Chang Kai-shek's anger was justified.

Today, it looked like Britain and the United States were about to join the war.

This was something Chang Kai-shek had been dreaming of day and night, and it was about to come true.

As a result, at the last moment, the Japanese took a big step back, avoiding conflict with the Westerners.

What Chang Kai-shek didn't expect was that: the incident on the Suzhou River was indeed a foreshadowing of the Japanese devils' defeat!

No one knew that the defense of Sihang Warehouse, which originated on the banks of the Suzhou River in Shanghai, aroused the serious interest of the German president.

German President Hitler received a situation report from his ambassador in Berlin.

He didn't pay attention to the trade between Britain, the United States, and Japan; his focus was different from everyone else's.

Somewhat in agreement with Chang Kai-shek: This time, the Japanese slapped Britain and the United States in the face, and all they had to do was pay some compensation.

Hitler paced around his office, a vague idea in his mind that he couldn't quite grasp.

When he came to the garden and saw his beloved woman,

he suddenly realized that the so-called alliances in the world were just a pile of loose sand.

Since the Japanese had already tested the patience of Britain and the United States,

he could begin the path to the revival of the great Germany.

Germany was now the most powerful country in Europe, both economically and militarily.

If he annexed and integrated the surrounding small countries, being the world's number one wouldn't be a dream!

He would try his hand with a small country first, and if the world opposed him by sending people, money, and troops,

he would just pay some compensation and retreat.

If the world only condemned him verbally, he could give those countries some benefits,

and let them just talk about it.

Anyway, these benefits were all plundered from those small countries!

Just like the nearly ten million yuan in funds that Japan compensated to various countries, wasn't it also plundered from the occupied territories?

This was a big plan, and he had to think about it carefully!

Think it over carefully!

Chang Kai-shek was very angry that the Western powers didn't mention any of his country's interests in the negotiations at the Peace Hotel.

As a result, he no longer had the interest to learn more about the two battles that took place at Sihang Warehouse today.

In the night, Xie Jinyuan personally took the flag sent from the other side.

He decided to hold a flag-raising ceremony on the roof of the Sihang Warehouse at sunrise on the morning of the twenty-eighth.

Tonight, although Lin Fan and his company had returned to the Sihang Warehouse to rest,

Lin Fan still sent out two sentries in the open and two in secret.

The password: "National Army! Will win!"

The long night finally passed.

In the early morning, people who got up early on the south bank of the Suzhou River suddenly heard a uniform singing from across the river:

*Qǐ yuē wú yī? Yǔ zi tóng páo. Wáng yú xīng shī, xiū wǒ gē máo. Yǔ zi tóng chóu! Qǐ yuē wú yī? Yǔ zi tóng zé. Wáng yú xīng shī, xiū wǒ máo jǐ. Yǔ zi xié zuò! Qǐ yuē wú yī? Yǔ zi tóng shang. Wáng yú xīng shī, xiū wǒ jiǎ bīng. Yǔ zi xié xíng!*

All the soldiers stationed in Sihang Warehouse stood neatly on the roof, even those wounded soldiers who could stand up and move to the roof.

A flag was slowly raised,迎着朝阳，迎着晨风，飘扬！

Today, Brigade Commander Katayama Riichiro had the instructions from Division Commander Fujita Susumu: all light weapons could be used, but there would be no artillery bombardment.

In any case, Sihang Warehouse must be taken down before sunset today.

In any case...

This was a simple task, and it was also an easy thing!

That's what Brigade Commander Katayama Riichiro thought.

Although his soldiers had suffered two setbacks yesterday,

in his opinion, it was only because the imperial soldiers were a little careless.

He would not be careless today.

Colonel Migami Go, the commander of the 6th Regiment, who received the order, still followed the lineup sent out yesterday: three companies attacked from the east, west, and north.

The only difference between today and yesterday afternoon was that there was no heavy artillery support.

This time he wanted to succeed in one go.

The intensity of this attack was the same as the force used to attack a full-strength division of the National Army in the past.

The attacks from the east and west were aimed at breaking through the outer defenses of the National Army on the banks of the Suzhou River,

and attacking into the Sihang Warehouse through the gate.

