Chinachem Hotel, the rooftop of the tower.

It was already past lunchtime, but the dozen or so Westerners gathered on the rooftop had no intention of leaving the rooftop and going to the restaurant on the eighth floor to eat.

"Look, the national army has broken through the Japanese defense!"

"God, the Chinese soldiers really broke into the Sichuan Road!"

In the dense gunfire, several sharp-eyed reporters suddenly shouted.

At the same time, around the Chinachem Hotel, the citizens of Shanghai who had gathered on their balconies or on the street to watch the battle suddenly cheered loudly.

When Soviet Ambassador to China Bogmonov and US Embassy Military Attache Stilwell hurriedly raised their binoculars and looked ahead, they saw a group of Chinese soldiers with bayonets rushing out of the junction between Target Road and Sichuan Road.

The uniforms of the officers of the National Military Academy are very different from those of non-commissioned officers or lieutenants, and they are very easy to identify.

I saw that the officer of the National Military Academy shot out a shuttle of bullets, and several Japanese soldiers were immediately knocked down.

The remaining 20 or so Japanese soldiers had no fighting spirit, and under the pursuit of the Nationalist army, they were divided into two groups, a dozen Japanese soldiers rushed north and in the direction of the naval headquarters, and the remaining seven or eight Japanese soldiers panicked and fled south along the North Sichuan Road into the public concession, only to be disarmed by the Italian troops guarding the bridge.

Bogmonov said: "Colonel Stilwell, the officers of the national army do not seem to be as bad as you say. ”

Stilwell shook his head and said: "No, no, no, no, I never said that the officers of the national army were not brave enough to fight in battle, in fact, the officers of the national army are the bravest officers I have ever seen on this shijie, and the reason why I say that their quality is low is because they have basically not been exposed to modern military theory, that is, the so-called Whampoa officers." ”

Bogmonov said: "But even so, there is no shortage of tactical geniuses among them. ”

"Yes." "It's unbelievable," Stilwell said, "I would never have believed that such a tactical genius existed among Chinese soldiers unless I had seen it with my own eyes." ”

Bogmonov said: "I really want to know who this person is, and if I have the opportunity, I will definitely recommend him to study at the most prestigious Frunze Military Academy." ”

Stilwell didn't say anything with his pipe in his mouth, but he thought in his heart, forget about the Frunze Military Academy, our West Point Military Academy in the United States of America is the best military school in this Shijie.

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On the North Sichuan Road, Xu Shijiu joined Yang Furui, who was holding a Czech light machine gun.

"Brother Han Soul, how do you fight next?" After Yang Furui finished speaking, he straightened the Japanese steel helmet on his head, and his own German-style steel helmet didn't know where it fell, "Is it along the Sichuan Road all the way to the north?" ”

"No, the Sichuan Road is the defensive support of the Japanese army, because the several roads and bridges connecting Yangshupu District and Hongkou District are all horizontally connected to the Sichuan Road, if the Sichuan Road is not recaptured, the Japanese army trapped in the naval headquarters will become a lone army, so I expect that the Japanese army will definitely gather heavy troops to counterattack from the east and north."

"Brother, you say, whether you attack or defend, my brother will listen to you."

"Okay, please Brother Fu Rui immediately stop the pursuit, deploy troops to repair fortifications at all intersections of Qiujiang Road, be sure to block the enemy coming from the north to the north of the various intersections of Qiujiang, and never let the Japanese army reopen the North Sichuan Road, and the younger brother will lead the 19th Brigade to advance eastward and block all the roads and bridges on the Honghe River!"

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Nanxiang Guyi Garden, Headquarters of the 9th Army.

Zhang Zhizhong had just returned to the headquarters after inspecting the position of the 8th Independent Artillery Regiment near Zhenru, and while walking into the war room, he asked Tong Yuanliang: "Mu Tao, how is the battle situation?" ”

Tong Yuanliang said: "General seat, there has been a lot of progress!" ”

"Oh?" As he spoke, Zhang Zhizhong was already standing in front of the map.

