Anti-Japanese War: When I get promoted, the system will explode with soldiers

Because the 3rd Division has relatively strong combat effectiveness, it is equipped with an artillery regiment and an artillery battalion. At this moment, near their position is an artillery battalion equipped with twelve 75mm infantry guns.

They were well-trained. After receiving the order from Captain Kimura, they fired the shells in their hands immediately. Of course, they were also very clear about their fate. As long as everyone did not expose their positions in the dark, they would be safe.

But once their position was exposed, things would become difficult to predict. Just as they had imagined, each artillery piece had only fired about two shells before the artillery of the opposite First Brigade found them, and they were all using 155mm heavy artillery.

When the first shell hit their artillery position, three 75mm infantry guns were blown to pieces. The remaining personnel no longer cared about rescuing the artillery, but only wanted to seize the time to escape from this hell.

Unfortunately, the 155mm howitzer shells were too powerful. Even if they had car wheels on their legs, they probably wouldn't be able to escape.

Captain Kimura and other soldiers saw the situation on the artillery battalion side. They were heartbroken at the moment, but they could only stand there, unable to help those people escape from the artillery attack.

The first round of fighting ended like this. Kimura's regiment lost more than half of its soldiers, more than a thousand of whom were killed in battle. More than 80% of the artillery battalion was killed. The remaining people were either seriously injured or stunned by the explosion and could not recover for a long time.

Even if we had brand new artillery now, I'm afraid there would be no way to make these people useful again.

After hearing the news, Taro Ito showed a sinister look on his face.

He knew that since the Pujiang First Brigade was famous and was sent by the National Government to defend Luodian, it was impossible for it to be defeated by our infantry company of more than 3,000 people.

According to the Japanese operational guidelines, a fully staffed infantry company of nearly 4,000 men would be fighting against a fully staffed infantry division in China. It now appears that this does not apply to the 72nd Army.

According to the intelligence they obtained, there were no more than 6,000 people on the opposite position. Although there were some other auxiliary troops, those people were not the direct descendants of the 72nd Army. They were far inferior to the 72nd Army in terms of combat effectiveness and mobilization capabilities.

Therefore, the Japanese army did not count them, but judging from yesterday's battle, these auxiliary troops still have a certain role. The 72nd Army consumes almost three to five times more ammunition per minute than the same Japanese army, and sometimes even ten times more. If there is no good logistics force, many of their weapons will fail on the battlefield.

"Order the Kimura Company to gather all personnel and launch an attack from the right. The 11th Division's Canggu Regiment will attack from the left. The artillery of both companies muster and be deployed in unison. Commander Canggu will take command."

There was nothing wrong with the previous arrangements, but when the last sentence was said, several combat staff officers looked over in surprise.

You are the commander of the 3rd Division. Even if someone is to command the battle, it should be our Regimental Commander Kimura.

Why should the commander of the 11th Division, Canggu, be in charge? They are both of the same rank.

Seeing that his combat staff did not move, Ito Taro snorted coldly, and these people hurried to convey the order. Their division commander had a strange temper and always acted on his own. If you don't want to be beaten later, then hurry up and convey the order.

Although Taro Ito fought fiercely with Commander Takahashi of the 11th Division at the headquarters, he was very clear about the combat capabilities of the company commanders under him. His subordinate, Regimental Commander Kimura, was a student at the Army University, and Regimental Commander Canggu was an instructor at the Army University.

Among all the infantry company commanders of the Pujiang Expeditionary Force, Captain Canggu should be the most qualified. Of course, because his family background is not very good and he does not study much in his daily life, he has only been in this position for five or six years. If he were replaced by some children of aristocrats, he would have become a brigade commander long ago.

After receiving the order, Captain Canggu's face was not very good. Although he had the longest qualifications among all the company captains, because of his poor background, he had basically only served up his position so far.

It was a consensus among all Japanese commanders that the Pujiang 1st Brigade on the opposite side was not easy to defeat.

"Teacher, thank you for your hard work."

At the newly established front-line command center, Lieutenant Commander Kimura bowed ninety degrees.

"Kimura-kun, there was nothing wrong with your command last night. I watched the entire process and can only say that our opponent was too strong. If I were in your position last night, I'm afraid the result would be the same."

After hearing what Mr. Canggu said, Captain Kimura was so moved that he almost cried.

After the defeat last night, although the headquarters quickly replenished them with more than a thousand new recruits, the words spoken by his colleagues around him really disheartened him.

Fortunately, the division commander did not pursue the matter and allowed him to continue working in his original position. The temporary commander transferred here today can also understand his difficulties.

"Teacher, what about our attack today?"

It was no use just empathizing with my own difficulties. According to the order from the division headquarters, we must launch a second round of attack before 8 o'clock. How should we attack? Compared with night, the enemy has a greater advantage during the day. We don't even need to fire flares.

"Today's attack has no strategy. It relies entirely on the lives of our soldiers. Our two infantry companies, combined with some other scattered troops, can only make up about 9,000 people. Including our lives, ours are all within this 9,000. In addition to our existing troops, the division headquarters has mobilized 20 tanks for us. This should be our final killing move."

There was not much joy on Captain Canggu's face. Anyone who was sent to such a position would be at a loss as to what to do.

You can't see clearly at night, but you can see very clearly in broad daylight. The positions in the distance are staggered. Every thirty meters or even twenty meters, there is a tank or armored vehicle. The surrounding trenches are also dug in a certain shape. Unless you have enough heavy artillery, this kind of position is of no use at all.

Although Japan has mobilized 24 105mm heavy artillery pieces, they would be useful elsewhere, but not here? I'm afraid...