Rise From Eight Hundred

Crazy artillery fire once again broke out in residential areas.

As the commander of Cangcheng, Tang Dao and the two commanders of Songjiang City both set their sights on the outside of the city, which was heavily focused on by the enemies of Xicheng with artillery fire.

They all knew that the Japanese army must have suffered a big loss in this residential area, so they used dozens of artillery fire to retaliate against the residential areas with almost no fortifications.

In addition to Tang Dao knowing the difficulty of street fighting and predicting that the Japanese army would be blocked here, the two commanders received an unexpected surprise.

Following Tang Dao's suggestion, the security team, which was not very effective, was thrown out. For the two of them, the 2,000 people were just abandoned soldiers. Unexpectedly, this abandoned soldier allowed the Japanese army to attack twice in a row and have not been able to advance even an inch. .

Commendations must be earned. In order to encourage morale, Lieutenant General Wu, the top commander in Songjiang City, issued a commendation order to the security regiment and the entire Cangcheng position. Each of the two defenders was given five pieces of gold.

Those who are alive will be paid by the superiors directly under them after they return to the city, and those who died in the battle will be added to the pension. The three major battalion commanders of the security regiment will all be promoted to one level to lieutenant colonel. The officers and soldiers who died in the battle will also be promoted to one level. Pensions are paid according to military rank after promotion;

In the Cangcheng position, all officers and soldiers who died in battle were promoted to the first-level military rank, and were recorded and reported to the theater headquarters.

The reason why the two infantry corps commanders dared to issue promotion awards like this was because they knew that the theater headquarters would not refuse. If you want a horse to run but not eat grass, is there such a beautiful thing in the world?

Except for the two army lieutenant generals with the rank of general, they dare not make a promise. With the rank of general and below, both of them can make a decision.

Although on this kind of battlefield, whether it is a gold reward or a promotion to a military rank, it is not of great significance, but it is still a kind of recognition from the commander's department. After being transmitted to the two positions through phone calls and telegrams, the morale is still high. few.

On the other hand, the Japanese army was much more frustrated.

For Major General Kunizaki Zheng, the leader of the Kunizaki detachment with an ugly face, the rising fireballs hundreds of meters away actually made him gradually calm down.

The defeat in the first battle made him realize that this battlefield was completely different from previous field battles and city offensive and defensive battles.

This was a brand new battlefield for him and his men. If he still wanted to win quickly as before, he would have to pay an unimaginable price.

But for this Japanese major general, his goal in coming to southeast China was not to conquer this small city. Like Yanagawa Heisuke, he hoped to keep hundreds of thousands of Chinese elite troops in Songhu, and then have the opportunity to go south and attack directly. The capital of China and captured it, thus establishing an unparalleled feat.

If his soldiers were killed under this city, what would he do to realize his dream?

Kunizaki is indeed an experienced general on the battlefield. Although he is very proud and confident, he will never blindly stand on his pride and look down on his opponents.

This failure made him realize that he had made a mistake.

It's not that he underestimated the enemy, but that he overestimated the combat capabilities of his officers and soldiers on the new battlefield.

The Chinese obviously need to be more adaptable to this battlefield.

The calmness of the Japanese major general undoubtedly allowed more Japanese soldiers to survive.

You must know that after the era of cold weapons entered the era of hot weapons, city and street fighting has been the most brutal and helpless war for both the offensive and defensive sides since its birth.

The most classic example of horrific urban street fighting is the Battle of Stalingrad that broke out a few years later. The meat grinder-like battlefield that turned the entire city into rubble cost the lives of nearly 2 million soldiers from both sides in eight months. Swallowed up.

In China, the famous defense battle of Hengyang took 50 days. The 20,000 Chinese defenders also directly defeated the 100,000-strong Japanese army at the cost of 15,000 deaths.

It can be said that in any urban street battle, as long as the defender's will is strong enough, even if the attacker has an absolute advantage, he will pay an unimaginable price.

Kunizaki was stunned that as long as he did not want to waste his troops and continue to invest, he could only wait for the last batch of heavy artillery brigades to disembark to arrive on the battlefield. That was the trump card of the Tenth Army.

The Sixth Heavy Artillery Brigade, which is almost equivalent to a strategic force, has 30 Taisho 7-type 150mm caliber heavy cannons, 20 90-type 240-caliber heavy cannons, and 10 96-type 305 heavy howitzers.

