This scene is probably a spectacle in the history of Chinese and foreign wars in ancient and modern times. Two armies were fighting to the death on the north bank of the Suzhou River. Thousands of Shanghai citizens and expatriates from various countries were watching the battle a hundred meters away across the river, while desperately fighting for one of the armies.
The army cheered and cheered, and the heated scene was comparable to the final scene of the future Football World Cup in which the host country will participate.
Watching the Japanese infantry cover alternately and advance towards the Sihang Warehouse right under their noses, the heavy machine guns and grenade launchers caused sparks to fly on the walls of the Sihang Warehouse. However, the defenders in the Sihang Warehouse seemed helpless.
Apart from the hard and weak shooting of the shooting holes in the wall, there is no other effective offensive.
The soldiers still hiding in the barricade didn't even dare to raise their heads or say anything, and in the end they didn't even dare to fire a shot.
Many people had anxious looks on their faces, and more people even shed tears because of this. Although the defenders acted a little cowardly and incompetent at this time, they were their own army after all, and they were still fighting without surrendering.
Although they felt aggrieved and sad, they still did not want to see the last heroic Chinese army defeated in front of them and massacred by the ferocious Japanese army.
This mentality is somewhat similar to the loyal fans of the Republic of China in later generations. Although they also know that their national football team is extremely unsatisfactory, they often scold them, but once they step into the stadium, they rush into the stands and sing the national anthem at their best.
Give them support for their efforts, even if they know that there is a 99% chance that they will be sad or disappointed, but they never skimp on their support.
This is a battlefield, a battlefield in peacetime - a completely different existence of the stadium. Here, if you fail, there is no chance to start over, only death.
They are anxious, they are sad and angry, but they have no choice. The only thing they can do is to use a louder voice to remind the defenders, "The little devils are very close. Beat them! Brothers of the national army!"
"150 meters!"
"100 metres!"
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Perhaps it was because the gunfire was too loud that they couldn't hear the shouts here? A young student had an idea and simply asked the shop owner nearby for a piece of white cloth, writing on it the distance between the Japanese army and the warehouse that could be clearly seen here.
, pulled by several people and held high above their heads, as a constant reminder to the defenders in the warehouse.
Brigadier General Smartet, wearing the uniform of a brigadier general of the Empire on which the sun never sets and serving as the joint commander of the troops stationed in the Three Kingdoms Concession, squinted his eyes and held a large pipe in his mouth. He stood less than 300 meters away from the battlefield and said meaningfully: Chinese soldiers are very important.
Heroic, but their commander's tactics were terrible, and their failure was inevitable.
However, the next moment, his pipe fell.
On the left wing wall, there were suddenly at least twice as many shooting holes as before.
Naturally, the shooting holes, which are a bit larger than a human head, are scary not because they are large black holes in themselves, but because the bright tongues of flames erupting from them almost dazzle the Japanese.
"Da da da!"
"Bang bang bang!"
The crisp gunfire of the Czech-made light machine gun and the sound of the Chinese rifle suddenly became intense.
In the face of the sudden increase in bullets, four or five members of the Japanese infantry squad, which had only lost at most two or three people during the advance, instantly turned over and fell to the ground.
The south bank of the Suzhou River was filled with cheers from the mountains and the tsunami.
Just like in the future, when the Chinese team was being beaten by the Japanese team, they suddenly counterattacked and scored a goal. The sound was so loud that ripples appeared on the surface of the Suzhou River.
However, this was not the reason why Brigadier General Smartett's beloved ivory pipe fell to the ground. The life and death of a few infantrymen was not at all considered by the Army Brigadier General who was also experienced in the battlefield.
Hidden firepower is a trap. The Chinese commander is obviously stronger than he thought.
Are the soldiers who retreat without fighting at the barricade decoys? Then their target is just a few dozen infantrymen?
"Baga! No, the Chinese have hidden their firepower!" Yin Teng Zhenguang, who was holding a telescope and keeping an eye on the front, tightened his hands suddenly, "Infantry artillery, fire, suppress the firepower of the cunning Chinese.
