lcionline Chapter 379 Heavy losses
Chapter 379 Heavy losses
Taking advantage of their geographical advantage, they used artillery and air force units from both the navy and the army to launch a fierce bombing on the Anmin Army.
Subsequently, tank troops were dispatched to launch a defensive counterattack against the Anmin Army, causing great damage to the Anmin Army.
Jiang Li, who was in the rear, had already learned that the 50,000 people pursuing in the front were unprepared.
After being bombarded by the fierce artillery fire of the Japanese pirates and then caught off guard by the enemy's tank troops, they had suffered heavy casualties.
He immediately ordered the pursuing troops to fight and retreat, while the surrounding troops immediately surrounded them.
The order was issued, and all troops successfully arrived at the designated locations. However, the firepower of the Japanese pirates was too strong, and they were also supported by the tank troops.
So after they noticed something unusual, they immediately started to break out in the opposite direction.
The coalition forces were maneuvering quickly and did not carry many heavy weapons, so they were unable to stop the Japanese tank troops and could only watch them break through.
The encirclement failed, and the coalition forces were exposed to the sight of the Japanese pirates' air force. Then there was continuous bombing, and the coalition forces suffered heavy casualties in an instant.
Jiang Li realized that it would not work to passively take the beating, so he immediately changed his tactics. He ordered the troops with nearby bunkers to hide on the spot to minimize his own casualties.
At the same time, he ordered the troops in the front to continue the attack and engage the enemy in close combat as much as possible, so that their planes would be afraid to drop bombs.
As for the soldiers in the rear, they immediately dug trenches and built fortifications to create conditions for the next battle.
Why did he order his soldiers to dig trenches and prevent artillery holes under the bombardment instead of ordering a retreat? It was of course because in this situation, a retreat could easily turn into a rout.
By then, not only would he fail to lift the siege of Shanghai, but more than half of his more than one million coalition troops would be killed or wounded. He did not dare to take such a risk.
Therefore, he could only order the soldiers to dig trenches under the bombardment. This way, the troops would at least not flee, and they would have a chance to counterattack only after dark.
However, this would result in heavy casualties for the troops. On the one hand, with the joint efforts of the enemy's navy, army and aircraft, their firepower delivery capability would be doubled.
On the other hand, now that there are no hiding places, the artillery cannot support the attacking forces, otherwise the artillery positions will definitely be targeted by the Japanese bombers.
If there are not enough artillery in the later stages of the battle, we will be even more passive.
Jiang Li was in a very bad mood when he saw the reports of wounded soldiers being sent in continuously. He finally understood intuitively the huge gap between industrial countries and agricultural countries.
This kind of gap is truly a dimensionality reduction attack. There is no way to fight head-on. We can only wait until dark and make up for it with the help of the night.
Amidst such fierce artillery fire, the sky finally darkened.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Jiang Li immediately ordered the troops hiding in the woods to begin maneuvering towards the Japanese pirates' defense line, and then launch a surprise attack at night.
The other troops that had not yet been dispersed continued to dig trenches and build fortifications.
Yes, after a whole day of bombing, many coalition forces had been dispersed and could no longer communicate.
However, there are still many troops that can continue to fight despite suffering heavy losses.
Although they are very tired now, in order to avoid being bombed by the enemy tomorrow, they can only continue to dig overtime, so that the casualties tomorrow will be much smaller.
Just as the rear troops were digging trenches, the night attack troops had already assembled and were within one kilometer of the enemy's position.
Seeing that the time was almost right, Jiang Li immediately ordered his men to advance towards the Japanese pirates and launch an attack if they were discovered.
Just ten minutes after the order was given, the sound of gunfire from the front reached Jiang Li's ears.
It turned out that the Japanese pirates had been prepared for a long time. Not long after the 70,000 to 80,000 Anmin Army took action, they discovered the whereabouts of the Anmin Army, and then the two sides engaged in fierce exchange of fire.
Jiang Li knew that he couldn't fight during the day, so he just confronted the Japanese pirates head-on. He didn't ask for a good casualty ratio, as long as he could achieve a two-to-one ratio in the night battle, it would be a huge profit.
China has nothing now, but it has an absolute advantage in population. As long as two are replaced by one, the Japanese pirates can be defeated quickly.
Just as Jiang Li was listening carefully to the sound of artillery fire, he suddenly remembered Liu Huaqiang and the other two, so he issued an order, requiring them to immediately find the location of the enemy's airport and then launch a sneak attack to kill them all.
Besides, at the front of the battlefield, although the Japanese pirates lit many fires on their side, they helped the pilots determine their location.
However, since they could not see the specific location of the Anmin Army, the Japanese pilots were unable to select targets and could only drop bombs at random at the location of the Anmin Army.
In this way, the hit rate of the Japanese pirates' planes was greatly reduced, giving the Anmin Army a foundation to continue fighting.
As for Zhang Yezhong in the inner city of Shanghai, because the Japanese pirates' attacks had stopped during the day, and the planes that kept taking off and landing were not dropping bombs on the city, he already knew that the reinforcements from outside had arrived.
This finally gave his tense mind a chance to breathe.
But when he was hiding in a dilapidated building to rest, he could not hear the fighting outside the city at all, but he could hear the sound of planes flying overhead.
Then he understood that this should be the reinforcements launching a night attack. Unfortunately, he knew that the Japanese pirates' army discipline and food treatment were extremely good.
Even if the friendly forces launch a night attack, it will probably be ineffective and they will be quickly repelled, and then they will have to make other plans.
But to his surprise, the planes took off and landed very frequently, and the friendly forces were apparently not repelled quickly. Instead, they used the cover of darkness to launch a large-scale attack on the enemy.
But in this case, if the enemy launches another attack during the day, how can the friendly forces, who have experienced a day and night of fierce fighting, resist?
After thinking for a long time, he finally thought of a possibility, that is, the number of reinforcements is a lot, at least twice that of the enemy, because only in this case can the conditions support the continuous attack day and night.
The facts turned out to be just as he expected. The Japanese pirates' planes flew all night without stopping until dawn, when they rested for less than an hour.
And just after it was completely light, they took off again, apparently to carry out bombing again.
At this time, the Anmin Army had already dug trenches and anti-artillery holes, so the damage caused by the Japanese pirates' aircraft was greatly reduced.
Even if it was an aerial bomb, it could only destroy an anti-gun hole and could not cause large-scale damage.
As a result, the battle between the two sides became stalemate again.
Zhang Yezhong also took advantage of this precious breathing space to continuously gather his troops, search for ammunition and supplies, and arrange defense points in preparation for a long-term war.