The battle in the middle of the night on January 28th affected the hearts of hundreds of millions of people, but the result was beyond the expectations of most people!

The Japanese Marine Corps, which thought they had the upper hand and launched a sudden attack, did not even do any more reconnaissance. More than 1,000 Marines under the command of Commander Gu Shigesa Sameshima, guided by 20 armored vehicles, attacked Zhabei in three ways.

, boasting that he would completely defeat the Chinese army within four hours and capture Zhabei in one fell swoop!

But the reality made him bump into the city wall!

The 156th Brigade, which was originally stationed in Zhabei and was ready for battle, almost never evacuated. Although the maps in their hands were full of mistakes and the single clothes they wore could not protect them from the cold and wet weather in the cold winter, the morale of the soldiers was high and their hearts were as warm as coals of fire.

The intensity of the fighting was beyond the Japanese army's expectations!

In terms of equipment, the gap between the two sides is not as big as expected! Although the 156th Brigade does not have armored vehicles or tanks, it does have a lot of German-made mortars and a small number of 37mm anti-tank guns! To deal with the Japanese iron-cased tanks

More than enough!

More importantly, the mentality and morale of the soldiers of the two armies are not at the same level at all!

From the beginning to the end, the soldiers of the Japanese army have not figured out why they are here to fight, what kind of enemies they need to deal with, and how far they have to fight before it is over. Most of them are still immersed in the guns and cannons from September 18 last year.

As soon as the sound was heard, tens of thousands of troops fled. In the memory, the so-called Chinese rebels were probably so cowardly and useless! Maybe as long as they fired their machine guns into the air and fired a few shots, they would be scattered.

?!

Even the commander has this kind of mentality, it would be strange if nothing happens!

On the contrary, the 19th Route Army was holding back its arrogance and carrying the expectations of hundreds of millions of people. For many days in a row, from the army commander to the officers at all levels, it instilled the belief in resisting Japan and saving the country, and once it opened fire to engage the enemy,

He suddenly became crazy, no matter he didn't have a helmet or even a cotton-padded jacket, he shouted loudly from top to bottom for a fierce battle, brave and courageous, rushing towards the Japanese army whose overall quality was much higher than his own, fighting with his life without fear of life and death!

The Japanese troops who tried to break through the front line in one fell swoop with their powerful equipment, weapons and military quality were like a blow in the head. They dispersed into small groups and followed the tanks to attack along the streets. They had no idea what they would face! They were many times more numerous than they were.

The central gunmen formed three-dimensional defense fronts on the roofs of buildings, in the buildings, under the pillars of the halls on both sides of the street, and in the bunkers in the street. The dense bullets poured over them from top to bottom, catching them by surprise.

!If we hadn’t been trained for a long time and immediately took cover at the first sight of trouble, we don’t know how many casualties would have been caused in the first wave of attacks!

The battle lasted until the middle of the night. The Japanese army, which failed to attack, used tanks as the leader and used heavy machine guns and old 75mm infantry cannons to clear the way. They relied on their advantage of accurate night shooting to try to break through, but they were all defeated by the 156th Brigade with huge firepower.

The casualties were repaid! It was not until fighter plane bombing support was dispatched in the early morning of the next day that we managed to gain a foothold, but it was still far from the expected battle goal! The key Tiantong'an Station and Shanghai North Railway Station were not captured!

The Japanese commander Yuki Shiozawa screamed angrily, constantly scolding the incompetence of the frontline commanders, and then urgently mobilized troops to ensure that the battle target was completely captured!

As for the Central Military Commission, the Sixth Military Police Regiment of the Songhu Garrison Command, which was supposed to supervise the withdrawal of the 19th Route Army, rushed to the front line and immediately joined the battle. It promptly and effectively replenished the losses of the 156th Brigade and withstood the crazy Japanese attack.

, brought the battle to a stalemate!

On the other side, a group of people full of unyielding and angry hearts are taking action with all their strength, vowing to use their blood to completely defeat and eliminate the Japanese pirates who are rampant in the country!

