After the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Japanese entered Shanghai one after another.

Most of the Japanese who came to Shanghai in the early days gathered in the area of Wusong Road and Wuchang Road in Hongkou, operating small businesses such as photo studios or running brothels to make a living. During the last European war, there were more than 7,000 Japanese expatriates in the public concession, the largest number of expatriates in Shanghai.

After the end of the European War, the Japanese textile industry invested in Shanghai on a large scale, and the regular route from Shanghai to Nagasaki was opened in the 12th year of the Republic of China, and the Japanese expatriates in the public concession continued to increase. After the 28 January Incident, the Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai actually took control of the northern and eastern districts of the public concession and the adjacent areas outside the boundary, and by the year before last there had exceeded 30,000 Japanese nationals, and more than half of the Japanese nationals living in this area had already exceeded half of the foreign nationals living in Shanghai, and they still mainly lived in the areas around Hongkou and Wusong Road, as well as North Sichuan Road and Disway Road, where roads were built across the border in the northern area.

In the early morning, the Japanese who had gathered in Hongkou Park and near the railway line for a day and a night to wait did not receive a reply from the consulate and the military.

"Bang-"

In the morning light, the crisp gunshots rang out, and Du Yuesheng, who had just rushed back to Zhabei Baoshan Road from the Bund British General Assembly building, showed surprise on his face, and then calmed down and shouted: "The little devils are here, everyone is ready"

As Du Yuesheng's words fell, the Green Gang members quickly moved and rushed to the vicinity of the railway line to stop the advance of the Japanese. After less than half an hour, the gunfire in the south and east became more and more dense and the distance became closer and closer, and it was obvious that the Japanese "volunteers" were advancing much faster than Du Yuesheng had expected.

On the top of a two-story arcade building at the intersection of Baoshan Road and Baochang Road, Wu Ming took Lu Kuiyuan and Sun Chengyuan, together with Ye Zhuhan, the chief of the intelligence section who came to report, standing on the drying ground on the top floor used to dry clothes and quilts, and watched the battle taking place in the distance with binoculars.

The personnel in the Chinese restaurant on the first floor had already been evacuated, and Wu Ming's guards were on guard nearby, and although the members of the Green Gang who passed by the door from time to time to participate in the war were a little surprised by this, no one stepped forward to interrogate them.

In the binoculars, the Japanese crossed the railway in groups along Beihe South Road, Dongqiujiang Road, Guangdong Street and Dongbaoxing Road, and quickly passed through the open area to the north of the railway.

After watching it for about ten minutes, Lu Kuiyuan frowned: "The Japanese have accurate marksmanship, high tactical literacy, and are quite disciplined in fighting...... They alternately advanced towards the Huajie in a battle formation of three to five people, and Du Yuesheng's men couldn't resist it."

"It's obvious, the Japanese put this together on the fly. The brave team, composed of local soldiers, ronin, samurai and reservists, most of whom have received professional military training in Japan, this level of combat is not difficult for them at all, and Du Yuesheng's subordinates are different, they are good at fighting alone or in street fights, but to deal with this kind of blood and fire battlefield hand-to-hand tough battle, they are not enough, now the only question is how long they can hold out. After Wu Ming observed, he said with a solemn face.

Lu Kuiyuan took the initiative to ask: "Big brother, those stragglers under Du Yuesheng alone will definitely not be able to stop the crazy Japanese, why don't we attack." ”

Wu Ming glared at Lu Kuiyuan and scolded: "Treat me honestly, you will fight in the future...... You should carefully observe the tactics adopted by the Japanese, and think about how to deal with it, if even the elimination of such an opponent will cause a large number of casualties, I will see what kind of face you, the commander of the guard battalion, will have to go down."

"Don't worry, I promise not to embarrass my eldest brother"

Lu Kuiyuan patted his chest, with a confident face: "If something goes wrong, you don't need to drive people away, I will go back to She Village by myself, marry my wife and have children honestly, and never come out again to be embarrassed, but I still want to ask, when will we attack?" Watching so many Chinese die in vain here, it is quite unpleasant in my heart. ”

Wu Ming put down the binoculars in his hand and said a little helplessly: "It doesn't depend on me, but it depends on Du Yuesheng and Huang Jinrong, to see if they can put down their posture and take the initiative to ask us for help, and then we can justifiably participate in the war Besides, now that the Japanese offensive is not aggressive, Du Yuesheng should still be able to hold on."

In the distance, fierce street battles were going on, "crackling" gunshots rang out non-stop, and even the observation point where Wu Ming, who was two kilometers away from the battlefield, was still passing stray bullets from time to time.

However, Wu Ming found after careful observation that the two sides of the duel, whether they were Japanese or Du Yuesheng's men, did not know much about street fighting, and the Japanese only knew how to advance as soon as possible, and often fell into the encirclement carefully arranged by Du Yuesheng's men because of the lone army, and then were beaten and killed.

