In fact, the Japanese troops at the checkpoint were fully prepared after receiving the call.
Not only are there field fortifications, there are also positions built in the dilapidated buildings and residential buildings around the checkpoints.
But they didn't expect that the Chinese were so ungrateful in martial arts that they would carry big weapons like machine guns with them even when running away. Shells and grenades were thrown at them for free, and bullets were used to cover the attack in a prodigal way.
The houses in Songhu are typical Jiangnan houses. The walls are made of blue bricks. Not to mention the machine guns with terrible penetrating power, in fact, even rifle bullets with a size of 38 can penetrate.
These simple fortifications are really weak in the face of such firepower.
All the infantry were suppressed and did not dare to raise their heads. The only two grenade groups were brave enough. However, after firing several grenades in succession, the Chinese mortars began to fire back.
Using a 50mm caliber grenade to fire against someone else's 82 caliber mortar? Stop joking! What's more, they have countless grenades as accomplices!
When more than a dozen consecutive rounds of artillery shells and grenades exploded around the grenadier hand, the Japanese army's grenade launchers were completely silenced.
And as the two heavy machine gun fortifications and the shooters hiding behind them were swept into a pile of fragments by the machine guns, the end of the Japanese army also came.
Two infantry squads that detoured from both sides of the road successfully approached the Japanese infantry position. More than a dozen grenades swirled in the air and landed on the heads of the Japanese infantry hiding in the simple position.
The Japanese infantry, which was already small in strength, collapsed.
If you lie down, you will be bombed by grenades. If you don't lie down and fight back, you will be shot by the opponent's machine gun. No matter which choice you make, you will die.
At this moment, they finally realized the helplessness of their opponents in the past two months of fighting.
It's not that their opponents don't know how to use tactics and can only defend in the trenches, but that their firepower is suppressed and they can only fall into passivity, just like they are now.
In fact, not only were the light and heavy firepower suppressed, but the firepower configuration of the two infantry squads that came round also made the Japanese troops who withstood three consecutive waves of grenade bombardment despair.
The single-shot rifle was directly shot into a dog by a submachine gun with a 32-round magazine at a distance of 30 meters.
The entire battle ended in less than three minutes. Only a few Japanese soldiers saw that the situation was not going well and fled deep into the ruins under the cover of night.
The two infantry squads were ordered to take a minute or two to clean the battlefield, and the horses and barbed wire fences were moved away. Tang Dao still acted as the driver of the lead vehicle and turned the front of the vehicle over to enter the cleared road.
However, a small accident caused the convoy to stay in place for at least five minutes, and then the convoy continued to run wildly along the road.
2,000 meters away, in a complete field headquarters.
The commander of the Japanese 9th Division, Yoshizumi Ryosuke, was staring at the field map on the wall and thinking hard. The faint sound of artillery in the distance made him frown involuntarily.
After walking out of the headquarters, I judged the direction of the sound of the artillery fire. It turned out that it was behind the army's position, and my face was even more ugly.
"Go and check, that's where the regiment is located over there." He waved his hand and asked the division staff who followed him to check.
"That seems to be the 36th Infantry Regiment over there." The staff captain had a good memory.
"36th Regiment?" The Japanese Army Lieutenant General was slightly startled. The formation was very familiar, but it definitely should not be under his command.
"It belongs to the 3rd Division. It was not good to capture the Sihang Warehouse in the past few days." The captain's staff reminded in a low voice.
"It turned out to be those idiots." Yoshizumi Ryosuke suddenly realized, and he also remembered this group of unlucky guys who had been sent to the Kunshan front line by the 3rd Division and were directly under the dispatched army headquarters.
"Then ask their current wing leader what happened to their defense zone and why there is still gunfire."
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Not long after, the captain's staff brought the answer Yoshizumi Ryosuke wanted.
The acting commander of the 36th Infantry Regiment, Hide Toyoda, called back: More than a hundred remnants of the Sihang Warehouse garrison were found. They attacked the 16th Division's baggage team and seized ten cars. They fled to the western front line of Shanghai. Our checkpoint No. 7 was fighting fiercely with them.
Our infantry regiment has assembled its forces and will annihilate them.
