No one answered!

No one on the entire South Bank knew what those black dots were.

Next, those black dots responded to all the observers' doubts in their own way!

Huge sounds rang out one after another, and visible air waves rolled upwards in layers.

Mixed in with these upward-rolling air currents were all kinds of garbage and debris.

There were stones and mud from the fortifications built by the defending soldiers.

There was also the lumber used in the construction, and many fragments of flesh torn apart by the explosions also splashed everywhere with this air current.

Those observers standing in the distance could not distinguish which of those flying, dismembered limbs belonged to which of the Nationalist soldiers' remains.

This rising cloud of dust, together with the cloud of dust rising behind the Sihang Warehouse,

obscured the entire Sihang Warehouse.

The Sihang Warehouse became blurred in everyone's eyes.

All anyone saw was the first wave of explosive packs thrown out by the Second Company. The smoke-filled Sihang Warehouse was completely shrouded in gunpowder smoke.

No one saw the second wave of explosive packs that Deng Ying ordered to be thrown.

However, as long as it was an explosive pack, it would eventually shine.

It would not be drowned out by the gunpowder smoke.

All the people watching the battle on the south bank of the Suzhou River saw several sparks flashing on the battlefield filled with gunpowder smoke.

As brilliant as fireworks, fleeting.

Only the sound echoed throughout the continent.

More fragments were thrown up, and a larger air wave was set off.

Li Xian gathered the soldiers who had just retreated and had them establish a defense line on the spot, facing the intertwined battle in front.

It had no practical use. The only possible effect was to reassure the soldiers fighting with bayonets in the front.

Their comrades were behind them, ready and waiting.

Just then, everyone fighting at the entrance of the Sihang Warehouse

heard a loud noise and felt a sound like an eggshell cracking.

A huge cloud of dust surged from behind them, instantly filling the entire ground floor of the Sihang Warehouse.

Li Xian turned his head blankly. Even in the dusty sky, he could see the space outside filled with smoke at a glance.

Where was the wall behind him?

Li Xian's roar was faster than his thoughts.

He hadn't figured out where the wall behind him had gone.

He had already shouted, "All soldiers on the defense line, turn around! Fire!"

In the smoke outside, figures were already rising and falling. Without asking, it must be the Japanese commando.

They had blown open the north wall and were charging in through the blasted gap.

Lu Youde had just obeyed the order, crawling on the ground with his machine gun loaded, aiming at the gate of the Sihang Warehouse.

He was ready to strafe at any time. Now he was safe.

In front of his machine gun, many comrades were fighting the Japanese with bayonets.

He didn't know how his machine gun should fire!

Lu Youde's anxiety was beyond expression.

At this moment, he heard a loud noise behind him.

He also felt the ground shaking, and then he heard Li Xian's calm voice, "All soldiers on the defense line, turn around! Fire!"

He immediately stood up and turned around, then crawled down again, firing his machine gun at the vague figures.

This time, he no longer hesitated, nor did he have to make any choices. He just had to fire at the figures running wild in the smoke.

He was not the only one doing this.

It was all the soldiers who had just been entangled by the Japanese outside the Sihang Warehouse and forced to retreat.

These soldiers had been harboring a bellyful of fire during their retreat, and they had not been able to find an outlet to vent it.

Now, there was finally an outlet.

The vague figures kept falling, and more and more figures kept rushing in.

It could be seen that more and more figures were rushing in from that jagged hole.

As time slowly passed, the gunpowder smoke that had risen earlier gradually spread out.

The location of the gap at the center of the explosion slowly became clearer.

The figures rushing in from the gap also slowly became clearer.

It was the Japanese!

Although all the soldiers who were firing had been firing at these Japanese figures as soon as they appeared,

they were still shocked when they were truly sure.

While repelling the tiger at the front gate, a pack of wolves was rushing in through the back door.

The soldiers were nervous and panicked!

Li Xian's calm voice rang out, "Everyone, don't panic. Machine guns, block the gap.

Machine guns, take turns firing to maintain continuous firepower.

Rifles, aim before firing. The gap is not big. The Japanese just want to go through the back door.

