The first time, he lost confidence in capturing the Sihang Warehouse.

The Murashita Battalion had a total of over 1,100 Japanese soldiers, and now nearly 400 had been killed or wounded, a direct reduction of one-third of their strength.

They could already be considered to have lost their combat effectiveness.

However, the Japanese soldiers' fighting will was firm. Even so, the surviving Japanese soldiers were red-faced and red-eyed, howling and shouting to avenge the dead Japanese soldiers.

These Japanese soldiers were all from the same county, and they were all fellow villagers. Far away from their homeland, the feelings between fellow villagers were still very deep.

Listening to the requests for battle from the soldiers around him, Murashita Taro finally calmed down.

After probing, he felt that if he wanted to break into the Sihang Warehouse, he still had to attack from the front.

Break through the fortifications set up by the defenders outside, and break in through the gate of the Sihang Warehouse.

Trying to insert from other locations that were not originally roads...

It was simply too difficult to open and break through the walls, which even infantry guns could not blast open.

Even with blasting, he didn't have absolute certainty.

Murashita Taro didn't realize that he was now frightened by the two explosive packs that the 542nd Regiment had just thrown down.

Only two explosive packs had caused an entire squad of soldiers to be completely destroyed. Such power made him unwilling to send any more soldiers up to probe.

Murashita Taro subconsciously avoided the idea of continuing to blast.

The cheers from the citizens on the south bank of the Suzhou River were louder and louder.

Many voices were hoarse from shouting.

The 542nd Regiment on the opposite side was really too awesome, coming wave after wave.

One good show after another was staged.

Making these citizens unable to stop watching.

They witnessed with their own eyes the scene of the Japanese soldiers being blown off the roof. The citizens were not afraid, nor did they feel it was cruel.

Seeing the fate of the Japanese soldiers, these citizens only felt relieved, happy, and excited.

The cheers from the south bank of the Suzhou River echoed across the land.

Murashita Taro, staying in the Bank of Communications building, could also hear the thunderous cheers.

Murashita Taro and his invading soldiers had never imagined such sounds.

They had never imagined that these usually cowardly people would see the deaths of Imperial soldiers...

And be able to erupt in such cheers.

As professional Imperial soldiers, these invaders still insisted on rushing towards the path of destruction.

A company accepted Murashita Taro's order, and they carefully rushed out of the Bank of Communications.

They quickly launched an attack on the outer fortifications of the Sihang Warehouse guarded by the Second Company.

With Murashita Taro's instructions, Company Commander Okimeda Kohei led more than a hundred Japanese soldiers, using the cover of the surrounding ruins to slowly approach the Second Company's position.

When the Okimeda Kohei Company was more than a hundred meters away from the position, the grenade launcher began firing at the opposite fortifications.

The First Company on the roof of the Sihang Warehouse immediately returned fire.

Lin Fan's grenade launcher, which he hadn't used just now, could now be used.

The First Company was in a commanding position, and rifles and machine guns fired together.

Now the soldiers of the 542nd Regiment were standing on the roof and shooting at the Japanese soldiers below.

It was really too convenient.

The Okimeda Kohei Company was under a three-dimensional attack from the defenders.

The grenade launcher that had just started firing was also suppressed by the firepower from the building.

One grenade launcher had just poked his head out when he was hit by a bullet and fell to the ground.

Company Commander Okimeda Kohei had already seen the danger. If the entire company stayed in place, they would be the targets of the defenders on the roof.

He had no choice but to order the soldiers to charge just like that.

A company of Japanese soldiers had more than 180 people.

They only focused on attacking one direction.

The Second Company had only more than 120 people in total, and had to defend the east and west sides of the Sihang Warehouse's outer perimeter at the same time.

In fact, on the western position, the Second Company had only more than 40 people.

Second Company Commander Deng Ying also left dozens of soldiers as a reserve team.

More than 40 National Revolutionary Army soldiers fired bullets of justice from the bunker-like fortifications.

Last night, Lin Fan had learned from experience, and these fortifications were now really built like bunkers.

A roof was placed on top of the fortification. Although it could not defend against heavy artillery bombardment, it was still very effective against ordinary Type 92 infantry gun bombardment.

