Chapter 245: The Great Fire (10)

The Jisfeier Road is the result of the cross-border construction of the road by the Ministry of Industry and Bureau, and it is a serious violation of the concession treaty, because the domestic political situation in China was turbulent at that time, and the local government did not pursue this obvious violation of national sovereignty for various interests.

With regard to the dispute over the right to manage the cross-border road, several governments opted for peaceful negotiations, which dragged on until the end of the 39th year. The area of No. 76 Jisfeier Road, in a legal sense, was located in the Fahua District of western Shanghai at that time, and should have been under the jurisdiction of the Shanghai Special Municipal Government of Wang Puppet at this time.

After the Wang puppet regime came to power, with the support and instigation of the Japanese, the spies of No. 76 and the Wang puppet police agency had dozens of small-scale armed clashes with the Ministry of Industry and Bureaus stationed on the cross-border road for the sake of police power in this area. During this period, he killed and injured more than a dozen Chinese arresters in India and the Concession, snatched the guns and ammunition of the police officers on duty, and even gathered a crowd to smash the police station set up on Wuding Road in the Jing'an Arrest Room of the Ministry of Industry Bureau.

Historically, because the war in Europe had broken out at that time, the armed forces of the concession were transferred to Southeast Asia in large quantities, and the morale of the people in the concession was fluctuating, and the Ministry of Industry had no choice but to compromise with Wang Puppet and cede half of the jurisdiction over the cross-border section. Wang Puppet and the concession authorities sent personnel to form a joint special police team to deal with police work on cross-border roads. In fact, at this time, the management of the cross-border road construction area has basically fallen into the hands of No. 76 and the Wang Puppet Special City Government.

In the name of government requisition, they bought a large area of bungalows and villas near No. 76 at a very small price or even occupied them free of charge, and after driving out the original owners and tenants, Li Shiqun, Ding Mocun and others distributed them to their spy leaders and their families according to the size and rank of the houses. This was really a normal thing in Shanghai, a lonely island at that time, and most of the homeowners were wealthy businessmen with heads and faces and families in Shanghai, singing and dancing every day, and they were really like porcelain, so most of them could only consider themselves unlucky, how could they dare to entangle with these traitors and lackeys with Hinomaru printed on their buttocks. There are also some landlords who are government officials, and they have already dragged their families to Chongqing, accepting these people's real estate, and the Wang puppet government has no psychological pressure.

"From this junction all the way west to Yidingpan Road, all the buildings on both sides are to be searched." The speaker was Major Le Pen, commander of the Tay Son (Vietnamese) Infantry Battalion of the French Foreign Legion, a professional soldier with a tough personality, whose credo in life was to take the initiative to attack, and from this point of view Le Pen did not look like a pure Frenchman at all, in fact, this major did have a quarter of Italian and a quarter of Moroccan ancestry.

The Xishan Battalion is a large infantry battalion with five infantry companies and one machine gun company, with a total strength of 820 men. At this moment, the officers and men of the Foreign Legion under Le Pen were in high spirits and their morale was high, because before leaving, the French Consul General in Shanghai, Occi, personally promised that the officers and soldiers who participated in this operation would not only receive double salaries this month, but also might receive a generous bonus afterwards.

This money was taken out by the French Concession Board of Directors, and this group of people had long hated the scum of No. 76, and if the Foreign Legion could help the French Concession completely solve this trouble this time, the directors were willing to take 100,000 French francs out to reward all the officers and soldiers who participated in the war. At this time, because of Xu Jun's occupation policy, the franc did not depreciate as quickly as in history, and at this exchange rate, this is almost about 20,000 US dollars, which is enough for this group of guys from the foreign army to play with their lives.

Of course, this money will not be divided evenly among everyone's heads, but will be put into the public fund of the West Hill Battalion, which is used to ensure the veterans' discharge and disability benefits, because the future of everyone is at stake, and they can't help but not fight hard.

"All the dwellings? Sir, we may not have enough troops. Captain Rafael, Operational Staff Officer, reminded.

"Isn't there an accurate list of addresses on the information given by the Japanese? They went from house to house to search according to the addresses on the list. Major Rowre, the deputy battalion commander, suggested.

"What if someone hides in the consul's house, the order is not to leave out any criminals on the list." Le Pen knocked on the fender of the Renault sedan with a horsewhip.

"Okay, you're the chief, then give the order." Roval spread his hands and said he didn't care.

"How much time is there until the offensive begins?" Le Pen lowered her head and pulled up her sleeve.

"According to the plan, it should have started by now." Roval took off his white barrel hat and scratched his bare scalp as he spoke.

Before the deputy battalion commander's words fell, a series of rhythmic dull explosions suddenly sounded in the distance, which was obviously not something that ordinary firearms could emit.

"It's a machine gun, and the Germans are really punctual!" Raphael excitedly stood in the back seat of the car, leaning on the pergola and looking in the direction of the gunfire, of course, from this position there was nothing to see.

"Punctuality is a good habit, so let's start on our side too, for the sake of France!" Le Pen drew the command knife at her waist.

"For France!" Several officers chimed in.

"Car Four, go kill the corner tower in the west!" Captain Help lowered his binoculars and shouted loudly by holding down the bakelite microphone hanging under the headphones.

"Number Four understands!" The answer in the headset was clear and loud, and then a 222 armored vehicle began to turn and drive along the road to the west, looking for a suitable firing position for machine gun fire.

The gate of No. 76 is connected to the gatehouse with the corner cornice, which has become full of holes at this time, and a round of six KK30 machine guns is fired, not to mention an ordinary wooden door, even if it is replaced by an iron door, I am afraid that it will not be able to bear it.

The KK30 20-mm cannon on the 222 armored car uses a 20-round magazine, and it is said that a new version has been developed in Germany that can use a soft cartridge belt, using a 50-round box to feed the ammunition, and you can imagine what a terrifying suppressive fire will be formed when this thing is fired continuously.

The German army used the 20-round cannon magazine, there are also its technical reasons, the general 20 cannon barrel diameter is relatively large, the pipe wall is also relatively thin, at that time, considering that after continuous firing, the ammunition will have an ablative effect on the barrel, after 20 rounds of continuous firing, you can use the gap between the replacement magazines to naturally cool the barrel.

Usually, German armored units rarely use machine guns to fire continuously, because when the gun is fired continuously, the barrel temperature will rise rapidly, and if the barrel is deformed due to uneven cooling, the gun will be scrapped. Since the country has begun to equip the 50-round cartridge box, this proves that there has been a new breakthrough in the technology and material of the barrel, which can withstand higher temperatures and chamber pressure than before. However, for the armored reconnaissance platoon of the Tomahawk brigade, the replacement of new equipment is still a distant thing.

As soon as the blockade was laid, the street was suddenly devoid of pedestrian traffic. The roadside vendors around No. 76 were actually secret sentry posts arranged by the secret service headquarters, and they were the first to notice that the situation was abnormal, but because the person in charge was having a meeting in the hall inside at this time, the small agents outside were also a little uncertain for a while, and as a result, they lost the last chance to ventilate and alarm No. 76.

By the time the Germans and the British reached Gate 76, they wanted to report the news, but it was too late. When the German SS began to block the road in front of Gate 76, a vendor selling sweet potatoes suddenly took out a southern pistol from his arms and wanted to arm himself to stop it.

As a result, before he could level his gun, he was already crushed to the ground by four or five of his companions who rushed forward. These people entered the seventy-sixth just to eat a mouthful, and the money they received every month was not enough for them to sell their lives, and some people wanted to find death as their own business, but don't involve so many colleagues to die together.

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