At night, the Japanese troops who were ordered to continue to consolidate their positions in the city were shrinking their defenses. The Chinese troops, who had been fighting for more than a day, no longer frequently launched counterattacks in an attempt to drive out the thousands of Japanese troops who had entered the city.
The two sides entered a brief ceasefire period.
However, in such a battle situation, it is obviously impossible for all soldiers to sleep peacefully. No one wants to have their head quietly cut off by an enemy who touches the defense line in their sleep.
The Japanese army is extremely vigilant. The Kunisaki Detachment and the 114th Division on the west side of the city have been attacked twice by the Chinese who took the initiative to leave the fortifications, not to mention that the two sides are almost intertwined defense lines.
Moreover, the sky is pitch black now, and only the not-so-bright moonlight allows people to see clearly five or six meters away. This is the most difficult environment for defenders.
But neither China nor Japan dared to use lights, which were purely used to guide the opponent's small-caliber artillery.
The defenders of Dongcheng District also did not dare to be careless at all. They could sneak attack the Japanese army, and the Japanese army could naturally attack them.
The combat experience during the day has reminded the Chinese officers and soldiers that the Japanese troops on the opposite side are fierce and cunning. As attackers, they are still on an unfamiliar battlefield, and they can fight them with a battle loss ratio of almost one to one. It is absolutely terrifying.
It is normal for an opponent to use the night to launch a surprise attack.
So, the safest way is for everyone still in the ruins to keep their eyes wide open.
The soldiers held their breaths and hid in corners they thought were safe, staring at the darkness with vigilance. The slightest sound might stimulate them to pick up their guns.
Such nights are extremely painful for the officers and soldiers of the confrontation between China and Japan. Although they do not expend a lot of physical energy running, chasing and shooting each other like during the day, their mental pressure is even higher than during the day.
Because of the darkness, the surrounding environment that cannot be seen clearly always gives people an inexplicable sense of oppression.
But people are not steel. From ten o'clock in the evening to three o'clock in the morning after the basic ceasefire, no fighting occurred during the five long hours, which made soldiers on both sides secretly grateful. Although the shadow of death still made the soldiers try to keep their eyes open, it was just
, the laxity of vigilance will cause a strong sense of fatigue accumulated from the mind to the body throughout the day and night to surge up like a tide.
Many people, including Chinese soldiers who were under greater psychological pressure, could immediately fall asleep even if they leaned slightly against the wall. The dried chili peppers carried by the Sichuan soldiers seemed to have lost their effectiveness.
There are even people who look at him with his eyes open, but in fact, his pupils have completely lost focus. Even if you stretch out your hands and wave them in front of his eyes, he will not react at all.
Not dead, but asleep.
If the battlefield during the day is a test of the combat literacy and weapons and equipment of the soldiers on both sides, then the ruins with only a few occasional gunshots at night are a battlefield where the willpower of both sides competes.
So far, the elite of the Japanese Sixth Division is not completely superior to the Songjiang defenders, but being able to draw a tie has proven that they are stronger.
After all, the Songjiang defenders faced huge psychological pressure that if the defense line collapsed, the entire army would be killed.
It’s just that the Songjiang defenders had Tang swords, but the Japanese did not.
Tang Dao, who completely evaded the Japanese search by using the disguise of Li Taodaijiang, waited until about 11 o'clock in the evening before leaving the place and moving into the city.
He was very patient. Even when night shrouded the wilderness, his speed was astonishingly slow because he concluded that the Japanese army had not given up yet. Several huge searchlight beams were constantly shining into the wilderness. Their purpose was not to warn, but to capture the order.
Their helpless prey.
The trick of playing hard to get is a remnant of the Chinese ancestors' tricks, so it is naturally impossible for Tang Dao to make this mistake.
He was only 200 meters away from the city wall, but it took Tang Dao a full two hours until he submerged silently into the water of the moat.
The moat water was still full of floating corpses and smelled foul, but for Tang Dao, which was once full of internal organ fragments, it was already a rare spring. The smell on the body was still unpleasant, but compared to the previous stink that made the Japanese soldiers even
I can't help but want to hold it straight, it's already considered refreshing.
Fortunately, Tang Dao had the terrifying experience of staying in the sewer for two days and one night, which was completely bearable for him.
Overcoming disgusting smells and substances is one of the required subjects in special training.
It’s just that what allowed Tang Dao to finally escape on this battlefield was not just this kind of extremely rigorous psychological overcoming training.
