It's bustling outside, but it's hard to hear anything underground.

Under the leadership of Wu Chunsheng, when the sun had just set that night, he and the seventeen members of the assault death squad came to a sewer entrance by the river outside Muzhen. Pried open the iron fence above, and the group entered the sewer in turn.

It was crowded at first, but it got wider and wider. It is said to be wide, in fact, it is to be able to walk alone when it is looser, fortunately, the soldiers who are selected in advance are some thin soldiers, although it is a little narrow to walk in, but it is not crowded, and it is relatively easy for everyone to hook their waists to pass.

The underground passage is pitch black, and the passage is even more bent and eighteen. It is only with the help of a compass and a map that people can determine the way forward. There is a thick layer of silt on the inside.

Although it was already autumn, they still emitted all kinds of choking stench after stepping on it, and after a while, the paratrooper boots on their feet were already soaked. The humidity was heavy underneath, and the cold felt like a knife piercing everyone's skin.

The sound of ticking water echoed back and forth in the sewers, and the rats on the ground hurried through, but the officers and soldiers did not care about these at all, and continued to walk forward under the leadership of Wu Chunsheng.

"Squeak!" Zhu Fucai stepped on a mouse, he caught the mouse and didn't kill it, but put it in his pocket.

Because of the fear of exposure, the flashlight could not be turned on for a long time, and everyone did not use the flashlight too much. Fortunately, Wu Chunsheng brought a horse lantern over, he said that this is a habit developed by the old railway people, and he carries a horse lantern everywhere, this thing is not kerosene, but it is still bright when it is windy and rainy.

His lantern is a good solution to the problem of lighting, after all, the lantern is not a beam of light like a flashlight, and they can be turned off when approaching the sewer mouth, so as to avoid the danger of exposure.

After walking on the map for nearly three hours, everyone came to an open place. Zhu Fucai said to the map: "This should be under the transit ground in Suzhou, and a few miles further on, it should be the headquarters of the Japanese army." ”

Wu Chunsheng nodded: "That's right, judging from the time we are going now, it should not be far away." ”

"Okay, everyone get ready for battle, and we'll go out in turn in a minute." Zhu Fucai hung * in front of his chest, hooked his waist and continued to walk forward.

As the team walked forward, they could feel that the ground action had begun, because the footsteps of various cow tendon soles were constantly coming, mixed with the sound of motorcycles and cars from time to time, it could be seen that this was the movement of troops on the ground, presumably their attack had an effect, and the Japanese troops stationed in Muzhen had already dispatched troops to fight the fire everywhere.

After walking for a while, the footsteps above were much quieter, and the sewer mouth could be seen from time to time with the lights outside. I think this should be the Japanese army headquarters in Muzhen.

Everyone began to stop and began to check their weapons, ammunition and equipment. Zhu Fucai gave the order to prepare for battle in a low voice, and everyone lined up in turn and began to walk towards the mouth of a sewer well.

"This is where the Japanese headquarters are located." Wu Chunsheng pointed to it and made a gesture.

"Li Jian!" Zhu Fucai's head tilted, and a soldier with a flexible figure and a face covered with black mud standing behind him quietly walked to the mouth of the well.

He picked up something resembling a periscope and quietly poked out, and not far away stood two sentries smoking cigarettes.

Li Jian stretched out two fingers to the back, and pointed in their direction to indicate the distance, and the people behind understood it.

Zhu Fucai made a gesture, which meant to let Li Jian continue to observe, while the other soldier with a small head pulled out the * hanging on his leg.

After the Japanese soldier finished smoking, he walked towards this side with a gun in his hand, talking and laughing. Li Jian gestured to the people behind.

Everyone held their breath, but fortunately, after the Japanese soldiers arrived here, they simply turned around, and then walked forward with their guns in their hands.

Li Jian made a gesture to signal that the Japanese soldiers had left.

Zhu Fucai nodded affirmatively, and the soldier who pulled out * in the back quietly opened the manhole cover on it, and the creaking sound attracted the attention of the Japanese soldiers.

Zhu Fucai took out the mouse in his pocket and threw it at the mouth of the manhole, and the mouse slid out with a stumble. Seeing this, the two Japanese soldiers smiled and said a few words, then stopped and walked back.

Li Jian took the opportunity to push the manhole cover open, this time he was much more careful, and the manhole cover did not make a creaking sound again. After a while, he pushed the manhole cover completely open. After pushing it open, he stepped on a handrail next to him and got out of it lightly.

Immediately afterwards, the soldier who was touching * inside also came out lightly. After the two reached the ground, the soldier touched out*, Li Jian made a shaking head gesture, it is easy to bleed with a knife, and the smell of blood will make military dogs bark, which will expose their whereabouts.

