October 28, 1937, 5:45 a.m.

The regrouped Japanese marines marched into the assault position near the Sihang warehouse.

The attack was personally commanded by Isamu Kumagawa.

In view of the failures of the previous attacks, this one concentrated all the forces he could. The number of artillery and machine guns assembled was several times higher than the previous one.

The reason for this was that the failure to overcome the attack had already made Kumagawa a laughing stock of the Japanese army.

At present, either he will capture the Sixing warehouse in front of him, or the Japanese army will send troops to attack the Sixing warehouse.

The Navy, of course, did not intend to accept such a disgrace, and Rear Admiral Isamu Kumagawa did not intend to accept his fate.

If he fails, he will have only one end - seppuku and apologize.

When I looked up at my watch, it was 5:40 a.m.

The time of the attack was set at the time he expected, the attack was launched. At this moment, the troops have finished replenishing their food and ammunition, and they have already arrived at the attack position.

Unfortunately, this attack was much farther away from yesterday's attack, and the three buildings that had been used as bases for advance were destroyed by regular explosions.

At this moment, the four-row warehouse, which is the tallest building in the vicinity, can almost have an unobstructed view of the neighborhood.

Therefore, this can only be a strong attack without demolition or deduction.

The superiors have completely lost confidence in me for their repeated failures, and I am afraid that their tolerance for me has come to an end......

From being deceived the night before yesterday to losing the lives of almost a thousand soldiers in yesterday's attack.

Today......

No matter how many people die today, they must take down the Sixing Warehouse.

There was no artillery support here, as usual, but last night he had been informed by the British consulate in Shanghai that someone would arrest the guy who had deceived him.

The news made him feel a little better, but it wasn't completely relieved, and he was going to wipe out all the Chinese troops in the Sixing warehouse who were fighting side by side with that guy.

Then kill them all......

Raise your wrist 5:43

With two minutes to go, he will use more artillery this time. Not a bombardment, of course, but a continuous suppression of the four-row warehouses with gas bombs.

Cover the rapid advance of ground troops, and use the wreckage and sandbags of the building to advance to support the base. There are three such forward bases in total, with an interval of two hundred meters and a distance of three hundred meters from the four rows of warehouses.

Because only in this way can the four-line warehouse be suppressed by continuous fire, especially this time he got some Type 96 25mm anti-aircraft guns.

These anti-aircraft guns were originally equipment on warships, but as marines there were some modified wheeled anti-aircraft guns.

Compared to large-caliber guns, these anti-aircraft guns had a rate of fire comparable to that of machine guns, and were a more effective suppressive firepower.

Nowadays, time ......

Taking off the telephone that connected all the troops, Kumagawa kept his eyes fixed on the second hand on his wrist.

In less than a minute, the attack under his direct command was about to be launched.

Speaking of which, this attack is a bit of a fuss, if it is not the "bastard", why bother so much to deal with a building, this time he concentrated all the marines at his disposal, intending to complete the battle.

As long as the fire base is built, use multiple anti-aircraft guns to suppress the fire of the four rows of warehouses, then the infantry wave charge continues to maintain the pressure, and then ......

The only pity is that there is no soldier who escaped from the door of the Sixing warehouse, and until now, he still doesn't know what the inside of the Sixing warehouse looks like.

"Click......"

The second, minute, and hour hands gradually overlap,

"Fire ......"

With the voice of Major General Isamu Kumagawa, it spread through the telephone lines throughout the battle lines.

As usual, "artillery first please", on this matter, both the generals of the East and the West are mostly the same.

The preparation for the attack of the Japanese marines was undoubtedly adequate, and even the sentries on the roofs of the four-row warehouses were not observed.

It wasn't until the cannon rang out that the sentries on duty ran to the roof of the building, so that the snipers could shout at the entrance to the hole,

"Shelling...... Shelling...... The devil attacked ......"

As the main force on duty, the gendarmes and the old eight reacted immediately, and they immediately fell to the ground and shouted at the same time,

"Shelling...... Shelling...... Hurry up, the devil has attacked......"

However, when the Japanese shells flew up from the unblocked windows on the upper three floors, the gendarmes and the old eight couldn't help but look at each other.

They didn't see the shells that fell to the ground, and if they didn't explode, they were rapidly spewing yellow and green gases.

At this time, some veterans who were woken up by them opened their eyes and muttered,

"What are you shouting about, not shelling...... Gas...... Gas bombs, masked ......"

Gas...... What is poison gas......

The gendarmes are just that, and the miscellaneous barracks that are old on the front are just that. But the gendarmes and the old eight, the reaction at this moment is almost no different from that of the recruits.

However, when they saw those miscellaneous barracks and German veterans, they took out German gas masks, and they reacted one by one.

First were the gendarmes, who had never been gassed, but they knew how powerful it was.

It's a pity that the old eight have never seen the power of poison gas, of course, they also have gas masks, and they have heard of what this thing is for, but they have never been trained in poison prevention, and they are immediately injured.

Lu Feizhang was very shrewd, and when he heard the shouts of poison gas, he immediately remembered that he was wearing the uniform of the Japanese Marine Corps, and of course he was equipped with their gas masks.

Unfortunately, not everyone reacted quickly enough, and soon a large cough sounded.

Fortunately, the person wearing the gas mask immediately helped the old eight, who had never seen the gas war, to put the gas mask on their face.

Although the reaction was not slow, Lu Feizhang was still heartbroken to see that more than a dozen people were poisoned and were quickly carried to the field hospital.

At this moment, he felt Guo Liangjun's painstaking efforts and regularization, whether it was with the government military or the Japanese, which could be compared with the German paratroopers.

Seeing the continuous poison gas shelling, so that the Sixing Warehouse did not fight back at the first time, Major General Kumagawa Yong's heart that had been hanging suddenly let go of a few points.

This attack was said to be commanded by him, but in fact, from the moment he ordered the attack to begin, it was already out of his control.

Several infantry brigades went out, and this time they had all their firepower except artillery. Nor will they rely only on light infantry to try to capture the four rows of warehouses.

However, at the moment when Kumagawa gave the order, a violent explosion suddenly came from the rear of the battle line.

First, there was an explosion, and listening to the sound and looking at the scale, it should have been a car shell explosion.

This couldn't help but make Major General Kumagawa Isamu stunned, and then he left the artillery mirror, looked in the direction of the explosion, and thought to himself in shock:

What's going on, could it be that something happened to the logistics transport convoy, otherwise how could such a violent explosion occur, then Lao Tzu attacked or not.