Chapter 87: Bloody Nanjing (6)

In the battle of cities, the ancient city walls of China are natural fortifications, and in this era when there are not too advanced weapons, the city walls, that is, very strong fortifications. After all, the lowest city wall is also more than ten meters high, and the city wall of some county towns is seven or eight meters high, even if it is not so high.

These ancient city walls have been continuously repaired by successive dynasties, and they are very strong. It was difficult for the Japanese artillery shells to destroy directly, which led to the fact that the Japanese had to force their way up the city walls. To do this, the Japanese could only increase the strength of their artillery and at the same time use heavy machine guns to suppress the fire on the city.

But the ancient city wall also had its weaknesses, that is, there were no strong bunker fortifications, and the soldiers who held it were exposed. When facing planes and curved guns, the casualties are the greatest. China has very few defense fortifications and no relatively strong sappers to form a strong fortification in a short time.

With the exception of a city wall, they were basically field fortifications, which were positions for ambushes and temporary confrontations, and those that could be fought were mobile units without heavy weapons. However, the Japanese army's attack on Nanjing was not a movement operation.

This is a planned and prepared offensive operation, and it is an offensive operation of large-scale attacks on strategic points. The Japanese army was accompanied by a large number of heavy weapons, and at the same time, due to the backwardness of China, it lost air supremacy. Holding on to the city is a stupid tactic.

China's decision-making bodies are not aware of this, and are still engaged in interdiction operations, where the devils attack, the Chinese army defends. With an army that is inferior to the Japanese army in terms of equipment and training, fighting a dignified positional battle with the devils is almost no different from asking for defeat. During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Eighth Route Army was able to fight more and more, which is very clear.

The most correct decision in Yan'an is that you fight yours and I fight mine, carry out guerrilla warfare, avoid the real and attack the weak, and look for weaknesses. Chiang Kai-shek also understood that space was exchanged for time, but it was a pity that he did not change his ideological concepts at the level of campaign tactics.

So much so that too many elite forces were consumed in Shanghai and Nanjing, and the well-trained troops were almost exhausted. When the devils entered the interior, there were no decent troops to stop the battle.

The large number of casualties among elite troops also made some generals of the Central Army begin to be afraid, and they no longer dare to fight the Japanese army, forming a fear mentality. The argument of defeat began to spread, making many generals who showed bravery on the battlefield of Songhu begin to be afraid.

Xue Ru is from a later generation and is a soldier, so he still has research on this history. She knew very well the disadvantages of such a battle, so she did not advocate holding on when she was in Songhu, and she was not averse to retreating, but just wanted to preserve her strength and retreat.

Nanjing also has this kind of thinking, and is very angry at Tang Shengzhi's stupid behavior. In the face of the more backward military forces of China and Southeast Asia, Japan can easily sweep these places, and once it faces countries like the United States and the Soviet Union, it will be defeated immediately.

In fighting the Japanese army, as long as the tactics are flexible and do not follow the strategic intentions of the Japanese army, they will be defeated. It has been more than two months, and Xue Ru is constantly thinking. , also want to understand a lot of questions. Her strategic thinking began to have a preliminary plan, and it was being implemented step by step.

Victory, what the Chinese army needs is victory, and the Chinese need more confidence, not only to keep these only elite troops in Nanjing, but also to build their confidence in victory. Whether it was Wang Yaowu or Feng Shengfa, neither of them had seen Xue Ru's tactics. Today, she led the guard squadron, just to let Feng Shengfa see, as long as she uses it properly, the devil is nothing.

This is a tactic that racked his brains to come up with, and the devil still fights as always, so it's no wonder if he doesn't suffer. The attacking squadron of Okawa Shanlang, carrying a ladder to attack, could not even do it to conceal.

With the command of the Snow Fox Guard Squadron, the soldiers of the 58th Division also quieted down and did not rush to shoot. Now the devil is a hundred and ten meters away from the city, and almost all the devil's expressions can be seen with good eyes. In particular, the more than 100 people were soldiers who shot relatively accurately and had good marksmanship. With Tian Jiasheng's blow and the crisp sound of gunfire, more than 300 people shot bullets from their guns.

