As long as you are a soldier, there is no one who does not like to attack.
Especially the Chinese soldiers who suffered heavy losses on the Songhu battlefield. If they are given another chance, they will definitely perform better than this time.
In fact, the soldiers on the Songhu battlefield were brave.
However, it must be said that the military, which is overly focused on conduct and tactics, has a very poor understanding of combat technology among Chinese officers.
The reason is very simple. Most people who engage in science are nerds who specialize in academics. But those who are well-known in the social world have absolutely no ability to study science.
However, before attacking, what Xie Jinyuan had to do was to gradually attract the Japanese to the Sihang Warehouse.
And if the battle situation is as Zhang Sixing judged, a new brigade has just passed the position of the fire base. It has to be said that in comparison, the Japanese army, which has almost completely occupied Shanghai at this moment, has a complete manpower advantage.
The successive attacks of the five brigades will eventually exhaust the last energy of the four lines of defenders, and there is no doubt that this place will fall.
Unlike the previous attack, this time the Japanese had artillery cover, but they did not restore those fire bases.
After all, when the people at Sihang Warehouse had the ability to unleash a super artillery barrage with the power of 200mm artillery, arranging a fire base like that was a recipe for death.
Therefore, the Japanese very wisely dispersed their heavy machine guns, grenade launchers and other firepower into the trenches that the Japanese Marine Corps had built with sandbags, and fired against the firepower pouring from the Sihang Warehouse Building.
As a brigade of Japanese infantry approached, the firepower confrontation between Sihang Warehouse and the attackers reached its peak again.
Especially as Zhang Sixing expected, the snipers, rocket launchers, and gasoline barrel cannons on the roof received special attention from the grenade launchers.
Fortunately, the artillery team, which had been notified long ago, had already withdrawn to the fifth floor and was now moving weapons to the first floor. After all, they would still be of great use when the attack would take place later.
The red bullets fired from the building swept over the advancing Japanese infantry, divided into small groups. Just like the previous time, the Japanese infantry huddled behind the triangular steel shield and advanced slowly.
Tracer bullets hit those sharp-edged steel shields, and traces of bright sparks flew to the side.
Of course, from time to time soldiers who were not well hidden were hit by bullets fired from the Sihang Warehouse Building.
But after all, only a very small number of people were hit, especially since there was a trench system left by the previous Marine Corps nearby. Even if they were injured, they could be rescued from the trench system.
Not only that, the advancing Japanese soldiers often picked up the heavy steel shields that the Japanese soldiers had dropped when they retreated, and put them up again.
This behavior caused the entire brigade to be divided into more small groups, which allowed them to be less disturbed during the attack.
What's more worrying is that the Japanese obviously wanted to complete their victory in one battle, and the artillery positions in the distance also increased their firepower output. For a time, dozens of artillery shells were fired into the front of the Sihang Warehouse Building.
Fireballs of violent explosions kept rising in the Sihang Warehouse Building, and people and equipment hit by the bombs were taken out of the windows from time to time. Even the debris fell directly into the Suzhou River below, causing a lot of water splashes.
"Ah...the defenders of Sihang Warehouse are about to be finished."
On the south side of the Suzhou River, Chinese people gathered to pay attention to the battle of Sihang Warehouse. Seeing the firelight illuminating the entire floor of the Sihang Warehouse, their hearts were lifted.
But right now, on the first floor, the final preparations for the attack are being made.
"Sir, as per your order, I have repaired a tank."
The so-called repaired tank was Hanson Raul's order to remove the parts from one of the tanks he grabbed last night and repair another tank.
Zhang Sixing, who was smoking wholeheartedly, handed him a cigarette as a reward.
"Well done, but we don't have enough manpower to drive the tank."
In one sentence, the people around who were ready to counterattack looked at each other. There were originally four tanks, one for Zhang Sihang, one for Hanson Raul who could drive a tractor, one for Tetsujiro Yamaoka who could drive a car, and one for a captured Japanese soldier.
drive.
All you need to do is find someone to watch, and if you dare not shoot properly, you will be shot dead.
Now that another one has been repaired, who can I find to drive it?
Seeing that no one said anything, Cao Zijin raised his hand, feeling a little embarrassed.
Looking at his appearance, Hansen Raul curled his lips in disgust,
"If you have something to say, you have to fart."
Ever since he learned yesterday that Lieutenant Colonel Marcus had brought him to arrest Zhang Si Xing, Hansen Raul had never given him a good look.
Cao Zijin was helpless towards this kind of contempt. He had no choice but to pretend that he didn't hear it at all and turned to Zhang Sixing.
"Sir, I have driven a motorcycle..."
Just as he was talking, Zhang Sixing's eyes suddenly lit up, and he reached out and patted his thigh.
"Why the hell did I forget that thing?"
Everyone stared, not understanding who he was talking about. Zhang Sixing raised his head and ordered Yamaoka Tetsujiro,
"Go get Lieutenant Colonel Marcus, that guy can definitely drive a tank."
Zhang Sixing never thought about whether that guy could drive a tank, but he could definitely drive a car. With on-site training, it shouldn't be difficult to drive a tank.
Just as he was talking, suddenly the sound of cannons came from far away. Zhang Sixing's expression changed, he threw away his cigarette butt and shouted,
"hidden……"
After everyone heard his roar, they subconsciously held their heads in their hands and fell to the ground.
"Boom"
There was a loud sound, the sound of a cannonball penetrating the wall, and then a loud explosion exploded in the maze on the first floor.
The soil, beans and other debris in the sandbags were flying around on the first floor of the warehouse, and faint screams could be heard.
When everything calmed down, Hansen Raul felt that there was someone else on his body, and he slowly got up.
The man on top of him was not injured and also turned over and sat up.
"Ahem..."
After coughing out the dust in his mouth, Hansen. Raoer calmed down and realized that the person who knocked him down was Cao Zijin. He rolled his eyes and looked at the maze where a "wall" had been blown down. He laughed dryly and said,
"Haha, don't worry about you being too busy when we counterattack. Did Camp Commander Cao see it? We need to fix it when we come back."
Regarding this guy's unworthy tone, Cao Zijin just snorted angrily and said "poof" to the side.
Just at this moment, someone shouted from upstairs,
"Pass it down, the devil is a hundred meters away..."
This was agreed upon. At this time, going up from the third floor, it was mainly artillery fire and heavy machine gun counterattacks.
It can be said that in this counterattack, Zhang Sixing gathered almost all the elite forces in the Sixing Warehouse. He looked up at Company Commander Tao, Hu Yang, and Guan Shijie.
"The safety of the tank depends on you. Don't let the Japanese get close to the tank."
Then he turned around and ordered Li Shixian, who was leading the Sheepherds and Artillery Team, to
"You have to use grenades to drive the Japanese away, and you can't let them stop..."
Before he finished speaking, the old smoker Li Youtian suddenly came over with a car, and the car looked a bit strange. Everyone thought he was worried about his son, but they didn't expect that he was here to deliver weapons.