Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 252

Chapter 252 The unexpected protagonist

The sound of gunfire inside and outside Cangcheng was very loud.

800 meters away in the field bunker, Suematsu Shigeharu's head hurt.

As the commander of the 114th Division, the forward legion of the Tenth Army, he was very clear about the military order he gave to attack the city outside the city overnight. Although there was an element of venting anger, most of it was because he had to do it.

Because if the Chinese were given 12 more hours, tens of thousands of Chinese in western Shanghai could escape. According to the base camp's strategy, they could have entered the small town of Songjiang this evening, but because of the Jinshanwei tidal flat position and Jinshan The accident in the county town caused him to still lie down in the mud and stare blindly with a telescope.

It's just that we can't capture Songjiang County. The nails in this city outside the city should be pulled out. Otherwise, Commander Yanagawa Heisuke will not be very happy when he arrives tomorrow morning and sees this scene.

For this reason, Suematsu Shigeharu made up his mind to devote two infantry brigades to another fierce attack on Cangcheng, regardless of the darkness and slippery roads.

The Japanese Lieutenant General actually had another thing to pay attention to. Once the artillery group of the Chinese defenders in the city couldn't help but provide artillery support to the Chinese in Cangcheng, the dozen or so artillery observers he placed in the wilderness to closely monitor would be based on Ballistic measurements determined the approximate direction of the Chinese artillery group.

At night, the tracks drawn by artillery shells in the sky are most clear.

The artillery regiment that has stopped shelling but is standing ready will immediately fire back at the approximate coordinates reported back by the artillery observers, blow up the Chinese artillery group, and clear the biggest obstacle for tomorrow's daytime battle.

Killing two birds with one stone, if Suematsu Shigeharu's chief of staff had not done some research on Chinese culture, he would not have known that he would be so wise, and he would accidentally become a wise general.

The Japanese Lieutenant General's move was considered as a calculation of all the mechanisms, but one thing was missed.

The Chinese people hiding in the houses were so frightened that he did not go to them to cause trouble, but actually took the initiative to make trouble for him.

Two infantry squadrons who went deep into residential areas and planned to stab the Chinese in Cangcheng from the other side were not only hit in the head with mortars by the Chinese in Cangcheng who seemed to be invincible, but were also hit in the head by a group of hidden soldiers. The rusty mouse in the dark took several bites.

As Zhuang Shisan said, this is Laozi's Songjiang.

What does the Songjiang Security Group do? In name, it is the security force of the Songjiang area. Its function is similar to that of the armed police force in the future. Generally, gangsters and other gangsters are handed over to the police station. Only when bandits or groups of gangs commit crimes will they be handed over to them.

But the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas are not poor and impoverished places like the north or the southwestern mountainous areas. The land is originally highly productive because of the abundant paddy fields, and commerce is still prosperous. Everyone is busy making money. How many people are willing to do that kind of brain-destroying work? Something? There weren't many bandits, and even the Heisehui family opened brothels and opium dens, so they had to pay a lot of taxes.

The security team has no work to do, so why should they turn into armed police to maintain law and order? On the surface, he maintains law and order, but secretly, he often blackmails businesses into pocketing protection money.

Of course, if the protection fee is collected, the public security will be maintained for you. At least the gangsters will not come to stab you again. This can be regarded as a kind of balance. The social environment is stable, and Commissioner Wang will turn a blind eye. One eye.

It's just businessmen and ordinary people swallowing their anger and being exploited or a little bullied. In this troubled world, it's pretty good, isn't it?

When you have money in your hands, you have to spend it naturally. The girls in this area of Songjiang City are the prettiest, the soup dumplings there are the most delicious, and you can have the most fun there. These guys know them better than anyone else.

They are the well-deserved local leaders of Songjiang City.

Let alone a bunch of Japanese who came from the sea and didn't know a single Chinese character, even the residents of Songjiang City were probably not as familiar with this territory as these local snakes.

These pitch-black corners have become a nightmare for Japanese infantry.

Probably even Tang Dao didn't expect that they would become supporting roles in the originally brutal night battle in Cangcheng.

