Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 306 The Fall of Cangcheng
On November 11th, it can definitely be called the disaster day of the Kunisaki detachment.

The siege battle in preparation hasn't even started yet!The Guoqi detachment killed more than 1200 officers and soldiers and injured more than 900. Almost two infantry brigades can be removed from the detachment sequence.

And how many infantry did the Kunisaki detachment have in total?Leaving aside the auxiliary arms such as cavalry, artillery, engineering, and transportation, together with the two infantry squadrons directly under the Kunizaki Detachment Headquarters, there are only 6 infantry brigades with a total of 7000 people.

This kind of casualty ratio of nearly 30.00% is placed in the ordinary army, which basically means that this army loses combat effectiveness and can be repaired and supplemented.

Not to mention that Kunisaki, who finally saw the casualty figures sent by the infantry regiments, was stunned for a long time, and even Shigeru Suematsu, the commander of the 114th Division, did not speak for a long time.

Good guy!The city has not yet begun to attack!The Kunizaki detachment was half disabled. When the real army attacked the city, what kind of damage would Songjiang City, which was said to have an infantry force, bring to the Imperial Army?

Shigeru Suematsu felt hairy just thinking about it.

Heisuke Yanagawa of the Tenth Army Headquarters located on the south bank of the Huangpu River couldn't help but feel a headache when he saw this number.

He is the commander-in-chief with an army of nearly 500,000. The seemingly mighty army has frightened the [-] Chinese army in Huxi and is fleeing desperately, but this does not mean that he can be ruined by these prodigal sons!
The 114th Division plus the Kunisaki Detachment lost nearly 5000 people in just two days, almost two infantry regiments. If he stayed like this for a few more days, I am afraid he would no longer have to worry about huge losses.

Because the army headquarters might have told him to pack up and leave long ago.

Perhaps, Hisao Tani, who is located in the two cities in the southwest, saw the battle report of the Kunizaki detachment, and he didn't have any horror about the strength of the Chinese, and he didn't have a headache. Instead, he dismissed a sentence: "The so-called The Steel Army is nothing more than mediocre!"

Hisao Tani is certainly entitled to express contempt for the Kunizaki detachment.

When encountering the enemy's fortress, a firm attack is an essential quality for a strong army. The execution ability of the Kunisaki detachment in this regard is like a so-called "steel army".

It's just that, after paying a terrible number of casualties, but still can't make an inch, it means that the combat effectiveness is not good.

You know, for a position with a radius of no more than tens of thousands of meters, the Tenth Army has gathered dozens of artillery pieces to support it. Even the commander-level lieutenant general like Yanagawa Hirasuke is given to the Dazuo-class ship staying in the center of the Huangpu River. Chang sent a call to express his gratitude, and thus received support from six 6mm naval guns.

Not counting the shells thrown last night, during the day alone, dozens of artillery shells fired 3000 shells back and forth at that small position, which is the density of a shell with a killing radius of more than ten meters dropped on 20 square meters .

Such terrible fire support, not to mention a small position surrounded by city walls, even Songjiang City, should be taken down!

As a result, the Guoqi detachment was still discouraged, and even chose a truce to wait for the arrival of the heavy artillery brigade.Such generals and soldiers, what qualifications are called 'steel army'?
Sitting in his field headquarters 1500 meters away from Songjiang City, Hisao Tani looked at the sand table on the table with cold eyes that the staff had spent half a day piling up.

There was a lot of fighting in the west city, and the Sixth Division, which was the main force in the siege, naturally would not have done nothing.

For half a day, the two infantry brigades in charge of the two city walls dispatched nearly 10 infantry from 2000 infantry squadrons in turn, constantly testing the firepower points that appeared on the two city walls.

The staff officers of the infantry regiments who had reached the first-line trenches only 300 meters away from the city wall marked the light and heavy firepower points buried in and above the city wall one by one.

Hisao Tani is not tall, he is thin and thin, and he doesn't have a Japanese upper class man with a tuft of hair under his nose. He wears a pair of glasses and looks ordinary from the outside. Like a teacher.

But only those who know this person will know that there is an extremely tenacious and vicious heart hidden under this ordinary appearance.

He is said to be tenacious because he was born in poverty and has no background, but he was promoted from an ordinary second lieutenant to an army lieutenant general after more than 30 years. Among them, he took up idle positions several times, but he turned adversity several times to serve as the chief of staff of the division. , brigade commander and many other important positions, until two years ago as the sixth division commander such an important position.

Without a tenacious personality, it is determined that it will be difficult to achieve this achievement.

It is said to be sinister, because when he was an instructor at the Army University, he promoted the tactical thinking countless times: looting, robbers, and bows and treachery during combat are important means to maintain morale, and ordinary people only use it for fighting for positions However, when he led his army to the North China battlefield, everyone knew that he really thought so and did the same.

If Seishiro Itagaki, who wantonly deprives the enemy's life to frighten his opponent, is a butcher or a devil, then this unattractive-looking teacher is probably a hellhound, who despises life more than a butcher or a devil.

Gu Hisao has cruelty that Chinese people can't imagine, but it doesn't mean that he is reckless and stupid. This is an instructor of the Army University. He is a typical academic school with meticulous thinking and rigorous military management methods.

