Yoshizumi Ryosuke changed his tactics and switched from a rapid attack to a long-term siege, and the battlefield north of Suzhou fell silent for a while, with only occasional small street battles breaking out in some streets and alleys, but on the south bank of Suzhou Creek, the battle around the lifelines of communication between the two sides began to become unprecedentedly fierce. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

There are two main battlefields on the south bank of Suzhou Creek, one is in the new garbage bridge, and the other is in the Sichuan road bridge.

On the battlefield of the new garbage bridge, the patrol battalion tried to reopen the new garbage bridge, even if the new garbage bridge has been blown up, but the iron frame of the bridge is still there, so as long as the new garbage bridge can be controlled and the wooden planks are laid, all kinds of military supplies can be transported to the north bank, and the personnel trapped on the north bank can also be withdrawn.

On the Sichuan Road and Bridge battlefield, the patrol battalion hopes to cut off the lifeline of the Broadway Building, because as long as the Sichuan Road and Bridge and Erbaidu Road and Bridge are cut off, the first team of spies who stick to the Broadway Building south of the new garbage bridge will immediately become a lone army, or it will collapse in three or five days!

It's a race against time, so it's unprecedentedly tragic.

Kiyoshi Hasegawa and the officers and men of the Oniko Navy aboard the destroyer Izumo had the privilege of witnessing the fierce battle south of the Nishirado Road Bridge up close.

Hasegawa Kiyoshi didn't even need to use binoculars, he could clearly see with just a pair of naked eyes that the officers and men of the patrol battalion were like ant colonies out foraging, rushing forward in rows, and then falling under the guns of the heavy machine guns in the Broadway building in rows, and after a while, the patrol camp rushed forward again in rows.

From early morning to evening, the four main streets used by the patrol camp as attack routes, Huangputan Road, Yuanmingyuan Road, Museum Road, and Sichuan Road, were already covered with the corpses of the patrol soldiers, and the blood flowing from the patrol soldiers almost stained the four streets and the alleys between them.

Standing on the bridge of the Izumo, Hasegawa Kiyoshi could smell the strong smell of blood in the air, and after dark, Hasegawa Kiyoshi was reluctant to leave the bridge porthole for a long time, even though the direction of Erbaidu Road on the opposite side was already pitch black, and he couldn't see anything, Hasegawa Kiyoshi was still reluctant to leave.

On the one hand, Hasegawa Kiyoshi was shocked by the momentum of "seeing death as home" displayed by the patrol camp.

But on the other hand, Hasegawa Kiyoshi also began to have an inexplicable respect for the Broadway Building in Suzhou Henan, and at the same time began to feel worried about the Broadway Building! Hasegawa Kiyoshi felt that the Japanese Navy had to do something for the Broadway Special Service Brigade that was holding on to the south bank of the Suzhou Creek.

In the final analysis, these Chinese are working for the Empire's Greater East Asian Holy War.

At that moment, Hasegawa Kiyoshi ordered his adjutant to take out all the flares in stock, and shoot a few flares every once in a while, so that the flares could guide the ship's guns to fire accurately, and in addition, Hasegawa Kiyoshi also ordered the sailors of the Third Fleet to organize and temporarily form a task force, ignoring the warnings of the concession authorities, and brazenly entering the concession.

Compared with the Japanese Army, the Japanese Navy is more proud and less interested in the West.

And the Japanese Navy does have reasons for pride, not only because the total tonnage of the Japanese Navy ranks third in the world, but also because the comprehensive strength of the Japanese Navy ranks second in the world.

If it weren't for the fact that Heihachiro Togo commanded the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy to defeat the Russian Pacific Fleet in the naval battle of the Tsushima Strait, thus blocking the sea route, the Japanese Army would have been wishful thinking to win the Russo-Japanese War, so the Japanese Navy's psychological superiority in the face of the West was stronger than that of the Japanese Army.

The military's sense of psychological superiority, or self-confidence, is always fought on the battlefield.

For example, the confidence of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in later generations came from the head-on confrontation with the fifteen-nation coalition led by the US army on the Korean battlefield!

Hasegawa Kiyoshi ignored the warning of the Ministry of Industry of the Concession and brazenly sent marines into the concession, but Hasegawa Kiyoshi did not go too far, but only ordered the Marines to assist the Broadway Building in defending the Erbaidu Road Bridge and Sichuan Road and Bridge, and ensure that these two life lines of communication were not cut off by the patrol camp.

Hasegawa Kiyoshi doesn't know, he's making a fool!

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Let's not talk about Hasegawa Kiyoshi first, and then let's talk about the frontal hard shoulder of the Broadway building and the patrol camp.

The little devil didn't know that the patrol battalion that launched a death charge at the Sichuan Road and Bridge and Erbaidu Road and Bridge positions was not a real patrol camp soldier, but just cannon fodder captured by the patrol camp! But it must be admitted that these cannon fodder because they have no choice, the charge launched in despair is still very heroic, absolutely shocking!

