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Looking at the stack of battle reports that came up, Xu Rui's face was a little solemn.

In the night battle, the devils launched no less than ten fierce attacks on the defense line of the second regiment of the patrol battalion from three directions, of which the northern defense line guarded by the third battalion of the second regiment suffered more than 20 fierce attacks by the devils, and after a night of fierce fighting, the casualties of the second regiment were already very considerable, especially the third battalion, which had even suffered more than half of the casualties.

If Xu Rui hadn't asked Wu Liang to take the guard company over in advance, the northern defense line might have been lost.

Although Xu Rui had been mentally prepared for this, when he really saw these cold numbers, his heart was still inexplicably tight, it was just one night! During the day today, I am afraid that the situation will be even worse than last night, because after dawn the air force of the little devils can also be put into battle.

At this moment, Xu Rui really felt a lot of pressure.

Even so, the patrol camp and Xu Rui have no way to retreat, and this battle must be fought.

The situation was such that if only one of the three directions was broken through, the defense line of the 2nd Regiment would immediately collapse on the entire front.

Once the defense line of the Second Regiment collapsed, there would be no way to sing this well-prepared drama, and at that time, in order to prevent the more than 4,000 officers and soldiers of the First Regiment and the Second Regiment plus more than 3,000 veterans of the National Army in the four warehouses from dying in vain, they could only play the hole card of the Broadway Building in advance, which would inevitably affect the subsequent battles.

Without this hole card from Broadway, the rest of the battle would not be easy.

After all, in half a month at most, the 7th and 20th Divisions of the little devils will arrive in Shanghai.

In view of the current situation in Shanghai, it would be wishful thinking for the Songhu Military Sub-district to withstand the attack of the two fully manned permanent divisions of the little devils; after all, this is not Dameishan, but Shanghai, and after all, Shanghai is a restricted area, and the mass base is completely incomparable with that of the Dameishan base area.

Therefore, this battle must be continued.

Leng Tiefeng sat next to him and wiped his gun, and when he saw the expression on Xu Rui's face, he proposed: "Old Xu, if you don't transfer a team from the wolf's tooth, I dare to guarantee that you won't be exposed." ”

If there is a wolf tooth squad to flesh out the northern defense, then it will be absolutely fine.

There is absolutely no doubt about the power of the wolf's fangs in jungle terrain or urban terrain.

Xu Rui shook his head resolutely and said, "No, the wolf tooth brigade is a trump card, and you can't move lightly until the end!" What's more, there's an even more important task waiting for you, so absolutely not! ”

Leng Tiefeng said: "Then what are you going to do?" With only one regiment of the second regiment, it is simply wishful thinking to withstand the joint attack of the two infantry wings of the devil and the two infantry brigades of the Marine Corps! Last night, because it was dark, the devil's air force could not participate in the battle, so it was able to hold on, but today during the day, it will definitely not be able to withstand it. ”

What Leng Tiefeng said is also the truth, even if the officers and soldiers of the Second Regiment are all veterans from the Battle of Songhu, and even if Xu Rui ordered arms worth 50 million US dollars from the United States through the David Arms Trading Company, the Second Regiment only has more than 2,000 people after all, while there are more than 10,000 devils on the opposite side.

Moreover, after daylight, the planes of the little devils will also participate in the battle, and the situation will be even worse.

Xu Rui thought for a while and said, "It's really not good, just let the first regiment leave one battalion to monitor the four lines of warehouses, and then enrich the other two battalions to the defense line of the second regiment." ”

If you add two battalions of a regiment, the strength of the patrol battalion is five battalions, almost 4,000 men! In this way, although the devil is still at an absolute disadvantage in terms of strength, at least the gap is not so big, and considering that this is a street battle, the heavy equipment of the little devil is subject to the narrow roadway terrain, and it can't be used, so this battle has to be fought.

After all, Xu Rui didn't ask the first and second regiments to be able to defeat the Ninth Division, they only needed to withstand it for a few days!

Leng Tiefeng shook his head and said: "But this is only the first day, it's just the first day, you have to transfer troops from the first regiment to enrich the defense line of the second regiment, what will you do later?" ”

"Don't worry about it for now, let's get through the first day first." Xu Rui said in a deep voice, "In short, no matter what, I have to resist the first three axes of the little devil, my intuition tells me that as long as I resist the first three axes of the little devil, it will be a high probability event to turn into a stalemate, after all, it is impossible for the little devil to maintain such a high intensity of consumption." ”

"Okay then." Leng Tiefeng didn't say anything more.

Xu Rui immediately sent sweet potatoes to Shi Changqing, the commander of the first regiment, and gave an urgent order, ordering the first regiment to immediately dispatch two main battalions to the second regiment to coordinate defense, although Shi Changqing was a little unhappy in his heart, as a commander of the army, no one wanted his soldiers to be transferred to other troops, but Shi Changqing still resolutely carried out the order.

At 6 o'clock in the morning, when the sky had just brightened, two bomber squadrons of the Third Flying Corps of the Central China Squadron and two bomber squadrons of the naval air force that had taken off from the Kaga aircraft carrier flew to Hongkou one after another.

