Chapter 57 There Is No Reward for Second Place

Wakiita Jiro is indeed a top student from the Kyoto Army Academy.

After adopting Yin Teng Chuuji's "stirring up trouble" strategy, he was still cautious enough. In order to prevent his opponent from being fooled, he went to great lengths to play the "fortified wall" strategy.

However, this was also because, as Tang Dao guessed, the original small battle of Sihang Warehouse was no longer just a battlefield for an infantry regiment.

Due to the protests of the Western world, which was worried about being caught in the middle, not only did the Songhu Expeditionary Force Headquarters pay attention to this place, but even the Japanese military headquarters called to inquire about the situation.

How could the Japanese Third Division headquarters dare to be careless? Although because this battlefield was so large, it was already crowded to put an infantry regiment there and no need to increase troops, all the requests raised by Wakiita Jiro were met one by one.

For example, the coordination of the navy to send fighter planes was the result of the general division commander's personal telegram request.

Otherwise, do you think the Japanese Navy, which often talks about the army's idiots, would take a small army colonel like Wakiita Jiro seriously? It's not bad if you put it in your eyes.

Naturally, it's normal for Jiro Wakiita to ask the division's engineering regiment to bring various materials to help.

Facing the eyes of the whole world, the Chinese certainly want to show a posture of fighting to the death to cheer up the Chinese military and civilians, and the Japanese are unwilling to become a background board.

It can be said that as the highest commander of the Japanese army in the Battle of Sihang Warehouse, Colonel Jiro Wakiita has already ignited his own little universe, and has taken out 120% of his strength, and his head is almost bald.

There are more than ten semi-permanent fortifications being built on the front battlefield, and there are five or six on each wing, like a chain that is taking shape, which is about to completely lock up the Sihang Warehouse, a big monster that explodes from time to time.

For the warehouse defenders, it is also helpless to constantly use mortars to attack these fortifications that are taking shape! The cost-effectiveness is too low.

The Japanese engineers who are under construction will be killed and injured, which will not cause much damage to the strength of the Japanese army, but they will consume the ammunition reserves that are not too much in stock.

And Jiro Wakiita probably did this precisely because he had his eyes on the Chinese defenders.

Even if you have a lot of ammunition reserves, it is not endless after all. If you have the ability, use the ammunition reserves to exchange for engineers.

Anyway, war needs cannon fodder.

"The war will really begin when the Japanese are serious." Brigadier General of the British Empire sighed slightly and put down the telescope, saying a golden sentence that would be famous in the world in the future.

"I don't deny the excellence of the Chinese, but in war, there is no reward for second place."

But it seems that when Brigadier General of the British Empire talked about this sentence in his twilight years, he still responded to those who had laughed at him for this matter with confidence:

"I am at least one of the first people to admit that the Chinese are excellent, but some so-called gentlemen still dare not believe that the dragon has opened his eyes and woke up..."

Yes, this small-scale battlefield process on the edge of the concession changed the views of many arrogant Westerners on China's inevitable defeat, not just Brigadier General of the British Empire.

Even though he is now in a stage of not looking favorably on Chinese soldiers.

Facing the "chain" that the Japanese army was forming, the warehouse defenders did not have a very effective way.

Tang Dao and Niu Er, holding rifles equipped with scopes, did shoot cold shots from Japanese engineers. After killing seven or eight Japanese engineers in a row, they led the elite shooters sent by the Japanese army to shoot back.

For more than an hour, the battlefield belonged to the snipers of China and Japan.

"Bang! Bang!" The gunshots that broke out from time to time prevented the battlefield from falling into silence, reminding people that the war was still going on.

However, the Japanese army obviously had a natural lack of understanding of the shooting range of their opponents. They probably never dreamed that they were facing the king of individual soldiers from the future.

Tang Dao's strength in sniping, let alone the current them, even in the future, Japanese special forces will be crushed.