As soon as the guns were fired, the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Association, which had already been on high alert, began to work nervously. In the early morning of January 29, after emergency consultations, Wang Pingnan, Jiang Junyi, and Zhang Zilian were elected as representatives by the Volunteer Army Committee of the Hainan Civilian National Salvation Association and went to Nanjing.

Please see Cai Tingkai, commander of the 19th Route Army, and request that a volunteer army be formed in the name of saving the National Assembly to help the army kill the enemy and resist Japan.

At Zhenru Station, they met Cai Tingkai. Commander Cai greatly appreciated their enthusiasm, expressed his support clearly on the spot, and asked them to contact the Deputy Director of the Volunteer Army, Brigadier Weng Zhaoyuan of the 156th Brigade, for detailed contact.

Wang Pingnan and the others rushed back to Shanghai without stopping. At the Qianjiang Guild Hall, they met Weng Zhaoyuan, who was busy with his feet on the ground. Brigadier Weng was very supportive of their action and agreed without hesitation, and through Staff Officer Qiu Guozhen

The director told Adjutant Qiu Qiuxing to carefully arrange the location of the volunteer army, and gave instructions to allocate 64 Hanyang-made rifles and 12,000 rounds of ammunition.

With such a harvest, Wang Pingnan and others were overjoyed. They hurried back all the way and issued an order overnight for all volunteers to gather at the New World Shopping Mall on Nanjing Road!

On the morning of January 31st, the New World Domestic Products Mall was crowded. Nearly two hundred volunteer soldiers gathered together. Everyone's face was shining with excitement. In the wide mall, a cold wind blew.

Not going to the craze!

Zhu Bin came to report one day late. It wasn't that he didn't want to come earlier. He really had no choice. He had to deal with the scholar Wang Kaishan who was so angry that he couldn't stop him.

In order to save his own life and that of Scholar Wang, Zhu Bin took great pains. When the scholar came early in the morning on the 30th to drag him to the meeting place, Zhu Bin first held him down, and finally persuaded him to put him at home first.

The equipment is familiar and ready. The battle begins very early, not later than this.

Seeing the equipment piled up like a hill, Wang Kaishan was stunned on the spot. He pointed at the gadgets that he almost didn't recognize and asked: "This...are these things for me?"

Zhu Bin snorted angrily: "What do you think?! Fighting is not as simple as you think. How can you do it if you are not fully prepared?!"

Without any explanation, he took off his neat suit, took off his tie and took off his vest. First, he put on a thick, tight-sleeved top that looked like canvas, then forced him to change into his trousers, and then picked up a bulging vest.

After putting it on, Wang Kaishan felt his body sink and asked in surprise: "What is this? Why is it so heavy?"

"There are only two bulletproof vests in the world, don't tell others!"

Zhu Bin didn't explain much and helped him hang up his carrying gear. The chest hanger with three large and four small magazine bags was filled with 9mm Thompson submachine gun magazines and 9mm Parabellum 13-round magazines, and stuffed behind his buttocks.

A first-aid kit and kettle made in Shanghai, a military spur, a short-handled engineer shovel attached to his back, multi-functional pliers, Zeiss telescopes, a whistle, four domestic wooden-handled grenades, and finally a test-market version of the M1929 bomb tied to his right thigh.

Ronning 9mm high-powered pistol.

Finally, when the Thompson 9mm caliber M1921 submachine gun, which weighed 4.4 kilograms, was hung with a drum of 50 bullets, Wang Kaishan felt that he had suddenly sunk several dozen kilograms, and he could hardly straighten his waist!

"It's hard to walk with so many things on your back, so how can we fight!" Putting on the heavy German M17 helmet, Wang Kaishan almost didn't recognize himself in the mirror. He tried to walk a few steps, and suddenly he couldn't laugh or cry.

"Just be content!" Zhu Bin slapped him so hard that he almost sat on the ground, shook his head and sighed, "Your body is too bad, no, I have to make a special exercise plan for you, otherwise it will be like this

With your physique, how can you fight?"

"No need, right?" Wang Kaishan regretted coming here.

"It's necessary, come on, let me explain to you in detail how to use these things..."

Once it fell into Zhu Bin's hands, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and listen to Zhu Bin explain the purpose of each piece of equipment. A day passed like this.
Chapter completed!