Chapter 6: The Dead (I)
To be honest, Lei Zhen really didn't believe that those [***] teams who had a good way to resist the enemy could still have some of them stay and hold on for two days after retreating on all fronts. Although he was not a soldier, he had already had a considerable understanding of the bombardment in which the army had absolute superiority, and unless a miracle happened, there would be absolutely no army that could withstand repeated heavy artillery bombardment and repel the stormy attacks of the soldiers again and again.
On the banks of the Suzhou Creek, the fierce gunfire of the dense beans came and went, and the fighters and fighters of the Japanese army circled back and forth in the air like vultures eager for food, but the position was always firmly in the hands of the Chinese people! All this in front of him made Lei Zhen can't help but believe that a miracle really happened!
Standing in a relatively safe position in the British Concession, staring at this battlefield where iron and blood are blended, and observing for a long, long time, Lei Zhen said in a low voice: "This person is very ...... Terrible! ”
The person Lei Zhen said in his mouth was the [***] person in the command, the commander of the positional defensive battle.
Yang Huimin nodded vigorously, a proud smile appeared on her face, and she said loudly: "Of course, it is Xie Jinyuan of the 524th Regiment of the 88th Division who commanded this battle!" ”
Lei Zhen didn't know who Xie Jinyuan was, but he just knew that this person was really powerful!
The corners of Lei Zhen's eyes kept beating, Lei Zhen had never been a soldier in his life, and of course he didn't know anything about military affairs and the art of war, but his beast-like instinct, and his keen intuition slowly cultivated in the tragic battles to survive again and again, still allowed Lei Zhen to capture the source of the victory in this war, and even made him smell the breath from the Chinese position, which made him feel that the blood in his whole body was going to burn together.
Lei Zhen clearly knew that only those beasts who had been fatally hit and had lost hope of survival, and who wanted to pull their opponents to finish off before they died, would suddenly burst out with such a dangerous and crazy murderous aura!
This is a group of dead soldiers who have given up hope of survival!
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"Send a determined and resolute officer from your unit to lead a small force to use guerrilla tactics to serve as a cover. The army should strive to hold out for a certain period of time, show that it still has not abandoned its duty to defend Shanghai, so as to win the forthcoming meeting of the Nine-Power Pact and condemn the acts of aggression, and at the same time it can be expected that international public opinion will pay attention, sympathy and solidarity with China's War of Resistance! ”
This was an operational order from the 88th Division issued by the headquarters before the squadron withdrew from the Shanghai battlefield.
In other words, this small army left behind is a daring army that is destined to become an outcast, destined to be surrounded by the enemy, and destined to become a martyr in order to cover the retreat of the main force! Without super command ability, rich experience in actual combat, no fighting spirit that is stronger and more courageous, no absolute loyalty to the country and the nation, and no soldiers who are ready to sacrifice their lives for righteousness, they will absolutely not be able to do such a task!
Therefore, the one who stayed to command this sniper battle was the one who planned the surprise attack on the "Izumo" and carried out the "Iron Fist" operation, which not only had the courage and ruthlessness of the hawkish soldiers, but also embraced the steel defense of the turtle soldiers step by step, Xie Jinyuan, the tiger general of the hundred battles!
At the north end of the old box bridge on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek in Shanghai, there is a four-line warehouse that was originally the Bank of the Mainland. The reason why it is called Sihang Warehouse is because this warehouse, which was built by four banks as a joint venture, is used to store all kinds of valuables.
Such a building was built with sufficient funds and was seven storeys high, which is very rare in Shanghai. The most important thing is that the entire building is made of reinforced concrete, and the walls are thick and solid, even if the main guns of the tank are too small, they must be bombarded repeatedly to be able to blow them through, and as for the ordinary infantry guns of the army, they cannot cause physical damage to such a building.
Because the Sixing Warehouse has such a strong defensive capability, at the beginning of the Battle of Songhu, the division headquarters of the 88th Division was located in the Sixing Warehouse, so in addition to storing thousands of bags of grain, soybeans and other materials that can be directly used to stack bulletproof bunkers, the Sixing Warehouse is also stacked with ammunition that can support a long time of fighting. In it, there is even a telephone number to keep in touch with the outside world, and a water pipeline.
Xie Jinyuan, who had both offensive and defensive skills and rich experience in actual combat, did not follow Shangfeng's order to lead the officers and men of the 1st Battalion of the 524th Regiment to delay the advance of the Yue Army through guerrilla warfare in the northern area of the box. In his opinion, that was an unrealistic fantasy, because there were 90,000 Chinese troops in the northern area alone, and they could even ask for artillery support at any time, and with the assistance of reconnaissance planes, there was no room for detours necessary for fighting guerrilla warfare!
Therefore, Xie Jinyuan simply led all the officers and soldiers of the first battalion of the 524th Regiment and withdrew into the Sixing warehouse.
In the eyes of many people, Xie Jinyuan only had the strength of a reinforced battalion, but he gave up the guerrilla and harassment tactics of a small group of troops, and chose the most stupid and costly positional defensive warfare, which is tantamount to digging a dead end!
Think about it, once the Yueben naval fleet moored on the Huangpu River fires 10,000 cannons, even if the whole body of the Sixing warehouse is poured with reinforced concrete, even if its walls are thick, but in the face of battleships and naval guns, which are the purest weapons of war that exist for the purpose of destruction and killing, its only fate is to fall apart and become the grave of Xie Jinyuan and all the warriors around him!
But don't forget, he's Xie Jinyuan!
The biggest reason that really made Xie Jinyuan choose the Sixing Warehouse as the sniper battlefield was ...... Sihang Warehouse and the British Concession is only a bridge apart, cross the new box north bridge will enter the British Concession, if you stand on the top floor of the Sihang Warehouse, you can clearly see the British rice flag fluttering in the wind with the naked eye, and see clearly the sentry and machine gun fortress established by the British [***] people.
And on the south side of the old box bridge dozens of meters away, there is also a huge gas cylinder, such a huge gas cylinder, like a lightning rod, towering there, is definitely an S-class target that is vulnerable to shelling and bombing. And such a building, which would collapse as soon as it was shelled or bombarded, would cause immeasurable terrible damage to the British Concession!
The distance between the Sixing Warehouse and the British Concession is only a few tens of meters, and once there is a misfire, it will pull Britain, a strong country that cannot be provoked by the current army, into this Sino-Chinese war...... Hitting a shell into the British Concession is tantamount to firing a cannon on the British mainland and declaring war on Britain!
In this case, who would dare to command the naval fleet moored on the Huangpu River, raise the muzzle of the black hole, and fire a salvo of 10,000 cannons at the four rows of warehouses?!
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