readx;? This report was sent to Lieutenant General Tsuchihashi Jiichi, the commander of the 22nd Division of the Japanese Army, who was eager to make meritorious contributions in this campaign to make up for his mistakes in the last attack on Nanjing. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After easily occupying Yixing, Lieutenant General Tsuchihashi Jiichi was not happy when he learned that the vanguard had met the main force of Zhina under the city of Liyang. The division's Noyama artillery wing did not keep up because of transportation problems, which made the Japanese troops, who were accustomed to attacking under the cover of artillery fire, a little overwhelmed.

Lieutenant General Jiichi Tsuchihashi frowned in the temporary command headquarters and walked back and forth, and the two brigade commanders of the 22nd Division in the command headquarters did not dare to speak easily. After a long while, the brigade commander of the 62nd Brigade said cautiously: "Your Excellency, Division Commander, do you want to concentrate all the existing artillery of the division and regiment to cover the infantry for an uninterrupted attack? ”

Lieutenant General Jiichi Tsuchihashi stopped and stared at the brigade commander of the 62nd Brigade for a long time before replying: "If the firepower of the Shina army is very strong, then the emperor's samurai will be broken in this place in vain, and I want them to attack Nanjing and Nanjing! ”

At this time, the brigade commander of the 64th Brigade said: "Your Excellency, Division Commander, can we send more squadrons to launch a tentative attack from different places? In this way, we can know where the firepower of the Chinese people is worse, and then we can concentrate on attacking that place, so that we can break through one of them, and in the case of the Chinese army, as long as one part of the defense line is breached, the whole defense line will collapse." ”

Lieutenant General Tsuchihashi Jiichi's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light at this time, nodded and said: "Yo Xi, this method is very good, so let's do it, the 62nd Brigade is responsible for launching a tentative attack, and the 64th Brigade immediately launched an attack on it with all its strength after discovering the loopholes in the defense of the defenders of China." The commanders of the two brigades immediately bent down and replied, "Hi!"

The brigade commander of the 62nd Brigade Regiment who left the headquarters was full of resentment in his chest, and the 62nd Brigade did the work of hardship and suffering, but the work of meritorious service was given to others. There is resentment and resentment, but things have to be done. The total losses of the 62nd Brigade when it last defended the blockade line were nearly two brigades, and now the entire brigade is only about 5,000 men.

Returning to the 62nd Brigade, the brigade commander immediately ordered the whole brigade to launch a tentative attack on the defending positions from several places in squadrons, and the artillery squadrons of the major brigades assisted in several convenient places for crossing the river. As soon as the order was issued, the Japanese troops of the 62nd Brigade began to get busy, first entering the starting position one by one, then the scouts reconnoitered the situation of the river, and the troops were ready to cross the river.

It was not until almost noon that the commander of the 62nd Brigade gave the order to attack. The officers and men of the 561st Regiment on the entire defensive line found that the Japanese launched attacks on the defenders' positions at the same time in more than a dozen places, with artillery assistance in several places, and in more places the Japanese launched attacks under the cover of only a few heavy machine guns.

In the previous battles in Shanghai, before the Japanese attack, the Japanese army did not bombard the position with overwhelming artillery fire first, and then the infantry charged, and today's Japanese attack made Fu Bingxun a little confused. In the binoculars, Fu Bingxun carefully observed the attacking Japanese army.

In the face of the Japanese army attacking on the whole front, the officers and men guarding the position naturally blocked the attack on the whole line, and for a time the position was full of light and heavy firepower, and the Japanese army was completely suppressed on the bank of the river and could not attack. Fu Bingxun always felt that something was wrong, this time the Japanese army's full-line attack seemed to be a little careless, as soon as the defending soldiers fired, they immediately lay on the ground, and the soldiers fired, neither attacking forward nor retreating.

Twenty minutes of fighting took place before the Japanese began to retreat and the gunfire on the positions stopped. The Japanese attack did find a few places where the defenders were relatively weak in firepower, but these places were either deep in water or had many obstacles on the shore, and belonged to the kind of terrain that was not suitable for attack.

A group of officers of the 22nd Division studied in the headquarters for a long time and identified two as the targets for the key attack, and Lieutenant General Tsuchihashi began to concentrate all the artillery of the division and regiment at these two positions, and at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the artillery on the Japanese positions began to launch an artillery bombardment on these two positions.

Even if the division's wild mountain artillery wing did not keep up, there were quite a few artillery pieces that could be concentrated in a division, but most of them were mortars, and there were seventy-millimeter infantry guns, and the scene when these guns were fired at the same time was quite spectacular. Fu Bingxun saw that the Japanese artillery fire was not aimed at a few main positions, but at two positions that were not very easy to attack.

