Chapter 199: The Battle of the Guards 2

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On the afternoon of 29 November, Fujita Susumu, commander of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, received an order from the commander of the Chinese Front, General Hatohiko Asakanomiya, to intensify the attack. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info://ee5 please search (#...... The fastest updated novel had to find Major General Riichiro Katayama, the commander of the Fifth Brigade, and relay the commander's order to him, asking him to strengthen the attack on the Sixing warehouse, and to give him command of the division's field artillery wing.

After receiving the order, Riichiro Katayama returned to the unit and informed the commander of the 6th Infantry Wing, Tatsuharu Kuranaga, to send two brigades to attack the area of the 4-row warehouses in two directions, west and north, with the cooperation of the Noyama Artillery Wing of the division. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese army again launched an attack on the perimeter of the Sihang warehouse, and to the west was a brigade of Japanese troops, under the cover of artillery of various calibers gathered by the brigade, launched an attack on the position in front of the Bank of Communications building.

To the north, there was also a brigade of Japanese troops, which began the offensive under the cover of the artillery of the 3rd Wing of the Divisional Field Artillery. The field artillery wing of the 3rd Division had 12 reinforced Taisho 14-caliber 105-caliber field cannons. The maximum firing range of this artillery can reach more than 15,000 kilometers, and although a projectile of 15.8 kilograms cannot bring fundamental damage to the four rows of warehouses, it is still possible to break holes in the walls.

The position of the field artillery wing was set up quite far, 10 kilometers away from the Sixing Building, and the mortar that Wang Haitao placed on the roof of the Sixing Building was beyond the reach of the whip. To the north of the Sixing warehouse is the Tibet Road, where the soldiers of a battalion and a company are guarded, and because of the shortage of time, the soldiers of the first company only occupy a few buildings on the Tibet Road and build fortifications with sandbags and planks in the middle of the street, forming a defensive position.

Under the bombardment of dozens of Japanese artillery, such a position was soon riddled with holes, and the officers and men in the position also lost more than ten people, and several were wounded. Even under such unfavorable circumstances, the soldiers of the first battalion and one company and the soldiers of the guard company managed to withstand several attacks by the Japanese army, and the experience of the soldiers of the guard company in hiding from the Japanese artillery bombardment and the new weapons they brought with them played a great role.

The Japanese army in the west gathered more than 20 guns of various calibers to assist a large group of Japanese infantry in the attack, and the soldiers of the guard company occupied the Bank of Communications building next to the fortifications, and the heavy weapons they brought were basically placed on the roof of the building, condescendingly, and attacked the Japanese army. The Bank of Communications building was also very sturdy, and it was not possible for the Japanese small-caliber infantry guns or mortars to deal with, but the two heavy planes arranged on the third floor blocked the road from the window for the Japanese infantry to attack. In the afternoon attack, the Japanese army did not advance an inch.

After dark, considering that the position in the north was really unsafe to defend, and the Japanese artillery fire was very fierce, in order to reduce casualties, Wang Haitao issued an order to retreat to a battalion and a company. Part of the fighters of the 1st Company and the Guards Company took advantage of the darkness to withdraw to the 4-line warehouse. The defensive line that had been somewhat weak outside the Si Hang warehouse became fleshed out after the soldiers of the first company joined.

At night, the Sixing warehouse was calm here, but the Japanese occupation area was lively, from time to time there was a burst of explosions, or a burst of sound, at two o'clock in the night, there was a huge explosion in the north, the vibration of the explosion even the glass window of the Sixing warehouse was a burst of trembling, the sound alarmed the national defenders in the Sixing warehouse, others did not understand what was going on, only Wang Haitao knew in his heart that this was the soldier of the reconnaissance company, taking advantage of the night to launch a sneak attack on some departments of the Japanese army.

On October 30, it rained lightly in the early morning, and the citizens of the south bank of Suzhou Creek knew through the radio that the Sixing warehouse on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek was still defended, and during the battle, tens of thousands of people rushed to the south bank of the Suzhou Creek in the rain, and when they saw the two flags fluttering on the roof of the Sixing warehouse across the Suzhou Creek, tens of thousands of people cheered in unison with the cheers of "Long live the Chinese nation!"

Wang Haitao, Xie Jinyuan and others also braved the rain to stand on the roof of the Sixing warehouse, listening to the cheers of tens of thousands of people on the other side of the river, and a sense of pride also arose. And the Japanese army, who was furious because of this cheer, launched the fiercest attack on the Sixing warehouse in several days. The 5th Brigade of Japanese Tanks was also ordered to assist the 3rd Division in attacking the Sixing warehouse.

The Japanese army launched an attack from the north and west at the same time, and because the soldiers of the first company had been ordered to retreat in the north, the Japanese army drove directly along the Tibet Road to the outer positions of the Sihang warehouse, and the artillery bombardment of the field artillery wing also extended to the positions on the periphery of the Sihang warehouse, and some shells hit the side walls of the Sihang warehouse, and many "windows" were opened on the side walls of the Sihang warehouse.