This was also the reason why the grenade launchers fired by the Japanese soldiers just now did not cause any damage to the Second Company.

At this time, Second Company Commander Deng Ying was also very satisfied with these fortifications that the entire regiment had worked hard to repair overnight last night.

With such fortifications, a company of Japanese soldiers was not a problem at all!

Company Commander Okimeda Kohei painfully discovered that even if the soldiers in his company braved the attacks from the defenders above...

And bravely launched an attack on the opposite National Revolutionary Army, they could not cause the slightest damage to the National Revolutionary Army's fortifications.

The National Revolutionary Army had actually built bunkers in this place.

These bunkers were all made of sandbags. The machine gun fire of his men could only suppress one or two enemy fire points.

However, the opposite side had set up a network of fire on the attack route.

Losing one or two fire points would not weaken the blockade of the entire attack route at all.

Looking at the one squad that had just charged up, only seven or eight soldiers were still struggling.

What should he do?

Company Commander Okimeda Kohei had no choice but to send out all the machine guns of the entire company to suppress the fire of the opposite defenders.

However, the machine gunners of the Okimeda Kohei Company were always the key targets of the defenders on the roof.

One machine gunner after another was shot down.

One assistant gunner after another took their place, fired a few shots, and then was shot down again.

Seeing the eight machine guns of the entire company firing at the same time, the fire points of the opposite defenders were finally suppressed.

The remaining Japanese infantry swarmed up and immediately charged towards the fortifications of the Second Company in front.

On the roof, Company Commander Shangguan Zhibiao was commanding the soldiers to use the captured grenade launchers to fire at the Japanese machine gun positions.

Although not every one of these shells could hit the target, there would always be shells that landed on the Japanese machine gun positions.

The more Japanese machine guns that were hit, the heavier the blow the Japanese infantrymen who were charging would suffer.

Seeing that the Japanese infantry charging in the front were less than 30 meters away from the firing holes,

These experienced Japanese soldiers began to throw grenades towards the fortifications in front.

Then they fell to the ground, waiting for the grenades they threw to explode.

Grenades exploded in the opposite fortifications one after another.

The firepower on the opposite side seemed to suddenly stop.

Encouraged, the Japanese soldiers shouted and stood up, starting the final sprint.

At this moment, continuous heavy machine gun fire sounded.

These Japanese soldiers who had just stood up instantly crossed a distance of more than ten meters, but what awaited them was not victory.

It was the opening of hell. Being swept by heavy machine guns at such a close distance, these Japanese soldiers who stood up to charge were cut down like ripe rice, one after another.

The heavy machine gun fire lasted for less than three minutes.

Company Commander Okimeda Kohei saw that none of the soldiers who had launched an attack from the entire company were still standing.

Even the machine gun positions, because they were only a hundred meters away from the front line, were constantly blown up by the other side in the exchange of fire with the heavy machine guns.

Company Commander Okimeda Kohei, who no longer had any soldiers under his command, stood up in despair, waved his command sword, and launched a one-man charge towards the National Revolutionary Army's fortifications.

The citizens on the opposite bank who saw this scene all forgot to cheer.

Watching this crazy Japanese soldier, watching his arm being broken by the heavy machine gun bullets, his hands and feet falling off.

Watching his head being blown up by the heavy machine gun, his headless body took two more steps forward before falling down weakly.

At this moment, the entire south bank of the Suzhou River was silent.

Those people who had witnessed the National Revolutionary Army put up such a beautiful blocking battle, also witnessed the stubbornness and persistence of the Japanese soldiers.

For a moment, they were also distracted by the fighting spirit of the Japanese soldiers.

After a while, these people came back to their senses, and the cheers rang out again.

The members of the multinational military observation group witnessed with their own eyes the final despair of Company Commander Okimeda Kohei, and also saw his final struggle.

These observers looked at each other, the shock in their hearts was completely different from their calm appearance: such an army was too terrible.

During the time these people were distracted,

The Second Company had already sent out a squad of soldiers to clean up the battlefield.

For the defending soldiers of the 542nd Regiment, Japanese soldiers were Japanese soldiers, and only dead Japanese soldiers were good Japanese soldiers.

