Seeing with his own eyes that victory was starting to leave him, Kawakishi Bunsaburo was very angry. He had not expected that this attack would actually find such a turning point.
Originally, he thought that the Empire's warriors were the best in the world in terms of fighting skills and would easily take down this position. However, who would have thought that the other party would not play by the rules?
You wanted to find someone to fight with a bayonet, but the other party had a pistol. The battle would be ended with a few shots. It was easy and pleasant.
However, the casualties of the 1st Battalion this time were not small. There were more than a hundred casualties, which was one-fifth of the total. This was also the price to pay for close combat. No matter how advanced your equipment was, under such circumstances, casualties were still unavoidable.
"Baka! Continue to attack, do not stop for even a moment!”Kawagishi Bunsaburo ordered.
Thus, the Japanese army began their suicidal journey again. The 1st Battalion built a good position in the position and waited for the Japanese army to charge. Then, they pulled the trigger and knocked down the charging Japanese army one by one.
This was similar to the moving targets they usually used in training. As long as they aimed slightly and pulled the trigger, they could knock down a Japanese soldier.
It wasn't that the Japanese didn't know that this method was stupid, but they had no other way. They could only use people to pile up and see who couldn't hold on first.
Even if the Japanese army was wrong, they did not know that Lu Jie had an additional brigade of 10,000 soldiers. When they were tired, they would be replaced by the next batch of troops. They were not afraid of the Japanese army's rotation.
If Kawakishi Bunsaburo knew about this situation, he would never have given such a stupid order. However, war was like this. Many seemingly stupid orders were given when the situation was unclear.
Lu Jie's plan was to consume the Japanese army's effective strength as much as possible and then fight a beautiful counterattack. Now everything was ready. If it wasn't for the arrival of the Japanese reinforcements, the independent brigade would have rushed out long ago.
Now, hundreds of armored vehicles had been modified. Steel plates had been sewn onto the jeeps, and a 12.7mm M2HH Browning heavy machine gun had been installed, with 700 rounds in reserve.
The steel plates could only block the attacks of Japanese rifles and machine guns. If it was a recoilless cannon or other large-caliber firearms, it would be a bit difficult.
However, because the Japanese army had never encountered a powerful army in Asia, they were not equipped with many weapons. The Kwantung Army was equipped with a lot, mainly to guard against the Russian army.
One could imagine how desperate the Japanese would feel when they were attacked by this force.
The battle continued, and the remaining artillery of the Japanese army also began to move. These artillery were scattered, and after firing a few shots, they would shift positions. Although the efficiency of this battle was very low, it could greatly avoid the fate of being destroyed.
The battle between the two sides went on for two days. Now, it was the turn of the second regiment and the third battalion at the bridgehead, replacing four or five batches of troops.
Now, no matter how stupid the Japanese army was, they felt that something was wrong. Unless the enemy was an iron man, it was impossible for a regiment to last so long.
Moreover, the Japanese army's attacks were already weak. They could not organize a large number of troops to attack at all. The entire 40th Brigade was already crippled, and the 39th Brigade was not much better.
Last night, the Japanese army organized a large-scale night attack. However, after being discovered by the soldiers, the Japanese army retreated after a fierce battle.
Since this night attack, the Japanese army had never organized a decent attack. After such heavy casualties, Kawagishi Bunsaburo seemed to have woken up.
Now, he understood that this was just a tactic to add fuel to the fire. He had failed in the battle for Lugouqiao. The Chinese people on the other side had relied on a regiment of troops to block their entire regiment of nearly 30,000 soldiers for a few days.
Currently, the number of casualties in the entire division had already reached thousands, and the number of injured had reached tens of thousands. This was already a huge casualty. Other than the Russo-Japanese War, this was the 20th division's worst casualty.
The casualties of the Japanese army were very high, and Lu Jie's independent brigade was not doing well either. The number of casualties was close to 2000, which was the number of a regiment, and half of them were recruits.
"Regiment Commander, we can't continue fighting like this!”The regiment commander of the 39th exploration team, Xiu Mu Qing Guang, cried to the major general. The number of casualties in the exploration team was not small.
"Baka, your soldiers are in the wrong. Put away your horse urine. If I don't attack, how can I complete the mission His Majesty the Emperor gave me? Can you tell me?"
In fact, he was hesitant to launch such an attack again because the casualties of his troops had reached the level of being injured. Although they still had more than 10,000 troops that could fight, many of them were already incomplete and had no ability to fight.
"Ask the headquarters for help. I heard that the 16th division has boarded the ship and is preparing to land at Tanggu, Tianjin. We can ask for their support!”the regiment commander said.
Kawagishi Bunsaburo sighed softly and said,"That's the only way now. Also, I hope that the Hainan Airlines troops can join the battle!”
"This!" The brigade commander looked at Bunsaburo Kawagishi with some hesitation. He was a firm anti-navy person, and he opposed it for the sake of opposing it. Now, he actually asked for help from the Hainan Airlines.
However, Lu Hang's performance in the past few days was really unsatisfactory and useless.
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