Yes, on this late autumn night when the moon was first dark and the wind was high, and then the bright moon was in the sky, the rumbling artillery fire resounded for more than three hours on the position originally belonging to the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade of the Tenth Army of the Japanese North China Expeditionary Force.
Voice.
From a distance, the cannonballs piercing the sky were like meteors racing across the sky and then falling.
However, only those on the battlefield can see the brilliant fireworks after the fall.
In the words of Lao Wang, who volunteered to lead an infantry company of the 43rd Army to accompany two infantry regiments to participate in the war: "I insist on getting what I have. If I have this thing in future wars, the Japanese are just a loser!"
The infantry regiment of the 18th Division, which was very resistant, ran away after being ravaged by the second round of artillery fire for half an hour.
In the face of heavy artillery, the Japanese army, like their former opponents, used their will and body to fight, but in the end they found that the fight was ineffective.
There is just one thing that is different from their opponents. Their opponents have no retreat. If they retreat, they will die!
So, the Japanese army ran away!
Under the heavy artillery fire, they were like lost dogs, throwing away all the heavy equipment they couldn't take away, and moved closer to the main force of the 18th Division.
The two infantry regiments that had retreated three kilometers away did not pursue them, not because they had to appreciate the rare opportunity to see the power of their own artillery fire, but because they had a more important task, welcoming the advance regiment that was about to break out of the encirclement and return to the defense line.
Although the three commanders Wu, Guo and Gu were on three battlefields, they all sent messages to the commanders of the two infantry regiments belonging to the 108th Division of the 67th Army and the 128th Division of the Hunan Army, ordering them to receive Tang Dao and the advance guard.
regiment, before receiving them, if the Japanese army attacks, they must guard this path that the advance regiment must pass, even if all two infantry regiments are wiped out.
Sacrifice of 3,000 or more people for those 3,000 people was a paradox in terms of tactical arrangements, but the two army colonels rarely felt resentful, especially after witnessing the non-stop shelling for almost an hour and a half.
After causing an infantry regiment of the Japanese army to abandon its position.
In particular, the colonel commander of the 128th Division of the Hunan Army wanted to see the legendary lieutenant colonel commander of the Sixings Battalion with his own eyes. He wanted to see whether he had three heads and six arms or a heart with seven orifices. Otherwise, what would happen to him?
Achieve the goal of killing a heavy artillery brigade and using heavy artillery to defeat the Japanese.
Don't talk about them anymore. When Lieutenant General Guo smiled and handed him a message from Tang Dao to the Jiashan Defense Line General Headquarters: "The goal has been achieved, the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade has been completely wiped out, and our advance regiment is ready to go first."
Use the captured heavy artillery to bombard the 36th Infantry Brigade in front of our blocking position, and then use heavy artillery to bombard the Japanese troops deployed by the Japanese invaders to intercept our unit. I hope the commander can provide the accurate coordinates of the Japanese army. The coordinates of our artillery position are ", which happens to be from the front line.
When the 128th Division Lieutenant General Gu Jiaqi returned to the headquarters, he was numb at the time.
This bragging is so awesome, it’s so awesome!
The annihilation of the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade was already a shocking miracle. By tomorrow morning, it would definitely shock both China and Japan.
As a Hunan Army lieutenant general who had lived and died with Wu and Guo for a week at the Jiashan Defense Line against the Japanese invaders, he still knew enough about his two colleagues. One had a fiery personality, while the other was calm and restrained. They had different personalities.
But people have one thing in common - pragmatism.
The two generals, who were respectively from the Northeastern Army and the Sichuan Army, never played any pretense or tried to save face. Even the deadly battle between the Jiashan Defense Line and the Japanese 18th Division was not like what was advertised in outside newspapers.
In this way, in order to cover the retreating army from Jiashan, an infantry corps of the Northeast Army plus a Sichuan Army division and a Hunan Army division were determined to coexist with the defense line.
From the beginning, these two men were thinking about how to get the first army and two divisions out of here alive and fight to the death with the Japanese army. They just hoped to use the solid defense line to consume the Japanese army. Otherwise, with the mobility of the 18th Division, only a few people would be left.
