Rise From Eight Hundred

The chaotic night finally passed.

Just after dawn, when the light was just enough to see the faces of people more than ten meters away, Shigeharu Suematsu, who had not slept all night, angrily sent soldiers back into the block.

He had already planned that if the Chinese still tried to fight him in the street battle in the block, he would not hesitate to use more incendiary bombs than the Kunisaki Detachment this time, and even request the heavy artillery brigade to carry out a destructive bombardment of the block, blowing the damn Chinese and the damn Chinese houses into powder.

As for the burning taking time, the time has been delayed long enough anyway, and it doesn't matter if it is delayed for another morning.

In terms of the sense of urgency of time, this Japanese Army Lieutenant General can basically be regarded as a "lying flat" mentality.

However, the report sent back by the search team that entered the block tremblingly made Shigeharu Suematsu, who was re-observing the battlefield with a telescope, finally spit out the old blood that he had been holding back for a long time.

There were no Chinese figures in the block, only the remains of dead soldiers.

In addition, the various fortifications that the engineers spent half a night building are still there, but they are covered with feces and smell terrible.

What does this mean?

Didn't the Chinese take advantage of the night to slap the 114th Division twice, and then throw a bucket of feces on it, and then run away?

The most important thing is that the decision he has made fiercely seems to be just a fantasy, and the Chinese did not give him this opportunity at all.

Perhaps the only comfort for the 114th Division is that because it was dark, the Chinese were unable to clean up all the battlefields. Among the 360 ​​people who had been determined to be missing, there were actually more than 40 people alive. They huddled in various corners and became turtles, not daring to shoot or speak until the dawn.

Although they looked very wretched and ridiculous with their dusty faces, they were still alive after all, and only those who were alive were qualified to accept being slapped in the face by their superiors.

As for those brave men, they were all dead, either shot to death or blown up by grenades. Some were hacked to death by the machetes they had seen on the battlefield in North China, and their heads were cruelly hung on the broken walls in the ruins.

In the stinking ruins, there were no wounded, only the dead and the living.

All the infantrymen found by the Chinese died.

When cruelty meets coldness, only death can satisfy both sides.

The security battalion led by Guo Shouzhi implemented the will of the Tang Dao "Only dead devils are good devils" thoroughly.

In the night raid that night, more than 320 people of the 114th Division were killed, more than 140 engineers were killed, and 50 people of the security battalion were killed and 33 were seriously injured, with a casualty ratio of nearly 6 to 1, which was a great relief.

The arrogant Japanese army was finally completely enraged.

Yanagawa Heisuke put aside the pride of the army and bypassed the Songhu Expeditionary Force Headquarters to ask for help from the Japanese Navy. Two Japanese reconnaissance planes flew over Songjiang at 8 a.m. for reconnaissance.

At the same time, the three cities in the east, west and south launched a fierce attack with the full help of the heavy artillery brigade and the artillery regiments of each division.

When the battle was the most intense, the 107th and 108th divisions finally couldn't bear it and called on the artillery battalions of each division to kill and retaliate against the Japanese infantry.

The artillery position was discovered by the Japanese reconnaissance plane whizzing through the sky. An hour later, the Japanese heavy artillery brigade, which finally obtained the specific coordinates of the Chinese artillery position, began to focus on retaliatory artillery bombardment of the coordinates and the surrounding areas.

Although protected by fortifications, the mountain artillery battalions of the two infantry divisions suffered heavy losses in the bombardment of 200-caliber heavy artillery, and more than two-thirds of the 24 infantry guns were lost.

Only the mortar battalion was spared because of its flexibility and hiding in underground fortifications.

After suffering huge losses in succession, Yanagawa Heisuke probably gave up and chose to be a grandson.

The Japanese Navy also gave the Army grandson face. In addition to the reconnaissance planes that took off from the aircraft carriers and cruised over Songjiang City for a long time, more than 24 bomber formations were used to bomb several city walls in Songjiang.

A 500-pound bomb is more terrifying than a 305 heavy artillery. When a bomb falls, all creatures within a radius of 50 meters with the impact point as the center will die. Even if the soldiers hiding in the fortifications are not directly killed by the shock wave and shrapnel, the huge explosion can make the soldiers temporarily deaf, and it is useless to stuff cotton in advance.

The front-line officers and soldiers who survived the war may have good arms and legs, but their hearing has dropped sharply, which has a great relationship with the bombs dropped by the bombing planes.

