Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 437 Almost wiped out!

After getting rid of the stubborn battlefield of Hisashi Komura, the main force led by Tang Dao never encountered a decent resistance.

It's not that the Japanese artillery soldiers are all scumbags. After blowing up the cannons, they scattered and ran away.

On the contrary, the Japanese artillery showed the Chinese soldiers Japanese bravery.

Like the farewell telegram he sent to Yanagawa Heisuke, Sumida Saishiro organized his subordinates to fight desperately.

But it seems that this is not the right choice. According to the memories of the staff of the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade who survived after the war, in the later stages of the battlefield, His Excellency Major General Sumida Kaishiro regretted his decision very much.

If the cannon is gone, it can still be made, but if the people are gone, nothing will be left.

Yes, I watched as the Chinese soldiers used their machine guns and machine guns to bombard and shoot at the trenches, which were so crude that they could only hide most of their bodies. The infantry armed with submachine guns and shell guns with continuous-firing firearms took the imperial infantry's favorite two-wing outflanking tactic, entered the position from the flanks, conquered a position in almost 7 minutes, and then started the massacre. Sumita Saishiro really regretted it up.

His decision showed the bravery and determination of a major general of the Imperial Japanese Army, but it really sent the entire 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade to hell.

Not only is there no large-caliber heavy artillery, but even those precious artillery with years of military experience have been artificially sent to the Chinese butcher's knife.

The battle damage ratio of the battle reports of China and Japan after the war also illustrates this point extremely cruelly.

In the battle of breaking the wall and cavalry charge before the start of the battle, about 80 Chinese soldiers were killed and nearly 100 were injured, including the anti-aircraft gun position where Hisashi Komura was. , but also caused more than 150 casualties to China.

But then, under the order of Sumita Raishiro, the artillery battalion and even the artillery squadron were used as units and the defensive positions were composed of spare weapons. The total strength was as high as 6000, which is absolutely impossible to ignore in any war. Even on the meat grinder battlefield of Songhu.

Even if these poor Japanese artillerymen didn't have many weapons in their hands, even the "burning sticks" such as the [-]-type rifles that were usually left in the arsenal could only be shot by two people, one person died, and the other Only one person has the opportunity to obtain weapons, which is similar to the treatment of the gang of "earth roads" who will fight against them in the northern fields in the future.

However, their enemies had no more than a thousand men. Excluding the cavalry who cleaned up the battlefield in the rear and kept helping and transporting the wounded, the pure infantry after consumption was even less than a thousand.

But these more than 900 people allowed the Japanese artillerymen to experience what is called "Fu Ze firepower coverage".

That's really bullying the 'devil'.

Faced with the situation that the Japanese army was divided into several defensive positions to fight independently, the Tang Dao General Guard Battalion and the 67th Army Guard Battalion also formed attack teams with infantry platoons as units.

In addition to the six 6mm machine guns seized by the cavalry battalion, Tang Dao currently has the heavy firepower of up to 25 machine guns and 12 mortars, so Tang Dao took part of his troops to form a new fire support force.

Whenever the infantry needed it, this 200-man fire support unit carried at least two machine guns and heavy machine guns, regardless of whether they fired a wave of firepower first. That was the best time for the soldiers of the two battalions to fight.

Especially for the six 25mm machine guns that were seized, the "local tyrant" of the Japanese army actually prepared 500 rounds of shells for each gun.

All of this was returned to the Japanese army by the Chinese soldiers in an almost cathartic way.

How did you say that?

"The rich will cover the firepower, and the poor will intersperse in a roundabout way!"

The Chinese soldiers did not panic because they suddenly became the one with superior firepower, nor did they give up their "poor".

After the roundabout interspersed with fire coverage and cover, submachine guns and shell guns became the last nightmare of Japanese artillery who faced close range.

Whether it is the Nanfang [-] pistol and the [-]-type rifle, these two continuous-fire firearms equipped by Chinese soldiers are at an absolute disadvantage.

