Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 322 The Rabbit Who Sent Spring
Facing the dilapidated Chinese position that was once again trembling under artillery fire, the Sixth Division not only showed its sharpest sword.

Its 13th Infantry Regiment even set up its headquarters only 600 meters away from Songjiang City, which is a range that can be easily fired by heavy machine guns.

Six of the 10 infantry guns belonging to the regiment even came close to the field fortifications at a distance of no more than 6 meters. Although this distance is within the range of the Chinese mortars, the precise strikes on the fortifications at the top of the city can almost Guaranteed the accuracy of 500 meters, a posture of using artillery to fight bayonets.

This shows the determination of the Sixth Division to finish the attack in one battle.

Of course, this may also have a more direct relationship with Hisao Tani's arrival at the brigade headquarters 1000 meters away.

The head of the division is already 1000 meters away. Can you, the captain of the General Zuo Lian, move further back?
But in any case, the highly hierarchical Japanese army is ready to take down the Songjiang outer city wall position with the strongest posture.

As the leader of Hisao Tani's sharpest sword, that is, the major commander of the 13th Infantry Battalion of the 6th Infantry Regiment, Kanwu Yudai is making the final mobilization for his subordinates.

"Gentlemen, Your Excellency the Division Commander is watching us from behind us, I hope you will live up to the prestige of my 13th Infantry Regiment and fight the enemy bravely!
Your Excellency, the head of the division, also promised that the first infantry squadron to plant our army's flag on the Songjiang city wall will be rewarded generously by the empire.At the same time, the wealth and goods in the city will be shared by the kings. "The eyes of Kamito Yutaro, who mobilized more than 600 Japanese infantrymen in the four infantry squadrons that are about to go into battle, showed cruelty. "Tonight is a grand festival for all the officers and soldiers of our Sixth Division. "

With a surname that sounds good, but the name is very bad, the Japanese Army Major Commander is not only lip service, but at the same time encouraging his subordinates, he is also doing it himself.

Looking coldly at the city wall that was once again engulfed in gunpowder hundreds of meters away, the Japanese army major took off his military uniform jacket, threw off his white gloves, and wore only a white shirt, with a white cloth strip wrapped around his head, looking like a dead father. dressed like that, pulled out his command knife, and roared "Kill the dick!"

"Onboard!"

"Long Live the Empire!"

Like their commanders, countless Japanese soldiers with white cloth strips wrapped around their heads, who planned to wear mourning for their fathers in advance, chanted slogans and rushed towards the dilapidated city wall 400 meters away.

Behind them and on both wings, in the field fortifications carefully constructed by the Japanese army, there were more than 30 heavy machine guns roaring. It was the heavy machine gun squadron of the 13th Infantry Regiment that assembled the three infantry brigades under its command.

In fact, even the Japanese army themselves should seldom use heavy machine gun clusters of this size to cover and shoot.

The noise caused by dozens of machine guns firing at the same time made the Japanese commander in the headquarters 200 meters away couldn't help but frown. As the top commander on the front line, he couldn't wear earplugs like the Japanese shooters. .

The heavy machine gun bullets that raised the muzzle hit the city wall like raindrops. The blue bricks were peeled off by the artillery fire to reveal a large amount of loess on the wall. .

The artillery fire of the Japanese army's 75 mountain field artillery and 105 howitzer has begun to extend inward with the attack of the infantry.

After the Battle of Cangcheng, the Japanese army also learned a lesson and gained experience.The Chinese tend to leave a small number of troops on the position, and their main force stays in the bullet hole behind the position, and waits for their own infantry to attack before re-entering the position.

Knowing this, the Japanese also adjusted their tactics and extended their artillery fire. Instead of directly bombarding the position to be attacked, they attacked the rear of the Chinese position. This could prevent the main force of the Chinese from entering the position, and perhaps use this to attack the Chinese. Mass destruction.

This trick is indeed very poisonous.

It's a pity that the cowboys of the United States more than ten years later are much smarter than them. This tactic has long been used badly, and the Chinese soldiers who have also learned from experience and lessons have already figured out a countermeasure.

From the very beginning, Tang Dao ordered trenches to be dug from the air-raid shelter to the main position on the city wall. The trenches as deep as 2 meters were either to prepare for street fighting or to prevent the Japanese army from playing this hand.

The 75 caliber mountain artillery may hit temporary fortifications or something, but for this kind of trench, unless the shells can be accurately delivered to the inside of the trench that is no more than 1 meters wide, there is almost no damage to the soldiers passing through the trench.

