An Yi put away his smile, glanced around the generals, and issued an order loudly: "The three special forces brigades will immediately return to their respective departments to report. Starting in the afternoon, I'm afraid they will see their real chapters tomorrow at the latest. Your divisions have very heavy tasks. During this period,
You have done a great job in providing great help to the brothers of the 19th Route Army and assisting the brothers in the late night. You are deeply welcomed and respected by the brothers in the friendly army. Well done!"
"yes!"
The six captains and deputy captains had already returned home, saluted in unison, and left quickly. In the past few days, they had been so exhausted that they had always helped the friendly forces to do this and that. They even helped carry the wounded and helped with field rescue, so that they could participate in the battle when they returned to their respective units.
It's what they dream of.
An Yi walked up to Guo Sizheng, the leader of the guard regiment: "Sizheng, this time you have had a great time. Put on your machine gun battalion and assault battalion and rush to the position of the 122nd Brigade of the 19th Route Army. When you get there
They will tell you what to do. Remember, don’t be too eager to fight and just give up when things get better.”
"Yes! Thanks, boss, I can have a good time this time, haha..."
Guo Sizheng turned around and left without stopping.
An Yi smiled faintly and walked up to Fang Pengxiang, the leader of the secret service group: "You heard the phone call between Commander Cai and I just now. I asked Sun Desheng to personally lead a sniper team up, specifically to select enemy commanders for me to fight, so as to give the enemy courage.
Breaking through, the positions of the brothers in the 1st, 2nd and 2nd Brigades are the top priority of the entire front, and this attack can relieve them a lot of pressure."
"My subordinate understands!"
Fang Pengxiang stood at attention and saluted, his eyes shining with bloodthirsty light.
Twenty minutes later, the war broke out again. The development of the battle was exactly as predicted by Cai Tingkai and An Yi. The exhausted enemy's more than 3,000 Marines had just picked up their lunch boxes when artillery shells roared from the sky.
The unprepared Japanese troops of the 19th Route Army, which lacked artillery strikes, screamed and were caught off guard. Although they were well-trained and concealed in time, they still suffered heavy casualties in the ten-minute intensive artillery attack.
Before the Japanese army could recover, more than 4,000 soldiers of the 122nd Brigade of the 61st Division were shouting for kill. They rushed up like crazy and opened fire on anyone they saw. After firing, they stabbed the enemy mercilessly with their shining bayonets.
Zhang Yan, commander of the 122nd Brigade, stood on a high ground behind his own position, excited. The cowardice he had accumulated over the past few days dissipated with this sudden and smooth counterattack, and he saw that all his brothers were dragons.
Zhang Yan put down his telescope and sighed repeatedly to his chief of staff:
"Okay, General An's dozens of cannons have been hidden silently. Once they make a sound, their power and effect are unparalleled. Brothers, this battle was fought smoothly and easily!"
The frightened enemy dropped a pile of mutilated corpses and hundreds of injured limbs, and fled madly. The brothers of the 122nd Brigade stopped the pursuit at the orders of their respective commanders, and turned around to confront all moving and immobile Japanese troops on the ground.
They launched an encirclement and killing spree. When they saw the artillery fire from the enemy troops on both sides began to fly in, the counterattacking enemies also shouted "Wow!" and rushed over madly to seize the position. They immediately stopped all actions and passed by the soldiers kneeling in the trenches laying mines as planned.
Brothers from the engineering battalion, run back with all your strength.
More than 2,000 enemy reinforcements clamoring on both sides and more than 2,000 remnants of the enemy who had just escaped and were quickly organized to counterattack joined hands and angrily rushed forward. When they were still more than 50 meters away from the trench, swarms of mortar shells flew in again.
, the Japanese troops who were charging intensively on both wings were dispersed and filled with smoke, forcing the enemy to stop charging. The more than 300 engineer brothers who had laid the mines took this opportunity to run back and retreated almost unscathed.
As soon as the sound of artillery stopped, thousands of Japanese troops launched another charge amidst the commander's waving sabers and roars of voices. They quickly jumped into the recaptured trenches one by one, preparing to fight their opponents desperately. The landmines under their feet were stepped on one after another, and there were loud explosions.
The sound of explosions and the thick smoke and fire that brought up the broken limbs and limbs rose up one after another, and the enemy's position fell apart like hell in the blink of an eye, with ghosts crying and wolves howling.
Before the enemy could react from the series of incredible blows, 60 mortar shells roared towards them. The enemy commanders who had just climbed up and raised their sabers fell one after another under the care of the snipers. Seven
The enemy's position, which was more than a hundred meters long and wide, was almost completely shrouded in dark smoke and fire. More than two thousand enemy troops were wiped out in less than twenty minutes of fighting.