"Haha, it turned out to be the victim of the 36th Infantry Regiment!" Yoshizumi Ryosuke couldn't help but smile after reading Toyoda Hide's call.
Don't look at the Sihang Warehouse defenders who made a lot of noise in the past few days, but that is just influence. In terms of combat effectiveness, there will be a Japanese standing division commander in charge of nearly 30,000 troops.
In eyes?
Not to mention the mere 100 remnant soldiers in Toyoda Hide's call back, the entire 524th Regiment, with more than 2,000 people in each regiment, may not be worthy of the attention of this majestic Army Lieutenant General of the Japanese Empire.
"So be it! Although Fujita Susumu has inherited some of his style under the command of that idiot Susumu, at least there is still a bit of Imperial Army bravery left. If you know your shame and become brave, let them handle it themselves." Yoshizumi
Liangsuke waved his hands and paid no attention to the sound of gunfire that alarmed him.
"Oh, by the way! Call them back and tell them that if they can wipe out the remaining Chinese army, I will put in a good word for them to His Excellency General Matsui Iwane. If they need help, please contact Mr. Nakagawa."
Obviously, Yoshizumi Ryosuke was in a good mood at the moment, and he wanted to send warmth to the 36th Infantry Regiment, a bunch of unlucky people whose grandmothers didn't love their uncles, and who didn't even want their parents anymore.
The moment Toyoda Hide received this message from the 9th Division Headquarters, he was able to hold back his tears. He was very restrained.
But the Japanese Army Lieutenant General did not know that his message could push a group of unlucky people into the abyss again.
Originally, after the battle of Sihang Warehouse, the 36th Infantry Regiment had only more than 900 people, excluding the wounded soldiers, the artillery squadron, the baggage squadron, and the big cats and kittens of the squadron directly under the regiment, and could barely form an infantry brigade.
preparation.
Nearly 400 people were sent out from the 8 checkpoints. There were only more than 500 people left in the garrison. After receiving a call back from the 9th Division Regiment Headquarters, Toyoda was excited. In addition to leaving two small teams to stay at the garrison, the remaining 400 people were left.
The numbered people all put up their guns and went to settle accounts with their enemies.
You have a fortress and I can't defeat you. Now it's a field battle, and I can't defeat you? Besides, I still have several times your strength.
Maybe not only Toyoda Hide thought so, but also the hodgepodge Japanese infantrymen organized into two infantry squadrons probably thought so.
The 9th Division was very helpful. Not only did they help with words, they also specially transferred 15 trucks to them from the division's supply squadron not far away from them. Toyoda Shu also drove all the three-wheeled motorcycles in the camp, and the huge fleet was
Such a grand departure.
But no one thought about the day when the 36th Infantry Regiment would first become an infantry brigade and then an infantry squadron.
That was definitely one of the most tragic infantry regiments in the history of the Japanese Army.
One of the reasons for saying this is because the war has only started three months ago, and there is still a long time to come. China, which has been beaten, is not that easy to mess with.
Toyoda Hide worked extremely hard. It only took fifteen minutes from gathering troops to setting off, but he was still late.
When he rushed to checkpoint No. 7, there were only corpses waiting for him.
However, the steaming blood flowing all over the ground reminded him frantically that the Chinese had not gone very far, and he could still catch up.
"Pursue with all your strength, notify checkpoint No. 8 again, and stop them at all costs." Toyoda ordered through gritted teeth.
The blood debt has increased again!
However, the number one man in the Japanese Army, who held the rank of major as the captain of the regiment, really looked down upon the soldiers under his command who had been chilled.
But to be honest, although they have been beaten into pig heads at Sihang Warehouse, and the combat effectiveness of the scumbags of the 36th Infantry Regiment is two levels worse than before, their arrogance towards the Chinese army's continuous victories over a long period of time is not the same.
It was wiped out so easily.
Just look at the formation of Major Hide Toyoda with 400 men rushing towards them, and you will know that the 36th Infantry Regiment is currently very weak, but it is by no means so weak that it dares not even fight.
But the No. 8 checkpoint that Toyota showed high hopes for still failed him.
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