Chapter 179: The Fall of the Two Master Regiments of the Battle of Wuhan (5)
Casualties were secondary, and the blow to the morale of the Japanese army brought by Jiang Spruce's blockade was the most important. The terrifying damage caused by the anti-aircraft machine gun not only frightened the 106th Division, but even Jiang Yunshan himself felt a chill on his back, and secretly admired in his heart that the commander was the commander, and this kind of damage was much more effective than the strike of artillery.
As a senior commander, Lieutenant General Junroku Matsuura was well aware of what was happening at the front, and when the Japanese soldiers who had been killed by anti-aircraft machine guns were carried off their positions, Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura went over to examine the wounds. Looking at the severed arms and the terrifying blood holes on the soldiers' bodies, Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura couldn't help but chill all over, he had been in the army for so many years, and he had never seen any weapon that could cause such serious damage, even the rum bullets banned by the international tribunal could not have such an effect, it seemed that the government of China had developed a new type of weapon with great lethality.
Knowing that it would not be possible to take advantage of the opposing Shina force by relying on ordinary combat methods alone, Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura immediately changed his tactics. Lieutenant General Junroku Matsuura found that the opposing Shina troops had fired only a few small-caliber mortars since the beginning of the war, and that large-caliber guns such as mountain artillery and field artillery had not been used once, and it seemed that the opposite Shina army was very short of artillery.
The enemy's flaws are his own strengths, and the art of war clouds: "Overcome the enemy's strengths with your own shortcomings, and be controlled by others." If you have your own strengths, you will control the enemy's shortcomings. "Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura's discovery suddenly felt that the future was bright, and you were a mysterious new weapon, but limited by national strength, you don't even have the most basic artillery, how can you compete with my dignified elite army of the Japanese Empire. Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura ordered all the troops of the 106th Division to concentrate all their artillery and shell the enemy on the opposite side at all costs. ”
I have to say that Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura hit this trick to the point, and the Jiang Spruce Division, which lacked artillery, was almost powerless to fight back under the blow of the Japanese army's large-scale artillery fire, and could only be beaten passively. But the casualties of a regiment were very small, Han Yunhua thought of this from the beginning, the Japanese army was determined to annihilate the troops who dared to tease them this time, and the main force of the division must all cross the river, although there are still some troops who have not yet gone ashore, and even some troops are still loading ships on the opposite shore, after all, the ships that the 106th Division can collect are very limited, and a division of more than 13,000 people cannot transport them all at once, so they can only be transported in batches. But for the sake of insurance and to strengthen the firepower of the beachhead, the 106th Field Artillery Wing of the 106th Division was one of the first units to be transported. On the contrary, because the artillery was really troublesome to transport, it was not suitable for guerrilla warfare at all, so Jiang Spruce only brought 8 small-caliber mortars this time.
But now even the 8 mortars have been destroyed by the Japanese army, so Jiang Yunshan's department is in a very embarrassing situation, but Han Yunhua has long expected that a regiment will suffer a loss in artillery, so he ordered the engineering regiment to repair more anti-artillery fortifications when building positions.
Although the continuous half-hour shelling did not cause many casualties to Jiang Spruce, the relatively complete fortifications were almost destroyed, the ground bunkers were razed to the ground, and there were craters left by the explosion of the shells everywhere.
In this half an hour, the Japanese army consumed no less than three tons of shells alone, and the soldiers had almost no ability to counterattack in such a dense artillery attack. Moreover, although the casualties caused by this shelling by the Japanese army were not very large, it also caused Jiang Spruce to lose more than 300 people.
But now the Japanese bayonets were about to reach the neck of Jiang Spruce's headquarters, and they could not withdraw for the time being, so they could only wait for the Japanese infantry to be repulsed and the artillery shelling would come before retreating. After the shelling, the commander of the 113th Infantry Wing, Kendaisa Iino, personally commanded a large group of infantry to touch Jiang Spruce's position.
He had been fighting with Jiang Spruce for three whole days, and Iino Kentensa also had some experience, knowing that the group-type wave charge that was customary in the Japanese army was useless against the opposing Chinese troops, and the charge of thousands of people in the face of dense firepower was just a joke and an extremely stupid thing to do, and the command sacrificed those excellent soldiers in vain. Although a great samurai is not afraid of death, a senseless death will only give the enemy a few days of victory. Therefore, Iino Kentensa ordered the troops to disperse and cautiously approach the position of Jiang Spruce's department. ,
The strange thing is that there was not the slightest movement in the opposite position, and not even a single soldier from the branch appeared, which was really strange. Could it be that they were all killed in the shelling? Kendai Iino thought so in his heart. But this is obviously impossible, according to the intensity of the firepower just fought, Iino Kentensa judged that the opposite Shina army also had at least 5,000 people, or even more, otherwise there would not be such a strong firepower. Although Iino Kentensa also believed that under such a dense artillery attack, the Shina army would definitely suffer heavy losses, but the military common sense he had told him that it was impossible for such a large Shina army to be completely killed.
