Throughout the afternoon, on this land and under the sky, all Chinese people played the leading role.
The Chinese people passionately sang the "March of the Broadsword"!
The Chinese defenders inside the building were organized by Xie Jinyuan to sing loudly the "March of the Volunteers!" composed by famous lyricist Tian Han and composer Nie Er in April 1935!
“Rise up! People who don’t want to be slaves!
Build our new Great Wall with our flesh and blood!
The Chinese nation is at its most critical moment, and everyone is forced to make one last roar.
Get up! Get up! Get up!
We are united as one, brave the enemy's artillery fire, and advance! Brave the enemy's artillery fire, advance! Advance! Advance, advance!"
In the impassioned and impassioned National Anthem of the Future Republic, which hundreds of soldiers roared hoarsely over and over again, tens of thousands of people collectively sang with tears in their eyes, "Forward! Forward! Forward!"
Throughout the afternoon, the heroic and exciting singing spread like waves across the entire Shanghai Beach.
In the concession, a middle-aged man sitting among a pile of luggage with dull eyes was startled by the singing. He stood up and listened attentively, murmuring along with the singing, and his eyes gradually lit up.
In the concession, a man in robes with a depressed expression was sitting in a teahouse and sighing silently over a pot of tea. He was startled by the singing. He stood up silently and listened. He also murmured along with the singing, and his expression became soothed.
In the concession, the well-dressed men in suits and robes, who were sitting around in the Opera House restaurant drunkenly, were startled by the singing. They stood up suddenly, ran out of the building, stood on the street, and sang along with their bright eyes.
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At this moment, all Chinese people, regardless of religion or religion, were standing on the street, looking in the direction of the Sihang Warehouse, listening to the thunderous singing voice coming from afar, singing softly.
As the singing spread throughout Shanghai, it was the news that the lone army in Sihang Warehouse had repelled two Japanese attacks and killed hundreds of Japanese invaders.
In fact, it was not just Shanghai that this news spread to. There were countless Chinese and foreign reporters gathered on the south bank of the Suzhou River. The battle situation throughout the morning fell in their eyes. One report after another was published in the afternoon, and the cables
It was sent like snowflakes to Nanjing, Wuhan, Guangzhou and even to the other side of the ocean.
Nanjing Central Daily, Shanghai Shenbao, Peking Common People's Daily, Damei Evening News and other large newspapers have reported or reproduced the heroic resistance of the 542nd Regiment of the 88th Division at Sihang Warehouse. Nanjing Central Daily even used the leader's personal inscription "Every inch of mountains and rivers, every inch of blood."
"As the headline on the front page, even the "News Chronicle" in London, where the sun never sets, also published an article saying: The achievements of the Chinese army in resisting the Japanese army in Shanghai are actually one of the most heroic pages in the historical records of any country!
Liu Xueyuan, the famous war correspondent of People's Daily, took a different approach, using the heroic deeds of the Sihang Warehouse defenders as the main line, focusing on describing the crowds on the south bank of the Suzhou River and the Chinese defenders together, tens of thousands of people singing the "March of the Broadsword" loudly during the battlefield.
!” The scene of “March of the Volunteers!”
She wrote in the report: "When I saw that the warehouse defenders were not afraid of enemies on three sides, they smashed two Japanese attacks in a row, and hundreds of Japanese corpses were left on the scene, my inner excitement was beyond words! When I saw that,
Women in Tsing Yi and cheongsam played the drums with bare feet and sang "Blade, chop off the heads of the Japanese invaders" with all their strength. Tens of thousands of people faced the bullets of the Japanese invaders and shouted in harmony. They just wanted to cry bitterly at the scene.
To vent the emotions that kept surging in her heart. The fear and uneasiness that she had previously experienced due to the overwhelming power of the Japanese invaders were all gone in this song that was accompanied by the sounds of gunfire and artillery. Because these are her people, her compatriots,
If they are not afraid anymore, then what does she have to be afraid of?"
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In less than half a month, the Sihang Warehouse Anti-Japanese War was like a whirlwind that swept across the land of China. Even overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and the other side of the ocean heard the news and donated money and materials one after another.
They did their best to support the motherland's war of resistance. For a time, the entire Chinese nation burst out with unparalleled cohesion because of the Sixing Warehouse's war of resistance!
Of course, these are all things for later.
The current Sihang Warehouse must deal with the next wave of Japanese attacks.
In the previous Japanese attack, although they caused a lot of damage to the Japanese army, they were not completely unscathed. The Japanese 57mm tank gun happened to hit the window sandbag fortification, not only destroying the sandbags, but also the two machine gun shooters fought
He died, and a light machine gun was also blown up. The dozens of heavy machine guns that the Japanese army fired desperately to cover their own infantry swept out at least tens of thousands of bullets, and eventually some of them entered the firing holes. Three soldiers were killed
Severely injured.
As night fell, the people gathered on the south bank of the Suzhou River were unwilling to leave for a long time. It was not until it was completely dark that the citizens dispersed one after another. Xie Jinyuan was finally able to transport the three seriously injured people through the tunnel to another tunnel.
The exit was at Boss Du's private residence in the concession, and he was secretly sent to a hospital controlled by him for treatment after being dressed up.
After nightfall, the Japanese troops, who had silently licked their wounds and made no move all afternoon, finally took action. In the early morning, when people are most likely to get sleepy, contrary to the habit of never fighting at night, they actually sent out special forces dressed in black.
