Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 332

Chapter 332 No more use of troops

The Japanese Army Lieutenant General is angry!

Fury!

Hisao Tani had imagined that it might take a huge price to break through the Matsue City Wall today.

But when the price came, he was extremely embarrassed.

Of course, the Chinese's move of "voluntarily giving up the position and covering it with artillery fire" was far beyond his expectation.

It's not that the tricks are too new, but they are very old-fashioned.

Similar tactics were used by the Chinese in the Battle of Cangcheng a few hours ago.

When their own position is occupied, they cover it with their own artillery fire. There are even their own soldiers on that position, reducing themselves and the enemy to ashes. It is very cruel, but extremely effective.

This almost cruel tactic made the Kunisaki detachment dare not station large-scale troops in Cangcheng where troops could be stationed. Putting an infantry squadron was the limit.

They would rather garrison troops in the ruins of neighborhoods that were more vulnerable to attack than place soldiers in positions with incomplete city walls.

The headquarters of the Tenth Army deliberately sent the battle reports from Xicheng to the Sixth Division and the Eighteenth Division at noon, hoping that they would better understand the enemies they were facing through these battle reports.

It is precisely because of this understanding that Hisao Tani was not as anxious as his subordinate Major General Tokutaro Sakai was about the Chinese shelling their abandoned positions with artillery fire again.

He judged that the Chinese commanders who had already demonstrated certain command skills in the city would not use similar tactics again, especially after the imperial infantry on the front line showed sufficient vigilance. Large ammunition inventory.

On this point, Hisao Tani's judgment was correct. Although the Chinese artillery fire was fierce, it was not lasting enough. The shelling stopped after ten minutes. This was indeed because the storage of artillery shells could not be compared with that of the Japanese army.

But Hisao Tani made a mistake in the most critical tactical judgment.

The Chinese are still changing the soup without changing the medicine. Their extremely determined resistance is just a bait. Their ultimate goal is still to lure the Japanese infantry to leave the open wilderness and enter the narrow city, and then a burst of artillery fire stews.

But the 11th Infantry Brigade did not need to report the battle damage caused by the ten-minute shelling to him. Hisao Tani knew that it would definitely be much more serious than the previous extremely lively fight with hail of bullets and bullets.

Yes, what really angered Hisao Tani was not the battle loss of more than a thousand troops, but his complete tactical defeat.

What he thought was a small chance, the Chinese continued to use it without any new ideas.

Damn it, don't these Chinese people know about the rule of “recovery with war”?

But the fact is that in the first battle of the Sixth Division's official attack on the city, the Sixth Division was completely defeated in terms of battle damage and tactical layout.

In that battle, more than 900 Chinese people died in the battle, but on the Japanese side, only 50 people from the four infantry squadrons of the most elite 6th Infantry Brigade, except the heavy machine gun squadron left behind, survived, and the engineer wing suffered more than 300 casualties. The 4th Infantry Brigade was invested The two infantry squadrons rolled and crawled half way back, suffering more than 1,500 battle losses.

It's just that the furious Nakatani Hisao may not know that his defeat was not unjust.

In the far north, the troops who took off their red five-pointed star cap badges and replaced them with blue sky and white sun cap badges for the sake of the country and nation were led by the general who had undergone eye surgery without anesthesia in the high mountains of the Taihang Mountains. His own subordinates set up ambushes against the Japanese army in the same small village three times at roughly the same time period.

Tani Hisao's colleagues who were still on the battlefield in North China made the exact same mistake as Tani Hisao. The military book said "there will be no use of troops again", which means that they will not use the same tactics in a short period of time. But the military book is dead and the people are alive. .

Not only did he use it, he also used it three times in a row. What made the Japanese army even more embarrassed was that they were pressed to the ground and rubbed by a group of "Tubalu" who lacked guns and clothing three times.

The first group of troops were beaten all over the ground because they were caught off guard. The second group of rescue troops were surprised to find that they had also broken into the bag formation of "Tubal Road". When the third group of reinforcements thought about "Tubal Road" 'If you dare to come again, I really have to call him daddy.

Then, the magic of 'Tubalu' and Baga appeared, and they really beat them and called them daddy.

An example of a battle in which three ambushes could not annihilate hundreds of enemies was included in the lesson plans of the American cowboys at West Point Military Academy after the war, and is known as one of the top ten classic tactics in the world.

“Open the door and fight the thieves, breaking the old pattern of using troops. They have cannons and we have cannons. Songjiang City is a battlefield everywhere!” This is the original text of the letter Tang Dao left to the major general brigade commander.

The little butterfly from the future naturally copied this classic work and put it on the battlefield of Songjiang, interpreting the essence of "the virtual makes the real, the real makes the virtual" to the extreme.

