Before the signal flare was launched, Xie Yuanzheng stood at the intersection of Siward Road and Jianshi Road, pacing with his hands behind his back.
Not far behind Xie Yuan, there is Seward Road. Seward Road is a main street that crosses the Hong River and runs through Hongkou and Yangshupu areas. Seward Road is the first U.S. ambassador to China.
It is named after the Consul General, which is not a glorious thing for a sovereign country.
But at this moment, both sides of Siward Road were filled with Chinese soldiers who swore to fight for the motherland.
Xie Yuan turned around, because the entire street light circuit on Siward Road had been cut off, so it was pitch black. It was impossible to see anything beyond five meters away. But even if he couldn't see it, Xie Yuan could still feel it.
I felt that the entire roadbed on both sides of Seward Road was filled with officers and soldiers from the patrol battalion.
Liang Yixiao's battlefield broadcasts are still being broadcast. Until now, veterans have continued to return to the army. These returning veterans have been organized into three regiments by Xie Yuanlin, namely the fourth regiment, the fifth regiment and the sixth regiment. Of course
The regiments or brigades here are just internal establishments. Not only will the military headquarters not recognize them, but the Nationalist government is even less likely to recognize them. On the organizational list of the Nationalist Army, the Songhu Military Division tops the list, and it is only a regiment-level organization.
But for Xie Yuan and others, the organizational structure is not important, the number of people and the level of preparation are more important!
Up to now, not counting the more than 3,000 National Army veterans who were captured by Broadway Building and sent to the Sixing Warehouse, the number of National Army veterans who came to the Central District of the Concession to find the patrol camp and returned to the team has exceeded 7,000. Among these more than 7,000 people,
Hundreds of people were lost in the previous battle to "encircle and annihilate" the remnants of the Broadway Building, and now there are more than 6,000 left.
At the beginning of night, these more than 6,000 veterans had quietly entered Seward Road.
Now, these more than 6,000 National Army veterans are sitting quietly on the roadbed on both sides of Seward Road with submachine guns on their shoulders. As long as Xie Yuan gives the order, they will stand up without hesitation and carry American-made products.
with submachine guns, crossed Seward Road named after an American, and then launched a general attack on the Ninth Division along Supervisor Road.
First, the Langya Brigade will remove the Japanese strongholds along the Supervisor Road and clear the obstacles to the attack, and then the three main regiments of the patrol battalion will launch a general attack. This is the battle plan that Xu Rui and Xie Yuan decided on from the beginning.
, now we are just waiting for the good news from the Langya Brigade. As soon as the good news from the Langya Brigade arrives, the general attack will begin immediately!
But to be honest, Xie Yuan still felt a little uneasy in his heart.
Why are you worried? Of course, you are not optimistic about Langya’s combat effectiveness!
Xie Yuan has never fought side by side with Lang Ya, nor has he witnessed Lang Ya's terrifying combat power in Gu Quan, but he has fought against the Japanese, and it was a life-and-death battle. He has no idea how powerful and difficult the Japanese are.
Yuan knew about it, so he was a little worried about Langya, worried that the Langya brigade would not be able to handle this arduous task.
You must know that the Langya Brigade only has a total of 109 people. Including Xu Rui and his guard Digua, there are only 111 people. However, the Japs opposite have an infantry regiment, and
It is the 19th Infantry Regiment with the strongest combat effectiveness among the 9th Division. Judging from Xie Yuan's standpoint, the strength gap between the two sides is too great.
The members of the Wolf Fang are covered in iron, how many nails can they make? One hundred people versus more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers, it’s a cliffhanger!
Even if the 19th Infantry Regiment suffered casualties in the battles of the past few days, its strength at this moment would not be less than 2,000, which is twenty times as many as the Langya Brigade! Xie Yuan could not imagine such a difference in strength.
How can we fight this battle if there is such a huge disparity? At least, Xie Yuan claimed that he could not win this battle.
Amid Xie Yuan's anxiety, time moved forward little by little.
At a certain moment, when Xie Yuan stopped again and looked up, a dazzling red track suddenly rose into the sky under the night sky in front of him. Looking at this dazzling red track pulled out of the night sky, Xie Yuan first thought
There was a moment of sluggishness, God, did the Langya Brigade really kill the 19th Infantry Brigade?
The next moment, the look of astonishment on Xie Yuan's face was replaced by huge shock.
Oh my God! The Wolf Fang Brigade actually killed the 19th Infantry Regiment!
Then, the look of shock on Xie Yuan's face was overshadowed by the look of ecstasy. Now that the Wolf Fang Brigade has succeeded, it means that the obstacles to the attack have been cleared and the general attack can begin!
At that moment, Xie Yuan took out his gun and fired a shot into the night sky above his head.
Then, Xie Yuan's loud roar rang out under the night sky: "Come with me!"
After saying that, Xie Yuan turned around and sprinted forward along the Supervisor Road.
Behind Xie Yuan, the officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion who had been sitting on the roadbed on both sides of Siward Road stood up one after another, and then like a flood that had burst its embankment, it crossed the intersection of Siward Road and Supervisor Road and surged forward.