The attack from the north was for insurance purposes, with only one goal: to get close to the north side of the Sihang Warehouse, blow up the granite walls, and blast a passage,

and attack into the Sihang Warehouse!

The National Army, who had just finished the flag-raising ceremony, had already seen the Japanese devils in the distance on the roof.

They were approaching Sihang Warehouse from three directions.

Looking at the Japanese devils coming from the north, Lin Fan's face changed.

Being able to send troops from this direction, the intention of the Japanese devils was obvious: they wanted to blow up the wall to create a passage.

Company Commander Shangguan Zhibiao had already led the 1st Company into position.

Lin Fan immediately ordered the special company soldiers to bring up some of the explosives, iron pellets, and the recycled tattered clothes of the Japanese devils that he had requested.

At the same time, he asked the soldiers to collect some concrete blocks for later use.

Regiment Commander Xie Jinyuan watched Lin Fan wrap a half-jin pack of medicine in the middle, and then wrap a layer of iron pellets on the outside with the Japanese devils' clothes. A bomb bag was made in this way.

Xie Jinyuan and Yang Ruifu immediately understood that if such an enhanced bomb bag was thrown into the middle of the enemy's team, countless iron pellets would be scattered like countless shrapnel.

If the Japanese devils were attacked by such an enhanced bomb bag, no one within the effective range of the entire bomb bag would be spared.

Lin Fan said to Xie Jinyuan and several company commanders: "If the Japanese devils hold steel plates and lurk under the building to work,

you can do this!"

While explaining, he tied the made bomb bag to the sandbag that the special company soldiers had just filled.

"You have to fill the sandbag with more, at least a hundred catties of things. Throw it down like this, and they won't be able to withstand it."

Several commanders felt enlightened when they heard Lin Fan's explanation.

This special soldier who came back from studying in Germany had come up with a method that was indeed effective and practical.

Everyone came from actual combat, and they immediately understood whether there would be actual combat effect just by looking at Lin Fan's design.

Looking down from the roof, the Japanese devils in the three directions had already entered the range of 500 meters.

Xie Jinyuan smiled and said to Lin Fan, "Company Commander Lin! Send some gifts to those Japanese devils!

We can also have an artillery bombardment! After the artillery bombardment, the infantry will charge!"

Lin Fan nodded with a smile.

There were mortars and shells of the 3rd Company on the roof.

Lin Fan picked up a concrete block from the ground, holding the earthen block in his left hand to support the barrel of the gun.

He quickly threw the shell in with his right hand.

Xie Jinyuan saw a ball of fire explode in the middle of the Japanese devils' team coming from the east.

This was a signal, and it was also a start!

With the explosion of the first shell, the second and third shells fell on the heads of the Japanese devils attacking from the east one after another, as if they had eyes.

After ten shells were dropped on the heads of the Japanese devils in this direction,

Lin Fan changed the direction of the bombardment, and the Japanese devils attacking from the west also tasted the precise bombardment of shells falling down as if they had eyes.

Company Commander Murakami Yūsuke led his more than 180 men towards Sihang Warehouse with great satisfaction.

He knew that Regiment Commander Migami Go had sent three companies at the same time to attack the solid Sihang Warehouse.

The news he had gathered was that the National Army guarding Sihang Warehouse was the 542nd Regiment, a team of two thousand five hundred men.

This did not scare him; on the contrary, he was ecstatic.

As a young officer, he was the most enthusiastic supporter of the Greater Empire and a firm supporter of militarism.

The entire empire's current foreign and military policies were all rushing towards militarism and the path of imperial expansion.

These were inseparable from the young officers' fanatical desire for war in the army.

Yesterday, Company Commander Murakami Yūsuke led his soldiers, under the cover of artillery, to approach Sihang Warehouse.

He waited less than 300 meters away from Sihang Warehouse for the end of the artillery bombardment.

Company Commander Murakami Yūsuke guessed the beginning of yesterday's events correctly: artillery bombardment!

