To the west of Sihang Warehouse is the Japanese Army Wakisaka Regiment Headquarters.
The truck that suddenly broke through the blockade also alerted Colonel Jiro Wakisaka and Major Takeo Kitajima.
Takeo Kitajima said solemnly: "Your Majesty Colonel, the observation post reported that the China Army unloaded a dozen large steel bottles from the truck, but the contents of the steel bottles are unknown."
"Cylinder?" Wakisaka Jiro's expression changed dramatically, "Is it a chemical weapon?"
"This..." Kitajima Takao's expression suddenly changed, and he shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be the case. This place is close to the public concession. Even the Japanese Imperial Army did not dare to openly use chemical weapons. How could the Chinese Army dare to do this? Besides,
, it’s impossible for the Chinese Army to possess chemical weapons, right?”
"That's true." Wakisaka Jiro frowned, "Then what exactly are in these bottles?"
Kitajima Takeo said: "Your Majesty Colonel, such random speculation is useless. Why not immediately report to the division headquarters and ask the people in the Special High School Division to find out the origin of these cylinders."
"Hey, Kitajima-san is right. Go and report to the division commander!" Jiro Wakisaka thought for a while and then specifically warned, "Just in case, we didn't investigate this matter in the Special High School Division."
Until the origin of the batch of steel cylinders is known, the Imperial Japanese Army can no longer go into battle. Tomorrow's attack will be because the Fengtian Guard Brigade in Zhishan will serve as the main attack."
"Hai." Bei Dao Takao suddenly stood up and lowered his head, and immediately took the order and left.
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Another five days passed in the blink of an eye, and the time came to November 20, the twenty-sixth year of the Republic of China (1937).
In the past five days, the Sihang Warehouse battlefield was still in full swing. Although the Japanese 36th Regiment did not participate in the attack again, the Puppet Manchukuo Fengtian Guard Brigade launched a fierce attack on the Sihang Warehouse. After five days of fierce fighting, Fengtian
The garrison brigade suffered nearly 3,000 casualties and was basically disabled.
In the past five days, the people in the public concession are still enthusiastically supporting the heroic resistance of the Baoshan Battalion on the south bank. The song "Song of Two Hundred Heroes" that the man with glasses once sang loudly that day has now been sung on both sides of the Suzhou River.
, not only the officers and soldiers of Baoshan Battalion, but even the little beggars in Shanghai could sing loudly.
Reporters from various countries who gathered on the south bank of the Suzhou River, either out of curiosity or out of humanitarian assistance, sent the Anti-Japanese War scenes and written materials from the Sihang Warehouse back to China. The mainstream media in the Western world also began to pay attention to this incident.
With the battle far away in the East, the majority of international public opinion gradually shifted from initial neutrality to sympathy for China.
However, in the entire anti-Japanese battlefield, the national army failed to achieve exciting and major results. Even under the attack of the Japanese army, the northern and southern battlefields abandoned cities and lost ground, and were completely defeated!
In the North China battlefield, Taiyuan and Linfen were lost one after another. The Shanxi-Sui Army and the remnants of the Central Army retreated to the Zhongtiao Mountains. Almost all of Shanxi fell. Only the Eighth Route Army still persisted in guerrilla operations in the mountainous areas of northwestern Shanxi. Fortunately, due to the Japanese army Sakagaki
The division's strength was insufficient and its supply lines were too long, so it had to proactively stop the offensive.
On the Songhu battlefield, the Japanese army has already invaded Jiangsu. Two days ago, the 68th Regiment of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army on the North Road, that is, the Takamori Regiment, has captured Kunshan. The 10th Japanese Army on the South Road has captured Wuxing, Changxing, and
Today, the Japanese armies from the north and the south have advanced their front lines to Changshu, Wuxi, and Wuxing.
At this point, except for the Baoshan Battalion, there are no other national army units in the entire Songhu area.
Of course, almost all of the nine elite divisions of the Japanese Central China Front, two infantry brigades and two heavy artillery brigades also moved to the front line. Except for the 36th Infantry Regiment of Jiro Wakisaka who stayed in the Songhu area,
There were only two supplementary regiments that had just been shipped to Shanghai. At this point, the time was finally ripe for the Baoshan Battalion to break out.
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Zhabei, headquarters of the Japanese 36th Regiment.
At two o'clock in the morning, Kitajima Takeo walked in with a livid face and said to Wakisaka Jiro: "Your Majesty Colonel, the Special High School has found out that those cylinders are all filled with oxygen."
It took five days for the Japanese military's intelligence agency to finally find out.
