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On the afternoon of August 26, 1937, after receiving reinforcements, the Japanese army began to launch a fierce attack on the Jiangwan Town area under the cover of artillery fire from the sea, land and air forces.
Colonel Takeshita Heiyou didn't look too good at this time. He had promised the leader of the Black Rock Brigade that the 43rd Regiment would definitely be able to capture Jiangwan Town within three days.
Facts have proved that if you talk too much, your tongue will slip, just like the current captain of the 43rd Regiment, Colonel Takeshita Hyo.
"Reporting to your Excellency, Captain, the battle on the front line was defeated and our army suffered heavy losses!"
The person who reported to Colonel Takeshita was a lieutenant colonel, the captain of the 1st Battalion of the 43rd Regiment, named Yuichi Kuroiwa.
After hearing the news, Colonel Takeshita's face suddenly turned red. He angrily took off his gloves and slapped Kuroiwa Yuichi hard on the face.
"Pah, pah, pah..."
There was a crisp sound of slaps, which was also mixed with Takeshita's scolding: "Baga..."
After about four or five slaps, Takeshita Bing finally got rid of the resentment in his heart. He straightened the emotion on his face and said to the people around him: "Send the order, the second brigade and the first brigade will enter the battle at the same time. .Be sure to capture Jiangwan as soon as possible!"
"Hai!" Lieutenant Colonel Kuroiwa and another Lieutenant Colonel responded in unison.
For Lieutenant Colonel Kuroiwa, he deserved to receive these slaps. The commander of the regiment had given him several opportunities, and they were all carried out under the cover of land and air artillery fire. The scene was not small.
However, even in such a big scene, Lieutenant Colonel Kuroiwa led his troops to repeatedly fail in the attack, and he deserved to be slapped.
After Takeshita Colonel announced that Muto Kaichi's second battalion would join the war, Kuroiwa Liu breathed a sigh of relief: Finally, I wasn't the only one to be slapped...
The number of people in a Japanese brigade is about 1,100. Excluding the casualties of the first brigade, plus the entire strength of the second brigade, the Japanese army has invested as much force as a regiment of the Chinese army!
To be precise, it is a reinforced group with enhanced weapons and firepower!
Since the amount of troops invested has increased, the scope of the attack will naturally not be just one point, but all the way.
Of course, this "face" also includes Zhang Tianhai's first battalion.
The Japanese attack was equally ferocious. Before the attack was launched, the artillery shells, as dense as a summer rainstorm, roared through the sky in a beautiful arc, hitting the heads of the officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 216th Regiment. coming.
"boom!!!"
"boom!!!"
"boom!!!"
The explosions of artillery shells resounded all over the position where the officers and soldiers of the Thirty-sixth Division were holding fast. There were flashes of firelight in the smoke, which was shocking but full of murderous intent!
This Japanese bombardment was the first bombardment Zhang Tianhai had encountered in his life. The feeling here was naturally difficult to understand.
That's right, it was the first time I encountered real artillery bombardment. When Peng Jinguang, commander of the 108th Brigade, commanded his troops to attack the Japanese army, he was reinforced by an independent artillery regiment, and it was the Japanese army that was bombarded.
The bombardment at Huishan Pier happened to be when he was chasing the defeated Japanese troops. This was a perfect miss.
As for the military exercises in the previous life, it was even more impossible to use artillery bombardment. Even if it was used, it would be empty bombs. After all, safety comes first in training.
As for the death indicators in military exercises, they were only set up as a last resort.
The roar of artillery in my ears made the already dilapidated Jiangwan Town even more dilapidated. The rubble and sand flew everywhere, and the vibrations caused by the explosion slowly spread through the ground to the surroundings. A scene of the end of time, even Zhang Zhang The ceiling of Tianhai Camp has begun to slowly crack.
Having learned the lesson from the 212th Regiment, Zhang Tianhai could not put a company or a platoon at the front. On the contrary, he was very smart. He only deployed a squad of troops there, and it was just right. Set up to hide behind thickened fortifications.
"Fortunately, the Japanese army is not equipped with 150mm caliber heavy howitzers... otherwise our battalion would be in danger..." Standing behind the desk at the battalion headquarters, Zhang Tianhai sighed softly.
There was too much movement around, and he spoke really quietly, so he didn't hear his sigh.
The Japanese artillery bombardment lasted only five minutes and then stopped. In Zhang Tianhai's view, this undoubtedly meant that the Japanese army did not have many artillery shells at this time and could only wait for the next batch of supplies to arrive before they could "expand".
After the Japanese bombardment stopped, Zhang Tianhai was not idle. He immediately walked out and ordered to the first company commander Li Chunfei: "First company commander! All the first company enter the position and don't let the Japanese invaders capture our position!"
"Yes!" Li Chunfei was not slow in his movements and immediately led a company of officers and soldiers to the position.
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This is a positional war, a complete positional war. The position is like a millstone, and the soldiers of both armies are wearing away their flesh and blood on this fleshy millstone.
The enemy and our troops on the position are like an old donkey grinding a millstone, slowly pushing the "millstone" and fighting for the ownership of this position.
As a qualified battlefield commander, Zhang Tianhai naturally appeared at the forefront of the battlefield, but he did not appear on the battlefield. He just stood on the second floor of a private house at the forefront and watched quietly as the waves came in. of enemy troops.
His fists clenched slightly, not from nervousness, but from hatred.
I hate why China is not strong at this time, and I hate myself for being on this cruel battlefield. Apart from commanding the troops to hold their positions here, there is nothing else they can do.
This is a national war. The national strength and consumption of the two countries are reduced. Whoever can afford the consumption and survive to the end will win.
Although Zhang Tianhai already knew that China would eventually win the Anti-Japanese War, people who were not involved in it would not understand the situation at that time.
The flying bullets of the Japanese army either hit the bodies of the Nationalist soldiers or hit the masonry walls of the houses behind the Nationalist soldiers, and then emitted a burst of fire.
A hail of bullets is an idiom that vividly describes the cruelty on the battlefield with hot weapons.
The Japanese bullets and grenade shells hit the national army's position, like a wave of waves hitting the beach hard, and then splashing into waves.
While the Japanese army was attacking, the bullets fired by the Chinese soldiers were returned to the Japanese army in full force.
For a time, both sides suffered heavy casualties!
In fact, at the beginning of the Japanese landing, the gap in casualties between the enemy and our troops was not large. As for why the Japanese suffered 100,000 casualties, while the Chinese army suffered 300,000 casualties, this is related to the heavy firepower strength of the two armies.
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