Chapter Seventy-Three: Confrontation (3)

The poisonous gas released by the Japanese army slowly dispersed in the dust, and then spread up little by little along the corridor, until the Japanese soldiers occupying the shop across the street saw white smoke overflowing from the hole in the wall on the third floor, and the six Japanese veterans who had been waiting outside the door of the building quickly crossed the street and disappeared into the shop on the other side of the street. Hikaru Sagawa, who had been paying attention to them, immediately waved his arm vigorously, and more than 20 Japanese soldiers wearing gas masks rushed down the street towards the dead silence of the bank building. 、

In the eyes of Mitsuichi Sagawa at this moment, this battle is basically over, and the last thing left is to rush into the building, find and bring out the body of the attacker. As the old saying goes, imagination is beautiful, but reality is always cruel. Just when Mitsuichi Zuo Chuan was secretly complacent, the 20 or so Japanese soldiers wearing gas masks had already stepped on the bricks and rubble all over the ground and rushed into the bank building.

It's just that after only a few breaths, one person rushed out of the Japanese soldiers who rushed into the building, and Zuo Chuan Guangyi couldn't help but be stunned, and said in his heart, Could something unexpected happen? "Squadron leader, the attacker who was trapped in the building by us blew up the stairs connecting the 2nd and 3rd floors, we need a ladder, otherwise there is no way to go upstairs." The Japanese commander who came back to report was quite clever, and in a few clicks, he made things clear.

Koichi Zuochuan, who was secretly worried just now, can be regarded as relieved, as long as it doesn't have another problem, it just needs a few ladders, and this won't be too difficult to solve. After a while, the military police unit in charge of the perimeter guard sent someone to bring a ladder, and Kodaichi Sagawa, who was bent on ending it early, waved his hand and sent more people to the building. As the ladder entered, more than 40 Japanese soldiers gathered in the bank building and at the entrance.

As the captain of the team, Nagano seemed to be satisfied with this, and when Koichi Sagawa reported to him, Captain Nagano did not forget to motivate Koichi Sagawa a few words. But when he saw with his own eyes that there were already soldiers appearing in the hole in the wall on the second floor, Captain Nagano only felt his feet shake, and heard a rumbling sound in his ears, and then looked at the bank building in the distance, which had already been shrouded in smoke and dust, and he couldn't see anything other than that.

After a few breaths, the smoke and dust that poured down the street carried a powerful thrust, and the stunned Nagano and the others immediately took their heads to the head. The sudden change caused a radius of several hundred meters centered on the bank building to be covered by dense smoke and dust. But anyone who is within this range is basically speechless and unable to see, completely obscured by the overwhelming smoke and dust.

The captain of Nagano, who was hit by the smoke and dust, fell to the ground on his back, but was immediately protected by several henchmen around him, and before he could react last year, the shouts of his officers and soldiers sounded one after another on his side. Forcibly enduring this almost suffocating bad feeling, Zuo Chuan Koichi, who was already gray at this moment, shouted desperately, although the dust inhaled into his throat made Zuo Chuan Guangyi cough uncontrollably, but he still quickly gathered more than 20 soldiers around him, and he was not far from Captain Nagano at the moment.

The bank building collapsed entirely, as the Japanese soldiers in the shops across the street had seen, and the 40 or so companions who had entered the building and were waiting at the entrance of the building were clearly in bad condition. The dense dust had not yet dissipated, and the continuous shouting and cheering came from the street in front of it. After a moment of silence among the Japanese soldiers who were cowering in the shop, a Japanese soldier Cao Chang stepped forward to take the lead, and more than 30 Japanese soldiers stepped through the rubble across the street and appeared in front of the ruins of the bank building, which had almost completely collapsed.

The bank building is not completely collapsed, but only a section of the back wall of the whole building is still standing tenaciously at this moment, while the second and third floors have collapsed by half, completely burying the first floor in the forefront. After about half an hour, the dust that spread through the streets gradually dissipated, and the officers and men of the Nagano Brigade who were looking at each other secretly rejoiced and at the same time, they all turned their eyes to their respective commanders, because no one knew what they should do next.

"Eight Tooth Road, this is what they have planned a long time ago." Captain Nagano, who had been supported by his subordinates, was furious, and pushed away his subordinates who were about to wipe his cheeks, and Captain Nagano, who had always paid attention to his military demeanor, appeared in front of the soldiers of the Nagano Brigade in an unkempt posture like everyone else. "This is something they have planned for a long time, otherwise it is absolutely impossible for such a building to be blown down by a few *, and it will take a lot of *."

