Chapter 65: Victory Lost?

The communication trenches of the first-line trenches were built all the way to the wall of the building, and even two half-man-high gaps were dug for this purpose.

If you look straight ahead, you can't see the activities of the soldiers in the trenches, but the Japanese can at least judge the actions of the opponent by the degree of resistance in the trenches.

After several waves of grenades, tank guns and heavy machine guns also attacked the trenches several times. Even the infantry began to move forward cautiously in the ruins, and the Chinese soldiers who were just risking their lives to shoot did not fire even a single bullet.

No matter how stupid the Japanese army was, they should have known that the Chinese defenders who protruded from the warehouse for the first-line defense chose to retreat.

Otherwise, they would not have hidden in the trenches without firing a single shot and waited to be bombed. They were not enduring the turtle, oh, no, they were ninjas.

"Kill them!" accompanied by the fierce roar of Kurokawa Orizo, who had a tuft of heart hair and was shaking with goose bumps.

The vanguard infantry, who were crouching and shuttled through the ruins, began to speed up.

In the distance, in addition to the Type 92 heavy machine guns in the fortifications, which were still raising their muzzles to suppress the firepower points on the second and third floors of the warehouse, the infantry guns had stopped firing, and the four tanks had completely stopped 100 meters away from the warehouse.

The pitiful 7.7mm heavy machine gun of the Type 94 tank was actually enough to threaten the infantry, and it was not terrible for the fortress fortifications, but the two 57mm tank guns were not easy to deal with.

After one shot, even two layers of sandbags could not stop it, and the sandbag fortifications and the soldiers behind them were often blown away together.

The range of only 100 meters was too easy for the gunners of the two tanks.

The fortifications on the first floor were destroyed one by one by the two tank guns as if they were named, and the terrible big holes were like the hideous wounds on the giant of the Sihang Warehouse Building.

The firepower on the first floor was almost completely stagnant. No one even stayed in the lobby on the first floor. The three rows of Tang Dao had already retreated to the artillery-proof areas on the first floor under his order.

Under the tyranny of the two tank guns, except for the Maxim heavy machine guns on the third floor that were firing desperately behind the firing holes carved out on the wall to suppress the infantry who had already started to speed up and were about to charge, the light machine gun firepower points were basically silent.

Hiding behind the firing holes can save yourself, but that means the firing range is also limited. The Japanese army had already observed the positions of several heavy machine gun firepower points before, and naturally avoided the firing range of heavy machine guns after entering the charge mode.

The heavy machine gunners were also helpless.

The rifles of the infantry on the second and third floors did not stop firing, but the thick gunpowder and smoke bombs seriously blocked the line of sight, resulting in a shooting level far worse than normal.

There were nearly 130 devils in two infantry squads and two squads, but only five or six were shot down at the stage of speeding up and starting to charge.

The officers and soldiers in the warehouse watched helplessly as the yellow Japanese army rushed over like locusts, passing 100 meters, 80 meters, 50 meters...

Even when the chest hair of the leading Japanese soldier was clearly visible, the supreme commander still did not make effective tactical adjustments.

The two machine guns that everyone expected still did not appear.

The most fatal thing was that with the approach of the Japanese vanguard, several mortars that had previously fired and made the Japanese extremely cautious were completely useless. The distance of only tens of meters was beyond the minimum firing range of 82 mortars.

They were all experienced battlefields, and of course they knew what this meant.

Even if only half of these devils rushed over, as long as these dozens of devils could entangle the warehouse defenders for ten minutes, no, maybe only five minutes, the main force of nearly 400 people in the two infantry squadrons behind them would rush in.

400 vs. 400, it may not seem scary, but there are at least hundreds of Japanese soldiers on both wings. When they rush over to blow up the walls of both wings in the chaos, the battle can basically be declared over.

More than 70% of the Chinese officers and soldiers showed anxiety and panic on their faces.

"Bayonet!" With Leng Feng's roar.

The soldiers on the second floor took out the bayonets from their waists and inserted them on their rifles.

If the Japanese rushed into the building and fought hand-to-hand, they would have to fight with their weapons when the bullets were empty.

Although hand-to-hand combat and hand-to-hand combat were the most brutal, they were also the fastest way to resolve the battle. They had to wipe out the Japanese vanguard that had already approached before the main force of the Japanese army came to support.

"Follow orders and stop, fearless" Just based on this point, Leng Feng's platoon was worthy of his title of the sharp platoon in the sharp knife company.

"Everyone, attack!" Toyota Hide watched all this through a telescope and finally issued an order for the entire army to attack.

Two infantry squadrons, from more than 300 meters away, began to trot with rifles in hand, like wolves that found food and began to hunt.

But this was just the first card played by Toyota Show.

700 meters away.

The Japanese colonel put down the telescope in his hand and ordered the major standing at the entrance of the tank: "Tokugawa, you can go out. Today, we will go all the way."

The Japanese major nodded, saluted the Japanese colonel, and without waiting for the Japanese colonel to return the salute, he got into the tank and heavily covered the top of the tank.

The huge diesel engine of the 89 tank roared.

The two 89 tanks smashed the earth wall in front and rushed out of the small house covering the tanks. On both wings of the tanks, there was at least one infantry squadron accompanying them. That was the last infantry squadron of Toyota Show's 1st Infantry Battalion.

It also means that the Japanese army deployed 3 and a half infantry squadrons with 700 people, 4 main battle tanks and 2 reconnaissance tanks in the front battlefield alone.

This is not the end. Two Type 94 tanks appeared on the left and right wings of the warehouse building, and they moved forward while firing heavy machine guns at the front.

A Japanese soldier carrying explosive packs crouched behind the tanks and moved forward resolutely.

At this point, all ten tanks owned by the 36th Infantry Regiment appeared on the battlefield, and the roar of the huge engine even overwhelmed the fierce gunfire at this time.

According to the battle situation, the Japanese colonel who was personally in charge of the front line directly started the decisive battle mode.

The front was the main attack, but the two flanks would never be underestimated.

If any side could not resist, the warehouse would be captured.

The voices of the crowd still shouting on the bank of Suzhou River became much smaller involuntarily. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the Japanese army was at its peak at this time.

Only the drum beats of the middle-aged man continued, and the veins on his forehead bulged, showing that he had tried his best.

But at this moment, it seemed a little lonely.

The battlefield was tilting towards the enemy.

On the other hand, at the Sihang Warehouse, four mortars finally began to roar, blowing up the Japanese infantry formations that were still hundreds of meters away and scattered to avoid them.

The gunfire on the front and both wings also became fierce, and many Japanese soldiers fell in the smoke.

However, facing such a fierce offensive by the Japanese army, these were still not enough.

In particular, the 130 Japanese vanguards finally rushed through the first trench after paying the price of nearly 40 people.

The trench line extending out of the warehouse finally showed its due role at this moment. The 2-meter-wide trench became a "trip rope" for the Japanese army. The Japanese soldiers who could not cross the trench in one fell swoop would basically be mercilessly shot in the trench by the machine rifles of the defenders from the upper floors.

2 meters is not actually very wide, but for a fully armed soldier, especially for the Japanese soldiers with short legs, it is still a bit difficult.

As many as 20 Japanese soldiers actually died here.

The Japanese tanks wanted to provide artillery cover, but it was difficult because the distance was too close and the elevation angle of the tank guns was extremely limited.

They could only watch the defenders upstairs frantically firing their guns at the downstairs and throwing grenades, staring blankly.

However, this still could not prevent the fact that the Japanese vanguard was about to attack the warehouse building.

The Sihang Warehouse was about to fall.