Western reporters and military observers on the rooftop of the Bank of China also saw this shocking scene.
This explosion was even more violent than the one a quarter of an hour ago, and the flames sprayed from the door and windows of the west building were longer and more dazzling than the one a quarter of an hour ago.
With this explosion, you can even feel the building shaking under your feet.
As for the west building of Sihang Warehouse, the wall was shaking visible to the naked eye, as if it might collapse at any time.
Western reporters and military observers also saw that the Japanese soldiers who stayed on guard outside were also overturned by the flames sprayed from the gate and windows of the west building. A Japanese soldier facing the gate was even burned into a burning man.
Only the east building of the warehouse and a dozen Japanese soldiers outside the cigarette paper shop were not affected.
The flames produced by the explosion suddenly lit up and then went out, and the whole world soon fell into darkness again.
However, more than a dozen Western reporters and military observers were still immersed in huge shock.
A few seconds later, the war reporter from the United News Agency let out a long exclamation: "holyshit! What did I see? The Sihang Warehouse exploded again? Am I not blinded?"
"God, it seems I have to take back my previous comment."
"I really didn't expect that the Chinese army sent another big bomb."
"The performance of the Chinese military today really impressed me."
"The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said that one cannot step into the same river twice, but the Chinese army used the same big bomb to bomb the Japanese twice at Sihang Warehouse."
"What I'm curious about is, what kind of bombs does the Chinese army use?"
"The explosion just now, with its intensity, really makes people worry that the building will collapse."
All the reporters' eyes turned to one of the tall military observers, but they saw that this military observer was wearing a Soviet army uniform and carrying the rank of major.
"Lotov, you are an explosives expert, can you tell me?"
Facing the expectant eyes of the reporters, the Soviet major named Lotov said reservedly: "Have you noticed that in both explosions, flames sprayed out from the two doors of the west building of Sihang Warehouse and all the windows on the first and second floors? This means that the explosion occurred in the entire hall of the west building and the heat was evenly distributed, which rules out artillery shells or grenades."
"Because the explosion of multiple artillery shells or cluster grenades cannot explode uniformly over a wide range."
"In addition, the flames sprayed out from the doors and windows of the west building were very long, which is enough to show that the explosives produced extremely terrifying high temperature and pressure in the west building hall of Sihang Warehouse."
"To sum up, there is only one possibility."
After a pause, Lotov continued: "Dust."
"What? Dust?" A group of Western reporters looked at each other.
Lotov smiled and nodded and said: "To be more precise, it's flour."
"If I remember correctly, the Sihang Warehouse stocked thousands of tons of flour."
"However, only one or two tons of flour can achieve the same effect."
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Tushi Kitaro's brain has completely shut down.
This sudden big explosion was completely beyond Kitaro's expectations.
Bage, didn’t you say that the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau of the Concession has sent a note to the Chinese government?
Isn’t it said that the Chinese government is as afraid of Westerners as tigers? Doesn’t it mean that the top brass of the Chinese government have issued strict orders to the Chinese defenders at Sihang Warehouse? Doesn’t it mean that the Chinese defenders at Sihang Warehouse will not easily provoke the imperial army again?
what is this? What do these two explosions mean? Isn't this provoking the imperial army?
Also, the Chinese army had already bombed the imperial army once, but they still had the guts to bomb it a second time?
"Captain!" a second lieutenant staff officer said urgently, "We must send chariot troops to support quickly."
Most of the warriors who rushed into the west building of Sihang Warehouse are dead, but those on the road to recovery outside the building should be able to survive.
Especially the warriors outside the east building of Sihang Warehouse were not affected at all by the explosion just now.
"It's too late." Before Tushi Kitaro could speak, Major Morita sighed softly and said, "There are anti-tank steel cones laid by the Chinese Army on the Guangfu Road. Even if a tow truck is used, the tank unit will take at least half an hour. Only then can we enter the battlefield, but the Chinese defenders cannot give the imperial army such a long time to rescue..."
Before he finished speaking, gunshots and explosions suddenly rang out from the front.
Looking carefully, I saw bundles of cluster grenades being thrown from the upper floors of the east building of Sihang Warehouse and the rooftop of the cigarette shop. The Maxim heavy machine gun hidden on the second floor of the cigarette shop also opened fire violently again, and there were dozens more Rifles fired fiercely from the east building of the warehouse and the rooftop of the cigarette shop, forming a dense crossfire network.
