Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 401 Niu Dao's stubbornness
The Chinese did not follow the path imagined by the Japanese lieutenant general.

Of course, his subordinates are not obedient babies who listen to him in everything.

Just like Major General Ushido Man, the brigade commander of the 6th Brigade of the 36th Division, who is at the forefront.

Although the major general of the Japanese army cherishes the lives of the soldiers under his command, it also depends on when.

Sometimes, the lives of soldiers can be sacrificed.

For the empire, but also for himself.

Just a bunch of abandoned pawns, let him wait for the main force to arrive on the bank of the river, and he can't do anything and watch the main force of the Chinese flee?

This is obviously extremely difficult to accept for a major general of the Japanese Army with sufficient ambition and talent.

He has to do something to prove himself.

Ushishima Man is worthy of being the guy who will make the cowboys in full armor cry on the small island of Okinawa in the future.

With a flexible mind, he obeyed Yanagawa Hirasuke's military order and improved the military order independently.

For the main force, he wanted to test out the Chinese people's determination to defend the river bank and the deployment of troops. After an hour of preparation, he used the wooden boats found from the bank and the kayaks carried by the engineer troops as the main means of transport, from the distance of more than 1000 meters. Four fords began to cross the river.

At the same time, the brigade headquarters concentrated 3 heavy machine gun squadrons, with a total of 36 heavy machine guns, as well as 12 infantry guns and 4 mountain guns to provide fire cover for the troops crossing the river.

The strength of each river-crossing force was as high as an infantry squadron, and a total of nearly a thousand infantrymen were invested in an infantry brigade.

The scale of this level of crossing the river is by no means small. If the pawns abandoned by the Chinese are not strong enough, the four infantry brigades of the 36th Infantry Brigade, which are still watching the river bank, will all cross the river to defeat the Chinese abandoned pawns and kill them. Continue to pursue frantically, and will never give the Chinese main force the slightest chance to breathe.

Taking the lives of nearly a thousand infantrymen to test the strength of troops and firepower on the other side of the river is of course a bit risky, but for Ushijima Man, who urgently needs to defeat his competitors at this time, it is definitely worth it.

Under Matsue Castle, although Tokutaro Sakai’s 13th Infantry Brigade suffered heavy losses, that was because they were the main attackers and had also invaded the city. The 13th Infantry Regiment under their command even killed the captain .

The Japanese Army, which advocates the spirit of Bushido, may appreciate this fearlessness more, ignoring the fact that thousands of its soldiers died in battle.

Just like Nogi Nozomi, who was so stupid that he ordered tens of thousands of people to carry out a death charge, he finally won the honor of "Military God" because of his spirit of carrying the coffin to the death.

Japan itself is an extremely extreme nation.

Tani Hisao has been belching for two days now, and the Sixth Division is still headed by Yanagawa Heisuke, the commander of the Tenth Army, who personally acts as the head of the division. This shows that the big guys in the base camp are still playing games with each other. Any outstanding performance may be able to add a weight to the hearts of the bosses, causing the stalemate to tilt the balance towards them.

Therefore, although he obeyed Yanagawa Hirasuke's military order and did not use all his strength to cross the river, he still put out nearly 1000 people and half of the heavy firepower of the brigade into the battle.

If the Chinese have only one infantry regiment or even one infantry brigade, the major general of the Japanese army who has tested the truth will also revise the battle plan, and thousands of people under his command will attack with all their strength.

The heavy firearms of the Chinese have been damaged a lot when they were defending the city, and it is even more impossible to leave the few artillery at the end on the way to escape. Facing a group of light infantry, even his 36th Infantry Brigade has no more Howitzers, the 92 infantry artillery and the 41 mountain artillery alone are enough to crush them.

The somewhat arrogant Ushijima has already calculated everything.

Only one thing was missed, this group of Chinese just beat the majestic Japanese Navy's fleet to the ground.

Of course, that was also the result of the navy not notifying them of the specific battle damage to the Tenth Army, otherwise, Ushishima Man would not have acted rashly.

It's a pity that the contradictions between the Japanese navy and army for many years are doomed that they will not cooperate sincerely, even if it is a war.

Dozens of kayaks and wooden boats carried hundreds of Japanese troops to paddle to the opposite bank covered by bushes, and there were hundreds of people walking behind the boats with guns in the waist-deep water.

