Shiozawa fainted very aggrieved, but his orders were quickly transmitted to the various battlefields of the Japanese army.

At that time, he did not need to give the order for the whole army to retreat, and now the Japanese marines are also evacuating, but they are very passive and embarrassed to retreat, and it is almost the same as running with their lives. Because they were beaten back by the ** people.

It turned out that just an hour ago, after these Japanese marines had eaten and drunk enough on the first line of defense, they thought that it was time to take down the second line of defense of the Chinese ** people in one go.

When they first launched a burst of artillery bombardment, and then with the help of tanks, they quickly charged the second line of defense of the Chinese.

When they were about to rush to the position of the squadron, a few white smoke suddenly flew from the hidden place of the position, directly hitting the Japanese tanks into fireballs.

But this afternoon is different. I saw that the deserter who was like a duck in the morning has suddenly turned into a tiger.

I don't know when these Chinese ** people became very violent, and bursts of crisp rifles hit the attacking Japanese soldiers.

However, this was only the beginning, and suddenly the sound of more than a dozen machine guns rang out, which shattered the dream of the Japanese soldiers to attack.

I saw that this group of Japanese soldiers fell in rows, and the Japanese soldiers who were not hit also quickly lay down and fired back on the spot.

At this moment, countless grenades were thrown out of the trenches on the opposite side, and the attacking troops were miserable.

In the Chinese trenches at this time, the soldiers of the first company of the 78th Division had never fought such an enjoyable battle, and the rifles snapped and fired continuously, and after hitting one magazine, they changed another magazine.

Looking at the piles of bullets in front of them, the fighters no longer had to give up on the average five bullets.

The company commander was also screaming with a machine gun, and several platoon commanders next to him were also holding machine guns in a good formation, and the machine gunners around him were helplessly holding the bullets.

While pressing, he muttered: "Is that machine gun my good?" You officials are so unreasonable, why do you want to rob me of my job?

It's been a long time since people have been addicted to machine guns, but it's good that you not only snatched my machine gun, but also asked me to suppress the bullets, which is too unreasonable. ”

The Heavy who was pressing the bullets saw that everyone was enjoying the fight, and it would be too wasteful not to shoot a few rounds.

Secretly put down the bullet in his hand, picked up the grenade at the company commander's feet and threw a few at the Japanese position.

As soon as he threw the grenade, he was kicked in the ass. I saw the leader of the second platoon scolding: "You turtle son, you threw the grenade out before you even pulled the string." Do you really think you can throw it around when you have a lot of ammo? ”

The machine gunner was extremely aggrieved and pointed to the company commander next to him. The machine guns are all blind for you to use, and my machine guns are gone. I haven't thrown a grenade a few times, and I can't use anything but a machine gun.

The second platoon commander saw that the company commander was still enjoying the fight, and he didn't dare to interrupt the company commander's Yaxing casually, so he had to hand him his machine gun:

"Let me see how accurate your machine gun is."

The machine gunner was overjoyed when he saw it, snatched the machine gun of the second platoon leader, and immediately changed his spirit, standing on the side of the trench, revealing half of his body.

There was a burst of "da-da-da, da-da-da" all of which were three-shot bursts, and I saw the Japanese soldiers who were crawling forward on the opposite side under his machine guns, and they fell to the ground one by one.

The second platoon leader's eyes lit up, "My goodness, this is a sharpshooter." ”

The company commander also found out about the damage of the machine gunners around him, and it happened that he was also tired. Throwing his own machine gun at the gunner's side, he and the second platoon commander turned to suppress his bullets.

Soon the first wave of attacking Japanese troops was completely wiped out. Taking advantage of the free time from the battle, the company commander couldn't help but ask the machine gunner: "What's your name?" When did you join the army? ”

"Company commander, my name is Jin Sanpang, in the 19th Route Army, I just joined the army, and I was transferred to our company only the day before yesterday. But in fact, I was from the 7th Brigade of the Northeast Army, and the officer of the Beida Battalion at that time gave the order to flee without firing a shot.

Those of us who are soldiers can't help it, but we also look down on these runaway generals, so the uncle doesn't serve them anymore.

When I arrived in Shanghai, I was trying to eat a meal, and I happened to hear the 19th Route Army recruiting new soldiers, so this would be mixed with our 19th Route Army, and I used to be in the machine gun battalion of the 7th Brigade. ”

"Okay, I understand, as long as you dare to fight devils, you are a good man, I will now promote you to the commander of the machine gun platoon, and manage our company of more than a dozen machine gunners. I'll launch a counterattack, and you're going to rush me to the forefront. ”

The commander of the first company was promoted to the line of fire, and Jin Shanpang was directly promoted to the platoon commander of the machine gun platoon. Fortunately, they have machine guns, if this was before, he just wanted to mention this platoon commander, he didn't have so many machine guns.

"Don't worry, company commander, last year, the little devils attacked the North Camp, and my pants that Lao Tzu let the little devils chase me are about to run away. I've got to get it back this time. Jin Sanpang replied happily.

"Good. This is the spirit that our 19th Route Army should have. Lian Da praised Jin San Fat.

The Japanese, of course, could not resign themselves to defeat and went back to regroup their ranks and launched an even larger attack again.

This time, all the Japanese officers were also dispatched, and they wanted to take the front positions in one fell swoop. I heard that the attacks on other positions in Shanghai were also not smooth, and the Chinese ** people on the opposite side suddenly became powerful, not only with light and heavy weapons, but also with artillery that could hit tanks.

