war contractor

Chapter 400 Only One Hundred and Eighteen
Shanghai, the British Concession near Suzhou Creek.

Although Shanghai is now a mess, good order is still maintained inside the concession. The British army guards the gate of the concession and often clashes with the Japanese. The main reason is that the British refuse Japanese soldiers to enter the concession for inspection, and the result is often Ended with a British victory, the concession is now like a war-torn paradise.

The rich continued to feast and feast in the concession, dreaming of life and death, while the poor were struggling at the bottom, while more ordinary people were on the banks of the Suzhou River in the concession, observing the Sixing Warehouse in the distance.

This is a habit and a kind of belief. Every day, as long as they look at the blue sky and white sun flag flying on the top of the Sixing Warehouse, they feel very at ease. A large group of people sit by the Suzhou River every day, staring at the distant place. The top floor of the Sihang warehouse, day after day.

Even if there were stray bullets flying around, even if the British patrols came to hunt them down, even if the Japanese patrol boats yelled at them to get out of the way on the shore, they still stayed here, their eyes fixed on the sunny day.

But today, in the early morning of November [-]nd, there was a loud noise from the Sixing Warehouse.

Before all the people on the other side of the Suzhou Creek could react, they saw the flagpole standing upright, suddenly and slowly falling to the side.

"Fall down, down!"

"fall down!"

"Flag down!"

"Don't fall!"

Amidst the exclamation of all the people, the national flag on the top floor of the Sixing Warehouse slowly fell down, and finally fell slowly from the top floor. Everyone stared at the national flag, watching it fall little by little .

When the national flag fell, the surroundings were as silent as death, without any sound, and then a girl standing at the front burst into tears.

Soon the cries infected everyone, and thousands of people gathered around were weeping together. Their current spiritual pillar has collapsed, representing the last resistance force in Shanghai, which no longer exists.

"Brothers, sisters, compatriots, let's not cry, we should be proud!" At this time, a young man holding a trumpet and shouting various slogans every day wiped away his tears and stood on the high ground. place, shouting loudly.

"The soldiers of the Sixing Warehouse, with 800 people, fought against tens of thousands of Japanese. They stood firm for six days, killed more than [-] Japanese invaders, wounded countless enemies, and killed countless Japanese officers. Although they had all died, their The spirit should be remembered, do you still remember the song we wrote for them? Everyone follow me and sing together!"

"it is good!"

The young man immediately found a high place and stood up, and said slowly: China will not perish, China will not perish, look at the national hero, Captain Xie.

China will not perish, China will not perish, look at those eight hundred strong men fighting alone to defend the battlefield, surrounded by gunfire and wolves everywhere, would rather die in battle than back down, would rather die in battle than surrender.

Our national flag flutters in the encirclement, flutters, flutters, flutters.

Eight hundred strong men with one heart, one hundred thousand strong enemies can't stop our actions Great and strong, our integrity is strong My compatriots rise up, my compatriots rise up and rush to the battlefield, let the eight hundred strong men be an example, China will not perish, China will not perish , China will not die, China will not die, will not die!will not die!will not die!
Everyone present, everyone sang this song together. At the beginning, the voice was not loud, and everyone was slowly choking, but as everyone behind them stopped crying, the voice became louder and louder. Floating over the entire Shanghai, as long as anyone who hears this melody, whether they can sing or not, they are all singing in unison.

(This song is called "Song of Eight Hundred Heroes", which was written by Du Taosheng and composed by Xia Zhiqiu. It was later renamed "China Will Not Perish" and was widely sung. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it was renamed "China Must Be Strong" ". This song was used as an interlude in the movie "Fortune Corps".)
The people along the Suzhou River sang this song over and over again, again and again, for a long time, and they were seeing off the defenders of the Sixing Warehouse, so that these heroes could go on their last journey.

The huge explosion on the fourth and fifth floors of the Sixing Warehouse collapsed the floor of the fifth floor. Kazuki Yamaguchi, who was waiting for news on the fourth floor, heard a huge explosion from the roof, and then felt The ground shook and the mountains shook, and before he could stand still, a large piece of concrete and other things fell from the roof.

One piece after another, stone slabs and various other things fell from the roof, and the Japanese soldiers who did not respond in time were buried in the ruins in an instant. Kazuki Yamaguchi was the most miserable, his head was hit by a large stone slab, directly become flat.

There was silence around the Four Lines Warehouse. The Japanese commander Masaaki Ito, a few hundred meters away, put down the telescope in his hand a little tiredly: "Have you taken it?"

