There were more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers in a brigade, and it was impossible for them to enter the civilian houses of the Sixing Warehouse at once to attack the defenders guarding the warehouse.

The geographical location of the Sixing Warehouse is very favorable to the defenders, in addition to the hundreds of houses in the front, there are several relatively low two-story buildings on the west side, and the entire Sixing Warehouse is the tallest building within a radius of ten miles.

The Sixing Warehouse was actually built by Li Tie's Huaxing Construction Company, and Li Tie stole dozens of land deeds from Daxing Zhenye's villa, one of which was the land of the Sixing Warehouse.

At that time, Li Tie found that these plots were all in some traffic arteries and strategic locations, so Li Tie made use of them and let Huaxing Construction Company build a large number of buildings in Shanghai in 30 years.

Among them, he built Huaxing supermarket, Huaxing car dealership, Huaxing tobacco factory, and Huaxing pharmaceutical factory.

On the site of the most famous Sihang warehouse in the previous life, he built Huaxing No. 2 warehouse, and later in 31 years, he was looking for warehouses that could be rented out by Jincheng Bank, Zhongnan Bank, Continental Bank, and Yanye Bank.

Li Tie took the initiative to send it to the door to rent the Huaxing No. 2 warehouse to four banks cheaply. After the four banks rented the Huaxing No. 2 warehouse, they renamed it the Sihang warehouse.

It's just that these four banks signed a contract with Huaxing and are still wondering, that is, no layout in this huge warehouse is allowed to be changed by the four banks, and all the maintenance work in the warehouse is still maintained by Huaxing Company free of charge.

For this reason, the shareholders of the four banks also wondered that this Huaxing company was really incomprehensible, and the rent was extremely cheap, not to mention, it even helped maintain it for free. Isn't that a clear loss-making deal? I really don't understand how this Li Tie became the richest man in the world.

In fact, how did they know that Li Tie deliberately built the Sixing Warehouse extremely solid in order to create an impregnable fortress for the future warriors led by Xie Jinyuan.

Now Li Tie's thoughts are not in vain, the entire Sixing warehouse is only six floors, and it is indeed nearly thirty meters high. Hundreds of Japanese soldiers leaned on the houses in front of the warehouses and approached the Sixing warehouses little by little.

Since the two sides of the Sihang Warehouse were the public concessions, the Japanese troops did not dare to brazenly use heavy artillery to attack, let alone send planes to bomb them, for they were afraid that once the shells were mistakenly fired into the surrounding public concessions, it would cause international disputes. And now Japan has not yet thought about preparing for a war with the Western powers.

Therefore, the first wave of Japanese soldiers relied on civilian houses to approach the Sixing warehouse, and soon reached the range of shooting from both sides. But neither soldier fired a shot.

The Japanese soldiers did not shoot because the tall buildings opposite were full of small square holes, and they couldn't see the situation inside, so as not to waste bullets.

As for the Chinese defenders not shooting, it was because the Japanese army had not yet fully entered the residential area, and the head of the regiment Xie Jinyuan hid in a hidden observation opening on the top of the sixth floor.

Next to him, there were several soldiers holding a map of the explosives being buried, and the explosive detonation device around the root was corresponding, and they connected the explosive fuses that were about to be detonated to the detonator one by one, just waiting for the order of the regiment commander Xie.

At this time, standing on the Japanese position one kilometer away from the front of the Sixing warehouse, Captain Sakata saw that the Chinese defenders had not fired a shot, and thought that the defenders' audacity had frightened the Japanese Imperial Army.

He couldn't help but belittle the Chinese defenders in front of him: "See, I've heard that the soldiers in front of me are all new recruits, probably because I'm afraid that I won't be able to hit accurately, and I don't want to waste bullets, right?" After speaking, he looked at the hundreds of Japanese troops who had completely entered the more than 100 houses in front of him.

He smiled again: "Look at the quality of the Chinese army commanders, they are defending here, and they don't even knock down the houses in front of them, this is their biggest mistake."

With the help of these dwellings, our soldiers have a complete hiding place, and our soldiers can attack at close range.

As soon as the guns rang out, with the accurate shooting of our well-trained soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire, we could take down the warehouse on the opposite side in minutes. ”

"Sakata Daisa is really wise, our soldiers have already occupied all the houses in front of the warehouse, as long as the machine gun positions are set up again, our soldiers can start attacking the warehouse.

So far, the Chinese defenders have not fired a shot, and I guess they must be poor and don't even have bullets. Seeing that the captain of the Sakata co-captain was in a good mood, a captain unconsciously patted the co-captain's ass.

Several captains and squadron leaders around him hated the captain's sycophants too fast, and before they could speak, he let him finish the shooting, but everyone would still be able to praise the stinky feet, looking at the proud appearance of the co-captain Chunfeng, everyone shouted together that the Sakata United team was mighty. The Sakata United team has been in martial arts for a long time.

Listening to the sycophants of his captains, Captain Sakata felt very useful. He thought that as long as he took the Sixing warehouse and was the first to catch up with the Chinese defenders on the other side of the river, his promotion to brigade commander would be just around the corner.

