Rise From Eight Hundred

The sound of gunfire inside and outside Cangcheng was very loud.

In the field bunker 800 meters away, Suematsu Shigeharu had a headache.

As the commander of the 114th Division, the forward legion of the Tenth Army, he knew very well that the military order he had given to attack the city outside the city overnight. Although there was an element of venting anger, most of it was because he had to do it.

Because if the Chinese were given 12 more hours, tens of thousands of Chinese in western Shanghai could escape. According to the base camp's strategy, they could have entered the small town of Songjiang this evening, but because of the Jinshanwei tidal flat position and Jinshan The accident in the county town caused him to still lie down in the mud and stare blindly with a telescope.

It's okay if we can't capture Songjiang County. The nails in this city outside the city should be pulled out. Otherwise, Commander Yanagawa Heisuke will not be very happy when he arrives tomorrow morning and sees this scene.

For this reason, Suematsu Shigeharu made up his mind to devote two infantry brigades to another fierce attack on Cangcheng regardless of the darkness and slippery roads.

The Japanese Lieutenant General actually had another thing to pay attention to. Once the artillery group of the Chinese defenders in the city could not help but provide artillery support to the Chinese in Cangcheng, the dozen or so artillery observers he placed in the wilderness to closely monitor would follow the instructions. Ballistic measurements determined the approximate direction of the Chinese artillery group.

At night, the trajectory of the cannonballs in the sky is clearest.

The artillery regiment, which has stopped shelling but is ready for battle, will immediately fight back at the approximate coordinates reported by the artillery observers, blow up the Chinese artillery group, and clear the biggest obstacle for tomorrow's daytime battle.

Killing two birds with one stone, if Suematsu Shigeharu's chief of staff had not done some research on Chinese culture, he would not have known that he would be so wise, and he would accidentally become a wise general.

The Japanese lieutenant general's move can be regarded as a calculation of all the mechanisms, but one thing was missed.

The Chinese hiding in the houses were so frightened that he did not go to them to cause trouble, but actually took the initiative to cause trouble for him.

Two infantry squadrons who went deep into residential areas and planned to stab the Chinese in Cangcheng from the other side were not only hit in the head with mortars by the Chinese in Cangcheng who seemed to be invincible, but were also hit in the head by a group of hidden soldiers. The rusty mouse in the darkness took several bites.

As Zhuang Shisan said, this is Lao Tzu's Songjiang.

What does the Songjiang Security Group do? In name, it is the security force of the Songjiang area. Its function is similar to that of the armed police force in the future. Generally, gangsters and other gangsters are handed over to the police station. Only when bandits or groups of gangs commit crimes will they be handed over to them.

But the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas are not the poor and impoverished places in the north or the southwestern mountainous areas. The land is originally highly productive because of its abundant paddy fields, and commerce is still prosperous. Everyone is busy making money. How many people are willing to do that kind of head-turning job? Something? There weren't many bandits, and even the Heisehui families opened brothels and opium dens, so they had to pay a lot of taxes.

If the security team has no work to do, why should they turn into armed police to maintain law and order? On the surface, they maintain law and order, but secretly they often blackmail businesses into pocketing protection money.

Of course, if the protection fee is collected, the public security will be maintained for you. At least the gangsters will not come to stab you again. This can be regarded as a kind of balance. When the social environment is stable, Commissioner Wang will turn a blind eye. One eye.

It's just businessmen and ordinary people swallowing their anger and being exploited or a little bullied. In this troubled world, it's pretty good, right?

When you have money in your hands, you have to spend it naturally. The girls in this place in Songjiang City are the most beautiful, the soup dumplings there are the most delicious, and you can have the most fun there. These guys know it better than anyone else.

They are the well-deserved local leaders of Songjiang City.

Not to mention a bunch of Japanese who came from the sea and couldn't read a single Chinese character, even the residents of Songjiang City were probably not as familiar with this area as these local snakes.

These dark corners became a nightmare for Japanese infantry.

