Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 340 Fighting is Interspersed Behind the Enemy
The Japanese army outside the city panicked, censored and searched.

Tokutaro Sakai blocked the news that Hisao Tani had died in battle after thinking over and over again. He didn't even disclose it to the headquarters of the Tenth Army, because there are more than 5000 soldiers under his command in the city. If the news leaks and the morale of the army fluctuates, what will happen? Tokutaro Sakai could not imagine the loss.

As for Hisao Tani, who said he was completely cold, 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 a human being, no matter how prominent you were in life, holding a heavy military order in your hand can make the world look at you with charcoal, but when you become a cold corpse, your final destination is just to cover your face with a white cloth.

On the battlefield, the dead can only become the past tense, and the living have always only cared about the future of the living.

However, the fighting in the city did not stop because of the end of the butcher. Even if the Japanese army wanted to withdraw from the jagged battlefield, it was not so easy.

Tokutaro Sakai, who is cautious by nature, did not dare to give an order to retreat easily. The boss was killed by a sniper, and if he lost again, I am afraid that removing Major General Xiao Xingxing would still be the best destination.

No matter how hard you try, you have to do it!

And Lieutenant General Wu in the Songjiang headquarters finally used one of his trump cards, and the garrison battalion, which had been repaired for a whole day, entered 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 better at close combat. At the same time, it has veterans from the Songjiang security regiment who are familiar with the terrain of Songjiang. A smear of the Japanese army is an overwhelming advantage.

But what troubled the Japanese army the most was not the new Chinese infantry who joined the battlefield. No matter how powerful the shell guns and submachine guns are, they cannot be said to be invincible. The cross-fire power is enough to make any strong enemy flinch.

However, this new army that suddenly entered the battlefield also has a terrible heavy fire support unit.

Heavy machine guns and machine guns don't matter. No matter how fierce the firepower of those two guns is, how can they still demolish houses?The grenadiers and infantry artillery equipped by the Japanese army were also not vegetarians. A single shot fired back, no matter how strong the brick wall was, there would be a big hole, which was 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 an artifact of street warfare. It is clearly separated by a block, and there are barriers in the middle with firepower obstacles, but the elevation angle is as high as 85 degrees. The mortar completely ignores these obstacles, and can accurately hit the shell on the top of the human head.

This is going to kill people.

The house, where bullets could have been avoided, has become the most dangerous place. As long as the infantry entering the block finds a point of firepower, they will often adopt only one tactic. After 5 minutes, three or four shells will hit.

Even if the firepower point was not blown into parts all over the ground, the collapsed house and the ignited fire would inevitably force the Japanese troops with light and heavy firepower out of the house, and then they would be greeted with a dense bullet.

The flank of the Japanese army with more than 1500 troops was defeated steadily by the Chinese with hundreds of troops. In less than an hour, the entire front was recovered more than 500 meters to the east.

This angered the captain of the 13th Infantry, who was in charge of commanding the front line, and even ordered He Bian, the captain of the 4th Infantry under his command, to organize an infantry squadron of nearly 200 people to enter the rear of the Chinese front through the gaps in the battlefield. In an attempt to annihilate this Chinese fire support force that dared to move heavy firepower such as mortars to the front line.

Interspersing the enemy on the battlefield to strike at the enemy's important departments is the most commonly used tactic in Japanese land warfare.

In the past time and space, in the battle of Zaoyi on the Jianghan Plain, the Japanese army used this bold interspersed tactic, with the strength of an infantry squadron, to block the retreat of the famous general commander. The stars will fall.

But this time, the Japanese army obviously had the wrong idea.

When Tang Dao planned the battle plan for the whole battalion to participate in street fighting, he specially focused on defending the Japanese army from using the gaps in the battlefield to intersperse to fight in the rear. Especially when the fire support company is on the battlefield, the battalion guard squad and the guard company have a platoon of defense. strength.

It was Zhao Daqiang, who was then the platoon leader of the security company, who was in charge of guarding the safety of the fire support company. Zhao Daqiang, who was born as the personal guard of the lieutenant general and division commander of the 26th Division, was the most handy for defensive guards.

He fully expanded his guard post by 150 meters, which means that unless the Japanese army can accurately know the location of the mortar and throw grenades at it from 150 meters away, otherwise, he will be able to counterattack the enemy one step ahead.

The first person to spot the Japanese army was Lurking Sentinel, a veteran of the security regiment who had participated in the battles outside the West City.

