Rise From Eight Hundred

The Japanese Army Major General, who spoke with arrogance, was flanked by an Army Lieutenant Colonel.

Faced with the arrogance of his own detachment leader who said that he has everything in his hands, Lieutenant Colonel's eyes flashed with helplessness, but he could only echo: "Your Excellency, the detachment leader, is wise!"

"Akiumi-kun! You are knowledgeable and qualified, but there is one thing that is very bad. Do you know what it is?" Faced with the helpless agreement of his subordinates, the Japanese Army Major General did not get angry. It was in front of the two armies that he chatted with his subordinates about domestic matters, which showed that his mood was not generally good.

"I don't know, so I would like to ask your Excellency, the detachment leader, to correct me," the Army Lieutenant Colonel replied respectfully.

"Too cautious." The Japanese Army Major General glanced around, "This is the position of our Kunisaki detachment. Is it possible that someone is spreading the conversation between you and me?"

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General Suematsu Shigeharu, your Excellency, Lieutenant General Suematsu Shigeharu requested from the headquarters to transfer our troops to attack the city. I'm afraid it has something to do with your usual attitude towards him. Therefore, as the Chief of Staff, I would like to ask the detachment to attack the city." Sir, please be more careful." The Army Lieutenant Colonel tactfully advised his boss that he didn't take the Army Lieutenant General seriously.

The contemptuous words just made were true on one's own ground, but if things go on like this, sooner or later they will reach the ears of the Lieutenant General of the Army. This time, they have used the military order of the North China Expeditionary Force to secretly arrange for the Kunisaki Detachment to join forces. There is no guarantee that they will not attack next time. Why don't you use your command authority to put some shoes on the Kunisaki detachment?

"Hmph! If Shigeji Suematsu can't attack us, will our Kunisaki detachment be treated like his useless 114th Division?" the Japanese Army Major General snorted coldly. "He's joining our Kunisaki detachment? When our detachment breaks through Matsue Castle today, I'll see if his old face of Suematsu Shigeharu is red or not."

After finishing speaking, he pointed to the residential houses a few hundred meters away and the Cangcheng city further away: "The Chinese's intention of deploying troops in these two places is nothing more than to buy time at the expense of troops. If we attack here according to conventional tactics, Even if the two positions were conquered, half a day would pass.

Especially that fortress. If you want to conquer it, if you don't have enough patience, you can only pay the price with the lives of enough imperial warriors.

But Shigeharu Matsushita was fooled by the Chinese. He actually used that fortress as an important breakthrough point, wasting artillery shells in vain and losing troops. What's wrong with me calling him stupid? "

"What does your Excellency, captain of that team, mean?" The Army Lieutenant Colonel had thoughts in his eyes.

He has also observed the location of Cangcheng Fortress. It is indeed extremely important. If they do not remove this nail hanging outside the city, they can cooperate with the firepower of Songjiang City to attack the enemies attacking the east and west walls. This is equivalent to the attacker being attacked on both sides. .

"These two locations seem to have obvious fortress targets and are easier to concentrate firepower on, but in fact they are not." The Army Major General pointed to the position distribution map that the staff spent an hour drawing. "The Chinese must have built a large number of anti-artillery fortifications inside. They would hide their troops in the caves when the artillery fire was fired. When our infantry attacked, they would then enter the position and fight fiercely with our army. Unless our army broke the cauldron and launched an infantry charge when the artillery fire was fired. , it will be too late for the Chinese to enter the position.”

"Your Excellency, the detachment leader, you must not do this. Our infantry and artillery coordination distance has only been 200 meters at the latest. No matter how close it is, unpredictable accidental injuries will inevitably occur." Lieutenant Colonel of the Army was shocked.

The so-called infantry and artillery coordination means that the artillery opens a path in front. As long as the enemy is not on the position, it will blow it into the sky. The infantry will follow the gradually extending artillery fire and wait for the enemy hiding in the anti-gun hole to get out and enter. Position defense, the attacking infantry has reached the 100-meter area, and it is almost ready to launch the final charge, an absolute weapon for siege and land siege.

But that is also a difficult technical job. It not only requires extremely high accuracy of artillery shooting, but more importantly, the coordination of infantry and artillery is excellent. Without long-term training and strong communication skills, it is absolutely impossible.

