The sound of gunfire inside and outside Cangcheng was very loud.
In the field bunker 800 meters away, Suematsu Shigeharu had a headache.
As the commander of the 114th Division, the forward legion of the Tenth Army, he knew very well that the order he gave to attack the city outside the city overnight, although there was an element of venting anger, was mostly because he had to do it.
Because if the Chinese were given 12 more hours, tens of thousands of Chinese in western Shanghai could escape. According to the base camp's strategy, they could have entered the small town of Songjiang this evening, but because of the Jinshanwei tidal flat position and Jinshan
As a result of the accident in the county town, he is still lying in the mud, staring blindly with a telescope.
It's okay if we can't capture Songjiang County. The nails in this city outside the city should be pulled out. Otherwise, Commander Yanagawa Heisuke will not be very happy when he arrives tomorrow morning and sees this scene.
For this reason, Suematsu Shigeharu made up his mind to devote two infantry brigades to another fierce attack on Cangcheng regardless of the darkness and slippery roads.
The Japanese Lieutenant General actually had another thing in mind. Once the artillery group of the Chinese defenders in the city couldn't help but provide artillery support to the Chinese in Cangcheng, the dozen or so artillery observers he placed in the wilderness to closely monitor would follow the instructions.
Ballistic measurements were used to calculate the approximate direction of the Chinese artillery group.
At night, the tracks drawn by artillery shells in the sky are most clear.
The artillery regiment, which has stopped shelling but is in full readiness, will immediately fire back at the approximate coordinates reported by the artillery observers, blow up the Chinese artillery group, and clear the biggest obstacle for tomorrow's daytime battle.
Killing two birds with one stone, if Suematsu Shigeharu's Chief of Staff had not done some research on Chinese culture, he would not have known that he would be so wise, and he would accidentally become a wise general.
The Japanese lieutenant general's move was considered to have exhausted all the mechanisms, but he just missed one thing.
The Chinese hiding in the houses were so frightened that he did not go to them to cause trouble, but actually took the initiative to cause trouble for him.
Two infantry squadrons who went deep into residential areas and planned to stab the Chinese in Cangcheng from the other side were not only hit in the head with mortars by the Chinese in Cangcheng who seemed to be invincible, but were also hit in the head by a group of Tibetans behind them.
The rusty mouse in the dark took several bites.
As Zhuang Shisan said, this is Lao Tzu's Songjiang.
What does the Songjiang Security Group do? It is nominally the security force in the Songjiang area. Its function is similar to the future armed police force. Generally, local gangsters and other gangsters are handed over to the police station. Only bandits or groups of gangs commit crimes.
will be handed over to them.
But the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas are not the poor and impoverished places in the north or the southwestern mountainous areas. The land is originally rich in paddy fields and has high yields, and commerce is still prosperous. Everyone is busy making money. How many people are willing to do that kind of brain-destroying work?
What's the matter? There aren't many bandits. Even the Heisehui family owns brothels and opium dens, so the taxes they should pay are quite small.
If the security team has no work to do, why should they turn into armed policemen maintaining law and order? On the surface, they maintain law and order, but secretly they blackmail businesses into putting protection money in their pockets.
Of course, if the protection fee is collected, the public security will naturally be maintained for you. At least the gangsters will not come to stab you again. This is a kind of balance. The social environment is stable, and Commissioner Wang will turn a blind eye.
One eye.
It's just that businessmen and ordinary people swallow their anger and are just being exploited or bullied. In this troubled world, it's pretty good, isn't it?
When you have money in your hands, you have to spend it naturally. The girls in this place in Songjiang City are the most beautiful, the soup dumplings there are the most delicious, and you can have the most fun there. These guys know them better than anyone else.
They are the well-deserved local leaders of Songjiang City.
Not to mention a bunch of Japanese who came from the sea and couldn't read a single Chinese character, even the residents of Songjiang City were probably not as familiar with this territory as these local snakes.
These dark corners became a nightmare for Japanese infantry.
I'm afraid even Tang Dao didn't expect that they would become supporting characters in the originally brutal night battle in Cangcheng.
