Rise From Eight Hundred

The 114th Division was the last to enter the block.

When Tani Hisao's 6th Division was attacking the East City, the 114th Division and Kunisaki Detachment were arguing with each other not over who should enter the block first, but a phenomenon that rarely occurred in the history of the Japanese Army. Both sides did not want to deploy troops to enter the ruins of the block where the enemy had already disappeared.

It was not that the heavy losses in the daytime battles made them lose their determination to win. The powerful Tenth Army was not so weak.

Both the proud Kunisaki and the gloomy Suematsu Shigeharu thought it was not a good idea to enter that area at night.

If the Chinese poured artillery fire on the area that they could detect by standing on the wall, it would be a waste of the lives of the imperial soldiers.

But if there were no troops stationed, and the Chinese ran in in the dark, the attack on the West City wall tomorrow would not be able to be carried out smoothly. Could it be that there would be another street battle in the block? When they thought of this, both of them had a headache.

That can only be "a friend dies rather than a poor Taoist". Both of them wanted to give this "honor" to the other. After all, polite evasion could not make a decision. In the end, Yanagawa Heisuke gave the order. The Kunisaki Detachment had been fighting for most of the day and needed to rest. The task of guarding the ruins of the block at night would be completed by the 114th Division.

The damn Yanagawa Heisuke picked the weak persimmon, but complaining in his heart could not change the facts. The "bullied" Suematsu Shigeharu could only bite his back teeth and accept the order. An infantry battalion under his command with nearly a thousand people entered the block to garrison, and nearly 200 engineers entered together to repair the fortifications to prepare for the decisive battle tomorrow.

The 114th Division was attacked by the Chinese at night that day, and lost an army major. People must not fall into the same pit. In order to prevent another night attack, the stationed infantry battalion specially applied for a searchlight unit. After nightfall, it turned on the light to illuminate the city wall opposite the block. Barbed wire and chevaux de frise were also laid in some important alleys facing the city wall. It can be said that it was not cautious.

But the block and Songjiang City are closely connected, and the two have never been separated. This is the territory of Songjiang people, not the Japanese. Even if the front of nearly a thousand meters is illuminated by searchlights, Songjiang locals can find other paths to enter the block.

I am afraid that a quarter of the 600 fully armed and murderous people are officers and soldiers of the original Songjiang Security Corps. Almost every infantry squad has three or four people, which is enough to ensure that the security battalion will not get lost in the dark and intricate alleys.

According to the prior plan, the four infantry companies even went around to the side and rear of the block.

The searchlight troops, which were originally at the back and the safest, became the front line first. The guard posts, which were not numerous, were immediately shot into sieves by the fierce firing of submachine guns and Mauser pistols.

In the dark night, the world was completely dominated by the Chinese elite with a guide.

This time, it was not the Songjiang Security Corps that relied on blood and courage, but the elites of various Songjiang units that were recruited by Tang Dao. Whether it was shooting skills, willpower or tactical execution, they were the best in the entire Songjiang army.

The Japanese army was basically stunned.

In this kind of street fighting, the most powerful thing of the Chinese was not the submachine guns and Mauser pistols that could fire a dozen rounds of bullets.

But the endless grenades.

They even suspected that each Chinese person carried a box of grenades.

Across a brick wall that even bullets could not penetrate, they shouted a few times but got no response, and threw two grenades directly, which was simply killing people.

Hiding in the barricades made of sandbags was not safe either. The Chinese could easily go up to the two-story building that had not been blown up and throw grenades anywhere. As a result, the light and heavy machine guns did not dare to fire at will. Not only could they not find the target, but they would be targeted by countless grenades if they fired at will.

The flares that were constantly fired into the sky did not work either. The short hovering time was not enough for the Japanese to find the Chinese hiding in the ruins. Moreover, they used the captured searchlights to shine on the Japanese hiding area. It was pitch black all around, but they were exposed to the searchlights. It felt like they were naked in the ice and snow.

