The Shanqing Gate in the north of Jiaxing is a famous port area in the Jiaxing section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, where a squadron was stationed after the Japanese occupation to guard more than 20 warehouses of all sizes in the port area.

The two Type 92 heavy machine guns in the barricades and the six crooked machine guns deployed on the left and right flanks formed a crossfire, knocking down several officers and men who were approaching the barricades at night.

The officers and men who followed immediately fell down and fired at the defenders with Czech light machine guns.

Several snipers rushed to the rooftops on both sides of the street, and soon there was a crisp sound of gunfire, and almost instantly a Japanese Type 92 heavy machine gun was extinguished.

The snipers who supplemented the regiment fired calmly one after another, and the scorching bullets that had been suppressed flew out of the muzzle of the guns, drilled into the exposed shooting holes of the Japanese soldiers, pierced the helmets of the devil soldiers who operated the Type 92 heavy machine guns and fired fiercely, turning them into cold corpses one after another.

In just two or three minutes, more than 20 corpses lay on the barricades of the Japanese army, which were equipped with two Type 92 heavy machine guns.

Although the Japanese army's marksmanship was extremely accurate, the tongue of fire from the heavy machine gun in the night exposed the position, while the sniper's side was hidden in the dark, and he could shoot one shot at a time very calmly, until all the devils who operated the heavy machine gun were dropped.

As the heavy machine guns on top fell silent, the officers and men of the supplementary regiment, who had launched an attack from the front, crawled close to the barricades, turned in, and then approached the warehouses on both sides that served as Japanese light machine gun positions.

As the two buildings were breached, the officers and men rushed into the warehouses like a tidal wave, opened heavy fire on the Japanese soldiers with submachine guns and pistols, overturned the devils who tried to fight with bayonets, and then cleared the way with grenades, clearing the enemy room by room.

After more than half an hour of fierce fighting, a squadron of Japanese troops stationed in the port area was cleared. As the most courageous soldiers of the 6th Division in the Japanese army, these devils were extremely tenacious, none of them surrendered, and all of them fought to the death.

Chen Dabiao, the commander of the first battalion, walked into the main warehouse in the port area surrounded by several guards, and then his eyes widened: "Why are there so many good things?" Isn't there a shortage of supplies for the Japanese army? ”

Xiao Jian, the commander of the second company, said with a smile: "I found the storekeeper who was hiding, and he said that this was originally the warehouse area under the Military Industry Administration, and its main role was to support the war in Shanghai through waterways. After the Japanese army took the area north of the city, it did not take the inner city for a day during the day today, so it had to temporarily use this place as an arsenal for front-line operations.

Chen Dabiao said to the deputy battalion commander, Captain Mei Ke: "Hurry up and check it, make a list, and then report it and ask the regiment headquarters to appoint someone to come over and transfer all the things." It's still early, and there are ready-made waterways to use, so I'm not afraid that I won't be able to finish moving."

"Okay"

Meko took the order and left.

Half an hour later, the list was delivered to Chen Yanhua, and he saw that the weapons and equipment seized on it included four Type 92 heavy machine guns, six Type 38 heavy machine guns, six Taisho Type 3 heavy machine guns, 24 crooked handle machine guns, 1,200 Type 38 rifles, four Type 92 infantry guns, and two Type 88 75-mm antiaircraft guns, as well as more than 4,000 boxes of various types of ammunition, more than 5,000 grenades, more than 1,000 infantry shells, mortar shells, and antiaircraft shells, as well as four tons of explosives and more than 2,000 bayonets.

In addition, there are more than 100 tons of grain, 10,000 quilts, 10,000 shoes and socks, 10 tons of steel, 1 ton of copper ingots, and materials such as wires and cables.

"How can there be so many things?" Chen Yanhua was very surprised.

The communications staff officer reported: "The telegram said that the guns and ammunition were all Japanese, and the food and other materials were stored there at the Jiaxing Military Station of the Military Industry Administration, and it was said that they were preparing to support the war in Shanghai by water, but they did not expect that after the Japanese army landed in Hangzhou Bay, the waterway was cut off, and it was left here, and even the headquarters of the Right Wing Army did not know that there were so many good things in the road, and the Japanese army was ecstatic after getting it. ”

Chen Yanhua nodded, then subconsciously looked at his watch, and was anxious: "Now there are still eight hours before dawn, do you have to ship so many good things?" ”

Zhou Chengdao, a staff officer of the regiment, said: "There should be no big problem, and now the officers and men of the militia regiment of the two regiments are at the mouth of the Changshui Pond outside the southwest lake, and they have brought more than 200 boats, including more than 50 50-ton sailing boats, so there should be no problem if you hurry up."

