Chinese artillery fire was fierce, it was not lasting enough. The shelling stopped after ten minutes. This was indeed because the storage of artillery shells could not be compared with that of the Japanese army.

But Hisao Tani made a mistake in the most critical tactical judgment.

The Chinese still changed the soup without changing the medicine, and their extremely determined resistance turned out to be just a bait. Their ultimate goal was still to lure the Japanese infantry out of the open wilderness and into the narrow city, and then a burst of artillery fire stewed.

However, the battle damage caused by the ten-minute shelling did not need to be reported to him by the 11th Infantry Brigade. Hisao Tani knew that it would definitely be much more serious than the previous extremely lively fight with hail of bullets and bullets.

Yes, what really angered Hisao Tani was not the battle loss of more than a thousand troops, but his complete tactical defeat.

What he thought was a small chance, the Chinese continued to use it without any new ideas.

Damn, don’t these Chinese people know about the rule of ‘recovery with war’?

But the fact is that in the first battle of the Sixth Division's official attack on the city, the Sixth Division was completely defeated in terms of battle losses and tactical arrangements.

In that battle, more than 900 Chinese people died in the battle, but on the Japanese side, only 50 people from the four infantry squadrons of the most elite 6th Infantry Brigade, except the heavy machine gun squadron left behind, survived, and the engineer wing suffered more than 300 casualties. The 4th Infantry Brigade was invested The two infantry squadrons rolled and crawled half way back, suffering more than 1,500 battle losses.

But Hisao Nakatani, who was furious, might not know that his defeat was not unjust.

In the far north, the troops who took off their red five-pointed star cap badges and replaced them with blue sky and white sun cap badges for the sake of the country and nation were led by the general who had performed eye surgery without anesthesia in the high mountains of Taihang Mountains. His own subordinates set up ambushes against the Japanese army in the same small village three times at roughly the same time period.

Tani Hisao's colleagues who were still on the battlefield in North China made the exact same mistake as Tani Hisao. The military book said "there will be no use of troops again", which means that they will not use the same tactics in a short period of time. But the military book is dead and the people are alive. .

Not only did that person use it, he also used it three times in a row. What made the Japanese army even more embarrassed was that they were pressed to the ground and rubbed by a group of "Tubalu" who lacked guns and clothing three times.

The first wave of reinforcements were beaten all over the ground because they were caught off guard. The second wave of rescue troops were surprised to find that they had also broken into the bag formation of "Tubal Road". When the third wave of reinforcements thought about "Tubal Road" 'If you dare to come again, I really have to call him dad...

Then, 'Tubalu' and Baga's magic appeared, and they really beat them and called them daddy.

A battle in which three ambushes failed to wipe out hundreds of enemies was incorporated into the lesson plans of the American Cowboys at West Point Military Academy after the war, and is known as one of the top ten classic tactics in the world.

"Open the door and defeat the thieves, breaking the old pattern of using troops. They have cannons and we have cannons. Songjiang City is a battlefield everywhere!" This is the original text of the letter Tang Dao left to the major general brigade commander.

The little butterfly from the future naturally copied this classic work and put it on the Songjiang battlefield, interpreting the essence of "the virtual makes the real, the real makes the virtual" to the extreme.

To put it bluntly, Hisao Tani was not defeated by Tang Dao, but by one of China's best army generals.

It was getting dark at this time, and no matter how furious Hisao Tani was, he could not drive the main force of the infantry to engage in a decisive battle with the Chinese defenders in the darkness.

The Japanese infantry retreated like a tide, taking away all the Japanese corpses that could be taken away in the wilderness. However, the corpses left within the city walls and in the swamp could only be abandoned.

The Japanese artillery observation post could only provide a few rough coordinates. The Japanese heavy artillery brigade once again showed its strength and bombarded several possible artillery positions for half an hour.

Just relying on imaginative estimates, the effect of the bombardment can be imagined.

The artillery positions, which lost a total of five artillery pieces in the first wave of attacks by the Japanese artillery brigade, were intact this time.

This made the Songjiang Command somewhat strange, and they were surprised at the small losses of their own artillery.

Because the Japanese army had raised observation balloons when the heavy artillery began to bombard, the smoke at that time completely covered the Songjiang City. It was understandable that they could not see the artillery positions, but when the artillery positions began to fight back, the rising smoke basically exposed the position of the positions.

You know, this time all the artillery fire was concentrated on the East City direction. The two lieutenant generals of the command also thought again and again before making up their minds. Fight, even if they risked being hit by more than two artillery battalions by the Japanese heavy artillery, they must resolutely fight back.

The purpose is to deter all Japanese infantry. I can give you my position, but as long as my artillery is still there, you can't think of staying there safely. The first one to rush to the position will die faster.

Their goal was achieved. When they gathered seven artillery battalions to fire at the more than 1,000-meter-long wall area of ​​the East City, and drowned hundreds of Japanese troops who were ready to rush into the city to open up frontier positions for the main force in the artillery fire, all the Japanese troops were speechless.

No matter how the Chinese rehash this trick, it is very effective.

What if they are more ruthless and defend with a small number of troops, let your large troops attack, and wait for you to break into the position, and then they will come and destroy you with a cannon, what can you do?

In exchange for human lives, the more than 100,000 people of the Tenth Army may have to leave half of their troops here.

Obviously, that was not what the Tenth Army wanted to see. They came from North China to Southeast China, not just to conquer a small Chinese city, but to have lofty ambitions.

Not to mention the headaches of the various regiment commanders and brigade commanders, even Yanagawa Heisuke, who was more than ten kilometers away, was at a loss when he received the battle report from the front.

Because he couldn't guarantee the destruction of the Chinese artillery positions for a while, because of the radicalism and stupidity of Tani Hisao.

Yes, the two Chinese lieutenant generals who chose to bear the huge loss of artillery did not wait for the imagined loss. The main reason was that the Japanese army lost their most important eyes.

The little balloon was blown up.

By a Chinese army sergeant who just wanted to overcome his fear.

Mo Songzi, who had made great contributions, was still admitting his mistakes to his company commander and begging him to give him two more shrapnels, because he did nothing but emptied four shrapnels.

"Get lost! If it weren't for the good artillery, I would put you in solitary confinement, and you dare to ask me for artillery shells!" The army captain was a big man from the Northeast, and he had a loud voice.

Good guy, he didn't hit a tank, but he emptied 80 shells. Why don't you go to the sky! Do you really think I'm a shell maker?

The military was equipped with 300 rounds of shells for one cannon, and the main targets were the Japanese army's heavy firepower points and tanks. Mo Songzi fired 80 rounds of shells but did not achieve any success. The captain of the first company of the military air defense battalion assigned to Dongcheng District certainly would not look kindly on his subordinate.

"I didn't hit the tank, but at least I hit a big balloon!" Mo Songzi muttered dejectedly.

If he had known this, he would not have hit the balloon, and he could have saved a lot of shells.

"What did you say? Balloon?" The captain was stunned.

"How big is the balloon?"

"It's as big as a washbasin, but it's more than a thousand meters away. If it's placed here, it might be bigger than a house!" Mo Songzi gestured as he recalled.

"Are you sure?"

"My brothers can testify!"

"Haha! You dog, wait here for me. You are not allowed to go anywhere until I come back!" The captain laughed, slapped Mo Songzi's chest hard, and turned away.

"What are you doing? If you don't have any shells, then don't scare me, Captain. My 20 rounds can also kill the enemy tanks." Mo Songzi was startled.

"Scare you!" The captain smiled happily. "It's a good thing!"

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