The team lurked towards Sihang Warehouse.
There are a total of forty or fifty people, not only carrying explosives on their bodies, but also full of explosives. They are no longer a special attack team, but a death squad.
They almost succeeded, because the defenders in the warehouse relied on observation holes after all. Even if it was an observation post on the roof, the field of view was limited after all. They lost the reminder of the people on the south bank, and the darkness also covered the Japanese army.
The Japanese troops were not discovered by the sentry until they entered the area around the building more than ten meters when they accidentally stepped on a tin can that had been specially eaten and thrown out by the defenders and made a crisp sound. But at this time, they had completely entered a blind spot for shooting.
Unless the defenders rush out of the building, neither machine guns nor rifles can fire effectively at them.
Moreover, the location where they lurked was very fatal. It was at the southeast and northwest corners of the building. The shooting angles from both sides had no effect on them. They even knew they had stepped on the tin can and heard the noise inside the building.
After being discovered, field fortifications were quickly built next to the wall, which was intended to block the Chinese troops attacking inside the building. As long as they were given five minutes, forty or fifty Japanese troops could definitely use up hundreds of kilograms of explosives.
Bury it at the corner of the four-row warehouse and blast it. It is the load-bearing body that supports the wall. Once the foundation is blasted, it is simply more terrifying than the wall being exposed by the blasting fire point. They can gather through this blast hole.
A large number of infantry artillery bombarded this blast hole, eventually completely destroying the building here.
This was the conclusion that Takeo Kitajima came to after observing for a long time. He used the cover of night to send out a bombing squad to carry out blasting operations on the support points of the solid building of the Sihang Warehouse.
"Yoshi! The warriors are almost successful." Wakibajiro, who moved his headquarters five hundred meters away from the Sihang Warehouse, stared at the dark night with a telescope, a trace of relief on his face.
Although he couldn't see anything, nor could he see where the demolition team he sent had reached, the successive exclamations of the defenders inside the building and the faint light coming from the building told him that the demolition team was well on its way.
to arrive at the desired location.
Just give them five minutes, forty or fifty people, each carrying more than 18 kilograms of explosives, totaling nearly a thousand kilograms of explosives, will tear a terrifyingly large hole into the solid building that cannot even be blasted by mountain cannons.
"Order the tank squadron in front of the building to be ready, and the searchlights to be ready. As soon as I observe the Chinese trying to rush out of the building, I will shell them and push them back. I will let them watch the building being blown up!"
Wakiitajiro gave the order with great satisfaction.
Kitajima Takeo also had a hint of pride on his face. This was an idea he came up with in the afternoon at great risk to observe closely. Although it may cost dozens of soldiers, if the important support of the Chinese Building can be
It's worth it if it's blown up.
Yes, from the moment the nearly fifty death squads were dispatched, they were abandoned. Either they were shot to death by the Chinese's crazy revenge bullets, or they were shocked to death by the shock wave of hundreds of kilograms of explosives.
It is impossible for them to run out of the 200-meter safe range in ten seconds.
Unfortunately, the next moment, without waiting for the Japanese searchlights to shine, the Chinese defenders took the initiative to light a fire.
First, under the almost frozen eyes of the two Japanese commanders, a torch slowly stretched out from the top of the building, and then was dropped.
The fire instantly ignited along an area of about five meters along the outer wall of the building, forming a terrifying wall of fire.
In the dark night, not only the Japanese were thinking about how to destroy the wall, but the Chinese defenders were also busy protecting the wall. The Chinese defenders, who had long thought that the Japanese army might attack at night, had already made countermeasures.
Under the cover of darkness, a soldier from an infantry squad quietly walked along the barricade five meters away from the wall and poured two large barrels of nearly 500 kilograms of diesel on the ground. The heavy smell of gunpowder smoke during the day covered up the volatility, which was not very high.
There is a strong smell of diesel, but it does not mean that diesel will not catch fire.
The fact that the figures of the Japanese soldiers were illuminated in the fire was not scary. What was scary was that they were all carrying explosives, not just explosive bags. In order to show the fearlessness and decisive blow of the warriors of the Japanese Empire, they were all wrapped with explosives.
Loaded with explosives.
This...is really a shame.
The chain reaction of a physical "firecracker" exploding is that one "firecracker" is exploded one after another. It's really just like firecrackers, one after another, one pair after another, but the sound is a little louder.
"Boom, boom, boom!" The terrifying explosion sounded like the brightest fireworks in front of the livid face of the Japanese commander.
The horrific explosion even extinguished the fire filled with diesel fuel, although the explosive fireworks mixed with flesh and blood were even more splendid.
Although an explosion of this magnitude will have a certain impact on the building, it is nothing more than an impact. As long as the explosives are not buried under the wall, the explosion outside the wall will just peel off the wall skin, and it will be different from the Japanese infantry artillery and mountain artillery.
The same principle applies to head-on hits.
The Japanese army spent a whole night's efforts, and was completely burned by a small wall of fire. A small group of Japanese soldiers turned into ashes in the high temperature caused by the explosives, and entered the warm embrace of Amaterasu.
This time, even the corpse collection team was omitted.
Wakiitajiro's face......
It was really uglier than his dead father. It could only be compared to the mood of General Touichi Terauchi when he heard that his newlywed wife had been stolen.