Lin Fan's carefulness, Lin Fan's persistence, all the soldiers of the entire 542nd Regiment saw it.

Now, all the officers and soldiers of the entire 542nd Regiment know one thing:

Even inside the Sihang Warehouse, the Special Operations Company always has sentries posted.

Even though all the soldiers nervously repaired the fortifications in the dark tonight, it's still the same.

The sentry posts arranged by the Special Operations Company have not decreased at all.

Although the soldiers of the 542nd Regiment felt that the soldiers of the Special Operations Company were too miserable.

Every day, besides fighting, they also had to train, opening their eyes before dawn and being busy until dark.

They never had time to rest.

However, these soldiers were also somewhat envious, jealous, and resentful of the soldiers of the Special Operations, at least they had an officer like Lin Fan, so they could completely relax when it was their turn to sleep.

Because at any time, there would be brothers on sentry duty outside.

The soldiers of the Special Operations Company were called up by Lin Fan at 5:30 in the morning.

He personally led the soldiers of the Special Operations Company to run and exercise on the roof of the Sihang Warehouse!

After these soldiers had an hour of physical training, they began their assassination training.

At this time, it was already 6:30!

This was the morning of October 28, 1937!

A new day had begun!

The soldiers of the Special Operations Company had just completed an hour of physical training, and now they were full of energy.

Deafening shouts of killing!

Full of power!

Firm footsteps, stomping on the half-meter-thick concrete, making a dull thudding sound.

When Xie Jinyuan walked onto the roof with his guards, watching this company training in the morning sun.

He once again felt that Lin Fan, this special forces soldier who had sneaked back from Germany, could really bring out a team completely different from his own army.

He could clearly see that this morning, all the soldiers in this team had light in their eyes!

The way they looked was completely different from the way they looked two days ago.

Two days ago, the eyes of these soldiers were full of confusion, unable to find direction, and life had no goal.

These ordinary soldiers had become numb to family feuds and national hatred, and perhaps they no longer felt any hope in their hearts.

Or perhaps these soldiers saw new hope in Company Commander Lin Fan!

Xie Jinyuan looked at these one hundred plus men, each with a pool of sweat under their feet.

These soldiers trained hard!

No wonder the soldiers of the Special Operations Company had been fighting fiercely and eating even more fiercely these past two days.

One company of them could eat as much as two companies!

Is the combat effectiveness of soldiers proportional to their ability to eat?

Regimental Commander Xie had a feeling that within this warehouse, the Special Operations Company seemed to be the elite of the regular German-equipped division.

His own genuine German-equipped division seemed more like local braves.

The Special Operations Company had been training for more than an hour, and most of the officers and soldiers of the 542nd Regiment were still sleeping!

If it weren't for the sound of their assassination practice waking him up!

Thinking of this, Regimental Commander Xie himself felt ashamed.

Heroes emerge in troubled times!

Now is the time of national crisis, and Regimental Commander Xie felt that he had already seen such a hero.

The more such heroes, the better!

When Lin Fan saw Xie Jinyuan coming up, he greeted loudly, "Regimental Commander! Good morning!"

Xie Jinyuan smiled and said, "Company Commander Lin, you're up early!"

Lin Fan said helplessly, "I don't want to disturb everyone like this either. I also wanted to take the team to the river to train, but those minefields we secretly laid out last night...

If we walked on them once,

The observers on the opposite bank would immediately tell the Japanese the route."

Xie Jinyuan smiled and said, "It's okay! Soldiers must persist in training.

In your words: 'Sweat more in peacetime, bleed less in war!'

If weapons are insufficient, make up for it with training!"

A new day arrived in training.

All the guards stationed in the Sihang Warehouse got up!

The initial hour of physical training for the Special Operations Company wasn't too loud.

The soldiers of the 542nd Regiment could still manage to turn over and continue sleeping.

When the soldiers of the Special Operations Company began practicing assassination, none of the soldiers in the entire Sihang Warehouse could sleep anymore.

In Lin Fan's mind: it could only be that these soldiers were not tired enough.

