Assault Team 1 and Assault Team 2 of the commando team, are they really near Hongkou Park? Wrong, they were hiding not far from the headquarters of the Japanese Marine Corps in Shanghai, in a secret stronghold on Dou Le'an Road.

During the day, the observation points were used to reconnoiter the surrounding Japanese fortifications and artillery positions, as well as ammunition depots, and the attack routes and plans were carefully formulated.

This is within the scope of the Chinese realm, but the road surface belongs to the management of the Ministry of Industry of the Public Concession, which is the most ideal hiding base.

"This evening, the first assault team set off at 11 o'clock, and the second assault team set off at 0 o'clock to carry out the plan, this is the first battle of the commando special operations team, we surveyed the terrain and the surrounding environment for not a day or two, the enemy is completely defenseless against us, in such a situation, the conditions are very favorable to us."

"In this sneak attack, we have to pay the greatest effort and the least price to achieve the greatest results. As the saying goes, the director has invested huge manpower and material resources to hire experts from the US intelligence department to train us in skills, and has given us such a high salary. ”

"The task of the first assault team is to operate in the area from the Bazi Bridge to the nearby Japanese cemetery Gaogang, surrounded by marine fortifications, artillery positions and a large number of weapons and ammunition, and the task of the second assault team is to lurk near the Tiantongan station, where there are heavy mechanized units of the Japanese army, where tank troops, armored vehicles and fuel trucks are located."

"I will only divide the combat scope for you, how to operate it specifically, you two teams will decide on their own, there is no fixed mode, to kill and injure the enemy to the greatest extent, destroy the enemy's fortifications and weapons and ammunition, and give priority to destroying the enemy's artillery and tanks according to the director's operational outline." Fang Zhaoan said.

In this battle, each team had a fireteam carrying submachine guns, and most of the rest were armed with shell guns and daggers, which could be fired in single shots or bursts, making them the first choice for close combat.

The Bazi Bridge area and the Tiantongan station are actually in one direction, and the assault team quietly left the stronghold at half past eleven, taking advantage of the night, the temperature in August is very high, and the battlefield is mostly rivers and waterways, which is the best place to cover.

The commandos didn't expect that Han Lin was also nearby, and it was in a Japanese house on North Sichuan Road, to be precise, this was a den of the Black Dragon Society Japanese ronin, but it was attacked by him and became a temporary command point.

He and Xu Yin were standing at the door, looking through the crack in the door at the Japanese fortifications more than 100 meters away, and further away, the building of the Japanese Marine Corps Headquarters in Shanghai.

In the courtyard stood a group of backbone elites of the intelligence team, patiently waiting for the attack order, Li Peiyue was in the house, putting the portable military radio on the table, and was contacting the operator of the commando, beside Peng Jiacui and Wu Kuiyuan, as if they had not seen the corpses of several Japanese ronins in the corner of the room.

Japanese cemetery artillery position.

A group of commandos swam ashore from the water, getting closer to the position, and crawling along the grass along the riverbank, regardless of any mosquito bites.

This is the most important fire support position for the Japanese army to resist the attack of the Jinling government army, and half of the heavy artillery of the Japanese marines stationed in Shanghai is actually hidden here.

In October of the 21st year of the Republic of China, the Japanese government's "Navy Special Marine Corps Order" was promulgated, and the Shanghai Navy Special Marine Corps was established at the same time, which was at the same level as the town guard government.

It has four 150-mm howitzers, four 120-mm howitzers, 12 75-mm mountain guns, eight 150-mm mortars, four 70-mm infantry guns, four 37-mm rapid-fire guns, seven anti-aircraft guns, seven tanks and 11 armored vehicles.

The 3,600 fighters of the Japanese expatriate were all veterans, 2,500 marines were transferred from the mainland, and the Japanese marines stationed in Shanghai had 2,500 men, bringing the number to 8,600.

Despite the fact that the numbers seem to be at a disadvantage, the Japanese marines stationed in Shanghai have strong fortifications, strong firepower, and sea and air support, and they are not weak at all in the face of the 87th and 88th Divisions that are about to attack.

The so-called German armament divisions, far from the infantry divisions of the German Army, have really poor firepower, each division is equipped with only one artillery battalion, equipped with 75 mm mountain guns, and the gap in firepower is too far.

"The enemy's defense is very tight, and we can't find a hole in a short time, so we can only take a risk, wait for the patrol to come, kill them, change into clothes and go directly to the position, take out the two heavy machine gun fire points defending our direction, control the heavy machine guns, and the rest of the people go over and blow up the artillery and ammunition." Gu Qingjie said in a low voice.

"This Type 92 heavy machine gun of the Japanese is a good thing, our base has no heavy weapon defense, and the machine gun and gun carriage are separated, that is, forty or fifty pounds each, which does not affect our retreat to the Bazi Bridge. If it weren't for the fact that the cannon was too heavy, I would have wanted to dismantle a cannon. A group leader said.

"This thing is dead, and it consumes a lot of ammunition, why do you need a heavy machine gun?" Gu Qingjie said.

"There are a lot of people we came this time, six groups of sixty people, only a few hundred meters away from the Bazi Bridge, and there is our transport group on the opposite side, and I am not greedy, so I want four heavy machine guns, and the hidden fire point outside the base is definitely better than light machine guns." A group leader said.

"Okay, let's finish the task first!" Gu Qingjie thought about it and agreed.

Ten Japanese soldiers carried 38 big covers, and as soon as they passed by the river to check, they were quietly touched by the commandos in the grass, and dragged them into the grass one by one with their mouths covered. The commandos moved too fast, and the enemy didn't react, so there were only three left, and they ended up going to hell together.

When the commandos were training at the base, they specially trained in this way of fighting, and after a year of hard work, they handed in a satisfactory answer today.

A few minutes later, a group of "Japanese soldiers" returned to the artillery position with rifles, and by this time it was already past one o'clock, and the Japanese troops were a little sleepy, and their attention and vigilance were greatly reduced, and no one paid attention to this group of soldiers, who had actually been replaced.

Ten people came to two firing points, and before the Japanese soldiers guarding the heavy machine guns could speak, they covered their mouths and cut their throats with daggers, and waited until they had swallowed their breath before they slowly lowered them to the ground.

Gu Qingjie gestured not far away, and the fifty-one commandos who followed quickly entered the artillery position, took advantage of the darkness to launch an assassination operation against the artillery and guards, and successively planted explosives next to the cannon and ammunition boxes.

(End of chapter)