Chapter 921: Kill if you have weapons

After entering the *** Concession, the Chinese team began to occupy the districts under the guidance of their respective platoon leaders and company commanders in accordance with the map instructions. This time, the three infantry battalions of the 18th Regiment were the main attackers, and the 7th Brigade of Shang Zhen was responsible for more detailed "cleaning up" work. The brigade of troops almost broke into the three intersections at the same time, and it is expected to complete the meeting at the entrance of the *** Consulate.

After the *** army was destroyed by heavy firepower at the intersection, it rushed to carry out a second defense in the concession. However, because the attack speed of the Chinese team was too fast and the support of artillery fire, the second defense line could not be established. In desperation, the *** army could only hide in the alleys, houses, and shops on both sides of the street for street fighting.

At the beginning, the Chinese soldiers rushed in too actively and did not beware of the Japanese hiding in the surrounding houses and firing hidden guns. Several soldiers who rushed to the front were hit. The platoon leaders immediately shrank their teams, rescued the wounded, and concentrated their firepower to sweep the roadside houses one by one. The engineers team, who followed up, joined the cleaning queue. When the Japanese army gathered at a favorable position to launch a blocking attack, the engineers decisively went around behind, installed ** on the wall, and directly blasted a gap in the wall, then threw grenades or strafing them.

After half an hour of advance, the Fourth Company of the Second Battalion finally found the *** Concession Guard Command. They almost used up all the grenades along the way. The *** soldiers hiding in the houses on the street were really troublesome. Although the explosion of the grenade caused a lot of accidental injuries and damaged many houses, it was the most efficient method after all.

At this time, a tight sandbag bunker had been arranged around the *** Concession Security Command. There were many *** soldiers behind the bunker, including the windows of the command building, and the iron doors at the gate of the command were also temporarily closed. There was a heavy machine gun on the back of the sandbag bunker, facing the street outside the gate.

Company Commander Fu Wenbo, the company commander of the Fourth Company, hid in the corner of the garden wall of a small western-style building opposite the street. He quietly looked at the headquarters, then smashed his tongue and said, "The Japanese have turned the headquarters into a battlefield fortress. It's a bit tricky now. Zhao Bei, have the brothers all arrived?"

Deputy Zhao Bei of the Company immediately ran over from the other end of the yard, wiping the sweat beads on his forehead, and said, "Company Commander, the brothers in the second platoon have almost arrived. The third platoon has just walked apart in the alley, and only a few people follow us. How about it, will you fight?"

Fu Wenbo thought for a while, shook his head and said, "It's not possible now. The Japanese headquarter is too solid. If we rush hard, there will definitely be a lot of casualties. You should send someone to find me the third row and see if you can contact the people from the Seventh Brigade. They have ** and mortars, which will come in handy at this time."

Zhao Bei nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go now." After that, he only took two soldiers and ran away.

Five minutes later, Zhao Bei ran back, followed by a team of about thirty soldiers, and some were carrying heavy machine guns and mortars. These people were the third platoon behind and the engineers following closely behind the third platoon.

"Company Commander, the person is here, and the guy is also brought." He ran to Fu Wenbo and said.

"I came just right. I just saw the first battalion. It was in the alley on the left of the Japanese Headquarters. It seemed that they were going to launch an attack. Hurry up and set up the mortar and we are ready to go in. The first battalion cannot be snatched." Fu Wenbo said impatiently. After that, he took off the rifle from his shoulder and pulled the bolt to check the bullets in the barrel.

Zhao Bei hurriedly ran to the back, letting the third platoon rush into the small western-style building, putting heavy machine guns behind one window, and through this window, you can directly see the building on the side of the security headquarters. Then two mortars were installed behind the garden, but there were not many shells, and the two ammunition boxes were combined and there were only a dozen shells left.

The mortar commander asked his subordinates to aim well, don't waste ammunition, and strive to get more than a dozen shells to take the Security Command at one time.

"Brothers, are you ready? As mentioned above, as long as we break in, we can not only make great contributions, but also fill our pockets with clothes. Have you heard it?" Fu Wenbo squatted in the corner of the wall, turned around and looked at his subordinates, and encouraged him before charging.

"Company Commander, all are ready."

"I can't wait to teach the Japanese a lesson!"

"Yeah yeah!"

"Very good!" Fu Wenbo nodded and said, "Mortars open fire. Brothers, follow me!"

Two mortars fired the first round of shells, but because the distance was too close, the shells did not fall at the expected position, but exploded on the wall of the main building of the headquarters compound. The commander quickly adjusted the firing angle of the mortar, but after adjusting to the lowest firing angle, he still found that the distance was too close. He had no choice but to order the mortar to retreat to the outer path.