Unless they abandon all their heavy equipment, the 30,000 people carrying a hundred packhorses will never be able to escape the pursuit of the Japanese army.
But without artillery and with only light machine guns left, can the army still have combat effectiveness? The two lieutenant generals want to leave this irreparable battlefield, but they want to evacuate, not escape. Although there is only one word difference, it is
It's the essential difference.
But how could two such pragmatic people believe such a ridiculous telegram? Seeing both of them smiling broadly, Mr. Gu could tell with his heels how much they trusted Tang Dao's telegram.
But it was really unbelievable. He didn't know about the surprise attack on the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade until the evening. It was like a dream. Even now, he was fighting to the death with the 18th Division on the opposite side.
I was worried about that fanciful plan.
In the end, Tang Dao was lucky. Not only did he claim to have taken down the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade, but he also came to control the captured heavy artillery to bombard the Japanese army. Did he think he was leading a group of artillerymen to fight?
"Haha! Brother Gu, I know it's hard for you to believe it for a while, but if what this guy Tang Dao said is true, won't you wait until you read the telegram sent to you by your subordinate?" Lieutenant General Wu
Seeing this fierce general brother receiving the message, he was dumbfounded and couldn't help laughing. "However, I have to remind you, this guy is amazing. Even the Japanese Navy's fighter jet formation suffered heavy losses under his hands. Japan has suffered a lot these days."
There aren’t as many naval bombers as you thought, right?”
"What? He even brought down the kid's plane? Is that what happened?"
In order not to stimulate the Japanese navy to go crazy, the military and political department did not report the great air battle that broke out a week ago with great fanfare. That is, each army and division reported the results internally. However, this kind of false reporting of results to boost morale was of great concern to future frontline personnel.
It had been commonplace for a long time, so I didn't take it too seriously, let alone understand that the instigator of this battle was a small army lieutenant colonel.
Of course, no one at the Songjiang headquarters or the theater headquarters mentioned Tang Dao's name. The former was out of the mentality of protecting the treasure of Tang Dao, while the latter was because there were too many people who needed to share the military exploits.
Army lieutenant colonel is not ranked.
"Hey, what else?" Lieutenant General Guo, who was always calm over there, also made a witty remark.
The fierce division commander who personally led the escort team to participate in the night attack on the Japanese army was completely petrified.
However, no matter what the two lieutenant generals said, seeing is believing. When the division commander of the Hunan Army, who returned to the front line, received a message from his regimental commander: "Master, our artillery is so powerful!", he stood stunned.
After a while, the order was returned: "You must guard the return route of the advance team for me. I must see Tang Dao with my own eyes."
It is said that the two translators from the 128th Division Headquarters and the subordinate regiment scratched their heads for a long time in order to correctly translate the two words "Te Liang" that can express the emotions of the officers, and finally miraculously reached a tacit understanding.
The Chinese command received a definite answer in disbelief, and their morale was boosted, so they were naturally more determined.
On the Japanese side, Ushijima Sadao, the supreme commander of the Jiashan area, also experienced disbelief before finally accepting it.
The broken message from the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade was on his desk, and the message from the 36th Infantry Brigade and the infantry regiment under his command that it was hit by heavy artillery shelling hit his already extremely fragile nerves like a storm.
But what can Ushijima Sadao do? He only has 20,000 people, and there are also more than 20,000 Chinese people on the opposite side who are determined to bite him. That army can defeat the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade and beat the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade.
The combat effectiveness of the 36th Infantry Brigade can be imagined. Now it still has heavy artillery. Should he deploy an infantry regiment or an infantry brigade to take the beating?
Everything can only wait until daybreak. The heavy artillery crisis can be solved with the help of air superiority. If the crazy Chinese on the opposite side do not withdraw their defense line, the division's artillery wing can also use artillery to drive them back. By then, he will mobilize his troops.
Surround and kill that Chinese army.
Therefore, the exhausted Japanese Army Lieutenant General chose to ignore it for the time being.
Ignore the opponent's heavy artillery, ignore the erosion of several battlefields on your own side, and concentrate on what's in front of you.
The explanation of this psychology in modern language is: as long as I don't feel pain, others will suffer.