Even if some shells fall into the trenches with long eyes, the 'Z' shaped trenches dug by Tang Dao, which cost a lot of manpower, can minimize the damage caused by the turbulent air waves.

The curved trench edges and corners are enough to weaken the strength of the air waves, and there will be no tragedy that half an infantry company will be swept away by a shell falling in many straight trenches on the Songhu battlefield.

The Japanese infantry were running wildly, and the artillery fire continued to extend backwards, but the Japanese army's attack on the fortifications of the city wall was not small.

In addition to the rain of bullets from the heavy machine guns, there were grenade launchers. I don't know how many grenade launchers started to test-fire the city wall. Anyway, clouds of smoke continued to explode from the top of the city wall.

From the very beginning of the battle, the Japanese army was uncharacteristically, and did not even intend to test the point of firepower, but launched a mad attack on the 800-meter-wide fortifications of the Songjiang East City Wall with firepower.

If it wasn't for Tang Dao, the main designer of the fortifications, who hollowed out the city wall and placed the firepower inside the city wall from the beginning, then even if the firepower on the top of the city wasn't ravaged by Japanese artillery, it would have survived this wave of blows. suffered heavy losses.

But even so, the soldiers hiding in the firepower point inside the city wall couldn't help lowering their heads.

It is really that the Japanese army's covering firepower is too exaggerated, how big are the shooting holes?But there are still bullets coming in through the shooting holes. That is not at all how accurate the Japanese heavy machine gunners are, it is completely a matter of probability.

The six or seven hundred Japanese troops in the attack presented a formation of skirmishers, not a swarm of bees as imagined.

The four infantry squadrons were divided into two waves, with two infantry squadrons in front and two infantry squadrons behind, separated by nearly [-] meters.

And the horizontal distance between each soldier is at least more than 3 meters, so as to avoid mass casualties caused by Chinese firepower machine guns.

Or, it was also the 150 large-caliber mortars in the city that made the Japanese army have to be afraid.When a cannonball falls from that thing, it is also a nightmare-level existence that can sweep a radius of more than ten meters.

In terms of the power of fighting infantry, the 70 caliber infantry guns equipped by the Japanese infantry brigade are not even qualified to lift shoes for 150 mortars.

From a distance of 1000 meters, the 6th Infantry Brigade, which was divided into two waves, seemed to be in a messy formation, but it was advancing at an extremely fast speed. It took only four to five minutes to attack the moat.

The speed of advancing on the battlefield is the expression of firm will.

Even Moritake Tanabe, who respected the tough Tani Hisao at a distance, had to sigh in his heart. Lieutenant General Tani Hisao has his tough confidence, because he has such a strong subordinate, even if the Chinese in the fortifications of the city wall are not very decent. fight back.

After all, not everyone can run like a bunch of spring male rabbits against the incoming bullets.

How awesome are the male rabbits who have made a spring?
The moment Moritake Tanabe saw through the high-power binoculars that the major commander jumped into the icy moat with a command knife, the chief of staff of the major general of the Tenth Army had the urge to be a rabbit. .

Really, the imperial warriors are too mighty, such a strong army, what can the weak China use to resist them?

Fortunately, the major general of the Japanese army with a rational brain instantly annihilated this kind of impulse of the two-year-old boy.

Let's leave the bravery to those who need to prove themselves!As a general, he just has to take a look.

In the late autumn of November, facing the moat with a width of more than 11 meters and the bullets that could be fired at any time by the hidden enemy, led by a major, the "black skin and bright red blood" did not hesitate. Jumping into the river and marching towards the goal, what kind of iron will is this?
Strong as Steel
This is the definition given by Moritake Tanabe after he gave the performance of the Imperial Warriors of the Sixth Division that he saw in the high-powered telescope.

That is, fine steel has weight.

When going down the river, no one wants to carry too much weight even if they can swim.

It was already heavy to be fully armed. As a result, the Japanese major general 1000 meters away gave them a will as strong as steel.

Fine steel peat!If the Japanese infantry soldiers who stepped into the moat water that could submerge their knees knew that someone had cursed themselves like this, they would definitely have a big mouth to fight back.

Yes, although the heavy artillery blasted the embankment in many places, the water of the moat, which was nearly two meters deep, has already become shallow, and only the shallow water at the bottom can be seen at a glance.

Otherwise, the boy from Kumamoto, who is surrounded by mountains on three sides and is not familiar with water, would not be foolish enough to follow his captain into the water.

However, it was not water that broke the will of the Japanese infantrymen.

(End of this chapter)