At 4 o'clock in the morning on August 13th, Lu Yuan, who had been resting in a small hotel for two consecutive days, slowly opened his eyes, and in the past 30 hours, Lu Yuan slept except for eating and simple activities. By this time, he had already nourished his spirit, and after looking at the time on his watch, Lu Yuanmei stretched his waist with a sigh, and then slowly got out of the bed.

At five o'clock in the morning, the sky was already bright, looking out of the window, a faint pedestrian appeared on the road one after another, Lu Yuan's face showed a smile, and the war he had been waiting for finally broke out. Lu Yuan did not leave the hotel immediately, but after breakfast, he walked out of the hotel very leisurely with his suitcase. The Nationalist troops had actually entered the city in batches as early as the early morning of the 12th, but for some reason they did not launch an attack, and the Japanese army also strengthened the defense of the Hongkou area.

Lu Yuan walked on the street with a suitcase without squinting, compared with the previous two days, there were many more heavily armed Japanese soldiers or armed patrol officers in the streets of Hongkou District. According to the route he had already reconnoitred before, Lu Yuan easily rushed to the building on North Sichuan Road that he had already reconnoitred on the spot that day, and along the back stairs of the building, Lu Yuan soon came to the roof of the building.

Opening the suitcase, Lu Yuan took out two grenades with wooden handles and a roll of fishing line, set up two trick mines in the back stairs of the building, and then blocked the iron door of the rooftop with the debris on the rooftop, so that Lu Yuan, who was on the rooftop, did not have to worry about the enemy suddenly appearing behind him. Lu Yuan, who had taken defensive measures, didn't bother to rest, immediately changed into a thick combat uniform, and took out his guns and ammunition from the storage space.

After putting on his combat uniform, putting on his weapons and ammunition, and jumping on the spot a few times to feel that there was no discomfort in his weapons and equipment, Lu Yuan approached the edge of the rooftop and raised the binoculars in his hand to observe the movements of the Japanese army. Knowing that the Nationalist troops had entered the city in the early morning of the 12th, the Japanese troops in Shanghai, while seeking help from the countries in the concession to delay time, ordered the marines and expatriate armed forces to build street forts and various bunker fortifications in the Japanese concession.

The telescope in Lu Yuan's hand swept through several other directions of this intersection and found that the Japanese army had built a number of barricades and had stationed soldiers to guard them. Walking along the North Sichuan Road where Lu Yuan is at the moment is the headquarters of the Japanese Marine Corps, so the Japanese army in Shanghai has built the most fortifications and bunkers on this North Sichuan Road, and Lu Yuan even saw no less than a semi-enclosed machine gun position welded with steel plates in the telescope.

The Japanese army welded steel plates together to build machine gun positions, and also built street forts with cement and sandbags on the side of the street, Lu Yuan frowned slightly, if the attacking troops of the national army were not equipped with strong enough heavy firepower weapons, they were afraid that after the national army troops launched an attack, it would be difficult to take advantage of the street fighting. Just as Lu Yuan was secretly pondering, a group of Japanese soldiers rushed towards the building he was in, Lu Yuan was startled, and then took out a silencer and added it to his rifle, and quickly ran towards the passage door connecting the roof to the main staircase.

Lu Yuan had already sealed the back staircase with sundries and thunder, and the only thing that could reach the rooftop was the main staircase, and after walking down the main staircase for less than two floors, Lu Yuan had already heard the movement of the Japanese army's cowhide military shoes trampling on the stairs. After two unreachable sounds, "poof" and "poof", the lock of the door closest to the landing was broken by a bullet, and Lu Yuan entered the room and took out a table and placed it horizontally at the staircase.

The North Sichuan Road was the focus of the Japanese defense, and the Japanese army not only built fortified bunkers on the streets, arranged armored vehicles to patrol and guard back and forth, but also dispatched soldiers to occupy various commanding heights around it. Lu Yuan squatted down behind the wooden table, and the Japanese soldier walking in front of the main staircase had already appeared in his sight, the first Japanese soldier appeared, Lu Yuan did not shoot immediately, but waited for himself to see the third or fourth Japanese soldier following behind, and Lu Yuan pulled the trigger.

Even if the rifle equipped with a silencer fired continuously in the corridor, the sound it made was not very loud, just like the sound of a sharp blade piercing the wet cowhide in the corridor, and the dozen or so Japanese soldiers who moved up the main staircase were not even able to fight back, and they were continuously shot by bullets from above. With the screams, a large area of blood mist splattered from the bodies of the Japanese soldiers appeared, and soon, the narrow corridor was filled with the choking smell of blood.

All the 20 rounds in a magazine were fired, and Lu Yuan, who had already gotten up from behind the wooden table, didn't have time to change the magazine for his rifle, but just threw the rifle hanging on the belt behind him, and pulled out the pistol on his leg belt again. Like a rifle, Lu Yuan had already installed a silencer on his pistol, and holding a pistol with a silencer, Lu Yuan stepped on the large pool of blood in the corridor and moved down quickly.

