After a loud noise, fire and smoke billowed like a small mushroom cloud.
In the explosion, broken corpses and brown-black iron filings flew everywhere, and the little devil's death squad was wiped out in an instant.
The little devil's shield is indeed strong enough. Heavy machine guns and grenades have no effect at all on the little devil's shield.
But the gas tank was different. A large gas tank weighing nearly a hundred pounds fell from three stories and directly hit the little devil holding the shield, making him lose his temper.
The gas tank fell into the crowd of Japanese soldiers and was instantly detonated by the grenade that had been fired in advance.
As you can imagine, the explosion of a gas tank, coupled with a few grenades, caused a small team of little devils to completely disappear from the face of the earth.
The horrific explosion caused the two sides of the Suzhou River to tremble again. Even the generals from many countries riding on the airship had to admire that this was a trap.
Among them, General Philip said: "I really didn't expect that the entire Sihang Warehouse was a trap left by the Chinese to the Japanese."
General Delly also frowned and said: "What are the Chinese thinking? They were defeated in the Battle of Songhu, but they want to regain their position here?"
At the same time, other foreign officials and generals also discussed:
"I have to say that the Japanese have been led by the Chinese."
"Yeah, when I heard that the Chinese were collecting gas cans in the South Bank, I was still thinking, why do the Chinese need so many gas cans? Is it for cooking? But I didn't expect that the gas cans have such wonderful functions.
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"I really can't imagine that this commander has the ability to predict the future. He would actually think of using gas tanks to break the Japanese armor."
"I have never seen or heard of such a creative commander."
"Is this sleeping Eastern dragon really about to wake up?"
"It's so scary. Think about China's Yuan Dynasty. It was a monster that almost swallowed up the whole of Europe."
"I'm really lucky that in the past one hundred years, the empire still dared to challenge such an Eastern dragon."
"It seems that the outcome of today's battle is already predictable."
"Yes, today's battle will be extremely exciting."
"Steve, you must record this battle completely. Let those arrogant militants see the true strength of this Eastern dragon!..."
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As soon as the war started, all the generals on the airship were shocked.
Although they had heard some rumors about Sihang Warehouse before.
But they don't believe it at all. In their hearts, Japan is the overlord of the East.
Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has developed rapidly, not only getting rid of their colonial rule, but also rapidly expanding externally. With lightning speed, it occupied North Korea, the three northeastern provinces, Taiwan and other places.
What is China doing instead? It seems that it is doing nothing. It is just warlords fighting for the land that originally belongs to them.
The vision is too short-sighted. In the eyes of these veteran colonists, China is simply hopeless. And if they had not considered their own interests in China, they would not even want to mediate this war.
But at this time, the battle at Sihang Warehouse will completely change their perception.
An independent regiment with less than a thousand men not only blocked the Japanese for three days, but also caused a large number of casualties to the Japanese army.
They even used the word "terrible" to describe this battle.
Several Japanese attacks not only had no effect, but also resulted in heavy casualties.
Let’s not talk about the distance, let’s just talk about it now. After only one hour of fighting, the Japanese soldiers holding shields and preparing to blow up the Sihang Warehouse suffered more than 200 casualties in the explosion of gas tanks.
Nearly a hundred of the Japs responsible for the feint attack fell in front of the charging formation. The firepower net at Sihang Warehouse made the little Japs despair.
Originally, their sharpshooters could definitely influence a war. But they encountered the Dragon Boat Festival who was even more amazing than them.
Duan Wu was armed with a 38-type rifle and shot headshots within 300 meters. The little devil's sharpshooter killed more than 30 people in just one hour.
There were more than thirty well-trained sharpshooters. Each sharpshooter had the ability to influence a small battle.
But there were so many of them, but they couldn't beat the elusive Dragon Boat Festival. Even more than thirty people died, and they didn't know which window the Dragon Boat Festival shot from.
This was a desperate hour for Isao Konoe.
The suicide squads died one after another. The shields that had been made overnight and his suicide squads, like monsters made of flesh and steel, knelt downstairs of the Sihang Warehouse.
Blood flowed all over the ground, and even gathered into a small river and flowed into the sewer. Along with the putrid smell, it gradually flowed to the sea.
Reports of casualties from the forward positions came like snowflakes.
Konoe Isao was already a little numb at this time.
Ever since he was ordered to come and eliminate the enemy troops in Sihang Warehouse, he had not received any good news. They were all lists of dead, or reports of defeats and deaths of officers at the front.
Either those damn junior officers want this or that from him.
In order to make a steel shield, he even dismantled his own car.
But what did they give him in return? Just these casualty figures and reports of defeats.
"Report, Major Xiao Quan died in battle."
At this moment, another ignorant Japanese soldier came to report, which completely angered Konoe Isao.
Isao Konoe went berserk, roaring like crazy:
"Bagayalu! How long will you continue to fight this battle? Will you only show me these death reports?
I want to know how many more enemies we have. How long can they hold on? Do you understand?"
Konoe Isao's roar resounded throughout the tent. All the officers present lowered their heads in frustration, not daring to say a word.
Because anyone can see that Isao Konoe has been driven crazy by this war.
Looking at the silent junior officer, who seemed to be mute, Konoe roared again angrily:
"Why don't you answer me? Does the empire just raise a bunch of pigs? Even if they are pigs, you have to howl for me twice when they die. Do you understand?"
At this time, an officer said bravely: "Sir, it's not that our soldiers of the Japanese Empire are all trash. It's that the Chinese people are very cunning.
They relied on the Shanghai Gas Plant behind the Sihang Warehouse and were sure that we could not use heavy artillery. They huddled in the solid Sihang Warehouse and fought against our army.
This is very detrimental to our army. Please make plans in advance. All soldiers of the empire have the consciousness to serve His Majesty the Emperor!..."