October 28, 1937.

Noon:

The soldiers of the Special Company rested for an hour and then resumed their collective afternoon training.

This afternoon, Lin Fan finally began to teach the soldiers practical combat skills.

Actually, he didn't want to force things like this.

But the arrow was on the string. There were battles every day, and teaching these soldiers some skills sooner would allow them to use them sooner.

What Lin Fan was going to teach these soldiers was the famous People's Liberation Army assassination technique of later generations.

Back then, on the Korean battlefield, the volunteers were able to win against the taller and stronger multinational forces with bayonets.

This assassination technique was indispensable!

When Lin Fan taught the assassination technique, all the soldiers of the Special Company watched with rapt attention.

They listened carefully as Lin Fan broke down each movement and had everyone follow him step by step.

The benefit of this was that it allowed every soldier to master the standard assassination technique.

Of course, these individual movements caused the soldiers to freeze after each action.

This was quite physically demanding, which was intentional on Lin Fan's part: these soldiers needed to strengthen their training.

The entire Sihang Warehouse echoed with the shouts of the Special Company practicing assassination!

This was also what Lin Fan required. He demanded that all soldiers exhale and shout "Kill!" when thrusting their bayonets.

Because this kind of sound could give the enemy the greatest psychological pressure. Cowardly enemies would distort their parrying movements and fail to block attacks that they normally could.

Moreover, the "Kill!" shouted by every soldier in the company during the assassination could boost morale, boost morale, and at the same time, demoralize the enemy's morale.

Initially, when he said this, none of the people present believed it.

But when the soldiers of the Special Company began to connect the movements...

When the "Kill!" shook the sky, all the defenders in the entire Sihang Warehouse were alarmed.

Even those on the south bank of the Suzhou River vaguely heard the sound coming from the Sihang Warehouse.

The members of the multinational military observation group looked at each other in confusion: "What's happening to the Chinese army inside the Sihang Warehouse?"

The observation group of the Chinese army stationed in the concession also heard this sound and were puzzled.

What they feared most was that this isolated army of the 524th Regiment would be trapped in a building.

If the soldiers had internal conflicts, it would be a real embarrassment to the international community.

The senior officials of the Chinese army knew that the multinational military observation group was next door.

The members of the multinational military observation group also knew that senior officials of the Chinese army were observing next door.

Everyone knew that the other was observing, but they all pretended not to notice.

When Lin Fan first started teaching, it didn't attract the attention of the officers and soldiers of the 524th Regiment.

This was because they simply hadn't seen Lin Fan single-handedly fight four enemies on the battlefield today, although Feng Junya's help was needed later to kill all four Japanese soldiers.

But to be able to parry and counter-kill from the assassination attempts of four Japanese soldiers!

Every soldier in the Special Company admired this technique, wanted to learn it, and wanted to master it well.

After mastering this kind of technique, it wasn't just about having an extra life on the battlefield. At least, they would no longer have to worry about facing the Japanese in bayonet combat one-on-one in the future.

These soldiers studied seriously, and when they connected all the movements together for the assassination, the uniform shout really had a earth-shattering feeling.

At least, the officers and soldiers of the 524th Regiment inside the Sihang Warehouse felt that way.

Xie Jinyuan was taking a nap when he walked up to the fifth floor in confusion and watched the soldiers of the Special Company practicing assassination on the ground floor.

The conditions here were limited, and now each soldier could only thrust at the air with all their strength.

They earnestly lunged forward, parried, and assassinated!

Every movement was done with all their strength.

In actual assassination, it was necessary to conserve energy.

However, right now, these soldiers hadn't reached that level of skill yet. They were still in the stage of practicing form.

Only when they practiced on their own, then against wooden stakes, and then in pairs, would they learn the true essence from combat.

The battlefield was the best training ground for learning combat skills.

All unqualified students would be left behind forever.

Only the victors were qualified to leave!

Whether they ran away or returned in triumph, those who could survive the battlefield were considered victors!

Looking at the soldiers training below, there was nothing special about it.

Xie Jinyuan only watched for five minutes and lost interest.

He didn't interrupt the Special Company's training either. Hundreds of soldiers crammed into a building was too depressing and prone to accidents.

