Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 337 Picturesque scenery!

The east city wall was breached and became a booster for the Tenth Army.

The First Division of the Sixth Division in Nancheng continued to attack. Although they did not break into the city, they restrained all the troops in Nancheng.

The Kunisaki Detachment and the 114th Division, which had been beaten up in the western city, needed to use the blood of the Chinese to wash away their shame. The two sides each sent three infantry brigades of nearly 6000 people to attack violently in turn. The green water in the moat completely turned dark red.

The Chinese defenders in the city didn't know how much the Japanese army suffered in the battle, but Lieutenant General Liu Yuqing, who was in charge of guarding the west city, was holding a report that only 4500 of his subordinates were available. You must know that before yesterday, his command was full of troops. The infantry brigade and half of the Songjiang Security Regiment lost nearly 2000 people in less than a day.

The situation in Beicheng District was slightly better, but news came from the cavalry that nearly [-] Japanese troops crossed the Huangpu River and headed for Songjiang City in the early morning. act recklessly.

The strategy of the Tenth Army is ready to come out at this time. With the east city as a breakthrough, the two cities in the southwest will attack to increase the pressure, while the north city will besieged without attacking, waiting for the will of the Chinese defenders to collapse, and finally retreat from the north city. You can easily kill the Chinese defenders who have lost the protection of the fortifications in the wilderness.

The top priority of the Japanese army's strategy is naturally Dongcheng, which is the breakthrough point.

Hisao Tani personally sits at the frontline headquarters of the 600th Brigade, which is only 11 meters away from the city wall. He watched with stern eyes as Sakai Tokutaro put his five infantry brigades into the battlefield one by one.

By 11:[-] p.m., the [-]th Infantry Brigade had mobilized almost all of its troops, and the majestic major general's brigade commander finally had only one guard squadron directly under the brigade headquarters around the headquarters.

If the Chinese can have a surprise army at this time, they don't need many, just come to an infantry battalion, and they can beat the head of the lieutenant general of the Sixth Division and the head of the brigade of a major general brigade into a pulp.

Sakai Tokutaro hadn't seen a smile on his face since three hours ago, especially after Tani Hisao put the last two infantry brigades into the battlefield under the cold eyes of Tani Hisao, he was even more livid.

This is a dilemma Sakai Tokutaro has never had since he was in the army.

This time, the heavy artillery and small-caliber howitzers of the Japanese army were unable to participate in the battle. The only heavy firearms that the infantry on both sides could use were the 70 infantry artillery of the Japanese army, while the Chinese were mortars. The rest could only be the machine guns and rifles of the infantry on both sides. And grenades, grenades.

This is a battlefield dominated by infantry.

According to reports from the front line, the Chinese had already retreated to 500 meters inside the city, but that was also the final distance for the 2000 infantry to attack. The urban area with a width of more than 500 meters and a depth of [-] meters was the battlefield for both sides.

Thousands of people are fighting fiercely on the battlefield of nearly one square kilometer.

Relying on the ruins, the trenches they had dug earlier, and the remaining houses, the Chinese fought for every inch of land.

The positions of the two warring parties are intertwined. There is me in you, and you in me. Bullets and grenades may fly from front, back, left, and right. No inch of land is safe.

The strength of the Chinese seems to be endless and never exhausted. According to the most conservative estimate, more than 1200 Chinese soldiers were killed, but the number of the other party still did not decrease.

Although the front line did not report the number of his own battle losses, Tokutaro Sakai knew that no matter what the final result of the Matsue Battle was, the strength of his 11th Infantry Brigade had dropped by at least [-]%, and the result of a large number of casualties among veterans could only be to supplement the second-line heavy soldiers .

Compared with the Chinese army major general whose forehead was covered with cold sweat, who was only more than 1000 meters away from him in a straight line, the Japanese major general was also in a less beautiful mood.

It can be said that the 4-hour fierce battle in Songjiang City was heart-wrenching for both warring parties, from the supreme commander to the front-line commanders to the lowest-level officers and soldiers.

If it was changed to another time, the two sides might take a step back from each other, like two fierce beasts fighting, licking their own wounds to recover their vitality, and at the same time looking for the opponent's weakness with cold eyes, waiting for the next battle to defeat the opponent. One hit kill.

But here, one side has no way to retreat, and if it retreats, 30,000 people in the army will die or even 100,000 people will die;
On the other side, they have no choice but to enter. If they do not enter, the loss of more than [-] casualties will be in vain. The honor of the entire "strongest division on the surface" will be thrown into the surging Huangpu River, and even the honor of the entire Imperial Army will be destroyed. They look down on the Chinese trampling.

The commanders of both sides are like two gamblers who risked their wealth and lives to the gambling table. They both had red eyes and continued to invest their troops, pouring their reserves into the bloody battlefield.

As the commander-in-chief of Songjiang, Lieutenant General Wu also had an extremely firm will, and the reply to the 108th Division and the 332nd Brigade was only one word "war!".

The Sixth Division has an army of 114, and the [-]th Division has the Kunisaki Detachment as a friendly army, and he also has one.

Although the 43rd Army of the Sichuan Army and the Songjiang Security Regiment have less than 3000 people, they also have enough strong will. The two consecutive days of fighting have proved that they are reliable comrades-in-arms.If you have comrades in arms, you will have courage. The big deal is that everyone will die together in Songjiang City.

