People on the south bank of the Suzhou River stopped one after another and looked up at the top floor of the Sihang Warehouse on the north side of the river. It was only then that they discovered that a Chinese army was standing on the top floor of the warehouse.
"The Chinese army is still there! They have not left. We still have our Chinese army in Shanghai."
Among the people who stopped, someone shouted with great excitement.
"It is indeed our Chinese army..."
Surprise showed on people's faces. Chinese troops are still in Shanghai.
A four or five-year-old girl squatting on her father's shoulders saluted a different kind of military salute to the Chinese soldiers on the Sihang Warehouse. Her right hand had white fat fingers together, and her left hand held a bunch of candied haws. Her eyes were dark and she had two small piercings. The cute braids facing the sky immediately infected many people. They followed her example and saluted the Chinese soldiers on the roof of the warehouse, shouting in unison: "Long live China!"
"Long live China!"
Xie Jinyuan looked at the people standing on the south bank. His face was solemn, his eyes were red, and he saluted with a military salute.
"Long live China!"
Zhou Zhihan was so excited that he and all the soldiers looked at the south bank and saluted together.
After Xie Jinyuan finished his ceremony, he turned to face the soldiers: "Now, our army is the only one guarding here in Shanghai. This is our honor! Our army will be respected by all Chinese people in the long history of the future. Respect! Each of you will be honored and will be remembered forever by history."
Some of the soldiers had tears in their eyes, some had solemn faces, and some had dull eyes and dodges.
"This is our last position in Shanghai. Because we are here, Shanghai is still there." Xie Jinyuan pointed to the No. 214 warship. "Because of the existence of this fighter plane, the sky over Shanghai is still the sky of the Chinese Air Force. .
Husband Xu Guo, life is a blessing!
Tomorrow, the Japanese will launch an attack. They arrogantly say that they will capture the Sihang Warehouse in three hours. We will make the Japanese bleed into rivers and let them fall in piles of corpses in front of our positions.
We want all the people in China to see it and let the whole world know that there is still hope for China and that China will not perish! "
"China will not perish!"
The soldiers shouted in unison, once again touching the people on the south bank of the Suzhou River.
Night falls.
At the beginning of the lanterns, the opposite side of the Suzhou River was bustling with people singing and dancing under the neon lights, and there were many people enjoying themselves.
In the darkness on the bank of the river, there were also many passionate Chinese people, looking at the tall building on the other side of the river, monitoring every move of the Japanese for the Chinese army.
From the outside, the Sihang Warehouse is deathly silent and dark, like a castle exuding the smell of death. It is surrounded by corpses that have not been cleaned in time. Several military vehicles are still burning, and the fires that burned the corpses are still burning and emitting fireworks. The unpleasant smell and the flashing eyes of wild dogs and night cats in the darkness made people on the other side of the river shudder.
More than a dozen snipers were distributed on every floor of the Sihang Warehouse, monitoring the surroundings.
As expected, the Japanese troops in the distance kept their promise and did not attack. They were enjoying a sumptuous dinner, drinking wine and smoking cigarettes by the campfire, dancing their national dances and laughing happily around several women wearing Japanese kimonos. Consider this their land.
The snipers in Sihang Warehouse could only grit their teeth.
Commander Xie ordered that as long as the Japanese kept their promise and did not launch an attack, everyone should remain alert and not shoot. Our task now is to delay as much time as possible, because the Brussels Conference will be held in four days. The task of our army is to let the world see that the Chinese soldiers have not given up resistance. Because of us, Shanghai is still there.
In the warehouse.
basement.
Xie Jinyuan stood in front of the table, which was covered with a structural diagram of the four-row warehouse. Standing beside the table were Zhou Zhihan, Yang Ruifu, Shangguan Zhibiao, Deng Ying, Lei Xiong and other officers.