This thing is a double-edged sword. If you play it well, you will be invincible; if you play it poorly, the defender's infantry will have trenches and anti-cannon holes, and more or less places to hide, but the attacker will have nothing to ask for, 75 Forget about the caliber mountain cannon, the killing radius is only 10 meters, but what about the 105 howitzer? Once the artillery fire goes down, an infantry squad will have to go to the sky.

"Now that the moment of death has not come, I naturally will not use that tactic." The Army Major General glanced at his frightened subordinates, smiled at the corner of his mouth, and said in a very pretentious way: What are you thinking? !

It has to be said that although the troops have not yet been put on the battlefield to show their commanding skills, from this point of view alone, the Major General of the Kunisaki Detachment, Captain Kunizaki Zheng, is definitely the most accomplished general of the Japanese Tenth Army.

In the midst of chatting and laughing, the oars and oars flew into ashes and were annihilated! This is the tone that is needed.

Undoubtedly, as the Major General Brigade Commander of the Fifth Division, known as the 'Steel Army', Kunisaki is proud, but pride comes with the confidence to be proud.

The Fifth Division in Shanxi has only 70,000 men, but it is fighting against the more than 200,000 Chinese troops in Shanxi. It has the advantage and is within sight of conquering Jincheng and achieving the strategic goal of dispatching troops to North China.

And here, the Kunisaki detachment is a mixed brigade-level detachment formed from the 9th Brigade and the core. It has 6 infantry brigades, 7,000 well-trained infantry, and a reinforced artillery brigade equipped with 16 75 mountain guns, plus The two infantry regiments are each equipped with 4 mountain guns, 10 infantry guns, and 4 rapid-fire guns. The entire detachment has 48 artillery pieces of various calibers.

With these heavy firearms and infantry alone, Kunizaki was confident that he could defeat a Chinese infantry army in a frontal field battle.

Although the Chinese infantry army in front of him was hiding in the fortified city, the proud Major General Kunisaki Zheng did not take it too seriously.

He pointed his finger at the residential area outside Songjiang City on the topographic map and said, "The Chinese want to use this place to delay time, so I will fulfill their wish. First, take this place, and then surround the fortress on three sides."

"Hi!" The lieutenant colonel of the army nodded heavily.

Although street fighting is a headache, the thinking of this major general of the army is clear enough. First, take this residential area, and then concentrate troops to surround the fortress on three sides, which is much better than yesterday's attack from two sides by Shigeharu Suematsu.

"However, Qiu Shijun, please tell Major Sakio for me that I will only give him one hour. After one hour, I require that all the remaining enemies in this residential area be cleared to open up a way for my troops to conquer the fortifications of Songjiang City Wall." Kunisaki Zheng was full of confidence and stretched out an index finger.

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There is only one most prosperous street in Songjiang City.

Zhongshan Avenue.

Zhongshan Avenue, where three carriages can walk side by side, is extremely rare, not to mention in the small city of Songjiang, even in a metropolis like Songhu.

The prosperity of Zhongshan Avenue is not only due to its width, but also because there is a waterway from Songjiang City to the moat a few dozen meters behind it. All goods can be transported by large ships through the Huangpu River and then transferred to small boats to be transported directly to various shops by water.

The layout of this street is basically that there are shops next to the road, and warehouses and residential areas behind. The waterway next to it can be used to transport goods and clean up domestic garbage.

This is the layout left over from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In modern times, the road has been widened due to the increase in population.

The residential houses outside the city are basically spread out along this Zhongshan Avenue that runs through the east and west of Songjiang City.

If the Japanese army wants to reach Songjiang City directly, they can drive straight in along this street.

However, even the stupidest commander knows that if this seemingly safe long street is entered rashly without clearing the surrounding remaining enemies, it will be a very ugly death.

Standing on the long street with no defenses, would they be a living target for the Chinese hiding in various corners?

But if they wanted to capture this block, this long street was an area that they had to march into.

So, the task force, led by two Type 94 armored vehicles, an infantry squadron in the middle, and an artillery squad pushing two infantry guns at the end, marched proudly into Zhongshan Street.

On their two wings, 100 meters each, two more infantry squadrons entered the densely packed residential areas in the form of small teams.

Under the command of the proud and confident Kunisaki Shige, the Japanese infantry battalion commander in charge of this operation deployed three infantry squadrons in one go, plus 800 auxiliary arms.

In the first battle, heavy troops were deployed.