Chapter 155: The Morning Confrontation in Shanghai
Shanghai's rainy season is not very long, between April and mid-June, and for the past two months, the rain has been falling intermittently, and there are few consecutive sunny days.
In the past few days when the Red Army launched its offensive against the periphery of Shanghai, although it did not rain, it was also gloomy and unpleasantly wet for several days.
But on June 14, it was a rare sunny day in June. When the sun rises over the sea in the east, it is a sunny and cloudless day in the morning in Shanghai.
Last night in downtown Shanghai, gunshots rang out all night.
The four organizations of the Central Unification, the Military Unification, the Underground Party, and the Mocking and Eradication of Traitors, which were originally rivals, were paired with the Sun Yuanliang Guard Battalion, who "rebelled anyway," and searched for high-ranking officials of the Artillery Party and underworld elements in the Huajie District of the city before the Red Army entered the downtown area of Shanghai.
It was on this night that Huang Jinrong and Du Yuesheng were ensnared by Dai Yunong, a special agent of the military command. Originally, the two had already been hiding in the French Concession, but Dai Yunong sent someone to lure them out in the name of inviting them to talk, and then turned their faces at the meeting place and arrested them. At 412, these two people had a lot of blood debts on their hands, and in order to make more merits in order to atone for their sins, Boss Dai also worked very hard this night.
On the night that the Red Army took over Shanghai's Huajie District, in the name of searching for and arresting "bandits," the special agents of the military command repeatedly entered the concessions of various countries and entrapped, and entrapped, quite a number of middle- and high-ranking officials of the artillery party who were hiding in the concessions and had blood debts. At that time, the people in the concession didn't know that Boss Dai had defected to the Communist Party, so they let him arrest people in a daze. The concession was close to the sea, and Dai Yunong knew that the Red Army would have to work hard to enter the concession. If he didn't intervene, many people would take advantage of this opportunity to be sent away by foreigners or buy a boat to escape.
After the main force of the Red Army entered the downtown area of Shanghai, the Qinggang had been charged in Xiangtang all over the Chinese border. At dawn, most of the people on the "blacklist" that Li Huamei had collected in two years had already been arrested and brought to justice during last night's "uprising" intensified search and arrest. In this matter, the former military commander has to be more active than anyone else.
During this period, there were also fighting resistances and battles, but the scattered resistance was easily suppressed by the town (crab). And some Lin Han and Li Huamei are very annoying, and at the same time, Lin Han also estimates that according to the CCP's "united front" policy, it is unlikely that he will be sentenced to death. In the process, he was directly killed by the people below in the name of "stubborn resistance".
At dawn. According to statistics from all over the world, more than 300 people were killed in the night battle and chaos in Shanghai last night.
Look at the prepared blacklist, one of the few forks. Lin Han sighed dissatisfiedly:
"Dead people. It's still too little! ”
The person who made the report to Lin Han was his student Xiao Bailang. Although I didn't sleep all night. But he didn't show any fatigue, but he seemed a little refreshed because of the excessive excitement of the previous night.
He said to Lin Han: "The front was originally very smooth. But then the comrades of the Red Army entered the city. They didn't let us kill people indiscriminately, they saved a lot of people, they said it was the Red Army's policy of taking prisoners. ”
Lin Han sighed softly and said: "Chairman Li is good at everything, but his heart is too soft, originally I planned to help him do the dirty work and remove this garbage once and for all." The best way is for the literati, the moths, the garbage, these class enemies, to directly destroy the miè physically, because it is impossible for these people to transform a good revolution is not a dinner party, well, am I considered ultra-leftist? Come on, let him go, I'm more of a throwlor jumping between the far left and the far right. ”
When Lin Han spoke, he was looking at the Zhabei Railway Station not far away, and after the Red Army entered the city last night, it temporarily stopped in the Huajie District. In addition to the "traditional concession areas" of Huangpu District, Jing'an District, and Yangpu District, which were controlled by foreign garrisons, even the mouth of the Huangpu River and the Baoshan District near the sea are now under the control of the international merchant group.
After the Red Army entered the city last night, under the orders of its superiors, it did not expel these foreign bandits who "crossed the line", but showed restraint, and after dawn, the two sides confronted each other at a distance of less than 20 meters.
At this time, there was no more war in Shanghai on the surface, but there was tension between each other, and the smell of gunpowder was very strong.
The place where the confrontation was most severe was near the Zhabei railway station, where a battalion of 500 troops of the International Merchant Regiment was stationed. They were confronted by the troops of Lin Shuai of the Jiangbei Red Army, who had rushed from Nanjing to Shanghai by railroad to Guò.
In terms of numbers, the Red Army had an absolute advantage, but these foreign bandits, who were accustomed to running rampant in China, still maintained the usual arrogance of the West at this time.
Beginning at six o'clock in the morning, the first small Red Army unit broke into downtown Shanghai along the railway, preparing to seize the Zhabei Railway Station, and the allied forces of the International Merchants League, which had been deployed here in advance to intercept it, started a confrontation with them.
