This early morning in Songhu, November 1st.
For everyone on this battlefield, there is no doubt that their emotions are extremely complicated.
The Japanese are happy but also a little unwilling.
Chinese people, sadness is intertwined with hope.
The Westerners breathed a sigh of relief but were a little confused.
The Chinese who were still defending yesterday ran away. Where else could they go besides the concession? The key point is, as the owners, why didn’t they know?
But no matter what mixed emotions everyone had, the Japanese army finally occupied the Sihang Warehouse, which also meant that the entire Songhu City area was completely under the control of the Japanese army.
The Chinese people have not left, they are still waiting for a miracle to happen.
Maybe those Guojun brothers appeared out of nowhere to be remembered by the Japanese!
The Chinese can think of this, but the Japanese certainly can't think of it. No matter how hard they are, they have learned to be smarter after being pressed to the ground and rubbed by the warehouse defenders for so many days!
At least 100 engineers entered the warehouse. Their mission was to search the entire warehouse. In addition to looking for clues as to where the defenders could have gone, more importantly, they wanted to find any explosives that the defenders might have planted.
Hard work paid off, and the professional-level engineers of the Japanese army finally found what the Japanese commander was worried about.
A full 100 kilograms of explosives and five or six boxes of hand grenades were buried by the Chinese two meters below the two main load-bearing columns in the center of the building.
The Chinese were too clever to be fooled. They piled a large number of potatoes there, thinking that they would make the experienced imperial engineers ignore that position?
The first floor was bombed like that, who would pile precious food there haphazardly?
The Japanese engineer lieutenant, who instinctively felt something was wrong, ordered the potatoes to be moved away, knowing that these potatoes, which were full of doubts at first glance, also contained dangers.
There were booby traps set up in the pile of potatoes. During the process of moving the potatoes, a grenade mixed in them emitted green smoke. Although the cautious Japanese engineers got down quickly enough, the potatoes that were knocked away by the explosion of the grenade were still terrifying.
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If it weren't for the helmet protecting his head, the Japanese engineer lieutenant who led all this had reason to believe that it would definitely not be as simple as having his head covered with a blanket.
There were actually four grenades in the two piles of potatoes. One of them was connected in a series. It was blown up more than 20 meters before exploding, killing three of the engineers who had been preparing to hide 20 meters away.
Continuous "boom" explosions stirred up the somewhat depressed mood of the Chinese people.
The middle-aged man in suit and the rickshaw driver, who had figured it out, did not leave and returned to the street corner, eagerly waiting for the miracle to happen again.
The Japanese infantrymen had already withdrawn from the warehouse according to military orders and were waiting for the engineers to clear the place. When they heard the explosion inside, they felt that their commander was so wise and wise for the first time.
The Japanese engineers who carried their heads to clear obstacles for the combat soldiers finally found the wires used for blasting after paying the price of two deaths and one injury. They were also buried deep in the soil and extended outside the warehouse to the other side of the river.
That may be because the Chinese felt that using booby traps to detonate explosives buried deep under load-bearing columns was not safe enough, so they used this additional method of detonation.
The despicable Westerners and the Chinese Baga had indeed conspired. After receiving the news, Wakiitajiro immediately gave the Queen of the Empire on which the sun never sets to death in his heart.
This also once again confirms the fact that the Chinese snorkeled and escaped to the Western Concession last night.
Although the Chinese made a mistake and let the engineering troops find the location of the explosives, the more than 100 kilograms of explosives they planted and the explosive power of hundreds of grenades could definitely blow up the Sihang Warehouse.
And the reason why more explosives were not installed to directly blow up a building like last time is probably because it is too close to the concession, and the two hundred meters away are their own people, or maybe because
The battle has been going on for so long and the explosives have been almost used. Didn’t the Chinese even use grenades?
Although there is no one in the warehouse, and even the weapons are missing, it remains to be verified. After more than half an hour of searching, another room containing more than a dozen boxes of grenades and damaged Maxim heavy machine guns was found. Su Luotong
The basement of the machine gun and two carefully disguised tunnels.
In addition, a lot of oil was spilled all over the warehouse, including non-flammable diesel and highly volatile gasoline. Apparently, the Chinese who could not take away the oil were trying to use artillery fire to ignite the oil and burn down the warehouse.
But their attempt failed. The strong outer shell of the warehouse still blocked a large amount of artillery fire. Except for a few houses near the outside, there were fires, but they were quickly swept away by the air waves.
Diesel that has seeped into the soil on the ground is not so easily ignited as long as you don't deliberately throw a torch, and highly volatile gasoline has become less dangerous as time goes by.
As long as no one is here specifically to light the fire.
The Imperial Japanese Army all has flashlights, so there is no need for low-end lighting like torches. There is no need to worry too much about this.
In addition, the engineering force has fully confirmed that the warehouse is basically safe.
Jiro Wakiba has already reported to the division headquarters and decided to use this place as the headquarters of the 36th Infantry Regiment, and it was approved.
