Chapter 418: Five Days
Three days later, the roof of the four-row warehouse.
Now the roof of the Sixing warehouse is no longer the top floor, but the former fifth floor, and as for the places above the fifth floor, they have all been blown up by the crazy Japanese, leaving a ruin.
However, the blue sky and white sun flag is still fluttering on the top of the Sixing warehouse building, although it has been damaged, but it still stands on the roof of the Sixing warehouse building.
The Japanese have been attacking frantically for five days, a whole five days, and the Japanese attack in the first two days has some time to rest, but now, the Japanese attack has reached the point of madness, and less than an hour after each repulsion wave, the Japanese will launch a new attack.
As the sun sets, the current Sixing warehouse has changed its appearance, many Shanghainese look at the past from the other side of Suzhou Creek, the whole Sixing warehouse seems to be shorter, but in the eyes of Shanghainese, the Sixing warehouse is now very tall, like a giant, the spiritual giant in their hearts.
It was this giant, in front of them, who repelled enemy attacks again and again, and stubbornly killed one Japanese after another, so that the Japanese have not been able to completely occupy Shanghai so far.
The headlines of European and American newspapers published the heroic deeds of the defenders of the Sixing Warehouse, which caused great repercussions in these countries in Europe and the United States.
After the fall of Shanghai, the defenders of the Sixing Warehouse blocked the attack of 300,000 Japanese for five days and five nights with a number of 800 men.
With no reinforcements and no artillery support, the Japanese resisted stubbornly and killed more than 10,000 people in the face of the Japanese, who were several times better equipped than themselves and had various superior equipment such as airplanes, artillery, and tanks.
Everything is in line with the definition of heroes in Europeans and Americans, and even says that in the eyes of Europeans and Americans, this army is the embodiment of heroes.
Several major newspapers in China used the words "Shanghai has not yet fallen" as huge headlines to introduce this army in detail.
And Principal Jiang also sent a commendation order on the third day, all the people in the 524 regiment were promoted to one level, Xie Jinyuan was promoted to major general, and Yu Zhiqian was also a major general, but he has not retreated yet, and Yu Zhiqian has not seen what Jiang Xing looks like.
The reason why the Japanese attacked frantically was not unrelated to the death of Matsui Ishone, but the most important reason was because at the celebration banquet, a very important figure was also killed, Hatohiko Asakanomiya.
The name Hatohiko Asakanomiya once appeared in textbooks, was one of the culprits of the massacre, and was also the prince of Japan.
He was the grandson of Prince Fushimi Miya, the eighth son of Prince Asahhiko of Kurenomiya, and the uncle of Emperor Hirohito, who was given the name of Asakanomiya by Emperor Meiji.
In 1910, King Hatohiko of the historical Asakanomiya married Prince Yoshiko Fuminomiya, the daughter of Emperor Meiji, and studied at the Japanese Army Military Academy and the Japanese Army University before going to France to study in 1922.
After returning to Japan, he successively served as the commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade, the commander of the Guards Division, and the military counselor. After the Japanese imperialists launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, he succeeded Matsui Ishine as commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, and it was he who issued the order to "kill all the captured personnel", which led to a terrible massacre.
Later, he was promoted to army general. Because he was a member of the Japanese Imperial Family, he escaped trial after the war. And broke away from the imperial family and changed his name to Asaka Hatohiko, who died of illness on April 12, 1981, at the age of 94.
According to the historical trajectory, this person should be in December of this year, Matsui Ishone, who came to replace him, became the new commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, but now he has come to Shanghai to deal with affairs.
At this time, King Hatohiko of the Asaka Palace was invited by Matsui Shigen to participate in the celebration banquet and appeared as the last important guest, which is why Matsui Shigen came to the stage again, that is, when he was preparing to introduce him, he was attacked by Yu Zhiqian.
The death of King Hatohiko of Asaka Palace was even more unacceptable to the Japanese than the death of Matsui Ishone, and the Japanese Minister of War accepted the emperor's summons on the night of the death of Matsui Ishone and King Hatohiko of Asakanomiya, and after being severely criticized by the emperor, he returned to the army headquarters.
The death of the commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army made the Army Headquarters need to elect a new commander, and at this time, the Army reached that there was still a place in Shanghai that had not been occupied, and issued an order, which roughly meant that if that division could take the Sixing warehouse, who would be the new commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army.