Just like in the Battle of Songhu, the charge launched by the Gui Army's ace Steel Seventh Army, more than 10,000 daredevils, bare-chested, shoulder-carrying machetes, shouting slogans, and marching forward in a uniform step, that kind of scene is absolutely shocking, even if the final result is a fiasco as always, but it still gives the little devil a great deterrent.

Because the little devils found out that there are soldiers in China who are more afraid of death than them!

From this, the officers of the devils must have wondered if the conquest of China would be so smooth?

Of course, the charge of these hooligan cannon fodder of the Green Gang cannot be compared with the charge of the Gui Army's ace Steel Seventh Army, but its scene is also very shocking, at least the veterans of the National Army who witnessed this charge again and again at close range were shocked, including the veteran of the Gui Army's ace Steel Seventh Army, Ni Shixiang.

Ni Shixiang was wounded in that unprecedented death-defying charge.

In fact, Ni Shixiang is lucky, more than 10,000 daredevils who launched a decisive charge, more than 9,000 people died on the battlefield in the end, and less than 1,000 people survived, and they were basically disabled.

Unlike other veterans, Ni Shixiang did not get anyone's help, when he was lying on a stretcher and was abandoned, it was he who climbed into the concession with tenacious perseverance! After hiding in the concession, Ni Shixiang did not receive any care, and was lucky to survive by begging on the street.

Therefore, Ni Shixiang's experience is worse and more chilling than other veterans.

However, in Ni Shixiang's thin body, there is a heart that is as hot as magma, and the reason why he has not joined the patrol camp is entirely because no one is looking for him, because there are very few veterans of the Gui Army stranded in Shanghai, and in the whole of Shanghai, almost no one knows that he is a member of the Gui Army Seventh Army.

However, Ni Shixiang has never forgotten that he was once a soldier!

After evening, Ni Shixiang returned to his residence, but his mind was full of the pictures he had seen in the Sichuan Luqiao Battlefield before, the cruel and heroic charging scene, which brought him back to the Songhu battlefield two years ago, and his ears seemed to sound the loud screams of his comrades, as well as the huge popping sound of large-caliber shells exploding.

Ni Shixiang seemed to see that the brothers around him fell one after another, a whole army, from more than 10,000 people at the beginning, and finally only he was left, Ni Shixiang can never forget, when he found that he was the only one left on the entire battlefield, only he was left when he was still charging forward, that unforgettable loneliness and despair.

Thinking of this, Ni Shixiang fell asleep at all, and immediately got up and walked out of the residence.

When he came to the street, Ni Shixiang found that there were very few pedestrians on the street, because of the war, everyone hid back to their homes early, and only a large group of people surrounded the street corner in the distance, who seemed to be listening to the radio.

Hearing the broadcast, Ni Shixiang quickened his pace and walked over there.

When he got closer, Ni Shixiang heard the radio on the telephone pole really ringing.

Ni Shixiang remembered very well that there was no radio installed here, but when he got up this morning, Ni Shixiang suddenly found that there was an additional radio here, and he also deliberately stopped to listen to a radio, and was deeply moved by what Xu Rui said, the life and death of his comrades-in-arms, and how to avoid them because of misfortune and fortune.

Ni Shixiang didn't expect that the radio just sounded in the early morning, and it actually rang again in the evening.

But this time, what was broadcast on the radio was no longer Xu Rui's speech, but the follow-up of the soldiers of the patrol battalion.

"Hello everyone, I am Liang Yixiao, a special reporter of the Songhu Battlefield Broadcasting Station, today, I personally participated in the attack of the patrol battalion on the Sichuan road and bridge position, and I also witnessed the soldiers of the patrol battalion seeing death as home, after coming back, I have been thinking, what kind of force is supporting them, supporting them to rush forward as if they were dead?"

"For the sake of brothers!" Ni Shixiang subconsciously roared, attracting a lot of attention.

Suddenly being looked at by so many people, Ni Shixiang couldn't help but feel a little cramped, and took half a step back, but soon, Ni Shixiang straightened his chest again, and his eyes became extremely resolute, and the people around him seemed to realize that this was a veteran, and there was an extra layer of respect in his eyes when he looked at Ni Shixiang.

On the radio, the female reporter named Liang Yixiao was still talking: "I believe that there are many people who have the same question as me, but I can't answer this question, fortunately, there are many veterans who have personally participated in the war and survived, let's ask them, what do they think in their hearts?" ”

Then, there's a follow-up.

"Hello veteran, what is your surname?"

"My name is Wang Gouyu, a native of Fujin in the Northeast."

"I want to ask, what did you think when you charged the traitor-guarded positions of the Broadway building with your bayonet in your bayonet during the day? Or, what kind of force is supporting you and driving you to rush forward resolutely in the face of the bullets of the dog traitor? ”

"For the sake of brothers!" The veteran's answer was crisp and sharp.

"It's that simple?" The female reporter asked again, "Just for my brother?" ”

"It's as simple as that, just for the sake of the brothers." The veteran Wang Gouyu said a few more words this time, "You know, many of our brothers in the patrol camp are being besieged by devils in the Sixing warehouse, or they will run out of ammunition and food in a few days, so we just want to save them even if we don't want our own lives." ”