When he was receiving training in the company, he couldn't be woken up even if it was thundering in the sky.

All movements that do not threaten the body are fleeting clouds.

Only those who want to test themselves up close will awaken themselves and their training comrades.

However, during special forces training, no one wants to approach the warriors who have fallen into deep sleep after training.

The consequences of doing so are very dangerous!

Warriors in deep sleep will only subconsciously make reflexive reactions when encountering external disturbances.

At that time, their consciousness is not yet clear, and they cannot distinguish between friend and foe.

In Lin Fan's eyes, the intensity of the fighting these past two days was not high enough.

The density of the Japanese attacks was not strong either.

Therefore, Lin Fan also needed to increase the intensity for these soldiers of the Special Operations Company and organize them for training.

Lin Fan knew: he didn't have much time left. If he couldn't train this team to one-tenth of his target in these few days,

Then this Special Operations Company would not be able to keep up with his pace and would be destined to become mediocre!

But this was not the result he wanted. Lin Fan wanted to train in combat. He wanted to train an invincible team that could perform various tasks.

From the Japanese attacks in these days, Lin Fan easily came to the conclusion:

It could be seen that the Japanese were very determined and had high morale.

It's just that their tactics were a bit poor.

Lin Fan had already seen that the Japanese should have been constrained by some conditions and no longer used their usual tactics.

Methods such as artillery bombardment and infantry charging were only used once during the first day of the attack.

Later, when the Japanese attacked the Sihang Warehouse, they completely abandoned the artillery bombardment procedure.

Lin Fan believed that this was definitely not because the Japanese commanders had forgotten this.

It was only possible that the Japanese had been interfered with.

This was good news for the defenders of the Sihang Warehouse!

If the Japanese continued to fight with such restraint, Lin Fan could defend this place until the end of time.

However, Lin Fan himself knew that this kind of thinking was undesirable.

The Japanese and the great powers would not allow this situation to continue.

The next battle will be even more brutal!

Xie Jinyuan was very satisfied with the current situation.

After defending for two days, the morale of the entire regiment was rising.

The casualties of the entire regiment were not high, and the results of the battle these past two days were very good.

When he saw the figures of the Japanese soldiers appearing on the horizon again, the expression on his face became serious again.

Today, the Nakajo Infantry Unit Commander replaced it with a new battalion to attack.

And this time, the entire Japanese Shanghai Expeditionary Army Headquarters no longer issued the order to occupy the Sihang Warehouse before sunset.

Major General Katayama Riichiro especially instructed the Nakajo Infantry Unit Commander: Do not seek rapid advances, only seek stability!

During the two days of attacking the Sihang Warehouse, the military operations of the entire Shanghai Expeditionary Army were carried out according to the plans of the Imperial General Headquarters.

The main force of the National Revolutionary Army, which was originally defending in the Shanghai city area, had all retreated to the west of Shanghai.

The Imperial General Headquarters has now adjusted its entire operational plan against China, and the focus of the offensive has shifted from North China to Shanghai.

Troops are being continuously drawn from the already meager forces in various places.

The purpose is to leave all the elite of the National Revolutionary Army here.

To destroy the National Revolutionary Army's will to resist!

Commander-in-Chief Matsui Iwane of the Japanese Shanghai Expeditionary Army looked at the opposing situation map on the military map in front of him.

He was very satisfied with the overall situation!

The heroic performance of the Imperial soldiers on the battlefield achieved tangible results.

Following the route of the National Revolutionary Army's strategic contraction, they have been pursuing closely.

They have been fighting the National Revolutionary Army's troops in every direction, causing them to suffer unspeakably.

Wherever the Imperial front points, the National Revolutionary Army retreats steadily!

Only at the Sihang Warehouse was there a discordant little point on the map.

Looking at it, it was like a thorn in his side, and it felt uncomfortable no matter how he looked at it.

It also made the entire battlefield situation map look bad.

More importantly: Imperial soldiers suffered heavy casualties here.

The casualties suffered by the soldiers in this small warehouse were more than the sum of the casualties in all the battles on the entire western front of Shanghai.

