Blocking Tianfang looked at the map and said: "The current battle situation is a melee between the enemy and us, and it is not a simple matter to open up the passage to the south of Jiangwan. Besides, the former enemy commander did not give us the order to evacuate from the North Sichuan Road, and I have to take into account the battlefield at both ends, and it is estimated that I am unable to do it! ”

Shen Shaofan said resolutely: "No matter how great the difficulty is, you can't watch the 21st Group Army be wiped out. The position on the North Sichuan Road has now been consolidated, and as long as the middle piece between Jiangwan and the North Sichuan Road is opened, the 21st Group Army can be smoothly taken out. The problem is that from North Sichuan Road to North Station, the key is a section of Jiangchuan Road and Baoshan Road, which has now been occupied by devils, and if you want to meet the 21st Group Army, you must open up a section of Jiangchuan Road and Baoshan Road. ”

"Call me the 21st Army. Sincerely, the 21st Group Army: Our unit has received an order from the 21st Group Army. At present, our troops are attacking the enemy's defense line along the North Sichuan Road from the control zone of our army to Jiangchuan Road, and Wanggui is attacking from the middle section of Baoshan Road and occupying it, so as to respond to our army's comprehensive seizure of the Jiangchuan Road and the road leading to Baoshan. National Youth League. Shen Shaofan dictated firmly.

Sun Zhiyu said: "What troops are we going to use to open up this life-saving channel?" ”

Shen Shaofan thought for a while and said, "Use 4 battalions; The 5th Battalion and the Whampoa Pre-Cadre Column, I personally commanded to open up the life-saving channel. ”

Sun Zhiyu nodded and said, "Then I'll go with you!" ”

Blocking the sky and patted Sun Zhiyu and said: "This place is inseparable from our ghost talent military master, let me go with Shaofan!" ”

Shen Shaofan nodded and said, "That's it!" Hopefully, we'll still have time to bring out the 21st Army. As he spoke, he put on a steel helmet and said, "Order Zheng Xiaohu's 4th battalion to be the sharp knife battalion." ”

On a green area at the junction of North Sichuan Road and Jiangchuan Road, Zheng Xiaohu was leading his troops through the defense area of the 2nd Battalion, which was still fighting fiercely in piles of rubble.

Nie Yufeng shouted outside the tent on the green space, "Guard the Jiangchuan intersection for me." ”

Zheng Xiaohu said on the side: "Thank you!" It's up to us to do that. ”

Nie Yufeng smiled: "It's a chore down there. ”

Zheng Xiaohu also smiled, and walked with the troops, and said: "Brothers, if you go further, it will be the area controlled by the devils, and everyone must be ready to fight at any time." ”

In a three-story building that had been controlled, Zheng Xiaohu stood at the window and looked at the battle situation and said, "It's too slow!" The 1st Company was ordered to take all the buildings on the 100-meter section of the road in front within 20 minutes. ”

Hu Yi, deputy commander of the 4th Battalion, said: "The devils used the building as a stronghold, and the fire points were full of firepower, and it was difficult for us to walk ten meters forward. ”

"Street fighting! That's it, the closer we get to the goal, the more difficult it is to fight, and it is possible to move an inch later, but we must take Jiangchuan Road in a short time to save people now. It's really not good, use the Japanese-style mountain artillery we brought to give me a point of fire, a point of fire. Zheng Xiaohu said categorically.

Hu Yi nodded and said, "I'll go down to the front line immediately." ”

The 1st Company of the 4th Battalion was overwhelmed by more than a dozen firing points on the buildings on both sides, and at this time, a Japanese-style mountain gun pushed over and the soldier said: "Company commander, the battalion commander ordered to use artillery bombardment." ”

"Oh my damn grandma. It's long overdue. Fill the shells, prepare the grenades, and when the firing point is over, immediately throw the grenades into the building. The company commander shouted.

