The headquarters of the Japanese Navy Special Marine Corps in Shanghai, located at the northwest corner of the intersection of North Sichuan Road and Dongjiangwan Road, covers an area of more than 6,000 square meters.

In the early days of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in Shanghai on August 13, the 87th and 88th Divisions once attacked here, but at that time, because the buildings here were extremely solid and the firepower of the attacking troops was insufficient, they could not be broken repeatedly, and finally returned in vain.

Because it had suffered losses before, this time the 88th Division did not rush to attack after re-encircling the Japanese headquarters. After Sun Yuanliang and Bai Fei discussed for a while, they immediately ordered the troops to send about 1,500 soldiers to deploy around the Japanese headquarters. The rest of the people were arranged to the east of Duolun Road, Shanyin Road and south of Hongkou Park to form a defensive posture to the outside world. As soon as the defensive line was built, the Japanese troops on the periphery of the headquarters soon began to rush towards the headquarters from these three directions.

It turned out that after the Japanese headquarters was surrounded, the Japanese troops in the headquarters were anxious like ants on a hot pot, and the commander Okawauchi kept shouting and scolding the defenders for being incompetent, but the matter had come to this point, so he could only order all the officers and soldiers and staff to lean on the building to resist outside, and at the same time telegraphed the Japanese troops on the periphery to immediately move closer to the headquarters, in an attempt to relieve the danger of the headquarters being encircled. Who knew that in this way, it just fell into the plan of the 88th Division to encircle and send reinforcements.

The battle between the two sides soon began, and about 4,000 Japanese troops were transferred from Yujingpu, Linping Road, Ouyang Road and other directions, and frantically charged towards the outlying positions of the 88th Division. At this time, the two sides exchanged offense and defense, and Bai Fei immediately asked people to bring Gatling to assist in the defense. At the Sida intersection, the terrifying metal storm in Gatling caused more than 80% of the 900 Japanese soldiers who came to the rescue to lose more than 80%, and even the commander of the team was smashed to pieces. In the direction of Hongkou Park, Zhu Chiqin, commander of the 262nd Brigade, led a regiment, and with the cooperation of Xu Peigen, chief of staff of the 87th Division, they also quickly cleared the Japanese reinforcements around the park.

At this time, in the course of the Japanese attack on Duolun Road and Changchun Road, after receiving the situation in the other two directions, the commander and governor could not do anything, so he immediately led about 1,800 soldiers to retreat to the east of the Shajing Port waterway, intending to rely on the river to hold on.

Sun Yuanliang, who got the news, was very happy, and felt that since the Japanese army had retreated, he planned to order the team to turn their guns and besiege the headquarters of the Japanese marines instead.

Bai Fei thought for a while and said: "The overall building of the Japanese headquarters is like a big pillbox, we are now short of firepower, I am afraid that we will not be able to capture it in a short period of time, and it is very likely that we will suffer heavy losses." I think Brother Sun, you should let the troops continue to move forward, and hurry up to clear the Japanese troops in Hongkou. Anyway, now the Japanese army headquarters is surrounded like an iron bucket, unless they fly with wings, sooner or later it will be the end of destruction. ”

Sun Yuanliang originally planned to capture the Japanese headquarters and monopolize this great achievement. At this time, hearing Bai Fei say this, he had to dispel this idea. He ordered the troops to continue to the east and clear the remnants of the enemy around Ouyang Road. Half an hour later, in the area west of Shajing Port and east of Yujingpu, except for the headquarters of the Japanese Marine Corps, there were no Japanese soldiers in the rest of the place.

Just as the 88th Division was cleaning up the remnants of the Japanese army in the recovered area, good news also came from the 87th Division. According to the source, most of the 87th Division, led by Wang Jingjiu himself, has recovered the north and south of Chifeng Road and the surrounding area of Tongji University; Together with Song Xilian's 36th Division and the Tax Police Regiment, they annihilated the Japanese defenders on both sides of the Yangshupu Port Waterway in one fell swoop.

Sun Yuanliang immediately asked people to turn out the map, looked at it, and couldn't help but clap his hands and say, "Great!" Now that the Japanese army has been confined to a narrow area, and there is no way to go in the other three directions except to flee south, it seems that we will be able to recover Hongkou, Yangpu and other places tonight. After speaking, Sun Yuanliang immediately ordered the troops to continue to advance eastward and forcibly cross the Shajing Port waterway.

The waterway of Shajing Port is only about ten meters wide, and now the Japanese army has suffered repeated losses, but it has to defend a defense line about 5 kilometers long when the soldiers are already seriously insufficient. With the cooperation of artillery and rockets of the Protector Army, the officers and men of the 88th Division quickly found a breakthrough, crossed the Shajing Port River from the area of Siping Road, and then went all the way to the north, forming a front and rear attack with the 87th and 36th Divisions on the periphery, and the Japanese Dalian Road defense line was quickly broken.

The remnants of the Japanese army knew that the general trend was gone, and they had no intention of fighting, so they fled to the south in a hurry. The attacking Chinese army was overwhelmed, quickly squeezing about 2,500 Japanese troops into a narrow triangular area south of Changyang Road and west of Dalian Road.

