The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Begins in Songhu
Chapter 143 No One Sleeps Tonight [Additional Update 811 for the Color Shadow Master]
Chapter 143 No One Sleeps Tonight (Part 8) [Updated for the Color Shadow Master on 11/]
Yes! The first day of the Sihang Warehouse Defense Battle passed in such a relatively uneventful manner.
Just as Captain Xie and Hu Biao had expected, the Japanese soldiers, who had suffered three consecutive losses, did not launch any attacks in the following night.
But that doesn't mean that everything is calm in the Magic City tonight.
It can only be said that the impact of the battle that took place in the Sihang Warehouse today finally attracted the attention of all parties, and countless people were busy overnight.
On this seemingly quiet night, it seems that no one in this huge city of magic is asleep.
Too many people were making all sorts of preparations and plans, like a jar of strong liquor fermenting, which would eventually make the battle for the Sihang Warehouse even more intense and exciting after dawn...
Somewhere only one or two kilometers away from the Sihang Warehouse is the base of the Japanese Navy's Magic City Special Marine Corps.
The Japanese who attacked the Sihang Warehouse three times today were from this unit.
When Hu Biao and Uncle Bo were swimming carefully in the waterway, they found themselves in a relatively intact small building that was used as a command center.
The commander of the Japanese Navy's Magic City Special Marine Corps, Major General Okawachi, had a grim expression on his face as he listened to a man in a suit continuously explaining the situation:
"Sihang Warehouse, whose full name is 'Sihang Trust Magic City Branch Warehouse'", was built in 1939.
It was jointly funded and built by four Chinese banks, namely Jincheng, Zhongnan, Continental and Yanye, and was used to store the collateral and goods of the bank's customers.
It is a six-story reinforced concrete building with exterior walls more than 30 centimeters thick.
After the war broke out, it was once the headquarters of the 88th Division of the National Army. In addition to rice, tung oil, cowhide, raw silk and other supplies, it also had sufficient ammunition reserves.
The troops currently guarding the area are part of the 88th Regiment of the 524th Division.
They were led by Lieutenant Colonel Xie Jinyuan, a regimental attaché. Xie graduated from the fourth class of the Whampoa Military Academy and was said to be a commander with considerable command skills.
It is not yet known how many people he leads.
But one thing is certain: since the war in Magic City began, the 524th Regiment has suffered heavy losses. It has been replenished with troops at least five times and is still not at full strength.
Therefore, the number of soldiers guarding the warehouse now will definitely not exceed one thousand."
When the above sound fell into Okawachi's ears, he vaguely felt that someone was slapping him madly, making his face burn with pain.
The 88th Division of the National Army is an old enemy of the Magic City Special Marine Corps.
When the battle in Mo City just started, they were responsible for guarding Hongkou, but they were defeated by the 87th and 88th Divisions of the National Army and suffered heavy losses.
To the extent that the warriors under his command at that time would feel a little scared whenever they saw the iconic M35 helmet.
That is, relying on the large-caliber naval guns and carrier-based aircraft of the Imperial Fleet on the Huangpu River behind.
Even with the support of the army's millipedes, the Magic City Special Marines were not driven all the way into the Huangpu River.
At that time, he could still use the excuse that the opponent had overwhelming military strength, the total strength of the Magic City Special Marines was only 2500 people, and the equipment was seriously insufficient.
But today, with the continuous strong support of the Imperial Navy.
The total strength of the Magic City Special Marine Corps has reached more than 8500 people, and they are fully equipped with various equipment including tanks, armored vehicles, field artillery, etc.
Under such circumstances, 307 of our men were killed in just three attacks in one day.
All the attacking forces rushed into that damn warehouse as if they were diving into the mouth of a monster, and not even a single injured person escaped.
At this time, Okawachi seemed to have heard the voices of the army millipedes laughing at him.
He waved his hand and asked his adjutant to give a thick stack of banknotes as a reward for the information provided by the French-Chinese man from the Shanghai Concession, who was said to be well-informed, and then sent the outsider away.
Before the Chinese man in a suit could even walk away, Okawachi roared angrily:
"Baga! Tell Hashimoto of the First Battalion to officially launch the attack at 8:00 tomorrow morning. I'll provide him with all the tanks, artillery, and other support, but he must capture the Sihang Warehouse within three hours. Let the Empire's Rising Sun Flag fly high on the warehouse roof.
Let everyone know the true strength of our Magic City Special Marine Corps. It’s not just the millipedes in the army that can fight on land…”
"The Japs are getting angry. It seems that Xie Jinyuan and his 524th Regiment will be defeated and killed by tomorrow morning at the latest." The man in the suit thought silently in his heart after hearing the above statement.
Then he got on a three-wheeled motorcycle and let the Japanese take him away from here and back to the concession.
As he was leaving, he could see a number of wooden stakes erected on one side of the camp.
The wooden stakes were all filled with captured Nationalist soldiers, with dense wounds on their bodies, many of which were obviously caused by bayonets, and they had long since died.
Even further away, there were scattered human heads, their faces frozen with expressions of pain, anger, unwillingness, and many other expressions before death.
So those horrific news in the rumors are true.
After the Japanese captured Chinese soldiers and civilians, they would be used by inhumane soldiers to practice bayonets, or officers would use samurai swords to chop off their heads for fun.
After thinking about this, the Chinese man in France couldn't help but feel cold all over.
Only the thick stack of banknotes on his chest could give him a little warmth; he couldn't help but take it out and have a look; after flipping through it a few times, he found that some of the banknotes were still stained with blood.
Their origins are self-evident.
*****
At the same time, a huge fleet blew its whistles and sailed into the Huangpu River unscrupulously.
It should be noted that this fleet was not composed of Japanese ships, but a joint fleet temporarily formed by foreigners from several countries.
The leading flagship was the American cruiser USS Augusta.
There were more than 40 other types of warships in this fleet. After they came in, together with the Japanese fleet that had already come in, the originally wide Huangpu River became extremely crowded for a while.
The purpose of the emergence of such a fleet by the foreign devils is of course to protect their interests in China.
It can be regarded as a deterrent to the Japanese who are currently so arrogant.
Also for the purpose of deterrence, a battalion of British infantry was installed in such a foreign fleet; specifically, it was a battalion of the Welsh Fusiliers, which had just been urgently transferred from the port city.
After the troops of this battalion hurriedly disembarked, they rushed to the various entrances of the concession and along the south bank of the Suzhou River.
The section of the river bank directly opposite the Sihang Warehouse was considered the key area for their defense, and they directly deployed a company of troops there.
The reason for this was that after a day, the battle that took place in the Sihang Warehouse had become known to everyone in several concessions in Shanghai.
I don’t know how many people were moved after hearing the drool-filled story told by others.
Based on different purposes, everyone made plans to go to the scene tomorrow to take a look.
The vast majority of them were residents of Shanghai; they wanted to go there and see how that mysterious national army unit fought the Japanese invaders.
And count together the Japanese corpses thrown from the roof.
There are also some people with special identities who have other purposes.
For example: Harrison Foreman, the foreign reporter who was at the Yunzaobang defense line and planned to interview Hu Biao and his companions.
He just happened to know that there was a good coffee shop somewhere in the concession opposite the Sihang Warehouse.
Sitting on a rooftop with a great view, sipping coffee while filming the war happening right before my eyes; at the end of the day, I can write a brilliant report. I have to say, this kind of work is so easy...
(End of this chapter)
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