He was very smart not to fire a warning shot first, but only after the Japanese army sneaked into the defense area and dozens of people in the dark, he threw a bundle of cluster bombs with four hand grenades tied to him.

More than 10 Japanese soldiers were killed and injured by sudden cluster bombs in the dark ruins. A row of guards who were already on high alert heard the violent explosion and quickly mobilized troops to block this side.

The Japanese infantry, who no longer concealed it, failed to catch up with the guard post that slipped away, and soon encountered an oncoming blow from the guard platoon.

The Japanese commanders knew that they were not here to entangle the infantry, but to destroy the Chinese heavy fire support troops, especially when they confronted the Chinese behind the Chinese defense line, they were undoubtedly looking for death. Waiting for the infantry on the Chinese front line to return, They will completely become the turtle in the urn.

It's just that although they have an advantage in military strength, the bullet rain formed by the opponent's shell guns and submachine guns makes it difficult for them to move forward, even if they know that the Chinese fire support troops are nearby.

'Boom! 'The muffled sound will never exceed a hundred meters.

But this hundred meters is an insurmountable distance for them.

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

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

How terrible it is to shoot an anti-aircraft gun that can penetrate a 500mm steel plate within a distance of 15 meters. Some unlucky people have already experienced it in the Battle of the Four Lines Warehouse.

The brick walls used in ordinary residential buildings have no defense against anti-aircraft guns. The only role they can play is to block the sight of the Japanese army.

The reason why machine guns did not show up in street battles was because they were wary of the Japanese infantry artillery, but it did not mean that they would shrink back when facing a group of light infantry equipped with grenadiers at most.

It’s not that the grenadiers of the Japanese army have never counterattacked, but the machine gun fortifications are specially designed to prevent grenades, and sandbags are piled up around them to prevent the shrapnel from splashing. The ceiling is also specially supported by thick logs, unless the grenade is thrown directly Right above the fortifications, it may be able to deal some damage to the cannon.

But obviously, the mortars that have been waiting for a long time are waiting for the most threatening grenadier to appear, and the artillery observation post left at a high place keeps reporting the location of the grenadier soldiers.

The 82 kg heavy shells of six 6.5-type mortars are much more powerful than grenades the size of Japanese melon grenades. One shot can even blow down a house.

Mortars hang miniature 'mortars'. An infantry squadron lost five of the six grenadiers in less than 6 minutes. The last one was saved because the grenadier soldier hid it because of timidity. There was no attack, so it was not discovered by the Chinese.

It's just that the grenades that dare not even attack, even if they are kept, can they be used as fire sticks?
After the grenadiers were completely eliminated, the nightmare of the Japanese infantry came.

The six heavy machine guns with basically no fortifications also appeared on the stage, and under the guidance of the rising flare light, they poured bullets on the Japanese troops hiding in Tibet.

A tactically skilled Japanese infantry squadron was defeated by a guard platoon of no more than 40 people.

It's not how powerful the guard platoon is, but that the Chinese crush them in terms of heavy firepower, just like they have been crushing the Chinese with sharp artillery.

This is the most frightening situation when attacking fire support troops. Once blocked by the opponent's security forces, the artillery that could have been defenseless in front of the infantry will allow the attackers to taste the bitter wine they have brewed.

The battle lasted only 10 minutes, and seeing that nothing could be done, the captain of the Japanese lieutenant ordered to retreat.

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

An infantry platoon drawn back by Zhuang Shisan from the front line blocked their way. Qian Dazhu's 2nd platoon surrounded them from the right flank, plus Zhao Daqiang's guard platoon rushed up from the rear, and reinforcements from the rear also had to be added. There were 20 guards in the battalion headquarters, and the total strength was nearly 200. Chinese infantry launched a round of beatings around the surviving Japanese army with only one light machine gun, which was still considered a point of fire.

The scene of the afternoon was repeated again.

It's just that this time it wasn't the Japanese army who encircled and suppressed the stubborn Chinese soldiers who were hiding in houses, but the Chinese who were besieging and suppressing the stubborn Japanese invaders hiding in houses.

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

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

And the riverside in the distance knew that his interspersed tactics had failed after seeing the continuous flashing fire in the distance, and he also ruined an infantry squadron in vain.

The sound of gunshots and explosions was still ringing incessantly, and for the first time, the shadow of the 6th Infantry Brigade, which he called stupid enough to die, floated in the mind of the Japanese Major.

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

(End of this chapter)