The Zhongzheng rifle, which imitated the 1924 Mauser rifle, has a fairly good effective range that is not inferior to the Japanese army's proud Type 38 large cover. The scope modified from the expensive German four-fold telescope has increased Tang Dao's strength to 70% of its peak period.

The seemingly insurmountable distance of more than 500 meters became an indescribable pain for the Japanese precision shooters.

Except for the Japanese who were beaten to a heartbreak, no one knew the specific results of the battle between Tang Dao and the two men.

Even the Japanese themselves put this battle report in a confidential box and did not make it public.

Because it was no longer a matter of shame, but fear. They were afraid that if the results were announced, no one would have the courage to challenge the unknown Chinese shooter on the opposite side, or how many people were there?

The first floor, second floor, and third floor of the warehouse... The Chinese shooters' positions almost covered all the positions on the front of the building, and the positions changed like ghosts, making it difficult to tell how many opponents there were.

However, they would rather believe that there was only one such terrible sharpshooter.

His shooting accuracy was really terrifying and unbelievable.

In the more than one hour gap after the fortifications were completely built, thirteen Japanese precision shooters died.

Eleven people died under Tang Dao's gun, and two were killed by Niu Er.

However, this one-on-one duel mode would not have any impact on the overall battle situation, even if Tang Dao and his subordinates once again crushed the elite Japanese troops into dust.

Just like watching the thirteen elite shooters carefully selected from his 36th Infantry Regiment all become corpses in more than an hour, Jiro Wakiita laughed instead of getting angry.

"Why are you laughing, Colonel?" Toyota Hide was very tactful and acted as a supporting role.

Although he felt deep down that his direct superior was either mad or mad as a fool, otherwise, how could he be so funny? Four of the corpses were veterans of his 1st Infantry Battalion with more than six years of military service, and he felt very distressed.

"I laugh at the short-sightedness of the Chinese, who would actually let such an elite die. If my unit had such an elite, and used this person as a template or instructor to train an elite squad, what a terrible force it would be on the battlefield?"

Jiro Wakiita had a smile on his face, but his eyes flashed with a chilling light.

"Fortunately! The Chinese have no chance to correct their mistakes. No matter how terrible the man's shooting skills are, he will definitely die here.

Send my military order to the left and right wings, and deploy cold gunmen and light machine guns on the banks of Suzhou River. All Chinese who attempt to cross the Suzhou River will be shot and killed. No one can be let go.

The fortifications are about to be completed! The whole army is ready to attack!"

"Hi!" All the officers in the Japanese command headquarters bowed their heads heavily.

However, this time the Japanese colonel blamed the big man who ordered to defend the Sihang Warehouse to the death. Although the military command ability of that man was slightly worse, he was not so weak that he could be looked down upon by a mere colonel-level officer.

If the 524th Regiment had a sharpshooter like Tang Dao who could kill the enemy at more than 500 meters, it would most likely have been replaced by another infantry battalion here.

Who doesn't know how to protect their own special arms? Just like the 18th Army, which has already sent troops to the north to start a hard battle with the Japanese army, the artillery can eat half an extra bun.

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Finally, as all the fortifications of the Japanese army were completed, the Japanese military operations were also launched accordingly.

This time, the Japanese army on both wings started to act first.

The Japanese army, who had learned their lesson, first blocked the rooftop of the Sihang Warehouse with a large number of grenade launchers, and then concentrated at least 8 Type 92 heavy machine guns, desperately suppressing the firing holes on the flank walls of the Sihang Warehouse. The barricades built around the walls were blown up by the grenade launchers.

At the same time, they also used smoke bombs, but not at the Sihang Warehouse, but between their positions and the Sihang Warehouse, and then more than a dozen blasting teams rushed up with explosive packs.

Through the firing holes, the smoke and smoke of smoke bombs were full of shadows, making it difficult to see the movements of the Japanese army.

Although it was known that the Japanese army was just a test and had not officially entered the stage of strong attack, its aggressive momentum had already made the Chinese soldiers and civilians inside and outside the building feel pressured.