Thinking of this, he was full of spirit, and he couldn't help but point the command knife in his hand in the direction of the Sixing Warehouse. He was going to shout a few bold words to cheer on the attacking soldiers.

As soon as his command knife came out, before he could shout a word, he heard a loud explosion from the hundreds of houses in front of the Sixing warehouse, and then he found that hundreds of Japanese soldiers suddenly disappeared into the thick smoke and dust.

Hundreds of houses were blown up and hundreds of soldiers were buried alive. The co-captain and several captains opened their mouths wide and looked at the thick dust in front of them in disbelief.

Soon a fresh breeze blew, the dust in the sky slowly dispersed, and when a piece of rubble could be vaguely seen in the distance, Captain Sakata came back to his senses and shouted: "Save people!" ”

Then several captains around him immediately organized soldiers to go to the ruins of the houses to rescue, but when they rushed to the houses with hundreds of them, the Chinese defenders, who had not fired, finally began to shoot.

Hundreds of rifles began to roll out the Japanese soldiers in the ruins, one by one. In just a few rounds of shooting, more than 100 Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded, and the rest of the Japanese soldiers had no choice but to retreat.

Seeing this situation, Captain Sakata angrily scolded, "The Chinese defenders are cunning and cunning, and they actually planted explosives in people's houses, they are too inhumane." ”

Captain Sakata, who had lost his mind in anger, ordered his heavy artillery brigade to immediately bombard the Sixing warehouse, but fortunately, the captain of the heavy artillery brigade was still somewhat sensible.

He reported to Captain Sakata that the commander of the Taoist division had ordered them not to attack the Sixing warehouse with heavy artillery and aircraft. The captains around him also stepped forward to dissuade Captain Sakata, don't be blinded by the temporary defeat, we can fight again with the whole army.

The eyes of the wing commander, who had finally calmed down, were about to erupt into flames, and he ordered to concentrate all the mortars and anti-aircraft guns of the whole wing to bombard the warehouse, and at the same time send the remaining 600 soldiers of the first brigade to attack the four lines of warehouses with all their might.

The Japanese soldiers, who had already felt that the Chinese army had been overshadowed, rushed towards the Sixing warehouse one by one with a roar, and when these Japanese soldiers had just rushed through the ruins, they saw that all the windows of the six-story building on the opposite side had become firing ports. Hundreds of rifles began to fire at the Japanese soldiers again. There were also several guns that kept strafing the Japanese soldiers who were rescuing from the ruins in front of them.

Fortunately, the quality of the Japanese army's individual soldiers is also very strong, they shoot while crawling forward quickly, even in the rain of bullets, their various tactical actions are still in place.

This greatly reduced the casualties during their attack, and most of the Chinese defenders on the opposite side were actually recruits who had just joined the army, so even if the soldiers of the 524th Regiment desperately pulled their guns and shot desperately, very few Japanese soldiers actually died under these rifle shots.

So soon hundreds of Japanese soldiers passed through the blockade of the warehouse guards. But when they finally climbed to the base of the warehouse wall and came to the door of the warehouse.

They found that the gate was made of all steel, and that it was locked with huge chains, and the Japanese soldiers threw a dozen grenades, and the door of the warehouse was not blown open, but their own soldiers were injured a few.

Fortunately, under the wall of the warehouse was a dead end for the Chinese defenders, otherwise they would have to let the machine guns of the Chinese defenders break through now. However, just as the Japanese soldiers were still thinking about how to blow open the door of the warehouse, they saw hundreds of grenades emitting white smoke dropped from the firing port above their heads.

Seeing the grenade falling from a height of dozens of meters, these Japanese soldiers didn't care about revealing their figures, because this thing exploded in the air, even if it was smashed on the head, it would either be killed or injured.

Therefore, these poor Japanese soldiers either reflexively lay under the wall of the warehouse, or fled frantically towards the root of the wall.

The Japanese soldiers, who saw that there was no way to escape and nowhere to avoid, were frightened stupid by the grenades falling from the sky, and they stared at the grenades falling from the sky motionlessly and had no consciousness of dodging.

Listening to the continuous sound of explosions, hundreds of Japanese soldiers who had already attacked the base of the warehouse wall disappeared in a blast.

Captain Sakata saw that his first brigade had been hit hard again, and his heart was bleeding, and he immediately contacted the tank wing behind him, hoping to get support from the tank wing.

However, the tank wing replied that they were replenishing fuel and ammunition, and that they would not be able to put into position until tomorrow morning at the earliest, so he would have to rely on himself for this afternoon's battle.

The Sakata team looked at the captains in front of them, and then at the grizzled soldiers who had fled. For the first time, his heart softened.

How long has it been? His own wing was hit hard, and was first ambushed in a private house by others, and more than 300 outstanding soldiers were buried alive at once.

Then they repelled their own attacks twice in a row, and lost more than 200 people, which was only half a day's work, and half of the brigade was gone. At this rate, if you don't wait for the evening, your wing will be exhausted.

You can't let your soldiers go to the Chinese defenders in the warehouse without heavy fire support. Captain Sakata ordered the 1st Brigade to continue its tentative assault.

And he himself took hundreds of Japanese soldiers and began to observe around the Sixing warehouse, and he didn't believe that the Sixing warehouse would have no loopholes at all.