Songhu: Never Give Up

Chapter 132 Eight Hundred Warriors Guarding the Four Banks

Duan Yulin saw that the Japanese tanks had also joined the battle, so he decided to withdraw while he was ahead and pretended to be exhausted and retreated to the city.
Unexpectedly, the captain of the Japanese tank squadron was not satisfied with just dispersing them. Major Chiba Jiro finally got a chance to show up, but when he saw that the Chinese had been defeated by them, he chased after them regardless of anything.

"Warriors, kill the chickens and crush them to death with your tracks!"

Major Chiba, who was sitting in the command vehicle, didn't take the Chinese seriously at all, and commanded more than a dozen Type 95 light tanks to chase them relentlessly;
This made Duan Yulin very angry. He saw that the Japanese tanks didn't even have infantry with them, so he changed his tactics and decided to destroy these tanks.

He first ambushed the bazooka platoon in a street full of rubble, then sent out a platoon of infantry to lure the enemy, and they used machine guns to attack the tank group;
The bullets clanged as they hit the tank armor, but were completely ineffective. This successfully provoked Major Chiba, who ordered the tanks to chase them and attack them, with people being shot and falling from time to time.

The blood of the soldiers completely stimulated the devil's bestiality. Major Chiba said to the pilot with a grim smile:
"Yoshi, the Chinese wanted to run away after the fight, without even asking the Imperial Army for permission. Let's quickly chase them and kill them all!"

The six tanks led by Major Chiba took the lead and rushed to the front, chasing the "ruiners" into the ambush area of ​​the bazooka platoon;

Before Major Chiba could feel proud, several rockets flew in from the ruins on both sides. Two of them went straight to Chiba's tank. After all, they were the most arrogant and rushed to the front.

One rocket penetrated the front armor and exploded in the cab, killing Chiba instantly. Another rocket hit the side armor of the tank, which was considered as a supplementary shot to the tank. Major Chiba's tank was blown into scrap metal.
At the same time, the two tanks behind were also destroyed. The three tanks trapped in the middle were at a loss as to how to move forward or backward, and without any infantry escort, they could only fire blindly.

The observation hole of the Type 95 light tank is very small, and the field of vision is greatly restricted. It is difficult for them to find the rocketeer hiding in the ruins a hundred meters away;
The Japanese machine gunners seemed to have sensed that Aunt Amaterasu was calling them, so they fired wildly in all directions. The dense bullets raised dust on the ruins. Although they did not hit the Chinese, they gave them courage.

Yu Wei, the rocket launcher, looked at the tank struggling to death with a joking look, and decisively pulled the trigger. The rocket whizzed towards the side of the tank, and after a close contact, it penetrated into the tank;
With a dull explosion, the Japanese tank was blown down without any suspense. Using a 40 rocket launcher to attack a tank with only 16 mm frontal armor was indeed a bit of a bully to the Japanese.

This was the second tank that Yu Wei destroyed. Just when he was greedily preparing to harvest the third target, the other two tanks had already been destroyed by other groups, leaving him feeling a little unsatisfied.

How he hoped that the other six tanks would come, but he was disappointed, as the Japanese were not stupid;
Seeing that all six tanks in the first echelon were knocked down, the tanks in the second echelon were so scared that they turned around and ran away. The infantry could not stop them and could only let them slip away.

After destroying six tanks in one breath, Duan Yulin was satisfied and gave the order to withdraw his troops, because the Japanese attack on the headquarters building had come to an end, and there was no gain except the corpses left on the ground.

Colonel Okado was hurt by the beating, and he decided to take a long-term view. At this time, he thought of Major General Akiyama again, and began to lower his posture, waiting for Major General Akiyama to take charge of the situation. He did not need to take this responsibility.

Even though Major General Akiyama cursed, he still took over the command of the front line without hesitation. He was the one in charge of the Akiyama Detachment.

After Major General Akiyama merged with the 7th Regiment's command, he did not rush to launch a new attack. Instead, he patiently listened to Colonel Okato's report and thought about how to break the deadlock.

The battle at the headquarters building had been going on for several days and soon attracted the attention of the Nationalist Army. The Blue Shirts Society reported it to the attendant room, which attracted the attention of the top brass.

At the same time, the battle of Sihang Warehouse had entered a fierce stage. The reputation of the 800 warriors resounded throughout the world, and they harvested a wave of public opinion for the National Government, successfully eliminating the negative impact of hundreds of thousands of National Government troops withdrawing from the city. As long as the isolated army was still fighting, the city would not fall. Xie Jinyuan and the 800 warriors were under undue pressure. In fact, they only had more than 400 people. After four days of hard fighting, they had reached their limit.

On October 10, at the Sihang Warehouse, a blue sky, white sun and red ground flag covered with gunpowder smoke fluttered tenaciously over the warehouse;
The Japanese hated this flag to the extreme. If it were not for the pressure from the Western powers, Major General Iida would have ordered heavy artillery to destroy it long ago.

Behind the Sihang Warehouse was the International Settlement. If one was not careful, the shells would fall into the concession on the south bank of the Suzhou River, which would definitely cause international disputes.
The concessions were equivalent to the territories of the great powers. Firing at the concessions meant declaring war on the Western world. The Japanese were not yet so bold, so they fought very restrainedly. Not to mention airplanes and large-caliber naval guns, they did not even dare to use 75mm mountain cannons. The most they used were mortars.

The Japanese Marine Corps had launched five major attacks within four days, all of which ended in failure. The 800 brave soldiers, led by Deputy Regiment Commander Xie Jinyuan, demonstrated the national and military prestige and caused a huge response among the people at home and abroad. They hoped that the isolated regiment could hold on!
The heroic battle of Xie Jinyuan and the officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion attracted widespread attention from the citizens of SH. The SH Chamber of Commerce organized citizens to send food, medicine, newspapers, letters and other gifts to the officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion, which was the spiritual support for them to continue fighting tenaciously.

"Captain, the Japanese are coming again, hurry up and get the villagers across the river!"

Battalion commander Yang Ruifu came over anxiously and urged, Xie Jinyuan could only persuade the representatives of the women's consolation group to return to the other side with kind words. Only when they left could the isolated army let go and fight the devils to the death.

Seeing that the Japanese invaders had launched another attack, the delegation had to leave reluctantly in order not to affect the battle of the 800 warriors.

After watching his family leave safely, Xie Jinyuan's eyes became extremely firm, and he said to Major Yang Ruifu:

"Captain Yang, prepare to fight!"

Outside the warehouse, a large number of Japanese soldiers swarmed up. Major General Iida had obviously lost his patience and launched the sixth general attack on the Sihang Warehouse.

Hundreds of Japanese soldiers, led by several Type 95 tanks, attacked the defense line of the Sihang Warehouse in wave after wave.

Yang Ruifu commanded the officers and soldiers of the first battalion to rain down bullets on the Japanese, and the bullets hit the tank armor and sparks flew everywhere;
The Japs' goal was clear: they would use the suicide squad to blow open the door under the cover of tanks and then rush into the warehouse.

Although the 1st Battalion sealed the door with sandbags after entering the warehouse, the Japanese still refused to give up and tried to knock down the door of the warehouse with the most brutal blasting method;

The officers and soldiers of the first battalion would naturally not let the Japanese succeed in their conspiracy. They continued to shoot and kill the Japanese with the light and heavy weapons in their hands.

The machine guns on the Japanese tanks kept firing at the building, and people were shot and fell from time to time. The battle became intense from the beginning.

(End of this chapter)