Chapter 1366 The first intimate contact that made the Japanese army desperate
"Boom boom boom..."
I heard several deafening loud noises almost indistinguishable before and after. While visible flames were erupting from all over the bank building, which was only 30 meters away from the Sihang Warehouse, an invisible force swept over.
Brigadier General Smartett couldn't hold his beloved ivory pipe in his mouth anymore, so he dropped it to the ground and broke into two pieces. But at this moment, the Imperial Brigadier General, who was in his fifties, couldn't care less about his beloved pipe.
With great agility, he hid in the fortification where he imagined the shock wave was about to come.
The Chinese are much more ruthless than he thought.
The Chinese civilians on the south bank of the Suzhou River and the European and American garrisons in the concession were shaken and staggered, but they also wisely lay on the ground collectively. Even if you have never been to the battlefield, you have seen the battlefield. The shock wave caused by the explosion does not care whether you are in the concession or not.
Naturally, the first one to bear the brunt was the nearest Sihang Warehouse. Although the soldiers in the warehouse had made all preparations in advance, with cotton stuffed in their ears, they each found the strongest wall to hide, squatting with their heads in their hands.
.But the terrifying explosion still made them dizzy. At the same time, they felt that the whole building seemed to be trembling, and dust kept falling from the ceiling.
The Chinese soldiers hiding in the solid bank vault with a wall one meter thick could feel this devastating force, let alone the people outside the vault.
The air waves generated by the violent explosion scattered in all directions and destroyed the surrounding buildings, but the front was blocked by the solid walls of the Sixing Warehouse. There were several buildings not far away on both sides, although they were shaken by the air waves as if they were in the waves.
The small boat was blocked after all. The main direction of energy release of the air wave was actually towards the rear, which was the direction where the Japanese 1st Infantry Squadron was attacked. The poor few dozen remaining people of the 1st Infantry Squadron were still there.
Silently licking their wounds in the ruins, the terrible air wave struck again. The dilapidated low-rise bungalows they were sheltering from were not as strong as those masonry-based buildings.
The air waves that were not blocked from the front, left, and right found a way to vent, destroying everything along the way. Wherever the air waves went, all the walls of the houses collapsed. It is absolutely unreasonable. If you look at it from the sky, with this quilt
The bank building blasted by 500 kilograms of explosives was at the center of the circle. The damage caused by the air waves radiating outward was like a fan. Within the scope covered by this fan, all the houses were completely destroyed and collapsed.
The remnants of the Japanese 1st Infantry Squadron who happened to be within this range felt as if they had returned to their hometown at this moment. They were buried directly in the ruins just like they had suffered a major earthquake. This was good, even if they died, they still had a taste of their hometown.
Compared to the super unlucky guy from the 1st Infantry Squadron, the main force of the Japanese troops on the left and right wings of Sihang Warehouse were actually pretty good. They were not ravaged by the terrible air waves. They were only shocked by the huge sound of the earth-shattering explosion that was so close at hand.
There was a shock. The loud noise from the explosion source, which was only more than 100 meters away in a straight line, stunned the attacking Japanese troops. More than one-third of the Japanese troops had thin lines of blood on their ears, which was so deep that their eardrums were damaged.
The phenomenon of being shattered by life.
Five hundred meters away, Yin Teng Zenko's face was as white as snow, a bit whiter than the smeared face of his favorite geisha. He stared blankly at the four-story building that was now a pile of
The bank building stands in ruins.
He didn't understand how the Chinese dared to install so many explosives around themselves. Aren't they afraid of blowing themselves up?
Not to mention him, even the instigator himself was amazed at this moment.
He shook his head, which was slightly dizzy from the shock, and spit out a mouthful of sandy spit. When he came closer to the window to look at it, Lei Xiong couldn't help but grin: "Ri Nenliang! Old Tang is such a bitch.
Isn’t it because there are too many explosives?”
There were not many explosives, so how could a building be blown up in one blast? The four-story bank building was gone. His field of vision was almost open and full of rubble. Directly in front of the Sihang Warehouse Building,
All the houses collapsed. They were either blown down or washed down by air waves.
The explosion energy of a 500 kilogram explosive light wheel is actually not enough to destroy an entire building. However, the soldiers of the 542nd Regiment are the most elite soldiers in China at the moment, and they have also been trained in blasting. Therefore, they are still very careful.
Explosives were selected to be buried in key points such as the main load-bearing walls of the building.
Therefore, instead of saying that the building was completely "flyed" by the bomb, it is actually better to say that it collapsed. After experiencing such a round of horrific explosions, a four-story bank building became one storey.
It's all a layer of ruins.
Now that the building is like this, what will be the fate of the more than forty soldiers who entered the building? To be honest, even Yin Teng Zenko never thought that they would not enter the warm embrace of Amaterasu. They were all burned to ashes.
Can it be warm?
Staring blankly at the pile of rubble that disappeared with an infantry squad under his command, Yin Teng Yoshimitsu couldn't help but think of a poem: "Burning life can only turn into cold ashes..."
