Rise From Eight Hundred

Yes, it was not that the new sergeant Lü Sanjiang was possessed by a spirit, and his marksmanship became so accurate that he shot the Major General Chief of Staff of the 10th Army off his horse a mile away.

Rather, he fell off his horse himself.

Or to be more precise, it was the warhorse that took the initiative to throw the Japanese Army Major General off his horse.

Lü Sanjiang held a gun in one hand and a telescope in the other hand and fired a shot in his mind, but he did not hit any target at all.

However, this unconscious shot quietly conformed to the so-called "do nothing and follow your heart" of Chinese Taoism.

The accuracy was many times higher than his actual marksmanship. Even if Niu Er, who was known for his shooting talent, was here, he would not be more accurate than him in this shot.

Without a scope, a Liao-made 13-cavalry lance with an effective range of only 400 meters hit the road 600 meters away.

Yes, although it did not hit the man and the horse, the bullet hit the road more than two meters away from Tanabe Shengwu.

Normally, a warhorse that has been trained to adapt to the battlefield will not be frightened to the point of falling off its back even if a shell explodes nearby, and will never be frightened by a small rifle bullet.

However, Arima was so unlucky.

A small stone stirred up by the bullet hitting the ground hit the horse's eye by chance, and it blinded the horse's eye directly. Who wouldn't go crazy?

When a warhorse is blind, it can still remain calm and continue to fight!

The horse was unlucky, but Tanabe Shigetake on horseback was even more unlucky.

Because it was still a little dark, the warhorse was not running at full speed, and the speed was not very fast. Falling and breaking a leg and an arm was already considered serious.

But Tanabe Shigetake, who was still thinking about how to gain command of the Sixth Division on horseback, was not prepared at all.

Yes, if Tani Hisao of the Sixth Division was finished, someone would naturally need to take his place.

It was originally the most normal operation to promote from within the Sixth Division. Both major general brigade commanders were qualified. However, this kind of operation that makes people scratch their heads is likely to cause dissatisfaction to the other person. The North China Expeditionary Army Command and the Army Headquarters have to consider it carefully.

But now it is a battlefield, and there is not so much time for the big guys to argue with each other for this position. Then, Tanabe Shigetake, the major general chief of staff of the Tenth Army, has the possibility of emerging as a new force, with a probability of up to 80%.

When he thought that he might become a major general in the army with more than 20,000 troops in charge, and no longer had to be a messenger for others, Tanabe Shigetake's heart was so hot.

His mind was full of a bunch of colonels and major generals who were groveling around him. Who would have thought that on the battlefield dominated by 100,000 troops, there would be someone who would be so bold as to shoot bullets at him?

So, the Japanese Army Major General who was looking forward to his dream was in trouble.

Others broke their arms and legs when they fell, but he broke his neck at once.

What made the Japanese cavalry painful was that there was no bullet hole on the body of the major general whose neck was broken. They had no way to judge the direction of the enemy based on the trajectory, and they could not even chase him.

In such a wilderness, let alone the twenty-odd cavalrymen, even if there were ten times more, they could only stare blankly.

In the end, the person who went to the Sixth Division to investigate the cause of Tani Hisao's death instead of Yanagawa Heisuke also became a corpse.

Because of an unknown Chinese cavalryman!

Tanabe Moritake, who had not yet arrived at the Sixth Division Field Hospital, took his last breath in the bumpy road.

Sakai Tokutaro and Ushijima Mitsuru, who were waiting in the rear, looked at the corpse and could only be stunned.

Did Amaterasu fall in love with the Tenth Army?

The two made up their minds that in the future, they would stay away from the front line and leave the headquarters less often no matter how depressed they were.

After all, life is important.

The lieutenant general was dead, and the psychological impact of another major general was not that great.

However, for Sakai Tokutaro, even greater bad news was still to come.

Although the furious Yanagawa Heisuke sent a telegram to let Ushijima Mitsuru and Suematsu Shigeharu each dispatch an infantry battalion to support the 11th Infantry Brigade that had entered the East City, it still took time to coordinate the deployment of troops.

In addition, because of the accidental attack and death of Tanabe Moritake, Sakai Tokutaro lost the most precious two hours.

At 7 o'clock in the morning.

The Chinese army, which had already assembled, resolutely launched a counterattack against the more than 4,000 Japanese infantry in the East City District.

This time, it was not a small number against a large number.

Although there were only more than 2,000 people left in the 322nd Infantry Brigade, these 2,000 people were veterans who had experienced a day of street fighting. Those who were not adapted to the battlefield had been eliminated. Only the strong could survive on such a battlefield.

