Rise From Eight Hundred

The Chinese did not follow the Japanese Army Lieutenant General's imagination.

Of course, his subordinates were not obedient children who obeyed him in everything.

Just like the Major General of the 36th Brigade of the 6th Division, Mitsuru Ushijima, who was at the forefront.

The Japanese Army Major General certainly cherished the lives of his soldiers, but it also depended on the time.

Sometimes, the lives of soldiers can be sacrificed.

For the empire and for himself.

Just a bunch of abandoned soldiers, he was left waiting for the main force to arrive on the river bank, and he could do nothing but watch the main force of the Chinese escape?

This was obviously very difficult for a Japanese Army Major General with enough ambition and talent to accept.

He had to do something to prove himself.

Mitsuru Ushijima was indeed the guy who could make the fully armed cowboys cry on the small island of Okinawa in the future.

He was flexible and obeyed the military orders of Heisuke Yanagawa and improved the military orders on his own.

He wanted to test the Chinese people's determination and force deployment for the main force to defend the river bank. After an hour of preparation, he used the wooden boats found on the shore and the kayaks carried by the engineering troops as the main means of transportation, and began to cross the river from four shallows separated by more than 1,000 meters.

At the same time, the brigade headquarters concentrated 3 heavy machine gun squadrons, a total of 36 heavy machine guns, 12 infantry guns and 4 mountain guns to provide fire cover for the crossing troops.

Each crossing force had a force of up to one infantry squadron, and a total of nearly 1,000 infantrymen were deployed in an infantry battalion.

This level of river crossing operation is by no means small in scale. If the pawns abandoned by the Chinese are not strong enough, the four infantry battalions of the 36th Infantry Brigade that are still eyeing the river bank will all cross the river, defeat the Chinese abandoned pawns and continue to pursue frantically, and will never give the Chinese main force any chance to breathe.

It was certainly risky to test the strength of the troops and firepower on the other side of the river with the lives of nearly a thousand infantrymen, but it was definitely worth it for Ushijima Mitsuru, who was in urgent need of defeating his rivals.

Under Matsue Castle, although Sakai Tokutaro's 13th Infantry Brigade suffered heavy losses, that was because they were the main attackers and had also entered the city. Even the colonel commander of the ace 13th Infantry Regiment under his command died in battle.

The Japanese Army, which advocates the spirit of Bushido, may appreciate this fearlessness more and ignore the fact that thousands of its subordinates died in battle.

Just like Nogi Maresuke, who was so stupid that he ordered tens of thousands of people to carry out a death charge, he eventually won the honor of "Military God" because of his spirit of fighting to the death with his coffin.

Japan is itself an extremely extreme nation.

Tani Hisao has been dead for two days, and the Sixth Division is still being led by Yanagawa Heisuke, the commander of the Tenth Army. This shows that the bigwigs in the headquarters are still playing games with each other. Any outstanding performance of him and Sakai Tokutaro in the war may add a weight to the hearts of the bigwigs, causing the balance in the stalemate to tilt towards him.

Therefore, although he obeyed Yanagawa Heisuke's military order and did not use all his strength to cross the river to fight, he still took out nearly a thousand people and half of the brigade's heavy firepower to fight.

If the Chinese only had one infantry regiment or even one infantry brigade, the Japanese Army Major General who had tested the reality would also revise the battle plan, and thousands of people under his command would attack with all their strength.

The Chinese heavy weapons had been damaged a lot when they were defending the city, and it was even more impossible to leave the few artillery at the end on the way to escape. Facing a group of light infantry, even if his 36th Infantry Brigade did not have more howitzers now, the 92 infantry guns and 41 mountain guns alone were enough to crush them.

The somewhat arrogant Ushijima Mitsuru has almost calculated everything.

The only thing they missed was that this group of Chinese had just beaten the Japanese Navy's fleet to a pulp.

Of course, that was also the result of the Navy not informing their 10th Army of the specific losses, otherwise, Ushijima Mitsuru would not have acted rashly.

Unfortunately, the contradictions between the Japanese Navy and the Army over the years destined them not to cooperate sincerely, even in war.

Dozens of kayaks and a dozen wooden boats carried hundreds of Japanese soldiers to the other side covered by bushes, and hundreds of people in waist-deep water were moving forward behind the boats with guns.

