The 22nd Independent Brigade, one Division of the 88th Division, and the 2nd Regiment of the Tax Police Corps, more than 6,000 elites of the Central Army, after receiving the order of Commander-in-Chief Zhang Zhizhong, intensified their attacks.

Lin Rui and Zhou Weihan also led the Eighth Company from a street behind the Japanese position and killed them.

At that time, in front of them, there were about a hundred devils, relying on the barricades, trenches, and nearby buildings, and fiercely exchanging fire with the central army that came to attack them.

This area happened to be the location of the sneak attack that the Eighth Company was originally responsible for, because the Eighth Company went to the Japanese headquarters, so the devils here did not suffer from the enemy.

As a result, the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the Tax Police Corps, as well as a reinforced company of the 22nd Independent Brigade, which directly led to the attack on them, suffered setbacks in the offensive and suffered considerable losses, but they were repeatedly unsuccessful.

When Lin Rui and Zhou Weihan arrived with the Eighth Company, the attack of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the Tax Police Corps and the 22nd Independent Brigade was still in progress.

The 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the Tax Police Corps had a total of more than 1,000 men, and the reinforced company of the 22nd Independent Brigade was more than five or six times stronger than the Japanese army.

The Tax Police Corps is one of the most elite units in the National Army, not to mention the quality of weapons and personnel, and the 22nd Independent Brigade is a supplementary brigade of the 2nd Division of the National Government, and it is also a first-class ace unit.

It stands to reason that when the strength of the Japanese army is five or six times that of the Japanese army, even if it cannot be overwhelming, there should be a breakthrough.

However, more than 200 Japanese troops stubbornly blocked their attack, which lasted for a day. At night, the position stood still.

Of course, there are objective factors such as the tenacious fighting spirit of the Japanese army, the well-trained troops, and the good coordination of tactics among various arms of the armed forces, but the most important reason is that these 200-odd devils are equipped with four 13.7-mm rapid-fire guns, four 37-mm anti-aircraft guns, and more than a dozen light and heavy machine guns.

With just over 200 people, equipped with such a large number of light and heavy weapons, and complete fortifications built in advance, it was not difficult to block the attacking troops such as the Tax Police Corps.

And this situation abounded on the Songhu battlefield at that time.

At that time, although the strength of the Japanese army in the Shanghai area was only three or four thousand, it was backed by the Navy's Third Fleet, which had dozens of large and small ships and a displacement of more than 70,000 tons.

Therefore, all units of the Japanese Marine Corps can obtain light and heavy weapons that are far beyond the normal formation, such as light and heavy machine guns, rapid-fire guns, and artillery of various calibers.

As well as powerful naval artillery firepower and carrier-based aircraft air fire support, which is also Zhang Zhizhong and Huang Qixiang with 50,000 can be called the most elite trump card troops of the national army at that time, and the onslaught failed to take half a month, and finally the Japanese marines survived until the arrival of reinforcements, and the war entered the stage of stalemate attrition, and the Chinese army was defeated three months later and was forced to withdraw from Shanghai.

Hundreds of thousands of troops scrambled to retreat, trampled on each other, and suffered countless casualties, which directly led to the lack of strength of the defenders in the later defense of Nanjing, and then the death of the Chinese nation through the ages, the Nanjing Massacre!

To get back to the point, after Lin Rui and Zhou Weihan led the officers and soldiers of the Eighth Company to the rear of the Japanese defense line, they happened to find the artillery position of the devil.

Without any hesitation, Lin Rui immediately took out the Mauser pistol and took the lead in rushing over.

The devil's troops were already stretched, and under the joint onslaught of the Tax Police Corps and the 22nd Independent Brigade and other units, almost all of the troops were used to resist the attack of the national army.

Therefore, the artillery positions deployed behind the line of defense were simply unguarded.

Therefore, Lin Rui, Zhou Weihan and others easily rushed forward with their troops.

The devil artillery was still busy firing artillery at that time, providing fire support for their own infantry.

didn't notice the soldiers of the Eighth Company swarming behind him, and when a few devil artillerymen noticed the abnormality and hurriedly turned around, they were shot one by one by Lin Rui and shot them respectively.

Zhou Weihan was holding the Czech light machine gun, and he was even more anxious. Rush to strafe, da-da-da! A burst of gunfire rang out, and more than a dozen devil artillerymen present were immediately swept down one after another.

Almost effortlessly, Lin Rui and Zhou Weihan led the army to occupy the artillery position of the devil, and they did not care about manipulating the artillery.

Lin Rui took the pistol and yelled: "Continue to assault with me!" Fast! ”

Then, he took the lead and rushed forward.

At that time, there was a lot of gunfire and explosions on the battlefield, and the shouts of killing on both sides were incessant, so the devils who were fighting fiercely with the attacking troops of the national army on the front defense line did not notice the abnormality behind them.

It wasn't until the shouts of the soldiers of the Eighth Company came from behind them that the devils were alarmed and turned back one after another.

But it was too late, Lin Rui and Zhou Weihan and several other platoon commanders had already led nearly 100 soldiers of the Tax Police Corps to kill them murderously.

The soldiers' rifles, machine guns, and pistols opened fire at the same time, and in an instant, the devils were shot from behind and fell.

Under the assault of the Eighth Company, the devils were caught off guard at all, and nearly 100 people were quickly killed.

Under the first battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the Tax Police Corps, the reinforced company of the 22nd Independent Brigade and Lin Rui's eighth company, none of the more than 200 devils escaped, and all of them were killed on the position.

Not long after the battle ended, the soldiers of the Eighth Company, who were in charge of cleaning the battlefield, found two seriously injured devil wounded soldiers, and it happened that Lin Rui and Zhou Weihan walked by with Lin Feng and several other soldiers.

One of the soldiers, the guard sentry who had stopped Lin Rui at the entrance of the Eighth Company camp, saluted Lin Rui and asked, "Company commander, there are still two living little devils here, what should I do?" ”

Lin Rui glanced at the two dying devil soldiers, did not answer, directly pulled out the matching gun, and raised his hand to kill them with two shots.

Then he withdrew his pistol and shouted to the soldiers present: "Remember everything, and if you encounter this situation on the battlefield in the future, you will do it accordingly!" ”

"Yes!" The officers and soldiers of the Eighth Company present stood up and echoed in unison.

Lin Rui continued to walk forward, and Zhou Weihan hurriedly followed and asked, "Company commander, I don't know something." ”

"Say." Lin Rui walked as he walked.

"In the Devil Command before, you were willing to capture the enemy's commander, why were the two devil wounded soldiers just now unwilling to let go?" Zhou Weihan saw that Lin Rui suddenly stopped, turned his head to look at himself, his eyes were a little unhappy, and quickly explained: "Don't get me wrong, I'm not sympathetic to the little devil, but I don't understand." ”

After tonight's battle, Lin Rui's performance has completely convinced Zhou Weihan, and now he only has respect for Lin Rui, and he doesn't dare to have half a heart.

Lin Rui looked at Zhou Weihan, as well as Lin Feng and the others next to him, and said: "The reason is very simple, I was willing to accept the surrender of Yamano Watanabe at that time, because he was a major general of the Japanese army, and if he was captured alive, it might be more beneficial to our army, which was a decision made for the sake of the overall situation."

And these two devils wounded soldiers, and asking them to be prisoners will do no good except waste our medical resources.

Personally, I have a bitter enmity with the Japanese, and anyone who enters China with weapons is my enemy, and I will kill them at all costs! ”