I'm afraid even Tang Dao didn't expect that they would become supporting roles in the originally brutal night battle in Cangcheng.

The protagonist is actually a security force who was driven to the battlefield by the determined major and battalion commander because a forced marriage incident failed.

A fully organized infantry squadron, led by its captain, rushed into the pitch-black residential area.

Flares shot into the sky as if they were free, illuminating the houses brightly. The Japanese infantry could use the afterglow of the flares to smoothly enter those small alleys and houses with white walls and black tiles.

House-to-house and street-to-street searches have yielded some results.

A dozen security forces who were too late to escape were blocked in a house. After trying to attack with rifles and machine guns to no avail, the Japanese army used several grenade launchers. After a burst of wild bombing, they rushed in with their superior force. It took seven or eight minutes of fighting, but the remaining enemies were still not cleared out. In the end, they were forced to set the entire house on fire to completely annihilate their opponents.

However, they obviously forgot one thing. Just like bullets, flares also have a quantity. They used a lot of them to facilitate entry, and later used a lot more to kill the dozen opponents. If they wanted to use them again, But I have to replenish it.

Otherwise, they have already penetrated one to two hundred meters, and are surrounded by houses of the same shape like a maze-like residential area, and they will be completely blind here.

I heard that the Japanese came in with one or two hundred people. Zhuang Shisanna, who had shocked everyone because he was forced to shoot three of his closest subordinates, is still not feeling hot?

He couldn't control the other two battalions, but he still had his own battalion firmly in his hands. In addition to the second company that arrived in this area first, he mobilized three infantry companies in one breath, with a total of nearly 700 people to besiege the infantry squadron that accidentally stepped into this maze.

The Japanese flares were gone, and the only light was the not-so-bright moonlight in the sky.

The shit-yellow uniforms of the Japanese army were extremely conspicuous in the moonlight, while the security army wore black uniforms, and darkness became their best protective color.

Rifles, Mauser pistols, light machine guns, grenade launchers, grenades, and hand grenades, all kinds of sounds rang out in the area more than 300 meters outside Cangcheng.

The noise was even more than the battle of Cangcheng, which used heavy weapons such as infantry guns, rapid-fire guns, machine guns, and mortars.

The commanders of both China and Japan who were observing this side with binoculars could not see what was happening in the residential area.

Shigeharu Suematsu didn't know how many of his own people were inside, and the two Chinese lieutenant generals standing in the city wall with stern faces also didn't know how many troops the security group had invested.

The telescopes of both sides could only capture a few limited magnificent ballistics drawn by the occasional continuous firing of light machine guns.

Because of the darkness, no one knew the specific battle process except the people who participated in it.

It was just that the Japanese army waited until the battle of Cangcheng was coming to an end, and the gunfire on the main battlefield was gradually stopping, and they didn't wait for the infantry squadron that entered the residential area to come out.

And that was nearly two hours later.

An infantry squadron of nearly 200 people disappeared just like that, which was not a trivial matter. Even the Japanese lieutenant general with a big head couldn't easily classify the 200th Imperial Army as missing.

November 6 was definitely a bad day for this Japanese lieutenant general. The troops, who were not sufficient to begin with, had suffered a staggering 2,300 casualties after several battles.

Yes, he had lost nearly a thousand people in Jinshan County during the day, but at least he had some achievements. The landing was successful, and he successfully opened the door to the west of Shanghai, and annihilated more than 2,000 Chinese troops.

But then, it was a complete nightmare. Two infantry squadrons were wiped out because of the stupidity of the navy horse, and a major staff officer was killed. A cavalry squadron plus a "rich second generation" with golden light all over his body, nearly 500 people died in battle, so a half infantry battalion was gone.

Not to mention Cangcheng, more than 300 people died in the afternoon, and 1,600 people were launched in the night, and another 500 people were consumed. They hadn't even started fighting, and 2,300 people could be packed in a small wooden box and sent back.

Then, another 200 people disappeared in the houses in the dark. What a shit for Shigeharu Suematsu.

It was definitely the mentality of being fucked by a dog.