The deputy company commander of the 1st company said: "Don't enter the building, our company's task is to open the passage of Jiangchuan Road as soon as possible, and the remnants of the enemy in the building are responsible for the 2nd and 3rd companies." ”

The firing point was breached, and the soldiers also rushed out from under the bunkers, some shot into the building, some threw grenades into the building, and the 1st Company quickly cut off the Japanese block as sharp as a bayonet, and each line of defense was withdrawn towards the San** junction.

The street fighting on Jiangchuan Road lasted for a whole day and night, and by the evening of the next day, the last stronghold of the Japanese army was left on Jiangchuan Road, which can also be said to be the last difficulty for Shen Shaofan to get through Jiangchuan Road and Baoshan Road - Beikou Building.

The North Exit Building is located on Jiangchuan Road and Baochang Road; The intersection of Baoyuan Road and Sansan, so here is also known as the three ** junction, the North Exit Building was the second tallest building in Shanghai at that time, there was a Chinese architect in the United States designed a total of ten floors, in Shanghai at that time it was already a high-rise building, the building was poured with reinforced concrete, very solid, but now the North Exit Building has become a giant bunker of the Japanese army. The Japanese set up more than a dozen heavy machine guns on the rooftop, and equipped each window with an outer handle fire point, so that the artillery could not attack, the soldiers could not penetrate, and the entire rescue force immediately fell into a situation where it was difficult to move an inch.

At this time, the 5th Battalion also joined the ranks of attacking Beikou Daxia, and the strength of the entire two battalions was blocked by a huge pillbox, the Beikou Building, and several attacks were launched, all of which ended in failure.

Yuan Feng slapped the table and said, "Damn! You rush with my battalion and don't believe that you can't attack it? ”

Zheng Xiaohu said: "Don't be brutal. Beikou Daxia must attack skillfully, if he is brutal, even if he takes all the brothers of the 4th and 5th battalions, it will not be enough! ”

"Not bad!" Shaofan walked to the front command and said: "The North Exit Building must be taken down, but it is not a hard fight." I think it's necessary to blow up this building! ”

"Fried? How can you blow it up if you can't rush in? Yuan Feng asked.

"What? How much medicine does it take for a building to blow it up? Zheng Xiaohu also asked curiously.

"Blow up the pillars. On the second floor of the basement, eighteen beams and columns blew them up, and the building slowly collapsed. An old man said.

"Han Gong, how long will it take for the building to collapse?" Shaofan asked.

Han Gong said: "About twenty minutes to forty-five minutes. ”

Zheng Xiaohu asked curiously, "How do you know?" ”

Han Gong said proudly: "The North Exit Building is my first work after returning to China. ”

Shen Shaofan said: "Engineer Han is the designer of this building. ”

Zheng Xiaohu said: "The devil's firepower in the building is too fierce, and we can't get close to this Daxia building at all." ”

Shen Shaofan said: "No matter how fierce the firepower is, it will attack and blow up this building." Get on the action tonight! At night, visibility is low and the chances of success are much greater. Commandos from the special service company and the engineer company had arrived and the task of blowing up the building was handed over to them. Your mission is to cover the commandos for the demolition mission. ”

"Yes!" Zheng Xiaohu and Yuan Feng immediately went down to prepare for the night attack.

"It seems that this building is our only barrier. ”

"Yes, but we have to blow up this building as soon as possible, and if the devil's reinforcements arrive, we'll be in trouble." Shaofan looked at the building in the distance, and then at the commandos who had just stopped, and couldn't help but be a little worried.

Beikou Building is the last difficulty for Shen Shaofan to rescue the 21st Group Army, he understands that time is a very important factor, because he and his troops are equal to the depth of the enemy, north of the Suzhou Creek, except for a few buildings by the river, the other positions are almost all lost, if you don't hurry up to meet the retreat of the 21st Group Army, not to mention that the 21st Group Army will be annihilated, his National Youth League will also suffer doom. The North Sichuan Road to Jiangchuan Road, guarded by the National Youth League, is the only way to retreat to the south bank of Suzhou Creek, and there is only one obstacle on this passage - the Beikou Building.