Matsui Iwane had to admit: He had been a little arrogant these past two days.

He had been overwhelmed by victory and had not expected the National Revolutionary Army soldiers' will to resist to be so strong.

A single isolated force had actually caused nearly two thousand casualties to his forces.

In any case, this National Revolutionary Army force cannot be allowed to remain.

Today, he had calmed down and no longer stipulated that the Sihang Warehouse must be occupied before sunset.

The Shanghai Expeditionary Army Headquarters no longer limited the time to capture the Sihang Warehouse.

Giving the front-line commanders the greatest command freedom.

This order was a relief to the entire Japanese 3rd Division. In the past two days,

The various regiments of the 3rd Division had been very successful in their offensives in every direction.

It was only in the occupation of the Sihang Warehouse that they suffered huge casualties.

The consequence was that all the achievements of the entire division were gone.

They were ridiculed by their friendly forces all day long: A team that has even fought a single isolated force,

Still wants to compete with friendly forces for tasks?

Division Commander Katayama Riichiro received Commander-in-Chief Matsui Iwane's latest order.

He finally breathed a sigh of relief. It was better to let the front-line commanders decide the battlefield affairs.

He immediately passed the order down.

The order was passed down level by level.

Battalion Commander Murashita Taro received the order from the Nakajo Infantry Unit Commander: Attack the Sihang Warehouse!

In fact, when the Unit Commander transferred his battalion back to the city from the front line, Murashita Taro already knew what his battalion's next task would be.

He immediately began to study the terrain of the Sihang Warehouse.

In the past two days, two battalions had been unsuccessful in their attacks. He was the third battalion to be replaced.

Murashita Taro did not want his battalion to be crippled again by this time tomorrow and then be shamefully transferred down by the Unit Commander.

The south side of the Sihang Warehouse is the Suzhou River, and the opposite bank is the concession, which is a minefield that can never be touched.

In any case, it must be ensured that not a single shot or bullet crosses the river, that not a single shell crosses the border, and that not even any shell has the idea of crossing the border.

The Sihang Warehouse is sturdy and tall. The National Revolutionary Army chose such a location to defend it because they valued this point.

The battle reports from the previous two days are now in front of Murashita Taro.

Although the previous two battalion commanders were unable to succeed, he could still learn from their lessons.

Murashita Taro looked at the Bank of Communications to the west of the Sihang Warehouse. Although this building was not as tall as the Sihang Warehouse,

It was not much lower, and at the same time, this building was strong enough.

"I want to occupy this building!" Murashita Taro's short, stubby finger pierced the Bank of Communications building.

"Set up our artillery positions in this building." Murashita Taro continued to order.

He knew about the situation of yesterday's battle, all from the reports of the observers arranged by the Empire on the south bank.

The defenders have artillery positions on the roof of the Sihang Warehouse, but they are all mortars.

Mortar artillery positions!

Battalion Commander Murashita Taro had already imagined a scene: his artillerymen on the third floor of the Bank of Communications, extending their gun barrels and firing at the Sihang Warehouse.

The artillerymen on the mortar positions of the defending army on the opposite side of the Sihang Warehouse, watching the direct fire of the Type 92 infantry guns, were helpless!

This scene was beautiful to think about.

What Regimental Commander Xie saw upstairs was that the Japanese were attacking from three directions again this time.

What he didn't see was that behind some of the buildings that had not completely collapsed on the north bank, the Japanese artillery squadron was quietly marching.

Lin Fan continued to repeat yesterday's actions and began to operate the mortars for bombardment.

It wasn't that he loved to perform alone; it was just that the shells were not allowed to be wasted at the Sihang Warehouse.

The 542nd Regiment stationed here still seemed very free on the surface.

There were no Japanese soldiers around.

In fact, the Sihang Warehouse, which the entire 542nd Regiment was now guarding, was already an isolated island.

There was no problem with sending food and fruit from the concession.

Even sending some medicines was fine.

Wanting to send ammunition and supplies from the concession was out of the question.

Therefore: In order to save the shells of the entire 542nd Regiment, Lin Fan could only perform alone.

