Rise From Eight Hundred

Two Japanese soldiers died.

But the battle continued.

Captain Kato Hero waited for news that was absolutely disastrous for him.

His captain, Major Sakio, only gave him a reinforced infantry squad of 60 people and informed him that he must resolutely attack along the long street towards the direction of Songjiang City and clear the 100-meter area on both wings of the long street.

The reason is very simple. Major General Kunisaki only gave him, the front-line commander, one hour, and now, one-third of the stipulated time has passed.

The Japanese major did not want to give more support to the Kato squadron as the main force, but he was also a good cook without rice. He had a total of three infantry squadrons and a heavy machine gun squadron plus a reinforced infantry squad directly under the battalion headquarters.

It would be a disaster for the heavy machine gun squadron to enter such a war zone where they would hit the wall after walking a few meters. It was useless to send it out. This reinforced infantry squad with a strength of 65 people was the support he provided to his subordinates to the best of his ability.

Like his immediate superior, the Japanese major made the mistake of underestimating the Chinese military strength in the neighborhood, so they were punished.

The angry Kato Hero could not change his superior's decision, so he could only take the risk of letting his soldiers enter a wider battlefield as Tang Dao expected.

It was completely a soldier-to-soldier battle mode, which was also the mode that Tang Dao and the security group needed most.

More than 20,000 Songjiang residents lived in residential areas with a radius of two or three square kilometers. The less than 900 Japanese soldiers who entered the residential areas were just like water sprinkled into the desert, and they disappeared easily.

The gunshots from the residential areas and the screams, which were almost all in Japanese, frightened the Japanese captain, and he gave up the decision to hide in the house and command.

There might be Chinese secret passages in the seemingly safe houses. If a Chinese sneaked in and shot him secretly, it would be too unfair to die.

He chose to lead two squads and two Type 94 armored vehicles forward along the long street, so that he could not only fulfill the military order from the brigade to continue to advance, but also use the heavy machine guns on the armored vehicles to provide fire support to his subordinates in need.

Two infantry guns also followed closely under the cover of two infantry squads. If someone dared to shoot at them, perhaps waiting for them was not only heavy machine guns, but also direct-aiming guns.

Direct-aiming guns with a 70-caliber special for field fortifications would not care about any walls. With one shot, all creatures in a room would be exterminated.

Facts have proved that Kato Hero's decision was also correct. In less than ten minutes, the number of casualties reported to him by his side increased by more than 20 people, but the squad accompanying the armored vehicles only injured two people. All the Chinese counterattacks were annihilated by the heavy machine guns and infantry guns.

At least five areas where the Chinese who tried to shoot at them were bombarded, and eight Chinese who had no time to dodge were successfully killed.

Their detachment, like a sharp knife, entered the deepest part of the Chinese defense zone along the long street, and then attacked from both wings and the soldiers who had entered the residential area to search and advance, finding out the Chinese who were hiding and relying on cold guns one by one, and then killing them.

Kato Hero, who gradually understood his combat mode in the battle, moved forward more than 100 meters and again dispatched nearly an infantry squad to follow him.

After moving forward another 500 meters, he left the long street after entering the attack range of the Chinese firepower point on the city wall about 300 to 400 meters from Songjiang City.

This was what he had observed through the telescope.

Faced with this detachment of more than 100 Japanese troops who rushed straight along the long street regardless of both wings, the security soldiers were also a little panicked.

Their anti-artillery holes, supply points and headquarters were all slightly further back, where the wounded soldiers who had not been transported back to the city in time were all. If this Japanese army moved forward and then split up, not only would these important positions be discovered, but the hundreds of soldiers who were still fighting with the Japanese army in the houses might also be trapped.

Zhuang Shisan hid in an attic that was only more than 50 meters away from the long street, staring at the movements of the Japanese army and gradually gaining insight into the intentions of this Japanese army.

"Fire three red flares for me and tell the brothers to try their best to stop this Japanese army from advancing. If there is a chance, you are allowed to use the Molotov cocktails that Captain Tang helped us make. Burn the hell out." Zhuang Shisan gritted his teeth and ordered as he looked at the two Type 94 armored vehicles that were spewing black smoke in a show of force.

Tang Dao personally demonstrated and guided them to make homemade Molotov cocktails, but they were his last trump card.

That thing also showed its terrifying power in front of a group of "country bumpkin" security forces.

After two Molotov cocktails were thrown on a rockery, it burned for more than five minutes until all the fuel was burned out, cracking the stones and almost collapsing the rockery.

What kind of experience would it be if the orange-red flame that can burn even stones burned people? Just thinking about it makes people shudder.