Tang Dao’s guess was correct. The Japanese army, which searched the entire wilderness but could not find the target, still did not give up.
After the search team returned to the headquarters, at least 30 Japanese soldiers crept quietly into the wilderness under the cover of night. They were ordered to lurk in the wilderness, and their target was still the murderer of the division commander.
Although the sight is not good, they can listen, and any noise made in the silent wilderness will make it possible for them to find the target.
It’s not that Tokutaro Sakai, who issued this order, can be sure that the murderer is still there, but he must give an explanation to Yanagawa Heisuke, the North China Expeditionary Force Headquarters, and even the base camp on the island.
The army lieutenant general commanding an army of 30,000 people was among the army. The infiltrated gunmen came and took the general's head from the army. This was already jaw-dropping. In the end, even the murderer escaped. I'm afraid the entire army will become
A shame in Japanese military history.
So, even though he knew that this might still be a waste of manpower, Sakai Tokutaro could only do this.
What if?
It's a pity that he faced special warriors who were nearly a hundred years ahead of their time.
The strength of a professionally trained special warrior does not lie in his individual combat prowess or his unimaginable camouflage ability, but in the fact that he has in his mind the essence of various combat examples over the past century and the tricks the Japanese have played on the battlefield.
He basically knows everything.
This is the so-called information asymmetry, or in other words, the understanding of special tactics by both parties is not on the same dimension.
Tang Dao can also be regarded as a dimensionality reduction attack.
All the calculations of the Japanese Army Major General came to nothing.
Tang Dao, the ‘demon’ in the eyes of the vanished 36th Infantry Regiment, returned from the wilderness to the ruins of the city.
In order to lay out the fortifications in the city, Tang Dao walked all over the streets of Songjiang City. Tang Dao, who drew the defense map with his own hands, did not say that he knew this neighborhood well, but he still had a general impression, even though this place was unfamiliar to him.
It used to be a very strange city.
He didn’t know which area was occupied by the Japanese and which was occupied by the Chinese, but this did not prevent special soldiers carrying only a 38 bayonet from lurking around in this neighborhood.
Theoretically speaking, the further away from the front line, the more soldiers will relax their vigilance, especially after a day of fighting and they all have to wait until dawn with their eyes wide open.
The first to suffer was not the front-line Japanese troops, but the frontline command post of the 13th Infantry Regiment located at the rear.
A dignified Japanese military commander actually chose to establish his headquarters less than 300 meters away from the front line. You can imagine the Japanese army's desire to capture this ancient city.
Having such a desperate mentality is commendable, but he should not have established the headquarters in a heavy firepower point within a city wall that has not yet collapsed.
Although it can protect against the bombardment of various artillery.
Tang Dao determined his attack target based on the firelight shining in the wall hole.
However, the location of the headquarters with two infantry detachment guards is very special, and the defense is also very good. It is protected by two light machine guns and scattered field fortifications around it. Even with the power of Tang Dao, it cannot be defeated by oneself.
Break into its defensive circle and kill its commander.
Even though Tang Dao had seen at least half of the people dozing off.
As a result, a roar erupted from a Japanese position 150 meters away.
Then, the roar was suppressed by a gunshot.
The roar was made by a Japanese second lieutenant.
Having stayed up all night and almost constantly patrolling the defense line, the Japanese second lieutenant, who only took a short rest in the house for 15 minutes because of extreme exhaustion, smelled a strong smell of blood when he led a few soldiers to patrol the defense line again.
Under the light of the flashlight that was forced to be turned on, seven or eight corpses were lying scattered in a house.
The corpses of all remaining members of an infantry unit under his command after a daytime battle.
They fought bravely and skillfully. They did not die on the battlefield, but they quietly turned into cold corpses at the defense point.
How did the Chinese do it?
Of course the Japanese second lieutenant didn't know that China's thousands of years of inheritance are not just about culture. The various strange and obscene techniques of the underworld are enough for Western countries to regard them as the most magical magic. Medicines similar to the "Five Drums and Soul-Destroying Incense" are even from the future.
The special forces were amazed.
This is naturally the most suitable battlefield.
The Japanese soldiers who were already tortured by exhaustion and were dying of ecstasy didn't take the opportunity to meet Duke Zhou? They also paid a visit to Amaterasu.
I don’t know anything about it, except how could the Japanese second lieutenant, who was so frightened and angry, not let out a roar?
