Rise From Eight Hundred

The Japanese troops outside the city were in a panic, checking and searching.

After thinking it over, Sakai Tokutaro blocked the news that Tani Hisao had died in the battle, and did not even tell the 10th Army Headquarters, because there were more than 5,000 of his subordinates in the city. If the news leaked, the morale of the army would fluctuate, and what kind of losses would be caused, Sakai Tokutaro could not imagine.

As for Tani Hisao, who was already dead, he was covered with a white cloth and placed in a corner of the headquarters after a symbolic examination by the military doctor.

No one took another look.

This is what people are like. No matter how prominent you were in your life, you could cause great suffering to the people with a heavy military order, but when you become a cold corpse, your final destination is nothing more than a white cloth covering your face.

On the battlefield, the dead can only become the past tense, and the living will only care about the future of the living.

The battle in the city did not stop because of the butcher's death. Even if the Japanese army wanted to withdraw from the battlefield, it would not be so easy.

The cautious Sakai Tokutaro dared not give the order to retreat easily. The boss was sniped and he failed again. I am afraid that the best fate for him would be to get rid of Major General Xiao Xingxing.

No matter how hard it is, we have to do it!

And Lieutenant General Wu in the Songjiang Command finally used one of his trump cards. The guard battalion, which had been repaired for a whole day, rushed to the battlefield from the flank of Xicheng District.

The guard battalion is different from the two infantry regiments of the 67th Army. It not only has an infantry company with appropriate firepower, but also a guard company that is more adept at close combat. At the same time, it has veterans of the former Songjiang Security Corps who are familiar with the terrain of Songjiang. These are overwhelming advantages for the Japanese army who are completely in the dark.

But the most headache for the Japanese army is not the Chinese infantry who have just joined the battlefield. No matter how powerful the Mauser pistol and submachine gun are, they cannot be said to be invincible. The defense line they spent an afternoon consolidating also has grenade launchers and light machine guns. The cross-type firepower formed by the houses is enough to deter any strong enemy.

However, the new army that suddenly rushed into the battlefield also had a terrible heavy firepower support force.

Heavy machine guns and machine guns are not a big deal. No matter how fierce the firepower of those two guns and artillery is, how can they demolish houses? The grenade launchers and infantry guns equipped by the Japanese army are also not vegetarians. One shot back, even the strongest brick wall will have a big hole, which is an excellent weapon to deal with heavy firepower.

But a Chinese army with only a few hundred people is actually equipped with 6 mortars. This thing is simply a street fighting artifact. Obviously, there is a block between them, and there are barriers and firepower points in the middle. However, the mortar with an elevation angle of up to 85 degrees completely ignores these obstacles and can accurately hit the top of the head with shells.

This is going to kill people.

The house, which could have been used to avoid bullets, has become the most dangerous place. As long as the infantrymen who rushed into the block found a firepower point, they would often only use one tactic, which is to attract the attention of the opponent with firepower, and then send people to notify the firepower support troops in the rear. Within five minutes, three or four shells will hit them.

Even if the firepower point was not blown into pieces, the collapsed houses and the burning fire would inevitably force the Japanese troops with light and heavy firepower out of the houses, and then they would be greeted by a dense barrage of bullets.

The Japanese flank with more than 1,500 troops was beaten back by the Chinese with hundreds of troops. In just one hour, the entire front was recovered more than 500 meters to the east.

This made the 13th Infantry Colonel Regiment Commander who was close to the front line in charge of command very angry, and even ordered the 4th Infantry Battalion Commander Kawabe Masatsugu under his command to organize an infantry squadron of nearly 200 people to enter the rear of the Chinese front line through the gap in the battlefield, attempting to annihilate this Chinese firepower support unit that dared to move heavy firepower such as mortars to the front line.

The most commonly used tactic in the Japanese land war was to penetrate the enemy on the battlefield to attack important enemy departments.

In the past, in the Zaoyi Battle on the Jianghan Plain, the Japanese army used this bold penetration tactic and the strength of an infantry squadron to block the retreat of the famous general commander, and a generation of generals fell.

But this time, the Japanese army obviously made a wrong idea.

When Tang Dao planned the battle plan for the whole battalion to participate in the street fighting, he specifically focused on defending the Japanese army from using the gaps in the battlefield to penetrate the rear to fight, especially when the fire support company went to the battlefield, the battalion guard squad and the guard company platoon were the minimum defense force.

The person responsible for guarding the safety of the fire support company was Zhao Daqiang, the platoon leader of the guard company at the time. Zhao Daqiang, who was born as the personal guard of the lieutenant general of the 26th Division, was most adept at defensive guards.

He expanded his guard post outward by 150 meters, which meant that unless the Japanese army could accurately know the location of the mortar 150 meters away and throw grenades at it, he could counterattack one step ahead of the enemy.

He was very smart not to fire a warning shot first, but after dozens of Japanese soldiers sneaked into the defense zone at night, he threw a bundle of cluster bombs with four grenades tied to it.

