Chapter 118: Assault on the Airfield (Part I)
About half an hour later, Xie Jinyuan and more than 400 strong men were fully armed, all of them wearing military uniforms, but the weapons they were equipped with were all American-style equipment.
Qiao Anbang paced back and forth in front of the queue with an awe-inspiring expression, his eyes swept over every soldier present one by one like a knife, and said heroically: "Brothers, the battle of the Four Elements Warehouse, you are famous all over the world, you are all heroes, you are all men who stand up to the sky, as a soldier, you are worthy of the military uniform on your body and the blue sky and white emblem on your head, you can fight side by side with everyone tonight, Qiao Mou is fortunate to have three lives!" ”
"Hey, sir, you've won the prize." Xie Jinyuan immediately came out and said with enthusiasm: "In this autumn of national crisis, as a member of the party, I should go to the battlefield, serve the country, and swear to fight the Japanese to the end to defend my Chinese territory!" In the battle of the Four Elements Warehouse, I can't kill more Japanese robbers and repay the country's kindness, and the soldiers of Yuhe have not wanted to regain their freedom all the time since they were bound, and they will fight again in full gear and shed the last drop of blood for the nation and the country! ”
Saying this, Xie Jinyuan looked at Qiao Anbang with a solemn expression and said: "Today, thanks to the chief who risked death to save him, Xie Zhongmin and the brothers in the whole camp have nothing to repay, and they are willing to go to the soup with the chief to fight the fire!" ”
"Good!" Qiao Anbang immediately turned his head and shouted to everyone: "Brothers, now more than 10,000 soldiers of my Tiger Brigade have come to the city of Shanghai, in order to cooperate with my main force to recover Shanghai, we will kill the little devil on the beach tonight, and the corpses are all over the field, and we will be ashamed of the battle of Xuesong Shanghai!" Do you have faith? ”
"Yes!" More than 400 soldiers immediately held their heads high and responded to the promise, these more than 400 soldiers were all elite veterans who had survived a hundred battles, and Qiao Anbang's words immediately ignited the anger in their hearts, a shameful anger.
"Hmm!" Qiao Anbang nodded with satisfaction, and then waved his hand: "Target Hongqiao Airport, go!" ”
"Yes!" The warriors responded in unison, then turned around one after another, and soon disappeared into the night with Qiao Anbang.
…………………… Kunshan, the temporary station of the Huben Brigade.
After nearly two hours of rest, the officers and men of each regiment had woken up, and everyone had received fragrant canned beef and hot white-flour steamed buns, and they were gathering in groups to feast on them.
Just as the soldiers had almost eaten, the rapid rallying cry sounded in vain, and the soldiers devoured the rest of the food in their hands, and immediately began to assemble in formation, and finally began to board the cars one after another under the command of the officers of each company and platoon.
At the headquarters of the Tiger Brigade, a herald rushed in and reported to Qiao Anguo: "Deputy seat, the regiments have been assembled. ”
"Hmm!" Qiao Anguo nodded and said, "Order the armored company to open the way forward and advance to Shanghai!" ”
"Yes!" The herald snapped forward, and immediately turned and led the way away.
……………… Soon, Qiao Anbang led more than 400 officers and soldiers to the border of the British Concession, and at the exit of the concession, there was a checkpoint set up by the British, and about a dozen people were stationed there.
Opposite the checkpoint of the British is Zhabei, where there are also checkpoints set up by devils, and the two sides are usually only 100 meters apart, but they do not communicate with each other.
"Traveler, what should I do?" Hiding in an alley, Jiang Jun stretched out his head to look at the British army outpost not far away, and turned around and asked.
Jo Anbang raised the Thomson submachine gun in his hand with one hand, clicked the bolt, and said coldly: "Kill them!" Yan Yan took the lead and rushed out of the alley, and more than 400 soldiers hurriedly followed, and immediately rushed towards the British outpost like a flood that burst the embankment.
