Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 354 Super unlucky ball! (Please subscribe! Please ask for a monthly pass!)
At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese army finally couldn't bear the huge casualties, and chose to take the initiative to retreat.

From the morning of November 11th to the afternoon of November 8th, the Tenth Army invested a total of three infantry brigades and one mixed brigade, excluding auxiliary arms such as artillery, armor, aviation, and engineering, which were directly used for front-line siege. There are nearly 11 people.

On the Dongcheng side alone, seven infantry brigades with more than 7 people were invested. Such an intense attack could be considered large-scale even in the Battle of Songhu.

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

The Tenth Army was not only in vain, but suffered heavy losses.

The 13th Infantry Brigade in Nancheng suffered more than 1000 casualties in two days. Almost one infantry brigade was reimbursed in this way, and Udo was so angry that his nose was crooked.

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

There are only a thousand people in the area, you Major General Niu Daoman's nose is crooked, so the old man is like this now, does it make Xiao Jiji lose his anger?

Songjiang West City was originally the main attack direction of the Tenth Army from the very beginning, but it was unexpected that a mixed brigade and an infantry brigade were almost beaten into dogs by a small warehouse city and an outer city block.

The Chinese are like stones in a latrine—the smelly and hard ones have been hard against them for two days, and their hearts, livers and lungs are almost rotten.

Finally wait for the Chinese to take the initiative to run away!There was another return to the carbine.

I haven't seen what the city wall looks like yet!The Kunisaki Detachment and the 114th Division, which were the main attackers, had a total of more than 20,000 Japanese troops, and three or four thousand Japanese troops were wiped out.

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

After going through the pain and suffering, and after they really started to enter the city's offensive and defensive battles, both Shigeru Suematsu and Kunizaki finally knew what it meant to be a dog biting a hedgehog.

After two days of mad attack under the cover of aircraft and cannons, the infantry brigade belonging to the 114th Division was almost beaten to a half. Without working hard, I entered the stage of active paddling.

The Guoqi detachment is naturally not stupid, the gang of scumbags in Baga actually want to use elites like Lao Tzu as a shield for you?Do Nima's Spring and Autumn Dream!
Anyway, the people who got beaten up in Dongcheng were not members of our Fifth Division.

To paddle together!

The two troops of the Japanese army tacitly "swinged their oars" on the edge of the moat together, which was what the Chinese defenders wished for.

The Japanese have been attacking desperately in the past two days, not only the Japanese are dying, but they are also dying with them.

After a total of more than ten rounds of siege, a group of lieutenant generals and major generals in Xicheng were almost beaten to tears.

More than 1000 corpses were lifted just to the rear, not to mention hundreds of people who were seriously injured. A whole infantry regiment disappeared in the two days of fighting.

The Chinese and Japanese sides in the west city actually started a tacit battle with each other since the afternoon.

Bullets and cannonballs came and went and fought very lively, but it was just a lively scene. If the Japanese army did not rush up, the Chinese would not raise their heads. They just hid in the trenches and at most stretched out their arms to shoot out.

Casualties on both sides declined rapidly.

You two idiots are real dogs!Sakai Tokutaro, who will know the truth of this day in the future, can only use this sentence to describe the two stupid colleagues.

But whether it's Ushijima Mitsuru with crooked nose, Kunisaki Teng with haggard face, or Suematsu Shigeru who has been crying for a long time, if these three meet Major General Tokutaro Sakai of the 11th Infantry Brigade, I am afraid they will sincerely send him off. Give me a comforting look, and then take the initiative to stay away from this guy.

Heartfelt consolation, because Tokutaro Sakai is an unlucky guy; and staying away from him is because he is really unlucky, and the unlucky people feel that it is safer to stay away from him.

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

Two days ago, the 11th Infantry Brigade still had two full infantry wings and three reinforced infantry squadrons directly under it, with 8000 infantry alone.

The term "strong soldiers and strong horses" may have been tailor-made for them.

now what?Put together and count all the wounded still in the hospital, let's see if we can make up an infantry regiment!

That means that the 11th Infantry Brigade, which seemed to have transformed from a secondary offensive to a major offensive, can almost be reorganized into the 11th Infantry Wing.

Nearly 5000 people were lost in the battle. This is the answer sheet handed in by Tokutaro Sakai after two days and nights of siege.

Compared with the Guoqi Detachment and the 114th Division, which were pushed to the heart, liver and lungs, the "Strongest Division on the Surface" representing the strongest combat power of the Tenth Army was pushed to the egg by the hard Songjiang City, and the yolk was almost pushed out kind of.

Of course, this kind of heart-wrenching and terrible battle damage is not unprecedented in the history of Japanese military warfare.

