Hisao Tani had imagined that he might have to pay a huge price to break through the Matsue City Wall today.
But when the price came, he was extremely embarrassed.
Of course, the Chinese's move of "voluntarily giving up the position and covering it with artillery fire" was far beyond his expectation.
It's not that the tricks are too new, but they are very old-fashioned.
Similar tactics were used by the Chinese in the Battle of Cangcheng a few hours ago.
When their own position is occupied, they cover it with their own artillery fire, even with their own soldiers on that position, reducing themselves and the enemy to ashes. It is cruel, but extremely effective.
This almost cruel tactic made the Kunisaki detachment dare not station large-scale troops in Cangcheng where troops could be stationed. Placing an infantry squadron was already the limit.
They would rather garrison troops in the ruins of neighborhoods that are more vulnerable to attack than put soldiers in positions with incomplete city walls.
The Tenth Army Headquarters even sent the battle reports from Xicheng to the Sixth Division and the Eighteenth Division at noon, hoping that they would better understand the enemies they were facing through these battle reports.
It was precisely because of his understanding that Hisao Tani was not as anxious as his subordinate Major General Tokutaro Sakai was about the Chinese shelling their abandoned positions with artillery fire again.
He judged that the Chinese commanders in the city who had already demonstrated certain command skills would not use similar tactics again, especially after the imperial infantry on the front line showed sufficient vigilance.
Large ammunition inventory.
On this point, Hisao Tani's judgment was correct. Although the Chinese artillery fire was fierce, it was not lasting enough. The shelling stopped after ten minutes. This was indeed because the storage of artillery shells could not be compared with that of the Japanese army.
But Hisao Tani made a mistake in the most critical tactical judgment.
The Chinese still changed the soup without changing the medicine, and their extremely determined resistance turned out to be just a bait. Their ultimate goal was still to lure the Japanese infantry out of the open wilderness and into the narrow city, and then a burst of artillery fire stewed.
However, the battle damage caused by the ten-minute shelling did not need to be reported to him by the 11th Infantry Brigade. Hisao Tani knew that it would definitely be much more serious than the previous extremely lively fighting with hail of bullets and bullets.
Yes, what really angered Hisao Tani was not the battle loss of more than a thousand troops, but his complete tactical defeat.
What he thought was a small chance, the Chinese continued to use it without any new ideas.
Damn it, don’t even the Chinese know about the rule of ‘recovery with war’?
But the fact is that in the first battle of the Sixth Division's official attack on the city, the Sixth Division was completely defeated in terms of battle damage and tactical layout.
In this battle, more than 900 Chinese people died, but on the Japanese side, only 50 people from the four infantry squadrons of the most elite 6th Infantry Brigade, except the heavy machine gun squadron left behind, survived, and the engineer wing suffered more than 300 casualties. The 4th Infantry Brigade was invested
The two infantry squadrons rolled and crawled half way back, suffering more than 1,500 casualties.
But Hisao Nakatani, who was furious, may not know that his defeat was not unjust.
In the far north, the troops who cried for the country and nation took off their red five-pointed star cap badge and replaced it with a blue sky and white sun cap badge. In the high mountains of the Taihang Mountains, they were led by the general who had undergone eye surgery without anesthesia.
His subordinates set up ambushes against Japanese troops in the same small village three times at approximately the same time period.
Tani Hisao's colleagues who were still on the battlefield in North China made exactly the same mistake as Tani Hisao. The military book said "there will be no use of troops again", which means they will not use the same tactics in a short period of time. But the military book is dead, and the people are alive.
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Not only did that person use it, he also used it three times in a row. What made the Japanese army even more embarrassed was that they were pressed to the ground and rubbed by a group of "Tubalu" who lacked guns and clothing three times.
The first wave of reinforcements were beaten all over the ground because they were caught off guard. The second wave of rescue troops were surprised to find that they had also broken into the bag formation of "Tubal Road". When the third wave of reinforcements thought about "Tubal Road"
'If you dare to come again, I really have to call him dad...
Then, 'Tubalu' and Baga magically appeared, and they really beat them and called them daddy.
A battle in which three ambushes failed to kill hundreds of enemies was incorporated into the lesson plans of the American Cowboys at West Point Military Academy after the war, and is known as one of the top ten classic tactics in the world.
"Open the door and defeat the thieves, breaking the old pattern of using troops. They have cannons and we have cannons. Songjiang City is a battlefield everywhere!" This is the original text of the letter Tang Dao left to the major general brigade commander.
The little butterfly from the future naturally copied this classic work and put it on the battlefield of Songjiang, interpreting the essence of "the virtual makes the real, the real makes the virtual" to the extreme.