Both sides have a big feeling, come on, "Stud! Whoever doesn't stud will be the grandson!".

I'm afraid that this kind of battle situation, both sides of the war have thought about it, but no one has thought about it. They thought that there would be heavy casualties, but they didn't think that it would be so serious.

At this point in the battle, Lieutenant General Wu even forgot that the military order he had received was only to persist in Songjiang for three days and nights. Since he received the military order in the early morning of November 11th, it has been more than 5 hours since the afternoon of November 11th. It has been nearly 8 hours since the Japanese army began to attack on the evening of November 72.

The time stipulated by the military order is no longer that important. The important thing is that you can't retreat half a step. If you retreat again, the whole army will die.

The Lieutenant General of the 108th Division who rushed to Dongcheng watched with his own eyes that his main infantry brigade was half disabled in a day's fierce battle, and asked Lieutenant General Wu for reinforcements an hour ago.

However, Lieutenant General Wu refused his request for help very hard and coldly. The 67th Army had two infantry divisions and four infantry brigades, each brigade guarding a city wall. The Japanese offensives in the two southwest positions were equally fierce. It is dangerous. Once the transfer of troops is discovered by the Japanese army, tens of thousands of Japanese troops a few kilometers away from the city will swarm in. If the Beicheng is destroyed, the artillery positions closest to the Beicheng will be destroyed, and Songjiang will die.

The only mobile force he can use now is Tang Dao's garrison battalion, the special task force directly under the military department, and a supply battalion.

A troop of more than 3000 people usually looks quite large, but in this tens of thousands of fierce battles, it seems too weak, even if Tang Dao's garrison battalion is called "Songjiang's sharpest sword" by him.

This is also his last hole card, and he will never use it until the most critical time.

Liu Qiwen sent another telegram to the headquarters 10 minutes ago, and the extremely strong major general burst into tears.

One of his infantry regiments lost half of its men yesterday evening, and this morning another infantry regiment died hundreds of battles in the fortifications of the city wall. After entering the street fighting, the two infantry regiments with a full strength of more than 2300 people were able to contact each other. There were no more than ten infantry companies, and he even sent the guard companies of the two infantry regiments, the guard company of his brigade headquarters, and the two infantry companies from the Sichuan Army into the battlefield.

But the Japanese army was still powerful, so the brigade and regiment staff and cooking soldiers were led by the deputy brigade commander into battle. If no reinforcements were given, he, the major general, would have to go to the front line with his pistols like the three colonels.

General Wu Zhong finally ordered that the more than 1000 young men who remained in Songjiang City be organized into reserve forces. The more than 1000 people were divided into five teams, with about 200 people in each team. Veterans lead, into the East City defense line.

Young and strong, they were just ordinary people three days ago. Some of them were farmers, some were craftsmen, and some were shopkeepers. They should have been working in a beautiful small town from sunrise to sunset. Although it was not easy, they were peaceful and happy with their families.

However, the war came.

Death also came.

In Songjiang City at this time, there is no distinction between soldiers and civilians, only Japanese and Chinese.

Robbers and defenders, only one side can leave the city alive.

For these young men with no combat experience, despite the shortage of troops, the commanders of the infantry still maintained enough rationality. Regardless of their strength and strength, they could not even fire a gun. They went to the battlefield and could not become elite soldiers to stop the Japanese attack , the biggest possibility is to become a living target for consuming Japanese ammunition.

They first became stretcher soldiers, and learned to drag wounded soldiers from every corner of the battlefield to the rear for treatment in the hail of bullets. Soldiers' remains were also among them. They had to learn before going to the battlefield to experience the cruelty of the battlefield. to the first lesson.

The more cruel it is, the faster it needs to grow. Those who cannot grow or grow not fast enough can only be eliminated.

And being eliminated on the battlefield can only be death.

Even so, in the direction of Dongcheng, the death rate of young and strong people who entered such a terrible battlefield for the first time was chilling.

By 260:40.00 p.m., in half an hour, more than [-] people were killed just by the stretcher soldiers who rescued the wounded and grabbed the remains of their own soldiers, accounting for more than [-]% of the young and strong who went to the battlefield.

Among them, more than 30 people even chose to leave the team and flee, and were shot by the battlefield law enforcement team without hesitation because they were afraid of fighting.

It is the best classroom to use extraordinary means in extraordinary times. The thunderbolt means of the major general who personally supervises the battle with a pistol and the cruel battlefield are the best classrooms.

In just over an hour, the young and strong people quickly completed the transformation from civilians to soldiers. They no longer vomited in the face of hideous wounds, and they no longer just Holding his head and hiding in the ruins, weeping in despair.

Fear and crying will not help you improve your score. What can make you score high and graduate from the school of the battlefield can only be courage and bravely face hell.

However, the Japanese army put nearly 5000 tactically skilled infantry into the battlefield in Dongcheng District. Except for the terrain, they were not as good as the Chinese defenders, and the rest were better than the Chinese in terms of equipment and tactical literacy.

The advantage of the battlefield is gradually tilting to the Japanese army.

The defense line is crumbling.

Lieutenant General Wu has already picked up the phone, ready to use the last trump card in his hand, and the guard battalion that has already been fully equipped is about to enter the battlefield again.

At this time, the sunset is all over the sky, and the scenery is picturesque!

(End of this chapter)