Chapter 431 "8.13" Baoshan Road

After receiving the order, Tang Qiusheng immediately led his troops to rush to the Shanghai area, and learned from the telegram of his chief of staff, Chang Feng, that at present, the defense of the downtown area of Shanghai and its surroundings is being undertaken by the troops of the Sulu Mobile Corps, and that the two regiments of the former Jiangsu Provincial Security Force had already disappeared when they heard the sound of Japanese artillery.

It can be said that on the first day of the 13 August Battle in Shanghai, General Zhang Zhizhong commanded troops of an entirely independent division, and there were also a small number of former Shanghai police units.

On the first day of the war, more than 20,000 Japanese marines, relying on the preset positions in Hongkou District, opened fire on the Chinese police units guarding the Tiantongan Station of the Songhu Railway to Yokohama Road, and attacked along the Baoshan Road under the cover of tanks.

The soldiers of the first regiment and three battalions calmly lay behind the fortifications, and the battalion commander Zhao Zitong sent people to contact the Chinese police force, and after asking them to resist a little, they immediately withdrew from the position.

The police captain who could lead the team sent one of his men to reply and thank the brothers of the independent division for their kindness, and they received an order from Commander Zhang Zhizhong to resolutely hold this position and hold on until the arrival of reinforcements.

Zhao Zitong was silent for a long time, he understood the thoughts of the police force, and was also moved by their determination to die, but strength can not be changed by a single blood, he cannot watch hundreds of outstanding Chinese, needlessly become the target of the Japanese army's massacre.

However, he also knew very well that it was impossible for the police force to be withdrawn, and the space of the defensive positions over there was very narrow, and a battalion could not be placed at all, but would be killed or injured by Japanese fire.

After careful consideration, he could not watch his brothers die, the only way was to strengthen their firepower, he decided to form a reinforced platoon, carry heavy firepower, and work with the police force to resist the Japanese attack, in this way, not only can take care of the enthusiasm of the police force, but also enhance their strength, this task is very dangerous, the defensive position of the police force is completely within the range of the Japanese firepower, whoever goes, it is a matter of death.

To his surprise, the soldiers who signed up to go were almost more than one reinforced company, and all of them were good hands in their own battalions, and finally, eighty soldiers were selected to form an ultra-luxurious reinforced platoon, carrying four anti-tank guns, eight mén mortars, six tǐng heavy machine guns, twelve tǐng light machine guns, and the rest were carrying Suomi submachine guns, and three snipers were specially brought with them, led by the deputy battalion commander himself.

Originally, Zhao Zitong wanted to lead the team in person, but he didn't grab the deputy battalion commander, watching the eighty-one brothers pass through the billowing gunpowder smoke and disappear in front, the sound of the heavy machine gun in that direction rang out innumerable, and when he heard it, the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine gun was gathering fire shè, and his heart also flew there.

When the deputy battalion commander led the team to arrive, the police force was in a tight situation, and the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine guns and crooked light machine guns were fighting like a storm, and the sandbag fortifications were peeling off layer by layer.

The Hubei Tiaozi and Hanyang in the hands of the police were not the opponents of the Japanese army at all, and they were suppressed so much that they could not raise their heads, and the mortar shells of the Japanese army blew up the hidden brothers into the sky from time to time, and in less than 30 minutes of engagement, the brothers had already suffered nearly 200 casualties.

The guy in his hand is not as good as people, at this time, he regretted a little, did not listen to the words of other field troops, and withdrew to their defense line, people are experts, their own brothers, they are not doing this job, seeing that the Japanese army is under the cover of superior firepower, wearing a blue sè military uniform, and the sewage generally pounces over, but the brothers can't even raise their heads, let alone raise their guns shè.

He was sweating in a hurry, and suddenly felt that someone was pulling his clothes behind him, and when he looked back, a young officer hanging in the rank of major was signaling to him, the military uniform was obviously different from the common Central Army military uniform, and he couldn't take too much care of it, as long as it was the ** squadron, at this moment, it was a savior.

He saw that dozens of people who followed the major skillfully used all kinds of concealment in the rain of bullets from the Japanese army, skillfully approaching the forward position, and the Japanese machine-gun bullets hit the sandbag fortifications with flowers.