But they didn't expect that we were ready and waiting for them to come and die."

Hearing Li Xian's calm voice, the soldiers who had just panicked calmed down at once.

The machine guns no longer fired in a swarm like before, sometimes firing bullets that were airtight.

Sometimes they would stop at the same time to change magazines.

Now, with Li Xian's command, the machine gun firepower was evenly distributed.

From the moment Li Xian's voice fell, machine guns had been blocking the gap.

Those figures who had been rushing in constantly were finally suppressed.

They could no longer rush in.

The Japanese were not just charging blindly.

They also realized that the gap had been completely blocked and that it would cost too much to rush in.

Immediately, some Japanese prepared to suppress the defenders.

The grenades they threw in from outside the gap did not land near the defenders.

Instead, they exploded among the Japanese who had rushed in and were suppressed in the narrow space.

Japanese bombing Japanese—this should be considered friendly fire!

At this moment, another series of continuous explosions rang out.

Lu Youde saw the Japanese who had just rushed into the hole being pushed by a large hand.

They fell down in unison. The Japanese soldiers who were stopping outside to throw grenades were no longer moving.

On the contrary, the Japanese who had rushed into the Sihang Warehouse were still charging after being bombed by their own people.

However, the charge of these Japanese soldiers had also come to an end. As more and more defenders joined in, the network of fire became more and more dense.

The Japanese who had just rushed in with the billowing smoke gradually fell.

The Japanese who followed behind and rushed up did not get up again after falling in the previous explosion.

Only painful groans kept coming from their mouths.

The explosion just now seemed to have opened a box.

In the billowing smoke, people could not be seen clearly even ten meters away.

Only those explosions would continue to ring out every now and then.

Every time such an explosion sounded, new smoke would rise from the south and north of the Sihang Warehouse.

The smoke and dust surrounding the entire Sihang Warehouse became more and more numerous and thicker!

Just now, Lin Fan heard the explosion behind him and immediately judged that the north side of the Sihang Warehouse must have been blown up by the Japanese.

However, he was now facing the bayonets of two Japanese soldiers and could not be distracted.

He could only concentrate on dealing with the two knives in front of him.

Then he heard Li Xian's voice from behind, "All soldiers on the defense line, turn around! Fire!"

He was relieved that someone was in charge of the defense.

Then came the sound of explosions from the front, and the air wave pushed in from outside the Sihang Warehouse.

"This is what Lin Fan asked Wu Xiaobao to go upstairs and ask Regiment Commander Xie to do.

Throw explosive packs from the top of the building to cut off the Japanese's follow-up troops from continuing to rush into the gate of the Sihang Warehouse."

Now, the soldiers fighting in the melee at the gate only needed to clear out the Japanese who had already rushed in.

Lei Xiong also rushed in with the remaining soldiers of the machine gun company.

He was leading the soldiers, crawling on the ground, and firing at the Japanese who were rushing in from the north wall.

Tang Di also led the Third Company soldiers, fighting fiercely at the gate.

In the explosion just now, some of the Third Company soldiers who were behind were also affected by the explosions falling from the sky.

Now was not the time for grief.

Not a single soldier had time to feel sad.

All they could do was stab the Japanese in front of them.

Seeing that there was no one alive outside, Tang Di loudly ordered, "Close the door!"

Lin Fan replied, "Close the door! Kill the dogs!"

Lin Fan remembered this meme from a classic line in a movie from his later life.

Although the soldiers of the Special Operations Company could not understand the meme, it did not delay them from joining in at all!

The soldiers of the Special Operations Company shouted together, "Close the door! Kill the dogs!"

In the shouts of "Close the door! Kill the dogs!"

the iron gate of the Sihang Warehouse was finally closed.

Now the Special Operations Company and the Third Company only needed to kill all the Japanese locked in the Sihang Warehouse.

However, the number of Japanese who had rushed in was definitely more than the soldiers of the Third Company and the Special Operations Company combined.

At this time, Xie Jinyuan sent in the last reserve team.