To put it bluntly, Hisao Tani was not defeated by Tang Dao, but by one of China's best army generals.
It was getting dark at this time, and no matter how furious Hisao Tani was, he could not drive the main force of the infantry to engage in a decisive battle with the Chinese defenders in the darkness.
The Japanese infantry retreated like a tide, taking away all the Japanese corpses that could be taken away in the wilderness. However, the corpses left within the city walls and in the swamp could only be abandoned.
The Japanese artillery observation post could only provide a few rough coordinates. The Japanese heavy artillery brigade once again showed its strength and bombarded several possible artillery positions for half an hour.
Just relying on imaginative estimates, the effect of the bombardment can be imagined.
The artillery positions, which lost a total of five artillery pieces in the first wave of attacks by the Japanese artillery brigade, were intact this time.
This made the Songjiang headquarters a little strange. They were surprised that the damage to their own artillery was so slight.
Because the Japanese army had raised observation balloons when the heavy artillery bombardment started. At that time, the smoke completely obscured Songjiang City. It was understandable that they could not see the artillery positions. However, when the artillery positions started to return fire, the sky was
The smoke of gunfire basically exposed the location of the position.
You must know that this time, all the artillery fire was concentrated on the east city direction. The two lieutenant generals in the headquarters thought again and again before making up their mind to fight. Even if more than two artillery battalions were knocked out by the Japanese heavy artillery, they must fight back resolutely.
The purpose is to intimidate all the Japanese infantry. I can give you my position, but as long as my artillery is still there, you can't stay safe on it. The first one to charge into the position will die faster.
Their goal was achieved. When seven artillery battalions were assembled to fire at the more than 1,000-meter-long wall area of the East City, hundreds of Japanese troops who were rushing into the city to open up forward positions for the main force were drowned in the artillery fire.
All lost their voices.
This trick of the Chinese is very effective no matter how they try to make things worse.
What if they are more ruthless and use a small number of troops to defend, and let you attack with a large force, and then wait for you to attack the position and come over with a barrage of artillery fire? What will happen then?
Trading lives for lives, the Tenth Army's more than 100,000 people would probably have to leave half of them here.
Obviously, that was not what everyone in the Tenth Army wanted to see. They came from North China to Southeast China not just to conquer a small Chinese city, but with lofty aspirations.
Not to mention the various regimental commanders and brigade commanders who were suffering from headaches, even Yanagawa Heisuke, who was more than ten kilometers away, was numb when he received the battle report from the front.
Because, he was unable to ensure the destruction of the Chinese artillery positions for a while, due to the radicalness and stupidity of Hisao Tani.
Yes, the two Chinese army lieutenant generals who both chose to suffer huge losses in artillery did not wait for the imagined losses. The main reason was that the Japanese army lost their most important eyes.
The little balloon was popped.
By a Chinese Army sergeant who just wanted to overcome his fears.
And Mo Songzi, who had made great achievements, was still admitting his mistake to his company commander, begging him to give him two more springboards, because he didn't do anything, but he missed four springboards.
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"Get out of here! How dare you ask me for cannonballs when I put you in solitary confinement for the sake of watching the artillery!" The army captain was a big man from the Northeast and had a loud voice.
Good guy, you didn’t even hit a single tank, but you fired 80 rounds of artillery shells. Why don’t you go to heaven! Do you really think I make artillery shells?
For one cannon, the military headquarters was equipped with 300 rounds of artillery shells. The main targets were the heavy firepower points and tanks of the Japanese army. Mo Songzi fired 80 rounds of artillery shells, but failed to accomplish anything. Of course, he was assigned to the captain and commander of the first company of the military headquarters air defense battalion in Dongcheng District.
He won't give his subordinate a good look.
"I didn't hit the tank, but I still hit a big balloon!" Mo Songzi muttered dejectedly.
If he had known this earlier, he would have stopped popping balloons and saved a lot of shells.
"What did you say? Balloon?" the captain and company commander was stunned.
"How big a balloon?"
"It's as big as a washbasin, but it's more than a thousand meters away. If it were placed here, it might be bigger than a house!" Mo Songzi recalled and gestured.
"you sure?"
"All my brothers can testify!"
"Haha! You bitch, just wait here for me. You are not allowed to go anywhere until I come back!" The captain laughed, slapped Mo Songzi hard on the chest, turned around and left.
"What are you doing? If there are no shells, there will be no shells. Company commander, don't scare me. My 20 rounds can kill the Japanese tanks." Mo Songzi was startled.
"I'm scaring you!" the captain said with a cheerful smile. "That's a good thing!"