However, the Fourth Company had already started to launch an assault. They avoided the heavy machine guns at the gate and launched a rush to attack the sandbag bunkers outside. The soldiers behind the bunker were startled by the mortars, and some people turned their heads and looked inside the yard. Unexpectedly, the Chinese soldiers had already reached their sight at this time.

Fu Wenbo jumped onto the sandbag and shot the nearest Japanese soldier. Then he jumped down and stomped down another Japanese soldier, thrusting his bayonet into his chest. He opened the gap, and the subsequent soldiers rushed in bravely and began to engage in short-range battles with the *** soldiers behind the bunker. At first, the two sides fired, but soon found that the continuous firepower of the rifle was not enough to overwhelm each other, so he simply picked up the bayonet and started fighting hand-to-hand.

The mortar shells quickly landed at the gate of the headquarters and directly blew the heavy machine gun over. Not only that, the subsequent firepower also cut off the Japanese army's line, which made the team that was fighting with the Chinese team in an isolated state of helplessness. With the advantage of number of people, morale, and the firepower of shotguns and automatic rifles, the Chinese team quickly overwhelmed the Japanese army here.

At this moment, another team of Chinese soldiers broke out in the alley adjacent to the headquarters, which was a vanguard team of the first battalion. They were a few minutes later than the fourth company. Moreover, because they were too far away from the main force, not to mention lacking heavy weapons, even the bullets of the rifle in their hands were almost used up. After seeing the fourth company launch an attack and even directly evolve into hand-to-hand combat, they naturally were unwilling to fall behind. The officer ordered all the members to assemble bayonets, and then rushed out in one go.

The military command did not have much force. In order to deal with the situation where defenses were needed in the concession, the troops that could be mobilized were basically all mobilized. Now, there are less than 100 regular troops on the defense of the headquarters compound, and the rest are either recruited expatriates or clerks of the headquarters. Faced with the Chinese regular army, these militias would not even play any role in bayonets. On the contrary, because they had guns or were wearing military uniforms, they became the targets of the Chinese team's arbitrary slaughter.

In less than twenty minutes of the entire fire exchange, Fu Wenbo led his men to successfully occupy the periphery of the headquarters. After joining with the people of the first battalion, the two groups said little nonsense and directly started to charge at the headquarters compound.

The Security Command could no longer stop the strong attack of the Zhong*** team. The previous mortars scared almost everyone hiding in the main building of the command. They either started to escape from the back door or hid in the basement to surrender. The few remaining regular troops carried out the final blocking in the hall. However, the final blocking seemed so weak. After the first battalion of soldiers threw a few grenades into it, the hall was silent.

Just after eight o'clock, the Chinese team completed the occupation of the security commander. Fu Wenbo organized his subordinates to search the main building of the headquarters floor by floor. Whenever they encountered someone wearing Japanese uniforms, they would immediately shoot and kill them. If other civilians were only allowed to have weapons in their hands. Only those who were found to have neither weapons nor military uniforms would be considered innocent people and would be escorted to the hall downstairs for collective custody.

During the search process, Chinese soldiers also rummaged through boxes and cabinets and stuffed some valuable and small items into their pockets. As for those too large antiques, calligraphy, paintings or artworks, they are not allowed to be touched. At the same time, intelligence personnel also carefully checked military documents, loaded all the valuable documents, and sent them to the intelligence station to analyze and inspect one by one after the battle.

The soldiers of the first battalion were the first to discover the basement. More than 30 people were hiding in the basement, including ordinary expatriates and civilians from the headquarters, but they had no weapons. When they saw the soldiers of the first battalion walk into the basement, these ***ers quickly raised their hands to express surrender. If they found that civilians in the headquarters were found during searches upstairs, they would have to be killed directly as usual. However, now these people are mixed with ordinary expatriates, and it will be inconvenient to start again.

"It's all some dwarf melons." A Chinese soldier stood on the stairs and laughed.

"Look, look, are those women wearing military uniforms? Are they all women on the army?" A soldier said loudly at several female command clerks hiding behind the crowd with his body shrank. The female command clerks were so scared that they quickly lowered their heads.

"There is no way, a small country has few people, so you can only let women make up the numbers." A squad leader pretended to be very understanding and said with a smile in a loud and talkative attitude.

"Squad leader, those women... seem pretty..." A soldier said with a chuckling.

"What are you thinking about? The superiors have been focusing on military discipline. This time, it is already very good to approve us to take the lead. Bullying women is a death sentence." The squad leader's face changed, and his previous attitude of teasing immediately became strict.

"I'm just talking casually," the soldier said with a smile quickly.
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