When the Japanese shelling stopped, the infantry attacked under the cover of several tanks. In the face of the Japanese tank, the soldiers of the first battalion turned out to be both annoying and afraid, the main reason was that this iron guy, light weapons could not deal with it at all, in order to destroy it, it was only up to the soldiers to blow it up with human lives. Now that we have the new weapons brought by the new 90th Division, it will not be difficult to deal with these iron guys at all.

Seeing the Japanese chariots rushing towards them, the defenders of the position unhurriedly took out two 40 rocket launchers. "Bang, bang" sounded, and two rockets flew towards the Japanese tank 200 meters away. A few seconds later, the two tanks led by the Japanese army exploded into two fireballs with two "boom, boom". The officers and men of the first battalion cheered excitedly when they saw this scene, and the soldier of the guard company who hit the Japanese tank was proud and became a hero of the position.

The excitement of the fighters had not yet subsided, and one of the fighters shouted: "The Japanese army is coming." At this time, the soldiers in the position turned their mouths at the attacking Japanese infantry. The commander gave the order of "fire!" and the light and heavy machines in the position opened full firepower, and the Japanese soldiers who were walking in the first few rows were knocked to the ground one after another, and the remaining Japanese soldiers did not lie on the ground to counterattack, but found cover in all directions and returned fire.

After the defenders came to blow up the two tanks, it had the effect of preemptively, and after the soldiers on both sides fired at each other for a while, the Japanese commander ordered a retreat, and the soldiers retreated one after another, leaving only the wreckage of the two Japanese tanks still burning on the road. The unwilling Japanese continued to shell the defenders' positions, and after half an hour of shelling, the infantry attacked again.

The battle in the west was the same, the Japanese first shelled, then the infantry attacked under the cover of the tanks, and the soldiers of the guard company destroyed the Japanese tanks with 40 rocket launchers in the building of the Bank of Communications, and then attacked the Japanese infantry with light and heavy aircraft, and the Japanese retreated after paying dozens of lives.

For a whole day, the sound of artillery on the defensive line of the Sixing warehouse was not broken, and the Japanese troops in both directions launched more than ten attacks, all of which were repulsed by the defenders mercilessly. The Japanese paid the price of 100 killed and a number of tanks destroyed, and they could not get close to the Sixing warehouse, while the defenders only had more than a dozen soldiers killed and more than a dozen soldiers were wounded.

In the evening, the Japanese army stopped the attack, but the soldiers of the first battalion did not rest, everyone was repairing the fortifications that had been damaged during the day, and reinforcing some weak points. The Japanese troops also did not get rest, and as they did last night, the various combat groups of the reconnaissance company attacked the Japanese troops by all means. The Japanese army spent the first day in a storm of wind and trees.

The reconnaissance company's all-pervasive attack on the Japanese army made the commanders of the Japanese army at all levels angry, but they were helpless. These battle groups always seized the opportunity to strike a hard blow at the Japanese army, and then withdrew before the Japanese could react, never entangled too much with the Japanese army. No matter how many troops the Japanese army has, it is impossible to take care of them everywhere, and after being attacked, they cannot find a target if they want to counterattack.

At dawn, the reconnaissance company returned to the Sixing warehouse one after another, and they came back to hand over all kinds of war profits to the command headquarters and then replenish some ammunition. After Tang Xiaoshan also returned, he began to count the results of the battle group one by one, summarized them, and then reported them to the division. Wang Haitao was so big that he read the report of the reconnaissance company, but in fact, he didn't read it, and Wang Haitao also believed that the reconnaissance company would perform well in the past two nights.

After Wang Haitao encouraged the soldiers of the reconnaissance company, he asked them to choose a few rooms in the warehouse to rest for a day. Because only at night is the stage for the performance of special elites such as the reconnaissance company.

On the 31st, the sky cleared, and the number of people cheering for the defenders of the Sixing Warehouse on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek not only did not decrease, but increased, and the Japanese army finally couldn't bear it anymore and sent several planes to bomb the Sixing Warehouse Building. At the critical moment, Lieutenant Lei Xiong, the company commander of the 1st Battalion Aircraft Company, rushed to the roof of the building and commanded the two antiaircraft planes and the heavy planes on the roof of the building to fire into the air.

Perhaps the Sixing warehouse was too close to the British lease, or perhaps the fire of the anti-aircraft shooting was too intensive, several Japanese planes hurriedly dropped a few pieces and then returned, and a few of them also fell on the civilian houses next to the Sixing warehouse, blowing up a lot of civilian houses, but there was no damage to the Sixing warehouse. After the bombing of the Japanese planes, the Japanese offensive began again.

Today's attack on the Japanese army is dominated by artillery bombardment, and there are no tanks to cover the infantry. It may be that the Japanese commander also knew that when the Chinese army had weapons that could deal with the chariots, sending the chariots to help the battle would not do anything except to lose the chariots in vain. During the attack, the duration and intensity of artillery shelling increased, but heavy artillery of caliber 150 or higher was not used.

For this kind of small-caliber artillery, there are strong fortifications such as the Sixing warehouse, the traffic building, etc., do not care too much, because this kind of artillery will not have fundamental damage to this kind of building, but just tell the soldiers to pay attention to the shrapnel flying around. The sandbag fortifications in the street were easily destroyed by these fires. Fortunately, they are all veterans of the battlefield and know exactly how to protect themselves from this kind of artillery fire.

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