The Japanese Army Major Infantry Brigade Captain was somewhat literary and artistic at this moment, but other Japanese soldiers did not think so.
Kiichi Yamaki, then captain of the 2nd Infantry Squadron of the 1st Infantry Group of the 36th Regiment, recorded in his field diary of that day: “On the morning of the first day of the battle, my infantry squadron lost an infantry squad.
But the heroic imperial warriors didn’t even fire a single shot. How many warriors’ lives did we have to spend to capture this last stronghold of the Chinese in Shanghai? I was not sure at all. At that moment,
There is even a shadow of failure that hangs over my heart for a long time."
Kiichi Yamaki's premonition was correct. The 1st Infantry Battalion's attack in the morning had indeed failed, and it was a disastrous defeat.
One of the two infantry guns was bombarded by more than 20 mortar shells. Although it was not directly hit, unfortunately, the location where the shells were stored was detonated by a shell. A total of fifteen 70mm shells formed a
The violent explosion not only twisted the barrel of the infantry cannon more than ten meters away, but also blew up a dozen soldiers in the infantry artillery squad into a pile of minced meat, completely wiping them out.
The other one had better luck. Except for a few artillerymen who were killed and injured during the transfer of positions, the infantry gun itself was fine. However, when the main gunner and assistant gunner were both seriously injured, its artillery was small.
The unit's combat effectiveness also dropped sharply by half.
Of course, compared with their infantry brothers, the artillerymen of the 1st Infantry Brigade are pretty good.
The 3rd Infantry Squadron, which was personally commanded by the infantry captain, was also miserable. After the violent explosion, before the Japanese army could recover, the Chinese continued to fire with all the heavy equipment they had displayed, not only hitting several heavy
The machine gun fled in panic and hid far away, no matter how hard it was to form a strong fire support for the colleagues in the front. As the previous infantry team prepared for the second wave of attacks, the infantry team was under the orders of its infantry squadron leader who saw that the situation was not good.
He quickly retreated to the house on one side.
In other words, the infantry team less than 80 meters away from the Sixing Warehouse, which had lost more than ten people and more than thirty people, was helplessly abandoned by its commander from that moment on.
There is no backup force support, no fire support, no solid concealment, and except for their own excellent tactical execution ability, they have nothing.
Oh! No, they also have two crooked-handled machine guns. Two grenade launchers that originally belonged to the squad were left behind because they were of no use in the charge. If the two crooked-handled light machine guns were used on the plains in the future,
During the battle, they faced the peasant guerrillas who fought against them with javelins and cannons, which were absolutely divine weapons.
Use it here? There are at least eight Czech light machine guns in the shooting holes. The shooters are happy. They don’t even need heavy machine guns, machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns that have entered the blind spot on the roof of the building. They alone can take down the little Japanese’s machine gun.
The gunman blew up.
The Chinese soldiers were extremely confident at this moment, but the Japanese machine gunners were full of despair. Because when the house leaked and it rained continuously, the unlucky attribute of the crooked machine gun took effect.
Yes, the air waves generated by the blasting of the building did not hit the Japanese soldiers because of the obstruction of the huge Sihang Warehouse, but the dust in the sky was inevitable. So, the crooked machine gun, which was most afraid of dust,
Miss Jiao lost her temper and went on strike...
No one knows what the second lieutenant team leader led by the Japanese army was thinking at that moment, because after learning that the light machine gun under his command could not shoot, the infantry team following behind was also ordered to retreat, and the heavy machine gun and infantry artillery that were previously responsible for cover were
After being beaten "speechless" by the Chinese, this very brave man stood up and drew his command knife: "Onboard! The empire is victorious!"
Then, he died.
Standing in front of dozens of guns in the shooting hole, there is no other possibility except death.
Perhaps the Japanese second lieutenant has understood that he and his men are certain to die. It just depends on how they die, whether they lie on the ground in aggrieved manner and are killed one by one by the Chinese guns, or whether they stand up as a hero and become a true hero.
Imperial warrior died.
"Bah! Before you die, you still want to pretend to be a hero for me. If you have the ability, stand up for me." Tang Di, the third company commander in charge of the left wing position, put down the rifle in his hand and spat fiercely, "Give me your eyes."
You have polished it for me, if one of these little devils escapes, all of you will give me a big blow."
Of course Tang Di had reasons to be angry. It was originally agreed in the previous meeting that his third company would be responsible for the frontal defense of the building. However, the explosives were all installed, but Lei Xiong took them away on the grounds that the frontal defense of the building was important and the first company had the strongest combat effectiveness.
For the frontal defense mission, he could only take the Third Company here to shoot at the Japanese through the wall, which was far less satisfying than having a wide view from the front of the building.
But Lei Xiong was already tyrannical in terms of force, and he was a veteran who had been in this army for ten years. Let alone him, even several school officers wanted to give him face, so Tang Di could only vent his anger on him.
This bunch of stubborn little devils is here.
As a row of officers and soldiers answered loudly with bared teeth, the gunfire suddenly became more intense.