"That's it?" At noon on the third day, Okamura Ninji had already received the last telegram from the 15th Division, and no news came out. Even some of the spies that Kenji Dohihara arranged in Nanjing did not have detailed information. But by the evening, the news of the reconquest of Nanjing had already spread wildly in Shanghai.

The Japanese agents around Nanking also sent back the news that the shelling had been quelled there, and only scattered gunfire remained. The reconnaissance plane sent to check was intercepted, and after being shot down twice by the aircraft of the Vanguard, there was no news. However, a reconnaissance plane that fled back with black smoke still took pictures of the vanguard army lined up in a neat line, and the army was passing through the southern gate of Nanjing.

In the photo, in addition to the smoke column in the distance, the most obvious thing to see is the flag of the vanguard army fluttering in the wind.

"40,000 troops, that's the end of it?" Okamura Ninji paced with his hands behind his back again irritably.

Originally, it was expected that the 40,000 locust army could make a deep impression on the vanguard army in the street battle of Nanjing City, but who knew that in just three days, Nanjing City had been recaptured by the vanguard army. The 15th Division, which had not heard much news for a long time, was already unlucky.

"40,000 people?" Okamura Ninji said again. This is a big move by some bigwigs in the base camp who are not convinced, smashing 40,000 people into a jade crush in one go, and the ugly thing is that 40,000 people were sacrificed, but there was not much splash, so that Okamura Ningji, who had been busy for this time for a year, was depressed and just wanted to vomit blood.

He didn't know that at this time, Meng Xiang was holding the preliminary casualty report and frowning.

"This is really a hard bone," Meng Xiang shook his head and sighed.

In the eyes of outsiders, this time the siege vanguard army fought very easily, and it went down in three days, but even if the three legions only sent part of the army, this siege campaign also mobilized 300,000 troops, and the 40,000 men who crushed the devil naturally did not have much suspense. In contrast, the casualty rate of more than 7,000 people surprised Meng Xiang a little, although he already knew that the devils were stuffed into the 15th division of 40,000 people, but in the battle with the devils, the vanguard army has always maintained an overwhelming overall advantage of close to 1 to 10 in the casualty rate. But at this time, in the street battle in Nanjing, when some of the devils had not been cleared, more than 7,000 people were killed, which really surprised Meng Xiang.

"These 40,000 soldiers are all veterans, and even those sappers and those who are in charge of logistics have many elite veterans. And this time the Japanese were much better armed, surpassing their elite divisions. Quite a few Japanese soldiers used submachine guns. Fan Chong explained on the side, and the General Staff had analyzed this early.

"Submachine guns?" Meng Xiang was a little surprised, the devil has always cherished bullets like his life in World War II, and has always preached that the spirit of bushido can overwhelm bullets. This is not only the tradition of the army, but also the lack of resources in Japan, so the devil military department has always guided this atmosphere to be engraved in the minds of every devil.

"In the vicinity of Yuhuatai, there is a brigade that uses German 7.63 mm Parkmen submachine guns, which is very difficult to bite. At the beginning, there was a Miyamoto brigade equipped with this weapon in the 16th Division, but when the 16th Division was destroyed, there was not much news about them, and it seems that this brigade has a deep shadow of Miyamoto's Brigade. Fan continued, "In addition, near the Confucius Temple, there is also a brigade that uses submachine guns, using American Thomson submachine guns. ”

Meng Xiang nodded, he seemed to have heard of the devil's submachine gun before. What he didn't know was that it was originally equipped with the Thomson submachine gun from a brigade directly under the command of the North China Dispatch Army, but with the rise of the Vanguard Army, the North China Dispatch Army disappeared, and this brigade was classified as the Central China Dispatch Army. At this time, in the street fighting, the devils filled in the submachine gun brigade, which had historically required special approval from the base camp to be mobilized, into the city of Nanjing.

"The most, though, is a submachine gun that has never been seen before, which may be a new production by the Japanese." Fan Chong said, handing Meng Xiang a few photos.

"This?" Meng Xiang couldn't guess which kind of submachine gun this was, but as soon as he heard that the Japanese produced it, Meng Xiang quickly thought of the only mass-produced 100-style submachine gun produced by the devil.

When this submachine gun was finalized in 40 years, it was the 1000th year of the Devil Shenwu Era, so it was named the Baishi Submachine Gun, but the concept of the devil went wrong at the beginning. When the Japanese army, which had always been obsessed with white-knuckle warfare and accurate rifle shooting, developed the Hyak-style submachine gun, it was positioned according to the light machine gun. With the addition of various accessories such as bipods, the 100-style submachine gun is somewhat nondescript and does not please the devils, but it was only after suffering a big loss in the hands of the Americans in the later stage of the war that some of them were equipped, and it was just a flash in the pan.