The heavy machine guns on the river bank did not wait for the other side to open fire, and began to fire at the area about 300 meters deep on the other side of the river 300 meters away.

At each crossing point, about 20 grenade launchers were concentrated, regardless of whether they saw people or not, they just bombarded the river bank.

That was to suppress the enemy's firepower by doing something like a blind cat catching a dead mouse, and also to hope that the thick smoke would blur the enemy's sight and provide sufficient cover for those who were still crossing the river.

The infantry guns and mountain guns in the rear were not in a hurry to fire, because they were waiting for the Chinese's valuable heavy firepower points.

The terrible heavy machine gun bullets were like raindrops, hitting the branches and leaves in the bushes.

Rows of grenade launchers grenades were like plows, blowing up the bushes and soil everywhere. Within a range of more than 100 meters along the river, the Japanese army, who were full of energy, used infantry light firearms to ravage the area.

Even so, there was still no artillery added.

Zhuang Shisan, who was hiding in a simple trench on a mound 400 meters away from the river bank, couldn't help but grin: "Wow, the Japanese really spared no expense! Fortunately, the battalion commander strictly ordered the troops' trenches to be 300 meters away from the river bank. Otherwise, with this wave of bullets and grenades, the Japanese would have been able to catch a few people."

'Damn it, showing off again.' The army major who was lying with Zhuang Shisan and holding a telescope couldn't help but curl his lips.

Tang Dao is the highest commander of the advance group, but the headquarters did not give him the position of the head of the group. He was only allowed to take the position of deputy director of the staff department. Therefore, most of the units of the advance group are called Tang Changchang. Only the four-line battalion and the security battalion can call Tang Dao the battalion commander.

To put it bluntly, anyone who calls Tang Dao the battalion commander is a direct descendant.

Seeing the speechless face of the army major, Zhuang Shisan felt so comfortable.

The army major is the battalion commander of the 67th Army's direct guard battalion. Although his position and rank are similar to those of the security battalion commander like Zhuang Shisan, it is obvious that the regular army can look down on the security army? The guard battalion commanders who met Zhuang Shisan several times in Songjiang City never looked at him straight. Zhuang Shisan, who was born in Jianghu and paid attention to his face, how could he not feel aggrieved.

Shouldn't he take the opportunity to show off now? The purpose of showing off the direct lineage is to tell this major that you look down on me, but I am now the boss's confidant, and your kid is a miscellaneous brand.

Of course, Zhuang Shisan had no intention of declaring leadership, although the Army Major was ordered to bring a guard company to support him.

At the four crossing points selected by the Japanese army, Tang Dao used the Sixing Battalion and the Guard Battalion as the main defense forces, and then dispatched four guard companies from the three guard battalions to assist.

It was not because the combat effectiveness of the Guard Battalion was weaker, but the Guard Battalion troops were basically mainly short guns, with strong close-range firepower, but the long-range firepower was far from that of the field troops such as the Guard Battalion.

At the beginning, the Army Major who entered the position with more than 100 guards was very dissatisfied with Zhuang Shisan's "fear of war" behavior of placing all troops 400 meters away. Even if Tang Dao ordered not to enter 300 meters, this guy ran directly to 400 meters away. Isn't he too afraid of death?

At such a distance, let alone the Mauser pistols, submachine guns and Liao-made Thirteen equipped by their guard company, even the Type 38 rifles and Zhongzheng rifles equipped by the soldiers of the Guard Battalion can only fight lonely.

What's the point of defense!

But how to say it? From the perspective of reducing casualties, Zhuang Shisan is really amazing.

The machine guns and grenades that the Japanese had placed on the river bank 300 meters deep only hit the air, and the soldiers were hiding in the trenches in the bushes and watching the show easily.

The reason why it was easy was not only because they were not attacked, but also because the infantry were not the main force in this round of battle, they were just in reserve.

Only when the Japanese army crossed the river on a large scale would they enter the front-line positions.

And if the Japanese army was not large in scale.

The main force to attack the Japanese army crossing the river this time was machine guns and heavy machine guns.

The big guys that were originally used to shoot planes were now in fortifications in a higher mound 800 meters away, looking down at the river.

Just waiting for the Japanese to cross the river and attack them halfway!