The huge hull of the Izumo was leaning against the dock, gently swaying with the ups and downs of the river.
Behind the Izumo, dozens of warships from the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet lined up in sequence, creating a spectacular sight.
Kiyoshi Hasegawa stood on the bridge of the Izumo, looking through the portholes at the street scene ahead. Unfortunately, the Shanghai Beach tonight was no longer as bright as it used to be. Even the most prosperous Bund was pitch black at this time.
, on the contrary, in Pudong on the other side of the Huangpu River, a few night lights were on sporadically, flickering on and off, like will-o'-the-wisps.
Rapid footsteps sounded, and then a Japanese soldier with the rank of major general walked in.
"Your Excellency, General!" the Japanese Major General bowed to Hasegawa Kiyoshi, and then reported, "I just received a telegram from the headquarters of the Ninth Division, requesting our navy to send a destroyer to the mouth of the Suzhou River to guard it.
To provide fire support to the Broadway Building south of the Suzhou River, do you think which warship is suitable to send?"
During the Battle of Songhu, Hasegawa Kiyoshi's military rank was only Lieutenant General.
But now, Kiyoshi Hasegawa has been promoted from lieutenant general to general.
Hasegawa Kiyoshi was promoted from Vice Admiral to General, which can be said to be a well-deserved promotion.
This is because the Third Fleet of the Navy under the command of Kiyoshi Hasegawa played a vital role in the Battle of Songhu. There is even such a tactics in the Japanese military circles that the Battle of Songhu was not so much won by the army.
Saying that the navy won the battle may seem too harsh on the army at first, but it is true.
Because without the participation of the Japanese navy in the Battle of Songhu, the outcome would have been completely different.
Especially in the second stage of the Battle of Songhu, when the Third Division and the Eleventh Division landed, they were tenaciously blocked by dozens of elite divisions of the National Army. Not to mention the delay in opening up the situation, in the Lion Forest and other
Some battlefields were even counterattacked, and they were about to be driven into the sea by the National Army!
At this juncture, Kiyoshi Hasegawa's Third Fleet of the Navy played the role of a sea-calming needle.
Seeing that the 11th Division was about to be driven into the sea, Hasegawa Kiyoshi decisively dispatched dozens of warships, lined up along the Yangtze River outside the Lion Forest, and bombarded them with a barrage of artillery fire. The Kuomintang's First Army, which was engaged in counterattack, was bombed.
The army was completely routed, and at the height of the fighting, a regiment disappeared within fifteen minutes of its arrival.
Hu Zongnan, commander of the First Army, was so distressed that he immediately withdrew with his troops.
Getting back to the topic, Hasegawa Kiyoshi waved his hand and said calmly: "This battle is very important and cannot be lost, so there is no need to look for other ships, just our Izumo, which has excellent firepower, protection and maneuverability.
It's the most suitable." After a pause, Kiyoshi Hasegawa added, "Command the power cabin to raise the furnace immediately."
"Hai." The Japanese Major General paused and turned around.
After a while, black smoke spewed out from the Izumo's chimney.
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At the same time, Wu Han's Special Agents Brigade 1 and Chen Baixi's Special Agents Brigade 2 have begun to mobilize.
According to the plan, Wu Han's special agent team will blow up the New Garbage Bridge, the Old Garbage Bridge, the Laoguan Bridge, the Tap Water Bridge and the Tianhou Palace Bridge, while only retaining the Sichuan Road Bridge and the Erbaidu Bridge to the east, and blowing up the front ones.
These five road bridges are to cut off the retreat route of the main force of the patrol battalion trapped in Sihang Warehouse!
The purpose of retaining the Sichuan Road Bridge and the Erbaidu Bridge is to continuously provide supplies to the main force stationed at the Broadway Building on the south bank of the Suzhou River. After all, the south bank of the Suzhou River is the West District of the Concession, and the Broadway Building is an away game there and cannot be obtained.
If you want to replenish supplies for a long time, you must have a life line of communication!
According to the plan, Wu Han's First Agent Brigade was responsible for blowing up the bridge and then blocking the Suzhou River. Chen Baixi's Second Agent Brigade was responsible for guarding the Sichuan Road Bridge and Erbaidu Bridge, the two life lines of communication. Of course, the Second Agent Brigade was not alone.
, a destroyer from the Japanese Navy will come by then.
Under night, Chen Baixi was commanding the troops to build fortifications.
"First Squadron, take over the two buildings in front of me. Open up the wall on the first floor and build a machine gun fortification. All the windows above the second floor will be sealed and the shooting holes will be left. I will put up two more on the rooftop.
Heavy machine gun, please pay attention to the firing range and make sure to lock the Henan intersection on the opposite side, do you hear me?"
"Second Squadron, carry all the sandbags and build three fortifications along the street!"
"Damn it, what are you doing so slowly? The damn Central Army is here, bullshit!"
"Third Squadron, go and pull out all the telephone poles over there. Don't leave any hidden dangers."
"Fourth Squadron, clean up all these debris on the roadside for me. If you don't clean up these debris, a bomb will be thrown from the patrol camp later and you will all turn into fucking roast chickens."