Even the soldiers of the Special Operations Company could only stand on the side, listening to Lin Fan's explanations again and again.

Explaining how the mortars determine the range, how to adjust the corners, and adjust the direction.

The ultimate goal was to be able to hit wherever they wanted!

If possible, Lin Fan really wanted these soldiers to operate the guns themselves.

No training effect could be better than actual combat on the battlefield.

It was just that Lin Fan didn't know how long the defense battle of the Sihang Warehouse would last this time.

All the ammunition could not be wasted.

Murashita Taro, one kilometer away, discovered that his infantry squadron had just entered the line of sight of the Sihang Warehouse.

They were immediately subjected to precise artillery strikes.

He immediately ordered: "All infantry, stop advancing. Withdraw from the defenders' artillery range." He did not want to make such unnecessary sacrifices.

He ordered the artillery squad following the team to aim at the Sihang Warehouse: "Fire!"

Without the support of the field heavy artillery regiment, he prepared to use his infantry guns to suppress the defenders' artillery fire.

The multinational military observation group had just sat down in the room today and heard the defenders of the Sihang Warehouse bombarding the Japanese infantry.

One by one, they stuck their heads out. They had discovered these days that the defenders' artillery bombardment was frighteningly accurate.

Today, they were disappointed: It was not that the defenders didn't bombard, but the Japanese soldiers didn't cooperate.

Those Japanese soldiers who had just entered the artillery attack range of the defenders immediately retreated after suffering more than a dozen casualties.

The interest that these observers had just raised dropped again.

But five minutes later, they jumped up as if their butts were on fire: These military observers saw huge plumes of smoke suddenly rising around the Sihang Warehouse!

The whistling sound of artillery shells was endless.

They were so frightened that they trembled. Everyone felt that the building they were standing in was shaking along with their hearts.

These observers all stared at Koizumi Junichiro: "Koizumi! What about your promises?"

"You are ignoring our authority and treating our warnings as wind in your ears!"

"Japanese, do you want the United States to teach you how to behave?"

Koizumi Junichiro was covered in sweat: "It's a misunderstanding! Misunderstanding! I'll stop them immediately! Stop immediately!"

Three days: the first wartime guidance from the multinational military observation group finally came to Brigade Commander Katayama Ryoichiro.

Hearing that the small opening he had just loosened for artillery fire had made those Western fathers angry.

Katayama Riichiro was also furious: "I gave you a little bit of power, and you gave me a big scare.

How can this be?"

Major General Katayama Riichiro did not delay at all and immediately notified Battalion Commander Murashita Taro: "Stop the shelling immediately! Immediately! If you don't stop, I will punish you according to military law."

Katayama Riichiro was really scared in his heart: Last time, a shooting incident cost the Empire ten million.

This time, the artillery bombardment was fortunate not to have caused any losses.

If there was another ten million in compensation, or it caused dissatisfaction or discomfort among the Western powers,

If they were to forcibly intervene in Asian affairs, the huge debt that the Empire had borrowed would never be repaid.

The entire Empire would face the crisis of bankruptcy.

But even if those Western fathers were not harmed, compensation was already inevitable.

Minister Koizumi Junichiro only hoped that the Western fathers could understand the capabilities of the turtles.

The Empire had really reached the point of being exhausted.

They could no longer bear large amounts of compensation.

The observers of the multinational military observation group were also very considerate of Koizumi Junichiro and only asked for symbolic compensation of 10,000 yuan for each person in the building.

This time, the observers fully exercised the idea of equality for all, and even the cleaning servants in the building received 10,000 yuan in compensation.

When the news spread, the servants in the building all ran up to salute and thank the observers of the multinational military observation group.

Koizumi Junichiro's heart was bleeding as he watched this scene.

Just now, the Empire had compensated 1.36 million.

This was considered spiritual compensation for the observers and needed to be paid to individuals immediately.

For this, Koizumi Junichiro had to borrow money from his American father again and signed an agreement with a 3% interest rate.

The wealthy American father took the money from the bank and distributed it.

The loan agreement had just been signed, and the car delivering the money from the bank was already outside.