After receiving the inspection report from the engineering unit, Jiro Wakiita proudly invited Colonel Kimura Shaoo to enter the Sihang Warehouse to watch the flag-raising ceremony.
He decided to raise the regimental flag representing victory in front of tens of thousands of Chinese people who had not yet left on the south bank of the Suzhou River.
On the grounds that he wanted to report to the brigade commander and division commander immediately, Colonel Kimura Shaoxiong declined the invitation of Jiro Wakiba, who was preparing to win the victory, and left with his bodyguard.
Wakiitajiro took Makino Shun and his two major captains into the Sihang Warehouse. Only Major Toyoda Hide, who was completely abandoned, did not have this honor.
With such a glorious victory, the Japanese commander hoped to be watched by enough people.
All infantry squadrons participating in the battle were required to select twenty brave officers and soldiers to enter the warehouse to participate in the flag-raising ceremony.
Both tunnels were wet, and the water stains on the earthen walls also showed that they were filled with water before, and that all the water should have been drained out last night. This allowed the Japanese engineers to roughly understand what they said two days ago.
Where do water leakage accidents come from?
It turned out that it was not my unlucky luck in digging the underground river, but it was caused by the artificial diversion of water by the warehouse guards.
This made Jiro Wakiba's face flush when he entered the warehouse. He spent a long time thinking that all his tactics were responded to by the Chinese.
He really didn’t save any face! The Japanese colonel’s good mood suddenly disappeared.
As for why the Chinese cut off the water channels and emptied the water in the tunnels, they probably tried to escape from the tunnels. However, after the engineer suicide squad climbed down to explore, they found that except for waist-deep mud, there was not a single human figure inside. Even the Chinese like to use
None of the explosives were found.
Thinking about it, the Chinese are not the skilled engineers of the Japanese Empire. It is probably possible to dig twenty or thirty meters. If you want to dig a few hundred meters, you need to study for a few years first! When it comes to digging holes, you still have to do it.
They are our Imperial Japanese Engineers.
It has been determined that it is impossible for the Chinese to escape through the tunnel, so they can only sneak into the Suzhou River through the waterway and then enter the concession area.
No evidence is the best evidence.
Wakibajiro already had a case in mind.
Only in this way can he apply to the dispatched army headquarters for armed entry into the concession to pursue the fleeing Chinese.
This time, those Westerners had no excuse to stop them. The blood of the Imperial Japanese Army must not be shed in vain.
Wakitajiro had even thought that even if they hid well enough, those hateful Chinese who watched the battles and shouted for them on the south bank of the Suzhou River every day would have to pay the price. Whoever he said was, they were.
Even if you just randomly grab a few hundred people and shoot them here, you can still express your anger, right?
Of course, before that, he had to complete the most important task - raising the regiment flag.
The Chinese retreated in an extremely hasty manner, and the strip of cloth with the broken military uniforms as the flag was still on the flagpole. As the captain of the regiment, he would tear off the messy strip of cloth, and then, in front of all the elite officers and soldiers of the 36th Infantry Regiment and those who
In the face of pity for the Chinese people, the regimental flag given by His Majesty the Emperor was solemnly raised.
320 people were mobilized from 12 infantry squadrons, 3 heavy machine gun squadrons, and 1 artillery squadron, plus 30 people from the flag guard team of the infantry squadron directly under the wing, which can be regarded as the elite and the remaining more than 1,000 people of the 36th Infantry Wing.
The backbone of the building, even though the roof of the building had been pockmarked by artillery fire and was a mess, they still stood upright.
Standing in front of these elite Japanese troops were a colonel, a lieutenant colonel, and two majors. All captains and above officers had once again put on their pretentious three-piece suits, white gloves, long leather boots, and command knives.
Although they had just experienced a big battle, both their faces and their uniforms were still stained with smoke and blood, but this gave these Japanese soldiers a sense of iron-bloodedness.
"This is the most tenacious imperial iron-blooded army I have ever seen. Although they have suffered defeats, under the Chinese autumn sunshine, they have regained the imperial glory they once lost."
Shuichi Fukuyama, who was taking photos of the iron-blooded army on the roof of the building, described this in his notebook.
This was the last record of this military reporter.
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ps: Feng Yue is depressed, really depressed. I chatted with the editor for a long time an hour ago. Because there is still no Sanjiang this week, the editor asked Feng Yue to wait another week. Therefore, it will not be available on the shelves on June 1st. That means no matter whether Feng Yue can
If you can’t go to Sanjiang, the book will be around 500,000 words long before it goes on the shelves.
Oh my God! Will Fengyue become the first level-5 author from Qidian who wrote more than three months to reach 500,000 words before putting it on the shelves? This is really a sad story. Book lovers may be very happy, at least they don’t have to spend money, but
Fengyue also has to raise a baby, right? She originally wanted to earn some royalties from her manuscripts to support her family, but... she just spent the past half month eating steamed buns in vain.
Did you name it "Jubilee" without looking at the chapter names? The sadness is beyond words! Book friends who don't vote and plan to read pirated copies in the future, will your consciences hurt?
This chapter has been completed!