Rise From Eight Hundred

Three hours ago, Tang Dao had entered Cangcheng from Songjiang City.

And two hours ago, the military flags of the Northeastern Army and the Sichuan Army were raised in Cangcheng to swear an oath, and then the entire army entered the position.

Since the arrival of the Japanese army, Watanabe Junichi's eyes have been patrolling this thousand-year-old city, and Tang Dao has not relaxed his observation of them.

When he saw that the Japanese infantry began to avoid residential areas and began to move from the fields to the two wings of Cangcheng, Tang Dao picked up the phone and informed the infantry companies that the Japanese vanguard troops would most likely attack Cangcheng.

The Japanese artillery has probably been set up. More than an hour ago, the cavalry lurking on the south bank also reported to the headquarters via radio that a light destroyer had finally arrived on the Huangpu River.

Although Tang Dao did not see it with his own eyes, he knew that in the Japanese navy, even the Fubuki-class light destroyer was equipped with six terrifying 127mm naval guns.

The main opponent of that thing is a ship covered with steel. If it explodes on land, its power can be imagined.

There are two ways to communicate between Cangcheng and the main city. One is through the telephone. More than 500 civilians spent the middle of the night digging trenches specifically for burying telephone lines. However, no one can guarantee when the Japanese artillery fire will destroy these telephone lines. Blow up; the other type is naturally the field radio. The only field radio in Cangcheng now is the one at the headquarters of the 644th Regiment.

Lieutenant General Guo personally notified Tang Dao of the arrival of the Japanese destroyer by phone.

Therefore, Tang Dao concluded that if the Japanese army wanted to attack Cangcheng, they would first launch a large-scale bombardment. The intensity of the bombardment would even exceed the imagination of everyone here.

Including the 43rd Army that fought a bloody battle with the Japanese in Dachang Town.

The Songjiang security regiment, which had all withdrawn into residential buildings, was also informed by Tang Dao through the headquarters to immediately seek shelter from the artillery fire.

Sharp bamboo whistles were heard one after another in residential areas, and more than 2,000 officers and soldiers of the security regiment jumped out of their hiding places and hid in the shelter spots selected by each squad and platoon.

Some are basements dug by wealthy families, some are cellars for storing food, and some are bulletproof holes dug with great effort by my own class.

Let’s not talk about whether they can fight or not. At least the Songjiang Security Group showed good self-protection skills before their lives were seriously threatened.

If the cannons come, we guys will hide underground. If there are no cannons, we guys will come out.

Why! Just that inch.

The Japanese military commander who was 800 meters away was staring closely at this place, leaving several drops of cold sweat on his forehead.

How many troops did the Chinese in Baga deploy in this residential area? Why does it look like there are thousands of people?

I only have over a thousand people, how can I fight them?

Fortunately, I didn't act stupid and made a sample first.

Watanabe Junichi, who silently rejoiced that he had made the right choice, completely gave up on the stacks of residential buildings and set his sights on Cangcheng on the other side...

The head of Cangcheng City.

Young soldiers, no, to be precise, young "veterans", lay quietly in the fortifications at the head of Cangcheng.

I didn't even dare to breathe.

The young soldier who discussed the battalion commander's gossip with his veteran squad leader was originally a private. He was promoted to a private after the war because he killed a Japanese soldier during a counterattack in the Battle of Dachang Town, and because he was in the infantry platoon. Two-thirds of the veterans died in the battle and was appointed deputy squad leader of the infantry squad.

It's just that the young deputy squad leader hasn't adapted to his new role at all. Most of the time, he still regards himself as a follower of the old squad leader who also survived the battlefield. But now, he has entered a wartime state and must take on the role of deputy squad leader. responsibilities.

The vanguard of the Japanese army's arrival was eyeing Cangcheng, which protruded from the whole city. Judging from its unfolding formation, it seemed that they were going to attack before dark came.

Lieutenant Colonel Tang Dao, the top commander in charge of the Cangcheng position, did not let the entire army enter the position. Instead, he issued an order for the entire army to enter the bomb shelter. Only guard posts were sent from each company on the two city walls directly facing the Japanese army.

The person responsible for defending the southern city wall was the 3rd Company of the 26th Division of the 43rd Army. The young "veteran" who had not yet adapted to the role of deputy squad leader was brave beyond everyone's expectations. He refused the platoon's draw, and even refused to replace the veteran squad leader. He took two soldiers up to the hastily completed fortifications at the head of Cangcheng to serve as guard posts.