The soldiers of the First Company, led by Company Commander Shangguan Zhibiao, jumped down from upstairs.

The machine gunners blocked the gap in the north wall that had just been blown open.

The remaining soldiers fixed bayonets and charged at the Japanese who were still stubbornly resisting.

These soldiers of the 524th Regiment learned from the Special Operations Company soldiers to shout loudly every time they stabbed:

"Kill!"

More and more people were doing this, and more and more people were shouting to kill on the ground floor.

The killing sound shook the sky, and even the heavy iron gate of the Sihang Warehouse could not contain the shouts of so many soldiers.

The killing sound flew out of the Sihang Warehouse and over the fortifications outside.

It flew across the Suzhou River and into the hearts of everyone who was standing on the south bank of the Suzhou River, worrying.

Among these citizens were residents who lived on the South Bank, and they listened to this familiar shout of killing.

They jumped up excitedly, "This is the roar of the Eight Hundred Heroes! They are still fighting!"

"This shout is so magnificent. The soldiers' morale has not declined at all.

It seems that our defense of the Sihang Warehouse has not lost yet!" Zhang Boting explained to He Xiangning.

Just now, they had witnessed the Japanese breaking through the outer fortifications of the defending soldiers.

They rushed into the gate of the Sihang Warehouse.

They also saw the scene when the defending soldiers of the Sihang Warehouse retreated to the warehouse in a panic.

Although they did not want to admit it, they had to recognize that the Sihang Warehouse was really going to be occupied by the Japanese in three hours.

This was not just Zhang Boting's idea, nor was it just his recognition.

In fact, all the Chinese standing on the South Bank had already anticipated this unacceptable result in their hearts!

He Xiangning, who was originally an artist, also heard the soldiers' courage, confidence, and excitement from this roar.

Although she was a painter, the essence of art was the same.

At this moment, she heard much more from these voices than Chief of Staff Zhang Boting explained.

Kunikichiro Koizumi put on a smiling face and said to the observers of the multinational observation group, "This is the defending soldiers' desperate struggle.

The soldiers of the Empire have already rushed into the Sihang Warehouse. Perhaps in less than three hours,

those hateful eight hundred defending soldiers will forever become a thing of the past."

Not a single observer responded.

Ignoring was the greatest insult. Kunikichiro Koizumi, who was subjected to this insult, had to endure all of this alone again.

He resentfully fantasized that when his empire dominated the world in the future, he would definitely make these observers lie on the ground and call him Daddy!

Now the Sihang Warehouse was completely shrouded in smoke and dust, and it was impossible to see clearly what was happening inside.

Or what was happening!

It was only possible to see a spark flashing in the smoke from time to time, and a loud noise would be heard.

Not only could those who were watching the fire from across the river not see clearly what was happening near the Sihang Warehouse,

but Commander Takuo Toshi of the Japanese Shanghai Naval Landing Force did not know what was happening on the front line either.

However, for him, it did not matter what was happening on the front line. What mattered was to send up all the troops in his hand while the defending soldiers had no long-range strike capability at this time.

In Takuo Toshi's heart, the current Sihang Warehouse was like a rose that had shed all its thorns. Da Feng Novel Network

It was covered with dew, waiting for his landing force to go up and pick it and taste it.

He was not the only one who had such thoughts, nor was he the only commander.

Major Eishi Yoshino, who was organizing his soldiers to launch an attack on the north wall, also thought the same way.

Lieutenant Colonel Katsuharu Yota, the commander on the east side, and Lieutenant Colonel Kitahara Sosuke, the commander on the west side, also thought the same way.

They all had the same thoughts, they thought together, and they all used their energy in the same direction:

All of these commanders urged their soldiers to rush in quickly.

Rush into this huge mystery filled with smoke and dust in front of them.

That huge mystery was like a monster that could never be satisfied. Thousands of people rushed in.

It only made the mystery of the smoke and dust even bigger.

The Second Company on the top of the building could not see the situation downstairs at all now.

Company Commander Deng Ying just told the soldiers to throw grenades down every few minutes.

Less than a quarter of the explosive packs made with the experience taught by Lin Fan had been used.

