Rise From Eight Hundred

"Where are the 55th Infantry Regiment of the 18th Division? Where are they?" Ushijima Mitsuru asked almost dully.

"They should be attacked by the Chinese!" The Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel answered painfully.

As if to prove the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel's wit, a red light flashed in the distant sky, which should be the color of the shells exploding.

"Are the Chinese also taking action on the 18th Division side?" Ushijima Mitsuru asked again.

"Yes, Your Excellency, the Brigade Commander, Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadao of the 18th Division called and said that the Chinese on the opposite side rushed out of the position like crazy. The 18th Division is organizing a counterattack to drive those crazy Chinese back. They can't withdraw troops to assist the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade." The Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel completely shattered Ushijima Mitsuru's last hope.

Pain, not because he is the last imperial army in this area that can assist the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade.

But from the current battle situation, this Japanese Army Major General, who is definitely smart, deduced that he was deceived by the Chinese.

The Chinese were not fleeing in despair. They were marching with a purpose. They had been running for six consecutive days just to make him lose his vigilance. They had been using sharp single-soldier attacks just to make him angry and make him make mistakes.

So, the Chinese succeeded. They successfully transferred the infantry regiment guarding the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade. That was their goal. Only in this way could they attack the Heavy Artillery Brigade.

If the Heavy Artillery Brigade was destroyed, he, the initiator who promised conditions to Ushijima Sadao and asked for assistance, would become the first person responsible, although Ushijima Sadao could not escape either.

Without reading the original text sent by Ushijima Sadao, Ushijima Mitsuru also knew that the person more than ten kilometers away must hate him to death, and his tone would definitely not be as light as his chief of staff said.

However, he still had a chance to make amends.

The camping site of the 36th Infantry Brigade was only 12 kilometers away from the Heavy Artillery Brigade in a straight line. As long as they marched at full speed with light equipment, they might be able to reach the periphery in an hour.

The 7,000 or 8,000 men in the heavy artillery brigade are not pigs. Even if they were all pigs, the Chinese could not kill them all in an hour, and the Chinese would not necessarily win the final victory.

The fate of the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade, or the fate of Ushijima Mitsuru, is not entirely in the hands of the Chinese, but in the mobility of his 36th Infantry Brigade.

The Japanese infantrymen of the 36th Infantry Brigade may never have dreamed that there would be such a day when how fast they run could determine the official hat of their immediate superiors.

But now, this is the case.

"Order the 45th and 47th Infantry Regiments, all troops lightly equipped, assemble at the fastest speed towards the location of the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade. The troops that arrive on the battlefield first, no matter how they perform on the battlefield, I will personally award medals to their chief officers. The brigade will bring the artillery battalion and other troops to arrive later." Ushijima Mitsuru calmed down the pain in his heart and gave orders quickly. He bowed to the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel, which was very rare: "Mr. Seto, please."

"Your Excellency the Brigade Commander is too kind." Seeing the brigade commander who usually had everything under control, the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel knew that he was in pain, and sighed in his heart, but he bowed back. "My brigade must strive to move forward and wipe out these daring Chinese."

It is nearly 12 kilometers. If you still carry all the baggage and heavy firearms to march, especially in the dark, no matter how hard you run, it will take more than two hours.

Ushijima Mitsuru ordered his two infantry regiments to travel light, which is definitely the most correct choice according to common sense.

But after this battle, Ushijima Mitsuru was criticized by many military experts for this military order.

Because the 36th Infantry Brigade did not have a smooth road in front of it, but there was a blocking line built by more than a thousand Chinese troops in three hours. It was really difficult for light infantry to cross it.

To the extent that, in order to rescue the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade from breaking through the Chinese defense line, the 36th Infantry Brigade organized three waves of infantry battalion-level "Banzai" charges in half an hour, but they were all repelled.

The courage of the "strongest division on the surface" is unquestionable, but they lacked heavy weapons and suffered heavy losses in the first 40 minutes of the battle, which was unbearable to watch, even exceeding the battle under Matsue Castle.

Many Japanese military historians believe that as a major general-level commander with rich combat command experience, Ushijima Mitsuru should have guessed that the Chinese would put down the blocking troops, and he should not have made such a low-level mistake.

