Just after dawn, when there was just enough light to clearly see the faces of people more than ten meters away, Suematsu Shigeharu, who had not slept all night, angrily sent out soldiers again into the neighborhood.
He had already planned that if the Chinese still attempted to engage in fierce street fighting with him in the neighborhood, he would not hesitate to use more incendiary bombs than the Kunisaki detachment this time, and would even request the heavy artillery brigade to carry out destructive bombardment of the neighborhood.
The damn Chinese and the damn Chinese houses were blown to powder together.
As for the time it takes to burn, the time has already been delayed long enough anyway, and it doesn't matter if it takes another morning.
In terms of time urgency, the Japanese Army Lieutenant General basically had a "lie down" mentality.
However, the report sent back by the search team that cautiously entered the neighborhood made Suematsu Shigeharu, who was observing the battlefield again with a telescope, finally spit out the old blood he had been holding back for a long time.
There were no Chinese figures in the streets, only the remains of dead soldiers.
In addition, the various fortifications that the engineers and soldiers spent half a night building are still there, but they are filled with excrement and water by the Chinese and the smell is terrible.
what does this mean?
Wasn't it that the Chinese took advantage of the night and severely dumped the two loudmouths of the 114th Division, and then splashed them with excrement, and then ran away?
The most important thing is that the decision he has made seems to be just a fantasy, and the Chinese did not give him this chance at all.
Perhaps the only thing that comforted everyone in the 114th Division was that because it was dark, the Chinese were unable to clear all the battlefields. Among the 360 people who had been judged missing, there were actually more than 40 people alive, huddled in every nook and corner.
I felt like a duck, not daring to shoot or speak out, until dawn came.
Although it looks despicable and ridiculous to look disgraced, he is still alive after all, and only the living are qualified to accept being slapped in the mouth by the superior.
As for those brave men, they were all dead, either by bullets or grenades. Some of them were hacked to death by the machetes they had seen on the battlefield in North China, and their heads were brutally hanged.
On the broken wall in the ruins.
In the stinking ruins, there were no wounded, only the dead and the living.
As soon as the infantry was discovered by the Chinese, they were all dead.
When cruelty meets coldness, only death can satisfy both parties.
The security battalion led by Guo Shouzhi implemented Tang Dao's will of "Only dead Japanese are good Japanese" with utmost thoroughness.
In this night's night attack, more than 320 people from the 114th Division were killed, and more than 140 engineers died, while 50 people from the garrison battalion were killed and 33 were seriously injured. The battle loss ratio was close to 6:1, which made him very angry.
The arrogant Japanese army was finally completely angered.
Yanagawa Heisuke put aside the pride of the Army and bypassed the Songhu Dispatch Army Headquarters to ask for help from the Japanese Navy. Two Japanese reconnaissance planes flew over Songjiang for reconnaissance at 8 o'clock in the morning.
At the same time, the three cities in the east, west and south launched a fierce attack with the help of the heavy artillery brigade and the artillery regiments of each division.
When the fighting was at its most intense, the 107th and 108th division headquarters finally couldn't bear it and called on the artillery battalions of each division to kill and fight back the Japanese infantry.
The artillery position was discovered by a Japanese reconnaissance plane roaring from high in the sky. An hour later, the Japanese heavy artillery brigade, which finally obtained the specific coordinates of the Chinese artillery position, began to focus on retaliatory bombardment at the coordinates and surrounding areas.
Although protected by fortifications, the mountain artillery battalions of the two infantry divisions suffered heavy losses in the shelling of the 200-caliber heavy artillery, and more than two-thirds of the 24 infantry guns were damaged.
Only the mortar battalion survived due to its flexibility and hiding in underground fortifications.
After suffering huge losses continuously, Yanagawa Heisuke probably gave up and chose to become his grandson.
The Japanese Navy also gave the Army Sun Tzu face. In addition to reconnaissance planes constantly taking off from aircraft carriers and cruising over Songjiang City for a long time, it also deployed more than 24 bomber formations to focus on bombing several city wall fortifications in Songjiang.
A 500-pound aerial bomb is more terrifying than a 305 heavy artillery gun. When an aerial bomb falls, all creatures within a radius of 50 meters with the impact point as the center will die. Even if the soldiers hiding in the fortifications are not directly killed by the shock wave and shrapnel, the huge
The sound of explosions can also cause soldiers to temporarily become deaf, even if they are stuffed with cotton in advance.
The front-line officers and soldiers who were lucky enough to survive after the war may have good arms and legs, but their hearing dropped sharply, which was closely related to the bombs dropped by the planes.
