Rise From Eight Hundred

One side of the hill!

"Damn Chinese! Damn Ushijima Sadao! Bastard!" Major Morita Shinji cursed in a low voice while wiping the sweat rolling down his forehead.

If it weren't for the damn Chinese who were fighting stubbornly on the battlefield, how could he appear on this battlefield?

And if it weren't for the damn Ushijima Sadao who ordered his 36th Infantry Brigade to serve as the main force of this night attack on the main Chinese position, how could he, a major officer of the 36th Infantry Brigade of the 6th Division, run wildly at all costs in such a quiet night?

Running 5 kilometers in full gear for 40 minutes almost made the pampered major of the Imperial Japanese Army vomit.

Morita Shinji just cursed the two instigators to be damned, which was already a very qualified performance.

Of course, the truth is that the Japanese are not good at cursing. From the years of cursing between their navy and army, it was just a "millipede" given back and forth.

The Chinese, who crush the Japanese scum in this aspect, can curse for half an hour without repeating themselves. If it was just a war of words, Japan would have been destroyed long ago.

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The appearance of Morita Shinji and his Japanese army here is certainly not a good idea.

Night attack! The Chinese have played this routine to death, so why don’t the great Imperial Japanese Army play it once!

Yes, night attack!

This is the trick that Ushijima Sadao came up with after he summoned his loyal brothers to the division headquarters in the evening and racked his brains to discuss.

If they didn’t force them, how could these Japanese generals be forced to take the ‘night road’?

Just following orders to delay the opponent is only a conventional tactic. If you want to reduce your guilt, you must get enough military merits. If you want to get military merits, you must make enough attacks on the Chinese defense line before the 114th Division bypasses Taihu Lake and arrives, so that you can show that the combat power of the 18th Division is still the ‘Imperial Double 13’ of the year.

The major general brigade commander and colonel regiment commanders of the 18th Division knew very well that they were all the younger brothers personally selected by Ushijima Sadao when he was the commander of the 18th Division. They were grasshoppers on the same vine. If Ushijima Sadao was transferred by the headquarters, their lives would never be easy. They might as well take a chance.

In other words, this 13 must be pretended. If not, no one will get any good.

As for Yanagawa Heisuke, who issued a military order for them to stay put, what's so great about his commander of the 10th Army? He is just a lieutenant general of the army. Like Ushijima Sadao, he was transferred from the reserve to active service when the war started. What right does he have to order the 18th Division around?

The Japanese army has never lost the tradition of "overthrowing the superiors". The 10th Army can ignore the strategic plan of the headquarters and march directly to the important Chinese town of Nanjing. What's so great about the 18th Division treating the orders of the commander of the same level as shit?

Therefore, when the officers of the 18th Division, who had to fight for their future glory and wealth, gathered around the conference table and racked their brains, the eyes of the Japanese officers were all shining when Colonel Kei Koto, the chief of staff of the 18th Division, proposed to "do the same to the Chinese army" and launch a night attack on the Chinese army.

This is definitely an excellent idea.

It is said that the Chinese are good at night battles, but they are forced to do so.

Because during the day, they have to face the threat of artillery and aerial bombs. Only at night, the threat of these two is greatly reduced, and the firepower gap between the two sides can be narrowed. Otherwise, how could they choose to leave the trenches and attack the opponent's complete defense line after being on the defensive for a long time?

In fact, after the imperial army increased its vigilance and patrol strength, the Chinese paid a huge price for each night attack. Every time they retreated, a large number of corpses were left on the battlefield. It was a tactic of killing 800 enemies and losing 1,000 of their own.

The Chinese were relying on a spirit to support them in the battle. As long as this spirit was broken, victory would sooner or later belong to the Empire. The officers of the 18th Division knew this very well.

But the Chinese on the opposite side were like an indestructible "Xiao Qiang". They became braver and braver as the battle progressed. Under the crisis of fighting alone, they even played a trick to cut off the firewood from the bottom of the pot and severely damaged the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade. This was something the officers of the 18th Division did not expect.

But this does not mean that the Imperial Army will not fight at night. As long as they can rush to the enemy's position unexpectedly, the officers of the 18th Division, which has never achieved success in offensive operations, believe that with the strength of the Imperial Army, the Chinese who are caught off guard will also be killed and defeated.

The Chinese are not as strong as imagined. If they were strong enough, they would not have fallen into the current situation. This is what the officers of the 18th Division believe.

Our Imperial Army's ability to fight "field battles", no, night battles, is only stronger than the Chinese.

This proposal by Chief of Staff Colonel Kei Koto was quickly passed.

