Xu Rui was still talking into the microphone: "The situation at the time was like this. The weather was very hot that day. Empress Dowager Zhenmei happened to be taking a cold bath in the palace because she was afraid of the heat. Emperor Muruhito came in because he had something to do with Yoshihito.
I happened to see the Empress Dowager Zhenming, oh no, she was just the Crown Princess at that time."
Speaking of this, Xu Rui felt a little thirsty and grabbed the water glass on the table and drank some water.
After drinking the water, Xu Rui was about to continue making up nonsense when Leng Tiefeng suddenly walked in excitedly.
"Okay, Lao Xu, no more broadcasting." Leng Tiefeng said in a deep voice, "The Japanese have entered the city!"
"Really?" An inexplicable cold light flashed in Xu Rui's eyes, and he asked in a deep voice, "How many Japanese are here?"
Leng Tiefeng said in a deep voice: "I don't know the exact number, but according to my observation, there is at least one Japanese brigade in each direction, so there are at least five infantry brigades coming!"
Xu Rui's expression condensed and he asked: "All five directions are advancing together?"
"Yes, it should be that all five divisions on the blockade are here!" Leng Tiefeng said, "If I had known this, you should have used this trick yesterday. In this way, not only the first battalion, the third battalion, and the fourth battalion also
The Baoshan Battalion does not need to make such a big sacrifice, and maybe it can severely inflict heavy damage on the Japs again and win the Fourth Battle of Songhu."
"This is impossible. Veteran, you are thinking too simplistically." Xu Rui shook his head and said, "If the main force of the regiment had not left, they would not have dared to come in with the help of the little devil's courage. That is to say, now they know that there are already people in the city.
Only a few hundred people from your Langya and rocket launcher camps are left, so the little devils dare to have the courage to break in."
"That's right." Leng Tiefeng nodded and said, "It's just a pity that the fire will at most cause some chaos for the Japanese, but it's impossible to seriously injure them."
"But at least it gives us a chance to break out safely." After Xu Rui finished speaking, he turned to Bi Xiancheng, the commander of the rocket launcher battalion, and said, "Old Bi, let's proceed as planned."
"Yes!" Bi Xiancheng stood at attention and ran away.
Originally, Xu Rui's battle plan was as follows.
First, the Songhu Independent Regiment abandoned its outer defense line and retracted all its forces to the central area of the concession. At this time, if the Japanese took the opportunity to enter the urban area, they would immediately launch a fire attack and turn the entire Shanghai into a sea of fire to block the Japanese.
attack, and then dispatched elite troops, Qiao disguised as Japanese soldiers to attack in all directions, disrupting the soldiers' morale and command.
This fire was carefully designed by Li Xiaoxia, a doctor of chemical engineering. More than a dozen fire points were located around the central area of the concession. Once the fire ignited, it would immediately spread to Zhabei and Hongkou in the north, Longhua in the south and the French Concession in the west.
Spread out, except for the large number of bungalows in the central area of the concession in Shanghai, most of the other areas are made of wood. Once the fire breaks out, it is impossible to control it, so the Japanese offensive will be seriously affected.
As the fire increased, it became impossible for the Japanese army to continue attacking. If they continued to stay in the fire, they would become dehydrated, so they had to retreat.
At this time, Xu Rui sent dozens of small elite troops, and under the leadership of Lang Ya who thought he spoke Japanese, Qiao Zhuang infiltrated into the little Japs, deliberately creating chaos and beheading them at the same time. In addition, the Japs were in a hurry
If we turn to retreat, it will definitely cause chaos among the little Japanese who enter the city.
At this time, if the main force of the Songhu Independent Regiment takes the opportunity to launch a counterattack, it is very likely that they will repeat the great victory in Jiangwan Town, and this time the scale will be even bigger!
After the great victory, it became easy for the Songhu Independent Regiment to evacuate Shanghai.
It's a pity that Shun Tada, an old Japanese soldier, was not fooled. He resolutely resisted the temptation and strictly ordered the five divisions and the third division of the 12th Army to stay in their positions.
Precisely because the old Japanese were not fooled, Xu Rui ordered the Songhu Independent Regiment to break out from the front.
As a result, the main force of the regiment was able to successfully break through the encirclement due to the firepower blocking fire of the rocket launcher battalion, but the first, third, fourth and Baoshan battalions still paid a heavy price.
But the current situation is different. Now the main force of the Songhu Independent Regiment has broken through and left, and the troops remaining in Shanghai are only a few hundred people. In this case, even if Xu Ruizhen has any ambush in the city, such as a fire attack or something like that
, at most it would cause some trouble for the Japanese army, but it was absolutely impossible to pose a fatal threat.
Therefore, seeing the Japanese officers filled with righteous indignation, Tada Shun took advantage of the situation and issued an attack order.
After the order was issued, the Sixth Division, the Thirteenth Division, the Sixteenth Division, the 104th Division and the Second Guards Division of the Twelfth Army immediately attacked from five different directions at the same time.
Entering the city, and then advancing hand in hand, the vanguard troops almost simultaneously entered the outskirts of the central area of the concession, and did not finally stop until they encountered their opponents.
