Chapter 399 Niushima's stubbornness
The Chinese did not follow the imagination of the Japanese Army Lieutenant General.
Of course, his good baby is not his subordinate.
Just like the Major General Brigade Commander of the 36th Brigade of the 6th Division, located at the forefront, Man Ushimajima.
Although the Japanese Army Major General Gu Xi's life of the soldiers under his command, it depends on when.
Sometimes, the lives of soldiers can be sacrificed.
For the Empire and for himself.
Just a bunch of abandoned soldiers, he was asked to wait on the river bank for the main force to arrive, and he could not do anything to watch the main force of the Chinese escape?
This is obviously extremely difficult for a Japanese Army Major General with sufficient ambitions and talent.
He had to do something to prove himself.
Ushima Mitsuki is worthy of being the guy who can beat the fully armed cowboys to cry on Okinawa Island in the future.
He was flexible and abide by Yanagawa Heisuke's military orders and independently improved the military orders.
He wanted to test the Chinese people's determination to defend the river bank and their troops for the main force. After an hour of preparation, he used wooden boats found on the shore and kayaks carried by the engineers as the main means of transportation, and began to cross the river from the four shallows with a spacing of more than 1,000 meters.
At the same time, the brigade headquarters concentrated three heavy machine gun squadrons, with a total of 36 heavy machine guns, and 12 infantry artillery and 4 mountain artillery to provide fire cover to the crossing forces.
Each crossing force has a force of up to one infantry squadron, and a total of one infantry brigade of nearly a thousand infantrymen were deployed.
The scale of crossing rivers at such a level is absolutely not small. If the pawns abandoned by the Chinese were not strong enough, the four infantry brigades who were still eyeing the river on the bank of the river would all cross the river, defeat the abandoned Chinese sons and continue to pursue them frantically, and would never give the Chinese main force a chance to breathe.
It is certainly a bit risky to take the lives of nearly a thousand infantry to test the strength and firepower on the other side of the river, but it is definitely worth it for Niushima Manta, who urgently needs to defeat his competitor at this time.
Although Sakai Tokutaro's 13th Infantry Brigade suffered heavy losses at the foot of the city, it was because they were the main attackers and had also attacked the city. The 13th Infantry Regiment under his command even died in the battle.
The Japanese Army, which advocates the spirit of Bushido, may appreciate this fearlessness more and ignore the fact that thousands of people died in battle under its command.
Just like Nogi Hinomi who was so stupid that he ordered tens of thousands of people to charge for death, he finally won the honor of the "God of War" because of his spirit of carrying a coffin to fight to the death.
Japan itself is an extremely extreme nation.
Tani Suo has been burying for two days. The Sixth Division is still represented by the commander of the 10th Army, Yanagawa Heisuke, the commander of the 10th Army, which shows that the bosses in the base camp are still playing against each other. Any outstanding performance of him and Tokutaro Sakai in the war may be able to add a weight to the bosses' hearts, causing the stalemate balance to tilt towards him.
Therefore, although he abides by Yanagawa Heisuke's military order, he did not use all his strength to cross the river to fight, he still took out nearly a thousand people and half of the heavy firepower of the brigade to fight.
If the Chinese had only one infantry regiment, even if it was an infantry brigade, the major general of the Japanese Army who had tested the truth and reality would also revise the combat plan, and thousands of people under his command would attack with all their might.
The heavy firearms of the Chinese were already damaged when they were struggling to defend the city. It was even more impossible to throw the few artillery at the end on the way to escape. Facing a group of light infantry, even if his 36th Infantry Brigade does not have more howitzers now. Just relying on 92 infantry cannons and 41 mountain cannons is enough to crush them.
Some arrogant Niushima Man has almost done everything.
Only one thing was missing: this group of Chinese people had just beaten the Japanese Navy's fleet to the ground for teething.
Of course, that was also the result of the Navy not informing them of the 10th Army of specific damages. Otherwise, Niujima Man would not have acted rashly.
Unfortunately, the conflicts formed by the Japanese navy and army for many years are destined to not cooperate sincerely, even in war.