Night attack on the left wing of the Chinese army! After two days of battlefield reconnaissance, the Chinese garrisoned no more than two infantry regiments on the left and right wings, which was the weakest link.

But for some reason, Ushijima Sadao, who had studied Chinese traditional culture a little, chose the "left wing", which was the direction of the independent battalion position.

According to his explanation, the ancient Chinese tradition respected the left, and the Chinese commander might have deployed his elite troops on the left wing. What the Imperial Army had to do this time was to tear a hole in the Chinese defense line. Whether it was elite or ordinary troops, it didn't matter. What mattered was to kill them.

To put it bluntly, Ushijima Sadao, who had been holding his breath, was playing the routine of "doing the opposite", just like the slogan shouted by many brave Chinese officers: "I'm fighting the elite!"

What's more, it wasn't his 18th Division that was responsible for the night attack?

Aren't those idiots in the 6th Division known as the "strongest division on the surface"? Shouldn't the so-called Chinese elite be like chickens and pottery dogs in front of them?

That's right, after the 36th Infantry Brigade was hit and bloodied on the defense line deployed by Tang Dao, it could only retreat to the defense line of the 18th Division. According to the wartime regulations of the Japanese Army, its command naturally belonged to the higher-level 18th Division Headquarters.

Moreover, the North China Expeditionary Army took into account the solidity of Jiashan's national defense line, the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade was finished again, and the 18th Division was not strong enough. In order to prevent the two armies from having conflicts over command, they simply issued another military order to form the 10th Army West Route Corps with the 18th Division as the main force, which was composed of two infantry brigades of the 18th Division, the 36th Infantry Brigade of the 6th Division, and the 3rd Artillery Battalion under the 6th Artillery Regiment of the 6th Division.

This is certainly not to say that Ushijima Sadao was valued by the North China Expeditionary Army Headquarters, but the North China Expeditionary Army had already lost a heavy artillery brigade. It is said that several generals in the headquarters were cursing in the air, and no one dared to bear the result of another infantry division being hit hard.

This is the mentality of not allowing "broken jars cannot be broken". The 18th Division is a weak scum, but you can't let me scum it to the point of losing everyone.

The only tragic thing may be the 36th Infantry Brigade, which was originally chased and killed by the Chinese army and was humiliated all the way, but in the end it was led by another newly formed division.

That's fine, but the key is that they didn't even attend the highest military meeting, and they were sold out.

Yes, Ushijima Sadao hated the "culprits" who caused him to make mistakes. How could he think of them in the meeting? That is, when he was carrying out the most dangerous mission, he thought they were quite suitable.

If everything went well, everyone would be happy. The 36th Infantry Brigade had their credit, as the actual commander, Ushijima Sadao's credit.

If there were any mistakes, it would be the "black skin and bright red blood" who could only pray for good luck.

Of course, Ushijima Sadao did not intend to use thousands of Imperial Army soldiers as cannon fodder. While ordering the 36th Infantry Brigade to organize troops to attack the left wing of the Chinese defense line at night, the three infantry regiments of the 18th Division on the front line, nearly 10,000 infantry, all entered the trenches and waited.

One tactic, two preparations.

If it works, the main force of the 18th Division will attack the Chinese defense line in the dark; if it doesn't work, it will also contain the main force of the Chinese to allow the 36th Infantry Brigade to retreat smoothly.

It can be said that Ushijima Sadao has considered it in detail.

However, he did not expect that the two commanders on the opposite side had almost the same idea as him. They also sent out their most elite infantry battalions, and the entire army quietly entered the trenches. If they could, they would counterattack, and if they could not, they would contain them.

What a coincidence!

This was not the voice of the commanders of China and Japan inside and outside the Jiashan defense line at this time, but Tang Dao's.

Hammer looked at the distance vigilantly, and he felt bad. It was impossible that the Japanese army knew their action plan and set an ambush in advance!

While quickly ordering the entire army to remain silent, Tang Dao personally took Gu Xishui, Niu Er and Hammer to cross the small hill with a width of only 300 meters to scout.

Under the bright moonlight that emerged from the dark clouds again.

A piece of "shit yellow" sitting in the grass, panting and wiping sweat occupied Tang Dao's eyes.

According to a rough estimate, there were at least 200 Japanese troops who also chose to repair on the side of the hill, about the strength of an infantry squadron.

Under the moonlight, several light and heavy machine guns flashed dimly, which should be because the firepower of this infantry squadron has been strengthened.

This guy is not setting an ambush, but also a sneak attack! Tang Dao's eyes flashed coldly.

It seems that the plan has to be changed.

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