November 7th can definitely be called the disaster day of the Guoqi Detachment.

The prepared siege battle has not yet begun! The Guoqi Detachment killed more than 1,200 officers and soldiers and injured more than 900. Almost two infantry brigades can be removed from the detachment sequence.

How many infantry are there in total in the Guoqi Detachment? Aside from the auxiliary troops such as cavalry, artillery, labor, and luggage, and together with the two infantry squadrons directly under the Guoqi Detachment, there are only 6 infantry brigades with a total of 7,000 people.

This kind of nearly 30% casualties ratio is placed in ordinary troops, which basically means that the troops can be repaired and supplemented if they lose their combat effectiveness.

Not to mention that in the end, Kwanzaki, who had finally seen the number of casualties sent by various infantry corps, was stunned for a long time without saying anything. Even Shigeji Momatsu, the commander of the 114th Division, did not speak for a long time.

What a bad guy! The city hasn't started attacking yet! The Guoqi Detachment was half-disabled. When the entire army really attacked the city, the information said that Songjiang City, which had an infantry force, would it cause to the Imperial Army?

Shigeji Momori was furrowed just by thinking about it.

Yanagawa Heisuke, who was in the 10th Army Command on the south bank of the Huangpu River, couldn't help but feel hurt when he saw this number.

He was the commander of nearly 100,000 troops. The seemingly vast army made the 500,000 Chinese army in western Shanghai frightened and were desperately fleeing, but this did not mean that he could be ruined by these prodigal sons!

The 114th Division and the Guoqi Detachment lost nearly 5,000 people in just two days, nearly two infantry regiments. If he had a few more days like this, he would probably not have to worry about the huge losses.

Because the Army Base Camp might have asked him to pack up his bags and get out of here.

Perhaps, after seeing the battle report from the Kyosaki Detachment, Tani Suo was not terrified of the Chinese strength or had no headaches. Instead, he threw a sentence with disdain: "The so-called steel army is nothing but a sarcastic!"

Tani Suo is certainly qualified to show contempt for the Kanzaki Detachment.

When encountering enemy fortresses, firm attacks are essential qualities for a strong army. The execution ability of the Guoqi Detachment in this regard is as if it were the so-called "steel army".

However, after paying terrible casualties, they still cannot make progress, that is, their combat effectiveness is not good.

You should know that the 10th Army had a position of only tens of thousands of meters in a radius of dozens of artillery to support it. Even lieutenant generals like Yanagawa Heisuke sent a call to the Colonel-class captain who was staying in the center of the Huangpu River to express his gratitude, and thus received support from 6 127mm naval guns.

Not to mention the shells thrown last night, during the day alone, dozens of artillery shells burst out 3,000 shells on the not-so-large position. That was 20 square meters and the density of a shell with a killing radius of more than ten meters was dropped.

Such terrible fire support, let alone a small position surrounded by the city wall, even Songjiang City should have been taken down!

As a result, the Guoqi Detachment was still timid and actually chose to truce and wait for the arrival of the heavy artillery brigade. What qualifications are there for such generals and soldiers to call them the "steel army"?

Sitting at the field command center 1,500 meters away from Songjiang City, Tansuo looked at the sand table on the table that the staff spent half a day building.

The battle in the west city was lively, and the Sixth Division, as the main force of the siege, naturally would not have done nothing.

In the past half a day, the two infantry brigades responsible for the two walls dispatched 10 infantry squadrons and nearly 2,000 infantrymen to continuously test the firepower points that appeared on both walls.

The staff of the infantry corps who had been arriving at the trench only 300 meters away from the city wall marked the light and heavy firepower points buried inside and above the city wall one by one.

Tani Shou is not tall, thin, and there is no trace of Japanese upper class in order to look "trendy" and some civilized beards with a tuft of hair. She wore glasses, and from the outside she looked ordinary like a teacher.

But only those who know this will know that under this ordinary appearance, there is an extremely tough and vicious heart hidden.

He was said to be tenacious because he was poor and had no backstage, but he was promoted from an ordinary second lieutenant to a lieutenant general in the army for more than 30 years. He served in idle positions several times, but he turned against the enemy several times and served as chief of staff of the division and brigade commander and other important positions, until he took office two years ago as the commander of the 6th Division.

Without a tenacious personality, it is definitely difficult to achieve such a thing.

It is said that he is vicious because when he was an instructor at the Army University, he had countless propaganda tactical ideas: plunder, robbers, and bows during combat are important means to maintain morale, ordinary people only think that he is a means to fight for the position, but when he led his army to the battlefield in North China, everyone realized that he really thought so and did the same.

If it is said that Seishiro Itagaki who wants to deprive his enemy of his life to shock his opponent is a butcher and a devil, then this teacher who looks unstable is probably a hellhound, despising life more than a butcher and a devil.

Tani Shouo has cruelty that Chinese people cannot imagine, but it does not mean that he is reckless and stupid. This instructor who has served as an army university is a typical academic school with meticulous thoughts and rigorous military management methods.

He would not fight unprepared battles. Even though the commander of the 10th Army, Heisuke Yanagawa, had already issued an order to attack, he did not rashly drive more than 20,000 troops to attack the west and south walls for military merit.