However, Company Commander Deng still decided that such weapons should be saved. He did not know how long the next battle would last.

He had seen the power of the few rounds of explosions that had just been thrown out.

He believed that in the two consecutive rounds of explosions, there would not be a single survivor within 30 meters of the Sihang Warehouse.

The melee on the ground floor of the Sihang Warehouse continued. With the addition of the First Company, the defending soldiers finally had the advantage in numbers.

Second Lieutenant Shiro Tanaka finally led his soldiers into the Sihang Warehouse. On this way of charging,

although the time had not passed long, the number of soldiers under his command had been cut in half.

Of the fifty or so men under his command when he set out, less than thirty were left now.

But what did it matter?

As long as they could occupy this warehouse in three hours, all the sacrifices were worth it.

Even if it meant adding the last of these men to his team.

He commanded his team, rushing in the front, and was one of the first teams to rush into the Sihang Warehouse.

Here, he also met Second Lieutenant Keita Hachinohe, who was attacking from the west.

The team led by Keita Hachinohe had basically not suffered any casualties.

When he saw that there were only twenty or so men left in Tanaka's team that had rushed over from the east,

Second Lieutenant Keita Hachinohe's face turned red at once: the soldiers on the opposite side had suffered so many casualties.

This showed that they had fought a difficult battle. His soldiers were still alive so much, so he had to work hard next.

Behind them, more Japanese soldiers were crowding in.

The Japanese soldiers attacking the Sihang Warehouse from the east and west met in front of the gate of the Sihang Warehouse.

They had no celebrations and did not stop.

The two sides just glared at each other and immediately rushed into the Sihang Warehouse.

These hundreds of Japanese soldiers who rushed in could not care about what was happening outside at all.

Because the defending soldiers in front of them had gone crazy: they no longer retreated, but would rather stand still and deal with the stabs of several Japanese soldiers at the same time than retreat.

When the explosions outside rang out, these Japanese soldiers who had already rushed into the Sihang Warehouse did not retreat.

When the iron gate of the Sihang Warehouse was closed, these Japanese soldiers who had already rushed into the Sihang Warehouse were not afraid.

They just tried hard to kill the opponents who were blocking their way forward.

Similarly, the defending soldiers opposite them had the same idea: "Kill all the Japanese in front of them."

Lin Fan stepped out, and he could clearly feel that the ground was no longer dry.

At first, the ground became slippery.

Later, every step he took would make a sound of stepping into water.

There would be no water on the ground floor. The blood flowing on the ground was the blood of those who had fallen on both sides.

The machine gun company soldiers who were crawling on the ground to block the gap in the north discovered this situation earlier than the soldiers who were fighting with bayonets.

Now they were truly crawling in a pool of blood.

The time when a team's morale is truly tested is when they are fighting with bayonets.

Both sides were engaged in close combat, fighting hard with one shot and one knife.

When bayonets met blood, soldiers with slightly less courage could not stand this kind of fighting method at all.

Teams without discipline and belief could not persevere either.

Under the leadership of Lin Fan and the more than one hundred members of the Special Operations Company, the defending soldiers of the entire Sihang Warehouse

finally stabilized.

Gradually, the boundary between the enemy and us was killed.

Those Nationalist soldiers who had been fighting in the middle of the Japanese ranks had now fallen down with the Japanese.

Those Japanese soldiers who had just rushed into the middle of the Nationalist soldiers were also stabbed to death by the Nationalist soldiers.

Now the boundary between the two sides was clear.

There were still at least one or two hundred Japanese soldiers in front of them.

They were squeezed by the soldiers of the 524th Regiment at the location of the warehouse iron gate, and these Japanese soldiers were still stubbornly resisting.

Lin Fan was no longer willing to fight with them like this.

He was not the only one who thought so.

Lei Xiong commanded his machine gun company, blocking the gap in the north, and occasionally paying attention to the fighting in the south.

When he turned back to pay attention to the situation in the south again, he saw an opportunity.

Opportunity was always like this, always favoring those who did not give up.

Now it was his time to strike.