"Fifth Squadron, demolish the building in front of me, it's too damn blocking the view."
"Sixth Squadron, don't just sit there in a daze, hurry up and find me a ladder, a ladder!"
"Special 1st Squadron, you bastards just know how to eat, eat, eat, go down to the river to dig sand and pack sandbags for me!"
The Second Secret Service Brigade of Broadway Building is only a secret service force in name, but in fact, its soldiers are all composed of veterans of the National Army, and they are also veterans who crawled out from the dead after the Songhu Battle. Most of these veterans are from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
He has a military background and has received good training. His military qualities are not something to be boasted about.
Within a moment, all six squadrons were busy. In particular, more than 800 Youth Gang gangsters from the First Squadron also went down the river at gunpoint, jumped into the cold Suzhou River to dig sand, and filled sandbags.
, and then sent the wet sandbags to Sichuan Road and gave them to the veterans of the Second Squadron to build barricades.
Among all the people, there was a group of people sitting there without moving, and there were over a hundred people.
Although these people were also wearing black plain clothes and wide-brimmed top hats, the way they looked at people and the aura they exuded were obviously sharper! What's even weirder is that although Chen Baixi saw these
People are lazy, but they don't show any signs of it and pretend not to see it.
This scene made the other veterans very unhappy.
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By this time, Sihang Warehouse had been reduced to a pot of porridge.
Wang Jiageng looked out through the crack in the door and could just see the battlefield diagonally in front of the Sixings Warehouse. He saw that the patrol battalion's offensive troops were overwhelmed by the firepower of the Broadway Building. On the one hand, Wang Jiageng felt that the patrol battalion had been unable to open up the situation.
Anxious, but also secretly shocked by the brutal firepower of the Broadway Building.
In addition, Wang Jiageng was still a little confused.
The patrol battalion's offensive just now was so fierce, why did it suddenly suffer a setback?
After a few minutes, seeing that the patrol camp was still unable to open up the situation, Wang Jiageng could no longer hold back. He turned to Lu Deming next to him and said, "Xiao Ming, how about we beat him?" Wang Jiageng believed that if they had
With internal cooperation, the remaining troops in the Broadway Building outside can be easily eliminated.
However, Lu Deyou shook his head and said, "There's no rush."
"What, no rush?" Two black lines immediately appeared on Wang Jiageng's forehead.
The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly. Even laymen who do not understand military affairs understand the importance of speed. If the Sihang Warehouse is delayed for too long, not only the main force of the Broadway Building may arrive, but the Japanese military police force may even arrive.
The main force of the Ninth Division stationed in Shanghai may arrive, and then we will be in trouble!
At that moment, Wang Jiageng said with a dark face: "Xiao Ming, are you kidding me?"
Lu Deming smiled, and then said: "Bingzhu, let me tell you the truth, the patrol camp actually did it on purpose. If they had been willing, they would have wiped out all these scum in the Broadway Building outside half an hour ago."
"Deliberately?" Wang Jiageng said dumbfounded, "Deliberately waiting for the Japanese reinforcements to arrive?"
"That's right." Lu Deming nodded and replied, "Just to wait for the Japanese reinforcements."
"So, your patrol battalion has set up an ambush?" Wang Jiageng's eyes narrowed when he heard this, but he quickly frowned and said in a deep voice, "But I doubt that your patrol battalion has the ability to eat the ninth one in one go.
A division? This is a field division of the Japanese, and it is also a permanent division."
Lu Deming said: "With the current strength of our patrol battalion, of course we cannot defeat the Ninth Division."
After a pause, Lu Deming continued: "However, this does not mean that after ten days or even half a month, we still cannot defeat the Ninth Division!"
Wang Jiageng frowned and said, "Xiao Ming, what do you mean?"
Lu Deming smiled and said: "Battle base, what I mean is that our patrol battalion does not have many troops at the moment. It can only support a brigade of 6,000 people. However, in ten days and a half, the strength of our patrol battalion will probably be reduced."
It is not impossible to exceed 10,000 people, or even expand to 20,000 people."
"Expand to 20,000 people?" Wang Jiageng's expression condensed, and he finally understood.
It seems that the patrol battalion is planning to take this opportunity to sing a great drama to the veterans of the National Army stranded in Shanghai, in order to reawaken the hearts of these veterans and make them shoulder their guns and step onto the battlefield again. However, no matter how imaginative Wang Jiageng is,
, I never imagined that this was actually a play within a play, and even the Broadway Building was an ally.
"So." Lu Deming smiled slightly and continued, "In the camp, we should continue to sleep. It is serious to have enough strength. In the end, there will definitely be a fierce battle." After finishing speaking, Lu Deming stood up again, looked around and said, "Brother
Guys, stop thinking about this and get some sleep while there is still time."
What Lu Deming just said was heard by all the veterans in the cell.
At that moment, more than fifty veterans of the National Army fell down to sleep. After a while, snoring broke out in the cell. The sound of gunfire outside was loud, but the snoring was like thunder in the cell. This is the skill of veterans. If replaced by
It's impossible for a new recruit to fall asleep at this time, but a veteran can fall asleep.
