Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 41 Someone Wants to Witness History

Standing on the third floor of the sturdy building that he used as the temporary headquarters, he could clearly see the extremely conspicuous tall building, and even clearly see the moving body on the roof through the telescope. Chinese soldiers in dark blue uniforms.

"I ordered everyone not to easily reveal their whereabouts.

The infantry squads approached nearly 300 meters forward and stood by, the heavy machine gun squads looked for bunkers on the spot to build firepower points, and the infantry artillery squads set up positions 100 meters behind our headquarters. "

Beicang Mandu, who put down the telescope, ordered the signal soldiers beside him.

The confidence of the Japanese captain is not based on imagination.

In this battle, the Captain Yin Teng of the Third Infantry Brigade he was in had high hopes, and also sent him a squad with four heavy machine guns and an exclusive artillery squad for the brigade.

The firepower of the four heavy machine guns is comparable to the heavy firepower of an infantry battalion of the Chinese army, and the two invincible infantry artillery can ignore the poor fortifications of the Chinese.

What building can resist the attack of the Imperial 70mm caliber direct-fire gun?After breaking the poor shell of the Chinese, which was not solid, the Chinese who escaped from it could only scream in vain under the heavy machine gun fire.

Fighting is that simple.

That is, Beicang Mandu, who had just given the military order, was very upset.

It was not because of the Chinese defenders who had already begun to be on alert, but the Chinese civilians who were only a hundred meters away from him.

"The devil is here!" The loud shouting made the muscles on the Japanese captain's face twitch like horizontal strips.

Although I know this name has been around for a long time, it is probably the first time that a group of Chinese people shouted like this in front of their faces.

If he could, he even had the urge to set up a heavy machine gun and kill all the lowly Chinese civilians.

But the Japanese captain could only endure.

When it was detected that the main force of the Chinese army was retreating and the main force of the empire would fully enter the Zhabei area of ​​Shanghai, General Matsui Ishigen, commander of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force, held a military meeting attended by major-level officers.

The meeting deliberately emphasized that the empire's primary task now is to conquer China. For the time being, it is not capable of all-out war with China and at the same time fighting against Western countries. The concessions of Western countries must not be easily invaded.

He could not and would not dare to sabotage the strategy of the Empire's stronghold for his own sake.

As a result, he could only order the entire army to ignore the Chinese civilians who were just a few hundred meters away, reminding the Chinese defenders of the Chinese defenders with the sound of a mountain and a tsunami, and proceeded at full speed.

Since Chinese people like unrealistic fantasy so much, let him come to Bei Cang Mandu to completely shatter this fantasy.

No, not just shattered, but to make them despair, he will shoot those dark blues one by one in the rubble of the building in front of the Chinese.

He wants to represent the empire in the north and let the weak Chinese understand that all their resistance is in vain and that they do not deserve to own fertile land.

It can be said that before the sun jumped out of the horizon, the captain of the Japanese army who commanded more than 200 elite soldiers was definitely in high spirits.

Even the empire is ready to be represented.

Perhaps not only the captain of the Japanese army as the commander, before the battle, all the Japanese on the left wing of the Sixing Warehouse thought so.

As Shuichi Fukuyama, a reporter from the Japanese 36th Infantry Regiment, wrote in his diary today:

"Today is October 1937, 10. The morning sun before dawn in Songhu, China is very bright. At that moment, I thought of the seaside of my hometown Kobe, and I heard neat and powerful steps. I know that it was the first of the 27rd Infantry Brigade. 3 Infantry Squadron, more than 1 Imperial officers and soldiers are about to set off.

The remnants of the Chinese are entrenched in a building and resisting, they will crush the enemy together with the 36st Infantry Brigade of the 1th Infantry Regiment of the [-]th Division.

And I, along with them, will use my camera and pen to record the heroic battles of the imperial warriors, watch them capture the last position in Songhu, China, and witness history! "

Shuichi Fukuyama may regret using 'witness history' as a footnote in his diary.