"Poof" "poof" like a sharp blade piercing wet cowhide sounded in the corridor again, for the sake of insurance, no matter dead or alive, Lu Yuan refilled all the Japanese soldiers who fell in the stairs. As a result, with more than a dozen Japanese soldiers, Lu Yuan walked down the stairs one more level, and then continued to use wooden grenades and fishing lines to set up a trick mine, and then turned back. Killing more than a dozen Japanese soldiers in one fell swoop, Lu Yuan's face did not show much joy, but he hurried to rummage through these corpses for the ammunition, water and first-aid medicine he needed.

Lu Yuan was dismissive of the weapons carried by these Japanese soldiers, and only left a 50mm grenadier canister, as for the two Japanese light machine guns they brought, Lu Yuan didn't waste them, but just put them with those 38 rifles for the time being. More than 3,000 rounds of ammunition, more than 50 grenades and 24 grenades for grenades, these trophies made Lu Yuan smile from ear to ear, with these things sent to the door, Lu Yuan was able to ensure that he could turn over the river and the sea in the Japanese concession.

Using the corpses of more than a dozen Japanese soldiers to build an obstacle in the corridor, Lu Yuan returned to the rooftop, but Lu Yuan, who returned to the rooftop again, was much more careful. Through the scope on the rifle, Lu Yuan carefully observed the various high points around him, and sure enough, Lu Yuan soon found that Japanese troops appeared one after another on the commanding heights of the surrounding buildings. Lu Yuan, who sat down, immediately opened the full-view map, and the dense red dots on the map made Lu Yuan's scalp numb, and he said in his heart how many troops this damn Japanese had deployed on the North Sichuan Road.

In fact, Lu Yuan did not know that the total strength of the Japanese army in the urban area of Shanghai was not much, and before the Japanese base camp decided to land in Shanghai with a large number of troops, the Japanese army only had more than 3,000 active-duty soldiers in the entire Shanghai Japanese Concession, in addition to the merchant escort of more than 4,000 people formed by the Japanese Concession urgently dispatched overseas Chinese. Therefore, half of the Japanese soldiers Lu Yuan saw on the North Sichuan Road at the moment were members of the merchant group escort team, but they were all wearing Japanese military uniforms.

At 7 o'clock in the morning, the Nationalist troops who had already entered the city finally dispatched, but the Nationalist troops' sorties were only tentative, and they proposed to fight after the slightest contact with the Japanese forward troops, which made Lu Yuan very anxious. I don't know if it was because the retreat of the Nationalist army greatly increased the confidence of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army, who originally planned to stick to the Japanese concession, immediately fought out of the Japanese concession and began to build barricades and fortifications in the streets close to the Japanese concession, and at the same time engaged in a fierce exchange of fire with the forward troops of the Nationalist army.

Seeing this, Lu Yuan scolded the commander of the Nationalist Army for being short-sighted, this was the best time to attack the Japanese army in Shanghai, and if he could not launch an attack before the follow-up Japanese army landed in Shanghai in a big way, the Nationalist troops might be completely mired in the quagmire of street fighting and could not extricate themselves. Just looking at the barricades built by the Japanese army in the streets of the city, it can already show that the Japanese army is ready to fight street battles, and Lu Yuan does not think that the national army can take advantage of street battles.

"Boom" and "Boom" I don't know where the artillery is firing, but the Japanese troops stationed on the North Sichuan Road are not panicked at all, and Lu Yuan on the roof of the building can only continue to wait, waiting for the moment when the national army troops really launch an attack. It wasn't until 2 o'clock in the afternoon that gunshots rang out sporadically in the Japanese concession, and Lu Yuan was shocked, and then raised his binoculars to look around, but found that the place where the gunshots rang out was still far away from his own place.

Didn't you say that the Battle of Songhu started on the 13th? It's almost dark, and I didn't see the national army attacking, as time passed little by little, Lu Yuan on the rooftop became more and more anxious, could it be that he remembered the time wrong? It is better to ask for others than for yourself, seeing that the street lights have been turned on, and the large-scale attack of the national army has not yet appeared, Lu Yuan, who has already spent a day in vain, decided not to wait.

Leaving the unwanted things on the rooftop, Tang Cheng packed the contents he wanted to take with him into the storage space, then followed the route he had planned earlier to another rooftop, and then roped down the rope down the back alley. Moving forward along the back alley to the mouth of the alley, Lu Yuan first opened the full-view map to determine the location and approximate number of Japanese soldiers around him, and then quickly rushed out of the alley and ran to the Japanese sushi restaurant across the street.

Lu Yuan's target was not actually the sushi restaurant, there was a barricade built by the Japanese army not far from the sushi restaurant, and on the full-view map that Lu Yuan had opened, it was shown that there were only three Japanese soldiers in the barricade. Maybe the Japanese only left three soldiers in this barricade, just for night guard, but these are not things that Lu Yuan needs to think about, his purpose is only to kill these three Japanese soldiers.