Chapter Eighty-Eight: Defeat

In the middle of the night. The bombardment effect of the heavy artillery was very terrifying, seeing huge fireballs rising one after another, and then a deafening explosion sound, many devils were so frightened that their faces were colorless, and their eyes were full of panic. Under the bombardment of this kind of heavy artillery, no matter what your identity is, no matter how strong your personal martial arts are, there is only one end - death.

Before starting the offensive, the devils of the 10th Wing were not afraid of death. It's not that they're not afraid of death, it's that they firmly believe that it's their opponents who die. This kind of self-confidence is based on rich experience in fighting the enemy and long-term victories. However, when they found that the enemy on the other side was not as unbearable as they were under mortar volleys, and when they found that their comrades around them had drastically decreased, their eyes began to shrink, their hearts began to beat violently, their legs became heavy, and their minds returned to normal—they finally remembered that they were human beings, and they would die too.

The shelling did not last long. The mortar units of the Japanese army have long been transferred, and this round of shelling is not destined to have any substantial effect. Of course, if the artillery fire extends another 500 meters or so to the northwest, then there will be a good show. There, the main forces of the 10th Division lurked.

The two warring sides are fighting each other on the river beach, and the shelling will definitely cause accidental injuries. After Ye Zhao observed the effect of the shelling through the telescope, he ordered to stop firing the artillery and quickly shift the position.

He did this to prevent retaliation from the Japanese artillery on the other side. The number of Japanese troops on the other side of the river is clearly that there is already a wing, and according to common sense, the Japanese army has never had the habit of using a wing as a separate combat unit. Then, if it is a detachment, then there should be at least one wing and a considerable number of artillery - Ye Zhao instinctively thought, and when the word "detachment" popped out of his mind, his heart moved, and he suddenly remembered the name "Botian Detachment". The 11th Army of the Japanese Army, only the Botian detachment was left before it entered the battlefield, Ye Zhao did not know that the Ludao General Headquarters had successfully adopted the "Shuangcao Plan" against it, and the Botian detachment was now actually abandoned. He thought about it along this line of thought, and the more he thought about it, the more reasonable he felt - this Japanese army that suddenly appeared should be the Hatada detachment. And in the information provided earlier by the command, the Hatada detachment had three brigades of artillery units.

The artillery units of three brigades can already determine the success or failure of a battle. If it weren't for Chi Guanxing suddenly offering these cannons, Ye Zhao wouldn't dare to imagine that he still had the capital to argue with the little devils? And now, as long as he firmly holds these heavy artillery from the 106th Division in his hands, then the Japanese artillery will not dare to act rashly. In this way, the 36th Brigade has the capital to fight with the Botian detachment.

Although the shells fired from the other side did not cause any damage to the Japanese troops, they were demoralized by the devil soldiers of the 10th Wing. As for the devils lurking thousands of kilometers away from the battlefield, an ominous feeling suddenly rose in their hearts.

Before Maehara Shengmin led the troops to attack, he was full of belief in victory, and even had the feeling of playing with the Jiangbei Scholar Army in applause. However, the offense was not as smooth as he had imagined, no, not at all. The battle had only been going on for a long time, and there were already more than two squadrons of dead soldiers. What made him uneasy was that when he felt that victory was in sight and took a good look at the game of cat and mouse, there were actually two heavy artillery units of more than two brigades on the opposite bank. The king of artillery hundred-step warfare, and what is even more serious is that he does not have an artillery unit with him. In other words, in the event of an artillery battle, your side will only be beaten and will not be able to fight back.

"There is a mistake in judging the strength of the Zhina people, there are two artillery brigades, so the Cadet Corps of the department should be about one division - but, when our army hit a mortar salvo just now, why didn't the Zhina people retaliate with artillery? Could it be that the former Hara Shengmin thought so, and suddenly feared: the Shina artillery on the other side should be waiting for our artillery to appear! Absolutely, yes! They are waiting for a preemptive strike. Of course, there is another possibility, this student soldier on the north shore is simply a decoy, they are luring a large force of the imperial army to show up - "The commander of the people of China is also a ruthless character!" can sit and watch his subordinates encounter a mortar salvo and hold back - at this moment, it depends on which side of the two sides can withstand the pressure and force the other party to show his hole cards first. Once the hole cards are seen through by the other party, the opponent can calmly lay out, and there will be no suspense about the outcome of this battle! Perhaps, in the vicinity, they still have a large number of troops hidden—" Maehara continued to ponder along these lines, and suddenly smiled bitterly as he thought about it. Obviously, Commander Nishio saw this and did not move, but in this way, he pushed our 10th Wing to the top of the volcano - although the 10th Wing had the advantage in strength, its weapons and equipment and fighting will were inferior to those of the Cadet Army. Moreover, the 10th Wing was on the besieged side, and when the enemy was on both sides, the devils of the two brigades in the middle of the queue did not know how many enemies were attacking them, and they began to become confused and unconsciously moved closer to the northwest, that is, they wanted to get closer to the main army when the battle was unfavorable. On the battlefield, the emotions of the soldiers can be contagious to each other, not to mention a brigade behind the pad, they only resisted for five minutes and then couldn't stand it, and retreated like a tide, and the two brigades that served as the main attack had suffered heavy casualties, and now under the influence of the devils in the middle, they also began to shrink their hands and feet, and they could only rush forward a few meters in minutes.

A sneak attack and encirclement battle were fought like this, and Maehara Shengmin was very unwilling, but there was no countermeasure. The close-range penetration ability of Weiqing-style firearms is too strong, hundreds of assault infantry and submachine guns are strafing together, and the bullets are so dense that they are not at all able to resist by devil soldiers without any protective measures. Gao Yongxiang led 800 men to rush into the enemy formation in a straggler formation, at first the soldiers on the front and left and right collectively strafed, and then they opened fire in a fan shape, and the Japanese army's originally thick rear formation was immediately dug a wide opening.

The straggler formation organized by Maehara Shengmin is very interesting, although there are many troops in the forward and central parts, both of them are two brigades, but the formation is the loosest. And the brigade behind the cushion is the most tightly formed. The most concentrated rear of the Japanese army could not withstand the onslaught of the student army, and the weaker central part was even worse. Although many officers at the rank of lieutenant and junior commander commanded their subordinates to lie on the ground and snipe desperately, their meager firepower really could not create any pressure for more than 800 cadets. And when Qian Shuanglin and they rushed up, a charge tore a big hole in the front of the Japanese army, and the 10th Wing, which was attacked on both sides, finally couldn't bear it, and the rout rushed to the northwest like a tide.