The earthquake on the Japanese side is not over yet, and the deaths of the commander and prince of the Japanese dispatch forces have been reported by well-informed journalists, as well as by the ambassador and some consuls who died yesterday.
A total of five ambassadors and consuls were killed and more than a dozen ambassadors and consuls were injured, and almost all the affected countries have sent diplomatic gestures to Japan, and an explanation is needed that the Japanese are now apologizing and arresting the murderers almost every day.
In Shanghai now, except for more and more divisions and regiments around the Sixing warehouse, and the wings are driving over, the rest of the places are full of Japanese soldiers.
These Japanese soldiers patrolled the streets everywhere, looking for any place where there might be a problem, and wantonly arrested anyone who was suspected, and it can be said that now the Japanese have fallen into a state of madness, arresting people everywhere, looking for people everywhere, and in the spirit of the idea that it is better to catch a thousand by mistake than to catch one by mistake, the whole of Shanghai is in a panic.
No matter how big the changes in the outside world are, they have nothing to do with the defenders in the Sixing warehouse, and after the Japanese Army Headquarters issued an order, the gunfire in the Sixing warehouse has not stopped.
On the third day, it was not the troops of the 101st Division, and the Shigedo detachment appeared out of nowhere and launched an attack on the Sixing warehouse, but the effect of their attack was even worse than that of the 101st Division.
The 101st Division and Yu Zhiqian and others had been fighting for two days and had summed up a lot of methods, but after the Shigeto detachment came up, it attacked in accordance with the traditional way of attacking the Chinese army, with three axes.
In the first round of their attack, they were met with head-on fire from the defenders of the four rows of warehouses, and the firepower on both sides, coupled with the machine gun fire on the front, shot them in line after entering the door.
The Shigeto detachment, which attacked for the first time, only touched the gate of the Sixing Warehouse, and was defeated by the defenders of the Sixing Warehouse, and fell one after another, and the attacking troops of more than 1,000 people finally managed to retreat, and there were not even 200 people.
The second attack on the Shigeto detachment learned from its experience and came up with a new method, which was to let the soldiers rush to the downstairs position of the Sixing warehouse, and after the number of people was enough, they would rush into the Sixing warehouse in unison.
But this time, they miscalculated again, and the fear of the 101st Division being dominated by grenades once again made the Shigeto detachment taste it, and in the second attack, the Shigeto detachment left five or six hundred corpses.
After the first wave of attacks, the subsequent attacks of the Japanese can be described as crazy, almost to the point of attacking without gaps.
The Japanese attacked the Sixing warehouse four or five times, but each time they were stubbornly repulsed, but the number of casualties of the defenders of the Sixing warehouse was much higher than the historical data.
"Are the casualties counted?" Standing on the roof of the building, Yu Zhiqian was smoking a cigarette, and there were several wounds on his body, which were left over these days, and everyone was injured, Xie Jinyuan was also injured in one arm and his leg.
These are all minor injuries, Mao Sanbai, a fat man, was shaved on his head, almost got a headshot, and the bullet grazed his brains and flew over, if it wasn't for Yu Zhiqian forcibly pressing down, maybe now Mao Sanbai might really become a dead fat man.
Chen Yun is a little better, but there is an extra wound on his arm, which was stabbed by the devil's bayonet, which was left over from the previous fight with the devil's bayonet.
Dai Qiang was the luckiest, because he was a sniper, so he only had a slight bruise, and nothing else was too much of a problem.
Zhao Dehan was also lucky, he was shot in the shoulder blade, but he was blocked by body armor, and he was stabbed in the leg by a devil, and after bandaging, he walked with a limp.
Before Yan Qi, the injury had recovered and he was able to get out of bed and walk, when the Japanese attacked with gas bombs before, Yan Qi used an emergency first aid kit brought by Yu Zhiqian, and the materials used in it were better than the gauze used by other ordinary wounded soldiers, although he was also infected by gas bombs, but Yan Qi did not touch the wound like other injuries, so there was no big problem.
Xie Jinyuan dropped a cigarette, leaned against the wall, smoked, looked into the distance with a little blank eyes, and nodded slowly: "The statistics are out!" ”
"How much?"
Xie Jinyuan spat out a heavy puff of smoke rings: "One hundred and fifty-six people were sacrificed, thirty-seven people were seriously injured, and the rest were all slightly injured!" ”
After Yu Zhiqian heard this, he lowered his head and took a heavy breath: "Are there so many casualties?" ”
"Yes!"
