The Indian guard of the East Lobby of the Warby Bank ran to the back door of the building with a Lee Enfield rifle to check what was going on, but before he could walk down the steps, a row of bullets flew in front of him.

The Sikh guard showed considerable courage and rushed back to the lobby to alert the manager on duty with a bullet shot in the arm and thigh, and helped the bank staff close the heavy copper-clad door and lock the steel latch before he fell unconscious.

Of course, the guests in the Chinachem Hotel on the fourth floor were also alarmed by the gunshots, most of them were guests who came to attend the welcome ceremony, many of them were government officials or wealthy businessmen and gentry with status and status, but China has been at war for many years, they have already seen more of this kind of scene, and there are so many familiar faces here, everyone is a face-saving figure, so no one shows a nervous appearance, but calmly locks the Spiring lock of the room and closes the blinds facing the street.

"It's Japanese soldiers, the Japanese have entered the concession!" A pseudo-agent Wang observed the movement downstairs through the cracks in the blinds, and he reported loudly to Ding Mo Estate.

"What?" Ding Mochun rushed out of the bathroom and hurried to the window while holding on the belt of his trousers.

"It's really the Japanese Army, which order is this, this is really going to get bigger, is it the meaning of Tokyo? No, I'm going to call the top right away. Ding Mochun turned around and walked to the desk and picked up the telephone receiver that was placed on the table.

"Switchboard, I'm going to play an outside line." Ding Mochun made a gesture to his subordinates, and the other party hurriedly took out a cigarette case from his pocket and handed it over.

"Pen! I want a pen! Pigs! Ding Mochun raised his hand and gave the guy a slap in the head.

By this time, the Japanese convoy had already driven past the Bank of China Building, which was nearing completion, but due to the fall of Shanghai, the final finishing touches had not been completed. The heavy door of the door was closed, and several staff guarding the building were hiding in fear by the windowsill on the tenth floor, watching the movement downstairs through the cracks in the windows.

Just as the Japanese motorcade drove to the side gate of the Sassoon Building, a dense burst of bullets suddenly fired from the window on the second floor of the South Building of the Chinachem Hotel across the street. It happened so suddenly, the Japanese soldiers on the first car were completely caught off guard, the rain of bullets was so dense, in just a few seconds, the front of the Isuzu car was beaten into a beehive, and the body was full of blood and flesh.

The main force of the armed police brigade was all transferred to the hospital, but an infantry squad was left on the Bund side to protect the security of the mission staff and the supplies and confidential documents carried with the regiment in the hotel.

Sergeant Webb, the squad leader, set up a machine gun in the squad at the window on the second floor of the south building of the hotel to block the main entrance of the hotel and the Nanjing intersection, and another machine gun was set up on the second floor of the Sassoon Building to block the other side of the intersection, which can not only form a crossfire with the opposite side, but also cover the comrades in the opposite building.

The South Building Machine Gun Team is led by Squad Deputy Colonel Lane, and unlike the usual machine gun team, this team has an additional sniper with a Mauser Beast shotgun in addition to two main and auxiliary machine gunners and an ammunition man.

The first to notice that something was wrong was the sniper, who was crouching on the roof of the building and saw the atrocities on the Waibaidu Bridge through the binoculars he was carrying. The sniper immediately reported what he had seen to the squad deputy on the second floor through the field phone at hand.

Since the development of events was not yet clear, the Germans simply raised the level of security and at the same time informed the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Industry of their findings. But before the phone from the Ministry of Industry and Bureau got through, the gunshots on the Bund Street were already ringing in the sky.

The SS members witnessed the sacrifice of Inspector Huang and his men, and the squad deputy immediately gave an order to prepare for battle, the identity of the other party was supposed to be the Japanese Army, and the action was full of aggression, although it was not known what their combat goal was, but it was likely to endanger the safety of the guests in the hotel and the members of the mission.

The SS machine gunners pulled the bolt and prepared to shoot, and Corporal Lane held a telescope to monitor the movements of the Japanese soldiers on the truck, and when he saw several Japanese soldiers pointing their rifles at the window of the Chinachem Hotel, he immediately gave the order to open fire.

The machine gunner did not hesitate to pull the trigger, and the MG34 machine gun spewed out a long flame, knocking out half of the bullet chain in a matter of seconds.

Because the driver was killed, the turning truck veered off the road, turned over and hit the post box at the intersection. The driver of the car behind may have panicked and used the accelerator as a brake, and instead of avoiding it, he accelerated and crashed into the trunk of the car in front. So the two trucks collided and blocked half the road.

"I'm dumb! Daddy Kino gas wine, Sono Hou Kuo, Cuso! I'm dumbfounded! (Fire!) Enemy machine guns! That direction! Damn it! Fire fire, fire! The leader of the third truck, Cao Cao, pulled out the saber at his waist and pointed the direction of fire for the machine gun on the roof of the cab.