The protagonist is actually a security force who was driven to the battlefield by the determined major and battalion commander because of a failed attempt to force the emperor to convict.
A fully organized infantry squadron, led by its captain, rushed into the pitch-black residential houses.
The flares were fired into the sky as if they were free, illuminating the houses brightly. The Japanese infantry could use the afterglow of the flares to smoothly enter those small alleys and houses with white walls and black tiles.
House-to-house and street-to-street searches have yielded some results.
A dozen security forces who were too late to escape were blocked in a house. After trying to attack with rifles and machine guns to no avail, the Japanese army used several grenade launchers. After a burst of wild bombing, they then rushed in with superior force.
It took seven or eight minutes of fighting, but the remaining enemies were still not eliminated. In the end, they were forced to set the entire house on fire to completely annihilate their opponents.
However, they obviously forgot one thing. Just like bullets, flares are also available in quantity. They used a lot of them to facilitate entry, and later used a lot more to kill the dozen opponents. If they wanted to use them again,
But I have to replenish it.
Otherwise, they have already penetrated one to two hundred meters, and are surrounded by houses of the same shape like a maze-like residential area, and they will be completely blind here.
I heard that the Japanese came in with one or two hundred people. Zhuang Shisanna, who was originally forced to shoot three of his closest subordinates and shocked everyone, is still not feeling hot?
He couldn't control the other two battalions, but he still had his own battalion firmly in hand. Except for the second company that arrived in this area first, he actually mobilized three more infantry companies in one go, with a total of nearly 700 people fighting against this.
The infantry squadron carefully stepped into this maze to lay siege.
The Japanese flares were gone, and the only light was the not-so-bright moonlight in the sky.
The shit-yellow uniforms of the Japanese army were extremely conspicuous under the moonlight, but the security forces wore black uniforms. Darkness became their best protective color.
Rifles, shell guns, light machine guns, grenade launchers, grenades, grenades, and all kinds of sounds were heard in the area more than 300 meters outside Cangcheng.
The movement was even faster than the Battle of Cangcheng, which used infantry artillery, rapid-fire artillery, machine guns, mortars and other heavy firearms.
The Chinese and Japanese commanders who were observing this area with telescopes couldn't see clearly what was happening in the residential area.
Suematsu Shigeharu didn't know how many of his own people were inside, and the two Chinese lieutenant generals with stern expressions standing inside the city wall fortifications also didn't know how many troops the security group had invested.
The telescopes on both sides could only capture a few magnificent ballistic tracks occasionally made by bullets fired from light machine guns.
Due to the darkness, no one knows the specific battle process except those who were specifically involved.
It's just that the Japanese army waited until the Battle of Cangcheng was coming to an end, and the gunfire on the main battlefield gradually stopped, and they didn't wait until the infantry squadron that entered the residential area came out.
And that was already nearly two hours later.
It is not a trivial matter for an infantry squadron of nearly 200 people to disappear like this. Even a Japanese lieutenant general with a huge head cannot easily classify the 200th Imperial Army as missing.
November 6th was definitely an unlucky day for this Japanese lieutenant general. After being exhausted in several battles, the already insufficient troops suffered battle losses of an astonishing 2,300 people.
Yes, he had already lost nearly a thousand people in Jinshan County during the day, but at least he still achieved some success. The landing was successful, he also successfully opened the door to the west of Shanghai, and annihilated more than 2,000 Chinese troops.
But what happened next was a complete nightmare. Two infantry squadrons were completely wiped out because of the stupidity of the Navy and Malus. They also took a major staff officer, a cavalry squadron and a "second generation nobleman" covered in gold, nearly
500 people died in the battle, leaving an infantry group and a half gone.
Not to mention Cangcheng, more than 300 people were killed in the afternoon, and another 1,600 people were thrown into the attack in the evening, and another 500 people were consumed. The fighting hadn't even started yet, and 2,300 people could be sent back in small wooden boxes.
Then, 200 people disappeared into private houses in the darkness. What a shame for Suematsu Shigeharu.
