Chapter Ninety-Four: Assault from the Air (I)
They are the 11th Infantry Brigade: Brigade Commander Major General Tokutaro Shisai, under the jurisdiction of the 13th Infantry Wing and the 47th Infantry Wing. The 36th Brigade: Brigade Commander Major General Mitsuru Nakajima, under the jurisdiction of the 23rd Infantry Wing and the 45th Infantry Wing, as well as the 6th Cavalry Wing, the 6th Field Artillery Wing, the 6th Engineer Wing, the 6th Baggage Regiment, the Signal Corps, and the Sanitary Corps: 1st to 4th Field Hospitals.
The division is organized into a four-unit system, that is, the division has two brigades under its jurisdiction, and two infantry wings under the brigade and regiment, and the infantry wing has three infantry brigades, four infantry squadrons, one machine gun squadron (eight heavy machine guns), one artillery squadron (two 70mm infantry guns), three infantry squadrons under the infantry squadron, one machine gun group (two light machine guns), one grenadier group (two grenadiers) and two rifle groups. The division also has an artillery wing, a baggage wing, an engineer wing, a cavalry company (four cavalry squadrons and a machine gun squadron), and other units. At this time, the division was divided into two types, one was the pack horse system, the artillery wing had four brigades (36 75mm mountain guns and 12 75mm field guns), and the infantry wing had an artillery squadron (four mountain guns) and an infantry artillery squadron (four infantry guns), with a total establishment of 28,500 people.
Compared with the Chinese army, the firepower of the sixth division is not known how many times stronger, especially in terms of artillery, but compared to the German army, it is a small sample, it is not worth mentioning at all, the largest caliber artillery of the sixth division is only 75 mm, in the German army, that is the configuration of regimental artillery, the divisional artillery is at least 105 guns, not to mention the 120 and 150 guns of the corps, and the accuracy and range of the Japanese artillery cannot be compared with the German artillery at all, not at the same level.
Hartmann led two large groups of planes directly to the position of the Sixth Division, and the reconnaissance planes quickly reported the specific location of the Japanese artillery group, and the distance from the airfield to the Japanese position was only 80 kilometers, and it took 10 minutes to arrive.
The division commander of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army is Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba, at more than five o'clock this morning, Shiro Inaba found that there was movement on the opposite side of the national army, but Inaba Shiro did not think that the national army was preparing to attack him, he thought that it was the 74th Army of the national army that was defending in front of him to replenish the troops, and it was the same before, the timid Chinese army always quietly replenished its troops at night, so Inaba Shiro did not care about the movement of the national army.
When Li Mo and the others led the troops to quickly intersperse from the outer defense line of Nanjing, Inaba Shiro realized that there were actually two national army troops trying to surround him, Inaba Shiro's first reaction was not to retreat, but to immediately transfer troops from the left and right flanks to attack at the same time, intending to defeat the enemy on both flanks at the same time, Inaba Shiro's order was just issued not long ago, and the troops he ordered to be mobilized were only halfway through, the order of the Shanghai Dispatch Army Headquarters came, the headquarters ordered them to hold on to the spot for a week, and Inaba Shiro immediately changed the deployment.
However, the change of orders will inevitably cause a certain amount of confusion, and besides, there are more than 20,000 people in a division of the Japanese army, distributed in an area of nearly 30 square kilometers, and the troops are extremely scattered.
As soon as Hartmann arrived above the Japanese position, he found that the Japanese army was moving on a large scale, about the strength of a wing of the Japanese army, about 4,000 people, such a dense march of the Japanese army, Hartmann would definitely not let go, Hartman immediately divided twenty bombers and twenty BF109 fighters, to attack the Japanese troops who moved, and it was certain to inflict heavy losses on them, the key was to prevent them from reaching the designated combat position and create fighters for the attacking troops of the Flying Eagle Regiment.
What Hartmann saw was that the Japanese army was shrinking. The troops carried out below were the 23rd Wing of the Japanese Army, the brigade commander Major General Nakajima Mitsuru led the brigade headquarters to follow the action, the distance was not far, only five kilometers, the time given by the division commander Inaba Shiro was thirty minutes, and the rapid march could also be rushed, and the artillery of the Japanese wing was not much, only eight 75 mm cannons, which would not bring much burden to the march.
Just after the brigade commander, Major General Nakajima, led people out of the position about two kilometers, a large number of planes suddenly appeared in the air, and Nakajima Mitsuru thought it was his own plane, because since the beginning of the Songhu battlefield, very few Chinese fighters could fly to the heads of the Japanese army, and when the group of planes in the sky smashed the bombs down on the marching troops, Nakajima Mitsuru realized that this was a Chinese plane.
Bombs rained down, followed by a continuous burst of violent explosions, and in the long marching column of the Japanese army, countless gunpowder smoke rose into the sky, among which the stumps and severed arms of the Japanese soldiers were also carried into the air by the gunpowder smoke, and the Japanese who were not killed were crying wolves on the ground.
Hartmann first let the bombers carry out horizontal bombing, and the bombers that followed Hartmann were all Soviet light bombers, with a bomb load of only 1.5 tons, slightly more than 500 kilograms more than JU87, and the bombs carried by these bombers were all 10 kilograms of bombs, one plane was 150 bombs, and 20 planes were 3,000 10-kilogram aerial bombs. A 10-kilogram bomb can blow up a large crater five meters wide and three meters deep, and a radius of 30 meters is the absolute killing distance, that is to say, within a distance of 30 meters, whether you are standing or lying down, the shock wave and shock wave will rupture your internal organs and bleed to death.
The Japanese army's anti-aircraft firepower was extremely poor, and it was on the march, so it was completely chaotic, and all the Japanese troops were like headless flies scurrying around, and they were using it again? Useless, Hartmann let Soviet bombers carry out carpet bombing. Little Japan could not escape, and it would be torn to pieces by aerial bombs falling from the sky, and it would fall mixed with dirt.
The brigade commander, Major General Nakajima, quickly fled into a ditch under the protection of the guards, and several guards pounced on Nakajima's body with their bodies, Nakajima was almost suffocated, but Nakajima did not complain about his guards, they were also protecting their lives. Just after Nakajima escaped into a ditch, the violent explosion came from far and near, Nakajima was lying at the bottom of the dry ditch, the vibration from the explosion could make Nakajima clearly feel the vibration from the ground, which made Nakajima feel that his internal organs were almost about to split, but fortunately, this kind of vibration was only the strongest from the last two or three bombs, and soon this vibration gradually disappeared.
After the bomber flew over the ditch where Nakajima was hiding, the remnants of the Japanese army immediately pulled Major General Nakajima out, but Nakajima had already woken up from a coma, and several personnel of the brigade headquarters hurriedly pinched Nakajima Man's Renchu, which made Nakajima wake up leisurely.
"Quick, quickly count the losses and organize air defense."
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