The soldiers on the second truck finally reacted, and they struggled to get up and jump out of the truck, when two smoke-emitting M24 grenades were thrown from the second-floor window of the East Building of the Chinachem Hotel, which rolled and fell into the body under the terrified gaze of the Japanese soldiers.

"Xiu Liu Dan! (grenades)" Before the exclamation could end, violent explosions broke out one after another.

Although the fragmentation effect of the wooden-handled grenade was not very good, the huge charge of the German goods made up for this part of the shortcomings, at least within the range of the shock wave damage, the power of this weapon is obvious to all, and anyone who has fought against the Germans can stand up and testify.

One M24 can kill the whole house, not to mention that now two of them have exploded in a row, and they happen to be in the crowd, and immediately none of the twenty-three people in the car were spared, and all of them went to Kudanzaka to meet Amaterasu.

To make matters worse, the explosion ignited the leaking gasoline from the truck, and soon the entire vehicle was enveloped in flames. The burning truck raised a huge column of black smoke, obscuring most of the Sassoon building in the blink of an eye.

The follow-up trucks all stopped on the Bund Road, and the officers and soldiers of the 2nd Brigade of the 109th Infantry Wing all jumped out of their cars and, under the organization of the officers, relied on the body as a cover and fired wildly at the south building of the hotel.

"This kind of open terrain is very bad for us, we should withdraw the troops first!" Regardless of the idea, Honda Shaoza is indeed a qualified commander.

"No, we don't have time.... That's it, leave a squad here to contain the machine gun, and the rest of the men and vehicles will make a detour from the bypass, and we must occupy the Ministry of Works building in half an hour. "Houdong didn't think that there would be such a situation in front of him, the troops suffered heavy losses at the beginning of the operation, if they retreated at this time, it would seriously affect the morale and morale of the troops, especially if there was not much time left for him, if he could not achieve the first goal as soon as possible, he could expect the final result, and this army was likely to be attacked by both the enemy and us.

"When did the Ministry of Industry place machine guns here? These cunning mongrals! Lieutenant Shiomi fastened the strap of his steel helmet.

"Sir, I'll take someone to take down this machine gun, and you and the others will continue to move forward, for the great cause of the imperial kingdom!" Shiomi gave a military salute to Houdong.

"For the sake of the Great Japanese Empire! Please! Houdong raised his hand with a solemn expression and returned the salute.

"Second Squad! Follow me! Shiomi drew his saber from his waist and ran towards the front of the firefight with a squad of sappers.

"You go and organize the troops behind to get into the car, and take half of the people to bypass the intersection from the back of the building, and the target is the building of the Ministry of Industry Bureau." Houto said to Captain Amano.

"Huh!" Amano saluted respectfully, then slashed his sword behind his back and galloped away. Shiomi led a small team of soldiers along the edge of the building and quietly approached the intersection.

"All get in the car, let's go around from behind!" Amano's shouts rang out from the other end of the convoy.

At this time, the five trucks at the front of the convoy were within the range of the machine guns in the south building, and the officers and men were firing at the enemy, and it would be difficult for these people to withdraw safely without fire cover. At the same time, Shiomi observed that the defenders of the south building of the hotel not only had one machine gun, but also at least a dozen rifles and submachine guns firing at the Japanese troops on the street.

"Let's go over there first and ask that guy why he hasn't killed that machine gun yet!" Shiomi said, pointing to a truck in fourth place.

"Immediately go to the squadron leader, why hasn't the heavy machine gun detachment caught up yet! We need cover from heavy machine guns! At this time, the Japanese squad leader behind the truck grabbed his subordinate Juncao's collar and yelled loudly.

"Wouldn't there be no war without heavy machine guns? Red deer! The heavy machine gun detachment now has more important tasks! Shiomi bent over and ran to the back of the truck, just in time to hear the squad leader's words.

"Huh! Sir! The team leader hurriedly saluted Shiomi.

"It's so close, why don't you use a grenadier!" Under the cover of the truck body, Shiomi looked towards the south building.

"We tried, and the grenadier was killed." The squad leader pointed to the side of the road, where the three soldiers lay on the ground on top of each other.

"That's the first detachment, the grenadiers, the sub-shooters, and the commander covering them." The team leader then pointed to the other side of the truck: "That's the second detachment over there." ”

"How can it be repaired! Sakagami! You personally took the grenadier detachment and took down that machine gun, are you sure! Shiomi looked back at the engineer squad leader who had come with him.

"Huh!" The engineer squad leader did not answer Shiomi's question, but raised his hand to salute the staff lieutenant, and then turned and ran towards his team.

At this time, the Sassoon Building was covered by smoke, and the fire originally set up on the second floor could not be fired at all, so Sergeant Webb was leading another machine gun team to move to the south building, and soon saw that this group would taste the firepower of the entire German squad.

PS: Chapter 2 is presented, thank you for your support.