Chapter 30: Counter-Charge
Due to the increasing number of reinforcements from the Yue Army, the Huaxia Army, which had the upper hand at first, suddenly changed from the attacking side to the defensive side, and the reinforced troops landed near Yangshupu on the 22nd, seriously threatening the flank of the Ninth Army, and the counterattack was suspended.
After entering the position, it can indeed be seen how badly the battle was here, a regiment of the 88th Division, a full 2,000 people, only held this position for five days, but when Su Dao's Reading Regiment replaced them, this regiment was left with less than 500 people, and a large part of them were wounded.
"Tuanza, I checked just now, the army did not use chemical weapons, but it is too dangerous here, no matter what kind of naval artillery the army has, it can directly send shells to our heads, and the pressure will be great if we defend." Liu Sanpao, as the company commander of the third battalion, naturally served as the commander of the first battalion after the third battalion was expanded into a reading regiment.
Now there are more than 3,500 members of the Reading Force, which is more than 1,000 people more than other regiments, but this can't be blamed on Su Dao, who let the above not make it clear, among the 3,000 soldiers given to Su Dao, 500 of them are supplementary soldiers, and they cannot be counted in the establishment of the Reading Force, so the record of the Reading Force Regiment in Nanjing is about 3,000 people, not 3,500 people. On the other hand, Su Dao directly formed these 500 soldiers into a four-battalion and directly incorporated them into the establishment of the Reading Regiment.
"Well, the army's naval artillery is indeed a threat to us." Su Dao nodded slowly, even if Su Dao was not familiar with history, he still knew a little about the famous Battle of Songhu.
Su Dao vaguely remembered that there were two main reasons why the Chinese defenders were so badly defeated in the Battle of Songhu, one was that the naval artillery of the Yue army could cover almost all the positions of the Chinese defenders, while the Chinese defenders could not solve the threat of the Japanese naval guns, and there were many soldiers who died under the guns of the Yue warships.
The second is that the army used chemical weapons that exterminated people's surnames in the war, although the army did not see the Chinese defenders and first released poison gas, but when encountering difficult bones, the army will still give priority to the use of chemical weapons, otherwise, even if the army is all armed with the most advanced weapons, no matter how much with the help of naval artillery, it is impossible to cause such huge losses to the Chinese army.
Holding the position is indeed a little difficult for Su Dao, the reading regiment has white phosphorus bombs, but the army has naval artillery, and the infantry will definitely carry out large-scale artillery bombardment before attacking, but Su Dao's mortars cannot send white phosphorus bombs to two kilometers away.
After thinking about it for a long time, Su Dao finally made a bold decision, at this moment he brought into full play the talents of an excellent commander, although he did not go to any military school, nor did he command any troops to fight, but just by virtue of his identity as a thief, he can live to this day, and escape the pursuit of any national secret service, it is enough to show that he is excellent. And the choice that Su Dao is about to make will be used as a classic case by various universities around the world to learn.
Su Dao looked at the large battle map in front of him, his current location was Zhabei, and the battle line of the 88th Division was from Zhabei to Jiangwan, and then to the area of Miaohang, although the current situation seemed to be extremely unfavorable to the Huaxia defenders, because a large number of reinforcements from the Yue Army had landed from Yangshupu not long ago.
It was the arrival of these reinforcements that forced the 88th Division to retreat the defensive line to Zhabei. If Su Dao's Reading Force Regiment advanced forward at this moment, it would be better to say that it would be able to repel the enemy, but once it failed, the entire 88th Division would face the danger of being surrounded or even annihilated.
At about three o'clock in the morning, Su Dao got up early, and after first calling the soldiers of the cooking squad to cook, Su Dao continued to run back to the regiment headquarters alone and stare back and forth at the combat map. For Su Dao, and indeed for the entire Shanghai Huaxia garrison, this battle was crucial, and if it was successful, the impact would be huge.
About an hour later, after Su Dao confirmed that the three were correct, he went to call the battalion commanders under him to get up, and then it was time to have dinner and gather the troops.
Half an hour later, all the 3,500 members of the reading group have all finished breakfast and assembled, today, is destined to be a day that will change the fate of China, although I don't know how much can be changed, but there will still be changes.
Not much to say, after seeing that the troops were assembled, Su Dao directly called the four battalion commanders under him and told them in detail about his combat intentions, and then under the surprise of everyone, the entire reading regiment began to attack on all fronts.
Just blindly guarding the position in front of him, sooner or later the troops will be exhausted here, and the blow to the Yue army is only limited, and now the entire 88th Division is worried that the Yue Junhui who landed from Yangshupu will break through Zhabei, thus forcing the 88th Division to fall into danger, but Su Dao is to be in danger and destroy all the enemies in front of him.
'Smack'!
Suddenly there was a gunshot in the night, which was particularly harsh, that kind of unique sound, the veterans who had fought with the army knew that it was the sound of the 38 big cover, obviously, the soldiers of the reading group who were sneaking in the night were discovered by the secret sentry of the army.
"Destroy the enemy in front of you, artillery company, lock on to the camp of the army, and get ten white phosphorus bombs." After the sneak attack failed, he could only attack, and after the Yue army discovered the figure of the Reading Force, Su Dao did not think about it, nor did he worry, and directly ordered the soldiers in front to kill the secret post of the Yue army, and then ordered the artillery company behind to give the Yue army some white phosphorus bombs.
This time in the battle, Su Dao took him by surprise, crushing all the enemies with lightning speed, and before the enemy could react, the soldiers' bullets were already sent into their chests. In fact, this is also the infantry blitzkrieg brewed by Su Dao, although it is a bit of a stealing German meaning, but who makes the Germans only a theory now, and has not played a blitzkrieg.
'Tong, Tong, Tong! ’
The artillery company, which had long known the location of the barracks, directly adjusted the angle of the gun, and without saying a word, directly sent the white phosphorus shells into the barrel, and the clear sound came one after another, and no one knew in the dark night that what was above their heads was about to lead to a disaster.
'Boom, boom, boom!' ’
The white phosphorus bomb suddenly exploded in mid-air, emitting white fireworks that illuminated the earth. The soldiers of the Reading Regiment did not waste this opportunity, although the white phosphorus bomb is a weapon of mass destruction, but at night, it can also be used as a flare, the clear sky, under the leadership of the veterans of the original third battalion, bursts of gunfire immediately came from the Garand rifles in their hands, and one bullet after another was ruthlessly sent into the enemy's body.