Tian Jiasheng's order was to shoot two shots, more than 700 bullets to hit a squadron of 174 people, distance, accuracy and aiming time, so that the entire Japanese squadron fell en masse.

Tian Jiasheng did not hesitate at all, and immediately shouted: "The observer soldiers stay, and the others withdraw." ”

More than 300 people turned around and rolled to the other side of the city wall more than ten meters wide, grabbed the rope by the wall and quickly hung down the city. In the past few seconds, the Japanese machine-gun bullets poured down on the city wall like a torrential rain, and in an instant, brick debris, dirt and dust flew,

Unfortunately, there were no one on the city wall except for two or three observers hiding in bunkers made of sandbags. Looking at the cheering soldiers of the 58th Division, Tian Jiasheng despised them very much, he really hadn't seen victory, wasn't it just a squadron of 100 devils? What is there to rejoice. Shouted: "Hide, get into the blocking position." "Three hundred men scattered and hid in the surrounding houses and bunkers.

In a few minutes, the scream of shells was heard in the sky, and the Japanese artillery bombardment began, which was the bombardment of mountain artillery and * artillery, and in ten minutes, the entire city wall was shrouded in gunpowder explosions.

Feng Shengfa couldn't see the situation outside the city, but he knew from the cheers of the soldiers that the attacking devils must have suffered heavy casualties, otherwise they would not have withdrawn all their troops. It's a good idea to get down quickly with a rope, otherwise there are only two lanes down the wall, and if you slow down, you will be wiped out by machine guns and shells.

gave Xue Ru a smile of admiration to Xue Ru who was standing beside him. Xue Ru was nothing to be proud of, many of the methods were not thought up by herself, but by the soldiers and officers of the Snow Fox Corps. A large number of people is a great strength, and the flame is high when everyone gathers firewood. I don't believe that Chinese are not as smart as foreigners, and some good ways can always come up with them.

This is collective wisdom, and Xue Ru is just giving them a platform and opportunity to try their best to tap people's minds. In the age of electronic information, who does not understand that the strength of the team is better than the individual.

The team leader is not very smart, he just leads the team to have a direction and goal, and gives the direction of ideas, not specific methods. He didn't say anything to Feng Shengfa, but also smiled. This is just the beginning, Xue Ru wants to see how many Japanese troops are attacking outside.

Sure enough, the wing commander outside the city, Chiba Kotaro Osa, was already dizzy, seeing that there were only a few bullets on the city wall, and all the attacking squadrons fell, at first I thought it was lying down, but the machine gun suppression had begun, and the fallen soldiers did not stand up. What does this prove? Prove all killed.

But soon he found in the telescope that not all of them were killed, about half were wounded, and the wounded devil screamed that he could not hear, but he could see the movements, and in a fit of anger, he sent an order to ask for artillery to cover the position.

The artillery of a wing of the Japanese army began to fire, and it was a full half hour of intensive artillery fire, and Chiba Kotaro Osa believed that even someone in the city would be smashed into powder, and ordered the 2nd Brigade to attack as a whole, and more than 1,000 devils launched an attack on the city wall.

Military operations also had their limitations, and the entire city wall was several kilometers long. But the devils can't attack on all fronts, then they don't have so many troops, they can't occupy a little attack with a dozen people, they can't concentrate their forces, and they can't break through, and the artillery and machine gun cover can't fully suppress the defensive fire, that is, they will be sent to death, so there must be a focus.

As soon as the Japanese artillery stopped shelling, the officers and men of the 58th Division on both sides immediately followed the ladder to climb the city wall, which was the fastest way to climb the city. In one night, hundreds of ladders were made in the city, most of them simple, with bamboo poles tied to the rungs, and the soldiers quickly climbed the city walls. In such a defensive battle, according to Xue Ru, heavy machine guns are basically not used, and the most on the body is *. So the ascent to the city is fast.

The attacking thousands of Japanese troops, spread out and more than 400 meters wide, there are observers on the city wall, they know which distance the devils are attacking, the defense on both sides is very resolute, and the attacking devils begin to use machine guns to frantically suppress counterattack bullets.

It's a pity that the attacking devil captain Kimura Shiro didn't know the characteristics of the defense above, the soldiers who climbed the city wall did not enter the front line of the city wall, but ambushed in the back, the ancient city wall of Nanjing was eleven or twelve meters wide, and the back was fortified with sandbags. The muzzle of the gun is aimed at the wall battlement.