The only certainty about these heavy artillery that can make people's hair stand on end just by hearing the caliber is that their mobility is too poor. They need to be towed by heavy trucks and have high requirements on roads. China's road conditions are so poor, otherwise it would be terrible. It’s not like we haven’t reached the battlefield yet.

The reason why the Sixth Division on the East City side has only made a tentative attack so far and has not launched a fierce attack yet is because it is probably unwilling to suffer too much loss under Songjiang City and is waiting for the arrival of the heavy artillery brigade.

However, the proud Japanese Army Major General misjudged one thing after all.

When he gave up the idea of ​​a quick victory and sent his changed tactics to Lieutenant General Suematsu Shigeharu, the nominal commander of the 114th Division, he received such a reply.

"Please don't forget your duty, and just work hard to implement the tactics that Shangfeng has already decided. I hope you will return with a great victory."

Suematsu Shigeharu's tone was very polite, but even more cold.

The subtext is nothing more than, now I am the boss, you are the younger brother, if you say anything, it will be over.

What does it mean to wear small shoes? This is it.

And he didn't hesitate to give Kunisaki a hard time. Others might be afraid of Itagaki Seishiro, a famous general in the Japanese Army, but with the support of the fat man, Suematsu Shigeharu really didn't fear him.

Especially since Kunisaki Shige had never given him face since he was assigned to his command, if Suematsu Shigeharu didn't give him some eye drops at this time, it would be a waste of his rank of lieutenant general in the army.

Who can get the position of lieutenant general in the army is easy to mess with?

Kunisaki Shige could certainly disobey the military order, but that would be a big risk. Once Suematsu Shigeharu lost face and handed over the telegrams between the two armies to the army headquarters, even Itagaki Seishiro couldn't save him.

For his own future, Kunisaki Shige could only swallow his anger even though he knew that Suematsu Shigeharu was using his command power to give him a hard time.

This is the reason why people have to bow their heads under the eaves.

Not only did Suematsu Shigeharu send a telegram to Kunisaki Shige telling him to attack, but Yanagawa Heisuke on the bank of the Huangpu River also sent Kunisaki Shige an order not to stop attacking the west city of Songjiang.

The reason is very simple. The Sixth Division is responsible for attacking the southeastern and eastern defense lines of Songjiang. It seems that it can directly face the city defense, but the Songjiang city wall is not comparable to the small Cangcheng City. There is also a 20-meter-wide moat. Without the help of the heavy artillery brigade that can blow open the city wall, the Sixth Division must pay a painful enough price.

As for the West City, although the two nails are very hard, they are not so dependent on heavy artillery. They can be solved with a firm enough battle.

After clearing the Chinese positions outside the West City, the heavy artillery brigade should be able to cross the Huangpu River. At that time, with a three-sided attack, Songjiang City may be able to fall in one go.

Moreover, as the highest commander of the Tenth Army, Yanagawa Heisuke obviously looks at the battlefield from a longer-term perspective than Kunisaki Shige.

From a global perspective, the more tenacious the enemy is, the more it must be defeated, which is more conducive to undermining the enemy's confidence and morale.

This is like a fight between two people. Defeating the opponent's most proud place can quickly disintegrate the enemy's fighting spirit and eventually win the final victory.

Even for Yanagawa Heisuke, he was actually very happy that the Chinese were fighting outside the city, so that before launching the final general attack, he could hang up all the bodies of the Chinese killed outside the city with wood one by one, fully demonstrating the bravery of the Imperial Army, and making the Chinese in the city lose their fighting power because of fear.

In the past, he won the victory in his own way under the city of Jinling, and it was precisely by using inhumane killings to improve the so-called morale of the soldiers of the Tenth Army.

Responding to the enemy's tenacity with more crazy attacks was the answer given by the highest commander of the Tenth Army.

No matter how helpless Kunisaki was, he could only obey the order.

The residential area called the dark block by the 114th Division, even if he had hit a bump, he still had to go.

However, the previous fighting method has been proven to be unacceptable, unless he is willing to invest two infantry battalions at once.

But investing a large number of troops is not a good choice. The Chinese in the city have a large number of mortars. If they want to burn themselves to death and fire while the two sides are fighting, the losses will be too heavy.

Somewhat helpless, Kunisaki Zheng can only look at Cangcheng. If he can conquer there first, and then use it as a base to slowly advance to the block, will it be better?