Moreover, most of the bombs dropped by the little devils are 20-kilogram bombs, and their destructive power is also very limited.

However, the appearance of the little devil air force still had a very serious impact on the battlefield situation, especially the morale of the Chinese defenders.

The battlefield situation began to tilt sharply towards the devils.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the Ishihara Brigade, which belonged to the 19th Infantry Wing, even broke through the defense line of the 2nd Regiment and 3rd Battalion at one point, and was about to cut through the defense line of the Gansu Road.

Fortunately, at this time, a regiment of reinforcements arrived.

After the regiment and battalion were put into battle, the situation on the Gansu road was immediately reversed again, and the Ishihara brigade, which had been exhausted, was quickly defeated in the face of the counter-assault of the regiment and battalion, and not only lost the position that had just arrived, but even vomited out what he had eaten last night.

The first regiment and one battalion took advantage of the victory to pursue, and once advanced the battle line to the vicinity of the North Railway Station, forcing the people to see that Xiuzo hurriedly ordered the other two infantry battalions of the 19th Infantry Wing to shrink back, and finally forced the 1st Regiment and 1st Battalion to retreat, but in this way, the 19th Infantry Wing lost the positions it had captured before.

That is to say, after a busy day and night, the battle line returned to before the war.

In the other two directions, too, after the arrival of reinforcements from a regiment on the battlefield, neither the 36th Infantry Wing nor the two infantry battalions of the Marine Corps were able to make a breakthrough.

Therefore, after dark, the division headquarters of the 9th Division issued a new combat order, and the combat goal changed from an all-out attack to a limited attack, maintaining a high-pressure posture against the patrol camp, obviously Yoshizumi Ryosuke had realized that it was impossible to swallow the main force of the besieged patrol camp in one bite, or the price was unacceptable!

Therefore, Yoshizumi Ryosuke decisively changed his tactics to a long-term siege.

Xu Rui's intuition is right, the little devil really can't withstand the intense consumption for a long time!

As a result, at the intersection of the North Tibet Road, the Rehe Road, the Gansu Road, the Xinjiang Road, and other intersections, there was a spectacle of the officers and men of the Chinese and Japanese armies desperately building fortifications there; in some places, the distance between the two sides was even less than 50 meters away, but they tacitly agreed not to shoot at them, but to wait for the fortifications to be built before they started.

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Late at night, the headquarters of the 9th Division.

Kagesa Zhenzhao finished the phone call and hurried back to the war room.

Kagesa had just gone to the communications office next door to talk to the Broadway Building.

Obviously, the patrol battalion left behind in the concession wanted to reopen the new garbage bridge, even if the new garbage bridge was blown up, they must control the broken bridge, and then it would be possible to repair the bridge.

Only when the bridge is repaired can it be possible to bring back the main force trapped on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek.

Kagezo Zhenzhao learned from the phone that the attack on the Broadway building by the remaining troops of the patrol battalion was very fierce, but what the old devil didn't know was that the patrol battalion was actually only a cannon fodder unit that was put into attack, but because the officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion set up heavy machine guns behind them, those cannon fodder could only rush forward with their lives.

Those cannon fodder actually wanted to surrender, but the Broadway building opposite didn't let it at all, after some of the cannon fodder in the initial surrender was killed, the remaining cannon fodder was desperate, and began to rush forward in batches of "don't die", so judging from the scene, the attacks of these cannon fodder really have a fearless spirit of "seeing death as home".

These are the messages that Kagesa Zhenzhao got through the eyeliner he secretly laid out.

Yoshizumi Ryosuke's gaze was still on the big map, and he asked without raising his head, "Kagesa-kun, there's nothing wrong with the Broadway Building, right?" ”

"No problem." "The Sixing Warehouse and a few blocks on the other side of the Suzhou Creek are still firmly in the hands of the Broadway Building, and the two lifelines of Sichuan Road and Bridge and Erbaidu Bridge have always been unimpeded. ”

"Yo Si." Yoshizumi Ryosuke nodded happily, "In that case, there will be no problem." ”

"Hello." Ying Zuozhen Zhao paused and said, "As long as a few blocks on the south bank of Suzhou Creek are not lost, the patrol camp on the north bank will not get a grain of rice or a bullet from the concession!" On the contrary, as long as the Xichuan Road Bridge and Erbaidu Bridge remain unblocked, our supplies can be continuously delivered to the Broadway Building. ”

"And the defenders of the Four Lines Warehouse." Yoshizumi Ryosuke said to Kagesa Zhenzhao again, "Kagesa-kun, you must make good contact with the navy, and let the navy dispatch gunboats from Suzhou Creek to provide enough supplies to the troops holding on to the Sixing warehouse, they have been holding on to the Sixing warehouse for a day, and the consumption must be very large." ”

"Hello." Kagesazhen paused and said, "This is the way to contact the navy. ”

"Go ahead." Yoshizumi Ryosuke waved his hand, his eyes fell on the map again, and he began to study the battle situation, and Kagesa Zhenaki turned around and left.