Moving forward, at this time, flashlight beams also lit up in the surging crowd, illuminating the surging tide of soldiers.
The general attack has begun! The final blow against the Ninth Division has begun!
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Half an hour later, Kunshan Garden House.
Jing Shuxuan slumped down on his chair and cursed.
It's a pity that even cursing Amaterasu at this time can't turn the tide of the battle!
Outside the window, one can faintly hear the overwhelming shouts of the Chinese soldiers!
You don't need to look at it, you can imagine the terrifying scene when Jing Shu announced it. Amidst the rain of bullets and artillery fire, thousands of Chinese soldiers were holding American-made Thompson submachine guns and marching towards the 9th Division along the Supervisory Road.
The command headquarters launched a charge, and the Japanese soldiers blocking the front of the Chinese soldiers, like the earthen embankments washed away by the tide, collapsed in an instant.
Jing Shuxuanshi had tried his best. As soon as he saw the red signal flare rising into the sky, Jing Shuxuanshi quickly organized the non-combatants at the division headquarters and built three lines of defense on the way out to supervise the division.
, but unfortunately, these hastily constructed defense lines simply could not withstand the desperate charge of the Chinese soldiers.
In less than a quarter of an hour, all three temporary lines of defense collapsed.
After receiving the adjutant's report, Jing Shuxuan knew that the situation was over.
Because at this time, the three infantry regiments except the 19th Infantry Regiment were already entangled with the enemies in the north, west, and south directions. They could not withdraw even if they wanted to. Jing Shuxuan
Shi originally had an infantry brigade as a reserve in his hands, but just before the patrol battalion launched the final general attack, due to the tight situation in the west, the last infantry brigade was transferred to the west.
It is precisely because of this that at the last moment, Jing Shuxuan could only organize non-combatants from the division and regiment headquarters to participate in the battle. However, these non-combatants from the division and regiment headquarters were not infantry after all, and their combat effectiveness was relatively weak. Under the overwhelming onslaught of the Chinese soldiers,
Under this, the three front and rear lines of defense built by non-combatants quickly collapsed.
After these three lines of defense collapsed, Jing Shuxuan no longer had any soldiers at his disposal!
It's over, it's over, it's over! When Jing Shuxuan sat down on his chair, he looked up to the sky and lamented.
Adjutant Kuroda rushed forward and said urgently: "General, please evacuate this place quickly!"
Evacuate? Jing Shu announced with a wry smile, where to evacuate? If the entire Ninth Division was wiped out and he successfully escaped from Shanghai, so what? In the end, he would inevitably be sent to a military court or commit seppuku.
! If both the left and right are dead, then it is better to simply die in battle. At least you can gain a reputation and have the opportunity to be enshrined in the Yasukuni Shrine in the future.
Thinking of this, Jing Shuxuan immediately cheered up, drew out his saber and shouted loudly: "Order, all personnel in the division and regiment headquarters should take up arms and fight to the death to the last man!"
"Hai!" Kuroda paused heavily and repeated Jingshu's order loudly.
After hearing Kuroda's order, the combat staff, order soldiers, and medical soldiers at the division headquarters who stayed behind were armed one after another. Even the female soldiers in the communications department were armed. Each female soldier was assigned a grenade.
When announcing the book, they were also specifically instructed one by one to fire grenades at the last moment and die together with the invading Chinese soldiers.
"The Empire of Japan is on board, His Majesty the Emperor is on board! On board!"
At the last moment, crazy slogans echoed throughout the garden house.
(Dividing line)
Xie Yuan led three main groups to Kunshan Garden, and happened to hear waves of fanatical slogans coming from the three-story garden house located in the northeast corner. Obviously, this three-story garden house was
The division headquarters of the Ninth Division, and the Japanese in the division headquarters are ready to die together!
Want to die together? Dream! Xie Yuan smiled ferociously, turned around and shouted: "Move those two 80-80 mortars over here!"
Xie Yuan gave the order, and when four veterans trotted over carrying two 80-80 mortars, they quickly set up the cannons. These two 80-80 mortars were captured from the Japanese on the way to the charge.
In addition to the two cannons, there were also two boxes of high-explosive shells and two boxes of tear gas shells. Just as the ammunition hand was about to load ordinary high-explosive shells, Xie Yuan stopped him.
"Use tear gas!" Xie Yuan snorted and said with a ferocious smile, "Smoke out these bastards for me!"
The two ammunition handlers immediately changed the shells and loaded the tear gas grenades into the barrel. With two bangs, two 80-caliber tear gas grenades accurately fell into the first-floor window of the bungalow in front.
The two veterans were also artillerymen, and they were very good at firing artillery. For them, it was a piece of cake for them to blast the shells into the huge windows.
Before it was over, seeing that Xie Yuan did not stop him, the two veterans immediately fired all the remaining tear gas canisters.
In less than three minutes, two boxes of eight tear gas canisters were fired into the three-story garden house in front of them. The first and second floors of the house were quickly filled with intense gas, and smoke even surged from the windows. Seeing this
At this moment, the patrol battalion officers and soldiers surrounding the small building raised their submachine guns and prepared to shoot.