4.19 Assault group tactics

After conducting an actual combat investigation of the Songhu battlefield, Huang Haoran believed that if the 99th Division attacked the Japanese fortifications head-on, it would inevitably suffer heavy casualties and slow progress in the absence of air force and heavy artillery cover. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

He and Fan Jie, Feng. Rich believes that the 99th Division should abandon the tactics of gathering and change its style of play.

The Japanese position has a long front and a short depth, so it is necessary to choose a weak point of defense at the waist of its frontal defense line as the direction of breakthrough, first concentrate artillery bombardment, and then organize assault teams to quickly assault in depth and smash the Huangpu River! The follow-up troops continued to follow up to expand the results of the battle, and even if they could not clear the Japanese stronghold, they could be divided and surrounded!

In fact, this tactic is the same as the German army's usual Assault Group Tactic (dieStosstrupps Taktik), also known as the infiltration tactic or Huttier tactic, which successfully broke through enemy positions many times during World War I and was widely used by both warring sides.

Feng. Naturally, Richie was heavily supportive of his country's tactics.

Division Commander Huang and Chief of Staff Fan also felt that this tactic was most suitable for the current Songhu battlefield!

The Japanese built a large number of fortifications near Hongqiao and the Marine Corps headquarters, and it was unrealistic to rely on the artillery fire of the 99th Division to completely clear these street forts and trenches.

However, due to the limited strength of the Japanese army, there was room for the 99th Division to intersperse between the various positions, and now the 99th Division concentrated the heavy firepower of the whole division to slam at several points, and the powerful destructive power caught Major General Okawa off guard.

More and more troops of the 99th Division have infiltrated the defensive circle of the Japanese army, and the farthest troops interspersed have already exchanged fire with the defenders of the devil's core position, and there are battles everywhere, and there are officers and soldiers of the 99th Division everywhere!

The Japanese Navy, which had adjusted from the air raids, now lost its target!

A shell fell, and almost as many Chinese soldiers fell in the explosion as there were Japanese soldiers!

There are already nearly 100,000 Chinese troops in Shanghai!

And the Japanese army had less than 10,000!

Not to mention this one-to-one exchange, it is one-to-two, and even the one-to-three major generals can't afford it!

Rear Admiral Okawa organized the Navy's collaboratorship with a roaring voice!

So the Japanese planes and naval guns became the --- ornaments for the ears of the deaf!

The headquarters of General Zhang of the 9th Army......

After the 99th Division started the battle, a battle report was sent almost every half hour or so!

"Shajing Port Breakthrough!"

"Railroad Bridge Breakthrough!"

"Baoshan Bridge Breakthrough!"

Huang Haoran's 99th Division is simply overwhelming!

The 1st Brigade of the 301st Brigade has already attacked Hongkou Park in front of the enemy headquarters, and the 302nd Brigade has fought fiercely with the Japanese troops in the area of Qiujiang Road and Yokohama Road, and they have also been strangled together!

After 5 hours of bloody fighting in the 99th Division, at 16 o'clock in the afternoon, the 9th Army's 2 artillery regiments and howitzer battalions began to carry out artillery bombardment, and the 88th and 87th Divisions joined the battle group!

Although the artillery bombardment of the 9th Army was fierce, due to the backwardness of the infantry and artillery coordination tactics, it was basically blind fire, and the damage to the Japanese fortifications was not effective.

The artillery bombardment ended with the 88th and 87th Divisions launching a full-line attack, but the progress was not satisfactory.

The 262nd Brigade of the 88th Division was blocked in the Gongda Yarn Mill, and the brigade headquarters of the 262nd Brigade was hit by Japanese artillery shells during the battle, and the brigade commander, Major General Huang Meixing, was martyred! Lieutenant Colonel Deng Xun, chief of staff of the brigade headquarters, and 32 officers and men of the communications platoon all died, and none of them survived!