The staff officer next to him heard the huge explosion just now, and he was a little unsure whether he had taken the Sixing Warehouse, with a look of apprehension on his face: "It should be taken, there are only a few defenders left, and there are hundreds of us Offensive, there should be no problem!"

Now none of the Japanese military officers dare to guarantee that the Sixing Warehouse must be taken down. Tens of thousands of people attacked for six days, but they failed to take down 800 people. Hundreds of people attacked and wanted to take down dozens of warehouses stationed. It seems that a zero needs to be added.

"Send another brigade up to see what happened!"

"Yes!"

The matter of attacking the Four Lines Warehouse finally fell on Ito Masaki. After all, he has been playing for so long and has experience, and he can be used to blame if something happens.

When a brigade under Ito Masaki climbed up to the fourth floor, they found that the fourth and fifth floors of the Sixing Warehouse had been penetrated, and the fifth floor had also collapsed. You can see corpses all over the place, as well as some stumps buried under the ruins.

"Help!"

"Pain, pain, pain, help me!"

Some Japanese soldiers who were not yet dead cried out for help, but the soldiers of this brigade did not dare to move around to save people. They are not sure if there are other Chinese defenders in the Sixing Warehouse.

Hundreds of people held guns and carefully groped forward in the warehouse, turning their heads to look at other positions from time to time, looking for possible enemies.

In this way, after a group of Japanese soldiers checked the Sixing Warehouse upside down, they were sure that there were no Chinese defenders in the Sixing Warehouse, and the Sixing Warehouse had been taken down by them.

"Division Commander, we have taken down the Sixing Warehouse!" The captain rushed into Masaki Ito's headquarters with an excited expression on his face, and fell down several times along the way. The excited expression on his face could not be controlled at all. .

Masaaki Yito showed joy on his face: "Have you got it? Great, let's go!"

"Division Commander, we haven't thoroughly checked the warehouse yet. I don't know if there are still some wounded soldiers inside. After we check it once and make sure it's safe, go in!"

Ito Masaaki nodded, sat in his seat, sat back in his seat again, and continued to wait.

About half of the Japanese in the alliance entered the four-line warehouse again, and once again began to get busy, the first thing is to count the results of the battle.

The Japanese soldiers moved all the corpses of Chinese soldiers that could be found out of the warehouse, and in order to prevent wounded soldiers from pretending to be dead and attacking, the Japanese soldiers would shoot at each corpse before approaching the corpse to make sure After death, it will be dragged.

These Japanese soldiers were silent the whole time. Almost every corpse they saw, except for those that had been properly placed before, kept a fighting posture.

Some corpses have been cold for a long time, but they still hold their weapons tightly in their hands and stare at the front. Shoot the grenade and die with them.

In the end, more than 180 corpses were found from the Sixing Warehouse. In addition, even if the Japanese turned the entire Sixing Warehouse upside down, they did not find any more corpses, as if they disappeared out of thin air.

"Only more than 180 corpses?"

After repeatedly confirming the number of corpses, Ito Masaki looked at the officer beside him.

"Ha Yi, head of the division, we searched the entire Sihang warehouse and only found 180 corpses, there are no more corpses!"

Ito Masaaki walked again quickly, sweeping through all the corpses. These sacrificed Chinese soldiers were very thin. Ito Masaaki couldn't believe that it was this group of people who actually blocked his attack.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible, Baga, you must have missed something, the fourth floor, the fifth floor, have you found them all? Didn't the four-row warehouse still have a sixth floor in the past!"

Ito Zhengxi paced back and forth, only more than 100 people, actually blocked the tens of thousands of troops of the empire for six days?If this news is to be spread, the Japanese will become the biggest joke in the world, even worse than the Italian army.

"The Chinese army is very cunning. They must have used some method to hide the corpse and dig it on the ground. They must dig it out for me!"

The Japanese soldiers got busy again, and this time they began to dig three feet into the ground. In any case, the Japanese didn't want to believe that their victory was only more than 100 people, not even more than 200 people.

"Tell those reporters not to write scribbles, and not to take photos!"

"Roms!"

The Japanese are very concerned about the Sihang Warehouse. Masaki Ito's division headquarters has reporters accompanying the army. If there are only so few victories, Masaki Ito may not even be able to keep his position as division commander.

"Sir, some corpses of our warriors were found on the first floor. They were piled together, but there were no clothes on the corpses!"

"Nani?"

After Yito Zhengxi heard it, he froze in place, with a bad thought in his mind, he rushed to the first floor like crazy to check the area mentioned by his men.

　One more chapter tonight

　　
　
(End of this chapter)