There were ten commandos behind the fortifications, and they listened attentively to Shen Shaofan's final explanation before they attacked, and the 4th and 5th battalions were fully prepared to launch a large-scale feint attack on the Beikou Building at any time.

Shen Shaofan said to the commandos: "You remember that there are eighteen pillars in the basement, and all of them must be blown up. There is no bunker in front of this building, the soldiers of the 4th Battalion will cover you with sandbag carts, and you will have to rely on yourself to get there five meters from the building, don't fight and blow up the pillars, and immediately withdraw from the building. ”

"Yes!"

Zheng Xiaohu walked over and said, "The head of the regiment is okay." ”

"Good! Let's go! Shen Shaofan patted one of the commandos on the shoulder.

The team member smiled at him, he was Xue **, he picked up his gun and walked into the night. Shaofan looked at the soldiers under his command and felt extremely comforted in his heart. He is very grateful to these fearless comrades-in-arms for allowing him to realize his dream, and they are the ones who let his ideals be completed slowly, and he believes that as long as there is the National Youth League in the War of Resistance, it will definitely win.

The sandbag cart could only take the commandos five meters from the gate of the North Exit Building, because the penetration of the Japanese machine guns could turn all of them into a hornet's nest. The machine guns in the building were firing frantically, and the bullets were smashed towards the soldiers of the 4th Battalion like *, many soldiers fell, but many fighters stood up again, they did not want to break through this formidable fire net, but wanted to use their own flesh and blood to attract devils to cover the commandos to enter the building smoothly and safely.

Shen Shaofan looked at the soldiers who died in the devil's firepower net, a tingling in his heart, the 4th battalion charged this time, more than 30 soldiers were sacrificed, Zheng Xiaohu sent the commando to the front line five meters away from the building as originally planned, and ordered the troops to retreat to the position. Ten commandos hid behind the sandbag cart, waiting for the best moment to sprint, the five meters were already very close to success, and it seemed that they could cross it with just one step, but it was also the five meters that the soldiers of the two battalions of the National Youth League never broke through.

Xue ** and the others lay there and didn't dare to move, they knew that the dense firepower above was enough to beat the ten of them into a pile of mud as long as one point shot at the same time. The ten warriors slowly squirmed among the corpses of their comrades in the night, not daring to move too much, for fear that the devils would find out that there were still people alive in front of them. Ten commandos were all under fire, although there were still two left; At a distance of three meters, they did not dare to act rashly.

Shen Shaofan looked at it and said, "Use mortars to cover them and rush over." ”

When the mortars of the 4th and 5th battalions fired several shells at the North Entrance Building at the same time, smoke filled the front of the building. Ten commandos immediately took advantage of the fog and smoke and the cover of the darkness of the night to cross the Japanese army's fire network, and when the devils found that someone had crossed the fire network, it was too late, and the ten commandos had already come to the bottom of the rain and sunshade at the entrance of the building, and the light and heavy machine guns could not shoot them.

Shen Shaofan couldn't help but shout excitedly when he saw the commandos successfully crossing the devil's firepower network: "Okay! ”

The commando team consisted of five soldiers from the engineer company and five soldiers from the special service company, and he led the team members around the back of the building and entered the building through a small window. The Japanese army knew that several soldiers of the squadron had rushed through the fire network constructed by light and heavy machine guns and came to the building, and hurriedly organized personnel to search in the building, but because the building was attacked by the National Youth League for a day, almost all the first floor was blown up, and all the passages from the second floor to the first floor were blocked by a huge reinforced concrete ceiling, and the Japanese had to use grenades and zha medicine kits to blow up the ceiling that blocked the passage, so as to give the commandos enough time