Chapter 91: Preparing To Strike
At the command post of the 156th Brigade, Brigade Commander Liu Kun was frowning as he looked at the intelligence in his hand, which showed that the Japanese Army had assembled more than 20 warships, over 50 airplanes, more than 3,000 Marine Corps, and three to four thousand armed Japanese civilians in Shanghai, and they were advancing in five columns, attacking the areas around North Shanghai Railway Station.
In addition to this intelligence on the enemy’s situation regarding the Japanese troops, there was also a telegram from Commander-in-Chief Jiang, approving support operation with reinforcements for him, but requiring him to immediately commit the main force to crush all the Japanese Marine Corps right away.
“Phew! As long as there are reinforcements, fine, commit the main force then!”
“Anyway, I’ve long wanted to dispatch the main force to annihilate all these damn invading Japanese Marine Corps!”
“So this time, I absolutely won’t show any mercy to these Japanese!”
After reading all the telegram contents, Brigade Commander Liu Kun’s gaze sharpened as he made up his mind and said.
“Have all the main force assemble immediately, I’ll personally supervise their offensive operation!”
“Make sure to crush all the invading Japanese Army for me, recover all lost ground, let them know the power of our 19th Route Army, we are not to be bullied by these invaders at will!”
“Quickly recapture North Shanghai Railway Station and Tian Tong An Station for me, and then pursue the victory, capture the Japanese Marine Corps command post in Shanghai, force these Japanese to withdraw to the area east of North Sichuan Road and south of Bazi Road.”
“End this war as soon as possible! Let Shanghai restore calm and peace!”
Then, Brigade Commander Liu Kun immediately issued a series of operation orders to all the officers and operations staff officers in the command post who were waiting for his latest operation instructions.
“Yes! Brigade Commander!”
All the officers and operations staff officers responded loudly in unison.
Immediately, they acted on orders and left,
Soon, the main force of the entire 156th Brigade quickly assembled and began to engage in operations on the battlefield.
At the frontline command post of the Japanese Marine Corps,
Major General Shiozawa also quickly raised his military telescope and spotted the main force of the 156th Brigade beginning to commit to the battlefield.
“Baka! The Chinese Army’s main force has begun operations!”
“Have all troops immediately conduct counterattack operation, make sure to comprehensively defeat this Chinese Army main force, let the reputation of our Imperial Marine Corps resound throughout Shanghai!”
“Let all the foreign troops and foreign officers paying attention to this war, or the foreigners watching the spectacle, personally see how we crush those worthless Chinese Army and seize the final victory, becoming the ultimate victors!”
“Our Marine Corps will not be inferior to our Army Troops, the battle records they achieved in the Northeast, we can also achieve equally brilliant ones here in Shanghai, even more glorious ones!”
“Kill! Kill!”
“Attack! Attack!”
After Major General Shiozawa discovered that the main force of the 156th Brigade was pressing onto the battlefield and attacking his Marine Corps,
He also put down the military telescope in his hand, waved the saber in his hand, and shouted loudly.
After his operation orders were issued,
All the Japanese Marine Corps, together with those armed Japanese civilians, under powerful artillery support operation and the cover of tanks and armored cars, continued to launch even fiercer assault operations toward intersections such as Baoshan Road and Qiujiang Road.
And in those street blocks where the Japanese Marine Corps were attacking, there were large numbers of refugees fleeing,
“Oh no! Japanese troops are killing toward our side, run fast! I just saw them chasing and killing those civilians who ran too slowly! They were all unarmed, but these Japanese showed no mercy at all!”
“I also saw them killing those civilians, these damn Japanese really have no humanity! Everyone run fast!”
“I’m already running, but I have too many family members, we can’t run fast! When will our 19th Route Army arrive here to annihilate or crush all these damn Japanese?”
“It should be soon! But let’s hurry and run! Otherwise, before the 19th Route Army comes to save us, I’m afraid we’ll all be slaughtered by the invading Japanese troops!”
“Oh no! Japanese troops have caught up, help! Help!”
Batch after batch of refugees were fleeing,
And they were heatedly discussing in panic, especially those who had personally witnessed the scene of slower civilians behind being caught up and killed by the Japanese Marine Corps, they shouted even more fearfully to run fast.
But even so, more and more refugees were still being pursued and killed by the Japanese Marine Corps,
Just as the batch of refugees behind was caught up by the Japanese Marine Corps, surrounded, and about to be slaughtered,
Zhou Wenhua’s Security Team began to take action,
While the German-equipped Company was conducting standby support operation in the nearby areas.