He didn't guess the ending correctly. What Murakami Yūsuke didn't expect was that after nearly an hour of artillery bombardment,

he was suddenly ordered to retreat with his infantry, who were ready to go!

This order was personally issued by the regimental commander; otherwise, Murakami Yūsuke would not have followed it.

The task that was not completed yesterday would continue to be completed today, but: there was no artillery support today.

On the contrary, all the soldiers in the entire company received an order, or a notice: all soldiers, under any circumstances, must not point their guns at the south bank of the Suzhou River.

They were not allowed to fire at the south bank of the Suzhou River; those who violated the order would be executed on the spot.

This meant that if a soldier fired at the south bank of the Suzhou River, he would be shot on the spot!

The intensity of such punishment was unprecedented.

Such punishment was also unwilling to be accepted by Matsui Iwane, but he had to accept this condition.

Because the military observation group was on the south bank of the Suzhou River!

Those ambassadors, military attachés, and news reporters from various countries were not people the empire was willing to offend easily.

Nor could the empire afford to offend them.

Standing in a building directly opposite Sihang Warehouse, U.S. Military Attaché Stilwell watched shell after shell being fired from Sihang Warehouse.

Each shell exploded precisely in the middle of the attacking Japanese devils' team.

He was immediately surprised: "Do they have such superb aiming skills?"

The dozen or so members of the military observation group next to him were stunned when they saw this scene.

They had never seen such precise artillery bombardment.

The military attachés and ambassadors discussed it excitedly.

Only Koizumi Jun'ichirō's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and ten thousand alpacas ran through his mind:

*Ma mai pi*! If it weren't for the restraints on the Imperial Army, under the bombardment of the Empire's heavy artillery regiment,

where would such a bombardment appear?

Now the situation on the battlefield had changed: the imperial soldiers had become like abused daughters-in-law who could not fight back, and the firepower of the National Army had instead gained an advantage.

Watching the Japanese soldiers wailing constantly in the explosions, and one Japanese soldier after another flying into the air in the explosions,

Koizumi Jun'ichirō said to these people in the observation group: "Everyone! The National Army soldiers' aiming like this is very dangerous!

If their shells are not accurate, not only will the citizens of various countries in most of the concession suffer losses in life and property,

but the position we are standing in now is also very dangerous!"

U.S. Ambassador Nelson T. Johnson said disapprovingly: "The gas tanks are less than 100 meters away from Sihang Warehouse. The mortars they are using now have no way to attack targets at this distance.

Don't you know this?"

Nelson T. Johnson's rhetorical question made all the members of the observation group laugh.

Koizumi Jun'ichirō cursed incessantly in his heart: "Do you think I know but am pretending not to know?

You clearly know that I am pretending not to know, and you also know what I mean by saying this.

Yet you blocked the way so completely."

Nelson T. Johnson understood what Koizumi Jun'ichirō was thinking: He wanted the military observation group to exert pressure to force the National Army guarding Sihang Warehouse to also ban the use of mortars.

However, the only small problem was that no one from the National Army had participated in the negotiations that had been going on from last night until this morning.

Now, suddenly wanting the National Army to abide by such an unreasonable request was really a bit difficult to implement.

More importantly: Mr. Chang Kai-shek had suddenly developed a very strong interest in American weapons and equipment after this war broke out.

Before that, he was a fanatical admirer of German weapons.

Chang Kai-shek had already placed an order for weapons worth 20 million U.S. dollars with arms dealers in the United States.

Of course, Nelson T. Johnson wanted this battle to continue.

So that the arms dealers' orders would continue to come in so much they could barely handle them.

Koizumi Jun'ichirō decided to make a last-ditch effort: "What those soldiers are doing now is a futile resistance.

The entire Shanghai is already the conquered land of the imperial soldiers. It is completely meaningless for them to hold on to such a small warehouse.

If these soldiers use heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns to strafe the gas tanks,

the risk is something that everyone cannot afford."

When he said this, the faces of all the members of the military observation group suddenly became serious.

Everyone was deep in thought.

Everyone knew the purpose of the National Army's defense of Sihang Warehouse: Wasn't it just to win sympathy and seek support?