Several British soldiers who were patrolling back and forth at the checkpoint with guns on their backs turned around when they heard the sound, and a British second lieutenant turned on the flashlight, and by the light of the flashlight, he was horrified to find that groups of unknown people were rushing towards the checkpoint in the night.
"Oh my God, who are they?" The British second lieutenant shouted in horror: "Hurry up! Fast! As he spoke, several British soldiers began to raise their guns, and several sleeping machine gunners were also awakened and hurriedly turned their guns.
However, before the British second lieutenant could ask, a dense burst of gunfire suddenly sounded on the opposite side: "Da Da...... "Joan Bang was ......the first to fire, and the soldiers behind him followed suit.
A series of scorching tongues of fire roared out from the muzzles of the [***] soldiers, and the dense rain of submachine gun bullets enveloped the entire British outpost in an instant, and more than a dozen British soldiers, including the British second lieutenant, were beaten into a hornet's nest before they could even fire their guns.
The gunfire on this side immediately alarmed the devils on the opposite side, and the devils' reaction was obviously much faster than that of the British, when Qiao Anbang rushed to the British outpost with his soldiers, the devil soldiers on the opposite side were already in a mess, and the searchlights were turned on, and the devil soldiers could be seen in the light of the cats carrying guns into the fortifications.
Suddenly, the searchlight suddenly shone towards the British outpost, and Xie Jinyuan and others just wanted to raise their guns to shoot, but they were stopped by Qiao Anbang reaching out.
"Sir, what's wrong?" Xie Jinyuan asked puzzled.
Without waiting for Qiao Anbang to answer, the devil on the opposite side suddenly shouted: "You guys are that part? What the hell is going on? Why is it here? ”
Obviously, the devils on the other side regarded the [***] wearing their military uniforms as a soldier, Qiao Anbang and Xie Jinyuan naturally couldn't understand the words, Qiao Anbang whispered to Xie Jinyuan: "Bombard him with a grenadier and raise a." ”
"Hmm." Xie Jinyuan nodded, then turned around and walked towards the back, and began to order the grenadiers to prepare to open fire. Xie Jinyuan's subordinates are all veterans of a hundred battles, and some people naturally know how to use grenadiers.
At the same time, Qiao Anbang instructed several riflemen to secretly aim at the devil machine gunner on the opposite side, the two flights were less than 100 meters apart, and the devil post had street lights and searchlights, [***] riflemen could easily aim and lock on the devil machine gunner.
Seeing that Qiao Anbang did not respond, the devils on the opposite side also became vigilant, and under the command of a devil officer, they pulled the bolts one by one, and aimed at [***] with a vigilant expression.
Just when the two sides were in a confrontation, a few muffled sounds of "tom tom tom" suddenly sounded, and then several grenades whistled and accurately fell into the devil sentry post on the opposite side.
"Boom ......" flashed fire, and several devil soldiers were immediately blown out of the fortifications, and at the same time, several riflemen also pulled the trigger, and the hot bullets accurately hit the two devil machine gunners on the opposite side.
"Rush!" Qiao Anbang waved his hand and roared angrily.
"Rush! Kill! The soldiers shouted in unison, and the rifles, submachine guns, and light machine guns in their hands opened fire in unison, and the dense bullets rushed towards the devil like a whirlwind.
"Baga Yalu, it's a Zhina person!" As soon as the guns rang out, the devil officer fell down very quickly, and immediately roared angrily: "Shoot, hurry up!" ”
The remaining devil soldiers began to raise their guns to shoot, but with only a few pull-bolt 38 rifles how to resist the [***] fully equipped with American equipment, several devil soldiers were hit by the roaring dense bullet rain and fell to the fortifications, and the remaining devil soldiers were suppressed in the fortifications by the fierce fire of [***], and they couldn't even raise their heads.