The previous attack of the Japanese army was to find out the weak points in their own positions and then attack them. There is only one platoon of soldiers on these two positions, and it should be relatively poor to defend the force, but the Japanese army does not know that there are a large number of mines laid outside these two positions, which is enough for the small Japanese to drink a pot, but Fu Bingxun did not dare to be careless, and immediately notified the third battalion of the reserve behind him, and divided two companies to prepare to reinforce these two positions at any time.

Immediately after the artillery bombardment, the 64th Brigade of the 22nd Division sent a large group of Japanese troops to each of the two positions and began to attack the two positions. There are no bunkers in these two positions, only two sandbag fortifications and trenches, each of which has a Type 24 Mark heavy machine gun, while the three Czech light machine guns in the platoon are all set up in the trenches, and the soldiers have newly issued Hanyang-made rifles in their hands, and each squad leader has a Type 54 submachine gun in his hand, which Wang Haitao specially added to the 91st and 92nd Divisions in order to strengthen the firepower of the squad platoon.

Even such a platoon has much more firepower than before. The Japanese artillery fire killed and wounded more than 20 soldiers on the position, and the remaining soldiers saw that the Japanese army appeared densely on the riverbank, and the platoon commander gave an order, and the light and heavy weapons on the position opened fire at the same time, but the marksmanship of these Sichuan soldiers was really not good, and the Japanese army that attacked only a few dozen people were killed and wounded.

The Japanese army attacked while firing at the defenders, compared to the Japanese army's marksmanship was much better, from time to time in the trenches there were soldiers who were hit and fell, and the Japanese light and heavy machine guns and grenadiers also completely suppressed the defenders' light machine guns, in a few minutes, the light machine gunners on the position fell, a light machine gun was also destroyed by the Japanese grenadiers, and the only heavy machine gun in the sandbag fortifications could endanger the Japanese army on the position.

In the past, it would have been impossible to use a platoon of soldiers to block the attack of a Japanese brigade, but now the Japanese army quickly rushed to the river bank and rushed to the position, and just when the defenders on the position were a little panicked, the Japanese troops rushing in front stepped on a mine. This is an anti-infantry jumping mine, the mine was thrown up several meters high by a projectile, exploded in mid-air, and hundreds of small steel balls carried out an indiscriminate covering attack on the Japanese troops within ten meters.

The attacking Japanese formation was very dense, and this mine knocked down more than a dozen Japanese soldiers, and the blood on the bodies of the Japanese soldiers who were hit was like a sieve, and they died on the spot and could not die again. A mine is not terrible, but someone stepped on the mine in a row, causing the Japanese troops to fall one by one, which made the attacking Japanese troops panic, and all the Japanese troops were lying on the ground, just shooting at the defenders, and no one dared to continue to charge.

After a confrontation for dozens of minutes, the captain of the Japanese army saw that it could not be attacked in this way, so he ordered a retreat. The situation was similar on the other side, and the Japanese retreated after more than 200 dead and wounded. The two captains stood in front of the brigade commander of the 64th brigade, and after listening to the brigade commander's loud scolding, they said: "Your Excellency the brigade commander, a large number of mines have been laid in front of the position of the Chinese people, and this kind of mine is so powerful that it often explodes in the air, and the soldiers within ten meters are not spared, so we withdrew first. ”

When the brigade commander heard this, he couldn't bother to scold the two captains anymore, and hurriedly went to see the division commander, Lieutenant General Dohashi Jiichi. When Lieutenant General Tsuchihashi heard that there were a large number of advanced mines in front of the positions of the Chinese people, he could not help but be surprised: "What about it? A large number of high-power advanced mines? How can this be, when will the Chinese people have such advanced weapons? Okay, I will immediately ask the engineer wing to send sappers to clear the mines, and your brigade will send soldiers to cover the sappers to clear the mines." ”

Before dark, a squadron of Japanese soldiers covered by a small group of sappers came to the battlefield, and the sappers were equipped with old-fashioned circle-type mine detectors, which only had a detection effect on metal, and only a few mines made of metal could not detect at all after a few decades, and the weapons in the hands of the defenders on the position would focus on taking care of these sappers, so even if the Japanese army paid a considerable price, they did not take care of the mines they had laid.

The attack was fruitless, and the demining was not smooth, which made Lieutenant General Jiichi Tsuchihashi feel worried, and the day was spent by this inconspicuous river. While Lieutenant General Jiichi Tsuchihashi was at a loss, the Japanese 3rd Division was progressing smoothly under the command of Lieutenant General Fujita Susumu under the command of the division commander. When the Japanese 22nd Division captured Yixing, the 3rd Division launched a surprise attack on Wujin County.