Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 412
The Japanese Tenth Army's three-armed tactic appeared to be successful on the first day, 11 November.

It took the 18 troops led by Yanagawa Heisuke a day to reach the outskirts of Kunshan, and the [-]th Division also caught up with the [-]-strong Chinese army that chose to resist instead of retreating.

In addition to the 36th Infantry Brigade, they are also working very hard to chase thousands of Chinese who are more than ten kilometers away. They can catch up at any time, but when they step on their long legs, the short legs almost run away. .

The battle of Kunshan was relatively smooth. The Chinese army had basically withdrawn because the main force had basically withdrawn, so they slipped away with little resistance.

But the 18th Division encountered stubborn resistance.

Regarding the first three days of the Battle of Jiashan, the battle report of the Japanese Tenth Army stated this.

1937年11月12日晚，帝国第18师团紧追敌67军、43军主力抵达中国江浙嘉善县。

In the early morning of November 11, it was attacked by the enemy at night.

The enemy soldiers were all bare upper body, holding sharp-edged bamboo knives, stabbing anyone wearing clothes, the night was as dark as ink, our army could not see, the 18nd Infantry of the 35th Infantry Regiment of the 124th Infantry Brigade of the 2th Division encountered enemy attacks The brigade killed more than 230 people in this battle, more than 300 were slightly or seriously injured, and 200 enemies were killed.

On November 11, the 13th Imperial Division dispatched the 18nd and 114rd Infantry Battalion of the 2th Infantry Regiment, the 3st and 124rd Infantry Battalion of the 1th Infantry Regiment, the 3st and 55nd Infantry Battalion of the 1th Infantry Regiment, and the 2th Infantry Regiment The 56rd Infantry Brigade, the 3th Artillery Regiment, and the 12th Engineer Regiment invested a total of 12 infantry, 7000 engineers, and 600 artillery pieces of various types to attack the enemy's defense line with a width of 70 kilometers. , A total of 12 enemy positions were conquered, more than 13 enemy troops were killed, and nearly 2000 of their own casualties.

In the early morning of November 11, it was attacked by the enemy again.

The enemy's tactics remained the same, their uniforms were not changed, and they were also equipped with sharp-edged bamboo knives. They sneaked into the position again. Although our side was ready for battle, we still suffered heavy losses.All the positions conquered during the day were lost, and the number of enemies killed is unknown!
On November 11th, Lieutenant General Ushishima Sadao, the head of our 14th Division, went to the front to supervise the battle. In this battle, nearly 18 infantry soldiers were invested. All the heavy artillery of the Heavy Artillery Brigade participated in the battle. The Navy also sent fighter planes to assist. Going forward, defeating the enemy's position 15 times, the enemy's defense line is already crumbling.

In the early morning of November 11th, the enemy attacked again!The so-called position was lost.

The battle report is getting more and more concise.

As long as you are not a fool, watching the battle report of the Japanese Tenth Army on the front line of Jiashan, you will know that the No.18 division on the front line of Jiashan seems to have fallen into an almost unsolvable endless loop.

It seems that the positions that a large number of troops have finally captured during the day will be lost again at night, all because of a group of Chinese soldiers who like to go topless and hold bamboo knives, which are almost primitive weapons.

But in fact, the real experience of the 18th Division was much crueler than the understatement in the battle report.

During the day, with the assistance of the large-caliber heavy artillery of the Divisional Artillery Wing and the Heavy Artillery Brigade, the Japanese infantry's offensive went smoothly. Although the Chinese were tenacious enough, they were forced to retreat because they lacked heavy weapons to fight back.

The Japanese infantry who can occupy the position are not easy at all, because they have to suffer the test of the night.

But no matter how vigilant they are, people are not machines. They are already exhausted after a day of fierce fighting, and the silent night is simply a deadly lullaby.

And those Chinese who only wear shorts and straw sandals and hold sharpened bamboo poles can always sneak into the position from the wide wilderness without the sleepy sentinels.

The Japanese infantry even changed the way they stored their weapons because of the sneak attack in the previous two days. Every rifle was next to the sleeping soldiers in the trenches, ready to go into battle at any time.

However, this did not change the outcome of them being driven out of the position by the Chinese in the end, and suffered heavy losses.

All infantry who did not return to the main position were sentenced to death in battle.

Missing, it is impossible to appear here, and there will be no living people under the topless Chinese.

The Japanese did not know what kind of Chinese soldiers they encountered.

The 128th Division of the Hunan Army is perhaps the most special army in the Chinese army at this time.

What is Xiangxi?
I am afraid that when Chinese people in the future see this name, the first thought that pops up is definitely not that there is a beautiful county with beautiful mountains and clear waters. There was once a beautiful county with a great literati and a moving name.

Phoenix used to be called "Gan Town" instead of Fenghuang. In the area controlled by the Miao people for nearly 2000 years, due to the migration of a large number of people during the Tang and Song Dynasties, conflicts broke out, and an armed force was maintained all the year round, called "Gan Town". military'.

That may be one of the few mercenaries in Chinese history. Fighting is their lifelong occupation. Every household is used to it. Almost every household has soldiers.

This is no longer a tough folk custom, but a professional army that does the job of killing people.

The 128th Division of the Hunan Army is such a pole army, 90.00% of the officers and soldiers are from "Phoenix".

This time when they were ordered to go on an expedition, the banner of "The Gan Army Goes Out, China Will Not Perish" was hung at the gate of the small city that will become a tourist attraction in the future, and the whole city came to see them off.