Approaching, Jiang Jun took more than a dozen soldiers to take off more than a dozen grenades from his body at the same time, pulled open the safety bolt, and immediately threw them towards the devil's fortifications.
More than a dozen smoke-emitting American-style MK2 grenades whizzed into the fortifications of the devil's outpost, and immediately exploded violently, "boom, boom, boom......" A loud bang rang out, and all the remnants of the devils hiding in the fortifications were blown up with flesh and blood, and corpses were scattered everywhere.
The next moment, hundreds of [***] officers and soldiers suddenly swarmed up, and several devil soldiers who were seriously injured by grenades were shot into a sieve by the angry soldiers of the battalion.
"Sir, this American-style equipment is amazing! The little devil's weapon is no different from a burning stick in front of it. A second lieutenant platoon commander looked at the Garand rifle in his hand with affection and said excitedly.
Qiao Anbang smiled and ignored him, this battle was a completely unequal battle at all, there were hundreds of people on his side, and there were only one or twenty devils, and it was a surprise sneak attack, if he couldn't win again, it would be strange.
American-style equipment is certainly more advanced than the devil's weapon, but the devil is by no means so vulnerable, if the two sides are evenly matched, even if the [***] equipped with American-style equipment will win, it will never be so easy.
"Sir, as soon as the guns go out, the devils and the British should be alarmed, let's go?" Xie Jinyuan stepped forward and said.
"Hmm!" Qiao Anbang nodded, changed the magazine for the submachine gun in his hand, and immediately said in a loud voice: "Brothers, Hongqiao Airport is not far ahead, follow me!" ”
"Rush!" Hundreds of fighters immediately shouted in unison again and continued to rush forward with Qiao Anbang.
Qiao Anbang knew that the devil's troops in Shanghai were insufficient, and the bigger the disturbance on his side, the more conducive it would be for the main force to attack.
Moreover, since the soldiers came out of the British Concession wearing military uniforms, they could create trouble for the British and the devils, and it was best to let them fight locally, in short, the more chaotic the situation in Shanghai, the more beneficial it would be for the Tiger Brigade.
It's just that Qiao Anbang didn't know that as early as when he led people to rescue Xie Jinyuan and more than 400 officers and soldiers of the 524th Regiment, the Hangzhou Garrison Brigade under the 10th Army had forcibly marched into Shanghai overnight, so the total strength of the Shanghai Army had reached more than 10,000 at this time.
The garrison force of the airport has also expanded to an elite garrison brigade, and the actions of the Yue army can be known through Ya Li's interception of the Yue army's telegram, but Ya Li came to Shanghai with Qiao Anbang to rescue Xie Jinyuan's department, and did not stay in Kunshan, so it is impossible to know the news of the increase in the army.
When the gunshots rang out in the British Concession, both the British and the devils were alarmed at the same time.
Consulate of the British Concession.
Colonel William, now Consul General of the Shanghai Concession of the British Empire, was asleep when he was suddenly awakened by a sharp knock on the door.
He immediately got up and said very unhappily: "Who? What's up? ”
"Chief, it's not good, something happened." An adjutant outside the door said with an anxious expression.
"What's going on?" Colonel William asked unhurriedly as he put on his pants.
"I said that I have attacked us." The adjutant replied urgently.
"What?" William, who was wearing pants, was so frightened that he stumbled and almost fell to the ground, so he strode over and opened the door without worrying about putting on his pants, and said in a panic: "You mean that this army is attacking us?" They dare to go to war with the British Empire? ”
"Yes sir, our checkpoint in Zhabei has been attacked by Yu himself, and Tom's two squads are finished." The adjutant nodded repeatedly.
"Bastard! These damned people dare to go to war against the British Empire, and you will immediately report this back home. In addition, I ordered Captain Allen to lead people to immediately build a defensive line, and never let Yu himself enter our concession! Colonel William hurriedly ordered.
"Yes, sir!" The adjutant saluted, and then hurriedly turned to leave.
(To be continued)