To put it bluntly, Hisao Tani was not defeated by Tang Dao, but by one of the best army generals in China.

At this time, it was getting dark, and no matter how furious Hisao Tani was, he could not drive the main force of the infantry to engage in a decisive battle with the Chinese defenders in the darkness.

The Japanese infantry retreated like a tide, taking away all the Japanese corpses that could be taken away in the wilderness. However, the corpses left within the city wall and in the swamp could only be abandoned.

The Japanese artillery observation post could only provide a few rough coordinates. The Japanese heavy artillery brigade once again showed its power and bombarded several possible artillery positions for half an hour.

Just relying on imaginative estimation, the effect of the bombardment can be imagined. Each artillery position that lost a total of five artillery pieces in the first wave of attacks by the Japanese artillery brigade was intact this time.

This made the Songjiang headquarters a little strange. They were surprised that the damage to their own artillery was so weak.

Because the Japanese army had raised observation balloons when the heavy artillery bombardment started. At that time, the smoke completely obscured Songjiang City. It was understandable that they could not see the artillery positions, but when the artillery positions started to return fire, the sky The smoke of gunpowder basically exposed the position.

You must know that this time, all the artillery fire was concentrated on the east city direction. The two lieutenant generals in the headquarters thought again and again before making up their mind to fight. Even if more than two artillery battalions were knocked out by Japanese heavy artillery, they must fight back resolutely.

The purpose is to frighten all the Japanese infantry. I can give you the position, but as long as my artillery is still there, you can't stay safe on it. The first one to rush to the position, the faster he will die.

Their goal was achieved. When seven artillery battalions were assembled to fire at the more than 1,000-meter-long wall area of the East City, hundreds of Japanese troops who were preparing to rush into the city to open up forward positions for the main force were drowned in the artillery fire. All lost their voices.

　　This trick of the Chinese is very effective no matter how they try to make things worse.

What if they are more ruthless and use a small number of troops to defend, and let you attack with a large force, and wait for you to attack the position, and then come over with artillery and a pot of fire, what will happen?

Exchanging lives for lives, the Tenth Army's more than 100,000 people may have to leave half of their troops here.

Obviously, that was not what the entire Tenth Army wanted to see. They came from North China to Southeast China not just to conquer a small Chinese city, but with lofty aspirations.

Not to mention the various regimental commanders and brigade commanders who were suffering from headaches, even Yanagawa Heisuke, who was more than ten kilometers away, was numb when he received the battle report from the front.

Because, he was unable to ensure the destruction of the Chinese artillery positions for a while, due to the radicalness and stupidity of Hisao Tani.

Yes, the two Chinese army lieutenant generals who both chose to suffer huge losses in artillery did not wait for the imagined losses. The main reason was that the Japanese army lost their most important eyes.

The little balloon was popped.

By a Chinese Army sergeant who just wanted to overcome his fears.

And Mo Songzi, who had made a great contribution, was still admitting his mistake to his company commander, begging him for two more bullets, because he did nothing but missed four bullets. .

“Get out of here! How dare you ask me for cannonballs when I put you in solitary confinement for the sake of watching the artillery!” The Army Captain was a big man from the Northeast with a loud voice.

Hey guys, you didn't hit a single tank and you just fired 80 rounds of artillery shells. Why don't you go to the sky! Do you really think I make cannonballs?

For one cannon, the military headquarters was equipped with 300 rounds of artillery shells. The main targets were the heavy firepower points and tanks of the Japanese army. Mo Songzi fired 80 rounds of artillery shells, but failed to accomplish anything. Of course, he was assigned to the captain and commander of the first company of the military headquarters air defense battalion in Dongcheng District. He won't give his subordinate a good look.

“I didn't hit the tank, but I still hit a big balloon!” Mo Songzi muttered dejectedly.

Had he known this earlier, he would not have used balloons and could have saved a lot of shells.

“What did you say? Balloon?” The captain and company commander was stunned.

“How big is the balloon?”

"It's as big as a washbasin, but it's more than a thousand meters away. If it were placed here, it might be bigger than a house!" Mo Songzi recalled and gestured.

"you sure?"

“All my brothers can testify!”

"Haha! You bitch, just wait here for me. You are not allowed to go anywhere until I come back!" The captain laughed, slapped Mo Songzi **** the chest, turned around and left.

"What are you doing? If there are no shells, there will be no shells. Company commander, don't scare me. My 20 rounds can kill the Japanese tank." Mo Songzi was startled.

“I'm scaring you!” the captain said with a cheerful smile. "It's a good thing!"

(End of this chapter)

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