Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 354

Chapter 354 Super unlucky ball! (Please subscribe! Please vote!)

At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese army finally could not bear the huge casualties and chose to retreat actively.

From the morning of November 8 to the afternoon of November 9, the Tenth Army invested a total of three infantry brigades and one mixed brigade. Not counting artillery, armor, aviation, engineers and other auxiliary arms, those directly used for front-line siege were There are nearly 30,000 people.

On the Dongcheng side alone, 7 infantry brigades with more than 7,000 people were deployed. An attack of this intensity could be considered large-scale even in the Battle of Songhu.

However, Songjiang City is still in the hands of the Chinese.

Not only was the effort of the Tenth Army in vain, but it also suffered heavy losses.

The 13th Infantry Brigade located in Nancheng suffered more than 1,000 casualties in two days. Almost an infantry brigade was wiped out in this way, which made Ushijima so angry that his nose was crooked.

But for Kunizaki and Suematsu Shigeharu, the 13th Infantry Brigade is definitely Versailles.

Songjiang Xicheng was originally the main attack direction of the Tenth Army from the beginning. Unexpectedly, a small Cangcheng and an outer city block almost beat a mixed brigade and an infantry brigade into dogs.

The Chinese are like stones in a latrine - they are smelly and hard and their hearts, livers and lungs are almost rotten after they hold them for two days.

Finally wait for the Chinese to run away on their own initiative! Another carbine attack.

Haven't even seen what the city wall looks like! The Kunisaki Detachment and the 114th Division, which were the main attackers, had a total of more than 20,000 Japanese troops, but they lost between 3,000 and 4,000 people.

But this can only be regarded as the beginning of a nightmare.

After experiencing painful torture, and after the battle of attacking and defending the city, both Suematsu Shigeharu and Kunizaki Zuo finally understood what it means to be a dog biting a hedgehog, not eating the meat but even chewing a mouthful of blood.

After two days of fierce attacks under the cover of aircraft and artillery, the infantry brigade of the 114th Division was almost half disabled. The Kunisaki Detachment once again suffered more than 800 casualties, so that in the afternoon of November 9, the 114th Division began Without working hard, I entered the active paddling stage.

The Kunisaki detachment is naturally not stupid. A bunch of scum from Baga actually want elites like me to serve as a shield for you? Go ahead and have those great spring and autumn dreams!

Anyway, the people who were beaten in Dongcheng were not from our Fifth Division.

Let's draw together!

The two Japanese troops "swinged the oars" together on the moat in tacit understanding, which the Chinese defenders wanted.

The Japanese have launched a desperate attack in the past two days. Not only are the Japanese dying, but they are also dying with them.

More than a dozen rounds of sieges in total almost brought the group of lieutenant generals and major generals stationed in the west city to tears.

Just carrying more than a thousand corpses to the rear, not to mention hundreds of seriously injured people, a full infantry regiment disappeared in the two days of fighting.

The Chinese and Japanese sides located in Xicheng have actually been fighting a tacit war with each other since the afternoon.

The firing of bullets and artillery shells was very lively, but it was just a lively battle. If the Japanese troops did not charge upwards, the Chinese would not raise their heads. They would hide in the trenches and at most stretch out their arms and fire out guns.

The casualty rate on both sides dropped rapidly.

You two idiots are real dogs! Tokutaro Sakai, who later learned the truth about this day, could only use this sentence to describe his two stupid colleagues.

But whether it was Ushijima Mitsuru with a crooked nose, Kunisaki Zheng with a haggard face, or Suematsu Shigeharu who had been crying for a long time, if these three met Major General Sakai Tokutaro of the 11th Infantry Brigade, they would probably express their heartfelt condolences. Give him a comforting look, and then take the initiative to stay away from this guy.

The reason for my heartfelt consolation is because Tokutaro Sakai is an unlucky guy; and to stay away from him is because he is really unlucky, so unlucky that people feel it is safer to stay away from him.

Compared with the unlucky guy Sakai Tokutaro, their losses are not worth mentioning.

Two days ago, the 11th Infantry Brigade still had two full infantry regiments and three reinforced direct infantry squadrons, with 8,000 infantrymen alone.

The word "strong soldiers and strong horses" may be tailor-made for them.

What now? Let's piece together all the wounded who are still in the hospital and see if we can put together an infantry regiment!

That means that the once-famous 11th Infantry Brigade, which seems to have transformed from a secondary attack into a main attack, can almost be reorganized into the 11th Infantry Regiment.

Nearly 5,000 people were lost in the battle. This was the answer given by Tokutaro Sakai after two days and nights of siege.

Compared to the Kunisaki Detachment and the 114th Division, which were jolted to the point of pain, the "Strongest Division on the Surface", which represented the Tenth Army's strongest combat power, was jostled to the core by the hard Matsue Castle, and the yolk was almost pushed out. kind of.

Of course, such heart-wrenching and horrific battle losses are not unprecedented in the history of Japanese military warfare.

In the Battle of Songhu in March, the 200,000 troops dispatched by Songhu became 150,000; in the Russo-Japanese War, a week of fortification battles alone resulted in more than 40,000 deaths, including Nogi Nogi's three sons. One and a half were killed in the battle.

However, even the lieutenant general and division commander became a prey of the Chinese and turned into a cold corpse. This was a bit too much.