In March of the Battle of Songhu, the 200,000 Songhu Dispatch Army became 150,000; in the Russo-Japanese War, more than [-] people were killed in the one-week fortress battle, and even the three sons of Nogi Nozomi died in the battle. Half and half.

However, even the head of the lieutenant general's division became the prey of the Chinese side, turning into a cold corpse, which is a bit too much.

Moreover, just beside Tokutaro Sakai, he was shot in the head by a cold gunman from the Chinese side.

Do you mean that this unlucky boy Tokutaro Sakai is really unlucky?Still lucky?

You are lucky to be alive!
But if he was lucky, but Mao and his captain were also killed?Moreover, after being held hostage by a Chinese who sneaked into the headquarters, it was shameful, and he cut his throat neatly in front of a group of subordinates.

This is to overcome the upper and lower, which is really unlucky for the physique!
What's more terrible is that he and his colleagues at the same level are overwhelmed. Isn't it because he sent the report in the middle of the night that Tanabe Shengwu rushed over?If you don't ride a horse, can you be thrown off the back by a war horse frightened by gunfire?

Moreover, what is even more mysterious is that Moritake Tanabe did not die at the time, but died almost at the field hospital of the 11th Infantry Brigade.

I'm afraid he was not smoked to death by Tokutaro Sakai's bad luck!

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

There is an old Chinese saying: If you don’t believe in ghosts and gods, you have to believe in fate!
It's not good for this guy to live well.

The Japanese army who suffered heavy losses probably did not recover. From [-] pm to nightfall, the Japanese army besieged the city on three sides and did not attack again.

The Japanese army who was ready to attack Beicheng finally withdrew.

The Japanese infantry did not attack, but it did not mean that the Japanese artillery and aviation were idle.

After confirming that it was impossible for anyone else to withdraw from the city, the heavy artillery brigade of the Japanese army and the light destroyers staying on the Huangpu River used shells to help their compatriots to discuss an explanation.

I don't know if it was the unlucky boy Tokutaro Sakai who couldn't bear to look straight at him with tears streaming down his face. The commander of the Tenth Army, Heisuke Yanagawa, who arrived on the battlefield in the afternoon, even 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 4000 shells into Songjiang City, including combustion-supporting sulfur bombs, high-explosive bombs, and even mustard gas bombs.

It was as if they were going to send the whole city of Songjiang away just by guns.

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

Although the Japanese troops in the city were at a disadvantage, they were far from meeting the criteria for a rout, and there were still many troops who took the initiative to choose to leave the battlefield so that their colleagues could leave the battlefield.

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

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

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

In front of people, equipment can be ignored.

Almost half an hour later, the soldiers of each department basically cleaned up the battlefield, and evacuated to the air-raid shelter or anti-gun location with their brothers who were still alive or dead.

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

Because, when their own shells hit, they don't have more than a 5.00% chance of surviving.

Indeed, there were at least 90 people of Japanese troops in the urban area resisting, but when the shells bombarded the sky and overwhelming them, they were basically dead.

According to the records of the 11th Infantry Brigade, there were no more than five Japanese infantrymen who returned to the barracks in the dark after the shelling.

It can be seen the intensity of this round of shelling by the Japanese army.

However, the mood of the Japanese infantry outside the city was not at all beautiful when they saw their own artillery show off their power again.

Faced with such an offensive by the Japanese army, the Chinese defenders finally did not suffer in silence this time. All artillery that could fire, whether it was mountain artillery, field artillery or large-caliber mortars, also launched counterattacks.

But it was not against the Japanese artillery.

The Japanese heavy artillery brigade was still ten kilometers away, and the mountain artillery and field artillery were at least five kilometers away. Let alone not knowing the coordinates, even if they knew, the Chinese artillery had a shorter range, and they could only stare blankly.

But the Japanese infantry are outside the city!
If you hit me, I can't catch the infantry to fight!

Moreover, I don't know what kind of mentality Wu Zhongjiang has. All the artillery that can be fired will collectively point to the east.

That was the position of the 11th Infantry Brigade.

You have to catch someone and pinch you, right?Standing 2000 meters away in the division headquarters, Tokutaro Sakai looked at the bullets constantly blooming on his own position, not knowing what kind of mood he was in.

Everyone said he was too unlucky!The Japanese commanders in other directions collectively felt that this was reasonable.

There is an old Chinese saying: Injuring ten fingers is worse than cutting off one!
General Wu's move naturally meant that the defenders in Dongcheng had suffered too many casualties, and he felt uncomfortable not to trouble the 11th Infantry Brigade, and he wanted to smash the 11th Infantry Brigade to pieces in one fell swoop.

The Battle of Songjiang on November 11 came to an end in the wrath of the god of war that both sides could have.

But the Four Elements Battalion, 40 kilometers away, ushered in their first ground battle at this time.

(End of this chapter)