Because history, like a woman who does not follow the rules, always surprises or frightens people in the inadvertently plain water!

Anyone who has studied history knows that.

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The high-spirited Japanese captain, who can represent the Empire of Japan, simply ordered the three infantry squads under his command to stop disguising their stature and approach at full speed.

Beicangman, who is very experienced in combat, understands that it is actually safer to get close to the battlefield than from a long distance.

The Chinese's trump card has actually been exposed. They have at least one 20mm cannon and four mortars, which are their most powerful firepower. There may be hidden, but definitely not too much.

That is the limit of the heavy firepower that an ordinary Chinese infantry regiment can have.

But that can't be ignored. The fact that the two infantry squadrons on the frontal battlefield quickly withdrew without any resistance was the proof.

The penetrating power of the 20mm cannon is too strong, and there are almost no temporary field fortifications that can withstand it. The mortars that can hit vertically are even more painful artillery. In addition to the fortifications with logs and steel plates for the roof, there are also some hidden in the trenches. May be sent to see Amaterasu by this almost vertical cannonball.

However, this weapon is also flawed, especially when it is mounted on a high roof, the firing range of the cannon is hardly a threat within 400 meters, unless they dare to mount the gun to the edge of the roof, but that is Undoubtedly, it will become a target for heavy machine guns and even grenade cylinders. He wished that the Chinese would do such a stupid thing.

Mortars also have the short board of firing range. The closer the distance is, the safer it is.

So, he took the initiative to move his headquarters forward 150 meters and re-entered Beicang Mandu after an abandoned building, and sent an infantry team to start a tentative attack on the Sixing warehouse.

On the flanks of the 54-man Japanese infantry squad, there are four heavy machine guns and six light machine guns that have built field bunkers, and what gives the Japanese army the most confidence is naturally the big killer—two infantry artillery.

The two infantry guns have already made field bunkers at a distance of 700 meters. As long as the heavy firepower of the Chinese dares to open fire, the two infantry guns will fire. However, at a straight-line distance of 700 meters, the direct-aiming infantry guns are absolutely capable of breaking defenses. It can make the Chinese despair.

Obviously, Beicang Mandu does not have detailed information about the Sixing Warehouse. In fact, not only does he not have it, but also the division headquarters of the 3rd Division, which is entering the Zhabei area.

No matter how powerful the Japanese intelligence system is, it is impossible to record every building in Songhu in detail. Perhaps on the frontal battlefield, Toyoda Hidey has already noticed the solidity of the building through the bombardment effect of his own infantry artillery. He was so resolute that he took the lead in launching the attack even before the communication soldiers dispatched by Toyota Show told him.

As for the field radio, the Japanese army is actually a pain in the ass, and this kind of precious stuff is only assigned to the first level of the infantry brigade.

Beicang Mandu, the captain of the lieutenant and squadron, naturally did not have this treatment. If he wanted to communicate with his superiors, he had to rely on the two legs of the signal soldier.

To put it bluntly, the Japanese army is equipped with great equipment, that is, compared with China, which has just overthrown the feudal rule, and compared with the Western countries that have experienced two industrial revolutions, they are relying on courage.

On the wall on the left wing of the building, more than a dozen shooting holes were dug up and down by the Chinese defenders. There were also fortifications built with sandbags under the floor. At least a dozen soldiers were hiding in the sandbags and log piles. up in the fortifications.

When the Japanese infantry squad advanced to the building with tactical moves to more than 200 meters, light machine guns and rifles began to fire in the firing holes and barricades of the building.

This is a very normal phenomenon. As soon as the Chinese defenders started to shoot the light machine guns, the four heavy machine guns on the two flanks of the Japanese army and the six light machine guns approaching 300 meters also began to roar and suppress.

The 6 grenade groups belonging to the infantry squadron also hid in temporary shelters of more than 300 meters and worked hard to blast enough grenades to the fortifications on the roof and downstairs.

(End of this chapter)