At this time, the Rocket Artillery Battalion and Langya of the Songhu Independent Regiment had already retreated to the central area of the concession. However, before leaving, they detonated the explosives buried in the underground warehouse of the Broadway Building and destroyed the building together with all the equipment in the building that could not be moved out in time.
, as well as the dismantled rocket launcher, were all buried.
After shrinking to the periphery of the central area of the concession, the rocket launcher battalion did not continue to retreat. Instead, together with the Langya Brigade, they guarded several buildings in the central area of the concession near the Suzhou River and the Bund to carry out final resistance, especially the Chinachem Hotel.
It is the highest commanding height in the entire city of Shanghai. More than twenty snipers from Langya are ambushing on every floor, posing a great threat to the Japanese attacking along several main streets.
Compared to the Wolf Fang snipers, the dozens of heavy machine guns placed on the upper floors of the Chinachem Building pose a greater threat.
More than fifty Browning air-cooled heavy machine guns fired at a 45-degree angle, spraying firepower crazily at the surrounding main streets. The shrieking rain of bullets fell from the sky, launching firepower along several main streets.
The attacking Japs caused great damage. Most of the Japs who launched the attack were killed by heavy machine gun fire.
This is not the worst. The worst thing is that the Chinachem Building is a reinforced concrete structure. The aerial bombs of the Japanese aircraft and the bombardment of the field howitzers of the field artillery wing have almost no effect. The Japanese navy is still blocked outside Wusongkou.
If you fail to enter, you will not be able to use large-caliber naval guns to provide fire support to the army.
As a result, the Japanese offensive immediately came to a standstill.
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On the second floor of Chinachem Building, the original ballroom has been turned into a war room.
"The Japs on North Tibet Road were suppressed? Well, well done!"
"What did you say? The Japs on North Sichuan Road have already retreated. Okay, I understand!"
"Hey, hey, hey, is this the First Company? What are you talking about, the Japanese who entered North Suzhou River Road have been eliminated? Okay, I will report it to the regiment leader immediately, please be careful!"
Deputy commander Yang Rui temporarily guest-starred as chief of staff and was very busy.
After hanging up another phone call, he found that the dozen or so phones in front of him didn't ring anymore. He turned around and said to Xu Rui, who was leaning on a chair next to him and taking a nap: "Captain, I have stopped the Japanese offensive!"
Xu Rui nodded expressionlessly, which was expected.
Although after the main force of the regiment broke through, the only troops left in the city were less than 500 people from the rocket launcher battalion, but after all, they had already built complete defenses in various buildings in the central area of the concession, and deployed more firepower.
It's brutal, and there's plenty of ammunition. Under such circumstances, it's not difficult to hold on to your position.
Unless the Japanese navy breaks in, there won't be any major problems within three to five days.
After leaning on the chair and squinting for a while, Xu Rui suddenly asked: "Lao Yang, what time is it now?"
Yang Rui raised his left wrist, looked at his watch, and replied: "Five o'clock, there are still two hours until dark."
"It's almost done." Xu Rui's slightly squinted eyes suddenly opened and he said coldly, "Let's get started."
"Yes!" Yang Rui agreed, then immediately turned back to the table, picked up a phone and yelled, "I order, start setting fire now! Set fire!"
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At this time, an infantry squadron of the Sixth Division was attacking southward along the North Tibet Road.
However, two kilometers ahead, a dozen heavy machine guns mounted on the upper floors of the Chinachem Building continued to pour intense firepower onto their heads. What was even more desperate was that the dense rain of bullets still fell from the sky, so
Even if they hide behind a bunker, it's useless and they will still be killed and wounded.
Less than half an hour after replacing friendly troops, nearly half of the entire squadron had been killed or injured.
The deputy squadron leader who took over the command of the dead squadron leader cursed Baga Yalu, and was about to lead the remaining half of the squadron in a desperate charge, when he suddenly heard a loud bang in his ears, and turned his head to look.
The Japanese deputy squadron leader saw a ball of red light expanding rapidly in front of his eyes, swallowing him up in an instant.
The next moment, the body of the Japanese deputy squadron leader flew into the air and then disintegrated.
Along with the Japanese deputy squadron leader, there were also a dozen nearby Japanese soldiers who were blown away at the same time. Dr. Li's demolition team buried a full fifty kilograms of high explosives where the Japanese deputy squadron leader had just stood. After the violent explosion,
, a huge crater with a diameter of more than thirty meters and a depth of more than four meters was immediately blasted out on one side of the street.
This is not over yet. Dr. Li designed a mother-child bomb. After the mother bomb exploded, it immediately detonated more than a dozen sub-explosion points around it. However, the dozen or so sub-explosion points around it were not used to directly kill the devils, but were used to kill the Japanese.
It ignited fire, so what was buried was not high explosives, but sulfur bombs or gasoline bombs.
After the violent explosion of more than a dozen sulfur bombs and gasoline bombs, a fire broke out instantly. After the fire was ignited, it quickly spread to the surroundings, because the houses on both sides of North Tibet Road were basically made of wood, and the beams and rafters of the houses were all
It is already too dry and will burn quickly once ignited.
After a while, dozens of houses on both sides of North Tibet Road were caught in the fire.
The Japanese squadron that went into the attack was a little confused and didn't know what to do.