After the death of Major General Huang Meixing, the 262nd Brigade was temporarily commanded by Colonel Liao Lingqi, commander of the 527th Regiment, and Major General Gao Zhisong, head of the Security Regiment, was appointed to take over the command of the 252nd Brigade.

The attack of the 87th Division was also met with frantic resistance from the Japanese army! On that day, neither the 88th Division nor the 87th Division was able to capture the core positions of the Japanese army and failed to accomplish General Zhang's intended goal.

Due to the poor effect of the artillery bombardment, the infantry attacked the Japanese fortifications head-on, and were covered by Japanese artillery fire, causing heavy casualties, and the 88th Division alone suffered more than 1,200 casualties.

The 337th Regiment of the 114th Brigade of the 57th Division of the 8th Group Army, which launched an attack after the 9th Group Army, with the support of the 1st Mountain Artillery Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 2nd Artillery Brigade and the command of Major General Cai Zhonghua, the commander of the artillery brigade, crossed the Huangpu River from the Longhua area of Shanghai to attack the enemy in the Pudong area.

In order to prevent the enemy from landing in the area of Bailonggang in Pudong, the 55th and 57th Divisions entered the Bailonggang area of Pudong on August 15 to deploy defenses in order to prevent Japanese reinforcements from landing in this area.

The attack of the 9th and 8th armies became the last straw that broke the camel's back!

The seventh major general of Okawa can't bear it!

In the face of the powerful attack power displayed by the 99th Division and the absolute superiority of the Chinese army, Rear Admiral Okawa felt that it was impossible to accomplish the task that the Navy Command had asked him to hold on to in the Hongkou and Yangshupu areas of Shanghai for six days with his current strength.

So he began to complain to Lieutenant General Hasegawa!

Vice Admiral Hasegawa was also powerless against the critical situation faced by the Marines, and he had already strengthened the Third Fleet with all the personnel he could draw to the Marines, and now his flagship "Izumo" even had one person as two engineers!

If we continue to send personnel ashore, the warships of the 3rd Fleet will have to anchor in the sea outside Wusongkou!

Lieutenant General Hasegawa, who had been thinking about it for a long time, sent three consecutive telegrams during the day on August 14 to request reinforcements from the military headquarters in Tokyo!

Tokyo's valley highlands, the seat of the Japanese military headquarters, and Shanghai's call for help made it fried here!

No one thought in advance that the marines in Shanghai would be defeated so quickly! What a mess!

More than 5,000 imperial troops couldn't hold out for even a week!

The Chinese army suddenly went from a herd of sheep to a pack of hungry wolves!

The Japanese military top brass immediately fell into disarray......

The Japanese army in North China also asked the military headquarters for additional troops on August 12, thinking that as long as the Chinese army was defeated in Beiping, the North China Incident could be solved like 918, but although the national army was defeated in Pingjin, it still resisted steadily, and the Japanese army in North China was blocked at Nankou, and the elite troops of the Chinese army were assembling on the periphery of Beiping, and a counter-encirclement trend had been formed!

It was necessary to concentrate forces in North China to deal a fatal blow to the main force of the Chinese army, completely eliminate the pressure of the Japanese army in the Pingjin area, and force Nanjing to submit to Japan.

At this time, Shanghai also asked for more troops, and the actions of the Chinese army in Shanghai were tantamount to telling the Japanese that China was ready for a full-scale war of resistance!

Whether it is the General Staff Headquarters or the Cabinet, it is no longer possible to continue the established policy of not expanding the war against China!

Until this time, the Japanese military top brass still believed that as long as the Japanese army divisions and regiments went to the battlefield, the Nanjing government would still give in and accept various conditions. The military department has not yet drawn up a detailed battle plan!

On the afternoon of the 14th, the Konoe Cabinet authorized the military headquarters to mobilize the 3rd Division and the 11th Division to form the Shanghai Dispatch Army, and appointed Admiral Matsui Ishine as commander.

Admiral Matsui Ishine became the commander of the Japanese Shanghai Dispatch Army one day earlier than in history......

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