Chapter 265 Big Man (please subscribe, please vote monthly!)
The Japanese Army Major General whose words showed arrogance was flanked by an Army Lieutenant Colonel.
Faced with the arrogance of his own detachment leader, who said that he has everything in his hands, Lieutenant Colonel's eyes flashed with helplessness, but he could only echo: "Your Excellency, the detachment leader, is wise!"
"Akiumi-kun! You are knowledgeable and qualified, but there is one thing that is very bad. Do you know what it is?" Faced with the helpless agreement of his subordinates, the Japanese Army Major General did not get angry. On the contrary,
It was in front of the two armies that he had a chat with his subordinates, which showed that his mood was not generally good.
"I don't know, so I would like to ask your Excellency, the detachment leader, to correct me," the Army Lieutenant Colonel replied respectfully.
"Too cautious." The Japanese Army Major General glanced around, "This is the position of our Kunisaki detachment. Is it possible that someone is spreading the conversation between you and me?"
"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General Suematsu Shigeharu, your Excellency, Lieutenant General Suematsu Shigeharu requested from the headquarters to transfer our troops to attack the city. I am afraid that it has something to do with your usual attitude towards him. Therefore, as the Chief of Staff, I would like to ask the detachment to attack the city."
Sir, please pay more attention." The Army Lieutenant Colonel tactfully advised his boss that he didn't take the Army Lieutenant General seriously.
The contemptuous remarks just made were made on one's own ground, but if things go on like this, sooner or later they will reach the ears of the Lieutenant General of the Army. This time, they have used the military order of the North China Expeditionary Force to secretly arrange for the Kunisaki detachment to join forces. There is no guarantee that they won't do it next time.
Wouldn't it be better to borrow the command authority to put some shoes on the Kunisaki detachment?
"Hmph! If Shigeji Matsushita can't attack him, will he treat our Kunisaki Detachment like his useless 114th Division?" The Japanese Army Major General snorted coldly. "He will join our Kunisaki Detachment? Wait until our detachment breaks through Matsue Castle today. I'll see.
His old face, Shigeharu Suematsu, is still red or not."
After finishing speaking, he pointed to the residential houses a few hundred meters away and the Cangcheng city further away: "The Chinese's intention of deploying troops in these two places is nothing more than to buy time at the expense of troops. If we attack here according to conventional tactics,
Even if the two positions were conquered, half a day would pass.
Especially that fortress. If you want to conquer it, if you don't have enough patience, you can only pay the price with the lives of enough imperial warriors.
But Shigeharu Suematsu was fooled by the Chinese and actually used that fortress as an important breakthrough point, wasting artillery shells in vain and losing troops. What's wrong with me calling him stupid?"
"What does your Excellency, the captain of that team, mean?" The Army Lieutenant Colonel had thoughts in his eyes.
He has also observed the location of Cangcheng Fortress. It is indeed extremely important. If they do not remove this nail hanging outside the city, they can cooperate with the firepower of Songjiang City to attack the enemies attacking the east and west walls. This is equivalent to the attacker being attacked on both sides.
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"These two fortresses seem to have obvious targets and are easier to concentrate firepower on, but in fact they are not." The Army Major General pointed to the position distribution map that the staff spent an hour drawing. "The Chinese must have built a large number of artillery defenses inside them.
Fortifications, the troops hide in the caves when the artillery fires. When our infantry attacks, they can enter the position and fight fiercely with our army. Unless our army breaks the cauldron and launches an infantry charge when the artillery fires, then it will be too late for the Chinese to enter the position.
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"Your Excellency, the detachment leader, you must not do this. Our infantry-artillery coordination distance has only been 200 meters so far. No matter how close it is, unpredictable accidental injuries will inevitably occur." The Army Lieutenant Colonel was shocked.
The so-called infantry and artillery coordination means that the artillery opens a path in front. As long as the enemy is not on the position, it will blow it up into the sky. The infantry will follow the gradually extending artillery fire and wait for the enemy hiding in the anti-gun hole to get out and enter.
Position defense, the attacking infantry has reached the 100-meter area, and it is almost ready to launch the final charge. It is an absolute weapon for siege and land siege.
But that is also a difficult technical job. It not only requires extremely high accuracy of artillery shooting, but more importantly, the coordination between infantry and artillery is excellent. Without long-term training and strong communication skills, it is absolutely impossible.