Du Yuesheng's subordinates also stopped at this, they didn't know how to use the advantage of numbers to carry out echelon defense, so that the children of the Green Gang with rifles seized the advantageous terrain and commanding heights, and formed long-range strike firepower, and then let the armed personnel with rifles follow the knife and axe to cooperate in the battle, but let the gunmen and the personnel with big knives and axes mix together, and when they meet the enemy, they rush up, and it is okay to meet three or five Japanese, once they encounter a group of little devils, they are often easily eliminated by the Japanese in the hand-to-hand stab.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Wu Ming suddenly remembered the shortcomings in the training of the troops, and immediately made up his mind to immediately expand the scale of the Kaihua battalion after returning home, build special training sites for partial imitation of urban terrain, and dispatch troops to carry out street combat training, so as not to make unforgivable mistakes when encountering similar situations.

The Battle of Stalingrad, as a man of two generations, Wu Ming was naturally thunderous, and its tragedy can be called the most in the history of street fighting. In his previous life, Wu Ming had been in a well-known military forum on the Internet for a long time, and he knew very well about the gains and losses of the Battle of Stalingrad, and he could summarize the main points of urban warfare without much effort.

It has not been long since the start of Japan's war of aggression against China, just as Wu Ming said at the work conference of the new Second Division, Shanghai is a major tax area, and the central government will absolutely not give up it, and the new Second Division is very likely to engage in fierce street battles with the Japanese army in Shanghai, and Zhabei and the eastern and northern districts of the public concession will be the main battlefields, and it is always a good thing to take precautions.

"Ahh

With a terrible scream, another member of the Green Gang was killed under the strike fire of the five devils advancing layer by layer, and after the first blow was successful, the five devils advanced in turn by relying on the corner of the wall, and each found a hiding bunker before approaching the street entrance, preparing for the next impact.

The street is brave and fierce and even group fighting is the specialty of this group of heroes in the market, but the hot weapon war intertwined with steel and flames is their shortcoming, even if they occasionally touch firearms for robbery and killing, they have not received professional and systematic training like soldiers, and the hit rate of shooting can be said to be pitifully low.

At this time, more than a dozen children of the Green Gang approached the five devils from the end of the street, the devils immediately turned around when they heard the footsteps, a row of gunshots rang out, and two of the children of the Green Gang covered their chests and fell, and before the five devils could shoot a second time, the remaining children of the Green Gang had already pounced, two to three people dealt with a devil, and they scuffled in the alley.

Although the five devils are short in stature, they have a lot of strength, and their fighting skills are not bad. At this moment, three devils appeared on the street again, they did not care about the safety of their compatriots, they raised their guns and fired, and suddenly the three children of the green gang fell in a pool of blood.

Seeing this, the rest of the Green Gang disciples were confused, and three more people were stabbed with bayonets, and the remaining five Green Gang children were so frightened that they turned around and ran, only to be killed by bullets one by one and fell to the ground.

This melee is just a microcosm of the whole tug-of-war, after half a day of repeated entanglement, the Japanese in the east successfully invaded Baoyuan Road, Baotong Road and other blocks, and in the south took a few lanes in the south of Zhongqiujiang Road, and firmly controlled several of the key street intersections, Du Yuesheng's Qinggang had to retreat.

After engaging with the Japanese, Du Yuesheng, who retreated his headquarters to the house on the east side of the T-shaped intersection where Baoshan Road and Baotong Road intersected, looked at the familiar Zhabei map on the table, and the various points near the railway line were gradually pasted with Japanese plaster flags, and his face became more and more ugly. He didn't expect to be able to repel the Japanese, but he never expected that he would be defeated so quickly and completely.

His face was covered with hoarfrost, and Du Yuesheng shouted to Wan Molin beside him: "Our number is at least five times that of the Japanese, and we are waiting for work, even if we don't have a bag, we can't hold on for even a day, right?" What will people on the outside think of us? The sick man of East Asia

Wan Molin is known as "Dumen's first celebrity", Du Yuesheng's aunt and cousin and chief disciple, for Du Yuesheng to manage accounts and handle general affairs, he has an excellent memory, for Du Yuesheng to memorize 190 sets of phone numbers, and at the same time clear about every street in Shanghai, every Dumen industry, won Du Yuesheng's trust.

"Niang Xipi, I'll go see what the hell is going on"

Wan Molin, who is almost forty years old this year, his face is also extremely ugly, and he turned around and left after answering. After most of the day's fighting, the Japanese were about to completely control the blocks south of Baoshan Road and Zhongqiujiang Road, and the battle situation was one-sided.

Wan Molin rushed to the front line, took the lead, and led people to resist stubbornly for more than an hour at the junction of Baotong Road and Baoyuan Road, and finally retreated at the cost of hanging a color on his left arm, he covered his bleeding shoulder, and reluctantly reported to Du Yuesheng:

"The brothers have fought to the death every time, and not one of them has escaped, and now more than 300 brothers have been killed or wounded...... Those little devils are too tricky and accurate in marksmanship, and they are very cunning, and we brothers can't get close to each other when they shoot to change places. ”

At this point, Du Yuesheng finally figured out the real gap in the strength of the two sides, it seems that the defeat step by step is not because his brothers are greedy for life and afraid of death, this is really dangerous