The warrior, who was good at playing with knives, put away his knife with some disappointment, and the two men crept forward.

The two Japanese soldiers were now facing away from them, holding their guns side by side. Li Jian and the two jumped forward when they were still a few steps away, and the two of them rushed forward to hug the knees of the Japanese soldiers, and pressed the waist of the Japanese soldiers with their legs, and then the two reached out to lock their throats, only to hear a crisp clicking sound, and almost at the same time twisted the necks of the two Japanese soldiers.

After dealing with the two Japanese soldiers, Li Jian sent a signal of safety. Zhu Fucai and the others quickly came out of the sewer and formed a battle formation.

"This is the headquarters of the Sato Brigade of the Japanese Army, you see, that place is the building of the former railway transfer station." Wu Chunsheng recognized this, and he looked a little excited.

"Action!" Zhu Fucai waved his hand, and everyone lined up in a peg-shaped battle formation and began to move inside.

Now the outside is attacking, and the defense here is very weak, with only a few guards and officers of the brigade headquarters.

According to the pre-set setting, Zhu Fucai and the others now placed * detonating around them, destroying the power supply and communication systems of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army headquarters was suddenly in chaos. The officers and soldiers who served as guards were yelling around with Type 38 rifles to arrest people, but Sato understood that someone had mixed in, perhaps the anti-Japanese organizations were acting from within.

He picked up the phone in front of him and prepared to give an order, but the phone line had been cut and he couldn't get out at all.

Sato angrily hung the saber on the table on his waist, walked out of the command post with big strides, and personally commanded the guard troops to encircle and suppress.

The sound of gunfire kept coming, and it was not clear how many people there were on the other side, but Sato was convinced that it should be a rabble, and he firmly believed that these were just internal strategies of the anti-Japanese organization.

But this misjudgment cost him the last fighter. He should have contracted his defenses and continued to command the front line, but at this time, he decided to eliminate this group of intruders. Although the guard unit of the brigade had as many as a platoon and a company of the puppet army, not long after the gunshots rang out, the commander of the puppet guard company thought that the Wehrmacht had entered the city, so he simply threw away the gun and took the lead and ran away.

There was only one platoon of Japanese soldiers left, but they were mainly armed with Type 38 rifles, which in such short-range street battles could not be compared to the heavy firepower of the Hanyang-style*. The Japanese soldiers in this platoon also had a few crooked light machine guns, but these were all deployed to the perimeter defense, and they did not play a role at all.

There was no suspense in the battle, relying on the superiority of firepower and personnel quality, Zhu Fucai led people to quickly bloody the command post of the Sato Brigade. Captain Sato wanted to swing a knife to attack at the end, but was beaten into a hornet's nest by Wu Chunsheng.

After washing the command post in blood, Zhu Fucai immediately fired several signal flares into the sky to inform the peripheral troops that this place had been occupied.

The defense of the Sato Brigade, which had lost the command of its superiors, suddenly collapsed, and one of the infantry regiments of the puppet army simply surrendered en masse. Although the rest of the Japanese army fought to the end, it was already crushed. The next morning, the paratrooper regiment occupied the town of Mu.

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With the recapture of Muzhen, the Nanjing-Shanghai line, an important point of support for the Japanese army, was cut off. At this time, Ji Xingwen also led his troops to launch a scheduled attack on the front line of Kunshan, and achieved corresponding results. At this time, the headquarters of the Airborne Forces mobilized a large number of airborne troops and began to parachute around Suzhou, and this time the airborne troops numbered as many as 10,000 people, and a large number of heavy weapons were also parachuted.

The rear of the Japanese army became precarious.

Matsui began to get anxious, whether to mobilize troops to lift the siege of Suzhou, or should he continue to hold on to his existing positions and mobilize troops from other places to save Suzhou?

At the command post of the Nanjing front, Matsui Ishone, King Hatohiko and his staff officers were worried.

The staff officers debated over this matter, and some thought that troops should be immediately sent back to relieve the siege of Suzhou; Others believe that the Chinese army is only a small number of paratroopers parachuted in the air, which is not enough to form a threat to Suzhou, and that once heavy troops are mobilized from the front line to return to help, it will inevitably cause an imbalance in the Nanjing defense line, and it is now in the critical stage of a decisive battle, and it is absolutely impossible to transfer troops from the front line.

Matsui Shigen also had difficulty making decisions for a while, and in the face of Suzhou's predicament, he knew that he could only mobilize troops from Shanghai, but in case of transferring troops from Shanghai, who could guarantee that the Chinese army would not be airborne in Shanghai?