The police captain exhaled deeply, and his heart fell into his stomach, people are the troops that can fight, look at these soldiers, their own brothers, there is no comparison, taking advantage of this gap, he knows that the reinforcements are part of the troops, and he took the hand of the deputy battalion commander with a sense of emotion, unable to speak, people are saving the lives of themselves and hundreds of brothers under them

The soldiers of the third battalion stabbed the policemen who were holding the guns, curled up, and tried to reduce the number of targets as much as possible, and handed over the three grenades in their hands, and these policemen found that they didn't know when, there were many more soldiers in strange military uniforms, looking at themselves with a smile and a joke, and the policemen suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and they all let people come to their side, if this is a Japanese devil, can their xiǎo life still be saved?

The soldiers in the third battalion signaled their beloved, and these policemen understood that the purpose of giving them grenades was to wait for the Japanese devils to approach and throw them out, so they followed the example of the soldiers, leaning against the xiōng wall of the fortifications, holding the grenades tightly, and listening to the movements behind them, but they couldn't hear anything except the stormy machine gun sound of the devils?

Looking at the soldiers around him, his eyes were half-squinted, as if he was about to fall asleep, and his heart couldn't help but beat wildly, as if he heard the sound of countless Japanese leather shoes hitting the ground, and it sounded behind him, and he raised his hand to throw the grenade out, and a powerful big hand grabbed his wrist tightly.

The soldiers of the third battalion are staring at the deputy battalion commander who commands on the third floor, his order is the signal for everyone to drop bombs, there, there are three snipers, the commander of the Japanese army, the soldiers of the independent division, fighting this kind of battle, they are used to it, they don't even feel the feeling of a heartbeat, this qiē, the first time they go to the battlefield, where do the policemen who are fighting with the Japanese army know.

That is, a few minutes of effort, and it seems to be a long few days, the deputy battalion commander's grenade xiǎo red flag, suddenly waved, almost at the same time, the soldiers of the third battalion, the two grenades in their hands, at the same time to the back, followed by, two grenades thrown a few seconds later, this is the minimum training subject for ordinary soldiers of the independent division, the distance of one-handed double thunder reverse throwing, shall not be less than 20 meters, is the qualification standard, some masters, can be one-handed three thunder reverse throw more than 30 meters, Of course, that's a very small number of freaks.

The policemen reacted and hurriedly threw the grenade out, on the Baoshan Road, which was only more than 20 meters wide, 80 soldiers of the independent division, plus more than 200 surviving policemen, more than 500 grenades, and it was a high-explosive grenade produced by the Dingbian Arsenal.

The Japanese soldiers of a brigade of the Japanese Marine Corps, who were howling and charging, were immediately hit by the destruction of mièxìng, and they had already rushed to a distance of less than twenty meters from the position, and suddenly, on the position that seemed to be empty on the opposite side, black old owls flew like owls, and immediately, the explosion rumbled, shrapnel flew sideways, steel balls as thin as rice grains, briskly drilled into the bodies of the Japanese soldiers, and some of them got into their eyes.

Especially the grenade that exploded in the air, the steel ball penetrated the helmet, almost all of them got into the head, more than 1,000 Japanese marines, who could turn around and flee back, but only more than 200 people, and all of them were wounded, however, this was the idea of the Japanese, and there was a dense sound of submachine gun fire behind them, and the remnants of the Japanese army, the back was almost beaten to pieces, and a large group of Japanese soldiers, none of whom survived, all of them were lying on the bare cement road in a blur, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of gunsmoke.

The sudden blow made the forward commander of the Japanese army almost stunned, and the ** squadron, which had been pressed and beaten, suddenly lù out of its hideous fangs, swallowed up more than a thousand jīng sharp warriors of the Japanese Empire in one bite, and the unexpected changes made his brain temporarily in a state of short circuit.

The more than a thousand bloody corpses of soldiers, he quickly came to his senses, howled, this was an unacceptable result, ordered the artillery squadron, and bombarded the positions of the ** team, and at the same time, using sharp weapons, five tanks, rumbled up, followed by a large group of Japanese marines.

In the gap when the Japanese commander lost his mind, the xiǎo red flag in the hand of the deputy battalion commander swayed rapidly, and the soldiers of the third battalion pulled up the policemen who were still stunned around them, and rushed out of the position and ran to the next line of defense

The soldiers and policemen on the front line, as soon as they left the position, the position was covered by Japanese artillery fire, listening to the sound of shell explosions not only mortars, but also Type 92 infantry guns, sandbags were blown apart, raising dust in the sky, the Japanese army went crazy, even the houses on both sides, were subjected to dozens of shells, shelling a whole Xiǎo, the original position, has been dàng gone, the hard cement road, is also full of craters.

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