More than 2,000 people in an infantry regiment transferred from the North City had not been put into battle. Seeing their comrades killed and killed in the wild and suffered heavy casualties, they had long been unable to hold back, like a tiger coming down the mountain.

Not to mention the guard battalion, which has been through several battles, and with the return of Tang Dao, the 700 people with a backbone are definitely the strongest soldiers on this battlefield in terms of combat experience and morale.

The guard battalion of the special forces regiment directly under the 67th Army Headquarters has always been the trump card tightly held in the hands of Lieutenant General Wu. Yesterday, he even released the guard battalion but not the guard battalion, which also shows how much he values ​​the trump card.

The guard battalion is not large, with only three guard companies and 500 people, but they are all equipped with pistols, either submachine guns or Mauser pistols. The field combat capability may be slightly inferior, but in terms of close combat defense, the guard battalion of Tang Dao can only be second.

This kind of shooting, with a maximum distance of only 50 meters, was simply a stage set for them.

Although Lao Wang's two 43rd Army infantry companies only had more than a hundred people left after a day of bloody fighting, these more than a hundred people who crawled out of the pile of dead bodies in Dachang Town were praised as the best performing troops in this counterattack after the war.

The fear of death of the Sichuan children had disappeared as early as in Dachang Town because of the deaths of their comrades.

Their purpose of continuing to fight on the battlefield was not to live, but to die!

To die like their comrades who died in the battle!

It was a complete brotherhood.

It was also a comfort to their parents and parents that the Sichuan children would not bring shame to the elders of their hometown.

"The country is in crisis, and the Japanese invaders are ferocious. Every man has a share in the rise and fall of a country. I wanted to serve, but I was too old. Fortunately, I have a son who volunteered. I was given a flag, and I carry it with me at all times. Wipe the blood when you are injured, and wrap the body after death. Go forward bravely, and don't forget your duty!"

When the Sichuan Army swore to leave Sichuan, an old father gave his son a flag with the word "death", which was the flag of the "Straw Sandal Army".

It is not surprising that an army with a father giving a flag with the word "death" as soon as it goes out to fight will have any kind of record.

The Chinese army that was deployed in the East City battle did not actually have an overwhelming advantage, with about 6,000 people.

This was the last force that the Songjiang defenders could take out.

But this was also the essence of the Songjiang defenders.

The two commanders of the Songjiang Command had gambled everything.

Facing the Chinese army that was frantically attacking with slogans such as "Tani Hisao is dead! Hashimoto Kingoro is dead!", the morale of the 4,000 Japanese soldiers fell to the bottom.

They didn't know whether the division commander was dead or not, but they knew that the front-line commander had been replaced before dawn. The colonel commander of the 23rd Infantry Regiment was now the highest commander in the city, and Colonel Hashimoto Kingoro of the 13th Infantry Regiment had disappeared.

Recalling the artillery bombardment in the direction of the headquarters at dawn, anyone with a bright mind would know that the Chinese might not be lying.

The morale of one side was high and the morale of the other side was low, so the situation on the battlefield could be imagined.

The two Japanese infantry battalions ordered by Yanagawa Heisuke actually entered the battlefield, but they entered too late. The Japanese defense line shrank too much in the early stage, resulting in their strategic depth being completely lost except for the increase in manpower and the maintenance of the defense line.

The Japanese troops in the two southwest cities attacked wildly, trying to open a breakthrough or help the east city to share the pressure. Even the Japanese troops in the north city were no longer lurking. The two infantry battalions built field positions one thousand meters away, ready to launch an attack.

The Japanese heavy artillery and bomber formations even risked accidentally hitting friendly forces in the city and launched attacks on the two southwest cities.

But the Songjiang defenders shattered their ambitions with an equally resolute counterattack.

Both sides suffered heavy casualties, even worse than yesterday.

This fierce battle lasted from 7 a.m. to the afternoon.

In the end, both sides almost lost command of their troops.

The brigade commander could not find the regiment commander, the regiment commander could not find the battalion commander, the battalion commander could not find the company commander, and the company commander could not find the platoon leader.

China and Japan are in each other.

The officers and soldiers of both sides were bloodshot, staring with bloodshot eyes, and as long as the color of the military uniform was different, they would kill!

This was a great counterattack.

A classic defensive counterattack that can be written into military history.

But it was destined to be a tragic counterattack.

It is said that after the war, the highest commanders of both sides held the casualty report with tears in their eyes.