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Although the infantry artillery may be hit by Chinese mortars, Yin Tengzenko couldn't care less at this time. He had to use the infantry artillery to bombard the wall, otherwise his infantry team, which had approached almost 100 meters away, would suffer casualties.
But it was too tragic.
As a direct-fire gun, the 92 infantry cannon fired with high accuracy. The two infantry cannons fired brazenly, blasting the wall into smoke. That is, the wall was much stronger than the Japanese major had imagined, and the infantry cannon only left a mark on the wall.
A shallow pit ten centimeters deep.
The Japanese infantry who had already begun to charge began to shout "board" and launched a long live charge. As long as they were given fifteen seconds, they could rush to the barricade that should be empty under the wall and blow the wall open with explosions.
"Boom~~~Boom~~~" The terrifying roar of mortars continuously reached the ears of the Japanese soldiers.
Yin Teng Zenguang's face suddenly turned pale.
Through previous observations, he has judged that there will be no more than 6 mortars in this building with a maximum strength of about 1,000 troops. They are already the standard equipment of the most elite Chinese army infantry regiment. On the right side of the building
The 2nd Infantry Squadron is also launching an attack, and the Chinese will use at least half of their mortars to support that side. Although the only three remaining mortars are also terrifying, they will not be enough for the two who have already hidden themselves in the building.
The damage from the infantry cannon was not fatal enough, which was why he dared to let the infantry squad launch an attack before the mountain artillery and mortars of the artillery squadron directly under the wing were in place, and the infantry cannon fired fire support.
But why did the Chinese dare to expose all their heavy firepower and fire at their own infantry artillery from the beginning? You know, this is the first round of contact!
Yes, the six mortars, after the infantry cannon fired, were like sharks that smelled the smell of blood. They immediately directed their firepower at the fastest speed towards the position where the infantry cannon fired 800 meters away.
Infantry artillery is a direct-firing artillery, and mortars are curved-firing artillery. In such terrain, they are the only ones who can beat the infantry artillery. For the Japanese army, perhaps only when their mountain artillery and mortars join the battle will the situation between the enemy and us change.
reverse.
But mountain cannons don’t take time!
Therefore, they had no choice but to take a beating first. The six mortars had been dormant for a long time, not even hitting the Japanese heavy machine guns and grenade launchers that had been raging before, just waiting to crush the two infantry cannons! That thing,
Although it can't blast through walls, it can blast through barricades! It's definitely a terrifying piece of equipment for the perimeter defense of the warehouse.
It can be considered a hookup.
"Boom, boom, boom" violent explosions continued to sound from 800 meters away.
Looking through the telescope at the fireworks thousands of meters away from him, the imperial army brigadier general's pipe was still chewing firmly as the sun never sets. After having some psychological expectations, the Chinese commander was even better than he had imagined.
It turned out that the Chinese, who in his eyes had poor tactics, had set a big trap, but the trap was not just for the infantry attacking them, but for the infantry artillery thousands of meters away. They were going to kill the Japanese.
Kill the infantry artillery, then deal with this group of infantry.
In just one minute, six mortars poured more than 50 shells in the direction of the infantry cannon, which meant that the work would not stop until the infantry cannon was shattered.
The battlefield of the decisive battle suddenly changed from one in front of the eyes to 800 meters away, but that didn't mean that Yin Teng Yoshimitsu, whose face turned a little pale and knew that he had been deceived by the Chinese, did not mean to give support to his infantry artillery brothers. While ordering the heavy machine gun to update
Shooting wildly to suppress the Chinese who have reached thirty or forty shooting holes, and at the same time ordering the grenade launcher to launch grenades on the roof of the building, regardless of whether they can hit or not, they still want to harass the Chinese anyway, aren't they?
?What if you get hit?
At the same time, the infantry squad was ordered to continue the attack. If the wall was blown open and they rushed into this extremely strong fortress, the infantry cannon would be destroyed. But looking at the entire battle, it was Yoshimitsu Into who had the last laugh.
After the infantry artillery stopped firing, the gunfire from the firing holes became more intense. The charging Japanese troops were suppressed on the charging road. It was difficult to be as fierce as before, and it was very embarrassing.