Since this place is close to the Huangpu River, during the pursuit, the Japanese ships on the river suddenly opened fire, although there was no accuracy in the night, but a few shots still brought casualties to at least 200 Chinese soldiers, in order to avoid the casualties expanded, the pursuing troops had to stop.

Seeing that the remnants of the Japanese army were in front of him, but the pursuing Chinese army could not advance, if they were let go like this, they were really a little unwilling, so Sun Yuanliang and the rest of the ministers gathered together to discuss whether there was any other good way. Bai Fei suggested on the side: "Since they can fire at us, we can also fire at them, the area where the Japanese army is located is now small, why don't we give him a covered artillery bombardment, so that they can also taste the taste of shells, but the artillery is not accurate at night, everyone must be prepared to waste ammunition." ”

When everyone heard this, they all said that it was a good idea, and as for wasting shells, they did not think about it at all. So they gathered more than 60 cannons of different calibers of several troops, plus 24 heavy artillery pieces of the Protector Army, and surrounded the hiding area of the Japanese army and fired artillery into it.

All of a sudden, the sound of artillery shells roaring and the tsunami, and nearly 90 guns of different sizes firing together from different directions, the formation was also quite shocking. The shells rained down on the area east of Changyang Road, killing and wounding the Japanese troops hiding in the middle of it. A few of them even landed on the deck of the Sino-Japanese ships in the Huangpu River, and although they did not cause serious damage to the ships, they still startled the Japanese troops on board, so they immediately lifted anchor and moved away from the river bank.

Half an hour later, more than 2,000 shells of various types had fallen on the Japanese army's hiding area, and at this time, there was no complete building in sight from the south of Changyang Road to the Huangpu River.

Sun Yuanliang looked through the binoculars and said with a smile: "It seems that the Japanese soldiers are more auspicious, and I see that the shelling is almost over, should we hurry back, the Japanese headquarters has not yet taken it." ”

The crowd then ordered the shelling to stop, and Song Xilian's 36th Division and Sun Liren's Tax Police Regiment immediately organized garrisons along the river. Bai Fei also summoned the Protector Army, which was assisted by various units, to return to the team, and then went to the Japanese headquarters on the North Sichuan Road with Sun Yuanliang and Wang Jingjiu.

On the way, Wang Jingjiu admired Bai Fei a lot, and kept saying that if it weren't for your Protector Army coming to help attack the fortifications, I don't know how many brothers would be killed or wounded in the 87th Division at the Japanese pillbox firepower points tonight...

Sun Yuanliang said proudly on the side: "Brother Youping (Wang Jingjiu), why don't you thank me, if I hadn't begged Bai Lai to pull Brother Bai to help, how could we have such smooth sailing in Hongkou and other places this time, if there is no help from the Protector Army, we are likely to end up with heavy casualties among our brothers, and you and I will be removed from office and investigated, don't you say?" ”

Wang Jingjiu nodded and said, "That's right, if I have the chance, I must set the table and drink to thank Brother Bai." ”

Bai Fei was polite again and again, and you boasted and talked to them a few words. After chatting and chatting, he talked about the issue of attacking the Japanese headquarters, and Sun Yuanliang said to Bai Fei: "Brother, I will attack the Japanese headquarters in a while, and I will rely on your firepower support." He looked at his watch and said: "I hope to overcome it quickly, it is now more than four o'clock, I am afraid that if it is delayed any longer, as soon as the Japanese planes arrive at dawn, things will be even more difficult." ”

Bai Feixin said that even if the Japanese plane came, I would not be afraid of it. But he said: "Brother Sun, don't worry, I know what to do." ”

Everyone soon arrived near North Sichuan Road, at this time the sky was gray and began to shine, Bai Fei immediately ordered Wu Dazhong to gather the artillery, taking advantage of the gap between the defense of the Japanese army and the 87th and 88th divisions of the attacking troops inside the building, let people carry RPGs around the building, aiming at the outer wall of the first floor and bombarding continuously, and soon the entire wall of the first floor was hit by armor-piercing bullets, and was hit with thousands of holes.

Bai Fei couldn't help but be a little speechless, originally he planned to use armor-piercing shells to concentrate on attacking the first floor of the building, and when the first floor was rotten, the top would naturally collapse and directly bury the Japanese soldiers inside. Unexpectedly, more than 200 armor-piercing shells were fired, and the building still did not collapse.

Wang Weiguo, who was standing beside Bai Fei, knew what he thought, and after taking a closer look, he came back and said to Bai Fei: "Tuanzao, this building has built a lot of cylindrical reinforced concrete support piles in the middle of the wall, if you want to blow up the building, you have to find a way from them." ”

When Bai Fei heard this, he immediately went with him to check, and sure enough, in the middle of the wall of the Japanese headquarters building, which was full of holes, there were cylindrical cement piers with a diameter of 70 centimeters and a thickness of 70 centimeters every 10 meters or so.

Bai Fei scolded, let people hold RPGs and continue to shoot at those cement piers, and at the same time asked Wu Dazhong to find a way to lay down the 24 heavy guns and fire at the first floor of the building together, after a blow, as the cement piers used for support became less and less, only to hear a boom, smoke and dust, and the building of the headquarters of the Japanese Marine Corps, which was known for its solidity, finally collapsed.