More than 10 Japanese soldiers were killed or injured by the sudden cluster bombs in the dark ruins. The guard platoon, which was already highly alert, quickly mobilized troops to block this side after hearing the violent explosion.

The Japanese infantry, who no longer concealed themselves, failed to catch up with the escaping guard post and soon encountered the oncoming attack of the guard platoon.

The Japanese commanders knew that they were not here to fight the infantry, but to destroy the Chinese heavy firepower support troops. Especially, confronting the Chinese behind the Chinese defense line was undoubtedly tantamount to seeking death. When the Chinese infantry on the front line returned, they would be completely trapped.

Although they had the advantage in manpower, the rain of bullets from the opponent's Mauser pistols and submachine guns made it difficult for them to move, even though they knew that the Chinese firepower support troops were nearby.

The muffled sound of "Bang Bang!" would never exceed a hundred meters.

But this hundred meters was the distance they could not cross.

Especially when the firepower support company vented all its anger on them.

A flare rose slowly above them, and the Japanese could no longer hide their figures. Two machine guns hidden in the attic fired recklessly at the Japanese in the alley, which was a disaster for the Japanese with a large number of troops.

The unlucky people in the Battle of Sihang Warehouse had experienced how terrible it was to shoot an anti-aircraft gun that could penetrate a 15mm steel plate at a distance of 500 meters.

The brick walls used to build ordinary houses had no defense against anti-aircraft guns. The only function they had was to block the Japanese army's sight, which was similar to the self-consolation of covering one's ears and stealing a bell, saying that they would not be hit by machine guns.

The reason why machine guns did not perform in street fighting was just because they were concerned about the Japanese infantry guns, but it did not mean that they would be timid when facing a group of light infantry who were only equipped with grenade launchers at most.

The Japanese grenade launchers did not fight back, but the machine gun fortifications were specially designed to prevent grenades. Sandbags were piled up around to prevent shrapnel splashing, and the roof was specially supported by thick logs. Unless the grenade was thrown directly above the fortifications, it might cause some damage to the machine gun.

But obviously, the mortars that had been waiting for a long time were waiting for the grenade launchers, which were the biggest threat, to appear. The artillery observation posts left on high ground kept reporting the location of the grenade launchers.

The 6.5 kg shells of the six Type 82 mortars are much more powerful than the grenades that are only the size of Japanese melon grenades. One shot can even knock down a house.

The mortars hit the miniature 'mortars'. An infantry squadron lost five of the six grenade launchers in less than five minutes. The last one was saved because the grenade launcher was timid and hid it tightly without attacking, so it was not discovered by the Chinese.

However, if a grenade launcher that dared not even attack was kept, would it be used as a fire stick?

After the grenade launcher was completely eliminated, the nightmare of the Japanese infantry came.

Six heavy machine guns with basically no fortifications also appeared on the stage. Under the guidance of the rising flares, they poured bullets on the Japanese troops hiding in hiding.

A Japanese infantry squadron with sophisticated tactics was beaten back by a guard platoon of only more than 40 people.

It's not that the guard platoon is so awesome, but that the Chinese crush them in heavy firepower, just like they have always crushed the Chinese with their sharp artillery.

This is the most frightening situation of attacking the fire support unit. Once blocked by the opponent's guard troops, those artillery that could have been defenseless in front of the infantry can make the attackers taste the bitter wine they brewed.

The battle lasted only ten minutes, and the Japanese captain ordered a retreat when he saw that it was impossible to do anything.

This was originally an extremely fast response for the proud Japanese army, but unfortunately, it was still too late.

Zhuang Shisan drew back an infantry platoon from the front line to block their way, Qian Dazhu's 2nd platoon encircled from the right wing, plus Zhao Daqiang's guard platoon that caught up from the rear, and the 20-man battalion guard squad that came from the rear to reinforce, with a total of nearly 200 Chinese infantrymen surrounding the remaining Japanese troops who only had a light machine gun as a firepower point and launched a round of beatings.

The scene in the afternoon was repeated again.

It was just that this time, it was not the Japanese army that encircled and suppressed the Chinese soldiers who were resisting in the houses, but the Chinese that encircled and suppressed the Japanese invaders who were resisting in the houses.

Grenades, mortars, and even Molotov cocktails were used, and almost no Japanese army could escape such attacks.

The houses that were lit up into piles of bonfires illuminated the night sky, saving flares, but making it more difficult for the Japanese soldiers in khaki uniforms who looked like groundhogs on the prairie to hide.

And when Masaru Hebe in the distance saw the flashing fire in the distance, he knew that his infiltration tactics had failed and he had buried an infantry squadron in vain.

The sound of gunfire and explosion continued to ring continuously, and for the first time in the mind of the Japanese major, the shadow of the 6th Infantry Battalion, which he called stupid enough to die, emerged.

Could it be that that was the future of his 4th Infantry Battalion?