Perhaps only the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel Chief of Staff, who was bowed to by his brigade commander, understood the true meaning of that bow after the war.

Ushijima Mitsuru didn't make a low-level mistake at all. He had long thought that the Chinese would have a blocking force, but he had no other choice. If the infantrymen of the 36th Infantry Brigade still chose to march with various artillery, they might be able to defeat the blocking enemy at a very small cost, but the heavy artillery brigade would probably be out of luck.

For the sake of his official position, he had to make a gesture of rescuing the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade with all his strength, even if the 36th Infantry Brigade suffered heavy losses as a result.

Once he could break through the blocking, he would have a chance to make up for his mistakes.

Of course, if the 36th Brigade suffered heavy losses and still failed to save the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade, the heavy losses would have little to do with him.

The Chinese commander on the opposite side had obviously expected Ushijima Mitsuru to make such a choice, so he chose to block the force of more than a thousand infantrymen, which was the strongest force he could reserve from the attack sequence.

This is the mutual calculation and cruelty on the battlefield.

The lives of soldiers can only be the cheapest consumables on this chessboard where the pieces of death have already fallen, including him, who personally served as the supreme commander of the 36th Infantry Brigade.

The Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel who figured it all out was in a cold sweat, and was extremely glad that he survived the brutal blocking battle.

It was really an extremely brutal battle, even worse than the battle under Songjiang City.

But the first shot was naturally fired on the battlefield where the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade was located.

After dealing with the Japanese patrol team, accompanied by the gentle chirping of autumn insects, more than 80 infantrymen bent over and trotted from a distance to meet Tang Dao and others.

After continuous fighting, the Sihang Battalion lost another 16 people, 5 people were sacrificed, and 11 people were seriously injured. All the wounded who were unable to move were required to stand by in the rear. Only three wounded like Gu Xishui who did not affect the movement and shooting were allowed to return to the team.

The Sihang Battalion, which only had more than 80 people, will serve as the vanguard of the entire army this time.

As the vanguard, the mission of the Sihang Battalion was to break through the infantry defense position of the Japanese army deployed 300 meters in front of the heavy artillery position at the fastest speed.

But that was by no means an easy task.

Although an entire infantry regiment was transferred away, a heavy artillery brigade must have its own infantry squadron, and perhaps the number of people would never be too large. However, according to previous reconnaissance, the Japanese commander was very cautious, and it was hard to guarantee that he would not temporarily rush into the infantry with artillery to supplement the infantry strength of the defensive position.

In order to break into the Japanese defense position in a very short time and tear open a breakthrough for the subsequent army, the strongest army in the advance group must be used.

The Sihang Battalion, which once resisted the attack of a Japanese infantry regiment in the Sihang Battle, said that they were the strongest army in the current area. Even the security battalion and the 67th Army Headquarters Guard Battalion, which had experienced the Battle of Songjiang, would not object.

Especially their battalion commander, named Tang Dao!

The deputy battalion commander, named Lei Xiong!

The first company commander, named Leng Feng!

The three commanders were all fully armed and at the forefront of the attack formation.

All the orders were issued before entering the battlefield, and the commanders were no longer as important as imagined.

Now they were not only commanders but also soldiers. They would lead their brothers to pry open the not-so-hard shell of the Japanese 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade, and then kill all the invaders in it.

"Donata?" A Japanese sentry in the trench might have noticed something was wrong, but he couldn't be sure. After he asked softly, the searchlight beam behind the trench quickly moved over.

On the grass, what caught the eyes of the Japanese were dozens of deep blues crawling on the ground.

"Enemy..." The Japanese sentry's heart-breaking shout was still spinning in his throat, and he was shot and fell into the trench.

"Bang!" Yang Xiaoshan shot the Japanese sentry, and Niu Er over there also decisively shot and extinguished the bright searchlight of the Japanese.

"Attack!" accompanied by the roar of the Tang Dao, which had crawled to more than 30 meters from the Japanese trench.

The two infantry platoons of the Fourth Battalion in the rear, led by Leng Feng and Li Jiujin, threw grenades into the Japanese trench in two rounds.

Behind them on both wings, Cheng Tieshou also led two fire support squads, set up two MG34 machine guns and four machine guns, and aimed at the Japanese trench that was filled with smoke.

The awakened Japanese...

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