He will not fight unprepared, even if the Tenth Army Commander Yanagawa Heisuke has given him an order to attack, he has not rashly driven his more than [-] men to fight against the west and south walls for the sake of military exploits. attack.

The moat as wide as 30 meters and the city wall as high as five or six meters made him judge that without the assistance of the heavy artillery brigade, he would need to pay thousands of casualties to conquer the Chinese positions.

Therefore, he was waiting and constantly probing, just like a pack of wolves who found a herd of bison in the wilderness, constantly looking for flaws in the herd of bison, and only waited for the opportunity to attack their prey.

Once the attack is fatal, the prey will not fall and be torn apart, and the wolves will not stop attacking.

Compared with the calm Hisao Tani and the 114th Division, the Kunisaki Detachment and the [-]th Division, who were battered in the two positions of Cangcheng and the neighborhood, really looked very low.

Lieutenant General Tani Hisao expressed his contempt for the two because of this, which has enough confidence.

Of course, the Kunisaki Detachment, which has made such a great sacrifice, still has some gains after all.

First, not long after noon, they occupied Cangcheng.

But it wasn't that they wiped out the Cangcheng defenders, but the Cangcheng defenders voluntarily withdrew.

Half an hour after discovering that the Kunisaki detachment had stopped attacking, Tang Dao judged that the Japanese army might not have really been beaten and frightened and did not dare to attack. They were just waiting for support because of too many casualties.

The armies of the three divisions have already approached the city, and they still need to wait for support, and that is only their army, air force or heavy artillery brigade.

The aerial bombs hanging on the plane weighed hundreds or even hundreds of pounds. Once those bombs were dropped in Cangcheng, the underground bunkers that could withstand 75 or even 105 howitzers would become a tragedy.

And the heavy artillery of the heavy artillery brigade with a caliber of more than 200 that will definitely appear in Tang Dao's memory is by no means resistant to the bullet holes dug hastily.

Instead of waiting to be buried by the Japanese aerial bombs and heavy artillery, it is better to preserve the vitality for the time being.

Although the Battle of Cangcheng did not complete the originally expected combat mission of being a nail nailed between the east and west cities, it also dealt a head-on blow to the Japanese army and forced back the arrogance of the Japanese army.

At the same time, it also wiped out a large number of effective forces of the Japanese army. Although its own losses were quite large, any commander would be pleased with this battle just from the ratio of losses between the two warring parties.

War is fought against industrial strength and wealth.

But on the battlefield, there is only exchange.

Exchange lives.

Regardless of whether it is acceptable or not, at the lowest possible cost, let the opponent pay a greater price. This is what the commander on the battlefield has to do.

Therefore, Tang Dao, who judged the situation, sent a power to the Songjiang headquarters, requesting to withdraw from Cangcheng.

Several generals in the Songjiang headquarters also breathed a sigh of relief, and finally they did not wipe out the entire Cangcheng defenders.

For these generals who have experienced countless wars, they are not afraid of big losses.

No matter how great the loss of troops is, as long as China still exists, they can replenish troops and rebuild.

But if any army wants to rebuild, it must have seeds. If there are seeds, it will still have energy and spirit, and it will be able to continue its combat effectiveness. One-fifth of the troops of the 677rd Army who came here are gone.

However, it is not so easy to retreat.

Kunizaki, who had been beaten all over his head, stared at Cangcheng in a daze. Once there was a change, it would be either a gun or a cannon, and he would never let the defenders run away easily.

"I need the artillery of the whole army to obey my command!" Tang Dao made such an excessive request.

There is only one person with that kind of power, not even Lieutenant General Guo, who is the deputy commander in chief.

But Lieutenant General Wu fought hard for Tang Dao and others to return to the city. Without hesitation, he directly issued a military order for the artillery positions of the entire army to obey the command of Tang Dao alone.

Then, Tang Dao, who became a scout again, gave all the Japanese infantry who were watching the Cangcheng defenders around Cangcheng a taste of what an artillery advantage is.

The coordinates in the city were continuously sent back, allowing several artillery groups to accurately throw shells to the Japanese infantry as if they had eyes, causing them to flee in embarrassment.

And Tang Dao divides the remnants of Cangcheng with less than 200 people into several batches, and each batch carries some of the seriously wounded, and all of them put on Japanese military uniforms. Route retreat.

The flustered Japanese army might have seen a few khaki figures haunting the neighborhood, but at that time everyone was in a panic to avoid the artillery fire, so would they pay more attention to others?

When the Japanese army figured out that something was wrong, and no longer used artillery fire to counter-suppress the Chinese artillery positions in the city without much purpose, but imposed artillery fire on the residential houses behind Cangcheng, the Cangcheng defenders had already withdrawn. almost.

Tang Dao led Peng Chong and more than 20 guard companies and was the last group to evacuate. The Japanese soldiers who found something wrong risked being shelled and chased them aggressively, but they were attacked by Tang Dao and others carrying submachine guns in the block. A lesson, what is real street fighting.

The two Japanese infantry squads that were chasing were almost crushed by all the submachine guns. The 32 rounds of continuous fire were much more powerful than the [-]-gun pistols of the security regiment.

Tang Dao alone, the murderous man, reaped the lives of more than a dozen Japanese soldiers in the counterattack during the retreat.

Zhao Daqiang, who was lurking in the block and was planning to help him, was stunned.

(End of this chapter)