The only thing that the warehouse defenders were thankful for was that in order to avoid the death of the seriously wounded, Lei Xiong did not resort to any desperate tactics.
On the same day, it was announced that there was still a tunnel in the warehouse that could lead to the concession. If nothing could be done in the end, they could retreat from the tunnel into the concession according to his or Chen Yunfa's military orders. Now, the wounded were transported through the tunnel first.
Now the ordinary soldiers finally understood the reason why the seriously wounded and the bodies of their comrades had quietly disappeared in the past few days.
With a way out and no way out before, the spirit will inevitably weaken, but Lei Xiong, the infantry company commander who has been in the infantry company for several years, is so dominant that almost the soldiers would rather die than fight.
Even if he was willing to disobey military orders, relying on his super dominance, even if he lost his determination to fight to the death with the Japanese army, the officers and soldiers of the first infantry company still fought fiercely with the Japanese army for a whole day, and no one dared to shout the word "retreat"
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Because, Pao Ze's constant battle deaths also made them red-blooded. The ammunition stored in the warehouse far exceeded their daily combat needs. They only needed to fill the gun with bullets and shoot out to avenge Pao Ze.
In fact, even if they wanted to retreat, the Japanese army that was attacking frantically did not give them this chance. As long as they gave up resistance, the Japanese army could rush into the building in one minute, and the tunnel that only allowed one person and one gun to pass was impossible in ten minutes.
Evacuate everyone within.
By the end of the fight, most people have forgotten that there is a way out. Either they become butchers, or they become pigs under the butcher's knife.
That afternoon, the cheers of the Chinese people had long since stopped. None of them thought that the battle would be so tragic. Under their noses, the Japanese death squads charged one after another desperately, and the Chinese soldiers risked their lives.
The danger of being hit by infantry artillery was not hiding behind the firing holes in the thick walls, but standing behind the sandbag fortifications with better visibility and larger shooting angles to fight back tenaciously.
Even if the sandbag fortifications were blown to pieces by infantry artillery shelling, soldiers would immediately bring in the sandbags and pile them up again, and continue to crawl on the fortifications that were already covered with the flesh and blood of their comrades. Even when the Japanese infantry had already entered the blind corner of the warehouse,
While they were desperately trying to pile their explosive packs into the corner, the red-eyed Chinese soldiers resolutely climbed out of the third-floor window, stood on the broken cement block of the unobstructed window, and threw grenades at the Japanese troops.
In the midst of everyone's tears, the soldier was hit by an unknown number of bullets. While he was covered in blood, his grenade also detonated five or six explosive packets that had been piled up, amounting to more than 20 kilograms of explosives.
The shock wave formed by the explosion blew a dozen Japanese soldiers who had no time to escape into pieces flying in the sky. It also blew the body of the unprotected Chinese soldier from the window like a fallen leaf and threw it far away.
Forty meters away in the Suzhou River.
At that time, more than a dozen young men jumped into the freezing Suzhou River and threw themselves into the red water in an attempt to fish out the brave soldier. But what was scary was not the cold weather, but the crazy Japanese army.
After discovering the actions of the Chinese people, the already red-eyed Japanese soldiers fired bullets into the Suzhou River.
The south bank of Suzhou River is a concession, but Suzhou River is not.
People who jumped into the Suzhou River were not protected by the concession treaty.
The gurgling Suzhou River with red blood bubbles made the Japanese army laugh ferociously. The more cowardly they were, the more they had to show their brutality to the weaker people to cover up their weakness. This is human nature. If it were in the past, the people would instinctively show their brutality to the weaker people.
He retreated and could only watch his compatriots die in the river.
But this time, the Chinese people were red-eyed. Facing the weakness of the Japanese army's swords and guns, the Chinese people did not flinch this time.
Even though the Japanese frontline commander even personally deployed a light machine gun to shoot at the river, the Chinese people still "plop plop" like dumplings and plopped down into the Suzhou River, which was filled with the smell of death.
They actually took the initiative to go to death to save death.
Yes, when the soldier was blown more than 20 meters high by the terrifying blast wave and sent dozens of meters away to fall into the Suzhou River, everyone knew that he was dead, perhaps before he entered the water.
Died in battle.
But, he is a hero. He is a hero of China. The hero has died in battle, so his body should no longer be washed in the cold river. He should be buried in the Yellow River of the motherland wearing his beloved military uniform and being supported by countless hands.
In the land.
The hero has been loyal, so the people protected by him should let him go on his way in peace.
Heroes can die, and so can I!
The Chinese people, who are deeply influenced by the traditional concept of "the dead are laid to rest in peace", wrote a song with their lives and blood to the crazy Japanese invaders, to the tearful Chinese soldiers, and to the dumbfounded Westerners by this river.
Chinese stubbornness.
For the first time in her battlefield diary, Liu Xueyuan did not describe the bravery of the Chinese defenders of Sihang Warehouse. She devoted all her words to this group of Chinese people who once sat numbly on the streets of the concession waiting for relief.
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"I was not in the concession, and I could not witness with my own eyes those middle-aged people wearing long robes or half-clothed clothes, or young people with childish faces. My Chinese compatriots would eventually jump into a trap that was neither wide nor deep, but would face the Japanese invaders.
With the appearance of the machine gun in the Suzhou River, I have no way of knowing whether they regretted it or not at the last moment of their lives.
Because my colleague only sent me a very brief telegram: Dozens of people jumped into the Suzhou River in order to grab the bodies of our martyrs who fell into the Suzhou River. They were fired upon by Japanese machine guns, and then hundreds more.
, the body of the hero was finally rescued, more than a hundred people died, and the surface of the Suzhou River turned red.