Tong Yuanliang pointed to the map and said: "You see, the 264th Brigade was ashamed and brave, and this morning it successively captured Zhizhi University, Patriotic Girls' School and Hongkou Park in one go, and the 262nd Brigade Wu Qiujian Regiment also captured the Bazi Bridge and the Japanese Tomb Mountain, and advanced the battle line to Tiantongan Station, whose outpost position is less than 500 meters away from the naval headquarters!"

The fly in the ointment is that because the Japanese army shrank too quickly, the number of enemies destroyed was not very large. ”

Zhang Zhizhong's eyes fell on the direction of the North Railway Station and said, "What about Han Xianyuan's regiment in the direction of the North Station?" ”

Tong Yuanliang said: "Han Xianyuan's regiment also fought well, although the distance advanced was not as good as Wu Qiujian's regiment and the 264 brigade, but they also advanced the battle line to the north of Qiujiang Road, and also blocked seven or eight highway bridges on the Honghe River, the passage of the Hongkou Japanese army to replenish military supplies from Huishan Wharf has been cut off by our army, but it is ......"

Zhang Zhizhong frowned, and said in a deep voice: "It's just what, say!" ”

Tong Yuanliang said: "It's just half an hour ago, the Japanese army just mobilized heavy troops, and launched a crazy counterattack against the Han Xianyuan regiment from the three directions of Broadway Road, Xihuade Road and Sichuan Road. ”

Zhang Zhizhong said: "The roads and bridges on the Sichuan Road and the Honghe River can be said to be the life passage of the Japanese army in Hongkou, once cut off by me, the Japanese army in Hongkou will suddenly become a turtle in the urn, so it is completely expected that the Japanese army will fight back wildly." After a pause, Zhang Zhizhong said again, "Call Sun Yuanliang immediately and ask him to send effective troops to support Han Xianyuan." ”

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On the west side of the Broadway Road Bridge, the position of the 1st Squadron of the 19th Brigade.

As mentioned above, Shanghai's public concession is bounded by Suzhou Creek, and the central and western districts in the south are still under the control of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau of the concession, but the eastern and northern districts in the north have been controlled by the Japanese and have become Japanese concessions.

The Honghe River, which flows into the Huangpu River from north to south, is the geographical dividing line of Hongkou District and Yangshupu District.

There are nine highway bridges built on the Honghe River, connecting Yangshupu District with Hongkou District, and the focus of the 19th Brigade's defense is the six road bridges near the Huangpu River in the south, because several highway bridges in the north are close to the cross-border road construction, on the edge of the city, which has been cut off by Wang Jingjiu's 87th Division.

The southernmost Broadway Road Bridge and the Xihuade Road Bridge are the focus of the defense, and the 1st Squadron and the 2nd Squadron of the 19th Brigade, with the veterans of the 19th Route Army as the backbone, are stationed on the west side of the two road bridges, and the 1st Squadron and the 2nd Squadron are under the cover of Japanese warships and gunboats from the Huangpu River.

A few gunboats of the Japanese army are just that, and the largest caliber of the gun is 80mm, use high-explosive shells, you can't penetrate the reinforced concrete building where the officers and soldiers of the 19th Brigade are hiding, and use armor-piercing shells to shoot one shot and one eye, and the collateral lethality effect is very low, but the flagship of the old devil Hasegawa Kiyoshi, the cruiser Izumo, is too lethal.

Not to mention the small-caliber rapid-fire guns on the Izumo, there are 14 heavy guns of 150mm caliber alone, and the most terrifying thing is the four main guns of 203mm caliber, basically a building collapsed after a shot, and a high-explosive bomb fell on the street, that is, a large crater with a diameter of tens of meters, even if it is reinforced and iron, it can blow you to pieces.

Moreover, naval artillery and land artillery are two completely different concepts, compared with the manual loading of marine artillery, the mechanical reloading of naval artillery is much more efficient, and high loading efficiency means that the firing speed is fast, basically, one shot of marine artillery, naval artillery can fire three or four shells, or even more.

In other words, the firepower of a cruiser Izumo is almost equivalent to half a heavy artillery brigade, and the intensity of the two bridgeheads is covered by the fire of half of the heavy artillery brigade.

Ergua lay motionless on the ground with his fists propped up, this is the common sense of anti-artillery taught by veterans.