In the field of vision of the young deputy squad leader, there were only shit-yellow shadows hundreds of meters away, and no artillery could be seen at all. However, after the battle of Dachang Town, the soldiers of the 43rd Army who were lucky enough to survive were already extremely familiar with the battles of the Japanese army. routine.

It's just that the artillery bombardment has finished the infantry attack, and the infantry attack has finished the artillery bombardment.

If you want to avoid artillery fire and block the infantry at the right time, you can only go to the guard post.

What is a guard post? This means that he will become the eyes of the entire army. Even if the Japanese artillery shells are overwhelming, he must try to survive and then notify the entire army that the Japanese infantry is attacking.

Otherwise, how would the soldiers still in the shelter know when to rush into position?

However, if you want to survive, you can't rely on willpower or tactics, you can really only rely on luck.

During the battle of Dachang Town, the young deputy squad leader, who had never even seen a mountain artillery before, experienced first-hand the lethality of Japanese artillery.

Especially that kind of large-caliber heavy artillery, one shot will create a crater the size of a pond. If it happens to hit a certain section of the trench, even with the protection of the trench, the terrible shock wave can easily kill a platoon of people.

With such artillery power, let alone hiding in the observation post fortifications made of sandbags and logs on the city wall, even the firepower points hiding inside the city wall were not very safe in the face of such terrifying large-caliber artillery shells.

However, the young deputy squad leader is no longer the recruit who just hides in the trench and covers his head with a pale face when the gunfire is fired. No matter how scared he is, he must grit his teeth and hold on!

As a soldier, how can you escape from the battlefield? Besides, he is still the deputy squad leader and has several soldiers under his command.

The reason why he became brave this time and refused the platoon leader's request for each class to draw lots to set up guard posts was for a simple reason. The squad leaders and deputy squad leaders of the other two squads had wives and children. After listening to the squad leader's gossip about the battalion commander, he I very much hope that they can have more opportunities to go back and see their mother-in-law and children.

And he himself is only an eighteen-year-old young man, his parents are still young, and he has younger brothers and sisters at home, so his worries are much smaller.

However, the brave young deputy squad leader did not want to die. At this moment, when he saw the Japanese infantry gradually approaching, he determined that the Japanese army was about to launch an attack, so he drove away the two younger soldiers who were following him.

"You two melons, the Japanese are about to open fire. What are you two doing with me? You two are so dead that we can make meat sauce!"

On the more than 200-meter-long city wall, there are three fortifications built specifically for observation posts and artillery posts to observe the battlefield. The other two soldiers were originally communication corpsmen in the regiment. Later, there were less than 200 people left in the regiment, and there were no communication corps. The ball has to be used, so just keep it, except for a few health workers, and all the other personnel have been added to the infantry squad.

The signal corpsmen were all relatively young, and they had common topics with the equally young deputy squad leader, and they quickly became good friends.

Being young, his greatest strength is his ignorance and fearlessness. When he saw that the deputy squad leader actively asked to be an observation post, his head got hot and he followed suit. Now he saw the deputy squad leader who had fought on the front line with a serious expression on his face, and he couldn't help but feel scared.

"Deputy squad leader, how did you know that the Japanese were going to fire?" The soldier's face turned pale.

"Guawazi, didn't you notice that the Japanese dug a trench a mile away? It was their temporary field trench. The Japanese are the best at this. They built fortifications wherever they went. They were never lazy." The young deputy squad leader I imitated the calmness of the veteran squad leader and analyzed it for the two soldiers.

"500 meters is the most suitable distance to launch an attack. This can not only ensure that their large-caliber artillery will not accidentally damage them, but also use light and heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, and infantry artillery to suppress the enemy's fire points."

"What should I do? I'm scared to stay there alone." Xiao Bing's face showed deep fear.

The courage that once dared to rush to the city wall was long gone.

"Afraid of a hammer, Brother Pao, don't show your belt without diarrhea." The young deputy squad leader glared and wanted to imitate the veteran squad leader's tone of scolding the two recruits.

But looking at the two technical soldiers who had only picked up rifles for half a month, I still felt weak after all, and I was about to comfort them and persuade them to return to their respective observation posts.

After all, if three people stay together, if they are unlucky, one cannonball will kill them all. If they stay in their own place, the probability of one of them surviving is much higher.

However, before he could speak, a howl suddenly sounded from the sky!

The whistling sound was long and low.