"Row"

Chen Yanhua immediately decided: "Immediately order the militia to enter the Shanqingzha port area, and the transfer work must be completed before dawn, even if the things that cannot be transported are blown up, they cannot be cheap to the Japanese."

"Yes"

Zhou Cheng saluted and left.

"Hey? Who are you? We are officers and soldiers of the Eighth Army of the National Revolutionary Army......"

Listening to the greetings of the Chinese soldiers on the phone, Gu Shoufu, who was calling to inquire about the battle situation on the front line, knew that the main position on Chengbei Road on the other side of the phone had fallen, and he couldn't help but be furious:

"Where did these soldiers of Baga come from? In order to make the fighting power so strong, six or seven places have been occupied by it in a short period of time and they still don't mention their names, and their conscience is greatly damaged

Hearing the sound of gunfire, the commander of the 18th Division, who rushed to the forward headquarters to find out, Sadao Nakajima, coughed lightly and suggested: "Gu Shoujun, the situation on the front line is unknown, I think it is better to withdraw the troops from the city first, and how about fighting again tomorrow?" ”

Gu Shoufu's eyes were bloodshot, and he flatly refused: "After paying heavy sacrifices, it was not easy to win so much territory in the city, how can you give up lightly?" What needs to be done now is to counterattack, counterattack on all fronts, and we must give the Chinese army a good look. ”

Nakajima Sadao smiled faintly: "Do you need the help of our eighteenth division?" ”

"When I need to, I will naturally speak"

After saying it angrily, Naseshio quickly picked up the microphone and dialed the phone number of the artillery position, ready to give the vile and shameless Chinese army who could only sneak attack with the fiercest counterattack.

After several "feed" sounds, there was no echo in the earpiece, Gu Shoufu listened carefully, yes, there was not even the sound of electricity, and then he hit the table with a punch and scolded loudly: "Baga, the person in China cut the telephone line"

After arranging for the communications staff officer to take people to check the line, Gu Shoufu was about to send someone to inform the artillerymen when he heard a violent explosion outside.

Gu Shoufu's face changed greatly, he rushed out of the house in a few steps, called the captain Murakami Shaozuo, who was in charge of the security work of the division and regiment headquarters, and reprimanded him fiercely: "What's the matter? Are the people of China approaching the train station? ”

Captain Murakami was also puzzled.

In the darkness, a group of people suddenly ran out, they threw a grenade at the fortifications on the outskirts of the railway station, and ran away in a blink of an eye. Now Captain Murakami has not figured out what the situation is.

Seeing that Captain Murakami couldn't answer, Gu Shoufu pushed him away and listened carefully to the movement outside, and there was an explosion in the northern part of Jiaxing City, which was more violent than the other, mixed with shouts and wails.

Gu Shoufu didn't care about reprimanding Captain Murakami, and at present, the telephone lines between the division headquarters and the subordinate wings had been cut off, and the only thing he could do was to contact him by telegram.

Lin Dayuan, the commander of the reconnaissance company hiding in the shadows, silently looked at the majestic railway station and shook his head. He didn't know that this was the headquarters of the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army, and there were two lieutenant generals and four or five major generals in it, but he only knew that the area around the railway station was heavily guarded, and more than 20 heavy machine gun positions were found alone, which was definitely a difficult bone to gnaw.

After Lin Dayuan cut the telephone line, he used a grenade to destroy a Japanese heavy machine gun position, which was considered an over-the-top task, and now he could only wander around the surrounding area, find the weak parts of the Japanese army, and immediately destroy it.

"Go"

Lin Dayuan waved his hand, and quickly disappeared into the darkness with the officers and soldiers around him.

The artillery position of the Second Brigade of the Sixth Wing of the Field Artillery, which is located in Nanhenggang, one kilometer north of the northern urban area of Jiaxing, received a telegram from the division headquarters, and did not dare to slack off, so it immediately adjusted its coordinates and launched an artillery bombardment on the line of Dongsheng Road outside the Wangwu Gate in order to block the artillery bombardment of the attacking Chinese troops.

With a piercing scream, 75mm grenades fell into the streets of Dongsheng Road and the houses on the north and south sides, sending out clusters of orange fireballs.