It's not that the Japanese military's special education department is incompetent, the reason why it took five days to find out, but because the National Secret Service used this opportunity to launch an unprecedentedly brutal secret war with the Japanese military's special education department in Shanghai.
"What? Oxygen!?" Jiro Wakisaka's face suddenly became extremely embarrassed.
"Yes, oxygen." Kitajima Takao suddenly lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty Colonel, because we delayed the fighter plane and were unable to eliminate the Chinese Army in Sihang Warehouse, public opinion unfavorable to the empire appeared in the world. Division Commander
Your Excellency and the Commander are extremely angry, and this matter has even alarmed the base camp."
Wakisaka Jiro's face suddenly turned from green to white, and he said in a deep voice: "What do you mean, your Excellency, the division commander?"
Kitajima Takeo said: "Your Excellency, the division commander, sent a telegram that the remaining Chinese soldiers guarding the Sihang Warehouse must be eliminated before dark tomorrow."
Wakisaka Jiro's facial muscles suddenly twitched. He knew that the division commander was really angry this time. If he still couldn't capture the Four Elements Warehouse tomorrow, he would really have no choice but to commit seppuku to thank the Emperor!
The guards suddenly came in and reported: "Your Excellency, Colonel Yu, the commander of the Fengtian Guard Brigade, Yu Zhishan, wants to see you."
"Let him in." Wakisaka Jiro waved his hand. Tomorrow's decisive battle will be fought, and the Fengtian Security Brigade will still have to take the lead.
Yu Zhishan came in quickly and without waiting for Jiro Wakisaka to speak, he said urgently: "Your Majesty Colonel, I have important information to report."
Yu Zhishan said: "Your Excellency, Colonel, my guards just reported to me that they heard strange noises underneath the headquarters."
"Baga!" Jiro Wakisaka was on fire, and he said angrily, "Your nonsense, how could there be any abnormal noise underground? Could it be that the Shina pig turned into a mouse and crawled underground..."
As he spoke, Wakisaka Jiro's voice suddenly stopped, and then he turned to look at Kitajima Takeo.
Kitajima Takeo also had an inexplicable look on his face for a moment, and then he and Wakisaka Jiro shouted almost at the same time: "Oxygen, tunnel excavation, engineer blasting!"
"Engineer blasting?" Yu Zhishan shouted, "What kind of blasting? Those bastards are trying to dig tunnels to escape."
"Baga!" Kitajima Takeo couldn't help but slap Yu Zhishan on the face, then turned around and shouted, "Retreat, all personnel evacuate the headquarters, quickly!"
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Sihang Warehouse, lobby on the ground floor.
Including Yue Weihan, the remaining 100 or so officers and soldiers of the Baoshan Battalion have all put on the Japanese uniforms, but the 20 or so seriously injured soldiers have not put on the Japanese uniforms. Yue Weihan and several company platoon leaders are talking to the heavy soldiers at this time.
The wounded shook hands silently and said goodbye, and the bodies of more than a hundred fallen soldiers had been moved deep into the tunnel.
"Bingzuo, when we recover from our injuries, we will come to you and fight the Japanese with you!" A seriously injured Sichuan soldier said with difficulty.
"Okay! You will always be soldiers of Baoshan Battalion, and you will always be my soldiers!" Yue Weihan choked, "As long as you recover from your injuries, I welcome you back to the team at any time!"
After saying that, Yue Weihan turned to Yang Shaocheng and said: "Director Yang, these brothers are in your hands."
"Don't worry." Yang Shaocheng said solemnly, "Our Eighth Route Army Office will do our best to protect these seriously injured people. When they recover from their injuries, we will find a way to send them to the rental industry."
"Okay!" Yue Weihan turned around suddenly and coldly ordered, "Detonate!"
Liu Tiezhu, the guard platoon leader standing at the entrance of the tunnel, immediately pressed the detonator. Suddenly, a faint muffled sound suddenly came from deep underground. Immediately, the ground under his feet began to shake violently. Baoshan, including Yue Weihan, All the officers and soldiers in the battalion were knocked to the ground in an instant, and no one could stand still.
More than two hundred meters west of the Sihang Warehouse, the three-story building that Wakisaka Jiro served as the headquarters suddenly trembled violently twice, and then collapsed. Immediately, a huge plume of smoke spread toward the surrounding areas like a tsunami. It opened up and in less than a moment almost covered the entire north bank of the Suzhou River.
At this moment, people in the entire public concession, even the French Concession, and the Japanese Concession all raised their heads at the same time and looked towards Zhabei. Everyone's eyes were filled with horror. What happened just now? Could it be that the little devil A heavy aerial bomb was dropped in Zhabei? But when did the Japanese bombers dare to take off at night?
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