The heavy machine guns on the river bank did not wait for the opposite bank to fire at all, and began to shoot at an area about 300 meters deep on the other side of the river 300 meters away in a way of covering fire.

At each river crossing point, about 20 grenadiers were concentrated, and no matter whether they saw people or not, they just bombarded the river bank.

It is not only hoping to suppress the firepower of blind cats catching dead mice, but also hoping that the thick gunpowder smoke will obscure the sight of lurking enemies and provide enough cover for those on their own side who are still crossing the river.

The infantry artillery and mountain artillery in the rear were not in a hurry to fire, which was a valuable heavy fire point waiting for the Chinese.

The terrible heavy machine gun bullets were like raindrops, hitting the branches and leaves in the bushes.

Rows of grenade grenades were like plowing machines, blowing up bushes and soil in all directions. Within a range of more than 100 meters along the river, the exhausted Japanese soldiers wreaked havoc with infantry light firearms.

Just like this, there is still no artillery to join.

Zhuang Shisan, who was hiding in a simple trench on a mound 400 meters away from the river bank, couldn't help grinning: "My dear, the Japanese really spared no expense! Fortunately, the battalion commander strictly ordered that the trenches of the troops must be 300 meters away from the river bank. This wave of bullets and grenades really fooled the Japanese."

'Damn it, showing off again. ’ The army major, who was lying with Zhuang Shisan and holding a telescope, couldn’t help curling his lips.

Tang Dao is the supreme commander of the advance regiment, but the headquarters did not give him the position of regimental commander, but let him take the title of deputy director of the staff department, so most of the advance regiment's departments are called Tang Dao, and they can be called Tang Dao As the battalion commander, there are only two divisions, the Four Lines Battalion and the Garrison Battalion.

To put it bluntly, anyone who calls Tang Dao the battalion commander is a direct descendant.

Seeing the Army Major's expressionless face, let alone the comfort in Master Zhuang's heart.

The major of the army is the battalion commander of the security battalion directly under the 67th Army. Although his position and rank are similar to that of the security battalion commander like Zhuang Shisan, it is obvious that the regular army can be regarded as the security army?The battalion commander who had met with Zhuang Shisan several times in Songjiang City didn't even look him in the eye. How could Zhuang Shisan, who was born in Jianghu and valued his face, not secretly feel aggrieved.

Don't you want to look at the opportunity to make a fuss right now?The purpose of showing off your direct lineage is to tell this major that you look down on me, but now I am the boss' confidant, and your son is a miscellaneous.

Of course, Zhuang Shisan did not intend to declare leadership, although the major was ordered to bring a company of guards to support him.

For the four crossing points selected by the Japanese army, Tang Dao used the Four Lines Battalion and the Guard Battalion as the main defensive force, and then dispatched four guard companies from the three guard battalions to assist.

It's not because the guard battalion's combat effectiveness is weaker, but the guard battalion's troops are basically short guns, and they have strong short-range firepower, but their long-range firepower is far from that of field troops like the guard battalion.

At the beginning, the major of the army who entered the position with more than 100 guards was very dissatisfied with Zhuang Shisan's "war-fearing" behavior of placing the troops 400 meters away, even if Tang Dao ordered him to pass Entering 300 meters, but this guy ran directly to 400 meters, is it too afraid of death?
Such a distance, not to mention the useless shell guns, submachine guns and Liao Zao [-] equipped by their guard company, even the [-] rifles and Zhongguan equipped by the soldiers of the guard battalion, can only be lonely.

Then defend the ball!
But how?From the perspective of reducing casualties, Zhuang Shisan really has nothing to say.

The machine guns and grenades that the Japanese covered the river bank at a depth of 300 meters were just a blow to the air, and the soldiers hid in the trenches in the bushes to watch the show easily.

The reason why it is easy is not only that they are not attacked, but that in this round of battle, the infantry are not the main force, they are just preparing.

Only when the Japanese army crosses the river with iron heads on a large scale will they enter the front line.

And if the Japanese army is small in scale.

The main force for attacking the Japanese army across the river this time was machine guns and heavy machine guns.

The big guys who were originally used to shoot planes were all in the fortifications in the higher mound 800 meters away, facing the river condescendingly.

Just wait for the Japanese to attack halfway!

(End of this chapter)