The Japanese soldiers who had nowhere to hide were shot and fell to the ground one after another.
Seeing this scene, Kitaro's facial muscles began to twitch violently.
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The Japanese were furious to death, but the national army beat them to death.
Squad leader 1, Zhu Shengzhong, raised his hand and shot down a Japs. During the short period of time when he pulled the bolt to withdraw his shell, he turned to Yang Deyu and said, "This battle was beautiful."
Yang Deyu had no time to pay attention, he was busy giving instructions.
"Hu Mengsheng, you are crazy, remember the gun is pointed down!"
"It's no joke if a gun hits the concession opposite."
"The Japs are trying to escape. Hurry up and ask the machine gun team to seal the enemy's back."
"Hit me, hit me to death, don't save your fucking bullets!"
Following Yang Deyu's hoarse roar, more than 30 national troops from three squads opened fire violently for free from the east building of Sihang Warehouse and the rooftop of the cigarette shop. The Maxim heavy machine gun of the machine gun squad also continued to fire.
Covered by intensive crossfire, the Japs soon lay down.
Yang Deyu then raised his right hand and shouted: "Stop shooting! Stop shooting!"
When the gunfire stopped, Yang Deyu said again: "Lao Zhu, take Squad 1 down to clean the battlefield."
"Yes!" Zhu Shengzhong agreed, and immediately led a dozen elite veterans of the Central Army from Class 1 to slide along the rope from the third floor of the east building to the ground, ready to start cleaning the battlefield.
Before landing, he did not forget to remind the Japanese to refill their guns.
Yang Deyu entered the third floor of the west building through the small door in the middle wall.
The east and west buildings of the Sihang Warehouse were not originally connected to each other. However, after the 88th Division moved its headquarters here, in order to facilitate communication, a small door through the middle wall was opened on each floor.
Yang Deyu entered the third floor of the west building with a gun and saw that the hall was filled with supplies.
Half of these supplies were loan collateral from the four banks "Jincheng", "Mainland", "Salt Industry" and "Zhongnan" or daily necessities purchased from abroad. The other half were condolences donated to the 88th Division by all walks of life in Shanghai.
In the past four days, all walks of life in Shanghai donated dozens of truckloads of condolences to Gujun Camp.
The total value of all these materials added up has exceeded 10 million silver dollars.
Yang Deyu casually took out a pack of Hardman cigarettes from one of the wooden boxes.
When we went down to the second floor, we immediately saw the unidentified person leaning in the gap to observe the enemy's situation.
Yang Deyu was about to say hello when he suddenly remembered that he still didn't know the other person's name, so he raised his right hand and froze in the air, not knowing what to call him, hello?
However, the man responded quickly and said proactively: "The surname is Yan, the situation is serious."
"Brother Yan Yan, this is for you." Yang Deyu handed over a whole pack of cigarettes.
"I don't smoke." Yan Yan waved his hand and said, "You should keep it to yourself."
"I don't smoke either." Yang Deyu put the cigarette back again, "This is not a good thing."
After a pause, Yang Deyu said again: "Brother Yan, I really want to thank you this time for letting us feel good before retreating, especially when we killed at least fifty Japs just now."
"This is nothing." Yan Yan said with a smile, "The good show has just begun, and the more exciting ones are yet to come."
The expression on Yang Deyu's face slowly turned serious, and he asked in a deep voice: "Brother Yan, what are your plans next?"
"Plan?" Yan Jun smiled and said, "I haven't thought about it being too far away, but the first thing to do right now is to rescue the Lone Army Camp, oh, it's your camp."
However, Yang Deyu didn't listen to Yan Yan at all.
He said to himself: "Brother Yan, take your big gun and follow me."
"Follow you?" Yan Yan asked, "You mean to leave Sihang Warehouse?"
"Yes, it's time to withdraw." Yang Deyu nodded, "I bombed the warehouse twice in a row and killed nearly a hundred Japs. I am very satisfied. You can't be too greedy, otherwise you will easily suffer big losses."
Yan Jun smiled and said: "But I have always been greedy, what should I do?"
"You..." Yang Deyu frowned.
