Chapter 254: Attack Plan
"For His Majesty the Emperor!"
"Long live the Japanese Empire!"
"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!"
Captain Kurimotoyama gave the order, and the Japanese in the entire brigade started to boil.
They shouted and began to charge.
Captain Kurimoto Sanzan is not a fool, and he also sees the shortcoming of his lack of heavy weapons.
Facing the defenders squatting in the trenches, it was unable to use small units to conduct tentative attacks.
After discovering the defender's firepower point, direct the artillery to bomb accurately, or use grenades to blow it up.
Such tactics make no sense to the current Marine Corps!
It makes absolutely no sense!
Because there was no artillery support behind them, there were a few grenade launchers, but they were of little use.
From the beginning of the attack, Captain Kurimotoyama's climbing brigade wanted to use the human sea tactic to capture Baoshan County in one go.
Koda Nosuke's squadron was at the front of the entire attacking team.
After the captain issued the attack order, it immediately drew its command sword and shouted at the top of its lungs: "Kill in time!"
The Japs under his command began to charge while shouting slogans.
The three Japanese soldiers, Staff Sergeant Kentaro Shida, Staff Sergeant Kashii Nosuke, and Staff Sergeant Kazuki Yamamoto, formed a sharp knife and rushed to the front.
They seemed to be the tip of the knife at the front of the attacking team, trying to penetrate directly into the defensive line in front and penetrate all the way into Baoshan County.
The charge of the Fourth Battalion was in the eyes of Captain Shimamoto Yusuke of the Fifth Battalion.
Its eyes were full of admiration: "Yoshi! Long live the Marine Corps!"
Although there was an accident during the beach landing today: the troop transport ship was blown up.
All the warships of the First Air Force behind him were parked in the river and slowly sinking;
But none of this affected the morale of its devils.
The Japanese Marine Special Forces stationed in Shanghai fought so well in the past few days, and all these Japanese soldiers have developed a feeling that they are the strongest in the world.
Therefore, they did not take the setback they suffered this time to heart at all.
The captain told them to charge, and they charged with all their strength.
A few days ago, they were able to hold the line of defense under the attack of the three elite main divisions of the national army with the help of solid fortifications.
It is also related to the rigid fighting style of the Chinese army's offensive team. Although these Japanese soldiers have a strong will to fight and do not retreat, it has something to do with it.
But today is different: today they are the attacking party, and the national army has become the defending party.
Ordinary soldiers such as Sergeant Kentaro Shida who were charging at the front did not understand the difference.
I just simply think: they are invincible!
It is precisely with this understanding that these Japs charged with all their might.
The Japanese stood up straight one by one, holding their guns and striding towards the defense line 500 meters away.
This kind of charge is different from the charges of the 6th Infantry Regiment and the 68th Infantry Regiment.
When the infantry regiment charged, they hunched their backs and lowered their heads, wishing they could shrink their whole bodies into a ball.
They want to reduce the size as much as possible and reduce the chance of being shot.
Staff Sergeant Kentaro Shida and the others charged with their backs straightened and their chests puffed out.
Platoon leader Chang Jieying was a little surprised when he saw the Japanese in this state and said to Company Commander Ren:
"Lianzuo! These devils are so arrogant!"
Company Commander Ren also saw the difference in this team, nodded and said:
"The morale of this group of devils is very high. Their boat was sunk in the river, and they attacked like this after landing ashore.
They can still maintain such morale, these devils are so strong!"
Deputy Company Commander Wang smiled and said: "When we attack, we look like this, with our heads held high and our chests held high, as if we were being inspected.
These devils must be fools! Lian Zuo! I’ll bring them closer and beat them later.”
The two company commanders had completely different views, it was just their starting points that were different.
Company Commander Ren felt that the morale of this group of Japs was high, and Deputy Company Commander Wang felt that these Japs charging like this would be as close to death as possible.
That’s why we say they are fools!
However, the two company commanders had the same opinion on how to fight such Japanese soldiers: fight as close as possible, the closer the better!
Ren Lian said: "Put the Japs at the front fifty meters away before attacking, and ask the brothers to prepare grenades!
When bullets can’t hit, use grenades to blow them up!”
"yes!"
Shimamoto Yusuke's brigade was in the second echelon of the attack. It saw that the Japs in Kurimoto's climbing brigade were so brave.
Unable to bear it any longer, he shouted an order: "All of the Fifth Brigade are here! Attack immediately!"
This brigade followed behind the fourth brigade.
This is how the human wave tactic is used, just pile up as long as there are enough people.
You can break through the defense line!
Captain Lu and Captain Li who were observing on the city wall understood clearly: the Japanese wanted to use more people to break through the defense line.
Captain Li was a little worried: "The Japanese's human wave tactics require high psychological quality of soldiers on both sides of the attack and defense.
The Japs are the ones initiating the attack, so they should have no problem.
Can the Seventh Company withstand it?"
Captain Lu also had this question in his mind and looked at Yao Ziqing beside him.
Yao Ziqing said: "Team up! There will be no problem for a while! Seven companies of light and heavy machine guns add up to 21."
Commander Lu was still worried and said to Li Zhipeng: "Captain Li! Send a company up!
For the sake of everything being safe, sending one company up first can also give a signal to the brothers of the Seventh Company: there is a large force behind them."
Li Zhipeng was very direct and immediately ordered: "Let the first company go up and cooperate with the brothers to fight well!"
"yes!"
Someone immediately sent the order, and soon you could see: among the teams lurking in the traffic trench, there were more than a hundred people moving quickly inside the traffic trench.
When Ren Zhi saw Captain Zou of the 213th Regiment leading his team up.
He immediately understood what was going on and said immediately: "Company Commander Zou! Tell the brothers to put the Japanese at a distance of fifty meters before fighting!"
"Okay!" Zou Jincai accepted immediately.
This was originally their home field, and both of them were company commanders, so of course it was the first one who came first.
"Put the Japs fifty meters away before beating them!" This order was passed down one by one.
More than a hundred newly arrived people were added to the defense line, but it was hard to tell how many people had been added.
Captain Lu, who was observing from a high position behind, looked at the defenders on the defensive line. Compared with the attacking Japanese, he saw that his troops were indeed sparse.
He ordered: "Infantry artillery! Mortars are ready!"
"yes!"
Staff Sergeant Kentaro Shida, Staff Sergeant Kashii Nosuke, and Staff Sergeant Kazuki Yamamoto rushed into the 300-meter defense line.
This distance is when the heavy machine gun can come into play.
However, the defenders made no move.
This situation made the captain of the Kurimoto Mountain Climbing Team a little excited.
Two hundred meters!
There was still no movement from the defenders!
One hundred meters! At such a short distance, even a rifle can shoot accurately.
Chapter completed!