They did not care how the Japanese soldiers died. On the contrary, these soldiers who walked out of the fortifications to clean up the battlefield, when they saw the Japanese soldiers' corpses in front of the position, the first thing they did was to shoot them again.

This method was learned from the Special Company. Lin Fan had required the Special Company to do this.

Cleaning up the battlefield, first give each corpse a shot or a stab. This was the top priority.

Then, pick up the weapons left behind by the enemy.

The Second Company was cleaning up the battlefield:

Machine guns were the priority to be cleaned up, and all the bullets had to be collected.

Rifles and grenade launchers were all needed.

The squad sent out by the Second Company only cleaned up the area in front of their position, for those Japanese soldiers under the west wall of the Sihang Warehouse.

They resolutely did not go over: it was too close to the Bank of Communications, and they were afraid of being shot by snipers!

Battalion Commander Murashita Taro personally witnessed Company Commander Okimeda Kohei's lone charge.

The defending soldiers on the opposite side were too powerful!

He painfully closed his eyes: "Maybe the Empire's invasion of this country was wrong?"

He was not the only one who had this idea. Among the military observation groups on the opposite bank, there was one person who also thought so.

Listening to the cheers of the people around him, and looking at the battle that had just ended on the opposite side, Stilwell could feel the joy of these people: with a common hatred for the enemy, all the people had only hatred for the invaders.

Only hatred!

A country with more than 10 million square kilometers and 400 million people, when they united like this and did one thing together, this kind of power would drive out all the invaders.

He had already seen the future of this country, and he also had a decision in his heart: when the United States was trading with Japan, it could also trade with this country at the same time.

Anyway, for businessmen, they would not refuse anything that could make money.

But for the current National Revolutionary Army, being able to get someone willing to give loans and sell arms...

Was like sending charcoal in the snow.

Battalion Commander Murashita Taro still had more than 400 soldiers under his command. His fear just now only lasted for five minutes.

After five minutes, Battalion Commander Murashita Taro cheered up again:

The long day had just begun, and the battle had to continue.

He looked outside, the sun was still slowly rising, and it had just climbed to a place where it could not be reached with a pole.

For the first time, Battalion Commander Murashita Taro felt that time was passing too slowly!

He had no other choice during this day.

What if he waited until nightfall?

Waiting until nightfall, whether it was sneaking under the west wall to blast it, or sneaking into the opposite position under the cover of darkness.

Both were options!

So now, he could only wait.

Wait!

The 542nd Regiment stationed in the Sihang Warehouse, the observers waiting on the south bank of the Suzhou River, and those people standing on the bank of the river.

Waiting for the Japanese soldiers to attack again. Ten minutes passed,

Thirty minutes passed.

The Japanese soldiers did not make any movement at all.

The onlookers saw that there was no more fighting to watch, and slowly dispersed.

The observers also returned to their rooms.

These battle-hardened observers had already seen that today's Japanese commander had been frightened.

He should not take the initiative to attack for the time being.

Koizumi Junichiro was very excited when he saw the scene of the Empire's warriors dying heroically.

In the blink of an eye, that timid and incompetent guy on the opposite side actually laid down his arms and ceased his attack.

Letting all the members of the observation group see the cowardice of the Empire's soldiers.

How could this be allowed?

Minister Koizumi Junichiro's wartime guidance was also sent to the headquarters of the Japanese Shanghai Expeditionary Army.

The Special Company's training today was normal, and no one came to disturb them anymore.

Lin Fan organized the soldiers to take turns getting into the tanks, letting the first few tankers who had learned how to operate them share all their learning experiences.

However, the tank gunner had only learned the theory so far, and had not fired a single shell.

Two and a half days of theoretical experience, zero practical experience!

Hearing that the gunfire outside had stopped for half an hour, and there was still no movement coming over.

Had the Japanese soldiers been completely wiped out?

Lin Fan had doubts, Xiao Bao came to help!

Wu Xiaobao quickly found out the news. The Japanese soldiers were shrinking in the Bank of Communications building and did not dare to come out.

Lin Fan thought about it, this was an opportunity!

Running all the way from the ground floor to the roof, he found Regiment Commander Xie Jinyuan, who was looking at the scenery on the roof.