But this was not the final bad news. Before the prostrate enemy could get up, more than 400 soldiers of the assault battalion led by An Yi's guard regiment leader Guo Sizheng gritted their teeth and killed them without a word. Light machine guns and powerful
The intensive firepower of the Zhongzheng Type 1 machine gun was like mowing grass, mowing down the Japanese troops who had hurriedly climbed up and prepared to fight one by one. The huge firepower advantage allowed the soldiers of the assault battalion to easily expand the results of the battle. The unorganized and chaotic Japanese troops had almost no resistance.
With their powerful abilities, the red-eyed commando battalion brothers even poured concentrated bullets at the panicking Japanese troops close at hand, beating the standing enemies into sieves one by one.
When Guo Sizheng saw that his goal had been achieved, he was about to obey the pre-war order and ordered a retreat. Suddenly, there was a sound of charging horns behind him. The soldiers of the 121st Brigade on the left saw that the brothers of the 122nd Brigade and the Anjiajun brothers were so brave.
, their confidence was greatly boosted for a while, and they all asked for battle.
The enemy in front of him sent out nearly half of his support and was still defeated by friendly forces. The enemy wavered across the board and became chaotic. How could the division commander Mao Weishou let go of such a good opportunity so easily? Mao Weishou decisively ordered the entire division to charge, and the brothers of the 121st Brigade followed suit.
The soldiers poured out of the trenches, and the sound of killing was loud. Seeing this scene, how could the brothers of the 122nd Brigade want to rest? Amid the hysterical roar of the brigade commander Zhang Yan, they rushed to the enemy position again, and soon rushed to the main offensive.
The enemy's trenches on both flanks began to engage in fierce hand-to-hand combat.
Cai Tingkai saw clearly from the rear and quickly ordered the entire Sixty Division on the right-wing battlefield to charge. A local battle that was originally intended to lure the enemy to annihilate them and kill the enemy's effective forces suddenly evolved into a full-scale counterattack by the 19th Route Army, resulting in extremely heavy losses.
The Japanese army, which had suffered heavy losses and could no longer bear it, could only retreat quickly, crossing streets and trenches, and fled into the Japanese Concession. The war temporarily came to an end with the victory of the 19th Route Army.
An Yi put down the telescope and looked at each other with Ye Cheng and other brothers. No one expected that the battle would turn out like this. It was so easy to drive the Japanese troops into the Japanese Concession again. In less than forty-five minutes, they took back all three positions and moved the front line in one fell swoop.
Push forward to the initial state before 128.
The citizens who were watching the battle thrillingly from the heights of the city in the south and southeast saw such a great victory achieved by the soldiers of the 19th Route Army. They were all ecstatic and shed tears. The news of the "Second and Seventh Victory" spread instantly.
Greater Shanghai and the whole of China.
An hour later, a celebration parade initiated by tens of thousands of students from various schools in Shanghai soon attracted the spontaneous participation of tens of thousands of Shanghai citizens. The students held up the huge portraits of An Yi, Cai Tingkai and Jiang Guangding that had been prepared.
Shouting slogans and happily celebrating the great victory of their army.
After receiving news of the 19th Route Army's victory across the board and the citizens' spontaneous celebration parade, reporters from various countries rushed to the streets, taking photos and interviews. Envoys from Europe and the United States who had not yet finished their lunch called each other to ask if all this was true.
When nearly 100,000 excited marchers arrived at the Central Park, more than a dozen Japanese ronin, who were so angry that they lost their minds, rushed forward and beat up the male and female students who were chanting slogans.
The students screamed in surprise. Before they could stabilize their footing as the crowd rolled in, six men dressed as coolies suddenly rushed out of the alley beside the road. They rushed to the Japanese ronin who beat and kicked the students and then pulled out a long knife to threaten them. In the blink of an eye,
Knocked down four or five crazy ronin, grabbed the long knife and rushed towards the other Japanese ronin who were rushing over. The light of the knife flashed, and the screams could not be heard. In less than three minutes, a sound of "ding dong" came out in the exclamation, four swords
The long knife was abandoned on the ground, and the brave coolies ran away and disappeared in the narrow alley in the blink of an eye.
When the concession police arrived panting and blowing their sirens, more than a dozen ronin were already lying on the ground in a pool of blood. Upon closer inspection, none of them were dead, but they were all covered in skin and flesh, and were covered with knife marks. The hands of two of the culprits were
It was chopped off neatly, which was extremely miserable.
The policemen were shocked. Because the crowd in the parade was too crowded, they could only rush to the front and order two rickshaw pullers who were happily watching the excitement to lift the two seriously injured people and throw them into the rickshaw and rush them to the hospital. The two rickshaw pullers bargained for a price.