If you stand up and continue to charge forward while holding the bullet, the chance of being killed is more than 70%, but it is even harder to retreat. The result of pointing your butt at the muzzle of the gun can only prove that no matter how awesome an individual soldier is,
Tactics are also not as fast as bullets.
As for the military order from His Excellency Major Yin Teng to continue the attack, haha! Didn't you see that I was crawling on the ground with difficulty and advancing towards the enemy's position? Jump up and charge? Come on, Baga, and charge me with the machine gun fire?
The Japanese grenadier soldiers also increased their firing range and fired the grenades as quickly as possible to the roof of the building more than 300 meters away.
Xie Jinyuan, who had already arrived at the wing from the front of the building and stood in front of the observation hole and carefully watched the Japanese troops on the left wing, showed a cold look on his face and said: "The commander of the little devil is not giving up yet! Order the machine gun to move the muzzle to the left wing.
Give me the heavy machine guns and grenade launchers they hide in the building."
When the terrifying muffled sound of "dong dong" and holes as big as cup mouths suddenly appeared on the wall, Yin Teng Yoshimitsu finally knew why the idiots in his 1st Squadron were suppressed by the Chinese 400 meters away.
Same as flying.
The Chinese actually have terrifying machine guns.
The machine gun fire made the Japanese heavy machine gun position a mess. Even hiding behind the wall felt unsafe. Almost no one dared to brave the ravages of the machine gun and its fire. They all ran around with their machine guns, like a group of pitiful and miserable
Helpless little deer.
This is no longer something that the heavy weapons equipped by his current infantry brigade can withstand. Yin Teng Zenguang suddenly felt resigned. Only the squadron directly under the wing's artillery can participate in the battle, perhaps it can compete with the heavy weapons in the hands of the Chinese. If, landing
It would naturally be better if the tank squadron assigned by the rear division to the regiment command could come.
However, he can't retreat now if he wants to. An infantry squad is still being held down by someone else's gun. If he retreats, those forty or so people will definitely die.
Gritting his teeth, he ordered: "Order Captain Kiichi Yamaki to send an infantry squad to occupy the building in front of the enemy and use the fortifications to attack it, so as to reduce the pressure on the imperial officers and soldiers on the left."
"Hi!" The ordering soldier took the order and left.
Theoretically speaking, there is nothing wrong with Yoto Yoshimitsu's order. He used his superior strength to besiege the Chinese and forced their firepower points to disperse, so as to reduce the pressure on the officers and soldiers who were in an unfavorable situation here.
However, theory alone is not enough. Everything must be based on reality.
Yin Teng Zenguang naturally did not expect that he would fall into a trap from the beginning, a series of traps.
Whether he sent an infantry squad into the sudden escalation of gunfire from the Chinese, or whether the infantry artillery was beaten by mortars, he still dares not to let go, or he sent a small team of more than 40 soldiers to rush into the surrounding area.
The building in front of the warehouse is a trap carefully designed by Xie Jinyuan and others for him.
During the pre-war meeting, Chen Yunfa specifically reminded that the Japanese army must kill them on a large scale before they knew they had a large number of heavy weapons, otherwise it would be difficult to kill them on a large scale once they became cautious.
So, Ito Zenmitsu helped them achieve it.
Seeing more than 40 Japanese soldiers rushing into the building opposite, "You are so good, you have entered." A sinister smile flashed on the face of Lei Xiong, the commander in front of the Sihang Warehouse Building, "Order all brothers to find me."
Hide it somewhere, Old Cucumber, and it will explode in twenty seconds, so I can send them on a plane!"
"Okay!" A middle-aged sergeant, half of his face covered with dirty gauze and showing his big yellow teeth, loudly agreed with his teeth bared.
Following the order, the soldiers on the barricade in front of the building were like frightened rabbits, and they hid inside the building through the traffic trenches.
Entering the bank building, a Japanese second lieutenant who had been paying close attention to the movements of the Chinese on the opposite side was stunned for a moment. He hadn't even fired yet, so why were the Chinese running away? Are you so stupid?