However, the Chinese army did not rigidly abide by the step-by-step offensive mode and continuously replenish its forces from the rear, but adopted a combat mode in which the whole line blossomed and struck at the key points, and did not leave any personnel in the rear, and these explosive sparks did not pose much threat to the officers and men of the Second Supplementary Regiment in the offensive.

The Japanese artillery bombardment exposed the position of its artillery position, and the eight 81 mortars of the supplementary group of machine guns on the small island between the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and Muhexi had already moved into place, and with the commander's order, the shells "clanged" into the sky, quickly turned into black dots, and smashed down on the Japanese artillery positions with a piercing scream.

Dense shells exploded on the Japanese artillery position, and countless flames were set off on the ground, and then a shell fell next to the Japanese 75-mm field gun and exploded, only to hear a loud "boom" on the ground, and a fierce flame rose on the ground, and several devils standing around the field artillery danced into the air, and one wheel of the 75-mm field gun was blown away from the gun body, and rolled out five or six meters away before it tilted and fell.

The grenades, which were fired at a rate of 15 rounds per minute, continued to explode on the Japanese artillery positions, columns of smoke rose from the ground, the wheels of another 75-mm field gun were blown into the sky, and several Japanese gunners were blown to pieces in the firelight.

"Boom-"

The intensive bombardment finally took effect, several shells fell on the ammunition boxes piled up by the Japanese army almost at the same time, only to see the entire northern area of the city suddenly flash white, the spare shells on the Japanese artillery positions suddenly exploded, the ammunition boxes full of shells flew into the air one after another, the violent explosion sound spread throughout the entire Jiaxing city for more than ten miles, and the earth trembled violently like an earthquake.

"Quick, hurry up and transfer"

Seeing the surprise attack, the commander of the machine gun company stomped his feet happily, and then waved his hand and ordered the troops to quickly pack up the small artillery and rush to the edge of the island.

The three speedboats had just sailed more than 80 meters out of the island, and a dense group of shells fired from the northeast had already covered the entire island.

At this time, the fighting in the northern area of the city intensified, due to the use of bazookas and flamethrowers, the Japanese army's solid fire points became live targets for rockets, and those exposed barricades were covered by fire dragons, and many Japanese soldiers became burning people running around, passing the threat to every devil around them.

The battle continued, even if the Japanese soldiers of the 6th Division were mentally tough, but seeing the miserable situation of Pao Ze before his death, no one was not frightened.

A large number of Japanese soldiers scrambled to flee first, one by one lost their souls, like lost dogs.

On the courtyard walls on both sides of a street intersection on the south side of the Sujia Railway Station, looking at the ghost soldiers who escaped from the front, Lin Dayuan waited quietly.

When the defeated devils rushed to the street corner in a panicked formation, a bundle of cluster grenades tied together with five grenades was thrown on the walls on both sides, and the panicked devils were stunned at once. Then there was a rain of submachine guns and light machine gun bullets, and the corpses of those devils were scattered all over the field before they could react, and rivers of blood flowed.

From 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. the next morning, the officers and men of the Supplementary Regiment were like ghosts in the darkness, sending little by little the devils stationed in the northern part of the city to hell......

As soon as they met, it was a hail of grenades or submachine guns, light machine guns, and a rain of bullets, and a variety of melee weapons caused heavy casualties to the Japanese army, but the most feared thing for the devils was the flamethrower, as soon as the so-called fire dragon came out, who dared to fight?

The news of the defeat from the various wings and brigades under his command made Gu Shoufu furious, and he scurried around the headquarters like a crazy beast.

Nakajima Sadao, who coincided with the meeting, kept persuading, but in the eyes of Tani Toshio, it was tantamount to questioning his ability, or watching the joke of the Sixth Division.

However, in the face of such a complicated situation, although Gu Shoufu was annoyed, after all, he was a high-achieving student who graduated from Lu Shi and Lu University, and he was promoted step by step from a low-level officer to his current position.

As the eastern sky revealed the whiteness of the fish's belly, the replenished regiment broke away from the battle, handing over the defensive line to the friendly officers and soldiers who had replenished it. Although the battlefield had been simply cleaned, the huge gains still made the officers and men of the 52nd Division of the Fujian Army and the 128th Division of the Hunan Army thunderous with joy.

Chen Yanhua personally came to the gate of Wangwumen City to greet the soldiers who returned from victory.

Although the officers and men were tired, their eyes were full of excitement and pride, although they were not awarded the regimental flag by the division headquarters and did not have many opportunities to go to the battlefield, but this time they proved the strength of the supplementary regiment with their strength.