Lin Fan asked him for a battle, "Regiment Commander Xie! The Special Company requests: to send a tank team to attack the Bank of Communications building occupied by the Japanese soldiers."

Xie Jinyuan was a little puzzled, "Company Commander Lin, our mission is to defend, please state your reason!"

"Attack is the best defense!"

The regimental commander smiled and nodded: "You are really fearless! Are there any other reasons?"

Lin Fan smiled, smiling embarrassedly: "My soldiers have captured the tanks these past few days, but they have not used the tanks in actual combat.

I want them to go out and fire some (cannons), and actually experience the tactical methods of fighting with tanks."

The regimental commander laughed: "You are using the Japanese soldiers to train your troops! Go ahead! I don't have any tactical requirements, it doesn't matter whether you capture it or not.

The important thing is to let the soldiers familiarize themselves with the new weapons!"

Lin Fan stood at attention and saluted!

"Yes!"

Turning around and going downstairs.

Xie Jinyuan said to Yang Ruifu beside him: "If there is a chance to survive, send Company Commander Lin out.

When I took on this mission, I had already written a farewell letter.

I no longer have the idea of going back.

The entire 542nd Regiment no longer has the idea of being able to leave the Sihang Warehouse alive.

But these few days after seeing Company Commander Lin Fan.

I have been thinking, someone like Company Commander Lin can completely be a spark.

He should not die here with us.

So I decided, as long as there is a hope of surviving, I will send him out."

Yang Ruifu thought about it for a while before saying, "Now, if you want to leave, you can only go through the concession.

I see that Company Commander Lin cares so much about his Special Company, I guess he won't leave alone.

He will definitely take the Special Company with him."

Xie Jinyuan paused, and then said: "The 542nd Regiment accepted the mission to garrison, it has nothing to do with the Special Company!"

Yang Ruifu understood: "This is the regimental commander intentionally letting the entire Special Company leave."

He said: "Letting the Special Company leave now will affect morale."

Xie Jinyuan: "They can't leave now, even with more than a hundred soldiers. The concession will not allow armed personnel to pass through.

Even if they enter the concession, it is just a larger isolated island.

Even I can't organize these more than one hundred people to leave Shanghai.

I don't know what Company Commander Lin is planning in his heart!

I think even Mr. He can send one or two soldiers to leave Shanghai, but she will definitely not be able to send more than one hundred soldiers to leave Shanghai."

"The Green Gang! Huang Jinrong!" Yang Ruifu said these five words.

Xie Jinyuan shook his head: "The French are now struggling to protect themselves, they don't even dare to mess around under the noses of the Japanese.

Not to mention Huang Jinrong."

While they were discussing, they heard a rumbling sound. Seven tanks drove out of the Sihang Warehouse.

Each tank was followed by more than a dozen soldiers.

Those audience members on the south bank of the Suzhou River thought that this was it for today.

They did not expect that the National Revolutionary Army actually had tanks, and they even drove them out.

The purpose was too clear.

After the seven tanks drove out of their own position, they lined up and fired at the Bank of Communications building.

With a distance of only more than one hundred meters, no matter how they fired, they would be able to hit a target that completely blocked their vision.

When Battalion Commander Murashita Taro learned that the defenders had actually sent tanks to attack, he ordered artillery fire.

This order was really too difficult for the soldiers.

The position of the tanks was completely in the blind spot of the artillery fire.

It was impossible to attack the tanks from this building.

And the position of the tanks was also very awkward.

If Battalion Commander Murashita Taro used artillery to attack, the shells would go into the concession with a slight deviation.

This was something that absolutely could not be done.

In that case, they could only send soldiers out to blow them up with their bodies.

Battalion Commander Murashita Taro did not expect that one day the soldiers of the Empire would actually learn from the National Revolutionary Army and send soldiers to blow up the enemy's tanks.

The shells fired from the tanks had already exploded in the building.

The Bank of Communications was different from the Sihang Warehouse, there were many windows.

Some shells hit the walls. Like when Battalion Commander Murashita Taro bombarded the Sihang Warehouse, they exploded and the walls were undamaged.

Some shells entered through the windows, but did not cause any casualties to the Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese soldiers had already escaped from the rooms facing the tanks in advance.