The diplomats sneered: "What you can't get on the battlefield, you will never get at the negotiating table."

Student Chang Kai-shek was still too naive: He simply didn't understand the absolute truth that only power comes from the barrel of a gun!

Everyone didn't respond.

These ambassadors actually wanted to learn about the Japanese military strength.

Such opportunities were not many.

Koizumi Jun'ichirō almost suffered internal injuries; his struggle was just a lonely performance.

Without anyone's support, his proposal was ignored.

On the contrary, the observers began to discuss fiercely what kind of weapons were being used on the opposite side to achieve the current effect.

In a room in another building less than fifty meters away from the observation group, Ms. He Xiangning, sent by Chang Kai-shek, was holding binoculars, watching the battle taking place across the river.

The expression on her face seemed a little excited: "The 542nd Regiment is fighting very well! The artillery is accurate! They are fighting well!"

The National Army officer accompanying her was Zhang Boting, the chief of staff of the 88th Division.

Hearing his team being praised like this,

he was secretly delighted.

He said, "Xie Jinyuan, the commander of the battle on the opposite side, is a graduate of the fourth class of Whampoa Military Academy. His military skills and military theory are very good.

Regiment Commander Xie's loyalty to the National Army is beyond doubt."

The expression on Ms. He Xiangning's face was a little worried: They were going to hold on here for seven days as an isolated army. Did Regiment Commander Xie know how difficult this was?

Zhang Boting replied seriously: "They knew it when they accepted the mission."

He Xiangning stopped talking and focused on watching the battle across the river.

Lin Fan fired ten shells at the Japanese devils attacking from the east and west.

Xie Jinyuan was a little puzzled: "Why don't you give the Japanese devils in the north a wave?"

Lin Fan said with a smile, "These are waiting for them."

He pointed to the bomb bags that had just been made with a layer of iron pellets wrapped around the outside.

"Try not to let any of the Japanese devils in the north go back."

Today, the Japanese devils' attack was very resolute. Shangguan Zhibiao, the commander of the 1st Company, who was guarding the outside, watched the charging Japanese devils' team being torn apart by the shells they fired and running around.

The Japanese devils were looking for cover!

The soldiers of the 1st Company were obviously much stronger in military skills than Lin Fan's special company.

Watching the Japanese devils being bombed in front of them, the soldiers were excited, pointing at the bomb spots in front of them, and commenting one by one.

This soldier had sharp eyes and pointed at a thigh that was flying in the air and hadn't fallen yet, saying, "Look at that leg, how thick!"

Another soldier was not to be outdone: "That head, how big!"

Company Commander Shangguan Zhibiao looked at the battle situation in the distance and said with a smile, "You guys keep an eye on it and fight well later. Give the Japanese devils a good look.

Let them know that we are not to be trifled with."

The soldiers all said with a smile, "We are not to be trifled with."

After the Japanese devils attacking from the east and west were bombarded by mortar shells,

the advancing speed of the two companies slowed down.

They needed to advance separately and be ready to meet the attacks of the National Army soldiers in front of them at any time.

Lin Fan stood high and could see far. When he saw three or five Japanese devils gathered together on the east and west sides, he immediately sent a shell over.

Xie Jinyuan, Yang Ruifu, and several company commanders watched these shells, which were fired after pausing for a while, always able to explode into a rain of blood.

The soldiers who served as observation posts cheered every time they saw a pile of Japanese devils being killed.

It wasn't that they were too easily excited; it was really too difficult for the National Army soldiers to kill a Japanese devil.

In the past two months in Shanghai, the National Army soldiers fought against the Japanese devils: always with aerial bombs and naval gun bombardments overhead, facing well-trained Japanese devils.

The Japanese devils were very accurate with their guns, and their physical fitness was also much stronger than that of the National Army soldiers.

The soldiers couldn't beat the Japanese devils in marksmanship.

They couldn't beat the Japanese devils in bayonet fighting either.

What made the National Army soldiers even more angry was that the Japanese devils also used poison gas bombs when attacking.

When the Japanese devils attacked, as long as they encountered a slightly more intense counterattack, they would immediately use poison gas bombs.