This thing is a double-edged sword. If you play it well, you will be invincible; if you play it poorly, the defender's infantry will have trenches and anti-cannon holes, and more or less places to hide, but the attacker will have nothing to ask for, 75
Forget about the caliber mountain cannon, the killing radius is only 10 meters, but what about the 105 howitzer? If one shot is fired, an infantry squad will have to go to the sky.
"Now that the moment of death has not come, I naturally will not use that tactic." The Army Major General glanced at his frightened subordinates, smiled at the corner of his mouth, and said in a very pretentious manner: What are you thinking?
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It has to be said that although the troops have not yet been put on the battlefield to show their commanding skills, from this point of view alone, Kunizaki, the major general of the Kunisaki Detachment, is definitely the most accomplished general of the Japanese Tenth Army.
In the midst of chatting and laughing, the boats and oars flew into ashes and were annihilated! This is what we want.
Undoubtedly, as the Major General Brigade Commander of the Fifth Division, known as the 'Steel Army', Kunisaki is proud, but pride comes with pride.
The Fifth Division in Shanxi has only 70,000 men, but it is fighting against the more than 200,000 Chinese troops in Shanxi. It has taken advantage of it and can break through Jincheng to achieve the strategic goal of dispatching troops to North China.
And here, the Kunisaki Detachment is a mixed brigade-level detachment formed from the 9th Brigade and the core. It has 6 infantry brigades, 7,000 well-trained infantry, and a reinforced artillery brigade equipped with 16 75 mountain guns, plus
The two infantry regiments are each equipped with 4 mountain guns, 10 infantry guns, and 4 rapid-fire guns. The entire detachment has 48 artillery pieces of various calibers.
With these heavy firearms and infantry alone, Kunizaki was confident that he could defeat a Chinese infantry army in a frontal field battle.
Although a Chinese infantry army was huddled in a fortified city in front of them, this did not make the proud Major General Kunisaki take it too seriously.
He poked his finger at the residential houses outside Songjiang City on the topographic map and said: "The Chinese want to use this place to delay time, so I will fulfill their wish and capture this place first, and then surround the fortress on three sides."
"Hi!" The Army Lieutenant Colonel nodded heavily.
Although the street fighting was a headache, the army major general's thinking was clear enough. He first captured this residential area, and then concentrated his troops to surround the fortress from three sides. This was much better than what Matsu Shigeharu could only attack from two sides at the end of yesterday.
"However, Akimi-kun, please tell Major Sakio for me that I will only give him one hour. After one hour, I will request that all remaining enemies in this residential area be eliminated to clear the way for our troops to conquer the Matsue City Wall fortifications.
"Kunizaki was full of confidence and stretched out an index finger.
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There is only one busiest street in Songjiang City.
Zhongshan Avenue.
But it is extremely rare for three carriages to walk side by side on Zhongshan Avenue, not to mention the small Songjiang City, even in a big city like Songhu.
The prosperity of Zhongshan Avenue is not only due to the width of the road, but also because there is a waterway leading from Songjiang City to the moat a few dozen meters behind it. All goods can be transported by big ships via the Huangpu River and then transported directly to various shops by small boats via the waterway.
The layout of this street is basically that there are shops next to the road, and warehouses and residential areas behind it. The waterway next to it can both transport goods and clean up domestic garbage.
This is a pattern left over from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In modern times, due to the increase in population, the roads have been widened.
The residential buildings outside the city basically rely on this Zhongshan Avenue that runs from east to west of Songjiang City to spread.
If the Japanese army wanted to reach the foot of Songjiang City directly, they could just drive straight in along this street.
However, no matter how stupid a commander is, he knows that if he rushes into this seemingly harmless long street without clearing out the surrounding enemies, he will end up in an ugly death.
Standing on a long street with no danger to defend, being a living target for the Chinese hiding in various corners?
But if you want to capture this neighborhood, this long street is the area you must attack.
Therefore, a task force squadron led by two 94 armored vehicles, an infantry squadron in the middle, and an artillery squad pushing two infantry guns at the end marched boldly into Zhongshan Street.
100 meters on either side of them, two infantry squadrons entered the densely populated residential areas in small groups.
Under the orders of the proud and confident Kunizaki, the Japanese infantry captain in charge of this operation committed three infantry squadrons, plus 800 people from various auxiliary arms.