The Japanese army, which was constantly hit by grenades everywhere, was completely confused. They entered the ruins and houses in small teams. It was safer to hide.

Little did they know that they would die faster.

Unfamiliar with the terrain, they could only run around in the houses like headless flies. The three-eight-inch rifles that were more than one meter long were even more cumbersome. If they were not careful, they would be stuck in the narrow alleys and doors. Especially the leather boots with iron nails on the soles of their feet. No matter how careful they were, the heavy footsteps were so obvious, which were the obvious signs of being swept by submachine guns and Mauser pistols at any time.

What's more terrible is that when the two teams met unexpectedly in the dark night, even the Japanese army themselves didn't know whether they were enemies or friends a few meters away, but the Chinese opened fire quickly within two seconds after cursing. The one who fired first naturally had the upper hand.

The Japanese army didn't understand until they died how the Chinese could tell the enemy from us in such a short time. Even if it was a password, they had to wait for the other party to reply!

They didn't know that for the Chinese, who have a rich vocabulary of cursing, once the cursing mode was turned on, they could curse for ten minutes without repeating the same words. Those words didn't even need to go through the brain, so what reaction was needed?

Suematsu Shigeharu, awakened by the fierce gunfire and grenade explosions, almost spat out blood as he looked at the white light rising from the street.

Baka! Again?

In addition to the night raid, he couldn't think of any other names. The Chinese actually chose to leave the solid barriers and rush into their own positions for two consecutive nights. This courage and courage, even as an opponent, he felt that it was too awesome!

In addition to admiration, it is estimated that the mood of the Japanese Army Lieutenant General at this moment is the same as that of Lieutenant General Tani Hisao a few hours ago. The only difference is that he has made sufficient preparations, but he was still plotted against by a group of crazy Chinese.

The routine is still the same routine, but it is so routine that it makes people feel heartache.

What makes Suematsu Shigeharu even more confused is that the telegram sent by the field radio station of the infantry battalion in the block is nothing but asking for help, and it can't give the specific number of enemy troops.

He now needs to decide whether to continue to invest the main force of the infantry into the block to encircle and annihilate the daring Chinese? Or to provide fire support to the block with artillery fire?

Obviously, both choices are wrong.

In the pitch-black night, he had no idea how many troops the other side had. If he rashly deployed troops, it might lead to greater losses.

It would be even more stupid to order the artillery to fire. The soldiers of both sides fought fiercely, and the artillery fire covered an infantry battalion.

As long as he dared to do this, even though he was a lieutenant general of the army, he would be nailed to the pillar of shame in the history of the Imperial Army.

When did the great Japanese Empire soldier fall to the point of exchanging his life with the Chinese?

As the gunshots intensified, the requests for support from the front became more and more urgent. Although it was painful, Shigeharu Suematsu had to issue an order for the entire army to retreat.

Since he didn't dare to go all-in with the Chinese in this dark night, he couldn't waste time with the Chinese in this dark night. The sooner he retreated, the less loss he would suffer.

This was actually one of the reasons why Tang Dao dared to march into the block again.

The Japanese army was now the attacker, and it had an overall advantage in both manpower and equipment. Human psychology is so strange. The more you have, the less you dare to lose. If you have nothing, you will let it go.

Just like China, which stood up on a ruin in the ice and snow more than a decade later, sent troops when everyone thought they would not send troops.

The courage of the soldiers is worth boasting, but the words of the great leader are more shocking: In the Patriotic War, we lost tens of millions of soldiers and civilians and all industries. What else can we not lose except the land under our feet?

The same is true for Songjiang. Apart from this city that is about to be bombed into ruins, what else can we not lose?

But the Japanese can't do that. They are still dreaming of conquering Songjiang at a small cost, so as to reach the west of Shanghai and wipe out hundreds of thousands of Chinese elites to make achievements.

Thinking too much, naturally timid.

The victory of this night attack is not so much a victory of Tang Dao using the tactics of the excellent commander to break the rule of "using troops no more", but a victory of the psychological competition between the two sides.

At least at this moment, Tang Dao is the winner.

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