He immediately received a slap from the police, angrily pulled the two seriously injured ronin and rushed forward along with the flow of people.
Three policemen, led by a captain, panted and chased him out. They ran more than 300 meters and the distance became farther and farther. The policemen panted and loudly warned the coachman to wait or else they would shoot you. But the coachman
However, he ran faster and faster. When he reached the river, he did not get on the bridge. He quickly turned around and pushed the two rickshaws and their passengers into the river. After he finished, he clapped his hands and ran away. In the blink of an eye, no one was seen.
The police chased them to the end of the bridge. They looked at the two rickshaws floating on the water and slowly sinking. They were so frightened that they turned pale. They wanted to go down into the river to save people but lost the energy. If they didn't go down, they would have a heavy responsibility. It was hard to explain. The police captain was lying on the railing.
Pointing to the river, he begged weakly and loudly: "Hurry... help me..."
At one o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese frontline headquarters in Yangshupu.
After hearing the emergency report, Japanese commander Yoshizaburo Nomura in Shanghai stared at Marine Corps Colonel Yoshio Tanaka in disbelief. Tanaka bent his spine and complained in pain:
"We should not have secretly transferred the 2,500 troops from the front battlefield to the right flank of Jiangwan so early. It seems that we underestimated the combat effectiveness of the 19th Route Army and underestimated the intelligence of the Chinese. They must be against us.
Only when they noticed the changes in the strength of the troops on the frontal battlefield did they risk their lives and launch an unprecedented fierce attack. Now that the frontal battlefield has been completely lost, the plan to suddenly attack Liu Xing has become meaningless."
"Ishikawa-kun, how do you explain this?" Nomura Kichizaburo looked at Ishikawa Koichi coldly, and the generals were all silent and worried.
Ishikawa Koichi stepped forward and stood at attention, raised his expressionless face, and replied loudly: "I did not advocate such a risk from the beginning. No matter from any angle, our opponents are not ordinary people.
As early as when the plan was formulated, I reminded twice that with the bravery of the 19th Route Army of the Chinese Army and the cunning of the young famous general An Yi, we can only use absolute strength to crush them, and we cannot speculate and take risks. Unfortunately,
, everyone thinks that our 5,000 Marine warriors can easily deal with any attack by the 10,000 Chinese army. Furthermore, I have asked many times before, does the 19th Route Army only have 16 artillery pieces? An Yi
Do the security forces carry artillery or other heavy weapons? But no one was willing to answer me.
General, I am very sad and ashamed about such a tragic outcome, but I do not think that I have failed in my duty."
Lieutenant General Nomura stared at the tenacious Ishikawa for a while, shook his head and sighed, slowing down his tone: "This is the second failure since I took office. The first failure was the bombing of the meritorious 'Akiun', which caused
More than two hundred brave naval officers were shattered. Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, they failed again on land. It's shameful..."
"General, my subordinates have a plan. If the general thinks it is feasible, my subordinates will immediately go all out and work out specific steps for action." Ishikawa said loudly.
Nomura looked at Ishikawa with some surprise, and the generals also looked at this young lieutenant colonel with a tough personality and a clear sense of right and wrong.
"Ishikawa-kun, please tell me!"
Nomura walked up to Ishikawa, his eyes full of anticipation.
Ishikawa considered it for a moment and said word by word: "Immediately mobilize all 4,500 armed foreigners. This is a critical moment. It is time for them to be loyal to the Emperor and the Empire of Japan. Let them put on the army
Under the leadership of the defeated two thousand Marine Corps officers and soldiers, and with the assistance of the artillery battalion of the 11th Division that had just landed ashore, they regained the lost position with indomitable spirit at the time of the scheduled general attack. Tell them all before the war started.
People, they have been humiliated, they are already a shame to the Japanese Empire. If they can't regain the lost positions, don't come back!
In this way, the main force of the 19th Route Army will still be firmly restrained by us on the Zhabei front line, and the original plan can continue to be implemented."
"But... Ishikawa-kun, what if the more than 6,000 soldiers who fought against the odds still can't take back the lost positions?" Nomura's chief of staff asked with a frown on his face and a very worried look.
Nomura glared angrily and shouted: "Baga! Lubara, why are you so stupid? Has the temporary failure shaken your fighting spirit and confidence? Has this made you lose your former wisdom and ability to grasp the overall situation?
As long as the Kurume Brigade bravely captures Wusong, will the Zhabei enemy army dare to hold on and not retreat? Wake up!"
Colonel Shikawahara bowed deeply: "I'm sorry! Shikawahara is rude... Ishikawa-kun, your courage makes me ashamed. Please give me some advice, Ishikawa-kun!"
Ishikawa immediately bowed in reply: "Shikahara-kun, your words are serious, let us cheer for the victory of the Empire of Japan..."