Moreover, right next to Sakai Tokutaro, he was shot in the head by a cold gunman from the Chinese side.

Do you think this should mean that the unlucky kid Sakai Tokutaro is really unlucky? Still a lucky guy?

At any rate, you are lucky to be alive!

But if he was lucky, why was his captain also killed? Moreover, it was very humiliating that after being kidnapped by a Chinese who sneaked into the headquarters, his throat was slit in front of all his subordinates. This is a combination of overcoming the upper and restraining the lower, which is a very unlucky constitution!

What's more terrible is that he and his colleagues at the same level are all defeated. Didn't he send a report in the middle of the night, and Tanabe Shengwu came in a hurry? If you are not riding a horse, can you be thrown off the horse by a war horse frightened by the sound of gunfire and be beaten to death?

Moreover, what is even more mysterious is that Tanabe Moritake was not dead at the time, but died just before arriving at the field hospital of the 11th Infantry Brigade.

I'm afraid I didn't die from the bad luck of Tokutaro Sakai!

It is said that from then on, when the Tenth Army Headquarters holds a combat meeting, there must be a blank space within two meters of Major General Sakai Tokutaro.

There is an old Chinese saying: If you don't believe in ghosts and gods, you still have to believe in fate!

This guy's fate is not good.

The Japanese army that suffered heavy losses probably never recovered. From four o'clock in the afternoon to nightfall, the Japanese army, which surrounded the city on three sides, never launched an attack again.

The Japanese troops who were ready to attack Beicheng finally withdrew.

Japanese infantry does not attack, but this does not mean that Japanese artillery and aviation are idle.

After confirming that it was impossible for anyone to evacuate the city, the Japanese heavy artillery brigade and the light destroyers staying on the Huangpu River used artillery shells to help their compatriots seek explanations.

I don't know if Tokutaro Sakai, the unlucky boy, couldn't bear to watch with tears streaming down his face. The commander of the Tenth Army, Yanagawa Heisuke, who arrived at the battlefield in the afternoon, actually ordered the heavy artillery brigade to shell at all costs.

Sixty heavy artillery pieces and more than eighty artillery pieces of various types threw nearly 4,000 artillery shells into Songjiang City, including combustion-supporting sulfur bombs, high-explosive bombs, and even mustard gas bombs.

The whole city of Songjiang is going to be sent away with just cannons.

Fortunately, when the Japanese army sent out a retreat signal and began to withdraw from the battlefield, the 108th Division headquarters on the front line of Dongcheng also issued a military order that the infantry should not pursue one after another.

Although the Japanese troops in the city were at a disadvantage, they were far from being able to retreat. There were actually many troops who took the initiative to cut off their rear and let their colleagues leave the battlefield.

From this point of view, the Sixth Division is definitely a strong force that cannot be ignored.

When the troops that surrounded the Japanese army made the final attack on them, the Chinese soldiers on the battlefield were more cleaning the battlefield, looking for the wounded and bodies.

Because everyone knows that without these human shields, the Japanese army eager for revenge will sooner or later shell the city.

In front of people, equipment and other things can be ignored.

Soldiers from all units basically cleaned up the battlefield almost half an hour later, carrying brothers who were still alive or dead and evacuated to air-raid shelters or artillery-proof locations.

Even the few Japanese troops who were still resisting were ignored.

Because, when their own shells came, their chance of survival was no more than five percent.

Indeed, there were at least eighty or ninety Japanese soldiers resisting in the city, but when the shells came overwhelmingly, they were basically all dead.

According to the records of the 11th Infantry Brigade, there were only five Japanese infantrymen who returned to the military camp at night after the shelling.

This shows the intensity of this round of shelling by the Japanese army.

However, seeing their artillery show off its power again, the Japanese infantry outside the city were not in a happy mood at all.

Faced with such an offensive by the Japanese army, the Chinese defenders finally stopped being shelled in silence this time. All artillery that could still fire, whether it was mountain artillery, field artillery or large-caliber mortars, also launched a counterattack.

It's just not about shooting at the Japanese artillery group.

The Japanese heavy artillery brigade is still ten kilometers away, and the mountain artillery and field artillery are at least five kilometers away. Not to mention not knowing the coordinates, even if they know that the range of the Chinese artillery is shorter, they can only stare.

But the Japanese infantry are outside the city!

You beat me, but I can't catch the infantry and beat me!

Moreover, I don't know what kind of mentality Lieutenant General Wu has. All artillery that can fire has its muzzles pointing eastward.

That is the position of the 11th Infantry Brigade.

You have to catch someone and pinch him, right? Tokutaro Sakai, who was standing in the division headquarters two thousand meters away, looked at the bombs blooming on his own position and didn't know what kind of mood he was feeling.

　　They say he is very unlucky! The Japanese commanders from other directions collectively felt that this was reasonable.

There is an old Chinese saying: It is better to cut off one finger than to hurt ten of them!

With this move, Lieutenant General Wu naturally felt that the Dongcheng defenders had suffered too many casualties and that he would not be able to live without causing trouble for the 11th Infantry Brigade. He also wanted to beat the 11th Infantry Brigade to pieces in one fell swoop.

The Battle of Songjiang on November 9th ended in the fury of the God of War that both sides could possess.

But the Sixing Battalion, which was 40 kilometers away, faced their first ground battle at this time.

(End of this chapter)

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