However, the Japanese fighter planes were not wantonly showing off their power. The 67th Army of the Northeastern Army might be slightly lacking in training, but its equipment was no less than that of the Central Army. The twelve Oerlikon machine guns that had been seldom used and had been hidden for a long time also showed their ferocious teeth.

In order to ensure the accuracy of the bombing, the Japanese bomber formation, which had full control of the air supremacy, dropped its altitude to 1,000 meters, and was caught off guard by the 12 machine guns that concentrated their fire.

Three Japanese bombers were shot down into turkeys in the air.

The Japanese Navy was so angry that they scolded the army in the telegram for a long time, and they didn't even remind the Chinese that they were equipped with anti-aircraft guns.

The top leaders of the Tenth Army naturally pretended to be stupid collectively, and a sentence of "the Chinese are cunning" was considered a reply.

What's more, the bombs were loaded, and you didn't drop them. It was even more dangerous for you to take the bombs back to the aircraft carrier.

The record of shooting down three Japanese planes in one fell swoop was extremely brilliant, and it would be worth writing about in any battlefield, but for the current Songjiang battlefield, it was only a drop in the bucket.

The 21 bombs dropped by the remaining 21 bombers caused great damage to Songjiang City, especially to the city walls, which were the most obvious targets.

The once majestic and spectacular city walls on the east, west and south sides were blown out with seven or eight large gaps, and the heavy artillery bombardment caused the entire defense line to fall apart.

Even the dozen or so heavy firepower points carefully built by Tang Dao had been mostly destroyed.

At 11 a.m., the 6th Division, Kunisaki Detachment, and 114th Division all used armored forces. The 89 tanks with black smoke and steel armor were almost invincible on this battlefield without the threat of 37mm anti-tank guns and 20mm machine guns.

The heavy machine gun bullets had no other use except to spark sparks. Countless Japanese infantry followed the tanks to attack, and the bullets fired by the infantry at the risk of their lives could no longer suppress them.

After a fierce battle until noon, Major General Liu Qiwen, the highest commander in Dongcheng District, finally decided to abandon the Dongcheng city wall fortifications that had changed hands several times, and the entire army returned to the city.

Dongcheng City Defense, broken.

Under the cover of tanks, the Japanese army continued to pour into the Dongcheng urban area, braving the shells fired by mortars, and attacked the city while consolidating their positions.

In fact, the abandonment of the Dongcheng city wall was not only due to excessive consumption on the city wall fortifications, but also because of the idea of ​​closing the door and beating the dog.

This was also because the Songjiang Security Corps fought smoothly in the ruins. At the cost of more than 1,000 casualties, it delayed the deployment of troops for more than five hours, at least twice as many Japanese troops as them, and killed and wounded nearly 2,000 Japanese troops, which gave the Songjiang defenders great confidence.

The Songjiang Security Corps was just a security army, and there was a big gap in combat power with the regular army of their 67th Army. They could do it, and they could do it even better, not to mention that there were more firepower points and more troops deployed in the city.

However, after more than four hours of fierce fighting from the fall of Dongcheng to 4 p.m., the 332nd Brigade and the two infantry companies led by Lao Wang of the 43rd Army, which had already been involved in the Dongcheng battle, and the officers and soldiers at the lowest level found that they were obviously optimistic.

The Japanese troops of the Sixth Division not only had high technical and tactical literacy as a group or individual, but also had a strong fighting will. They were also good at learning. Through the small-scale street fighting on the first day, they had a strong sense of prevention against various things that were shot at them in the unfamiliar battlefield. Even if a house was basically empty after a rough inspection, they would throw a few grenades into the hidden place, which caused many casualties among the lurking soldiers.

More importantly, although they had conducted surveys in advance, the soldiers were not as familiar with the defense zone as the local snakes of the Songjiang Security Corps.

Soldiers of the Songjiang Security Corps could run around in the narrow alleys of only one meter wide without getting lost, and could even easily get from one house to another, but they couldn't. Many of them were blocked in a house by the Japanese army after firing a few shots to kill and injure the Japanese army, and were eventually killed by the anti-tank guns and infantry guns they dispatched.

Just in Dongcheng District, the main attack direction of the Japanese army, in the four-hour battle, more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded, while more than 700 of them were killed and more than 800 were injured, almost a 1:1 battle loss ratio with the Japanese army.

Moreover, the Japanese army is still continuously investing troops.

This made the brigadier general standing in the command post and constantly listening to the reports from the front sweat on his forehead. This time, it seems that he closed the door and hit not a dog, but a tiger.