If the soldiers' psychology was too suppressed and they couldn't vent, they would develop psychological problems.

Now that there was the Special Company, with all the commotion they made every day, the officers and soldiers of the entire 524th Regiment had something to do.

When the soldiers of the Special Company were cleaning their weapons in the morning, the soldiers of the 524th Regiment also took the initiative to take out their weapons to clean them.

Some soldiers even took the initiative to compete with the soldiers of the Special Company to see who could disassemble the Type Zhongzheng rifle the fastest.

The soldiers of the Special Company began to practice assassination, and the shouts of killing seemed to be addictive.

The more they shouted, the more relaxed they became, and the more excited they became. Their footsteps became heavier, and every time they stepped, the floor on the bottom floor, which was supposed to be able to withstand tanks, trembled.

Their shouts echoed throughout the Sihang Warehouse, as if the walls were shaking.

After practicing for an hour, the sweat that the soldiers had shed had already soaked the floor.

Only then did Lin Fan let them rest.

This wasn't because the soldiers had reached their physical limits, but because Lin Fan still had to reserve some of their strength.

If there was still combat in the afternoon, the soldiers would have to go to the battlefield.

Right now, Lin Fan's training for them was opportunistic, sharpening their swords before the battle!

The Sixth Regiment of the Japanese Infantry Fifth Brigade, which had attacked the Sihang Warehouse yesterday and this morning, was withdrawn by Major General Katayama Riichiro due to its ineffective attacks.

Upon receiving the order, the commander of the Sixth Regiment, Go Masanao, although unwilling, had to obey the transfer order.

He accepted the latest order from Brigade Commander Katayama Riichiro: to pursue the main force of the Chinese army that had withdrawn from Shanghai.

And to capture all the towns they encountered along the way!

This was what the Sixth Regiment was best at.

Attacking the Sihang Warehouse wasn't that the Sixth Regiment didn't work hard, but that there were simply too many restrictions on them.

Regiment Commander Go Masanao simply couldn't use his full strength to attack.

Of course, now that they were going to attack other towns, there would no longer be those restrictions on him.

He could use all the means at his disposal: field heavy artillery, poison gas, anything he wanted to use.

With no multinational military observation group providing on-site guidance, Go Masanao felt that his regiment's combat power had fully recovered to its strongest state.

The Sixty-eighth Regiment, which was to replace the Sixth Regiment in attacking the Sihang Warehouse, had not yet arrived at the battlefield.

In fact, when Colonel Nakashiro Ayumu, the commander of the Sixty-eighth Regiment, received the mission, his regiment was trailing behind the retreating Chinese army.

It was dozens of kilometers away from the Sihang Warehouse.

However, after receiving the mission, Regiment Commander Nakashiro Ayumu immediately ordered the Yokouchi Ryunosuke Infantry Battalion under his command to retreat immediately.

Because heavy artillery wasn't allowed to be used in attacking the Sihang Warehouse, he asked the Yokouchi Ryunosuke Infantry Battalion to bring back several infantry companies as quickly as possible.

The rest of the troops could be slowed down and allowed to return slowly.

Even so, the Yokouchi Ryunosuke Battalion didn't return to Shanghai until 3:50 PM.

Battalion Commander Yokouchi Ryunosuke didn't take such a simple task as attacking a warehouse seriously at all.

Although the regimental commander had asked him to only bring back four infantry companies first.

But Battalion Commander Yokouchi Ryunosuke had actually brought back four infantry companies, one machine gun company, and one transport company.

The order given by the regimental commander was: "The Sihang Warehouse must be captured before sunset this afternoon.

No matter what the cost, it's acceptable."

Battalion Commander Yokouchi Ryunosuke looked at the time. It was now 4:05 PM.

The sun would set at 5:30 PM.

There was still an hour and a half until sunset.

Battalion Commander Yokouchi Ryunosuke confidently agreed: "Hai!"

He had already decided: regardless of the cost! He would use all the troops that had arrived on the scene in a single all-in.

The observers on the roof saw the Japanese soldiers appearing in the distance.

This time, the Japanese soldiers were attacking from only two directions: east and west. There were no Japanese soldiers on the north side.

