When dawn came, the two infantry regiments welcomed the return advance regiment and informed the main position.

The three lieutenant generals and commanders of the Jiashan Front Command, together with the three lieutenant generals and commanders of the three infantry divisions, 107, 108, and 26, totaled 6 army lieutenant general-level chief officers, all of whom were welcomed out of three miles.

If the Japanese army had shelled the Jiashan National Defense Line at this time, the cliff would have gained a lot, which would have been no worse than the Chinese who wiped out one of their heavy artillery brigades.

Unfortunately, they no longer have a heavy artillery brigade.

Although there were enough corrupt officials during this period, it was still the same as if they were investing huge amounts of money to prevent enemy defense fortifications from landing on sea.

Sadao Niujima was still worried about gathering the front-line troops, including the 36th Infantry Brigade, which was covered in dust, for the time being, was not bothered to start a war against the Chinese army retracted into the defense line.

The welcome specifications are a little higher, but the advance delegation is worth it.

Any unit that can get rid of a heavy artillery brigade is worthy of their chief officer to welcome it with this specification.

Use the original words of the 108th Division's 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade: "If you can knock out the 6th Japanese Heavy Artillery Brigade, let alone use my guard battalion to replace it, even the entire division will not be distressed."

Although, the Lieutenant General of the Army, who stood in the guard battalion where he was still alive, had only 180 people still injured, his cheeks were shaking.

That's heartbreaking.

The advance team's losses this time were huge.

The more than 3,200 troops who were divided into the army were finally able to join the main force, but only 2,000 troops, and 1,200 people were buried in the battlefield in the southeast.

What made these senior commanders even more sad was that a major officer was killed, with more than 20 lieutenants, and the sergeant-level veterans suffered heavy losses of up to 400.

How can you become an elite soldier if you are not a veteran? How can you stand on the most dangerous battlefield with new soldiers? When artillery fire comes, veterans who are best at saving their lives can only use death to remind them of their cruelty on the battlefield, and can only use death to consolidate their strength.

No matter which army is in, veterans are the real cornerstone of an army.

If the veteran is not killed, after replenishing enough new recruits, the troops can restore sufficient combat effectiveness after a short period of training.

But this battle of the advance regiment lost hundreds of veterans, and it would be strange if the chief officials did not feel sorry for each other.

If we only look at the losses, the battle led by Tang Dao, who lost one-third of the elite troops, would be a defeat.

But if you look at the results of Tang Dao and the advance group, even the sad general will laugh with tears.

A heavy artillery brigade is worthy of these sacrifices, not to mention the assault on the arrogant 6th Division.

The 36th Infantry Brigade ran fast and did not stand up and get beaten on the position like the foolish bird of the infantry corps under the 18th Division, but this also caused them not to take away the bodies left on the front line.

Because of limited time, the math of the cavalry who were responsible for cleaning the battlefield and collecting the numbers of Japanese casualties was a bit terrible. As the number was large, it was not easy to add it.

The guy Lu Sanjiang even calculated with his fingers for a long time and gave Gong Shaoxun a number of 4,000 people, and almost let Battalion Commander Gong kick the ditch.

That's nonsense! There are only a few people in the 36th Infantry Brigade? You can swallow a brigade with a thousand people? Why don't you go to heaven?

Not to mention that the big guys above don’t believe this number, even the infantrymen who started the culprit wouldn’t believe it!

Because it was dark, the cavalry could not go to check it out, and Tang Dao could not do it. He had to roughly count 2,200 based on the remains of the Japanese army in front of the positions reported by each company.

When I fought head-on with the awesome 36th Infantry Brigade, I killed 2,200 of them? And if there were more and less, even if I set up twelve heavy artillery and bombarded wildly, I wouldn’t have it! I thought that the “strongest division on the surface” was a fool! Is it there to let you fight?

This is Tang Dao, Wu and Guo, who knew that he would not falsely report his military achievements. If it were someone else, he would slap him over if he couldn't do it well. But just that, the three lieutenant general commanders at the command center still reduced the number of people by 700.

The number of 1,500 people killed enemies is already amazing for a field battle of thousands of people.

Little did they know that in the post-war statistics of the Japanese army, the 36th Infantry Brigade had 1,800 infantry soldiers killed on the spot, and more than 700 were injured, of which more than half died of wound infection, and the number of missing people in the shelling was as high as more than 600, including Li Nakasa Setouchi, a group of staff officers and correspondent officers.

In other words, in this field battle where only the parties involved knew how tragic, the 36th Infantry Brigade lost more than 3,000 people, 800 people higher than Tang Dao's estimate, and one of the two infantry regiments was considered to have been destroyed.

The guy who was ignorant of numbers was actually no less accurate than Tang Dao's estimate.

If there are losses in the city of Songjiang, the elite army of the 36th Infantry Brigade has basically lost its combat effectiveness. If it has to work hard, there will be only some baggage soldiers and engineers left to fill the storefront.

In fact, after dawn, Major General Niujima Man became autistic. Even when he arrived at the defense zone of the 18th Division, he did not take the initiative to say hello to his family, Lieutenant General Niujima, who was also surnamed Niujima.

At that time, Sadao Niujima's resentment towards Niujima Man was already like a surging river, and he would not take the initiative to comfort this unlucky child.

The infantry corps that escorted the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade without authorization led to the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade being blamed. Sadao Niujima didn't want to bear it, so he could only bear it, the major general Niujima Man, who had previously asked for help from the 18th Division, but the telegram he had been there.

The Japanese North China Expeditionary Force Command was extremely efficient this time. After receiving the opinions of the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade Group and Lieutenant General Commander Yanagawa Heisuke, he issued an order to dismiss his post.

The 36th Infantry Brigade Major General Niu Daoman, who had already been autistic, was suspended and ordered to return to the North China Expeditionary Force Headquarters to stay.

As a result, the military order was issued too quickly. When the former Colonel Hasegawa, the former 47th Infantry Regiment, who was temporarily succeeded as the brigade commander of the 36th Infantry Brigade, reported to the 10th Army Command the damage of the battle that night, the bigwigs almost vomited blood and died.

It turns out that Niu Daoman not only cheated the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade, but also his own 36th Infantry Brigade was also damaged.

No wonder, this guy who usually has no complaints, and he even ran away without even seeing Yanagawa Heisuke's face.

The unlucky guy ran away, but he still had to take care of this matter. This is the most annoying thing about Yanagawa Heisuke and a group of lieutenant generals of the North China Expeditionary Army.

Therefore, the 36th Infantry Brigade's battle reports were always under the 10th Army Command, and it was not reported to the upper level until the Battle of Jinling was completely over a month later.

It was not until then that the Japanese Songhu Expeditionary Army learned why the "strongest surface division" that must be a vanguard in every battle was why it became a turtle this time and was willing to be a reserve force on such an important battlefield.

It turns out that they have already become vanguards, vanguards who were beaten to pieces.

The Japanese were so angry that they were filled with smoke, while the Chinese were laughing unbelievably.

After Tang Dao briefly reported, he went to the tunnel to rest. He hadn't had a good sleep for many days and nights, and no matter how hard the steel bars and iron bones were, they could not hold on.
Chapter completed!