The protagonist is actually a security force who was driven to the battlefield by a determined major and battalion commander because a force-forcing incident failed.

A fully organized infantry squadron, led by its captain, rushed into the pitch-black residence. Flares were fired into the sky as if they were free, illuminating the houses brightly. The Japanese infantry could use the afterglow of the flares to smoothly enter the small alleys and houses with white walls and black tiles.

House-to-house and street-to-street searches have also yielded some results.

A dozen security forces who were too late to escape were blocked in a house. After trying to attack with rifles and machine guns to no avail, the Japanese army used several grenade launchers. After a burst of wild bombing, they rushed in with their superior force. It took seven or eight minutes of fighting, but the remaining enemies were still not eliminated. In the end, they were forced to set the entire house on fire to completely annihilate their opponents.

However, they obviously forgot one thing. Just like bullets, flares also have a quantity. They used a lot of them to facilitate entry, and later used a lot more to kill the dozen opponents. If they wanted to use them again, But I have to replenish it.

Otherwise, they would have been completely in the dark when they were already one or two hundred meters deep and surrounded by houses of the same shape like a maze-like residential area.

I heard that the Japanese came in with one or two hundred people. Zhuang Shisanna, who was originally forced to shoot three of his closest subordinates and shocked everyone, is still not feeling hot?

He couldn't control the other two battalions, but he still had his own battalion firmly in his hands. Except for the second company that arrived in this area first, he actually mobilized three more infantry companies in one go, with a total of nearly 700 people. The infantry squadron carefully stepped into this maze to lay siege.

　　The Japanese flares were gone, and the only light was the not-so-bright moonlight in the sky.

The **** yellow military uniforms of the Japanese army are extremely conspicuous under the moonlight, while the security forces wear black military uniforms. Darkness has become their best protective color.

Rifles, shell guns, light machine guns, grenade launchers, grenades, grenades, all kinds of sounds made a pot of porridge in the area more than 300 meters outside Cangcheng.

That movement was even faster than the Battle of Cangcheng where heavy firearms such as infantry artillery, rapid-fire artillery, machine guns, and mortars were used.

The Chinese and Japanese commanders who were observing the area with telescopes couldn't see clearly what was happening in the residential area.

Suematsu Shigeharu didn't know how many of his own people were inside, and the two Chinese lieutenant generals with stern faces standing in the city wall fortifications also didn't know how many troops the security group had invested.

The telescopes on both sides could only capture a few magnificent ballistic tracks occasionally made by bullets fired from light machine guns.

The specific battle process, because of the darkness, no one knows except the people specifically involved.

As for the Japanese army, they waited until the Battle of Cangcheng was coming to an end. The gunfire on the main battlefield gradually stopped, and they did not wait until the infantry squadron that entered the residential area came out.

And that was already nearly two hours later.

It is not a trivial matter for an infantry squadron of nearly 200 people to disappear like this. Even a Japanese lieutenant general with a huge head cannot easily classify No. 200 Imperial Army as missing.

November 6 was definitely an unlucky day for this Japanese lieutenant general. After being exhausted in several battles, the already insufficient troops suffered battle losses of an astonishing 2,300 people.

Yes, he had already lost nearly a thousand people in Jinshan County during the day, but at least he still achieved some success. The landing was successful, he also successfully opened the door to western Shanghai, and annihilated more than 2,000 Chinese troops.

But what happened next was a complete nightmare. Two infantry squadrons were completely wiped out because of the stupidity of the navy and the mainland. They also took a major staff officer, a cavalry squadron and a 'second generation nobleman' covered in gold, nearly 500 people died in the battle, leaving an infantry brigade and a half gone.

Not to mention Cangcheng, more than 300 people were killed in the afternoon. In the evening, another 1,600 people were thrown into the attack, and another 500 people were consumed. The fighting had not even started, and 2,300 people could be sent back in small wooden boxes.

Then, 200 people disappeared into the dark houses. What a shame for Suematsu Shigeharu.

It feels like being **** by a dog.

(End of this chapter)

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