I couldn't see the face of my young colleague with my own eyes, but I could see his tearful face because of sadness in this telegram, which still smelled like ink. I also believe that if it hadn't been for the telegram,
If it were a letter, it would have been soaked with tears.
But I want to tell him here, don’t cry. We should laugh. Because our respectable compatriots, they finally let us smell a trace of the past of our Chinese nation.
Yes, in the five thousand years of Chinese inheritance, we have failed and even been conquered.
After the Battle of Yashan, hundreds of thousands of corpses floated on the roaring sea. They were the most courageous group of people in ancient China. They were gone. The backbone of China was broken. Since then, hundreds of millions of Chinese people have been ruled by millions of aliens, even if
They are a fourth-class nation that can kneel down to hundreds of thousands of Manchus, even if they call themselves "slaves." The Chinese spiritual fault line of "any strong man who offends us will be punished no matter how far away" has been for hundreds of years. This is also the Chinese nation.
The darkest centuries.
But now I want to tell everyone that after the Battle of Yashan, the backbone of China was not broken. It came back again. When these people bravely jumped into the water, they were not the same as the scholars of Yashan for the Song Dynasty.
Instead of being destroyed and buried, we chose to be reborn. The spirit of our Chinese nation was reborn in this war.
Before the phoenix can be reborn, it must go through the scorching fire. It hurts so much that one almost mistakenly thinks that it will turn into ashes. Hold on, my China, my China, when the phoenix dances for nine days, the raging Japanese invaders will
Just one jump away from the clown.
And the reason why I am so confident is not because our Chinese army is so tenacious. It is these ordinary people. When everyone chooses to stand up and pick up a gun like them, it will be the time when our Chinese nation will dance like a phoenix for nine days.
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Liu Xuewuan's battlefield diary raised the people's bravery to snatch the bodies of heroes to the height of national awakening, which was in line with the wishes of the upper echelons of the government and was enough to inspire ordinary people who read newspapers to learn about the war on the front line.
But after all, she was not at the scene and could not describe the heroic scene of hundreds of people jumping into the river one after another.
Since that day, I don’t know how many young people have gone home to say goodbye to their parents and relatives, and left the concession for Nanjing. They also have to put on military uniforms. No matter how safe the concession is, they are not as safe as standing on the soil of their own country.
The Army Major General and Army Lieutenant Colonel who were specially invited by Brigadier General Smartet to watch the battle cried. The two strong middle-aged soldiers, who had seen too many deaths in their middle age, covered their faces and burst into tears, crying like children.
"Although I can't understand it and think it's stupid, I have to admit that such a China is a terrible China, and the Japanese will pay the price for it." said the old man from the Empire with a stubborn goatee.
His eyes were moist, and he turned around and left after leaving a few words. He needed to go to the south bank of the Suzhou River to stop the Chinese people who had lost their minds.
He cannot let the war burn into the concession. That is his responsibility as the commander of the concession garrison.
This battle belongs not only to the soldiers of the Sixing Warehouse Infantry Company, not only to the Chinese military, but also to the cheering people on the south bank.
On this day, the water in the Suzhou River turned red, not like blood, but just like blood.
The Japanese light machine guns that fired at the Suzhou River were hiding in the ruins, but the defenders of Sihang Warehouse, whose eyes were red when they discovered the situation, used six mortars to completely block off the area with a radius of 50 meters until they blasted away the strong field fortifications.
The concrete slab blew it up into the sky.
In order to hunt down the murderer, the warehouse defenders did not hesitate to deploy most of their mortars at the height of the battle, firing more than 200 rounds of artillery shells and even using machine guns to suppress Japanese infantry artillery.
Tactically speaking, this was a huge failure, but from Lei Xiong to Chen Yunfa, no one felt stupid. Even Liu Lang, who was far away in Nanjing, did not raise the slightest objection to their choice.
At that moment, the people were no longer just tribesmen standing behind them and being protected by them, but also comrades-in-arms. To avenge their comrades-in-arms, any price was acceptable.
In the future battle in the southwest jungle, the Republic even paid the price of killing an entire infantry squad in order to carry back the body of a comrade.
The Chinese defenders in the Sihang Warehouse with strong fortifications were beaten like this. How could the Japanese troops who attacked under a hail of bullets be any better?
At dusk, Jiro Wakita, who was reluctant but still had to declare that today's day's battle was a complete failure and ended, passed out on the spot as soon as he took stock of the day's battle damage.
Throughout the day, more than 4 infantry squadrons of the 36th Infantry Regiment were disabled, 3 infantry squadrons were severely damaged, and the six machine gun teams of the heavy machine gun squadron and their heavy machine guns were sent into the sky by Chinese mortars.
The three infantry artillery units of the artillery squadron directly under the team were strafed by Chinese machine guns and suffered heavy casualties.
Severely damaged means that casualties exceed 50%, and disabled means that it has lost the ability to continue fighting. The 36th Infantry Regiment was not at full strength before the war. Before this battle,
His three infantry brigades and twelve infantry squadrons have been severely damaged twice, and their strength has been replenished twice. At full count, he only has 2,000 soldiers. Excluding the artillery squadrons and three heavy machine gun squadrons, to put it bluntly,
The 36th Infantry Regiment only has 8 infantry squadrons available.
Half of them were disabled, and three-quarters of the remaining half were severely damaged. Only one infantry squadron was still intact because it served as a guard and supervisor.
After a bloody day of fighting, the poor Japanese Army Colonel was directly transformed from a regiment commander to a large infantry squadron leader. There were less than 500 infantrymen who could still participate in the battle. It would be strange if he did not faint.