More than 100 people were sacrificed, much more than in history, Yu Zhiqian knew that these were all brought by himself, and patted Xie Jinyuan on the shoulder vigorously: "These are my problems, if it weren't for me, these brothers wouldn't have sacrificed!" ”
Xie Jinyuan shook his head: "Sir, I don't blame you, I and all my brothers don't blame you, how many devils have you made us?" If it weren't for you, we would have only killed more than 200 people, and you see the corpses of the devils piled up under now, at least 10,000, 10,000, sir! ”
"Don't call me sir, you're also a major general!"
Xie Jinyuan shook his head: "Sir, you are my sir, how many people did the Japanese sacrifice in total when they invaded Shanghai?" There are 10,000 people, maybe there are, we have a regiment of people, the number of people killed has caught up with the army of one million, and after the brothers die, they go underground, to face other comrades-in-arms, to face the ancestors and ancestors, they can give their thumbs up and say a word, worth! ”
Xie Jinyuan said very excitedly, and kept gesturing with his hands, Yu Zhiqian looked at him, knowing what he was thinking, Xie Jinyuan threw the cigarette butt on the ground fiercely: "Little devil on dog days, sir, do you know?" The youngest of the victims was only seventeen years old, and he was still a child! ”
The seventeen-year-old child is called Gouzi, and Yu Zhiqian's mind appeared in the second dog he met in Changde, both of whom were called Gouzi, and the name Gouzi can be seen everywhere in the land of China now, and it is easy to feed by a cheap name.
But the two dogs, both heroes, deserve to be remembered.
Xie Jinyuan was in pain, and God didn't seem to want to see this hero cry, the sun slowly set in the west, and finally the sky was rendered into a golden red.
Looking out from the Sixing warehouse, what you see is not land, not ruins, but a place, a place of corpses, densely packed, it is impossible to count, how many Japanese fell in front of this warehouse, no one knows, maybe only the Japanese after the war statistics know.
Bright red blood, dark red blood clots, and bursts of painful screams from time to time made all the people around here feel that this was not the world, but hell, the bloodiest eighteen layers of hell.
The location on the first floor of the Sixing warehouse was blown open by the Japanese with a large number of explosives bags, and that place had changed hands several times, Yu Zhiqian and Xie Jinyuan had taken people, where to engage in bloody and brutal hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese.
In the end, he used his own flesh and blood to block the Japanese outside the door, making this Sixing warehouse a nightmare that the Japanese can never erase.
In the past few days, people have been blending in, taking pictures of the four rows of warehouses, corpses everywhere, scattered Japanese flags, and the blue sky and white sun flags that have been fluttering on the roof of the building, forming a sharp contrast, just like Japan's invasion of China this time, it is doomed to be in vain.
The defenders in the Sixing warehouse, everyone can be said to be exhausted now, and even the ammunition has long been exhausted, but it doesn't matter, there are corpses all around, and you only need to push away the corpses, and you can find the ammunition and grenades you want from the Japanese.
However, in the later period, the Japanese launched a decisive charge, and the people who charged forward only carried more than ten rounds of ammunition, no grenades, no food, or bayonets, and fell on the way to charge, so that the defenders in the warehouse could not get any supplies and rushed into the warehouse, and there would be no bullets left.
But even so, the warehouse was still in the hands of Yu Zhiqian and others, and was not occupied by the Japanese.
The people watching the battle on the other side of the river could no longer cheer now, they were silently praying for the defenders of the Sixing Warehouse, hoping that the soldiers here could become heavenly soldiers and generals, step on the clouds and leave here, don't insist anymore.
There were even people on the other side who waved a long banner to persuade Xie Jinyuan and Yu Zhiqian to retreat, saying that they had done a good job.
Yu Zhiqian was unwilling to retreat, Xie Jinyuan was unwilling to retreat, and all the soldiers were unwilling to do so, and the only thought in the minds of all officers and soldiers now was that there could be a few devils, so that in the future, the Chinese army would face one less enemy on the battlefield, the pressure would be reduced a little, and perhaps a big victory would be achieved.
However, today is the end of the fifth day, Xie Jinyuan received three orders to retreat, and Yu Zhiqian's task took more than half a day.
There is no aid, the ammunition is exhausted, the food is gone, and it is time to retreat, lead the group of brothers in the Sixing Warehouse, and break out of the encirclement!
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