This distance is not too far, only less than ten meters away. But just a dozen meters, the Japanese machine guns and mortars a few hundred meters away from the city could not see here, after all, they were on the horizon, and the Japanese ladder finally set up the city wall, and the fire blocking from it was not much, and it was not very strong.

This gave Chiba Kotaro Osa a delusion, that is, the shelling just now, the Chinese army suffered a lot of casualties. It seemed that he could almost attack it in a battle, as if he saw himself attacking the city of Nanjing from here.

Staring at the walls with his glasses, he smiled when he saw the soldiers approaching the battlements. There are hundreds of ladders, and more than 100 people can climb them at a time. With the combat effectiveness of the imperial army, it is almost certain that the city wall was occupied.

But he didn't have time to rejoice for long before he saw the soldiers fall en masse, what was going on?

He couldn't figure it out, and the soldiers behind him didn't know what was going on, but they kept climbing upward. But without exception, all were defeated.

In fact, it was very simple, hundreds of soldiers one by one, almost the two densest columns of soldiers, facing the wall battlements, the devils could not get in without standing up, but they had just leaned out half of their bodies when they were hit by rows of bullets, and they either fell into the city or outside the city.

The two columns of soldiers fired in two phases, one shot was finished, the bullet was loaded, the other was shot, and the cycle continued to achieve non-stop firing. The devils who came up were constantly eliminated in this way, because inside, it was basically possible to ignore the machine gun fire from the distance of the devils. Five or six meters away, the rifle is only two, and the meter is long, almost like a devil sending it to the muzzle, even if it is a stupid person, there is no reason why it cannot be hit.

Chiba Kotaro finally couldn't take it anymore and ordered to stop the attack, because at this time, one of his brigades was almost half filled with men, and he didn't know about the casualties in the castle.

The remnants of the Japanese retreated, bringing back of course the wounded soldiers of the last time and this time. Looking at Shiro Kimura in front of him, Kotaro Chiba couldn't even say anything scolding. He didn't even know what was going on, let alone the captain of the attack.

The Japanese had to give the order to stop the offensive, to understand the situation from the mouths of the wounded soldiers. When they knew such defensive tactics, even Major General Mitsuzaburo Akiyama had no choice, and they couldn't think of anything for a while. The city wall, which is more than ten meters wide, has become an insurmountable moat for devils.

The devils outside are at a loss, Feng Shengfa in the city has admired the five-body surrender, if there are these methods, how can there be so many casualties, according to the report of the observers, the Japanese army attacked twice, and the casualties should be more than three squadrons, that is, half of the brigade is almost gone. The casualties of the 58th Division turned out to be only about 20 people. Not only Feng Shengfa and Ding Yuan were excited, but even the soldiers above and below the city were also extremely excited.

Tian Jiasheng's guard squadron was simply smiling, and even a regiment commander of the 58th Division greeted the soldiers of Snow Fox with a smile when they spoke. So proud that these team members hurriedly tied the red silk scarves on their chests and straightened them, this is their honor, the Snow Fox Corps.

Not only here at Shuiximen, but also on the Taipingmen defense line in the east of the city, Dai Zong's reconnaissance squadron is also enjoying this feeling of being worshipped. Coincidentally, Kengo Noda of the 33rd Wing of the 16th Division, which attacked Taipingmen, was in the same situation.

They were even more miserable, this side encountered Wang Yaowu of the 51st Division, which had always been mainly based on night battles and sneak attacks, and the more than 3,000 people who were reorganized together became a reinforced regiment, and the other wounded soldiers withdrew to the direction of Xiaguan under the leadership of the brigade commander and regiment commander, and retreated along the Yangtze River to Wuhan, and the remaining soldiers were headed by Zhang Lingfu and formed into the 302nd Regiment.

The battle was brave and fierce, and Zhang Lingfu, who took the lead, personally went into battle to lead the soldiers to block the front line, and the Japanese suffered greater casualties.

Kengo Noda has stopped the offensive. The devil finally worked out a way, reported to the division commander, and asked the plane to help in the war. The plane can fly overhead, condescendingly, and see what else the Chinese army can do?