At this time, the highest-ranking military officer in the entire four warehouse groups was Colonel Zhou Zhihan, but apart from flying airplanes, he knew nothing about offensive and defensive battles, and he followed the arrangements of Lieutenant Colonel Xie Jinyuan.
Xie Jinyuan once met Zhou Zhihan at Hongqiao Airport and knew that he was a generous man, so he did not refuse and arranged defense tasks.
"Sir Zhou!" Captain Deng Ying, the captain of the second company, chewed dry steamed buns and took a sip of cold water from the marching kettle, and said to Zhou Zhihan, "Our fighter planes are parked on the roof of the building, and I'm worried that the Japanese will fire a sneak attack. "
Deng Ying is tall and thin, but his bones reveal the fierceness of a soldier who refuses to admit defeat. Like the first company commander Shangguan Zhibiao, he fought bravely to kill the enemy in the Battle of Songhu and suffered several bullet wounds on his body.
"Before I came, the command headquarters had concluded that the Japanese would not and would not dare to launch artillery attacks on the Sihang Warehouse, but the Japanese might use aircraft to cause psychological intimidation to our defenders.
Therefore, the Air Force Headquarters sent me here and published a newspaper to let the world know that I challenged the entire Japanese aviation force alone, forcing the Japanese to use their trump cards to fight me in the air.
Last time, in front of observers from all over the world, I killed Shichiro Yamashita, the Japanese ace pilot, and made Kiyoshi Hasegawa miserable and had a lot of his beard and hair burned off. The Japanese had long been looking for a chance to defeat me in the air and avenge their shame. .
In this way, the defenders of our Sihang Warehouse will greatly reduce the threat from the Japanese air force, and at the same time let foreigners see that our Chinese Air Force has not withdrawn from the skies of Shanghai. The sky over Shanghai is still in the hands of our Chinese Air Force. "
Everyone nodded after hearing this. They had never understood before why the Air Force would send a chief instructor to support alone.
Zhou Zhihan continued.
"Although the Japanese are cunning and vicious and do some shameless things secretly, they are sometimes arrogant and arrogant. When facing public opinion from all sides, they will adhere to the spirit of Bushido on the surface.
The Japanese army believed that our unit was not worth mentioning and could be easily defeated.
Therefore, General Matsui Iwane, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, preferred to launch an attack during the day to defeat our troops in front of the Chinese people, undermine the confidence of all Chinese anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians, and at the same time show their strength to the world. "
Xie Jinyuan nodded. The general headquarters' analysis was the same as his. He pointed at the structural diagram of the Sihang Warehouse: "Look, on the other side of us are the concession areas of Western countries. There are many senior foreign observers watching Japan. Every move of the people and our army.
Moreover, the Sihang Warehouse is surrounded by gas pipelines. Once it is hit by a cannonball, it will definitely cause a big explosion, and no Western buildings on the south bank of the Suzhou River will be spared.
The Japanese have said that the war will not begin until after eight o'clock tomorrow morning. If they openly fire sneak attacks and blow up our fighter planes now, it will be equivalent to admitting to the world that the Japanese air force is afraid of our Chinese air force, which will ruin the reputation of their emperor. Damaged, broken trust in the world.
On November 3, the Nine-Nation Convention meeting is about to be held in Brussels. The Japanese do not dare to openly offend the Western countries. If they open fire, if they damage the foreigners and property of the Western countries, they will inevitably cause disputes and even fight with the Western countries. Also a possibility. "
At this moment, Xie Jinyuan's orderly Wan Lianqing knocked on the door and came in: "Sir, 500 meters in front of our army warehouse near the Suzhou River, the Japanese army set up rows of wooden piles, and each wooden pile was hoisted. There is a Chinese soldier who is being harassed by the Japanese army."
The commander of the first company, Shangguan Zhibiao, slapped the table and cursed: "The ruthless little devil is insidious and vicious. He actually used this despicable method to shake the morale of our army!"
Xie Jinyuan's elegant face showed anger, and then he regained his composure: "Let's go and have a look."