That's right, after the collapse of the building, Captain Nagano quickly found the crux of the problem, which was a bank building, and their Type 92 infantry guns could not collapse the building after more than a dozen shots in a row, which was enough to prove the solidity of the building. The other party used the method of demolition to destroy the building, and if there was no large number of * in the building in advance, it would not have been possible to do it at all, in short, the captain of Nagano asked himself if he had this ability.

Everyone was looking at the grizzled Captain Nagano, who had been leading them to victory, but in a trance, someone suddenly noticed that Captain Nagano didn't seem to be very confident at the moment. The next thing to do is to organize people to clean up the rubble to find the survivors who may still be alive, and then find the body of the attacker. According to the previous behavior of the Nagano brigade, such heavy labor would have been left to the forcibly recruited people, but this time, they could only go into battle in person, after all, there were still more than 40 imperial soldiers buried in this ruin.

No one, including Captain Nagano and Koichi Sagawa in a fit of rage, thought that the attackers were still alive, that the place had already been surrounded by them, and that there were a large number of gendarmerie units on the periphery, and that the building* would need someone to detonate before it would blow up the building. For all these reasons, all the Japanese officers and soldiers who knew the news were all relaxed, because they all believed that the attackers who were trapped in the building and had no way out must have also been buried in the building.

Lu Yuan's two detonation* to blow up the bank building were automatically made up by the Japanese army because they felt that they were cornered, so they detonated*, according to Chinese parlance, this is called dying to pull a few backs. The Japanese soldiers, who had made up this conclusion in their brains, sighed a few words while secretly relieved, thinking that if they had surrounded the building at that time, they would have done nothing and trapped the attackers in the building. In the gendarmerie units, there are not a few officers and soldiers who think this way at the moment, and even in the Nagano brigade, there are such arguments.

The bank building collapsed, and a column of smoke more than ten meters high rose from the flat ground, and how could reporters from all over the world gathered outside Hongkou District not see it, and in the flickering of flashing lights, Xu Huanshan's face gradually became solemn. If it weren't for the huge smoke column rising into the air in Hongkou District, he would feel it like everyone else, and he would feel that the shaking of the earth just now was an earthquake.

Looking up at the rising pillar of smoke, Xu Huanshan's eyes gradually had water vapor, and he could make such a huge movement, Xu Huanshan guessed that Lu Yuan, who was besieged by the Japanese army, must have reached a critical moment of life and death. Xu Huanshan hoped that Lu Yuan would survive, but he also knew that his expectations were not quite in line with reality, after all, Lu Yuan was only alone, and the number of Japanese troops in Hongkou District had already exceeded a thousand.

Just when Xu Huanshan was secretly hurting himself, just as the grizzled Captain Nagano shouted to his soldiers, Lu Yuan, who had escaped into the tunnel, was quietly emerging from a flower bush with the injured Jin Douhuan. The hole in the flowers is the exit of the tunnel, Lu Yuan did not dig the tunnel exit in advance, but left a layer of soil more than 2 meters thick, even if someone passes by here, or water the flowers and plants here, they will never think that there will be a tunnel under their feet.

Jin Douhuan, who drilled out of the tunnel in front of Lu Yuan, was full of amazement at the moment, he originally thought that he would definitely die, but he didn't expect that Lu Yuan would prepare a way to retreat early. Lu Yuan, who drilled out of the tunnel later, carefully hung up the tripwire before leaving the tunnel. One end of the tripwire is fixed to an iron drill that is deeply inserted into the soil, while the other end is attached to a tie wire with *. If you dig through the dirt next to it, you will find that it is attached to several pieces* and the body of a large-caliber shell.

"How many people are there in Hongkou District?" Lu Yuan, who drilled out of the tunnel, didn't wait for Jin Doo-hwan to thank him, so he asked Kim Doo-hwan in a muffled voice while closing the exit of the tunnel. "After today, the Japanese army will definitely carry out a thorough search of Hongkou District, and all people and things they find suspicious will be investigated and closely monitored. Even if you people from the National Salvation Army can escape this search, it will be difficult for you to make a difference in Hongkou District in the future. ”

"I don't know what plans and tactics your National Salvation Army has against the Japanese army, but if it's me, it's a good opportunity right now." After sealing the tunnel exit, Lu Yuan got up and looked at Jin Douhuan. "I have a large number of weapons and ammunition hidden in Hongkou District, and you have seen my combat effectiveness with your own eyes. I need manpower right now, and if there are enough manpower, I can put the whole Hongkou district in trouble. I will turn Hongkou District into a big quagmire, and let more and more Japanese troops fall into this big quagmire, no matter what the result is, the Japanese will lose face this time. ”