The 7000 junior soldiers accounted for one-fifth of the young and strong in the small town.

The 128th Division, an army mainly composed of Miao and Tu ethnic groups, is best at hand-to-hand combat.They have been practicing martial arts since childhood, and their combat effectiveness in close combat is almost unmatched in the whole of China.

Unlike the Northwest Army, which learned the art of broadswords when entering the barracks, the soldiers of the 128th Division liked bamboo poles made from local materials the most, and cut them into pointed ends half a meter long. Perhaps the spiked bamboo poles with a length of nearly two meters should not be called It should be called a bamboo spear for a bamboo knife.

But this weapon is similar to the red-tasseled spear that the northern army likes to carry on the battlefield, and it completely beats the Japanese army's [-] big cover in terms of length.

Don't look at the fact that the Japanese army's stabbing technique is known as unparalleled in the world. It is based on the fact that the opponent's physical fitness and the length of the spear are not as good as theirs.

Facing the army in gray uniforms with red-tasseled guns in hand, the Japanese were proud of losing eight out of ten hand-to-hand battles, but here they lost three out of three.

However, this is by no means the main reason why the 'gan army' can repeatedly succeed in night raids.

The real reason why they have never been defeated in night raids is their fearless spirit.

In that era, there would be officers in each army to supervise the battle. Once a soldier retreated, he would follow the local military law.This point, even the 67th Army and the 43rd Army are no exception. During the Songjiang battle, no less than a hundred officers and soldiers died under the machine guns and pistols of the supervisory team.

However, there is no such establishment in the Gan army. They never need to supervise the battle, and even the so-called pre-war mobilization is omitted.

The ministers only need to yell: "Brothers, go up! Don't disgrace us Phoenix people!" The soldiers of the Gan army will charge desperately until they reach the last person.

This sentence is more useful than any rhetoric, and there is no purer fighting motive.

In ancient times, when the Gan army went out to fight, they usually wore a big earring on their right ear, and their names were engraved on the earring.This is not for the sake of looking good, but I hope that after I die in battle, someone will claim it, and the fallen leaves will return to their roots.

When clearing the battlefield, as long as you see a person with a big earring on his right ear, it must be a pole soldier in Xiangxi.Then, according to the name and place of origin on the earrings, the remains were transported back to Xiangxi for burial.

If it is not possible to transport the remains back home, take the earrings with you.

As soon as the family saw the earring, they knew that he had died in battle and would never return.Then the earrings were enshrined on the shrine, indicating that he had returned.

Now, they are wearing the earrings again, engraved with their names and places of origin.

The shroud in horse leather has become the most glorious thing for the children of the Ganjun.

If it is not such an army, how can it block the mad attack of nearly 18 people from the 3th Division with the power of an infantry division in that time and space?In Tang Dao's view, that battle was more of a hell mode than Songjiang's [-] vs. [-] battle.

But miraculously, they did.

And their combat method, just like what was written in the No. 18 Division's battle report at this time, is hard-topped during the day, with as little loss of ground as possible, and at night, they will organize a death squad to take it shirtless.

It's not that the Japanese army is just tofu. They were immediately confused when they encountered a night attack. They also tried to prove that they were not weak.

But the tragedy is that they are really not the opponents of this 'pole' army in hand-to-hand combat. What's more painful is that this is the real water town in the south of the Yangtze River.

Jiashan has more water than Songjiang.

The Chinese and Japanese armies were all fighting in the mud.

The Chinese wear pitiful straw sandals, while the Japanese wear cowhide shoes that can crush mountains and rivers.

If it is on the road, cowhide boots are naturally better than straw sandals.

But if it is in the mud, the fool also knows what a terrible experience it will be to have leather boots covered in mud.

Mother Earth of China and the Japanese themselves dug a big hole for the Japanese infantry.

This is not counted, because this time and space has one more little butterfly that travels through.

Tang Dao added fire to the night attack.

After the Songjiang Command arrived in Jiashan, after consulting the Songhu Theater Command, the Jiashan Command was established in conjunction with the 128th Division.

The 67th Army was the main force for daytime defensive operations, while the entire 128th Division retreated to the fortifications where they could defend against heavy artillery.

At night, it serves as the main force for night raids.

To put it bluntly, one is in charge of the day and the other is in charge of the night, working in shifts.

Japanese No.18 Division.
idiot!Never seen such a 'brazen' style of play.Otherwise, you run, I won't chase, okay?
On the fourth day of the offensive and defensive battle on the Jiashan defense line, the night attack team of the Ganzi Army came again.

The Chinese told the Japanese with their actions that this really doesn't work.

With the lessons learned from Hisao Tani, the unlucky man, the depression in Ushishima Sadao who still goes to the front line to supervise the battle can be imagined.

However, the reason why Ushijima Sadao can occasionally smile bitterly is not how many meters he has advanced during the day.

Rather, there are people who are more bitter than Ushijima Sadao, haha
Some people are more unlucky than themselves, which is one of the reasons why many people insist on living in misery.

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PS: It's not that Fengyue doesn't work hard!It's really a holiday, why is it busier than going to work? From noon yesterday to this evening, the dinners of classmates returning home from junior high school, high school, and university have never stopped. Fengyue is not good at drinking, and I feel dizzy after three glasses of beer. I insisted on not drinking at noon and took the time to write the chapter in the afternoon, and I will participate in the fourth game soon, so I can only use this chapter. It can be regarded as a vacation for the holidays!It will be updated normally in the next few days, everyone forgive me.

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