Rise From Eight Hundred

Chapter 128 The scolding brigadier general

 The Japanese army used heavy artillery and completely shook the concession.

The anxious consuls of Western countries did not bother to argue with madmen, but instead targeted China.

In one morning, there were as many as six military orders sent from Jinling to the retreating Third Theater Command. Even General Gu, who was anxious about how hundreds of thousands of troops would withdraw from Songhu, had to take time to send a phone call. The 88th Division headquarters was ordered to contact Xie Jinyuan's headquarters no matter what. Tonight was the deadline for retreat.

 Otherwise, all generals of the 88th Division will engage in military law!

Of course, the executives of the Third Theater Command are not stupid. The radio station can be damaged, but several senior agents from the Central Command came to nothing with secret passwords and military orders stamped with the seal of the headquarters. Naturally, they knew that this was most likely a warehouse. The defenders did not want to retreat and refused to accept military orders in disguise.

 In the past, of course, senior officials would cry out and call heroes, give them symbolic commendations and rewards, and leave the rest to their fate.

 But at this time, you cannot be a hero. You must also obey the orders and be a bear. Zhongtong's spies were not easy to use, so the immediate superiors of the warehouse defenders had to take action.

The former commander of the 524th Regiment was seriously injured in the first battle in Songhu. Xie Jinyuan was already considered the de facto supreme commander of the 524th Regiment. He had been promoted to colonel a day ago. If he wanted him to obey orders, he would have to take action as a general. .

 Finally, the Major General Chief of Staff of the 88th Division was ordered to secretly return to Songhu from the retreat.

All of this, of course, cannot be hidden from the eyes of high-level Japanese spies lurking in China.

　　‘The Chinese are trying every means to force their troops to leave! ’ The information had been placed on the desk of Jiro Wakiba, who looked ashen in the afternoon.

 Wakibajiro smiled again. From a tactical point of view, he failed, but strategically, he won.

The Chinese use the Western Concessions as shields, then they will "repay others in kind" and use Westerners as spears to pierce this fortress that is solid on the outside but rotten on the inside.

He has even planned to report the truth about the Chinese people’s voluntary evacuation through the news media at the right time, despite ridicule.

 Is it a big joke that a tenacious army fights bravely on its own land but is blocked by other countries? The so-called fighting spirit will definitely fall apart in the face of this ridiculous joke.

Of course, this is just the personal thought of Jiro Wakiba, who is almost going crazy. He is shameless. His lieutenant general division commander and General Matsui Iwane still want to lose face, don’t they?

 In fact, in the past time and space, the truth at the end of the Battle of Sihang Warehouse was not made public until after the victory of the Great Patriotic War.

 As the same saying goes, victory can cover up all ugliness.

Politicians took advantage of their victory to whitewash this ugliness to the extreme, and the people who were immersed in the joy of victory were too late to celebrate. Why would they pay too much attention to stories that happened far away or even a few years ago?

  Human beings are the creatures that most habitually choose to forget.

 Sacrifice and perseverance have been lost in the long river of history.

 But this time and space will inevitably change.

 Because of Tang Dao's deliberate delay, the defenders of Sihang Warehouse who were supposed to retreat in the early morning of the 29th were still holding on to the warehouse on the 30th. The Japanese colonel who received the information that "the Chinese are bound to leave the warehouse tonight" also received encouragement from General Matsui Iwane of the dispatched army headquarters. The general believed that the strategic vision of the army colonel was worthy of praise.

 The Japanese colonel, who had been stunned by the battles of the past few days, was instantly dizzy.

An army colonel can be considered a figure if placed in a division, but what if he is placed in a dispatched army of more than 200,000 people? You can't even go to the conference table to serve tea to the generals!

Suddenly being recognized by His Majesty the Commander-in-Chief in charge of an army of more than 200,000 men, how could he not feel dizzy?

I was so dizzy that I was about to float into the sky. I didn’t even pay attention to the subtext of the army general: You just don’t want to be effective in tactics! You can be more honest today.

Some people are happy with just a little sunshine. When they see two 120-caliber field guns placed 3,000 meters away from the front of the warehouse, they fire two consecutive shots. One shot blasted the barricade in front of the Sihang Warehouse building and left traces on the wall. A big hole was created, and the other two cannons almost destroyed the wall.

Wakibajiro, who was so brilliant that he almost forgot about himself, gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, and once again concentrated six infantry squads to serve as the main frontal attack, and four infantry squads to serve as feint attacks on the two flanks of the battlefield. In this afternoon, another strong attack came.

 In fact, it cannot be completely said that the Japanese colonel was a little 'teased' by his own army general and his hormones surged and he became a little carried away. After all, he was still unwilling to suffer a pure tactical failure.

His idea is very simple. Use 120 field guns to open the way. He will attack again. If he still can't attack, just wait and wait for victory the next day.

It also gave the army reporter Shuichi Fukuyama something to write about: The Imperial Warriors fought fiercely with the enemy for another day. The enemy suffered heavy casualties and had to use the cover of night to hide in the Western Concession to seek shelter. The Imperial Army once again won glory. Big win.

 Another very important point is to continue to put pressure on the concession parties.

Through these two days of dealing with Westerners, Wakitajiro was actually no longer afraid of offending them and being scolded by senior officials.

The Japanese colonel found that the fear of death among Westerners was deeply rooted in their bones. As long as they did not actually detonate the super bomb and drive the yellow-haired and blue-eyed people to a dead end, even if there were bullets or artillery shells falling on the territory of the Western Concession, , they have to swallow this breath first.

They were just a bunch of cowards who were afraid of death. The Japanese colonel simply ordered two 120 field guns to approach 2,500 meters and aim at the warehouse building. Even if they missed, they would bomb into the concession and the first to be killed would be those watching the excitement. The Chinese would never hit that big gas tank anyway.

However, the Japanese colonel's calculations were quick, and the Chinese people who were watching the excitement were definitely not stupid. When they saw that the Japanese artillery was different from the previous two days, the Western coalition soldiers were so frightened that their faces turned white. I also understand that the Japanese army used heavy artillery.

They also moved their positions one after another and stood in the blocks two to three hundred meters to the left and right of Sihang Warehouse to watch the battle. Those were also the wealthy areas of the concession. There was a big trend, little devil, just bomb me and blow up the Westerners together. God, wait for the foreigner to come to you and fight for your life.

Who can control it? I can’t go home, and no one is allowed to stand on the street downstairs? Not to mention the Westerners being dumbfounded, the Japanese troops on the other side also had a headache.

I have to say that the Chinese people have very fast minds. This has been the case since ancient times. This thing is probably a genetic inheritance!

The person who was really anxious and sweating was the commander of the Western Allied Forces, Brigadier General Smartet, who took the initiative to place the observation point 300 meters away from the rear flank of the Sihang Warehouse.

The Chinese were furious and refused to retreat. The Japanese lunatics also brought in 120 heavy artillery pieces. Moreover, it was not just a deterrent as he imagined, but they actually went into actual combat.

 “Fake yo jepenny ri ma ma!”

The old man with the gray beard held his beloved pipe, looked at the battlefield that was once again in full swing, and cursed for the whole afternoon.

 (End of this chapter)