So this time the Japanese army was more cautious. One by one, they crawled forward. The commanders in the back also followed, just as these commanders raised their heads and raised their command knives in their hands, before they could shout an attack.

I only heard a few muffled gunshots suddenly from the hidden places of the Chinese position, and several squad leaders who were responsible for directing the attack immediately fell to the ground with their heads blooming.

The Japanese troops around him froze suddenly. The squad leader was killed, how can this be good?

On the Chinese position, a company commander and several platoon commanders couldn't help but look at the gunners sent by the Huaxing Escort in a few hidden places behind them.

Several people couldn't help but swallow and spit at the mouth: "At a distance of two hundred meters, one headshot, this marksmanship is too accurate." And not just one person, it's all gunners who are so accurate. The company commander exclaimed.

"Is this Huaxing Escort like this? I've heard that there are thousands of them. If it's all this marksmanship, do you still need us to defend? As long as they send their Huaxing escort people, they can kill all the Japanese. The platoon leader couldn't help but ask.

"Think beautifully. There are more than a dozen strategic points in the second line of defense, and only five of these gunners are assigned to each of them.

And they are also very picky eaters, not the officers who don't fight, not the machine gunners who don't fight. It is not a time of crisis not to fight. As a company commander, he obviously knew more than the brothers.

Jin Sanpang listened: "Ah, I still specialize in machine gunners, so I'm not very dangerous?" ”

The company commander stepped forward and gave him another kick: "Are you a Japanese soldier?" Or do you want to mutiny and surrender? If you throw yourself into the Japanese soldiers, I don't need Huaxing's people to blow your head, I will shoot you in the head first. ”

Everyone nodded their heads, indicating that they understood what the company commander said.

Then I saw that the Japanese soldiers who had lost their officers began to retreat one by one, and the company commander saw that the opportunity was rare, and immediately organized a counterattack, hundreds of soldiers rushed out of the trenches, more than a dozen machine guns opened the way, and grenades were thrown vigorously.

Coupled with the cold guns fired from time to time by the sharpshooters of the Huaxing Escort behind him, the Japanese troops on the opposite side soon lost their morale and began to flee.

And it was at this time that almost all the Japanese troops on the first line of defense in Shanghai were counterattacked by the Chinese **. Similarly, these Japanese troops also broke and fled.

Especially after receiving the retreat order from Commander-in-Chief Shiozawa, these Japanese troops fled faster, and all guns and heavy artillery were thrown down.

Thousands of armed merchants, two or three thousand Japanese soldiers threw their corpses on the ground, and fled back to the Japanese fortifications in the concession.

After the Chinese soldiers reoccupied the first line of defense outside the concession, they stopped attacking, because the concession was the territory of the great powers, and the soldiers of the 19th Route Army did not dare to attack the concession without the order of their superiors.

At the same time, when the Japanese envoy in Shanghai learned of Shiozawa's retreat, he immediately joined forces with several foreign envoys to exert pressure on the Chinese side to ensure the safety of the concession.

The two sides stopped the conflict and prepared to hold joint talks, but in fact, the Japanese minister secretly sent a telegram asking for help in Japan, asking for more troops.

It would be safe for the army to withdraw to the concession, but not necessarily for the navy, because at the mouth of the Yangtze River, four submarines were already lying in ambush under the surface of the sea, waiting to be exposed.

Not to mention that there were really two unlucky warships that were seriously injured and seriously disconnected from the large forces, and waited for more than a dozen warships to safely pass through the ambush area of these submarines.

The two backward warships passed by the ambush of these submarines, and the four submarines of the Huaxing East China Sea Fleet, each firing two torpedoes, directly sank the two warships that had already been wounded.

When the news of the failure of the first attack on Shanghai reached Japan, there was an uproar, and the Kwantung Army was naturally elated to look down on what the Admiralty had done.

There was also an angry voice within the Admiralty.

"It's a shame, Shiozawa Yuki, this idiot, was crippled by the Chinese ** people in just one day, and what about the three days of occupation of Shanghai that he said?" Lieutenant General Takuzo Kobayashi was furious at the Admiralty.

"Your Excellency, Commander, I have long said that Shiozawa Xing, a wine seller, has more than enough success, and knowing that Li Tie has submarines, he only set up a few blocking cables at the mouth of Shanghai and swaggered into the inland river to attack the downtown area of Shanghai.

As a result, the sneak attack was successful, and three warships were sunk on the spot, three were lightly injured, and two were seriously injured, and in the end, the two seriously injured warships did not escape the fate of being sunk.

At the mouth of the Yangtze River, it was attacked by an unknown torpedo and sank, needless to say that it was Li Tie's submarine force that shot. Nomura Kichizaburo said sarcastically.

"Then what do you say about the attack in Shanghai? Isn't there no way to attack Shanghai without destroying these submarines? Kobayashi asked.

"That's not necessary, in the end, it is the army that decides the fate of Shanghai, and the warships are only auxiliary for attack and transportation.

Aren't we already ready for a division?

I'll set out immediately, and now that he has failed according to Shiozawa's military order, let me clean up the mess for him. "Nomura Kichizaburo is the right one.

"Nomura-kun has worked hard." Tatsuzo Kobayashi was deeply pleased with Nomura Yoshizaburo's general attitude.

"It's all in the service of the Empire. I'll just go. "Nomura Kichizaburo plans to leave for Shanghai immediately.

"Goodbye. Take care all the way. Kobayashi Takuzo bowed deeply to Nomura Kichizaburo and wished him success.