The moat, which is thirty meters wide and the city wall as high as five or six meters high, both made him judge that without the assistance of the heavy artillery brigade, he would have to pay thousands of casualties to conquer the Chinese positions.

So, he was waiting and constantly testing, just like a wolf pack that discovered a herd of bison in the wilderness, constantly looking for the flaws of the bison, and just waiting for the time to attack the prey.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Once the attack is deadly, it will be deadly. If the prey does not fall down and be torn apart, the wolves will not stop attacking.

For the relatively calm Tanisuo and the 6th Division, the KUAzaki Detachment and the 114th Division, which were bloody in the two positions in Kura Castle and the neighborhood, did seem very LOW.

Lieutenant General Tanisuo expressed his contempt for the two, which was confident enough.

Of course, the Guoqi Detachment, which made such a great sacrifice, still gained something after all.

First, not long after the afternoon, they occupied Cangcheng.

However, it was not that they wiped out the defenders of Cangcheng, but that the defenders of Cangcheng took the initiative to evacuate.

Half an hour after discovering that the Guoqi Detachment had stopped attacking, Tang Dao judged that the Japanese army was probably not really beaten and afraid to attack, but they were just waiting for support because of too much casualties.

The army of the three divisions is already at the city, and they still need to wait for support, so only their Army Air Force or Heavy Artillery Brigade.

The bombs hung on the plane weigh hundreds or even hundreds of pounds. Once that thing is thrown into Cangcheng, the underground bunker that can withstand 75 or even 105 howitzers will become a tragedy.

The heavy artillery brigades with a caliber of more than 200 caliber that would definitely appear in Tang Dao's memory are by no means able to resist by the bullet-proof holes dug out in a hurry.

Instead of waiting to be buried by Japanese bombs and heavy artillery, it is better to preserve your vitality for the time being.

Although the Guardian City War did not complete the originally expected combat mission between the east and west cities as a nail, it also gave the Japanese army a headache and stuffed the Japanese army's arrogance back.

At the same time, it also annihilated a large number of Japanese forces. Although it suffered a lot of losses, in this battle, any commander would be happy from the war loss ratio of both sides.

War is about industrial strength and wealth.

But on the battlefield, there is only exchange.

Exchange life.

Regardless of whether it is affordable or not, the other party will pay a greater price at the smallest price. This is what the commander on the battlefield needs to do.

Therefore, Tang Dao, who was judging the situation, generated power to the Songjiang Command and requested the withdrawal of Cangcheng.

Several generals in the Songjiang Command also breathed a sigh of relief and finally failed to wipe out the entire defender of Cangcheng.

For these generals who have experienced countless wars, they are not afraid of great losses.

No matter how great the losses of the troops are, as long as China still exists, they can replenish their troops and rebuild them.

But to rebuild any unit, it must have seeds. If there is seed, it must be energy and spirit, and it can continue its combat effectiveness. If there is no seed, the infantry battalion of the 677th Regiment, the guard company of the colonel commander, and one-fifth of the troops that the 43rd Army came here will be gone.

However, it is not that easy to retreat.

Guozaki, who was beaten to the point of being covered in a head, stared at Kura Castle. Once there was any abnormal movement, either a gun or a cannon, he would never let the defenders run away easily.

"I need the entire army's artillery to obey my command!" Tang Dao made such an excessive request.

There is only one person with that kind of power, and Lieutenant General Guo, who is the deputy commander-in-chief, will not succeed.

But General Wu fought hard in order for Tang Dao and others to return to the city. Without hesitation, he issued a military order to obey Tang Dao's command alone.

Then, it turned into a scout again, allowing all the Japanese infantrymen who were eyeing the surveillance of the Cangcheng garrison to appreciate the advantages of artillery fire.

They kept sending back the coordinates in the city, allowing several groups of artillery to accurately throw shells to the Japanese infantry as if they had eyes, and they exploded to flee in a panic.

The Tang Dao Bar held several batches of the remaining part of Cangcheng, which had less than 200 people. Each batch carried a part of the seriously injured, and all wore Japanese uniforms. When artillery fire covered the Japanese army, they retreated according to the retreat route that had been formulated long ago.

The Japanese army in panic may have seen a few yellowish figures appearing in the block, but at that time everyone was panic to avoid artillery fire. How could they pay more attention to other things?

When the Japanese army figured out that it was wrong, they no longer used artillery fire to counter-suppress the Chinese artillery positions in the city with little purpose, but instead implemented artillery fire blockade on the houses behind Cangcheng, the defenders of Cangcheng had almost withdrawn.

Tang Dao, with Peng Chong and more than 20 guards, was the last group of evacuated. The Japanese army, who found something was wrong, chased them fiercely at the risk of being bombarded, but Tang Dao and others, who were carrying submachine guns, taught them a good lesson in the block, what is the real street fighting.

The two Japanese infantry squads that were pursuing were almost destroyed by all submachine guns. The 32 consecutive firepower was much stronger than the 20-shot muffle guns of the Security Corps.

Tang Dao alone reaped the lives of more than a dozen Japanese troops in the counterattack during the retreat.
Chapter completed!