The veterans said that they must not stick their bodies close to the ground, otherwise they will not be killed, but they will also be shocked to death by the shock wave transmitted from the ground, the 128th Shanghai Anti-Japanese War, the 19th Route Army, which has never seen the power of heavy artillery, has suffered a big loss, and it is said that on the first day of the battle between the two sides, hundreds of veterans were shocked to death by the Japanese heavy artillery!

Ergua found that the real shelling scene was far more terrifying than the veterans described.

Ergua saw with his own eyes that a three-story western-style house collapsed under the fire of the Japanese army, and a squad stationed in the building was buried alive in an instant, and a shell fell behind the barricade at the intersection, which lifted the entire barricade into the air at once, and the brothers lying behind the barricade disappeared without a trace in an instant, and there were no bones.

In the continuous explosions, Ergua only felt that the whole city was shaking violently, and as far as the eye could see, the entire Broadway street had been completely shrouded in thick gunsmoke, and there was nothing to see or hear from ten meters away, except for a buzzing sound, and a burst of dizziness, as if entering an unreal shijie.

A cannonball landed on the roof not far behind Ergua, and the hot rubble blew down, fell to the ground and rebounded to Ergua's face and neck, but he couldn't feel the pain anymore, Xie Gouzi suddenly rushed out of the gunsmoke, and squatted down in front of Ergua and yelled, but Ergua couldn't hear anything, only a buzzing sound.

Xie Gouzi turned around and left after yelling, regardless of whether Ergua heard it or not.

In the almost suffocating buzz, Ergua found that the Japanese artillery bombardment seemed to have stopped, and before the smoke dissipated, the veterans had already climbed up from their hiding bunkers, Xie Gouzi dug out the machine gun from the rubble, and Gao Maniac also took two veterans to push out the 37mm battle defense gun.

and Gao Shenxing, who had broken down Brother Gouzi's box cannon into a pile of parts on the first day of his arrival, was leaning his back against the corner of the wall, casually pressing a bullet into the chamber of the gun.

The noise of the battlefield suddenly poured into Ergua's ears like a tide.

"There are those who are alive, hurry up and check the equipment and replenish each other's ammunition!"

"Crow's mouth, bring two machine guns for Lao Tzu to seize the ruins on the left!"

"High madman, hurry up and push the battle defense cannon back, it's too forward!"

"Ergua, hurry up, the little devil is coming up!"

In the shouting and shouting, Ergua's consciousness suddenly recovered, and when he heard Xie Gouzi calling him, he hurriedly rushed to Xie Gouzi's side in three steps and two steps.

"What are you doing?" Xie Gouzi clicked the bolt and said urgently, "Hurry up and get ammunition!" ”

Ergua picked up the heavy bullet chain from the ammunition box and sent it to the chamber of the gun, while subconsciously poking his head out of the machine gun shield to look, only to see about two squads of devil soldiers rushing out of the Disway Road along the river, and silently rushed up under the cover of two armored vehicles.

"Little devil, grandpa will send you back to Dongying!" Xie Gouzi smiled and pulled the trigger.

In an instant, the 20mm caliber bullets had been violently poured over, and the thin iron sheet of the armored car could not resist the bullets of the 20mm caliber machine gun, and in just a moment, the two armored vehicles were beaten into a honeycomb by Xie Gouzi, and the seven or eight devil soldiers in the armored car were all killed by the metal turbulence formed when the bullets penetrated the armor.

The armored car lay on its stomach, but the fierce devil soldiers refused to retreat, and were still rushing forward with bayonets.

"Come on, come on, old mother, come and die!" Xie Gouzi roared angrily, and the machine gun also roared angrily.

Under the barrage woven by the 20mm machine gun shells, the Japanese soldiers who rushed forward with bayonets fell in a pool of blood, and the two melons trembled when they saw it, the 20mm caliber machine gun was too ferocious, hit the head, the head was directly shattered and disappeared, and the torso was torn to pieces directly!

Looking at the devil soldiers who were torn into pieces of flesh and blood, and at the bloody stumps and severed bodies all over the ground, a strong sense of disgust suddenly surged in Ergua's chest, and he turned around and retched.

"It's fun, it's fun, haha!" Xie Gouzi hahadaxiao, the fight was even more ferocious.