Lin Fan looked at the Japanese soldiers in both directions: this time, the Japanese soldiers had invested a lot of troops, at least a thousand people.

His estimate wasn't far off: this time, Battalion Commander Yokouchi Ryunosuke had used all the troops in the entire battalion except for the artillery platoon.

If the artillery platoon was here, he would definitely have the artillery platoon act as infantry and launch an assault together.

Right now, Battalion Commander Yokouchi Ryunosuke divided the entire battalion equally into two teams, attacking from the east and west.

Several company commanders of the First Battalion of the 524th Regiment on the roof of the Sihang Warehouse felt the pressure for the first time when they saw the Japanese soldiers deploying more than a thousand troops at once. The number of Japanese soldiers deployed was already twice the number of soldiers stationed at the Sihang Warehouse.

This battle would be difficult. If these Japanese soldiers were like the Japanese soldiers from this morning, unwilling to retreat no matter what...

Then the Sihang Warehouse might not be able to be defended today.

Seeing that everyone's expressions had changed, Lin Fan thought for a moment and then said, "Everyone! Although there are a lot of Japanese soldiers coming...

We still have the advantage.

After all, we are defending, and all the soldiers are inside the fortifications.

I suggest: retreat from the outer defenses and resolutely resist from the inside!"

Xie Jinyuan asked, "Retreat from the outer defenses? How are we going to fight like that?"

Lin Fan said with a smile, "There are too many Japanese soldiers charging up. It's simply unrealistic to block all the Japanese soldiers with the first layer of fortifications.

We can resist for a while in the first layer of fortifications, killing some Japanese soldiers, and then...

Take the initiative to retreat to the second layer of fortifications.

Retreating layer by layer like this.

There are a total of five layers of defenses on the outside.

We will implement a strategy of preserving our men by sacrificing territory.

Minimize the casualties of soldiers and the loss of weapons.

Once all the outer fortifications have been lost...

We must resolutely defend the final bottom line and not allow a single Japanese soldier to enter the Sihang Warehouse.

The Japanese soldiers have occupied our outer fortifications.

We are upstairs, and every fortification below is a trap to kill the Japanese soldiers!"

Everyone present looked at the backs of the soldiers of the First Company below, all of them completely exposed.

All the officers and soldiers on the roof laughed: "Company Commander Lin had already thought of this situation when he built this defensive position on the first day.

Everything is under control!"

Xie Jinyuan immediately ordered: the First Company to hold the outer fortifications and gradually retreat at the opportune moment.

After retreating back into the warehouse, cooperate with the machine gun company to hold the ground floor.

The Second Company to hold the second floor, and the Third Company to hold the third floor.

The machine gun company to hold the ground floor.

Lin Fan said, "The Special Company is on the top floor."

He thought for a moment, and then said, "Strive to annihilate all the Japanese soldiers who attack this time and not let a single Japanese soldier return.

The First Company must pay attention. At that time, there may still be a defensive counterattack to fight.

It's up to you to beat the dog while it's down."

Shangguan Zhibiao said with a grin, "As long as Company Commander Lin can knock out the courage of the Japanese soldiers...

Our First Company will be able to fight the Japanese soldiers back!"

After saying this, he immediately ran downstairs. The Japanese soldiers were still thousands of meters away from the position.

Although it would take more than ten minutes to reach the front of the position, Shangguan Zhibiao was going down to arrange the task.

He wanted his soldiers to know that this battle was not a desperate defense, but a live battle.

And they had to retreat while fighting, and they had to bring back all the weapons and equipment.

The most important thing in retreating in battle was to arrange the order of retreat and cover each other.

It wasn't a swarm of bees retreating all at once.

That wasn't a retreat, but a rout!

Lin Fan looked at the Japanese soldiers' advance and knew that they were determined to win.

So he no longer held back.

He had Wu Xiaobao and Zhao Long bring ten boxes of shells.

This time, he still stabilized the meter-long mortar barrel with his left hand.

Lin Fan's left palm was covered with a piece of wood with a depression, which was used to secure the barrel.

This way, the heat of the barrel wouldn't burn his palm.

He grabbed a shell with his right hand and began to fire.

