Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 479: Smile with Tears
When dawn came, two infantry regiments ushered in the returning advance regiment and informed the main position.

The three lieutenant general commanders of the Jiashan Frontline Headquarters, together with the lieutenant general commanders of the 107th, 108th, and 26th infantry divisions, a total of 6 lieutenant general-level chief officers of the army, all greeted Sanli.

If the Japanese army launched a bombardment on the Jiashan defense line at this time, the precipice would be full, and the effect would be no worse than the Chinese annihilating one of their heavy artillery brigades.

Unfortunately, they have no heavy artillery brigade.

Although there were enough corrupt officials in this period, investing huge sums of money to prevent enemy fortifications from landing at sea is like playing with a 75mm gun.

At the moment, Ushishima Sadao is still struggling to gather the front-line troops, including the disheartened 36th Infantry Brigade. For the time being, he can't care about fighting the Chinese army that has retreated into the line of defense.

The meet and greet specifications are a bit high, but the advance mission is worth it.

Any unit that can take out a heavy artillery brigade is worthy of being greeted by their chief officer with this specification.

In the original words of the violent lieutenant general of the 108th Division: "If you can knock out the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade of the Japanese invaders, let alone replace it with my guard battalion, it is the entire division. I don't feel bad about it."

Although, standing in the guard battalion where only 180 people survived and everyone was injured, the Lieutenant General's cheeks trembled when he said this.

That is distressing.

The loss of the advance group this time was huge.

Of the more than 3200 troops at the time of division, only 2000 were able to join the main force in the end, and 1200 of them died on the battlefield in the southeast.

What made these senior commanders even more heartbroken was that a major officer was killed in battle, there were more than 400 lieutenants, and more than [-] veterans at the sergeant level suffered heavy losses.

If you are not a veteran, how can you become an elite?If you are not a veteran, how can you lead the recruits to stand on the most dangerous battlefield?When the artillery fire comes, the veterans who are best at saving their lives can only use death to remind their comrades that the battlefield is cruel, and they can only use death to strengthen their strength.

No matter which army you are in, veterans are the real cornerstone of an army.

If the veterans are not dead, after enough recruits are recruited, after a short period of training, the troops can regain sufficient combat effectiveness.

But the advance regiment lost hundreds of veterans in this battle, and it's strange that the chief officers didn't feel bad about it.

If you only look at the losses, the battle led by Tang Dao, who lost one-third of the army's elite, was a defeat.

But if you look at the results of Tang Dao and the advance team, no matter how sad the general is, he will laugh with tears.

A heavy artillery brigade is already worth these sacrifices, let alone beat up the mighty Sixth Division.

The 36th Infantry Brigade ran fast and didn't stand up and get beaten on the ground like the stupid bird of the infantry regiment under the [-]th Division, but this also caused them to not take away the corpses left on the front line.

Due to the limited time, the math of the cavalry who were responsible for cleaning the battlefield and collecting the numbers of Japanese soldiers killed in battle was also a bit horrible.

That guy Lu Sanjiang even counted on his fingers for a long time and then carelessly gave Gong Shaoxun a number of 4000 people, which almost made Commander Gong kick into the ditch.

Isn't that nonsense!How many people are there in the 36th Infantry Brigade? How many people can you swallow a brigade with a thousand people?Why don't you go to heaven!
Not to mention that the big bosses above would not believe this figure, even the infantry of the instigator would not believe it!

And because it was dark, the cavalry couldn't run to check all over the place, and Tang Dao couldn't do anything, so they had to calculate a rough figure of 2200 based on the corpses left by the Japanese army in front of the positions reported by the companies.

In a frontal field battle with the awesome 36th Infantry Brigade, 2200 of them were killed?And in the case of more fights and fewer attacks, even if twelve heavy artillery were set up to bombard them, it wouldn't be enough!It's an idiot to think that people's "strongest division on the surface" is a fool!Stand there for you to fight?
This is Tang Dao. Wu and Guo knew that he would not falsely report his military exploits. He gritted his teeth and cut 700.

The number of enemies killed by 1500 people is already amazing for a field battle with thousands of people.

As everyone knows, according to the statistics of the Japanese army after the war, the 36th Infantry Brigade killed as many as 1800 infantrymen on the spot, and more than 700 were injured. More than one person, including Lieutenant Sergeant Seto Nellie and a group of staff officers and communications officers.

That is to say, in this tragic field battle that only the parties involved knew, the 36th Infantry Brigade lost more than 3000 people, which was 800 people higher than Tang Dao's estimate. The two infantry regiments were completely wiped out. .

Lu Sanjiang, who doesn't know how to count, is actually not much less accurate than Tang Dao's estimate.

If the loss under Songjiang City is added, the elite army of the 36th Infantry Brigade has basically lost its combat effectiveness.If you have to work hard, there will be some heavy soldiers and engineers left to fill the facade.

In fact, when the losses were counted after dawn, His Excellency Major General Ushidoman shut himself off. Even when he arrived at the No.18 Division's defense zone, he did not take the initiative to greet his own family, His Excellency Ushido, the same surnamed Lieutenant General.

And Ushishima Sadao's resentment towards Ushishima Man at that time was already out of control like a torrent of water, let alone take the initiative to comfort this unlucky boy.

Unauthorized transfer from the infantry wing of the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade led to the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade's failure. Ushishima Sadao didn't want to recite it, and he couldn't. The telegram of the 18th Division is still there.

The Japanese North China Expedition Army Command was extremely efficient this time. After receiving the opinions of the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade and the commander of the [-]th Army Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, they issued a dismissal order.

The autistic 36th Infantry Brigade Major General Niu Daoman was suspended from his post and ordered to return to the North China Dispatch Army Command to stay.

As a result, the military order was issued too quickly. When the former commander of the 36th Infantry Regiment, the commander of the 47th Infantry Brigade, Masanori Nagagawa, who temporarily succeeded the position of the commander of the [-]th Infantry Brigade, reported the damage of the battle that night to the Tenth Army Headquarters. All the bosses almost vomited blood and died collectively.

Daringly, this idiot Ushidoman not only ruined the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade, but also disabled his own 36th Infantry Brigade.

No wonder, this guy with his nostrils upturned usually didn't complain, and ran away with a few armed guards without even seeing Hirasuke Yanagawa.

The unlucky guy ran away, but he had to take care of this matter for him. This was what Yanagawa Hirasuke and a group of lieutenant generals from the North China Dispatch Army were most worried about.

Therefore, the battle report of the 36th Infantry Brigade's battle damage has always been suppressed by the Tenth Army Headquarters, and it was not reported to the top until the Battle of Jinling, which broke out a month later, was completely over.

Until then, the Japanese Songhu Dispatch Army did not know why the "Strongest Division on the Surface", which must be the vanguard in every battle, has become a turtle this time, and has been willing to be a reserve army on such an important battlefield.

Dare to be honest, they have already been vanguards once, vanguards who were beaten and disabled.

The Japanese were filled with anger, while the Chinese laughed unbelievably.

After Tang Dao's brief report, he went to rest in the tunnel. He didn't know how many days and nights he hadn't had a good sleep.

The six lieutenant generals in the headquarters sent this telegram, which can only be called a "miracle", to the theater headquarters.

(End of this chapter)