Rise From Eight Hundred

The devils, started the bombardment.

As the whistling sound of the shells sounded, the soldiers on the lookout on the other side of the city wall of Cangcheng immediately chose to hide their bodies deeply in the fortifications, which were simple but the only place they could hide.

The 67th Army had fought several battles with the Japanese Army in North China, and suffered heavy losses. Then they were replenished in the rear and then went to the Songhu battlefield, but the replenishment was not some able-bodied men, but their own original baggage soldiers.

This is also the experience that the Northeast Army learned from the Japanese. Although the baggage soldiers are less experienced than the veterans of the front line as second-line soldiers, they have been trained in the army and have seen the battlefield, which can ensure that the combat effectiveness of the front-line troops will not be weakened too much.

A farmer holding a hoe the day before was given a gun to go to the battlefield the next day. What would his combat effectiveness be like? The Guo Army, which will replenish a large number of able-bodied men in the future, has proved with facts that it is an extremely wrong choice.

Therefore, even though they were once just small baggage soldiers, the soldiers of the 67th Army who unfortunately became observation posts still quickly retreated into the fortifications, and their movements were much more agile than the two signal soldiers next to the young deputy squad leader.

In fact, not to mention the two signal soldiers who were already frightened by the sharp whistling of the shells, even the young deputy squad leader did not immediately make tactical moves to avoid the artillery.

Moreover, he leaned out of the fortifications and tried to look further away.

Even if the two signal soldiers behind him pulled him, "Deputy squad leader, the Japanese artillery shells are coming."

"Don't panic, the Japanese are just testing now." The young 'old soldier' ​​looked into the distance while listening carefully to the whistling of the shells getting closer and closer.

He was still muttering to himself: "Damn, this is not a mountain artillery, it seems to be a 105 howitzer!"

As if to prove the accuracy of his judgment, two seconds later, a cloud of dust rose from the field about 300 meters away from the south gate of Cangcheng!

The young deputy squad leader, who had persisted on the Dachangzhen position for three days and nights, learned to distinguish the sound of artillery shells and determine the approximate direction of the Japanese artillery group's attack based on the position of the artillery fire under the guidance of the veteran squad leader.

Commander Tang Dao's judgment was very accurate. The first artillery shell of the Japanese army landed 300 meters to the side of Cangcheng, which proved that the main target of the Japanese artillery fire would be Cangcheng.

The thick smoke rising in the cold sunset light was like a dark cloud rising from the ground, rushing to a height of more than ten meters, and could be clearly seen without a telescope.

That, just as the young "veteran" judged, was definitely not caused by a 75-caliber mountain artillery.

If he had a telescope, he could clearly see that the crater in the field was enough to fit a small bean, which was indeed from the terrible 105 howitzer.

Six kilometers away, which the young deputy squad leader could not see, the 114th Division Artillery Regiment, which had just crossed the Huangpu River pontoon bridge, had already impatiently chosen its position.

The position was in the hilly area 300 meters away from where the bodies of Fujihara's entire cavalry squadron were found. Not only could the woods and hills provide sufficient protection for the artillery, but more importantly, the livid-faced Shigeharu Suematsu needed to avenge his shame.

Those who fell there should get up there. The sharp artillery under his command would become a welcome gift from the Japanese Army Lieutenant General to the Chinese.

Shigeharu Suematsu was qualified to say so.

Although it was one of the eight newly established special divisions, it was weakened in many aspects and could not match the 17 permanent divisions, but it could not be said that the special divisions were not good.

In fact, as the supplementary divisions of the 17 permanent divisions, the equipment of the 17 supplementary divisions numbered after 100 would never be bad, and some were even stronger than the permanent divisions.

This was determined by the extremely special organization method of the Japanese Army. For example, the 101st Division corresponded to the 1st Guards Division. If the 1st Division had serious personnel consumption, it would directly supplement personnel and equipment from the 101st Division.

Why can the main force of the Itagaki Division on the western front of the North China Expeditionary Army, which is attacking Shanxi, reach more than 50,000 troops? In fact, it is the result of the direct merger of the 5th Division and its supplementary division.

To put it bluntly, the Chinese Army organization is learned from Europe, using more than 10,000 infantry divisions as the basic combat unit, and two or three become an infantry army with a strength of 40,000 to 50,000 to control a larger combat area;

The Japanese Army can use a Type A division and a supplementary division to form a more powerful combat unit. In most cases, only one division headquarters can be retained, with a simple command structure, making military orders more smooth.