100 meters...... Eighty meters ......... Fifty meters......... Thirty meters.......
Just as Iino Kentensa secretly laughed at himself for being too cautious, the Chinese position, which had not moved, suddenly revealed a huge number of black hole muzzles, and before the soldiers of the 113th Infantry Wing could react, thousands of rifle machine guns opened fire at the same time, and the powerful firepower suddenly tore apart the troops of the 113th Infantry Wing's First Brigade of less than 1,000 people, and hundreds of soldiers fell in a pool of blood at the same time as the gunshots rang out. Kendai Iino ordered in horror: "Retreat, retreat quickly.......... .......... quickly"
In fact, without the order of the wing captain Kendai Iino Kentensa, the devils will automatically retreat, and no fool will charge forward under such dense firepower, and the huge damage shown by the terrifying new weapons of the opposite Shina troops gives the devil soldiers a huge sense of fear in their hearts, death is nothing to the Japanese army poisoned by the evil bushido theory, but it was cut in two, the limbs were directly dismembered, and the head wearing a steel helmet was beaten into a rotten watermelon...... Such a way of dying is terrifying.
From the binoculars, the commander of the 106th Field Artillery Wing, Uga Takenakasa, saw countless warriors of the Japanese Empire who had been killed on the way back, and some were directly crushed. Feeling frightened in his heart and extremely angry at the same time, he loudly ordered the artillerymen in his department: "Baga, quickly open the cannon, open the cannon, open the cannon, and shoot all the shells for me." ”
The sound of artillery continued to sound, and the violent explosion exploded on the position of the Chinese troops, and with the help of these smoke and dust, Jiang Spruce's troops quickly completed the task of retreating, only leaving hundreds of thousands of firecrackers on the position where they hissed.
The shelling lasted longer, more than 40 minutes, and did not stop until all the 7 tons of shells had been exhausted. After the shelling was followed by the same procedure, the infantry groped their way forward to attack and occupy the enemy's positions.
It was as silent as ever, but this time none of the devils would believe that the opposing Shina troops were all killed, they always appeared in unexpected places for the Yamato warriors, and did not hesitate to shoot at the unsuspecting warriors, each time causing huge casualties.
100 meters...... Eighty meters ......... Fifty meters......... Thirty meters.......
But this time, until the devil approached the position less than thirty meters, the Chinese position was still quiet, and the invisible pressure was slowly spreading in the Japanese army, and no one dared to rush up at a distance of thirty meters, and of course no one dared to retreat.
Just when all the Japanese soldiers couldn't bear to see a tragedy, the private suddenly shouted loudly: "Eight grid tooth road, no one, empty, eight grid tooth road........."
Hearing the call of this private, although Iino Kendai couldn't believe it, but seeing the lively and good private, Iino Kendai decided to send an infantry squad up to see the situation.
When the squad leader, who secretly sighed in his heart that he was unlucky, took his subordinates into the position of Jiang Yunshan and the others, he was surprised to find that there was not a single soldier here, only hundreds of corpses lying on the ground.
Kendai Iino counted a total of 321 corpses of the Shina army, but this was obviously not all the Shina soldiers, so it was really very cunning to say that the cunning Shina army must have fled before the second shelling, making the Japanese Empire consume four tons of shells in vain.
In the first battle, the 106th Division of the Japanese Army was completely at a disadvantage, with 1,876 casualties, more than five times the casualties of Jiang Spruce's division. Such a result is undesirable for the entire 106th Division, especially the extremely conceited Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura, looking at the more than 9,000 people who have crossed the shore of Poyang Lake, Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura is angry, and loudly reprimanded: "Rice bucket, big rice bucket, even a small infantry division of Shina can't solve it, it's really an insult to the honor of the Japanese emperor." I am ashamed of the troops I lead, you are not worthy of a soldier of the Great Japanese Empire.........."
After scolding for a while, Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura's anger subsided slightly, and he said with some sadness: "There is an old saying in Shina: Shame and courage, which means that only when you know your shame can you exert your strength and courage. Our 106th Division has suffered such a huge humiliation, and we can't just forget it, even if we fight all the people in our department, we must completely wipe out the branch that gave us great humiliation. Ladies and gentlemen, after all the troops of our department have been transported ashore, you must show your true level and annihilate that hateful Chinese army, Matsuura has asked everyone. ”
When the Japanese officers heard the words of the division commander, they could stand it, and they immediately became angry, and they threatened to fight to the death with the 66th Army.