However, this thing is actually a double-edged sword for the security forces in the residential areas. The dense residential areas outside Songjiang City are an excellent battlefield for hide-and-seek combat, but because they are too dense, once a fire breaks out, if there is a southeast wind, the fire will spread, and it will be a cocoon for oneself.

Of course, the reason why Songjiang people dare to build houses so closely and are not afraid of fire is also because Songjiang has a dense water network. If a fire breaks out in one place, the special fire prevention team can take fire on the spot at any time to put out the fire.

But in wartime, who can carry a bucket to put out the fire?

As for why the Japanese army didn't take the lead in using incendiary bombs to burn this residential area to ashes and completely occupy this area without firing a single shot, in the final analysis, it was because of time.

If they took the initiative to start burning, the two commanders in the city would not want it. Waiting for the fire to burn the outside of the city and then extinguishing it, a day and a night would pass. It took half the time required in the order.

The two Japanese generals were not that stupid, so they would rather spend their troops to completely occupy this block that faced the East City.

The Chinese use their lives to delay time, while the Japanese use their lives to grab time.

The soldiers of the security regiment who received the battalion commander's order to fire three signal flares moved closer from the area around the long street.

Crow carrying a shell gun was also among them.

Taking advantage of the terrain, the crow that killed two Japanese veterans passed through the side door of the grocery store through a narrow alley less than 1 meter wide, entered the backyard of another store through a dog hole, and then passed through several gables blocked by the eaves in front. shop.

On the way, he reunited with his five soldiers and hid on the second floor of a grain store. The closest distance between the crow and the Japanese infantrymen who surrounded both sides of the 94 tank and stared at both sides of the street with great caution with their rifles raised was no more than 20 meters.

He could even clearly see the tuft of black hair under the nose of the Japanese soldier who was following the armored vehicle and would rather endure the thick black smoke exhaust that caused his face to be blackened.

As a Chinese, it is difficult for him to understand the strange aesthetics of the Japanese. Men's beards are either a civilized eight-character beard like Commander Wang's to look elegant, or a sideburn to look domineering. What's the point of growing a bunch of beard?

Of course the crow doesn’t know that this tuft of hair, known as the ‘sanitary beard’, is a symbol of the Japanese people’s continuous learning and progress.

During the Tang Dynasty, people from LOW countries knew nothing about anything. When they came to the Tang Dynasty in China, they thought everything was high-end. They drank tea at parties, arranged flowers at parties, and ate raw fish. Even people from the Tang Dynasty I have learned to grow a beard.

As long as it is from a powerful country, we will learn from it. The island people’s understanding in this regard is worth learning from many other nations.

In modern times, this tuft of hair, known as the 'sanitary beard', became popular in Europe.

This kind of mustache is more convenient for Europeans. After all, Europeans themselves have relatively lush hair, and having a beard is also a symbol of Europeans. Therefore, shaving off all the beards and leaving only such a small handful is not only convenient but also loses weight. Manly, whether you are going to sea or eating, you only need to wipe it a little.

Especially after the German leader also started to grow this kind of mustache, the Japanese, who wanted to leave Asia and join Europe, also started to grow this kind of mustache, which not only proved that they had strong hair, but also expressed a sense of fashion.

To put it bluntly, without any knowledge or knowledge, not everyone in Japan will have such a hair that will make them want to be beaten in the future.

Hero Kato is very cautious. Except for carrying the allotment box and the samurai sword he spent dozens of yen to make before leaving on the training ground, he never dresses more pretentiously than ordinary Japanese soldiers on the battlefield, and his collar badges are hidden. The Japanese captain wearing a steel helmet at the back was basically no different from an ordinary Japanese soldier. Even the gun in his hand was a 38-gai.

Therefore, Crow, who had no idea about the origin of "Sanitary Hu", did not expect that the seemingly ordinary Japanese soldier with a tuft of hair was actually the captain commander of this unit. He set his sights five meters behind the tuft of hair. The Japanese infantryman with a sun flag on his rifle.

This is actually true. As the most important part of the lowest level command system of the Japanese army, even if the sergeant-level squad leader loses the command of his superiors, he can still rely on the sun flag on his rifle to gather ordinary soldiers together and accept his command. .

Their role in the Japanese command system will never be smaller than that of an infantry second lieutenant.

Of course, it is also easier to be called a target of attack. In the Four Elements Battle, the Japanese sergeant who owned the Sun Flag was shot dead more than 20 times, so that the Japanese infantry elite who once regarded the Sun Flag as a glory quietly hid for the first time. Raising the sun flag proves with facts that some people's so-called glory is higher than life is just lip service.

The sun flag was small, but to the crow who had no idea that he had missed a big fish, it was like a bright light in the dark night, firmly catching his attention.

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