If there is a more special battle situation, like the current 10th Army composed of two Type A divisions and a special division, it is a temporary wartime organization. When the combat mission and combat objectives are achieved, it can be disbanded at any time.

As a supplementary division of the 14th Division, the 114th Division became one of the eight special divisions before the war came, so it was natural to follow the footsteps of the 14th Division. Although the 14th Division was not well-known, its current division commander was well-known in this war.

Kenji Doihara, who presided over intelligence work at the Japanese Army Headquarters, was the third generation of Japanese spy chiefs engaged in espionage activities in China after Nobuzumi Aoki and Rihachiro Sakanishi. He was the behind-the-scenes figure who established the puppet Manchukuo and planned the autonomy of North China. He was known as the "Thomas Edward Lawrence of the East".

After the war began, Kenji Doihara served as the commander of the 14th Division of Japan. In the future, he participated in the Battle of Lanfeng and was promoted to the commander of the Seventh Front Army, the director of education, and the commander of the First General Army.

Such a person not only has great influence in the Japanese Army Headquarters, but also has a very high status in the entire Japanese military. He is not comparable to the lieutenant generals of the army, such as the commander of the 6th Division, Tani Hisao, and the commander of the 18th Division, Ushijima Mitsuru, who attempt to prove themselves by expanding territory.

Otherwise, how could the Fujiwara family, which can make a voice in Japanese politics, let the family's most promising direct line go to the 114th Division for training? That is also a small idea to win over Tokiwa.

However, the big spy chief of Japan may not have expected that the adulterer** had just taken a passionate bath, and the little lotus had just emerged and had not yet started to get to the point, but the younger brother who was responsible for helping ** take care of the child outside the door accidentally killed the child.

Of course, how the adulterer** will fight in the future is a later story. The current 114th Division benefits from Tokiwa's power, and its artillery regiment is still very powerful.

The Japanese artillery regiment is generally composed of 3,000 people, divided into 3 artillery battalions, each of which is equipped with 12 artillery pieces, mostly 75-caliber mountain guns or field guns. It is very impressive for an ordinary standing division to have 4 to 6 105 field guns in its artillery regiment.

However, as a special division, the 114th Division has 12 Type 91 105 howitzers that the Japanese Army began to serve in 1935 in its artillery regiment.

Of course, this is not its own organization, but before arriving in the southeast, Shigeharu Suematsu felt that he was too weak with only one infantry brigade, so he asked for support from his boss Doi-Yuan, who used his influence to borrow a 105 howitzer battalion from the North China Expeditionary Force and assigned it to him.

With this killer, Shigeharu Suematsu suddenly felt that he was good again, otherwise, he would not have driven an infantry battalion in anger to touch Songjiang, where an infantry army was stationed.

That was because Shigeharu Suematsu had enough confidence.

This artillery, introduced from France, weighs 1,750 kilograms and is pulled by horses. It has a Type 91 howitzer (projectile weight 16 kilograms, charge 2.52 kilograms, killing radius 31 meters) and a Type 91 pointed bullet (projectile weight 15.7 kilograms, charge 2.27 kilograms, killing radius 28 meters).

As for the armor-piercing ability of another type of ammunition, armor-piercing shells, does China have tanks? In fact, Japanese weapons experts did not take this technology too seriously, and their artillery carried mostly grenades to kill infantry.

The 12 105 howitzers, according to the coordinates sent back by the artillery observers who were advancing with the vanguard, had already raised their muzzles high. Along with these 12 big killers, there were 12 75 mountain guns and 12 75 field guns, a total of 36 guns.

In addition, the 6 127 naval guns of the Fubuki-class destroyer on the Huangpu River also aimed their muzzles at Songjiang City 10 kilometers away.

Although the Japanese naval fleet still staying on the Jinshanwei Sea did not admit that they had been beaten by Chinese artillery, they also felt deeply humiliated. Otherwise, why would they risk running aground and send a light destroyer to cover the army's millipedes?

They must also teach the bold Chinese Songjiang defenders a lesson.

For the "generosity" of the navy idiots, Shigeharu Suematsu naturally held the mentality of a scumbag who did not take the initiative, did not refuse, and was irresponsible. He pretended not to know and let the staff of the division headquarters send the coordinates sent from the front to the destroyer.

The muzzles of 42 artillery pieces in the distant space were spewing out hot flames one after another under the stiff observation of the young deputy squad leader.