Chapter 119 The Japanese Army Not to Be Underestimated
In the area of Huishan Wharf, all of them are tall buildings, the lowest is two floors, and the highest can be six floors, and the terrain is more complex than that of the Zhigong Yarn Factory and the Tiantongan Naval Headquarters.
Don't look at the Japanese army with only more than 1,000 soldiers left, and under this kind of terrain, sometimes the number of people does not represent anything at all, and it is possible that ten little devils of the Japanese army can block a company with the advantage of terrain and firepower.
This is not true at all, the attacking side of the city is the most at a loss, especially when the enemy is on guard, and it is possible to enter it only if it is several times the manpower of the locality.
The commander of the 87th Division is called Ren Jiaming, a northerner in his thirties, who has been with Zai Yao Bingbing for six or seven years.
The commander of the 88th Division is called Zhang Mengfei, 32 years old, a native of the Northeast, this person belongs to the Northeast Army, and was later assigned to the Central Army, belonging to the 88th Division, and is also a soldier and a ruthless man.
After the two arrived at the area where the Japanese Concession had not been swept away, they briefly discussed it, and acted in two directions, one from the west and the other from the east, and finally gathered in front of the Huishan Wharf to launch a general attack.
Let's talk about the location of the 87th Regiment first, Ren Jiaming, as a veteran, has a very good understanding of the terrain, and after arriving at the area where the Japanese army may exist, Ren Jiaming first sent a scout to explore the surrounding environment, and the scout probed two kilometers forward, saying that he did not find the Japanese army.
Then Ren Jiaming asked the soldiers of a company to push forward two kilometers, occupy the high point, and after confirming that there was no problem, they advanced with all their staff.
Ten minutes later, Ren Jiaming and the others arrived at the designated place, and then ordered the scouts to continue the exploration, and thirty scouts, in groups of five, continued to explore in six directions.
This time, less than two minutes after the scouts went out, a gunshot rang out, and the little devil took the initiative to be exposed.
After Ren Jiaming discerned the direction, he immediately made a combat deployment: "The first battalion bypassed from the left side, the second battalion advanced frontally, and the third battalion cut off the back road of the little devil from the right side, everyone, go at full speed."
"Yes!" After the three battalion commanders received the order, they immediately led people to start the operation.
The place where the first battalion walked was surrounded by various buildings and paths, each path could accommodate up to five people advancing at the same time, and the people of the first battalion were ambushed by the little devils as soon as they stepped here.
First of all, the mines laid out on the ground exploded one after another, followed by the appearance of little devils on various buildings and from various alleys, and for a time there were loud gunfires.
Seeing this situation, the commander of the first battalion thought that he had fallen into the encirclement of the enemy, and was afraid that the losses would be too great, so he hurriedly ordered a retreat, and did not organize an effective counterattack at all.
In fact, there are not many little devils, at most 100 people, but the little devils are well equipped in advance, and the number of people is relatively scattered, so the position of the bullets is also relatively wide, which creates the illusion that the number of little devils is relatively large.
The situation between the third battalion and the first battalion was similar, and the commander of the third battalion did not panic after seeing this situation, and he made two plans, the first was to arrange for people to occupy the nearby high ground first, and second, to arrange for a company of fighters to try to clash with the encirclement, and then fight back.
But the little devil has been prepared for a long time, and the roads along the way are laid out
Lei, the first company finally broke through, and when he tried to fight back, the little devil retreated directly, which made the commander of the third battalion choked enough, and he felt like a punch on the cotton, and he was aggrieved.
Two kilometers, the third battalion encountered two such blitzkriegs, and the annoyance of being harassed by the little devils greatly delayed the marching speed of the third battalion.
The second battalion that advanced head-on, but there was no such trouble, they encountered a well-prepared Japanese army, more than ten meters wide road, three Japanese tanks side by side, after the face, without saying a word, it was to open fire, the infantry behind and the back of the tank put cold guns, at the same time, the little devils who occupied the roof early also began to greet with machine guns, double-sided flanking.
At the cost of dozens more lives, the Japanese tanks were destroyed, followed by Japanese fortifications and a machine-gun position.
After thirty minutes of fierce fighting, the 2nd Battalion retreated.
According to later statistics, the number of little devils blocking the three battalions did not exceed 500.
The second time, the 1st and 2nd Battalions attacked together, and the little devils pretended to be defeated and retreated, and the 1st and 2nd Battalions encountered several minefields and machine-gun arrays in pursuit.
The Japanese army is such a way of fighting, guerrilla warfare plus blitzkrieg, from time to time to ambush, relying on the advantage of the position to fight a wave of strong attacks at every turn, taking advantage of the advantage and continuing to fight, not taking advantage of the immediate retreat, from beginning to end is to rely on the advance arrangement to fight again, while Ren Jiaming and others have been following the rhythm of the little devil.
Three hours after the start of the war, as of about one o'clock in the morning, Ren Jiaming and others only suppressed three kilometers forward, and suffered heavy losses.
On the other hand, Zhang Mengfei's encounter was similar to that of Ren Jiaming and others, constantly harassed by little devils, and they were all small-scale little devils, and finally broke through the opponent's defense line, the other party retreated directly and stopped fighting, this kind of play made Ren Jiaming and Zhang Nengfei have a headache.
At half past one in the morning, Ren Jiaming and Zhang Mengfei met and decided to ignore others and run directly to Huishan Wharf at the fastest speed to fight a decisive battle.
Subsequently, the two regiments mixed together, and chose a route with relatively few high-rise buildings and a relatively wide road to attack Huishan Wharf.
At half past one in the morning, they encountered Japanese troops, and then attacked.
The Japanese dispatched five tanks and two machine-gun teams, and fought fiercely with the two regiments with the help of fortifications and geographical conditions.
After two hours of fierce fighting, two regiments and six tanks were destroyed by a suicide attack organized by the Japanese army, and then another Japanese army, numbering 30 people, formed a suicide bomb and launched a suicide attack on the two regiments.
After three hours of fierce fighting, the two regiments were forced to evacuate due to heavy casualties.
The Japanese army had 500 men, and by virtue of its geographical superiority, heavy firepower, and deadly fighting methods, the two regiments of 3,000 people dragged stubbornly could not get close to each other.
At five o'clock in the morning, there was a temporary truce between the two sides.
When the first half of the Japanese concession was attacked, two divisions advanced together, and it took two Japanese strongholds after a night of fierce fighting, annihilating two-thirds of the Japanese army.
After the second half of the Japanese concession, because it was necessary to deploy defenses to the whole of Shanghai to prevent the sudden arrival of Japanese reinforcements, they sent more than twice as many people as the Japanese army to attack.
It can be seen from this that the Japanese army's military quality and troop coordination ability are higher than those of the national army.
At six o'clock in the morning, Zheng Long was woken up by the signal soldier, and then hurried to Yao Bingbing's office.