Every time Lin Fan fired a shell, his left hand would adjust slightly to ensure that every shell would fall into the middle of the Japanese soldiers' ranks according to his wishes.

Lin Fan fired a few shells at the Japanese soldiers on the east side, and then immediately switched to the west side.

In order to prevent the barrel from firing too fast and being unable to withstand it...

This time, Regiment Commander Xie Jinyuan sent all the mortars of the 524th Regiment up, allowing Lin Fan to use them freely.

Because he had already seen that Lin Fan was a god!

One hundred shots, one hundred hits!

With such a gunner, it would be a crime for other gunners to fire, and it would be disrespect for life.

With the several guns of the 524th Regiment, Lin Fan could continue to maintain a rapid rate of fire of five shells per minute.

From the time when the Japanese soldiers could be seen from the roof, those Japanese soldiers had been advancing in the face of the Chinese army's artillery fire.

The members of the multinational military observation group on the banks of the Suzhou River didn't expect that the sky was about to get dark.

The Japanese still wanted to make a fuss about this last hour of the day and try to take down the Sihang Warehouse in one go.

However, these observers' military attaches believed that it was an arduous task for the Japanese to try to take down the Sihang Warehouse, which was defended by a full regiment of the 524th Regiment, with only a little over a thousand men.

Siege warfare originally required filling it with lives. A thousand Japanese soldiers might not be enough to fill the stomachs of the defenders inside the Sihang Warehouse.

If they wanted to take down the Sihang Warehouse, they needed to fill the stomachs of those defenders and make them full before they could take it down.

Battalion Commander Yokouchi Ryunosuke was a true soldier, and he personally went to the front line to supervise the battle.

What made him very depressed was that in the past, his troops had always used artillery to bombard the Chinese army's troops.

Today, everything was reversed.

Thousands of meters away from the Sihang Warehouse, his troops began to be shelled.

These shells fell in waves.

When they came over, they were as rapid as raindrops and as accurate as point-blank shots.

Every shell that fell would definitely take the lives of the empire's warriors.

Then, after firing a round like this, they would rest for a while.

Then, they would come again for another round, and then stop for a while.

After repeating this three times, the entire Yokouchi Ryunosuke Company, the attacking teams on the east and west sides, had summed up their experience.

The experience was summed up, but it wasn't of much use.

The accuracy of the opposing gunners was so terrifyingly high that they had forcibly turned the mortars into sniper rifles.

Xie Jinyuan and Yang Ruifu felt that watching Lin Fan fire was a kind of enjoyment.

Lin Fan's every move was flowing and natural, and his movements were clean and neat, without a trace of fireworks.

His movements didn't seem like killing people, but like performing, as pleasing to the eye as those performing tea ceremonies.

However, when they looked at the Japanese soldiers, the scene completely changed.

Every shell that fell was definitely accompanied by the flying of the Japanese soldiers' limbs and arms.

There were no exceptions!

If this scene was recorded, it could only happen in hell.

Battalion Commander Yokouchi Ryunosuke listened to the sound of the shells exploding and watched his soldiers constantly losing strength.

He shouted, "Charge! Charge quickly! As long as we charge into the enemy's position, they won't dare to continue bombing."

No one dared to disobey the battalion commander's order!

The members of the multinational military observation group sitting on the south bank saw the Japanese soldiers charging in the face of intense artillery fire.

These soldiers began to charge quickly from a thousand meters away. They charged all the way to the defenders' range like a swarm of bees.

These Japanese soldiers were still charging.

When they charged to a distance of one hundred meters, the Chinese soldiers hiding in the fortifications immediately opened fire.

The grenade launchers in the Japanese soldiers' ranks immediately began to prepare.

But before they could launch, they were blown up by shells falling from the sky.

Battalion Commander Yokouchi Ryunosuke commanded the battle in the east side of the team.

The west side of the team was commanded by Chief of Staff Takaie Kota. Chief of Staff Takaie Kota's strategy was the same as the battalion commander's: to have all the soldiers charge to their deaths.

However, Chief of Staff Takaie Kota was unlucky. He was blown to pieces by a shell when he charged to a place eight hundred meters away from the Sihang Warehouse.

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