But no one expected that the absolute disadvantage would turn into a one-sided situation.

After the war, according to Japanese statistics, 3 artillerymen died in the rear of the 4000rd Artillery Regiment alone, and the death rate was as high as two-thirds. .

But Tang Dao reported to the headquarters that a total of 6 soldiers were killed and 189 were injured on the battlefield of annihilating the 170th Heavy Artillery Brigade. This means that the Japanese artillery spent 4000 lives in exchange for no more than 200 Chinese soldiers.

The astonishing battle loss ratio of 20 to 1 is not only a gap in equipment, but also a long distance in tactical literacy.

The days of the Japanese artillery were so comfortable that they had apparently forgotten that this was a battlefield, and their enemies were not only artillery, but also those with guns.

After the war, the Japanese army learned from the painful experience and once again strictly ordered the artillery to be protected by infantry. The artillery also had to conduct infantry military training from time to time, and everyone should be equipped with rifles, so as to avoid being attacked by Chinese infantry again. 20 to 1 battle loss ratio.

But these words are easy to talk about, but they are not so difficult in practice.The inner resistance of the technical arms is only one of them, and more importantly, this has made the unsustainable logistic supply worse.

It is already extremely difficult to provide enough supplies for the infantry, but the artillerymen have to carry guns like the infantry, you must be out of your minds for saying this!The army general in charge of logistics at the Japanese Army Headquarters almost pointed at the bald man and scolded the bald man.

Of course, the Japanese Army Headquarters was in a mess because of this military order, and that's another story, and the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade's position was also in a mess at the moment.

However, the Japanese army's positions were visibly eaten away by the naked eye, until the unlucky boy Sumida Kaishiro finally woke up completely.

I am afraid that the Chinese are not only planning to bomb and grab the cannons, but to kill all the elite artillery trained by the empire with huge manpower and material resources in this wilderness, and finally issued a military order for the entire army to retreat on its own.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

As Tang Dao issued the military order for the final general attack, the cavalry battalion cavalry remounted their horses and chased and killed the Japanese artillery who had completely lost their protection and fighting spirit in the wilderness.

That was no longer a rout, but a rout.

The entire army of the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade had more than 7400 troops before nightfall, and only more than 600 people were counted at the assembly point after dawn. It was not until several hours later that hundreds of people returned to the team one after another. Another day later, another rout returned to the team, and in the end there were only about 2000 people left, and more than 5000 Japanese soldiers were killed in this night sneak attack.

Not counting the loss of 72 large-caliber artillery, the loss of personnel alone is enough to make the generals of the Japanese army in the Songhu theater of China lose their color.

The commander of the Major General of the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade, Sumita Kaishiro, did not break his promise, and died on the position he held, just as he said in his farewell message.

However, in time and space, Sumita Raishiro, who became the commander of the first Japanese army lieutenant general, did not die in the hands of Chinese soldiers. After issuing the military order for the whole army to break through on their own, he cut his own body with a knife in the trench. belly.

However, because the major general's collar badge, command knife, and brigade flag were all taken away by his confidant staff officer, almost no one knew who the guy whose belly was pulled apart was.

In the dark night, countless pairs of Chinese feet stepped over the body of the Japanese Army Major General, and no one gave him a second look.

It wasn't until an hour later that the Chinese had left the position that was still burning in the autumn wind and the afterglow of the flames, and the silence on the position full of dead bodies was frightening, and Sumita Kaishiro swallowed his last breath in utter loneliness.

The death of an army major general with an army chief and more than 5000 Japanese artillery was not all the losses of the Japanese army this night.

Because, 6 kilometers away, the 36th Infantry Brigade, which was frantically coming here in light clothes, also encountered people who blocked them.

That was the most tragic and bloody battle of the night.

The moon, perhaps because it couldn't bear to witness this battlefield that made gods and demons tremble, also got into the dark clouds early.

The light on the battlefield is all brought by the light of flares and various tracer bullets piercing the night sky.

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