Meng Xiang secretly called Xiaohua, and through analysis, sure enough, the photo was a devil's 100-style submachine gun. Thinking of the number of more than 1,000 submachine guns counted by Fan Chong, Meng Xiang also felt a little surprised: "Could it be that the devil has opened his mind?" ”

I have to say that the devil is brutal, but not brain-dead. After so many battles with the Vanguard, the devil has already felt the power of the submachine gun. Especially at short distances such as street fights, it is even more powerful. Although the opposition was still the majority in the Japanese military department, and due to the lack of resources, the 100-style submachine guns that were finally equipped with other units 40 years ahead of schedule were still only equipped with some elite troops.

At this time, in the street battle in Nanjing, thinking of the sharpness of the submachine gun melee combat, the devil specially arranged four submachine gun brigades and more than 1,000 submachine guns.

"These more than 1,000 submachine guns have brought us a lot of casualties." Fan Chong said solemnly, "Although the Japanese army is equipped with a lot more machine guns, these fixed machine gun positions are not a big threat to us, but those submachine guns for guerrilla warfare have caused great trouble to our fighters with the help of the terrain of residential houses. And they were armed with grenadiers in numbers that far exceeded the average Japanese team. Although the grenadiers were not very powerful, they used the terrain to constantly harass our machine gunners and snipers in street fighting, and in addition to being more flexible than our mortars, they also caused a lot of trouble. ”

The grenadiers in the rear are just adding trouble, and the vanguard army has already practiced to deal with the devil's grenadiers, although the mortars are not as flexible as the grenadiers, but they are powerful and the distance is long, and more importantly, the vanguard army has invested a large number of mortars, and the devil's grenadiers will soon be restrained to death. However, the devil's submachine gun was beyond the expectations of the vanguard army.

"We're a little underestimated." Meng Xiang blamed himself that the memory of later generations made him press a fixed routine for the little devil, which made him ignore the changes of the devil first. Although the vanguard army had training to use submachine guns against the enemy in street fighting, that kind of training was aimed at the north and other opponents, and at first it was not thought of dealing with devils. was caught off guard.

Fortunately, it was with this training that the brake was stopped in time, so that the losses did not continue to increase. But Meng Xiang also knew in his heart that in fact, some casualties could still be avoided.

"It's a bit underestimated." Fan Chong did not shy away from saying it, and said directly, "The Japanese army also used flash grenades, tear gas and other special bombs this time"

"Flashbang?" Meng Xiang was not surprised. This flashbang was improved by Meng Xiang through flares based on the knowledge of later generations. The most important thing is consciousness and thinking, the relevant technology is not too complicated, the Japanese suffered a big loss in the flash bombs of the vanguard army, naturally pay special attention to this, at this time it is already a successful imitation of manufacturing.

In later generations, the Japanese cottage kung fu was long before China, but it was not as large as the Chinese cottage so that the whole world looked at it. However, their cottage level is very high, and they can quickly surpass the master's level. Meng Xiang was not surprised by this, and he was not too worried about the imitation of the devil. War is the overall display of strength, and even if the devils with scarce resources create better weapons, they are not able to produce the same as castles in the air.

As for tear gas, the devil has long been studied. Although the devil and the vanguard army tacitly did not use poison gas bombs that directly killed people, the use of tear gas was not considered to be over the line. But this time, in addition to the increase in the number of devils' special ammunition, a lot of effort has been put into the use of skills.

"The Japanese army is obviously scientifically trained in street fighting, and although they are somewhat inferior to our elite troops, their familiarity with the surrounding terrain, coupled with their use of many dwellings in the city, makes our soldiers more scruples. However, the Japanese army was bent on fighting to the death, and it was completely the same way of fighting, which was also a reason for the increase in the casualty rate. Fan Chong sighed a little,

"Fortunately, there are more veterans this time, so as not to cause too much loss. All in all, this time it's a bit of a light enemy. ”

If Okamura Ningji was here, he would definitely shed tears of grievance: "Underestimate the enemy, who is the underestimating enemy?" We filled in 40,000 people in vain, but we didn't even achieve the minimum goal of 20,000 to destroy the enemy, wouldn't we lose even more? ”

However, Meng Xiang also noticed the top-down consciousness of facing the devil in the vanguard army early. Although Meng Xiang had already beaten him, the devil was really a little soft-footed, and the devil's intentional indulgence after the goal of leading the north to the north was formulated, which made the vanguard army's impression of the devil's underestimation of the enemy more and more serious.

"You must pay special attention to the mountains inside and outside the city when clearing the remnants of the enemy. This time, these devils are determined to die, be careful of the battle of devils trapped in beasts," Meng Xiang instructed again.

"And what about our next steps?" Fan Chong nodded, and then asked again.

"Keep fighting," Meng Xiang said without hesitation.