However, the Japanese fighter planes did not show off their power unbridled. The 67th Army of the Northeast Army may have been slightly inadequate in training, but its equipment was by no means inferior to that of the Central Army. The twelve Oerlikon cannons that had been hidden for a long time were rarely used and revealed their ferocious power.
Sharp teeth.
In order to ensure the accuracy of the bombing, the Japanese bomber formation, which had complete control of the air, dropped to an altitude of 1,000 meters, and was then caught off guard by 12 concentrated machine guns.
Three Japanese bombers were turned into turkeys in the sky.
The Japanese Navy was so angry that they scolded the Army Malu for a long time in the telegram, but they didn't even remind the Chinese that they were equipped with anti-aircraft guns.
Naturally, the senior officials of the Tenth Army collectively pretended to be stupid, and said "Chinese people are cunning" as a reply.
What's more, the bombs are already loaded, so what if you don't drop them? It would be even more dangerous for you to bring the bombs back to the aircraft carrier.
The record of capturing three Japanese planes in one fell swoop was extremely brilliant and worthy of special mention on any battlefield. However, for the current Songjiang battlefield, it was only a drop in the bucket.
The 21 aerial bombs dropped by the remaining 21 bombers caused huge damage to Songjiang City, especially the city wall with the most obvious target.
Seven or eight large gaps were blown out of the once majestic city walls on the east, west and south sides. Coupled with the bombardment of heavy artillery, the entire defense line was shattered.
Even the dozen or so heavy firepower points carefully constructed by Tang Dao have been mostly destroyed.
The Sixth Division, the Kunisaki Detachment, and the 114th Division all mobilized armored units at 11 a.m. The 89 tanks, which were smoking black and covered in steel armor, lacked the 37mm anti-aircraft gun and the 20mm machine gun.
Threats are almost invincible on this battlefield.
The heavy machine gun bullets hitting it had no other purpose than sparking sparks. Countless Japanese infantry followed the tank and attacked. The bullets fired by the infantry at the risk of their lives could no longer suppress it.
After a fierce battle until noon, Major General Liu Qiwen, the top commander in Dongcheng District, finally decided to abandon the Dongcheng city wall fortifications that had changed hands several times between the two sides, and the entire army took back the city.
The Dongcheng city defense was broken.
Under the cover of tanks and despite the shells fired by mortars, the Japanese troops poured into Dongcheng City continuously, consolidating their positions and advancing into the city.
In fact, by abandoning the East City Wall, Major General Liu Qiwen not only spent too much money on the wall fortifications, he also wanted to beat the dog by closing the door.
This is also because the Songjiang security regiment fought smoothly in the ruins. At the expense of more than 1,000 casualties, the Japanese troops were delayed for more than five hours, killing and wounding nearly 2,000 Japanese troops, which gave the Songjiang defenders an extremely hard time.
Great confidence.
The Songjiang Security Regiment is just a security force. There is a big gap between the combat power of regular armies like the 67th Army. They can do it, but they can do it better. Not to mention that more firepower points and more weapons have been deployed in the city.
troops.
However, after the fierce battle that lasted for more than four hours from the destruction of Dongcheng to 4 p.m., the 332nd Brigade and the two infantry companies led by Lao Wang of the 43rd Army, who had already been engaged in the Dongcheng battle, and then the officers and soldiers at the lowest level discovered that they were obviously
Still optimistic.
The Japanese soldiers of the Sixth Division not only have high technical and tactical qualities as a group or as individual soldiers, but also have a tenacious will to fight. They are also good at learning. After the first day of what can be considered a small-scale street battle, they are not familiar with the battlefield.
He had a strong sense of precaution against being shot in various ways. Even if a rough inspection revealed that there was no one in the house, he would still throw a few grenades into hidden places, which resulted in the casualties of many lurking soldiers.
More importantly, although they had conducted surveys in advance, the soldiers were not as familiar with the defense area as the gang of local snakes in the Songjiang Security Group.
The soldiers of the Songjiang Security Regiment could run around in an alley that was only one meter wide without getting lost, and could even easily get from one house to another, but they could not. Many of them died after firing a few shots and injuring the Japanese soldiers.
He was trapped in a house by the Japanese army and could not escape, and was eventually shelled to death by the Japanese combat artillery and infantry artillery.
Taking Dongcheng District as the main direction of the Japanese attack, in the 4-hour battle, more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers were killed and injured. At the same time, more than 700 of them were killed and more than 800 were injured. The battle loss with the Japanese army was almost 1:1.
Compare.
Moreover, the Japanese army continues to invest troops.
This made the major general and brigade commander who was standing in the headquarters and listening to the reports from the front, sweat dripping down his forehead. This time, it seemed that what he was hitting after closing the door was not a dog, but a tiger.
