Japanese commander Kenkichi Ueda mobilized more than 20,000 troops of the 9th Division and the main force of the 24th Brigade to launch a fierce bombardment of planes, tanks, and artillery on the front line of the connection point between Jiangwan and Fumohama.

Fujiwara Hiroshi and his wing commander received General Ueda Kenkichi and charged the forward positions of the 262nd and 264th Brigades of the Fifth Army's Zhang Zhizhong Division.

Toyohide Yamada, chief of staff of the wing, followed closely by Fujiwara Hiroshi's side, and saw that the position of the Fifth Army was under continuous artillery fire and the position was filled with gunsmoke and flames, not only said: "Fujiwara Daisa, our Imperial Japanese Army is in Shanghai, and this is the first time that such a fierce attack has been launched on the position of China. ”

"Yanxi, as long as we break through the forward position of the Fifth Army in China, my wing will drive straight in, and the whole of Shanghai will be occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army."

"Yes, this goal will definitely be achieved, as long as Shanghai is captured, the warriors of the Imperial Japanese Army will do whatever they want in this eastern metropolis to meet all the needs of the soldiers."

"What Yamada-kun said is very reasonable, our wing came to Shanghai, has been deployed in the suburbs, and the soldiers have suffered from camping, I believe that in less than an hour, we will become the master of Shanghai, hahaha."

The two commanders of the Fujiwara Wing, with command knives in hand, looked at the troops that were steadily advancing, and their minds were no longer thinking about how to fight the Shina army, but about to break through the position, destroy the defenders, and the troops crossed the position and strode into the beautiful scenery of the city.

This time, Commander Kenkichi Ueda can be said to have devoted all his forces to the tactic of bombing first and then attacking our forward positions with all the planes, ships, artillery, and tanks that can be mobilized in Shanghai and the surrounding areas.

Its purpose was to first destroy the forward defensive positions of the Chinese troops, eliminate the main forces of the Chinese army, provide fire support for the ground troops, and remove all obstacles to the advance of the urban area in the course of repeated bombing and artillery bombardment.

The 528th Regiment of the 262nd Brigade of the 88th Division, which was sticking to the forward position of Miaohang, and the engineer battalion at the forefront, the soldiers fought several battles with the enemy for positions, and the troops suffered heavy casualties.

The battle of blocking the positions was extremely fierce, and the enemy's planes, artillery, and tanks attacked with the most intense firepower, and sometimes hundreds of bombs fell on the positions in 10 minutes, and the trenches dug in the farmland of the forward positions were destroyed again and again.

Before the wounded soldiers could move to the rear, they were again bombarded by enemy planes, artillery, and tanks.

With each bombardment, the position would burst into clouds of smoke, and in the interval between the bombings, the fortifications that had been quickly repaired were destroyed again.

The citizens of Shanghai took the initiative to run to the frontline positions to cooperate with the troops to repair the fortifications, although they had no weapons and could not fight to the death with the enemy's swords and guns, but their blood was sprinkled on the positions at the same time as the soldiers.

The Japanese troops attacking on the ground, covered by powerful heavy firepower, launched attacks again and again, but were repulsed by the indomitable fire of our troops.

The fighting eased slightly, and the soldiers of the 12th Company of the 528th Regiment of the 262nd Brigade leaned on the trenches to take advantage of the short time that their lives would be lost at any time.

For the soldiers who survived the war, who had experienced the baptism of blood and fire, the mentality at this time was not as panicked as at the beginning when they heard the enemy's planes, artillery, and tanks bombing their positions.

Wan Yu, the commander of the Twelfth Company, came over and scolded in a rough voice: "You bastards who are still alive, do you know if you can still save your life in the next round of attack by the enemy?" Hurry up and give me reinforcements. ”

"Company Commander Wan, we don't know if we can live, as long as you live."

", am I steel? Hmph, it's just steel and iron bones, and they are bombarded by the planes, artillery, and tanks of the little devils, and they can't even find a piece of iron. ”

Wan Yu squatted down as he spoke, snatched the butt of the cigarette from a soldier's hand, put it in his mouth and took two puffs and scolded: "What kind of cigarette do you smoke, why does it smell like this?" ”

"Hahaha, we have been holding our positions for several days, and the tobacco leaves we brought have long been smoked, and what you just smoked was the messy leaves and hairy grass you picked up from the ground, of course, you can't catch up with the proper tobacco leaves."

"Aren't you ruining yourselves? Smoking this thing is not only choking, but the mouth is bitter, and the spicy throat can't speak, you still have to endure it, don't smoke it anymore. ”

"Commander Wan, let's just take this mouthful, while we are not dead, as long as we can smoke anything, if we come up to smoke and addict people to death, it is better to smoke a few puffs, once this battle is still alive, and then smoke good tobacco leaves, there is a good comparison, isn't it also a kind of enjoyment?"

Wan Yu looked at the brothers beside him, shook his head and said with a wry smile: "I hope we can all live after this battle, when I buy the best tobacco leaves in Shanghai, I care if you have enough, no, Lao Tzu will give you two Hade Gates each, how about it, your Wan Company Commander is still interesting enough, right?" ”

Li Niu, the squad leader of the third squad of the Twelfth Company, came to Wan Yu's side, looked at the surrounding soldiers and shouted: "Do you want to hear about the scenery of our company commander when he drove to the front line?" ”

The soldiers fought brutally and fiercely with the enemy, and the surviving soldiers were already under great psychological pressure, and when they heard Li Niu's squad leader ask, their emotions were mobilized one by one, and they shouted casually: "I want to listen, please tell our brothers who are still alive about you." ”

"Don't make a fuss, what's there to say, didn't you all do what you want to do when you go to the battlefield?"

"Company Commander Wan, just tell your brothers, if we fight with the Japanese army again, we may not have the order to listen to you."

Hearing what the soldiers said so sadly, the company commander of Wan Yu not only squatted down to tell the scene when he was about to go to the battlefield, but at this time, the sunlight reflected on his face through the smoke of gunpowder floating in the position, the brilliance on his face was resolute and poignant.

His company received an order that it could go to the Zhabei front at any time, and Wan Yu didn't know if he could come back alive after this trip, so he asked the battalion commander for leave and went home.

When he stepped into the house and saw his parents and little sister sitting in the living room, everyone's faces were gloomy, and they not only raised their voices and shouted: "Dad, Mom, my son specially asked for leave to come back to see your second elder." ”

"Brother, aren't your troops going to war? How can you still leave the army? You're not going to sneak back and become a deserter, are you? ”

"Ying'er, don't you know what kind of person your brother is? How can you talk to your brother like that? ”

Wan Ying looked at her father and said unhappily: "Dad, how can I say that my brother can't say a few words?" Is it because he is now a small company commander, as if he will suppress me when he is glorifying his ancestors? Hmph, it's biased towards your son. ”

"Yu'er, are you going to war?" Wan Yu's father ignored the recent anti-Japanese and radical baby daughter babbling, and looked at Wan Yu and asked uneasily.