Dozens of kayaks and dozens of wooden boats wearing hundreds of Japanese troops rowed to the opposite shore covered by bushes, and hundreds of people were walking behind the ship with guns in the waist-deep water.
The heavy machine guns on the river bank began to shoot at an area of more than 300 meters deep on the other side of the river, without waiting for the other side of the river to open fire.
At each river crossing point, about 20 grenade cans are concentrated. No matter whether you see a figure or not, you will bang wildly on the river bank.
That is not only the hope of trying to suppress the firepower of the blind cats, but also the hope that the strong smoke of gunpowder blurs the enemy's vision and gives enough cover to those who are still crossing the river.
The infantry artillery and mountain artillery in the rear were not in a hurry to open fire, which was a valuable heavy firepower point waiting for the Chinese people.
The terrible heavy machine gun bullets were like raindrops, causing branches and leaves to fly in the bushes.
Rows of grenade launchers were like plowers, blowing shrubs and soil everywhere. Within more than 100 meters along the river, the Japanese infantry light firearms were ravaged by the heavy-hearted Japanese infantry light firearms.
Just this, there is still no result of artillery joining.
Zhuang Shisan, who was hiding in a simple trench on the mound 400 meters away from the river bank, couldn't help but grin: "Be good, the Japanese are really willing to pay for it! Fortunately, the battalion commander strictly ordered the troops' trenches to be 300 meters away from the river bank. Otherwise, just this wave of bullets and grenades would have really scared the Japanese."
‘Damn it, I’m 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 was the supreme commander of the Advance Regiment, but the command center did not give him the position of regiment commander, but only asked him to take charge of the position of deputy director of the General Staff Department. Therefore, most of the departments of the Advance Regiment were called Chief Tang, and only the four camps and the security battalion could be called the battalion commander.
To put it bluntly, anyone who calls Tang Dao the battalion commander is the direct line.
Seeing that the Army Major was speechless, Master Zhuang's heart was so comfortable that he felt.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The Army Major is the battalion commander of the 67th Army's direct security battalion. Although his position is similar to that of the security battalion like Zhuang Shisan, it is obvious that the regular army looks down on the security army? The guard battalion commander who has met Zhuang Shisan several times in Songjiang City and Zhuang Shisan has never looked at him with a look. How could Zhuang Shisan, who came from a martial arts background and valued face, not secretly feel aggrieved?
Don’t you have to seize the opportunity to show off your sarcasm? The purpose of showing off your own line is to tell this major that you will look down on me, but I am now the boss’s confidant, and your baby is a miscellaneous brand.
Of course, Zhuang Shisan did not mean to declare leadership, although the army major was ordered to bring a guard company to support him.
The four river crossing points selected by the Japanese army, Tangdao, were mainly defensive troops with the Sihang Battalion and the Security Battalion, and then dispatched four guard companies to assist from the three guard battalions.
It’s not because the combat effectiveness of the guard battalion is weaker, but the guard battalion troops are basically mainly short guns and have strong close-range firepower, but the long-range firepower is far from field troops like the guard battalion.
At the beginning, the army major who brought more than 100 people into the position with more than 100 guards was a little dissatisfied with Zhuang Shisan's behavior of putting all the troops 400 meters away. Even if Tang Dao ordered that no 300 meters be allowed to enter, was this guy running directly to 400 meters away, wasn't he too afraid of death?
At this distance, not to mention the thug guns, submachine guns and Liao Zao Thirteen were equipped with the military equipment, even the 38 rifles and Zhongzheng equipped by the soldiers of the security battalion could only be lonely.
Then defend a ball!
But how to say it? From the perspective of reducing casualties, there is nothing to say about Zhuang Shisan.
The Japanese machine guns and grenades that covered the river bank 300 meters deep were only a blow, and the soldiers hid in the trenches in the bushes and watched the show easily.
The reason why it is easy is not only because it is not attacked, but because of this round of battle, the infantry are not the main force, they are just preparing.
Only when the Japanese army crossed the river on a large scale could they enter the front line.
If the Japanese army is not large in size.
The main force of the Japanese army attacking crossing the river this time were machine guns and heavy machine guns.
The big guys who were originally used to shoot planes were now facing the river in fortifications in mounds higher than 800 meters away.
Chapter completed!