With the passage of time, the Red Army troops who arrived at Zhabei Railway Station not only walked into the city, but also took a train directly to the front of Zhabei Railway Station. The situation of the coalition forces is also becoming more and more disadvantaged. But despite the drumming in their hearts, these Western soldiers still arrogantly occupy the train station and refuse to quit.
The Red Army did not attack because they were waiting for instructions from the top leadership of the headquarters in Wuhan, but the preparations did not stop.
On the train from the Tongguò Railway, the "generous gift" of Song Ziwen, the captain of the transport brigade, was brought -- 12 British-made Vickers six-ton tanks. The tanks were provided to Song Tzu under the Treaty of London, which was a $50 million arms loan.
After the signing of the Treaty of London, Soong received a large number of foreign arms: the Germans supplied rifles, the Americans supplied flights, the French supplied artillery, and the British were responsible for providing tanks.
According to the Treaty of London, Soong Ziwen successively purchased 110 Vickers six-ton tanks from the British, which were selected by the German consultant Jianyi, and were suitable for the battlefield environment of many rivers in southern China, because of its light weight and low requirements for the weight of bridges. In his opinion, the British's sale of tanks to Soong Ziwen was nothing more than an act of "aiding the Communists" by changing hands one more time. To deal with these tanks. Lin Han secretly imported more than 2,000 13-mm anti-tank guns from Germany and handed them over to the Red Army.
The Vickers six-ton tank is a classic of light tanks, and the Soviet T26 light tank and the German No. 1 tank both refer to his design - the original plane is no exception, and even the No. 1 tank that Germany is equipping troops at this time is more like the Vickers tank than the No. 1 tank on the historical plane.
In the past half a month of war, all of the more than 100 Vickers tanks fell into the hands of the Red Army, and the 20 Vickers six-ton tanks that finally fell into the hands of the Red Army had just arrived last night.
The Vickers tank weighed six tons and had a crew of three people. Two-person turret design. The firepower was one 47-mm howitzer and one machine gun. With the exception of the turret, the hull armor was 13 mm thick, but it could be increased to 17 mm on customer request, despite the name of a six-ton tank. But if you thicken the thickness to 17 mm. The weight will increase to about eight tons.
Historically, the British production of the Vickers six-ton tank was only 153 units. But because this plane has received orders from China, the production is close to 300 vehicles. (In fact, the largest producer of this model was the Soviet Union, which bought his production license, which later became its Soviet improved T26)
The Vickers tanks sold by the British to the artillery party had a maximum thickness of only 13 mm. Lin Han's anti-tank guns that aided the Red Army could penetrate the front armor of this tank with a light of 300 meters, coupled with the clumsy tactics of the artillery party's use of tanks, and the low will of the soldiers to fight, these tanks did not play a role in the war, but were captured by the Red Army in large numbers.
In recent years, Germany secretly helped the Red Army train a large number of air forces, but the Red Army's tankmen were trained in the Soviet Union after 1934. After 1934, Tongguò was located at the mouth of Fujian, and the Soviet Union secretly exported a batch of early T26 tanks with a single turret to the Red Army for domestic training. However, these tanks were deployed in Fujian to protect against a possible Japanese invasion.
The tanks in the hands of the Red Army on the north and south banks of the Yangtze River were all captured on the battlefield. Counting those that had just been transported from Nanjing to Shanghai, the number of Red Army tanks in Shanghai now reached thirty-six.
However, the tanks are now temporarily stuck more than a kilometre away from the confrontation line between the two sides. Under the guidance of Soviet and German technicians, the Red Army's central maintenance personnel were welding or screwing pieces of armor to various vital parts of the Vickers six-ton tank to strengthen its defenses.
From the very beginning, the Red Army did not expect these foreign bandits occupying China to voluntarily withdraw from the concession and prepared for war from the very beginning.
"If you seek peace through struggle, you will live in peace; If you seek peace through compromise, you will die peacefully. ”
The leaders of the upper echelons of the Red Army understood this very well. The confrontation now is only because the heavy weapons in the rear are still on the way to be delivered. The Red Army also needed time to get acquainted with the battlefield environment, to lay out artillery positions in order to prepare snipers, and the front-line airfield, located near Shanghai, was also under construction and preparation.
In the building behind the confrontation line between the two sides, more than 200 snipers, sharpshooters with sniper rifles, are lurking in various production points with their assistants.
The weapons used by these snipers are all heavy sniper rifles modified from 13mm caliber anti-tank guns. Since the eightfold sniper scope could not be mass-produced, the gun was equipped with a quadruple Zeiss scope. The gun was powerful, but the recoil was also huge, and it was not too suitable for the Orientals. In order to suppress the huge recoil of the gun, Germany carried out a special antirecoil design for the oriental physique. The only problem was that the weight of the gun increased dramatically, and the total weight of the whole gun plus the weight of the mount was up to twenty kilograms. However, this weight is not a problem when doing a little sniper combat in the city.
The upper echelons of the Red Army attached great importance to the battle of Shanghai, and from the very beginning concentrated most of the "sharpshooters" in various units in Shanghai, preparing to quickly take Shanghai with large-scale sniper operations.
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